2008 USP(G)ET pt. II: counting the days to 2012 primary thread 1

The Corner has been quiet since before McCain hushed his crowd. I think there's mass suicide going on over there.

Huh, you're right. (About the quiet part, at least.) Then again it is the weekend, assume they're all home and getting understandably drunk instead.

Any chance she'll still drop off willingly?

Oh god no. But now there's a report with all sorts of fun details ricocheting around the net like mad, combined with the fact that she and the McCain campaign desperately fought against the probe after she had willingly agreed to cooperate. She can't handwave that.

Funny thing is, of course, that had she let it take its course, the results might have been seen as more exculpatory in the end, though this probably would have only worked had she not been a candidate. A few crocodile tears and a promise she'd 'do better' in office or something and that might have been that. Now her pettiness is top worldwide news instead of something only being of interest to Alaskans. Good job there.

I have just returned from a fashion-mag birthday party where everyone was planning to rush home to get updated on Troopergate. This, in London.

Drudge isn't updating either.

maybe if they dont post about it, everyone will forget it happened :D

someone may have just linked to this but heres the full report
http://download2.legis.state.ak.us/DOWNLOAD.pdf

should have made that a link to a rick roll

Rachel Maddow just reported one poll where Obama has an 8 point lead.

This week makes me feel like I'm living in a dreamworld.

Uh, one WEST VIRGINIA poll.

WV SWING STATE I LOVES IT.

http://i34.tinypic.com/qqokrn.jpg

current CNN headline: Palin abused power in firing, Alaska panel finds

the article is substantially rewritten as well, subtracting the lines that emphasize that she broke no laws, and including a paragraph to say the did break the state's ethics law

no retraction or revised comment hyperlinks, I love online journalism

palin's only move once this is all over is to make the reality tv rounds: t/f?

lol michael

to borrow from cankles, "i garontee (cajun voice)" that the more sane parts of the republican party are praying that palin goes back to alaska and stays there.

Sarah Palin IS the Flavor of Love

simple life hanger-on?

obama isn't an arab

that is some awkward shit

lol

"Uh - no."

"Gimmi that microphone back. I need to salvage my pride."

he just walks to the other side of the stage like "gotta get me as far away from her as possible"

That's because she's a secret Obama operative.

http://www.xmission.com/~rowan/Crazy_Cat_Lady.jpg

What's also interesting about the report:

Branchflower also recommends the Legislature change the way complaints against peace officers such as troopers are handled. He says lawmakers should consider making it possible for people who file such complaints to get feedback about the status of their complaint and whatever action was taken about it.

Which is perfectly sensible! Talk about unintended good effects.

in so many ways, sarah palin is the best thing that could have ever happened.

she died for our sinz u_U

I just invented the downsey face by accideny o-0

hahahah "he's an arab" needs to be looped into a hi-energy dance track NOW

that is seriously like the first time this campaign that mccain's actually come off like a decent dude to me tho

i don't think it's calculated either, tbh. he seems a little weary, like a guy who is trying to balance getting his supporters behind him and a guy who is trying to still hold onto some dignity. he's coming off like--and maybe i'm reading into it a little bit--that he's lashing back slightly against what certain people are telling him to do.

Unfortunately his campaign seems hellbent on being indecent:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/10/1529529.aspx#comments

omg these fucking people

If Obama thanked McCain at debate #3 for defending him against people who say crazy dangerous shit, would it be a good judo throw or come off as a concern-troll dick move?

Isn't a concern-troll dick move an amazing judo throw?

putin would agree

he seems a little weary, like a guy who is trying to balance getting his supporters behind him and a guy who is trying to still hold onto some dignity.

i agree. he seems miserable, actually.

haha this is exactly why i imagine he will be voting obama on election day

Meantime, the Corner has weighed in...talking about how great it is a legal complaint against Mark Steyn was dismissed in Canada. Because nothing else happened tonight!

Canada, acc. to the Corner, has no Free Speech. When they say things like that, I wonder if they actually speak the same language that I speak. Do their words mean the same things as my words?

maybe they should just move to canada if they hate the u.s. so much

i just read that Rolling Stone piece on McCain today BTW. Absolutely withering portrait. It boils everything down to ambition, basically. But that strikes me as ultimately facile. It looks to me like McCain has a fractured self - two halves that have never been integrated- and the rift is tearing him apart from the inside.

hahaha. I told a libertarian that the other day. He said that the majority should be allowed to take tax money from him. I told him he should leave the United States if it bothers him. We live in a Democracy. We can vote to take money from whomever we damn well please :P XP

He said that the majority should NOT be allowed*

fwiw Fox is ACORN ACORN ACORN this evening

i've never seem them so transparently propagandist before

lol desperate

really??? xp

i've never seen a moment where the whole news world is looking one way and foxworld is looking the other way

i can't think of one off-hand, but i'm pretty sure that's not particularly unusual.

i just read that Rolling Stone piece on McCain today BTW. Absolutely withering portrait. It boils everything down to ambition, basically. But that strikes me as ultimately facile. It looks to me like McCain has a fractured self - two halves that have never been integrated- and the rift is tearing him apart from the inside.

― collardio gelatinous, Friday, October 10, 2008 9:11 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

isn't that what every Rolling Stone bio is about?