PalinTracker: Religion, Messin’ with Al Gore, a Dead Heat with Obama
Sarah’s now twittering at SarahPalinUSA.
December 4
AP reports: Palin says nation should rededicate itself to God:
Sarah Palin says the United States should rededicate itself to seeking God’s will, arguing that a humble spirit could help leaders get more answers on issues such as health care, energy and national security.
In a video released Friday by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), the 2008 Republican candidate for vice president said it’s important for leaders to acknowledge they don’t have all the answers.
According to BGEA:
In dealing with her daily challenges, Sarah Palin leans on the Bible verse that says, “God hasn’t given us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power and might and a sound mind.”
She told our video producers, “That scripture reminds me that we don’t have to be afraid … that God will be there for us as we call upon Him, because He has given us … all those gifts of the Holy Spirit if we call out for them.”
Video here.
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In an interview with Christianity Today, Huckabee fields a question about Palin:
Q: A lot of people compare you and Sarah Palin as conservative Christian candidates. What separates you two? What makes you different?
A: Well, it’s hard for me to say what’s different because I don’t know. I don’t know how people make the comparison. We were both governors, we certainly are both pretty clear in our expression of faith, so yeah, we share those things. But other than those things, I’m not sure where the comparisons are. We’re both Republican, we’re both pro-life — there are a lot of similarities that way — but she has a very different political direction than I do. I’m not sure of her future politically, and I’m really not sure of mine either.
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Palin at Facebook: Obama should boycott Copenhagen.
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Palin greets 1250 at Fort Hood. AP notes:
She hasn’t been speaking to most reporters during her tightly controlled, stay-on-message book tour.
No gotcha? You betcha.
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The Los Angeles Times continues its multi-post/multi-day crusade against Sarah, spinning her remark that people have the right to ask for a candidate’s birth certificate thus: Sarah Palin revives “stupid conspiracy” of Obama’s birth certificate.
Revives? We didn’t know it was dead.
And still not a LALA Times peep about Climategate.
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More than 1,000 Palin fans show up for book signing in Plano.
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At Politico, Ben Smith reports:
In the months since she returned to the public spotlight, Sarah Palin’s continually evolving political identity has undergone a subtle change as her public persona centers increasingly on her disabled son, Trig (who is always on her hip as she steps off the bus).
Palin began her political career as a reformer breaking up Alaska’s corrupt boys club and shifted seamlessly into last fall’s campaign trail culture warrior. But her decision to carry to term her Down syndrome child established a special relationship with anti-abortion activists, and now Palin has transformed herself from a politician who was anti-abortion into the leading figure of the anti-abortion movement.
Salon spins it this way: Trig, the anti-abortion straw baby.
December 5
Greta Van Susteren provides an inside look at the Sarah Palin-Rev. Billy Graham meeting.
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The Hill reports:
Palin to face another ethics battle:
Under state law, elected officials may not “use or authorize the use of state funds, facilities, equipment, services, or another government asset or resource” for campaigning, stumping or politicking.
But Palin, argues Andree McLeod — a local activist who has filed many ethics complains against the former Alaska governor — sought political advice from her staff and asked her office to help her arrange media interviews or phone conversations leading up to Election Day, all using their government-issued e-mail addresses.
This is why Palin says she stepped down — to save the state of Alaska from the energy drain and expense of defending their elected governor from this kind of vendetta. McLeod is a former Palin supporter who was passed up for a job in the Palin administration.
To date, all 15 ethics complaints against Palin have been dropped. McLeod takes it back to square one.
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Two thousand brave D.C.’s first 2009 snowstorm to meet Palin in Fairfax, VA.
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That evening, Palin cracks wise at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, an organization of Washington-based journalists who come to hear political figures make fun of themselves. Traditionally, what is said goes unreported, but because of the immense public interest in Palin, it is agreed that her remarks will be reported.
AP reports:
Palin targeted her hosts, Democrats and Sen. John McCain’s campaign staff, as well as herself:
If the election had turned out differently, she said, “I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book, Going Rogaine.” Biden has sparse hair.
The crack about seeing the Russian Embassy from her hotel referred to Palin having told an interviewer during last year’s campaign that her qualifications for high office included that “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.”
As for her hosts, she said she was glad to be appearing before an elite audience of leading intellectuals, “or as I like to call it, a death panel.”
Complete transcript at Gretawire.
December 6
In Sioux City, Iowa, 500 wait in freezing weather: Palin’s Iowa stop spurs talk of presidential run.
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The Wall Street Journal reports: In an interview with David Gregory, John McCain says Palin has “earned herself a very big place in the Republican political scene” and that he is “proud of her.”
Then:
“I am entertained every time I see these people attack her and attack her and attack her. She’s irrelevant, but they continue to attack her. I am so proud of her and the work that she is doing,” McCain said.
Irrelevant?
Brooke Buchanan, a McCain spokesperson, said in an email that the senator wasn’t saying Palin was “irrelevant” but was quoting others as saying she was irrelevant, and noting that despite that, they continued to attack her.
December 7
Palin polls within one point of Obama as her popularity rises to 46 while his job approval falls to 47.
Yesterday I checked out a book store in Canada. Going Rogue and Going Rouge are both available. Guess which one was
easier to find, because it was placed more prominently.
December 11, In a “surprise” appearance on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien…Sarah at her poised and humorous best
That video cracked me up.
And she and Shatner walk off stage, arms around each other.
Priceless.
Sarah Palin can win the presidency in 2012. I am no longer pessimistic. The odds are in her favor. Palin simply needs to study hard. She must not ignore her reading while touring the United States! Continuing her education is not negotiable. Everything else will then fall into place.
I agree with David on this . There is no one of stature out there who is taking issue daily with our leftist press and the foamy mouthed Democrats, other than talk radio.
Sarah is a breath of fresh air and calling her stupid while offering no substance is a typical smear effort.
I love this series. You get better at presenting it, too. I like the links. I get wry smiles all throughout the reading of it. Best line this time? “No gotcha? You betcha!” Love it.
The Climate Change spat made me notice that they disingenuously call it Climate Change, instead of Manmade Climate Change. Those of us who oppose this nonsense should insist on calling it Manmade to focus the issue. It’s about whether or not it is manmade. None of the rest matters; only whether or not it is manmade.
The book tour was 6 weeks of perfection. No runs; no hits; no errors. Advertising the signing by simply putting up a placard in the window, and being tremendously successful? Who does that? People at Harper Collins have to be smiling all the way to the bank whilst patting each other on the back. At a time when overall sales for everyone are down, this is a shining moment of glory for them. My summation of the book tour and sales? – STIMULUS!
As for playing to just one side of the stadium? That side is becoming ever more populous. She will be Kingmaker in 2010. Her power will become very evident during the campaigns. After all, it’s all about the Benjamins! The only question is, how many Benjamins does she actually have access to? Just how big is her base, and how much money can they spare in these times? My suspicion is that it is more than the opposition can spare.
It’s also about the ground game. Campaign supporters are VERY important. This will be her real strength. She brings an army to a candidate’s support. How do you say no to this rich supply of campaign troops? Come 2010, there will be a lot of newly elected pols who will owe her BIG! This will be huge come 2012. She lends her supporters, now, and they will have to lend their supporters later. She will thus have a built-in campaign infrastructure. She can win it all in 2012, AND have very long coattails, to boot. There’s a huge wave building, and she is perfectly poised to capitalize on it. Moreover, she is doing everything right.
And the women WILL vote for her… even Dems.
Finally, I dare say she has a new fan in William Shatner. Winning friends and influencing people. Loved the roar from the fans when she appeared!
Sarah Palin and _Denny_Crane_
Can reality stand the strain ?
Thank you for the updates.
Excellent job !!!
I enjoy reading the idiocies said and written by the nihilists/ subversives/ elitists against Sarah: the more they speak the more they show their own intellectual and moral emptiness: go commies, speak more, show us your colors !
Godspeed Sarah !
And thank you Barbara Curtis !
Sarah Palin #1 and Glenn Beck #7 in Amazon bestsellers’ list.
How was that song…?
Times are a’changing ….
Poor subversives, forty years of hard work to transform our schools and our universities in the Moscow Party School …
and People keep thinking… despite all those efforts…
Irrelevant he says. John McCain served his country with pride, dignity and courage. He suffered more then any man should have to suffer at the hands of his captors, the North Vietnamese Communists. I don’t bear any grudges against McCain. But he has to recognize that his time and place in the sun is over and done, that the mantle of leadership is going to be passed on, and that it’s Sarah Palin who is going to pick up that mantle. Not the remainder dinosaur republicans like Romney, Huckabee and all the rest. A new generation of conservatives who will take our country back to being the military and economic powerhouse that it’s been in the past. Thank you John McCain for your service. Now do us all a favor and go fishing.
I loved these updates. I also love Sarah Palin; she has my support for whatever she decides to do.
I certainly remember how all our pollsters were telling us in 1980 how Reagan was in adead heat with Carduh right up to the weekend before the election. I also recall that not long ago former Carduh pollster Pat Caddell said that 10 days before the election Carduhs pollsters were telling him he was going to lose and lose big. As of right now, I personally would not be surprised if either Palin, Romney ,or Huckabee could beat Obamao and rather easily. Personally, I favor the Arctic Fox because her track record indicates she is the most conservative. Romney was NOT a very conservative governor in Massachusetts. Huckabee is too left on too many issues, though I do like the Fair Tax he champions. Start with 2010, clean out the house especially, the Senate will likely lose disgusting Harry Greed(He has NO CLUE how much trouble hes in) and several other commierats. Watch and see if Obamao tries declaring martial law-nothing with this commie pig would surprise me.
Great Series I look forward to more, much more. Please, keep it coming.
Sarah Palin,
Build you foreign competence side. Get good advisers and pack of like minded professionals. You can do it, and together, we can knock down those liberal junkies into a dust bean of the history, from which they will never come back. Republic is still alive. It’s worth fighting for. There are millions of Republicans in this country. And I do not mean just registered republicans. Republicans with capital “R”. Pick up the torch. Light the way.
CostCo took the tomatoes off the shelf so no one would throw them at her. Now that’s funny.
Now and Then-
Yeah, 1500 come out to see her in the cold, and one nut with a tomato causes a market to overreact.
Sort of par for the course in how we pander to nutty liberals…
Now & Then- Why is it always the peace loving lefties who throw stuff. According to Law & Order, it is the crazy consevatives that are so agressive and mean. How many arrsets at the Tea Party gatherings? NONE. How many crazy lefties are getting arrested in Coppenhagan(while they freeze their butts off)? Great way to debate, when you can say anything intelligent, throw a tomato.
I cannot believe at all the attacks on Sarah Palin. She is the most popular woman Republican ever. She almost made it to the White House (OK, the VP house), but now all she is trying to do is put food on the table, you think her husband can keep up with the lifestyle to which she has become accustomed.
And so what if she took two different planes back to Alaska from Dallas, Texas when she was in labor with Trig, instead of going to a local hospital (who wants to born in Texas, yikes). I mean so what if Alaska Airlines spokesman said that they were not aware that she was in labor.
She is not a quitter, she is reloading, so watch out she will be your President, like it or not. I mean come on we had “W”, right?
To the Americans here, how many bookstores that would carry both books, would have a more prominent display for “Going Rouge”, instead of “Going Rogue”?
15. Dave II:
“Yeah, 1500 come out to see her in the cold . . . ”
Hasselhoff can top that just stumbling out of the Ivy. Talk to me when she can gather 100,000 people like somebody else I know. the woman is a complete and utter fraud.
16. TriGeek:
“Why is it always the peace loving lefties who throw stuff.”
Why is it always family values patriots who punch senior citizens in the face?
Attacking Palin is now like touching the live wire. David Letterman did it and where is he now? Now Schwangener has crossed swords with her on his voyage to Copenhagen to join that farce. He hinted that Palin’s views on climate are “stone age”. Watch this space. I suspect she will make mincemeat of muscleman and make him wish he was back in the gym just pushing up 500 kilos.
NBC has blocked the video on YouTube of Sarah and Denny Crane.
14. Now and Then.
“CostCo took the tomatoes off the shelf so no one would throw them at her. Now that’s funny.”
“Not everybody wants to piggyback Palin (though I must admit I’d take the opportunity if given it.)”
Dec 9, 2009 – 6:51 pm
You could get hit by one as well as you might be attempting the Modern Liberal dream of TurkeyBacking a Goebbels created fantasy. If people are hitting cops with tomatoes, just think what would happen if you show up? Christmas Turkey, get right here, and fresh as a Berkeley Womyn Studies Armpit!
Better hide any sharp object as well, you Handsome Mixed European – American Turkey With a touch of Black. Might be the French revolution all over again. Only that Turkeys end up on the long end of the blade. Ouch!
Can the Handsome Mixed European – American Turkey With a touch of Black conjure up some Anvil Johnson mojo for that political Mr. President Hindenburg?
Here’s something, the Modern Liberal Turkey plumbing its roots, donning a goatee and bongos, thinking North Beach 1958, replete with stale black sweater smell with greasy black beret.
Dig. Dig, dig, L7 PJMers, the Spirits Are About To Speak!
March of the Baster
by Maynard G. TurkeyBacker
“Days arriving bereft of sensical manipulations tarry not for the weak of somnambulistic opinionation rationed out on the hellish heels of hellions rendered nugatory next to the merest semblance of constitutional weather held on forward lurking remote controls of synaptic pleasure opportunities set aside by the Marxist prototypical terriers – Scottish or not!!!!! – by others who would be themselves with one another. But nooooooooooooooo!” – 91. Now and Then Dec 15, 2009 – 5:46 pm -
“Blistering in its simplicity. Hilarious in its cadence and rhythm. Keep up the good work.”
Man, you’ve got Mr. President’s Art Czar beat by a mile! Dump that Bast a Turkey Stimulus program, that Hendrix Gobble Karaoke, and get a grant! Dream gig. Take it on out the road with Kevin Jennings and Anita Dunn. No more Pee Wee moho – Anon – Shawn Ondeen Whatever, or trashy vivo, you get the Modern Liberal groupies, with the Clorox bleach option!
Merry Christmas.
Gobble, gobble Goebbels.
Governor Palin is the hope of all conservatives, although the left will portray her as a “populist.” Common sense and sharp instinct for doing the right thing at the right moment, being at the right place at the right time are her landmark qualities. She has a destiny far bigger than anyone can imagine. She can not only steer the US, but change the World with her universal appeal and message. The constrast between the phony messiah BHO and her can’t be more pronounced.
3. DT: Not knowing American or world history and geography, (Is “57 states” geography, or history?) did not prevent someone from elected president, nor barely uttering a coherent word when not reading from a teleprompter. As long as you’re a “liberal”, you can kill (Chippaquidick), or rape (pres: 42), or making C’s and D’s in college (kerry), or flunking divinity school (Gore), you could still be an icon, an intellectual, …
Reagan was as much a “dunce” as Palin. What Palin needs is to study how Reagan did it. Anyway, it is ridiculous to expect a president who is a politician to be expert in anything besides “politicianing”. One of the sticking points was McCain admitted he wasn’t an economist. See how an economic “genius” rescued the economy? … by driving us in much deeper debts, much worse unemployment … to enrich his cronies and supporters, wall street bankers, union crooks, …
A Chinese saying: Sages don’t die, grand larcenies won’t stop.
Sages, btw are politicians.
20. Donlast:
“Attacking Palin is now like touching the live wire. David Letterman did it and where is he now?”
Well, I think he’s atop the late night ratings war, making $40 million a year and living in a mansion in Connecticut. Where are you?
You need to catch up on your news cycle: Dave’s baby-mama took everything and left him with his dog and his car
Don’t worry: Sarah’s such a good sport I’m sure she’ll give him a ride to the bus depot in HER bus
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
Oops, forgot the linkage: http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=78912
Friends, if you’ll have a look at this comment thread, you’ll see that “Now & Then” goes frothing-at-the-mouth crazy-incoherent when you ignore him. Draw the moral!
I am a conservative, but feel no need to automatically get on board with Sarah Palin as a presidential candidate. She seems genuine enough. But I’ve yet to hear her answer a substantive question about domestic or foreign policy in a way that gives me confidence that she has a solid grasp of the issues. And while I appreciate her willingness to step up to the plate when few conservatives seem willing to, I don’t want a sense of desperation to set in whereby I feel like I need to back Palin all the way because there simply are no other options.
Her book is interesting, but interviews are dicey. She’s not good answering tough questions off the cuff. I’m always rooting for her, but it’s just not there.
Are people truly ok with her answering a question about expansion of Israeli settlementss with a comment that more and more Jews will be visiting Israel so there needs to be room for them? Or, when asked about how she would address the recession and unemployment, to have nothing but lower taxes and help small business – an obvious answer for a conservative, but in my view, way to basic and simple.
Anyone want to try to sell me on her, please make the case. (But please don’t compare her to Obama. It’s apples and oranges. Obama is a nightmare, that’s a given. He had no experience and a very questionable background and attitude toward America. Palin cannot be defined in comparison to him. She must be defined on her own terms.)
26. Francis W. Porretto:
“soft-centered bag of gut wind” . . . appears it worked. Thank me.
As for “frothing-at-the-mouth crazy-incoherent” I believe you’re referring to Mr. Lucky . . . #22.
Sarah Palin certainly has had an amazing month, and the article did not even mention her very funny take-down of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Maybe she has just been lucky. Or maybe she really is as talented as her supporters think she is. Or maybe she just looks good in contrast to the current occupant of the White House who has not had a very good past month. (Obama has had such a poor month that some of his supporters now defend him by claiming that the country has become ungovernable.)
I look forward to seeing what private-citizen Palin does next year.
Palin is a political troll. All she does is criticize without offering solutions. She learned from Paris Hilton: smile and pose.
People who like her are just like her. TMZ followers.
“Sarah Palin says the United States should rededicate itself to seeking God’s will, arguing that a humble spirit could help leaders get more answers on issues such as health care, energy and national security.”
A non-existing God will not give answers to anyone. Education, experience and intelligence will.
23. James F:
“She has a destiny far bigger than anyone can imagine. She can. . . change the World with her universal appeal and message.”
So I guess Palin is the REAL messiah.Thanks for clearing that up. I think everybody was getting a little tired of waiting for HIM to show up. Tell me, how many copies of Runner’s World did you buy?
What is that on that troll’s face? It’s fear, brothers, it’s fear.
They be drippin’ and poppin’ all over the place
From fear, brothers, from fear
She is woman, watch her roar
Palin 2012 – Change you’ll be begging for.
Look at her record of governance. That says it all. As Governor, she never forgot who’s money that the state was spending (the people’s). She left Alaska better than she found it – never the case with the lefty libs. As for lower taxes and help small businesses being too simple a solution, SOMETIMES THE BEST SOLUTIONS ARE SIMPLE!!!! Small businesses lead the way in every recovery.#17, exactly what kind of life style is she now “accustomed” to?? Unlike the over-educated simpleton and his cabal of radicals, Mrs. Palin knows what it means to live simply, knows what it means to struggle to get by, meet a payroll, and yes hunt for your food. She connects with average people at the gut level. She is plenty smart enough and her love for her country is not something that is “nuanced”like the libtard in the whitehouse, it’s right there for all to see -
It’s a good thing for the GOP that Palin is still in the news. At least she had the good sense to quit her job. Current GOP members of Congress would probably earn some respect by following suit. Drawing paychecks for sitting on their hands is pretty pathetic.
Of course, Palin is a great gift to the Democrats as well, because there is no way she can win a national election. She can rile up the hardcore base, and totally skew the primaries, as well as help some more GOP congress members lose their seats.
The worrying thing is that some people actually take her seriously as a contender for higher office, despite the eloquent demonstration of incompetence that she has provided. Of course, incompetence has long been a qualification for GOP candidates – nobody with a reasonable grasp of reality could buy in to the insanity of the party platform.
Looking forward to Obama’s landslide victory in 2012.
Peace.
DS