Democrats are "permanent residents of a unicorn ranch in fantasyland"!



I like Unicorn Ranch in Fantasyland. It is pink and sparkly here!

And fogbows!!

And that.

Ooooo. Here is why Fiorina and Whitman were no-shows at Palin's speech:

I'm finding it tough to find any part of Sarah Palin that AIN'T fringe. Of course, that begs the question of why there are so many fringe followers but I think Sarah definitely qualifies to appear here.

Top Ten Dumbest Sarah Palin Quotes

Sarah Palin Quotes

Reporters Say Sarah Palin’s a Moron in Front of Fox’s Live Mic; Wingnuts Seek Blood

Sarah Palin Flees Book Signing, Wingnuts Yell At Inanimate Object

That's just scratching the surface, of course, but I believe Sorry Sarah Palin belongs here.

Sorry Sarah, the model was a male grizzly named "Monacrh", now stuffed and on display in the CA Academy of Sciences. But maybe, being a California grizzly, it's transgendered? http://www.sfpix.com/park/history/monarch/

Not to mention the subspecies of the California Grizzly Bear has been extinct since 1922.....

Sarah Palin is Burnt Toast





Read the rest of the article. It is a good one.

I agree with the Grassley source. Palin isn't serious about running for POTUS. I think she will throw her hat in the ring, but will be tossed out of the ring quickly. She will do an O'Donnell; she will run and make money doing so. But if Palin was planning to run and make it through the primaries, she would be saving up her political goodwill. Instead, she isn't just burning it, she is requiring that candidates pay her to burn their goodwill.

Palin is worth over $20 million dollars. Why is she charging campaigns for travel expenses?! Rhetorical question. Karen Handel paid $100,000 for Palin to show up and support her at an event! If I had donated to Handel, I would be pissed. Although if I were voting for Handel, I would probably love Palin! According to the article, politicians don't charge other politicians to campaign with them, even for expenses.

Palin isn't just burning new Republican candidates, she is burning some of the most senior Republican politicians in the nation. You can't do that when you want to run for POTUS. And if she does run, she will have to start spending some of the little political goodwill she has next year; that is not enough time for Repubs to forget how she screwed them, and certainly not enough time for her to rebuild the necessary political goodwill needed to run for and win the Repub nomination.

Add to this Palin's first book. She ripped McCain's staffers. She can't keep staff now. How is she going to run for POTUS on any substantial level in 2011-2012 when she has screwed over many Repub Congressional members and when she can't get really great campaign staff? The campaign experts she would need will be working with more viable candidates anyway, so she is already at a disadvantage for 2012. And now she is making other candidates' campaigns difficult for them when they need her help.

I believe that Nov 2nd will be the official expiration date for Palin. She has nothing left to offer anyone other than an occasional opinion piece on Fox. Without anyone to campaign for, or any major cause to involve herself in, Palin won't get much air time. She just isn't needed by the Repubs after the 2010 election.

When does her contract with Fox run out?

I don't think she's fringe. She's just a Wasilla Hillbilly and huckster who got lucky. And now she's playing a part.

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OMG she looks like a turkey!

That's one of those faces your mom told you not to make lest it freeze on ya, huh?

Thanks, Filly. I needed that laugh.

Sarah and turkeys? Remember this?

What has been seen cannot be unseen!



That picture is bad. Really, really bad.

It must go viral.

Palin needs to get a grip on her facial expressions. While that is the worst screen cap of her to date, there are some pretty bad ones. Gryphen at the Immoral Minority has a gift for getting Palin screen caps!

Well if we were analyzing any sane candidate all of this would be true. But Palin, like Orly, thinks rules don't apply to her and she has gotten very far acting as if they don't. She burned her way through Wasilla and that got her into statewide politics. Her first run failed but got her appointed to an energy board where she quit after scorching the earth. She finally got elected governor and proceeded with her scorched earth policy which only got her the nod by McCain. She treated him and his campaign as she has everyone else who gave her a leg up, with contempt and disdain and was only concerned with herself and what she could get. That behavior resulted in her gaining a national voice and 20 million and counting. Nothing in this would indicate to Palin that she is not a viable candidate for 2012, in fact I would argue it proves to her her worthiness to be president.

I definitely wouldn't count her out. Nov 2 will be a clear reminder of the insanity of voters and I will be shocked it the house doesn't go Republican and some very FUed people wind up elected to both the senate and the house.

I think the Democrats are making a big mistake with Palin, just like with Reagan. There is a large anti-education, anti-expert, anti-competence strain that runs through the voting population. These folks love Palin for the exact reasons we despise her. Reagan kept running and running and eventually 1980 was his year. Politics have changed and I don't think it will take as long for her to wind up the presidential candidate and that scares the hell out me.

I disagree. Reagan was affable and happy. Palin's negatives are already extremely high, even higher in Alaska. I also think that Romney has been funding massive opposition research on her. She's burned bridges with very powerful Republicans that she would need to survive the primaries. She cannot hold onto staff and winds up in a war with most everyone who has helped her. That is not a recipe for success in the Presidential arena, despite what the Lamestream Media would like to portray.

I do see your point. One of the mistakes made in 2008 is that Palin was never vetted and the Repub party insiders fell for Palin because America did (well, some). But We can't compare Palin to Reagan.

1) Reagan had the entire GOP behind him. Palin does not.

No politician wins on their own. The Dems in Alaska say that they fell for Palin because they also didn't vet her; once Troopergate fell open, many in Alaska were shocked. By the time Palin returned to Alaska, her approval rating had tanked by 20%. That is huge.

Now insiders in the Repub party have vetted Palin. Until now, they haven't had a reason to control her. But I cannot imagine that the GOP will put Palin ahead of Romney, Pawlenty, Jindal or even Huckabee? The McCain campaign saw first hand what Palin is like and how she handles pressure. She was an acceptable VP pick because the Repubs were desperate and needed a woman or person of color in order to run against Obama.

If I thought the GOP would stand behind Palin in 2012, I would be frightened and worried. I am still nervous. But Sarah can only win IF the GOP lets her. And they are much, much more cut-throat than the Dem party when it comes to backing a fellow politician. Now Palin has screwed some of the most powerful members of the party. She is difficult and demanding. And most Repubs in power have now experienced that first hand.

I can't imagine Rove, Bush, Cheney, Boehner, etc getting behind Palin enough for her to win the Repub nomination.

2) Reagan was smart and likable. That Dems made an enormous mistake in underestimating Reagan. But had Cater not failed in the WH, Reagan might have had a more difficult time making it through the election. We saw this with McCain; had Bush not fucked up everything he touched, even Obama would have had a tougher time winning the election.

3) Palin is her own worst enemy. She hasn't cleaned up after herself. There is evidence that she has been doing some homework.

4) Palin doesn't want the job. She honestly doesn't.

5) Why was Bush elected? Bush was teamed with Cheney so that the Repubs could control the POTUS. Palin will not be controlled. We have had 2 years to learn that she likes being all "mavericky". Palin doesn't play by the rules. Palin's entire attraction has been based on her unwillingness to be controlled. That was tolerated during 2008 because McCain was a known and respected entity at the time and Palin would have little power unless McCain died. But Palin is a nightmare to work with. She literally went rogue in 2008. She won't be GWBush. Once she has the title and the pen, she will not listen. She will not play with the other Repubs.

6) The economy is improving. And Obama has learned that he can't depend on bipartisanship. More people will have jobs within the next year. The healthcare reforms will be better understood and are, even now, popular.

The Repubs don't need Palin after 2010. They have talented and intelligent party members who have proven their loyalty. They have other viable candidates. The Repubs will not run Palin against Obama.

The Repubs know they can't depend on insane. They will need a sane candidate who can debate Obama. While Bush wasn't a great debated, he was good enough and likable enough to get the people to listen to him during debates. Palin couldn't hold her own when Biden was being gentle with her. I don't know of a single Repub that can out-debate Obama. Palin is the last of the Repub party that would be allowed to debate Obama.

Finally. We have allowed our media to cover those yelling loudest. After Nov 2nd, the media won't have a reason to pay attention to Palin to the degree that they have. The Tea Party members will settle down a bit. The media has vastly over-covered the Tea Party. And we made the mistake of letting them. The media will attend to the fights in Congress, not the irrelevant fights that Palin tries to pick.

Underestimating Palin would be a mistake in 2012. As would overestimating her and not fighting those we really need to fight; we need to fight the GOP in Congress and the person they truly support.

Politicususa has an excellent article:

FIFY

The economy may look like it's improving, but if the Repubs take control of the House, I believe they will do things that send the economy, just pulled out of the ditch, over the cliff. If the economy gets worse, Obama will face a very tough re-election battle. I think Rove, Cheney, the remaining sensible Repubs would sell their souls to the devil and back Palin if they thought she was the way to beat Obama. I said this about Angle, Miller and O'Donnell - if Palin's name appears on the ballot, she could win. There is a lot of dirt out there about her already but it has done little to reduce the amount of media attention she gets. The only person who would use their oppo research against her is Romney. I think Romney has the information to put her away for good and I hope he has the guts to use it before she wins the Iowa caucuses. If she starts winning primaries, it will be hard to keep her from getting the nomination, even if the motherlode of info about her is dropped. She is the sort of person, like her buttboy Joe Miller, who would not withdraw even if criminal activity was revealed. If she somehow manages to get her name on the ballot, she could win and I really believe under the right circumstances, that could happen. Think Hitler, people. Palin is Hitler in a much more clever package.

Swear, this is how I read it.

I think there are some who have information that would bury her political career. They'll quietly give it to the lamestream media.

I know she didn't write this, but the person who did the tailoring for each state needs to do a little more research. There is no early voting in PA, unless you count absentee voting, and it is too late to request an absentee ballot and the rules say you need to be absent from your municipality for the whole day to qualify for an absentee ballot or disabled. You can't just vote absentee because you want to avoid a line.

I realize that the target audience for these calls aren't going to lose their (misguided) affection for Palin based on this statement, but when I see basic errors like this it makes me realize that someone who doesn't know or care about what Pennsylvania really needs is trying to push their agenda on us and can't be bothered to get their facts straight.

Yet another example of Palin's total nastiness:



More here

How's that for restoring dignity to the political process?