jane, even the palinites are abondoning ship

It will certainly be interesting to see who wins the battle between “Anger Management” McCain and “Stab My Mentors in the Back to Advance My Own Ambition” Palin.

I went and voted early yesterday! I had to wait about an hour — I’ve never had to wait more than about fifteen minutes before.

The fact that they would think she could just demonstrates that Palin ain’t the only one who’s not ready to lead. I do hope she goes “rogue” though

I will run out of popcorn money if she goes rogue!

“She’s lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,” said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to “go rogue” in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.

I am hoping mccain gets word of this, I am told he is a pretty darned vindictive individual

I thought the last days of campaigning would see McCain/Palin running against Bush …

He may want all the clothes back…

you were right about that, mccain has BRUTALIZED bush this past week, will try to get the link

I think cheney has dibbs

A geometry question:

Can a circular firing squad consist of two people?

Circular firing squad, indeed. The more the merrier, IMO.

fork it. palin should run a write-in for exec

LOL alot…I needed that. Cheers and party on. Thanks

mccain BRUTALIZES bush

Now that’s more like it !

Actually, the phrase “going rogue” is sure to appeal to fans
of Tom Clancy and “24″ , so this may be a clever ploy to solidify the base.

Clown. Car. Demolition. Derby.
I kid you not. Sarah may or may not believe her Creationist nonsense. But she is promoting anti science policies that prevent research to fight autism.

Fruit flies can help fight autism and many other human diseases.

palin is much quicker on the feet and hdtv ready.

Secessionist from her own campaign team.

jsut what the doctor ordered, man that is GREAT

Secessionist from her own campaign team.

WELL DONE!

I spewed some really good spirits when I saw that … absolutely worth it !

Beyond the Pale-in.

Thanks Jane.

digg

Now that’s more like it !

Hilarious!

Of course she blamed someone else for her bad roll out. It’s what R’s do. And, no, she really didn’t want all those new clothes, the RNC FORCED her to go on those shopping sprees. And it’s Katie Couric’s fault that sarah can’t speak in complete coherent sentences.

this is what Merika possits

http://mediamatters.org/items/200810220020

said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image

Ok.

But who does she blame for being stupid?

by the way great post Jane
Pandora Palins BOX(her mouth)
opens and horrible atrocities spew out,and could DESTROY the world like her namesake…i gave it to her almost 2 months ago,when she began freewheelin

Isn’t a “team of mavericks” kind of an oxymoron, anyway.

if there is one trait that i think both mccain and palin share is that they are NOT gracious losers. johnnies circle will all point to palin’s skyrocketing negative numbers and blame her for their great leaders downfall (forgetting that he picked her) and her supporters, well they clearly don’t function in reality so i’m sure they’ll have no trouble assigning blame to anyone and everyone. it would be fascinating to see her really “go rouge” though, especially considering her tendency to invent new truths (also known as lying) at every opportunity. it would be more fun if it weren’t so deadly serious that they loose.

thata is just so damned funny,the fruit fly thingee is just frosting on the cake,1 year college level biiology informs people that fruit flys have always been very important in the scientific world

sarah can’t speak in complete coherent sentences.

I discribed her symptom in one of my posts which I will call for future referance, “palinopathy”;

Here’s what’s going on with this women’s bizarro use of the english language;

She’s really insecure with her own knowledge and doesn’t want anyone to know they asked a question she can’t answer

When she’s asked just such a question she looks for words associated in her brain folder of vocabulary

when she finds that brain folder she uploads whatever words turn up from that vocabulary folder that resides somewhere in her head

Yup!

you captured her perfectly, chimpie does the same fractured speech

I think she went very “rouge” earlier…it’s not working.

Palinopathy is really scary…it speaks with great authority and some condescension as if she really knows what she’s talking about…and why don’t you? A very effective ploy is some quarters.

more on the teh important fruit FLIES

Why should I believe this story? next you’ll be telling me the RNC spent 150K on clothes for her. same goes for the Times Magazine article tomorrow about McCain’s campaign. I don’t believe it already. Somebody’s probably gonna say the highest paid person on McCain’s staff is Palin’s make=up lady or somethin’.

This is all so Republican of her.

When the fan finally meets the do-do, they promptly remove their shoes so they will have 20 appendages with which to point in the direction of where the blame should go.

But they say they are the party of ‘personal responsibility’.

Makes me gag.

McCain’s on MTP tomorrow. Wonder if this will come up?

That should be “Freedom Flies”.

oh jeebus

http://www.medicalnewstoday.co…..125937.php

I’m hopin’ for a steel cage death match for their closing argument.

Well done, BL, well done.

Great post, as always, Jane. Thanks

Moderately O/T – McInsane is giving a speech here in Albuquerque this morning. The venue is interesting – the Spanish Village a the state fair grounds at the State fair – max capacity around 4,000 (point of reference – Gay Pride here outgrew the Spanish Village 10+ years ago). Barack is here tonight – at UNM’s Johnson Field – capacity 25,000 to 30,000. Just saying

just proves what an incompetent putz this woman is. Nobody should need to be “handled” like that. I mean, Obama isn’t doing it to Biden and they should always have somebody to give him electric shocks when he starts to say dumb shit. They wouldn’t be “handling” say Pawlenty or Romney so much. Not ’cause they’re men either. This woman needs heavy duty “handling” because: 1) she’s a whacko Jesus freak; and 2) she’s an inarticulate ignoramus. But I hope she strikes out on her own. But honestly, just who the fuck does she think she is? This is NOT what a VP nominee does, even when they feel like it. A VP nominee sucks it up and smiles. that’s part of the job description. Don’t like it? Don’t get on the ticket. this lady should be kissing McCain’s ass for the opportunity and exposure he’s given her.

hope not. it’s a zero. he’ll just say everything’s wunerful in Mav’rick Land.

“very rich people out there to tax, my friends, I can only assume that means you” – WTF?

If Ted Stevens were to resign, could Governor Palin appoint herself to replace him?

3 words
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR

same mindset as McNapolean complex

oh my

what precisely do we mean by going rogue? she’s already and openly contradicting Insane and campaign mgmt.

is anyone else watching McInsane on MSNBC?

Hey didn’t Palin already contradict McSame on a question having to do with Pakistan? Seems like they aren’t totally in sync anyway, except on “Maverick” and some wingnut policies.

Saw James K. Galbraith on Moyers last night. Was wondering what people thought of it. Galbraith has a book out called The Predator State.

Don’t like it? Don’t get on the ticket. this lady should be kissing McCain’s ass for the opportunity and exposure he’s given her.

Not to mention the clothes!

As I wrote over at Emptywheel’s blog – Bwahahahahahahah!!

and on the Federal gay marriage ban, racebaiting, abortion, abandoning Michigan, and probably a dozen other things

Let’em fight it out in public. I’m for anything that will destroy them.

that show was terrific,interesting and good news on the dollar imo

I don’t understand why the US Alaska Senate race is so close. But then again, I come from the state that elected Holy Joe after he got kicked out the CT Dem party, so maybe I should have some kind of insight. Still, I don’t understand.

Oh, don’t mess up my day, because the answer may very well be yes.

methinks she enrages McNasty

I thought I aptly filed that under wingnut stuff.

Orange County FL. Early voting stats through yesterday.

Good Guys 25,710
Assholes 9,388
Weird people 7,590

TOTAL 42,688

The ratio of us to them is a little down. It had been over 3-1.

Yes but I wonder what Ian Welsh would say, don’t you? Or eCahn.

I think so. We had hoped Ann Richards would do that at one point. She did not, and she could have saved the seat, I think.

i have the flu,day sukks anyway,send me some fruit flies please

what are the chances that The Divine Mrs. P. wants to strike out on her own because she thinks her lines have been too *tame*?

Maybe she’s about to bring out the full-goose-gonzo crazeeee.

Wonder if that is why Cindy is going out on her own a bit. She no longer has to worry about Sarah.

But she can’t keep them. She doesn’t want to, anyway. She’s not like that. She’s frugal.

yes of course,but im definately gonna buy his book
MOYERS=NATL TREASURE imo

I thought he was fantastic…he made that remark about Greenspan being, I think, a liar or delusional….and had lots to say about the foxes guarding the hen house during all the time the repubs have been running the fed. agencies like the EPA. I think we should have him on for a book salon, if he would do it.

cindy lou,is looking for new Vicodan stashes lol

Wasn’t Jane quaking in her boots when Palin reared her head in September?
“Don’t misunderestimate her” she said, or something along those lines.

She has been going rogue since they decided to pull out of Michigan and Palin said she didn’t want to do that.

The woman is not a team player. Period.

are these exit polls or does FL actually announce early voting tallies? who are weird people? Nader?

Mmm and get the local library to buy it. (secret: ILL x3)

ALAN greenspan is a viilan……bigtime POS

The McCain campaign created another monster in their midst and now they’re complaining about it? Boo fucking hoooooooooooooooooooo!

And now a word from The Amazing Atheist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc

F-word included, so don’t watch if the word offends you.

Eli’s here with something upstairs…put down your coffee cups please.

Isn’t it because he has brought in so much $$$…and been there since statehood, as I recall.

That would be cool. A book salon.

she was an unknown quantity,and as all beauty contestants,able to turn Merikas head

And we solved that above….they are going to Cheney. He really wants the shoes.

great idea,moneys tite

Now who did Galbraith say was Greenspan’s mentor?

in Alaska,she stabbed all her supporters in the back on the way up,rumor has it

Ask all your friends to interlibrary loan if the library doesn’t have it and your library is reasonably sized.

I don’t recall that he said…do you think he named someone?

Freidman?,i didnt hear that part

Politics is sick, sick sick sometimes.

thank you{{{{{mwah}}}}}

I’ve tried to put my finger on just who/what Sarah Palin is all about and have finally come to the conclusion that she is one of those people who is so focused on self and her own rightness that she is incapable of listening. When someone doesn’t listen to others, they are incapable of hearing what others say, and they are incapable of learning, and empathy.

This was most evident in the debate with Biden. His most personal revelations regarding his family, son just went right over her head and were not acknowledged. It was also evident in her interviews.

I might also add, that being incapable of listening, she was never going to be molded into VP material the way the McCain campaign thought she would.

It became apparent early on that they had a tiger by the tail and didn’t know what to do with it.

Ah wait Ayn Rand as ideological guru and it was Bill moyers who said it:

BILL MOYERS: Watching Alan Greenspan testify before Congress this week, I tried, I tried very hard not to keep thinking of Ayn Rand. I failed.

The philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand was Alan Greenspan’s ideological guru, his intellectual mentor. She was also one of the most amazing fantasists of the last century, the author of two of the most influential books of my generation THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED, both timeless best-sellers.

Rand was a hedonist, an exponent of radical self-interest, who so believed in unfettered, unbridled capitalism that she advocated the abolition of all state regulations except those dealing with crime. In the gospel according to Rand, the business community was constantly beleaguered by evil forces practicing, are you ready for this? Altruism! Yes, the unselfish regard for the welfare of others was a menace to greed, and Rand would have none of it. . . .

(and he says more, but don’t want to overquote, so I’ll link to transcript, even though I’m feeling pretty darn lazy)

yup,typical Narcissistic Personality disorder
loves herself alot
imposes her will onpregnant daughter etc

Those are the actual results from the County Supervisor of Elections. the results are by party, not candidate. That’s through the 24th. “Weird people” are who SOE calls “other”.

Here’s the 2004 results in this County

Dem 37, 604
R 25,595
Other 16,003
TTL 79,202

Now, even though there were more Dems, the county was almost a dead heat bewteen Bush & Cheney. So some Dems early voted for Bush. I’m sure some Dems are voting for McCain. The good news is the turnout now is way up. Ratio of Dems to R’s is way up. Ratio of dems to “other” is way up. So the numbers are petty good. And remember this is a county that was a dead heat. Hillary called us the “battleground of the battleground.” Obama/Biden wins here and it’s very good news about FL-especially if the votes actually get counted.

aw tooooooooooooo bad that

Shhhh

It was never explained why Cosmo Kramer suffered coulrophobia, but the answer may lie in this campaign.

When she was first named, her husband the Stud said she is just wired different from other people. He did not really explain, sort of a “piece of work” kind of meaning. Apparently, she has really earned her reputation.

LOL

what book we talkin’ about again?

he was rumored to have had a sexual affair with her also

unfettered hedonism and such

Yes, and didn’t Moyers also suggest, or say, they (she & Green.) had been friends? There was quite abit of time on that….thanks.

ah… thanks for the explanation. so “other” includes all of the registered independents then?

http://www.amazon.com/Predator…..141656683X

Appears so. Moyers cntd:

Alan Greenspan met her as a much younger man in New York and, like so many blossoming capitalists, was smitten. He has since downplayed her influence on him, but as Chairman of the Fed for nearly 19 years he seemed quite Rand-like as he watched Wall Street run wild. Yesterday, like an old warrior still in a fog after his armies have been routed from the field of battle, he expressed shock at how his ideology has failed him. He didn’t see it coming, he told the House Oversight Committee. The extent of the meltdown is, “Much broader than anything that I could have imagined,” a “Once-in-a-century credit tsunami.” The wondrous glories of a free market with no need of pesky oversight had somehow gone wrong. Now you tell us.

A fluffy puppy would enrage him.

He didn’t see it coming
—————
i cry BullKcky
where is he invested,and what is he holding besides his old scrawny dick?

Yah,apparently from the rolling stone article he was born that way…held his breadth tantrums etc…weird guy
UNFIT fer sure

Do you think Greenspan and his friends decided to walk the walk so they could make money for as long as they could, before the meltdown?

not rumor – http://www.newyorker.com/repor…..gourevitch
According to “Sarah,” a biography by Kaylene Johnson, Palin had got into politics after she befriended the man who was then mayor and his police chief at a step-aerobics class. She made them her allies and ran for City Council. Then she challenged them for control of City Hall, and drove them out. As she purged her former friends and patrons, she denounced them as “good ol’ boys,” although her takeover of Wasilla had been aided from the start by Alaska’s Republican Party establishment.

Ew lovetalk on how to screw the little guy?

thanks

yeah. anybody registered who isn’t a R or D.

Merriam-Webster:
rogue…
1 vagrant, tramp
2 dishonest or worthless person SCOUNDREL
3 a mischievous person SCAMP
4 a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
5 an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation

I vote for number 2. Palin isn’t going rogue..she is rogue.

absolutely yes,kids in a candy store

RICO act,get it back!

i said goopers KKKROVE especailly were Carnys at the CARNIVAL

and how to make it to the top,on the dead carcasses of all below there pyramid SCAM

THEIR Pyramid scam

what’s the difference between a maverick and a rogue?

lipstick

JAMES GALBRAITH: The, well first of all, we need to clean up the mess that’s there. And that’s going to include a fair amount of legal intervention, criminal prosecution, malfeasance. There was a lot of fraud in the housing sector, in the, amongst the loan originators, amongst the appraisers. This all needs to be investigated. And people need to be moved out of positions in the financial industry that they have abused.

bravo!

Let’s hope our new president and congress agrees.

RICO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R…..ations_Act

(deep throat)…in my deepest voice
follow the money!

I am just afraid that Greenspan and others will be handled like too many sacred cows.

why?

the deluge is here

Oh I don’t know. Nixon pardon, Iran-contra. . .
Weh mir. Gotta do errands.

well, reading that Media Matters report just drove me to sign up and make a comment. Hard to believe that anyone consumed by so much hate and misinformation can sleep at night. Well, maybe that explains it. People who are chronically sleep-deprived do tend to go off the rails.

Well, yeah, sure, she did.

But she’s never been involved in a presidential campaign before. They have. Five or six, some of them. And they’re the message discipline guys.

Oops,meant to reply to 26 – sorry.

Yeah. Amazing, that. You spend all those years exalting the pursuit of self interest and the weakness of regarding anything but self interest and give the people who listen to you houses in the Hamptons.

Now it turns out some of these people don’t behave responsibly with other peoples’ money.

Gosh, that is shocking. Who’da thunk it.

“She has been going rogue since they decided to pull out of Michigan and Palin said she didn’t want to do that.

The woman is not a team player. Period.”

I think that sums it up nicely.

Really, what we have here is an opportunistic lightweight who’s managed to do fairly well in her own crooked little fiefdom, but is completely out of her depth in the larger world. And despite this obvious fact, she hasn’t attempted to change her usual tactics at all since the initial novelty of her nomination wore off. (Though I doubt she has the self-awareness to do so even if she wanted to.) She’s gotten by on a combination ratfucking and cutsey-poo “charm” that doesn’t hold up well under the scrutiny that a run for the White House involves purely as a matter of course. Any reasonably intelligent political operative – even a totally sleazy, corrupt one – would be capable of recognizing that as a weakness. Not Caribou Barbie, though; she’s been lucky up till now and evidently assumed that round of luck would never, ever end. Heh, heh. “Oops!”

Watching her in action, I don’t doubt for a second that Palin has every bit of the same sense of Entitlement and sheer Ego that Bush and McCain both possess in spades, but she doesn’t have the vast political machines behind her that both of those bastards have backing them up. I expect any attempts at resurfacing come 2012 will not end well for her…She’s another Dan Quayle iin the making. (And that’s if all the corruption scandals currently seeping out of Alaska like raw sewage doesn’t land her in prison.)

If they stand close together and use six shooters in each of their respective two hands, a circular firing squad can exist with just two people.

Amen!

I went to wikipedia for the diffence between rogue and maverick. They sound pretty much the same. Digging a bit into the desciption, a maverick is an unbranded animal. Whereas, there is something about a rogue being stripped to the waist and branded with the letter R, for rogue. I know that sound preposterous but then there is the story of Ashley Todd. So who knows. I look forward to the next 10 days. And there was that story a few weeks ago about the McCain setting up the MILF website for Palin. Talk about branding your candidate!

It doesn’t even require college biology just general knowledge. Even I know that a fruit fly’s DNA is very similar to human DNA. But that sort of scientific fact is scary to a creationist. Has she ever clarified how old she thinks the earth is?

McCain has said repeatedly he is better qualified to be POTUS because of his leadership and experience. Well, the 2 things we have had as an example of both has been his management of his campaign and his selection of a running mate.

wow!! Where does one even begin? His campaign is almost schizophrenic in it’s dysfunction and incoherence, It is not clear what he is for or would do as much as what he is against. Obama, over and over and over. I’m sorry, that is not a valid reason to be the leader of the free world. You don’t get it just because you think it’s your turn. Or by painting horns and tail on your opponent.

And how can he ask us to trust his leadership when he can’t even control ( and by that, I mean keep on message, focused and serving the goal of electing the ticket) his own running mate! The election is not even over and she is already breaking with him and looking to 2012!! Can’t blame anyone else for Palin but himself. He should be ashamed of even thinking of putting that minor leaguer within arms reach of the nuclear button or of receiving that 3 am phone call that Clinton talked about.

Our nation ( and the rest of the world) face serious, once in a lifetime challenges that require true leadership, reasoned and rational thought, and the ability to harness divergent groups to a greater good. Seriously, if we are going to survive this as a nation, we need to start to pull together, not continue to attack and vilify each other. It seems when you have a political disagreement with someone, it is not enough to just say ‘I think you’re wrong’. No, now it has to be ‘You’re wrong and you’re so wrong you’re evil, and anti-American/(insert hateful adjective-characterization)” If McCain can’t handle some staffers, millions of dollars in campaign donations and a novice pol from the tundra up north, how can he ask us to trust our future with him based on leadership and experience?