The ‘high-tech lynching’ of Sarah Palin.

If Congressman Wexler had his way, he would be giving hummers to the president of Iran. What a putz.

Kudos to Buzz for this insightful post. The left just can’t stand that the Republicans have come up with a strong, independent minded woman who can hold her own party to task. Plain and simple jealousy.

Palin ≠ Clarence Thomas
Palin = Harriet Miers

Saw that CNN report…oh brother. I just love to get a dose of politics from a beat reporter. Give me a break. Do you know how many kids don’t listen to their parents and even so, do you know how many kids don’t even know how to us a condom properly.. Or how about the teenagers who are on teh pill, but forget to take it half the time. My 18 year old is off to college, I can only imagine how much of my lectures will get through to him, probably like 10% if any.

Well said Vet.

Well, Buzz, you have to be right now and then. A stopped clock and all that. But you’re only right this time about one tiny little element of your Palin-Thomas comparison. What this pick shows is that McCain can be as reckless and unpatriotic as the elder Bush. Thomas was a shameful choice (and has NOT served with distinction, just a footstool for Scalia), as was Dan Quayle and now Sarah Secession-for-Alaska. Republicans like to prance about in Uncle Sam suits until raw political expediency suits their purposes. Come to think of it, though, maybe Thomas, Quayle and Sarah Shoot-em-up were the best that benighted group has or had to offer, considering that to sign on to Republicanism in the first place shows a complete lack of judgment, character and common sense.

Here’s how the Palins can kill this story. Suggest John Edwards might be the father. Other than the pesky National Enquirer, no one would cover it.

Looks to me like the Dems are scared to death that the undecided voters are going to see who Gov Palin really is. Unlike Hillary Clinton she’s achieved all her political success based on her own merits, not on what positions her husband has been elected to an the fact that when compared side by side with the Dem Presidential candidate she makes him look like the rank amateur which he is. Some of us are still waiting to see that extensive list of Obama’s accomplishiments before being elected to office and since. Voting “present” hundreds of times in the Illiniois Senate and missing over 50% of the votes in the US Senate the last two years are not much to brag about I guess. Being endorsed by William Ayres, Hamas and the American Communist Party would probably turn a lot of people off so they can’t use those.

Kudos to Governor Palin, a class act that has the Dems quaking in their birkenstocks.

rugby,

You are a hateful little weasel. Why do you and your Democrat party friends dispise strong women so much?

Open question:

The rollout of Palin included glowing words about her as a “hockey mom” and lots of talk about her family and how she represents conservative values.

So, the media does some looking at these topics: Palin’s family, values, and her as a mother. And this is offensive? Didn’t the McCain campaign open this discussion?

Interpretation of Buzz’s comments:

Oh, those poor conservative Republicans always being treated unfairly by Democrats, the left, and the media. Boo hoo.

We are such a bunch of victims.

Age of consent is a state by state issue. It is not necessarily rape if both parties are of consenting age. Look up your state law.

And the real issue with this case is the lack of consideration about adoption.

“Palin = Harriet Miers”

Not true. Harriet would not have been the first woman on the Supreme Court, and Palin’s qualifications are appropriate.

Sorry

…but I do know this is a topic that needs a real life discussion….

The children of politicians should be (and should have been) off limits. Period.

But saying that Democrats are the only ones to spread rumors of this type is disingenuous.

This original rumor was being spread by Palin’s GOP enemies in Alaska. It has been well reported that it was running rampant and had even been investigated by the local newspapers. Those reporters determined there was nothing to and moved on.

Given that, should the Kos kid have run the story? Absolutely not. Without question. (And plenty of Kos kids told the poster as much through comments.) Does the extreme left hold a monopoly on spreading scurrilous rumors? Hardly.

P.S. Frankly I think the story actually helps the GOP ticket. Its probably something every family has faced (albeit often indirectly through extended relations) and as such, makes it easy to connect to her. I know that I felt sick when I heard about it. It is likely the toughest thing that the young girl will face and she’s having to do it in the national spotlight. I can’t even imagine.

Keep it up folks.

The low ground always wins.

If Palin was as insignificant and unqualified as the Democrats claim, then why go after her guns blazing? For someone whose qualifications and background speaks for itself, why all the worry? I think seeing how Obama, Biden, and the rest of the Left is going nuts is proof that they are being disingenuous about Palin being an empty suit. Instead, they are doing everything in their power to throw out the comparisons between Alaska and various states along with various budget numbers, etc.

If state senator is a qualification, maybe Eric Johnson or David Shafer should run for President. If an uncompleted first term of US Senator is, shall we dig up some there? And if running a political campaign is, we have some more candidates there.

Do you realize that Sarah Palin did take on an entrenched incumbent governor in Alaska and had everyone telling her the exact same thing? She had no business running with no experience was repeated ad nasaeum. Do you also realize she received more votes in this win than there are registered voters in Obama’s state senate district? If Huttman wants to say Obama’s masterful campaign is good enough to use as a qualification to run for higher office, let’s look at Palin’s rise to fame. She took on corruption. She had no money and no big backers. She faced not only an incumbent governor but another party insider in the primary and beat them both and then defeated Knowles who is by no means a weak opponent. Little known east bumble mayor basically bucked the establishment and won.

If Obama wants to reflect on her background, let’s make sure we look at all of the numbers. If he “overlooks” her service as governor, let’s take his current service as US Senator off as well. Let us look back at ONLY his state senate record. Let’s look at only getting less than 50K votes in each election. Let’s look at his part time service making the occasional vote and missing quite a few as well.

How did he not “methodically vet” his choice?

If McCain believes that children of politicians should be off limits, he should remember the days when he referred to Chelsea as that “ugly kid that lives in the White House.” Just saying…

So we’re resorting to 3rd grade playground mentality now? “Well Republicans do it!” Wow. Grown ups now excusing childish behavior. I guess a joke against an 18 year old makes it OK to say a 16 year old lacking washboard abs must be pregnant. I’m sure teen girls love that self-esteem boost. Or that a 16 year old girl took part in a massive conspiracy to hide her pregnancy by saying it was her mom’s? Or the better one - that Palin took her time getting back to Alaska hoping she would lose the baby and not have to deal with DS. My bad.

another simple question reporters should ask obama, are you gay!?

i seem to recall a big nytimes story earlier this year based solely on one source who accused mccain of an affair with a lobbyist. where is the balanced reporting?

Bird. Nice try. You clearly missed the point. Obama himself ignored the fact that she is governor. He mocked her by only mentioning her being mayor. If he forgets her being governor, let’s reverse the roles. Again, you are comparing two different states. Are you saying smaller states don’t matter?

I mean after all Biden, an incumbent US Senator in DC since the founding received 135K. An incumbent US Senator gets 135K and little ol’ Miss PTA podunk mayor going up against a BIG name in Alaska gets 115K. Not bad for someone with no experience. If we want to bring up the POTUS elections, how many votes did Biden get running for President? Let’s see. He got 638 in NH. He got 693 in SC. He dropped out after a pathetic performance in IA. So let’s see. Palin got more votes for Mayor of Wasilla than Biden did in either state shown above.

Just found this little tidbit from Ben Smith’s blog on Politico:

During the primary Sarah Palin chided Hillary Clinton for complaining about sexism.

“She does herself a disservice to even mention it, really,” Palin said. “When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism, or maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, ‘Man, that doesn’t do us any good, women in politics, or women in general, trying to progress this country,’” Palin said. “I don’t think it bodes well for her.”

And then he goes on to quote Lindsey Graham (who has a good point):

“Would a man be asked this question? Probably not,” the South Carolina Republican said in an interview with Politico.

“Did anybody ask [Democratic vice presidential nominee] Joe Biden [similar questions] when his tragedy hit him?”

I wasn’t around (alive) for the Biden thing, but I would guess there was more than one person who was laying that question on him.

But the point is about the sexist double-standard is valid (especially from Democrats).

The VP spot is “not worth a bucket of warm piss”, anyway. So why are we doing all this fussin’ and fightin’.

I don’t care if Barrack denounced this crap or not, the fact that the KOS and other operations are promulgating such things is disgusting. Some of this stuff is so unfounded that it’s laughable.

I think many of these are being given more light than normal VP attacks by the media, and I think that is largely because Palin is a woman. It’s something easy for pundits to latch on and attack.

Okay Decatur let’s take the McCain joke and ask what it teaches us.

Does it disqualify McCain as a presidential candidate? If it does than what has Obama done that we need to consider?

Does the McCain joke allow us to make jokes about Obama’s children and wife?

Basically Decatur are you making the case that anything goes on Obama and Biden’s family?

Hahahaha…….

After MONTHS of hearing all manner of Obama bashing of the most absurd, misguided, and downright FALSE kind from Redstate, Fox, Boortz and Limbaugh, you cannot be SERIOUSLY protesting the treatment of Governor Palin.

I don’t have a vote in this election, other than to write in Ron Paul. Obama wants to spend a $trillion or so we don’t have (although that didn’t stop Bush) and McCain represents the greatest threat to the existence of mankind since the world became overpopulated with nukes.

I won’t listen to a word about Ms. Palin because I am not going to vote for the continued destruction of America at the hands of the GOP and I swore off the Dems a long time ago.

You guys are a riot……sob….poor Sarah Palin…..sob……

…and the pregnant daughter is the lead story on Entertainment Tonight? WTF?

My new bumper sticker

OBAMA BI(n la)DEN

My car will be keyed in no time. Don’t care.

Hey, you know what is sad, our country has become so tabloid/celeb obsessed we are arguing about BS like this, which in no way reflects what might happen if McCain or Obama becomes President. Thats right, the election is between McCain and Obama. The VP is important, don’t get me wrong, but whining about who called who a sexist, racist, jerk, whatever doesn’t get to the heart of the matter. Who among all four of these people, McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden is going to execute the office of the Presidency the best according to the CONSTITUTION (remember that, its the document that supposedly says what government can and can’t do) and who will stand for Freedom in this country. Which candidate has even talked about freedom? Honestly, neither have enough for me. Freedom is what America is supposed to be about, not some militaristic sense of Patriotism nor the idea you have should lift up your fellow man. The Constitution, not vote buying schemes that shift the property (taxes for the less knowledgable) from one side to another, should be what we are talking about. I am a McCain man, but he isn’t perfect, but no one, on either side seems to really be talking about the things our country was founded on and what the law says are the limits of government. Government is limited for those of you not properly educated, the people as individuals, are protected against government by the Constitution. Government is evil, but a necessary evil. Read some founding History.
Oh, and if a Ron Pauler or whatever wants to say that he is the answer to my objections, lets get out of the fantasy and back to the reality that either McCain or Obama will be President.

Redstate is reporting that the Democrat leaders have publicly released personal information about Sarah Palin including her Social Security Number. That is after going after her children and her life style choices. This is getting ridiculous. If Obama wants to lead a respectable party he needs to stop this. Children need to be off limits and information useful for identity theft needs to be off limits. People from suburban towns need not be shown obvious disrespect. By having the appearance that the Democrat leadership support these kind of tactics will only hurt the party.

I remember jokes were made about Amy Carter’s good looks and Chelsea’s male role model, but they were made by comedians not opponents or office holders. Obama needs to nip this in the bud. If he does not there will be a tremendous backlash against him and his party.

Not to be too racist or politically incorrect, but this mud slinging may give the impression of a elitist mulatto supporting those calling a White country girl trash because she is not from the big city. This will not go over well with southerners or rural people in general.

she looks better and better with every new leftist revelation.

how can any american vote against a ticket that has a war hero at the top with his attractive wife who happens to own a bud distributorship by his side and the gun totin’, ‘rouge cou’, conservative vp who along with her high school sweetheart, snowmobile champion husband started their own company while having five children?

pass the apple pie!

What does Palin have to do with Clarence Thomas or lynching?

Obama and his loyal democrap cronies are worthless swine. Obama is the modern David Duke. Hope McCain rips him a new arse. Hell, I hope Miss Sarah kicks him in the nuts, if he has any.

Word I hear is Obama likes it both ways, freakin idiot.

Complaint Alleges Alaska Trooper Continued to Intimidate Palin, Family

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122040990300293917.html

Jane,

You used this term: “Democrat leaders”

The Dems are nothing but a bunch of kiddies who weren’t sent to their room enough when they were growing-up.

Oh my, where to begin???

Well, let’s start here: “She’s a woman, pro-life, otherwise socially conservative, and most importantly, nominated to be the first female Vice-President in our nation’s history.” I’ll give you that she is a woman and socially conservative, but even the most pathetic fact checker could have told you that the nomination to be the first female VP in our nation’s history went to Belva Ann Lockwood, the running mate of Marietta Stow in 1884, for the National Equal Rights Party. The first woman to be nominated as a VP candidate by one of the two major political parties was Geraldine Ferraro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro). Sorry, the DemocratIC Party beat y’all to that one decades ago.

Now, someone else pointed out (and I’m sorry I can’t remember who, but I refuse to wade through that crap again to find out) that people who live in glass igloos shouldn’t throw snowballs with rocks in them.

If Mrs. Palin wants to be the gun-totin’, social conservative who wants to adhere to the GOP platform of outlawing abortion and almost all forms of contraception and teaching only abstinence in schools, in between creationism classes, then she should most assuredly put her big girl panties on and face the music. When you take away contraception and tell kids with raging hormones to keep it in their pants, most kids will tell you after they slam their door shut to F-off, then go screw around like they were going to all along.

If you think this is going to stop the sinking of the Titanic, I mean help the Republican Party, you are sadly mistaken. Most of you good ol’ god fearin’, red meat eatin’, gun lovin’ bible thumpin’ Republicons (see how fun it is to make the other party’s name look silly – real mature too!) seem to think that this is an issue that is a very private family matter that every family faces. Well, I didn’t face it. None of my friend’s families faced this when I was growing up (and really, I’m in my mid 30s and I remember dancing around my room to Papa Don’t Preach). I guess I was just raised right by my Democratic parents. Are you all saying that Republicans are terrible parents because that can be inferred from your “reasoning”?

I honestly do believe that any person who puts themselves out there for one of the highest offices in the land should be put to public scrutiny and if that includes how dysfunctional their family is, then that should be out there as well as it says a great deal about a person’ character. Your lot is claiming this woman is as American as apple pie, but the facts are proving otherwise and as usual you are just choosing not to hear this part.

In less than one week’s time, the media has already published stories about her very own Troopergate, her flip-flopping on the Bridge to Nowhere, her going after her enemies in her own party and laughing at their misfortune (how very clever for someone too call a cancer survivor a “cancer” and have her laugh about it). Then there is her complete disregard for that pesky science. Opposing listing polar bears as a endangered species despite reviews from Alaska’s own Department of Fish and Game’s marine mammal program agreeing with the Department of Interior’s conclusion that science justifies the listing is just stupid. So is supporting the aerial shooting of wolves and bears as a means of predator control and allowing the systematic killing of wolf pups to control the population. I think its silly to bring up her husband’s old DUI, so I won’t.

Well, at least there’s nothing wrong with her church. Oh wait…
I like this tidbit from a speech she gave to the graduating class of commission students from her former church is good ol’ Wasilla:
“I can do my part in working really, really hard to get a natural gas pipeline, about a $30 billion project that’s going to create a lot of jobs for Alaska. … [but] I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” she said. “I can do my job there in developing our natural resources, in doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded. But really that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s hearts aren’t right with God.”

I’m sure Thomas Jefferson will just stand up and cheer for her! Forget that old stale Constitution! Who needs it?!?! And now I hear whispers of her very own Rev. Wright problem. Well glory be!

So Republican pundits and the long suffering faithful are just thrilled to death to have some young, hardcore person on the ticket to offset McCain’s considerable baggage, but really is this the best that y’all could do? She wasn’t even interviewed until the day before he offered her the job (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090203462.html?hpid=topnews)!!!! I mean c’mon! Nice judgment call there McCain!

Um, and as soon as someone credible comes up with anything remotely close to “evidence” I might take you republicants up on your wild-eyed stab in the dark accusations.

Nice try though. Thanks for playing. Next.

BitchBoy Sez: “Bill Simon: You have a strange fixation on authority over kids. So why ain’t you head of all Republicans, a group of whining brats that need your firm hand.”

And you have a strange fixation on demonstrating you’re a flaming moron.

“You misread what I wrote. I didn’t say Palin was the first woman nominated I said she was nominated to be the first female VP. You’re a leftist with a vastly superior intellect so imagine my shock at your lack of comprehension.”

Again, tell me, since my “vastly superior intellect” is blinding me, how does Mrs. Palin being nominated on this ticket accomplish anything that Geraldine Ferraro’s nomination didn’t do 24 years ago?

Also, you can call troopergate whatever you want to. In the end, it will always be about disregarding laws to carry out a personal vendetta. I guess you don’t get any more Republican that that Buzz.

But I can quote too:
“The Palin family had a feud with Wooten prior to her becoming governor. They put together a list of 14 accusations which they took to the state police to investigate — a list that ranged from the quite serious to the truly absurd. The state police did an investigation, decided that 5 of the charges had some merit and suspended Wooten for ten days — a suspension later reduced to five days. The Palin’s weren’t satisfied but there wasn’t much they could do.

When Palin became governor they went for another bite at the apple. Palin, her husband and several members of her staff began pressuring Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan — a respected former Chief of the Anchorage police department — to can Wooten. Monegan resisted, arguing that the official process regarding Wooten was closed. And there was nothing more that could be done. In fact, during one of the conversations in which Palin’s husband Todd was putting on the squeeze, Monegan told Todd Palin, “You can’t head hunt like this. What you need to do is back off, because if the trooper does make a mistake, and it is a terminable offense, it can look like political interference.”

Eventually, Palin got fed up and fired Monegan from his job. (Palin claims, not credibly, that she fired Monegan over general differences in law enforcement priorities.) This is an important point. Wooten never got fired. To the best of my knowledge, he’s is still on the job. The central bad act was firing the state’s top police official because he refused to bend to political pressure from the governor and her family to fire a public employee against whom the governor was pursuing a vendetta — whether the vendetta was justified or not.

Soon after this, questions were raised in the state about Monegan’s firing and he eventually came forward and said he believed he’d been fired for not giving in to pressure to fire Wooten.

After Monegan made his accusations, Palin insisted there was no truth whatsoever to his claims. Nonetheless, a bipartisan committee of the state legislature approved an investigation. In response, Palin asked the Attorney General to start his own investigation which many in the state interpreted as an effort to either keep tabs on or tamper with the legislature’s investigation. Again, very questionable judgment in someone who aspires to be first in line to the presidency.

The Attorney General’s investigation quickly turned up evidence that Palin’s initial denials were false. Multiple members of her staff had raised Wooten’s employment with Monegan. Indeed, the state police had a recording of one of her deputies pushing Monegan to fire Wooten. That evidence forced Palin to change her story. Palin said that this was the first she’d heard of it and insisted the deputy wasn’t acting at her behest, even though the trascript of the recorded call clearly suggested that he was. (Hear the audio here.)

Just yesterday, Monegan gave an interview to the Washington Post in which he said that not only Palin’s aides, but Palin’s husband and Palin herself had repeatedly raised the Wooten issue with him and pressured him to fire him. And now he says he has emails that Palin sent him about the matter. (In an interesting sidelight, that may end up telling us a lot, Monegan says no one from the McCain campaign ever contacted him in the vetting process.)

The investigator appointed by the state legislature began trying to arrange a time to depose Gov. Palin last week — in other words, in the final days before her selection.

So let’s put this all together.

We rely on elected officials not to use the power of their office to pursue personal agendas or vendettas. It’s called an abuse of power. There is ample evidence that Palin used her power as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired. When his boss refused to fire him, she fired his boss. She first denied Monegan’s claims of pressure to fire Wooten and then had to amend her story when evidence proved otherwise. The available evidence now suggests that she 1) tried to have an ex-relative fired from his job for personal reasons, something that was clearly inappropriate, and perhaps illegal, though possibly understandable in human terms, 2) fired a state official for not himself acting inappropriately by firing the relative, 3) lied to the public about what happened and 4) continues to lie about what happened.

These are, to put it mildly, not the traits or temperament you want in someone who could hold the executive power of the federal government.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/211769.php

I was wondering how long before all of this would be The Clenis’ fault.

Why is it okay for Palin to pimp out her disabled baby to get votes, but her 17 year old pregnant daughter is off limits?