This is awesome on so many levels:
A well-heeled personal injury lawyer, Coale has been a major Democratic donor. It was his suggestion that Palin create a PAC to pay for travel and avoid ethics complaints in Alaska.
Coale told POLITICO he first met Palin during his wife’s taping of a September interview with the Alaska governor and explained that he was “extremely pissed off at the way Hillary was treated” and believed Palin was being subjected to the same “sexist” treatment. Coale ultimately endorsed McCain in the 2008 campaign.
“I’m just a friend of hers. I’m not on her staff and I’m not paid,” Coale insisted.
He said he and Palin “email back and forth about once a week.”
A bitter Hillary PUMA dead-ender, apparently unaware that she was treated so poorly that she was made Secretary of State, is one of the unintentional architects of the public food fight among the Wasilla wingnut’s staff. Not only do we now know that the Governor is taking bad advice from some random lawyer and his tv host (FAIR AND BALANCED, BITCHES!) wife, but now all the people in the GOP machine are losing faith in Palin. I’m sure that this story could get better, but it would need to involve rainbows and unicorns and talking dolphins.
joe from Lowell
I’m so pissed off at the sexist manner in which Hillary Clinton was treated that I’m going to support the Republican.
You know, the one who made that joke about Chelsea Clinton’s looks. The anti-choice guy. What’s-his-name, the one who hates feminists.
Zifnab
@joe from Lowell:
How do we beat the bitch? That guy.
El Cid
FYI: The Krugman post with the Chthulu title appears to have asploded.
El Cid
By the way, John Cole, remember that though you and I look at this as a funny story (say, "Clown Shoes") of right wingnuts doing their standard incompetence-in-power routine, the nutbag right looks at this and still wishes her to be in charge of the USA instead of their funhouse mirror vision of how the 2 months of Obama have turned out to be crazy destroy America socia_list communism no economy and take our guns.
El Cid
Also, there’s this awesomeness from the Politico article:
I too grieve that Palin’s staff disputes have gotten in the way of her being able to share her tremendously helpful "substantive ideas" with Alaska and all America, here in our hour of need.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
@El Cid: Even more confusing, Palin and her advisers have done little to promote her substantive ideas…
So little, in fact, that this was the first inkling I’d gotten that she had any.
John Cole
@El Cid: The whole thing is just great. That crazy filmmaker Zeigler makes an appearance at the end.
Sarah Palin makes me wonder about Roy Edroso’s stupid-evil ratio.
Zifnab
As governor, she is absolutely powerless – powerless, I tell you – to bring these ideas to the public forum. It’s not like she can just schedule a press conference, and governors are notorious for being so completely unable to work within the media at large. And it’s certainly not like she has a large grassroots organization (that got her elected) to tap into. Powerless, I tell you! Powerless!
Andrew
Don’t forget that Coale (and van Susteren) are hard core, high level scientologists, and it boggles my mind that any politician would associate themselves with those clowns.
charlotte
Well now–Let Palin be Palin–ditto all her nutty pals. And let’s hope and pray that the RNC is nuts enough to keep on trying to shove her substantive substance down our throats. In the immortal words of the great Obelix: "Ils sont fous ces Romains!" Make mine a PUMA.
smiley
Don’t look now but Hillery is still being treated in a sexist manner.
forked tongue
Yes, supporting the guy who made those scornful little air-quotes with his fingers while scoffing about the so-called "health of the mother"– that’ll show those sexist Democrats.
_Atanarjuat_
Considering all the poisonous, back-stabbing enemies that Governor Sarah Palin has arrayed against her, it’s good to know that she can count on a few good people who are not afraid of a strong and independent woman like Palin.
-A
JenJen
This is a petty and probably mean thing to say, but the last few times I’ve seen Mooseburger on TV, it’s pretty clear that the thing she’s missing the most is that $10,000-a-week makeup artist and hair stylist. ;-)
Rosali
I believe that Coale and Van Susteren are ambulance-chasers who have been investigated by the bars of several states for the unethical practice of law .
valdivia
@JenJen:
LOL! I was thinking the exact same thing.
JenJen
Speaking of 2012, if you’re Newt Gingrich and you’ve got a pretty shady past when it comes to ex-wives, there is a way to have your sins cleansed in time for Iowa: just join the Catholic church!
demkat620
Well, you would think the Mooseshooter’s advisors would be a little more worried about things like, oh, I don’t know, maybe the exploding volcano.
Tuffygoyf
Has anyone ever noticed that John Cole and John Coale are never in the same room?
BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON.
Ash Can
I’m still chuckling about Palin blowing off a meeting with state legislators on the subject of federal stimulus funds, then claiming that they blew her off (royally pissing off said legislators in the process, of course). Now I’m wondering if this was a result of more expert advice from this Coale genius or just her ongoing assholery.
gbear
plus a swing thru MSP airport on the way to a shopping spree.
AnneLaurie
How ’bout Scientologists? The Politico is, of course, too dainty to mention it, but Coale is a high-level Scientologist who recruited his wife to the "religion". Scientologists haven’t had nearly as much success
bamboozlingrecruiting politicians as they have media figures, but imagine Sarah Palin as the new Tom Cruise! And you thought having the Talibangelicals make decisions about other peoples’ health and welfare was scary…PaminBB
It’s all kind of wonderful that a personal injury lawyer is a major Palin advisor. Aren’t all Repubs in favor of tort reform as the solution to virtually everything?
dmsilev
Wait, what?
CPAC was a policy-focused event? I thought it was Lord Limbaugh’s coronation ceremony.
-dms
DRD 1812
C’mon Atan, I know good spoofing is hard, but you’re barely even trying anymore.
Pooh
@demkat620:
It’s God’s will…Jesus is her seismic monitor.
Nick
"A seemingly unending series of public relations gaffes has Sarah Palin loyalists frustrated and worried she is diminishing her stature. "
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20603.html
That she has a stature that could be diminished is embarassing.
Nick
“I may not be in the loop on the strategy going on right now but I totally buy into the notion of Sarah Palin,” he said.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20603_Page2.html
What is the mindset of someone who can sincerely say that?
Bubblegum Tate
Come on now–"drill, baby, drill!" is a very substantive point. Also.
The Other Steve
I’m telling ya. This is evidence that all the really bad strategists for the Democratic party have now become Republicans.
I think it’s awesome!
yam
Palin/Jindal 2012! Look! We got a black guy and a woman. Or brown, whatever.
They all look the same.