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Eminentoes
Richard Cohen's Wild Moose Chase
Liberals are getting worried now. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has played the McCarthy card against Sarah Palin.
Gov. Palin, expert moose hunter, is of course more than capable of looking after herself. But what does playing the McCarthy card say about the Liberals?
There are three points to remember about McCarthy. But first: no one should discuss McCarthy who hasn't read Stan Evans' seminal book, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies. (See the Weekly Standard's review by the late Robert Novak.)
The truth -- almost universally unacknowledged by Liberals -- is that McCarthy was right when he said there were communists in the U.S. government. Liberals were quick to deny McCarthy's claim, but Evans shows why it should hardly have been surprising. The U.S. had just concluded a war in which the communists were our allies. Why was it so surprising, then, that the U.S. had not made an effort to ensure that there were no communists in the government?
Evans' second point is that the danger was not just from communist spies, sending information to the Soviet Union, but from agents who were getting orders from the communists and attempting to influence U.S. policy makers.
Of course, there were spies too. One of them, Alger Hiss, was a Liberal darling about whose guilt there is now, finally, no doubt. But in January 1950, when Hiss was found guilty on two counts of perjury, the Liberals went into catatonic denial and marshaled every broom in the closet in preparation for the long witch hunt against anticommunists. Only a month later, Sen. McCarthy made his famous speech in Wheeling, West Virginia. The Liberals have never forgiven him, even as they never forgave Richard Nixon for his role in nailing Alger Hiss.
The establishment Liberals also went after McCarthy because he put his pants under the mattress to press them at night -- remember the hard crease of the '50s? McCarthy was so -- gauche. Hiss was so cooool.
Richard Cohen seems to have found a '50s broom in his closet. He describes McCarthy as "the Wisconsin liar, demagogue and drunk." Now there is as little doubt that McCarthy came from Wisconsin as there is that JFK came from Massachusetts, so the barb must lie elsewhere. Politicians routinely lie, a failing Cohen may -- must? -- have run into at least, oh, three of four times during his long tenure in Washington. And if McCarthy was the only demagogue Cohen has come across in his professional career he has led a sheltered life indeed.
No, it must be the drink. McCarthy drank. That must be the crux of it.
Still, we should ask Cohen whether he has routinely objected to other politicians' personal failings: JFK's, for example (whoring), Lyndon Johnson's (being a crook), or Senator Pat Moynihan's (the flatteringly sanitized version of which is that he was a "hard drinking Irishman").
Ah, but that is to analyze a smear, the whole point of which is precisely to vilify in a way objective facts do not support.
And surely that is true in the campaign against Gov. Palin for her "death panel" comment about President Obama's health care plan. Gov. Palin objected that bureaucrats would be empowered to decide, for example, whether, based on her Down syndrome son's level of productivity in society, he was worthy of health care.
"Say what you will about any [NB] of the health-care proposals," Cohen wrote, "not one of them suggests [NB] a 'death panel' empowered to withhold medical services from the aged or those with disabilities. To suggest that one exists is reprehensible. To state it outright is either boldly demagogic or just plain loopy."
What must Cohen think of the Senate Finance Committee which didn't just suggest a death panel existed or even state it outright, but actually took action? Alas, poor Cohen. Even before he'd had a chance to fetch his broom, the offending provision on consultations for end-of-life care had been dropped by the Senate Finance Committee from its proposed health care bill.
Who's loopy now?
Exit Cohen, broom in hand, pursued by a moose hunter.
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drudge ette obama| 8.21.09 @ 6:54AM
Thanks for the reading suggestion.
Cohen serves old news to resurrect McCarthy, someone mostly unknown to voting Americans and completely unknown to those who don't.
McCarthy's name has taken on an American lore meaning that's in line with "Tippy Canoe and Tyler Too".
Just for fun, Tyler annexed Texas, was a states' rights activist, and promoted a strict interpretation of the Constitution. Taylor, like Palin, angered the liberals.
Tippy Canoe and Palin, too.
Bring back John Taylor.
stephanie| 8.21.09 @ 6:54AM
Great article! Go Sarah!
Appleby| 8.21.09 @ 7:01AM
There are a lot of people out there who think YOU SUCK! is an argument. They are the Woodstock idiots who retain a touching faith that they can continue to whirl out of control and a critical mass of adults remains to pluck them safe and unharmed from the storm.
We adults are up in the bleachers anticipating the Woodstock Katrina and the discovery by The Kids that they are impotent against natures fury, too, and that they rely once again on the adults, members of the hated church and despised Establishment, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted and watch with the dying -- not to mention pluck the stupid off their roof and prosecute the looters (who are in fact these same Woodstock Hippies.)
Only this time we are up in the bleachers at a NA$CAR race waiting for the big crash and fully aware that there are no fences between us and the flying debris.
Bill| 8.21.09 @ 7:18AM
May I repeat drudge ette obama's thanks for the tip. I've read the Evans book, but had missed the late Mr. Novak's review. It was trenchant and accurate. I particularly admired his candor in telling of his own experience. I recall the same thing happened to my parents after the Welch histrionics.
Robert| 8.21.09 @ 7:21AM
Anyone that is identified as anticommunist is the enemy as far as Mr.Cohen is concerned. I grew up in the Woodstock generation. Fortunately for me I was serving in the US Navy at the time. Therefore I was sheilded from this antiwar/anticommunist nonsense. But after my tour it became very clear to me that anyone that was anticommunist had to be discredited. So our Mrs. Palin can add her name to the list, which includes, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul. Congratulations Mrs. Palin you are in very good company.
Rocco| 8.21.09 @ 7:35AM
Again, who gives a damn about what Cohen thinks? Who are these pompous twits who think they can pass judgment on anyone about anything? As I have said repeatedly, reject the premise of their arguments. Ridicule them. Pay no attention to them. Make them irrelevant. The reaction which Appleby so eloquently puts forth above will be the inevitable result. These people have no power. Don't yield any to them. I quit reading these rags and watching network TV years ago. The world didn't end, and I am more informed today than I was years ago. Just plain screw these people!
Mattled| 8.21.09 @ 8:12AM
I have gotten into a few discussions about Palin recently. I was "accused" of defending her.
I asked my "moderate" friend who thinks she's stupid because----she flubbed the Charlie and Katie interviews.
I asked her----if you were interviewing for a job and the interviewer didn't want you to get the job, but obviously wanted someone else, how do you think the interview would go?
Silence. This is what happens when common sense and logic comes into play. The Lamestream Media wanted Obama, hence they made the VP candidate the issue.
Now look at the VP. Look at SecSate.
Jokes.
Even the PrzBO is a joke. I heard he's at 45% today. Way to go Barry. He STILL believes in himself. What an ego. Rock on Loser.
The more he talks, the lower he goes. I was right---back in February he was getting comparisons to God, Jesus, Lincoln, etc. I thought he would get over-exposed and I was right!
I hope the media follows him to Martha's Vineyard and records every move as Americans struggle to pay for food because of his reckless policies. Yes HIS, not Bush's.
The Baghdad Bob Trolls here will no doubt use the "look a shiny penny" defense.
Sorry pal, he's political kryptonite----he campaigns in NJ and Virginia and the candidates dropped like a rock into double digit negatives.
He's tied for first to worst with Clinton as the biggest drop since Eisenhower. My estimate is he will be tops by December.
My friend said that Clinto went on to be re-elected.
I said yes, but noit beofre he lost a record-breaking Congressional take-over. Something to hang his hat on? Don't think so.
Went on to 8 years of Republican presidency. I said that the R's could take away his N***S in 2010, but Michelle has had them for years. He even wears her pants (LOL--Granny Jeans).
No, he's no Clinton. Clinton was and is smart. The onus is not on us to prove he's dumb, it's on Libtards to prove he's smart.
They can't.
Marcell| 8.21.09 @ 8:29AM
It wont be long before we get to this point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99vwx450dw
Marcell| 8.21.09 @ 8:45AM
Palin is a dumb idea.
**************************
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
By Mark Twain
Oh, Those Death Panels
Posted by AMY SULLIVAN Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 10:14 pm
You would think that if Republicans wanted to totally mischaracterize a health care provision and demagogue it like nobody's business, they would at least pick something that the vast majority of them hadn't already voted for just a few years earlier. Because that's not just shameless, it's stupid.
Yes, that's right. Remember the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill, the one that passed with the votes of 204 GOP House members and 42 GOP Senators? Anyone want to guess what it provided funding for? Did you say counseling for end-of-life issues and care? Ding ding ding!!
Let's go to the bill text, shall we? "The covered services are: evaluating the beneficiary's need for pain and symptom management, including the individual's need for hospice care; counseling the beneficiary with respect to end-of-life issues and care options, and advising the beneficiary regarding advanced care planning." The only difference between the 2003 provision and the infamous Section 1233 that threatens the very future and moral sanctity of the Republic is that the first applied only to terminally ill patients. Section 1233 would expand funding so that people could voluntarily receive counseling before they become terminally ill.
So either Republicans were for death panels in 2003 before turning against them now--or they're lying about end-of-life counseling in order to frighten the bejeezus out of their fellow citizens and defeat health reform by any means necessary. Which is it, Mr. Grassley ("Yea," 2003)?
Texas Male| 8.21.09 @ 8:47AM
Great post Appleby.....I only wish it could be posted over at the Huffington Post or another similar left-wing haven.
G. A. Kevis| 8.21.09 @ 9:16AM
Face it - it's simply a matter of Palin envy
with these swamp things in the LMSM.
Jeff| 8.21.09 @ 9:18AM
Marcell, I would say comforting someone who is dying and helping them, and their family, manage a patients pain and discomfort is widely different from explaining to a senior citizen that they are too old to spend a lot of money on. “You really don’t have any productive years left, maybe you should just drink the Kool-Aid.”
Michael Tomlinson| 8.21.09 @ 9:31AM
Democrats are best at projecting on others their own flaws and failings. Not only was JFK a sex addict, but he was an abuser of prescription pain pills long before Rush Limbaugh succumbed to the temptation. It should also be remembered that another Kennedy icon, not the drunken, sexual predator and murderer Teddy, but Marilyn Monroe’s lover Bobby was a close friend of McCarthy who was godfather to his and Ethel's first child – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
If the liberals would shut their mouths Sarah Palin might just fade away as an inconsequential short-lived Governor of Alaska and footnote in Presidential history. Regrettably, filled with malice for decent folks Obama’s media stooges can’t leave well enough alone and the Governor who inexplicably quit is now the darling of many conservatives and a rising star.
Could it be, as victims of their own hate filled propaganda, they’ve come to believe Palin is as incompetent and unpopular as the incompetent boob who now occupies the Oval Office? If so they are in for a rude surprise – no politician on the national stage is as inexperienced and ignorant as the in trouble Barack Hussein Obama.
robins111| 8.21.09 @ 9:39AM
Palin’s Red Menace?
I was appalled when I printed an article in the Washington Post by Richard Cohen which equated Sarah Palin to Joseph McCarthy.
The author made several rather vague connections regarding her recent facebook postings and tried to paint her as a demagogue who would create paranoia such as McCarthy did.
I was struck by the obvious anger and in fact hatred this author showed to Palin, as it was obvious that he believes, she is the worst thing to ever happen to American politics.
It’s interesting to note, that another political author, Ann Coulter stated that you can always tell what the liberals are up to, just listen to what they are blaming the right of doing.
Personally I have watched the political rhetoric and scheming which recently been taking place in the US with some amusement, sorry, but the disintegration of the Democratic power base was so fast, incredible as it may have seemed, was written on the wall long before you elected the president.
I suspect that Sarah Palin will become a mover and shaker of American politics for as long as she lives. She has touched many average Americans by being real, not an entity of the Washington so-called elites, who have made government a personal gravy train for generations.
I also suspect that the fact she has shown a sense of humor during and after the elections has done more to increase her popularity than any speech she has given.
As a Canadian I know that falling on your ass in icy conditions is a common occurrence, it tends to put things into perspective when even the most powerful state politician can make a fool out of herself, and has no one to blame but herself.
I believe that the rhetoric coming from the media and the attempts of many, to trivialize Palin is showing the real fear that she generates in both political parties. The fact that she has demonstrated success as a leader, challenges all of the closely held beliefs of the Democrats. She’s done this without being a radical feminist, a visible minority, or any other fashionable issue which has struck their fancy. The Main Stream Media has generally shown itself to be an organ of the Democratic Party and is duty bound to echo this angst.
She has a demonstrated history of cleaning house when she is in power. The possibility that she will excise the problems within the Republican Party has insured that they really want nothing to do with someone with the ethical values she’s shown.
It is interesting to note that someone, who was essentially buried by the MSM, the Republican Party and I’m told by Americans in general, was able to create such radical changes in the proposed health care reform bill. She did this with two facebook entries as a private citizen and the backlash from the sock puppets, has been music to Conservative ears.
Regardless if you like Sarah, think she’s not ready for the White House, or disregard her and a non-entity, in less than 1000 words she’s changed the whole discourse and has essentially rewritten the health care debate. In doing so has shown that she has more impact on the American sentiment that Obama and the entire Congress. You can take it from me, that demonstrates leadership.
Frankly, I believe that the American People would be better served by having someone in the White House who can fillet a fish, rather than generate a protest.
As far as the Richard Cohen article, I’d place this in my ‘don’t care a damm’ file. If I was Sarah, and if you really want to insult her, call her Al Sharpton, now there’s a real pathological liar and menace to America.
maximumrandb| 8.21.09 @ 9:46AM
Frankly I find this liberal obsession with excoriating Sarah Palin petty and, to use a word I first saw used by noted satirist Florence King, womanish. Living in a one-newspaper town, northern NJ, I'm stuck with the execrable Star-Ledger out of Newark. The paper, a shadow of its former self due to declining readership and advertising revenues, is little more than a shill for the Obama and the Democrat Party. The paper's lone and self-described conservative columnist, Paul Mulshine, devotes about every fourth column to attacking Palin, in that smug, superior, self-satisfied way one would normally associate with "progressives." I wrote Mulshine several months ago that his doing so had become wearisome and was in fact unmanly (there's an old-fashioned word for you!) behavior lacking in nobility, but like any other suck-up he obviously knows who signs his paycheck.
Tim| 8.21.09 @ 9:58AM
You know for a dumbass country broad, she sure as hell scares the bejeebers out of a lot of Harvard and Yale types.
yeswecan| 8.21.09 @ 9:58AM
Does anyone else think its funny how one statment from a conservitive view can speak more truth than all the liberals can muster in 6 months and send the Obamacide "Health Plan"into an uncontrolable spin?Put that broom back in the closet Cohen thats your wifes ride.
owyheewine| 8.21.09 @ 10:04AM
For those who might wonder about the real meaning of MSM, you might check out James Toranto's relevation in his Wednesday "Best of the Web" column.
Rocco| 8.21.09 @ 10:09AM
robins111: Great post!!!
don| 8.21.09 @ 10:12AM
Cohen's criticism was unimaginative and entirely
predictable--hallmarks of leftist thinking. Forget
'legally blond,' Palin's role in the healthcare debate
is more like 'lethally brunette!'
G. A. Kevis| 8.21.09 @ 10:27AM
Footnote:
LMSM swamp things dwell on the paired
CBSs' Ms goody-goody two shoes - partnered
with ABCs' jellyfish anchor - setup interviews
as evidence of then Governor Sarah Palins'
shortcomings as 08 VP candidate.
Accomplishments. Those have been Sarah Palins' resume particulars.
Again - Palin envy - amongst swamp things
in the LMSM; liberals in general affectionately
included.
Ride on - Paladin Palin. For America.
robins111| 8.21.09 @ 11:15AM
I really believe that some American media outlets are so pathetic that soon we’ll see Rachel Maddow going on TV screeching that Sarah Palin has cooties.
She’s slapped/spanked them so hard, so many times; it’s almost getting to the point that that most of them should be prescribed Ritalin for Attention Deficit Disorder.
Paul from SA| 8.21.09 @ 11:32AM
Michael Tomlinson 9:31AM:
”Democrats are best at projecting on others their own flaws and failings.”
I agree. Liberals -- attacking Sarah Palin -- are compensating for something that's missing in their own lives, especially women, like Maureen Dowd, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, Cokie Roberts and the rest of the feminists. It’s pure envy.
Sarah doesn't even need to speak, and they attack. When she does speak, it drives them nuts. I enjoy seeing the liberals having a nervous breakdown over Sarah. When Sarah used the term, "Death Panels," the liberals all had to make emergency appointments to see their psychiatrists to double their medication and their alcohol consumption.
Go Sarah Go!
Appleby| 8.21.09 @ 11:35AM
In one Charlie Brown comic strip, when Linus is appealing to his sister Lucy that a situation can be solved if only people would be reasonable, she suddenly and without warning punches him in the face.
"I had to hit him," she explains. "He was making sense."
Ring any bells?
yeswecan| 8.21.09 @ 11:48AM
I dont think there are any true American media left other than those accused as being "extremist"or"antigoverment.The liberals are the only ones who can get all their views published in "popular media(aka:Monica"media).Does anyone even care what Cohen says?"Monica" media is defined in my post under "Obama polls continue to drop"article.Does anyone know if Cohen is related to Sheldon cohen former IRS commissioner?
GB| 8.21.09 @ 11:50AM
Sarah Palin is dumb? The term she used "Death Panels" is brilliant. In two words she distilled the arguments of a large portion of the health care debate and made it understandable for regular people. I think this is one of the reasons the lefties are so angry about this.
Marcell| 8.21.09 @ 1:34PM
Dear GB
What Palin & those who marketing the death panels are doing are creating straw men for us to tear down.
With all due respect, what you Repubs are doing with your not close to being truths are making yourselves look like the Dems useful idiots.
Remember when your side use to great at illustrating liberal absurdities? Now, the jokes on you.
You are now running out of material, & the liberals still have tuns of material.
Here, let me telegraph my punches for you.
http://algore.org/blog/black_c....._expensive
The death book| 8.21.09 @ 1:40PM
Give me a break!!
JeffW| 8.21.09 @ 2:16PM
Marcell,
You should write comedy.
"With all due respect, what you Repubs are doing with your not close to being truths are making yourselves look like the Dems useful idiots. "
Hmmm, maybe you have something there. I mean afterall according to the most recent polls it appears to be working in the Republicans favor. So which is it that bothers you, that the Republicans are using the Democratic tactics against them or the fact that it is so effective? Or do you only believe the polls that favor your boy Obama? What you and many other liberals just don't get it the Republican party really isn't doing much. Don't buy the "Mob" idea. This is a growing movement of the previous silent majority. But you keep making your snipey comments if it relieves your frustration. We find it amusing.
Palin for President| 8.21.09 @ 3:42PM
"...the liberals still have TUNS of material." Nice spelling, azzhat--open an English spelling book.
Obama's approvals are at 45% today. Good Lord in heaven, the clown has rocketed to hell faster than even I could predict!
JmsA| 8.21.09 @ 5:52PM
Long before she's done; that is, prepping herself on the national stage for the next three years addressing and opening peoples' eyes regarding the One's and his cronies' misdeeds, they're are all going to wish they had left well enough alone.
Michael L. Hauschild| 8.21.09 @ 6:01PM
Ms. Palin just his another home run. She is the only one so far that has managed to bring to the forefront the issue of malpractice. Now that, and I have spoken with some of my doctor friends about this, is health care reform that we all could believe in. (unless, of course, you are a certified ambulance chaser)
Mayte| 8.21.09 @ 7:51PM
robin111 you said it so elegantly. I posted your response on my facebook page because it deserves to be read by more people. Unfortunately I do not have a huge following there. Please forgive me that I cannot properly attribute your beautiful response. My name is Mayte Sandrin and I am listed under my full name in facebook. Wonderful writing skills and you say it from the heart, written with a striking honesty. Great. Thank you.
Roman Melnyk| 8.21.09 @ 8:40PM
Maybe Mr. Cohen should read about President Obama resurrecting the VA handbook on "YOUR LIFE,YOUR CHOICES," that President Bush squashed.RM
supra shoes| 8.21.09 @ 9:39PM
Now that, and I have spoken with some of my doctor friends about this, is health care reform that we all could believe in.
Richard Baker| 8.21.09 @ 9:57PM
To all you liberal flakes:
If Sarah Palin is SO stupid, why not let her show it and self-destruct? The reason for the venom is that you liberal communists are SCARED to death of her and her effectiveness. Sleep well, if you can.
The Right Squad| 8.22.09 @ 7:04AM
To use the end of life issue part of the medicare drug act as a defense of it in the healthcare reform act is either blind or ignorant. Point of fact: the drug bill was about drugs...that is all. This bill will give the government control over all issues of health care. A statist attitude will prevail within the government. The government will eventually begin to decide who is worthy of care and who is not. Like in Nazi Germany the phase "Sorry you are not on the list" will become the norm. Have we learned nothing from the past examples of government control? Pol Pot? Lenin? Stalin? Hitler? FDR? Ho Chi Men? Wilson? What liberals want is government control of health care, but they hate Republicans. What if Republicans are then put in control of government? Would they love it then? Are they thinking?
Marc Jeric| 8.22.09 @ 4:07PM
If Sarah Palin is an idiot, without proper education, and a "slutt-looking stewardess" - why so much comment, hate, despising, by our inteligentsia? Is it that the people are getting tired looking at Abu Hussein's smirk when he shows up like the American Julius Caesar with his noble nose in the air?
STOP LIBERAL HATE| 8.22.09 @ 8:02PM
Hatred like the anti-Semitic rant above is Satanic.
lynnrockets| 8.23.09 @ 6:58AM
In light of the Globe Magazine's recent Sarah Palin "Nervous Hospital" rumors, we thought you might enjoy this little dittie:
SARAH P.’s NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
(sung to the Rolling Stones song “19th Nervous Breakdown”)
She’s the type of person
Behind the curtain shouting out her prayers
Center of a crowd, talking much too loud
Quashing rumors of affairs
Well, it seems to me that she is mean and suffers too few tears
But now her pride has seemed to die
Her eyes are edged with tears
She better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes Sarah P.’s nervous breakdown
Hair that’s out of style
Has been for awhile
You know her beehive’s way too tight
Brains that are hard boiled and her voice annoys
Things just don’t seem alright
Her husband who has not a clue
Took her to see some old quacks
And her children still shying away from media attacks
She better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes Sarah P.’s nervous breakdown
First Dude’s to blame, Palin’s just insane
Well she’s just so blue and can’t find work
The whole world knows that she is a jerk, oh please
Sarah failed at school
She was such a fool
She always fell behind
And after that she became a hack
But those words are too kind
She lost her grip
And fell so hard she finally lost her mind
After awhile she realized she needed hospital time
She better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes Sarah P.’s nervous breakdown
Oh, who’s to blame, Sarah P.’s insane
Well she’s just so blue and can’t find work
The whole world knows that she is a jerk, oh please
And she has a child
That is pretty wild
And she was never brought up right
Led a life of joy with a thousand boys
When she was out at night
Her mother who just had no clue
Did not teach poor Bristol facts
And her father’s nil parenting skills were certainly too lax
She better stop
Look around
Here it comes
Here comes Sarah P.’s nervous breakdown
Here comes Sarah P.’s nervous breakdown
Here comes Sarah P.’s nervous breakdown
Here comes Sarah P.’s nervous breakdown
Here comes Sarah P.’s nervous breakdown
lynnrockets.com
Pingback| 8.23.09 @ 7:41AM
wild america – æµ·è¿å¥³ links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.23.09 @ 1:35PM
Lynn rockets
...Like most swine, enjoy pulling other people into the slime-wallow with them.
'Nuff said
Alan Brooks| 8.23.09 @ 6:41PM
I like Sarah Palin, and think she could be prez, say, in 2021; however we mostly like her because she is a conservative woman, and very beautiful (when she takes off her glasses).
that might not be quite enough. The public is very particular about their POTUS. They rejected Carter in '80, and later turned around and rejected Bush in '92, Dole in '96, and of course McCain just last November.
Remember: some Democrats are Reagan Democrats.
I'm getting old and have no children, so the future, now that the shine of conservate futurism has been tarnished (this isn't 1995), isn't very important to me. You, on the other hand, those of you who have kids, many of you, have to be very careful of the people you vote for. You can't mess around any more-- the stakes are even higher now than before.
and BTW, it is good Sarah is being attacked, politicians must feel the heat.
lynnrockets| 8.23.09 @ 7:38PM
If Palin has truly had a nervous breakdown as The Globe suggests, this song is appropriate:
CRAZY
(sung to the Patsy Cline song “Crazy”)
Crazy
Palin is chock-full of baloney
She’s crazy
Crazy and without a clue
We knew
She’s psychologically haunted
And that someday
She’d make her asylum debut
Sorry
She could be a guest on Maury
Wondrin’
How did she go so koo-koo
Oh, crazy
As crazy as her husband, First Dude
There’s no use denyin’
Cheatin’ and lyin’
Sarah’s crazy
We know it’s true
Crazy
We’re not sure if she’s not sniffing glue
It seems like she’s flyin’
We’re not just implyin’
Sarah’s crazy
We know it’s true
- lynnrockets.com
Pingback| 8.23.09 @ 11:07PM
lyndon johnson favorite drinks – æµ·è¿å¥³ links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Jeremy| 8.23.09 @ 11:16PM
Richard Baker:
The thing that frightens the Left about Sarah Palin is that she, like Bush and in many ways Obama, has a way of making a complete fool of herself. But unlike most politicians her fawning public only loves her more in response. It is this cult of personality that has the Left scared.
In more ways than one her rise to prominence is very similar to Obama's, it just happens to be on a four year lag. Both coming on the scene during a major election, making big (though mostly empty) speeches, and coming under heavy fire almost immediately. And now the left is making the same mistake the right made with Obama by isolating and criticizing her, keeping her in the spotlight.
There are two major hiccups in this so far. The fact that she resigned from being Governor. And the fact that she still can't get on television without going off about the "liberal media". Both may hinder her efforts in future elections as she can easily be labelled a quitter and a whiner, much like Hillary. The truly powerful female politicians find ways to overcome the inherent social prejudices against women, they don't whine about it.
lynnrockets| 8.24.09 @ 10:12AM
Here is another little "tribute" to Sarah Palin with regard to the recent Globe story to the effect that she has had a nervous breakdown.
PALIN’S LITTLE HELPER
(sung to the Rolling Stones song “Mother’s Little Helper”)
What a drag it is getting old
Palin’s different today
Todd has locked his wife away
Sarah needs something today to calm her down
Thanks to our new Health Care Bill
She’s entitled to a pill
Though she’s gone quite helter skelter, she’s got Palin’s little helper
She takes four or five a day, helps those voices go away
Sarah’s different today
I just overheard her say
That she thinks the tabloid Globe is just a rag
She says that the rumor’s fake, that she’s really not half baked
And goes running for the shelter of her Palin’s little helper
Before they put her away, she gets on her knees to pray
Doctor please, some more of these
Sarah needs more, don’t lock that door
She’s a hag and she’s getting old
Men just aren’t the same today
She wants Todd to go away
It’s his antics that caused her to just retire
Sarah’s never satisfied and now must pacify her mind
Let’s all watch her sweat and swelter as the white coats try to help her
Is the strait-jacket too tight? Can she still put up a fight?
The C4P’s and G.O.P.’s
Try to ignore, that mean press corps
What a drag she is to behold
Life’s just much too hard today
I heard Sarah Palin say
That she thinks that Tina Fey is just a whore
She just wants to stand and pose in her brand new store bought clothes
Now she’s gone quite helter skelter is there anyone can help her?
Or will she stay locked away, straight on through her dying day?
lynnrockets.com
Pingback| 8.24.09 @ 4:54PM
Nearing the Socialist Rat Hole… Obama’s Radical Past: Sean Hannity’s Disturbing POTU links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
SWINE FLU LYNN| 8.24.09 @ 11:31PM
Lynn, bet you're a 400 lb porker envious of the beautiful Sarah. Loser, we just laugh AT you.
Nobama| 8.24.09 @ 11:34PM
Jeremy, I don't hear Palin whining--I see Palin driving the health care debate and kicking Obummer's ass all over the place with TWO Words--"DEATH PANEL"! LMAO!
Osamas Pajamas| 8.25.09 @ 1:50AM
As late as last Sunday the captured / state-controlled media were propagating the lie that Palin was either dumb as a doorpost or outright lying about the death panel reviews and the inevitable rationing of healthcare services once they fall into the hands of Uncle Sam as single-payer [socialized] medical care. They employ the Hitlerian tactic of repeating the big lie over and over again until blockheads begin to believe....
lynnrockets| 8.25.09 @ 2:37AM
SCENES FROM A NEW YORK RESTAURANT
(sung to the Billy Joel song “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”)
A bottle of white, and Palin’s still wed
But if looks could kill Todd would be stone dead
They’re at a table near the street
In that fancy New York place
Stifled cries – face to face hm, hm
A bottle of red, a mouthful of spite
They’re at Michaels in Manhattan tonight
SarahPAC money she will flaunt
In that elitist restaurant.
(musical interlude)
It’s not okay with she these days
She don’t have a job, no elective office
Might be an ex-wife, needs a new life
Can she use a life line?
Oh, she lost touch long ago
Shoveling hate, just like snow
But she paid a hefty price while on the state dime.
Does she remember those days of Arctic Cat and snow-machines?
Red leather boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
Oh, and all those lines that she tossed about unwed pregnant teens
Big tears, loud fights, Bristol’s romantic teenage nights ooh, ooh
(musical interlude)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh…
Sarah and First Dude forced down all of that good food
Like the great dad and the hockey mom
Smiles all around, winking eyes so brown, putting a good show on
Good looking state forty-niners
Far more accustomed to Wasilla diners
They never knew we could sense all their trouble and strife
But it was evident Palins don’t know a spoon from a knife.
Oh, oh, oh, oh…
Sarah and First Dude are tricky and so shrewd that’s how they learned to survive
But where was her husband when she quit on the third of July?
Everyone knows Sarah’s crazy
Todd hasn’t a job because he’s lazy
And Sarah is now enchanted by big city life
Oh, we remember wavin’ ole Sarah Palin goodbye
Oh, oh, oh
Well she’ll get an apartment with wolf-hide carpet
So long as her neighbors aren’t queer
She might dye red, that beehive on her head
Or buy a new wig down at Sears
The Big Apple she’ll bite with her friends that are white
But she’ll never escape all the jeers
Oh, oh yeah lock and load
Oh, oh, oh
(musical interlude)
Well, she’ll live for a while the elitist lifestyle
But soon it will come to an end
Just like her divorce it will happen, of course
Then she’ll call on her SarahPAC friends
You see, the Wasilla queen will be lacking in green
So she will rob her supporters again
Oh, oh
Sarah’s unsteady, we knew it already when she sported that slutty beehive
From her highs to her lows and her fake Sixpack Joes
She could never survive
She likes to shout cheers from the bleachers
When she’s not being blessed by witchcraft preachers
And Todd’s still tryin’ to put a bullet in Levi
Oh, and that’s all we know about Sarah and First Dude
It went from big cheers to getting themselves booed
And here we are wavin’ Sarah and First Dude goodbye
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah
A bottle of red, a mouthful of spite
She will choke on her food here tonight
She’ll order anything she wants
At Michael’s New York restaurant.
lynnrockets.com
Dave Lincoln| 8.25.09 @ 4:53AM
Wow, Lynn, I am amazed especially at your 2nd set of song lyrics. Really. It might be because I like that Billy Joel song a whole lot.
It is amazing the way you put the words together. I like Sarah Palin (mostly what she stands for) so I guess that's the part I don't like.
You should find something constructive to do with your talents, Lynn. There is no way I could come close to writing like that.
lynnrockets| 8.25.09 @ 9:46AM
@ Dave Lincoln
Thank you for the kind words. I always say that reasonable people may differ. That is certainly the case with Palin. She seems to bring out both the best, and in my opinion, the very worst in people.
The fact that you (Dave) are capable of disagreeing with me, while at the same time finding something positive about my parodies demonstrates that you are a clear thinker that can withstand emotion. Try a parody, I bet you will be terrific.
lynnrockets.com
Delta Dawn| 8.25.09 @ 9:53AM
Is this the Richard Cohen that is married to Meredith Viera? He's crippled with MS and getting a bit senile. Like mama always said, "Just wipe that off our shoulder & keep going".
Richard Baker| 8.25.09 @ 6:22PM
lynnrockets:
Take two LSD and call us in the morning. Oh, you already did?
lynnrockets| 8.25.09 @ 10:09PM
@ Richard Baker
How clever. Now run along, adults are trying to talk here.
Richard Baker| 8.25.09 @ 10:39PM
lynnrockets:
You ARE an adult? I misunderstood. Cosmic, man!
lynnrockets| 8.26.09 @ 10:19AM
@ Richard Baker
"Cosmic, man"?
Janet| 8.26.09 @ 2:48PM
Lynn Sprockets claims to be an adult? That's a funnier ditty than any song she's butchered before.
No LSD for Ms. Sprockets--she's all into crackho fun and games.
Lynn has Thunder Thighs| 8.26.09 @ 2:53PM
Lynn's thunder thighs are the reason she doesn't like the beauteous Sarah--ENVY!!
Lynn, the color green doesn't flatter you--your butt looks big in it, so do your thunders.
lynnrockets| 8.26.09 @ 6:51PM
After reading the last few comments I have come to the conclusion that conservatives should really institute some more restrictive membership rules.
The buffoonery on display here really only serves to diminish the conservative cause and drive people to the more highly educated party.
yeswecan| 8.27.09 @ 9:02AM
The true buffoonery is in the White House.I think you are mad at S.Palin because she spoke more truth in two words,(i.e DEATH PANELS) than a all the supporters of Obamacide could muster since in six months. Do you actually want the "buffoonery"to take over your health care,issue you a National Health Card and take over your bank account?They have proven that they can not take care of finance.S.Palin brought tem into the light and made you B.Hitler Obortion supporters squirm.She was like the big mean kid with a magnifing glass over an ant hill.
MS. THUNDER THIGHS LYNN| 8.27.09 @ 3:44PM
Look at Sprockets the buffoon bleat and bray at the brick bats tossed her way! Typical whiny--boo hoo, poor me, always the victim--liberal.
"Thunder thighs" a sore point with you, huh? LMAO!
Loser.
LYNN IS A BIG FAT GIRL| 8.27.09 @ 3:47PM
You're right, Lynn. AmSpec should restrict moronic posts from liberal assholes like you!
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