Parker: White House Officials Agree That Palin Should Be Off GOP Ticket
Parker: White House Officials Agree That Palin Should Be Off GOP Ticket
Last month, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker wrote a scathing column saying that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) is “way out of her league” as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate and called on the Alaska governor to “bow out” of the race in order to “save McCain, her party, and the country she loves.”
Parker has subsequently noted angry responses from conservatives around the country. “To the GOP base, predictably, I’m a traitor,” Parker wrote.
Last night on the Colbert Report, Parker reiterated her belief that Palin is not qualified for the GOP ticket, but she also revealed that some White House officials have told her that they secretly agree:
COLBERT: Now but you said you got emails from people in the White House who secretively –
PARKER: Did I say that?
COLBERT: Yes you did. You said you secretly got emails from people in the White House but you wouldn’t name who they were, who said that they agreed with you.
PARKER: That’s correct. I got a lot of off-the-record emails and a lot of phone calls from people who said, you’re saying what we’ve been saying.
Watch it (starting at 2:06)
After calling the race “over” in response to Palin’s selection, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has offered only tepid praise of Palin, saying she mainly shows a “great and natural competence about the show business of politics.”
Responding to Palin’s critics on the right, McCain said, “Now if there’s a Georgetown cocktail party person who quote calls himself a conservative and doesn’t like her, good luck, good luck, fine.”
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Doesn’t like Ms. Palin has much support out side of the sexually frustrated Conservative voting demographic.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pmcolumnist Peggy Noonan has offered only tepid praise of Palin, saying she mainly shows a “great and natural competence about the show business of politics.”
Damning with faint praise~!
(I love that quote!)
October 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pmMcCain said, “Now if there’s a Georgetown cocktail party person who quote calls himself a conservative and doesn’t like her, good luck, good luck, fine.”
What the hell???
October 14th, 2008 at 3:57 pmraynman ~ do you know anyone who translates McIIIrd authentic dementia gibberish??
October 14th, 2008 at 3:58 pmMcIIIrd syntax
Partial sentence, adage, adage, fine…
October 14th, 2008 at 3:59 pmWhen the White House doesn’t like you, you can’t blame that on the MSM. I guess Darth Cheney won’t have an apprentice after all.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:59 pmWait! I forgot the mandatory ‘my friends’ salutation..damn.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:59 pmPalin is dumber than a bag of shit. Absolutely the WORST VP nominee-EVER!
October 14th, 2008 at 4:00 pmUncle Ho, would that be the infamous FLAMING bag o’ shit?
Halloween is right around the corner, I’d expect to see some nasty little teenager in a Palin costume, complete with glasses tossing flaming bags of shit on people’s porches…
October 14th, 2008 at 4:01 pmAfter scoring candy from them…
1. Count Istvan Says:
October 14th, 2008 at 4:02 pmMeant to type doesn’t “look” like
Parker: White House Officials Agree That Palin Should Be Off GOP Ticket
Because Bible Spice is a bigger detriment to the GOP brand than this horseshit administration ?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:03 pmOT
McCain sure loves lobbyists:
William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.
The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html
October 14th, 2008 at 4:07 pmI must admit I never thought I would see somebody that makes W look like a genius. If the White House thinks she’s incompetent, you know it’s bad.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:11 pmKeep her! Keep her on the ticket!! Don’t mind those nay-sayers that think she’s toxic. In fact, tell the naysayers that they’re eedjits for saying so. Maybe they’ll see the light and relent … or … maybe … they’ll get even more upset and point out, as Republicans, that they think that McInsane’s an eedjit, and that McInsane’s going to ruin the party for decades….
As Atwater said, when the other side is self-destructing, don’t get in the way.
Cheers,
October 14th, 2008 at 4:12 pmSarah Palin is that rare breed who gets more time and repetition with the relevant info, but just becomes more of an incoherent mess as she chugs along. She’s Dumbya without the brain damage due to booze…which means she’s way worse.
It’s just further proof a campaign can’t go to a “run out the clock” strategy when the game is in the middle of the second quarter. McCain loves sports, he should know better!
October 14th, 2008 at 4:14 pmLast month, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker wrote a scathing column saying that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) is “way out of her league” as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate…
But I remember back in 2000 when the GOP nominated a presidential candidate who was “way out of his league” and NOT ONE conservative columnist said boo. WTF?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:15 pmShe have self destructed the RNC since her nomination……
October 14th, 2008 at 4:15 pmBreaking News!!!!
Bears Poop in the Woods
October 14th, 2008 at 4:18 pmraynman Says:
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McCain said, “Now if there’s a Georgetown cocktail party person who quote calls himself a conservative and doesn’t like her, good luck, good luck, fine.”
What the hell???
I think McCain is saying that some Republicans are intellectual elitists.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:19 pmOff the ticket and indicted for hate speech and inciting domestic terrorism…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
October 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pmYo! Palin! There’s a moose out there who’s lonely for your company…
October 14th, 2008 at 4:23 pmLurker, I believe we have the makings of the infamous October Surprise!
McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam Lobbying Effort!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html#postComment
Uh oh, John, looks like Ayers is small potatoes. Bring it up tomorrow night, John, please bring Ayers up. We have you just where we want you…
PEACE
October 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pmMcCain’s terrorist associations make Obama look like a rank amateur…
October 14th, 2008 at 4:26 pmThree weeks from tonight, I’ll be in New Orleans at a conference. I plan on staying up all night watching the just desserts the Rebumpkuzzins hath brought upon themselves.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:27 pmMcCain still does’t get it.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:27 pmHe still believes that he made the right choice by selecting S.Palin as his running mate.
In three weeks he’ll get it.
Nope he’s saying what he thinks he has to say. McCain can’t stand her either. He wasn’t Joementum all along.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pmchristopher wiwi Says:
She have self destructed the RNC since her nomination……
I guess everybody does some good in their lives.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pmMCMetal Says: Parker: White House Officials Agree That Palin Should Be Off GOP Ticket
Because Bible Spice is a bigger detriment to the GOP brand than this horseshit administration ?
Quite.
These people aren’t pissed off at the Bush administration and the GOP for shredding the Constitution, making a mockery of justice or even abandoning their own so-called conservative ‘principles‘ (despite bringing apparent ‘socialism‘ to the financial sector after a decade of free-market philosophy the bail-out plans thus far enacted and those being proposed still preserve the system they put in place that has led to the economic collapse of the working class and still gives their ‘players’ bonuses).
Instead their complaint is simply that McCain is running a crappy campaign. He’s losing! It doesn’t matter that his policy proposals are a redux of the failed Bush and GOP policies that have created disaster, what really matters is that McCain totally sucks at lying! Lying is how the GOP succeeded for the last 28 years and now the GOP candidate is screwing it up!
October 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pm… but, maybe it’s all a hoax… reverse psychology…
lulling dem voters into complacency… i worry about that.
it’s been a while, good time to remind everyone:
OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC VOTER TURNOUT.
THEY CAN’T STEAL IT IF IT’S NOT CLOSE.
IT CAN’T BE CLOSE.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:33 pmAll this shows is that the people in the White House will only state the obvious privately. I’m sorry Kathleen Parker is getting eaten by her own for stating it publicly.
But geez! If I was a Republican, I’d be embarrassed. Theoretically, each party is supposed to put forth their best and most qualified people on the President/Vice President ticket every four years. I cannot believe that John McCain and Sarah Palin are the best the Republican Party has to offer. What in the world were they thinking?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:34 pmI think McCain is pretty much toast no matter what he does from now on. Picking Palin was a disastrous move. But if he gets rid of Palin now he would piss off a lot of the base who loves Palin but arent too fond of McCain. Same thing if he starts backtracking from his sleaze campaign.
But if he keeps Palin on the ticket and continues to throw feces at Obama he will loose independents and undecideds. In the end McCain might simply abandon his sinking ship to try and save whats left of his reputation
October 14th, 2008 at 4:35 pmHEY! McIIIrd is a mavericky guy, and throwin that hussified mooseskinner under the bus sounds like a real mavericky move.
Go For IT!! Throw, baby, THROW!
October 14th, 2008 at 4:39 pmTo the contrary Kathleen, Palin is the anchor of that ticket — you know, the deadweight object that holds it down and keeps it from moving forward. If you and the White House want her off, that’s all I need to know.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:42 pmAgain, I’m not a McCain Supporter but here’s the competition:
McCain
Kissinger
Graham
Obama
Brezinski
Pritzker
Brezinski founded Al Kida and Pritzker is known as the “queen of the sub-prime mortagage loan”. It was her crew that invented the packaging up of these loans into bonds.
The only solution is for all of us to continue to put pressure on whomever is in office. As long as the money controls things, nothing is going to change.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pmNEWS FLASH McCain brainstorming notes leaked:
Date: 10/13/08
Subject: How to win this thing – brainstorming
Participants: Me, Rick, Charlie, Steve (not Sarah)
1.Scare ad linking Obama to Darth vader – end with nuclear explosion
2.Embrace populist themes – fundamentals of economy are mad as hell and gonna kick the shit out of non-fundamentals
3.Dump Sarah, get anyone
4.Link Obama to G.W., maybe use the Obama-Cheney cousin thing
5.Radical economic plan – eliminate the penny, reform earmarks
6.Renounce Republican party, run Democrat
7.New haircut – like Sarah’s
8.Visit Columbia again
9.Challenge Obama to visit Columbia
10.Challenge Obama to 1,000,000 town hall meetings (in Columbia)
11.Revisit Obama plagiarism charges
12.Work on timing for bear DNA paternity joke (LOL)
13Invade Spain
14Fly over Spanish airspace, get shot down and tortured
15Fire incompetent campaign staff, rehire previous incompetent campaign staff (shhhh, private)
16.Bigger flag pin
17.Sabotage left wing blogs by convincing them to prematurely release new software
This brainstorming session was approved by John McCain
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/genghis/2008/10/breaking-mccain-brainstorming.php
October 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pmShit, I knew he should have went with that kooky Huckabee. If something unfortunate happended Daryll’s messed up prophecy could have come to fruition
October 14th, 2008 at 4:51 pmlurker…IMHO #17 the funniest ( but that’s just me).
October 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
But geez! If I was a Republican, I’d be embarrassed.
Being Republican means never having to be embarrassed.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pmchristopher wiwi Says
October 14th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
She have self destructed the RNC since her nomination……
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Hey — the GOP was in tatters anyway (thanks to Bushco), and Sarah only finished the job. But the GOP will rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes again someday. How long it will take them pretty much depends on the Democrats.
Remember when we thought the GOP was toast after Watergate? Reagan came along less than six years later, bringing us the neocon era. Winning over the American people doesn’t stop once the election is done. Once the Democrats get the reins of power, it’s imperative they serve the country instead of themselves AND they need to make Americans aware of it. Otherwise, they will find themselves in the same unenviable position the GOP is in now.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:57 pm5th Estate Says:
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lurker…IMHO #17 the funniest ( but that’s just me).
You must work in software.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:58 pmYes, the GOP should be buried, just as their Federalist predecessors were relegated to the scrapheap of history.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pmlurker, it’s apparent that the Republican bugfix count has intersected the new bugs discovered count, so it’s ok to release McIIIrd/Palin 2.0.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:01 pmAll the “rats” appear to be poised to jump ship. Word has it that Limbaugh is now talking big time privately about a crushing defeat for McSame/Falin. Half of a Brain Hannity next? Make no mistake about it the republicans want no trace of McCain or Palin left so that Jeb Bush gets a new beginning for 2012.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:01 pmI just love it when a Reichwhiner is on the receiving end of the hate they helped stir up. But, it sure would be nice to see her take the next logical step and condemn the party that has put forward a candidate who would make such a rash decision.
Alas, she’ll be saying the GOP lost because Flippy McSpin isn’t radical enough, and didn’t use Bible Spice wisely, by Christmas. And she’ll probably be pinning the blame, for the imminent depression, on Sen. Obama before the inauguration.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:12 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
Remember when we thought the GOP was toast after Watergate? Reagan came along less than six years later, bringing us the neocon era.
Honestly, no. I don’t remember thinking the GOP was toast. For one thing, the GOP wasn’t the evil empire then even if Nixon was the Devil. “Republicans” included people like Mark Hatfield, Edward Brooke, and Nelson Rockefeller.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pmWhat about McCain himself? The media is finally vetting McCain and it doesn’t look pretty. See for yourself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html
October 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pmIt is my goal to get in touch with someone from the Obama campaign and share with them my desire to be a part of his inauguration by reciting a poem I wrote called “We Must Change,” and I kindly ask for your help in doing so.
Go to youtube and do a search for “thinkverybig” and watch all of those videos. The one called “We Must Change” would be fitting to recite at Obama’s Inauguration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM58nqX1ehE
Here are the words! http://www.thinkverybig.com/We%20Must%20Change.htm
October 14th, 2008 at 5:52 pmAre you aware of Alaska’s most famous quotes? Here are a few:
“Life is harder when you’re half-frozen.”
“The truth is, we just don’t worry about cops because there aren’t that many around.”
“Talking to trees beats talking to yourself.”
“Alaskans know that alcohol is a proven anti-freeze.”
“Some people claim our brains are frozen, but they’re looking at it from a refrigerator point-of-view.”
“There’s only one chance in fifty that you’ll get eaten by a grizzly bear.”
“Total isolation is something we’re going to have to get use to if we’re going to travel to other galaxies.”
“If you’re going to freeze to death, it’s better to do it while looking at great scenery.”
“There’s no one around to see you. You can get away with a lot of kinky stuff.”
“Bears and chipmunks don’t talk.”
“A person can go on a six-month binge and never get arrested.”
There are lots of others but these are some of the most quoted.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:04 pmNow if there’s a Georgetown cocktail party person who quote calls himself a conservative and doesn’t like her, good luck, good luck, fine.
Good luck, good luck? What on earth does that mean?
October 14th, 2008 at 7:19 pmI believe that Palin needs to go. I don’t agree with McCain, but Palin really is a true idiot. How she even got to be a mayor, or a Senator is beyond me, let alone to be a VP on a Presidential ticket. Palin reminds me of that reality show “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?” I’m sure if you asked a 5th grader and her what the address of the White House is, Palin probably could not even answer correctly. I am horrified as to what this country could become if McCain is elected and then dies, we all know his health is bad, and for her to become President. I think I’d rather give up my rights as a U.S. citizen and move to China.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:45 pmGovernor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.11(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.
“The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”
Is Palin BRAIN DAMAGED, DELUSIONAL or a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR? wtf!
October 14th, 2008 at 8:47 pmYes, that would be a great idea. After nominating someone and getting the red meat base to build up their inertia supporting her unswervingly, pull that chair out from under that base and tell them they were wrong for supporting her. She’s nuts, and so are they if they wanted her. And choose a moderate from another party like Joe Leiberman, or maybe that nice Gov. Romney whose religion is viewed as almost pagan by many of those evangelicals so supportive of Palin.
And just make it very clear that after being all for Palin John is all for whoever his pick is today, so that undecided voters can see how decisive he is in his well-researched decisions. Yes, I’m all for McCain dumping Palin.
I know true conservatives have to be mortified with Palin, but do they REALLY think there is any up side to dumping her at this point?
October 14th, 2008 at 11:28 pmThe chances are just as good of Palin throwing McCain under the bus. I guarantee that if they won, he might as well be on death row.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:46 amTwo benefits of Sarah Palin:
1 – She is excellent comedy fodder for SNL and countless other commedians
2 – She will make the Republican party lose this election.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:22 amOur Plutocracy is becoming frantic over the clear possibility that its new Stooges are headed for defeat. Shrieking Sarah, grossly incompetent and apparently too dumb to recognize her limitations (or is she?), will bring with her the First Du(fus), dumber still with no credentials, a frightening duo to contemplate in case McBush at age 72 either dies or suffers a disabling medical condition. Their presence in the White House will be ideal for the owners of the military-industrial-compliant media complex, because both of them, like the current Puppet, will eagerly follow orders benefitting the upper 1% of the economic ladder and keeping dissenters intimidated and scandalized. Expect from now on the worst of the ultra-right slanders, libels, and deceptions against Obama to infuriate and lure the Dupes and vacuities to the polls to fornicate themselves and all the rest of us who can see the Plutocracy for what it really is in its striving to maintain the Gilded Age II Disaster created by the worst president in the Nation’s history.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:12 amABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF INCITEMENT AND REP. LEWIS’S WARNING
Rep. Lewis’s statement is clear about what he wanted to accomplish–that McCain’s campaign rallies not continue to incite the crowd to hatred with a prospect of creating social unrest and schism. That is a noble intervention and it is timely, McCain’s self-righteous indignation notwithstanding. Lewis simply stated the truth which many in the McCain camp (and some in the media) may not want to hear; but it is a statement of wisdom. He said: “George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights.” Lewis’s concern was about “creating an atmosphere of hatred.” He was not saying that McCain was doing many of the nasty things that Wallace did in his life. No objective observer would dispute the fact that hatred was being stirred at McCain-Palin rallies by words—words by some supporters and by the candidates themselves. In Western European democratic systems, McCain and Palin and Co. open themselves up for a charge of incitement to hatred. What would they say for their defense should any danger or harm result from the way they have been conducting this campaign? That is why Lewis warned that McCain and Palin and handlers are playing with fire! If harm should result it likely will lead toin unmentionable social rupture. No responsible citizen wants that!
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