OK, Maybe She Is A Good Choice

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[NO PUMA]

Her "im excited" face is a big much for me. Seems totally fake. But she could get it regardless.

she reminds me of katherine harris

[Bwana]

Reminds me of Photoshop...

[Not Larry Sabato]

I thought so at first also- but it appears to be legit.

http://www.secretsofsarahpalin.com/2008/09/01/10-pictures-sarah-palin-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

Wow.

She reminds me of Karen from Will and Grace....Hair and Pitch of her voice

[Maggie Thornton]

That's not in line with the Flag Code. Just sayin'.

[CarolineProgressive]

Clearly the bikini shot uses the same "wacky face" picture earlier in the article. However, I believe this picture truly represents the essence of of Governor Snow Bunny.

Check out the "ready to party" picture. It looks like something from craigslist. "40-something wf looking for a good time."

I don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, Vet, hippie, whatever, those bathing suits are a disgrace to the American Flag.

As the website referenced says, photoshopped...

[T]

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

This is why T is Republican, folks.

[T]

PS - Whether or not this is photoshopped, she seems like a better shot than Dick Cheney.

[NoVA Scout]

Given how gullible people are, how realistic the images can be and how easily these things can get passed around electronically, I would hope that bloggers wouldn't use these photo-shopped images unless they put a clear legend on the image that it's a fake.

There ought to be a law requiring photoshopped pictures to be labeled as such.

But if it's not photoshopped, is the guy drinking beer in the background with his bathing suit falling off her soon-to-be son-in-law?

[YOU = ASS]

"I AM HEARING THE FATHER IS 26 I AM HEARING THE FATHER IS 26 I AM HEARING THE FATHER IS 26 I AM HEARING THE FATHER IS 26 DEVELOPING"

As reported by the NY Daily News this morning, he is an 18 year-old redneck from Wasilla.

You asshole...why don't you quit throwing this made up daily-kos shit around and report the facts...wait, that's why you're a blogger, isn't it?

Its ok for you to hold the media and public officials to credibility standards, but yet you have none of your own.

You shithead.

[Doug]

Holy Photoshop Batman! If you can't look on a decent resolution monitor and see that the margins with her hair and the trees and the shadows are off, then you need to get a glaucoma check. As much as this would be great, it's so fake it makes Grapes' latest boob job look real.

And the flag incorporated into any clothing is a clear violation of the flag code. But, as a proud owner of American flag Chucks, I will throw no stones.

[Sean Holihan]

Palin---Queen of Pork for Alaska

All told, Wasilla benefited from $26.9 million in earmarks in Palin's final four years in office.

In February, Palin's office sent Sen. Stevens a 70-page memo outlining almost $200 million worth of new funding requests for Alaska.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090103148.html?wpisrc=newsletter

Hahaha...

Mary Matalin:

Wasilla is an up and coming town. It's the Tyson's Corner of Alaska.

[eh]

When you are a mayor, that is what you're supposed to do. Every local administrator does it. If she didn't she'd be derelict in her duty. Otherwise you put your own local government at a disadvantage. When you get higher up, as she did, you try to end the pork system.

Look at Obama's fumbling answer to this question:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/02/obamas-answer-on-experience-but-im-such-a-great-campaigner/

Barky stumbled all over himself trying to answer how his executive experience ranked with Palin's. The questioner was Anderson Cooper:

AC: Some Republican critics say, you don’t have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They’ve in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What’s your response?

BO: Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin’s town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we’ve got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I’ve passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates to extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.

[Doug]

Wow, eh, all you have to do is watch the video and you see he didn't fumble it at all. But nice "transcript".

Now, can we have more posts about how to fold and unfold the American Flag, especially when it is in bikini form?

Eh, it's not just that. Check out the comparison:

In fiscal year 2002, Wasilla took in $6.1 million in earmarks -- about $1,000 in federal money for every resident. By contrast, Boise, Idaho -- which has more than 190,000 residents -- received $6.9 million in earmarks in fiscal 2008.

That's just $800,000 more than Wasilla for a city with close to 180,000 more citizens six years later.

[brimur]

And so much for Palin's opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere- when running for Governor she campaigned FOR it AND supported the earmark. She only switched when the project became known as a national disgrace.

So why again is she the nominee? Was McCain that screwed among the fringe that he needed the pick solely on the basis of sucking up to them?

[Doug]

The most telling thing I see this morning- and no, this is not from dailykos or any other left blog (btw- ones who chose not to cover the pregnancy item until it broke on CNN).

Intrade puts up market for Palin withdrawl:

http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=638242&z=1220362418937

If you follow sports and want to get a good idea of how good a team really is, you don't go to fan sites, you go look at the gamblers. When the gamblers start putting up real money on something, it is a real story and a possibility. Ok, just at 14% now, but keep an eye on it this week.

Palin is no longer a disaster, she is a catastrophe.

Yeah people are figuring it out.

Girls can't be VP!!

[J. Tyler Ballance]

Palin is just a new version of Tammy Faye Baker. She is an embarrassment to the Party and will drag McCain into the sewer with her.

Palin must withdraw, or the McCain campaign is finished. He may be finished, regardless, since picking Palin was monumentally poor judgment on his part.

Given that both the Obama and McCain tickets are about looks rather than substance, the campaigns of Ralph Nader on the Left and Bob Barr on the Right, are looking much more attractive to those who are seeking a discussion of real solutions to our problems and real inspiration by our elected leaders.

[Doug]

Kay Bailey Hutchison would have been a great choice, and is now my front runner for the switcheroo.

You are right, ding dong, girls can't be VP or President- because you must be a woman or man to qualify for either office. Nice way to condescend while supposedly supporting McBush. (oh, that was condescending of me! At least I didn't call him old.)

[Not Harry F. Byrd, Sr.]

Carly Fiorentina or Meg Whitman would've made things interesting.

Palin is a mess.

The federal government shouldn't be spending 6 million in a little pisshole like Wasilla. That money could be used in places like the south side of Chicago.

okay seriuosly, Mr. Ballance, do you EVER have a posititve thing to say about anyone!? I met you in person, at the Richmond Convention, and I swear to God you never have a nice thing to say about anyone. You walk around with a little gray rain cloud over your head 24/7. It's complain, complain, complain with you. If you are so disgusted and unhappy with the Republican party, stop hanging around and go party with the Dems.
I think you should see a doctor about getting some happy pills.

Women can't be VP!!

[Doug]

Harry- Fiorentina was fired by her board at HP. I think that would actually be a big story and decision point for fiscally conservative people who might vote for McCain. It's the only reason I didn't mention her, since I don't know a whole bunch more about her. I believe she is not socially conservative.

[Doug]

And speaking of HP, and where they are now, I'm off to buy some IBM laptops :)

[Laughing at Dems]

WOW! The libs are freaking out BIG TIME!!!

Let's see, we have a VP pick with a pregnant daughter (when did kids become fair game Dems???) and a couple of photoshopped photos, and the Dems are screaming for Palin to withdraw.

This is just the next example of how scared they are that they are about to blow the best political climate for Dems in almost 40 years.

The Obama non-bounce was pathetic. It was worse than Jimmy Carter's in 1980, and we all know what happened to him. Now he has to face the RNC Convention right on his heels, and McCain and the Republicans are playing it just right.

The more Dems beat on her, the more they display their outright fear and hostility to any woman that is not a man-hating feminist that has had at least two abortions. Yeah, this is going to convince small town America that Obama shares their values and that his crack about bitter rednecks "clinging to guns and religion" was a slip of the tongue.

I just hope Kos and his pals in the blogosphere (including the idiots that post here) don't have premature heart attacks from their apoplexy. Their ranting is doing more to help McCain and hurt Obama that anything else right now, and I want them to keep it up!!

[NRA FAN]

MOVE OVER CHARLTON HESTON. SARAH BARACUDA IS MY PRESIDENT.

[Tatum]

BREAKING NEWS -- NBC News has learned the the McCain campaign didn't talk to everyone in Alaska before selecting Palin. Does this raise questions about McCain's ability to govern?

[Knocking Boots...Obama Style]

Did you know that Obama was conceived in an out of wedlock relationship?

Facts:

Wedding of Barack Obama’s parents - Feb. 2nd, 1961
Birth of Barack Hussein Obama - August 4, 1961
Hussein's Mother was 18

Doug,
having gone to the site to investigate the "transcript" I found that it is pretty correct, in fact I believe there were a few "uh"'s left out.

Seems that the conversation now focuses on comparisons between Obama and Palin. They completely leave Biden out of the picture, and moves McCain to the high road.

Looks like the strategy is working to expose Obama's (and Biden's) complete lack of executive experience.

[Dan]

Seems that the conversation now focuses on comparisons between Obama and Palin. They completely leave Biden out of the picture, and moves McCain to the high road.

Looks like the strategy is working to expose Obama's (and Biden's) complete lack of executive experience.

Posted by: | September 02, 2008 at 12:37 PM

Oh No!!!

If only one of them had been mayor of Wasilla the American people might have taken them seriously!

I'm still betting on Palin's withdrawal by 1 p.m. Wednesday.

You heard it first right here on Roller derby!

[Tatum]

12:37's exactly right. Furthermore. The media has been so agressive with Palin they are angering the right. Palin rallys the base by letting CNN and NBC take shots at her. She doesn't even have to show up. In the meantime McCain can work the middle.

I think they're catching women, small town America and blue collar America in the crossfire. Victimizing her and her family's a mistake.

The outlook for divided government's looking up!

[brimur]

Executive experience? Hahahahahahahaha. That line ain't working, try another one.

Even pretending for a second that Palin and Obama have roughly equivalent experience (something no neutral observer has agreed to)
what you guys fail to understand is that the real difference between Obama and Palin is that he HAS been vetted by the American people. He's been quizzed a million times over the last 3 years.

And that's why the American people trust him to be the next president as evidenced by the vast majority of public opinion polls showing Obama leading.

[red dem]

Wow, you neocons need to clillax--get a sense of humor--it's funny. she's a babe, she loves her guns--if she's a great executive what are you so worried about?

[Doug]

AIE conservative : Palin "Makes Barack Obama Look Like George C. Marshall"

That would be your thinking conservative.

Dan- I have Thursday morning in the office pool. Another has Wednesday morning. We have a smattering but all are this week, with two saying she cannot and will not. Intrade has it at a sensible 11% chance at this time.

For those of you who think Obama supporters are freaking out, keep going man, but this is mainly just highly entertaining. I haven't had this much fun since the macaca/turtle soup/red shoes/lacrosse days. Ah, that was good.

[Ian Jordan]

Come on...lets stop acting like you really like seeing her (or any woman) with such skin baring.

[red dem]

It's just that after all the years of tawdry, sick jokes at Hillary's expense, by neos, you'd think you could lighten up.

Stones and glass houses, baby.

Interesting that you can put your head in the sand and believe that the comparisons are not being made between Palin and Obama. From CNN to FOX, from the LA times to Drudge, it’s all over the place.
What will really be the coup de grace is when she speaks at the convention and makes all those who are trying to abuse her look small and ignorant.

One thing I have to give to Obama and Biden is that are letting their surrogates attack her so when she strikes back the fallout may be limited on them.

It will be interesting to see.

Obama compares his “experience” of running a campaign to being a Governer….lol
Even HE is comparing his experience to hers…lmao

I suppose running campaigns is all he has ever done so at least that is some experience.
Maybe if he wins he can next run for Leader of the world, since he is a citizen of the world, and he has much experience in campaigning.

What a joke.

[Dan]

Richard Cohen had a great column today pointing out how ridiculaous various Republicans have sounded attemping to sell the notion of Palin's "vast experience". All the nonsense about being next door to Russia giving her keen foreign policy insights and being close to the North Pole making her an expert on Santa Claus and all that.

He tossed out a great line about Newt Gingrich after Newt had been on the Today Show opining with a straight face that a year and a half as Supreme Commander of the Alaska National Guard has clearly made her the greatest military thinker since Robert E. Lee and that she clearly passes the Commader in Chief test.

Cohen wrote:

"It's a pity Gingrich was not around when the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known by his nickname Caligula, reputedly named Incitatus as a consul and a priest. Incitatus was his horse."

Thank you Senator McCain. You have given us the biggest belly laughs of the campaign. Your colleagues who must go out and look ridiculous defending this choice must really be cursing you right now.

[Truth Seeker]

Obviously this photo is photoshopped. This photo is insult to Ms. Palin and to women. She is the Governor of Alaska and has been selected as the VP candidate for the GOP. Why would you want to post this photo which depicts her as some cheesecake pinup girl? She is a bright, intelligent woman. I do not find the photo humorous. This portrayal of her and some of the comments made are quiet demeaning. Before you jump to conclusions, I am not a McCain supporter or a member of the GOP.

T God told me to tell you to fuck off

[Not You]

Benjy wanted this very outfit but Joey insisted that Benjy only wear black leather. Anyway, the top is far too small for Joey's bust.

[Joyce Funsten]

Has anyone on this Democratic Blog checked out:
http://www.loudoungop.com/conventionblog/

The former Loudoun Republican Party Chairman, Randy Minchew, is blogging live from the floor of the Republican Convention.

He analyzed the Palin pregnancy story today.

Obviously, this LCRC blogger is partisan, but his writing is "fair and balanced (more than Fox, I might add).

Dan,
Every time you laugh about Palin’s experience, you must really get hysterical considering Obama’s. I know it is hard for people like you to understand that something” is a lot better than “nothing” but you really should try.
Or maybe you believe that “experience” is gained by smoking pot and snorting coke, if so then Obama is chocked full.

[Dan]

anon 5:58,

I see you got your copy of the script. It is down right amusing how no one in the McCain campaign or any of the Republicans at the convention will give a direct answer when asked about Palin's experience (or more properly her lack of experience). They immediately either change the subject and start yammering on about Obama or spinning out the narrative that Palin is a "maverick reformer" (like when she supported the bridge to nowhere or when she was on the board of the 527 group of her political ally Ted Stevens).

You go ahead and keep pretending that living in Alaska gives one foreign policy bona fides because it is close to Russia or that being head of the Alaska National Guard makes her the equal of Douglas MacArthur if it makes you happy. Put you are missing the real point here.

The salient point is John McCain's temperment and fitness to be President and whether this type of seat of the pants, flaky decision making is something Americans are comfortable with in a President. Not only was this choice clearly a deeply cynical attempt at playing identity politics, it was poorly executed. As a window into how McCain makes decisions it is very revealing. And the picture is not flattering to McCain.

His best bet is for her to withdraw tomorrow to minimize the damage to his campaign. Name a serious replacement and reset.

[Dan]

The latest spin of the McCain campaign is that they vetted Palin thoroughly and that reports that they did a slapdash job are the result of the media being "sore" that they didn't get the name in time to do their own vetting. They are falling back on the old reliable "blame the media" strategy. A tried and true refuge for scoundrels and incompetents.

Palin withdrawal stock is rising on all the political futures markets.

Dan,
I am sure your concern for McCain’s campaign is heartfelt and you have only in his best interest and that of the Republican party foremost in your mind.

However, please note that I never said she had experience above any other possible Republican contender.

The only fact stated was that “some” executive experience was better than “none” (leaving out the drug issue).

I will actually agree that McCain could have picked someone better for VP (based on experience) if you agree that the Democrat party could have picked someone better than Obama using the same criteria.

You may debate the experience issue till the cows come home but it will not alter this truth. Unless you believe that organizing hoodlums in Chicago or running a perpetual campaign is more experience than Governing a State you have no standing.

Dan,
What exactly are you trying to say that McCain is "blaming the media" for?

Not only is that statement vague, useless and argumentative, it is plain stupid. Surely you can do better.

[Doug]

OMG- you cannot spin this:

http://www.usmagazine.com/

Just for the poll "Should Sarah Palin step down" alone this cannot be said to be good. Spin, spin, spin until you fall over, but if US magazine has stories all over it about Palin's multiple scandals, McCain is losing 46 states. I know I predicted he would only lose 40-44 states previously, but this Palin pick is simply an absolute catastrophe.

Here are all the breaking stories about Joe Biden since his pick:

"..."

Doug,
Your feigned surprise to these media hits on a Republican woman is transparent. The real story is how you libs sell your souls to destroy this woman who has come so far. I believe this behavior will backfire on the media and the democrats in general.

Any mature thinking person would be ashamed. This is abusive to women and sexist in the extreme.

Doug,
McCain will get over 300 EC votes, if these smears keep up I’m moving towards 350. the media are setting women back 50 years with this behavior.

Btw does your 46 state projection include all 57 that Obama thinks he is running for?

[Doug]

Oh, what complete bullshit on a stick- because she is a woman she's being investigated for firing a man who wouldn't fire her brother in law? She joined a party that wanted to secede from these United States of America because she was a woman? She slashed teen pregnancy support programs because she is a woman? She has no clue when the pledge of allegiance was written or that "under God" was added half a century later, because she is a woman? She was mayor of podunkville and was petty and vindictive because she is a woman?

You have an incredibly low view of women, and should be ashamed. Palin is an asshat all on her own and it has nothing to do with her gender.

[Doug]

I thought your side never, ever allowed victimhood to get in the way. What complete bullshit. Waaah. They are reporting on someone who didn't get vetted, was picked last minute by a dude who shows no fucking judgement in about everything and is now being savaged for being petty and vindictive. Boo hoo.

At least the snowbillies are making us in SWVA look better.

Doug,
I see you still can not think for yourself and tote the kos talking points. You show extreme ignorance by blindly parroting untruths.
A few quick points:
Do you want police who taser their own kids?
The has been a Republican since 1982
She was a Mayor and a Governor

You on the other hand are an arrogant and useful idiot for a party that is abusing women, support a candidate who has no clue even the number of states he is hoping to lead.

What is actually rather funny about this is that the dems are pinning their hopes on winning by trashing a woman.

Obama should be embarrassed that he can’t win this battle on merit.

At the risk of you thinking that I am trying to use “reverse psychology” on you, I actually hope they continue.

[Doug]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/02/palin.investigation/index.html

Investigated for being a woman! Just cowboy up and say this has nothing to do with her gender.

[Doug]

Us magazine and CNN... those are dailykos...

You are a smart one.

Sure, have McCain just run on his own. Captain Wurthers alone would not make it happen. But throw in his incredible ability to stomp on his own crank with golf cleets, and you get this sort of result.

But put your money where your mouth is- Palin is innocent of all this? Then just state so. Tell me what the polls will be next week?

Say all you want, this is the Hindenburg arriving in New Jersey. This is the Jamaican bobsled team bloating up on weed before the qualifying round. This is the Marx Brothers taking a major political party out for a ride on a cruise ship for all of us to watch and laugh at.

McSame is a man- and his judgement ranks up there with my grandpa, who is so addled he thinks electical sockets are sexy.

Investigated?
Doug,
Are you suggesting that she is now guilty until proven innocent? How democrat of you when it comes to a republican.

This should be beneath you, but you show your true colors.

Your anger shows your fear. I need not tell you where the polls will be next week, I have told you where the election will end in November.

I imagine you will then crawl back in your hole and take your ignorant, immature and childish rants along.

You get more pathetic as time goes on.

btw,
check out the genius you are supporting for President.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

oh,
and excuse me while I go watch President Bush speak.

and then your ex Vice President candidate who is supporting McCain because he believes in "real" change.

[Doug]

heh- innocent until proven guilty. Pot, this is kettle.

You have fun there with the half filled snooze fest. I can't wait until they actually let Palin sit down and do a 20 minute in depth interview... oh, right, McBush won't allow her to. How, ahem, patriarchal of him.

[Doug]

You enjoy loserman, you all are more than welcome to him...

z...
zzzz...

sorry, he put me to sleep just thinking of him.

[Bubby Hussein, Hillbilly Sheikh]

Douglas, This reminds me of the Great Unhinging of 2006 when the yapping and howling lasted late into the November night. Sitting there on the porch, our large glasses of whiskey in hand, guns at the ready, waiting for the sun to rise over a new day - fresh with the scent of hope. We sat humbled by the desperate wails of these modern day Ables as they ripped away their adornments and ran into the woods, hoping to hide their conceit from a just and vengeful God who knew their hearts.

God Blessed Virginia then and She will Bless America Now!

[Bubby Hussein, Hillbilly Sheikh]

Ssshh...Uncle Fred Thompson is on...He's talking about how little Johnny Mac is also an Academy screw up...Never mind...what is wrong with Uncle Fred?

[Kirk Goolsby]

I think the picture is pretty hot. Girls shooting guns...gotta love it.

[Bubby Hussein, Hillbilly Sheikh]

I know lots of gals that look hot in a bikini and can punch a tight circle at the range...wouldn't let any of them within a country mile of the nuclear key. What exactly is so hot about a clueless cutie in the Whitehouse?

I'd hit that MILF