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Sarah Palin: For The Media, GOP Primary Is ‘Reality Show’– One She Thinks She Can Win

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Hot off the tails of the other phantom Republican campaign, that of New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin visited host Greta Van Susteren tonight for an On the Record interview on Christie’s campaign, the rise of Herman Cain, and whether Palin is still thinking it through. Palin attributed the former two phenomena to the media’s Republican “reality show,” and while she expressed concern that a campaign could “shackle” her, she declared without hesitation that she could win in 2012.

On the Governor Christie matter, Palin was ready to “take him at his word” about not running for president– this is only the latest of many, many rejections of the idea for the governor, and Palin was ready to “put the nail in the coffin.” As the campaign seemed to provide “a lot of entertainment value,” the speculation around Christie, she explained, was just part of a “flavor of the week” mentality that some in the media had: “for many in the media, this is like a reality show.”

Palin had nothing but praise, however, for this week’s flavor of the week, Herman Cain, who she called “the one up there who doesn’t look like he’s part of the permanent political class… we respect that; that has an automatic connection.” She didn’t go so far as to make any endorsements, or any promises about her own campaign. “I’m a maverick and I do go rogue and I call it like I see it,” she told Van Susteren, and expressed concerns that the candidate title will “shackle” her. She did add, however, that “for logistical reasons, decisions have to be made” and, when asked directly, answered that she could definitely see herself winning the election, even if her previous comments about being shackled may have led viewers to believe she was inclining in the other direction.

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  • Anonymous

    I am one of the people who thinks Palin is capable of many things. The problem is that she still has not announced in any fashion what she plans to do. She has no campaign people yet she keeps enticing everyone that she can win. She says she will change the game yet has done almost nothing to prove otherwise.

    Now I like Palin and I think she would be refreshing addition to the Republican race, but she’s become a VERY annoying tease. She needs to make up her mind like yesterday.

  • Darladoon

    i don’t think i’ve ever met a more cowardly individual in my life

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    A reality show is a manufactured situation undergone edit to resemble the authentic for dramatic effect. The GOP primary is dramatic, unedited though heavily commented, and wholly the perogative of right wing operatives for political effect. Blame the media… It offers cover for the confusion of right wing politics devolved into impossible bicker.

  • azgrandma

    Let me guess. Queen Moron on with none other then gretie and she asks her if she has decided yet. Nutty and nuttier.

  • Anonymous

    This lady is such a pathetic Clown.

    It’s laughable that any of you people can even relate to this halfwit.

  • azgrandma

    I don’t think one exists.

  • Anonymous

    Please send this video around: Congressional Black Caucus members profess that Herman Cain and Allen West are not authentically black – call them ‘oreos’ and ‘suffering from identity crisis’ and say ‘they should go to hell’
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IgfkP69AC0 and the Tea Party is racist? Just goes to show that the liberal mainstream media is wrong. 

  • Tim Tebow

    Tim Tebow loves Sarah Palin.

    Tim Tebow remembers running home from work to watch VP debate against Biden.

    Tim Tebow loves Sarah’s quote, ”Most people wouldn’t say that paying taxes is patriotic” while her son was in Iraq.

    Tim Tebow say “Run! We Need You Sarah!!!!!!”

    Bless the Holy Land ‘neath the god queen, the annointed one!

    Brother Tim

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Except for the fact that Black folk are allowed to impeach the political priorities of other Black folks and not be racist… Just like a white man might call another white Republican a RHINO and not be anti-white.

  • azgrandma

    lady????

  • AM

    Did this bitch just say she went to israel and told the prime minister there dont believe what our president says? Who the f does she think she is? Who does she think elected her to represent this country. Go to F’in hell you c***

  • Anonymous

    The term RHINO has no racial implications, though…. So I’m not sure what point you are trying to make. 
    The term ‘Oreo’ ‘Uncle Tom’ (not used in this video but has widely been used by liberals before) and ‘Identity Crisis’ are all obviously referring to one’s race. Again, not seeing your point. 

  • Ben Dover

    Hubris personified.

  • Ben Dover

    Hubris personified.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Malcolm X implied that MLK was an “Uncle Tom”. Evidence that brother Malcom believed black folk gentically or culturally flawed? No, it was not a racial indictment but rather a political impeachment. My point is that black folk using “Uncle Tom” is just as impossibly racist as RINO and belonging to the same category. Historically bound groups, both ideological and racial, develop words to describe those who share certain characteristics but flout core principals. Conflating this with racism is silly.

  • Anonymous

    How refreshing to see that the Palin trolls aren’t here. Must still be under the bridge.

  • Anonymous

    Palin’s had experience with failing reality shows, just like she’s had experience with failed vice presidential campaigns, a failed movie career and a failure to stay a full term as governor.

  • Glutton

    Herman Cain, Allen West, and Glen Rice can all vouch for Palin not being a racist.

  • Calc21now

    hahaha.  Palin talks about embracing vetting a candidate fully and how the race is now a quasi reality show.  Oh dear god, the irony it burns. 

  • News Of The World

    I wonder if Greta and Palin call each other when the show is over and have mad phone sex for an hour.  Sure seems like they’re moist for each other.  What a couple of slugs.

  • joe

    she will have a great success with here donor pool…
    here is a list of top gop contributor and the contributions they offer to the rest of us…

    Pro life—pro war-pro guns-anti gay-anti muslim (secretly anti-jew)-anti mexican-anti european-anti asian–exlpoters of Christ—
    as they give millions to the gop in exchange for billions in tax cuts, more access to govenmetn with less oversite and regulation—here is there contribution to us..

    Guns-There were
    52,447 deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the
    United States during 2000.

    Oil-transfer of
    wealth to oil-producing countries – $1.16 trillion over the past thirty years

    Coal-COAL PLANT
    POLLUTION  KILLS 30,000 A YEAR

    Tobacco-443,000
    deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke)

    Wall street-Wall
    Street Bailout Cost Reaches $4.6 Trillion

    Insurance companies-45,000
    U.S. deaths to lack of insurance

    Alcohol-alcohol be
    blamed for 100,000 deaths each year?

    Nuclear-power plants
    are responsible for a fund that pays the first $12.6 billion in damages and
    lawsuits

  • joe

    she will have a great success with here donor pool…
    here is a list of top gop contributor and the contributions they offer to the rest of us…

    Pro life—pro war-pro guns-anti gay-anti muslim (secretly anti-jew)-anti mexican-anti european-anti asian–exlpoters of Christ—
    as they give millions to the gop in exchange for billions in tax cuts, more access to govenmetn with less oversite and regulation—here is there contribution to us..

    Guns-There were
    52,447 deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the
    United States during 2000.

    Oil-transfer of
    wealth to oil-producing countries – $1.16 trillion over the past thirty years

    Coal-COAL PLANT
    POLLUTION  KILLS 30,000 A YEAR

    Tobacco-443,000
    deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke)

    Wall street-Wall
    Street Bailout Cost Reaches $4.6 Trillion

    Insurance companies-45,000
    U.S. deaths to lack of insurance

    Alcohol-alcohol be
    blamed for 100,000 deaths each year?

    Nuclear-power plants
    are responsible for a fund that pays the first $12.6 billion in damages and
    lawsuits

  • Tex45

    Once again the snowbilly nutjob displays her command of know-nothingism.

  • Tim Tebow

    ouch!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    By the way… I hate how white folks like to step in and tell black folk how they should talk about each other.  On top of that, manufacturing controversy to present the broader impression of division.  Booker T Washington and W.E.B. debated tactics quite well without a white referee declaring victory.  

  • Anonymous

    Five times she said “Herb” Cain while complaining that people don’t do their homework.  
      

  • Anonymous

    Stop foaming at the mouth already. WTF is wrong with you Liberals? You go on and on about how hateful the right is while telling someone to go to fucking hell and calling them a c*nt. The amazing thing is you are too stupid to see the hypocrisy.

     Bibi doesn’t need Sarah Palin to tell him not to believe anything Obama says. Anyone with a brain knows to not believe anything Obama says.

  • Anonymous

    You seem to be forgetting that one chooses to be a conservative yet one does not choose to be Black. Calling someone an ‘Uncle Tom’ is essentially saying “You don’t act how your race ought to act”. And, cmon brother, Malcolm X and MLK lived in a time of immense racism, segregation, and bigotry where white and black folk DID have differing motives / worldviews, and yes, many whites were fueled by racism. Back in that time, ‘Uncle Tom’ very well could have been an acceptable term to describe political endorsement, or lack thereof. 
    America is long past that shameful part of history, however. The USA is the most tolerant we have ever been – white, black, yellow and brown people all have the same motives – we want our country and EVERYONE to succeed,  yet people pull out the race card like it’s still the 60s. By being black, one does not, or at least shouldn’t, have an assumed ideology they must follow simply because of their skin tone.However, by being conservative, one does have a set of principles they must adhere to that makes them a ‘Conservative’ as our political terminology today defines it. When one is called a RHINO, it’s essentially ‘you don’t adopt *full* conservative doctrine.’ When a black folk (who didn’t choose to be black) is called an ‘Uncle Tom’ is essentially saying ‘Your independent, unique thought isn’t valued *BECAUSE* since youre black, you’re not allowed to think like that.’ 

  • Njack

    “Herb” Cain=Sarah Clueless Palin

  • Anonymous

    Do you not see the irony in this comment? “I hate how white folks like to step in and tell black folk how they should talk about each other”
    But you don’t hate the fact that certain black liberals tell black conservatives how to think? Even going so far as telling them to ‘go to hell’ because they happen to have independent thought that’s not racially mainstream? And that they’re not authentically black by calling them ‘an oreo.’ Cmon man. 

  • Anonymous

    If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn`t buy one.
    If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he feels that no one should have one.

    If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat.
    If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants to ban all meat products for everyone.

    If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.
    A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

    If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
    If a liberal is homosexual, he loudly demands legislated respect.

    If a black man or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful.
    Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

    If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
    A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

    If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
    Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

    If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
    A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God or religion silenced.

    If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
    A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

  • Glutton

    LOL

  • Njack

    “pundants” = Sarah Clueless Palin

  • azgrandma

    She probably forgot to write it in the palm of her hand except first she would have to learn how to spell it.

  • Sarah HalfTime

    I’m afraid to watch the video because of fear. Fear of watching the furry “hump” on her head make a leap toward the camera.

    sigh.. all I’ve left, is wondering if Greta would of flinched or not when the furry “hump” made the leap…

  • Texan

    According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey, his favorability rating
    among African-Americans has dropped off a cliff, plunging from 83
    percent five months ago to a mere 58 percent today — a drop of 25
    points, a bit more than a point per week!

    OUCH!

  • Anonymous

    do you think Sarah said nice things about Herman Cain because she is attracted to him?  Maybe they already got it on.  See how she has that pet name “Herm” for Mr. Cain?  Todd better keep an eye on her and make sure of where she is at all times because Sarah seems to have the hots for “Herm.”

  • Anonymous

    In other words, if you look up “Conservative (politics)” in the dictionary, you will find a description of the core beliefs, (Conservatives believe in: small govt, pro-life, tax cuts, personal responsibility, etc) that make up a true conservative. Anyone who declares to be a ‘True’ conservative yet does not embrace the doctrine, a doctrine that is irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed, etc, is referred to as a RHINO.
    If you look up ‘African-American’ in the dictionary, you will find something to the effect of “Originating from Africa, dark complexion, etc” – It will NOT say “African-Americans believe in: ____, ____, ____,” because RACE (something you’re born with) does not determine political principles, yet IDEOLOGY (something you choose / form) DOES determine political principles.To say that a person ought to act a certain way because of their skin tone is inherently racist. No ifs ands or buts about it. 

  • Tim Tebow

    You display exceptional typing skills.

  • Pablo’s Ex Husband

    Another mighty tough interview of Sarah Palin by the spouse of one of her top employees. Go figure.

  • azgrandma

    I am NEVER going to stop laughing at this!!!

  • Anonymous

    At this point I hope Sarah stays around forever. It is just too funny watching you mental midgets whip yourselves into a hate filled, mind numbing, drooling psychotic frenzy at the mere mention of her. 

    I’m just curious; will you not be happy until she is dead? Is that what you are hoping the end game is? Will that make you sleep better at night if one of you bat $hit crazy Libs kill her?

  • labman57

     Sarah, when the flavor of the week is ”sour milk”, then your time will have come.

  • Anonymous

    Just one of many that I possess.

  • Tim Tebow

    “Bibi” ha ha…

    Nice post, Paul Wolfowitz…

  • Tim Tebow

    Wow!

  • Texan

    responding to your own post is just dumb…

  • Texan

    How much do you charge Pablo to live in your hollow skull?

  • NeverWrong

    Sarah, Please go away! The world is tired of you acting like you are the most important person in politics. You are not. You’ve had your time in the sun but, the sun has set. You are a quitter and you’d come in last place when the time came for real voting. Why Greta keeps having you on is a mystery. Go do the right thing and sue the crap out of that lying weasel Joe McGuinnes . 

  • Anonymous

    You mad bro?

    Why you so mad bro?

  • Yorke

    I’m amazed this woman can even find her butt to wipe it. She’s that stupid.

  • Anonymous

    Who knows what she’s going to do – but, no offense cause I like her politics, who cares?   If and when she decides to run then conservatives can support or not support.  Until then why not just assume she isn’t going to run and stop whining about it every other day.   Of course its mostly left leaning media that keeps bringing it up.  I think right leaning media is bored with it.

  • Anonymous

    She is not going to sue, cause everything in the book is true. 

  • Anonymous

    She is just reaping what she have sown. 

  • Anonymous

    She also have a hot thing for President Obama, that’s why she keep trying to get his attention.  Too bad he not thinking about her.

  • Tim Tebow

    You leave Sarah alone!

    Sarah know things!

    Sarah read Newsweek!

    Sarah “real american.”

    Sarah…

    Sarah..

    Oh, forget it…

  • Anonymous

    is she wearing shoulder pads?

    What a phoney…

  • Anonymous

    ir was an excellent interview, and as usual, Palin was spot on with her comments and remarks; its articles like these that lead the public to the response reported elsewhere on this board about why the public mistrusts the media.  This article is filled with snark from Frances, because Frances HATES palin.  this is yout typical lefrtwing cherrypicked report on what you want to thinkm not what Palin thought or spoke in the interview.

    Left wing bias fer sure

  • Anonymous

    Don’t for get her books, on sale at Amazon for a penny :/

  • Anonymous

    They are Uncle Toms LOL

  • Anonymous

    Don’t mean anything… some of the most racist people will go to bed with a black person…. How many slaves was raped by their masters….

  • Anonymous

    How abour w—— trash… this come out of the mouth of Bristol toward Levi family

  • azgrandma

    Greta probably does it for her.

  • azgrandma

    Typical palinista

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Rully? I think maybe yer not rully seein that’s she wearin a sweater; it’s not paddin, those shoulders are rull. Besides, this is rully so superflicious; just listen to what she’s rully sayin about the other candidates:

    “Take Herb Cain … Herb Cain … Herb Cain … Herb Cain”

    Which rully has a affect on low informational voters not connected to the uhleets. Take me, for example: right now I rully want to go over to the Google and do my research homework on this Herb Cain she obviously knows rully well and I never rully heard about before, not even on Fox News.

    Just don’t anyone ever put too many shackles on her, because, rully: Sarah Palin keeps it rull! 

  • Pegsfriend

    If a liberal doesn’t agree with abortion she doesn’t have one.
    If a conservative doesn’t agree with abortion, he tries to ban everyone from having one, even in the case of rape, incest or death of the mother.

    If a liberal doesn’t want same-gendered sexual relations, he doesn’t have them.
    If a conservative doesn’t want same-gendered sexual relations he bans everyone from having them.

    If a liberal doesn’t believe in oral contraception, she doesn’t take it.
    If a conservative doesn’t believe in oral contraception, she becomes a pharmacist and refuses to dispense them to other patients.

  • JayKen Knotstirred

    Hi Sarah, Welcome Back!

    Quick question, Where’s Trigs birth certificate?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fresca-Sothere/100001073174970 Fresca Sothere

    I’m pretty sure my grandma copy & pasted that to me in an email with pictures of cute kittens back in 1998.  Surprised to see someone saved it.

    I miss the cute kittens, though. Your copy & paste doesn’t quite have the same charm without them.

  • joe

    1-liberal love guns–we love to hunt–we just do not need machine guns to feel macho–we are real men-
    2. liberals love steak–we just do not want to be fed sterioid or other poisons
    3.yes liberals have a tendancy to perfer diplomacy over shoot first..
    4.conservatives are homosexuals in quite not by choice and liberals demand equality for everyone–regardless–they demand to NOT BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY
    5.liberals want government protection agaist inequality and bully corporations who have enough money to allow them to be exempt from heavy fines when they do damage to the lives of others ie killing the economy
    6.liberals never asked anyone to take care of them–we just want an even playing field–good schools for all and affordable health care for all–oh ya–and equal pay
    7.liberals have never been for censorship—conservatives like to legilate talk, opinions, books and naked pics–especially if a femail nipple is involved
    8.liberals never silenced any religion-but we do not put up with lies, hypocricy and false faith–we have a this thing about facts–it is kind of a pet peeve..
    9.if a single mother with cancer loses her job and wants to live to take care of her child-liberal want to gove the the same chance for life as all of the congressmen -conservatives would rather her die and leave her child an orphan i guess?

    nice list–it is just bs–
    it would be nice if conservartives did not thing with their genitalia and their emotions-we have brains for thinking–
    try honest objectivy for a change.
    i would also suggest you read you a little Jesus–he had some real good ideas on how to treat others..
    PTL

  • Anonymous

    I thought Sarah was supposed to let us know by now?
    Oh well, she ain’t done milking you teabaggers yet.

    Please donate to her website so she can afford to continue pondering the matter.  lolol

  • cdnhawk

    Greta’s her bestest buddy…dontcha know..wink wink

  • Michael T.

    Well, for the first time Sarah Palin has foreshadowed what rationale she will offer to the media for why she decided not to run.

    It will go something like this, “After considerable prayer and discussions with my family I have decided that a title (i.e., president) will rob me of my freedom to advance the ideas that I think are best for the country.” Then she will elaborate on why she can do more good as an outsider than as a Washington insider.

    I could be wrong, but this is the first time I have heard her discuss one of the reasons she will not run.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YYV7W3AIWVWRM5TO55QB5MV3RA tanatos

    Aaahh… I love the smell of fear in the morning…When the commie vermin descend into a state of sheer panic merely at the sight of Sarah Palin. Even a thought ( assuming they’re capable of generating a coherent one) of Sarah’s potential run makes them wet their panties. No rational policy discussions, no addressing viewpoint differences, no offering solutions for our country’s problems, no criticism of Palin’s suggestions on economy – nah, too complicated. Instead, the lefties do what they do best: pointlessly spew bile. Kinda like cornered rats when they see a python closing in.
    Another thing about the rats: they will show you who they fear. Sarah Palin sends them into a frenzy because deep down inside, in their sniveling little tiny rodent hearts, they know she can win.  And that means no more gravy train for them – the parasites may even have to (horrors!) get a job and  move out of mom’s basement. No wonder they squeal – reality is finally entering their hopey – changey dream. 

  • Anonymous

    ” “I’m a maverick and I do go rogue and I call it like I see it,” she told Van Susteren, and expressed concerns that the candidate title will “shackle” her. She did add, however, that “for logistical reasons,
    decisions have to be made” and, when asked directly, answered that she could definitely see herself winning the election, even if her previous comments about being shackled may have led viewers to believe she was inclining in the other direction. ”

    And there you have it… this is Sarah’s announcement – it’s as close as she’ll get to saying she’s not running, said before the end of September, and still allows her to keep her Fox position.  She’ll just let the clock for primary registration deadlines run out and say nothing more.  In the meantime, she’ll stay in the news with comments like this.

  • Anonymous

    It’s the third time I recall, and someone else wrote about a fourth (a few months back).  I think we’ll be hearing it more now – it leads up to her pulling out, though I’m wondering if she’ll ever do so.  This is the first article I saw where she combines “can do more from outside” with “I know I could beat Obama” (meaning there is no reason to run since she knows she’d win).

    It was part of her reason for resigning as governor:
    “In fact, this decision comes after much consideration, and finally
    polling the most important people in my life – my children (where the
    count was unanimous… well, in response to asking: “Want me to make a
    positive difference and fight for ALL our children’s future from OUTSIDE
    the Governor’s office?” It was four “yes’s” and one “hell yeah!” The “hell yeah” sealed it… ”

    Also said it during the May 3, 2011 special needs fundraiser in Baldwin County:
    ” As for that familiar subject — whether she will run for president in
    2012 — the Republican said, “You don’t have to have your name on a
    ballot to fight for things like (special needs causes). “We don’t need
    an office; we don’t need a title to do that.” “

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6H4JWL76LAXNVSG65Y7I7XSJM Terrel R

    “ Palin attributed the former two phenomena to the media’s Republican “reality show,” and while she expressed concern that a campaign could “shackle” her, she declared without hesitation that she could win in 2012.”

    If America was a game show, I’ll move north of the border 

  • K m

    In her world, its all a reality show…

  • K m

    Not to mention she’ll keep sending out money bombs begging for cash…gotta build up her piggy bank..

  • Anonymous

     Was interesting that another article said Sarah WASN’T aware of the email sent out by SarahPAC asking for a ~”one-time donation of as much as you can send because Sarah’s on the verge of an announcement” (and that money could be used by her or to support another conservative candidate).  This is either a major lie or shows she’s completely out of touch with her people.
    http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/sarahpac-fundraising-letter-shes-verge-decision

  • Anonymous

    I’d also like to see her grades and some papers she wrote in journalism school.

  • Anonymous

    She doesn’t go rogue at NBA all star games.  She’s like all the other groupies.

  • Anonymous

     True – Ailes has gotten tired of her and is moving toward center (right center).  He realizes Fox is catering to a small number of people when people like Beck and Palin do nothing but trash the many people who are left of them.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t find her own ass in the dark with both hands and a flashlight… (Stephen King – from a fiction book but fitting for Sarah).

  • K m

    Uh, this was GRETA bringing it up (yet again)  on FOX. Hardly a bastion of left wing thinking…

  • Anonymous

    Good point.  If she DID sue, subpoenas etc would be used to call witnesses to court where they’d be put under oath. 

  • http://twitter.com/criticaljane Jane

    Did she just call Cain Flavor Flav?    

  • Anonymous

    I’ll be happy if we get a good fiscal conservative to run against Obama.  Palin and many other looneys aren’t it – they’re a distraction.  Thankfully the GOP is getting more serious about their nominee.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rah-rah-Sisboombah/589358808 Rah-rah Sisboombah

     When Sar-rah Pa-lin can form as many cojent para-graphs as you, then everyone left of the wacko “right” MAY fear her.

  • Rio

    I see the anti-Palin mob is gathering a few interesting comrades, proves the “birds of a feather”………”like attracts like”…….”takes one to be one”…..quips quite nicely.  Oh, almost forgot one…….”misery loves company.”

  • K m

    You Might Be A Conservative If:

    You believe Bill Clinton was responsible for Osama bin Laden’s escape
    ten years ago, but thankfully George W. Bush caught up with him and
    killed him in Pakistan.

    You believe in putting American jobs first, except when president Obama
    rescued 1.5 million GM and Chrysler autoworkers, because that was
    socialism.

    You accuse president Obama of raising your taxes to the highest point
    ever, even though they’re lower today than at any time since 1950.

    You believe the wealthiest Americans are “job creators,” and they are —
    but it doesn’t bother you that all the workers in those positions are in
    India, China and Malaysia, and they’re doing the jobs that our fathers
    once did.

    You believe gays are anti-American, because their lifestyle is a threat
    to the children… unless they’re married to Tea Party-backed presidential
    candidates from Minnesota.

    You believe corporations are people too, and are deserving of the same
    rights as the rest of us. Just not the same obligations to pay personal
    income tax free of corporate loopholes, or penalties for massive
    criminal behavior and tax evasion. In these matters, corporations are
    deserving of special rights.

    And since corporations are now people too, you must believe in their
    right to a driver’s license, the right to marry, to adopt children, etc.
    These rights shall not be denied to Exxon, Halliburton and BP (but
    still immune from the right of the People to try, convict and sentence
    to death any corporation that conspires to commit a felony… because at
    that point, they’re suddenly not people again.)

  • Rio

    That’s the way, nationman sure could use your help.  Nothing like a new little buddies to broaden his horizons.

  • Rio

    Oh, dear.  “brains for thinking,” eh?  Color me skeptical.

  • Rio

    FOX is catering to a small group of people, you say.  Do you even watch that channel?

  • Rio

    Oh yes, let’s have a “show your grades and papers day” and invite Obama.

  • Anonymous

    OMG that Palin woman is an abject ignoramus. She makes me ill.

  • Anonymous

    No, because I don’t get cable – I read Fox articles and occasionally watch a video on the internet. 

    And I was trolling a bit…   Ailes is moving toward center to increase profits/viewership.  He knows he’ll lose some rabid rightwingers, but will gain moderates because there are many more moderates than rabid right wingers.
    http://mediamatters.org/research/201109270027

    I think Fox is the number one cable news channel but Ailes wants more.

  • Anonymous

    Obama seems intelligent enough to speak in coherent sentences.  Palin has trouble with this – it’s like her mouth keeps producing words while her brain is still figuring out the proper word, syntax, and order . 

    This is classic Sarah:
    “I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism.
    And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what,
    where, when, and why of reporting.”

    It’s been said that it took Sarah five schools to get a degree.  I’m just curious about someone who has a journalism degree when they produce “word salads” that need translation.  No other public figure speaks in such a manner.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    It’s ok to show bias towards stupidity. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    We’re not the ones with guns.  Ask Breitbart if you can get his face out of the coke.  Who’s batshit crazy??

  • Anonymous

    Mr Cain to Mrs Palin- Please don’t say anything nice about me I want to win.

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm. Sweatsuit rather than power red blazer with flag pen; hair not combed out & beautifully coiffed, nonchalant responses, attitude of ennui. The medium is the message. Can’t blame you, Sarah This country to too far down the toilet to bother about.

  • http://twitter.com/BusyDay2day Father Time

    Sarah Palin is delusional.  She and maybe her husband, but definitely not her kids, are the only select few who still thinks she is politically relevant and could stand a chance in the primary.  Any serious person understands that she couldn’t even win a primary let alone a general election.  People are too smart for that. 

  • guest

    Somehow, you have managed to change the topic of this thread from Palin leading her minions around by the nose regarding her “maybe I will run” to the off topic of Herman Cain and the Congressional Black Caucus.  That it worked is amazing.

    That tactic is par for the course:  When defending one of Palin’s ploys, it’s best to change the subject.

  • Anonymous

    The minute she goes of script, she immediately proves how totally ignorant she is. His name is Herman, Sarah. Not Herb.

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t answer my question. Are you hoping some crazy left winger takes her out?

  • Anonymous

    I couldn’t agree more.

  • Anonymous

    No, I’m not mad. I am just astonished at the level of hate that one woman who means absolutely nothing can manifest in a group of sociopaths.  I thought Bush Derangement Syndrome was crazy but you all have taken Palin Derangement Syndrome to a new level of fucked up.

  • Anonymous

    Being a reality star is Sarah’s strongest part. She should stick with it. 

  • Anonymous

    You are telling me to read “a little Jesus” so I can learn how to treat others while I am on a blogging board responding to a bunch of hate-filled assholes bashing some woman who means nothing because they feel justified. In addition, not only do you feel justified in bashing Sarah you go after her kids because again, you hate her so her children are also fair game.  

    Why don’t you take your own advice and read a little Jesus on how to treat others. Oh that’s right, because Liberals are fucking hypocrites that would be beyond your level of comprehension.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t think you could handle the cute kittens. They don’t encourage the kind of rage needed to continue your Sarah Palin bashing.

  • Anonymous

    You might be a Liberal if you are delusional enough to think Sarah Palin is secretly trying to control the World so you feel the need to stop her at any cost.

  • Wrwt2

    @414ff5a310e76d0a31cca9aa6e2d6fbf:disqus Nice, do one for libertarians. 

  • Wrwt2

    It was Herb

  • Anonymous

    I know angry Palin-obsessed Libs flock to Palin related articles so I figured my comments would get a lot of views!

  • TbagsRstupid

    Sarah Palin Flubs GOP Candidate’s Name, Calls Him ‘Flavor Of The Week’

    http://www.audiomicro.com/free-homer-simpson-sound-clips-free-mmm-chocolate-download-557172

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Keep those donations coming, boys and girls.   Not sure who’s dumber – Sarah, or the idiots who still think she’ll run for anything other than Village Idiot — and that’s one race she’d win hands down — even in Wasilla — heck, ESPECIALLY in Wasilla!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Palin is a complete, ignorant pile of crap!!

  • azgrandma

    Oh yes indeed – send those monies – because it costs a lot to run all around the country jump in front of those cameras to tell us she is still considering it! 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    No, they actually cater to a very large group… Southern Hillbillies!!

  • azgrandma

    Gretie should not have asked her a gotcha question!  bad, bad gretie.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It is truly amazing how long Palin has been playing Republicons for fools!! When she first stepped on the scene, the ignorant Republicons actually thought she could be a good Vice-President (possibly a future President), until her being on the ticket cost them the election!! But of course, they still defended her and her credentials!!

    Message to Republicons: When you BACK ignorant people, expect to be TREATED like ignorant people!!

  • azgrandma

    Funny thing how those letters went out just prior to her announcing she might sue – she needs those suckers to send more money in case she has attorney fees to pay.

  • Pegsfriend

    Remember – Jese “bashed” the hypocritical money changers.  I think Jesus would be just as disgusted by Palin as he was by the Pharisees.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Polls are for strippers and cross country skiers’ Sarah Palin

    The delicate tease goes on for just a bit longer until that general sigh of Republican satisfaction is finally reached or an angry collective frustration supersedes it.

  • Lizton

    The only thing this hick teases are the old white bubbas in the trailer parks who consider her a MILF.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Nice!!

  • Anonymous

    You can always tell someone who is lacking intelligence – they use curse words instead of brains.  Obama does lie and has since his campaign first started.  Not only that, but he appears to lack intelligence - which may be why you like him – you see him as a kindred spirit.  The difference is – the media filters what they choose to share with the public and, because they’re liberal, we don’t hear about Obama’s stupidity or lying, but we hear plenty – most of it blown out of proportion – about anyone conservative that looks like they could be a contender. 
     
    Also, Palin did not tell the Israeli prime minister not to believe Obama.  She told them that just because some people are “poking them in the eye” doesn’t mean that is the voice of the American people.  Typical mindless libs – ignore what’s actually said and change it into something as heinous as you imagine the speaker is.  However, I wouldn’t blame Palin for saying so.  Obama has yet to prove his credibility.  He has NO EXPERIENCE in ANYTHING:  His foreign policy is non-existent.  I’m not surprised that he, as a Muslim, would disturb the great alliance that we have with Israel. 
     
    Thanks for lending credence to my belief that libs are short on brains and long on vitriol.

  • Anonymous

    Break it to  me like that Sarah, why don’t you!?

    And I was hoping for so much fun from your run for prez, your memorable whining about a whole spectrum of gotcha questions, your clumsy sentences full of pearls  –  “palianisms”…

    I guess I’m really disappointed… ;)

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Yeah we must have all missed the smart Obama stating over and over that we were the first country to build the intercontinental railroad on mediate, SNL, MSNBC dude said it atleast 4 times here’s a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLjVh3iMTZM  it was said multiple times so it was no gaffe.

  • Anonymous

    Do your homework google Herb cain you will get multiple news media outlets calling him that. This is like Party like it’s 1773 line all over again. It’s great

  • Anonymous

    Ahh, yeah.  She does certainly appeal to that huge wedge of good ol’ Amerikan Hillbillies.  The uneducated lower classes who are growing in number.  See them  -  everywhere.   They infect everything  -  places where they were once not welcomed included. Restaurants, stores…the list goes on.  Repugnant.

  • Uptown

    It is a good measure of how far the American right have fallen over the cliff that this know-nothing dope can be touted as a potential leader.

  • Anonymous

    President Obama was the president of the Harvard Law Review and a constitutional scholar at one of the best law schools in the country.

    Sarah Palin had to go to five universities simply to earn a Bachelor’s degree.

    You really want to compare their academic records?

  • SlyFox

    I just hope all of you who are paid to post disgusting and vile things here about Sara Palin get what is coming to you. First of all, what the hell has Sara Palin done to you all anyway besides exist? She is not even in a government office anywhere. Sure opinions are like a**holes, but your rage towards her just explains your inner termoil. There is a fine line between love and hate and maybe you are confusing the two. Maybe deep down inside you hope she runs and beats Obama and becomes your president. Me thinks thou dost protest too much….

  • azgrandma

    As the spineless coward that she is this is probably how it will go. 

  • Lizton

    Hi Bristol!

  • azgrandma

    She would have jumped in a long time ago if she reallly thought she could win.  She can’t even win girl scout leader.

  • Onne

    I will always hold it against John McCain for putting this Palin farce before the country.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Republicons don’t even want her to run!! Why don’t you look up her approval rating among Republicons and you will find that they can’t stand her as much as the Democrats!!

  • Guest

    Come on, seriously? SERIOUSLY? I really don’t understand how any Republican could support her. I’m not even talking about her policies, but her personality. Does she really strike you as a contemplative, thoughtful person? Her interviews are absolutely horrid. It’s all just a mish-mash of incoherent, run-on sentences, trying to fit in as many talking points as possible.

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think just being conservative disqualifies someone for being a thoughtful person. However, someone will have to explain to me why people like Bush, Palin and Bachmann garner such wide support. Is charisma really the main qualifier? Does intellect not play a role?

  • Texan

    Wadd ‘em up, loons!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    What a douche bag.

  • Anonymous

    Most of the Palin-hating punk posters here are gay skinheads from West Hollywood. A real woman brings out all their old regrets, failures, and self-loathing, which they project onto Pretty Sarah Palin, or any woman who doesn’t sport a buzz-cut.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    I agree that Sarah is becoming very annoying just say one way or other are you running for president or not I think Sarah just likes the spotlight is all just my opinion. I have lost a little respect for Sarah because of the teasing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    So tired of Sarah palin she is becoming to annoying on if she is running or not make up your mind Sarah one way or another if you will run for president or not I think Sarah just loves the spotlight just my opinion. I don’t think governor of New Jersey Chis C is running for president if he did I would vote for him in the primary as I have said before Mitt has my vote and i believe he can beat Obama just my opinion.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    You’ll win in your dreams Sarah. You’ve alienated some of your closest supporters. All you’re interested in is more publicity and money. If Christie runs and becomes a nominee, your brand will be over. You can’t claim that you were a king maker because Christie is nothing like you. Get another reality  show on some obscure channel that hardly anyone has heard of. That’s where you belong. You’re the equivalent of a woman who leads a guy to her apartment and then says, goodnight. “Pr***teaser.

  • azgrandma

    She certainly is not one for making a speedy decision.  Look how long it took her to decide to quit midterm her governorship.  She lacks the brains for any decision or even put a sentence together for that matter.

  • Texan

    Yes. Bring it on!

  • Anonymous

    What policy on economy? She has none,…  it’s not “we don’t agree” she has none! You right wacks try to make her a “god”. She is very little of anything, except a cable show pimp. Mis-qoutes, lies, no knowlege, no background, just one-liners! She does do a good job of scaring grandma and firing up the un-informed! That is not the making of a “god”! You want to talk about fear and wet,….PLEASE, PLEASE make her your candidate,……. please serve your “god” make her run! Please!

  • Anonymous

    What,… media attention? She makes dumb ass comments and sounds like a goof! ”Fox” keeps pimping the national hero out! What does a clueless moron do, to be a national hero?

  • Anonymous

    Classic,.. only a “tea’ hate would use f  king hypocrites while talking about Jesus! Praise the Lord and pass the hate!

  • Anonymous

    True, she’s far too stupid to control the world and there’s really nothing to stop!

  • skudaarkaat

    You sound very reasonable, so maybe you can tell me; Why is everyone acting like it’s the end of the world because an incompetent like Sarah Palin isn’t seeking an office she ISN’T qualified for? She quit her job as Governor of Alaska almost a year ago, yet she’s been living high on the hog ever since–on WHAT? She says she wants to protect her family from the evil whoevers, yet her bimbo daughter, who isn’t married and has a child, is living in a huge house and doesn’t have a job, and her big claim to fame is that she failed on what is basically now a game show, just like her mother failed at becoming vice president. Has the world gone nuts or what? We seem to love making celebrities out of failures?

  • skudaarkaat

    You sound very reasonable, so maybe you can tell me; Why is everyone acting like it’s the end of the world because an incompetent like Sarah Palin isn’t seeking an office she ISN’T qualified for? She quit her job as Governor of Alaska almost a year ago, yet she’s been living high on the hog ever since–on WHAT? She says she wants to protect her family from the evil whoevers, yet her bimbo daughter, who isn’t married and has a child, is living in a huge house and doesn’t have a job, and her big claim to fame is that she failed on what is basically now a game show, just like her mother failed at becoming vice president. Has the world gone nuts or what? We seem to love making celebrities out of failures?

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