Fiskitude!

Please, Sarah, do it. Run for President in 2012.

WASILLA, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin blames the Bush administration for the failure of the McCain-Palin ticket, thinks people need to move on from the so-called "troopergate" controversy and has no plans to stop charging the state per diem for time at her home in Wasilla or having state-funded travel for her children.

Because with that attitude of brazen entitlement, all the Dems have to do is label you "Bush in a Skirt" and you're fucking toast.

Palin also said she loved her time in the national spotlight and won't rule out a run for president or vice president in 2012.

Because thanks to the RNC, she hasn't worn such comfortable $695 Cole Haan boots in, like, ever!

Palin remains a national media obsession; Greta Von Susteren of Fox News had just finished an interview with her and was chatting with the governor and her husband in the kitchen. Moose chili cooked in the crock pot and moose hot dogs lay on the table. Palin insisted they weren't a prop for the national media but just how the family likes to dine.

Trig, on the other hand, lay in his Halloween elephant costume on the coffee table, next to a stuffed polar bear cub. You can barely see the bullet hole in the back of its head.  The polar bear cub's head, not Trig's.

Seven-year-old Piper Palin walked around with an apron and a notebook, asking people what they wanted to drink. Outside, an Entertainment Tonight crew waited, hoping without success that the governor would grant them an interview.

Next stop for Piper - cocktail waitress.

I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration, how have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration.

If we're talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party had been representing. People desiring change I think went as far from the administration that is presently seated as they could. ... It's amazing that we did as well as we did.

You're right, Sarah.  McCain was too much like George Bush.  And you were too much like David Duke. (I don't recommend clicking on this link before taking your blood pressure medicine.)

Regarding information regarding my record, that its now out there much of it that was based on misinformation was a very, very frustrating thing to have to go through when the record was never corrected. And we would try to correct the record and too many in the media chose not to make those corrections.

See, that's because every time you tried to "correct" the record, you did it with another lie.  So it's probably not a real good idea to raise that complaint.

Q -- What misinformation are you talking about?

A -- Some of the goofy things like who was Trig's mom. Well, I'm Trig's mom (raises her hand) and do you want to see my medical records to prove that? ... And banning books that was a ridiculous thing also that could have so easily been corrected just by a reporter taking an extra step and not basing a report on gossip or speculation but just look at the record.

1.  Yes, we WOULD like to see your medical records.  Nice of you to offer them AFTER the election.  That doesn't smell like you were trying to hide anything.

2.  Oh, Sarah.  From Brian Ross at ABC: 

Palin has acknowledged she twice raised the issue in 1996 of how books could be removed from the shelves, but said it was only a "rhetorical question" and that she did not ask for any books to be banned.

Just a rhetorical question.  Like an intellectual exercise or something.  Riiiiiight.

It was reported that I tried to ban Harry Potter when it hadn't even been written when I was the mayor. So gosh, we have so many examples, I mean every day, especially the first few weeks, every day something that was thrown out there.

You really enjoy displaying your ignorance, don't you.  See, here's where pesky facts get in the way of your narrative again.  You were mayor from 1996 through 2002.  The first "Harry Potter" book was published in the U.S. in 1999.  The sequels were published each year following that.  So you're what?  You're WRONG.

Boy, if Sarah Palin is going to be the best that the Republicans have to offer in four years, they're going to have to stock up on more beef jerky because it's going to be longer than 40 years in the wilderness for them.

Comments

[karen marie]

does this woman not know the wisdom of shutting the f@ck up?

"how have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration."

she wouldn't make that mistake -- she would eliminate the strategy and just go with the war part.

[Rene ala Carte]

But she is manna from heaven for the Democrats.

[Gummo]

There are tens of millions of ignorant resentful fundies in this country who think Sarah Palin is on a mission from God to take back America for ALL ignorant resentful fundies.

I have a hard time seeing how Republican kleptocorporatists find common ground with the fundies in the future.

Which means? Buy popcorn futures!

So weird. The only way to make sense of it is to believe she was misquoted. Maybe "Do you you want to see my medical records?" was really, "Do you want me to promise (yet again) to release my medical records?" or something like that.

Or this being the AP, maybe it was "Do you want to see a recipe for mooseburgers with barbeque sauce?" ... they're not real finicky with quotes when you give 'em barbecue sauce.

[Iko]

Simply amazing.

Try to imagine a rational person looking back on the last 8 years and reaching the conclusion that the Republican party had not been sufficiently crazy.

Just try.

Whoops ...
I see
see I have fallen prey
prey to the double word thing
thing again.

:/

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[moeman]

Shouldn't that be moose jerky?

[watertiger]

"Moose Jerky" is her pet name for Todd.

[queek]

"Bush in a Skirt"

I prefer "George Bush only hung"

[donna]

"Next stop for Piper - cocktail waitress."

In a strip club, no doubt. At 10. After running away from the crazy lady she has to call "mom".

I agree with the "amazing we did as well as we did" part, though. Lucky for her 27% of Americans are still as stupid as moose turds.

[tjproudamerican]

I am reliably liberal and mean in my postings, and I think Palin is a disgrace as a politician.

And I ask you, as a father of a grown daughter, to stop attacking Piper. She really does not deserve it, and it is morally wrong for you to attack her.

Piper is a wonderful kid. You know my e-mail address, so write to me if you think I am a Republican and I will send you my home phone.

It is wrong to mock a seven year old under any circumstances.

[pansypoo]

palin is dead to me. not worthy.

[Elspeth R]

like we would want to talk to you tj, you just pop on here and leave your concern troll droppings around like a loose pet rabbit...

Any comment that begins along the lines of "I am a liberal/Democrat/whathaveyou..." is always a "red" flag - if you will. I sincerely doubt you really are a liberal.

Noone has said Piper is a bad kid - we are just projecting possible extremes/outcomes to having been under Diva Whackjob's thumb. Jeeze, take a pill tj.

Elspeth

[queek]

Well, I'm Trig's mom (raises her hand)...

I would think a mother would have a little more of a biting reply to such a bold suggestion that she was posing as her grandson's mother. So I standing my ground and I'm sticking to my story!

OBTW shouldn't we be hearing about wedding plans by now???

[Elspeth R]

I lurves me some Queek!

Elspeth

[tjproudamerican]

so if you agree on adult issues, that Palin is a disgraceful liar, that Obama's presidency will be the greatest thing to happen to this nation since FDR, I am a right wing whack job because I thin it is disgraceful to call a 7 year old a "Cocktail Waitress"? Why sexualize a 7 year old? I am sorry but it disgusts me.

I think McCain would have been a disaster. I am happy the Democratic Party is undergoing a massive realigning of the electorate. I think Obama should govern as though he is on the left and push for immediate health care for all, closing Guantanamo, but if I think it is morally wrong to attack Piper I am a troll?

I offered to give desperate renegade my phone number, since he knows my e-mail address.

Somethings are wrong. Palin is a liar. I think Palin is probably a crook whose vacation house was built by the contractors who built the skating rink in Wasilla. Palin represents all the worst aspects of the mindless Christian Right who have done so much damage to our Discourse.

However, Piper Palin, like my daughter who is now 25 once was, is a cool little girl. Leave her alone, please. Have as much fun with adults as you want. Piper never hurt anyone.

[kate]

Calm down tj, no one is insulting Piper herself, in fact I think most people here find her a very intelligent, cute and energetic kid. Unfortunately, when kids' success is often determined by the environment they are nurtured in and most of us here expect that, because of Piper's apparent intelligence and energy, she will most likely undergo a lot of personal soul searching once she reaches the age where individuation takes precedence over being a cute, loveable little kid.

In fact, many of us possibly are speaking from experience ourselves.

We're concerned about Piper and wishing her the best of course.

[don]

TJ, your interest in Piper is creepy. Can it.