Everyone go read this report from Mud Flats regarding Sarah Palin’s ongoing troopergate scandal and her new attempts to subvert the investigation, and make sure you watch the ABC report at the end of the post.
Then, when you are done, think about McCain’s calls last night for reform and change, and then go google the phrase “Reformer with Results.”
When I said yesterday that we have been down this road before, I was not kidding.
chopper
yeah, but this time it’ll be different baby, i swear.
Jeff
From the first link on Google
Do we really want another maverick.
Stuck in the Fun House
I swear this woman is nothing more than Karl Rove with a Y chromosome. God help us if she gets to prop her feet up on the OA desk.
mark
LEAVE SARAH ALOOOOOOOOONE!!!
MBunge
You should read how Rod Dreher is slobbering over Palin on his blog.
I mean, the guy just got over his disillusionment with George W. Bush, but the McCain campaign flashes Palin’s Christianity like a gang sign and he’s ready to fall back into line.
I’d really like to believe that Andrew Sullivan is way over the top with his Christianist rants, but Dreher’s instantaneous embrace of the lowest sort of Christian identity politics does more to prove his point than just about anything else.
Mike
Joe Max
I remarked to my wife as we spent three days watching Republicans and throwing things at the television, that GOP super-science must have perfected the adamantium-laced skull, since that was the only possible explanation for their endless parade of lying heads not exploding.
handy
yeah, but this time it’ll be different baby, i swear.
OMG that’s the exact same line that came to me as I listened to St. McPOW transform himself into the “Change” candidate.
Calouste
Someone (I think it was on the GOS) described Palin’s reforms as:
Not about getting rid of the corruption, but about getting rid of the competition.
Does anyone know btw what she did between resigning from the Oil commission (or whatever it is called) in “protest at the corruption” and becoming governor? It’s not like a middle class family with four kids can drop 60 or 70K from their income just like that.
Joe Max
Palin’s not even making the sale to all the religious conservatives. They still don’t like McCain, and Palin may not be enough to rope them all in.
Check this out, including the comments. There’s still head scratching going on, and now that the convention high is wearing off (really, these people don’t know how to handle their drugs, not even endorphins) the drip drip drip of scandals is worrying them. If they back her too hard and she falls due to some scandal, they fall with her.
Birdzilla
Pakin is from ALASKA and she worries the granola munching tree huggers riding around on their chinese made bicycles made at one of theor sweatshops SCREW THEM GREENS
Conservatively Liberal
Palin did not sell the former governor’s jet (for a profit!) on eBay? Instead she sold it to an Alaska state resident who donated to her campaign.
She sold it at a loss.
John McCain, a noun, a verb and POW.
Sarah Palin, a noun, a verb and a lie.
What a ticket!
Didja know a one time John McCain couldn’t be unemployed for over five and a half years? Why? He was a POW! You people cashing your unemployment checks don’t know how good you have it.
Jake
I’m still trying to get my head around the walking contradiction that is the “hockey mom/pit bull with lipstick” that isn’t ready for press interviews.
jenniebee
I still don’t see why he didn’t just pick Ted Stevens. It amounts to pretty much the same thing.
maxbaer (not the original)
I thought Joe Biden was the plagiarist.
tBone
For five and a half years, John McCain didn’t have granola to munch, trees to hug, or Chinese bikes to ride. I think we forget that at our peril. Thanks for reminding us, Birdzilla. You, sir (madam?) are a true patriot.
aimai
Great minds think alike! I was remembering that one too, on some blog this morning. Yeah, it was lame then, and as I recall it was just one of several slogans they tried along with compassionate conservative.
aimai
Ned Raggett
You aren’t the only one. Frum trashes this to the point where most of his expected readership are presumably herniating.
Stuck in the Fun House
Welcome back BIRDZILLA! We missed ya. Did they feed ya well at GITMO?
Jake
Heh. That Nate Silver guy’s pretty sharp. You think Palin’s popular, say the pollsters?
Not as popular as Dick fucking Cheney.
Just Some Fuckhead
She’s Tom Delay with tits.
Or is that sexist?
Conservatively Liberal
Nice FP post about how some Republicans actually like to recycle!
If I were on Obama’s team I would make an ad of the original quote with a voiceover asking:
“Was Rudy talking about Barack Obama? No. He was talking about (cut to picture of McCain) John McCain…”
That would be a nice way of turning his own words back on McCain.
J. Michael Neal
Is it just me, or did Sarah Palin call herself a bitch?
Stuck in the Fun House
The wingnut Captains of Industry have been working for decades to build Sarah Palin (yes, I mean build, like your childhood Erection set) Quite clearly something has gone horribly wrong.
Jon H
John McCain, a noun, a verb, a flip-flop, POW!.
DecidedFenceSitter
I was slugging (ad-hoc hitch-hiking in DC area to use the HOV 3) and the people in the front seat were talking. “I’m a moderate republican” the African American military guy said, “But what was McCain thinking, if you are going to hammer Obama on experience, and you choose Palin?” Some agreement from the other passenger, and a non-committal from the long-haired 29-year old in the backseat, “Plus he’s like 72, and that’s scary.”
zuzu's petals
Caught the video of Palin speaking at the Cedarburg rally today.
Palin sans teleprompter…my lord, the woman is an amateur. It was just a shortened version of the speech she gave the other night, but she basically had to read the thing off the paper, stumbling and losing her place throughout. Pathetic.
NonyNony
yes, I mean build, like your childhood Erection set
Oh, I see what you did there…
(The word you’re looking for is “Erector Set”. Or not.)
Oracle
Palin filed an ethics complaint against herself.
I think that’s the kind of meme that can really catch on, kinda like I voted before the war before I voted against it
Jake
My understanding of the ethics complaint she filed is that it would basically nullify the existing investigation, and turn it over to a committee of folks she hired.
Oracle
Yeah, but it’s a good sound bite, doncha think?
It encapsulates a key fact about Palin that is easily overlooked: Just because she’s gone up against some corrupt politicians in the past, doesn’t mean that she herself isn’t also corrupt.
ppcli
Ah, I love this blog. I was walking home from work and the phrase “reformer with results” went through my mind. Get home to find Cole is already on top of it. Sweet.
Conservatively Liberal
Word in Alaska is that she went after the competition, and after chasing them out she stocked up on her supporters and people loyal to herself.
Read about her inept handling of the local dairy in her town and who benefited from the mismanagement. Same with the plane she “sold on ebay” which actually was sold to a campaign contributor for a half a million dollar loss.
She is a crook, and the righties just luv them sum crook!
grumpy realist
Forget who it was who described this as “Sarah Palin beating up on the opposition only because she wanted to get her own snout in the trough.”
upgrayedd
I would swear in a court of law at least one of the convention’s prime-time speeches referred to McCain as a “reformer with results”. Who’s go the Lexis-Nexis login?
Rome Again
I understand being stuck in the funhouse is confusing but:
Women don’t have Y chromosomes.
Oh God, now you’re gonna bring a bunch of perverts to the site and the FBI right behind them. Thanks!
KRK
Rome Again already noted this, but I must say that this:
Is an astonishing revelation about both Palin and Rove if Palin has a Y and Karl doesn’t.