Only thing I’m scared of is hurting something from laughing too hard at this freak show.

Kristol does understand that Tawd could wipe up the entire Lower 48 with Little Billy’s ass, doesn’t he?

It’s sad enough watching boys in the completely natural authentic state of adolescence swoon over the girl who ran off with the football captain, but watching that fantasy play out in the adult minds of the wingnut brigade has gone way beyond funny and now is just pathetic.

And the fact that Kristol wants the rest of us to revel in his dreamstate is creepy.

Be careful what you wish for, TBogg. Remember the words of Mencken: “No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

Y’know, I want to laugh at the thought of Palin being the front-runner for the Repugs, but then I remember they’re the folks that managed to paint Al Gore as a lying braggart and get a guy who had fucked up everything he’d ever laid his hands to elected instead. Twice.

OTOH, at least she’ll be running against someone who seems to know what he’s doing (in regards to campaigning, at least) who’s a sitting president, so that’ll be an uphill battle for her. But she’s probably young enough that if she doesn’t manage to completely flame out in 2012 they might recycle her for 2016 — and after 8 years of belt-tightening, when things are starting to look up, people are more prone to fall for the Repugs snake-oil of “Democrats are stealing all your money and giving it to the shiftless brown people!”

Just like everyone else, I would looking for some good dirt only to see a recitation of the same stuff I’ve known starting back in October.

Mr. TBogg, don’t make me hitch down there & start editing you. Or calling in noise complaints.

It was disappointing that there was nothing about her religio-moronicity, her witch-doctor blessing, etc. Good pictures though.

By 2016 half of her aging, wretched base will be dead. (Fingers crossed.)

Seriously – why wouldn’t they want a more competent candidate? This bitch has FAIL written all over her.

Wow. That was bad.

Fxided nwow.

“After all, his management of [former Vice President] Dan Quayle’s public image as his chief of staff is still something that takes your breath away,”

The really good put-downs are usually an inside job, have you noticed that?

I had the same response as Tbogg after reading the article. It was just a rehash of what we’d already heard–she’s a slightly paranoid, vindictive, narcissistic snowbilly who doesn’t really like to work all that hard and has no concept of her own inadequacies. In other words, perfect Republican presidential material. She’ll probably get the nomination.

I couldn’t swallow the whole thing, but the snippets I read were rehashed and warmed-up leftovers. I think she will be a viable Republican candidate in 2012 only because they are crazy. My own asshole governor, Pawlenty will be right there positioning himself as a moderate when he is anything but.

As for MN’s own little wingnut, she says she’ll only run if God tells her to run. So anyone with a hotline to God has got to tell Him to STFU!

Remember that it was Bullshit Bill who anointed Palin the future of the GOP after meeting her during a cruising session while in Juneau on the Weekly Standard cruise. It’s personal to him.

I hate when you do this to me, Bogg!

First, you wind me up with the very real possibility of Palin on the top of the ticket, then you get me shaking with laughter that the campaign may be run by Steve Schmidt, which brings back memories of suspended campaigns, etc.

For those with even longer memories, don’t forget his wife-swapping ad of the late ’70’s.

The number two on the ticket? Please make it Boehner, please!

Get Kristol in there as a foreign policy advisor and we will be electing Democrats for so long we could also witness the first African-American woman President with an Obama-Obama ticket.

Asked about the accusation, Schmidt fired back in an email: “I’m sure John McCain would be president today if only Bill Kristol had been in charge of the campaign.”

Hot damn! Wingnut slap fight, everybody!

Anyone in their right mind is afraid of Sarah Palin becoming President.

I want her to run, I even want her to be nominated, because I think that she will easily be defeated by Barack Obama.

But what if the unthinkable happens, and due to some kind of catastrophic event, she actually WON? After all, even a borderline imbecile like George W. B*sh was “elected”, sort of.

she will be in demand the[sic] try and put the true face back on America and the true heart back in it’s[sic] people.

The true face: a white face, not a Black-black-blackety-black face.

I’m with captphealy and Mencken: The American people are an idiot. Obama won, but by a shockingly small margin considering the utter crappiness and criminality of the previous administration. Mooseolini is more viable than we think.

She is the most likely to be defeated but also the most disastrous if elected.

The second half of this sentence is most nearly 100% certain, but the first half is much less certain, given the “Jon & Kate + 8″ country we live in.

This makes it hard to decide if one should root for her to be the nominee.

I present to you two bowls, each with ten M&M’s.

In the first bowl there are 9 normal and delicious M&M’s and one so poisonous, you are sure to die.

In the other, there are 6 normal and delicious M&M’s, and 4 that, although non-fatal, will give you the shits for at least a weak.

Which bowl do you choose from?

I love the snarkosity, but allow me to be serious for just a nanosecond. Palin should not run, she should not be anywhere near the White House by any stretch of the imagination. The country needs a viable opposition party, the current Repubs are not it, and Palin would only delay the ability of sane conservatives regaining power.

On the other hand, a Palin candidacy crashing and burning in spectacular fashion could hasten the demise of the current-day GOP.

Heh, call me undecided.

Not so sure. They actually like each other less now than when they were gutting each other in the primaries, and they’re busily gutting their frontrunners (at least the ones who aren’t gutting themselves).

Besides, Obama plays as rough as they do.

From Andrew Sullivan on the VF Palin article…says it all!

“As the months have gone by since John McCain revealed his total cynicism and contempt for America’s national security by selecting one Sarah Palin to be a potential vice-president of the United States, we have learned that every single ghastly attribute we discovered in the campaign is worse than we thought at the time.

The narcissism, the pathological and incessant lying, the viciousness, the delusions of grandeur, the vindictiveness, the fathomless and proud ignorance, the opportunism, the vanity, the white trash concupiscence and fraudulence in almost every respect: these are now indisputable. How an advanced democracy came that close to having this farce of a candidate running the most powerful country on earth reveals how deep the corruption of our politics and especially our media are.”

Which bowl do you choose from?

Being a true and patriotic American consumer, I would eat all the M&Ms in both bowls, natch.

The country needs a viable opposition party, the current Repubs are not it, and Palin would only delay the ability of sane conservatives regaining power.

The DINOs are opposition party enough. As parties get older, they get more crusty with self-interest and beholden to big money interests. Liberals/progressives should split off into a new, more populist party and let the old corporatists keep the Democratic party. It would change the meaning of bipartisanship and move the Overton window our way. It’d have to be done while the Repugs are flailing, though.

I’m so fucking afraid that I’m going to go ahead and make a contribution to TrigPAC, I’m mean SarahPAC. Oh God there I go again, desecratin’!

While Sarah certainly rivals W with respect to incompetence and sheer nastiness, Princess snowbilly lacks the power and money of the Bush machine behind her. I don’t think too much for her chances (but what to I know).

Obama won, but by a shockingly small margin considering the utter crappiness and criminality of the previous administration.

Obama wasn’t running against W; he was running against 1) an experienced politician who still had quite a few people convinced that he was a “maverick”; 2) someone who was one of the most instantly popular candidates for national office ever, and remained so despite her numerous drawbacks; 3) numerous PUMAs who apparently would have voted for Satan as long as he had a woman on the ticket with him; and 4) an astonishing amount of undisguised racism (as well as more that was disguised, thinly, as “birther” bullshit and the whole “secret Muslim” thing). And, for all that, he won with the “shockingly small margin” of 192 electoral votes and 10 million popular votes.

Palin has two arrows in her quiver: her “just plain folks” act, which took some major hits with her RNC-financed shopping spree and the numerous perks that she’s taken advantage of while governor, and using her family as human shields, which Obama is too smart to run into. All he has to do is call her on her bullshit and point out her flip-flopping on fiscal issues–being for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it, making a big show of turning down fiscal stimulus money that she later took–and she’ll go down in one. (Seriously, if she did run I can easily see her skipping out on the presidential debates after the first one, probably insisting that one of the kids had a cold or something.)

Hahaha…MBouffant made Tbogg his bitch! Also.

Face it – about 45% of the population would vote for a flat rock if it had an (R) on it, but even the Repugs of 2008-20011 (two thousand-eleven) have to be smarter than to allow her to be nominated. Their “leadership” are all twats, but surely there are normal people in the middle of that wasteland who can see what kind of supernova a Palin candidacy would be?

Shouldn’t that be Moosanini?

Secessionist Sarah pimped her daughter out to People magazine as a negative role model and national buffoon.

What’s not to like?

I wonder if God knows about Michelle’s Minnesota MILFS Buttblasters Gold Classic Series over at Dogfart?

Mr TBogg, a little more information about the “letter from God” can be found here. I had not heard the story either. Can’t say it really shocked me though. It’s like the friends who write the Christmas letter from their dog.

Eh. She won’t make it out of the primaries and wouldn’t accept another VP slot. Bill and Limbaugh and other Starbursters wuv her, but the real money Republican political establishment does not. They’ll try to use her to generate cash and interest, but she’ll flame out.

I can see her doing infomercials in five or six years time: Fortified vitamins! A bible thrown in with each order.