Sarah Palin - GOP standard bearer!

[Image by Getty from the Huffington Post]


Let's see:

Everyone of Sarah Palin's appointees or nominees has been voted down, declined or withdrawn. That adds up to zero percent approval!

The legislators in the Alaska state house are thoroughly pissed that Palin decided to go speaking to an anti-choice group on the last week of business, an especially busy time. They shouldn't be surprised, though, for it is clear by now that Sarah does whatever Sarah wants - especially if she thinks it will strengthen her image as a GOPhew "standard bearer."

The Anchorage Daily News, a newspaper of some note, has castigated Sarah in an op-ed for being "reluctant to take Alaska's full $930.7 million share of federal stimulus money. Failure to take the money will hurt our economy, cost jobs and deny extra help to the state's school children," says the ADN.

Hmmm. That should be surprising either. Sarah's a Repugnican. Principles over people is the mantra [unless of course, the "people" are fetuses]. Even if the so-called "principles" are a crock.

As I've noted before, it is very likely that at the last moment Sarah will sigh heavily and give in and accept the money. That way she can keep her bonafides as another lunatic Republican governor but still look good to the hoi polloi in Alaska by grabbing that fistful of dollars from the feds. (Not that she's ever in the past had a problem with federal money - she's actually gone looking for it - when she wasn't looking for Russia!)


So, what's Sarah been up to on this last week of the legislative session when she should have been back home in Alaska tending to the state's business?

Palin, the prevaricator, has dragged the first Dude down to Evansville, Indiana in order to speak at a convention of anti-choice rightwingnuts. Her favorite kind of people!

So she said all the usual things: abortion is bad, Trig is wonderful because he's made in the image of God (whatever the hell that means!), and she used the same old tired language about "culture of life" and how the good guys (rightwingnuts) must keep plugging along to maintain that "culture of life," which means reversing Roe v. Wade.

Oh, yes, she also blasted the President for backing a woman's right to choose, and for supporting stem-cell research. Naturally. And she got in a nasty, which is her forte, by saying something about how protecting babies is not above her pay grade; which may be true, I suppose, but everything else sure is!

The wingnuts stood and applauded and the heavens opened up and a voice came down saying "This is my beloved daughter, make her president." All the people cheered.

But, and this is the funniest thing: Michael Steele, erstwhile without-a-clue chair of the Republican National Committee, commented that he thought Palin the prevaricator was the party's standard bearer - or, at least one of them. He did lump her in with the other kookaberries like Mitt Romney, the rich Mormon; Tim Pawlenty, the born-again nogoodnik from Minnesota; Mark Sanford, the dork who disses the stimulus from South Carolina; Rudy Guiliani, the much-married, adulterous cross-dresser from New York; Eric Cantor who has become the Repugnican House clown; and Mike Pence who, like Palin is truth-challenged.

What a great bunch! These are the GOP standard bearers, and Palin stands right up at the head of the class.

No wonder anyone with a brain has pronounced the Republican Party is dead.

May it forever stay that way!

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Palin is in hot water again.

Seems she left Alaska to go speak at some wingnut anti-abortion conference in the Lower 48. Alaska's legislators were not happy because she took off during the last week of the legislative session, which is always the busiest session of the year.

It should be noted, this was a personal decision on her part, totally unnecessary (unless, of course, she's trying to build her base for 2012).


The second thing she did had to do with her nominating skills. After her previous nominations for attorney general of Alaska were turned down by the Democrats, she nominated three people for one position! Yup. Maybe she can't count very well. Or maybe she governs by the theory that if she throws enough crap at a wall, some of it might stick.

But, this story gets even more interesting when we find out (via the Anchorage Daily News) that two of the three have already been rejected by the Dems, which leaves the third, who switched to the Democratic Party just a few months ago.


Finally, Ms. Palin the prevaricator, in a 10-minute testimony during U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's hearing on offshore oil and gas leasing, beat the same old drum: Drill, baby, drill. According to ADN, she "told Salazar that the future of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and the success of a proposed natural gas pipeline are at stake if offshore development doesn't occur."

Of course it is. My goodness, the world will collapse if we don't drill off the coast of Alaska.


Unless, you're very rich, or will get very rich from offshore drilling, you probably would agree with Edward Itta, mayor of the North Slope Borough, when he noted his people do not want offshore drilling because it's too risky, and the "rewards" aren't worth the risk. "That's because spill response are (is) virtually impossible in Arctic waters."


What the hell. Who cares about Alaska, the environment, Eskimo's, polar bears and other wildlife, anyway?

Palin says new charges are "baseless"

Of course she does. According to the Anchorage Daily News, a new ethics complaint has been filed against the Guv of the State of Alaska which "accuses her of using state staff and resources for political purposes on two occasions, once this week and once during the presidential campaign."

She says nonsense; these allegations are "baseless."

Perhaps we should give her the benefit of the doubt; you know, "innocent until proven guilty"?

Nah. Let's not. She always say that. Even when she's proven guilty she claims the allegations were "baseless" and that she's innocent!

So, we know Palin the prevaricator is untrustworthy. Furthermore, she has lied on numerous occasions (Bridge to Nowhere, selling plane on e-Bay) and stretched the truth at other times.


We'll just have to wait and see how these play out. But such complaints are not, as Palin would have it, "frivolous." In fact, Palin has had to pay back to the state monies she received for pretending to run her office from her home, as well as for dragging her children to political or social events, even though she insisted at first she had done nothing wrong..

Sarah Palin seems to have a hard time understanding that she works for the people, not vice versa.

But then, most Repugnicans don't understand that!

Palin's PAC, and Palin's "Vision"

This from McClatchy and the Anchorage Daily News:

Palin has a PAC (Political Action Committee).

Palin "is planning at least two trips out of state paid for by her political action committee."

She will be "traveling the country to support those who share her vision."

And who would those supporters be? Oh, yes, the same ones that think Joe (Sam) the plumber and John McCain are fonts of wisdom.


Heh. Heh. Then we must ask, what vision? Shooting wolves from helicopters? Drilling for oil on every sacred piece of land in Alaska? Drowning the polar bears? Conning the federal government to keep pouring tax dollars into the state?

Well, yes. All that and more. Palin's "vision" also involves "government reform, (low) taxes, and personal freedom."

All of which means what? If she's so worried about government reform she should start in Alaska which has been a hotbed of corruption for years on local, state and federal levels. She could revisit her years as mayor of that huge metropolis of Wasilla. She could reconsider her cronyism and personal visitations of hell on her opponents in Alaska. She could try to convince her own party in Alaska to follow her "vision" for that state, which of late they seem singularly unwilling to do.

Low taxes? For whom? The rich, of course. Personal freedom? Let's see, now; over the past eight years, under Republican rule, the personal freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution have been abrogated on several fronts, including the right to privacy and the right of habeas corpus. And Palin has been a strong supporter of Repugnican rule!

So, what is Palin the prevaricator talking about?

Like most Republicans, she's talking about nothing. Doesn't matter, though. Unfortunately, too many of the hoi polloi in this country think a hockey mom with a dysfunctional family, a proven liar, and a failing record as a politician has all the qualities necessary to be president.