UNLIMITED SARAH PALIN APPRECIATION THREAD!

[Adios]

I really don't see Palin running, to be honest.  She's making a lot more money, and leveraging much more power, by being an idiot pundit on TV and the lecture circuit, where she doesn't have to get fact-checked or be held responsible for her actions.

I agree with this.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I really don't see Palin running, to be honest.  She's making a lot more money, and leveraging much more power, by being an idiot pundit on TV and the lecture circuit, where she doesn't have to get fact-checked or be held responsible for her actions.

Judging from Bush & Obama's actions, they aren't held responsible, either.   

[Jenne]

She doesn't listen to anyone who isn't parroting her.  It's going to be her downfall in politics, actually.  Because she's someone who so obviously NEEDS a "handler" but doesn't know it/accept it.

Not only that, but when she had handlers she tended to blame them for problems that she caused herself.

She's got some serious issues when it comes to education and knowledge base.  Her embarassments come NOT from her handlers NOT knowing she's a dunce, just that assumption we the American public would find that uh "quality" of hers "adorable" or "endearing."

A surprisingly large portion of the American public eats it up, though.

So the Katie Curic moment was just too revealing of something her personal assistants and image consultants ALREADY KNEW.

Yeah, but that interview endeared her to a heckuva lot of people. Pretty much anyone who's ever been mocked by some pointy-headed over-educated liberal for believing things that just ain't so can totally identify with her.

Yes, and there's a rather large section of the GOP that's cottoning more and more to the brand of voter that Palin brings to the table.  The problem is:  that's not good for the longevity of the party.  And those who move and shape things for the longterm view know this.  They really do NOT want the GOP to move any more to the right (because, statistically speaking, the majority of votes are STILL found in the center).  The more extreme the party gets, the less likely it will continue to gain votes of independents and those Dems who are unhappy with status quo.

Fringe elements are cool for "engerizing" the movement, but this doesn't win you a presidency, as we saw in '08.  The real trick is to get the Tea Partiers to not stall out at the starting line.  The fact that Palin is so gun shy (heh, metaphor's on the other foot) about transparency and doing interviews anywhere BUT Fox News is a good indication her vetting would not withstand another Presidential (or even gubanatorial at this point--she's too famous) election.

People "in the know" seem to think she might run for a senate seat or some such.  I think LMNO might be right--she might just do what Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan have been doing--the talking bobblehead circuit--till her notoreity gets less heated and she can sneak into an election.  Probably as in independent so as to rescue herself from extreme scrutiny.

[Thurnez Isa]

I wish you would bury her back in whatever hole she came from.
She's already ruined my erection for Christine O'Donnell.

[Adios]

I wish you would bury her back in whatever hole she came from.
She's already ruined my erection for Christine O'Donnell.

No. This is exactly the politician that America insists on.

[the last yatto]

I really don't see Palin running, to be honest.  She's making a lot more money, and leveraging much more power, by being an idiot pundit on TV and the lecture circuit, where she doesn't have to get fact-checked or be held responsible for her actions.

Judging from Bush & Obama's actions, they aren't held responsible, either.   

Change that to Dick and Biden and you might have something...

[LMNO]

It is so disconcerting when she's accurate:


"His theme last night in the State of the Union was the WTF, winning the future, and I thought, OK, that acronym, spot-on. There were a lot of WTF moments throughout that speech."—on President Obama's State of the Union address.

[Cramulus]

how was the state of the union address? I didn't see it and I haven't heard anything except that it did well in the polls.

[LMNO]

"Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
- Shakespeare, Macbeth

[Eater of Clowns]

"Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
- Shakespeare, Macbeth

LMNO, I fucking love you.

[AFK]

I didn't see it either, but the overall sense I got from the pundits (for whatever that's worth) is that it was a rather boiler-plate, ho-hum speech.  He didn't really make any news one way or the other.  There wasn't any one big thing to set off the Conservatives and there really wasn't anything for the Progressives to stand up and applaud.  

In addition, there is some grumbling in the Progressive community about how Obama basically punted as far as using this as an opportunity to talk about guns and gun control.  Apparently there is going to be a separate speech on this some time, but the SOTU would've been a venue where he had the biggest audience.  And where they also made a point to invite the intern that saved Giffords and highlight her empty seat.  I think it was pretty wimpy for him to not touch upon the gun issues.  

Thinking about it politically, I'm guessing the math went something like this:  Obama new there were going to be two responses after the SOTU.  One from Ryan and one from Crazy Lady.  I think they made the calculation that it was best for them politically to produce a ho-hum, highly general speech and let the GOP grab the headlines for their in-fighting.  That's my theory anyway.  

[LMNO]

I saw parts of it, but Mrs LMNO kept changing the channel whenever I started heckling the TV.

[AFK]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41313749/ns/today-entertainment/

TNT offered up a mea culpa Thursday to former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin after Tracy Morgan made some, um, below-the-belt remarks about the Mama Grizzly during a live pregame broadcast of "Inside the NBA."

So just what did he say that was so bad?

Things got rolling when the hosts were chatting about who was hotter: Sarah Palin or the funnyman's "30 Rock" co-star Tina Fey (who won an Emmy for her spot-on satirical portrait of the half-term Republican governor turned tube personality). That prompted Charles Barkley to say, "Sarah Palin's good looking, isn't she?"

Not one to shy away from speaking his mind, Morgan went rogue: "Let me tell you something about Sarah Palin — she's good masturbation material."

Unfortunately, the cable net didn't take kindly to that candid description of the woman who once won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant before becoming one of America's most well-known politicians.

"It's unfortunate Mr. Morgan showed a lack of judgment on our air with his inappropriate comments," a TNT spokesman told the Hollywood Reporter in a statement.

The comedian declined to comment. No doubt he's said plenty already.

"TNT:  We Know Drama, not so good with comedy."

[Sister Fracture]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41313749/ns/today-entertainment/

TNT offered up a mea culpa Thursday to former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin after Tracy Morgan made some, um, below-the-belt remarks about the Mama Grizzly during a live pregame broadcast of "Inside the NBA."

So just what did he say that was so bad?

Things got rolling when the hosts were chatting about who was hotter: Sarah Palin or the funnyman's "30 Rock" co-star Tina Fey (who won an Emmy for her spot-on satirical portrait of the half-term Republican governor turned tube personality). That prompted Charles Barkley to say, "Sarah Palin's good looking, isn't she?"

Not one to shy away from speaking his mind, Morgan went rogue: "Let me tell you something about Sarah Palin — she's good masturbation material."

Unfortunately, the cable net didn't take kindly to that candid description of the woman who once won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant before becoming one of America's most well-known politicians.

"It's unfortunate Mr. Morgan showed a lack of judgment on our air with his inappropriate comments," a TNT spokesman told the Hollywood Reporter in a statement.

The comedian declined to comment. No doubt he's said plenty already.

"TNT:  We Know Drama, not so good with comedy."

[AFK]

I just find it kinda funny that TNT employs Charles Barkley's big mouth but they feel they need to apologize for Tracy Morgan. 

It would be like Fox News apologizing for something Ted Nugent said on Glen Beck's show.