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Will this be the last Sarah Palin thread?
Will this be the last Sarah Palin thread?
I hardly knew you Sarah! We'll always have Real America.
Last time I checked Buchanan shared more in common with the stoppers in FYM than the neo-conservatives or this Republican ticket.Everyone knows she's already thinking about 2012. Maybe she could pick Pat Buchanan as her running mate since he seems to be such a big fan.
Palin/Buchanan '12! The most terrifying ticket in our nation's history!
Seriously though, she won't make it out of the primaries. She won't beat Romney and/or Huckabee.
Last time I checked Buchanan shared more in common with the stoppers in FYM than the neo-conservatives or this Republican ticket.
Perhaps, but she might end up on the VP ticket.Seriously though, she won't make it out of the primaries. She won't beat Romney and/or Huckabee.
Somehow, I don't think Jane the engineer spends this much on makeup....
She was probably actually born in Russia, and crawled over to Alaska. They're neighboring countries, you know.
Somehow, I don't think Jane the engineer spends this much on makeup....
Palin’s Makeup Stylist Fetches Highest Salary in 2-Week Period - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
" Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch?
Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser; not Nicolle Wallace, his senior communications staff member. It was Amy Strozzi, who was identified by the Washington Post this week as Gov. Sarah Palin’s traveling makeup artist, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night.
Calling Triumph the insult comic dog........
McCain was asked several questions on Thursday about the shopping spree -- and he answered each one more or less the same way: Palin needed clothes and they'll be donated to charity.
"She needed clothes at the time. They'll be donated at end of this campaign. They'll be donated to charity," McCain told reporters on his campaign bus between Florida rallies.
Asked for details on how they'll be donated, McCain said, "It works by her getting some clothes when she was made the nominee of the party and it will be donated back to charity."
Asked if he was surprised at the amount spent, McCain said, "It works that the clothes will be donated to charity. Nothing surprises me."
Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) -- With 10 days until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense, they are spilling out in public, sources say.
Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue."
A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out.
McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls -- recorded messages often used to attack a candidate's opponent -- "irritating" even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.
A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.
"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."
I wonder if they're now sorry they went with her.
This is why the makeover of someone like Marilyn Musgrave might be too little, too late. Racism and prejudice have festered at the core of the political identity of a generation of Republicans; you can't simply excise those qualities from them overnight. Back them into a corner and they always produce a Willie Horton or a Bill Ayers or some other contagious graduate of the "University of Negroes and Communists" (as Jesse Helms once called his home-state school, UNC) ready to infect that never-was paradise of white culture with "crime" or "irresponsibility" or whatever the code word happens to be this week. They're trying it even now, with the McCain campaign running ads showing Obama next to photos of a former Fannie Mae chairman who happens to be black but was never an adviser to Obama. "Shocking," says the ad, as shots of the two black men fade to a picture of an aggrieved elderly white woman.
These tactics almost always worked in the past and have carried more than one man into the most powerful office in the world. But they were a house of cards all along, with no substance behind them, and when they are at last put to a vote next month, they'll blow away forever. That's what happens with weak ideas: They don't die a slow, lingering death but lose their power all at once, like a broken spell.