Why Palin Should Run for Oprah’s Couch instead of Obama’s Chair in 2012
“If there’s nobody else to do it, then of course I would believe that we should do this,” Sarah Palin told Entertainment Tonight last month, revealing her presidential thoughts.
Hey Sarah — speaking for a large number of Republicans, allow me to respond to your statement: Since there are many others left to do it, then of course we believe that you should not do this.
Instead, let me suggest a career move that better utilizes your talents and abundant charisma.
Why don’t you run for Oprah’s couch instead of Obama’s chair in 2012?
Since Oprah’s last show is September 9, 2011, that leaves a famous empty couch with a power vacuum that only you can fill. Your new show should naturally be called Sarah!
Let’s look at the pros of taking over for Oprah and the cons of becoming the next president.
PRO: Perfect hair, clothes, and makeup every day, with flattering lighting.
- CON: Have you noticed how presidents age? Have you looked at Hillary lately (and she’s not even president)? Let’s face it, the presidency will be bad for your looks, and your looks are among your greatest assets. Stay younger longer off the campaign trail and out of the White House!
PRO: The only major war you will ever declare is a ratings war with Ellen.
- CON: Messy foreign wars are bad for approval ratings.
PRO: Sarah! show ratings so high you will never see The View from your house.
- CON: Endless debates with dismal ratings and a dreaded appearance on The View.
PRO: Your colorful family will be frequent guests and eventually land their own spinoffs.
- Todd’s show can be called How Real Men Tame Powerful Women While Racing a Snow Machine.
- Bristol’s will be (working title) Dancing on Melting Glaciers.
BIG PRO: You can all make oodles of money to influence future elections.
- CON: A measly presidential salary of $400,000 and no chance of syndication.
PRO: You will always be in control and able to invite whomever you want on Sarah!
- CON: Running for president means events will spin out of control.
PRO: You can invite Katie Couric on your show and ask her embarrassing questions.
- CON: On the campaign trail journalists will be asking you embarrassing questions every day.
PRO You love to talk which makes Sarah! your perfect platform.
- CON: On the campaign trail you must develop a real platform and watch your every word.
PRO: You can discuss Christianity openly and not be “new-agey” like Oprah.
- CON: On the campaign trail you must appeal to all Americans, even those who are going to hell.
PRO: You can continue Oprah’s book club and make unknown authors famous.
- CON: You will be forced to read big boring briefing books by unknown policy wonks.
PRO Every day you can positively influence our nation and the world.
(Oprah’s show is currently in 145 countries.)
- CON: If you run for president and lose, your influence diminishes. If you run and win, only slightly half the country will like you. The other half that didn’t vote for you will continue to dislike you, but the half that voted for you will eventually disapprove of you anyway because being president means you ultimately have to tick off most of your supporters to get stuff done.
PRO: You will make news on Entertainment Tonight not Meet the Press.
- CON: Sunday talk shows are so boring with bad lighting and way too many gaffe opportunities.
PRO: Your only economic stimulus will be boosting ad revenue on Sarah!
- CON: Dealing with trillions of debt and a slumping dollar reminds you of that boring econ class.
PRO: On Sarah! you will have a friendly studio audience every day.
- CON: As president, Congress will be your permanent studio audience with knives and fangs.
PRO: Invite Tina Fey on Sarah! so you can imitate her imitating you during ratings week.
- CON: She might imitate you imitating her imitating you.
PRO: You both end up jumping on the couch and it’s the lead story on Entertainment Tonight during ratings week. Everyone wins!
Sarah, it’s obvious why Sarah! replacing Oprah is a no-brainer. Just imagine: by 2012 your ratings will be so high that President Obama will call and ask if he can be your guest the last week of the 2012 presidential campaign.
Then the biggest presidential decision you will ever have to make is whether to take his call.
That was funny, Myra. You have forgotten one more, perhaps, the most important factor:
Pros: Sarah got BALLS
Cons: Those “many others left to do it…” DON’T.
That’s the real tragedy.
And you have misquoted her as well, because she has said that “if there is no one to have enough courage to make the necessary tough decisions”.
Appart from that, she has explained Chris Wallace why she would be willing to make such sacrifices for America.
I agree though that it would be a tragedy if she were to loose her dazzling smile because of all those INGRATES…
And I don’t know whether she realizes that her task will be at least ten times more difficult than that of Reagan and Tatcher combined.
But then, could all those metrosexual men, you mention, cope with such a task?
If we can’t do lots better than dimwit Palin, we deserve Oscumball. Her own household is acutely dysfunctional. She isn’t really all that sure about anything.Why should she become the most powerful person in the world? Is she going to lead the charge to undo all that Obimbo has done? Let her replace the filthymouthed Oprahand not foist her incompetence on the USA.
If we can’t do better than Palin we deserve Palin.
She’s a better leader than Obama is. She’s got more experience leading and she did a great job.
I do not think she is the best we can do, but I don’t think reasonable people think she is a dimwit. She’s been opining on many heady issues for quite a while now, and with powerful results.
I don’t understand your point about her family. Compared to Obama’s or Giuliani’s or Gingrich’s? Obama’s probably the worst, with that Aunt who revels in welfare as though she is entitled to it.
But people have weird things happen in their families and it’s just a sexist argument because Palin is the mother instead of the father. Too many people think she should be raising her kids instead of in office, but never say this about men.
There are other Republicans who can be serious reformers. I hope Palin endorses one of them who can win in swing states. But let’s not pretend Palin is horrible or stupid. She’s just not the most electable. She might be able to beat Obama, but it would be extremely difficult.
Whitey, wanna know something? I personally don’t think Sarah Palin is ready for president yet. I think some experience in Congress would legitimize her ambitions. But every time I hear someone like you I’m forced to refer people to the following website:
http://www.hootervillegazette.com/dumbdemocrats.html
Dear Jarmo,
I’m truly sorry you feel forced to do anything.
You jumped to the conclusion that I am a demorat. Not so. Dr. Alan Keyes is my candidate of preference and, counting writeins, I have voted for him five times, because he is honest and intelligent and virtuous. I see Mrs. Palin as a very bad political joke, probably planted by the International Banking Clique, which certainly doesn’t want to have a Ronald reagan type in the White House. Some criticize the writer for pointing out some of Palin’s many deficiencies.Has the First Amendment been repealed? One Dumbelino even thinks the writer didn’t mean what she wrote. The question is NOT,”Who is better than Oscumball?” Everybody, anybody, including most cocker spaniels, would make a better POTUS than Obimbo.The real question is, “Who do I want to be the most powerful man in the world for the next four years?” That excludes those, of course, like Odingbat, who are not really eligible.
I think if Sarah runs, she wins the Rep primary, since pro-life, small gov’t, pro-Constitution Rep voters (a majority of registered Reps?) do like her.
Her full quote:
“It’s going to entail a discussion with my family [and] a real close look at the lay of the land, to consider whether there are those with that common sense, conservative, pro-Constitution passion, whether there are already candidates out there who can do the job … or whether there’s nobody willing to do it, to make the tough choices and not care what the critics are going to say about you, just going forward according to what I think the priorities should be.”
Common sense, not perfect oratory. That’s Sarah.
Far better than Obama, OR McCain … and who could possibly think Biden is better?
She might also choose not to run, and accept a second shot at VP after somebody else wins the Rep nomination.
And another take on that subject; Sacrificing Sarah to save America would be like sacrificing Mona Lisa to save a museum…
Myra Adams is a media producer, writer and political observer, who served on the McCain Ad Council during the 2008 McCain campaign, and on the 2004 Bush campaign creative team. Her columns have appeared on The Daily Caller and as a co-writer on The Daily Beast. Myra Adams is also a prize, A1, first grade bitch.
I think this is Megan Mc Cain.
agreed. Only megan could be this dense.
HEY!!! MYRA/MEGAN MC CAIN…GET A JOB!!
You’re validating my theory that the further one goes up on this planet from its equator, and the closer that one gets to the arctic circle, the ditzier that people get. The cold weather must freeze their brains six months of the year, and their brains never quite thaw out entirely the other six months of the year. Proof of which are you Canadians, Norwegians, Russians and Siberians, all of whom are very, very strange people compared to the rest of us, well, except for Californians and New Yorkers, whose brains haven’t thawed out since the last ice age. Nobody knows why.
Thanks for revealing the revenge intent behind the multiple choice commentary. She like all her kind eventually reveal their true self when given just a little slack in the reins but she may demand kudos for abstaining for so long after Sarah’s comments exposing the 2008 campaign short comings. Her future may be a suicide rut with a PBS for planning their demise preceded by an Olbermann exercise.
Borgelt,
You are a pathetic fool for denigrating Ms. Adams in this manner. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Pure drivel Myra. You should be writing for Hufpo.
Palin has something obama/Biden/liberals will never have,
” common sense”. Also we are left wondering if this is perhaps someone like Megan MCain writing ..and answering with some of the leftie comments.
We need more people like Palin that stand up for and with our country. Instead we get an Obama that tears America down at every opportunity. Maybe she’s not as articulate as Obama..she doesn’t use teleprompters and speech writers. She speaks from her love of this country.
Why are you here Myra? Surely not to bolster conservative values and views. Fair and balanced?..not.
I wonder how many votes would Oprah get running for the president…
And another, more serious look at her possible plans.
She has told: “When I run again, I’ll be much more rogue.”
She hasn’t told: “If I run again…”
That means that she will, most probably, run.
But her main target won’t be to get the GOP nomination. It shall be to energise the primary, but above all to set the narration of the race.
That means that she is going to be brutally, shockingly honest and uncompromising in her message and in presenting her vision.
For example: During her interview on the “Freedom Watch” with Judge Napolitano, when refering to the scourge of drug addiction she expressed her opinion that she is not for the legalisation of drugs but she believes that the “State” has no business in determining what the citizen should do in the privacy of his home.
It signals that she will be fighting for the shifting of the responsibility for that pathology from the third party onto the real perpetrator – the drug abuser.
It is in line with her strategy of ALWAYS highliting the INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY.
She will articulate similar attitude towards health care, education an any other social issues.
Her argument shall be incredebly strong as she will use every aspect of her own life as an example to support her stand.
That won’t go well with the majority of those who will ultimately decide who should be the next GOP’s nominee.
So she will loose to someone less radical but at the same time much less principled.
But her message shall be impossible to ignore, will resonate with rational, thinking and other principled people and will influence the policy of the Republican Party.
In such a case she still will be a winner and her popularity shall remain intact.
The perhaps somewhat revealing aspect of Sarah Palin’s quirky personality that one can readily discern while watching the promotional trailer for her new “reality” TV show is that she says that she would much rather be hanging out in scenic Alaska than getting involved in politics, and yet the reality is that she continues to get involved in politics, interfering in matters which are none of her business, such as her recent spiteful, vicious and bitchy vendetta against Lisa Murkowski that could have thrown the outcome of that election to the Democrat in that race if Murkowski hadn’t been MUCH more popular in Alaska than Palin is. Go figure.
One might conclude that Sarah Palin is a disingenuous, irresponsible, selfish and self-centered, spoiled brat; another indicator of which was when she reneged on her obligation to finish her term as governor. But then totally self-absorbed Sarah Palin has a history of impetuously doing pretty much whatever she whimsically feels like doing without any regard for whom it hurts, never doing anything for anybody, unless she has something to gain from it for herself.
Sarah Palin has a history of impetuously doing pretty much whatever she whimsically feels like doing without any regard for whom it hurts, never doing anything for anybody, unless she has something to gain from it for herself …., AND unless the spotlight will be on HER.
Little Sarah is a bizarre beauty pageant contestant who lost, but who won’t get off the stage.
Betcha cutesy little Sarah was daddy’s little girl, and she has never grown up.
Murkowski lost the primary to Joe Miller. She ran a write-in campaign because she feels entitled to the position and has no respect for he democratic election process. She also had a radio host censored for daring to express his views on the matter. Maybe you like politicians that act that way but most of us do not.
Murkowski lost to Miller, huh? Then why is she ahead of him by 20,000 votes?
Miller is about to become history. That race was none of Palin’s business.
Demorats voting for her which they weren’t able to in the primary. They need her RINOness!
Yeah, that must have been what happened, Robert. LOL!!!!
Or a more likely scenario could be that, after Alaskans realized that they had been duped by Sarah Palin prior to the primary, i.e., Palin and a handful of Tea Partiers from California had maliciciously LIED to Alaskans that Murkowski was a liberal who supported Obama’s agenda, those enraged, previously duped Alaskans then came out in droves to rectify their mistake by voting for Murkowski in the general election.
(No, dumbass, Democrats had nothing to do with it. It was all about Palin’s bitchy, vicious, neurotic and treacherous scheming.)
BTW, You do know by now, don’t you, that despite Sarah Palin’s additional sleazy ploy of putting several fake names on the ballot spelled similar to Murkowshi’s name to deliberately confuse voters, not only were Alaskans smart enough that Lisa Murkowski still garnered 98% of the write-in ballots, but a judge threw out Miller’s sleazy attempt to get the vote count stopped when that other sleazeball, Miller, saw that he was losing the general election, also, another vicious, senseless, ruthless, bitchy and sleazy ploy by Palin. Indeed, Palin had her dirty fingerprints were all over every phase of her vicious and sleazy intent to corrupt that election for vindictive, strictly self-serving purposes. Perhaps you should pay more attention to the news and a varety of different credible sources, ya think? Obviously, you’ve been duped, too, by that loose cannon, sleazy little Miss Cutesy, Sarah Palin. That screwy brat is a menace.
Let me give you just the facts.
Fact #1: Murkowski lost to Joe Miller in the primary. The vote count is a fact and no one ever contested the legality of the vote.
Fact #2: Murkowski is not ahead of Joe Miller a present. She is not even considered a part of the race because she was not on the ballot. She is a write-in-candidate and so far none of those battlots have been counted.
Fact #3: The number of write-in-ballots cast outnumber those cast for Miller. However, that does not mean that Murkowski was the name written on each ballot.
Fact #4: Murkowski and Miller were both running for the Senate from Alaska. Sarah Palin is a resident of Alaska. Therefore, who represents her state in the Senate is her business.
Stop pushing your opinion as fact.
Well, Kipling, the bottom line is that all of the write-in ballots in Alaska have been tabulated, and Lisa Murkowski received 98% of those votes, which suggests, don’t you think, that Miller is about to become history and Lisa Murkowski has been reelected as a U.S. Senator for Alaska, despite Sarah Palin’s vicious (and senseless) best efforts to vindictively sabotage Lisa Murkowski’s run for reelection? Kinda proves, too, doesn’t it, that Murkowski has more credibility, more respect and a better standing in Alaska than Palin does? (Not that I expect you to concede that your assessments were erroneous.)
Response to Dianne:
Even if Murkowski received 100% of the write-in vote, it does not disprove anything I said. If you think it does, please point out which assessment and then support your contention.
Even if Murkwoski received 100% of the write-in vote, it does not prove anything you said. Your rhetorical trick is rather childish. You begin with a statement of fact (or supposed fact) and then claim that the fact in question then supports your opinions. Yet, you do not show your math. Very poorly done.
Whatever. You’re not even rational.
Since you asked, the FACT is she LOST the primary to Joe Miller. The FACT is that you are an ignorant illiterate buffoon.
Saying its so ain’t going to make it so, and it ain’t going to make you any smarter either.
Miller will lose in Alaska.
This is a loss for the law in Alaska. Why make laws when you do not uphold them… Heck, don’t like em…circumvent ‘em..
You don’t have a clue what went on there, do you abi? And yet you’re opinionated?
Wonder why…..
http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2010/11/09/exclusive-ak-supervisers-union-cited-for-improperly-campaigning-against-joe-miller/
Hmmmmmmmm.
By those lights then neither do you.
Maroon.
Get real, Kipling. Dumbass Tea Partiers from California tried to sabotage Murkowski’s campaign for no other reason than to exact a vicious and senseless vendetta against her by that bitch, Sarah Palin.
What goes around comes around, though. The outcome of that bitch’s nasty vendetta was that we got to see that Murkowshi is obviously a helluvalot more popular in Alaska than that sleazy and vicious bitch, Palin, is.
Murkowski’s win will be another resounding defeat for Palin, the obnoxious beauty pageant contestant who just lost again, but who still won’t get off of the stage, obviously because she is a nut case.
Am I to understand that California – the heart and soul of the Tea Party movement – infiltrated the Alaskan primary and voted out Murkowski at the behest of Sarah Palin?
Please check your meds – if you have none – please get some.
You jackass. If you were paying attention to the news, you would know that Tea Partiers from California assisted Sarah Palin in sabotaging Murkowski’s run for reelection. At a townhall meeting in Fairbanks, also, people said that the only reason why they voted for Miller in the primary was because Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers from California lied to them and duped them into believing that Murkowski was a liberal who supported Obama’s agenda. YOUR “facts” are wanting, dumbass.
So the voters are too dumb to know Murkowski and to vote accordingly? Is that really the position the Murkowski camp and you are pushing to explain the primary election?
Why is it that people devoid of substance always resort to name calling?
When last I looked, there were quite a number of successful candidates who were supported by Governor Palin. Beyond that, the votes cast in the primary in which Joe Miller won were cast by Alaskans, not Californians. He won; Murkowski lost. She refused to accept defeat gracefully even after stating that she would in fact support the primary results. Your lack of substance and logic is evidenced by your imbecilic and frequent use of the “b” word. As regards nutcases, it seems that you know personally of what you speak, but you misapply it to others. I think it’s called displacement. But you’re in luck. I’m sure Obamacare has a treatment program for nutcases,
You haven’t even been following the news. You don’t know squat, and yet you spout off here. What a dufus. What a complete fool. You and Kipling are are a pair of genuine, authentic dummies. (And blowhards and B.S.Artists, too.) Pay attention, and keep your moronic opinions to yourself. You might learn something. I doubt it. But you might. LOL
hey!!! is this Murkowshi’s mom..or…Myra???
Just how ignorant are you? You’re beyond pathetic.
Saying it’s so ain’t going to make it so, and it ain’t going to make you any smarter either, you shallow, clueless fool.
Get real. Murkowski is a dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks political princess who inherited her seat from Daddy and thus thinks she owns it for life.
Political vendetta? Yep, that’s what the Alaska GOP establishment has out for Palin, all right.
Your ignorance is stunning. Since you don’t know squat, you should shut up. You just made a fool out of yourself again.
“Murkowski’s win will be another resounding defeat for Palin, the obnoxious beauty pageant contestant who just lost again, but who still won’t get off of the stage, obviously because she is a nut case.”
So sorry bozo – Palin was not running against anyone. She backed some winners and some losers. As far getting off the stage bozo, why do keep coming to the “concerts”?
Now the Tea Party… Well now bozo, they are not just from California – they are from across the USA. These Tea Party people won 113 out of 127 important races they supported in this election cycle.
I have only pity for hate-filled bozos like you.
You’re absolutely clueless. Stupid and uninformed beyond belief. 113 out of 127 races, huh? You’re full of sh*t, too. Tea Partiers actively participated in less than two dozen races, and they were credited with helping to win only 2 or 3 of them at most. In fact, dumbass, they did more harm than good, thanks to dumbasses like you. Republicans would have regained control of the Senate, too, if moronic Tea Partiers hadn’t meddled in primaries without a clue as to the damage that those well-intentioned, but clueless fools were doing.
What’s exasperating is that there is a segment of the population comprised of Republicans and Democrats, alike, that is so lazy mentally and so unobservant that one side never learns anything from the other side’s mistakes; i.e., just as there were Democrats who were dumb enough to vote for that phoney, Obama, there are Republicans who will be dumb enough to vote for that other phoney, Palin; further evidense of the dumbing down of mentally lazy Americans on both sides of the spectrum. With her history of extremely irresponsible behavior and of reneging on her commitments, also, Palin isn’t anymore qualified to be POTUS than Obama is. A realist would recognize that both of them are empty suits and decadent dilletantes.
Pure cr*p.
I see the trolls are out in force today on the latest Palin thread.
If she runs, she’ll win the primary.
If she does not run, she’ll back Rick Perry if he runs.
Other than that, if she does not run, and Perry does not run, we don’t know who she would support.
Like beauty, crap is in the eyes of the heholder. We prefer to think of it as, well, art, designed to get the attention of retards, and we see that it got yours.
Palin is not as dumb as these guys.
http://www.hootervillegazette.com/dumbdemocrats.html
Try to fight nice, Lib. You’re just pissed because your side got smeared bad on election day, and Palin got more than half of her picks elected. You’re throwing a tantrum; even supporting a Republican, even though she is a RINO.
Yeah, folks, clueless dimwit Jarmo is what passes for an intelligent life form on this blog, him and the bacteria in PSM’s computer. LOL
Since when is a private citizen not allowed to support whomever they want? I did not hear many people complain about Slick Willie supporting Obama. Murkowski was appointed by daddy to keep it “all in the family”. We don’t need nepotism or an hereditary aristocracy in our government.
Stupid and condescending article, beneath what I expected from Pajamas Media. You buy into every negative stereotype of Sarah Palin, and think you’re clever. This reads like a warmed over Maureen Dowd column.
Think of it this way:
Reading well written and appropriate opinions which conflict with your own opinions is a much healthier broadening experience that eating fattening junk foods.
That would be fine; except that having read the first three lines or so, I just hit the spittoon & never looked back. So much for nutrition.
You wouldn’t be posting those smiley faces if someone ran a similar low rent comedy piece on your hero, Obama.
Wrong again, dimwit. Obama isn’t my hero. My only heroes are our servicemen in harm’s way.
Had me fooled there. For a second I thought you were in favor of this asinine attack on Palin.
Too subtle for me champ. Try nailing your colors to the mast. It’ll prevent people confusing you with a dumb ass.
Um, I don’t think so. LOL
You make it too easy, dimwit.
I’m a Roadrunner, and you’re a Wiley Coyote. You’ll always loose, dimwit.
And what’s more, you’ll always lose, too.
Now choke on my dust cloud. I’m out of here. PEEYOW! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
There you go again. Quod erat demonstrandum.
What a sleazy piece of sh*t column for PJ Media to put out attacking Palin.
I continue to get confused with the columns here. I thought this site was a conservative site.
I guess not. Maybe time to move on people.
Sarah would make a great president; she loves America; and would restore her back to what she once was. She’s Reagan-like, she would bring honesty, and integrity back into the Whitehouse, which is badly needed.
So true. I remember back in 1982 when they were saying only the truly stupid would be voting for that phony Reagan. He may have not been the most worldly and sophisticated candidate at the time, but he was a genuine American and more importantly, he not only HAD a moral compass but one that actually functioned correctly (Rhodes scholar Clinton and Harvard grad Obama miss on both counts). That is the greatest, and most important, quality about Palin. She can still tell right from wrong, good from bad, and can do it from a truly American perspective.
Fact check — Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 and reelected in 1984.
This is so true. If I were Sarah Palin, I don’t even know why she’d want the job as President. It would be a thankless task and she’d get no support from the media. None. Zero.
If the 2008 presidential election proved anything, it showed that the new bully pulpit is not in the White House, it’s on TV. Obama’s news conferences can’t even come close to the ratings of a Rush Limbaugh radio program, let alone a major TV show like Oprah. The media and television got an inexperienced black Senator with NO accomplishments elected to become president of the United States. Sarah Palin understood this two years ago. She is undoubtedly more powerful today than she was as governor of Alaska. Like her or hate her, I think there are few Americans today who don’t know her. Her show on TLC will pull in big ratings and her job on FOX News only makes her more powerful politically. And look at how many Tea Party candidates she endorsed got elected last week. Nope, she shouldn’t waste her time running for president. Why do it when you are, arguably, much more influential on TV than the Secretary of State, another woman named Hillary Clinton? Palin knows that TV is the key to her success (both politically and financially) and recent events prove her right.
“she’d get no support from the media. None. Zero.”
She’s an employee of Fox News already!
One channel out of how many? And not one newspaper. She even had to slam down the Wall Street Journal the other day for being inaccurate about one of her comments. It’s actually quite funny because the paper was so wrong and you can read about it here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/09/palin-do-newspaper-reporters-read-their-own-newspapers/
Nope, one cable news channel does not a media make. I think John McCain found that out the hard way in 2008.
What do you mean? She’s employed by the most powerful name in news. She has the unquestioned support of all of talk radio. And in case you didn’t know, the WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Speaking of which, here’s the rest of the story you so conveniently forgot to know:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/sarah-palin-federal-reserve_n_780833.html
Perhaps she should have checked with her palm.
The rest of the story from where? HuffPo?
You’ve got to be kidding.
I guess Obama, Pelosi and Biden should have checked their teleprompters.
http://www.hootervillegazette.com/dumbdemocrats.html
Citing HuffPo citing the paper’s defense of itself? NonSensei, you do know that HuffPo is a strictly political-agenda driven sight, right?
Essentially, the defense is that: food prices have risen, but the retailers haven’t decided whether to pass it on yet, so therefore, food prices haven’t actually risen. What?
Idiotic, self-contradictory defense. They HAVE risen, but retailers are wondering how much of the hike they can absorb themselves; how much they can pass on to the customer before they get hurt themselves by declining sales.
But, the government data says they HAVEN’T risen! Umm, this is why Conservatives do not embrace government.
Like Sarah says, the one who does the shopping knows that prices HAVE increased. There are many foods I no longer buy, because they are just simply out of my price range. My bill is the same, but the quality is less. I KNOW the prices have gone up. I do not need the government to tell me that. Nor do I need them telling me otherwise.
Figures don’t lie, but liars figure. The worst part of this Presidency is that the government has shed every last bit of what little credibility it had left.
Apples are up 30 cents a pound and the nuts I favor are $1 more per pound, so I rarely buy them now. Gatorade went from $1.69 to $1.99 for a quart, so I only buy during a big sale. (I know, I know, but the electrolytes really help me, else I would not buy at all.) I could go on, but most folks KNOW this for themselves. They do not buy the government B.S. But people like NonSensei blithely parrot the… nonsense.
quite the jackwagon, aren’t you? Oh pseudonmyous coward?
Quite the R. Lee Ermey fan, eh? Or maybe not, since you’re willing to steal from him without giving him credit. Now, pop a beer, head for the back porch, stare into the sodium light over the chicken coop, and try to squeeze an original thought out of that Fox-soaked brain of yours.
I am sure Mrs. Palin will take your advice under consideration,you seem to know what is better for her than she does.Your full time job being a nanny.
It figures that this article was written by a McCain advisor! Let me put in one additional point- Pro for president, con for couch: Gov Palin truly believes she can be an effective leader and make a difference for the country that she loves. Her many supporters agree.
Is this supposed to be humor?
It comes across as mean.
Did I wander into Huffpo by accident?
I was thinking DKOS myself.
This article doesn’t deserve to see the light of day. Are you trying out for the Maureen Dowd spot in Pajamasmedia?
Talk about no-brainer. This is one of the most obnoxious pieces I’ve ever seen published here.
I LOVE Sarah Palin, and think she does a great job getting the conservative message out to the American people, but I don’t think she has enough experience to be elected President. She left her post in Alaska with reasonable excuses, but it would have shown the public a lot more about her if she was able to build a new coalition for state rule, after the old one fell apart in the wake of the 2008 election.
For good reasons, or bad, she will always carry that around when she tries to run for office in the future.
She should continue to further her skills as a King-maker (or Queen-maker), and realize she’s too vulnerable to seek the Presidency.
I would absolutely back her if she was still governor of Alaska, but her resigning that post signaled the death knell for her chances in 2012.
She will have to gain federal office now, in some capacity, and manage for a while- before she’s ready to take on that challenge.
The dogs bark, but the caravan passes on…
Caravan? You must be a Muslim. Therefore a terrorist.
Isn’t is sad that liberals like “Your Sensei” don’t know enough about history to remember that the caravans of the Silk Road existed long before Islam did? Doubtless “Your Sensei”‘s senseiship is entirely in the tradition of Genma Saotome and Happosai. ^_~
“Caravan? You must be a Muslim. Therefore a terrorist.”
Posting a stupid comment? You must be a jerk.
Yeah AC, but you made worthwhile comments. (Geezez, these dimwits are unreal.)
Now, now, little kitty, no need to spit and hiss like that.
When are the grown-ups going to post something?
Why? Do you need a ride somewhere?
Assigning Motives #456.678
Hey Persons Galore, what about these noises you recently emitted –
Your Sensei
“You see, when you start to assign motives to people, you can’t prove anything.”
November 8, 2010 – 7:16 am
And an archival taste of Its taste for being all It can be –
49. Your Sensei
And you wonder why we hold you people in such low regard.
November 6, 2010 – 7:20 am
“You see, when you start to assign motives to people, you can’t prove anything.”
Wow Really
It’s stunning how uninformed, arbitrary and gullible you people are.
October 20, 2010 – 4:14 pm
“You see, when you start to assign motives to people, you can’t prove anything.”
Betty Knows
You people are precisely what’s wrong with this country.
My gosh, you’re, Born Senseless, the “You People’s” Liar. Therefore, you are a liar.
The logic of the Modern Liberal Cesspool. Indeed.
The Tingler is over in India selling your soul to the capitalists. Mr. President will be ok, he’s as rich as those people you love to hate. Michelle looks great attempting to out Nancy Reagan Nancy Reagan, don’t you agree? No, she certainly is no Jackie O.
What is a Persons Galore to do?
Roll over and take another kick to the Kick Me sign riveted to your ass.
Call Van Jones. He knows you well. He has the remedy. Crunch!
Whoa, Mr. Lucky, you really need to get a life.
i’ve told him that. He won’t listen. He’s got better things to do – database management. Dare to dream, Mr. Luckless.
Lame Born Senseless, lame. Just can’t stay away can you. And a “Commitee” no less. Perfect.
Make up another name and be Modern Liberal Clever. You’re soooo gooooood at it.
sleazits
Don’t you have a database to debug?
July 23, 2010 – 1:52 pm
Don’t you have somebody to lie to? Don’t you just love being a lying con?
Need more Liar?
Like Jaaaavvvvellllin! Really cool. Liar.
The Kick Me sign fits. You can’t shake it, can you. Lying does that, does it not? What a trap. Person Galore on the margin and quite helpless. Like a trained Kyber. Perfect.
There’s no way out. Just keep making it up. It’s all you have.
You made your cesspool. Love it or leave it. Liar.
Somebody called us to come and throw a net over Mr. Lucky, and to take him away again.
Does anybody here know where that loony, little rascal is hiding again this time?
SORRY TO FIND YOU HAVE CHANGED YOUR NAME..HARD TO KEEP TRACK,
HOWEVER, EASY TO RECOGNIZE THE VENOM YOU STILL SPEW AT ALL CONSERVATIVE POSTS HERE.
Yooo clazy Canadian? And yooo nevah understand these clazy Amelicans???
Venom? Phooey!!! Yooo speaky like Frenchman who makey to women too often with his face.
That was supposed to be ….
You speaky like Frenchman who makey [love] to women too often with his face.
I really don’t think she wants to be president, which is one reason why I kinda would like her to be.
I have no doubt that she has the brains & the guts & the character to do it, and that she would be a good one.
Guys, we conservatives need to remember we are on the same side. Save the scorn for the left-wing fanatic socialists. Don’t help them defeat us with a “divide and conquer” strategy.
Actually, Governor Palin would be very effective and powerful as a television personality and that’s a fact. I’m glad she is doing what she is doing now, and I’m praying (as I imagine she is) that God will direct her next steps.
I believe there are far better conservative candidates than Sarah Palin for the 2012 GOP presidential campaign, but I’m not even going to mention my favorite candidate here. I do know beyond all doubt that he will be civil and respectful to all opponents. Right now we are riding a runaway toward the plunge into the Grand Canyon. We conservatives need to get in the saddle and take the reins–we ALL want turn this thing around.
I will support any conservative candidate for president. Of the 12 potential candidates currently being profiled on Fox News Special report, any one would be better than what we have now!
That’s because outside Rick Perry, there are NO other GOP possibilities that are conservative, have at least some respect from the TPM and most important, have the courage and guts to make the tough decisions to scale back big government.
Bizarre comment, Sap (appropriate name). Again, you show your ignorance.
During his interview by Fox’s Greta van Susteren a few nights ago, Governor Perry took umbrage (good naturedly) at some snotty, quite inappropriate and irresponsible remarks which Ms. Palin had made about him, apparently for no other reason than just to be bitchy, from which one can logically conclude that Palin and Perry are far from being buddies. (And BTW, another development that you have obviously failed to notice is that, in recent months, Palin has become so nervy, arrogant, glib, presumptous, irresponsible, bratty and full of herself that she is making [a lot] of enemies even among Republicans who used to be that loose cannon’s friends.)
But then you have a history of never getting your facts straight, and with good reason: You make them up as you go along, you blowhard and B.S.Artist.
Mr. Just a thought, or two (bizarre name, “no thought or ten” would be more appropriate -
Sapwolf’s comments don’t even mention Sarah Palin. Why are his comments bizarre? So why your rant against Palin in your reply?
My little Jarmo, he suffers from dyslexia, ADD and narcolepsy; the latter of which is a blessing to his parents in view of his ditziness.
Why does the fact that Sarah Palin uses her constitutional right to free speech bother you? Why does the fact that she successfully engages in the political process make you foam at the mouth like a rabid leftist beast? Would you say the same things about a man?
I suggest you train your rhetorical guns on the political enemies of liberty and not on someone whose biggest fault is not being an elitist like yourself.
Dood piece, Ms. Adams. It appears that now both sides are waking up to Palin’s disqualifications.
Oops, that was supposed to be good piece, not dood piece, Sorry ’bout that.
Nah, you still misspell: Dowd piece, for sure.
You know, after all I’ve seen and heard from and about Palin, I think the couch is the best place for her. That’s how I always envision her – bent over a couch. Hmm, talk about pulling the plug on grandma.
It’s amazing the amount of pornographic fantasy involving her and/or her children that surfaces in Palin hate.
From Letterman to the hack “journalist” creep who moved into the house next door where he could watch the kids playing in the back yard to Andrew Sullivan, all the way down to the saddest internet trolls, every daily ritual of Two Minutes’ Hate has to involve some sort of sexual slur or patently moronic theory of her kids’ parentage or speculation on this woman’s reproductive equipment.
It’s not merely that these people are utterly bereft of any substantive criticisms of Palin. They also reveal themselves to be degenerate baboons who get prurient enjoyment out of their idiotic cruelty.
Well, no. She’s a hot little babe. I’m a man. End of story. Maybe you should change out of your taffeta and admit whatever it is you’re feeling.
I like Sarah Palin. I think she is a beautiful woman, inside and out. She’s gritty, capable, strong, self-made. What’s not to like? Thing is, I have never had some sexual fantasy about her. Never.
Maybe that’s because I don’t hate her like you do, NonSensei. I see her as a major political leader of our times, as someone to hold in esteem. As such, I simply don’t regard her as a piece of meat. It simply never occurred to me to do so.
The same goes for those on the Left. Landrieu and Gillibrand are beautiful women, but unlike Reid, I do not regard them as “hotties”. It would just never occur to me to do so.
You’re like the guys in the old days who hated blacks, but wouldn’t hesitate to dip their wicks in one. In fact, that’s probably the best reason to do so, in your mind. It becomes a means of dominance and degradation. Hate makes it all okay.
Gee, Marc, if Palin isn’t the kind of woman you fantasize about, who is? Frankly, I find Palin so wholly objectionable intellectually, politically and spiritually, her raw sex appeal is the only thing left to recommend her. Consider it a complement. Much like you comparing me to the Founding Fathers and their unbounded love for all women, black and white. Thank you.
You haven’t been with a woman for a long, long time, have you Marc? LOL
BrianH, get a grip and get real. You keep making assumptions and conjectures which aren’t supported by the facts. People don’t have to hate Palin or to even dislike her to criticize her. Like you, she is a ditz. That’s sufficient reason to ridicule both of you.
What a snarky, smarmy hit piece! Miz Doud would be proud of you. Myra, you should be ashamed of yourself. This country could do a lot worse than electing Sarah Palin as president.
Dittos.
What a lame hit-piece. It has no business being on PJMedia.
This article is good evidence the Old Establishment GOP has always been the strongest ally of the Democrats.
It is a good thing when fools speak up. Let them be counted.
WTF was this? Who were you trying to impress with this, Myra?
Well, if you must know, she was trying to impress me, and she succeeded where others have failed.
Ooh, would you so love to turn Sarah into that vapid Oprah with the facile tears or is this an attempt at humour?
As #1 Bogdan from Australia pointed out Sarah is a different kettle of fish and there is no one out there worthy of being copied.
This is a very nasty article with zero substance. I think Sarah Palin is an honest and accomplished politician. I am always interested in hearing critique, and opened this article in the hope that serious issues with Sarah Palin’s possible future candidacy would be presented for the benefit of conservative readers.
How did this hate-piece get past Roger Simon?
Ms. Adams – either you have made a poor attempt at humor, or you are simply following the delusions of the left. To be blunt, I do not believe that Sarah Palin has some sort of GRAND DESIRE to be president; I believe it rather may be her DESTINY despite that. She basically stated if nobody else would take the mantle, she would do it; it was not a snotty retort. A lot will happen in the next 12 months; nobody with a patriotic heart wants the Mitt Romney / John McCain brand of psuedo-socialism GOP garbage any longer. The fakers and opportunists will fade into the woodwork under the pressure that is unfolding. Indeed, you may find yourself pushing Palin for president in hopes of her failing since we are now witnessing the collapse of the Republic in real time.
I would not want the job, and would not wish it on my worst enemy. I pray for Barack Obama personally, not out of some idea of capitulating to his philosophy, but because NOBODY can do this in their own strength. That said, is Sarah Palin the perfect candidate? Maybe not. Regardless, she has now been well-tempered by vile statements people like you have made, disparging remarks that gives her resolve to face whatever comes her way regardless of the media’s opinion. Indeed, for such a time as this – the Fed run amuk, two wars, government intrusion, state-held debt insanity – she may be the only one who has the COURAGE to face the grim realities facing America as a leader. Balls indeed….
If it is destiny, she’ll have Oprah’s couch regardless as things unfold, because she is only electable when people see who she really is, not the caricature the media has tried so hard to portray. Obviously, unless you did wrongly attempt to make a humorous overview in these desperate times, you are`doing your part to facilitate those very lies. – Geoff Stunkard, Johnson City TN
Written by an adviser and consultant to two of the biggest RINOs in modern history, who did more to destroy the conservative movement than any others I can think of. What a coincidence that it would have a snarky, condescending and dismissive tone about Palin.
In case you didn’t know it, Ms Adams, McCain would have lost by 20 points instead of 6% if Palin hadn’t energized the conservative base in the last two months of the campaign. Many of us who voted Republican did so because of her, not for the so-called Republican candidate who did everything he could in the Senate to stick it to the base, like amnesty, McCain-Feingold, monstrous growth of spending, gang of 14, anti-tax cuts, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
I’m sure Lisa Murkowski or Charlie Crist or Arlen Specter would be happy to hire you on as a spokeswhatever.
This seems like a piece more for the likes of Salon — fairly peurile, flailingly unfunny, and obviously, deeply wrought by fear abnd loathing of Sarah Palin.
I’m realizing more each day how important Sarah Palin’s candidacy and victory is for this country. It’s our only way through the hate, distortions, fallacies and idols of a poisonous post-modern elitism.
Response to comments from Myra Adams.
This piece which many of you obviously feel is “hate filled” is really just the opposite.
I am suggesting that given Sarah Palin’s many talents and love for her country, a career as a talk show host will allow her to stay in the media cycle longer with greater influence — perhaps even for decades to come.
This is NOT a hit piece, just a humorous way to suggest an alternative career path which I believe she is perfectly suited. Oprah’s influence is on the decline. Sarah Palin could fill that void from a Christian/Conservative perspective. I have the greatest respect and admiration for Sarah Palin and hope the ratings for her new Alaska show will lead to a hit talk show along the lines I am suggesting in this column.
Thanks for the condescending clarification to your condescension. But your idea of what’s best for Sarah Palin is way too livid with sarcasm to be scumbled by protestations. She’s the best person to decide her future (as you are yours), and we’ll be the judges of the choice. Anyway, you clearly failed to do your research into her past as an executive (or chose to ignore it in the interests of mockery). I don’t doubt you’d rather see her vie for a talk show than hold national office, though if you felt so strongly about your preference, and what was in her best interest as well as ours, I’m not sure why you would choose humor and backhanded derision, considering the stakes involved. Gave yourself away there, I’m afraid.
“you clearly failed to do your research into her past as an executive”
Do you need to be reminded that Palin resigned mid-way through the term of her “executive” position.
That is going to be EXTREMELY problematic when she runs for president, especially in the primary phase.
What if Palin took McCain for VP? Safe hand would be – on hand, so to speak, providing reassurance. Failing that, how about McCain´s daughter? She is steady.
I find it telling how you interpret her record as an executive through the leftist/Palin deranged prism of her resignation. This is the meme: that her entire “record” is trumped by her resignation. Another giveaway to the BS of your “admiration” for her. Instead of just being honest and admitting your contempt, you phrase it (as many coy Palin haters do) as “concern.” In fact, it is easily argued that her resignation itself was an act of executive wisdom (sparing Alaska from another 18 months of a governor hamstrung by frivolous legal challenges).
In fact, she was an effective and highly accomplished executive. During her tenure she enacted reforms and policies some thought impossible and most objective observers and Alaskans found significant even historic. Funny how your admiration and respect for her don’t extend to empathy for the clearly stated and highly logical reasons for leaving office early.
“Do you need to be reminded that Palin resigned mid-way through the term of her “executive” position. That is going to be EXTREMELY problematic when she runs for president, especially in the primary phase.”
You wish. That’s a neat precis of the anti-Palin narrative. Good work, foot solder.
There’s no objective reason to believe her resignation will be “problematic” any more than Barack Obama’s broken pledge to finish his first term as Senator was “problematic” to him, UNLESS you’re pushing the anti-Palin narrative.
“Do you need to be reminded that Palin resigned mid-way through the term of her “executive” position.
That is going to be EXTREMELY problematic when she runs for president, especially in the primary phase.”
Miss Adams,
May I remind you in return that such resignations were hardly an obstacle to the career of Barry Hussein “Present” Obama? That Mrs. Palin has the integrity and wisdom to know that holding public office is not a part-time job in a way that Mrs. Clinton, Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama clearly do not is to her credit and thus merely another reason to vote for her. o_O
Now let us replay one particular phrase from your statement:
“…especially in the primary phase.”
That’s a rather curious concern. Questions about a character’s electability in the general election are germane but how things work out in a primary are not. I have known plenty of Cook County and Chicago Republicans who worried about what might happen during a primary but the position of of the GOP within Chicago and Cook County do not persuade that adapting a stance taken by them is necessarily the wiser course.
Did anybody ever tell you that you are very, very strange?
“Do you need to be reminded that Palin resigned mid-way through the term of her “executive” position.
That is going to be EXTREMELY problematic when she runs for president, especially in the primary phase.”
Miss Adams,
May I remind you in return that such resignations were hardly an obstacle to the career of Barry Hussein “Present” Obama? That Mrs. Palin has the integrity and wisdom to know that holding public office is not a part-time job in a way that Mrs. Clinton, Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama clearly do not is to her credit and thus merely another reason to vote for her. o_O
But onhe phrase in your reply from your statement struck me so please permit me to quote it again:
“…especially in the primary phase.”
That’s a rather curious concern. Questions about a character’s electability in the general election are germane but how things work out in a primary are not. I have known plenty of Cook County and Chicago Republicans who worried about what might happen during a primary but the position of of the GOP within Chicago and Cook County do not persuade that adapting a stance taken by them is necessarily the wiser course.
With this in mind, would you please elaborate on why you consider what might happen in the *primary* to be a concern? O_o
C’mon guy, Ms. Adams graciously replied to the grumpy and petty hassles that she was getting, and yet you continued to hassle her anyway? Didn’t your parents teach you any manners? You should get an award for being the rude jerk of the day. Sheesh.
Sarah Palin is the first ever woman with the historical opportunity to become nominated and elected president of the most powerful nation on earth. How you dare to say she should be just a talk show host??? Sarah is one in a lifetime. We won’t see another Sarah Palin in many generations.
What at load of establishment crap! You write a hit piece full of hate and condescension, get called on it, and then try to tell us it was really a piece aimed at being helpful.
Either you are the worst ad person in history or you think we are boneheads. Nevertheless, you can go peddle your snake venom somewhere else.
As Sarah says when in a hole stop digging.
Great advice to you Ms. Adams as you continue to lamely marginalize a great leader and a great American.
You are not a conservative and have no business writing for PJMedia.
If Sarah runs, she’ll win the primary and beat Obama. Hell, I could beat Obama.
Do you have a day job?
Nice try but your answer is condescending crap.
Myra, even your back peddling is pathetic.
We’re not dumb, honestly. We can read what you wrote. It is hate filled for Palin, pure and simple.
This is the most hate filled name calling posting I have seen on PJM in a long time. Why do you allow the name calling bs to go on so much? It’s a “neiner neiner neiner” thing going on here.
Far be it from me to defend Palin, but let’s be honest — who would you trust more to walk your beloved family dog: Sarah Palin or an old school Republican like Mitch McConnell?
I’m not sure I understand the point of the question. Can I say neither?
This is BC’s schtick – complete pointlessness. Now do you get it?
To Aaron: The point is that Palin, for all of her intellectual faults, is probably the closest thing to a normal, everyday, responsible person that the GOP can muster in its upper ranks. And these complaints about her not knowing much are a little bit disingenuous: none of the supposedly more serious candidates, like even Romney, are exactly 100 watt light bulbs themselves. And some Republicans like Mitch McConnell and James Inhofe are just out and out worthless nutsos who shouldn’t be left alone with anyone’s pet.
BC, your ignorance is stunning. You know nothing, absolutely nothing about the Republicans whon you criticize. You are a fool. Hell, your’re neither rational, nor even lucid. You make these other dimwits look like intellectuals. (I meant that in the nicest way.
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To Just an observation from what I’ve read here: you apparently haven’t been observing how I tend to back up what I say, whereas you and the other 1 watt bulbs are content to just recite random rubbish that wouldn’t survive 20 seconds in a bar debate. Do you really think that the likes of Mitch McConnell and James Inhofe are good for the country?
Here’s a task for you which others have failed at: provide links to three examples of Republican leaders making smart, honest statements. You can even go back as far as 30 years. How hard can that be?
Sarah Palin was born to lead not to interview movie stars. She got into politics at a very young age and she is going to stay in politics. It in her blood. She ain’t going to be the next Oprah. She is going to be the female version of Ronald Reagan. Take that sexist idiots!
My little BC, nobody can clear a room like he can. He’s been doing it since he was three.
Wow. Did I stumble onto the wrong web site or did we just get hit with a covert web bomb from socialist trolls! Like the idiot that wrote the article the Anti-Palin Derangement Syndrome is alive and well. As I read the onslaught of mean spirited, sarcastic, and deceptive criticism, it became clear that the commentary about Palin said more about the bloggers than it did of Palin. We are all getting tired of the over reactions, the slurs, the exaggerations, and the smears. Doth they protest too much? You are either making her out to be Hitler or a box of rocks? Could it actually be that you are threatened by her social values and her unwillingness to be defined or corrupted? Or maybe its the fact that she is so much like all those morons, idiots, and hicks that you disdain so much living in fly over country? The dribble is getting old and tiring.
I’m kind of waiting for the teleprompter typer to have to write ” you betcha!” in. He’ll quit. Sarah will get to say what she thinks. It’ll be great! A real presidential speech by a real President!
I voted for Mccain b/c it was the only way to get Palin.
I can see stepping back from the violence wished upon her and her family. I can see her trying to figure out how to use the influence she has been blessed with. She’s brilliant, and wonderful, and worth watching to see. Remember, Reagan had a radio show, and gave rubber chicken speeches. It helped him.
Myra- the only reason McCain did not loose the election by a greater amount, was Sarah Palin. There were no good choices in the last presidential election. Sarah Palin interjected energy into McCain’s campaign. She is the reason a lot of us turned out to vote for him-frankly he drives me crazy and his daughter is everything “those who know so much” claim Sarah Palin is. She has earned her way by words and deeds which is more than can be said for a lot of liberal women in politics-either married a man on his way up or was daddy’s little girl. As for leaving the governorship in Alaska-thank the democrats for that. The constant charges for a lot of nothing against her as governor was going to bankrupt her and make it next to impossible to do the state’s business. I don’t know which is worse- the democrat party or the establishment republican party. The country cannot afford either one any more.
Who was the last president who did not attend an Ivy League school? Reagan What is the common denominator for the disaster in Washington? The Ivy League schools-people who have been taught by people who have never worked in the “real” world. Sarah Palin has worked in the “real” world and did not have her mind cluttered by unworkable nonsense (think stimulus package, health care). It seems as if the conservative women are going to be the ones who take the country back with Sarah Palin in the forefront-you can get out of the way or you can be run over, your choice.
Hey! You’re being ‘way too harsh on Mrs. Palin. She’s a patriot, smart, attractive and a great mom. She’s great, and did I say smart? OK, she may not be poifect and she’s not margaretthatcher enough to be POTUS, but look at the dog we got now. I want a smart, moral guy who can push the nuke buttom if such becomes necessary. (But not hastily!) A great choice might be the older wiser Geo. W. Bush, shorn of all the calamities of the blamestream media and the academic Left who spend so much times hawking for surrender and homosexual sodomies. OK, that’s not constitutional, but there’s some great talent out there and we need not ping on Sarah Palin to feel righteous. It is unseemly to blame a gorgeous woman for being, well, gorgeous. And while’s she’s not always right, she has a terrific batting average. Compare her to Obama Bumblemouth. Some slack, please.
Ms. Adams kid brother.
I propose that Article II of the U.S. Constitution be amended, ASAP, as follows:
Obviously, such an amendment would be good for the country and would eliminate any candidate old enough to have been alive at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. It could and should be adopted with ease.
Me thinks a certain author’s significant other was caught watching one too many Palin appearances, eh?
Sarah Palin came forward because we the people have had crooks and thieves running the show. This woman is an American pioneer. She hasn’t been pampered and preened like a show dog, as have all of the reps from lower forty -eight. Give her a break, eh? She actually has passion for our nation’s Constitution.
“Whoa”, what about the Liar in you Persons Galore?
“Whoa”, “whoa”, “whoa”! Hey why not break out “toothless hillbillies”? You wear your bigotry well.
Keep that Liar rollin…
Remember?
sleazits
Stop it! . . . a ha ha ha ha . . . Stop it, I tell ya! . . . a ha ha. . . You’re killing me! . . . a ha ha ha . . . Oh, my guts hurt! . . . ha ha ha . . . oh . . . ooh . . . a ha ha ha . . . whew! . . .
July 23, 2010 – 5:31 pm
Is the Funhouse mirror cracked up too?
Shouting at phantoms now, eh? You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That’s what it’s all about.
Picked Born Sleazits up nicely. Maybe Pavlov was on to something…
Here Born Sleazits, try this one. It’s a bit more concise and really captures your Courage and Intelligence and now plays to your Desperation –
sleazits
Weeeee haaaaah . . . hoo . . . hoo . . . hoo . . . bwaaaaaaa haaaaa haaaa . . . hoo boy . . . I can’t take it! . . . It’s too good! . . . hoo . . . hoo . . . wow, I haven’t laughed this hard since . . . ha ha ha. . . whew . . . I don’t know . . . How do y’all do it? . . . whew . . . ok . . . ok, I got it together . . . darkie . . . a ha ha ha ha . . . oh . . . too funny . . . great stuff . . .
July 23, 2010 – 6:09 pm
Honor your Funhouse Mirror Friends. They got you to where you are. Or are you going presidential, and pretending not to know those who formed you.
Bark bark like a Van Jones with taxpayer $$$$ digging Cesspool Life.
Clang! Do you rotate the Kick Me sign offline between Persons Galore?
Mr. Lucky do have a low threshold for going loopy when prodded, don’t he?
You’re more casual than you realize.
Appears that Sensei and Mr. Lucky have become soulmates. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.
Meeooww.
Why do I have this wild hunch that Myra Adams is an ugly bitter woman?
or a guy with his panties in a twist for powerful women. All these guys walking around with their tight asses over Palin. They need to get a life and read the stats of who likes Palin, and the #1 ratings of FOX> Once they get out in the real world, get a real job, pay real taxes, know real people..more than likely they will mellow out their views, or die twisting in their panties.. Silly
thanks for the acknowledgement, Myra.
Hey, you don’t have to go all high-brow and philosophical on us, dude.
You’re wrong, proreason. Take a look at her photo on TheJesusStore.com website. I understand that Ms. Adams donates all proceeds to Christian charities. Not that you would be interested.
Ms. Adams – if indeed your feeling is that her resignation from the governorship of Alaska will be her undoing, in the end, that will be up to the people themselves to decide on the primary and national levels. Those who have looked at it, who saw that she did was not of fear but of sacrifice (due to the impossible nature of state governance under the way Alaska allows legal matters to proceed against public officials), it rather shows the depth of her character.
There are no simple answers to the sort of emotional response people have to Sarah Palin; those who hate her will do so regardless. Those who think highly of her with blinders on will respond as well. For the rest of us in the middle, we can only hope that the American populace has WOKEN UP to the reality of the modern day and will become wiser in making decisions about its leaders. I am glad to hear that you meant what you said as a tonal form of humor, but the times are too serious to take anything lightly. I apologize if my tone earlier was harsh; your article and its overtures was not what I was expecting on Pajamas Media today.
For those of us in flyover country, the old guard GOP is as big a problem as the Democrats in the present environment; they too play the game with us as the pawns, and we threw them out in 2006 and 2008 as a result. If we do not reverse direction and return to a form of state-oriented constitutional governance at all levels, there may only be the Divided States of America left, with the attendant atrocities in a very literal sense possibly following. Nobody but nobody wants that, but the current system is horribly monstrous, over-revving and on the very cusp of exploding. The result of such a catastrophe is unthinkable, even in ‘enlightened’ America. As we saw in the Katrina disaster, hungry, scared people do dangerous, foolish things.
People of the tea party mindset intend to remake the modern GOP into a very useful semi-populist wrench that can both ‘gum up’ the works and also repair it; Sarah Palin may well be our Rosie the Riveter and our Ronald Reagan in that environment. The Aldrichs, Rockefellers, and their country club denizens are not what the Republican Party began with; if it comes to it, we’ll do without their political machinations.
Get a grip and get real. I haven’t seen any evidence that anybody hates Sarah Palin. I’ve seen a lot of evidence, though, that many people are coming to recognize that she is ditzy and that she has a bizarre, strictly self-serving agenda, which makes her fair game for heckling.
To defeat Obama in 2012 AND govern along conservative lines (acceptable to the TPM and GOP), you need the following:
1) Common-Sense
2) Convictions
3) Courage
4) Charisma
Sarah has all of these qualities with NO arguments.
However, she has stated that she would run IF no other good candidate steps up. So far, there are virtually none in the GOP/TPM that have it.
However, there is one person who is close who if they run, might be able to convince the TPM and receive Sarah’s endorsement if she does not run: Rick Perry, governor of Texas.
There really is nobody else other than these two who can win AND govern securely right-of-center. All Perry has to do is toughen up on the border/illegal immigration and he would then be ready in the event Sarah does not run.
Obama will be beatable by any of the candidates by 2012, but you need to win with a solid conservative/TPM candidate who has the retail political skills.
Myra sorry but Mormon flip flopper Romney or criminals pardonner Huckabee are not going to make it.
Sarah Palin could walk away with the nomination if she runs. You bet cha she’ll run! America wants its first female president NOW!
It’s cute how Sarah gives many of you tingle down your legs, but her “hickness” reaches overwhelming proportions in that twangy promo for the Fox special. I don’t really dislike her and she may one day be president, but if I had to listen to that voice often… worse than GWB at his worst, and that’s pretty damned bad.
If you can get together behind Romney or Perry, with Christie as a possible VP (Hell, soon he may have shown himself to be the best of the lot) you’ll have a shot in 2012. Otherwise, not so much.
As for the Oprah spot, she would never match Oprah’s ratings or (as far as I have seen) have the ability to lead people along and draw them out, but if she pulled in as many people as appear to be voting for her so-so at best daughter on Dancing with the Stars, she have decent ratings. Not Oprah-like, but enough to hold a time slot in the afternoon.
“with Christie as a possible VP”
Except that Christie would have to quit in the middle of his governorship and you would then have to hate him!
Obtuse.
May I remind you, dimwit, that GW kept your sorry ass safe for eight years, and unlike the decadent dilletante who now occupies the White House and the decadent white trash who preceded him, GW is a real class act.
Clearly,you are very ignorant and uninformed on the issues, and all that you ever spew here is bizarre revisionist history that conforms with your delusions and your wishful thinking, you shallow, clueless twit.
Mr. No Thought or Ten
Huh????
Go sniff some more powder up you nose.
THAT, folks, is ditzy Jarmo’s idea of an insightful contribution here, while picking his nose and contemplating his boogers, too. A pleasant distraction from picking lint out of his naval and contemplating it, too.
I found this article offensive and condescending. No, I don’t think Palin should run for president, but this article practically said “Get back in the kitchen!”
Wow, what a pathetically condescending and snarky attack on Sarah Palin by someone who apparently still thinks it’s appropriate to act like they are gossiping in a middle-school bathroom stall.
Just wow.
Sir, your opinion of Sarah Palin is misogyny gone wild. Certainly our world would be better if she was our president now.
I have a great deal of respect for Sarah Palin. I think she is refreshing and delightful. However, I believe the strain of Washington might be too much for her family and her marriage. Having survived a failed marriage myself, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. (Well, except my ex-wife.) I think that Sarah firing people up and calling others out is extremely useful. I would not want her to ruin her life for us.
Her leaving the Governorship was a move of great personal sacrifice. She knew she would take big hits from her critics. She also knew she would be bogged down in endless ethics complaints. Even unjustified and trumped up ethics complaints have to be taken seriously, and that would cost the state of Alaska a great deal. We need people like her.
I really don’t like “articles” like this. They are a part of what is wrong with society. Yes, it is very Maureen Dowdish. Obnoxious and sexist. The author probably considers herself a feminist, while trotting out all the stereotypes? I admire certain qualities of Sarah Palin, but do not want her to be POTUS (or to run). Regardless, hit pieces like this serve no good purpose, whether they are written about conservative OR liberal women. Shame on you!
I agree it’s hard to tell the purpose of an article like this, but a friend recently introduced me to the Pink song “Stupid Girls”. This article and arguments like it regarding women candidates for political office now remind me of a line from that song, “What happened to the dreams of a girl president,She’s dancing in the video next to 50 Cent”. Yep. What great aspirations you have for Sarah Palin. Pink is right, and you do us women no favors.
Myra, stick a sock in your depiction of Gov. Palin as a bubblehead; you’re trying too hard to make her look like you, and that’s insulting to her. Gov. Palin has singlehandedly revitalized the GOP and worked like a dog with ten tails to bring it victory. When the GOP men were cringing and refusing to criticize Obama cuz nobody wanted to be called racist, Gov. Palin was in there writing rock solid analysis of Obama’s policy positions and offering alternatives. Where was Romney, Perry, Christie, Huckabee and any of these wonderful men when Gov. Palin was in there battling? They were letting the girl do all the work, and they were waiting in the wings knowing that GOP Elites would trash the girl and demean her using the arguments of opponents. You’re Peggy Noonan lite, Myra, and that definitely is NOT a compliment.
You can ask where Romney and Huckabee were, but Perry and Christie were back home working at being governors. What a concept, eh?
What a strange commentary! What is Myra trying to say? Her nuances are nuanced to obscurity!
Thew credibility of Pajama’s Media just took a big hit with this idiotic and juvenile hit piece. Shame on the author, but more shame on PJM for letting it be posted.
Not the first to say it, but what is this doing on Pajamas Media? It’s not a matter of ‘censorship’ (a word generally misused), as there is plenty of access to this line of thought elsewhere and just as easily accessed…
It would have gone a long way to reviving my faith in journalism if Myra Adams were given some follow-up questions about her statements. For example “On what, specifically, do you base yours opinions as expressed in your ‘humor’ piece?” That would reveal, I suspect, that there is very few substantive reasons for disliking her that cannot be traced back to shoddy/biased reporting in the first place (e.g. Katie Couric’s highly edited ‘interview’).
This piece is, as many have pointed out, Maureen Dowdish crap that I can find pretty much anywhere else. So explain to me again why PJM is different? I’d LOVE to read a serious piece of journalism about Sarah Palin’s shortcomings… I’ve been waiting for years now, but nobody can get past the attitudes they were sold in the first days of VP run… attitudes that cannot, as far as I can tell, survive the light of day.
PJM: Set up debate between Myra Adams and Zo… run the video uncut. Now THAT would be fun! I have no idea how Zo feels about Palin, but I’d love to hear some of that smarm jammed back with an eloquent vengeance.
No doubt Comedy Central writer Myra Adams applauded when Sandra Bernhart told Sarah Palin that “if she stepped one foot inside Manhattan I’ll send my black brothers to rape her”
Myra, Sweetie, this is your TV Land full of racists, mysognists, bamboolzers, freaks and useful idiots.
More to the point Sweetie, your Comedy Central scum is unworthly of dictating to anyone.
Please, please put Palin on TV. Out of harm’s way and out of the political spotlight.
I love the Tea Party movement and all, but we really need inexperienced dimwits like Palin off the ticket. She’s the “Conservative” Obama: all flash, no substance, no leadership experience.
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Two plank party needed: National defense, and small Federal government.
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Please, please put Palin on TV. Out of harm’s way and out of the political spotlight.
I love the Tea Party movement and all, but we really need inexperienced dimwits like Palin off the ticket. She’s the “Conservative” Obama: all flash, no substance, no leadership experience.”
If you are correct in your view stated here, if she does run she will be handily destroyed by the voters of Iowa, then New Hampshire, and that will kill any momentum for South Carolina and she will drop out, endorse another candidate and that will be that.
Why the opinion that she should not even try?
What is the big deal, if you truly believe what you say you believe?
Let them all have it out head to head, and we will decide.
We don’t need obnoxious, snarky smart-ass media consultant types ruling out people before we get to make our choices.
To me, it smells like fear. If she is so horrible, let’s just answer these questions once and for all. I hope she goes for it, and proves all you smarty pants jerkoffs wrong.
Lovely hit piece, Myra who?
(google…)not much…writings evidently go back to March of this year, yet she already appears on The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, and sadly, here.
“Who ya know”?
She shows some promise: The First Lady: “For the first time in my adult life I am really proud of my vacation”
http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/09/the-first-lady-for-the-first-time-in-my-adult-life-i-am-really-proud-of-my-vacation/
Funny line. But this nasty, mean spirited work belongs on Kos/Huff/FDL/etc. It reeks of beltway insider arrogance, and misses the mark for me by a wide margin. We do not inhabit the same planet.
I did learn Myra is evidently big on Jesus, which is nice. That would be the lesser known, mean spirited, condescending, snarky Jesus?
Great.
So what happened to McCain’s campaign? Or, why did they let you in the door? Was that a “Who you know” thing too?
Why did the Daily Caller and Beast and PJ let you in?
With friends like these…
The problem for Palin is that she tied her wagon to a group of people that actually WORSHIP the US Constitution as if it is a Holy Document directly from God. Its not. Natures God is Satan!
This americanized version of Christianity and the whole Pagan LIBERTARIAN TEA thing is based on very un-biblical views where the Pagans (like the founders) are revered like they are (or were) Holy men and Godly Saints.
So she might as well turn to Hollywood because she won’t get the nomination and even if she did most Christians would never vote for a Libertarian, a Tea-tarian, or a Tea Party candidate.
I would vote for a Republican or a Christian Right candiate but a Libertarian? NEVER!
So writers for the Daily Beast are now considered worthwhile? Do we really need more Parker or Dowd harpies spouting politics? Amazing how many people who have accomplished little seem to think they’re experts in what someone else should do.
If Palin wants to run for POTUS – it’s her right. If you think she’s a bad choice – it’s your right not to vote for her.
You are exactly right, Earl Gray. Good for you.
I demand that this column be removed immediately; it blatantly violates rule 3 (3. Disagree, but avoid ad hominem attacks.) of your rules for comment-and the entire article is, I submit, one long, tedious, and juvenile ad hominem attack/comment.
It does, however, make it abundantly clear why the McCain campaign was bound for failure from the start; with “a media producer, writer and political observer, who served on the McCain Ad Council during the 2008 McCain campaign” of this quality, how could they do other than fail?
Romney one recalls, the previous spring, was cheering the sacking of GM’s
management, and giving Obama points for his handling of the response to the Iranian election, Christie has been in office, for a little short of a year,
I don’t see anything wrong with the article. It’s tongue-in-cheek humorous. As much as I like her, I don’t think Sarah Palin is ready for POTUS. And the Dems don’t like her the same way we don’t like Pelosi, Boxer or Hillary. I would like to see Sarah get some experience in Congress first to legitimize her ambition. She certainly can’t be any worse, even today, then any of these guys.
http://www.hootervillegazette.com/dumbdemocrats.html
I haven’t read all 150+ comments but suffice it to say, I’ve read enough of the meanspirited, demeaning comments to understand that the following Sarah Palin attracts is nothing like that Ronald Reagan attracted, and still does, which only serves to buttress Myra’s point, made ably, with great humor, that a Sarah Palin presidential bid is misguided at best, disastrous at worst.
Myra Adams is a brave lady for wading into this thicket, but someone had to do it! Thanks Myra for your service!!!!! You usually say that only to Veterans — and Myra did serve her country in the military — but in this case, “service” is an apt term because it’s clear there’s a Sarah Palin machine out there that will bloody anyone who dares challenge her right to vie for a place on Mount Rushmore!
Keep up the good work, Myra!
Sarah Palin has her followers as well as her haters. Did you read some of the comments posted against her by the lefties and some claimed righties?
Joe Biden said recently that the Republicans spent $200 BILLION on the elections – on 2 separate occasions. It was actually closer to $200 million. Sarah Palin would have been crucified by the media and her detractors for those relatively minor gaffs. She’s smarter than Joe, who’s supposed to be an expert on national relations, which is why he was selected to vice-president. He’s such an expert that Obama forgot to him with him to India..
I’ve got a news flash for you, dimwit. The only lefties who posted on this thread were BC, Dwight and Sensei, and their criticisms of Palin were mild compared to the criticisms by conservative regulars here. You are so clueless and ditzy. Why am I not surprised that you’re a Palin supporter?
Yes, it took enormous courage to shroud shallow, false and peurile slurs under the folds of mockery, and further to hide behind claims of “admiration and respect.” And it took even greater bravery considering these slurs have already echoed across the internet and in every corner of the elitist landcsape for months. How brave.
Palin supporters aren’t calling for Mt. Rushmore, they’re calling for honest reporting and basic human decency.
Get real, dude. Palin asks for it. She said herself that any publicity is good publicity.
The woman “asks for it”? Where we have heard that before, dude.
I just read this commentary (11/11/10) Veterans Day; and perhaps that is why I find it so terribly offensive…Truthfully, I am surprised that Pajamas Media chose to publish such “witlessness”…
Actually, Sarah Palin is a true patriot–who serves America well in whatever endeavor she chooses. She has a heart; whereas this writer is heartless and vapid!
You are being nice to Myra. In the writing of this article, she does not deseserve it.
And you are being bratty. Take a time-out until you can act like an adult.
You are rude and unfair. Ms. Adams responds to criticisms graciously and politely, unlike like some of the other writers here, who become spiteful, vindictive and nasty …, like spoiled, bratty, little children whenever anyone disagrees with them or criticizes their opinionss or calls them out for erroneous and/or intentionally misleading information which they have written, and unlike Ms. Adams, also, those other writers are so pathetically insecure that they noticeably solicit and bask in the insincere praise of obsequious, chronic, compulsive and nauseating, brown-nosing sycophants, too. So cut Ms. Adams some slack. She is a helluvot more knowledgeable on current events than you are, fool. From what I’ve read, you are a clueless, ditzy, shallow, dense and very opinionated twit, who can’t even comprehend the basics of politics, much less the failings of Palin.
i might not want Palin to run for president, but I think she is a very important part of the conservative movement in our republic.
> She has common sense, is not afraid to answer back or state a point of view. If you don’t like what she has to say don’t listen. There are many of us that appreciate her and women like her.
The inane tearing down of Palin is right in line with the belittling of most women in the republican/tea party/conservative by liberals. There is no discussion merely nasty remarks that have little content except to tear at the fact that they are women and conservative.
I would think that all you so superior people who have determined Sarah should not run at all because she is so bad would want her to self immolate on national TV, confirming all of your slanderous comments once and for all, without question. The calls for her to avoid the race, or even more bizzare to “get more experience in Congress first” puzzle me.
Haven’t we had enough of Legislator Executive candidates?
In 2008, when the primary process had narrowed things down to Senator McCain on the GOP side, and Senator Clinton or Senator Obama on the Democrat side, I frequently lamented the fact that we had no option left but an incumbent US Senator.
This was disappointing to me because I am not one who considers tenure in a legislative debating society good executive training. I still do not. Before Obama, the last Senator to be elected President was JFK, and he wasn’t around long enough to really judge. Then we got LBJ, Texas Democrat and Senate Powerhouse, and that worked out real well.
The only modern President to come out of the House of Representatives was Gerald Ford of Michigan, who was never actually elected but appointed to replace Nixon’s resigned Vice President and then replaced Nixon when he resigned himself.
I am even less impressed by time servers in Congress these days than I have ever been. There are some good people there, but we need them to stay and rise into influence to control the multitude of mediocrity that is our Congress.
I find Sarah Pain’s background to be just fine as it is without any time wasting in a glorified talking contest. She got a whole lot of things done in her shortened tenure as a state executive, with an impressive level of bipartisan support before the national campaign polarized the Democrats against her completely.
Don’t bother with the “will she quit the White House too” nonsense, because the unique political and technically legal circumstances which made her Alaska administration vulnerable to the “clog the gears” paralysis attack strategy do not exist at the national level.
She has demonstrated courage, honesty, and the right principles to take the country in a more Reaganesque direction than it has seen since 1988.
IMHO, that is exactly what we need. So, if someone else, anyone else, is so much better, let them defeat her fair and square and we voters will decide. If she wants to go for it, she has certainly earned just as much right to a fair shot as anyone else has, and more so than many others.
Say what you will about Sarah, but if you can see the facts, you’ll know she would make a Great president. Ask yourself this, is she trying to destroy this great nation like the current Muslim illegal President? Get your information From the right sources.