Palin encouraging more nutbars to stop cars because of bumper stickers. To spare the pain of watching her rehash every bad joke she's told in her time (except her biggest joke: "I'm qualified to be Vice President"), her comments on bumperstickers start around the 2:54 mark.
Mary Matalin has no problem with a man slapping a woman around
In Mary's defense, it was a "professional colleague" who probably deserved it. How does Skeletor put up the Wicked Witch. What a piece of work.
Anyone who has ever been in the Defcon One pressure cooker of a national campaign knows that "mistakes are made," feelings are hurt, tempers are short, bitching is background noise. There is no such thing as Emily Post for political campaigns. Except for maybe Poppy Bush, good manners do not exist on any campaign planet. For good reason: They take time.
Time is the most valuable commodity on a campaign and you just can't waste it thinking about how to choose your words carefully or get your job done more diplomatically. If someone isn't in tears every day, that day wasn't all it could be advancing the campaign. I once witnessed an experienced (big) man slap a professional female colleague across the face over an ad buy... and no one thought anything of it, starting with the woman. In fact, she would have been insulted if anyone told her she should have been insulted.
In the wake of Governor Palin stepping down from her job, new allegations have surfaced today in Alaska charging Palin with additional violations of the Alaska Executive Ethics Act.
Zane Henning -- a conservative government watchdog from the governor's hometown of Wasilla and an oilfield worker on Alaska's North Slope -- asserts in a letter to Alaska Attorney General Daniel S. Sullivan that Palin has "been charging and pocketing per diem to live in her home and has used the process for a personal gain since being elected."
Alaskan Governor and Repubican VP Candidate, Sarah Palin announced she would step down as Governor by July 26th. In a bizzare press conference she rambled about fishing, liberal media, political junkets, being a lame duck, and presumably, the price of tea in China.
One big beef against the VP Candidate was lack of experience. If she is intending this to free her up for a 2012 Presidential run (please! please! please!), leaving failing to complete her first term as Governor wouldn't be the best way to minimize that criticism.
She never really had a chance, but she's toast now. We will wait to see what scandal she has determined is soon to be revealed and necessitated her making this leap. It has to be a scandal, because it certainly can't be perceived as a wise political move.
According to Goforth, she received a letter of reprimand, but will keep her job. When we hear of any Republicans expressing their outrage, we'll pass it on.
“Is this indicative of what Senate Republicans think about our Commander-in-Chief?” Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Chip Forrester asked. “This email is reprehensible, insults the office of the President, and is embarrassing to all Tennesseans regardless of political party.
“I am calling on Sen. Black to reject this racist smear and fire this staffer who, on state government time, on state government computers, using a state government email account, launched this bigoted attack on our president,” Forrester said. “Keeping her on the staff would send the message that this type of behavior is condoned by the Senate Republican Caucus.
“Ms. Goforth does not seem to understand what she did wrong. She has apologized for ‘sending [the email] to the wrong list of people.’ I believe that any list of people would have recognized this email as offensive and hateful. The fact that a state employee would not understand that indicates that she is not fit for employment by the state of Tennessee.
“We have hundreds of state employees facing the possibility of losing their jobs due to the budget deficit and no fault of their own. I think we could save at least one of those jobs by firing Sherri Goforth.”
This is from a policy speech on disabilities by Republican VP Candidate, Sarah Palin:
"Where does a lot of that earmark money end up, anyway? [...] You've heard about, um, these -- some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not!"
Sarah's son, Track or Twig or Thug or something like that has autism. Fruit fly research lead to the discovery of proteins that aid in the treatment of autism in children.
The irony is staggering. Besides the 6000 year old earth crap, can one even comprehend the blow dealt to science with Palin in the White House? _________________________ The Dominator!
I think it's a hoot that we get to riddle the Republicans with the hypocrit meme after the Wrong Wing's attacks on John Edward's $400 haircut. I hope it sticks around and sickens what few Republicans with a conscience haven't made up their minds to jump this sinking ship.
But, personally, I don't have a problem with it. I'm a partisan... no question.
Here's the scenario - My nominee calls. He/she is just as big a flake as Palin's and everyone knows it is going to go down in flames. The nominee says, "Will you jump on board for the duration and help me ride this out? Maybe you and I can save a few Senate or House seats. OK?".
Knowing I'm not qualified to be President... knowing I'm up for some tough times with the criticism and the never-to-end distinction of being linked to this loser... I might pause and say, "Well, let's talk."
In that discussion, we're going to have to figure out what I'm going to get out of it besides the honor of forever being the answer to a trivia question.
I probably wouldn't ask for clothing... that's not true... I'd get a few nice suits out of the deal... but some really cool tools would be nice... maybe a High Def big screen...
So, Sarah took the RNC for 150K of clothes minus what is donated to charity (anyone notice the distinctive clarification: "the clothing purchased for the convention will be donated....". I wonder if that means all of it or just the 3 outfits she wore at the convention).
Good on her. For falling on her sword for the RNC, I'd say she deserves it.
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.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.
“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.
Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”
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