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- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
- In The Mailbox: 12.23.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll truly IS a sad, embittered psychopath
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Damn… what has Barry been putting in the kool-aid?
On the bright side, we can now put all of this “lipstick” ugliness behind us.
I don’t think the Republicans deserve to win, but at least if the get in, there will be adult supervision for the country. These fools are the Home Alone party.
In the normal course of events, this line would be remarkably stupid. The headliner quote, however, blows the SCALE off the stupid meter, so this one barely registers.
I love the part of that story where Ms. Fowler laughs off the fact that white women are flocking to McCain in droves, suggesting they were all secretly Republicans anyway.
Yeah, keep thinking that way, Toots.
Do I need to denounce myself for using the word “Toots”? If so, that would be my first self-denouncement. Do I get a celebratory cake or something?
This is campaign gold for McCain. The more the attention stays on Palin, the more these clueless Democrats whack-a-mole their own candidate. The single issue thing with abortion should play just brilliantly with the bitter clingers.
in the meantime the Clintons continue to sit on the sidelines and Michelle is no where to be found. If Obama loses this election this will be a political moron moment that surpasses Gore’s fumbling in 2000 when he couldn’t win either his or his party’s sitting President’s home state. I never thought that I would say that.
I’ll wait on Psychologizer’s analysis, but in the meantime, I’m thinking that, subconsciously, a lot of Democrats have written this election off already.
I’ve been having fun with this one.
Some women deserve to be called Toots.
At first I thought this might be a post about how the Astros are currently doing a pretty good ’07 Rockies imitation.
Ya know…somewhere in alla this, there’s a lesson about messing with old men. Which is stupid, ’cause they’ll kill ya …just to keep things simple.
Messing with old fighter jocks, now… Well, that’s very stupid. They’ll play with ya first…then come out of the sun and drop ya before ya know they’re anywhere near ya.
While Obamamessiah and the progressives are focused on Palin…
FWIW, this wackjob is married to Don “Hurricane” Fowler, former DNC Chairman.
Yeah, baby! The hits just keep on comin’!
The 2008 campaign’s final stretch is one target-rich environment. You could comfortably employ nine more Limbaugh’s on this sucker.
A more complete and inherent refutation of leftism one cold not design with an army of Karl Roves.
I thought it was that she could remember which of her friends was ambulatory.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/10/bidens-stevie-wonder-moment/
(I wasn’t going to go there, but this was too good a set-up)
As a female state governor the only important experience Palin has relates to her reproductive choices. Of course when Kerry picked Edwards to be his running mate Edwards had a partial Senate term under his belt (most of which he missed due to campaigning for higher offices), and that partial Senate term gave him the utmost gravitas.
“That’s some fine poli
cetical work there, Lou.”Hey, Carol Fowler’s husband, Don Fowler, told us that “God is on their side” re: Hurricane Gustav.
Oh, Diana, that’s just precious. Being opposed to abortion makes one an “extremist” and Obama’s Harvard Law School education make him qualified with “experience.”
Get out much, toots?
There’s something in the air and it smells like desperation.
Nah, it was the hair.
That glorious, silky mane. It practically sang of dignity, of perspicacity, of Aqua Net.
Some women deserve to be called Toots.
Or in Obamaland, some reporters deserve to be called “Sweetie.”
Women who do not want to murder their unborn babies are extremists? Okay, that is pretty much like terrorists who blow people up are not extremists.” Hmmmm.
Sara: Those terrorists are “misunderstood” and “an inevitable construction of their upbringing and cultural environment.”
I’m glad I could clear this up for you. More wine?
Carol Fowler’s elite liberal feminazi status: Confirmed…
Carol Fowler’s lack of electoral topical dynamics sense: Confirmed…
Carol Fowler’s lack of understanding of latest polling opinion trends: Confirmed…
Carol Fowler’s explanation of polling statistics: Typical Democratic nuance…
– I wonder how much the Obama camp is paying Mel Brooks for this campaign gold.
That John Gibson link is classic, Diana. Hannity had one of those a couple years ago and he just put the guy on hold and would check back in on him every couple of minutes and the dude would still be just ranting away. He went on for about 20 minutes of non-stop screaming about Bush before he finally realized nobody was listening and hung up.
Carol Fowler?
Arc Follower
Caller Of Row
Cellar For Ow
Cola Err…. Wolf[?]
Well, For a Orc…
Fear Cow Roll!
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Sara, to be fair, I think that’s a bit of a twist you made there. The truth should be enough.
It’s brave and principled but not “extreme” to decide to continue a pregnancy despite fetal abnormalities or risk, even very elevated risk, to oneself.
It’s extreme to demand that course, under any circumstance, by force of law, of any woman. Palin believes inducing abortion is wrong in almost every case. However, she has not been focused on forcing this by law. She has not limited her appointments based on this litmus test. I would be worried about extremism if she had. She has not demonstrated any such tendency.
– Obama made it all better by continuing to joke about pigs with lipstick today on the campaign trail.
– One of his campaign managers said “We didn’t want him to be apologizing because that would make him look weak.”
– Apparently “arrogantly sexist” is better than weak.
Meanwhile over in Salon-land:
[quote]Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.
She is dangerous. She is not just pro-life, she’s anti-life. She is the suppression of human feeling and instinct. She is a slave to the compromises dictated by her own desire for power and control. Sarah Palin is untethered from her own needs and those of her family, which is in crisis, with a pregnant daughter, a son on the way to Iraq and a special-needs infant.
She should, however, be a galvanizing point for women everywhere. Not to support her candidacy but to rebel against the Republican Party and take back the respect and equality so hard-earned by the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s.
We’ve been shanghaied. This is sick. We need to slap the face of our bad frat-boy date and walk home from this drive-in movie. Sarah Palin may put out to be popular, but the rest of America’s women don’t need to do the same.
If not, what the hell? John McCain should go the whole Hugh Hefner route and have eight V.P.s that all look exactly like Sarah Palin.
It’s McCain’s world, girls: You’d just live in it. [/quote]
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/09/10/palin_feminism/
You smell that? It’s the smell of FEAR.
– Dianne Feinstein: “Fowlers comment was just plain stupid.”
– But of course she thinks its all the Republicans fault for smearing Obama.
(snark) So, does this mean that Joe Biden was picked because he had an abortion? (snark off)
What Baracky said was that [Pig bitch-woman] hasn’t been on the scene, you know, she’s got five kids and my hat goes off to anybody who’s looking after five. I’ve got two and they tire Michelle and me out!*
So Baracky seems a lot on board with attacking Governor Palin like this. Someone should tell him that his super best friend Nancy Pelosi has five kids too and even more grandchildren. She must be plum tuckered.
. . . and some people like this woman call President Bush “dumb”
Riggghhhht. Strength through smarmy cracks!
“Not to support her candidacy but to rebel against the Republican Party and take back the respect and equality so hard-earned by the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s.”
– Cognitive dissonance in full bloom. Said with an earnest belief, while her own SC party chairman attacks Palin for making a “choice”. Are these people fucked up or what?
UPDATE: Obama senior adviser Robert Gibbs insists the senator was not referring to Palin or Palin’s comments. “That’s an old expression,” Gibbs says.
So is sambo, Robert.
Oh Lordy. More, please.
Conversely, if Baracky had had an abortion, he’d have this sucker in the bag. Stupid masculinity.
>> she’s got five kids and my hat goes off to anybody who’s looking after five.
And she should be back at home, minding those kids! I mean, five? WTF
>>I’ve got two and they tire Michelle and me out!
Its like torture!!
I’ll take “fucked up” for $400, Alex.
Cognitive Dissonance is a helluva disorder.
thor been around, lately?
Why, oh why did Obama punish Michelle with babies?!?
– Its obvious, as Jeff has written, that the current “2nd waave” feminism is not about “choice”, its about Party, Party, Party, and did I mention Party.
– Why the fuck can;t these hypocrites just admit that? that they hate, and fear Palin, simply because shes a Conservative.
I’ve only got the one kid, reading quietly in the other room, and I could kinda use a cup of coffee.
Maybe Baracky needs some B12.
#31 Techie:
The comment you quoted is redolent of ‘fighting the last war’, like hold-out Japanese soldiers on some Pacific atoll. The funny thing is Gov. Palin doesn’t have to demand to be treated as an equal, she expects it, and for the most part she gets it. Except from that Salon commenter and Ms. Fowler. They are so reactionary they can’t grasp that the women’s rights fight is over, the women won and they are exercising their choices. Like Gov. Palin exercised hers.
It’s just mind-boggling.
Techie –
“I’ll take “fucked up†for $400, Alex.”
I remember when there were only two daily doubles on the whole board.
O! flips one with every answer.
Sorry SarahW, this Sara believes murder is murder and abortion is murder. You can dress it up, rationalize it any way you want, it is still murder. Except when the life of the mother is at stake, there are no excuses for committing murder. Don’t want the child, or the inconvenience of a child with special needs, then give the baby up for adoption to someone who has enough love to care.
That Gibson clip is amazing. But I’m afraid of those people when Obama loses!
“Maybe Baracky needs some B12”
Maybe some pumps because The Good Ship O! is taking on water.
“But I’m afraid of those people when Obama loses!”
– Naw, they generally just implode. You’re perfectly safe if you’re not standing to close to them.
#47 –
Or, you know, practice birth control…..
I feel like I’m seeing the beginnings of a mass nervous breakdown by the left.
Really, in a practical sense, Sarah Palin only has two kids to look after sharply herself and her husband is pitching in a lot it apppears, I think, as the son (1) is in the Army and they look after him pretty well where he doesn’t look after himself.
(2)Her eldest daughter is 17+ and about to be a mom and a wife herself and probably is growing more adult with every passing day, daughter (3) is what?, like 15, in school, busy with schoolwork and also probably watching out for daughter (4) and brother (5).
“Taking care of five kids” is another crap meme, in other words.
– Its to laugh. Just heard another Dem talking head on the tube, saying “its time to deal with the issues, and move awat from gottcha politics”.
– Guess it isn’t working out so well for them.
. She is not just pro-life, she’s anti-life.
Teh stoopid. It burns.
Well, Sara, that’s an extreme view and I don’t share it, but certainly respect and tolerate it so long as it is not imposed by law.
Contraception and Induced abortion, we can discuss another day…I don’t want that to get in the way of what I’m trying to say. My point is really that Sarah Palin is being called an extremist because of a perception that what she believes she is likely to attempt to enforce on others, to bend the law or ignore the law, and impose her beliefs on every other person on this matter of conscience, and she has shown NO evidence of that kind of extremism – which is the complained of extremism in the tirade linked.
Sarah Palin seems like she’d be someone I would go to if I had a problem and she was my mom or my aunt or like my teacher. Not so much as vice president I don’t think cause that would be sort of weird.
It’s just under two months to election day and we are getting this. I wonder what rhetorical Banzai charge from the Democrats and their allies we will see before then? I would not have expected this kind of meltdown, ever.
Can they rally before they lose too much of the battlefield? Right now the McCain campaign is just responding to recent gaffes, they haven’t dug into any of the old stuff and used it yet, the stuff that came up during the primaries. This is just bizarre.
OODA loop indeed.
Looks like PDS is about to get up there with BDS in the number of afflicted.
I just wish that they would quit afflicting ME with their meltdowns.
#57 haps:
She seems to live her life as she wants to, on her own terms. She seems to be very American in that way, not asking anyone else’s permission on how she should set her terms.
Her critics seem to think that she should conform to their opinions, and are going bat-guano crazy that she won’t. Perhaps they would like her more if she acknowledged her betters?*
*Of course, as an American, ‘that sumbitch ain’t been born yet’.
“…that Sarah Palin is being called an extremist because of a perception that what she believes she is likely to attempt to enforce on others, …”
Which is the standard method used by pro abortionists for quashing debate. Period. End. Full stop.
I’m male. It is my considered opinion that legal, unrestricted abortion on demand serves the purposes of the doctrinaire Left first and foremost by enticing women to violate their prime biological imperative.
It takes a lot of eggs to make the New Progressive Omelet. Moms killing their kids in favor of a career… or just not having to stay home on Saturday nights… or just because they wanted brown hair. Or *whisper* because they can…
Life begins… well, I don’t have an answer. But when an egg is fertilized AND NOTHING ELSE BUT LIFE HAPPENS FOR MOM FOR NINE MONTHS OR SO you have an undeniable person there.
Dad’s aren’t asked if the kid lives or dies, which is in keeping with another bullet point on the agenda: belittle the role of males in the family. Not because it might make the family a better place – no, no, not at all. The family is an outdated social unit that enlightened folk who aim to be in charge have decided they’d rather not deal with. Pay women to have kids out of wedlock for a decade or so, then shrug and grin, “Whoops, shouldn’t have subsidized THAT hah, hah”, then rewrite the law to drive fathers completely away and simultaneously take public money to pay for abortions… all the while arguing that it’s about CHOICE and FREEDOM.
Nobody asks the kid.
And once you’ve eaten with the cannibals, or helped carry the pot… you find it very, very hard to ever face what you… what has… what you… been done in the name of “choice”.
You can spend a life time making amends. Someday, maybe the standard method of shouting down debate will no longer work. Goodness knows that a cursory examination of Ms. Fowler’s words evokes nausea… BUT only because we are trained to unconsciously accepting the positions these people hold as THE RULES; uncomfortable now mainly because we are not able to avoid the brutish sentiments. They are always there. Its just that usually they are hidden from polite company.
These sonsabitches mostly live in a world they craft from agendas and prejudices and narcissism. The world we live in… is a darker place for us letting them despoil so much of it. It takes elections, hurricanes, and muggings to bring us all on the same stage… and here we are.
Warts and all.
not mentioned much by anyone is the response to the family being in crisis due to Bristol and Levi’s baby. Maybe the family doesnt really see a new baby as a “crisis” or especially not as punishment. what’s to stay home for?
You know, they can fuck up every day from now and until December, but who is going to know about it? I just spent an HOUR being tortured by CNN while I worked out. Honestly, that channel is unbelievable. Main thrust “what does Barack have to do to get back momentum?” Story about Biden’s son not really being a lobbyist. Story about how Palin wanted to shoot wolves from Helicopters (with a naturalist stating there was no good reason for this.) Also, the repeated lie and smear about Palin cutting funding for pregnant teen center (by 60%!)
I turned “Tool” up as loud as I could but it was no use. When I started muttering swear words directed at the tv, I decided it was simply time to leave before I earned “crazy lady” status.
She is not just pro-life, she’s anti-life.
I just…what? I’ve attempted to read the article 31 is originally excerpted from and it’s–I can’t bring myself to register on Salon to ask the author if she had to eat her own brain to produce that. Arguments about authenticity indeed; there’s so much rabid froth in there it’s completely incoherent as a piece of literature. The sentence above just highlights it with its own internal contradiction to the point of nonsensicalness.
Words. I do not has them.
RC, “crisis” has connotations of people running around screaming like Homer Simpson after he’s spotted a spider. But I don’t doubt it was a big deal and not all of it bringing overwhelming joy.
its something being made the best of, to their credit.
TimJUtah, someday soon, you are a person I’d like to talk to about that subject.
Palin’s *actions* are some reassurance for someone like me.
“…Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. She is a close personal friend and qualified to be President of the United States of America. She is easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me [after that comment, I’d say I have to agree with Sen Biden — sdferr], but she is first-rate. I mean that sincerely. …”
Sen. Joe Biden, Sept 10, 2008
Sheesh, what a running mate!
@68 Sheesh, what a running mate!
The preparation for the switch… it begins….
The preparation for the switch… it begins….
If Bambi dumps Biden, it’s definitely all over.
Plus, I think Hillary will tell him to get bent.
“Pipe down, sugar tits. I’ll get to that in a minute.”
I actually don’t think Biden was telegraphing a possible replacement for himself, but really was engaged in a weak pander to the laydees.
Oh, yeah, we can respect a skirt. Well, a pantsuit. And not an empty one, but, at bottom, a really filled out one, No, no, ,don’t get me wrong, in all the right places. Totally qualified. That jacket locks and loads EXPERIENCE, yeah. We just don’t like that one with the lipstick.
SarahW –
It is not in the power of any man to impose morality on another. Morality cannot be legislated. It is freely embraced only for its own reward or it does not exist. Those people with personal reservations or doubts regarding Higher Powers or Supreme Beings or Creators have absolutely the same opportunity to seize a moral existence as do any priest or preacher does: do no conscious harm.
We are not animals. Sometimes it may be hard to tell. You lead people to decide for themselves. Animals are just driven where they are needed. Remember that, and even if the burden remains daunting, the effort of carrying it forward is worthwhile.
……and the top of my ticket “just might have made a mistake picking me.” ……………
[Looks around]……..[OOPs, did I day that out loud just then?]
#64 Carin:
They aren’t going to come right out and say ‘this is screwed up’.
A better thing is to see the Pew Polls on how trusted reporters are, and check the Gallup polls on registered voters.
Baghdad Bob had nothing on these guys.
She brings 5 into the world, she’s anti-life. But were she to advocate for killing them on demand? All Hail the Glorious Goddess Mother!
– Fowler has issued an apology to Pa;in – She stated “I was just making a statement about people who vote on a single issue.”
– Oh. Ok. We’ll just pretend theres no shitstorm in progress here.
Sigh
– The Obama campaign is playing meme, the kind that says nothing, om the Foeler gaffe.
– Then the guy who preceeded her as chair gets on FOX and poo-poos the whole thing, and turns around and goes on and on about “72 year old” McCain. Even Shepard asked him if this was the new line of attack. And all of this just agter he said that both campaigns should get away from personalities and get back to the issues, with Obama drbating McCain and Biden debating Palin.
– Sounds like a hell of a plan. If they can actually do it.
– He ended the interview by saying “72……did I mention 72”, and snorted.
– I don’t think they can help themselves. It looks like its anyones guess when they decide to staunch the bleeding.
–
Fowler has issued an apology to Pa;in – She stated “I was just making a statement about people who vote on a single issue.â€Â
Not really honest there, is she? She was pillorying those who vote a certain way on a single issue. Vote with the Donks, and you’re A-OK.
#77 BBH:
Yeah, she made a statement about single issue voters, all right. I think it is “No woman is a true woman until she has had an abortion.”
Yep. Single issue, right there.
The irony of the whole single issue voter is the left has them in droves. Maybe more, maybe not than the right. Anybody, on either side complaining about single issue voters is disingenuous at best, a lying crapweasel at worst. I’m guessing the latter for Fowler.
“I was just making a statement about people who vote on a single issue.â€Â
Project much, ma’am?
Nah, Hisself is stuck with Bloviatin’ Joe now. Even if he could, by some miracle, convince Hilly to be his replacement veep, it’d be the kiss of death for his campaign. El Wimpo Supremo we don’t need.
Yeah, trying to switch his veep now would (probably) be the kiss of death. It might work if they could resurrect JFK to take the role, but I can’t see Zombie JFK taking the veep role, ya know?
Sarah Palin is being called an extremist because of a perception that what she believes she is likely to attempt to enforce on others, to bend the law or ignore the law, and impose her beliefs on every other person on this matter of conscience, and she has shown NO evidence of that kind of extremism
Also, I think it should be said, a President has no power over the issue.
Unless of course you want to argue about future (and,in this case being the VP choice, the future once removed) Supreme Court appointments, in which case she is a Republican. You know, one of those that like to appoint Constitutionalists.
Oh, the HORROR!!!
Sdferr –
I thought you were joking about Biden.
Teh Stupid. IT LIVES!
I’m heading down to my basement to reload the odd ammunition components I’ve accumulated. Then… I’ve a Christmas list full of requests for leather pouches, sheaths, and accesories to fill for my nieces, nepehews, and in – laws. If Mom throws me sandwhiches every morning, I can hang out down there until at least the later part of October.
This campaign cycle is exceeding the bounds of parody, and shows no sign of returning to sanity any time soon.
If we were in a science fiction movie, the heroes would never even have landed on our planet. They would have watched a week’s worth of vid while tapped into our ‘net, then nuked us from orbit.
It would have been the only way to be sure.
I am positive that right now Obutt’s minions are negotiating with Hilary, offering her whatever she wants so that she’ll replace scrapin’ Joe on the ticket. Joe, bowing to the party first mantra, is about to announce his inability to, due to a contrived sickness, carry on the fight to save Amerika. Hilary, VP in pocket and a promise for an open convention in 2012, announces her willingness to put aside ego and stand alongside Obutt, to save our amerikan soul.
McCain’s minions, likewise, are working through Lieberman to reach out to Hilary, promising her a high positition in a McCain presidency. Sect of State?
Hilary holds ALL the cards.
Damn, those Clintons are helluva politicians.
@88 Sect of State?
Very tasty theory (not the result, but fun). However, I would hope for something more distant. Maybe an island off Greece.
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IMO, Hillary would have to be stupid to accept the pick at this point. If Obama loses, she only has to wait 4 years to take another shot at it and by then the shine will be well and gone off “the one”.
Didn’t think it could get worse? When was the last time you read Lear?
Interesting, I recall it was the Extremists who hijacked America’s Legislative system by forcibly imposing a Judical fiat which denied Americans their Right To Vote.
Didn’t the Extremists mosty come from the party who prefers to see dead people?