Maddow on Palin: ‘It is becoming less likely by the hour that she will be McCain’s nominee.’
Maddow on Palin: ‘It is becoming less likely by the hour that she will be McCain’s nominee.’
In an interview with ThinkProgress earlier today in St. Paul, progressive radio (and soon-to-be-TV) host Rachel Maddow called the decision-making process for John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin “shocking.” “Nobody can quite believe that John McCain picked her,” she said, adding, “I think the question right now is whether or not the choice is going to be withdrawn.” The decision to replace her needs to happen “very quickly,” Maddow said, “before it gets very complicated with the rules of the RNC“:
And I think that that’s actually what people are thinking about, rather than what will Sarah Palin mean for the country. I don’t get the sense that anybody is totally committed to the idea that she is going to be vice president, or even the vice presidential nominee.
This has been greeted with such shock — and with every salacious detail about stuff that wasn’t vetted coming to the floor seemingly with each hour of the news cycle — it is becoming less likely by the hour that Palin will still be John McCain’s nominee even by the end of the week.
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Maddow on Palin: ‘I think the question right now is whether or not she will be withdrawn.’
– - Well, yeah Rachel. Is there a third option? That’s like saying, “she’ll either stay on the ticket or go.”
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:43 pmThe right insight at the right time, Rachel.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:44 pmI LOVE RACHEL! and i would almost be willing to get gender reassignment to get a date with her. almost.
again, to the chicken-counters, there is a deranged brilliance to picking Palin, which would decrease the chance her name will be withdrawn. besides which, what are people like Graham, etc. going to do when they’ve been putting themselves on the line talking about what a great choice she is?
oh yeah, nothing. i keep forgetting that for a conservative, espousing two mutually exclusive views is only a contradiction if you’re holding them at the same time.
though if you’re a liberal and espouse one view, it’s contradictory by your nature as a liberal.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 pmThis is what happens when a “maverick” lets the media and bloggers vet his cabinet. At least people aren’t talking about all of McCain’s houses.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:49 pmaside from which, if they were going to throw her under the bus, would they be trying to stall the alaska legislature’s investigation of troopergate?
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 pmThe question is now, if or when she should withdraw?
No one could have predicted–until McCain introduced her, that is.
I’m giving 30-70, but she’ll have to wait until next Friday night to do it…she can’t do it NOW, right in the middle of the convention.
The longer she waits, though, the slimmer the chances that she will withdraw before the election. We win, either way!
This election is SO over.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:51 pmWho is Rachel Maddow? Air America? Is that still around?
Thought that Air America went bankrupt due to lack of listenership.
Did someone come along and bail them out?
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:51 pmTim: That’s what people will be saying about the Republican Party is a few short years. “Is that still around?”
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:54 pmTim43 Says:
Who is Rachel Maddow? Air America? Is that still around?
Thought that Air America went bankrupt due to lack of listenership.
Did someone come along and bail them out?
– - Don’t you hoopleheads know that George Soros owns and funds everything on earth?
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:54 pmWithdrawing Palin’s candidacy would require at least the tacit admission that the decision was a mistake. As we know Republicans never do that, preferring to sail directly into the iceberg. Let the McTitanic ticket sail on!
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:54 pmWhat happened to the straight talk we were guaranteed with the ‘maverick’ John McCain?
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:56 pm“Have oil drilling rig, will travel.” The new Paladin, Sarah style.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:59 pmTim43 Says:
Who is Rachel Maddow? Air America? Is that still around?
Thought that Air America went bankrupt due to lack of listenership.
You “thought” wrong. About that and just about everything else.
However, the Oregon Republican Party is deeply in debt and had to move into offices in a strip mall. Maybe that’s what you were “thinking” about.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:59 pmBut if Palin withdraws due to family circumstances… in the eyes of the GOPers she would still be a saint and they’d think they got out smelling like a rose.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 pmBut if Palin withdraws due to family circumstances… in the eyes of the GOPers she would still be a saint and they’d think they got out smelling like a rose.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 pmExactly…
In a few days she’ll ‘withdraw’ because she can’t stand to see her family ‘ripped apart’ by these vicious liberal ‘blogs and they will look around for a ’savior’ and, finding none, settle for Rudy and do all kinds of commercials about the humble little mayor who saved New York on 9/11 and the jet pilot who saved ‘Merica by single handedly removing the warhead from a North Vietnamese SAM…
I am so ready to see her show. What will America do with both reasonableness and intelligence on the teevee?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 pmPalin is a Half-Baked Alaskan:
(via Atrios)
Ahh…Seig Heil, RNC! Jeepers, they aren’t even bothering to hide their political template anymore, are they?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 pmI’m afraid not. I hope I’m wrong, but I think they’re going for the God vote and the next two months will look a lot like 2000, only worse. Also, all the talk I’ve heard from republicans is excitment and praise. Granted, they could say the opposite next week without hesitation, but there isn’t even a little apprehension.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 pmACME_Democrat Says:
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Only the bleeding hearts would care what the bull dike Maddow says.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
As opposed to you GOP/Chimpy zombies , who listen breathlessly to everything a cigar-chomping , bloated , drug-addled moron spews out of his lying fat jowels………
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 pmACME_Democrat Says:
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Only the bleeding hearts would care what the bull dike Maddow says.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 pmACME_Democrat Says: the bull dike Maddow
– - Yeah, you’d like her to plug up your hole.
Illiterate twit.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pmThe right wing….err, mainstream media and all of the righty radio heads (as if there were any progressives on radio) are circling the wagons. I actually heard Lou Dobbs’ radio show for a few minutes on my commute home and he “loves” the Palin pick.
So they’re defending her and they will push hard to get the blogs off the case. They fuc*ing hate that they can’t control the message on the internet, it screws up there entire game plan.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 pmDON’T.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 pmFEED.
TROLLS.
ACME_Democrat Says:
Only the bleeding hearts would care what the bull dike Maddow says.
Doubtless her sexuality was influenced by running into too many idioti like ACME. Nice of you to take your time to post in between date-rapes, ACME…
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 pmHi ACME_ Democrat:
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:14 pmSo you are afraid she can kick your ass I take it. It is okay lots of guys aren’t very tough…
McCain: Ooh, you sunk my battlesh…vice president!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 pmTim43 Says:
Who is Rachel Maddow? Air America? Is that still around?
Tim, doesn’t a mind of an infinite loop ever bother you?
Your GOP convention looks like a quick dump of several nursing homes.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 pmRe #22
I apologize. I had a real good one ready but decided it was too coarse for even my crust and hit the wrong button.
I did a graduate paper on the use of metaphor in social interaction and the meatphors the troll used were typical of the intelligence level of the Rethug Red Necks (my metaphor). Just spite. Granny is calling me to dinner. Bye All.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 pmMy personal opinion is that if Palklin wanyts to use her daughter as a campaign issue “we are pro-life, we are encouraging our daugter to have the baby etc…” and their son “we are pro-life we had a babay we knew was going to have problems…” then they are fair game in the election. Fair game in that as long as they are used to win votes they can be used to expose bad policy and hypocracy. I don’t think that mean spirited personal attacks like the republicans liked to launch against Chelsea CLinton and Amy Carter are waranted but the kids should reflect the policies of the parents if they are going to be on the campaign trail.
To me this right now smacks of Harriet Meirs remember when she was the best choice Bush could find for the SC, at least until he found the next choice.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 pmSo let me see if I understand this correctly:
1. Bristol Palin is now five months pregnant.
2. The father has now been identified as Levi Johnston, a young aspiring hockey star.
3. The two make quite a photogenic couple, and have been identified by locals as high school sweethearts.
4. Along with announcing the pregnancy, the Palins’ announced that Bristol intends to wed the father. No time frame is given.
So, my question is, what the hell is taking them so long? Pure speculation, sure, but could it be that Levi (self-proclaimed redneck though he is) is holding out for a paternity test? Could there be a role for Maury Povich in the McCain administration?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 pmI think the lefty blogs should stay on the “Trig is Bristol’s child” part of this fiasco. That is at the root of the news that Bristol is preggers now. The McCainiacs came right out and said that they were announcing the news of Bristol’s (current) pregnancy to prove that it was Sarah’s child.
Anyone that has followed this story from the start knows for sure that the Palin’s told a HUGE LIE so they wouldn’t look like hypocrites in light of their Dark Ages dogma. How’d that work out for them?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pmBadmoodman
- – Yeah, you’d like her to plug up your hole.
Illiterate twit.
Rush already performs that task. Hence, the “bleeding rectum republican.” (I apologize to anyone taken aback for spouting the vulgar reality of trolldom.)
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pmOk concern trolls, now is your chance to show your bipartisanship. This is a vile and divisive statement and is hurting our country……hello….crickets.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pmhanshiro Says:
Doubtless her sexuality was influenced by running into too many idioti like ACME.
– - Uh huh, like she CHOSE to be a lesbian. Next time, think – - then post.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:21 pmWhen will Darwin act on the Michael Savage’s and Rush Limbaugh’s of the world? You know the fat, loud, unattractive species types whose reproductive fitness would fill less than half a thimble…and who only attract similar males to their mating calls.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:21 pmI’m surprised Rachel has not been arrested yet. The day is still young.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pmOT
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:29 pmgood thing RUC unplugged his lyingbastardometer tonight. The republicans are claiming that they were involved in getting womens sufferage passed and are using it to woo the ladies to thier party.
That would ASSUME that anyone running his campaign had the brains to do the right thing!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:31 pmThe cranky old man will not boot her from the ticket. McSameasBush doesn’t like to be told what to do. He’ll live with the consequences of Sarah Palin as a pick for VP.
Besides, just like Cheney was a insurance policy for Bush, Palin will be an insurance policy for McCain.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 pmWill they say it is god’s will when Barrack Obama is elected to be our next president?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 pmHey Acme tell me where you live and I will personally fly there and kick your bony little ass. Come on show some balls. Tell me your address. I’ll even step in the cage with you. Two men enter one man leaves
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm35. Badmoodman Says:
hanshiro Says:
Doubtless her sexuality was influenced by running into too many idioti like ACME.
- – Uh huh, like she CHOSE to be a lesbian. Next time, think – - then post.
Uh, @sshat, I chose my words well. Look up “influenced,” then STFU. While there is a plethora of points to be made about how people arrive at their sexuality, even when they are born with a preference, intervening experiences can, in fact, aid in shaping an outlook on one gender or another.
Twit. Remember, BadDrool, drinking and typing don’t mix…
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 pmI dont see mccain picking anybody else now, he would have to admit he had horrible judgement. It is too late.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:38 pmAs if Nature and Nurture stand alone…
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:39 pmThe smart money is on Imichael but just to make sure we all on the same page, will there be any giant rubber bands involved?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 pmgummitch Says:
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You “thought” wrong. About that and just about everything else.
Yeah, I guess that I missed the small detail about George Soros bailing them out before they withered on the vine.
http://axiomattic.blogspot.com/2006/02/soros-bails-out-air-america.html
I guess that George Soros felt that it was only fair that the 18 or so listeners of SC-Air America needed something to listen too.
Gee, I wonder why conservative talk radio doesn’t need a bailout??? Could it be that people actually listen?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm47. Tim43 Says: Gee, I wonder why conservative talk radio doesn’t need a bailout??? Could it be that people actually listen?
It did. Why do you think bush isn’t examining the books for the billions “missing” in Iraq?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 pmIf they withdraw her they’ll go with the line they had to do it to protect her family from the evil Dems, of course. Not because the McCain camp was inexcusably failed to vet her and made the incompetent mistake of naming her despite her earmark, bridge to nowhere, banning books, AIP, mayoral debt and property problems, and Ted Stevens’ 527 problems.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 pmTim43 Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 pmWill the conservatives say it was god’s will when Obama gets elected?
Tim43 (can he really have been banned 43 times? jeez what a loser!) can’t dispute what Maddow says so he attacks around the fringes. By his logic, Faux News must be losing viewers becuase it’s wrong?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 pmTim43, Yeah, Air America is still around – a bail out? No — just a growing army of many, many listeners.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pmFred Says: “Will they say it is god’s will when Barrack Obama is elected to be our next president?”
Fred,
The fools have put themselves between the proverbials. When Obama is elected President they cannot say it is God’s will because God would not select a non-believer and they have proclaimed Obama to be a Muslim. When Obama is elected President, since he is a Muslim according to the Repukes, it must be Allah’s will. That my friend is known as being on the horns of a dilemma: having to make a choice between two equally distasteful selections.
They must admit they lied and Obama is a man of God after-all;
or
They must admit that Allah is the true God after-all.
Damn!!! That hurts so good!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 pmwhat would that say to the mcMAYBE’s? lol…
god, you can’t write this shlt.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 pmI am still in awe that anyone considers am radio a major market.What gives with that?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 pmWhen Poppy Bu$h screwed up by selecting Little Danny Quayle, he bucked up and lived with it. He saw what happened to McGovern after the Eagleton debacle.
I hope McNumbNuts pulls a Bu$h on this one. I want Failin’ Palin hanging like a millstone around his neck.
By the way, not only does Failin’ Palin have “executive” experience, she is a successful business woman –> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_scrubbing_car_wash.html
ROTFLMAO
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pmrachel also thought, on her radio show, that it was curious that ol’ fred thompson was called out of hiding to speak what is essentially the keynote spot…
coincidence?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:27 pmTim43 Says:
Gee, I wonder why conservative talk radio doesn’t need a bailout??? Could it be that people actually listen?
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Yeah… and don’t forget all those “best sellers” on the NY Times list… you know, the ones bought in bulk by righty think tanks, so’s they can sell ‘em to their, ah, “followers” at $.99 each…
They are too “best sellers”… don’t laugh… why, I bet Timmeh here actually paid FULL price for Obamanation, huh, Timmeh?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:30 pmI think it’s pretty obvious to anyone with a brain (not you strawman tim) that conservative talk radio was fully funded going in and never has depended on listeners to survive.
They then took over all of the am stations and so if you listen to am radio that’s all you get.
It’s what republicans do, monopolize and then gouge.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 pmI find it both interesting and disappointing that by the time we got to comment # 55, the entire focus of the conversation had completely left its’ orginal moorings. Even by about #30 or so, the epithets were about homosexuality, right wing radio talk show hosts and who funds that nonsense. This foul and accusatory discourse (if you can call it that) is awfully right wing, red necked and belligerent for a liberal/progressive web site. Are you all sure you belong here?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 pmhowdy ROS….same track again….
I got my bow tie ready, how about you?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 pmfish on!
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pmInteresting that your comment was also totally off topic and condecending to boot.
Are you concerned?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pmsounds sort of preachy.
Fred, a sportsman supports only catch and release
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pmThere’s a recession on and eat them all. I was never a sports fisherman anyway, what does that mean?
Oh, I’m pretty far out in the country dbadass and we only turn em back if they’re not pan sized.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:47 pmOval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:
“Have oil drilling rig, will travel.” The new Paladin, Sarah style.
that is slander, sir!
take it back – i won’t have you sully the name of a beloved childhood hero… we even named our dog after him…
thinking about it, why? why was a gunslinger a hero?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pmnot sure… but in those days, there wasn’t so much gratuitous blood and violence on the tv… but paladin was way cool…
Are you all sure you belong here?
When did TP hire a hall monitor?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 pmI have been thinking that Palin will leave for “family reasons”
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 pmbut i am wondering now what sort of Commander in Chief McCain will look like if his candidate is replaced at the last minute.
i dunno…but either way i think he is hurt.
Yes, Fred, I’m concerned. I’m “off topic” because everyone else is very much so and I thought we should stick to the issue at hand, which is no laughing matter (although I think Palin is an enormous joke). And after returning to this section of the site after a few minutes, I see everyone has gone sport fishing. That is really helpful.
And if you feel “condescended to”, that is your problem. You would do well to try and bring the level of the conversation back up to where it began, rather than allowing it to wallow around in muck-abetting name calling. Fred, are you concerned?
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 pmI think the Straight Talk Express will go over the cliff before yanking Palin. McCain doesn’t want to be painted as a neo-McGovern, and at this point the rank and file are more concerned with political purity than victory. They would rather lose, than abandon Palin, because she represents what republicans believe is best about themselves. Rugged, feisty, and with a supposedly deep spiritual commitment.
It’s all dukey, of course but it helps them sleep at night.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 pmFred Says:
howdy ROS….same track again….
I got my bow tie ready, how about you?
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Pretty stylin’ there, Fred… almost mistook ya fer a GOOPer there, for a minnite.
I’m doin’ my homage to Alaska tonight… so’s I’m going w/ my baseball cap that holds not one but TWO cans of beer, ya know, w/ the tube that lets ya sip ‘em…
Uh, so, who’s the rook’? If I didn’t know better, I’d say it was our ole buddy Backup just sportin’ a new panhandle…
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 pmi dunno…but either way i think he is hurt.
McCain is more than hurt . . . he’s road kill.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:17 pmBTW, Uncle Fred Thompson is speaking right now. I’m getting very sleepy . . . can’t . . . keep my . . . eyes . . . open-n-n-n-n.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 pmWith few exceptions most of these folks should have already experienced carousel by now…
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pmOkay so if you are gonna keep them. Please consider bleeding them immediately and bring lots of ice. Fish needs to be handled professionally
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pmeh… nope.
it ain’t gonna be fred…
aaahhh… maybe this guy, up now… joe LIEberman…
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pmWHY IN THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS REPEATING THAT TRASH TALK?
?
SHAME ON YOU.
NOW GO BACK AND FLAG YOURSELVES AND GET IT OUT OF HERE.
PLEASE.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 pmHere’s McCain explaining the vetting process:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/02/palin.vetting/index.html
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:55 pmZed before you decide you might wanna find out one of them has the Jackrabbit before you lay your money down
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
Tim43 Says:
Gee, I wonder why conservative talk radio doesn’t need a bailout??? Could it be that people actually listen?
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Yeah… and don’t forget all those “best sellers” on the NY Times list… you know, the ones bought in bulk by righty think tanks, so’s they can sell ‘em to their, ah, “followers” at $.99 each…
They are too “best sellers”… don’t laugh… why, I bet Timmeh here actually paid FULL price for Obamanation, huh, Timmeh?
Gee, Tim43, don’t you think that’s a Conservative BAILOUT?
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:11 pmPlus the fact that there are successful liberal radio systems being bought out for what? More Christian talk…
Oh, Tim, you should be so proud. Mike Malloy reported receiving death threats for his daughter.
“We get e-mails,” he told RAW STORY. “I’ve turned them over to the FBI. They threatened to kill her, to beat her up, to rape her.” Malloy says he has previously received threats from the religious right, adding that Atlanta police once advised him to get a permit and carry a gun.
Such Christian and family values from those people you hold so dear…
Recently, conservatives have purchased several stations broadcasting Air America broadcasts and changed the programming. In Phoenix and West Virginia, right-wing Christian groups bought out Air America affiliate stations and converted to Christian formats. In Missoula, Montana, a station switched from Air America to music programming “because advertisers were being intimidated by the right wing,” Malloy said.
There goes your argument, TROLL…
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 pmWait, I know why Air America flopped like a dead fish requiring George Soros to write a fat bail-out check…
1990’s – Clinton started cutting welfare forcing people back to work.
2000′w – Bush continued cutting welfare.
That double wammy caused Air America’s customer base to sharply cut their spending habits. They could no longer spend on Liquor, condoms and bail bonds.
Because these welfare recipients lost their cash flow, Air America’s advertisers (Liquor, Condoms and Chico’s Bail Bonds) essentially lost their customer base. Therefore the advertising dollars were scaled back dramatically thus leaving Air America without cash flow and eventually bankrupt.
Not to fear people… Obama will reinstate welfare state on a grand scale. Liquor, Condoms and Bail Bonds will once again be in great demand. Advertising dollars will flow back into Air America to reach the customer base.
Life will be good.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 pmNow that is indeed some kooky shit…
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 pmbackup Says:
Here’s McCain explaining the vetting process:
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Geez, that account is totally at odds w/ what other credible sources have said…
McStain would NEVER lie, would he?
Love that bow tie, BTW… it’s so… so… “GOOP”…
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 pmHey Timmy. Rachel Maddow just got an hour long show on MSNBC. I guess she replaces the spot left when Tucker Carlson got fired.
And FYI, the most frequent commercial on the Chicago progressive station that airs Air America is for gold, you know the kind you invest in for security while Bushco is crashing the economy.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 pmZed Lefflin Says:
dilemma, dilemma.
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Zed, meet Timmeh… you two were made fer each other…
Now why don’t you two boys scamper off ‘n put on yer jammies???
Then you kin help each other polish the ole knob…
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 pmHi Tim43:
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pmYou do realize that Foxy Brown is only a movie, right?
You’re an a**hole, Tim. You spout out the talking points that we on the left are deadbeats who drain your hard-earned tax dollars left and right. Hardly all of us are the welfare kings and queens you suggest. There are some of us here working hard everyday to advance our careers, so don’t judge before you get to know us.
Get a brain…
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:37 pmand there are others who already have good positions and pay our taxes. Get a life…
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:37 pmwe have to be very careful with Sarah Palin…
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 pmshe may look out of place or unqualified to us, but to the fundamentalist rightwing christianist base (the GOP that votes) she talks their talk and walls their walk…. being a mother who doesn’t believe in birth control DOES qualify her from their POV, because she is a “believer”.
we will make a fatal mistake if we dismiss her out of hand or make fun of her family. in my part of the country, there are thousands of people like Palin, and they were hesitating over whether or not to vote for McSame.
now they have a reason.
scary, i know, but it is the reality we have to deal with.
I concur, 91. The Religious Right’s tendency to forgive and forget the so-called “moral failings” of their darlings in Washington coupled with their equal tendency to always condemn those that belong to their political opponents are too great to ignore.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 pmTim43 Says:
Tim’s just doing what he thinks is right, obediently repeating the things he has been told are true.
If he had a thought of his own it wouldn’t have sounded anything like the post above.
I just hope he does the right thing and never accepts any social security benifits.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 amIt appears as though the “vetting” ceased as soon as it was established Ms. Palin doesn’t have worms or mange.
And I don’t think she will gain a single voter outside the doomed 20%ers who managed to outnumber a complacent majority and give us Bushco.
Will she bring back a few psychochristians who were considering voting for Barr, or staying home, because McSpin isn’t delusional enough? Perhaps. But the moderate majority, far from being complacent, are mad as Hell. And the “True Christian” idiots simply don’t have the numbers this time around.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 amShayne Says:
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Hey Timmy. Rachel Maddow just got an hour long show on MSNBC. I guess she replaces the spot left when Tucker Carlson got fired.
What left wing liberal couldn’t get a job at Obama’s primary network, MSNBC? MSNBC’s ratings are in the tank … just like Air America. Soon George Soros will need to them out as well.
So, Rachel Maddow will be present when another left wing liberal media station dies a long slow painful death.
MSNBC…
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September 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 amSnot
Nosed
Bull
Crap
Tim43
Truly ignorant moron
hey that’s fun!
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:27 amThat shit about snot nosed bull crap seems to exist somewhere between absurd and just plan zany. Are there still stores which sell Wranglers?
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:31 amdbadass Says:
Tim sounds like he is from my neck of the woods. He is proud to call himself a redneck and doesn’t understand why people think it is odd.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 amThe Obama campaign has been very wisely focusing on McCain’s bad judgement rather than Sarah’s failings, which means that even if she withdraws they can still use the episode as a prime example of McCain screwing up.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 amThis is the Perot meltdown whether she stays or goes.
Fred Says:
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I just hope he does the right thing and never accepts any social security benifits.
Yeah, like there will be anything left in Social Security after Obama and the baby boomers get through with it. And, as long as democrats like Biden and Kennedy, vote to give illegal immigrants our social security benefits I don’t expect anything to be left when I get there.
401k’s, IRA’s and other investments are the only hope that us gen-X’ers have for a good retirement after Obama and the baby boomers get a hold of social security.
Just imagine the hand outs that Obama has in store for you folks. Fairly certain that he will open up the coffers to everyone regardless of whether they paid into the system and actually earned it.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:46 amLook at Timmy the Fox Snooze guy making fun of MSNBC. Got irony, loser?
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 amTim43 Says
It’ll be fine if we can keep the gop’s sticky fingers out of it but it’s not for you, right, I mean you don’t believe in that shit, right?
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 ampbg Says:
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The Obama campaign has been very wisely focusing on McCain’s bad judgement rather than Sarah’s failings, which means that even if she withdraws they can still use the episode as a prime example of McCain screwing up.
This is the Perot meltdown whether she stays or goes.
Sarah’s meltdowns?
I guess you folks would call her a brave hero if she advised her daughter to get an abortion, right?
You’d probably think highly of her if she aborted her disabled child when she found out the baby had downsyndrome, right?
Palin is everything that the femenists want a woman to be. She is a mother and a career woman who sets her goals high. She has juggled being a PTA mom, Mayor, Governor, mother, wife all while staying involved in her community. Palin has demonstrated that she does not take crap from either side of the aisle, republican or democrat.
Yet, because she is not a left wing liberal, you folks discount her.
Go figure.
I guess that if she got abortions, divorced her husband and turned democrat you would hold her in high esteem.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 amBy the way…
This Maddow woman is about as f-ugly as they get. Why are there no hot liberal women? What is with the short hair?
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 amTim43 Says:
She has bad judgment. She chose not to educate or in any way prepare her daughter on how to avoid getting pregnant. Guess what?
People who push abstinance are really very naive. Not a good quality for leadership of a nation the size of the US.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:16 amGuess you haven’t see Mr. Obama’s wife, huh?
Guess you haven’t seen Chelsea Clinton huh?
I’m not going any further and listing any of the multitude of plastic and just plain homely republican women just to play your childish game.
Did you see all those old white women at the rep convention? I’ve never seen so many old white people in one place before. Republicans got old didn’t they?
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 amNo stupid trolls. Ms Palin is unqualified because she is a religious nut who, apparently, gives more than a passing thought to having her home state secede from the union and has demonstrated a consistent contempt for logic and science.
She’s a gobsmacked Crusader and we don’t need her within 1,000 miles of the chain of command.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 amI don’t know Timmy but the Republicans that know Sarah best all say she’s a back-stabbing barracuda, in short, typical Republican politician.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:30 amSure Timmy and Cindy McCain looks like a 60 year old Barbie Doll and just as plastic. I think she had one too many tucks and she really isn’t a fish eyed evil witch, she just can’t move her face.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 amGo Rachel:
As usual, Rachel Maddow makes the most sense. If John McCain doesn’t pick a replacement Vice President soon, he’s in trouble. Republicans should listen to her, but they won’t because they want to lose to all those “angry left” voters who will show up in droves to vote for Obama and against Bush III.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 amI can’t believe I have to explain to Tim43 about Rachel Maddow.
First thing, dude, she is ugly because she is being interviewed off camera. Haven’t you seen her all done up for Countdown. She is actually quite hot, even without a lot of makeup.
Second thing: If you haven’t figured out the short hair thing, I’m not going to try to explain it. Hmm..let’s see, a very intelligent woman Rhodes scholar with an adams apple who has stated that she is for Equal Rights regardless of sexual preference. Well…have you got it, yet?
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:01 am“ACME_Democrat Says:
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Only the bleeding hearts would care what the bull dike Maddow says”
You know, Jesus was one of those ‘bleeding hearts’ types. All those poor people Jesus thought so little of… He didn’t have the sermon on the mount to tell them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop whining.
It’s amazing to me how un-Christ-like so many conservatives are.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 amEven though Tim the Fixed News guy has left the room, I still have to call him on his blind acceptance of Palin. It’s not just her views on abortion that are scary. Or do you know that she has the same lobbyist as Jack Abramoff. She wants to drill, drill, drill. I guess her folks just love that Moose chili and if they continue and she becomes VP, Moose will be on the extinction list, no doubt. Then her parents will be eating endangered species moose chili. What’s next, “Bison Stew”?
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 amIt’s interesting how we have a man running for president who is half one color and half the other. We have plenty of people running for office or who are in responsible positions because of their principles, NOT their personal choices of life styles or what race they were born as.
Oh, the time’s they are a’changing….
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 am“Tim43 Says:
By the way… This Maddow woman is about as f-ugly as they get.”
I’m going to guess by Tim43’s online demeanor he’s a conservative who goes to a Christian church and learns all about Jesus, judging by how Christlike he comes across…
NOT.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 amOur friend, Tim is not as turned off by Rachel’s appearance as he is threatened by a female with brains and principles. That’s what’s f****ing ugly to him.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 amPerhaps he sees himself as inadequate when compared to her…it would make a lot of sense…
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 amI guess he appointed her in a McZheimer moment.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:51 am#95 – Tim43 Says:
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“MSNBC…
More
Snot
Nosed
Bull
Crap”
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 am
MSNBC is a right-whining station? Wow! I wasn’t aware of that!
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 amOne of Palin’s latest utterances: Iraq war is a task from God.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 amjkd7854 Says:
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Go Rachel:
As usual, Rachel Maddow makes the most sense. If John McCain doesn’t pick a replacement Vice President soon, he’s in trouble. Republicans should listen to her, but they won’t because they want to lose to all those “angry left” voters who will show up in droves to vote for Obama and against Bush III.”
McIIIrd won’t boot Palin – doing so would make him look weak. And we all know that mavericks can never look weak – wrong, inept and unprincipled, but never weak.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 amNo no no – keep her on the ticket!!! I want to see the debate with Joe Biden! That will be a hoot!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 amFew things:
1) Rachel Maddow is brilliant, talented, and beautiful. On video cam w/ no makeup, I’ve seen supermodels look not-so-hot. But it doesn’t MATTER! She’s ten-times more beautiful on the inside, which is what counts to me.
2)I agree w/ whoever said repub’s- who like to play the part of the church-going christian- act in direct opposition to the teachings of Jesus Christ through their opinions, statements, actions, and attitudes in general. It’s but one of many conservative hypocrisies. Many, many, many, so many it’d take weeks to sort it out.
3) Tim43, man you are an ugly, ugly soul. Why spend your day spreading lies, rabble-rousing, launching personal attacks on fine people, and displaying your hatred of all things not-GOP-endorsed… I feel sorry for you. You got it ALL wrong in this life. I hope you’re getting paid, at least that would make sense.
4) Sarah Palin is an awful pick for VP. I don’t yet know enough about her to criticize her personally, in detail, but this whole thing about the fired trooper stinks to high heaven, seems like abuse of power runs in the party. Not that a dem has never done something like that. That’s politics, and it sucks. But the GOP takes the cake in the abuse-of-power department.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pmThey ALL lost my vote when they met with AIPAC.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pmSeriously,
Here are the things that Palin needs to do before she can woo any disenchanted hillary supporters
Got her hair cut in the shape of a mullet
Put on her best hilliary pantsuit
Divorce her husband
Move to San Francisco
Counsel her daughter to get an abortion
Burn a flag
Meet with William Ayers (Obama’s terrorist friend)
Attend a racist church (Only black separatist like Obama’s)
Promise to tax those big evil oil companies
If Palin does these things, she can win over the democrats who have not been brainwashed by Obama. Those disenchanged Hillary supporters that see through Obama’s smokescreen of good speaches.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pmcolinjames Says:
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Few things:
3) Tim43, man you are an ugly, ugly soul. Why spend your day spreading lies, rabble-rousing, launching personal attacks on fine people, and displaying your hatred of all things not-GOP-endorsed… I feel sorry for you. You got it ALL wrong in this life. I hope you’re getting paid, at least that would make sense.
4) Sarah Palin is an awful pick for VP. I don’t yet know enough about her to criticize her personally, in detail, but this whole thing about the fired trooper stinks to high heaven, seems like abuse of power runs in the party. Not that a dem has never done something like that. That’s politics, and it sucks. But the GOP takes the cake in the abuse-of-power department.
yeah, colin…
Spreading lies??? Why doesn’t TP talk about all of Obama’s hidden little secrets?
You folks are more concerned with the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daugher than you are with Obama’s use of cocain 20 years ago. Or his attendance of a racist church for 20 years. Or his affiliation with a domestic terrorist.
Palin is an excellent pick. It is too bad all you see is what the left wing kooks on media matters and boards like this want you to see. While simultaneously sweeping Obama’s shortcomings under the rug.
My suggestion to you… If you want a fair and balanced understanding of our candidates, you need to go outside of TP, Media Matters and MSNBC.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm“fair and Balanced” is what I’m all about, you don’t have any idea where I get my info, but I’ll tell ya- 1) Progressive Sites, usually Buzzflash, which has all the great links to stories from every kind of news org. I don’t visit Media Matters often, and TPM rarely; I read foreign papers, and domestic, watch cable news, broadcast news, read books, even watch Fox- til I need to throw up. But hey, I try! I even go to right wing sites, but since they censor comments from progressives- no matter how polite and tame- as long as the comment contains the actual truth, which scares the hellout of conservatives- they won’t publish it. That’s our Freedom-Lovin’ Right-Wing for ya! TrollboyTim, you’re snide, condescending, rude, mmand under-informed. You don’t get it. You’re just her to ruin people’s day or something, can’t you find a better use of your time at a place where your wanted? Go volunteer down at your local church. Plant a tree. Spread positivity instead of slander and lies. Really. Good luck. Aloha nui Loa motherf*%#r.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm