new Sarah Palin book to enthuse over

who has the Right got apart from her and Tim Rawrrrlenty

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6-IIXAF5HOE/Sf-uoKjcD9I/AAAAAAAAFhg/NYFtm7g9R0c/s400/mitt+romney+fudge2007.jpg

boxcarrrrr

I'm telling you: it's Rubio. The GOP has such a terrible record with Hispanics that party leaders will forgo their usual habit of anointing an old, tired worthy and go for someone as pretty and eloquent as Obama.

But, to be honest, I'm more concerned about DADT and the START treaty than in 2012.

boxcarrrrr

― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 22:40 (7 minutes ago)

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@!#&!? BOXCAR NO NO NO NO

I'm telling you: it's Rubio. ...pretty and eloquent as Obama.

^^^ this is what I've been telling people, too. GOP wanted to do this with Jindal, but now they think Rubio is their anti-Obama.

that would be a pretty meteoric rise for Rubio, but it would make sense that the GOP's braindead calculus would result in them assuming their best chances against Obama are with a young, ethnic, glamorous guy of their own

problem with Jindal is that he's sub-mental

GOP sees Obama's presidency as meteoric, too, and they want in on something similar.

More proof that when these idiots aren't projecting their shit, they're COPYING.

Would a right-wing Cuban-American have traction with other Hispanic-American subsets (many of whom skew left) or is that an assumption hastily made by LOLstupidanglos?

that's a good question. I'm not really sure.

I don't think the latino community is quite as uniform a voting bloc as the black community tho

Rubio seems like the only non-terrible option at the moment, but does he want 2012 or 2016?

My father is an immigrant from South America, and he used to make terrible racist jokes about Cubans.

Rubio is as much a cipher as Obama was in 2007. He says all the "right" things, but I know his type SO well.

@!#&!? BOXCAR NO NO NO NO

― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 22:54 (12 minutes ago)

thought u might be going for some birther lulz [via]

There's lots of inter-Latino racism, in other words (cf. the Chicano vs. Latino debate).

One of my best friends covered the Florida legislature for a local paper from 2004 to 2007, during Rubio's tenure as speaker. Even then he was telling me the guy is intelligent and shrewd. You must remember this about Cubans: despite their purported right wing tendencies, most of them are (a) old (b) depend on Social Security (c) are fairly moderate on "social" issues (my parents are Hannity-loving righties for whom the right to an abortion is sacrosanct).

There's lots of inter-Latino racism, in other words (cf. the Chicano vs. Latino debate).

^^^I do get this sense yes, just judging from my neighbors, but I don't have a clear understanding of how things break down, it seems pretty convoluted

nakhchivan that would have been delightful but I think only you would have gotten it? oblique puns aren't often my stock

Cubans and Argentines hate everyone else, basically.

isn't florida the only swing state where cubans are a significant demographic? and assuming rubio would have that already....

I.e. I think the GOP will have a hard time getting Mexican-Americans to vote for Rubio just because he's Cuban. If he's the GOPs guy in 2012, it's for his political skills, not for his ethnicity.

isn't florida the only swing state where cubans are a significant demographic?

No idea bout New Jersey politics other than their blueness, right? Bob Menendez is a consistent vote for anti-Castro sanctions.

isn't florida the only swing state where cubans are a significant demographic? and assuming rubio would have that already....

yeah there's no significant cuban population in any other state afaik outside of maybe Jersey and NY...? the equivalent would be the GOP elevating some Filipino-American rep from California to run for President under the assumption that that'll guarantee the "Asian" vote

GOP's always been amazingly tin-eared about race stuff.

At any rate, Rubio will not be in the Senate very long -- one of the reasons I didn't worry about our Senate race. Bill Nelson, our other senator, is very much in the pre-1964 Dem tradition at which we excel (e.g. Bob Graham, Lawton Chiles).

rubio's gonna be playing point for the t-wolves next year

Florida politics are so weird. I've written before about my congresswoman and regular on Bill Maher's show.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Census_Bureau_2000,_Cubans_in_the_United_States.png

can def see the first hispanic president being republican somehow, possibly via a hamfisted attempt at creating a 'postracial' antiobama in 12/16

damn...what's not to like about sunny GA/AL?

Look at the tip of North Carolina. Tengo hermanos!

palin is second favourite for r nom in 2012 according to uk bookies :/

lol UK

that says more about her name recognition obv

but i think yr a hostage to fortune if you discount her completely

britain is so laughably underinformed abt us politics tbh

uk very interested in hearing more about senator ben roethlisberger's latest scandal

christ I need to ban myself from visiting the BBC website, it's a poison

uk very interested in hearing more about senator ben roethlisberger's latest scandal

― omar little, Friday, November 19, 2010 5:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lolololol

isn't he some sort of quartermaster

pittsburgh's rvp iirc

that's robin van persie, rapiest valuable player in uk soccerball

:D

dude btw are there many good alternative brit news sources to the bbc? rly think we shd start one if not?

guardian?

ok no then (guardian admittedly being quite good for football (ROW versh))

read yr ilx/nyt

ILX is and has long been my #1 undisputed news service!!

To me, it'll be enough that Palin runs. I don't think she can win, other people say she can, whatever--the only thing that's guaranteed is that if she runs, it'll be a spectacle-and-a-half. If she were up against Rubio, I assume there would be ample pushback against her from within her own party. She doesn't respond well to that, and that's when the fun would begin.

Unusual use of the idiom: "I would've wanted to punch him in the neck."

http://todayonthetrail.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/03/10999224-palin-i-wont-watch-game-change

I hadn't seen her in awhile, but of course she's all about this Duck Dynasty b.s.... But are there rumors about her health? She looks super gaunt

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/good-grief-and-great-tits/Content?oid=18503580

Page 5: Here I learn something I didn't know and, if I were Sarah Palin, something I wouldn't want anyone to know. But Sarah hustles this fact to the front of the book because she sure as hell wants us to know it: Sarah surprised Todd with a "nice, needed, powerful gun" for Christmas in 2012. It was a "small act of civil disobedience," Palin writes, prompted by "the anti-gun chatter coming from Washington."

What was inspiring that anti-gun chatter in Washington in December of 2012? Oh, right: Twenty children and six teachers were shot dead in their classrooms by a deranged asshole with a "powerful gun." And before the grieving mothers and fathers of Newtown, Connecticut, could put their dead children in the ground, Sarah Palin ran out gun shopping. Buying Todd a gun in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary was "fun," Palin writes—and, again, an act of "civil disobedience." Because gun nuts are a persecuted minority.

This paragraph about gun shopping in December of 2012—one first grader at Sandy Hook was shot 11 times—ends with Palin bragging about her tits. I'm not kidding.

haha i love the 'needed' there

Palin's moment has passed. She's got her coterie of ardent fans, but it isn't quite big enough for her antics to register on national politics any more - in spite of her continuing to register on the national media, due to her entertainment value and a certain nostalgia for her heyday on the part of the press.

oops! I forgot to: [\punditry]

reality court show, what a shock blah blah

**cue John Lennon** "The dream is over . . ."

Todd Palin appears to have filed for divorce from former Alaska governor and one-time vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, his wife of 31 years.

In a document filed Friday in Anchorage Superior Court, Todd Palin, 55, asked to dissolve the marriage, citing an “incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife.”

The divorce filing uses initials rather than full names, but identifies the couple’s marriage date and the birth date of their only child who is a minor, Trig Palin. The filing asks for joint legal custody of the child.

Anchorage attorney Kimberlee Colbo is representing Todd Palin in the divorce. In a filing, Colbo said she would ask the court to designate the divorce confidential as it moves forward.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2019/09/09/todd-palin-files-for-divorce-from-former-alaska-governor-sarah-palin/

thoughts and prayers 🙏

he tried to register as independent but gained independence by mistake

lonely guy (riding a snow machine) just thinking baout things

First Dude UNLEASHED

Tired of her buying him guns all the time; just wanted to appreciate the guns he already had.

We laugh now, but just wait until Trump replaces Pence with Todd. Then we can laugh some more, but still.

Stupid-and-proud-of-it white folks may seem like a huge demographic but... large enough to elect a President?
― Exotic Flavors of the Midwest, available in corn, bacon, or beef (suzy), Sunday, November 21, 2010 1:19 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

a more innocent time