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9/3/2011

Ace on Palin’s Big Speech

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 1:52 pm



He does not sound happy:

Palin got lots of attention for a speech that turned out to be extremely bullet-point and frankly trivial.

I don’t consider this an achievement. I just consider it manipulative, and I don’t just laugh it off as playing a prank on the stupid media.

A lot of people traveled a very long way and sat out in the rain for something that was suggested just might be The Big Announcement. A lot of people watched on TV.

And what they saw was a no-brainer stump speech.

Who’s being pranked here?

Something about this topic tends to make people get personal, so make a special effort to address other commenters’ words. Personal insults may be deleted without warning or comment.

289 Responses to “Ace on Palin’s Big Speech”

  1. You jerks.

    Patterico (f724ca)

  2. Well, I’m glad you set the right tone, Pat.

    ukuleledave (19a833)

  3. Palin quit her day job. I no longer care about how awful and expensive staying Governor would have been. It should have been a tipoff that she is not now nor will she ever be a serious contender.And she may not be a serious peson at all.

    May she make all the money she can. But if you set your clock by her various big important appearances you will be dissappointed.Her susbstance is much like Obama for the right; she looks the part and can make a great appearance. But after another dose of cliches and platitudes it should be clear thant neither has any business in the White House. And also the whiny persecuted tone of both wear on you. Successful pols know nobody likes to hear whining.

    Bugg (ea1809)

  4. I liked the way she messed with the media which was obsessed with anything she did. But with this long drawn out will I or won’t I, she’s screwing with US too. If she’d gotten in in July, I’d have stuck with her. But we have other good candidates now, and I think she will be good right where she is. Also, this was hyped without denial as a big speech, which apparently it wasn’t.

    I think her chance is passed for this round. If she is still serious about a run, she should try for the next open spot in 2016 or 2020. She should work to help Republican candidates this time around and get a lot of institutional goodwill built up.

    Jeff Mitchell (481f2a)

  5. It’s as though she’s holding out for some kind of endorsement deal. That’s my guess.

    Dustin (b2fb78)

  6. Palin is still really awesome people forget she was governor of a state what has almost as much peoples as Austin, Texas and she governed ALL of them as governor for almost THREE WHOLE YEARS (almost a whole term) which is a big achievement plus also a tv show that had bears in it and TWO whole books she helped write. Then of course as you know she went ROGUE and also she said drill baby drill at a time when AMERICA NEEDS OIL for to make the JOBS and the economy but America didn’t listen so now hopefully she will be president soon and not Perry who is part of the COMPROMISED political class and when he gives a speech in Iowa nobody cares cause he does not have the FIRE in his belly not like Sarah who is super fired-up for AMERICA!

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  7. Broken Palin signs will be picked up next Thursday in the same manner as a heavy garbage day according to Hanna Brightwater spokesperson for the City of Houston.

    EricPWJohnson (719277)

  8. After reading Ace’s commentary, I can only conclude he had much higher expectations of Palin that I did.

    I personally don’t know anyone who is holding out for Palin. Most have moved on to get behind Perry or Romney. Palin is sort of background noise these days. I’m sure there are strongholds of supporters for her in various parts of the country but I wonder if those numbers have dwindled.

    Dana (4eca6e)

  9. Hm, according to today’s WSJ,

    By some measures, there is a clear ceiling to Ms. Palin’s popularity. About two-thirds of the general electorate said there is no chance they would vote for Ms. Palin next year, according to a late August poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. A Fox News poll released Thursday shows 71% of GOP voters and even 66% of self-described tea-party voters say Ms. Palin should remain on the sidelines of 2012.

    Dana (4eca6e)

  10. Didn’t Ace call Pamela Geller some names?

    DohBiden (d54602)

  11. About two-thirds of the general electorate are STUPID people that do not see the FIRE in Sarah’s BELLY cause of they are STUPID and they’ll probably just throw way their votes on a DIRTY IMMIGRANT-LOVER (Rick Perry) leaving Sarah the CLEAR WINNER for AMERICA!

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  12. I like Palin and I’ll gladly support her if she is the nominee. However, she’s my second pick after Perry and I’d like to see her in Perry’s Cabinet or heading a department. The conservative line is she’d make a good pick for Secretary of Energy but I’d love to see her as head of the EPA. As an Alaskan, she knows the importance of abundant wildlife, clean air and water, and beautiful terrain. Thus, I believe she would seek out innovative ways to ensure a clean environment without unduly harming business concerns.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  13. I like Palin and I’ll gladly support her if she is the nominee. However, she’s my second pick after Perry and I’d like to see her in Perry’s Cabinet or heading a department. The conservative line is she’d make a good pick for Secretary of Energy but I’d love to see her as head of the EPA. As an Alaskan, she knows the importance of abundant wildlife, clean air and water, and beautiful terrain. Thus, I believe she would seek out innovative ways to ensure a clean environment without unduly harming business concerns.

    Comment by DRJ — 9/3/2011 @ 3:37 pm

    Thanks for expressing my exact thoughts (on both Palin and Perry), and better than I could.

    no one you know (1fb0c5)

  14. I like Palin but I don’t mind aces take on palins speech.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  15. Palin take us all
    on trip to see Marty Moose
    down at WallyWorld

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  16. park’s closed moose out front shoulda told ya

    too bad so sad but hey maybe she’ll do another show about bears 🙂

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  17. Hey maybe you can and Levi Johnston can move to NY and marry.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  18. The much prettier Dana wrote:

    I personally don’t know anyone who is holding out for Palin. Most have moved on to get behind Perry or Romney. Palin is sort of background noise these days. I’m sure there are strongholds of supporters for her in various parts of the country but I wonder if those numbers have dwindled.

    Actually, I do know a couple of people who are waiting for the Sarahcuda to get in the race, and plan to support her, but she kind of reminds me of the Fred Thompson campaign, one in which the candidate himself was not hotly interested, and hadn’t really done much preparation work, and seemed like he — or rather, his image — got talked into entering the race, and then foundered.

    The Dana who supports Rick Perry (f68855)

  19. Dana

    Fred Thompson was very sick and weak, he had just beaten cancer and only joined the race to make sure Huckabee didnt get the nod and then went on his way

    EricPWJohnson (719277)

  20. In the end, maybe Sarah will run
    The media, they will have fun
    Maybe it’s me
    But what I see
    Is that her time is already done.

    The Limerick Avenger (f68855)

  21. I think everyone is missing her point…she is running to “restore america”. She said the power is in us, “we the people”. She is running a campaign to unite the hearts and souls of americans. We will never get things in DC changed if we keep sending the same old corruptocats back every election cycle. I stand behind her to challenge the establishment…republicans and democrats..once and for all. We must root out all corruption and crony capitalism. One person will not change DC, but we the people can if we unite together. It shocks me that people can’t see where she is heading with her campaign. I love it!!

    TxEngrGirl (85b089)

  22. She has said that she will not announce her decision until the end of September, so why would anyone expect her to make an announcement today? I think she will announce, but thinks it is to her advantage to stay undeclared for as long as she can.

    nohype (c86dc7)

  23. Well, B4 saying anything, Ace banned me a couple of months back, meaning I still read Monty but don’t get to congratulate him or disrespect Mr. Sensitive.

    The fat man will not be happy, it’s his nature.

    gary gulrud (790d43)

  24. We pretty much haven’t had a president since Katrina hit and we still have another 500 days of his nibs to muddle through. We’re in serious trouble, it is getting worse, and Obama’s best move is do nothing (the bag of hammers approach).

    So, I’d kind of like to have our next president have a clue how to get things done. Someone who could, for example, get a comprehensive government reform program through a Congress that s/he’s got a 60% edge in. Someone effective.

    Which leaves Palin out — she’s got the right attitude, but no evidence she’s got the right abilities, and she polarizes her own side. One Obama is enough.

    So Perry or Romney it seems. Gingrich could do it, too, but seems a long-shot. SInce what I really want is to crush the bureaucracy down 50%, I’ll have to go with Perry even though I’ll get more moralizing that I want.

    Sigh. Palin would make a good Senator though.

    Kevin M (563f77)

  25. I think everyone is missing her point…she is running to “restore america”. She said the power is in us, “we the people”. She is running a campaign to unite the hearts and souls of americans. We will never get things in DC changed if we keep sending the same old corruptocats back every election cycle. I stand behind her to challenge the establishment…republicans and democrats..once and for all. We must root out all corruption and crony capitalism. One person will not change DC, but we the people can if we unite together. It shocks me that people can’t see where she is heading with her campaign. I love it!!

    As I said, one Obama is enough.

    Kevin M (563f77)

  26. We are the ones we have been waiting for.

    elissa (b52508)

  27. Sarah Palin, she looks just great!
    A credit to her huge state
    But I’m afraid that
    She will fall flat
    If she moves to the starting gate.

    The Limerick Avenger (f68855)

  28. Sarah and her big glasses
    Make the press look like such asses
    And if she does run
    She could be the one
    Who gets the support of the masses.

    The Limerick Avenger (f68855)

  29. Michelle Bachmann will start to pout
    If Sarah decides to come out
    And enter the race
    She’ll take all the space
    And Michelle will lose in a rout.

    The Limerick Avenger (f68855)

  30. One person will not change DC

    1994 Gingrich

    EricPWJohnson (719277)

  31. What changed?

    Kevin M (563f77)

  32. Obama’s a fool, actually he’s much worse than that, but substantively I don’t see Hillary,
    Edwards or Kerry, having given us that much of a different.

    The mad Ewok is almost at pikachu or the DUBAI traveller’s level of derangement.

    ian cormac (996c34)

  33. 70 years Kevin

    EricPWJohnson (719277)

  34. that a ruling party, entrenched, in good times, can be ousted by the simple power of an idea

    EricPWJohnson (719277)

  35. ==I don’t see Hillary, Edwards or Kerry, having given us that much of a different==

    I seriously doubt Valerie Jarrett and Van Jones would have been advising the president and I doubt Eric Holder would have been OK-ing Fast and Furious and trying to hold terrorist trials in Federal Court. The Supreme Court nominations would have looked pretty much the same, though, and the EPA would still have been out of control under the presidencies of any of the three mentioned above. As horrible as they are to contemplate, I can’t imagine any on them actually being worse for America than Barry has been.

    elissa (b52508)

  36. Elissa

    Erica holder – yeah what the heck was Obama thinking….

    EricPWJohnson (719277)

  37. well it’s conceivable that it might have been Atty Gen, Gorelick, and that would have been it’s own horror show, and had circumstances manifested diferently Edwards might have led Main Justice.
    It took the last two years, to tell us there is no functional definition of a Blue Dog.

    ian cormac (996c34)

  38. between Andy McCarthy vouching for Patrick Fitzgerald’s integrity and Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing opining that Eric Holder was an acceptable choice as AGOTUS, Colonel still feels confused and betrayed.

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  39. I’m glad we can have a Palin thread, because I’ve been wondering what happyfeet has been thinking about her lately.

    Pious Agnostic (6048a8)

  40. Yes, those were unforced errors. by folks who should have known better,

    ian cormac (996c34)

  41. from out of deep woods, rough Sarah, she came
    made damn sure that all knew her name
    fought like one damn tough huskie
    from her porch saw the Russkies
    where she’s now, she’s but herself to blame

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  42. if mr ace’s boy rick perry is so good why doesn’t he quit his day, which he just won, and pursue his dream full time?

    newrouter (b9b577)

  43. What?

    Ag80 (9a213d)

  44. she ran with cranky, old goat
    held nose, did I, when I vote
    we knew from beginning
    they had no chance of winning
    and this time, could be more remote

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  45. newroutertable asked:

    if mr ace’s boy rick perry is so good why doesn’t he quit his day, which he just won, and pursue his dream full time?

    Why does he need to? George Bush didn’t, Bill Clinton didn’t, Mike Dukakis didn’t, John Kerry didn’t, Barack Obama didn’t. About the only presidential candidate of whom I can think who resigned from office to finish his run was Bob Dole in 1996, and that didn’t work out too well for him.

    The historian Dana (f68855)

  46. I see the Kernel
    Has again stolen my schtick;
    He will be sorry!

    The Limerick Avenger (f68855)

  47. ==I’m glad we can have a Palin thread, because I’ve been wondering what happyfeet has been thinking about her lately==

    I know you meant that as good snark, Pious, but it has a ring of truth, too. I think people made up their minds about Palin long ago and it is almost hard wired now. They love her or they despise her with almost no middle ground. Most Americans are unlikely to alter their view of her one way or the other in the early fall of 2011 no matter what she says or does.

    elissa (b52508)

  48. Run, Sarah Palin!
    And please! You keep on wearing
    Those red f*** me heels!

    The Limerick Avenger (f68855)

  49. But it was playing a prank on the stupid media. And it works because the media is stupid.

    f1guyus (2a84e9)

  50. Art! Deserve award
    Limerick and Colonel at
    Kennedy Center

    elissa (b52508)

  51. Sarah Palin has dawdled for two months
    She has no one but herself to blame
    If she falls behind the other old runts
    Who were early getting in the game

    Now she has the Ace and Patterico
    Thinking that she’s too late and cannot win
    Such are the ways that campaigns seem to flow
    Your already out if not early in

    Not in, she’s fallen behind Rick Perry
    And even the congresswoman, Michelle
    Of Mitt Romney she’ll have to be wary
    And the media will still give her Hell!

    But she’s got the right attitudina
    Not for nought is she called Sarahcuda!

    The Sonnet Avenger (f68855)

  52. Yes, we saw must of them on Ace recycling the garbage from the netroots, very classy,

    ian cormac (996c34)

  53. I cannot believe that my Shakespearean alter ego used “your” when he should have used “You’re!”

    The humiliated Dana (f68855)

  54. sarah sarah bo barah bananafana fo farah fee fi mo marah… sarah!

    let’s do Rick!

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  55. poetry Palin
    inspires makes a funny and
    fine showing above ^^

    no one you know (1fb0c5)

  56. Kevin since when has obama rooted out crony captialism?

    DohBiden (d54602)

  57. Pity that she didn’t give a more substantive speech; skimming it, it didn’t read as a policy document.

    Dianna (f12db5)

  58. she struck me as a profoundly unpresidential person when she pulled the tired class warfare card on Barbara Bush – sneering that Mrs. Bush was an out-of-touch blue-blood was very tacky

    populism is gayer than putin

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  59. Obama only went to newark to help because it is majority black……………oh did I say something evil and racist.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  60. It was a defense of the TEA PARTY principles, noy at all, necessary since that Carson and Wilson folk were put in their place.
    c

    ian cormac (996c34)

  61. Happyfeet Barbera Bush is blueblood sorry I liked them personally but they are bluebloods.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  62. it’s unseemly for a money-grubbing multimillionaire like Sarah to start hurling class-based epithets I think

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  63. avenger, you cur
    please forgive, but you will hate
    the taste of your words

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  64. colonel make solemn
    vow he will cut out your tongue and
    send to your sister

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  65. For the life of me, I still don’t understand this Palin obsession, but it seems to entertain people.

    Go with that.

    Ag80 (9a213d)

  66. Yeah her groupies and haters need some intervention.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  67. nothing gayer than
    putin except twin putins
    riding horse bareback

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  68. and maybe Tim Gunn

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  69. Bachmann Palin and Perry and all the others except Ron Paul are smarter than Obama.

    wishing violence against opponents is nothing new with leftys.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  70. About the only presidential candidate of whom I can think who resigned from office to finish his run was Bob Dole in 1996, and that didn’t work out too well for him.
    To be fair, that is more or less what Palin did.

    Kevin M (563f77)

  71. At this point I think the only person I’d actually trust for president is Steve Sailer. But that isn’t gonna happen, so what’s the actual landscape look like?

    Palin, Bachmann, Gingrich, Cain, Ron Paul: Not a chance.

    Here’s how to play it…

    Perry: bad cop.
    Romney: good cop.

    I think Romney/Rubio or Romney/Ryan has a good chance of ousting Bammykins. Perry will scare too many people, whether justly or unjustly, plus he’ll be walking straight into the biggest MFM ambush you’ve ever seen in your life.
    I don’t really like Romney very much, but a demoralized leftist crowd won’t turn out eagerly just to vote against him. They’ll just shrug and say, well, we were getting tired of Bammy anyway and this guy doesn’t frighten us. Hopefully they’ll stay home. Thus it’ll be a win on the margin.

    I think Perry will needlessly energize them to come out to defeat yet another redneck cowboy Texan at any cost, which will hand the victory to Bam-bam. I don’t know much about Perry, suspect I’d like him somewhat in a neutral atmosphere but we don’t have one: his negatives seem to outweigh his positives, and I suspect that the Texas economic success of late has more to do with the overall business and political culture of Texas than with Perry’s individual insight. That said, simply not messing things up is an achievement Perry can claim and Bammy can’t.

    But Palin ain’t gonna happen in ’12. She’s had plenty of time to formulate a platform and roll out a team and she hasn’t done it. Her most useful role will be as gadfly/cheerleader/successful media figure/spokesmodel/overall irritant to the MFM. It’s what she has a genius for.

    d. in c. (ae55d7)

  72. Kevin since when has obama rooted out crony captialism?

    Other people’s

    Kevin M (563f77)

  73. if Team R nominates the douche what invented Romneycare then there’s little use in going to the polls cause it’s game over for our pathetic little country

    like a banshee

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  74. I’m here to serve

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  75. h. feet: “There’s small choice in rotten apples,” as Shakespeare put it.

    The most important thing is to show Bammy the exit. Twelve years of Bush and Bammy randomly hitting buttons in the cockpit, stupidly muttering “Hey, what does this thing do?” We won’t survive any more of that. Bammy must be tossed. Can it be done?

    I think Romney stands a better chance. If there is still such a thing as a smoke-filled room, then after Romney wins he needs to be taken there and sat in a corner and told he’s a pretty face and an instrument, and that the Paul Ryans of the world will really be running the show.

    Fat chance, I know. Oh what the hell, Steve Sailer for president.

    d. in c. (68ff46)

  76. I liked Bush he took good care of our little country he was wise and kind and knew what it was to be a president of America.

    That was neat.

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  77. Mr. Feets–I think Mr. W. had a better daddy to learn things from than did Mr. Obama Jr.

    elissa (b52508)

  78. But sitting out the election again, Mr. Feet, won’t help a darned thing. I thought Goal #1 was getting Obama out of office.

    I don’t think you care about that as much as you claim you do. But then we fight and people get tired of it.

    It’s a like a leftist friend of mine, who really is disappointed in Obama, wants Feingold to run as a third party candidate. One of her friends told her all that would accomplish is handing the election to the Right.

    Same deal.

    But to each their own.

    Simon Jester (bc778f)

  79. I’m not voting for Romney… I voted for Meghan’s coward daddy last time and afterwards I felt dirty and cheap and used. I promised myself I would never feel that way again.

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  80. We agree on bush he was not perfect but he was a superior pres.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  81. the woods are lovely dark and deep but I’ve got tasty vegan pancakes to eat

    as opposed to voting for that Romneycare a-hole

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  82. He tried to learn from his father’s mistakes, on taxes, and Iraq, he didn’t promise to be a budget
    hawk or point guard on immigration.

    ian cormac (996c34)

  83. “he took good care of our little country”

    If by “our little country” you mean Mexico, Israel and KSA, then he was just swell.

    d. in c. (cae88c)

  84. don’t be bitter this is like at thanksgiving when you go around the table and say what you’re thankful for

    ok I’ll go first

    I’m thankful Mr. Bush understood the importance of India as a friend and ally

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  85. Ace really doesn’t like Palin but tends to go about attacking her somewhat dishonestly by damning her with faint praise. Everytime he does toss her a compliment it’s always followed with a “but”. It’s his opinion of course, I just wish that he’d be honest about disliking her. I generally don’t read Palin pieces written by commentators like Ace or for that matter others that are blindly pro Palin.

    I just hope that whoever wins the GOP nomination that every conservatives of every stripe stand behind the candidate because I don’t think that the country will survive four more years of Obama.

    scr_north (c54dfc)

  86. Robert McCAIN has an interesting coomentary on the ACE thread.

    ian cormac (996c34)

  87. 🙄 you’d rather have him take care of the fakeistnians why cant your boyfriend in jordan do it.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  88. This instance of the consequnce of McCain’s reading too deeply from the Levick playbook whereas Palin was not taken in:

    http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/ex-gitmo_detainee_ki_1.php#comments

    ian cormac (996c34)

  89. I’m not being bitter, I’m being clear-eyed.

    India? An important “friend” and “ally”? India? Are we both talking about the same place?

    True enuf, more convenient to have them onside than not, but honestly, an “alliance” with India butters no parsnips. We’re talking about the chaps who can’t even boot the Pakis out of Kashmir, despite a 10-to-1 numerical advantage.

    India? Up against say China? It is to laff. I hear those call center operators fight like lions! Maybe they can send us some more motel managers and low-rent engineers. There’s our strategic advantage!

    Nope, they’ll just bleed us dry with chain migration like every one else on the planet who knows a sucker when they see one.

    And Bush sold this country to Mexico so we’re to be grateful for his friendship with… India?

    There must be a lot of hemp in those vegan pancakes of yours.

    d. in c. (0b8a2b)

  90. It’s obvious that she’s beating the ground, trying to drive the current candidates out ahead of her. She looking for a candidate to pick up the flag she’s carrying and come out with specific policies so she can put the money of SarahPAC and her supporters to work.

    She knows she cannot win the Presidency. But she also knows she has a very strong group of supporters itching to get in the fight.

    Xmas (314d74)

  91. she vastly overestimates her own relevancy which is primarily as a trivial pursuit question circa 2019… who is perennial reality tv star bristol palin’s mother?

    hint: she governed a state what had no small number of poley barz plus also she could see russia from her hoose

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  92. omg and por favor please

    India is the only nation on this wee small planet was has a pop culture anywhere as near as diverse brave and creative as America’s… excepting perhaps Japan, which loses points for its bizarre insistence on doing everything in Japanese

    this is the future man

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  93. I’m not voting for Romney… I voted for Meghan’s coward daddy last time and afterwards I felt dirty and cheap and used. I promised myself I would never feel that way again.

    Comment by happyfeet — 9/3/2011 @ 9:16 pm

    sniff . . . So sorry you’ll be joining Obama if Mitt wins. But we’ll always remember you as dirty, cheap and used.

    Estragon (ec6a4b)

  94. — Considering how verbose he’s been today, feets has been remarkably restrained (for him) with his comments. Hmm . . . he must be tired.

    — Limerick guy has difficulty spelling Michele Bachmann.

    Icy Texan (73df5e)

  95. *what* has a pop culture I mean

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  96. #96 “what” or “was” it makes not a lick of difference. Your analysis is preposterous either way.

    If you think Indian pop culture is relevant to geopolitics in any significant way, or that its role in “soft power” politics is comparable to what and why US culture did what it was doing in the 20th cent., or that Bush’s tame and silly overtures to India in any way redeem the profound, traitorous, and probably irreversible damage he did to this country and its people, well, you need to lay off the vegan pancakes.

    Maybe in the future we’ll all be India. But if that’s the case, then “we” will no longer be “we” (viz. “ourselves”) and so the whole thing will have been lost regardless. Some victory.

    Pronouns: they refer to actual predicates that actually exist. At least for the time being.

    d. in c. (f8b6f6)

  97. unlike Mr. c. thomas howell myself I was never married to rae dawn chong

    and yet I condemn this “Bush” all the same:

    Shall I at least set my lands in order?

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  98. Ace attacks Pam and Sarah in the space of two weeks.
    Is he really joining the He Man Women Haters Club?

    I may not like it, but in the end when it’s all talked and commented to death, I will vote for a mailbox over Obama.

    ohiochili (9a2b52)

  99. PLEASE PLEASE let $arah RUN!! Give the best and brightest in the Republican party ELECT her as THE candidate to run against President Obama! (She won’t, she has moved on to “greener” pastures. Giant hints, she’s still on the Foxnews payroll, she has her book-signing tour posted PROMINENTLY on her website, sad for the dems this)

    tifosa (4a54b2)

  100. PLEASE PLEASE let $arah RUN!!
    Comment by tifosa — 9/4/2011 @ 4:54 am

    This reminds me of Republicans who fervently hoped President Obama would be the Dem nominee rather than Hillary. Careful what you wish for.

    Stashiu3 (601b7d)

  101. I double-down on my wish, and my confidence that she won’t, sadly for us.

    tifosa (4a54b2)

  102. So Perry has thru Sept. 22, three debates, to put away ‘Bush III’ and the Shape Shifter.

    By then, if he’s really good, wingman Bachmann will be ripping him a new one.

    Perma-Bull Kudlow and WSJ loves Huntsman’s economic policy, maybe there’s another for whom the squishes await. Nah.

    gary gulrud (790d43)

  103. 99. Ace is uncomfortable with any woman not a nubile writing in his lap brandishing his twenties in her fists.

    Fetch that cowboy another Manhattan.

    gary gulrud (790d43)

  104. 94. “sorry you’ll be joining Obama if Mitt wins”

    And moving to France when Greece makes good.

    gary gulrud (790d43)

  105. Tifosa is a booger-eating hater, stashiu.

    JD (318f81)

  106. 100% mendoucheous 100% of the time.

    JD (318f81)

  107. Girls, what was Palin wearing around her neck? It looked like a crown with key(?) hanging down. I don’t recall seeing such a symbol. Any ideas?

    ropelight (e284a3)

  108. As awful as the choice between crony capitalist/open borders Perry and Romneycare is,either is still a major improvement over The Socialist. There was a point I would not have voted for Romney, and I still think he is a fake phony fraud who will say anything. Yet he isn’t a socialist. Now it’s clear any choice over Obama, no matter how odius or awful, is preferable.

    But in the primary I’ll still voting for Paul again. Someday I will again vote for a president who believes in limited government. For the time being we will have to hold our noses and settle for something less than that, but not socialist.

    One thing that does give hope; Perry despite his faults is going to run a real campaign and call this socialist a socialist. Let Obama explain how it is he believes in capitalism for people other than Soros, Immelt and Buffet. And Perry won’t hesitate to point out that at least what ever crony capitalism he may have enagaged in to lure companies to Texas, he created actual jobs. And not in Brazil with Petrobras.Suspect we need a bad cop to read the riot act to the country. Perry can do that, ROmney cannot.

    Bugg (ea1809)

  109. 91. “She knows she cannot win the Presidency.”

    Unlike Ryan, Christie, Daniels, Pawlenty, Huntsman,…

    BAC walking by Perry’s NH table “We can help”.

    gary gulrud (790d43)

  110. “they have a problem with a black man in the white house.”
    “he has a problem with strong, conservative women.”

    Lets not be like them. I know, I know. Its so much easier than debating a point, but we’ve been called racists for the past 3 years. Lets not start screaming about hating women.

    We’ve got facts on our side. There are plenty of reasons to not vote for Palin (and Happy Feet, that was tina fey as Palin that “can see Russia from my house.” Palin never said that).

    If Ron Paul, who could actually win independents and even some democrats is “unelectable” because he doesn’t want to bomb everyone on the planet, then Sarah Palin is unelectable too.

    For that matter, so are the rest of them. If I remember right, so was Obama. After all, who would vote for a no show, 1 term senator who had written a book?

    a different Mark (e93f5d)

  111. but we’ve been called racists for the past 3 years.

    This long pre-dates 3 years ago.

    And Nor Laup’s unelectability extends far beyond him not wanting to bomb everyone on the planet.

    JD (318f81)

  112. what elissa said in post #78…yes!

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  113. JD – But Nor Luap is a racist.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  114. Conservatives have also endured false accusations of sexism, and not only by lickspittles on the Left, but also by high ranking GOP stalwarts.

    Recall both the Ed Gillespie and Laura Bush attributions of opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers on the prejudice of narrow-minded Conservative sexists who just couldn’t put aside antiquated notions of the equality of women.

    ropelight (e284a3)

  115. Jd,

    My point still stands. We’ve been called racists for 50 years, that doesn’t mean we should start doing the same.

    As for Ron Paul, there are comments here like, “I’d vote for a toaster over obama,” so unelectable is bullshit. Ask any dem who isn’t an Obamabot this question: which republican would you vote for over Obama? I live in Oregon, but every lefty here has the same answer. And its not Palin, Romney, or Perry.

    The right will vote against obama no matter what. Which candidate can bring in good chunks of the middle and the left?

    If you count Ron Paul as unelectable, may I again refer you to a no name senator who voted present 100 times, never authored legislation, and whose only major accomplishment was “writing” two books? He is currently the SCOAMFOTUS.

    Unelectable is a term the establishment uses to tell the rest of us who to vote for so they can keep the games going.

    I’m not trying to convince anyone to vote for whoever. I’m just saying unelectable is a bullshit term.

    a different Mark (e93f5d)

  116. Palindrome would have been so far ahead of the game ifnshe had refused McCain, but too late now.

    A shrug and a “Perry? :: cast-downward look of resignation in light of alternatives:: Okay.” is all I’ve got to offer on the subject.

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  117. palindrome? Auto-correct, I hate you.

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  118. Team R could’ve done much better but something is broken and Perry will just have to do

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  119. Palin would have been so far ahead of the game ifnshe had refused McCain, but too late now

    [my edit on “Palin”]

    Palin wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar today if she had refused McCain. She’d probably still be a relatively anonymous Governor of Alaska, though. For good or for bad, McCain put Palin on the map.

    Barack Obama (4c6c0c)

  120. Happyfeet,
    Team R should do away with primary campaigns and have a write in draft.

    Then we’d get a Christie/Rubio ticket.

    a different Mark (e93f5d)

  121. Beldar put Palin on this blog.

    ropelight (e284a3)

  122. I don’t get this whole Christie thing – he’s a good governor for NJ but he’s the goofball that thinks Mike Castle is sexy and alluring and what is cowardly scared of the job-creating revenue-generating frackings plus he’s a nasty global warming whore besides and also he lurvs lurvs lurvs him some world trade center mosque action

    plus he looks like he’s the last surviving member of a lost tribe of hog-people

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  123. I like Perry/Haley

    not that I like Perry I think he’s obnoxiously eager to inscribe his hateful white trash religious values into our much-beleaguered little constitution

    but Obama brings out the pragmatist in a pikachu

    and I like Perry’s straightforward approach to the global warmings scam

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  124. R-R-R-R-Romney/Rubio in 2012!

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  125. Mr. Feets – Team R wimmins have suddenly succumbed to such a fat man obsession that adult novelty stores are running out of plus size male inflatables across the nation.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  126. otherwise known as blimps

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  127. happy the vegan
    lad need to MAN^^^UP get some
    protein in diet

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  128. I’m not a vegan just the pancakes and sometimes the kelp noodles with pesto

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  129. Mr. Feets – What we need is a tough talking anti-fracking, GZM supporting, global warming whore on the ticket in 2012. Victory is ours!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  130. Palindrome would have had buzz as a first-choice but refusal. not only eyes on her within party higher-ups, but SHE would have known she was spotted and sought after.

    A successful term completed, with small government/ corruptocrat busting /classical liberal ideas, the time would be ripe for her to burst on the scene, The sheer force of her personality and charisma, over-exposed and ridiculed now, would not only have struck terror into the hearts of her enemies, but been more difficult to overcome.

    I always thought she jumped in too soon, too green, with personal life issues that should have had priority over advancement in national politics.

    I think her fatal flaw, actually, is a fools rush in tendency. A wiser Palindrome would have had vision enough to delay, with knowledge that she was already on the map of party bigs….and had confidence enough to bide her time.

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  131. ann coulter is nothing if not a superb strategic mind

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  132. Frack here, frack now or frack off!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  133. palindrome? auto-correct hates ME.

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  134. Also if Cantor had been VP choice, McCain might have eked out victory

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  135. I truly wonder what kind of “hateful white-trash religious values” happyfeet thinks Perry would succeed in ‘inscribing’ into our Constitution.

    Icy Texan (4d0c33)

  136. Romneyphobia
    sustainable kelp noodles
    where else do they lead?

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  137. Coulte endorses Christie and you say she is a strategic mind?

    Why does that not surpris eme.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  138. Are kelp noodles sufficiently reminiscent or regular noodles that a person who isn’t adventuresome with food might enjoy them?

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  139. the cranky old goat
    couldn’t eke his way out of
    wettest paper bag

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  140. Pump some helium up Christie’s butt and fly him in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Get him some more national visibility. Just hope for low winds.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  141. Ni, lap haras. That comes out “harass” if you are Andrew Sullivan.

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  142. they definitely have a texture that’s not reminiscent so don’t bring that sort of expectation to the dish … and you for sure need a tasty sauce to make it work so don’t go with a simple marinara the first time… get something a little creamy and flavorful

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  143. you leftys wanna make up your minds about palin’s looks?

    Either she is ugly or she is not.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  144. They always tell you it’s kelp, but you never really know what’s in it is my feeling.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  145. Do they put borax in the noodles’

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  146. my kelp noodles are served by imperially haughty power lesbians of unimpeachable integrity

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  147. I do not know what this borax is even

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  148. In china they use it to give noodles body and bounce.

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  149. Its use as a cooking ingredient is to add a firm rubbery texture to the food, or as a preservative.

    that’s from wikipedia about borax

    I’m not sure if it’s included but teh vegan place I go to is very very particular about what it serves… it’s a “raw” vegan place

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  150. Dishes what you have to drown out the taste of wif a tasty sauce are always high on my list favorites. Tripe anyone?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  151. I will ask next time

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  152. It causes liver cancer like most things in China.

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  153. you should try it Mr. daley I wouldn’t steer you wrong

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  154. ==Team R wimmins have suddenly succumbed to such a fat man obsession that adult novelty stores are running out of plus size male inflatables across the nation==

    Tru dat. But with respect to CC, for some it’s more a smartness of brain issue and an art of the possible issue and a content of character issue, than a color amount of skin issue. Nobody’s perfect, daley.

    elissa (1b352c)

  155. “In china they use it to give noodles body and bounce.”

    Sarahw – Like shampoo?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  156. I will definitely ask next time

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  157. Daleyrocks more like a home permanent,really, at least in terms of toxicity

    Sarahw (ab309e)

  158. “But with respect to CC, for some it’s more a smartness of brain issue and an art of the possible issue and a content of character issue, than a color amount of skin issue. Nobody’s perfect, daley.”

    elissa – Mr. Huckabee had a lot of extra skin tissue and I did not like his snake oil smarmy RINO positions either. Christie is great on some things but his curious positions on the things our little pikachu mentioned above make me wonder, WTF is he thinking?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  159. ==They always tell you it’s kelp, but you never really know what’s in it is my feeling==

    Does it taste like chicken, or more like fish is what I want to know.

    elissa (1b352c)

  160. “Twenty Mule Team Noodles” served with sauce of SumYunguy… happy… you live and die in L.A.!

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  161. What will the Palin groupies do when she loses the primarys to someone who can win?

    DohBiden (d54602)

  162. Mr. Feets – How does one qualify to become an imperially haughty power lesbian?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  163. I’m too scared to ask Mr. daley

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  164. Reasonable and good people can differ on some issues, and I would like to get the Governor of N.J. in a room and privately try to change his mind on a few things. But I would please nobody ever put Mr. Huck’s and Mr. Christie’s names in the same sentence from now on. Thank you.

    elissa (1b352c)

  165. Doh, the presupposes that she actually enters a Primary.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  166. (((damn))) ..”that”, not “the”!

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  167. “I’m too scared to ask Mr. daley”

    Mr. Feets – It is not an aspiration of mine you unnerstand, but often I am asked for advice by younger people about education and careers and such and I like to be prepared to the extent possible. Becoming an imperially haughty power lesbian might be of interest to somebody I know. I suppose they can find their own path without my guidance,sigh.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  168. Maybe the GOP, lacking a single compelling personality, should come on like the Super Friends, as a team:

    “Hey look, Romney or Perry or Palin, what difference does it really make? We’ve got a fairly deep bench, we’ll work together, our skills are sort of evenly distributed, and unlike the Dems we aren’t batsh1t crazy! What more do you want and/or expect?”

    All the Dems have really got is their Sun God, and the rapidly fading Wicked Witch of Whitewater in the wings. Meh. Any one particular Repub will have trouble taking on Bammy given his dug-in advantages.

    But they could all rush him.

    d. in c. (6d8a47)

  169. Here’s a novel idea:
    Why don’t we hold a series of elections, in various States of the Union, to select – within the Republican Party – delegates to the National Convention; who will gather in congress and determine who the Nominee of the Party will be for election to the Office of the President of the United States?

    Nah…that’ll never work.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  170. hai guys.
    let me look into my quantum crystal ball for you….i see…..
    Perry/Palin 2012
    and of course you will lose.
    Wanna know WHY she gave that speech?
    She ax Perry for the VP slot and he said no.
    That is why it wasnt a direct frag of him.
    But she is gunna frag him if he doesnt take her onboard.
    Its a dilemma– Perry believes in the polls that say she cant win, and that she’d be a drag on the ticket– she doesnt believe in polls.
    She is running for the VP slot. She just made a veiled threat to take Perry down if he doesnt take her on board.
    sheez got the power.

    NRO POLL
    Who is the better conservative standard-bearer?Palin 78 %
    Perry 22 %
    42,886 votes

    Move/counter-move.
    Can’t wait to see what happens next.

    heya feets! dontcha think Rick Perry is a cowboy cat?
    he sure reminds me of someone…..oh yah…..BOOOOOSH

    wheeler's cat (f54344)

  171. Nishi speaks, observers wretch!

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  172. And i cant hardly wait for Conservative Thunderdome on the 7th!
    8 Angry Clowns enter, one Angry Clown leaves!
    🙂

    wheeler's cat (f54344)

  173. look what cat drag in
    prez brings Hell in Handbasket
    the Clown 0 abides

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  174. on huge pickle sat wheeler’s cat
    who smirked saying this about that
    it gave her much pleasure
    to take it full measure
    but her tongue now worn as cravat

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  175. #146: Palin is LOVELY on the outside! In fact, plenty pretty to be the Teapublicon presidential candidte RUN$ARAHRUN!!

    tifosa (4a54b2)

  176. nishi! Perry is the best we could do. I wasn’t on the committee.

    But there’s no upside in Perry picking Palin not for you not for me not for America. This is because Palin is a very unpopular and divisive figure in American politics. I wouldn’t even expect to see her at the Team R convention. She’s getting frantic lately cause her fifteen minutes are just about up and Perry isn’t about to turn that little egg timer over. He’s not a dumb man whatever else you wanna say about him.

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  177. hahaha

    these things do
    best please me
    which befall
    pre-post’rously!
    o lord what fools these mortals be.

    wheeler's cat (f54344)

  178. haha feets!

    did you know that creationism is taught as science in Texas classrooms because of Rick Perry?
    like i said, i cant wait for Conservative Thunderdrome.

    wheeler's cat (f54344)

  179. But there’s no upside in Perry picking Palin not for you not for me not for America.

    but there is a downside for him not picking her.
    that is my point.
    that is why sheez in new hampshire today.

    i find it ineffably sad that Perry is “the best” you could do.

    wheeler's cat (f54344)

  180. From the Texas Tribune on whether creationism is being taught in Texas schools as science,

    “No, it is not true,” said Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, an interest group that has lobbied the State Board of Education to keep religion out of public schools. “Texas science standards do not call for teaching creationism in the classroom.”

    David Bradley, a social conservative member of the State Board of Education, said he hadn’t heard the governor’s comments. But when asked if Texas schools teach creationism alongside evolution, Bradley responded, “Not specifically.”

    Still, Bradley said that in Texas nothing prevents a teacher from discussing creationism, or a student from bringing it up in the classroom. “It is not specifically in the Texas curriculum,” Bradley said. But “in Texas, the students are directed to investigate and evaluate all theories.”

    Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, also said creationism could be discussed in the classroom as students are taught about evolution.

    “It is required that students evaluate and analyze the theory of evolution, and creationism very likely comes up in that process,” she said. “Teachers are also permitted to discuss it with students in that context. Schools are also allowed to teach biblical history as an elective and creationism is part of that teaching, too.”

    Dana (4eca6e)

  181. nishi – Perry’s got a bigger penis than you.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  182. “i find it ineffably sad that Perry is “the best” you could do.”

    nishi – Hahaha. I hope the Democrats run President Zero.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  183. it is sad but we are a declining little country and we see this reflected in our leaderships in both parties

    Boehner McConnell Obama Pelosi Palin Reid? These are all dirty stunted whores what have no business no business no business telling other people how to live and work and play.

    At least Perry seems to have some concept of leaving people alone for so they can dance and sing and create stuff and learn about new things and start businesses and travel and play board games and eat foozles without the government getting all up in their grill.

    He also has some very hickish trailer park-style social views, but like I said I wasn’t on the committee.

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  184. Perry, no way. Krauthammer, Rove, and Ailes don’t like him. His game’s all but ovah.

    tifosa (4a54b2)

  185. Happyfeet your 15 minutes were up when you were born.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  186. that’s not true my mom said I was a late bloomer

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  187. you just wait

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  188. Comment by wheeler’s cat — 9/4/2011 @ 11:35 am

    Perhaps Nishi can explain the dichotomy evident in Darwin re The Cambrian Period fossil record as brought to our attention in this, ever biting, column by A.Coulter:
    http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/15297848/article-Ann-Coulter–Liberals%E2%80%99-view-of-Darwin-unable-to-evolve?instance=special%20_coverage_right_column
    It seems that Evolution is not quite the “settled science” that we are told it is (along with AGW, and other flights of fancy).

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  189. and then there’s this….

    FBI arrests prominent Democratic campaign treasurer
    http://www.ocregister.com/news/durkee-315349-campaign-county.html

    Geez, CA is starting to look a lot like IL.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  190. ESCR was the first big bubble, off course, its been a dry hole, like Solyndra and the whole ‘green economy’

    ian cormac (4e0dda)

  191. Another Drew,

    I’m not convinced nishi is interested in anything other than his/her pre-programmed line. At #122, s/he claims that creationism is taught as science in the classroom because of Rick Perry – however, at #184, the Texas Tribune begs to differ.

    Dana (4eca6e)

  192. it’s not officially taught but these days there’s always those obnoxious dorky christians in science class demanding their turn and you have to be polite because they’re not bad people they just don’t have any social skills and their kind of dim

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  193. they’re I mean

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  194. happyfeet,

    I think all theories should be questioned, analyzed, discussed and subject to rigorous inquiry and debate. And I think the classroom, by default, is the superb place for this to occur. If not there, then where?

    But I tend to be open-minded about these things.

    Dana (4eca6e)

  195. did you know that creationism is taught as science in Texas classrooms because of Rick Perry?
    Comment by wheeler’s cat — 9/4/2011 @ 11:35 am

    — Kitty shouldn’t lie. God send her to level of hell filled with angry puppies!

    Icy Texan (4d0c33)

  196. ok fine but then then the kids need to study the yakamo indian creation myths and the banshee mohican myths and the wizadoodle campechan myths and the hindu gobble-tickle myths and the kama sutra fandango myths plus also the rastafarian ones and boy science class is all kinds of challenging

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  197. ==Geez, CA is starting to look a lot like IL==

    It’s that manifest destiny thing again, I think.

    elissa (1b352c)

  198. As long as they’re studying myths, they could spend an entire semester academic career on EPA.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  199. Number of people killed by a belief in the false “theory” of Communism = 100+ million.

    Number of people killed by a belief in the false “theory” of Creationism = 0

    So we see that the real danger is Wheeler Cat’s beliefs, not Creationism.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  200. If the speech was not just total nonsense, and it probably was not, it sounds like Sarah Palin is preparing to come out with a surprise announcement sometime in December that she is endorsing someone (who is not Rick Perry, and not Mitt Romney) for President. She will time it for maximum impact.

    Just figure out who is disqualified by what she said, and you’ll figure out whom she is planning to probably endorse.

    It is certainly not Mitt Romney or Rick Perry because both can be accused of crony capitalism and of raising a lot of money for the Presidential campaign.

    This is almost a John McCain theme, so I would bet she has been in contact with John McCain and she will endorse Rick Santorum at a moment when it would give him a big boost.

    This may be a joint appearance with John McCain, except I don’t know if McCain would want to take sides.

    I can’t see John McCain endorsing Michelle Bachman but I can see him endorsing Rick Santorum.

    Sammy Finkelman (d3de3a)

  201. Sarah Palin’s endorsement and a bucket of warm cinnamon roll icing would go a long way towards making a nice accompaniment to breakfast you would just have to get some bisquick and add vanilla and cinnamon and mix it up and sort of shape it into a pleasing shape and the bake it for however long it says on the bisquick box and then you could ladle on some of the icing

    yum!

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  202. and *then* bake it I mean

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  203. It is remarkable how this analysis, rstoignores her actual history in Alaska. parallels are inexact, she most relied on radio, particularly
    Dan Fagan’s show, but this was much the way she ran for Governor.

    ian cormac (4e0dda)

  204. whole families used to gather round the radio to listen to Sarah speak, her voice warming the hearts of those huddled against the frigid cold of the dark Alaskan nights

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  205. feets, until you’ve been there where the Sun don’t shine at Noon, you’ll never understand.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  206. there’s too much nature there

    nature is treacherous it wants to kill you

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  207. What a thread. Like some kind of weird catnip, it brings out…well, the real crazy types. And you know who you are.

    Basically, people with odd syntax and creative spelling and a style they think is clever and funny, and is neither.

    Sigh. Thanks, Patterico!

    Simon Jester (cf24c7)

  208. ohnoes the blog has been pulled over by the fun police

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  209. You have the Right to sing the Blues;
    You have the Right to Color-TV;
    …Ah Hell, I forget the rest, and I’m too lazy to Google it.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (8fe3ec)

  210. Ohnoes, the hateful posters are having a field day!

    But hey, most people think Mr. Feet is funny. And he thinks that nishi is a laff riot.

    So there you go.

    Simon Jester (cf24c7)

  211. nishi is cool like sweet plum wine with a splash of hot saki and an insouciantly progressive attitude and she’s a lot nakedly unimpressed with the right in America these days, particularly Sarah Palin but also monster truck prayer rally Perry and probably also Romney and the other ones

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  212. “nature is treacherous it wants to kill you”

    Mr. Feets – Me I keep a watchful eye for those stingray barb thingers in the chest where they can kill you. They are hiding in Lake Michigan and wander the land at night I am reliably told.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  213. Plus the giant crocodiles and anacondas hiding in the sewers. I watch for them too. Nature is serious.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  214. flying barbs of death are serious business plus also bullet ants God help us they’re called bullet ants cause when they bite you it feels like you got shot with a gun

    hormiga veinticuatro!

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  215. The Satere-Mawe people of Brazil use intentional bullet ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become a warrior. The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural sedative and then hundreds of them are woven into a glove made out of leaves (which resembles a large oven mitt), stinger facing inward. When the ants regain consciousness, a boy slips the glove onto his hand. The goal of this initiation rite is to keep the glove on for a full ten minutes. When finished, the boy’s hand and part of his arm are temporarily paralyzed because of the ant venom, and he may shake uncontrollably for days. The only “protection” provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging. To fully complete the initiation, however, the boys must go through the ordeal a total of 20 times over the course of several months or even years.*

    Brazil is a seriously confuzzled little country

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  216. You have right to free
    speech as long as you’re not dumb
    enough to try it

    ColonelHaiku (024133)

  217. It’s run by a former Marxist guerilla, and Obama has promised to be the best customer for their oil, what could possibly go wrong?

    ian cormac (4e0dda)

  218. oh. bullet ants actually have stingers they don’t mess you up by biting you

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  219. I don’t know about Anacondas that are at home by the dark turbid waters of the Amazon, but enough Burmese Pythons have escaped into the wild in Florida that there are breeding colonies present. So, if you are driving across “Alligator alley” at night and see a 20+ ft “log” lying across the road, it isn’t a log.

    I’m waiting to see the real Sarah Palin, the one that had a 88% approval rate as governor because she did what was best for the people, not for the Repub establishment, Big Oil, or any other special interest group…

    Remember how much Bush 43 was known for good working relationships with Dems while gov. in Texas?

    I guess as long as a Republican is content to hold office in a “Red” state one can live in peace.

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  220. I saw that bullet ant thing on Discovery one night. Seriously disturbing. Not as vile as nishi though.

    JD (318f81)

  221. MD in Philly

    Palin’s pushing a progressive confiscatory tax on the oil companies is the best thing for the people?

    Is the giving of free money to people working out well in the other 49 states?

    And nows she’s taking her Shtick on the road and accusing anyone who is a career politician of corruption (oh excluding herself even though she was a star member of Frankie M’s machine until she wasnt given a Senate Seat)

    Glad people are calling her out is fun to watch

    EricPWJohnson (c5f1fc)

  222. “Not as vile as nishi though.”

    nishi is like a caustic bath of lye what sucks the life out of any blog she visits. I doubt she is welcome at any blog cept her own.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  223. If there never had been such a thing as a broken record, Epwich would have invented it.

    Icy Texan (4d0c33)

  224. Icy

    As opposed to her defenders 🙂

    EricPWJohnson (c5f1fc)

  225. haters gotta hate

    but this is still a blog of love I feel it in my heart

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  226. are you ready

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  227. im ready for happy [feet] hour!

    man, how do you tolerate these dull bots feets?
    conservatism is the Anti-cool.

    you cant get to Cooltown on the conservative express, feets.
    it only goes to crazytown anymore….and Conservative Thunderdrome!

    Eight Angry Clowns enter! One Angry Clown leaves!

    wheeler's cat (f54344)

  228. hahaha

    oops…..happy hour

    wheeler's cat (f54344)

  229. “If there never had been such a thing as a broken record, Epwich would have invented it.”

    Icy – His claims of a $14 trillion Reagan tax increase were a new level of Epwich loony toons, though.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  230. Conservatives are crazy?

    Says the idiot who wants to vote for a 9-11 truther as mayor……….oh too bad your not a new yorker you’d fit in with all the crazies.

    He has the nerve to accuse others of raising his taxes.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  231. Yeah her defenders are broken records but so are the ones who jump on her for every petty thing 🙄

    DohBiden (d54602)

  232. It is certainly not Mitt Romney or Rick Perry because both can be accused of crony capitalism and of raising a lot of money for the Presidential campaign

    I’m not clear on how either Mitt or Rick can honestly be described as crony capitalists.

    You didn’t use that qualifier. If you’re referencing Merck with Perry, I don’t think that’s a fair one. And I’m not sure what the Mitt reference is.

    Those are as fair as the crony capitalist accusations against Palin, frankly, for things like wearing the logo to her husband’s sport sponsor.

    Anyway, Perry has actually walked the walk that Palin has been talking for the past couple of years. He’s done it longer and better, but the sheer number of issues he’s faced opens him up to at least a handful of bad calls. If we’re going to hold that against him, all we’re really doing is demanding we nominate empty suits with very little record.

    I’ll be surprised if Palin doesn’t endorse Perry, but in a real way she already has and he’s already benefited from it. I do not see the candidate running who is a more credible conservative leader.

    I like Palin. She’s one of the good guys, and it’s not her fault that things haven’t gone smoothly for her (in my opinion). But I’m glad she’s not running for President, as sadly the middle does not understand the good reasons the right has to respect her. However, this overstates her chances in a primary.

    The reason she’s not running is because she knows she wouldn’t be nominated, after all.

    I hope she remains a major player in policy discussions, and hopefully is an office holder soon. I also hope she is on board with Perry, who simply is our best bet.

    Dustin (b2fb78)

  233. Nishi thinks happyfeet is not a conservative.

    EPWJ still thinks there are 2 million Jews in Iran.

    In other news, water is still wet.

    Icy Texan (4d0c33)

  234. hah I love that song did you know that’s Mr. fatboy slim there with the blond hair?

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  235. EPWJ still cannot believe it’s butter.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  236. Lefty fascists[Redundant I know] are trying to run against Obama in 2012 saying he isn’t lefty enough.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  237. nishi national anthem fan girl griefer.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  238. I see that some are defending Palin’s position that government taxing free enterprize to give cash payments to constiuents is a good thing.

    That increasing taxes on corporations is a good thing

    That needing 100% democrat support to pass record tax hikes is a good thing

    vetting indeed

    EricPWJohnson (e83e82)

  239. More revealing and pertinent are Ace’s cautions prior to Palin’s speech on playing the Debates, especially Sept.7: Ace wants to see a dispassionate, technically competent, Presidential mein.

    He doesn’t want Perry to reveal his caustic cowboy, e.g., in eviscerating Sanchez or making a fool of Hutchinsen, until Amerikkka is comfortable with him.

    After a spanking “I see where people are missing my point”, he tries to pull his skirts down in back, but to little avail.

    Autheticity, authenticity, authenticiy. If Perry is Bob Dole, show us now.

    gary gulrud (790d43)

  240. 244. Huntsman has established the “Economic Proposal” Repugnant boilerplate bar.

    Corporate rate 25%, capital gains 0%, top personal rate 23%, repeal Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley. Every candidate will begin from this starting point.

    Your dribble cup is full, Deirdre.

    gary gulrud (790d43)

  241. Autheticity, authenticity, authenticiy. If Perry is Bob Dole, show us now.

    Comment by gary gulrud — 9/5/2011 @ 7:51 am

    I 100% agree. I get where Ace is coming from. He desperately wants Obama out, and will tolerate some kind of politics gaming if that’s what it takes. So would I. But we need to make sure Perry is electable. I think he is, but I also know that if he shows that personality like he did to that Sanchez slimeball, some will see a lot of Bush in him (I think that’s unfair). I still think Perry will win that way. Voters may prefer a little personality, too.

    Either way, if it’s a huge problem, best to see it now instead of later.

    Dustin (b2fb78)

  242. Oh Jesus please make her run… please please please!!!!

    The Emperor loves SarahP2012 (0f0cb6)

  243. There’s nothing that the fabric of America would love or need more than a Teavangelical to pray us into economic prosperity! Perry has proved his mettle on that front! Pray for rain in Texas and BINGO it….burns. :^( hhhmmm, maybe God rained a little hell on Texas?

    tifosa (9c20ac)

  244. 🙄 stay classy pissant

    Someone who endorses Dede Scozzafava has no right to complain about raising taxes on anything.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  245. es una cosa
    hija de la chingada
    pobre tifosa

    ColonelHaiku (432fca)

  246. West/Rubio?

    One of them would have to move to another state, or the Florida electors would not be able to vote for both of them.

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  247. Maybe tifosa, epwj, and nishidiot the eugenecist should get a room and have a menage a idiot.

    JD (318f81)

  248. I agree with some of the substance of Hot Air’s criticisms, but I don’t agree that this is fatal. Yes, the speech was hyped up to be more than it turned out to be. But that’s just marketing, not substance. Standing on its own the speech was OK, it keeps her in the game, and lets her delay her entry into the race, or her decision not to enter it.

    As far as Palin v Perry, I’m still pulling for Palin, but Perry could very easily persuade me away from her. (So could Daniels, if his wife would agree to let him run.) I’m waiting to see them debate each other; I would hope that it would be a dignified affair, and I would deduct points from each for any attacks on the other. If she decides not to run, then I hope she will endorse Perry (unless some better candidate enters the race).

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  249. Palin needs to shit or get off the pot I think

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  250. Milhouse,

    Why dont you watch her 2006 gubernatorial debates in Alaska – I think they are still available

    EricPWJohnson (e83e82)

  251. JD

    Are you supporting raising taxes and giving even more free cash to everyone as a prudent thing to do?

    Is this working out in other states than alaska?

    Do most conservatives need 100% democrat support to get their agenda passed?

    Is this the kind of person you want to support?

    EricPWJohnson (e83e82)

  252. You are well and truly a facking imbecile. This is the 826452739475152528451st time you have tried this same line of mendoucheity.

    JD (318f81)

  253. ‘scuse me, EPWiccan. Your proof that a President Palin would enact ANY tax increases is what?

    Icy Texan (d8e266)

  254. Lovie is getting his Palin lust on

    Icy Texan (d8e266)

  255. Sarah Palin ran over EricPWJohnson’s dog. He’s had a hardon for her since.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  256. Ya know If Palin raises taxes on oil companies she is to the left of Mussolini.

    If she doesn’t these same people say she sold her soul to the oil companies.

    Not saying i agree with her but come on.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  257. I’m sure she was very sorry

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  258. tifosa buggers goats and scares Oprah

    Icy Texan (d8e266)

  259. Comment by Icy Texan — 9/5/2011 @ 2:06 pm

    Icy, haven’t you been paying attention?
    She demanded, demanded I say, that the benevolent associations known as Big Oil, pay a higher royalty to the freeloaders of Alaska for the oil that they were stealing from all those downtrodden folk.
    And, that is EPWJ’s proof that Sarah Palin is demonic.

    BTW, there sure seems to be a similarity in verbiage between tifosa and sparticvs, or am I imagining things?

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (31bef0)

  260. Sarah Palin isn’t demonic but she seems scared of what her life will be like when nobody’s speculating about whether or not she’s gonna run for president. She’s sorta painted herself into a corner I guess, but you know what? Just walk on out the door honey it’s ok sure you might mess up the paint but we have people for that.

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  261. feets, I think that SP is very comfortable in where her life is, and where it’s going, and that she has no insatiable desire to run for higher office – unlike some we have seen in the past 20-years who had planned their entire lives around the point that they would announce their candidacy (are you listening Bubbah?).

    At any time that she wants, she and Todd can just go salmon fishing, or whatever – they seem to be remarkably self-contained.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (31bef0)

  262. I think a comfortable place is where she’ll be once she gets out from under this who are-you-or-aren’t-you thing. It’s past the point of unseriousness. Palin is actively scoffing at everyone what wants to get the show on the road and start figuring out how we get rid of bumble and put someone in his place what might be of service. Deposing an incumbent is a tall order, particularly when you’re Team R. And yet there are scads and scads of for reals serious people working at this every day when they wake up til they go to bed, whilst Sarah flits about like she doesn’t have a care in her pretty quitty head.

    It’s not good for you it’s not good for me it’s not good for America.

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  263. hmm. this *whole* are-you-or-aren’t-you thing is what that should be

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  264. Obama 2012 heats up http://theobamadiary.com/2011/09/05/detroit-labor-day/#comment-110320 In case you missed the SC DeMint forum, it’s ok, it was underwhelming ;^)

    tifosa (9c20ac)

  265. Stay classy!(IcyTexan, JD) hasta miercoles

    tifosa (9c20ac)

  266. maybe in future Sarah Palin will just decide to run for president or not like a normal person instead of all this flouncing about willy nilly

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  267. “Normal people” do not run for President.

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (31bef0)

  268. Happyfeet, on what date in 1979 did Reagan announce his candidacy?

    Milhouse (ee8a5d)

  269. Happyfeet et. al.,
    Sarah at this point in time is in command. If she runs, then she gives up the role of kingmaker. And make no mistake, right now she has that spot. Establishment Republicans like Cheny, are afraid of her. Just like establishment republicans and democrats were afraid of the last true Progressive, Bob LaFollet of Wisconsin. (aka fightin’ Bob). (And his associate pres. Teddy “I have a big stick.”)
    Sarah will chose the next Republican leader if she wants to. It just won’t be her.

    The Cheshirecat ^..^(____)~~ (21ef74)

  270. So, let me understand that its okay to raise taxes and spending to record heights, if you’re Palin….

    Is that a correct interpretation of your response JD?

    EricPWJohnson (e83e82)

  271. So let me understand, EPWJ, according to you, Sarah Palin controls world oil prices?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  272. Sarah the Palin
    make Attila the Hun look
    like Putin on horse

    ColonelHaiku (c7aeaa)

  273. Her powers are awesome, daley, like Jean Grey from Xmen, maybe this why Perry (and Fox’s) pollster, coomissioned a poll with 40% democrats
    as a sample, coming to that quixotic 74% which would never vote for her, green eggs and ham.

    I mean it’s not like she suggested violence against a clueless Fed bureaucrat, or invoked hurricanes as a sign from God, or had no fracking clue about what to do in Afghanistan, that would really be embarassing, wait she hasn’t done any of this, well never mind then:

    http://www.sarahpac.com/posts/tea-party-express-rally-manchester-nh-9-slash-4-slash-11

    ian cormac (996c34)

  274. On the subject of taxes: Huntsman is only taking the corporate down to 25% when some want 15%. Since this is double taxation on earnings I’m open if all deductions are eliminated–like ‘Green’ incentives that helped GE to pay $5 billion on earnings of greater than $100 Billion over recent past.

    To make up difference whats bad about raising Huntsman’s 0% Capital Gains? Despots like Buffet, whose horizon is forever, pay only Gains anyway when they sell at a profit.

    Anyway Huntsman’s tax reform proposals are short of Cain/Bachmann’s Flat Tax. He’s just calling for elimination of all deductions.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if our taxes rise by some sleight of hand.

    gary gulrud (790d43)

  275. When people start talking about “eliminating all deductions” I have to rub my eyes and wonder what they’re on. Do they really mean that? All deductions?! Do they really want to tax people on their gross receipts rather than their net income?! How the @#$% can you justify that?

    Milhouse (ee8a5d)

  276. By all means eliminate deductions that have nothing to do with the cost of earning the income they’re being deducted from. But things like depreciation are a cost of doing business, and must be allowed; exactly how fast an asset should be depreciated is a technical question and there can be different answers for it, but it has to be allowed on some schedule.

    Milhouse (ee8a5d)

  277. Yes, Milhouse, that was the ’86 tax reform, that coversely Bill Bradley and Richard Gephardt took credit for, closing the loopholes, on the condition that the rates wouldn’t rise, which of course, was reversed by Clinton in ’93

    ian cormac (996c34)

  278. This is the 826452739475152528451st time ….
    Comment by JD

    I am impressed you were able to keep track. Most of us gave up, messed up the count, or messed up the count but wouldn’t admit it and said we gave up.

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  279. Tifosa links to an article where Barcky condoned hateful overtly violent speech, and calls on others to stay classy. Tifosa calls people teatards and teabaggerz, and calls on others to stay classy. Bugger off, asshat.

    JD (318f81)

  280. So, let me understand that its okay to raise taxes and spending to record heights, if you’re Palin….

    Is that a correct interpretation of your response JD?

    Nope. Shocka. Take your meds. Last time you pulled this, you got moderated.

    JD (318f81)

  281. Why do we still listen to this khat cat?

    Another Drew - Restore the Republic / Obama Sucks! (31bef0)

  282. 205: Comment by happyfeet — 9/4/2011 @ 2:25 pm

    .i> Sarah Palin’s endorsement and a bucket of warm cinnamon roll icing would go a long way towards making a nice accompaniment to breakfast…

    If she endorses one of the leading candidates.

    But if she endorses an somewhat lower ranked candidate at just the right moment things could be different.

    I think she wants to for Rick Santorim what Ted and Caroline Kennedy did for Barack Obama.

    I notice she also complained about candidates who let political consultants tell them what to say – somethinbg like that.

    And the next day Ed Rollins and his chief deputy quit or are fired from the Bachman campaign.

    Maybe she is contemplating endorsing Bachman or trying to give people that idea anyway..

    Sammy Finkelman (d3daeb)


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