Sarah Palin confirmed on Greta Van Susteren's show last night that she's very much planning to show up and speak at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, despite the distinct odor of Scam the whole affair is giving off.
Palin: Oh, you betcha I'm going to be there. I'm going to speak there because there are people traveling from many miles away to hear what that Tea Party movement is all about and what that message is that should be received by our politicians in Washington. I'm honored to get to be there.
This, even as some of her fellow wingnuts are catching the same whiff -- namely, Reps. Michele Bachmann and Marsha Blackburn, who have pulled out of the event:
In separate statements, released by their congressional offices, the lawmakers said that appearing at the convention might conflict with House ethics rules. But they also said they are concerned about how money raised from the event will be spent.
Palin last night had no such concerns -- and said no one should be concerned about that big wad of cash the convention organizers are paying her:
Palin: The speaker's fee will go right back into the cause. I'll be able to donate it to people and those events, those things that I believe in, that will help perpetuate the message, the message being: Government, you have constitutional limits. You better start abiding by them.
Hmmmmm. It sounds like we're going to have to rely on Sarah's say-so when it comes to how she actually spends the money. Smells even more like Scam, doesn't it?
Of course, the whole scenario, as David Corn explored with Keith Olbermann last night, is developing into quite a fiasco -- mainly because Tea Partier and Birther J.D. Hayworth has decided to challenge Palin's former running mate, John McCain, in the Arizona Senate primary.
Palin is staying loyal to McCain. This has outraged the Tea Partiers, as Alan Colmes points out:
She has now chose to align herself with several bad actors. What should this be called, the Rinoization of Sarah Palin. [...]
She is certainly entitled to write a book and make money for her and her family, but other than what has she has done to support Republican and patriotic candidates. … Perhaps, Sarah was too busy talking to her agent about her Fox deal. Where the hell was Sarah?
This is what you get when you build a movement around paranoid right-wingers. There is probably no faction more historically famous for viciously turning on each other in struggles over money and power than right-wing populists.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.
Never interfere when an adversary is busy committing suicide.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
the enemy is making mistakes either.
the Tea Baggers are seriously motivated, organized, and really putting serious effort and energy into building a viable third party.
Whatever they mutate into the next couple years is anyones guess.
Zombies.
NOBODY 2012
I hope some of them go to fascism.com and do some research into the merger of populism and corporatism that Sarah and the Teabaggers are creating.
Also, I recommend going to the above link to everyone here. For the lulz.
My take on them is they constitute a swarm of ideologues no two of which agree on the same ideology. Ignorant of history,economics and law and proud of it. Given that, my guess is they will morph into a rioting rabble.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Give them enough rope and they'll hang a bar of soap on it.
I kinda like to see them fight amongst themselves. Maybe they'll be too busy to get in the way of the country moving forward.
Is this kind of like the Hatfields and McCoys? Wasn't the theme that that fight was over a pig?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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Yep! Funny how history repeats it's self.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
during the Clinton Boom years thinking the same thing. That Bush Sr and the Reagan Rethugs, Old Schoolers, and the Old Economy we're finished.
It was also between Pryderi and Gwydion, and ended up with the latter killing the former at Y Velen Rhyd in Ardudwy.
It also brings to mind Emrys Arddu and his champions of Ehangwen and their hot pursuit of Twyrch Tryeth.
Then there's the Swine of Gadarene, and I understand Vishnu saved the world somehow from a flood by turning into a swine.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Are you speaking English? :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Actually it's Welsh.
And in the tale how Culhwych Won Olwen, Arddu (Arthur) was a king, he was only an Emyr in The Dream of Rhonabwy, and both tales can be found in the Mabinogion. It was printed in the 15th century from older tales found in the Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch and the Llyfr Coch Hergest.
If you want to get a copy, get the Jeffrey Gantz translation, because Lady Charlotte Guest who gave the title the Mabinogion also bowdlerized it.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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There's no y in Culhwch
For some odd reason I always want to add it.
ray gunn was of Irish decent, not Welsh.
Whereas I'm technically Pict/Celtic.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the culture. I know you're descended from grapes.
So does being an oenophile make me cannibalistic?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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I know what you mean about adding the Y to Culhwch. What is it with us? ;)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Besides, that was McCain's time. Ray gun was born a century later.
Ah, the Mabinogion. Of course. How could I forget....something I have never heard of. Well good on you for knowing your Welsh lit.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Isn't a fiasco when an affianced couple's marriage ceremony goes awry?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Now sing scam along with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
And see if we can catch where she is spending that money.
"wash" their money.
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"Palin is staying loyal to McCain." Lol.
Nuke Plants and Off Shore Drilling at some point. It's no wonder the Rethugs cheered when those words came out of Obama's mouth the other night.
Show Palin a camera, a microphone and a check and bingo, she's yours. She can't resist. If she were going to give the check back to the tea baggers, why would she take it in the first place. Just do the speech for free.
Since she resigned as gov of Alaska, has she made any speeches for free?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
She's so far in debt with legal fees that's what she calls it, "the cause". People need to wake up and realize that Sarah is about Sarah. And when I say "about Sarah" I mean money. She's found a goldmine being an ex-governer. She wont run for president because she's limited to $400,000 a year. Why take that when you can rake in millions over that same 4 years. It's all about the money.
is intended to be a factual statement
That's the way I see it too. What has she done since she walked out on her job in Alaska? Co-written a book for big bucks and signed a contract with Fox for big bucks.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
How many times has she collected $100,000 for giving an incoherent speech? I'm not the smartest book on the shelf but if she can collect $100,000 I'm sure I could double that if I could just get some face time. Conservatives are such idiots not to see this.
is intended to be a factual statement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7BGBa6MTI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7BGBa6MTI
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Had her house built by crooked contractors using money that the town of Wasilla couldn't afford to borrow for an ice rink. Then she twigged to the fact that the governor's office presented greater opportunities for corruption. Then, as gump notes, she found a goldmine being an ex-governor. (added to that lode was her new-found national celebrity) Her entire modus operandi is astonishingly whorish.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
I don't see her ever running for political office again. That's hard work and we know what she does when the goin' gets hard.
She'll take the easy cash as a Republican spokesmodel for as long as the looks and marvels of plastic surgery, hold out.
at least. (yet)
Up until the last minute, anything could happen. She's been known to have a schedule conflict before.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
When there's no money involved. If she doesn't get paid she doesn't play.
is intended to be a factual statement
is going to what group "the cause" is, is a got-cha question
This calls for a cage match between Bachmann and Palin on pay-per-view. I have a feeling the tea baggers would make more money than there is tea.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
My money's on Bachmann. She's got those crazy eyes going for her, plus Palin's too prone to qutting when the going gets tough.
that's obvious.
The role of Ellie Mae Clampett?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Overlord . . Who's stopping her? There not even a viable Dem candidate out there taking it on.
Taking what on? The tea bagging party? Hell, right now they are just cussing and fussing with one another.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
why 2012 scares me.
NOBODY 2012
. . just disgusted to see our Country mutated into this freaking mess.
In it for the money and not ashamed to show it. To think, the world would have been a slightly better place if the GOP had picked someone else instead of Shotgun Barbie.
NOBODY 2012
but to the GOP's surprise, Sarah energized and excited the base.
I'm sure the Elites have noticed this also.
They are always looking for a good figurehead to mesmerize the crowds.
...she was sent on a "mission from above"...to divide (and conquer) the teabaggers...just like Beck and Armey.
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the teabaager movement - the biggest collection of delusional idiots ever assembled. let them bleed each other dry.
Hmmmm don't know bout that.
It didn't happen here in 2008. The public knows more about her now than they did then, and none of it is good.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Just keep in mind these people take their Politics very seriously.
And don't underestimate the numbers.
Right now were facing a potential Con landslide in 2012 at the rate the Dems are screwing things up.
Yeah so serious that they thought joe the plumber was some kind of mental genius. I think after the campaign when he was speaking at an event and he said the crowd made him "horny", that might have been his down fall.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
All right!
That's politics!
Does she only get half the money if she stops speaking half way through her speech?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Let me know
It is plain as day. Palin is out to get as much money as she can. She feels if they are willing to offer it she has no guilt about taking the money and laughing all the way to the bank.
The ultimate aphrodisiac
Politics - showbiz for ugly people.
The air head is smart enough ( with help ) to be cashing in on the morons , big time . I don't think they are smart enough to figure it out , that they're being used not only by Palin but by the entire Repug party and right wing . It would be funny and it is amusing but these idiots vote , that's the problem .
I believe there is an agenda here and she's bought and paid for. Hell even Hitler was am unknown nobody when he first got into Politics. He had the "magic" though.
Sarah Palin appeals to stupid and deranged people. Proper conservatives know this and won't touch her with a barge pole. If Michelle Bachmann's backing off, you know something in the milk ain't clean.Hitler and to an extent, Bush2 had much smarter and more capable people around them. Palin does not. She's a dumb ass, ropey looking broad with a suspect track-record.
Scamola Palin and the Tea Baggers
More my preference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_oE31pT47c
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
She will do anything for a paycheck plain and simple. If it pays, she stays.
Bullshit walks isn't that the old saying?
And bull shit walks
Wearing lipstick
You betcha...(wink).
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The silly bint doesn't even know the full quote.
It's, "You betcha bippy."
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Blackburn and Bachmann were not paid and therfore not under contract.
She mentioned that, didn't she?
weak as they are, unlike the other two.
And then promptly lost interest, I mean "faith" in their motives.
You will always find a greedy republican.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
palin a paid
politicalignorant corporate whoreinto witchcraft and......................
It's 6 figures from a "grassroots movement".
GOP will round up teabagger strays and herd them, back into the Repug corral.
Those silly teabaggers, did they think that the GOP would allow them to go feral and start their own party?
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, in terms of the tea party movement, is it likely to create the issue that happened in '92 with Ross Perot and President Bush, or will it merge with the Republican Party? And how do you see that happening?
PALIN: They need to merge. Definitely, they need to merge. I think those who are wanting the divisions and the divisiveness and the controversy -- those are the ones who don't believe in the message. And they're the ones, I think, stirring it up. We need to ignore that and we need to forge ahead with a cohesive message.
one that didnt thrive on hate, but an understanding that both parties were being run by the corporatists
prob with the party, was that its leader was a bit nuts
but you never saw hate signs at their rallies....you never heard them screaming racial epithets or hate towards women
it was about saving jobs and keeping america strong...and stopping gat and nafta and every other supposed free trade agreement that has now left us without a manufacturing base
the teabaggers are just a bunch of angry white dudes who forgot how to make kkk garb
Jesus she's doing a bad imitation of herself at this point.
This is like Palin's "Fat Elvis" period.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
"Government, you have consitutional limits."
Or going to war on a whim. Or unlawful detention. Etc., etc. At least this stuff doesn't balloon the deficit -- as long as it's off the books.
The limits of which she speaks are on imposing taxes on the rich and environmental protection and fair labor standards laws -- that sort of thing. Not that getting rid of these "excesses" helps the average teabagger in the least. Actually, probably hurts him and his descendants.
The ignorant leading the stupid. Too bad. I have new found respect for her now that I have seen her marketing value. Keep her name in the hopper as a maybe candidate and rake in the cash from the unlearned.
...everybody else, come to their senses about this woman? SHE'S ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY! I mean as soon as she got a taste for how much money there was flying around on the political right - and everywhere else for that matter - she knew what she had to do. Namely, quit that lame-ass Governor's job that wasn't doing anything but getting in the way of raking it in. Hell yeah she's gonna go through with this gig, and if the organizer re-nigs on the deal she'll be suing the hell out of him the next day.
Once these fools stop paying her the big bucks for simply skinnin' her ignorance, her run of fame will be over.
And that is one butt ugly bung hole.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
it is always only about the money.
Some stuff you can't make up!
and had no idea until a couple of days ago that the teabag express was rolling through my town. I was informed by my neighbor as I collected my mail that I should be down there if I cared about my country and my liberty. I politely declined, but couldn't resist asking what liberties he specifically felt were threatened. His answer: [cue dazed look from aforementioned neighbor] "All...all....I mean look...everything is importan...I mean...all of them are...uh, uh, uh, under attack from this man (presumably prezO)...I mean...we've...we....it's time to take this country back...". Aaaaannnnd.... scene. I'm embarrassed to know that there's a whole contingent of similar good ole boys just down the road from me, please don't judge Nashville by this alone, I swear there's a whole mess of good progressive folk residing primarily in East Nashville, raising our stiff little fingers to the establishment red flag across the river.
then I suggest that she take over for Michael Steele immediately.
So Sarah's gonna waltz in and be the star and save the whole thing, and HER OWN PRIVATE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR MEDIA CONGLOMERATE will cover the whole deal, from beginning to end. Twenty million people will be there. I just can't wait.
Shill, baby, shill! You, bitch-a!
in the wind....
Give Sarah her due! She is making millions off of morons, for doing nothing but sending them to be slaughtered. And they can't wait to be first in line!
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the american people; but a lot have become fabulously rich. I for one am trying to think of some way that I too could get rich off of these clueless dumbasses.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
she is so 2008 n/t
This woman is a nutjob. She has a lot in common with megachurch preachers. She says she will take the teabag event speaking fee and put it back into causes she supports. That would of course include her husband's barber bill, Pampers, and fast food family dinners, not to mention a new clothing budget as large as that supplied by the GOP. Come to think of it, what planet does she think WE live on?
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
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