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George Will: Everyone Knows Sarah Palin Should Not Be Trusted With Nuclear Weapons

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With Sarah Palin fever sweeping across the media again, persistent Palin critic and conservative commentator George Will clearly was not excited by the speculation surrounding her potential run for President. Donna Brazile, Jonathan Karl and Ed Gillespie joined in on the conversation, yet Will had the most pointed remarks regarding how Palin is a “genius at manipulating” the infinite media attention she receives.

Christiane Amanpour began the segment commenting “no one steals a show like Sarah Palin,” and while Will admits she will have a huge impact on the nomination process if she does decide to run, he still dismisses the idea that she has even the slightest chance of winning. Will suggests Palin’s problem:

“The threshold question, not usually asked, but it’s in everyone’s mind in a presidential election. ‘Should we give this person nuclear weapons?’ And the answer [in Palin's case], answers itself.”

Karl sees no evidence that Palin is actually going to run, but Brazile warns everyone that Palin can do whatever she wants and doesn’t have to follow conventional wisdom. Instead, Brazile predicts that Palin in fact will run. But maybe Brazile just likes the idea of scaring her frequent Sunday morning sparring partner Will, who would then have to do a lot of heavy-lifting to get the media to focus on his predicted “man to beat” Tim Pawlenty.

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  • notsofast

    George, you need a nuclear enema.

  • Fokker News

    You want her to have them if you are a rapturist, like so many in her base are.

  • writer

    I didn’t know she had any.

  • Big Eddie

    Donna Brazile is the genius who argued that Obama deserved the Nobel Prize while the others stared at her openmouthed .

    Don’t worry George , Todd will handle the nukes .

    Still , Sarah is probably having a better weekend than Anthony Weiner .

  • NonElite

    I’m note going to support Sarah Palin for President either, but George Will’s comment was uncalled for. Palin is good for the over all discourse and Will just poisoned that.
    Look George, if Obama could be considered a viable Presidential candidate then Sarah Palin can as well.

  • znmeb

    Oh, she’ll run for the nomination. My guess is that it will be a heated and vicious battle between her and Romney for the nomination. In a fair fight, Romney would beat her, but I don’t think this will be a fair fight and she’ll take the nomination.

  • Azarkhan
  • Jackyboy

    Haha really George? Really?

    znmeb said:
    Oh, she’ll run for the nomination. My guess is that it will be a heated and vicious battle between her and Romney for the nomination. In a fair fight, Romney would beat her, but I don’t think this will be a fair fight and she’ll take the nomination.

    Fair and politics never mix.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    The Conservative WA elites need to get over their Palin Derangement Syndrome. Palin would be light years better than Obama.

  • WCinWI

    NonElite said:
    I’m note going to support Sarah Palin for President either, but George Will’s comment was uncalled for. Palin is good for the over all discourse and Will just poisoned that.
    Look George, if Obama could be considered a viable Presidential candidate then Sarah Palin can as well.

    If it were between Palin and Obama, who would you pull the lever for….in the quiet of the room? I want someone with a libertarian bent and that’s why I like Palin.

  • WCinWI

    Jackyboy said:
    Haha really George? Really?

    Fair and politics never mix.

    The person’s points should be dismissed. Romney will never win. I’d rather have Huntsman or Pawlenty over Romney. That’s how bad Romney is.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Oh WC I have to disagree with you, I don’t think I could vote for Huntsman.

  • Paul G

    I’m more worried about Obama….USING THEM ON OUR OWN COUNTRY!!
    (If he doesn’t/can’t destroy this Country any other way first)

  • WCinWI

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Oh WC I have to disagree with you, I don’t think I could vote for Huntsman.

    Haha I guess I figure that if we’re going to go all moderate, might as well have a moderate that has foreign policy experience.

    I even advocated a Palin/Huntsman or Palin/Giuliani run. I would love her with West but I’m flexible.

  • Paul G

    I still would like to know WHY him and Krauthammer say STUPID things sometimes… unless just to get mentioned on blogs like this?

  • WCinWI

    Paul G said:
    I’m more worried about Obama….USING THEM ON OUR OWN COUNTRY!!
    (If he doesn’t/can’t destroy this Country any other way first)

    This was a weird statement by Will. Palin’s a libertarian when it comes to war. At least overall. She’s got a more nuanced appeal than what Will is inferring in this segment.

  • NonElite

    WCinWI said:
    If it were between Palin and Obama, who would you pull the lever for….in the quiet of the room? I want someone with a libertarian bent and that’s why I like Palin.

    I absolutely agree. No question.

  • TfT

    Conservative George will…..not likely; more like RINO Will.

    Honestly, please proof read your article and fix the problems in it. You have an edit button, we don’t, and there is no excuse for the problems contained in this article.

  • Paul G

    WCinWI said:
    This was a weird statement by Will. Palin’s a libertarian when it comes to war. At least overall. She’s got a more nuanced appeal than what Will is inferring in this segment.

    I know. It was like something Ed Shultz would pull out of his azz and say.

  • zombietimeshare

    By everyone Will means the inside the beltway cocktail crowd. Commoners are not welcome.

  • seek

    time to change the type of glue you use on your toupee George. Obviously the fumes have gotten to you. That is one of the dumbest things that a supposedly smart man has said recently..

  • seek
  • Barack Must Go

    I guess somewhere along the line Sarah wouldn’t agree to a one on one sit down ( on his lap ) with the old coot.

  • Fokker News

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Oh WC I have to disagree with you, I don’t think I could vote for Huntsman.

    We know. His Mormon creds have been questioned by Mormons.

    Paul G said:
    I still would like to know WHY him and Krauthammer say STUPID things sometimes… unless just to get mentioned on blogs like this?

    Refrain from using the word STUPID when making blatant grammatical errors (he not him).

  • puck30

    George Will: “Everyone Knows Sarah Palin Should Not Be Trusted With Nuclear Weapons.”

    Why? We somehow trust Barry.

  • seek

    WCinWI said:
    The person’s points should be dismissed. Romney will never win. I’d rather have Huntsman or Pawlenty over Romney. That’s how bad Romney is.

    I agree. There is just something about Romney that doesn’t work for me. I do enjoy Pawlenty; just think he has to figure out what to do with his hands. Someone must have told him to be more expressive. I think he’d be better of not using his hands because it just appears awkward. What he says is right on. Skip the hand movements Tim.

  • seek

    of *= off

  • NeoKong

    STFU George.
    I get so sick and tired of these establishment blowhards who are one degree removed from Democrats telling me who to vote for.
    George just wants us to pick the candidate most likely to lose to Obama.

  • MLKBeat

    Now I know where all the uninformed righties hang out. Unbelievable!

  • TheEagle

    No one should be trusted with nuclear weapons. This world would be a much safe place if nobody had them.

  • Paul G

    Fokker News said:

    Refrain from using the word STUPID when making blatant grammatical errors (he not him).

    Someone that uses the name “Fokker News” should refrain from saying ANYTHING about “grammatical errors”

  • TangledThorns

    This is why there is a Tea Party. Because of GOP elites like George Will who are out of touch and doesn’t understand why Palin is way more qualified to be Command In Chief than a community organizer.

  • WCinWI

    seek said:
    time to change the type of glue you use on your toupee George. Obviously the fumes have gotten to you. That is one of the dumbest things that a supposedly smart man has said recently..

    Wouldn’t it be awesome if Palin sent George Will or Krauthammer a note or something that said “Let’s talk over lunch” if only to discuss her war-strategy or more likely non-strategy? On War, Palin is more Ron Paul/Rand Paul-like.

  • WCinWI

    Fokker News said:
    We know. His Mormon creds have been questioned by Mormons.

    Refrain from using the word STUPID when making blatant grammatical errors (he not him).

    Much like Obama’s blackness has been questioned by African Americans.

    Dude – we could play this all day.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb…
    1964 all over again…

  • TampopoLoco

    Yes George, normal people know that that Teabagging Republicans sure don’t.

  • MadCharles

    George Will has been loosing his mind. He ‘s spending way too much time in bath houses of ABC lately. Does he trust Obama with the nuclear weapons after the disaster of a foreign policy he pulled out of his A** and obama’s lack of , well ! anything leadership? The guys more and more turning RINO than Rove or Bush.

  • MadCharles

    TampopoLoco said:
    Yes George, normal people know that that Teabagging Republicans sure don’t.

    Yeah tempopoloco, your cross dressing tea party with teabagger is just another nail in the coffin of Mr. one and done.

  • tatboy

    I love George Will :)…

  • Nacho

    TfT said:
    Conservative George will…..not likely; more like RINO Will.

    YES!

  • Barack Must Go

    TampopoLoco said:
    Yes George, normal people know that that Teabagging Republicans sure don’t.

    Oh yeah, like YOU even know any normal people.

  • opedanderson2

    Advice to Will, Rove, Scarborough et al. regarding Palin:

    Duck!

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    OT-Weinergate? Hmmmmm, mediaite?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Adam/1471630141 Michael Adam

    Other items Sarah Palin can’t be trusted with….

    Butter Knife
    Contraceptives
    Teenage Daughters
    Video Cameras
    State Budgets

    I could go on all day. Please Sarah…Please Run!!!! Palin/&who gives a shit 2012. Comedy would be endless.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    On Topic. Yep, they said the SAME thing about Reagan that he would launch nuclear weapons.

    Hey Democrats, will you folks EVER use actual conservative viewpoints or just CONTINUE to use your lies and misrepresentations?

    By the way, I am glad we survived that Reagan Nuclear War. Was that just not the worst thing evah!

  • http://crpa.co Ron C. de Weijze

    Wonder why George Will is trusted with so much air time.

  • TangledThorns

    David Brooks, George Will, and Peggy Noonan all need some fresh air.

  • rubberneck

    I agree.

    -conservative

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Ron C. de Weijze said:
    Wonder why George Will is trusted with so much air time.

    I like your website…

  • WillP

    What a stupid thing for this old Washington insider to say? Has George Will had a son serve in Iraq? Has George Will governed a state next to Russia? Is George Will supporting Rolling Thunder this weekend? Could he possibly love our military and its veterans as much as Sarah Palin? I’ll let the Mamma Grizzly put her paws on our nuclear weapons any day over these #@@@# fake Republicans. Sarah Palin 2012!!!!!!!!

  • http://crpa.co Ron C. de Weijze

    skoorbekim said:
    I like your website…

    Thanks! Same in return. Will visit and comment if I can.

  • ljam

    WCinWI said:
    If it were between Palin and Obama, who would you pull the lever for….in the quiet of the room? I want someone with a libertarian bent and that’s why I like Palin.

    Sarah Palin.. libertarian bent.. hahahahah. There seems to be two camps in the tea party movement. The Ron Paul camp that at least understands what libertarian means and the Sarah Palin camp that is easily fooled by the family values, social conservative demagoguery that has been used to get votes in the Republican party for decades.

  • azgrandma

    It appears Queen Moron can’t even manage teenage daughters how could you trust her to manage anything else. One thing she does manage well and that is making a fool out of herself.

  • ndanielson

    George just assured his invite onto the lefty circuit.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Seems like most Republicans are RINO these days. It makes me wonder if they aren’t the Republicans and the “RINO” emitters aren’t something else all together. Maybe, SPIT. SocioPaths in Tandem.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    azgrandma said:
    It appears Queen Moron can’t even manage teenage daughters how could you trust her to manage anything else. One thing she does manage well and that is making a fool out of herself.

    The terrible way she has raised her children and the way she fled her job half done convinces me she would be God awful in elected office.

  • cjd ohio 1

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    The terrible way she has raised her children and the way she fled her job half done convinces me she would be God awful in elected office.

    her children?

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Whine all you wish, but George Will is still the most articulate spokesperson Republicans have.

  • ndanielson

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    The terrible way she has raised her children and the way she fled her job half done convinces me she would be God awful in elected office.

    A good stint in community organizing should round her out just fine for you, lemming? Look how your parents raised you, clown.

  • insideguy

    Ok seriously why do you think Palin would be a good president? What has she done to convince you of this? She quit her jobs as the governor of a state with 2 million people. What about that inspires confidence? And don’t say well she’s just as qualified as Obama was or whatever. I mean what has she done? I really am amazed that anyone supports her. Good for George Will. I know you guys don’t like your righties off the reservation but he’s like the 4th one in two weeks so there is a big push back agains her from the left and the right.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    ndanielson said:
    A good stint in community organizing should round her out just fine for you, lemming? Look how your parents raised you, clown.

    By appearances, very well. Regular church goers. Successful marriage. Two successful children, neither one of whom got pregnant or got someone else pregnant prior to marriage, who were never arrested. Successful career.

  • cjd ohio 1

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    By appearances, very well. Regular church goers. Successful marriage. Two successful children, neither one of whom got pregnant or got someone else pregnant prior to marriage, who were never arrested. Successful career.

    that makes a bad parent to you huh? pregnant?

  • struckgld

    George needs that paycheck from the network as bad as the next guy.

  • writer

    I suppose ‘regular church goers’ counseled that you should hate someone’s children if you disagree with the parents’ politics.

  • ndanielson

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    By appearances, very well. Regular church goers. Successful marriage. Two successful children, neither one of whom got pregnant or got someone else pregnant prior to marriage, who were never arrested. Successful career.

    I’ll believe every bit of that when 0bama steps down from office admitting to his own incompetence and apologizes for his socialist ways. The church of what, cupcake, global warming? Does your church have “social justice” in its mission statement?

  • struckgld

    Ya gotta love to hate the Palin haters on the left.

    They are so terrified of a real woman. It makes the left remember how they so bitterly disappointed their own mothers.

  • btimsah

    George Will is CFR (Council On Foreign Relations) so he will not like or endorse someone who’s outside the mainstream who will threaten their global agenda.

  • im_lovin_it

    insideguy said:
    Ok seriously why do you think Palin would be a good president? What has she done to convince you of this? She quit her jobs as the governor of a state with 2 million people. What about that inspires confidence? And don’t say well she’s just as qualified as Obama was or whatever.

    I’d really like to see somebody provide an answer to this question. Say I”m a frustrated independent who voted for Obama in ’08. How are you going to sell me on Sarah Palin without resorting to telling me how much Obama sucks?

  • Chipper

    Another “Journalist” with NO credibility

  • ndanielson

    im_lovin_it said:
    I’d really like to see somebody provide an answer to this question. Say I”m a frustrated independent who voted for Obama in ‘08. How are you going to sell me on Sarah Palin without resorting to telling me how much Obama sucks?

    Socialism doesn’t bother you at all? Ask a lefty if socialism sucks. Many do not think so, and ask what is the harm? While the EU moves away from socialism, we are running as fast as we can into it. Is that the American way? Maybe we can do it better??? Could we do fascism better, too?

    I’ve asked leftist clowns for weeks: Name one 0bama policy or one liberal program that they disagree with. Name one thing the messiah does wrong. Crickets.

  • writer

    Anyone who garners so much hate from the extreme left can’t be all bad.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Still waiting for that nuclear winter we were supposed to have from the Reagan Nuclear War.

    Sorry, did I miss something George and friends?

  • WCinWI

    LaughingatConservatives said:
    Other items Sarah Palin can’t be trusted with….

    Butter Knife
    Contraceptives
    Teenage Daughters
    Video Cameras
    State Budgets

    I could go on all day. Please Sarah…Please Run!!!! Palin/&who gives a shit 2012. Comedy would be endless.

    I know. A $12 billion dollar surplus is sure hard to explain.

    Now….can you tell me something positive about Neocon Obama? Do tell me why we’re in all of these wars please.

  • WCinWI

    ljam said:
    Sarah Palin.. libertarian bent.. hahahahah. There seems to be two camps in the tea party movement. The Ron Paul camp that at least understands what libertarian means and the Sarah Palin camp that is easily fooled by the family values, social conservative demagoguery that has been used to get votes in the Republican party for decades.

    It’s not my fault if you can’t see the severe libertarian bent she has. Ask GOP gay groups and liberals that are LGBT. They love her. They know why. She’s a libertarian. She’s more friendly to gays than Obama is. Sorry. It’s just simple on that matter.

    Ron Paul is a crazy grandpa who courts liberal folks in college. His supporters are beyond rude. Ron Paul has nothing to offer America but being a pork project collector.

  • ndanielson

    WCinWI said:
    I know. A $12 billion dollar surplus is sure hard to explain.

    Now….can you tell me something positive about Neocon Obama? Do tell me why we’re in all of these wars please.

    How can you judge the cost of inaction? How much did 9-11 cost? How much did we SAVE by preventing the next one? Do tell away.

  • WCinWI

    azgrandma said:
    It appears Queen Moron can’t even manage teenage daughters how could you trust her to manage anything else. One thing she does manage well and that is making a fool out of herself.

    You hate all of the mothers that have kids when they’re in high school and have a child out of wedlock? This doesn’t seem like a left or right issue – merely an epidemic of high school kids as a whole.

    That’s a lot of hate for ALL people of color.

  • Mahala4

    As far as WOMEN running, if it was between Hillary Clinton, or Sarah Palin, I would go with *Hillary Clinton* because she has the VISIBLE INTELLIGENCE, and her ANSWERS to questions make SENSE. She is more of a FIGHTER and REALISTIC and will NO DOUBT be able to mediate with others. She will be able to handle an INVERVIEW, and know what NEWSPAPERS she is reading and not stumble. She has the POLITICAL look, not like someone vying for a medeling of clothing and her makeup. Palin is more MATERIALISTIC, and can TALK the TALK, but in the long run, she is NOT DEPENDABLE, and is a QUITTER. I can’t see having ANYONE like Palin being the President of the United States. She just doesn’t have the grandeur, and she would NO DOUBTEDLY be noted as the FAKER or FANTASY queen, always with her head in the clouds.

  • ndanielson

    ndanielson said:
    How can you judge the cost of inaction? How much did 9-11 cost? How much did we SAVE by preventing the next one? Do tell away.

    Those wars could very well have saved us twice as much as we would spend bringing terrorists to court the BJ Clinton way. Call it moneys saved or created.

  • WCinWI

    im_lovin_it said:
    I’d really like to see somebody provide an answer to this question. Say I”m a frustrated independent who voted for Obama in ‘08. How are you going to sell me on Sarah Palin without resorting to telling me how much Obama sucks?

    Palin worked with more Democrats in her administration than the GOP. ANWR. $12 billion surplus. Libertarian bent. It’s not really a tough sell for people that actually follow her.

    She was perfect for the McCain campaign because she really was a Maverick.

    Just because you don’t understand the legal ramifications that she went through while Governor, won’t shake my resolve in her. People like Obama because they think he’s a nice guy with a pleasant personality, but if you asked them in private, they would say that he’s a dunce on policy matters. He doesn’t have any policy. He’s like Mitt Romney. And if he does, he’s after policy that has failed in other states and countries. Palin is liked by her supporters based on what she’s done. That’s why their support for her is unwavering. It has everything to do with what she’s done as a natural progression in her work. Why do you think that Greta, a fair Democrat, likes Palin. She can have that appeal. A lot of Palin supporters are gay, libertarian, fiscal cons, Hillary PUMAS and liberal. I don’t get what’s so difficult to see about this fact.

  • WCinWI

    Mahala4 said:
    As far as WOMEN running, if it was between Hillary Clinton, or Sarah Palin, I would go with *Hillary Clinton* because she has the VISIBLE INTELLIGENCE, and her ANSWERS to questions make SENSE. She is more of a FIGHTER and REALISTIC and will NO DOUBT be able to mediate with others. She will be able to handle an INVERVIEW, and know what NEWSPAPERS she is reading and not stumble. She has the POLITICAL look, not like someone vying for a medeling of clothing and her makeup. Palin is more MATERIALISTIC, and can TALK the TALK, but in the long run, she is NOT DEPENDABLE, and is a QUITTER. I can’t see having ANYONE like Palin being the President of the United States. She just doesn’t have the grandeur, and she would NO DOUBTEDLY be noted as the FAKER or FANTASY queen, always with her head in the clouds.

    Neither are running. So stop commenting.

  • ndanielson

    Mahala4 said:
    As far as WOMEN running, if it was between Hillary Clinton, or Sarah Palin, I would go with *Hillary Clinton* because she has the VISIBLE INTELLIGENCE, and her ANSWERS to questions make SENSE. She is more of a FIGHTER and REALISTIC and will NO DOUBT be able to mediate with others. She will be able to handle an INVERVIEW, and know what NEWSPAPERS she is reading and not stumble. She has the POLITICAL look, not like someone vying for a medeling of clothing and her makeup. Palin is more MATERIALISTIC, and can TALK the TALK, but in the long run, she is NOT DEPENDABLE, and is a QUITTER. I can’t see having ANYONE like Palin being the President of the United States. She just doesn’t have the grandeur, and she would NO DOUBTEDLY be noted as the FAKER or FANTASY queen, always with her head in the clouds.

    You’d vote for the first First Lady every criminally indicted? Mrs. “I can’t remember, I can’t recall, I am not sure, I cannot say…?” Scooter Libby should have taken notes, from the inept memory of Whitewater whitewash.

    RECORDS SET

    - The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
    - Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
    - Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
    - Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
    - Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
    - First president sued for sexual harassment.
    - Second president accused of rape**
    - First first lady to come under criminal investigation
    - Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
    - First president to establish a legal defense fund.
    - First president to be held in contempt of court
    - Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
    - Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
    - First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

    * According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.

    Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in “Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: “By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever.”

    **Selene Walter accused Ronald Reagan of rape 39 years after the alleged assault in the 1950s. No further information is available on this case. The Juanita Broaddrick case involving Bill Clinton was investigated by the congressional impeachment counsel. According to counsel David Shippers those conducting the interview “have assured me that she is the most credible witness that either one of them have ever talked to”

    STARR-RAY INVESTIGATION

    - Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14
    - Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
    - Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
    - Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3

    CRIME STATS

    - Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
    - Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
    - Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
    - Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122

    SMALTZ INVESTIGATION

    - Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15
    - Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6
    - Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million
    - Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million

    CAMPAIGN FINANCE INVESTIGATION

    - As of June 2000, the Justice Department listed 25 people indicted and 19 convicted because of the 1996 Clinton-Gore fundraising scandals.
    - According to the House Committee on Government Reform in September 2000, 79 House and Senate witnesses asserted the Fifth Amendment in the course of investigations into Gore’s last fundraising campaign.
    -James Riady entered a plea agreement to pay an $8.5 million fine for campaign finance crimes. This was a record under campaign finance laws.

    CLINTON MACHINE CRIMES FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS WERE OBTAINED

    Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.

    HISTORICAL CONTEXT

    - Number of independent counsel inquiries since the 1978 law was passed: 19
    - Number that have produced indictments: 7
    - Number that produced more convictions than the Starr investigation: 1
    - Median length of investigations that led to convictions: 44 months
    - Length of Starr-Ray investigation: 69 months.
    - Total cost of the Starr investigation (3/00) $52 million
    - Total cost of the Iran-Contra investigation: $48.5 million
    - Total cost to taxpayers of the Madison Guarantee failure: $73 million

    OTHER MATTERS INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA

    Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White House.

    ARKANSAS ALTZHEIMER’S

    Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn’t remember, didn’t know, or something similar.

    Bill Kennedy 116
    Harold Ickes 148
    Ricki Seidman 160
    Bruce Lindsey 161
    Bill Burton 191
    Mark Gearan 221
    Mack McLarty 233
    Neil Egglseston 250
    Hillary Clinton 250
    John Podesta 264
    Jennifer O’Connor 343
    Dwight Holton 348
    Patsy Thomasson 420
    Jeff Eller 697

    FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES: In the portions of President Clinton’s Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and how many times he gave each one.

    I don’t remember – 71
    I don’t know – 62
    I’m not sure – 17
    I have no idea – 10
    I don’t believe so – 9
    I don’t recall – 8
    I don’t think so – 8
    I don’t have any specific recollection – 6
    I have no recollection – 4
    Not to my knowledge – 4
    I just don’t remember – 4
    I don’t believe – 4
    I have no specific recollection – 3
    I might have – 3
    I don’t have any recollection of that – 2 I don’t have a specific memory – 2
    I don’t have any memory of that – 2
    I just can’t say – 2
    I have no direct knowledge of that – 2
    I don’t have any idea – 2
    Not that I recall – 2
    I don’t believe I did – 2
    I can’t remember – 2
    I can’t say – 2
    I do not remember doing so – 2
    Not that I remember – 2
    I’m not aware – 1
    I honestly don’t know – 1
    I don’t believe that I did – 1
    I’m fairly sure – 1
    I have no other recollection – 1
    I’m not positive – 1
    I certainly don’t think so – 1
    I don’t really remember – 1
    I would have no way of remembering that – 1
    That’s what I believe happened – 1
    To my knowledge, no – 1
    To the best of my knowledge – 1
    To the best of my memory – 1
    I honestly don’t recall – 1
    I honestly don’t remember – 1
    That’s all I know – 1
    I don’t have an independent recollection of that – 1
    I don’t actually have an independent memory of that – 1
    As far as I know – 1
    I don’t believe I ever did that – 1
    That’s all I know about that – 1
    I’m just not sure – 1
    Nothing that I remember – 1
    I simply don’t know – 1
    I would have no idea – 1
    I don’t know anything about that – 1
    I don’t have any direct knowledge of that – 1
    I just don’t know – 1
    I really don’t know – 1
    I can’t deny that, I just — I have no memory of that at all – 1

    Wow, what a party.

  • WCinWI

    ndanielson said:
    How can you judge the cost of inaction? How much did 9-11 cost? How much did we SAVE by preventing the next one? Do tell away.

    Why was this asked of me? Just curious. :)

  • ndanielson

    ndanielson said:
    Those wars could very well have saved us twice as much as we would spend bringing terrorists to court the BJ Clinton way. Call it moneys saved or created.

    Those wars could very well have saved us the cost of a hundred twin towers, but we’ll never know will we?

  • writer

    Hey, King. Census figures show very high illegitimate birthrates in minority communities. Why single out Bristol all the time? Spread the wealth. Tell us how horrible all those other girls are.

  • ndanielson

    WCinWI said:
    Why was this asked of me? Just curious. :)

    Isn’t this your question?

    WCinWI said:
    I know. A $12 billion dollar surplus is sure hard to explain.

    Now….can you tell me something positive about Neocon Obama? Do tell me why we’re in all of these wars please.

    Do tell me why we’re in all of these wars please…

  • WCinWI

    ndanielson said:
    Isn’t this your question?

    Do tell me why we’re in all of these wars please…

    I don’t know why we’re in the Libyan war. That’s my major disagreement. And unless the stated mission in the other wars is to “Win” or “Nation-build” because it would be far worse if we didn’t, I think that should be stated.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    THOSE GOD DAMN LIBERALS AND THEIR INFATUATION WITH BASHING PALIN!

  • joetrip

    Palin’s latest scandal has just been revealed in “My Night with Sarah Palin”
    http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/joe-tripician/my-night-with-sarah-palin
    Excerpt: “I admired her stamina. Her ability to Charlie Sheen it night after night.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Martin/1646024347 John Martin

    We trust a man with absolutely no record of leadership experience with the ‘football’, why should ANYONE be concerned with Palin?

    Mr. Obama has made several decisions that have pushed us closer to nuclear options than we have been since Ronald Reagan put paid to the Soviet Union. Agitating Islamic fundamentalists operating under the guise of ‘democracy seekers’. Capitulating on an Missile Defense plan that would have protected us and our allies – without even getting anything in return…that’s amazing diplomacy there, folks. He has emboldened Pakistan, North Korea, and Iraq. Where was his support for democratic movements in the Arab world when the poor democracy-loving people of Iraq rose up? And were crushed while Obama did nothing. Now, Iraq has become an undisputed power – if not THE undisputed power – in the region. Within a year or two, they too will be a nuclear power.

    With the very dangerous world that Mr. Obama has wrought, Sarah Palin is far from the most dangerous potential leaders we could consider.

  • writer

    I’m sure it won’t be long till the left will be quoting it as fact.

  • TeaPartyNation

    It must be hard to face each day when you’re a washed-up, has-been, ruling-class-establishment commentator like will.

  • dandelion28

    At least some conservatives haven’t lost their grip on reality. George Will is speaking what the majority of Americans feel: This clueless, reckless, mean-spirited narcissist shouldn’t be allowed in the White House for a tour, let alone occupy the Oval Office. Oh, and to her drooling followers … unlike Obama, Palin has EARNED this scorn.

  • notsofast

    George Will: Everyone Knows Sarah Palin Should Not Be Trusted With Nuclear Weapons”

    Really? What did she do with them the last time she had ‘em? What? She never had ‘em?

    Well, then kindly STFU!

  • Sam M.

    notsofast said:
    George Will: Everyone Knows Sarah Palin Should Not Be Trusted With Nuclear Weapons”

    Really? What did she do with them the last time she had ‘em? What? She never had ‘em?

    Well, then kindly STFU!

    This makes sense if you think Sarah Palin is presidential material. LMAO!!

  • Rokker

    Don’t trust Palin with any weapon. You never give weapons to children or clowns..

  • Glackin

    ndanielson said:
    Those wars could very well have saved us twice as much as we would spend bringing terrorists to court the BJ Clinton way. Call it moneys saved or created.

    That is the most absurd blather ever posted. Anywhere.
    BTW– Are you sure that isn’t the transcript of Alberto (Fredo) Gonzalez?

  • insideguy

    ndanielson I could name a bunch of stuff I don’t agree with Obama on. Ill list them soon. But to vote a goofball like Palin in as a protest vote, that to me is just dangerous.

  • Sam M.

    Glackin said:
    That is the most absurd blather ever posted. Anywhere.
    BTW– Are you sure that isn’t the transcript of Alberto (Fredo) Gonzalez?

    This guy ndanileson obviously inhales aerosols. Sad, but it happens.

  • Snidely

    George Will is a dinosaur. He should be extinct, but endures from force of habit. If someone isn’t a whitebread male ivy leaguer , that person isn’t really anyone. Nothing new becomes conventional wisdom until the adherents of the old order die off. Will is of the old order.

  • WCinWI

    insideguy said:
    ndanielson I could name a bunch of stuff I don’t agree with Obama on. Ill list them soon. But to vote a goofball like Palin in as a protest vote, that to me is just dangerous.

    Then who would you vote for? What Republican would you vote for? Who is going to turn the economic situation of the US around? The Democratic Party won’t lead so who will? Do tell.

  • ndanielson

    insideguy said:
    ndanielson I could name a bunch of stuff I don’t agree with Obama on. Ill list them soon. But to vote a goofball like Palin in as a protest vote, that to me is just dangerous.

    Wow, nothing off the top of your head? But, what would that leave. Aerosols. Sam M thinks hes as relevant as you, I see. Always brings so much intellectual heft to any argument. Are you twins?

  • Sam M.

    Snidely said:
    George Will is a dinosaur. He should be extinct, but endures from force of habit. If someone isn’t a whitebread male ivy leaguer , that person isn’t really anyone. Nothing new becomes conventional wisdom until the adherents of the old order die off. Will is of the old order.

    Uh, yeah, what you said. Jesus.

  • pinandpuller

    puck30 said:
    Why? We somehow trust Barry.

    puck30 said:
    Why? We somehow trust Barry.

    He said he wouldn’t use them.

  • ganymede

    Lordy, she’s still here! I thought Palin would stop at 10-20mil, but she’s still playing it for all its worth. What seems clear is that the Republicans have already lost any chance of getting the presidency in 2012, It’s so bad that any one of a dozen Democrats could beat any Republican. Does anyone thinking person believe that Palin could win the Presidency? It would take, as someone has said, Armageddon. She is so unqualified that one starts worrying about the sanity and common sense of a sizable minority of my fellow Americans. Do you really, really think she’s up to leading this country?
    The Republicans have made so many blunders, the most recent is Paul Ryan’s nonsense about ‘reforming’ Medicaire. The right has so little respect for what the left has created, such as Medicaire and Social Security, that they want to destroy these great products of an advanced civilization, to be replaced by what…the free market. Americans love Medicaire and Social Security and are not going to allow any tampering by people who mean us no good. Yes, yo…rightwingers. This is a great country and you don’t even think we have the ingenuity to make these systems work knowing how important they are for a successful society. Maybe fewer armaments and needless wars, maybe taxing individuals and corporations who have been fortunate to make tons of money because they have a great support team, namely us, the people who work hard to keep things going in this country. It would be nice if you could wake up to reality and see how embarrassing it is to be taken in by a fool with not a serious idea in her head. I’m not a Palin hater. I just resent that she is trying to inject herself into history without having any understanding of history and the damage she’s done and continues to do to the body politic in our country.
    It does look like the Republican Party is on a downward slide. There doesn’t seem to be a real leader and the litmus test is too crazy. You have to hate Obama and want to privatize Social Security and Medicaire. Not a winning formula.

  • pinandpuller

    Mahala4 said:
    As far as WOMEN running, if it was between Hillary Clinton, or Sarah Palin, I would go with *Hillary Clinton* because she has the VISIBLE INTELLIGENCE, and her ANSWERS to questions make SENSE. She is more of a FIGHTER and REALISTIC and will NO DOUBT be able to mediate with others. She will be able to handle an INVERVIEW, and know what NEWSPAPERS she is reading and not stumble. She has the POLITICAL look, not like someone vying for a medeling of clothing and her makeup. Palin is more MATERIALISTIC, and can TALK the TALK, but in the long run, she is NOT DEPENDABLE, and is a QUITTER. I can’t see having ANYONE like Palin being the President of the United States. She just doesn’t have the grandeur, and she would NO DOUBTEDLY be noted as the FAKER or FANTASY queen, always with her head in the clouds.

    Well both Hillary and Sarah both owe their rise to prominance in presidential politics to men, that’s for sure. It just so happens that Hillary put up with philandering and scandals (sexual and financial)to reach that pinnacle.

    Hillary would have gotten nowhere near a presidential primary without Bill. Sarah is more self-made and she didn’t make 100k on a cattle future scam (or get a 300k no show job for that matter). The so-called feminist Hillary hitched her wagon to a rising star but she’s a has been now and I almost feel sorry for her.

  • flagringo

    George Will is a sexist….there’s nothing in Sarah’s experience to show that she is not level headed; she’s managed huge budgets, thousands of employees and has always supported America first/Constitutional government….maybe THOSE are threats to the George Will World…!

    America First George…have nightmares every night!

  • Sam M.

    flagringo said:
    George Will is a sexist….there’s nothing in Sarah’s experience to show that she is not level headed; she’s managed huge budgets, thousands of employees and has always supported America first/Constitutional government….maybe THOSE are threats to the George Will World…!

    America First George…have nightmares every night!

    George Will is a realist. You, on the other hand, live in some fantasy world.

  • Girth Brick

    George Will is stating the obvious – a birdbrain who believes in Armageddon and sees witch doctors should not be trusted with nuclear weapons.

  • lane

    Once voters elected Obama, the need for vast experience was thrown out the door. Shouldn’t be, but it was.

    If we’ve trusted Obama as Commander-in-chief, than Palin’s fine too. She’s actually run a state and her son’s served in Iraq, so likely she’d be less likely to lead the US into warfronts and into nuclear issues. I’d actually trust her more in that capacity than not. But I don’t think either Obama or Palin is a great choice either way. I think experience matters a ton.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-May/100000487186431 Chris May

    Pooh, who cares. George Will wouldn’t have trusted Harry Truman with the nukes either. Didn’t go tot he right schools, dontcha know.

  • jakester

    lane said:
    Once voters elected Obama, the need for vast experience was thrown out the door. Shouldn’t be, but it was.

    If we’ve trusted Obama as Commander-in-chief, than Palin’s fine too. She’s actually run a state and her son’s served in Iraq, so likely she’d be less likely to lead the US into warfronts and into nuclear issues. I’d actually trust her more in that capacity than not. But I don’t think either Obama or Palin is a great choice either way. I think experience matters a ton.

    A duh, she quit half way through her term as governor in order to milk all the saps.

  • WCinWI

    jakester said:
    A duh, she quit half way through her term as governor in order to milk all the saps.

    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PALIN AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

    Rent free.

    Fo sho.

  • jakester

    Chris May said:
    Pooh, who cares. George Will wouldn’t have trusted Harry Truman with the nukes either. Didn’t go tot he right schools, dontcha know.

    That is such a mindless comment, it shows a typical Palindrone’s puerile grasp of history. Difference was that Truman was a sensible person who didn’t use nukes when he was tempted to in Korea while the Palins back then wanted to use nukes on North Korea and Red China. Only a total birdbrain, the typical Palindrone, thinks George’s issue is her schools. There are plenty of people, like Truman, who never went to college yet are so much more intelligent and wiser than Palin and her childish fans.

  • jakester

    WCinWI said:
    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PALIN AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

    Rent free.

    Fo sho.

    Another barely literate cretin for Palin.

  • Sam M.

    WCinWI said:
    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PALIN AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

    Rent free.

    Fo sho.

    All you need to know about a Palin groupie. LMAO!!

  • WCinWI

    jakester said:
    Another barely literate cretin for Palin.

    There’s that awesome Lefty rhetoric. And you call Palin the extreme one.

    Rent Free. Huzzah!

    It must torque you that Netanyahu received more standing O’s than O. Huzzah!

  • WCinWI

    jakester said:
    Another barely literate cretin for Palin.

    And I’m quite literate. Even won a reading competition in grade school. Huzzah!

  • Sam M.

    WCinWI said:
    There’s that awesome Lefty rhetoric. And you call Palin the extreme one.

    Rent Free. Huzzah!

    It must torque you that Netanyahu received more standing O’s than O. Huzzah!

    Yeah, we’re torqued. LMAO!!

  • jakester

    WCinWI said:
    There’s that awesome Lefty rhetoric. And you call Palin the extreme one.

    Rent Free. Huzzah!

    It must torque you that Netanyahu received more standing O’s than O. Huzzah!

    Since I am neither a big Obama fan as well as stupidity and shallowness always sells better than wisdom; therefore I am not torqued at all. I would like to see peace between Israel and her neighbors, but since people like you, Sarah and Bibi are incapable of compromise, there won’t be any peace as long as those types have their way.

  • insideguy

    What is it with you conservatives and your personal insults? Im tired of them this is just ridiculous I try and have a civil conversation and you guys turn this into this bs. ndanielson I would have answered your question but what the use. Go ahead vote for Palin I don’t care dude she aint gonna run and if she does she cant win. When you understand that Ill get back to you in about august when she’s done taking more money from you saps.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    WCinWI said:
    If it were between Palin and Obama, who would you pull the lever for….in the quiet of the room? I want someone with a libertarian bent and that’s why I like Palin.

    Bent is the right word.

  • Sam M.

    WCinWI said:
    And I’m quite literate. Even won a reading competition in grade school. Huzzah!

    Where? From Bob’s School and Dry Cleaners?

  • tmbodok

    Sarah Palin loves to pal around with her Israeli masters who have been butchering peace-loving Palestinians. She would most definitely use follow her Israeli masters’ orders to drop the nuclear bombs on those innocent good people of Palestine.

    Just look at her today, she continues to pal around with those Rolling Thunder murderers who loved to butcher innocent civilians during the Vietnam War.

    Sarah Palin would definitely surrender the nuclear buttons to her terrorist buddies.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    It really doesn’t take a genius to manipulate the media today. See: Trump, Donald. Palin, Sarah. Sheen, Charlie.

  • tegeagent0007

    Will’s comment about trusting Palin with Nukes reminds me of the movie “The Dead Zone” with Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen, where Sheen plays a crazed and insane president who in the end is destroyed by his insanity and his thirst to destroy the world.

  • tegeagent0007

    I’m with Will on this one. My man is Pawlenty as well. If Palin ran, which she won’t. She and Bachmann would split the tea party vote and hand Iowa over to Pawlenty at which time his campaign could catch fire, come in second in New Hampshire, buy that time Palin and Bachmann would essentially be over and Pawlenty taking that momentum into South Carolina and Florida where the voters would case their ballots for someone who can actually beat Obama. In fact Romney, Pawlenty, and Huntsman are hoping for both Palin and Bachmann to run.

  • Nature Freak

    Thank you George Will. He’s kind of a dying breed, a republican who has not been brainwashed by the tea party and isn’t full of hate. I have disagreed with George many a time through the years but still respect the guy. He’s a class act.

  • labman57

    Based on her apparent lack of expertise demonstrated on her recent Alaska infomercial series, Palin should not be trusted with a hunting rifle or shotgun. But then, neither should Dick Cheney.

  • hamp1239

    Sinister Sarah has inspired hatred and violence and is very dangerous! That was already proven, with the crosshairs on congressional districts.

  • seek

    Publius219 said:
    It really doesn’t take a genius to manipulate the media today. See: Trump, Donald. Palin, Sarah. Sheen, Charlie.

    Obama, Barack

  • potvin

    Isn’t this the same thing liberals said about Reagan? I think George Will has officially jumped the shark.

  • WildMan

    Yo Georgie Porgie, if you’ll stop opening your mouth we’ll see to it that Sarah leaves the Atomic Football alone. Now just go away and leave us alone.

  • StewartIII

    SO PALIN CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUT OBAMA CAN?:
    Is Obama above the law?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-obama-above-the-law/2011/05/26/AGL5zyCH_story.html

  • OZ

    My money’s on Mitt.

  • OZ

    seek said:
    Obama, Barack

    Ryan, Paul,

  • Nature Freak

    Sarah Palin????? W T F
    Now that America has had a midlife crisis and decided to really lower the bar for being President, lets look at some other options for who could run for President of the US.

    Dominique Strauss-Kahn (as long as he’s in a Hannibal Lector outfit or on Salt peter)…
    General Zod (may have illegal alien issues)…
    Charlie Sheen(possible DSK issues)…
    GW Bush (sad but true…even shrub has more of a brain than Palin. pretty sad)…
    evil Tiger mom Amy Chua…
    H.R. Pufnstuf (not a person in any normal sense but person inside costume still would be a better president)…
    Paris Hilton..
    Lindsey Lohan…
    Glenn Quagmire (cartoon character/may have some DSK issues see above. Would still be a better president)…
    Snoop Dogg(at least he would legalize it)…
    The greeter at my local Wal-Mart(he is much more polite than Palin /smarter) …
    Drunk homeless man who I saw earlier today mumbling incoherently….

    YES…EVEN ALL THESE INDIVIDUALS/CHARACTERS/MISFITS WOULD DO A BETTER JOB THAN PALIN!!!

  • 78Thomas

    And again, the GOP establishment is doing its very damnedest to not speak of Ron Paul. They will talk about Palin, “will she” , “won’t she” all day long but won’t acknowledge the popularity of Ron Paul.
    You want change, seriously? Then take a look at Ron Paul.

  • Nature Freak

    Let me add to the list of people eminently more qualified to run for president than Sarah Palin

    The “Dont Taze Me Bro” Dude…
    Dos Equis “The Most Interesting Man in the World”…
    The late Jeff Conaway of Grease fame (America could do a Weekend at Bernies thing. Sure beats Palin)…
    Sarah Silverman (maybe my first choice as the debate between the Sarahs would be epic)
    Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads. Yes even she is less annoying than Palin. And she’s progressive.

    America….your 234 years old …I know your having a midlife crisis. This Palin dalliance needs to stop. Please see a therapist before having a serious relationship with Palin. Think of the children

  • OZ

    No Conservative should be trusted with Nuclear Weapons. They are already using WMD,(Weapons of Mass Distraction), on the U.S.

  • OZ

    To paraphrase 50 Cent, “My mitts on my money and my money’s on Mitt”.

  • Paul G

    OZ said:
    No Conservative should be trusted with Nuclear Weapons. They are already using WMD,(Weapons of Mass Distraction), on the U.S.

    Yea…read my post from page 1…(and change your stolen pic(and name)….not cool…..

  • Paul G

    Paul G said:
    Yea…read my post from page 1…(and change your stolen pic(and name)….not cool…..

    You diaper wearing cubicle babies make me sick…BUT DON’T USE A ARMED FORCES PIC ON MEMORIAL DAY!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Ross/1043648898 Ed Ross

    George, is it just Sarah Palin or is it all women you feel that way about?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Old, wilted, wizened weasel Will is a voice from the crypt. Supersonic Sarah has passed him by, leaving him to choke in the dust of desperation.

  • mediadoubt

    Paul G said:
    You diaper wearing cubicle babies make me sick…BUT DON’T USE A ARMED FORCES PIC ON MEMORIAL DAY!!!

    Excuse me? Blow it out your ear.

  • mediadoubt

    I think most people agree that Palin would be a danger from the point that she managed to unwrap the spork that comes with her Happy Meal. But an earlier poster was talking about Palin being the path to the nomination for Pawlenty (Palin and Bachmann splitting the ‘bagger vote, leaving sensible people in charge of the primary).

    That seems possible to me, but if I was Pawlenty, I wouldn’t be basing my whole campaing on Bachmann and Palin engaging in a suicide cage match. Neither one is sufficiently predictable.

  • Barack Must Go

    mediadoubt said:
    I think most people agree that Palin would be a danger from the point that she managed to unwrap the spork that comes with her Happy Meal. But an earlier poster was talking about Palin being the path to the nomination for Pawlenty (Palin and Bachmann splitting the ‘bagger vote, leaving sensible people in charge of the primary).

    That seems possible to me, but if I was Pawlenty, I wouldn’t be basing my whole campaing on Bachmann and Palin engaging in a suicide cage match. Neither one is sufficiently predictable.

    Well you’re not so sit down and shut up.

  • Sidhekitten

    Ah George, to long inside that beltway. Personally, I am still pretty Neutral on Sarah, however, I think that these beltway brats need to understand that whoever they love is now being looked out with more suspicion than ever. There is a reason why they love Paw Paw is because they KNOW that El Presidente can beat him. Whoever these purple blooded (they are beyond blue blooded) buffoons hate are the ones that have a shot at our Progressive in Chief.

    Now as to the Nuclear issue, I would trust her more than a man who would not be able to get a Secret Clearance much less a Top Secret Clearance based upon any reasonable standard. His associations alone would be enough stop him from getting through a “BI” much less an “SBI” and now that man has the final say on if we launch or fail to launch if we were attacked.

  • Phocus2

    Will is capable of stupid…as you can see. Palin with nukes or Obama with nukes…hmmm.

    Noonan, Brooks, Will…tiring has beens that are increasingly irrelevant.

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  • Dem4Ever

    Paul G said:
    You diaper wearing cubicle babies make me sick…BUT DON’T USE A ARMED FORCES PIC ON MEMORIAL DAY!!!

    Agreed!!! This OZ character is one of those ‘war hero frauds’ we’ve all been reading about. He makes me sick.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Lond/100000950693221 Don Lond

    “George Will: Everyone Knows Sarah Palin Should Not Be Trusted With Nuclear Weapons”

    And everybody knows that george Will should not be trusted with a word processor.

    Who care what this Washington insider thinks? He gets one vote and mine will cancel his out.

  • tiredoftherunaround

    NonElite said:
    I’m note going to support Sarah Palin for President either, but George Will’s comment was uncalled for. Palin is good for the over all discourse and Will just poisoned that.
    Look George, if Obama could be considered a viable Presidential candidate then Sarah Palin can as well.

    I doubt she’d have to be pulled a golf course to observe the most important event since 9/11. Something his slaves don’t give a thought about, apparently, in their total devotion to this fool

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    I love George, but he appears to showing early signs of dementia. The Nukes are already in the hands of a clown.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Seems like most Republicans are RINO these days. It makes me wonder if they aren’t the Republicans and the “RINO” emitters aren’t something else all together. Maybe, SPIT. SocioPaths in Tandem.

    Poor RRK, you need to be more careful about your comments. You are not showing signs of improvement. You may never be released. The guy that thinks he is Stalin across the hall from you is likely to get out before you.

  • Barack Must Go

    George Will: Everyone Knows Sarah Palin Should Not Be Trusted With Nuclear Weapons

    Seems where there’s a Will, there’s a way….. off to the left, off the wall response as of late.

  • Patrick49

    If anyone should be kept away from Nuclear weapons it is the President Barack Hussein Obama. George Will is completely ignorant ,as well as all on the panel, with the national laws and Department of Defense regulations with respect to the personnel assigned duties with Nuclear Weapons.

    Ref A. The United States Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) for Nuclear Weapons. (DODD 5210.42 Nuclear Weapon Personnel Reliability Program (PRP)

    It is still the age of Nuclear Weapons and presidential candidate Barack Obama wishes to have command of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.

    Considering pre-service use of cocaine automatically disqualifies a service member from access to or control of nuclear weapons– it is a sign of the times and a great irony that the American people, would even consider voting into the Office of President and Commander and Chief, any individual who would not be permitted into the United States Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) for Nuclear Weapons — because of cocaine use.

    “It is DoD policy that:

    1. The Department of Defense shall support the national security of the United States by maintaining an effective nuclear deterrent while protecting the public health, safety, and environment. For that reason, nuclear-weapons require special consideration because of their policy implications and military importance, their destructive power, and the political consequences of an accident or an unauthorized act. The safety, security, control, and effectiveness of nuclear weapons are of paramount importance to the security of the United States…….

    “Only those personnel who have demonstrated the highest degree of individual reliability for allegiance, trustworthiness, conduct, behavior, and responsibility shall be allowed to perform duties associated with nuclear weapons, and they shall be continuously evaluated for adherence to PRP standards……

    “illicit drugs such as heroin, heroin derivatives, cocaine, “crack,” phencyclidine (PCP), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ecstasy,” or other “designer” drugs, amphetamines, barbiturates, or other narcotic drugs not prescribed by proper medical authorities, and anabolic steroids shall render an individual ineligible for admission to or retention in PRP duties. The individual shall not be certified into the program or shall be permanently decertified, and those actions shall be made a matter of permanent record……..” (DODD 5210.42 Nuclear Weapons Personnel Reliability Program (PRP).

    It is acknowledged the president is not be subject to these regulations. But that is a specious argument, one defying common sense,when reliability of all concerned is the objective. The American people should demand more, not less, from its presidents.

  • david r

    (Click on the red phone.)

    http://www.palinaspresident.us/

  • Azarkhan

    Why George, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Pawlenty?

  • Vietnameravet

    Its pretty obvious what is going on with the right wingers.. They cant stand the thought of a black man in the white house but, cowards that they are, they disguise their racism with wild charges of one thing or another …totally baseless and totally demonstrating their hateful ignorance. This is not principled dissent..this is closet racism and resistance to change..

    Sarah Palin is a manipulator of the first degree but she gets away with it because she bashes Obama and old white guys like Gordon Blowhart think that is great!

    The right wing of the republican party is where you gravitate to when you want legitimacy for your bigotry and where you can talk about “Christian values” and ‘rebirth of the nation” as you spread hate and lies and fear!

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Vietnameravet said:
    Its pretty obvious what is going on with the right wingers.. They cant stand the thought of a black man in the white house but, cowards that they are, they disguise their racism with wild charges of one thing or another …totally baseless and totally demonstrating their hateful ignorance. This is not principled dissent..this is closet racism and resistance to change..

    Why does a scumbag like you hide behind a phony name and then lie about real Americans. You low life pos.

  • Sam M.

    gordonbloyershow said:
    I love George, but he appears to showing early signs of dementia. The Nukes are already in the hands of a clown.

    If he shows early signs of dementia then you have full blown Alzheimer’s.

  • Sam M.

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Why does a scumbag like you hide behind a phony name and then lie about real Americans. You low life pos.

    This blather coming from a coward that dodged the draft. C’mon Basil, you pulled a Limbaugh and you know it. Time to man up.

  • lucky5

    George, don’t say that we want her to run because she will bring a little pizazz and “you betcha” to the campaign.

  • BatBoy

    I am not that impressed with George Will, likewise he would not be that impressed with me either…thus that puts us on an even playing field…as far a voting goes.

    My vote….I will take Sarah over anyone in the field at this time. My vote goes to her.

    I will not, like Will put down any of the other Candidates….they have an equal footing as far as I am concerned.

    After ALL of the Republicans who vote in the primary decide who our nominee will be, I will vote for them….till then…my vote and money goes to Sarah.

  • BatBoy

    LiberalsAreIgnorant said:
    Exposed

    You might want think about taking your postings to another forum.

  • Sam M.

    BatBoy said:
    I am not that impressed with George Will, likewise he would not be that impressed with me either…thus that puts us on an even playing field…as far a voting goes.

    My vote….I will take Sarah over anyone in the field at this time. My vote goes to her.

    I will not, like Will put down any of the other Candidates….they have an equal footing as far as I am concerned.

    After ALL of the Republicans who vote in the primary decide who our nominee will be, I will vote for them….till then…my vote and money goes to Sarah.

    Uh, no, that does not put you on an even playing field. Not in your wildest dreams, but it’s a nice thought I suppose.

  • Gasket

    Patrick49 said:
    If anyone should be kept away from Nuclear weapons it is the President Barack Hussein Obama. George Will is completely ignorant ,as well as all on the panel, with the national laws and Department of Defense regulations with respect to the personnel assigned duties with Nuclear Weapons.

    Ref A. The United States Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) for Nuclear Weapons. (DODD 5210.42 Nuclear Weapon Personnel Reliability Program (PRP)

    It is still the age of Nuclear Weapons and presidential candidate Barack Obama wishes to have command of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.

    Considering pre-service use of cocaine automatically disqualifies a service member from access to or control of nuclear weapons– it is a sign of the times and a great irony that the American people, would even consider voting into the Office of President and Commander and Chief, any individual who would not be permitted into the United States Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) for Nuclear Weapons — because of cocaine use.

    “It is DoD policy that:

    1. The Department of Defense shall support the national security of the United States by maintaining an effective nuclear deterrent while protecting the public health, safety, and environment. For that reason, nuclear-weapons require special consideration because of their policy implications and military importance, their destructive power, and the political consequences of an accident or an unauthorized act. The safety, security, control, and effectiveness of nuclear weapons are of paramount importance to the security of the United States…….

    “Only those personnel who have demonstrated the highest degree of individual reliability for allegiance, trustworthiness, conduct, behavior, and responsibility shall be allowed to perform duties associated with nuclear weapons, and they shall be continuously evaluated for adherence to PRP standards……

    “illicit drugs such as heroin, heroin derivatives, cocaine, “crack,” phencyclidine (PCP), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ecstasy,” or other “designer” drugs, amphetamines, barbiturates, or other narcotic drugs not prescribed by proper medical authorities, and anabolic steroids shall render an individual ineligible for admission to or retention in PRP duties. The individual shall not be certified into the program or shall be permanently decertified, and those actions shall be made a matter of permanent record……..” (DODD 5210.42 Nuclear Weapons Personnel Reliability Program (PRP).

    It is acknowledged the president is not be subject to these regulations. But that is a specious argument, one defying common sense,when reliability of all concerned is the objective. The American people should demand more, not less, from its presidents.

    Tangentially, did you have the same problem with Bush being POTUS? BTW, your argument is illogical on the merits.

  • Gasket

    BatBoy said:
    (Quote)

    I am not that impressed with George Will, likewise he would not be that impressed with me either…thus that puts us on an even playing field…as far a voting goes.

    Actually, it doesn’t, because you’re a vacuous nobody. Will actually has influence on others….voting wise. His opinion matters. Yours does NOT.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Sam M. said:
    This blather coming from a coward that dodged the draft. C’mon Basil, you pulled a Limbaugh and you know it. Time to man up.

    There you go again. Since Limbaugh was never drafted or was ever going to be drafted he could not have dodged the draft. Cowards like you went to Canada to dodge the draft or like Clinton you used influence with the draft board and took off to England.
    You clowns like to label people but you need to have some facts and actually know what a draft dodger is. Since you folks hate the military you have no standing to call anyone names.
    You know, just like everyone else does here that I enlisted. So I can not be a draft dodger or a chickenhawk. Limbaugh did not enlist he just failed a physical and that also does not make him a draft dodger. If he was a draft dodger no military man would be sending him flags from their units. When someong joins the Guard they also NOT draft dodgers.
    Now you should shut your ignorant mouth or use your real name because as long as you hide you are the ONLY coward in the conversation.

  • glenn113

    This one statemdent disqualifies Sarah Palin as Commander and Chief. Can anyone seriously imagin her being in charge of the bil Laden raid and killing and her being the decider in the operation.. Think about that. Any reasonable person with half a brain knows she would have not a clue what to do. Case closed.

  • glenn113

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There you go again. Since Limbaugh was never drafted or was ever going to be drafted he could not have dodged the draft. Cowards like you went to Canada to dodge the draft or like Clinton you used influence with the draft board and took off to England.You clowns like to label people but you need to have some facts and actually know what a draft dodger is. Since you folks hate the military you have no standing to call anyone names.You know, just like everyone else does here that I enlisted. So I can not be a draft dodger or a chickenhawk. Limbaugh did not enlist he just failed a physical and that also does not make him a draft dodger. If he was a draft dodger no military man would be sending him flags from their units. When someong joins the Guard they also NOT draft dodgers.Now you should shut your ignorant mouth or use your real name because as long as you hide you are the ONLY coward in the conversation.

    Limbaugh didn’t pass the physical to be drafted because of a cyst on his ass. Give me a break. This site says all you need about that chickenhawk. http://www.nhgazette.com/display/?id=65

  • glenn113

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There you go again. Since Limbaugh was never drafted or was ever going to be drafted he could not have dodged the draft. Cowards like you went to Canada to dodge the draft or like Clinton you used influence with the draft board and took off to England.You clowns like to label people but you need to have some facts and actually know what a draft dodger is. Since you folks hate the military you have no standing to call anyone names.You know, just like everyone else does here that I enlisted. So I can not be a draft dodger or a chickenhawk. Limbaugh did not enlist he just failed a physical and that also does not make him a draft dodger. If he was a draft dodger no military man would be sending him flags from their units. When someong joins the Guard they also NOT draft dodgers.Now you should shut your ignorant mouth or use your real name because as long as you hide you are the ONLY coward in the conversation.

    Oh, and here is a fitting saw for all your heroes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTAqUwYHnec&feature=fvst

  • GDSWAN

    As a newby to this site, I’m sure I will run into some right wingers who will firmly disagree with my views and that’s ok. I am just looking to engage in dialogue (sometimes passionate) about the GOP and the thought process behind the reasoning. Less taxes, smaller government, tax breaks for the people who need them least, health care for only those who can afford it, anti women’s choice, etc..etc..etc. I hope to have intellectual debate in the near future.

  • OZ

    Paul G said:
    Yea…read my post from page 1…(and change your stolen pic(and name)….not cool…..

    That is my picture, you fraud. It was my boot camp picture, from 1969. Obviously you are a fraud wannabe.

  • http://none pyrope

    George Will is a RINO. The natural follow up question that would NEVER be asked is “Well, how do you feel about -0bama being trusted with nuclear weapons?”

  • Nacho

    pyrope said:
    George Will is a RINO.

    YAHTZEE!

  • Cubby

    GDSWAN said:
    I hope to have intellectual debate in the near future.

    Man oh man, have you come to the WRONG place.

  • Steve_27

    Any conern over Iran with Nukes? Just wondering.

  • BatBoy

    Time to move out George…there is a new bunch coming to town.

  • Alz

    tmbodok said:
    Sarah Palin loves to pal around with her Israeli masters who have been butchering peace-loving Palestinians. She would most definitely use follow her Israeli masters’ orders to drop the nuclear bombs on those innocent good people of Palestine.

    Just look at her today, she continues to pal around with those Rolling Thunder murderers who loved to butcher innocent civilians during the Vietnam War.

    Sarah Palin would definitely surrender the nuclear buttons to her terrorist buddies.

    Man, you’re sick. The Palestinians keep targeting civilians. And just today, Iran said it’s okay to target children.

    Your belief system is askew.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    glenn113 said:
    Oh, and here is a fitting saw for all your heroes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTAqUwYHnec&feature=fvst

    You are just another lying loser hiding behind a phony name. A TRUE coward.

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  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Sarah at a wet T-shirt contest would be weapons enough for me.

  • http://philmon.blogspot.com philmon

    Um… George? I think there’s entirely too much arguing “self-evidence” (“it answers itself”) when people are arguing about the merits/demerits of Sarah Palin.

    What have you seen that fosters this distrust? Can you point me to anything she’s said or done that has led you to this conclusion?

    You’re using the same kind of argument the Left keeps using on things. “Well it’s obvious.” “The debate is over.” “Anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot.” All rhetoric-in-leiu -of-argument.

    The question answers itself. Does it? How so?

    Humor us, Will. You’re an intelligent man, with whom I more often than not agree.

    I’m not saying she’s some dream candidate or anything, but when you go to “dis” her, do it with something besides “it goes without saying”. If it goes without saying, why the h*ll are you guys even talking about her?

  • glenn113

    GDSWAN said:
    As a newby to this site, I’m sure I will run into some right wingers who will firmly disagree with my views and that’s ok. I am just looking to engage in dialogue (sometimes passionate) about the GOP and the thought process behind the reasoning. Less taxes, smaller government, tax breaks for the people who need them least, health care for only those who can afford it, anti women’s choice, etc..etc..etc. I hope to have intellectual debate in the near future.

    Good luck. The majority of people Mediaite allows on their forum are Obamahaters or Teagaggers. You know you can’t have any rational discussion with them.

  • glenn113

    gordonbloyershow said:
    You are just another lying loser hiding behind a phony name. A TRUE coward.

    Sorry, the truth hurts.

  • glenn113

    david r said:
    (Click on the red phone.) http://www.palinaspresident.us/

    That’s hilarious. Excellent.

  • heycoachb

    Nuclear Weapon? I wouldn’t trust her with a fork!

    http://waronignorance.net/index.html

  • dougx

    No president is trusted. That’s why there are hundreds of safeguards so a president cannot just push the button and start a nuclear war. A society would have to be insane to trust 1 human being with the fate of the entire world. Very disappointed in that ridiculous opinion, George.

  • http://none pyrope

    78Thomas said:
    And again, the GOP establishment is doing its very damnedest to not speak of Ron Paul. They will talk about Palin, “will she” , “won’t she” all day long but won’t acknowledge the popularity of Ron Paul.
    You want change, seriously? Then take a look at Ron Paul.

    That’s because most of the so-called “conservatives” don’t have the spine to do what MUST be done to turn this nation and its economy around. If we fail now, our government will collapse and the US will be a third world nation within five short years.

  • http://none pyrope

    ndanielson said:
    You’d vote for the first First Lady every criminally indicted? Mrs. “I can’t remember, I can’t recall, I am not sure, I cannot say…?” Scooter Libby should have taken notes, from the inept memory of Whitewater whitewash.

    Wow, what a party.

    Children in ALL US schools should be required to commit this to memory.

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