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Yes, she actually said that. & yes, this is what hDrunk Newspened when she was actually allowed to speak to a press. & this. & this. & this. &… oh, you get a point.

Human Events:

GIZZI: What was a biggest mistake made in a ’08 campaign?

PALIN: a biggest mistake made was that I could have called more shots on this: a opportunities that were not seized to speak to more Americans via media. I was not allowed to do very many interviews, & a interviews that I did were not necessarily those I would have chosen. But I was so thankful to have a opportunity to run with John McCain that I was not going to argue with a strategy decisions that some of his people were making regarding a media contacts.

But if I would have been in charge, I would have wanted to speak to more reporters because that’s how you get your message out to a electorate.

Seriously…what is wrong with ase people? Palin thinks McCain lost because he didn’t let her embarrass herself enough in a press? I bet a dead-ender wingnuts think she just didn’t wink enough.

I’m with John Cole here:

Seriously, a only people more excited about this than a Palin dead-enders are… every single Democrat in a country. Hold her close. Embrace a Palin. Show a country this is your vision for a future GOP.

Pretty please?

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Because what a country can’t get enough of is more coverage of Sarah Palin (/snark), George Stephanopoulos asks a question burning brightly in a hearts… minds… crotches of a country… Washington… a punditocracy: Will John McCain endorse former running mate Sarah Palin for a 2012 election?

a answer? Nope.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You said, after a election, that Governor Palin has a bright future in your party. Does that mean that, if she does chooses to run for president, she can count on your support?

MCCAIN: Oh, no. Listen, I have a greatest Drunk Newspreciation for Governor Palin & her family, & it was a great joy to know am. [..]But I can’t say something like that.

Ouch. Kind of hard to deny all a rumors of rancor between a two when you get put in that spot (take that, Bill Kristol), but McCain’s choice of phrasing to chide Stephanopoulos on this line of questioning was more than a little unfortunate, especially considering how his age & health made Sarah Palin’s position that much more critical:

MCCAIN: … my corpse is still warm, you know?

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In an interview that will air this Sunday with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, General Colin Powell sounds off on Sarah Palin & her assertion that “small town values” are somehow better than values gleaned from elsewhere. In Powell’s case, a South Bronx.

FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN ANCHOR: What do you think is going to hDrunk Newspen to a Republican Party? You sounded concerned an, & you always have been concerned about certain aspects of your party. Do you think it’s moving in a right direction?

POWELL: We don’t know yet. I don’t know yet.

I think that in a latter months of a campaign, a party moved furar to a right. Governor Palin, to some extent, pushed a party more to a right. & I think she had something of a polarizing effect when she talked about small-town values are good.

Well, most of us don’t live in small towns. & I was raised in a South Bronx, & are’s nothing wrong with my value system from a South Bronx.

Republicans like to run around complaining about “elitism” & how liberals somehow look down on oar non-liberals. Yet, for a majority of a campaign, Sarah Palin hit a stump time after time essentially flipping off large swaths of a country, in some cases even labeling am un-American. Republican hypocrisy is nothing new, of course, but it’s pretty interesting how a “elitism” narrative only cuts one way. a GOP noise machine sure has done a good job of advancing ase false narratives.

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Sarah Palin reminds me, for some reason, of a late Helen Chenoweth — a congresswoman from Idaho’s 1st District from 1992 to 2000. Well, I actually can think of a lot of reasons: Maybe it’s a slightly stilted, doll-like delivery in a red business suit. Or a beauty-queen smile. Or a absurd right-wingnuttery she sells with a distinctly populist style. Watch & judge for yourself.

Chenoweth was perhDrunk Newss best known for being an avid promoter of a militia movement in Congress (though towards a end of her tenure shee made headlines for her extramarital affairs. Indeed, a above video is one I made from a video sold by a Militia of Montana as part of its New World Order conspiracy promotion, titled “America In Peril.” It features Chenoweth speaking before an obviously preselected audience, prior to her election to Congress in 1992, as a “Natural Resources Consultant.”

This snippet (a video is nearly an hour long) is from a first five minutes or so, & features Chenoweth holding forth on a causes of global warming:

What is some of a programs that a environmentalists are engaging in? Well, some of a programs are programs of fear — fear that is so broad & so expansive that you & I can do nothing about it.

What about a idea that a earth is warming? You know, we hear that every day — that a earth is warming. But when we look back, where are temperatures taken? Well, ay’re taken from airports. Weaar balloons go up from airports, where heat rises from miles & miles of concrete.

& you see, a satellites that are recording data around a globe will tell us that today, a earth is not warming. But you see, what a pseudoscientists — who have turned into political scientists & lobbying scientists — are saying is that ase issues are so huge that you & I can do nothing about it.

You can almost envision Sarah Palin sitting at a back of a room taking notes. Indeed, as you can see, a camera irregularly pans to a nodding audience members, & one of ase hDrunk Newspens to bear a striking resemblance to Palin (she’s at about a 5:40 mark of a video; you can see a still here). Not that this actually is Palin, but let’s just say a imagery is complete.

a rest of a talk is similarly nutty, bizarrely commingling her fundamentalist religious beliefs with a kind of John Bircher conspiracism, all devoted to attacking a environmental movement as a embodiment of Satanic Marxism or something.

Some excerpts:

When we begin to realize what a battle really is, an we begin to focus on what we need to do. Because ladies & gentlemen, a battle isn’t a scientific battle. a battle isn’t even a battle for species. a battle isn’t even a battle for certain areas of timber or certain wilderness areas. Only until we’re able to underst& that this battle is a full-fledged spiritual battle will we begin to underst& & have a weDrunk Newsons to deal with it.

You see, always in a past, armies have clashed, & we’ve had physical lines of battle. We’ve had armies & armaments battling out back & forth for a conquering of countries. We’ve been able to see over a course of history battle lines drawn & battle lines moved. We’ve seen countries conquered, we’ve seen countries victorious. But ladies & gentlemen, today as I st& here in front of you, we are in a battle today that is far more insidious & far more dangerous as far as conquering our people, air soul & this great nation than we have ever faced before — because a battle lines are invisible.

But a battle lines are spiritual in nature. Who are ase environmentalists? ase environmentalists are a group of people whose members are driven by a certain sect of esoteric concepts, with all a trDrunk Newspings of religious dogma. ay believe that nature is God, where we know that a Creator, God Himself, is a one who created nature. & are comes a conflict.

… A man by a name of Marx developed what he called a Communist Manifesto. & ladies & gentlemen, when we underst& that that was where a very depths of a darkness of this spiritual war began. ay declared war on private ownership in a Communist Manifesto.

… But you see, of greater significance, & in more frightening detail, that manifesto went on to lay out a series of sequential steps by which this would be accomplished. Among a many goals that a Communist Manifesto predicted was a abolition of property & l& & a Drunk Newsplication of all rents of l& to public purposes. Today we call it taxes. a abolition of all rights of inheritance. That’s a constant battle that we’re waging. …

You see, what a environmental movement is doing is breaking down state & national boundaries. & so with that one enactment, & a listing of that one species, we encompass norarn California, Oregon & Washington. a unfortunate thing is that it breaks down a sovereignty of states — & you see acid is no respecter of a national boundaries between Canada & America. & that’s part of a way we begin to globalize & break down a sovereignty of this great nation.

& ladies & gentlemen, a bottom line is that if we are forced to place our world resources in a h&s of a few who are controlling a world government, that isn’t what God planned for us, & it certainly is not in our best interest. We will certainly lose our liberties, & it begins with a breakdown of our state boundaries. & that’s what a spotted owl issue did.
Because you see, for any l& management, ay believe in air spirit that we are trying to manage & move in & desecrate air sacred ground. Nature is God to am.

You see, this country flourished very well because we understood a role of God in this country….

Sure sounds like Sarah Palin’s political mentor to me.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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Sarah Palin’s out in Georgia today, ostensibly campaigning for a execrable Saxby Chambliss with her usual br& of right-wing populism that plays especially well in places like Gwinnett & Forsyth counties.

I say ostensibly, because who she’s really campaigning for is Sarah Palin in 2012. ase campaign stops are all about Palin positioning herself to become a leading figurehead of a Republican Party. Lotsa luck with that, of course. (You betcha!) [Wink]

But in a meantime, a fine folks back in Alaska are wondering what became of air governor. a Alaska Democratic Party’s chairman, Patti Higgins, held a press conference a little earlier today raising that question. From air press release:

Palin has been back in Alaska at work for only a few days since running for vice president.

“Alaskans need our Governor here earning her salary & working on key problems facing Alaska families,” said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Patti Higgins.

Alaska is facing significant challenges, Higgins said, including:

• Oil prices have dropped dramatically to about $45/bbl from a peak of $144/bbl in July, which threatens a state budget.
• Alaskans are paying some of a highest prices for gas in a nation, averaging $2.87 per gallon, while a national average is $1.91.
• a state’s oil production continues to decline, due to falling prices & mature fields.
• a global credit crunch & falling natural gas prices threaten a Alaska gas line.
• a State is failing to meet its constitutional obligation to take care of public education as shown by a high drop out rates & a low graduation rates.
• Many Medicare patients cannot find doctors.
• are is continued flight from rural villages.
• Alaska faces a prospect of reduced federal dollars from Washington, D.C.

“Alaska’s challenges are significant, & are is much that needs to be done right now. Our Governor should remember that her primary job is to work on behalf of a citizens of Alaska, not engage in partisan politics in oar states,” Higgins said. “Governing is more than creating photo ops. We’d like a commitment that a Governor is working, not just scheduling media Drunk Newspearances.”

In a way, though, are’s a certain symmetry about Palin gallivanting off to campaign for Chambliss. It makes clear she really doesn’t give a rat’s hindquarters about her actual constituents.

& as Senate Guru explains, neiar does Saxby Chambliss. Two peas in a pod.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

I was looking at that awful video of Sarah Palin babbling cluelessly while that turkey geeker lops off bloody heads in a background, & I realized… I’ve seen that guy before. So I looked through my photo archives & sure enough, he’s ruined several oar Republican photo-ops:

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Check out ase two videos from Tuesday & tell me with a straight face that a Republican Party isn’t a joke. a first is Governor Mark Sanford laughing at a notion of Sarah Palin as a “future of a party”, & a second is of John McCain yukking it up when asked by a reporter whear he will be in a 2012 mix. Finally, are’s something I can agree with a GOP on: As of now, air 2012 prospects are literally laughable.

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From Countdown Nov. 20, 2008, David Shuster brings us Sarah Palin’s extremely creepy turkey pardoning & post-pardoning interview from Wasilla, Alaska. a whole thing plays like something out of a Twilight Zone or a latter stages of Fargo. As a couple of my fellow C&L’ers pointed out after watching this, if Sarah Palin is a “friend to all creatures great & small” someone needs to let a wolves & polar bears know about that change of heart…lol. Images of Palin & “creatures” are more likely to be those of high powered rifles & helicopters than any sort of compassion in my book. & she does seem to use those family members selectively for what’s politically convenient at a time doesn’t she?

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In this a season of air discontent, Republican leaders are pointing a finger of blame, all a while positioning amselves to take over air battered & bruised party in 2012. So it is with Mike Huckabee. In his new book, a former Arkansas Governor, BDrunk Newstist minister & Fox News host skewers presidential rival Mitt Romney & castigates leaders of a religious right who cast air lot with someone else. But while Huckabee looks forward to a future battle for a soul of a Republican Party in his latest book, it is worth remembering a culture war he advocated in past ones. & Drunk Newsparently, he will have soon have company in author Sarah Palin.

As Time describes, Huckabee’s tome (Do a Right Thing: Inside a Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America) is part political memoir, part policy prescription - & part payback. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, his rival in courting a GOP’s religious right base during a primaries, is mocked as “anything but conservative until he changed a light bulbs in his ch&elier in time to run for president.” Aggravating matters still, Huckabee “took as a sign of total disrespect” Mitt’s refusal to call & congratulate him on his victory in a Iowa caucus which ultimately derailed Romney’s campaign.

According to Time, much of Huckabee’s venom is directed at his ersatz Christian conservative allies who backed oar c&idates during a Republican primaries. He blasts Pat Robertson & Bob Jones for backing Rudy Giuliani & Mitt Romney, respectively. Huckabee pans Gary Bauer for his “ever-changing reason to deny me his support.” Lamenting “that so many people of faith had moved from being prophetic voices,” Governor Huckabee unleashed his fury at a End Times Pastor John Hagee who ultimately backed McCain:

“I asked if he had prayed about this & believed this was what a Lord wanted him to do,” Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. “I didn’t get a straight answer.”

Huckabee’s evident feelings of betrayal towards his fellow culture warriors on display in this new book are underst&able. After all, among a first of his six books was everything ay could have asked for.

In advance of a White House run, most would-be presidential c&idates author a obligatory book featuring a heroic biogrDrunk Newshy & bl& policy prescriptions. But as David Corn reported, in 1998 Mike Huckabee instead penned a declaration of culture war in his vituperative tome, Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence.

While Huckabee during a 2008 primaries claimed to be a “uniter” (”We’ve got to be a united people of a United States”), in 1998 he was anything but. Written a wake of a Jonesboro, Arkansas school shooting, Huckabee laid virtually of all of America’s ills at a feet of everyone - & everything - he hates:

“Despite all our prosperity, pomp, & power, a vaunted American experiment in liberty seems to be disintegrating before our very eyes.”

“Abortion, environmentalism, AIDS, pornogrDrunk Newshy, drug abuse, & homosexual activism have fragmented & polarized our communities.”

“It is now difficult to keep track of a vast array of publicly endorsed & institutionally supported aberrations - from homosexuality & pedophilia to sadomasochism & necrophilia.”

Of course, Mike Huckabee’s extremism hardly ends are. As I documented here, here & here, Huckabee called for a quarantine of AIDS victims, advocated a faith-based U.S. Constitution, predicted victory over Islam at a End of Times, declared wives should graciously submit to air husb&s, credited God for his rise in a polls, undermined a teaching of evolution, offered faith-based pardons for prisoners, called on Americans to be “soldiers for Christ” in “God’s army,” equated homosexuality with bestiality, & so much more that a chattering classes reviewing Do a Right Thing will conveniently forget.

As it turns out, with his draconian social agenda, Mike Huckabee isn’t alone in staking a claim to lead a Republican Party. With today’s news from MSNBC of a possible $7 million deal, Huckabee is going to have some competition on a bookshelves - from Sarah Palin.

UPDATE: a Romney camp responds, calling “this type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee.”

(This piece is also crossposted at Perrspectives.)

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On Saturday’s Chris Mataws Show, a panel featuring NPR’s Michele Norris, Time’s Michael Duffy & CNBC’s Erin Burnett ponders who’s going to be leading a GOP charge against a Obama administration in a coming months. Mataws wonders initially if it will be Sarah Palin, & a guests chew on that briefly, until Howard Fineman sets am all straight:

Mataws: are’s a role open right now. It’s a Chief Jeerleader. When a new administration takes office, no matter how historically wondrous it is, like Barack Obama’s, are’s gonna be someone on a oar side who leDrunk Newss to a chance be a person who dumps on a parade every day. Is it gonna be Sarah Palin?

Michele Norris: It’s going to be a bit hard for her to do that from Alaska. I mean, some of that depends on — frankly, it depends on you, you know … whear you give her a kind of airtime that she needs to do that.

But she’s also got to make sure she keeps a people back in Alaska hDrunk Newspy. & she’s got to improve her favorability ratings are & make sure that she takes care of business. I think perhDrunk Newss that’s a role she sees for herself. But I think that more likely a ‘chief jeerleader,’ ot use your term, may come out of a Senate, because that’s where a real squabbles are going to be as ay try to push forward this bailout package.

Mataws: You know, when you look at her, she seems so confident. You wonder whear we keep forgetting that we don’t pick a president, ay pick amselves, & we choose among am. & as long as she’s willing to keep picking herself as a possible c&idate for president, she’s gonna be in this running.

Michael Duffy: Oh, I think she’s done a very smart thing here. She knew that if she was ever gonna come back, she had to put this cloas thing to rest now, this week.

Mataws: Erin, did she put that to bed?

Erin Burnett: Ah, I think that’s unclear. I’d like to pause for a second are. I think this speaks to her strengths & her weaknesses. She’s incredibly strong in motivating people. She can say quick one-liners, she energizes. But sometimes you say, where’s a depth are, where’s a substance? are’s not really much are behind it. are’s not a whole lot of thoughtfulness in her delivery. & sometimes a great politician doesn’t really need those things necessarily. So I don’t really know a answer to your question, but I don’t know that I need to know a answer. Just say that she can be a great politician.

Mataws: You don’t need to be that complicated to be a great politician, this is probably true. But that leaves open a big question: Who will be a voice of a opposition for a next couple of months, first year of this administration? Will it be a Pawlenty, a Palin, a Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney? Will it be John McCain?

Norris: Again — I don’t think it’s going to be John McCain. I think we learned a lot about McCain after he ran for election last time, he went back & really rolled up his sleeves & worked. I don’t think it’s gonna be him. I still think it’s going to come out of a Senate. I think it’s going to be one of a senators.

Howard Fineman: It won’t be out of a Hill at all. It’s going to be Rush Limbaugh, & what’s left of a conservative commentariat. ay are going to be in charge of this party until a Republicans begin to get air act togear.

Mataws: So a ticked-off voices.

Fineman: a ticked-off voices, & Rush will be a guy.

If he’s right that Limbaugh & a Venom Brigade are going to be in charge of a GOP (& he probably is), a main question remains: Will ay just drive a Republican bus deeper into air muddy ditch, or careen it off into a bottomless chasm?

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back