Oh, please, oh, please…
Sarah Palin says she is seriously considering a run for the White House, and she believes she could beat President Obama in 2012, the former Alaska governor told ABC News’ Barbara Walters.
“I’m looking at the lay of the land now, and … trying to figure that out, if it’s a good thing for the country, for the discourse, for my family, if it’s a good thing,” Palin said in an interview scheduled to air in full Dec. 9 on ABC as part of Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People” of 2010.
Asked Walters: “If you ran for president, could you beat Barack Obama?”
“I believe so,” Palin said.
Let’s see….how shall I put this? Oh yes:




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Palin/Snooki 2012
9-11 NEVAR FORGET!!!
She’s only got two options if she wants to still be in the public eye two years from now: run for president or make a sex tape. So, for the good of the country, I hope she runs.
Addendum: It’s seems increasingly unlikely that she’ll be murdered by one of her children.
Christine O’Donnell is available for the VP spot, which would make a presidential ticket with a thick layer of FAIL smeared all over it.
Well, it finally happened. Her enormous ego nudged the last vestiges of her already tiny brain stem out of the way. She’ll be running on nothing but her vanity and a few dollops of All-American Sweetheart Wrapped in the Flag.
Good luck with that, you shrieking harpy.
Be careful what you wish for Libs. At this point, Obama is an unmitigated disaster: He has been rebuked by the American people, Soros has thrown him over the bus and not too many other Dems wants him within spittin distance of them after this midterm disaster. In short, he has been an unmitigated DISASTER. His famous catchphrase “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” has been turned around: “We are the ones people can’t wait to get rid of”.
Here is something else for you Haters to think about: Most Americans don’t spend their time on blogs or are as passionate about politics as the folks who post on this blog. If I were you all, I would exit the feces swamp long enough to listen to a Dem observer like Taylor Marsh. While skeptical of Palin, she makes the obvious point that Palin Haters and ankle biters should be careful what they wish for. If Gov Palin, unfettered from the McCain team, can come across as reasonable and polished enough on the stuff, she may be the receipient of a FIRST similar to Obama. The FIRST woman President and the historical significance of that may be enough for her to bring more women alng that would otherwise be the case.
Go ahead flame away Haters! My suggestion, however, is to keep dangerous objects close to the vest. It will be fun visiting the blog the first day of a Palin Presidency.
Sadly, though, she’d still be able to get at least 40 percent of the popular vote.
That’s some scary shit right there: those voters are people who could also be in charge of a motor vehicle or in possession of a loaded weapon… Jeebus help us.
Do I need to bookmark this, Troofie?
I for one, absolutely PRAY, every day, that St Sarah “Nailin’” Palin will run for President of the USA in 2012. I’ll even send her some money. Well, some old, leftover French Francs, but, still money none the less. Even if non-convertible.
But as for the rest of your, well, homework essay assignment, the FAIL is strong with you. Hot JETS, Sky Pilot!!
I was going to write something else, but then I came across this:
Bwa hah hah ha hah hahh hahah ha hah ahahahah hah ah ahha.
Thanks for the morning LOL Smooth. You Da Man.
Yeah, please send her as much as you can afford since you want her in the race so bad. Methinks all you Palin haters who keep praying she gets in the race in 2012 are scared – VERY scared. You know Obama is an unmitigated disaster, and is perhaps the worse President of all time. Yeah, send her as much as you can afford to insure that your wish is granted and she gets in.
Dear Sir/Madam/Bonobo;
With apologies, attempting to amble through your line of reasoning, I once again feel like a person who has consumed two fifths of Wild Turkey before attempting to walk heel-to-toe along the path the state trooper has asked. If by ‘stuff’ you mean chrystal meth, then it all makes a little more sense.
P.S. I do, however, have a new found respect for George Soros. Throwing Obama over the bus? What an amazing feat of strength for a man his age!
Yours Forever,
Rich Lowry’s Used Kleenex
“unmitigated disaster”
“You keep using [those words]. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
SJ, although you may think I’m a hater, I’m just trying to be helpful.
“Unmitigated disaster:”
http://www.gallup.com/poll/144491/palin-unfavorable-score-hits-new-high.aspx
You’re welcome.
I no longer care to tempt fate in this manner. I’d have zero, zilch, nil, nada, no faith in the American people to behave in a rational manner in a Snowslut/Obama contest.
I’m with drbloor. Some ridiculous percentage of the American population would vote for a frozen embryo, if voting for the embryo would piss off liberals, and an even bigger percentage don’t pay any attention to politics but, mysteriously, still show up to vote anyway. Let’s not tempt fate.
She’d lose the Alaska primary. And win the South Carolina one, but we already know what South Carolina is.
Tell that to the vast majority of Alaskans who hate her guts now. (And this is the Daily Caller — Tucker Carlson’s publication — saying this. Bloviate all you want, but Carlson’s a key voice of the GOP establishment, and they’re scared to death of the effect a Palin candidacy would have in 2012.
But please, back her candidacy. She’ll do to you all what the teabaggers did to the GOP’s hopes of taking the Senate this year.
Yes, indeed. Hubris is something she really should have studied … somewhere.
that’s good….. summarizes purty much everything, now don’t it.
I love this post. There are so many great comedy lines I can only highlight the favorites:
I first thought this to be simply an inept mangling of the expression “throwing someone under the bus”, but in the end I decided that you mean that George Soros is in the process of overthrowing Obama, in keeping with what Glenn Beck has been “teaching” you. I’m not sure what the bus is doing in the sentence in that case but I doubt that you know either.
This is a two-parter. First I laughed at the idea of Palin having been held back, “fettered”, by McCain.
Yes, if John McCain hadn’t plucked her out of nowhere in a spasm of senility, she’d likely be President by now!
She must curse the day he chose her every day of her life, just like she curses “the media” which has never done anything for her except intrude on her life and pay her millions and millions and millions of dollars for it and her little family too.
Oh and the other part was the line about how “if she can be reasonable and polished enough on the stuff” she may just win.
I promise you that there isn’t enough stuff in the world for Sarah Palin to be on that will make her sound remotely either reasonable or polished. I thought being combative, utterly unreasonable, and rough around the edges was the charm though, no? I can’t keep up with you guys, honestly.
It’s possible that you left out a comma here, but as it stands it appears that you’re suggesting that we flame away people who we see as “haters”.
Nah, mockery works much better than flamery.
This one’s a real puzzler. My best guess is that you were thinking of the expression about keeping cards close to the vest, which means to hide them from your opponents. You may have then mixed this with the idea of keeping dangerous objects hidden away somewhere, the allusion being that people so despondent about a loss shouldn’t have quick access to them for fear of suicide.
What you wrote therefore could be interpreted to mean keeping ones intention to commit suicide a secret, but making it easier to carry out.
Which of course would make no sense whatsoever but then that train left a long time ago, its departure at approximately the moment you wrote the first word.
I sincerely look forward to more.
“if it’s a good thing for the country,”
Only if you pick John McCain to be your running mate.
Damn you, you got both the stuff and over the bus jokes already, but I was too excited by the great post to stop and read the thread before posting.
Okay, plenty of “scared” and plenty of “haters”, lots of outraged indignation that Tbogg dares to post his opinion on HIS blog (the nerve!!!), but you forgot the whole “OMG!!!!! She’s sooooooooooo pretty!!!” and Just like MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”.
Please crack open your copy of Blind Palin Worship for Dummies and refine your kool-aid skills. We expect REAL fundie wingnut trolls on THIS blog.
BTW, A) you wingnuts have plenty of blogs and their tone is waaaay more partisan than ours. B) I seldom see progressives feel entitled to stir shit on fundie blogs and subsequently feel outraged when flamed back. Why? Because we’re not insane like you people.
“If Gov Palin…can come across as reasonable and polished enough on the stuff…”
Well, that’s the catch.
Is smoothjazz the guy who likes Kenny G?
smoothjazz is the Kenny G of English grammar and common expressions.
drblood, unless she hypnotizes the majority of Iowa Republicans, she’s a no-go on the nomination there as far as a first-place finish there.t
It’s not just her majority disapproval rating demonstrated in the polling there that I saw a while back, but the undecided margin is 3% which couldn’t help her even if she could reduce to 1 or 0.5%
Ms. Oznick reminds me of what Dr. Christiaan Barnard once said:
Ahhhh, but your effort is still a thing of beauty. Bravo.
Mr. Tbogg: are you, along with our anti-colonialist Kenyan-sensibilitist President, advocating the murder of US “generals” by showing that documentary clip?
That could be one of Sarah Palin’s first issues. I would like to see it.
Yep!
Maybe she’ll have some time to read more magazines and newspapers by then. I suggest she starts with Penthouse, and work her way up to Mad.
Cap’n Codpiece is in town today, meeting with the Chamber of Commerce and promoting “I can haz presidensy.”
Methinks all you Palin haters who keep praying she gets in the race in 2012 are scared – VERY scared.
Youthinks?
C-mon, are you a parody troller? Or is T-Bogg paying you to stir the pot? No matter…here’s hoping the rubes and morons continue their streak of nominating losers to carry the GOP brand.
As Gretchen Carlson would say, you certainly bring the self-defecating humor to this place.
Except for smoothjazz and Rich Lowery, I think we pretty much know that the GOP will not be letting this dingbat anywhere near the ticket. But I really hopey that she jumps in and runs…it will be pure comedy. After she gets shown the door at the convention, she can run as an ‘outsider’ and continue to play her base for cash.
She’s been unfettered from the McCain team for two years now. Plenty of opportunity to come across as reasonable and polished, and yet her favorable numbers keep going down.
She would have been a FIRST female vice president, yet women stayed right the hell away from her in 2008.
Yes. I think he’s one of Spazzatura’s other sock puppets. Or Mary Rosh’s.
Meanwhile, Helen Philpot of Margaret and Helen fame weighs in, and as always it’s a joy to behold:
This just got posted at DU:
The Associated Press got an advance look at Sarah Palin’s new book, America by Heart, and notes she blasts the television show American Idol and its “talent-deprived” contestants who suffer from “the cult of self-esteem.”
Writes Palin: “No one they have encountered in their lives — from their parents to their teachers to their president — wanted them to feel bad by hearing the truth. So they grew up convinced that they could become big pop stars like Michael Jackson.”
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/11/18/palin_rips...
A great take down of her core voting constituency. No irony there…SP really should read her ghostwriter’s work before submitting for publishing.
This really shouldn’t be underestimated, it would be the best ever. I imagine the possibilities, things like Sarah Palin losing because her supporters couldn’t spell her name, even though she wasn’t a write-in candidate. Who would want to miss that?
Pigs, wings, fly. You know the routine.
Oh Yeah, I like Kenny G but he isn’t my favorite performer by any means. I liked Kenny primarily because of his 1984 “Duotones” album, particularly “Don’t Make Me Wait” with Lenny Williams singing lead and “You Make Me Believe” with Claytoven Richardson fronting. I prefer other saxophonists more however including Najee, Gerald Albright, Nelson Rangell, Andre Ward, David Sanborn, Mike Phillips and Everette Harp among others.
As I mentioned in the previous post, I like songstresses Natalie Cole, Marlena Shaw, Jane Monheit, Karrin Allyson, Chaka Khan from Rufus fame, and Corrine Drewery from Swing Out Sister among many many others. Having said all that, if I was to pick my all time favorite performer and song it would be Robert Winters & Fall and the 1981 song “When Will My Love Be Right”. A classic for the ages indeed. Robert Winters was a disabled performer from the Detroit area best known for his early 1980s song “Magic Man”.
I appreciate all the interest in my musical tastes. Btw, it is so gratifying seeing Obama implode like an empty suit. Did you all hear, James Carville is now suggesting he grow a pair. LMMFAO
WTF are you talking about. AP/GfK, known for their left wing tilt and adoration for Obomb, just posted a 46/69 Fav/Unfav number for her about a week ago. That’s about where Obambi is these guys and a decent baseline for her to grow. Gov Palin at 46/49 is a dangerous number for Obomb. Maybe he listens to Palin haters who said she can’t win and rests on his accomplishments.
If there isn’t a primary challenge to Obama I’d prefer Palin to him. This generation deserves a President Palin.
SJ-What the hell are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be laying the groundwork for her campaign announcement? You do work for her, don’t you? Are you trying to convert Tbogg’s minions into true Palin believers?
Your doing a great job their, freind.
On the off chance that you’re real and not just a spoof, you do realize that Carville, George Soros, and the others you’re bragging about are all prodding Barack Obama to be less conservative, less right wing, right?
It’s the same as with the health care “debate”, right wingers crowed for months about how it was “shoved down our throats” meaning that no one wanted health care reform, but when polls came out it turns out that a huge amount of those against it were against it because they wanted it to be stronger reform.
Palin/O’Donnell 2012. Vote the Pumatard ticket.
Nicely played, sir or madam. Ah, the memories…
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Gee, I guess Sarah must really hate Dancing with the Stars, since her no-talent(except for getting pregnant) daughter Bristol has reached the finals.
Given the dumbing down of America from Regan to Dubya, I can see how half the population of this once great nation would be happy to tune into a “presidential” debate between two reality TV show celebrities: the snow flake and the royal toupee.
Maybe we can get Jerry Springer to moderate, and smoothjazz can orchestrate the musical segues into the commercial breaks for erectile dysfunction, lite beer, and gold coins, which are scheduled every four minutes because that was determined to be the maximum attention span of the target audience.
You know, I would challenge those Palin stats, but your serious deficiencies in English grammar confuses me as to what the fuck you are talking about.
You are entertaining though.
I assume you mean Michael Palin?
smoothjazz = ‘Allen Butler’
Driven away from Eschaton, the trolls have insinuated their way into other liberal blogs. Unfortunately, they’re easily recognised.
Hey, we don’t need all the detail about your musical tastes. This is not a dating website.
“…implode like an empty suit”. Whaaa? Oh well, music is your strong suit, not the English language.
Well, first off, I said her favorable numbers keep going down, so the comparison to look at is Palin to Palin, not Palin to Obama.
Second, even if she has the same favorability/unfavorability rating as Obama does right now, why would you think that’s a decent baseline? He’s a currently-serving President who’s responsible for the economy, or at least perceived to be, and the economy is pretty well shit right now for a lot of people. Palin isn’t in charge of anything but making herself more appealing to the voters. And she can’t be doing a very good job of selling the fantasy if almost three-quarters of the voters look at her unfavorably.
Don’t confuse him with facts. They hurt what passes for his head.
WTF?? Like OBomb you come across as a snot ass, all knowing elitist – Yet you do not know what the term “Over the Bus” means. Everybody knows what “Under the Bus” means but only SUPER SMART people know what “Over the Bus” means. LMMFAO.
Dating website?? WTFRUTA. I’ve been happily married to the same woman for 30 years and we have 2 wonderful grown daugthers; I’m not here looking for a dating site I assure you. I just like jazz ballads. And please try to keep up – I provided details on my music tastes because many people were badgering me about it, and wanted more details and clarification. I’m not here to post about my music tastes either.
To be sure, I’m here because Tbogg linked a post of mine here from another blog, and I wanted to assess the level of discourse and decorum since I wasn’t that familiar with this blog. I was certainly aware this was an anti Palin forum, but I didn’t realize someone with another perspective that didn’t live in the echo chamber would be attacked by bunch of piranha (Yes, I know what the term means; It’s just a play on words).
As many of you have noted, there are certainly other moderate blogs around.
OT, but too good not to share: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101118/ap_on_re_us/us_airport_security_private_screeners
The AP story doesn’t identify Erickson as a CNN employee.
Thank you for inspiring a spirited discussion. But I do not understand all those acronyms. I admit some of your metaphors are new to me. And so are many of TBogg’s. Do you like Megan McCardle?
“I wanted to assess the level of discourse and decorum since I wasn’t that familiar with this blog.”
‘Dear Penthouse, I never thought I’d be writing this….’
Allen, you have -got- to get out more often.
So I take it you’re bored with talking to yourself at your own site. Better to get some negative reactions here, than being the sole commenter on your own posts there, no?
“As many of you have noted, there are certainly other moderate blogs around.” No. Way. Really? The stuff you learn on the intertubes these days.
Now, if only I could find a blog with awesome puppies, sushi-grade snark and the occasional troll thrown in for shits ‘n’ giggles it’d be teh awesome.
I’m curious about your drug/alcohol use. Can you clarify which brands/colors of paint huff the smoothest? Is Four Loko the drink of choice for Kenny G groupies?
MothJazz – I understand perfectly! It could be ‘oliday snaps — taken over the bus, (nudge, nudge), know what I mean? Could be… say no more… “She asked ‘im knowingly…” over the bus… with a hedgehog… if she’s a REAL GOER! – wink, wink… say no more…
Well, I can’t say that your grasp of anatomy is much better than your grammar.
Unfortunately for spoogejizz, the prospect of Palin becoming president is as scary as the prospect of contracting lung cancer from smoking when you’re on a jet going down with all four engines ablaze. Should the possibility arise, enough will have happened for you to be fucked anyway, so smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
It cracks me up that simplejazz tries to cover up his own idiocy by suggesting that the phrase “over the bus” has some meaning other than the reference to data transfer familiar to comp-sci nerds. In fact, I suspect the only reason it bubbled to the surface in his crayons and play-doh/KennyGee processing brain was because of its prevalence in the top Google search results for “over the bus” -stop:
Now we know what was on his mind.
“…this was an anti Palin forum”
Smoovejazz FAIL
I don’t want to speak out of turn, but I’m pretty sure we’re unanimous in our support for $arah winning the Republican Prez nomination in 2012.
When that naughty Mrs. Palin is on the teevee Smoothy’s got a strong grasp of anatomy….
Really? What’s your factual basis for that thought?
With a handle named “ItchyBrother”, you have the audacity to bring up porn. You are delusional and schizophrenic if you think my reference to the term “Over the Bus” has anything to do with porn. I just GOOGed “Over the Bus”, and this is what I get. Not a single reference to what you are alluding to anywhere in the results. I will concede I didn’t check search page 228,000,000.
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&rlz=1R2RNTN_enUS344&q=over+the+bus&rlz=1R2RNTN_enUS344&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m1g-o1&aql=f&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=b0a33be07ef4e350
YOu people are lunging and grasping at straws trying to psychoanalyze the terminology I use. To be sure, the term “Over the Bus” is slang used in my old neighborhood in Brownsville & Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Please don’t hurt yourselves trying to figure out what it means.
1. What’s your (you’re, in case you can’t understand that word) fascination with italics about?
2. Please define “GOOGed.” This is a term I am unfamiliar with.
3. Preview is your friend. It will prevent things like “YOu people.”
Pray enlighten us, do.
You’re absolutely right! A man knows his porn when he can make a statement like that! LMMFAO!
I know. I know. You said don’t try.
But I tried anyway.
The Urban Dictionary defines “Bed-Stuy“: The largely black middle class part of brooklyn that makes the least amount of sense.
LMMFAO, Smooth! LMMFAO!
Smoothjazz can’t hold a candle to Yacht Rock.
I followed your link to check it out…this definition appears to have been written with Mr.Smoothie in mind-
Actually, he was suggesting Hillary donate one of hers.
But I don’t expect you to be clueful.
PalinCoulter 2012
Oh please oh please oh please oh please
It’s all good fun, as long as nobody loses an eyeball, but I’m mindful of CrustyDem’s speculation when Smoothy first visited:
Otherwise, I’d feel a smidgen of sad for the poor smuck…..
Ha! Not only does this moron simplejazz have trouble spelling the world’s most popular search engine, he doesn’t even know how to use it when one provides explicit instructions. Once again, for the simple minded:
Using this search will find matches for the exact phrase “over the bus” excluding those that say “bus stop” (for obvious reasons). Of course our idiot troll runs a search that will match any page containing the words “over”, “the”, and “bus”, and then thinks that finding a large number of hits proves something. Notice, of course, that he didn’t find a single hit that matched his imaginary cool person use of the phrase.
By the way, I’m not sure why your warped mind makes you think of porn when you hear the words “Itchy Brother” (perhaps it has something to do with maladies you have suffered), but my use is exactly what one would think based on the top ranked (i.e. #1 hit for you KennyGee listeners) search on Google.
What a moran!
Well, in fairness to Mr. Smoothie, he did say he GOOGed the phrase “over the bus”. Perhaps in ‘Bed-Stuy’ they use the GOOG search engine that would show us 228,000,000 uses of this phrase.
46/69?
Out of 100?
And yet, here you are, posting about your musical tastes.
No doubt, given your obviously high level of intellect and education, you are using it as the Ciceronian rhetorical device, apophasis.
46/69?
Out of 100?
LOL! smoothjazz uses FoxMath which allows a teabagger’s Obama derangement score to exceed 100%.
You might want to spend a little less time shooting starbursts over Caribou Barbie and a little more time learning about HTML tags.
Also too, you are no doubt assuming that nobody here knows anything about Brownsville or Bed-Stuy. Unfortunately for you, I have lived the last 58 years of my life in the NYC metro area, and have spent significant time in both of those places (not to mention other “urban” locations like Harlem and Jamaice). In addition to that, the overwhelming majority of my friends and acquaintances are non-white; I have dated black women almost exclusively; I have been married to a black women for 8 years after dating her for another 8 years (not that I need to prove my bona fides to you or anyone else, but think of it as my version of your windy description of your muscial tastes) — and I have NEVER, EVER heard that expression. And not that I need the backup, but there is no such term defined at Urban Dictionary.
I call bullshit.
Yes, that should be “Jamaica”, not “Jamaice”.
At least I didn’t put it in italics.
I “GOOGed” The Kenny G Dictionary but they’re not hip to throwin’ over the bus either….
I googled ” “over the bus” slang “, and got this for the first response. Note the appropriate excerpt:
[PDF] SLANG EN EL AULA 1. Introducción
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View
conocimiento del argot o slang que utilizan los alumnos norteamericanos contribuye a … He barfed all over the bus seat. 6. That teacher is kinda weird . …
http://www.mec.es/sgci/usa/es/File/sfl/SCHOOLSLANG.pdf
TBogg, what the hell did you offer that smoothjazz fellow to coax him into serving as a punching bag? Is that stuff freely available somewhere?
TBogg! TBogg!
You found us a smooth jazz!
Can we keep it? Can we? Huh? Huh? Huh?
Pleeeeese?
We promise to water it and feed it!
UncertaintyVicePrinciple promises to try to teach it anatomy (maybe even some fancy snot ass grammar stuff) and Marion will make sure it poops in its box and Itchy will imprint it with Fortran and the rest of your intertubez family will nourish it with everything a smooth jazz needs, like regular floggings and basic math lessons*!
We’ll even keep smoothy’s SarahBlowupDoll inflated properly and keep the cupboard full of huff paint, paper bags and Four Loko!
Don’t toss us over the bus here, TBogg!
It’s the bestest smooth jazz in the whole wide world and we promise to be sorta good!
*You’ll probably need to keep wavydavy away though. He’s learned a thing or two about a thing or two over the last 58 years!