with subtle hints of moose pheromones

Trust me on this, but as a Montanan I can assure you that you want absolutely nothing to do with moose pheromones. On the other hand they almost certainly guarantee that she will say something monumentally stupid and embarrassing in the next 60 days. This could get really interesting.

Behind the scenes at the McCain campaign:

“OMG!! Obama delivered a killer acceptance speech, we are SO HOSED! Quick, find us a VP candidate with no visible qualifications, a closet full of skeletons, glasses and a goofy hair-do! A woman, if possible!”

The AP already called her a “Maverick”. So now, in the Maverick family, there’s Bart, Bret, Beau, Buford, and Bitsy?

McCain should be singing The Campaign’s Going South to Alaska, going south the rush is on.

At least now we know why McCain put the couch in the Cindy’s airplane. Hope rises even when nothing else does.

Yeah, McCain seems to have a “thing” for cheerleaders, doesn’t he?

Oh wait, wasn’t Bush a cheerleader in his younger days? Ewww, yuck.

Geez, when I saw her at the rally, all I could think was “McCain’s running with Tina Fey!”

Hmm..memory slip there…a thing for “beauty queens”, I should have said.

His “thing” for a former male cheerleader is something completely different, as a different Palin might have said.

Tbogg, help me. Call the Sadly, No crew. After seeing Sarah Palin, suddenly Chris Muir started making sense to me. I REALLY DIDN’T NEED THIS, DAMMIT.

Damn, it’s going to take a solid hour of Metal Machine Music to scrub this out…

A woman who can purposely kill the offspring of anything other than ants (and smile about it) is seriously broken. She probably pulled the legs off of spiders as a child. What really bothers me is that I can’t see an upside for McCain here…makes me very uncomfortable when I don’t immediately see through the wingnuts and their tactics.

Her prom hair, not so much.

Funny, after I woke up this somewhat-morning, bleary-eyed and cotton-mouthed, the girlfriend was just walking in from her robust, exhilirating, daily workout.

“Did you hear who John McCain picked as Veep?” (that she actually used the word “veep” had my head spinning immediately) she coyly inquired whilst I adjusted and snuffled, “nah baby, eyes aint focused yet, caint read the intertoobz,” I replied.

“Sarah-something-or-other, from Alaska” she stated.

“Palin, Palin !!!!! (said in that annoying, I-read-about-politics-all-fucking-day-voice-so-don’t-act-like-I-can’t-give-you-an-up-to-the-minute-accounting-of-her-policy-positions) Get the motherfucking-fuck-of-all-motherfucking-fucks outta here” I responded as I spilled half and half on the counter and cursed at the cat bawling for food even though her food dish is never more than 3/4 empty.

“What’s up with her hair, is she going to a Formal?”

I’m of two minds here, tbogg. On the one hand, I, like you, weep for Tagg’s inheritance. We were so close to getting sucker Republican donors to filling the gap.

On the other hand, we’ve got a whole new batch of “America’s Worst Mother” names to play with. I mean, Track? Bristol? Willow? Piper? Come. On!

As for the last baby, I refuse to bring a baby with Down Syndrome into this. Assuming it is her baby, of course.

In her view, only human offspring matter. Something about all the other creatures can’t get into her personal Heaven, I think.

Thank you for stating so clearly what the problem is: she is seriously broken.

As for what the McCain crew thinks is the upside, it’s obvious to me. They think so little of the female of their own species that they assume every single one of us will jump for joy at the prospect that we could vote for a woman. Any woman. Because the only difference McCain sees in women is that some are prettier than others.

All you need to know about Sarah Palin can be boiled down to a few sentences.

1. Prior to being elected governor (in the wake of the Murkowski scandals) she was mayor of a burg hardly large enough to qualify as a town, even. Wasilla’s primary claim to fame? They are (or were, at one time) home of the Poop Moose.
“>Really. Before the American company was killed by Chinese knockoffs, anyway. Maybe it’s apt that they chose a corrupt Republican as their mayor, then.

2. She favors teaching religious mythology cloaked in pseudo-scientific jargon, alongside actual science, in the public schools. This is what passes for academic rigor in her world. This alone would be enough to lose my vote.

3. She favors abortion. Even in cases of rape. Even if the rape victim was her own daughter. That’s a little too hardcore for me, thanks. That she considers herself a feminist in spite of this is doubly disgusting.

An anti-woman fundie hick from the sticks. Hey, I’m a bit of a hick myself…we can smell our own. Who in their right mind would put this woman one loud bang away from the Presidency, that’s what I want to know.

Rock on, Tbogg.

TBogg:

Much will be made of Plain’s ever-present glasses as a fashion statement. Her prom hair, not so much.

Prom hair? And here I thought it looked like a collapsed bee-hive.

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Sarah P.’s crazy serial killer eyes make Tagg look like a sane human being.

And as for the upside, I think they’re going to make a play for Catholics who are squeamish about abortion. After Pelosi’s speech a bunch of right wing nutcase Congresspeople sent a letter about how dare she distort the doctrines and demanding that she stop pretending to be a Catholic. At the time I wondered what they were playing at but now I suspect they knew Palin was in the works and were setting the stage for the Catholic battle. Yet another reason why I’m a former Catholic.

She ain’t no Dick Cheney.

“redolent of America”

Ha! On first read, I thought you said “rodent of America.” Fit right in.

I expect an immediate apology to Tina Fey, please.

We’ve seen so many times, in recent election cycles, where Democrats have campaigned so stupidly that they make the GOoPers look like geniuses.

The proper conclusion to draw from 1994-2004 is this:

Just because one side (Dems) are utter morons doesn’t mean the other side (GOP) are Nobel Laureates.

This is a stupid, stupid move by McCain, and I suspect Obama’s campaign is a lot smarter than the average Democratic campaign (which is setting the bar pretty damn low, to be sure.

The McCrazyOldMan team think women think with their vaginas, just like Republican men think with their dicks.

Insider leak: a county commissioner from Utah with massive hooters is penciled in for Sec of Defense.

How to distinguish a “maverick” from John McCain…a visual guide. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008…..atter.html

Everyone, please read the link to Mudflats and send to everyone you know. It’s just unbelievable.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that within the next sixty days Todd Palin is going to say something that will be very embarrassing to the campaign.

The Repubs are gonna padlock him inside an igloo with a three-month supply of blubber.

Also, this choice pretty much writes off the black and Hispanic votes. Her husband’s native grandmother aside, this is one white ticket.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that within the next sixty days Todd Palin is going to say something that will be very embarrassing to the campaign.

Ah yes: “The Moose that Roared.” I think this will be one of those times when being married to a beer heiress comes in handy. Todd and Mini-McMe can party together in the Straight-Talk Express bus.

Much will be made of Plain’s ever-present glasses as a fashion statement.

Careful, TBogg. Some Wingnut armchair survival expert might conclude you’ve never been outside of SoCal. Contacts are problematic in sub-zero weather.

Hey, it’s all grist for Fey’s comedy mill. At least I hope will be — it’d be a nice excuse for her to pop back over to SNL this fall. (As for more disturbing similitudes, one of my neighbors, a dedicated Dem, sounds just like McGrandpa. At least he doesn’t preface everything with “My friends…” I like the guy too much to ever let on.)

As for the last baby, I refuse to bring a baby with Down Syndrome into this. Assuming it is her baby, of course.
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Funny. The PR photos of the governor from Early 2008 to about June have been scrubbed from the Alaska website. This has already gone viral. And just out of curiosity, how many people who watch “Gray’s Anatomy” on a regular basis would even know the difference between a baby with Down’s Syndrome and a baby that was part Eskimo? A lot of interns can’t tell the difference! Of course it makes a nice cover-up for a mom who is over 40 and whose alleged baby doesn’t quite resemble her other offspring.

She gets off on making animals suffer? Is she a Bush relation?

Having now read the various articles relating to her baby, there is NO question in my mind that’s her grandkid: back at work three days after a sickly baby’s birth? (or maybe she’s just a crappy mom), doubt it. Flying just a month before the baby’s due? Nope, the due date is a very arbitrary number–and you’re actually full term 2 weeks before that date (which she should certainly know). As an extremely high risk pregnancy, she would’ve more likely been on bedrest.

Yeah, “continuously checking with her physician while returning”—was that in case Bristol dared to ask for an epidural? Also, “he was my easiest delivery”: uh yeah, THAT might actually be the truth!