All together now: Cut & run!

White Trash Opera? It’s been done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7V2Zmbx5Y0

And she wholly blamed the national press, saying they were creating national distractions that cost the state money. Palin said: “You are naive if you don’t see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard.”

Funny, I thought the national press was more interested in Michael Jackson’s will contest, and Governor Sanford’s booty call from Argentina. But hey, I guess it’s a matter of perspective. Living as far north as she does, it’s quite possible that those of us in the lower 48 are clogging the “Intertubes” with so much excessive bandwidth depicting the defaced iconography of her pastoral, SADD-exacerbated, cabin-fever-infused, fundamentalist X-ian family values, that the people in Alaska have been deprived of current events!

SP also quoted a magnet from her parents’ refrigerator in her incoherent rant. “Farewell”? For two minutes.

It was undoubtedly your desecration of this holy Palin family icon, as posted yesterday, that was the proverbial last straw.

A grateful nation will present public fireworks displays in your honor tomorrow night.

There is a great quote from someone named Ben in the comments section of the NY Times article:

“Oh Sarah, we hardly knew ye! But we laughed at ye. A lot.”

Rich Lowry:

Palin Today [Rich Lowry]

I think I have pretty well-established credentials when it comes to being charmed by Sarah Palin,

Snerk!

but that statement, as a statement, was simply terrible. Rambling and not at all persuasive as an argument for her decision.

My bet is something big and nasty is brewing in the background and could explode at any moment. Resigning as governor does nothing to help and could seriously damage her prospects for any other office.

There’s gotta be scandal or money. Or both!

The video and transcript are just weird. She seems to be saying, “I care so much about this great state that I’m quitting and letting somebody else take responsibility.” She also babbles about how much she loves her job, etc.

Awww, Sarah! Why the long face?

Simple. Being a governor is hard. Being a governor who has had a dozen or so ethics complaints filed against you in the past six months or so is harder. It’s MUCH easier to run for president when you don’t have to worry about things like not accepting millions for a book you’ve “written”. As a devotee of The Mudflats, I’m savoring this. However, like Ahhhhnie, she’ll be back.

When notified that the State of Alaska would no longer pick up the tab for her legal defense fees, Gov. Palin allegedly replied: “But if we mortgage the house for attorneys’ fees, Todd won’t have enough money for a new snowmobile–and we won’t be able to afford a hunting license for little Trig!”

That’s some Palin-patented “Endurance” right there, it is. Also. Determination.

“I betcha I’d have more endurance [than Obama],” she told Runner’s World magazine in an interview published online Tuesday.

“What I lacked in physical strength or skill, I made up for in determination and endurance,” she said.

“Cut-and-run”,exactly!

She may no longer be our Governor but she’s still the state’s Bull Goose Loony!

I’m wondering if she’s not just one step ahead of an indictment. Every other Pol up here is either indicted, convicted, or out on appeal.

Please, Jeebus, when’s the hammer gonna’ fall on Don Young.

Two good things will come of this:
1. Alaskans will soon have a new governor. Apparently Miss Taupe Support Hose Under Running Socks* isn’t popular with the locals anymore. With the exception of Alaska’s cocaine-manufacturing headquarters, Wasilla, where residents can see Afghani poppy fields from their windows.

2. Tina Fey won’t be short of opportunities to deliver more laughs to Americans.

* Although I made it up, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta tribe are welcome to claim it, as per the aboriginal custom of assigning names that reflect personalities.

Apparently the thrilla from Wasilla ain’t sending up starbursts or whatever up his leg. Just wondering which Republican governator is up for resignation on Labor Day. Maybe Ahnuld will resign because they find some old pics of him in full Nazi regalia.

It’s gonna be a Fox reality series – The Wasilly Sods.

A radio show host in Alaska, who has watched/heard a LOT of Sarah Palin, just told David Schuster that she has never seen Palin so nervous. She thinks something big is about to go down.

I assume Bristol is pregnant again. Or did she abort?

Secretly hoping she’s caught in a Ménage à Douche with Sanford.

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Can you say “all in”?

This is a “faith” move, if I ever saw one.

She has been Called.

Case closed…no other answer is possible

Ha!

Edward Teller at Oxdown suggested Bristol’s former b’friend has got the goods on the Palin family, hence the huge legal bills she was complaining about (along with stuff related to her “governing”). Wouldn’t it be fun if she were caught cooking meth in the Gov’s Mansion?

You know what would be A.W.E.S.O.M.E.?

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin appearing on Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D List.

Not being a basketball fan, I can’t say myself, but someone over at Sadly, No points out that her description that what a point guard does is keep her eye on the basket is WRONG – the point guard is supposed to keep her eye on defense.

finally polling the most important people in my life – my children (where the count was unanimous… well, in response to asking: “Want me to make a positive difference and fight for ALL our children’s future from OUTSIDE the Governor’s office?” It was four “yes’s” and one “hell yeah!” The “hell yeah” sealed it – and someday I’ll talk about the details of that…

So, Willow really IS knocked up?

She misspoke. She meant to say a good point guard keeps her eye on the Oval Office.

Lets see how the Republicans spin this one.

For me its three words: Big. Fat. Quitter.

Was any hiking on the Appalachian Trail involved?

Yes. And they know it’s a boy and they already picked a name. Young Tryptophan will no doubt carry on the family’s good name.

What was number in Vegas?

Willow and A-Rod would make a beautiful snowflake baby…

The Thrilla’ from Wasilla is now the Quitter in the Shitter.

BTW: Nice, subtle Photoshoppery on the pic: definitely got that “Children of the Corn” thing goin’ on.

Are you kidding? Being a commentatress on TV is the culmination of her life’s dream! That is, after all, why she sampled 5 different colleges, searching for the one, perfect mirrored stage for her unique talent.

I have never seen Palin that nervous before or upset before (I watched half her presser). There is definitely something big going on…she’s going out Norm Coleman style (hoping the scandal will fade in time for the next run). She did not resign out of her own volition.

Cya, Mrs Governor Sarah, ubetcha! Don’t let the door hit ya where God splt ya! You cheap, grifting, raggedy assed, hustling, greedy, crooked, privileged, grimy slime bucket douche nozzle POS. Double fuck ur odd, strange family members and ur asinine, grotesque SnowBilly Northern Slope Snopes in fucking laws. Christ, you really, really fucking blow chunks, you appalling retrograde reichwing virago shit pail.

That’s what I thought. Content free, superficially upbeat and cheerful, scared and desperate as a cornered shit house rat. Bet she stunk the sour stink of the adrenaline charged arm pit after that little bit of bittersweet kabuki. I confess myself sanguine respecting an optimal outcome. Watching her twist is fucking sweet.

Damn.

Now I sort of wish McCain had won the election, just so we would watch Caribou Barbie explain why she had to resign as VP because David Letterman was mean to her.

With 72-year-old President McCain creaking around the Oval Office.

And Nancy Pelosi watching him from the Speaker’s chair.

My god, Erick the Redstate would have had five simultaneous heart attacks.

I can’t be alone in this…it’s a rare thing to watch a right-wing brain try to downshift without a clutch…

You accurately described yourself.

Could this be your blogging, bompins?

http://obamadaddy.blogspot.com/

Name the next Palin baby contest!

I choose “Trailer”!

You accurately described yourself.

You forgot “but what am I?”

“Trailer Parke Palin.” Because Middle names that end in “e” are so classy….

Olde Trailer Parke Palin?

Airstream Palin

C’mon, JDM3–EVERYBODY knows that Communism is genetic!

bompins is my ace boy, go to homes fer that sort of info.

Hehe, it looks as though Patterico (who is Michelle Malkin trapped in a man’s body) is howling with fauxrage at the picture. It’s Friday night, my guess is he’s drunk-blogging again.

Damn it, man. You are a sheer genius of the foul-mouthed poetry. I can only aspire to reach your heights!

I think I’m in love.

despite your aversion to hot saucy disco, i think you just became my personal hero, mr. bogg.

Patterico really hates you, dear.

Apparently he and his crew think you want to cook and eat Caribou Barbie’s children.

Yesterday’s announcement probably means the end of Palin’s chances for higher office, which is certainly fine by me. If there were any justice, however, your vicious photoshop attack on her children would be the end of you as a blogger.

Palin deserves to be criticized for her backwards politics, her incoherence and a temperament poorly suited to the exercise of effective political leadership. But, as Barack Obama has admonished more than once, leave her children out of it. It’s not just that tactics like yours invite a very ugly kind of retribution — they are fundamentally wrong. If you can think back to your own childhood, or if you have children of your own, you should understand the emotional cruelty you stand to inflict.

And spare me the “humor” defense — leave that to Rusty DePass and his ilk.

As liberals, we should be better than this. Patterico and I agree on very little, but I share his harsh assessment of what you’ve perpetrated here.

As liberals, we should be better than this.

What do you mean by “we,” kemosabe?

I really don’t know what you’re talking aboiut. Are you so naive as not to realize who these people are?

This photo is not cool. Smacking Sarah, The First Dude, and Bristol around is fair game because they are adults, and they have put themselves in the public eye.

The rest of her children, especially Trigg – who has Downs Syndrome – are not.

And including all of them in this photo is below the belt, and it only helps Palin, because these and many other like attacks that have come out this weekend rightfully get her more sympathy.

Understand where I’m coming from. I’m no fan of Palin, or what she stands for, but if we libs and progressives keep hitting her with these low blows, it is damaging our cause.

As liberals, we should be better than this. Patterico and I agree on very little, but I share his harsh assessment of what you’ve perpetrated here.

As a ‘liberal’ you should be better than a performing concern troll for a slug who supported an administration that tortured and slaughtered people. The same slug, Patterico, saw fit to post TBogg’s identity on his Blobby Blog of Poo. Go be a concern troll over there. Perspective, moran. Get some.

You complainers must be new ’round here. Snark is what Tbogg does. Anyone who has visited this site more than two days consecutively can tell you that. He’s no more responsible for “the progressive cause” than he is for the starting rotation of the Padres (which, by the way, sucks.)

Your deep concern is appropriately noted.

This photo is not cool. Smacking Sarah, The First Dude, and Bristol around is fair game because they are adults, and they have put themselves in the public eye. The rest of her children, especially Trigg – who has Downs Syndrome – are not.

Look closely at the photoshop, moran. Trig’s eyes haven’t been zombified and he’s protected from the family-from-hell by a fence.

While you’re being a concern troll, ask Sarah Palin to stop carrying Trig like a sack of potatoes to every politically opportune pit stop. She’s using the kid.

Actually, “Lesley,” I oppose torture no matter who does it and I oppose holding children up to public ridicule, no matter who does it or who the children’s parents are. It’s all of a piece. If you don’t get that, maybe you’re the “moran.”

By the way, if you own a dictionary, you might want to start using it.

Phony family n’ children concern trolls: blow it out ur sorry, rancid asses. You might be happier with the compulsive public masturbators over at Red State. Happy Holiday!

That you fail to appreciate “moran” (the misspelling of moron originated from the right and lefties have been mocking that for ages) is all the proof I need that you’re a troll, timmcgarry.

While Patterico is utterly loathesome, nothing compares with posers who pretend to be one thing while being another. As for your comment that torture – which you condoned when you voted for Bush/Cheney – and ridiculing a corrupt Republican gasbag, are “all of the same piece” – well let me repeat, you need some perspective, Patterico fanboy.

Examples of gentle and respectful treatment of children and families by Bush-supporting conservatives, including Patterico.

Morans.

Being called “rancid” by the likes of you, JDM3, produces a very interesting sensation. However, if suggesting a new home is the order of the day, I’m confident that your true soul mates can be found in the darker recesses of Free Republic. You’ve got their rhetorical style down pat.

I’ll repeat my point. Sarah Palin deserves harsh criticism, even ridicule. Her children deserve to be left alone.

“Lesley” seems to enjoy being obtuse. Again, I have no problem with ridiculing Sarah Palin. Like the President, however, I insist that children be left out of it.

You say I need perspective. I say you need a conscience.

Dividing his time between right- and left-wing blogs, Tim endeavors to promote manners and civility, while completely ignoring the larger issues. If a self-serving, sadistic narcissist entered the room with blood on her hands, Tim would be less focused on the spectacle of horror that person represents than responses by decent people to it.

A sane person (like TBogg) strips off veneers. The ever oblivious myopic Tim endeavors to preserve them.

No, “Lesley,” it’s not about manners, it’s not about Abu Ghraib, it’s not about George Bush, it’s not about Patterico, it’s not about Lady MacBeth, it’s not even about Sarah Palin. What it’s about is not holding up children to ridicule. It’s about not being vicious to the innocent. Deal with the issue at hand. If you want to talk politics, approach it like a grown-up. Be as forceful or as scathing as you think you need to be, but make sure you’ve picked the right target and leave the children out of it. If you can’t see the sanity in that, I feel sorry for you.

It’s about not being vicious to the innocent.

You really are a fucking moron, timmcgarry.

While “leaving the children out of it” is certainly noble it is not necessary. We are certainly free to praise the children of politicians if & when they deserve it.

By adopting a “Family Values” platform, the active agents of the Republican Party have rightfully opened themselves to mockery from those of use opposed to the institution of such inherently self-righteous and unrealistic public standards.

Tbogg here is mocking the Palin Family itself as the hell-spawn false image of Republicanism. He is not wrongfully impugning the character of any one individual. The attempt at humor/criticism stands or falls by how apt the skewering is; plus the little one in front reminds me of this picture:

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2…..-memories/

so it’s all good.

FWIW, a mirror image attempt of portraying the Obama daughters as ghetto kids or what have you doesn’t have any larger rhetorical point; it would be mindless and inaccurate bashing, with the creator revealing himself to have a rather limited command of exposition and lampoonery.

#68

Troy, if there’s an opportunity to be noble, let’s take it. I’m confident we can win our argument with the right and bring the electorate to our point of view without being small — and certainly without being vicious. If our concern is self-righteous and unrealistic public standards, let’s argue against them — and, once again, leave the children out of it.

#67

Lesley, can you do better than f-bombs and name-calling? Children are not innocent? Demonizing them is not vicious? Do you have an argument to make?

“timmcgarry”, who is demonizing the Palin progeny… don’t tell me, they’ve been “gang-raped” too?

I know Trigg is being used as a prop, but it’s not of his own choosing. Ditto everyone else in her family outside of Todd and Bristol. Furthermore, photos like this one also use him as a prop, and this is what is getting her sympathy.

There is PLENTY of reason to dislike her without bringing innocent children into the mix. Obama was correct in saying they were off limits, and we should leave them alone.

DNFTTs. They’re like herpes or genital warts, coming back anyway, unexpected, uninvited, unwelcomed, unencouraged, unintelligent. Cool guyz, missed the moran meme, celverly inveigling themselves as “fellow liberals” concerned about the kidz. HAHAHAHA!! Pedophilic self diddling self hating toilet snipe dickbites.

It’s always a hoot to see Patterico release the flying monkeys.

Palin exploits and zombifies her children. Posting a portrait of that isn’t abusing anybody, it’s exposing what’s true. But get out the smelling salts for Tim concern troll Garry, he’s having another faux fainting spell.

Tim and Commodore. Also see Innocence Abused, Weenie, Cry baby and Bliss Ninny.

Comedy Gold. Also, Todd Purdum’s It Came from Wasilla

How dare he refer to Palin as “it”…what a rude man! She’s a human being. Can’t we all just get along????????????

What’s all this news about the Wasilla Hillbilly and her brood of chicken-chokers?

Don’t tell me, Todd went and grabbed his musket and joined up with the secesh, didn’t he?

Palin’s gone, huh? Too stupid for school I guess. I mean, when the likes of Letterman and TBogg can drive you from office it may be time to rethink your path. I wonder if Sarah and Todd paid their taxes on that meth production ring they were running from the Wasilla Town Hall basement.

It’s not just that tactics like yours invite a very ugly kind of retribution — they are fundamentally wrong. If you can think back to your own childhood, or if you have children of your own, you should understand the emotional cruelty you stand to inflict.

Most of us do remember our own childhoods. Yeah, having the most popular girl in the class erase the eyeballs from your class picture and tack it to the the bulletin board where everyone who mattered could see it hurt like hell–until about recess. Of course having parents who could put this in perspective for us helped immensely. And while our parents didn’t quite come out and say that the most popular girl in the class would probably get knocked up by the captain of the football team and be changing diapers in the local trailer park, while we were in college preparing for actual careers, they somehow managed to convey the fact that what goes around comes around. And we all managed to survive the third through fifth grades where this sort of humor was most popular.

It’s called “juvenalia” for a reason, Tim. It’s one of the reasons the author T.C. Boyle is so popular with adolescents. (Or as The Spouse put it, as he read over my shoulder: “‘Micturate?’ That means piss! I thought this was supposed to be literature!”) It’s easy to become fatigued and apathetic by the depressing drone of lies, deception and sheer crap that passes for political commentary–on either side of the fence. Sometimes “The Daily Show” is more informative. Same principal, as the illustration above, but bigger budget and better production values.

Now, as long as the wingnuts out there are in your “think of the children” mode, ponder this: What kind of mom pimps her family out for votes? Serioiusly–take a really good look at that original photo on Patterico’s site. Notice how the family is artfully arranged around Sarah Palin, hiding the proverbial “bun in the oven,” so that if Palin decided to take one of those last minute “fact-finding” trips to Sweden to investigate new “green” self-composting toilets for the Governor’s Mansion, she could have it discretely taken care of. Meanwhile, Bristol is not only down in the front, but she’s facing sideways, so it’s obvious that she’s pregnant. When the McCain/Palin campaign released that picture, Bristol was essentially denied any semblance of a choice–because in many states, it becomes problematic to seek an abortion after the third month of pregnancy.

And most teenage girls don’t dress like that. As my 14-year-old niece, who lives in hard-core Wingnut territory, pointed out: “Eeuw those clothes are SO WRONG….”
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If Palin is serious about the joys of raising a child with a developmental disability, more power to her. But if she has any political aspirations she’s going to have to do more than just haul Trig around the campaign circuit like a sack of rice and wave. The fact is that most Americans couldn’t afford to raise a child with severe developmental disabilties. She is fortunate that Trig is healthier than many Down’s Syndrome babies. The cost of pediatric intensive care, skilled nursing and attendants can be more than $100,000 per year. In some cases this is exacerebated by the fact that there is a shortage of skilled nursing staff that speak languages like Chinese, Korean, or other languages, where the primary language in the home is not English. Due to increased costs–which will only worsen with the present financial crisis–employers are cutting back on benefits offered to employees. Comprehensive health insurance is one of the first benefits to go. And a health reimbursement just doesn’t cut it if you have a family member with a chronic health care problem. As Peter G. Peterson pointed out recently, “We are the only developed country that doesn’t even have a BUDGET for health care.” And even if we did, we’d be faced with some tough choices: Do you want to provide life support for an anencephalic baby, or someone’s grandpa? It’s getting to the point where the public purse definitely can’t afford both–and we may not be able to fully cover either.

#78

Ruthie, my view is that you don’t set out to hurt children. I don’t know which hurts fade and which scar, and am unwilling to take chances. As President Obama has clearly articulated, a humane and ethical approach to political combat is to leave the children out of it.

Has Palin “used” her family more than other politicians, including those in my party, the Democratic Party? I don’t know. Whether or not she has, I’d rather wage the fight against her on other fronts (health care, for one). Waging it over her family simply enrages her partisans and provides no political benefits to our side. And when the far right decides to lash out against the Obama children, our objections will be undercut by the kind of toxic thoughtlessness exhibited by TBogg here.

“…our objections will be undercut by the kind of toxic thoughtlessness exhibited by TBogg here.”

No, they won’t, actually, but thanks sooo much fer another reading of ur republiKKKan taliking points fer republiKKKan trolls.

Ruthie takes the time to give timmcgarry what he says he wants: meaningful dialogue and he responds with “TBogg is a child abuser.”

Of course, calling TBogg a child abuser isn’t toxic thoughtlessness, it’s part of timcgarry’s job as an Internet Boy Scout Protecting America’s Biggest Assholes.

Hi, Tim.

Remember the beauty contestant that fucked up her answer? T called her the future Mrs. Fred Thompson. I would have preferred T not put her up for shame but he did and the posters here went nuts on the kid. I objected (at the time, the moniker was “badnews”) and Lesley wrote that my objections gave me away as a Republican (or something); weird and wrong but whatever.

She’s not wrong here, Tim. You are.

First of all, when Barack Obama said “leave the children out of it”, Sarah Palin ignored his advice and then some. Obama did not parade his family around the country; neither did Bill Clinton, neither did “W”. Each of those men could have done so and chose not to. But Sarah Palin was different. She put her kids on a national stage–no one else did. She ran a joke of a campaign and when called on it, she said “we” were hurting her family. She went back to Alaska and, if anything, became an even worse politician. What did she do? She blamed “us” for hurting the family and then she quit. You want to defend that by taking issue with a photo? Be my guest. I’m not joining you. The photo is not an attack on the kids–it’s an attack on Sarah Palin and she deserves it.

Tim,

One more thing…

And when the far right decides to lash out against the Obama children, our objections will be undercut by the kind of toxic thoughtlessness exhibited by TBogg here.

Obama could cure cancer and the “far right” would still find a way to attack the kids.