Political Ruminations

Morning Quote: Sarah Palin

Apparently the ignoramus Sarah Palin believes that she has a superior understanding of the Constitution as opposed to President Obama, or so she says in an interview on Fox News:

“ I would like to see governors be tough and opt out of this and exert “our” 10th Amendment rights and tell President Obama – who does not understand the Constitution, he even being a Constitution lecturer and supposed scholar in our Constitution – not understanding, probably never reading, nor absorbing the 10th Amendment to understand that states have rights. ”

I can’t think of much that’s more pathetic than this ignoramus big mouth rube trying to intimate that she understands the Constitution while President Obama, a Constitutional scholar, does not. News Hounds does a great job of tearing apart the entire interview , so make sure you go read it!

Quote of the Day

“There will be that zip-a-dee-doo-dah after the nominee is chosen. I guarantee there will be that enthusiasm. But to be brutally honest, with all due respect to governor Romney, who is obviously the frontrunner... he's not garnering a lot of that enthusiasm right now.”

Oh yeah, zip-a-dee-doo-dah says the Grifter Queen of the Frozen North, Sarah Palin, in an interview with Fox Business.

Palin seems to be  loving the sidelines where she has ample opportunity to poke both President Obama and her fellow Republicans with a stick.  And not that her fellow Republicans don’t deserve it, but her analysis is utterly without the possibility of redemption.

Adding...Palin also noted that she had voted for Newt Gingrich.

Adding again.......christonastick, would you people please stop calling this half-term grifter “Governor Palin”?

Quote of the Day

Sarah Palin in an interview with David Brody at the Iowa State Fair on Friday:

“I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas. ”

Um, gah……my stomach is churning.

Adding.......yes, I know that Palin's remark was aimed at the First Lady. Palin is a weakass moron to resort to such utterly pathetic insults.

Quote of the Day III

In a Fox Business Network  interview last night, the ever lying, always ridiculous and mean-spirited Right wingnut extraordinaire, Sarah Palin, went off on President Obama for his call to increase taxes on the wealthy, and implied (for what may be the 50th time) that he doesn’t understand American ideals because he is a foreigner:

“The White House and many liberals in Congress are so addicted to that OPM, other people’s money, that it’s much easier to spend other people’s money than their own.

…..The President is not capable of giving the right message to deal with the problem we are facing with the bankruptcy that’s facing America if we don’t start living within our means. The right message is that growing more debt won’t get us out of debt, and raising taxes in a time of economic woes in a bad economy is a bad idea.

A lot of this has to do with his background, him having not been a part of the private sector and running a business or having to rely on making profit. That seems to be foreign to our President. His background and those he’s appointing don’t understand what America was built upon. His ideas are the antithesis of those things that created the prosperity in America. ”

Why is it that Republicans chant their mantras never alluding to nor stating the inalterable fact that raising the debt limit is not  about new spending; it is only about paying for debts that were already appropriated? 

Well, of course, we know the answer to that. The greater question may be if when they have destroyed this president, will they also have destroyed this country.

UPDATES: Sarah Palin - Paul Revere drama continued

After first making clear her lack of knowledge regarding American history, this would-be president proceeded to double down on the stupid, and defend her version of Paul Revere’s famous ride to Chris Wallace on Fox Network News.

CHRIS WALLACE: I gotta ask you about that real quickly, though. You realize that you messed up about Paul Revere, don’t you?

PALIN: You know what? I didn’t mess up about Paul Revere. Here’s what Paul Revere did. He warned the Americans that “the British were coming, the British were coming.” And they were going to try to take our arms so got to make sure that, uh, we were protecting ourselves and, uhm, shoring up all of our ammunitions and our firearms so that they couldn’t take them.

But remember that the British had already been there — many soldiers — for seven years in that area. And part of Paul Revere’s ride… And it wasn’t just one ride. He was a courier. He was a messenger. Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, “Hey. You’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms. You are not gonna beat our own well-armed, uh, persons, uh, individual private militia that we have. He did warn the British. And in a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

Watch:

Correction of the historical FACTS via Think Progress:

Another stupid Sarah Palin quote...

Bob Cesca said “she’s not embarrassed”…….but I, well, I’m embarrassed for her. And as a woman, I’m also angry at the very idea that this caricature of a person represents my gender. Badly.

Potential 2012 GOP candidate/nominee for the presidency, Sarah Palin, rewrites history in Boston. Yes, she damn sure did. She made up her own version of Paul Revere’s midnight ride.

“He who warned, uh, the, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and, um, makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free and we were gonna be armed.”

Dear Sarah, it deeply pains me to point out that when Paul Revere made his midnight ride, as of yet, we had no 2nd amendment rights.

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UPDATES: Sarah Palin - Paul Revere drama continued

UPDATES: Sarah Palin, Still a Fool

Sigh. I haven’t mentioned Palin in a long while on this blog because I just haven’t seen her as having much relevance since the shootings in Arizona when she made that ridiculous and offensive speech which thankfully seemed to point to ‘the end’ for Sarah politically.

So, anyway, just thought I’d get in a post…or two, just in case, and Palin provided the perfect excuse last night when she ranted about the “lamestream media” on Hannity.  My favorite quote - “There’s got to be the preparation on all the candidates’ parts for the gotchas. That’s what the lamestream media’s known for these days… Just have to be prepared for it and overcome it”. Can you even imagine this woman as ‘the president’? 

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Morning Quote: Sarah Palin

In an interview with the editor of India Today, Palin blamed McCain for the loss of the 2008 presidential election:

I wasn’t the top of the ticket.

Sarah Palin Emotes on Nukes and Terrorism

Emotes word salad, that is.

When asked by the editor of India Today what she would do about nuclear weapons and terrorism if she were the president, Sarah Palin responded with her trademark clarity, and even managed to invoke Ronald Reagan again:

There are a lot of economic steps that can be taken, military would be last step of course, but sanctions that are not being taken…we would not stand for harm they would desire to invoke on innocent people….being bold enough to tell them that what is still on the table is military options. I am a believer of, like Ronald Reagan was, of peace through strength.

Um…..HUH???

Adding…. bwahahahahahahah….

Via Sarah Jones

Morning Quote: Palin Word Salad

Is she getting worse or is it just me?

Appearing on Fox Business on Friday night, Sarah Palin had the audacity to return to  a familiar 2008 refrain. You know, the one where Barack Obama is too inexperienced to run a country.

See because our president is so inexperienced in the private sector and in government and in actually running anything and making any kind of budget that inexperience has really made manifest in some of the statements he makes.

I am in awe at her utter ridiculousness, her ability to make a salad from words, and most of all, at her overwhelmingly dense and stupid remarks.

Via Bob Cesca

Morning Quote: Sarah Palin

Ever the ignorant hypocrite, Sarah Palin not only reverses her public position on breastfeeding in order to get in a dig at the First Lady who is serious about encouraging breastfeeding, but she also managed to get in a dig at President Obama (Palin suggested that his policies are responsible for the price increases we’ve seen in commodities and gasoline since 2009).

No wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody 'you'd better breastfeed your baby', Yeah, you'd better, because the price of milk is so high right now.

Media Matters on Palin’s previously held view of breastfeeding, emphasis mine

The perceived dig is quite a turnaround from the position Palin had as governor of Alaska, when she declared October 2007 "Breastfeeding Awareness Month" and issued a proclamation that said, "government and community organizations have a vested interest in protecting and promoting breastfeeding as a means of preventing infant malnutrition, morbidity, and mortality."

Too bad that a consequence of McCain’s folly has been to force the rest of us to endure the shrewish harridans sillyass harangues on a regular basis. gah.

Morning Quote: Sarah Palin

When Sarah Palin was asked for her opinion on President Obama’s handling of the crisis in Egypt, she gave us word salad:

And nobody yet has, nobody yet has explained to the American public what they know, and surely they know more than the rest of us know who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak and no, not, not real enthused about what it is that that’s being done on a national level and from D.C. in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt. And, in these areas that are so volatile right now, because obviously it’s not just Egypt but the other countries too where we are seeing uprisings, we know that now more than ever, we need strength and sound mind there in the White House. We need to know what it is that America stands for so we know who it is that America will stand with. And, we do not have all that information yet.

hmmm…WTF? Does the moron really think that American diplomacy should be conducted in public when a foreign nation is in a crisis situation? And can’t the woman speak a few unscripted sentences with out resorting to gibberish?? Cursing John McCain yet again as a I type…….

Morning Quote: Sarah Palin

Last weekend in Reno, Nevada, former half-term governor, Sarah Palin, addressed the Safari Club International’s annual convention. Notably, she warned the audience that President Obama wants to take their guns. Yee haw!

This recent talk coming from the White House about President Obama's attempts to perhaps infringe further upon our Second Amendment rights. We need to keep tabs on what the White House is telling us. Just think if we had even stricter gun control laws! Imagine, though—imagine making life even more miserable for the liberals who want that gun control. Here's how I figure it. Remember that weird guy in Wisconsin was so angry, so upset, watching a Palin win slot after slot each week on Dancing with the Stars that he shot Bristol through his TV? He blasted his Panasonic? Well, I'm thinking, 'Imagine more gun control. Then he'd have to attack his Panasonic with a butter knife.'

Meanwhile, yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg’s probe announced their findings that guns are easily purchased illegally in Arizona.

On Monday, Bloomberg trumpeted the findings as proof that current gun-control regulations are ineffective at keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill and others who are barred by law from purchasing them.

Private gun merchants are not required to run background checks when they sell firearms, but are barred from providing them to individuals who the seller "has reason to believe" are prohibited from purchasing weapons. In one video, however, a seller at the gun show tells the investigator, "Just need to see an Arizona ID and that's it with me." When the investigator replied that he "probably couldn't pass one," the seller looks down, shakes his head and proceeds with the sale.

The investigators also purchased a Glock 9mm -- similar to the gun alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner used -- without a background check from a private seller at the gun show, which is legal under a loophole in federal firearms laws. Although federally-licensed gun-dealers are required to make background checks before selling guns, private and supposedly "occasional" dealers are not required to conduct such checks.

Critics of the current sales law say the gun-show loophole allows criminals and other prohibited buyers an easy avenue for purchasing guns, but legislation to change that has stalled in Congress. After the Tucson shooting earlier this month, several lawmakers introduced bills to strengthen gun laws, including a bill that would require background checks for all gun sales, but they are unlikely to pass.

The constant lies from the Right Wing just make me freaking tired.

Sarah Palin Takes the Low Road….Cries Blood Libel

In a shrill Facebook post, and on a web video, Sarah Palin accuses the media of committing “blood libel” against her in regard to the Arizona shootings. I guess it was just way too much to expect that she do the thoughtful, rational, decent thing and  apologize for her part in this horrific incident, vow to forego the violent pictures she likes to paint with words, and vow to fight gun violence. Huh.

The Atlantic defines the term “blood libel”:

The term "blood libel" has been used by a number of conservative pundits -- such as Glenn Reynolds, writing in the Wall Street Journal Monday -- to reject liberal criticism as part of the fierce debate that has rage these past few days over what constitutes responsible political speech. But it is nonetheless a term with a specific historic meaning that sits uncomfortably in Palin's video and is bound to open the former Alaska governor to a fresh round of criticism, distracting from the rest of her message in the video. The blood libel is an anti-Semitic myth dating to the middle ages that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious ceremonies; it served as the basis for centuries of genocidal persecution.

Yeah, Sarah, the media is interested in murdering your children. Oh…..but wait, it was a Liberal child that was murdered by a gun toting madman who targeted Rep. Giffords in part because of your idiotic gun sight map.

You can read Palin’s full statement, “America’s Enduring Strength” below the video, or on her Facebook page.

Watch the Palin video, "America’s Enduring Strength" [keep your barf bag handy & be sure to note the flags, the mantelpiece, as part of Palin’s attempt to appear presidential]:

 

TRANSCRIPT, "AMERICA'S ENDURING STRENGTH", by SARAH PALIN:

Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy.

I agree with the sentiments shared yesterday at the beautiful Catholic mass held in honor of the victims. The mass will hopefully help begin a healing process for the families touched by this tragedy and for our country.

Poor Little Sarah

Not. Feeling sorry for herself, Sarah Palin to Glenn Beck:

I hate violence. I hate war. Our children will not have peace if politicos just capitalize on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence.

Via Bob Cesca

Morning Quote: Sarah Palin’s Latest Word Salad

During his interview of Sarah Palin on Wednesday night, Bill O'Reilly told Palin that Charles Krauthammer doesn't believe that her reality show is helping her politically, and he asked Palin if she felt that was true. Her response was, as per usual when she has no ghostwriter to speak for her, pathetically childish and word-salady. She also failed to answer O'Reilly's question.

Well, bless his heart. He’s probably used to those in the political beltway who perhaps aren’t out there working but they’re talking and they’re meeting people and they’re doing their ‘strategery’ [sic], whereas I’m workin’ and I’m havin' a great time doin’ it. It’s been a pleasure to bring Americans along for the ride to show them… America’s Fort Knox, this land that we call Alaska, has to offer and to film eight episodes to show Americans what it is that we do and have up here in terms of resources. [she then repeatedly cuts O'Reilly off to plug her latest book]

O'Reilly, evidently in an attempt to clarify, since Palin had not answered his question, asked her outright if she feels that the television show helps her in the "political arena". Palin again responded in a cringe worthy manner:

I told Alaskans that I was gonna do all that I could to promote Alaska. And I’ll tell ya that TLC’s debut show as the highest-rated show in that cable network’s history. I think it’s doin' a good job for Alaska… Promoting Alaska and even more importantly promoting domestic resources that we have in America that can be tapped into to allow us to be more secure, healthier, more prosperous. A lot of the show has to do with the resources that we have that need to be developed.

Good grief, gag me. This woman wants to be our PRESIDENT, arguably the single most powerful position on earth. The very idea of that is nothing less than completely ridiculous.

Jon Stewart on Sarah Palin’s Twitter Drivel

He takes apart her Wikileaks tweet, which was so pitifully ignorant it surprised even me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Morning Quote: Sarah Palin Surprised by CNN

She always, always avoids press at her book signings….wherever she goes, but CNN managed to get ahead of her this time.

During a book signing at a Walmart in Iowa, where Palin’s crew had loud country music blasting from the speakers in her signing area, CNN managed to get in and ask her if she had made a decision about 2012. The music stopped, and Palin answered with this statement:

Am I doing interviews? I thought I got to talk to the nice people. And where's our music and where's our good enthusiasm?

The CNN reporters repeated the question, and Palin responded with "Not any closer. No.”

Ah, the intelligence just shines through.

Morning Quote: Oh, the Irony – Sarah Palin

A quote from Sarah Palin’s just released book, “America by Heart”:

There is a narcissism in our leaders in Washington today.

Some would say that you’re projecting, Sarah.

Transcript and Video: Sarah Palin to Liberal Journalists…No Interviews

In a pre-recorded interview, which was no doubt pre-recorded so that Palin would have control over the editing and final publication, Palin denounced both journalism, and Katie Couric in particular, citing her own dubious qualifications as a journalist. I know. I’m gagging as I type.

Asked if she would do another interview with Katie Couric, her response was as follows, with annotation in blue italic being mine.

“Um, you know I would look forward to being even more open than I already am. uh, yeah, absolutely I'd be out there even more.”

“As for doing an interview though with a reporter who already has such a bias against whatever it is that I would come out and say. Why waste my time? No.”Okay then. I guess that this means she will not be doing interviews with any liberal journalists, only right wing journalists need apply. Gotta fight that bias, reporting of the truth, ya know.

“I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I studied journalism -- who, what, where, when, and why -- of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us.” Um, she was never a journalist, and if her grades are any indication, she was never qualified to be one. Truth. A word that is the antithesis of Sarah Palin’s own persona.

“So a journalist, a reporter who is so biased and will, no doubt, spin and gin up whatever it is that I have to say to create controversy, I swear to you, I will not my waste my time with her. Or him.”Couric didn’t spin anything. Palin managed to hoist herself on her very own petard with her utter ignorance. She should have stayed home when McCain called.

This woman, this person, this Fox News creation, this utterly ignorant narcissist, wants to be our president.

Sarah Palin: I Can Beat Obama in 2012

Palin talking to Barbara Walters in a video clip that aired on Good Morning America today.

 

While I dread the spectacle which will ensue if Palin runs in 2012, and I really do not want her that close to the presidency, I can only honestly respond to this by saying "bring it!" because the woman is completely deluded if she believes that she can beat Obama.

Also. She sounds like such a damn moron, even when she isn't speaking in word salad. It makes me want to throw something at the damn screen.

Morning Quote

When he talked to Fancast recently, the former governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura {R}was not complimentary when asked for his opinion of Sarah Palin.

I felt she was completely unqualified. I had more qualifications than she did. I had served as a mayor of a town [Brooklyn Park, Minn.] of 60,000 - hers [Wasilla, Alaska] was 10,000. I had served as governor for two years when everybody wanted me to run for president in 2000, and I said I'm not prepared to be the president. I haven't even completed office as a governor yet. Now, she never completed her office as governor. She didn't even get two years in hardly! And she quit to get money. Jesus, how do people not see that! She saw greener pastures, said, Screw the people of Alaska, and went on to collect.

Ventura also suggested that he is not a fan of the Tea Party because of their relationship with Sarah Palin.

Anybody that would put Sarah Palin to the top of their list will never get me. She's a quitter...She quit in the middle of her term. That's the contract you have with the voters.

Note: Wasilla’s population was actually 6.300, not 10,000, in 2002, which was the last year that Palin served as Wasilla’s mayor.

VIDEO: Sarah Palin Attacks, Thinks She's in Competition With the First Lady

Roxsteady, one of my online buds, calls her “Tundra Trash”. I just call her “Bitch”. Both terms describe her, perhaps not well, but unless you’re a Palinbot, either will do. But I digress...

Yesterday, Palin took a stab at the First Lady during her speech in Silicon Valley. A completely gratuitous stab, at that. Which makes me wonder. Does she actually feel that she's somehow competing with Michelle Obama for something? There is no competition. None. See, it would be like comparing a prize-winning scholar to a really dumb animal........like a sheep, or something.

Palin quote, via Geoffrey Dunn:

You know, when I hear people say, or had said during the campaign that they've never been proud of America, haven't they met anybody in uniform yet? I get tears in my eyes when I see that young man, that young woman, walking through the airport in uniform ...you too... so proud to be American.

Gagging....

Mr. Dunn goes on to point out Palin's insensitivity to the Tillman family, and her use of hyperbole, as well as the lack of substance in her speech. Nothing new there, but 2012 is still ahead. Dunn:

Not only was it a nasty elbow at the First Lady, but Palin's remarks were thoroughly insensitive to the memory of Tillman and to his parents, who have been strongly critical of the U.S. military in the aftermath of his death.

The remainder of Palin's 40-minute speech before an adoring, albeit less-than capacity audience at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts, was equally long on hyperbole and short on substance. Palin spent far more time talking about Dancing with the Stars than she did about foreign policy. Her digs were mostly directed at Democratic Party leaders (Palin continues to call it the "Democrat Party"), the "lamestream media" and President Obama--with whom she has been singularly obsessed since her failed vice-presidential bid in 2008 and who she blames for political attacks against her in Alaska.

Frankly, at this point, I am just praying to the Sky Fairy that Palin runs in 2012. It will be purely blissful to kick her whining ass to the curb for once and for all.

h/t Bob Cesca

Sarah Palin Defends Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s Racist Rant

I have never understood why anyone thought she had any credibility to begin with.......I mean, personally, I just flashback on the Couric interview, and any doubts are resolved.

But this, this certainly puts the nail in the proverbial coffin of Palin's cred.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Wednesday defended Laura Schlessinger, the radio host whose recent racially-charged remarks to a black caller led her to announce the end of her program."Dr. Laura," as she is best-known, created an uproar after using the N-word eleven times during a conversation with a caller. [......]

Palin's first tweet on this topic was pretty clear.

Her second tweet just drove that nail in further.

In September of 2008, dear Dr. Laura blogged about McCain’s choice of a running mate:

 I am extremely disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party.

Oh, the delicious irony….

Via Raw Story

Palin claims Tea Baggers not racist, just patriotic

The NAACP adopted a resolution that "calls on the tea party and all people of good will to repudiate the racist element and activities within the tea party".

The resolution was adopted during the annual convention in Kansas City of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spokesman Chris Fleming said. Tea party organizers disputed claims of racism and called on the NAACP to withdraw the resolution.

Okay, Tea Baggers. Still unwilling to own your own actions and words. 

Meanwhile, the Quitter Queen, Sarah Palin, had this to say about the resolution.

“I am saddened by the NAACP’s claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America’s Constitutional rights are somehow “racists.” The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand.”

So..they're "standing up for our Constitutional rights". Gag me, Palin.

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Sarah serves word salad in Texas

Oh, sweet sky fairy. Can this woman and her barely understandable word salad really have fooled so many people in to supporting her?

Palin's speech at the Oil Palace in Texas on Saturday, was served up with unintelligible slogans and numerous quotes, unattributed. One of the. worst. speeches. ever. Ever. Along with "Drill, baby, drill", we heard phrases such as

"We are a rule of laws, not a rule of presidential fiats that I think President Obama would rather have sometimes, it seems."

What?? We "are a rule of laws"??? Listen for yourself.

More moronic word salad from Palin's speech.

"I want this most exceptional country in the nation to be free, to be prosperous..."

Um, which "country in the nation" is she speaking of? Secessionist-leaning Texas?

"We’ve also learned more about government’s proper role and not violating the separation of powers, which I think Obama is kind of flirting with also, some government overreach."

So......President Obama wants to "rule" by Presidential "fiats"? Okey dokey.

Via Think Progress