WASHINGTON - Lots of news trickling in about Sarah Palin’s time on the campaign trail…
Like the time John McCain’s top aides Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to brief the fit 44-year-old Alaska governor in her hotel room at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Here’s how Newsweek described it: “After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. ‘I’ll be just a minute,’ she said.”
There were strains between the McCain and Palin camps on the trail. Now that the election is over, the long knives have come out.
The Los Angeles Times reported that when Palin arrived at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix on Tuesday, she had expected to speak before McCain gave his concession speech, but was told by Schmidt and Salter that it would not be appropriate.
The Alaska governor is keeping her options open about running in 2012, and when she arrived in her hometown of Wasilla on Wednesday night, she was greeted by chants of “2012.”
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- Photo credit: Reuters/Mike Blake (McCain and Palin at their election night rally)
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Jerry,
You can not possibly be that stupid.
1. The price of gas rose from 1.46 to 2.16 between 1/20/01 and 11/7/06. It rose from 2.16 to 4.35 in the next sixteen months. It was a market response to the election of the completely anti-market democrats who had spent the previous year accusing Exxon-Mobil of basically stealing from the public. BTW, their “record” profits were only a ROI of $0.07 on every dollar of investment. The dems love to demonize them because of the scale of their business. Never mind that the federal government takes around $0.40 on every gallon of gasoline, nearly 6 times what the people who actually do the work make. Further, oil companies actually employ productive people. The government does not.
2. Tell me exactly what regulations Bush stripped from the market that caused traders to drive up the price. You’ll have to look back to 1977, and the president’s name was Carter, stupid. That’s when oil hit the commodities market.
3. Nobody, but NOBODY, who was “suddenly rich from cheap money” (yet another liberal trait - anybody who has money can’t possibly have earned it, they must have gotten it easy somehow) fell victim to the housing collapse. See Carter’s legacy again. It was under him that it became law to loan to unqualified borrowers. Clinton threatened to stop lending to banks who did not lend to high-risk borrowers. People who had no business borrowing money in the first place are responsible for and affected by the housing collapse. Carter and Clinton added fuel to the flame.
John McCain and George Bush have been calling for stricter regulations on FHMC and FNMA for years. If you weren’t so f*cking intellectually lazy, you can go to You Tube and watch videos of that h0m0 Barney Frank, along with Harry Reid and other libs blocking attempts to regulate their corrupt friends like Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson and Jamie Gorelick, all of whom were found to have received bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars from these GSEs as a result of major misreporting of earnings.
Even the most liberal of pundits admit all or most of these facts to be true. You probably don’t even know what half of it means, yet you’re calling people idiots. That’s what sucks about elections. You’re a dipsh*t and your vote counts the same as mine.
- Posted by MattPlease Matt, Bush is responsible for the price of gas and the brown patch on your lawn because: (1) The invasion of Iraq affected the production of gas from that country causing a run-up of oil prices, (2) this was furthur spiked up to unreasonable levels by Wall Street traders who had less ‘regulations’ to restrain them due to Bush’s policy to deregulation; ‘wouldn’t want to do anything to hold back businesses’ (3) traders clients suddenly rich from years of cheap money bought houses and stocks they could not afford..mortgage collapses added to the national debt, the Iraq war added to the national debt…, your grandchildren will never pay off this debt, teh USA as we know it may collapse,… and 50 million of you id10ts still voted for the Republicans, that’s truly sad
- Posted by JerryCan people at least be reasonable? It is no wonder our country is divided. Even if one dislikes Bush, at the very least, you must admit that he has kept our country safe and free from attack in our borders. AND, he is doing everything possible to make the transition as smooth as possible, even allowing Obama to have an office at the WH so he can talk to foreign leaders. He is an honorable statesman doing the best he can for our country in this time of transition, give him that much credit at least!
- Posted by tjomacMatt…. umm…. i don’t think so, but i do think you’re an absolute idiot, along with the rest of the right-wing robots
- Posted by AaronI’d have voted for that racist anti-American Communist (rather than McCain) for a chance to hang out with Palin while she wears a towel! Every man has his price, and that it mine.
- Posted by Jonathan DevensThat said, I don’t believe anything I hear about her Or anybody, really); I still love her “everyday normality”- all the geniuses with their Ivy League educations, connections and worldly experience have gotten us into this mess- maybe it’ll take somebody who knows what a gallon of milk costs to clean it up.
Strange that the McCain camp would hang her out to dry… certainly after running the worst campaign I can remember. I absolutely hate what Obama stands for, but his campaign was top notch.
Bush is the worst president in history (Steve ably summarizes some of the principal reasons), and surely one of the dumbest. Palin makes him look like a rocket scientist by comparison. So yes, please, bring her on in 2012.
- Posted by FrederickSteve,
1) Please identify your military credentials that qualify you to state this, not counting are “I heard it from Dan Rather” or “I heard it from Rosie O’Donnell.”
- Posted by Matt2) Actually, percentage-wise, FDR was by far.
3) So did Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin – who let a few hundred unused school buses sink, but I don’t see you blaming them. Nor did I hear any libs complaining when Clinton let 1,100 elderly Chicago residents die without any help during the Chicago heat waves.
4) See number 1. The Geneva Convention does not apply to non-uniformed combatants. It never has. As a matter of fact, those fitting this description in the past have been executed on site in many countries, but not the U.S. Again, this was another way for the left to call Bush every name in the book. Further, waterboarding was never considered torture until the left began looking for yet another reason to impeach Bush.
5) Did your father not give you enough attention? Why do so many on the left need so desperately to be liked by everyone? More proof there’s not a true leader among you. The left loves citing Germany, Italy and France as having been p*ssed off at us, yet they all seem to have managed to elect far-right conservatives in their last elections. Guess we’re not doing as badly as you’d like us to be on the world stage. Even if we were, who the h3ll cares? What’s popular isn’t always right and what’s right isn’t always popular.
Oh yes, please bring her on for 2012. She would be a great counterpoint to Mr Obama, and offer a clear choice for voters. According to McCain campaign staff members, (who wish to remain anonymous) she didn\’t know the member countries of NAFTA or that Africa is Continent, not a country. I hope and pray she is the nominee of the Republican party. Just think…by just looking out her office window at Russia over the next few years as governor she will be able to get invaluable foreign policy experience. Oh and I love the story Wasilla\’s requirement that any woman who said they were raped had to pay $800 to $1,200 for hospital tests, while she was mayor. Wasilla was the only city in Alaska with that requirement and the State of Alaska had to step in to stop this practice.
Did I say bring her on. Wonderful woman that Sarah Palin.
- Posted by George WeissJust because the media reports on the lies and blunders of the Bush administration, or Palin’s lack of common knowledge, doesn’t make it biased. If you think so, then you probably also think that anyone who opposes the “Patriot” Act because of the infringement of privacy, is not a patriot.
- Posted by DieselEl Jefe,
How appropos, a liberal telling me what I do and don’t have the right to do or say. When the left was making death threats against Bush, it was just people exercising their 1st amendment rights. But God forbid a Conservative refers to Obama as a communist.
“Lemming” more appropriately describes you clowns who accept and repeat ad nauseum the media tagline that “he’s no socialist…um, because he said he’s not.” That’s exactly what he is. Trying to be nice about what words you use to describe your allies makes you a fraud. Promising to all but do away with the second amendment is one of the first steps of conversion from socialism to communism.
“Lemming” also more appropriately describes all the libs who jumped on the bandwagon with Tina Fey in describing Sarah Palin as an hillbilly idiot. You cared not to learn anything about her beyond an SNL skit. You will never acknowledge the fact that Obama repeatedly got a free pass from the press. He wasn’t asked a single tough question but when Joe the Plumber had the nerve to speak up for the free market, you f*cking leeches were all over the guy’s personal life.
Lemming more appropriately describes one who cries fake tears for the fewer than 1,000 unfortunate victims of Katrina because the media told them to and it was another way to bash Bush, yet completely ignores that Clinton didn’t even send the National Guard into Chicago during a heat wave that was responsible for the deaths of 1,100 elderly people.
It’s lemmings in the 70% who are afraid to stand up and admit to even a single Bush success. That’s what you don’t get about leadership. Clinton’s policy of making decisions based on polls was not leadership. Bush’s ability to ignore the crass, vile and ignorant attacks he faced every day and still do what he knew to be right was leadership.
- Posted by MattI’m old fashioned and I feel that women should be more modest so I’m disappointed to hear that Mrs. Palin appeared in this type of dress in the presence of mixed company. I think it’s very unbecoming.
- Posted by ToniBush is a horrible President. It’s not the media’s fault that (1) he led us into a war that has succeeded in making Iran stronger and making the Middle East less stable,(2) he was responsible for biggest expansion of the federal government and federal deficit ever,(3) he had an abysmal response to Hurricane Katrina, (4) he condoned torture and the violation of the Geneva Convention, and (5) he succeeded in tarnishing the good name of the US around the world. I agree some elements of the media are biased, but Bush is a horrible President and should be detested by Republicans and Democrats alike. People need to stop drinking the Limbaugh Kool-Aid that praises idiots like Bush and Palin.
- Posted by SteveI’d love to see Palin taking on the mantle of the conservative movement. Who better to do so? Politics have been such fun this year.
- Posted by Denny MackMatt, of course I know that Bush isn’t responsible for the brown patches in my lawn because my lawn has no brown patches. However, the family in the “red” house across the street don’t have a patch of green in their yard…something about small rodents known as lemmings I believe (reference to John D). But going back to the main idea, just because the limelight was stolen away from the Republicans for this next term doesn’t give my conservative counterparts the right to make assuptions on how America will be for the next four years.
We’re all hoping for some change this year, even if John McCain would have won we would have all been looking for the same thing. Give Obama a chance–don’t start accusing him of being “Hussien the Communist” or “a baby killer” as I’ve heard from some. The Republicans are out of the White House! Get over it! Stop crying because nobody wants to wipe your tears away, not even John McCain, who I have much respect for. Sarah Palin on the otherhand…well, lets leave her to the moose.
- Posted by El HeffeI am very happy to see Palin back in Alaska. As soon as McCain chose her, I switched sides! Her first unscripted speech where she thought Fannie Mae was taxpayer funded was a big clue. Then she was hidden from the media for obvious reasons and proved she didn’t have basic knowledge that a high school graduate would possess. When she wouldn’t respond to questions at the debate, it was obvious to me she was unqualified no matter how much she was briefed.
However, why are they doing this to her? Something doesn’t smell right.
- Posted by NancyinFLSeriously, if you thought McCain got trounced, Palin wouldn’t win a single state.
- Posted by DaveI hope she does run. It’ll make it that much easier for democrats to win again!!
- Posted by LeftyBy all means, if the lemmings … I mean Republicans … want to follow her over that cliff, let’s not stand in their way.
- Posted by John DPlease. Just because the PR branch of the left, er, I mean the mainstream media, successfully convinced you *diots that Bush is responsible for everything from price of a gallon of gas to the brown patches on your lawn, and that Obama is anything but an anti-Constitution communist doesn’t make it so either.
If Bush had found a cure for cancer, you would find a way to criticize him for it.
- Posted by MattPalin in 2012, I say please bring her on. Just because the lunatic fringe on the Right love her does not mean she is electable.
- Posted by Tarro