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

ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

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Margaret Thatcher to Sarah Palin: don't bother dropping by

Allies of former prime minister regard darling of Tea Party movement as a frivolous figure unworthy of an audience

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Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and handbag
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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhiteAmericanFolks.jpg (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link

thatcher otm

LL Coolna (absolutely clean glasses), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link

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

отдых в Крыму! (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link

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

chavatar (suzy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link

tbf she's putting air quotes around the necklace

truf bob-omb (reddening), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

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").

clemenza, Saturday, 3 September 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link

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.'"

buzza, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link

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

tylerw, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

four months pass...

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

buzza, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

tina wuz robbed

the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

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

Sébastien, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

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

Nicole, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

her accent was wicked smart!

dave cool it (stevie), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link

Sorry, gotta say the real SP is hotter.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

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.)

clemenza, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link

its impossible to overstate how psyched i am for this film

lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

cast/character list is lol

Plump Woman
Passionate Palin Fan
NOBAMA Rallygoer
Guy holding NRA sign
Gun Enthusiast
Religious Woman

buzza, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link

NOBAMA Rallygoer AKA AMERICAN HERO

lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

Anti-government Nutjob #2

buzza, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link

Lamestream Media Rep

Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link

tweeter #10

lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

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

clemenza, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

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

the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link

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.

Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link

haha i love the 'needed' there

balls, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link

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.

Aimless, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link

oops! I forgot to: [\punditry]

Aimless, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link

two years pass...

reality court show, what a shock blah blah

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

**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/

I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link

thoughts and prayers 🙏

don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link

he tried to register as independent but gained independence by mistake

wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link

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

“Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link

First Dude UNLEASHED

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link

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

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link

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

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link

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

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link

a more innocent time

don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link


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