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Twice a bridesmaid in the course of four months.
Greetings from St. George Utah, or as we call it: Mayberry LDS. Oh sure, we could have stayed in Las Vegas but we didn’t feel that we were dressed slutty/greasy enough so we drove up here to stay within the bosom of the real normal American culture, which is to say, with "white people".
Since I was out of the loop today, I just noticed that former prisoner of war John McCain is going to make it to the debate tonight which must mean that the economy has been saved! Yay, former prisoner of war John McCain! And this is good news for John McCain because, as Rich Lowry who has been in a coma for the past week, points out:
If This Campaign… [Rich Lowry] …plays to type, McCain will hit an absolute home run tonight and the narrative will shift yet again.
Back on the Palin beat, Rick The Lesser Moran stands up for the spunky little snowbilly:
Forget that Palin is no more or less qualified for high office than Barack Obama (in some important ways, more qualified). Neither of them is inherently unqualified to serve. That’s because there are no qualifications except that the candidate be a native born American citizen and at least 35 years old. The Founders left the qualifications list extremely vague for a very good reason; they hoped and expected ordinary Americans to have a chance at the top job. Granted we live in a complex world with huge problems. But presidents are not economic or foreign policy experts. Or military, trade, or education experts. At bottom, the greatest assets any president have are their innate common sense and their ability to communicate with the people.
Um. FAIL.
Gomer chimes in once more to point the importance of John McCain at the top of the ticket:
The "last time" a sitting President died being McKinley with Teddy Roosevelt taking over for those who refuse to recognize any Democratic Presidential victories. Oh, and the South didn’t lose the War of Northern Aggression; it was a tie!
Lastly, on the drive to Utah this morning it occurred to me that every time Mitt Romney sees a clip of Sarah Palin answering a question, a little bit of something inside of Mitt dies.
This is one of those situations that is both funny and sad. Mostly funny, though…
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I disagree with Wolf Blitzer when he said “That’s not her best answer.”
What’s scary is, that actually WAS her best answer.
Wow, I never before realized that you could project IMAX movies on Mitt Romney’s forehead. I guess I was too repulsed to actually look at him for more than a few nanoseconds.
I realize Gomer won’t acknowledge FDR’s existence but does he forget that Harding was a Republican?
Christ in the foothills on a tricycle, Gomer manages to overlook both FDR and JFK. His grasp of history is exceeded only by his grasp on his dick.
I’m mostly sad for the Romney Five who gave up their chance to serve in Iraq so that Mitt might serve our country.
Not just fail, but EPIC FAIL! And that goes triple for the wingnut wankosphere.
Somebody should tell the moron McCain, the morons who are his campaign shills, the morons who graduated law schools on his staff,the morons in the media, and the morons who were Hillary’s shills, i.e Wolfson and Penn, once and fucking for all that Obama was never in charge of a sumbcommittee that had anything to do with Afghanistan.
Clinton was on 3 of them that did on Senate Armed Forces.
McSame continues to be so stupid that he’s been in the Senate for 26 years and he can play with sugarmama but he can’t go to the Senate website and read that Obama’s subcommittee oversees Europe. Afghanistan is not anywhere near fucking Europe. And Obama should stuff it in every one of the prune’s orifices.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Subcommittee on European Affairs
Barack Obama, Chairman
Christopher J. Dodd
Robert Menendez
Benjamin L. Cardin
Robert P. Casey, Jr. Jim DeMint, Ranking Member
George V. Voinovich
Bob Corker
Lisa Murkowski
Europe has no country named Afghanistan in it
Afghanistan is a long damn way from Europe
None of the media “pundits” or the “best damn teams on TV pick up on it and Jim Lehrer is way too comatose to pick up on it.
There is no Afghanistan in Europe and that’s the continent whose foreign relations Obama’s subcommitte oversees. Afghanistan is a country last time I checked no where near Europe.
Good news – TBogg certainly contributed to this….
Using Sarah Palin for fund raising, Planned Parenthood gets $760K in donations
By CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, September 26th 2008, 4:35 PM
Thanks to abortion foe Sarah Palin, Planned Parenthood is $763,350 richer.
That’s how much money a viral e-mail campaign, which urges foes of the Republican veep candidate to make a donation in Palin’s name, has raised.
Nice for them, but that’s parasitic fund raising. They should give half or better to Obama.
I’m thinking Mitt might get his chance yet. By next Thursday.
Best line of post-debate coverage this evening, delivered after Joe Biden’s remarks, by whichever emmessemm talking head it was (they all look the same):
“We invited Senator McCain’s running mate, Governor Palin, to comment on this evening’s debate, but the invitation was not accepted. Instead, we have former New York mayor Rudy Guliani here to respond to Senator Biden on behalf of the McCain campaign.”
It’s moments like that which make it all worthwhile.
Oh, and speaking of emmessemm talking heads…..
THIS is an awesome, free thinking, free spirited, free of bullshit, fuck-politically-correct, hilarious, joyous, brilliant kinda blog. That’s why I love it.
But yer landlady at these digs??
Eh, not so much.
Any Wager that by Next Thursday all those McCain/Caribou Barbie signs & buttons become collector items. She (or the campaign) finds some immediate crisis in Alaska or a family disaster needing her immediate attention and requiring her to possibly pass this opportunity to “serve the American People and bring “CHANGE” to Washington”
ANYONE????
Naah, Willard’s too busy taking notes so he can steal some of Bible Spice’s “down-home, folksy, Heartland” riffs during the next Mitt!Run… which, as some people have already pointed out, may start as early as next week, once She Who Must Not Be Questioned discovers that she needs to spend more time outside of the national spotlight, tendin’ her kidses (and avoiding legal depositions re Troopergate).
When Romney saw Guiliani get the prime defending-the-Rethug-brand slot on the after-debate teevee shows, on the other hand… that must’ve left a mark.
So, that’s the best endorsement of Palin they can come up with?
“no qualifications except that the candidate be a native born American citizen and at least 35 years old”
Ringing.
Even Katie Couric looks amazed at how nonsensical Palin’s answer is.
Yeah, that really sounds plausible. It’s obvious they hoped and expected that ordinary women would get the top job. In fact, I imagine they gave slaves three-fifths humanity so that some day five of them could join forces and become three presidents. The Founders…not an elitist among them.
PS. Moran is probably a great fan of former Senator Roman Hruska, who, in defending Richard Nixon’s appalling choice of G. Harold Carswell for the Supreme Court, said (in one of the great quotes of American history):
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.”
Poor Mitt, always the wallflower at the prom it seems, and there he is, doing his best presidential pose too!
Fake Disney movie trailer for the Sarah Palin story
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1831461
h/t Righteous Bubba
It may be time for a Five Brothers Blogging … Where Are They Now?
Obviously, if they thought that elected Dad Mitt was the most important way they could serve/save this country, they must be absolutely crushed.
But then they’re Mormons, so they might be drowning their sorrows in long, tall glasses of apple juice.
St. George? Damn, had to work there a few years back and had a hell of a time finding a bar. Seemed like there was only one at the time, and it was being kept quiet by the locals whenever we asked if there was one (not in phone book). Finally one kind soul told us where it was. Felt really weird there…Great scenery though!
Just you watch, Sarah Flailin’s gonna bring the heat at the debate. She’ll be dressed for success:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSdFIDygFwM
Actually, I think she’ll be off the ticket by then, or have some excuse to never debate Biden. Perhaps they feel they got the Repube base energized by the pick, and now they can bring in Mittmo Romnutz to theoretically “save the economy” while the base is engaged, which is something The Tax Whisperer couldn’t have done had he been the initial VP pick. Mooselini will be cool with it because her career just went on a all night coke binge, and she probably feels well positioned for future campaigns because of the attention. Pathetic lot these “people” are.
No, the newest Rethug campaign strategy is the “surprise” wedding of Bristol to “HockeyJockey” in October–as soon as she turns 18, to sort of take the attention off of Palin’s lack of substantial knowledge about much of anything. Jebus Christ passing out benzodiazepine pizzas at the last supper; I thought “shotgun weddings” were passe!