Pubbie Guvfest in Miami: Meowr! Fsssst! Hisssss! Claw!
By David Neiwert Friday Nov 14, 2008 9:00amThis press conference is really kinda painful to watch in a squirm-inducing way. Kinda like a reality show where Republican celebrities get root canal work.
It seems that the long-suffering public aren't the only ones who want Sarah Palin to pack up and go home and fade nicely and quietly back into the obscurity she deserves: So are her fellow Republican governors.
When asked if Palin was the best choice McCain could have made for a running mate, no one jumped to answer.
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who started the race in former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's corner but later worked for McCain, chimed in: "What happened here is the party and John dropped Sarah into the ninth inning of the World Series three runs down."
Crist initially demurred when asked separately if Palin was a legitimate future possibility for the White House.
"I think that's up to her to decide. It's a little early," Crist laughed.
And apparently they really hated being used as props for Palin's press conference yesterday:
One called it awkward: “I’m sure you could see it on some of our faces.”
Another Republican governor eyeing a presidential run in 2012 told CNN the event was “odd” and “weird,” and said it “unfortunately sent a message that she was the de facto leader of the party."
There has been palpable tension among some GOP governors gathered in Miami that Palin has been sucking up all the media oxygen.
I know the timer is running out on Palin's little fame bubble. But as long as flaming-red Republicans (76 percent of them) want her up there, she's going to be the face of the party. And the guys who think they should be the face of the GOP are already getting out the long knives.
It's like dropping a big flopping goldfish into a roomful of cats. Pass the popcorn, wouldja? Just don't make me watch any more Palin pressers ...
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I challenge any troll to truthfully say they enjoy listening to this useless rambling bimbo.
She shoulda played Rambo's side-kick.
and her record will stay in the spotlight, too!
I can't get enough of her.
Did he just brush her aside?
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... because they'll insist she's smart and beautiful, too.
One of my libertarian friends had the balls to tell me that she is her feminist heros...
I died a little inside for her.
what looney is to the left.
Libertarians are only right wing when it comes to Sociopathic Capitalism (ie anything that isn't directly illegal is ethical by default and I'll label any judge an activist who says otherwise).
Socially, they are left wing, but they've got no reasonable method to either enable or protect civil rights in the country.
IMO, Libertarians are as socially naive as Marxist Communists are economically naive.
..."You can't fix stupid!!"
Ok, maybe it is just me, but I find her delivery extremely creepy in a "stepford wife" way.
She begins very haltingly with:
"As a whole, what we do with our states is..." and then something clicks in and she says much more loudly as if someone hit the reset button,
"Govern with strong executive experiences that are put to good use..."
hen later at around 0:29, the same thing happens again
She says something about "thousands of state employees..." that kind of dwindles away as if she has lost her train of thought, and then she chimes in loudly almost as a non sequitur:
"Tens of billions of dollars in our states and tens of thousands of employees....
She is just a walking cliché of non sequiturs and goofy catchphrases that don't mean anything.
I noticed the exact same thing right away. She goes from very informal to very scripted.....weird....her body language changes too, at first she has the George Bush one elbow on the podium stance then she stands straight up- like the big dude behind her goosed her or electrocuted her.
I am so sick of this clown......I would be really pissed if she was up there speaking for me as a Repub. Gov.
I noticed that odd moment at the beginning too. I read a comment somewhere that speculated she's slightly manic and warned that manics often crash hard. She could be suffering from post-election (not to mention post-defeat) depression. Maybe even post-partum as well? When does that kick in?
Or maybe she just had gas.
I predict problems with drugs and/or alcohol, if she's not on something already.
Well, certainly for Todd at least. Could you imagine listening to that screech nightly while sober?
I'm certain she's ADD as a minimum.
Maybe she has ASS-Burgers syndrome.
Time for Miss Sarah to go back to Alaska and stay there!
I believe her "15 minutes" expired about 10 days ago......
She will keep rolling and it's just a matter of time before
she gets caught in yet another gaffe of epic ignorance. As
Bioche Brooks said she is a "cancer". Cancer. A malignant necrotic
growth feeding on it's own physiology. It will either kill
the host or be excised. Either way the body will suffer and dwindle.
It's called win/win.
GOP Governors Insist They Have a ‘Stake’ in Palin
It helps us as long as she's the face of the Republican party. The longer she keeps trying to hog the spotlight, the better things will work out for Democrats as a whole. I'd love to see an Obama/Palin debate in 2012.
I'm willing to put up her her fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice for a few years if it means a filibuster-proof Senate when all is said and done.
"The longer she keeps trying to hog the spotlight, the better things will work out for Democrats as a whole."
There it is in a (wing)nutshell.
Sarah Palin: exciting the base.
I like to think I'm pretty base.
... to mention it was not only bottom of the ninth with three runs down, the bases were empty with two outs, and Sarah was plucked off the bench from the AAA team.
I'll pass you the popcorn if you'll pass me a martini.
If I hear her smack her lips between sentences one more time, I may harm myself.
She is her own biggest fan.
That is so true.
Notice that this woman constantly emphasizes "we're a team" (She said it quite a few times in her short speech.) Palin was speaking to everyone else to "team up"....for her benefit.
I love the republic party of the day...
A bunch of religious fundies saying to a bunch of rich white old men that Sarah is their candidate. Assholes leading assholes. Quite the vicious circle.
Those "rich white old men" are just using this women to help them gather up the ignorant/frightened/racist voters...their base.
and the people who own/run DIEBOLD and ESS.
Another Republican governor eyeing a presidential run in 2012 told CNN the event was “odd” and “weird,” and said it “unfortunately sent a message that she was the de facto leader of the party."
Who said this? Which governor?
Why is so much of our news based on "anonymous sources"?
This isn't about national security people. TELL US WHO SAID IT.
The only one that viable is Bobby Jindal (Louisiana). So, that just may narrow it down a bit.
I keep hearing that a whopping seventy percent of republicans want Palin to run in 2012.
The stat that isn't reported as much is that 100% of Democrats dream of her running too! If she's the competition, the Obama second term race is gonna be a cakewalk!
Don't ever use the phrase, 'cakewalk.' It makes me want to go smack Terry MacAuliffe in the head with a lead pipe. 2004 was going to be a 'cakewalk,' remember?
Go smack Terry McAuliffe with a lead pipe. No problem here. Twice, if you'd like.
No, please, have mercy, Republicans -- whatever you do, don't run
Sarah Palin against us for president in 2012! Democrats don't stand a
chance with Sarah Palin workin' her magic on the conservative Christian
base and re-energizin' real Americans! Please, anybody but Sarah Palin!
Oh, and another thing -- please, please don't throw us in that briar
patch!
I'm sick of Palin too but I would pay big money to see a Sarah Palin-Katherine Harris slugfest. Now that would be entertaining! (And ever so catty and delicious.)
I almost forgot about them!!
http://wizbangblog.com/images/2005/kharris_hc...
Her, I meant. My bad ;-)
Katherine Harris needs to give Laura Bush some 'tips' on how to be 'perky'.
then I might watch.
Have Sarah Palin, Katherine Harris, Michelle Bachmann and Nancy Pfotontorpedo in a tag team match.
... we might be giving them ideas!
.
... better include Condi in the festivities!
"I'm sick of Palin too but I would pay big money to see a Sarah Palin-Katherine Harris slugfest. Now that would be entertaining!"
It would be JUST like "Rock-em Sock-em Robots"....First one to connect to the other one's chin, the head would ratchet up DING! CHINGA-CHINGA-CHINGA-CHINGA!
Palin says that electing her as president in 2012 would be historic not because she'd be the forst female president, but because it would be the first time a "special needs" child would reside in the White House. Ummm, excuse me, Governor....but aren't you forgetting the CURRENT president?
Well one could argue that FDR was the first "special need" president.
He had a special need for a fifth a day.
Palin can run for the presidency in 2012. A similiar scenario awaits her. Palin has very little to NO depth
in national/international affairs/issues. Palin was a governor of a state that has a large amount of revenue. Palin was in office what about 20 months half of that time she was pregnant. The republicans are considering gender for a strategy pick someone qualified. there are a lot of qualified women. I have to laugh when republicans say Palin was "pounded by the media". I personally found her disguisting/unlikeable. I really don't understand why everyone was licking her. Palin is cheerleader of hate
and fear.
The Governor of Alaska has press conferences? Really? How do they do that all the way up there? Does one guy hold the camera while the other resident of Alaska watches it on tee-vee, or do they occasionally switch off?
"internet tube"...
but the visual is quite disturbing.
:)
JESUS CHRIST.
Doesn't this woman have a state to run?
Sarah, for the love of God, it's going to be four years before you can run again... throw me a fucking line and crawl back to your wonderful, white, winter wonderland. And 76% of these are all gung-ho about her? Jesus...
I don't understand Republicans... I really, really don't.
I think the people of Alaska benefit from her absence. the cumulative IQ of the Alaskan government goes up when she's not there.
The only thing sarah "moose patty" palin has ever been able to make perfectly clear is the fact that she is woefully unqualified for her current position.
I think there should be an investigation into how she ended up in the Governor's chair.
I'm embarrassed for her constituents.
How a disgusting ignorant half wit like this ridiculous twit ends up as Governor of a state is beyond me. Did the people of Alaska look at the chimp and say "Hey we could do worse!" ??
One has to wonder.
I do like the fact that the people forced to be there with her were NOT happy about it. I doubt anyone is happy about being forced to support someone who's only claim to fame is being the worse VP pick in the history of elections. How do you ask that question?
"Excuse me Governors but we're trying to create a media event for Caribou barbie and we'd like you all to come along and pretend you want to be seen with her.... or else."
If the reslugs were smart [pause for a laugh] they'd let this circus side show fade into obscurity as fast as possible and start scouting for REAL candidates they can get behind.
The rest of us are just waiting for her to go the hell away. Enough with the village idiot. Let's move on.
Every time I've seen this woman answer a question, she lets loose with an endless barrage of words, most of them pat phrases and gosh-gollyisms. She must think that quantity wins over quality. Seriously, she barely stops to breathe when she rambles on and on.
Sarah, we can't miss you if you won't go away. You should realize that very few people take you seriously, and that the cameras and microphones aren't there to record your pearls of wisdom but to catch your next insipid statement.
She's the only one I know who can shoot herself in the foot and then put the same foot in her mouth! She's a godsend for progressives.
she is the gift that keeps on giving. a national meeting of governors and she re-runs the McPlain campaign.
Just keep her in the spotlight please. I beg you.
I'll finish it up. "...This tactic might have worked, had Palin been a major league player, as opposed to being what she was: a player who was flown from the bush leagues, into the stadium by helicopter during the
gameinning."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGbxMm5GJK8
Keep eating your own, Thugs. It's the best show in town :D
You miserable lot. You really do deserve one another.
agreed!
Yes, Sarah Palin lacks any intellectual curiousity or capacity for critical analysis...oh, I'll just be honest, she is bone-deep stupid. However, the look Palin has in her eyes when she is speaking or simply standing in front of a crowd is unsettling. She is starstruck with herself! She is a pathological liar and a pure megalomaniac who will never be satisfied with her current status. She admitted wanting to speak at McCain's concession and openly said that although it was unprecedented, she felt justified in asking to address the crowd. Internally she was screaming, " I DON'T CARE IF IT HASN'NT BEEN DONE BEFORE!! IT'S ABOUT ME!!!!!" The Bible-thumpers already have her anointed as their next ruler ( remember what the other bimbo , Katherine Harris said..she called our leaders RULERS not elected officials) so although she is a vacuous ninny just like Bush, keep an eye on her. VERY CLOSELY!!
Like Dubya, Palin wants to be President....period. Her qualifications and capabilities don't mean shit. If she wasn't such a lying, selfish, horrible phony she'd be able to look in the mirror and tell herself that she's in way over her head.
It's all about what Sarah wants....fuck everyone else.
Wasn't that the plot of her "movie"?
She speaks in that same style of generalities and repetition as a Baptist Preacher. When you have nothing of substance.........repeat thyself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYa_ChYf4rw
They GOP pros going to field dress Palin.
She spent seven minutes saying almost nothing.
Little Ms Hitler wants to serve all Americans?
Even the ones in fake America?
What a chucklehead.
I gotta go rinse out my tormented ears.
"It's like dropping a big flopping goldfish into a roomful of cats. Pass the popcorn, wouldja? Just don't make me watch any more Palin pressers ..."
But you have to watch them! Who can't resist gawking at such a train-wreck-in-progress.
I know that CNN can't -- no matter how hard they try to look away...
Ahhhhh, f*ck CNN.
--Joseph Scarborough
"--but only 45% of all Americans" want Palin to stay in the spotlight for many years to come.
45%? That is an AWFUL lot. That number bodes truly ill for the overall intelligence of Americans. We 55% are in a bad, bad, really bad way, if this is who lives next door to most of us. In fact, considering what Palin is, how obviously unfit for any public role she is, let alone a world-stage role, how crooked she is, how trite and nasty, how generally odious and inarguably vile...I see no hope for America, if 45% of us are OK with all that. We are on the brink of violently splitting, a la Sunni-Shiite, and never uniting as one nation again.
(Granted, I am in a bood mood today.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tluogv9EGTQ&fe...
)O(
thank you for posting this, ys
They were my favorite band in the 90's along with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTtwRZAlt0
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Y9c26w8MM
I had associates tell me I prefer the sort of music one listens to before going on a killing spree. I liked that as must as when my first sergeant told me I was a bigger threat to the US military than the Communists.
That was incredible.
Her party didn't win (thank god!!), so at least for now, Palin is harmless entertainment -- at least as a running gag.
sarah doesn't gag, she swallows.
(So, access denied, ehhh???)
BOOD mood = BAD mood. ARRRGGH!
It's always bullshit when people say "X% of Americans". No, it's that percentage of the people who were asked.
Whenever Palin's about to speak, I desperately search for the remote, feeling that anything I hear from her will disturb me.
I thought everything did.
By "everything" surely you mean yourself and Palin....two annoying women who talk constantly, yet say nothing.
As the French swordsman with a cold would say, "Douché."
She will expand the base from mouth-breathing hillbillies and pentacostalists to include legions of outright sociopaths. The GOP will never be the same.
I'll drink to that!
He agrees:
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI4MTE...
convictions. If you take out that group, the "new" Rethug party isn't particularly formidable.
“unfortunately sent a message that she was the de facto leader of the party."
We should only BE so lucky.
She is proof that the experiment of dumbing down America has been successful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swcjg4WmoXk
McCain said it both ways, but Ms. Caribou always pronounces it with that $#@! "n" between the "i" and the "t". Can somebody please make her stop! Duct tape, maybe? (No, Sarah, it isn't "duck" tape.)
"sherbert"
TWO, you dumb bimbo...
it really is. This is a battle for the soul of the GOP.
Personally, although I am quite liberal on social issues, I am very much a fiscal conservative.
There are many Republicans I have respected over the years...many years...and in my opinion it is not in the best of interest of the country to have the GOP marginalized to the extent that is occurring.
Having said that...they created this problem for themselves. 1) They emboldened various extremist groups within their pary with rhetoric on social issues such as abortion, immigration and "patriotism". 2) They grossly miscalculated the elevation of Sarah Palin by not vetting her correctly, not looking at her ambitions, her limited scope in experience and intelligenc and by allowing her to agitate those extremist elements in the party that are now smelling blood in the water.
From an entertainment perspective, yeah...its great fun, but from a national perspective to quote I believe Mr. Lewis, they have let loose a firestorm that the Party is quickly losing control of.
The GOP is dying... New
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 10:47 — Liberal AND Proud
Probably why they wanted to keep Terry Schiavo running...and running...and running...
I don't know why, while there are still so many Newts, Rush's and Bill-0s getting in the way of it all, but your basic feelings about it all are still getting through -- at least to me.
This is where pure, unfiltered, unbiased communication and discussion can and should be more treasured than ever.
Alaska is not a comfortable place politically for a progressive to live thanks to people like Palin. Conservatives are some of the angriest people on the planet, and Alaskan conservatives are no exception. Because of this I try not to talk about politics with people I don't already know, and if they are a reich winger I try to talk about safe subjects like the weather.
Palin has brought so much hate and ugliness to the surface in Alaska. Residents of Wasilla are by far the most angriest and hateful people in Alaska. They hate Anchorage because it is "the big city" in Alaska, and they hate us for our laws. It clearly shows that Palin is one hundred percent Wasillan. It's more than a little odd that she want's be president of the United States since she can't decide if she hates, or loves America. The only thing that competes with her hate is her ambition. America rejected her for both of those parts of her personality along with her tendency to divide people instead of bringing them together.
The irony of Palin is that after losing the election she threw Bush under the bus, even though she is just like him. Only she is even more of a extremist and partisan than he is. She would be clownish if it wasn't for her extremism. It's her extremism both in her politics, and in her religion that make her a danger to democracy and freedom in America. Hopefully after these eight years of George Bush, the American people will continue to stand up for democratic values of equality and freedom. Also my hope is that in time people will know that not all of us Alaskans are like Palin, and that there are progressives in Alaska also. :)
has the the slightest clue how foolish she sounds praising the calm ,rational non-partisan leadership of Republicans which is so unlike those other poopy heads. I'm waiting for her to snap her gum and declare: "Republicans mature faster than Democrats" The Republican party has regressed to the sixth grade.
whenever I see that picture of Katherine Harris i think of that old SNL skit crossing Star Wars with Beach Blanket Bingo...LOL..."Hi..I'm Katherine Harris...and these are my breasts."
Biscayne Bay yesterday. I was right!
Now get the f*ck out of my county, you dumb bimbo. Don't you have some ethics violations to answer to, some more little crackers to birth, or some fresh meth on the stove?
By the grace of God, you'll never set foot in this state again before 2012. And by then it'll probably be as some washed up hooker, following the campaign around, sucking for motel rent.
Between now and then, just SHUT THE FUCK UP!
All is quiet on the Obama side as he prepares to lead. So the MSM tortures us with Sarah Palin. Why not focus on our soldiers that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Henry Paulson's bait and switch on the American people? How about human interest stories on Americans that are jobless because of the Bush administration's ineptitude?
Plenty of news out there, CNN. The election is over.
I only created this a few days ago even though it was post-election because she can't seem to stop standing in front of TV cameras and she still annoys me:
It's not a very sophisticated, but neither is she:
Palin Run-On Answer Generator
Thanks.
Sarah Palin's blonde teenage years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
And after Bush just when you thought the GOP bar couldn't go any lower they trot something out that make Chimp look smart and competent.
Can you please keep it there?
You all must be soooo proud...
This is what your get when you cross George Bush, Dan Quayle and Miss Teen South Carolina.
Please God run in 2012!
Why no Pebbles Flintstone?
Please take Crazy Lady away.
She opens her mouth and says absolutely nothing. No specifics just full of empty platitudes and buzz words like "team" and "solutions"
The Disasta from Alaska is the biggest empty headed celebrity in the world!
"You start a conversation you can't even finish it.
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?
Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92lmcRYy29Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8HL4WRp_Qk
Palin is the best possible republican presidential pick. She will further marginalize her party without so much as raising a challenge to Obama. We couldn't ask for a better pick to help insure that republicanism dies a nasty and painful death.