Actually

Can anyone blame the garbage GOP for naming a fictitious individual as their VP nominee ?

Didn't this woman oppose Susan B. Anthony?

QUICK! Have McCain stand next to Davidson...he'll look younger.

My final comment on the support of Right and Babygate

I find it Ironic that they are giving their support despite their record.

Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant and they condemned her.

Granted she's a kids idol but it's all the same.

They said she was promoting sex, influencing girls to have babies, picked on her for being unwed, shamefully prosecuted her family and some church groups even protested.

1. She kept the baby and no one applauded her for keeping it.

2. She was engaged exactly like Bristol and they said she was to young.

3. Denounced for even having sex.

4. Her mom was called the worst mother in the world and Palin is not to be touched.

Excuse me were was the Right for Jamie Spears?
Their record on AA women is even worse with "baby mamas"

This is sounding more and more like a Simpson's epsisode.

I cant wait till sandra paloni becomes our VP

8thAvatar @ 11:

I think GOP is literally being saved by Gustav - blessed by GOD - I guess !!

How would they have filled those hours if they had full 4-day schedule ??

Are you kidding...I think the convention must be on tape delay...it's gotta take these octagenarians at least an hour to get up onto the stage.

Liberal AND Proud @ 7:

Wow...I didn't know Barbara Bush's mother was still alive.

LOL!! WHERE do they dig up these old fossils?? Is that how you get into the reich-wing? White hair and wrinkles?

And now for your listening pleasure, we are pleased to present the world premiere of the latest musical video by little Georgie W. Video here. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/09/little-georgie-w-asks-musical-question.html

The scary thing isn't that Davidson didn't notice her mistake but everybody applauding didn't seem to notice either.

Almost 2 Am, can't sleep, Republican nightmares.

Liberal AND Proud @ 4:

Didn't this woman oppose Susan B. Anthony?

I was thinking Lot's wife...

Phylter @ 16:

Liberal AND Proud @ 7:

Wow...I didn't know Barbara Bush's mother was still alive.

LOL!! WHERE do they dig up these old fossils?? Is that how you get into the reich-wing? White hair and wrinkles?

Sign Outside Convention Hall

"You must be THIS old to enter"...and it's got Davidson's picture next to it.

Liberal AND Proud @ 14:

8thAvatar @ 11:

I think GOP is literally being saved by Gustav - blessed by GOD - I guess !!

How would they have filled those hours if they had full 4-day schedule ??

Are you kidding...I think the convention must be on tape delay...it's gotta take these octagenarians at least an hour to get up onto the stage.

is there a minimum age for them to come to convention, like above 60 ... or something...

Does it really matter when you're offering more of the same?

Liberal AND Proud @ 26:

Phylter @ 16:

Liberal AND Proud @ 7:

Wow...I didn't know Barbara Bush's mother was still alive.

LOL!! WHERE do they dig up these old fossils?? Is that how you get into the reich-wing? White hair and wrinkles?

Sign Outside Convention Hall

"You must be THIS old to enter"...and it's got Davidson's picture next to it.

And that picture better be in daguerreotype, or it's proof you're too young

Moggy @ 29:

That's gold, Jerry! Gold!

That's better than Ovaltine jokes!

Watching a Republican make an ass of herself and the delegates: priceless!

Seriously, didn't anybody even try to correct her? Is she so unaware that she's not even listening to herself? I think that's it; the Republicans all know that you can't trust anything a Republican says, so they don't even listen to their own words.

And it keeps getting funnier every...single...time...I...see it!!!!

What now empty grave did they dig her out of?

sharkcellar @ 31:

“We are holding a convention that will nominate a Republican woman governor, Jack Palance,pitching ace Jim Palmer as our next Vice-President.”

The original script probably did say Pawlenty, and no one remembered to change the name at the last minute.

Or, maybe it was a Freudian slip on this lady's part because she's not so fired up about Palin either.

There were some women on C-span (republicans of course) and they were talking about all of Palin's capabilities. One of them said, If you have been a room mother for your kids or helped with Girl Scouts, or involved in the PTA, you know you must have organizational skills and those are the skills that Sarah Palin brings with her to this campaign.

Damn, except for the Girl Scouts part, my mom could have been president. All those years she lived and never knew.

Jesus, Can't they find anyone at the convention less than sixty years old? A bunch of wrinkly, old, rich white people. What a bunch of fossils.

LOL.. googling Jo Ann Davidson brings up "Ohio History Central" as the first hit.

That's when you know your best days are behind you!

http://digg.com/politics/Tim_Pawlenty_Says_GOP_Needs_Obama_s_Positive_Me...

Yeah, just what we need: Another insane Christian terrorist in the White House.

StirFry @ 38:

8thAvatar @ 28:

Liberal AND Proud @ 14:

8thAvatar @ 11:

Are you kidding...I think the convention must be on tape delay...it's gotta take these octagenarians at least an hour to get up onto the stage.

is there a minimum age for them to come to convention, like above 60 ... or something...

Above 60, white, and NOT Ron Paul , i think those are requirements.

Isn't Sarah Paul, his wife, running for VP with McSame ?

Granny Clampett fell off the truck.

I thought she said: "Sarah Plenty". That sounds like a porn star's name to me. In fact, I bet all of those viagra men in the audience had the same thoughts.

Luckily, there's a cure!!

Loved McBain making the announcement and having to read her name from the script like she was some housewife who just won the Pillsbury Bake Off ; he obviously never heard of her.
Priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDNmPcVHao0

Sarah Pawlenty, eh? Amazing how little this candidate was vetted. Now we are confronted with--what is it called when one woman has many spouses or spices--polyandry? This is just the kind of scandalous rumor that those on the angry left are diseminating left and right. So how many kids does Tim have? I hope they're all doing well; in a family like that there's no end for needing extra baby sitters. Look it, I have no idea who that lady was who was speaking, but I think a candidate's second family is nobody's business but her own. Spare me the details in the name of good taste.

They can cut this 4 day convention down to just 15 seconds:"Tax cuts for us, and nothing for you! Thank you and God bless America!"

Well, since Sarah Palin has turned out to be such a snowmobile wreck, I'd have to say the nomination of Sarah Pawlenty has worked out quite well for us.

Barbara Bush

Perfect person to be supporting THIS candidate...

John McCain suffering through some "uninformed" moments...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWX5u69hmzY

John McCain's historic speech at The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-LEyyf7d4

i was playing spades online, listening to the live feed and set my own nil at 8:05 pm last night when i heard the announcement of "sarah pawlenty for vp."

the republicans are disorganized mess and their convention looks like it was organized, designed and speeches written by sixth graders.

but i'm doing my part. every time i leave the house i disabuse my fellow citizens of their misinformed beliefs about sarah palin. interestingly, i have not met a single person who thinks palin is anything but a desperation move by mccain.

they were all old and doddery there so that went unnoticed too by the audience.

it's stikes me odd that this group of old white people who are out of touch seek to retain power after proven failure. what gall.

rain @ 55:

Who is Sarah Pawlenty?

next VP for country Alaska... i think !!! :)

You wouldn't believe what the seamstresses are sewing together backstage. It's a better combination of experience and crass opportunism. It's the Sara Pawlenty.

jerry reed dead at 71

You have to respect your elders... well... er... most of the time.

tyree @ 76:

jerry reed dead at 71

Who is that?

NoOneYouKnow @ 17:

Sounds like something McCain himself would say. I'm still laughing about that video of McCain staring at Palin's ass and fiddling with his wedding ring.

I wish you'd post the video of this.

crowd wasn't sure about it either.

pissed off patricia @ 80:

tyree @ 76:

jerry reed dead at 71

Who is that?

Country singer, best know as "Snowman" from the Smokey and the Bandit movie (he drove the truck)

Why is Palin going to pull her daughter on stage with her tonight? Back in the day, If you were pregnant and unmarried, people like Palin and her merry band of religious zealots would berate and shame you. You would think the girl and her boyfriend would be better off not to be pushed in the spotlight.

Ruthless People @ 73:

When did Frau Farbissina become the RNC co-chair?

I thought it was Frau Blücher!

this 2 party system and it's elections are such a Theater.

They take turns to benefit their cronies and the real looser are we- citizens of this country.- with exception of tiny fraction.

Repubs know that they can't win and also they do not want to be in WH with the mess W has created and more in pipeline with credit crisis, Iraq war debt, Isolation from Geopolitics etc..
that's why they have presented such a weak canidate in John Mccain alond with even weaker VP candidate from nowhere.

The only hope is Dems, once in power this time think about citizens...

oh man, i watched this live and wondered if anyone else caught it. I think the 2nd time she said her name she corrected herself. Kind of laughable that we're supposed to believe that she's well known.
Here's a video about McCain's VP selection process. Starts at 1:03:
http://tinyurl.com/5zr47h

Sarah Pawlenty. Wasn't she married to former ace pitcher Dwight Gooden?
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Sarah Gooden Pawlenty?

P.D. @ 88:

Why is Palin going to pull her daughter on stage with her tonight? Back in the day, If you were pregnant and unmarried, people like Palin and her merry band of religious zealots would berate and shame you. You would think the girl and her boyfriend would be better off not to be pushed in the spotlight.

Yeah, I saw Levi when the whole rootin' tootin' family met McCain at the airport. I wanted to see if they all climbed into a black pickup truck with tinted windows, but they cut the clip off too early.

P.D. @ 88:

Why is Palin going to pull her daughter on stage with her tonight? Back in the day, If you were pregnant and unmarried, people like Palin and her merry band of religious zealots would berate and shame you. You would think the girl and her boyfriend would be better off not to be pushed in the spotlight.

You forgot something...

Palin will have a shotgun between the both of them....

Maybe those kids will get married on stage tonight too....

Just to add to the GOP festivities....

pissed off patricia @ 41:

The original script probably did say Pawlenty, and no one remembered to change the name at the last minute.

Or, maybe it was a Freudian slip on this lady's part because she's not so fired up about Palin either.

There were some women on C-span (republicans of course) and they were talking about all of Palin's capabilities. One of them said, If you have been a room mother for your kids or helped with Girl Scouts, or involved in the PTA, you know you must have organizational skills and those are the skills that Sarah Palin brings with her to this campaign.

Damn, except for the Girl Scouts part, my mom could have been president. All those years she lived and never knew.

Gee, I'm a teacher. That means I must be over-qualified.

why would mccain want to pick one of nixon's signature phrases "my fellow americans" to repeat over and over and over again?

are there really that many die-hard nixon fans still alive?

That convention she was referring to which took place 116 years ago... she's speaking from memory.

It may be over for them but it's just beginning for us http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/03/mccains-new-palin-strateg_n_123... shining the light on Palin's wingnuttiness and under qualifications.

Funny the party of faux outrage accusing us of manufacturing faux outrage, how Rovian of them.

I think Palin and her handlers are using Bristol and the boy to play up the religiuos right. The forced marriage is the fininshing touch. But it is just wrong. I would never push my child to go through something like this. Lord knows the media circus is enough.

Numinous @ 95:

Orangutan. @ 82:

NoOneYouKnow @ 17:

Sounds like something McCain himself would say. I'm still laughing about that video of McCain staring at Palin's ass and fiddling with his wedding ring.

I wish you'd post the video of this.

Here's a vid.

http://www.losanjalis.com/?p=556

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6737

At least the NeoCons have a political candidate that's actually heterosexual. This way they won't be complete hypocrites when they talk about their hatred/fear of gays.

No bathroom toe-tapping for McCain.

With him, he just takes his viagra, and his heart medication, and it's all systems GO!

That is, if he doesn't fall asleep.

#104 karen marie

"are there really that many die-hard nixon fans still alive?"

Alive and kicking and still in power: http://www.bartcop.com/rummy-cheney-old-days.jpg

One thing is for sure. Sarah "Pawlenty" had better deliver tonight.  Now of course, the Republicans will cheer her on no matter how her speech goes but everyone else will rip her apart afterwards. 

This is so sad. Wow! Clearly, these locksteppers (even the top co-chair lockstepper) doesn't have a clue who Palin is. This is astounding.

What I'm following now is a recent announcement that Sarah Palin filed ethics charges against herself (you can't make this shit up!). The case is made that by doing so she changes the venue of her own investigation which will, instead, be brought before a review board of three of her OWN appointees (cronies/buds).

If this isn't the most flagrant abuse of power by a Veep candidate while being announced for the position in the history of this country, I don't know what is.

Here is this woman running on being "outside Washington" and we find that the same old MO is alive in well in the corrupt state of Alaska. We need to tell this power freak to hit the road. She's abused power during the entire tenure of her mayorship and governorship, has ties to Silver and Abramoff, and now is using our sytem of laws to try to uneven the playing field. This is flagrant and timely and should be plastered all over the headlines of every newspaper in this country.

This is exactly what Karl Rove and George Bush did - signing statements to eliminate themselves from the very laws they were signing and claiming "executive privilege" to obstruct justice.

This is an overt "obstruction of justice" in her own investigation. This needs to be stopped in it's tracks because it exactly that which we are fighting to rid ourselves of....."power corrupting absolutely" and right in the face and with the blessings of the so-called Maverick. He's no Maverick - he's a total Fraud.

Now he's instructing her to reply "no comment" - hah! Clearly, he's got something to hide here. Clearly, this will not play well with the american people who have been screwed by Bush time and time again when we attempt to reach for justice. Clearly, this move by the Maver-Dickhead will tank him like nothing else.

So much for McFraud's claim of "transparency" in his campaign. So much for the american dream of Sarah Palin! Hah! It only took 5 days for her to sink herself.

I look at this woman...I have flashbacks to grade school!

"We are to nominate...Senator Palpatine...."

This freakin' woman DOES look like she shoots lightning bolts out of her.

I just don't want to think about which orifice.

I am trying to figure out the strangest part of this clip. The fact that she screwed it up. Or the fact that they applauded for about 15 seconds after she said it. Some got off their cans for a standing ovation for this. By the way, did you hear how they quickly cleared out the local college republicans conference? They sent in military recruiters.

P.D. @ 110:

I think Palin and her handlers are using Bristol and the boy to play up the religiuos right. The forced marriage is the fininshing touch. But it is just wrong. I would never push my child to go through something like this. Lord knows the media circus is enough.

To take that thought a bit farther, I can think of no parent who would put their child in the middle of this mess for all of the money or power in the world. I would think it is scary enough to be 17 and pregnant without a parent essentially pushing you into the spotlight all for political gain. Any rational person who was asked to be VP would turn it down if it meant putting a 17 year old in the middle of a firestorm.

At the end of the day, I think this is what is going to turn people off. Imagine being the teenage parents who have to live out an after-school special in front of the nation so for political gain. It is truly disgusting.

pissed off patricia @ 107:

Gretchen the aspiring elitist @ 102:

pissed off patricia @ 41:

The original script probably did say Pawlenty, and no one remembered to change the name at the last minute.

Or, maybe it was a Freudian slip on this lady's part because she's not so fired up about Palin either.

There were some women on C-span (republicans of course) and they were talking about all of Palin's capabilities. One of them said, If you have been a room mother for your kids or helped with Girl Scouts, or involved in the PTA, you know you must have organizational skills and those are the skills that Sarah Palin brings with her to this campaign.

Damn, except for the Girl Scouts part, my mom could have been president. All those years she lived and never knew.

Gee, I'm a teacher. That means I must be over-qualified.

Oh hell yes, you are sooo overqualified that it isn't funny.

Oh my god! This means that every member of a local PTA is qualified to be Vice President of this country??? This trivializes the job so completely and makes a mockery of every woman in this country.

Joe O. @ 115:

One thing is for sure. Sarah "Pawlenty" had better deliver tonight.  Now of course, the Republicans will cheer her on no matter how her speech goes but everyone else will rip her apart afterwards. 

Supposedly she already delivered back in April, but there is some question about that.

♠♠...Bangkok Bob...♠♠ @ 112:

What you'll get more of and what they hope you'll forget.
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Misleading about Iraq's WMD
Implying a connection between Saddam and 9/11
Launching a war that's killed 4,150 Americans and wounded more than 30,000

Challenging Iraqi insurgents to attack U.S. troops: "Bring 'em on"
Granting no-bid contracts to Halliburton in Iraq

Failing to respond to Hurricane Katrina

Hiring unqualified crony to run FEMA

Praising crony's performance: "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"

Neglecting reconstruction of New Orleans' homes and levees

Promising American troops would be greeted as liberators
Declaring "Mission Accomplished" and later blaming the banner on troops
Cherry-picking facts about WMDs in Iraq, then blaming the CIA

Promising the Iraq war would lower gas prices

Claiming the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes" in 2005
Allowing Osama Bin Laden to escape
Launching a war that's killed countless Iraqi civilians
Using Terri Schiavo for political gain
Attempting to alter Constitution to allow discrimination against gay people
Wiretapping our phones without court order
Fighting to privatize Social Security
Stealing the 2000 election (remember Katherine Harris, voter purges, and the Supreme Court?)
Concealing the pre-9/11 Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

Ignoring security at nuclear plants after 9/11
Battling the wall between church and state
Enforcing abstinence-only programs in public schools
Doing too little to halt genocide in Darfur
Trying to slash funding for PBS and NPR
Giving tax cuts to the rich in a time of war

Failing seniors with the costly Medicare prescription drug benefit

Suppressing the vote in the 2004 elections (remember Diebold and long lines in Ohio?)

Swiftboating John Kerry

Outing CIA agent Valerie Plame to retaliate for truth about Iraq's WMDs
Telling the 45 million uninsured Americans to just go to the emergency room

Spending $341 million a day in Iraq

Neglecting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center

Allowing Afghanistan to fall into chaos, with the Taliban and al Qaeda regaining control
Pressuring PBS to carry pro-government propaganda
Paying columnists like Armstrong Williams to promote government policies
Creating fake news reels to promote the controversial Medicare law

Holding prisoners without trial at Guantanamo Bay
Covering up torture at Abu Ghraib

Breaking the Geneva Conventions

Appointing extreme right-wing Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito

Forcing the Patriot Act into law

Firing federal prosecutors who failed to accuse Democrats of voting fraud

Turning a budget surplus into massive budget deficit

Letting more than a million homes go into foreclosure—the highest rate ever recorded

Watching as bank failures surge

Setting the record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history

Losing 2.7 million manufacturing jobs

Presiding over Enron scandal—the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history

Increasing nuclear threat by withdrawing from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia

Appointing John Bolton as U.N. ambassador despite his promise to dismantle the U.N.

Holding secret meetings with Exxon Mobil, Conoco, Shell, and BP to set energy policy

Letting gas prices double while resisting fuel efficiency and clean energy

Pushing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our coasts

ok fine, but what do you think of Sarah Palin's breasts ?

Is this the "Fat Lady " that sings. I guess it's over.

Jo Ann Davidson looks like she drove to the convention with her head out the car window. That's how Barbara Bush would look with a hair dryer.

Delivering is one of Sarah's biggest talents and she has apparently passed that trait on to her oldest daughter. Yeah, you gotta give those Palin women credit, they can deliver.

Okay, so the RNC co-chair mispronounced Palin as the GOP VP candidate....

Does that mean it doesn't count? (crossing fingers)....

An Average Joe @ 133:

Jo Ann Davidson looks like she drove to the convention with her head out the car window. That's how Barbara Bush would look with a hair dryer.

Are you kidding. Everyone of those beehives looks like it was glued on.

There probably isn't a can of hairspray left in the twin cities.

An Average Joe @ 133:

Jo Ann Davidson looks like she drove to the convention with her head out the car window. That's how Barbara Bush would look with a hair dryer.

That's seriously funny and the mental image I got as I read your comment was that of this lady hanging her head out the window of a car just like dogs do.

P.D. @ 130:

ashton@123, When I was in a similar situation, I took the high road. But then again, I'm not a Repug who has a bloodlust for power.

Sadly, their excuse for their actions is that it is the daughter's wish. Supposedly, she wanted her mother to continue so she didn't feel like she ruined her mother's political career. Assuming this to be true, that is very brave of the daughter. It does not, however, mean that the parents had to take her up on the offer. That is why they are called parents.

I have not yet heard if the baby, who only appears to be held by either parent during a photo-op, requested to be on the cover of national magazines discussing the entire mess.

ashton @ 123:

P.D. @ 110:

I think Palin and her handlers are using Bristol and the boy to play up the religiuos right. The forced marriage is the fininshing touch. But it is just wrong. I would never push my child to go through something like this. Lord knows the media circus is enough.

To take that thought a bit farther, I can think of no parent who would put their child in the middle of this mess for all of the money or power in the world. I would think it is scary enough to be 17 and pregnant without a parent essentially pushing you into the spotlight all for political gain. Any rational person who was asked to be VP would turn it down if it meant putting a 17 year old in the middle of a firestorm.

At the end of the day, I think this is what is going to turn people off. Imagine being the teenage parents who have to live out an after-school special in front of the nation so for political gain. It is truly disgusting.

Palin PIMPED her entire family not the least of which is her frightened unwed 17 year old whom she paraded into the limelight for everyone to take shots at. Then when they do, she cries foul. Gotta love the ridiculous double standard of this whining woman. She pimps her and then when people want more info, she calls them on it.

furthermore, would you want the husband of our Vice President to have once been associated (and still may be) a "secession movement" for Alasks to seceed from the United States? I think this is the antithesis of everything patriotic and american. I think it's tantamount to treason if you ask me. And although Sarah was not listed on their current membership roster, everyone in the group has confirmed that she has been a member and attended meetings in the past with Todd. So what is it? A true patriot who wants to bring something fresh and new (how sweet but not for someone with her finger on our nukes) or is Palin really a treasonous secessionist in disguise? She cannot be trusted, this we now know. And since McCain has said that there will be "no comment" it's clear that he fears what's coming with Palin. He sees the handwriting on the wall and is embarrassed enough by the past 5 days.

I think that if McCain puts a gag order on Palin, it's over now before it begins. If he puts a gag order on her, the internet will be abuzz with new photos, documents, and evidence of her abuses of power (and we now there's a mountain of it). I think he's making a huge mistake to put a gag order on her with the media. People will smell a rat and run as fast as they can.

If Palin is gag ordered to simply offer the american people "no comment", then it's up to us to put an end to her candidacy and demand a candidate who is willing to speak to the people and the press. I can tell you that this is not playing well with the media and they will turn on her like a viper now.

Liberal AND Proud @ 139:

An Average Joe @ 133:

Jo Ann Davidson looks like she drove to the convention with her head out the car window. That's how Barbara Bush would look with a hair dryer.

Are you kidding. Everyone of those beehives looks like it was glued on.

There probably isn't a can of hairspray left in the twin cities.

I'm laughing my butt off here. As a woman I have to laugh at those antiquated updos. It's clear that they have no style or chic in Alaska if she's an example of it. The "do" tells it all - trying to look like her daughter but failing miserably.