new Sarah Palin book to enthuse over

she wasn't the least bit likeable! she seemed formidable, tho.

i mean, she was likeable to conservatives, i guess.

i bet the two who sang the hymn-to-sarah (above) liked her from the beginning.

Trust me when I say she's fingernails on a blackboard to me now. But that night--even though I hate to admit it--I did find her kind of likeable in an Edith Prickley sort of way.

i liked her in a naughty-librarian-turns-dominatrix sort of way.

That too, of course. And that ship also sailed long ago.

bite your tounge!

ilx-poster-turns-dominatrix

this ^^^^^^^^^ of course is a daily occurrence.

i'm trying to envisage how unbelievably torpid those battle hymn-ers must have been before they became emboldened.

haha. i'm trying to imagine their reaction if they heard you use the word "torpid."

clearly she's developing a chip on her shoulder to match the one Nixon had.

that's a boulder not a chip but yeah OTM. her "blood libel" speech was chillingly Nixonian in its resentment-stoking paranoia

This toolbag's column should excite you guys:

It’s a grim spectacle on both sides, and last week’s pointless controversy was a particularly low point. So let me play the relationship counselor. To the media: Cover Sarah Palin if you want, but stop acting as if she’s the most important conservative politician in America. Stop pretending that she has a plausible path to the presidency in 2012. (She doesn’t.) Stop suggesting that she’s the front-runner for the Republican nomination. (She isn’t.) And every time you’re tempted to parse her tweets for some secret code or crucial dog whistle, stop and think, this woman has fewer Twitter followers than Ben Stiller, and then go write about something else instead.

To Palin: You were an actual politician once (remember that?), but you’re becoming the kind of caricature that your enemies have always tried to make of you. So maybe it’s time to turn off your iPad for a while, and take a break from Facebook and Fox News. The world won’t end if you don’t respond to every criticism, and you might even win a few more admirers if you cultivated a lighter touch and a more above-the-fray persona. Oh, and when that reality-TV producer sends you a pitch for “Sarah Plus Five Plus Kate Plus Eight,” just say no.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/opinion/17douthat.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

lol, why toolbag? he seems like a reasonable conservative commentator. but he's wrong that palin has no realistic chance at the GOP nomination (i'd say that's more of the GOP establishment's wishful-thinking). her chance to be the nominee isn't good, but she's the only candidate who can truly shape the primary race, by forcing the others to react to her and her base.

do dig the word "toolbag," tho.

descriptive.

it's douthat. toolbag is an apt descriptor.

I'm going to try to limit myself to posting anything Palin-related to this thread. Some people get upset when other threads drift in her direction, and I can understand that. This way, if you're sick of Palin, you can't complain--you wandered in here yourself.

She gave a big speech today in advance of Reagan's 100th. She got noticed, as she always does, primarily for this assertion:

She said a rush toward green energy was overlooking the nation’s oil and natural gas reserves, a choice that will cost jobs and drive up pump prices. She blamed Washington leaders--an apparent reference to the Obama administration--for doing “everything in their power to stymie responsible domestic drilling. This is dangerous. This is insane,” she said. “This is not the road to national greatness, it is the road to ruin.”

I don't have any protective feelings at all towards Reagan, so my point is not to say that she's not fit to etc. etc. I just like the Ramones allusion.

“It’s a difficult situation,” Sarah Palin told the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody in response to a question about how the Obama administration was handling the Egyptian political crisis. “This is that 3 A.M. White House phone call and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the White House … that that call went right to the answering machine.”

“Nobody yet has explained to the American public what they know,” Palin remarked, “and surely they know more than the rest of us know who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak and I’m not real enthused about what it is that that’s being done on a national level and from D.C. in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt.”

The former Alaskan governor also expressed concern that the lack of directness from the White House could impact the entire Middle East region. “Obviously it’s not just Egypt but the other countries too where we are seeing uprisings. We know that now more than ever that we need strength and sound mind there in the White House. We need to know what it is that America stands for so we know who it is that America will stand with. And we do not have all that information yet.”

classic Palintastic syntax: "what it is that that’s being done on a national level and from D.C. in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt.” u bet.

it's also remarkably stupid even coming from her, if Obama "knows" who will replace Mubarak he should let the people in Egypt there know too.

We know that now more than ever that we need strength and sound mind there in the White House.

http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2011/02/05/exclusive-sarah-palin-interview-with-the-brody-file.aspx

From the piece above: "She also says that if she ran for President again she, 'would continue on the same course of not really caring what other people say about me or worrying about the things that they make up, but having that thick skin and a steel spine.'"

She has such a strong sense of self-awareness: sound mind, thick skin.

She's never run for President before, FYI.

Though I guess I'd need to tell her/the interviewer that.

Missed that--I really wonder whether the "again" was the interviewer's word or hers. With most anyone else, you'd assume it was the interviewer's. With Palin, I wouldn't make that assumption.

It's the interviewer's (there's video on the page), but like I implied, Palin may have needed the reminder herself.

sarah palin asked bristol to GOOGLE the american economy in preparation for a big speech.

sorry, should be in quotes, i.e., "the american economy."

btw, i like how roger ebert always puts the ® sign next to sarah and bristol palin's name after tweeting it.

Manuscript for book by Ex-Palin aide slamming her, leaked to the press

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/ex-aide-slams-palin-in-leaked.html

i saw some excerpts. it didn't seem like very powerful stuff, iirc (not that it has to be; just saying).

yeah that palin is frivolous and vindictive isnt news to anyone

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Just another hit piece on Sarah Palin by the Liberal Daily Mail. Nothing illegal or unethical here, move on. The Anchorage Daily News is another Liberal paper with a political agenda. The DM has never one had a positive story on Palin, because you hate Conservatives and especially effective Conservative women like Palin.
- Dave, Arlington, VA, USA, 21/2/2011 12:33

o_O at the DM appearing liberal to anyone.

Found this on the political thread, but I'll hold to my promise of only posting about her here:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/02/23/us/politics/AP-US-Palin-India.html?hp

I can't be the only one who's hoping for a photo like this to come back:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_228EvtU1ZYY/TBpkIDiRBUI/AAAAAAAAAO4/SuyYuN_WtwY/s1600/ps7jhgjhgjh.jpg

I envision her in the front row, third from the right. Instead of all those potted plants in the foreground, some kind of animal carcass laid out. Instead of the Maharishi, Glenn Beck; instead of the Beatles--well, I don't know. Whoever's the most visibly right-wing rock band around today.

Avenge Sevenfold?

http://grab.by/9DBK

her lol fans desperately attempting to avoid the embarrassment of a presidential bid

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Margaret Thatcher will attend the unveiling of a statue to Ronald Reagan but is not planning to meet Sarah Palin. Photograph: Barry Thumma/AP

Sarah Palin wants to show to the Republican right that she is the true keeper of the Ronald Reagan flame by meeting the late president's closest ally on the world stage.

A meeting with Margaret Thatcher in the centenary year of Reagan's birth would be the perfect way of launching her bid for the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election.

This is what Palin told Christina Lamb in the Sunday Times:

I am going to Sudan in July and hope to stop in England on the way. I am just hoping Mrs Thatcher is well enough to see me as I so admire her.

It appears that the former prime minister has no intention of meeting the darling of the Tea Party movement. Andy McSmith reported in the Independent this morning that Palin is likely to be "thwarted" on the grounds that Thatcher, 86, rarely makes public appearances.

It would appear that the reasons go deeper than Thatcher's frail health. Her allies believe that Palin is a frivolous figure who is unworthy of an audience with the Iron Lady. This is what one ally tells me:

Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts.

Thatcher will show the level she punches at when she attends the unveiling of a statue of Ronald Reagan outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square on Independence day on 4 July. This is what her ally told me:

Margaret is focusing on Ronald Reagan and will attend the unveiling of the statue. That is her level.

thatcher otm

Can't wait to see her try to shake hands with it.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/253405_10150273380026874_638356873_8863662_4144396_n.jpg

Memo to Sarah Palin: Jews HATE you because you are functionally illiterate.

tbf she's putting air quotes around the necklace

From her Iowa speech: "corporate crony capitalism," "permanent political class," "relentlessly rage until we restore." She's been watching Albert Brooks in Broadcast News ("Pretty peppy party, pal").

McGinniss has Rice confirming the one-night stand. Additionally, the Enquirer says Sarah had a six-month affair with Todd's business partner Brad Hanson, and that that affair led to the dissolution of the men's snowmobile dealership (but not, clearly, the Palin marriage).

Perhaps they were kept together by the drugs, which Sarah and Todd were both, McGinniss writes, fans of: "before Palin became Alaska governor she was seen snorting cocaine off an overturned 55-gallon oil drum while snowmobiling with pals." He also quotes "a Palin family friend as saying that husband Todd Palin also snorted coke, describing him as 'on the end of the straw plenty.'"

snowmobiles, sex, cocaine ... the palins are doing so much to promote alaska as THE party state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPhh7mch5zo

tina wuz robbed

ah! it's so good to laugh after a stressful thing like that. she's totally out of the picture, right...

This is mostly reminding me of her terrible accent on 30 Rock.

her accent was wicked smart!

Sorry, gotta say the real SP is hotter.

I love the use of "American Woman" there so much--I was just about to look for a Guess Who thread where I could post the trailer. (Also used brilliantly in American Beauty.)

its impossible to overstate how psyched i am for this film