Finally a MSM meme that hurts the repubs. As long as the MSM keeps questioning (even in an unbiased manner) McCain's vetting of Palin, the question itself implies she is unfit.

NO,NO,NO!!!! Don't ditch the eye-candy! And how will we be able to keep up with the soap opera?

A little historical perspective -- McCain’s Folly: ‘Bought’ Alaska Governor From Right-Wingers at the Cost of His Candidacy

Blockbuster NY Times piece on the Sarah Palin vetting disaster

http://www.americablog.com/200.....tting.html

Not "if", but "when".

Hahahaha Thanks mama Faye.

Limbaugh is losing his mind on the radio! LOLOL!

Sarah Palin isn't Hillary Clinton.

The McCain campaign didn't even attempt to put a veneer atop their pandering to Clinton supporters.

Knee-jerk reactionary decision making is dangerous.

They've already attempted to conflate the candidates on the issues.

Learn the difference and vote smart.

www.SarahPalinISNTHillaryClinton.com

Was Palin a part of the radical rightwing Alaska Independence Party?

Thankfully, Detective Jonah Goldberg is on this case.

About this allegation that Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party. At first I thought it was a big deal or at least a potential big deal. But, upon inspection it seems much less serious. For starters, it seems she was never a member. She’s been a registered Republican since 1982.

Okay, but lots of people are making a big deal about her address to the party convention. Okay, so I checked out the video. Eh.

Fair enough, but Goldberg’s youtube link was this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI.
It’s a mundane link but it also provides another link to an AIP meeting featuring Dexter Clark.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHFY1otOWjQ).

Six minutes into the AIP Dexter Clark video, he announces to the group that Gov. Sarah Palin was a former AIP member. It’s pretty clear and in fact he provides a history of her rise through Alaskan politics for the members.

Considering that Palin and McCain obviously support this:

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/09/01/pepper.mpg

I think they BOTH need to go...., along with the entire Republican party!

If the higher-ups in the Republican Party honestly condone this type of gestapo police presence and tactics at their convention, then we all need to work not only to elect Obama/Biden (at least in Denver the cops gave the Veterans Against the War in Iraq a police ESCORT instead of a police THRASHING!!), but we need to forcefully speak out against the militarism that is engulfing our free speech rights.

The MSM needs to confront McCain and Palin and ask if they approve of these militaristic, undemocratic and un-Constitutional tactics being used at their convention right now!!!

Someone must have put Michael Palin's international credentials on wiki and McSame's daughters friends computer geek thought they were getting an intelligent person that has some experience in world affairs. It is getting easier to discern who is ignorant and who is challenged.

sharkcellar @ 2:

Waitaminit! She's an Inuit?

No

An idiot

Extra bonus: Really crazy-ass preacher

Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview

Three months before she was thrust into the national political spotlight, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked to handle a much smaller task: addressing the graduating class of commission students at her one-time church, Wasilla Assembly of God.

Her speech in June provides as much insight into her policy leanings as anything uncovered since she was asked to be John McCain's running mate.

Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.

"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she exhorted the congregants. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

Religion, however, was not strictly a thread in Palin's foreign policy. It was part of her energy proposals as well. Just prior to discussing Iraq, Alaska's governor asked the audience to pray for another matter -- a $30 billion national gas pipeline project that she wanted built in the state. "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said.

Palin's address, much of which was spent reflecting on the work of the church in which she grew up and was baptized, underscores the notion that her world view is deeply impacted by religion. In turn, her remarks raise important questions: mainly, what is Palin's faith and how exactly has it influenced her policies?

A review of recorded sermons by Ed Kalnins, the senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God since 1999, offers a provocative and, for some, eyebrow-raising sketch of Palin's longtime spiritual home

The church runs a number of ministries providing help to poor neighborhoods, care for children in need, and general community services. But Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war "contending for your faith;" and said that Jesus "operated from that position of war mode."

It is impossible to determine how much Wasilla Assembly of God has shaped Palin's thinking. She was baptized there at the age of 12 and attended the church for most of her adult life. When Palin was inaugurated as governor, the founding pastor of the church delivered the invocation. In 2002, Palin moved her family to a nondenominational church, but she continues to worship at a related Assembly of God church in Juneau.

Moreover, she "has maintained a friendship with Wasilla Assembly of God and has attended various conferences and special meetings here," Kalnins' office said in a statement. "As for her personal beliefs," the statement added, "Governor Palin is well able to speak for herself on those issues."

Clearly, however, Palin views the church as the source of an important, if sometimes politically explosive, message. "Having grown up here, and having little kids grow up here also, this is such a special, special place," she told the congregation in June. "What comes from this church I think has great destiny."

And if the political storm over Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright is any indication, Palin may face some political fallout over the more controversial teachings of Wasilla Assembly of God.

If the church had a political alignment, it would almost surely be conservative. In his sermons, Kalnins did not hide his affections for certain national politicians.

During the 2004 election season, he praised President Bush's performance during a debate with Sen. John Kerry, then offered a not-so-subtle message about his personal candidate preferences. "I'm not going tell you who to vote for, but if you vote for this particular person, I question your salvation. I'm sorry." Kalnins added: "If every Christian will vote righteously, it would be a landslide every time."

Months after hinting at possible damnation for Kerry supporters, Kalnins bristled at the treatment President Bush was receiving over the federal government's handling of Hurricane Katrina. "I hate criticisms towards the President," he said, "because it's like criticisms towards the pastor -- it's almost like, it's not going to get you anywhere, you know, except for hell. That's what it'll get you."

Much of his support for the current administration has come in the realm of foreign affairs. Kalnins has preached that the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq were part of a "world war" over the Christian faith, one in which Jesus Christ had called upon believers to be willing to sacrifice their lives.

What you see in a terrorist -- that's called the invisible enemy. There has always been an invisible enemy. What you see in Iraq, basically, is a manifestation of what's going on in this unseen world called the spirit world. ... We need to think like Jesus thinks. We are in a time and a season of war, and we need to think like that. We need to develop that instinct. We need to develop as believers the instinct that we are at war, and that war is contending for your faith. ... Jesus called us to die. You're worried about getting hurt? He's called us to die. Listen, you know we can't even follow him unless you are willing to give up your life. ... I believe that Jesus himself operated from that position of war mode. Everyone say "war mode." Now you say, wait a minute Ed, he's like the good shepherd, he's loving all the time and he's kind all the time. Oh yes he is -- but I also believe that he had a part of his thoughts that knew that he was in a war.

As for his former congregant and current vice presidential candidate, Kalnins has asserted that Palin's election as governor was the result of a "prophetic call" by another pastor at the church who prayed for her victory. "[He made] a prophetic declaration and then unfolds the kingdom of God, you know."

Even Palin expressed surprise at that pastor's advocacy for her candidacy. "He was praying over me," she said in June. "He's praying, 'Lord make a way, Lord make a way...' And I'm thinking, this guy's really bold, he doesn't even know what I'm gonna do, he doesn't know what my plans are, and he's praying not, 'Oh Lord, if it be your will may she become governor,' or whatever. No, he just prayed for it. He said, 'Lord, make a way, and let her do this next step.' And that's exactly what happened. So, again, very very powerful coming from this church."

In his sermons, Pastor Kalnins has also expressed beliefs that, while not directly political, lie outside of mainstream Christian thought.

He preaches repeatedly about the "end times" or "last days," an apocalyptic prophesy held by a small but vocal group of Christian leaders. During his appearance with Palin in June, he declared, "I believe Alaska is one of the refuge states in the last days, and hundreds of thousands of people are going to come to the state to seek refuge and the church has to be ready to minister to them."

He also claims to have received direct "words of knowledge" from God, providing him information about past events in other people's lives. During one sermon, he described being paired with a complete stranger during a golf outing. "I said, I'm a minister from Alaska and I want you to know that your wife left you -- you know that your wife left you and that the Lord is gonna defend you in a very short time, and it wasn't your fault. And the man drops his clubs, he literally was about to tee off and he dropped his clubs, and he says, 'Who the blank are you?' And I says, 'well, I'm a minister.' He says, 'how do you know about my life? What do you know?' And I started giving him more of the word of knowledge to his life and he was freaked out."

Kalnins has, of course, preached on a bevy of topics ranging from humility to "overcoming bitterness." But the more controversial remarks reported above were not out of the norm, appearing in numerous sermons spanning the four years of available recordings.

As for Palin, her views on these topics is more opaque. In the wake of the controversy over Jeremiah Wright, a debate has raged about whether political figures should be held responsible for the comments of their religious guiders. Clearly, however, Kalnins, like many national conservative religious leaders, sees Alaska's governor as one of his own. "Gov. Sarah Palin is the real deal," he told his church this past summer. "You know, some people put on a show...but she's the real deal."
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Here we go. Is this part of Karl's plan. Pull in a few hundred thousand votes while Romney or Lieberman move into Pallins spot. Possibly all part of the plan

Liberal AND Proud @ 13:

Limbaugh is losing his mind on the radio! LOLOL!

ALL of the rw talkers are going ballistic about this. It's so wonderful. Just listened to a few minutes of Hannity (all I can take) and he's going apeshit! It's about friggin' time these slimeballs get what's coming to them.

Kathleen @ 27:

Here we go. Is this part of Karl's plan. Pull in a few hundred thousand votes while Romney or Lieberman move into Pallins spot. Possibly all part of the plan

Yeah. Now Obama will only win by 9 percentage points.

In national politics...6% is considered a landslide.

Liberal AND Proud @ 26:

This is going to be one of those CLASSIC Daily Show, Colbert Report nights.

If only Countdown was not being preempted by the GOP convention...we'd have the trifecta!

Correct. The Daily Show and Colbert Report writers have been creaming in their pants to get their punchlines on the air.

theWalrus @ 29:

Liberal AND Proud @ 13:

Limbaugh is losing his mind on the radio! LOLOL!

ALL of the rw talkers are going ballistic about this. It's so wonderful. Just listened to a few minutes of Hannity (all I can take) and he's going apeshit! It's about friggin' time these slimeballs get what's coming to them.

As if it's a stretch for Sean (the moron) to go apeshit. He's a goon and a baffoon.

**WOW the truth came out!**

Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning.

"This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."

is that last part about the mom a joke?

Some Con shill was talking to Andrea Mitchell and said that LIEberman was McBush's first choice but the UltraCons would have stayed home on election day if he did. He also said LIEberman could very well end up being Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense if McBush is elected. How fucking scary is that thought?

Here's the hockey player "Daddy" of Sarah Palin's daughter's baby:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican_race/2008/09/01/2008...

I guess "Statutory Rape" doesn't apply in Alaska.

The "Daddy" is proud to exclaim that he considers himself "a Fuc*in' Redneck!"

God. I'll bet there isn't a whole lot of work getting done in America's offices today! This story just gets better and better.

It reminds me of Maureen Dowd's Op-Ed in this past Sunday's New York Times. Here's a tiny excerpt (after John McCain chokes on a pretzel and dies leaving Palin Prez):

"The movie ends with the former beauty queen shaking out her pinned-up hair, taking off her glasses, slipping on ruby red peep-toe platform heels that reveal a pink French-style pedicure, and facing down Vladimir Putin in an island in the Bering Strait. Putting away her breast pump, she points her rifle and informs him frostily that she has some expertise in Russia because it's close to Alaska. "Back off, Commie dude," she says. "I'm a much better shot than Cheney."

And so it goes....

Kathleen @ 27:

Here we go. Is this part of Karl's plan. Pull in a few hundred thousand votes while Romney or Lieberman move into Pallins spot. Possibly all part of the plan

I don't think, if that is indeed Rove's plan...that's it's working like he'd hoped.

I kind of hope he dumps her. Then his so-called sound judgement will be called into question even more than when he picked her.

Charles @ 35:

theWalrus @ 29:

Liberal AND Proud @ 13:

Limbaugh is losing his mind on the radio! LOLOL!

ALL of the rw talkers are going ballistic about this. It's so wonderful. Just listened to a few minutes of Hannity (all I can take) and he's going apeshit! It's about friggin' time these slimeballs get what's coming to them.

As if it's a stretch for Sean (the moron) to go apeshit. He's a goon and a baffoon.

Perhaps you meant buffoon? It still rhymes with goon.

He's a goon
And a buffoon
He croons
But one tune
That of a right wing loon

Did I mention he is a Reptile?

Freddy Knuckles @ 46:

I kind of hope he dumps her. Then his so-called sound judgement will be called into question even more than when he picked her.

Muskie dumped Eagleton and it cost him the election.

The maverick needs to take control! Where is his leadership! Where is he?!?!

Freddy Knuckles @ 40:

Some Con shill was talking to Andrea Mitchell and said that LIEberman was McBush's first choice but the UltraCons would have stayed home on election day if he did. He also said LIEberman could very well end up being Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense if McBush is elected. How fucking scary is that thought?

Considering Lieberman put all his eggs in the McCain basket and will be the junior senator from CT with only a seat on the Committee for Overseeing Absolutely Nothing, IF he's lucky, if Obama wins, then I bet HE is the one who is really wringing his hands about all this.

Just saying (again) at the point this becomes a laughing matter and a joke, she's gone! The whole day is about her and Republicans have exhausted their excuses.
I'm laughing at them now and think I'll be laughing with them soon.

Aw c'mon. Let the leggy Alaskan douchebag stay on the ticket.

Liberal AND Proud @ 20:

"Where's the eject button?!?!?!" - John McCain

Oh no! He's crashing another one!! what is that, 4?

if either president obama or a president mccain could
NOT serve as of june/'09 which vice president would you feel more comfortable with stepping in to serve as commander in chief Biden or Palin?
this scenario could happen......i would like to see a poll on this.

xoites defends Constitution @ 51:

Freddy Knuckles @ 46:

I kind of hope he dumps her. Then his so-called sound judgement will be called into question even more than when he picked her.

Muskie dumped Eagleton and it cost him the election.

Actually Eagleton withdrew from the McGovern ticket and was replaced by Sargent Shriver.

Freddy Knuckles @ 47:

I kind of hope he dumps her. Then his so-called sound judgement will be called into question even more than when he picked her.

He wouldn't dump her. She'd withdraw gracefully to 'spend more time with her (fertile) family'. He'd then bemoan his loss of her awesomeness while applauding her courage for 'doing the right thing' then finally picking someone comparatively sane.

Filthy Harry @ 48:

Charles @ 35:

theWalrus @ 29:

Liberal AND Proud @ 13:

ALL of the rw talkers are going ballistic about this. It's so wonderful. Just listened to a few minutes of Hannity (all I can take) and he's going apeshit! It's about friggin' time these slimeballs get what's coming to them.

As if it's a stretch for Sean (the moron) to go apeshit. He's a goon and a baffoon.

Apeshit how?

I was under the assumption that Limbaugh and Hannity had already lost their minds. Oh, never mind. It was their souls they sold out long ago. OK. Never mind, carry on.

Put her mother-in-law on the ticket.

“I’m not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she’s a woman and a conservative. Well, she’s a better speaker than McCain,” Faye Palin said with a laugh.

Holy shite, Mrs. Palin! I bet Sunday dinners at your house from now on are going to be pure hell, if they weren't already...

jdowd @ 39:

is that last part about the mom a joke?

Nope! But it is a gift!

Palin: 2005: board member, Valley Hospital Association, which runs the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Wasilla.

Became youngest and first female Governor of Alaska, taking office in December, 2006. Received 114,600 votes. The population of Alaska is 683,478 and more than 50% of the state budget comes from oil revenues, not taxes as in other states. Gross State Product: $44 billion (including the oil revenue). Ranking 45 of 50.
Auctioned off the Governor's jet on eBay. Took on fellow-Republican Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings. Promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska. Helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits. Formed a sub-cabinet group of advisers to address climate change but does not accept that it is man-made. Objected to listing polar bears as an endangered species because it might hurt oil and gas development in the bears' habitat. Was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. However, Alaska kept the federal money. Denied her daughter was pregnant before she confirmed it. Supported abstinence-only education.Currently under a bipartisan investigation for abuse of power for dismissing Alaska's Public Safety Commissioner. Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard, but has played no role in national defense activities, even when they involve the Alaska National Guard. (The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is not briefed on situations.)

Obtained her first passport in 2007 to perform visits to the Alaska National Guard in Kuwait and Germany. (Foreign experience so limited that a stopover in Ireland listed on her resume.)

"I love the smell of a dying Repuglican Party in the morning...smells like......victory"

Here's "The Red State Update" on Sarah Palin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W5IAPK0hbU

Let's be honest McCain will never remove Ms. Palin from the ticket. It's proves Obama's point about McCain's judgement.

Be prepared to hear it's "sexism" or just more lies and pandering.

Eric Kleefeld at TPM picks up on this new gender card strategy being utilized by Republicans when talking about/defending Palin.

BACHMANN: You know, Larry, I find those comments from James Carville actually offensive -- and especially offensive to American women. There are a lot of very competent American women. Sarah Palin easily is a competent woman. She's proved herself in business. She's proved herself in politics. She has come up from nowhere to be somebody. And she's someone we can all be very proud of. She is one competent tough cookie and I think the American people are going to love her.

KING: Are you saying, though...

CARVILLE: Congresswoman, I don't know how to tell you this, but I supported a woman for president of the United States and spent many hours on this very set supporting a woman of the United States.

The way Bachmann calls Carville's comments offensive to women so calmly, authoritatively with a big smile and the way she comes close to sending Carville over the edge in his response; the charge is so baseless yet she says it with such conviction as only a shameless Republican can, thus leaving the Democrat sort of exasperated.

video

Wow, the same media that spread every lie and rumor about Hillary that the Obamabots fed them, I am shocked.