Palin still stupid

Here's Sarah's foreign policy experience:

Didn't see anything did you? Good, me neither.

Seems that Ms. Palin supports Israeli settlements, an activity that the US must bring an end to to create peace. Yet another reason she's nuts.

Rove on Palin

Even Karl Rove has no idea what the hell Palin is doing. Is this going to be like when John McCain "suspended" his campaign? Or worse?

Palin quits

Sarah Palin is resigning as governor. The thought is that she's planning to run for president in 2012. I can't think of any easier way of assuring an Obama landslide.

Palin needs to chill out

Sarah Palin is all angry because David Letterman hinted that female members of her family may be sluts. Well, who cares? That's what tends to happen when your 17 year old daughter shows up to the GOP convention 5 months pregnant.

The end of Palin?

Sarah Palin has been disinvited from a major republican speaking event... as quickly as she came into the spotlight, she may very well fade away.  Thank god.

Overlooked on Palin's daughter and her baby daddy

Despite what Sarah Palin says, they are both pretty much high school drop outs.  Levi (and he's got the most normal name) ended his high school career prematurely so that he could work in an apprenticeship.  That's dropping out.  Her daughter is finishing with correspondence courses.

He may get his GED and she may get her diploma, but they are by no means shoe-ins.  

What goes unsaid is that neither is likely to attend college.  In the current world, not attending college is equivalent to dropping out of high school 20 years ago.  I feel bad for the grand kid, whatever its name is, but the Palin family will likely be back into trailers within a generation.

Even though your grandma's the governor...

...you aren't royalty.  Bristol Palin's kid was born today, and parents certainly lived up to the family's cacophonous nature of naming their kids: Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.

I certainly feel bad for the kid.  His parents aren't married, one of his grandmothers is a drug dealer and the other is Sarah Palin.

Taibbi on McCain's Campaign

Matt Taibbi summarizes John McCain's campaign in his own special way:

My favorite parts:

the very idea of Republican conservatism was massively rejected in virtually every state where large chunks of the population do not believe in the literal existence of a horned devil, and even in some that do.

and how about this on Palin:

She's a classic divide-and-conquer politician, an unapologetic Witch Hunter and True Believer with a gift for whipping up the mob against the infidel. In a way that even George W. Bush never was, she is Karl Rove's wet dream, the Osama bin Laden of soccer moms, crusading against germs, communism, atheism and other such unclean elements strictly banned by American law.

Is she really this stupid?

Gov. Palin pardons a turkey, and then gives an interview while another one is killed behind her.

Sarah's Party

Is there anything more depressing than a conference in which Sarah Palin outshines everyone else in the room?  My favorite republican governor is probably Arnold, not because I agree with everyone he does, but I think that he has been able to successfully lead as a moderate, albeit one who backed the worst presidential candidate in my lifetime.  Bobby Jindal is probably just as much as a nutjob as Palin, but at least he seems to be somewhat intelligent.  

But not, these guys don't take the spotlight, the former mayor of Wasilla is numero uno.

Palin for Court Jester

Sarah Palin is so desperate to save her good name (did she ever have one?) that she is now publicly stating her desire to help Barack Obama.

She's given more interviews after the election than she did during it.  Obviously, she's a bit concerned about some of the details that are leaking about her activities during the campaign (like meeting with staff wearing nothing but a towel).  She makes a complete mockery of our government and does even worse things in her spare time.

Then again, every organization needs some comic relief.  She'd sure make a great Press Secretary.

Obama-Palin?

Yesterday Palin basically endorsed Obama's stance on going into Pakistan, if necessary.

Today the McCain campaign retracted her comments.

Do I need to even state again how much of a complete disaster she is for the republican ticket?

Palin think she's above the rest of us

Seriously, Sarah Palin will not meet with the investigator who is investigating her inappropriate firing of a trooper. 

She thinks she's above the law, better than most of us.  

Foreign policy credentials my ass

Sarah Palin, whose foreign policy experience to date is limited to shooting caribou who have immigrated from Canada, said today that the United States should go to war with Russia over Georgia, if necessary.  She also said that the attack on Georgia was "unprovoked."  The attack could have been a bit lopsided, but it is universally accepted that Georgia conducted some hostile actions towards the Russian citizens in South Ossetia. 

Palin should stick to managing hockey games.  If McCain is elected, and he becomes incapacitated in office (I'd give 50/5o odds to that), we will be stuck with the female version of Dan Quayle.  

Does Sarah Palin Speak in Tongues? And a new scandal

Sarah Palin just may belong to the looniest part of the fundamentalist Christian movement.  It is now being reported that she is a pentecostal, a group that is known to speak in tongues.

They also believe in faith healing.  Maybe she'll bring some snakes to the Whitehouse too!  Yes, Pentecostals are that same religious group that handles snakes.  This would extreme to even Pat Robertson.

Regardless of whether she speaks in tongues, it seems that she always speaks corruption.  She has been billing the state for her kid's trips.  Now, I understand that when you have 5 kids, you might want to keep some of them with you while you travel, but that should be on your own dime, not the taxpayers'.  She also billed the taxpayers to pay for her meals while she was in her own house.  I thought she was supposed to be a fiscal conservative!

Sarah Palin, Jews, and Jesus

The news never seems to be positive with regards to Sarah Palin.  Yesterday, it was reported that she attended an anti-Jewish sermon by the founder of Jews for Jesus, an oxymoron of a religion.  

Some evangelicals embrace Jewish people, but I suspect they have an underlying motive.  To them, a Jewish person would be the ultimate convert.

Some history: the first Christians were all former Jews, as was Jesus (though I don't think he renounced the religion, just turned into a new one).  The conversion started around this time, AD 025, and eventually Christians gained in numbers.  To someone like the founder of Jews for Jesus, or for Sarah Palin and I suspect most evangelicals, there job will not be done until all of "God's People" are converted to Christianity.  To them, J4J is a good stepping stone in what they feel is the "right" direction.

But it doesn't stop there.  Lots of religions (albeit not Judaism) actively convert people.  David Brickner, the founder of J4J, went a step further by saying that terrorist attacks against Israel is because they have not accepted Jesus and the attacks are God's "judgment of unbelief."

If I were Jewish, I'd stay the hell away from Sarah Palin and look to someone like Joe Biden instead.

Palin and Bush Agree: we work for God

While addressing a graduating class, Sarah Palin said that our troops must only go places on a "task that is from God."

Invoking religion when contemplating war is a very dangerous idea. 

Palin's Abstinence Only Stance

Sarah Palin is a proponent of abstinence only education, which means that kids in middle and high schools will not be taught about birth control.  

I guess her daughter went to those programs: 17 year old Bristol Palin is 5 months pregnant and plans to have the baby and marry the father.  While the VP pick obviously doesn't have control over her daughter's actions, she probably should have taught her how to put on a rubber.

So how is a new mother and new grandmother supposed to take on a fulltime campaign and potentially be #2 in line for the presidency?  

McCain's pick is looking worse by the day.

Add to that this clip by republican Joe Scarborough when he emphatically said "this will not work."

Palin's Qualifications

Over at Salon, Joe Canason says Palin is just a token woman to the republicans.

To anyone who disagrees with this, name one qualification she has for Vice President?

As Keith put it, she makes Barack Obama look like John Adams.

Indeed.

McCain's Harriet Miers

A couple years ago, George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to be a Supreme Court justice.  Her name was withdrawn over criticism of her qualifications and George was charged with favoritism.

She may not be a crony of John McCain, but she is definitely not qualified.  She was likely picked for being a woman, and that's it.  Her idol in the republican party is Pat Buchanan.  Yes, that Pat Buchanan.  

There were many other qualified women McCain could have chosen, such as Carly Fiorina, though she brought issues too.  None, however, are less qualified than Sarah Palin.  

She's got her looks, her "outside the beltway" attitude, and she hunts deer.  That's about it.