The American Spectator : New Book Portrays a Paranoid Palin

Michael L. Hauschild| 7.15.11 @ 6:22AM

This is not worth the band width. Hit piece.

Dan Hirsch| 7.15.11 @ 8:53AM

Why is AmSpec publishing this?

Hmmmm?

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.15.11 @ 9:37AM

And in keeping with popular culture solidarity just about the entire Politics section of the Washington Post today features a series of hit pieces on Bachmann and Palin.

Vagina Envy?

BackToBasics| 7.15.11 @ 5:29PM

It's not because they are women but rather because they are independent Pentacostal Evangelicals. The only ""evangelicals"" the Republican Establishment wants in it's TOP leadership positions have to have money or be an Ivy Leaguer or be a member of a secret society. Otherwise true, independent evangelicals are relegated to lower postions and they are "liked" only that way and liked as plain voters by the Republican Establishment but not more than that. We've seen this pattern many times before and it keeps repeating itself. WAKE UP True Evanglicals who really do love the Lord.

For I know this, that after my (Paul's) departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Acts 20:29.

Peter McGrath| 7.17.11 @ 10:43AM

Another Judas collecting his silver (with the help of lying prog scum), and a credulous Bass swallowing it hook line, and sinker. Pathetic, TAS. A New Low.

BackToBasics| 7.17.11 @ 1:12PM

Yes, you're right, the author, Bailey making money off of Palin Derangement Syndrome is as far as this book goes and Bass doesn't see it. I was commenting on the larger problem regarding the Republican Establishment's true feelings regarding Evangelicals. Democrats don't like them either. Bill HOS questioned if it was Vagina Envy. I don't think so. I believe that a true Evangelical man would get the same vicious treatment. Bailey no doubt got help from either the RINO or Democrat to get his book published.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 9:45AM

Go pound sand, Mr. Bass...

TASOnline has clearly thrown-in with the RINO-wing of the GOP that prefers Romney and that gave us McCain.

Nice going, guys.

loulou| 7.15.11 @ 10:33AM

This type of article is one of the reasons I let my subscription to TAS lapse.

We're not voting for Romney, capishe??

Teaghan| 7.15.11 @ 12:26PM

Capishe, LouLou and I'm with you. I can't believe TAS put this on this website. As Bill said above, Vigina Envy is apparent. I await the trashing of Michele Bachmann next.

Peter McGrath| 7.17.11 @ 10:49AM

Count on Florida Republican primary voters throwing Romney behind the true reformers. Romney will not lead America back to prosperity and freedom. Our only hope is for fiscal AND social conservatives, like Palin, to lead the party and the nation - not just with words, but by their example.

masly | 7.18.11 @ 1:45AM

David Bass an evangelical Christian? More like Judas. Such people don't team with hacks from Huffington Post to do hatchet jobs on their former employer. Shame on him. Sarah Palin is not my first choice for president, and quitting the governorship was a fatal mistake, but she doesn't deserve smears from people that she helped in their career.
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REigen| 7.15.11 @ 10:44AM

Some TAS writers love Romney. But other TAS writers go out of their way to find nice things to say about Ron Paul. This shows that TAS respects diversity of opinion among its writers. Some want to destroy the Republican Party by running a Rino who would make the Republican Party look liberal. Others want to destroy the Republican Party by running an eccentric loon who would lose by a greater margin than any candidate in history.

And then of course we have hit pieces like this one on the only candidate who could win the nomination, win the election, and then go toe-to-toe with the liberals and Rinos in Congress and get this nation back on track.

Controse| 7.15.11 @ 6:59PM

Amen. Let's keep our list folks. Those that have unfounded mud to smear on Sarah should be forced to leave the table of discourse of those of us that want America back. Sarah shines her light and the roaches scatter.

Seek| 7.15.11 @ 11:40AM

Cognitive dissonance can be a real threat to True Believers. They simply can't accept facts that threaten the precast narrative.

I stated three summers ago that Sarah Palin struck me as a shrill, poorly-read, self-absorbed bully with little eye for, or interest in, the details of governance. This book confirms all of that and then some. Surely there is a GOP politician somewhere in this great land who can withstand the barrage of verbal abuse ("RINO!"), and say as much.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:10PM

Like we're supposed to remember, or care, something you claim to gave said about Sarah Palin "3 summers ago"..??

Here's a clue...even if you did say it, you were wrong then, and you're wrong now.

RINO dill-weed...

Seek| 7.15.11 @ 2:41PM

Who cares what you say this summer -- or the next? Facts, unless disproven, ought to be at least taken seriously.

I have not read Bailey's book yet. But the first-hand quotes and observations from this insider's perspective, "disgruntled" or otherwise, can't be dismissed out of hand. And they corroborate many other observations about her that I have read.

That said, I like to look at life on the bright side. I saw Bristol Palin last night on Jay Leno's show, alongside Don Rickles. I think she's a likable and beautiful young woman. And she took Don's insults like a real lady. She understands show business.

ds80| 7.15.11 @ 2:47PM

Shows what a dimwit you are: facts can't be disproven. Idiot.

Seek| 7.15.11 @ 3:23PM

"Idiot" -- I like that. No argument, just contempt and hatred.

scotchieguy| 7.15.11 @ 5:26PM

Here we go again. The same people who trash the dems for their blind allegiance to Obama are busy doing the same for Palin. Some of you are so hard up for another Reagan that you will go for literally anyone who "seems" close. She is not qualified to be president. She is shallow and petulant. It is time to grow up and elect an adult. The last three presidents were/are yuppies. Time to be careful out there--we're talking about the most spoiled generation in the history of man. As for me, I like Perry and Christie. One of them better enter and save us from the Rinos or other misfits currently running on the republican ticket.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 7:00PM

Oh but Scotchie YOU are not a conservative, according to this site. By not supporting Sarah, you've relegated yourself to RINO-dom. You just don't know this about yourself just yet.

scotchieguy| 7.16.11 @ 2:32AM

Thanks for the info, bud. I feel so much better.

Michael Tomlinson| 7.16.11 @ 8:40AM

Palin like Obama (she' our version of him) is NO Reagan. Reagan was a thoughtful leader with a political record of success as Governor of California (despite his liberal abortion law and raising taxes) before seeking the White House.

Palin is anything, but successful as a Governor or political leader. Like Obama her resume is thin and unimpressive. That's too bad considering she started out with real potential.

While I purused this unimpressive book I can believe one thing she didn't like "wasting her precious time" as Governor of Alaska, but to belittle her love of family seems contrived at best. She appears to be a good mother and loving wife.

Richard Anderson| 7.18.11 @ 12:42AM

Michael, when you say blatantly stupid things like her resume is thin it makes your argument easily dismissible. At every job, from PTA to mayor to head of the state Energy Board to Governor she shined to the extent that others came to her and asked her to head among other things the National Governors Association or whatever. Didn't like wasting her time as governor? An 80+% approval rating? Moron.

Richard Anderson| 7.18.11 @ 12:34AM

"No argument, just contempt and hatred." Ya...sort of like, "shrill, poorly-read, self-absorbed bully with little eye for, or interest in, the details of governance". You had no knowledge of Palin 3 summers ago, no one did days after her nomination, no basis whatsoever for your opinion... no argument, just "contempt and hatred". Hypocrite.

Seek| 7.19.11 @ 6:35PM

I had plenty of knowledge about that woman. She'd just been nominated GOP Veep. The contempt and hate are yours; the pleasure is all mine.

ChiefEngineeer| 7.16.11 @ 3:00PM

Uninformed comments like the above are a mark indolence and sloth. A couple of years ago, I attended a professional marine surveyors conference with members from all over the world. The president and one board member were Alaskans. They had unqualified praise for Sarah. At that time, she was experiencing north of 75% job approval. She cut Alaska's deficit and increased efficiency, took on the Old Boy Republicans, who were corrupt lap dogs of the oil and mining companies and thrashed them. She got rid of a lot of state employee deadwood.

Now, recall the weak, limp wrested men that criticized Margaret Thatcher, whom she called "wet". Scratch the surface of the author of the book and this review and you will find a little pipsqueak, weak persona, and envy of Sarah for having more balls, guts, integrity, and fidelity to God, Family and Country then they could ever possibly dredge up from their pathetic, feckless, character. You guys are a disgrace to the male gender.

Margie| 7.17.11 @ 1:05PM

It's always a breath of fresh air when the truth is spoken about Sarah. Well done and thanks, sir.

Adolos| 7.18.11 @ 6:33AM

Amen, ChiefEngineer

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 1:36PM

Doctor Right (and Stuart),

This type of book began with The Secret History by Procopius, or The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus? The Annals predates, but was it really equivalent? The Secret History seems to be much more of the insider tell all.

Either way, much salt must be taken. I remember by History Prof at TCU, Dr. Chambers (still there, and a fine teacher even though a Lefty) telling us how we need to make allowances for criticism of Caligula in class by day, while vociferously opposing Reagan in nasty terms at night. The class was great, though. Even though I was the best known Conservative on Capus, I aced it.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 1:37PM

Sorry, Campus.

Oh, and even if she is the Wicked Witch of the West, I'd still vote for her over the Obamination.

Michael Tomlinson| 7.16.11 @ 8:43AM

My dog Zulu, an African-American dog, (part Basenji and Boston Terrier) would make a better President that Obama. Despite being neutered he's got more than Obama.

mark James| 7.15.11 @ 3:50PM

Sorry my conservative cohorts, but Am Spec publishing this is not the issue. If we were given actual insight this close to ANY other politician the results would be far worse in most cases. Every one has warts and the key is if those warts make them a poor choice for the next position. Sarah needs time to learn more and let this rather benign issue fade with age.

Remember, McCain was not disqualified even though he was peddling influence. But that isn'y what kept him out of the White House, it was the fact that as a Rhino he received poor support from true conservatives. Sarah is ready fo a major conservative movement leadership position but not ready for POTUS. The problem here is Sarah will be judged unfairly against her competitors due to deep information going public. One sign of a seasoned politician is they cover their tracks on these small inevitable, unethical issues better than Sarah did.

Finally, we should applaud the Spectator for being balanced, either that or admit we are hypocrites.

mames| 7.15.11 @ 10:25AM

Whatever. There are plenty of legitimate reasons not to support her. She AGREED to run with the pathetic RINO McCain and support his Senate run afterwards. She quit as Gov to pursue the book and lecture circuit. She violates her own stated religious beliefs which demands a woman's first duty is to her children, not to a political life where dad plays mommy and the oldest daughter is allowed to kiss and tell for book sales. So many legitimate reasons not to trust her and every Conservative worth his salt should consider these. Support a solid conservative like Bachmann or Cain.

Teaghan| 7.15.11 @ 12:28PM

Go suck an egg mames.

mames| 7.15.11 @ 2:29PM

what an articulate and highly informed answer

ds80| 7.15.11 @ 2:48PM

But did you go suck the egg?

CopyKatnj| 7.15.11 @ 2:22PM

Mames, I'm in agreement with your comment except for the religious part. Sarah Palin does promote Republicans and conservative ideas, she is very good at that, however I always feel uneasy thinking of her holding higher office AT THIS TIME.

Michael Tomlinson| 7.16.11 @ 8:45AM

She also stated she'd support "conservative" Democrats. That speaks volumes to her judgment like it does all self-described conservatives who supported liberal blue lapdogs.

mark James| 7.15.11 @ 4:00PM

My favorite conservative is Congressman Allen West. He's better than anyone running and is ready for the leadership requirements of the Presidency.

Robert| 7.17.11 @ 3:20AM

A woman's first duty is to her God. Second to her husband. Third to her kids. Keep your pulp fiction to yourself.

old white guy| 7.15.11 @ 10:39AM

just another paranoid palin hater. jeez is no end to idiots.

mark James| 7.15.11 @ 4:03PM

As a fellow "old white guy" I disagree. The people on this blog like her but don't believe she is ready. I support that concept and would love to see her in the Senate. Not every solid and intelligent conservative is ready. Sarah has a ways to go yet.

scotchieguy| 7.15.11 @ 5:30PM

You don't believe she is 'ready??" What do you think she is doing, taking a crash course preparing to become a viable candidate? Alot of books need to be read. No, I think she likes being a celebrity and making dough. That's cool, cuz she will never run. The top job simply doesn't pay enough.

ChiefEngineeer| 7.16.11 @ 3:05PM

I agree that the best for her (I admire her greatly) would be an appointment as Secretary of the Interior, where she is truly an expert and could undo the damage of Salazar and Obozo. From there, on the national stage, would be a springboard to higher aspirations, and something to judge her on.

Purpleguy| 7.15.11 @ 4:35PM

Whoops, truth must be painful, eh?

George True| 7.15.11 @ 7:56PM

You would know. You get smacked in the face by the truth every day.

Alan Brooks| 7.15.11 @ 4:39PM

His hatchet job on Palin garners sympathy for her, as Albert Goldman's '80s books on Elvis and Lennon make you feel a tad sorry for them.
But the photos are worth it-- she is a 'ten', far better than an anorexic actress in Hollywood.
I saw 'pretty Woman', and didn't think Julia Roberts was quite pretty even back then.

Michael Tomlinson| 7.16.11 @ 8:25AM

I'm no fan of Palin, but I despise these types of tawdry garbage. It is reminiscent of the little s**t Scott McClellan's lying anti-Bush trash.

George S| 7.15.11 @ 6:25AM

Did you read anywhere in that book that Palin's best friends were terrorist bombers who tried to murder a nine year old boy by planting explosives meant to take out a federal judge -- and later helped launch her political career? Yet a fired state trooper is the stuff of scandals. Please.

mames| 7.15.11 @ 10:28AM

I don't like the book either but don't divert to O, the subject is Sarah. O is wholly creepy and evil and we already know that, we don't need a book to reveal it.

Michael Tomlinson| 7.16.11 @ 8:25AM

George you nailed it.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.15.11 @ 6:33AM

Book sellers are less trustworthy than politicians.

Book sellers have nothing to lose. Politicians have their reputations to lose.

Ironic that a special investigation felt she abused her power but a State Personnel Board cleared her of any ethical wrongdoing. It should be noted that abuse of power goes with any government undertaking so it would be hard for an elected official to miss that one.

In short, although the TAS has run a couple of smidgets about the fallibility of several males this is the first time we've heard the word "psycho" applied to a candidate in any manner.

Well, I'll tell you what psycho is and is not. Psycho is embracing climate change. That would include just about every male Republican running for office. In fact, one of those psychos can be observed sitting on a park bench (How pretty!) with Nancy Pelosi embracing climate change. Psycho is believing the government is the best arbiter of health services. That would include several male candidates but not any female candidates.

Shamus| 7.15.11 @ 6:38AM

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

NVA Patriot| 7.15.11 @ 6:56AM

America Spectator

When did you guys turn into a crappy faux conservative hit magazine carrying water.

Mr. Bass acknowledges that all ethics investigations against Gov Palin prove her innocent.

24,000 e-mails show no scandal.

For a women purported to abandon her family; they seem pretty loyal and loving to even the most casual observer despite the media glare.

The authors of this book are noted for their own ethical lapses

Yet with all of this we are supposed to take what they say and further trash a conservative who more than any other person contributed to electing conservatives in 2010 and taking the fight to Obama. She's effectively derailed the Death panels and forced delays in the passing of Obamacare - which is more than what our feckless establishment dis.

Here's something everyone in the DC establishment Republican establishment conservative environment better understand - America - the part that does the work is outraged. As more people learn the truth about Sarah through the undefeated and h they will be more outraged. If teh Republican congress folds and caves on the debt deal - the only person in the country who will be able to save teh republicans from becoming the Whigs will be Sarah Palin

Stop trashing a hero of the base - you’re not helping yourselves.

Teaghan| 7.15.11 @ 12:36PM

And he's not helping us.

mark James| 7.15.11 @ 4:07PM

I agree in general with your comments, but TAS online is a news effort and hearing what the faux geniuses from the left have say should be appreciated by us. We don't need to get upset at them until this type of article becomes more prevalent.

I for one enjoy reading the garbage vomited by the left. It allows me to position my arguments more effectively.

Michael L. Hauschild| 7.15.11 @ 7:00AM

“Award-winning journalist whose work has been plagiarized by the elite and powerful.” That friends and neighbors is the first line of Dave’s resume. Therefore (in this instance) I conclude that not only is he a Palin bashing hit piece hack, he is a creepy Palin Bashing hit piece hack.
Now, that said, Palin is about the only person at this stage of the game (I feel) that can pull our bacon out of the fire. In case no one has noticed 69% of the citizens of this country DO NOT want to raise the debt ceiling, a position that is only held by Bachmann and Palin. If you have not looked this morning as of yet, the Depends boys McConnell and Reid have decided that they will save the country by giving the farm to the boy wonder.
We will have plenty of time to discuss the merits of Sarah Palin in the fall when she declares; I suggest we pay a bit of attention now to whether or not grandma gets the money she needs to pull them slot handles.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 8:00AM

Duuuuuuuhhhh!

Do Your Homework.

Hauschild misinforms,
"In case no one has noticed 69% of the citizens of this country DO NOT want to raise the debt ceiling, a position that is only held by Bachmann and Palin."

Now, The Rest Of The Story.

"Ron Paul to launch ad opposing debt ceiling increase
"Dr. Paul is committed to leading the charge against raising the debt ceiling "
"In the '80s, they did it to Reagan. A debt ceiling compromise: Democrats promising spending cuts and delivering only tax hikes. The '90s brought more compromises, more broken promises and more new taxes,"

Michael L. Hauschild| 7.15.11 @ 9:19AM

If it was not for you no one would know what Paul says. "Ron Paul to Launch ad opposing debt ceiling increase." What part of "in the future" don't you understand. Don't answer, after you get that tense thing nailed down, we will work on "rhetorical."

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 10:09AM

" (Ron)Paul was the only GOP House member TPM found Tuesday afternoon willing to take a firm stand against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) plan to hand the White House full authority to raise the debt ceiling with Congress only able to disapprove with a two-thirds vote. Conservative groups, Tea Party members outside Congress and activists are reportedly incensed over McConell's fall back plan.

"I wouldn't like that," Paul told TPM. "Congress should assume responsibility for itself" and figure out a way to cut spending.

Paul also dismissed talk that McConnell's lead trial balloon has undercut Republicans position in the debt talks.

"I don't think it has much effect," Paul said. "If it were [Speaker John] Boehner, it would have been a different story because we have the majority" in the House.

Michele Bachmann, a competitor for the GOP primary, declined to comment on the plan. '

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Carpe Diem.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:17PM

Are you insulting my Belle Michele, C(lint) Elegans, Hermaphroditic Paulite Stooge?

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 3:08PM

Are You Back From Humpin' Your Goat, Billy The Beard, Screwball Israel Firster Tool Job.

We Tea Party Patriots Welcome Our Tea Party Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann To Join Our Tea Party Co-Favorite & Presidential Candidate Dr.Ron Paul & Awaiting Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Sarah Palin To Throw Her Hat InThe Ring.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Carpe Diem.

Purpleguy| 7.15.11 @ 4:40PM

Hahaha

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 9:47AM

Since this is an article about Sarah Palin, WHO CARES what Ron Paul said???

I can't wait until this election is over, and Ru Paul disappears into the sunset with his tin-foil hat followers...

...especially the dopey Catholics (that one was for you, Clint!)

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 10:01AM

Uh Oh !
Dr.Reich, The Serial Fixated Lapsed Catholic/Anti-Catholic Assface Is In The Building.

You're The Big Bus Callin' The Lemon Pie Yellow.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Carpe Diem.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 10:15AM

"Assface"?? Is that an insult, or a desire?

Clint...for your own sake, please come to terms with your latent attraction to men.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 10:22AM

Uh Oh ! The Fixated Lapsed Catholic/Anti-Catholic Dr.Reich Is Talkin' Gay Again.

See You're Girlfriend Hermann Goring & Don't Scare The Horses.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Carpe Diem.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 10:37AM

Uh-Oh ! The Anal-Fixated Catholic Stooge Is In Denial Again About His Repressed Proclivities.

See Your Girlfriend Father Flaherty And Don't Spill The Communal Wine.

The Tea Party Rebellion Apparently DOES Attract Some Lunatics...

Carpe Gonadus.

Drunken Sailor| 7.15.11 @ 10:47AM

"Carpe Gonadus" - Made me cringe

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 11:08AM

That's A Very Queer Thing To Say Fixated Lapsed Catholic/ Anti-Catholic Dr. Reich.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Right Over Dr.Reich.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 11:23AM

You Would Now, Wouldn't You, Anal-Fixated Catholic Stooge Altar-Boy, Clinton..?

Are You Into Rough Trade, Clinton?

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Rethinking It's Membership Requirements.

Carpe Shmarpe...

Texas Jayde| 7.15.11 @ 11:46AM

clint and doctor right, thanks for the best laugh i've had in days and believe me gentlemen, i needed one.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 12:09PM

Thank You Texan.

We Appear Daily At American Spectator.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 12:05PM

You Seem So Gender Confused & PMS'y This Fine Morning, Obsessed Anti-Catholic Dr.Reich.

Apparently, The Cleaners Lost Your Klan Robe Again.

You Can Borrow One From Your Boyfriend Hermie Goering

We Hear You Like To Wear Each Other's Clothes.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Step Back Girls.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:13PM

Are You Cranky Because You Were Up Late Again Felching With Some Over-Muscled Rent-Boys?

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Switching To Hard Liquor.

Carpe Posterius

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 12:53PM

Uh Oh !
More Strange Talk From Hermie Goring's Better Half.

Apparently, These Two Are On Close Personal Terms With All These Terms.

We Hear You & Hermie Like Your Penis Coladas.

Unlike Dr.Reich, The Tea Party's Sober

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:15PM

C(lint) Elegans,

Considering your antisemitic rants, it's fascinating to see how you can't take it.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 3:13PM

You're a Fixated Serial Slandering Liar Tool Job.

Ad Infinitum, Tool Job Attempts To Play The Anti-Semite Card On Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr.Ron Paul, Our Tea Party Senator Dr.Rand Paul & Many Of We Tea Party Patriots, Who Don't Asskiss Tool Job's Personal Fanatic Israel Firster Agenda.
The Tea Party Escalates.

Carpe Diem.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 3:46PM

The truth is not a card. When you call Jews "SandMonkeys,"Clint, you can legitimately be accused of antisemitism. When Paul defends Hamas, he can legitimately be called a loon.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 5:27PM

Ha,Ha,Ha, Ha !

Now, The Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic,Tool Job Tries Again, To Play The Anti-Semite Card On Tea Party Clint, For What I Said To His Fellow Israel Firster AgendaBoy, ObamaBoy Allan Brooks.
"Brooks,
You are a negative attention craving ObammaBoy Propagandist.
My position is that U.S. Oil Companies Need To Drill Baby Drill Our Own Oil & marginalize all Middle East Sand Monkeys, including Your Tribe.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 5:36PM

Let's See, Hmmmmmmm ?

Who Was It, Who said,"Drill Baby Drill" ?

Aaaaaand,
Many of We Tea Party Patriots Agree With Dr Ron Paul

Dr.Ron Paul,
“Our military’s purpose is to defend our country, not to police the
Middle East.

“As the President prepares to send even more support to Egypt, we should
be reminded that it was our foreign aid that helped Mubarak retain power
to repress his people in the first place. Now we have to deal with the
consequences of those decisions, yet we keep repeating the same mistakes.

“I am not the only one who can see the absurdities of our foreign
policy. We give $3 billion to Israel and $12 billion to her enemies.
Most Americans know that makes no sense.

“We need to come to our senses, trade with our friends in the Middle
East (both Arab and Israeli), clean up our own economic mess so we set a
good example, and allow them to work out their own conflicts.”

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:29PM

Israel isn't part of OPEC, you blithering baboon. It has Leviathon, but that isn't open for business yet, dumbass.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 1:43AM

Aaand, We Don't Have A Written Defense Treaty With Israel Either,You Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic Propaganda Asshat.

We Don't Need To Be Involved In Israel's Middle East FoodFights, PropagandaBoy Tool Job.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 8:47PM

I didn't say Ron paul, Clint, I said YOU. RIF, boy.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 1:57AM

Screwball Israel Firster PropagandaBoy Tool Job Posts,"When Paul defends Hamas, he can legitimately be called a loon."

Tea Party Clint responds,
"Dr.Ron Paul,
“Our military’s purpose is to defend our country, not to police the
Middle East.

“As the President prepares to send even more support to Egypt, we should
be reminded that it was our foreign aid that helped Mubarak retain power
to repress his people in the first place. Now we have to deal with the
consequences of those decisions, yet we keep repeating the same mistakes.

“I am not the only one who can see the absurdities of our foreign
policy. We give $3 billion to Israel and $12 billion to her enemies.
Most Americans know that makes no sense.

“We need to come to our senses, trade with our friends in the Middle
East (both Arab and Israeli), clean up our own economic mess so we set a
good example, and allow them to work out their own conflicts.”

Since The Establishment of Self Rule In Gaza & The West Bank We've Given $4 Billion To The Palestinians.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:03PM

Dr Right,

I believe, in Clint's case, it would be Placeo Gonadus.

However, I must Stand in Defense of Clint---Ron Paul is The Man of Men How Dare You Dispute The Rule of Rome Friend To SandMonkeys And Disputer of The Throne of Peter. Only Ron Paul Knows Best and Like I, The C(lint) Elegans Who Knows That Egypt is Going Secular and Ron The Great Paul Voted For a Higher Percentage of AntiAbortion Bills Than Robert Aderholt. I, C(lint) Elegans Know Best And Ignore My Being A Catamite To Terrorists and The Sheer Genius of Me Exists Despite Having Only 302 Neurons And Being A Self Fertilizing Hermaphrodite, Thus Supporting Your Previous Point About Gonnadal Fixation Dr Right But How Dare You Point it Out To Me As Ron Paul Is Greatest American of 20th and 21st Century and I am Son of War Hero Despite Being Doofus Myself---And I Get Off Challenging Men 20 and 30 Years Older Than Me to Boxing Matches.

So you see, Dr. Right, why I have no option but to support the Wyle. E. Coyote Genius of Clint over Your Mere Human Reasoning.

On a more human level---I hope you're having a great summer. I go out to Cape Cod in a couple of weeks to hear a great lecture on depression and anxiety disorders by Fred Goodwin. We have a new Kitten who is in secret agent cat pounce mode. I like the Thai food on the Cape much better than the seafood. I prefer Minnesota Walleye to the Cape.

G-d Bless and Keep you, Sir.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 3:19PM

Let's See Ya Tell Your Screwball Fanatic Israel Firster Propaganda To Texans, Israel Firster Tool Job.

"Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, won a poll of 882 “highly active” Republican voters in Texas. Paul won the poll with 22 percent of the Republican vote. Texas Governor Rick Perry grabbed second with 17 percent of the Republican vote, while pizza magnate Herman Cain took third with 14 percent of the vote."

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:30PM

I dunno. Ken, outside of the wombats in Galveston, who in Texas would vote for Paul?

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:09AM

"Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, won a poll of 882 “highly active” Republican voters in Texas. Paul won the poll with 22 percent of the Republican vote. Texas Governor Rick Perry grabbed second with 17 percent of the Republican vote, while pizza magnate Herman Cain took third with 14 percent of the vote."

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:24PM

By the way, it's Herman Goering...and he WASN'T gay.

That was Himmler.

Duh.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 1:10PM

We Hear, That's Not What You Told Joey Goebbels.

Aaaaand, Göring is the German spelling, but the name is commonly transliterated Goering in English Pseudo- Plastic Faux Intellect, Dr.Reich.

Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
My Kingdom For An Umlaut.

Duuuuuhhh !

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:08PM

Goering was the Morphine Abuse, Clint. And the Head of the SA was Gay, as well.

Interesting that you are such an expert on the spelling of the Nazi leaders' names, Clint. Thanks for the historical background.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:09PM

Sorry, "Morphine Abuser." I waste my time with this. Bye.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 3:22PM

Interesting, that You're such an an expert on Goring's personal history Screwball Fanatic Israel Firster PropagandaBoy Tool Job.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 3:38PM

Medical history, Clint. I'm a physician. I was also interested in the fact that Hitler was prescribed stimulants by his quack MD, Dr. Morrell. Psychopaths and their propensity for evil and keeping them from commiting further evil iused to be my professional interest. You see, Clint, unlike you, I have a responsible job. What do you do besides clean toilets?

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:10PM

That's What You Tell All The Boys,"Let's Play Doctor".

The Government Hack Loser Shrink, Tool Job Wants Us To Think He's Got A Responsible Job,When He's Chronically Here Everyday Posting His Insecure Fixations & Pathetic Attempts To Convince American Spectator Readers That He's Really Important & Smart & Superior To All Of Us.

Take Two Lobotomies & Forget Yourself In The Morning.

loulou| 7.15.11 @ 4:40PM

Toilet cleaning is an important job.
We need toilet cleaners like Clint.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:10PM

Yes, LouLou, but Cwint makes Potty and Fuhgets to Kween Up.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 5:53PM

Now, The Israel Firster RINO-CINO Phoney Conservative Amen Corner Are Attemptin' To Play Class Warfare On Tea Party Clint.

I Just Help You Israel Firster RINo CINo Frauds To Expose Yourself To The American Spectator Readers.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 2:24PM

Doctor Right: "I'm sorry, Mr...'Clint', is it? You say this gerbil got into your rectum exactly...how????"

Clint: "Look you Nazi stooge! I already told you!! I fell on it while cleaning it's cage!"

Doctor Right: "So you were cleaning your gerbil's cage...with your ass?"

Clint: "Maybe! And what of it, you goose-stepping asswipe?!?!?"

Doctor Right: "No need to get nasty, Mr. Clint..."

Clint: "Says who?!?! Now get this damn rodent out of my ass! I've got place to go, and hot guys to...see..."

Doctor Right: "Very well, Mr. Clint...NURSE!!! I'm gonna' need an extra can of anal-lube!!!"

Clint: "Like hell you are, Colonel Klink! Lube is for sissies and people who don't like Ron Paul! Pull it out with a pair of rusty pliars!!"

Doctor Right: "...uggh..."

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 3:28PM

Uh Oh !
Dr.Reich Retreats Into His Psychotic Fantasy World & Lays Some More Very Queer Talk On Us.

Apparently, Tool Job Has Him All Aroused.

Carry On Girls.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 3:42PM

No, Clint, when you're not around, Dr. Right and I discuss Procopius. When you're around, we discuss perversion.

Hmm....what makes a high brow conversation low brow and rude---just add a roundworm!

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:18PM

That's Queer Too, Because We Heard That You,Tool Job & Dr.Reich Read: There's Nothing Wrong With Us By Iva Buttburn To Each Other.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:32PM

Something about you, Clint, just reminds me of feminine hygeine products...

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 4:22PM

Is that ALL you've got???

Your surrender is duly noted and accepted.

BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!

(No need to bend over, Clint...I don't swing that way)

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 6:31PM

Dr.Reich Attempts To Just Go Ahead & Pretend Declare Victory & Walk Away Like The Shuck & Jive Chicago AlinskyBoy,Obama Does.

Is He Gone Yet?

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 8:22PM

I'm not pretending.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:16AM

Then You're As Delusional As AlinskyBoy Obama, Dr,Reich.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:31PM

Dear, Dear, Dear Clint,

1976 was a long, long time ago.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:13AM

So Was The Writing Of Our Constitution Screwball Traitor Bastard Israel Firster PropagandaBoy Tool Job.

You Callin' Ronald Reagan A Liar , Israel Firster Fanatic Tool Job ?

Hmmmmm ?

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:17AM

And Don't Call Me "Dear", Shirley.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 3:43PM

What Clint doesn't realize is that we actually HAVE these conversations with patients like Clint...

You weren't making it up. No wonder Clint is so irritable. You would be to if you had to resort to gerbilling...

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:23PM

What Nut Bag Tool Job Doesn't Tell Us Is That The Government Inflicts Bottom Barrel Loser Sorry Ass Excuses, Like Head Case Tool Job Here On Poor Patients,Who Can't Afford A Competent & Sane Psychiatrist.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 8:24PM

"Sorry Ass Excuses"?

Don't be so hard on yourself, Clint, or your gov't-issue shrink...

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:19AM

I Don't Need A Government Issue Barrel Bottom LoserExcuse For A Shrink Like Your Girlfriend,Tool Job, But You Seem To Want Him.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 2:34PM

Goebbels wasn't gay, either.

Maybe your thinking of Ernst Roehm?

He was the leader of the original Brownshirts, also known as the "S.A." Hitler had him killed on the infamous "night of the long knives".

Roehm was a known homosexual who was into rough-trade, S&M, and dressing-up in military uniforms...

...so you probably know some of the same people, Clint...

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 3:30PM

Aaaand, Some More Queer Talk By Dr.Reich.

You're Really Into Your Gay, Today.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 3:40PM

Goebbels had 5 kids, Clint. You just play at having a brain, 302 celled one...some of us have to treat people like you while keeping a straight face...

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 4:23PM

Clint has given names to all the semen stains on the wall in his bedroom, so I don't know if we can consider him completely childless...

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:33PM

Uh Oh !

Government Loser Bottom Barrel Shrink Tool Job Is Gettin' Off Postin' Dirty Talk, Now.

Apparently, Tool Job Got Into Psychiatry To Get Into All That Dirty Talk With Patients.

The Sign On Government Loser Shrink ,Tool Job's Wall. "I'm From The Government, & I'm Here To Help You."

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:36PM

Clint,

I've been posting dirty talk for months. I have called you a Terrorist Catamite for a year. Now you notice?

Great powers of observation, Sherlock.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 6:37PM

Yes Indeedy !

The Government Barrel Bottom Sorry Ass Excuse For A Shrink, Tool Job Loves His Dirty Talk.

Apparently, That's Why He Became A Government Shrink.

Tool Job's Bumper Sticker," I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help You."

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:33PM

No, I take care of patients and stabilize them and discharge them successfully.

But you can't treat Psychopathy.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:23AM

And That's Exactly Why You Can't Cure Yourself Screwball Fanatic Looney Tune Tool Job.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:33PM

True, he is self fertilizing...I stand corrected, Doctor.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 6:42PM

Uh Oh !

Poop Talk.

Now, Tool Job's Gettin' Anal Retentive On Us.

We Should Find A Real Psychiatrist To Deal With Tool Job.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:26PM

Government Hack Loser Shrink Tool Job Jumps In To Defend The Little Nazi, Goebbels From Tea Party Clint.

Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha !

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 5:07PM

Clint, your mommy is calling.

Your TV dinner is ready. Should she bring it down to the basement now, or after you're done watching porn?

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 6:52PM

Uh Oh !

Now, Crazed Zany Government Barrel Bottom
Loser Shrink, Tool Job Thinks He Hears My Mother Callin'.
Just Humor Tool Job Until We Can Find A Real Psychiatrist To Treat Him.

Tool Job's Sweatshirt Inscription: "I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help You."

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 7:11PM

Whoa !

That Was Dr.Reich Hearin' My Mother.

I'd Send Dr.Reich To Government Shrink Tool Job, But That Wouldn't Help.

Maybe Dr.Reich Will Burn Two Crosses & Call Adolph In The Morning

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:25PM

No,Clint, I agree with Dr. Right. If all Catholics were like you, I'd agree with him even more.

You have no Jewish friends who are worthy of being called Jews. Maybe you have some friends born Jewish who joined the Nazi party that you call friends, but no normal Jewish Conservative would want to be seen with you. Or that asswipe Paul.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:28AM

You're A Serial Slandering Liar Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic Tool Job.

You say that to my friends, who also happen to be Jewish & Real Americans & You'll be pickin' your teeth up off the sidewalk You little short, fat aging Neo-Chickenhawk Coward, Traitor Bastard Piece Of Garbage, Tool Job

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:25PM

Your cocksucking Jewish friends are traitors to their country. Clint. I do not believe they exist. What do they think of the term sandmonkey.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:26PM

By the way, thanks for confusing me with Dr. Right. I'm quite honored.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:30AM

You're Quite Confused Like Dr. Reich,As Well Government Sorry Ass Excuse For A Shrink, Tool Job.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:33PM

Clint,

why is Dr. Right, who has made no antisemitic comments EVER (disagreeing with the religious truth of Judaism is not antisemitic. Calling Jews "SandMonkeys" and advcating for Israel's destruction is) a nazi, whereas you are not?

Please discuss positive comments you have made regarding Jews in the pages of TAS. I have seen none, and, like a train wreck, you are a repulsive but fascinating thing to observe, so I have read much of what you you have written.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 7:05PM

You're A Serial Slandering Liar Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic PropagandaBoy Tool Job.

Aaaaaand, Maybe, It's Because Dr.Reich Is Very Busy With His New Job, As American Spectator's Resident Anti-Catholic Bigot.

I'll Tell Steve, Ron, Enosh, Jon & The Guys That You Attempted To Play Your Anti-Semite Victim Card Again.

They Think You're An Asshole.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 8:28PM

Why so crabby today, Clint?

Did Father O'Malley's Notre Dame Alumni ring slide-off in your tookus?

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:22PM

(Beautifully Played, Dr. Right. Usually transliterated "tuchus.")

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:33AM

Oh Look American Spectator's Resident Anti-Catholic White Trash Bigot, Dr.Reich Is Back In The Building.

I Just Help To Expose Your Anti-Catholic Bigot Agenda To American Spectator Readers, Dr.Reich.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 8:28PM

And we think you're a deeply disturbed individual.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:36AM

Now, That's Two Big Yellow Buses Callin' A Lemon Pie Yellow.

You Keep Openin' The Door Right Into Your Imbecile Face, Dr.Reich.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 8:29PM

Oh, and by the way...

Ron Paul will NEVER, EVER be President.

LOL!

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:23PM

Very disturbed, and easy to parody. It's almost unfair what we do to you, given the 302 neurons that you posses, C(lint) Elegans.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:40AM

Oh, and by the way...

"Election 2012: Barack Obama 42%, Ron Paul 41%

Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is – virtually dead even. "

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Carpe Diem.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:02PM

And I'll tell your real friends Adolf, Hermann, and Abdul that they should tell you what they really feel.

Enosh, if you're buddies with a guy who calls your dad a "SandMonkey," you're no cousin of mine.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:44AM

Enosh Laughs At Your Neo-Chickenhawk Cowardly Bravado, Tool Job.

He's An American Citizen Now, And Was Born & Fought In Israel.
Many Of His Friends Were & Are Arabs.

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:26PM

And he believes that the US should tell Israel to f off. I doubt it.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:03PM

If they're friends with you, I want to be thought of as an asshole by them. Badge of honor. There are always Jews like Noam Chomsky, Clint. They're no Cousins of Mine.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:48AM

Don't WorryScrewball Fanatic Neo-Chickenhawk Israel Firster Coward, Tool Job You Are Thought Of As An Asshole By Them.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:27PM

If you have Jewish friends, incidentally, tell them that I said they were cocksucking kapo asswipes. If they don't know what "kapo" means, they are no Cousins of Mine.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 2:51AM

Why Don't You Tell Them To Their Face Short,Fat,Aging Screwball Fanatic, Neo-Chickenhawk Coward,Tool Job.

Then They Can Laugh In Your Face & Kick Your Ass If You Force Them To Defend Themselves.

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:27PM

Consider it told, asswipe. You have no Jewish friends. And if they come up here, it will not go well for them.

Purpleguy| 7.15.11 @ 4:38PM

That's why we have representative government - most people in this country don't even know that the debt limit doesn't allow more spending - it allows the U.S. to pay the bills it's already spent money on.

victor| 7.16.11 @ 5:43PM

PurpleGoy:
"most people in this country don't even know"

That's right, most people don't know, unless we tell them.
Bet you don't know how much money the government takes in every day, eh?

SIX BILLION DOLLARS on average or 200 BILLION DOLLARS a MONTH.
That is plenty to take care or the immediate needs:
Interest on Debt, Bond Holders, Soc Sec, Medicare, Medicaid, Military payroll, Veterans affairs.
After this it leaves around 75 Billion or so to take care of some other things.
We can certainly do with funding th eEPA, Planned ParentHood, ACORN, IMF and other goldbricking and useless operations, eh?

Raising the debt limit is like asking your credit card companies when you're maxed out.

Kenny| 7.15.11 @ 7:12AM

What crap.

They'll try anything to destroy Sarah Palin.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 11:04AM

"Try anything"? How is a sourgrapes book by a staffer new or unique in American politics?

This is mild stuff and she and her minions need to grow a spine.

Teaghan| 7.15.11 @ 12:39PM

The fact Canuc, that TAS printed this. That's how.

Kitty| 7.15.11 @ 7:28AM

Frank Bailey is under investigation on ethics charges. 'Nuff said.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.15.11 @ 7:31AM

Mr. Bass,
You are nothing more than a nasty gossip. Get a life.

Conrad Spiracy| 7.15.11 @ 7:37AM

Follow him on Twitter@davidnbass

I don't follow twits. Period.

Con Spiracy

martin j smith| 7.15.11 @ 7:40AM

So why are you basically supporting an anti-whoever--in this case Palin hit piece. ?
Jump in the lake w3ith book in hand.

POST American| 7.15.11 @ 7:44AM

--Great piece.

NOW, back to who will still be running the
show in 2012 no matter who wins.

You know, David Rockefeller/ Eduard de Rothchild and
the usual 'Heir-is-TOXIC-rats'.

The RED China Globalisation and TREASON op
steams forward.

Loadmaster| 7.15.11 @ 7:52AM

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Enough said. 24K emails should have collaborated Baily's account and trust me if they had the NYT would have already run it on their front page. Nothing here...move on.

big bob| 7.15.11 @ 8:12AM

When someone who "used to work for Obama" comes to market with a "kiss and tell" and lives to tell about it, I may take time to read it. But this is just a variation on a theme that never was. It is one more piece of excrement thrown on the wall. And nothing has stuck so far, and I imagine nothing will stick here. In 6 months, no one will know who this person was or what this book was about....and Sarah will STILL be drawing thousands of people.

WickedDickie--Virginia| 7.15.11 @ 8:15AM

One wonders if we'll ever see a similar revelation about Obama-ayers. Much has been covered up about this fraud despite two "autobiographies". Even staunch supp0rters like Brokaw wondered why we know next to nothing about King Putt. We do know after enduring almost three long years of his incompetent, vicious, racist and dictatorial rule what a deadly mistake was made by the dopey voters misled by state-run media like the New Yawk Times-Pravda.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 8:33AM

You might, someday.
But Palin is such a polarizing figure that anything for the grist mill will make it to bookshelves these days. Every time she opens her mouth, comedy gold flows from it. She is attactive and has attained mediawhore status faster than a Kardashian one-night stand recipient.

The Weinergate fiasco is proof enough that the MSM only wants headlines. Weiner did not have sex with those women - likely never even met them, never campaigned on social conservatism, but the sheer amusement of watching a mediawhore like him take it in the ear was what America wants. Palin is exactly the same.

The Jabez reference is revealing of her creepy evangelical fetishes.

She makes Bachmann look like a sharpie, which says it all.

Stormzeye| 7.15.11 @ 9:52AM

Only a liberal like you, Canuck, would minimize yet another example of the coarsening of our culture. You think it's nothing when an elected official and pervert like Weiner sends pictures of his erection to women; yet you call an outspoken and morally upright former Governor a mediawhore. You're disgusting.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 10:30AM

You make a distinction where none exists. Weinergate and Palin are the same for the MSM and the consumers of it. Headlines, tee-hees and giggles for apparent adults.

I don't like any of it, but if it did not sell papers or tv ad space then they would not do it, or would they?

As evidenced by News Corp in Britain, there is probably nothing a newser would do to get the edge on a competitor. I can only imagine that actually creating news is the next in the MSM's evolution a la the NYT recently. The masses lap it up and we can only blame ourselves for the bamboozling.

As for the term mediawhore - use clown instead, it is apt for anyone that puts their face on the television that has zero to back up their rhetoric. Weiner was a blowhard, zero legislative record, but still found a way onto every outlet almost daily.
Palin fits his MO to a tee. Peccadilloes aside, she and Weiner are representative of the errors of fame on both sides of the political debate.

Do you see Demint being a clown? Do you see Feinstein being a clown? Do you see any serious pol with a record to stand on clowning their way through an interview? The MSM and the public says "BORING" and moves onto Nancy Grace.

Wake up. Mediawhore is apt. Between books, bus trips and movies and DWTS, Palin is setting the bar even higher.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:28PM

Canuck,

serious query. I'm interested in your answer, and there are no jokes or barbs here.

I'll go first. My answer to the question I'm about to ask you is "yes."

Here it is: would you vote for Jim DeMint for President over Barack Obama? Thanks for your answer.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:29PM

And if "no," why not? Thanks.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:29PM

Feinstein is a clown, yessir....

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 10:16AM

When we need seasoned, reasonable political analysis and insight...

...We generally ignore you, Craplakistani...

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 10:32AM

I do it just for you.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 11:24AM

You make a fool of yourself just for me?

How nice.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 11:18AM

"These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.

"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."

"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co‑author Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar."

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 3:47PM

Of course UCLA gets it right; that's where I trained...

RCV| 7.16.11 @ 10:56AM

...and where I did my undergraduate studies. Hail to the hills of Westwood!

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:29PM

UCLA does have very good academics. It was a great place to learn.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 1:38PM

To whatever extent Palin might be "polarizing" it is because the MFM has done the polarizing. They have already started their polarizing campaign on Bachmann. They will likewise polarize ANY conservative who looks like they might be a threat to BHO.

What flows from Palin's mouth is common sense.

Who gives a rat's azz what her computer password was!

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:10PM

I think Jabez is a fine code. Use one memorable to you.

I used to use Israeli Prime Ministers as my passwords.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 8:21AM

Interesting, how The Ruling Elite RINO-CINO's & Their Apparatchiks have attempted to Serial Smear Up & Marginalize Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Sarah Palin, Our Tea Party Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite & Presidential Candidate Dr.Ron Paul.

Like All Good Teams, We're Gettin' Booed By The Other Teams & Their Fanatics.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:14PM

Paul is not worthy of disposing of the used tampons of Michele and Sarah.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 2:26PM

...ewwww...

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 3:49PM

LIke I said, Dr. Right---you and me, Procopius. Add Clint, things degenerate to 302 neuron level pretty damn quick.

I know you said ...eewww..., but you didn't say "wrong."

Drunken Sailor| 7.15.11 @ 4:31PM

LOL, I love to watch you two push Clint's buttons. He has a almost Pavlov instinct to react. He knows it is useless yet he can't help himself. Priceless.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:39PM

Thanks, DS. Like I said, Genius Cat playing with mentally retarded mouse.

I greatly admire Dr. Right's wit, though. The Gerbiling scenario was priceless.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:42PM

Hide Your Eyes!
Remove The Children !

These Three Cupcakes Appear To Be Gettin' Aroused By Each Other.

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:30PM

Well, why don'y you cry to Enosh, Clint. He loves being called a SandMonkey.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:39PM

Apparently, The Drunken Swabbie Is Their Fetch It Towel Boy.

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:28PM

Where are your Jewish friends to protect you? Where is that traitor Enosh?

Seek| 7.19.11 @ 6:37PM

Have yourself another drink.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 3:36PM

Uh Oh !
Now Dr. Reich's Girlfriend Tool Job Is Into His Feminine Hygiene Talk.

Apparently, Many Government Shrinks, Like Tool Job Here, Are Bottom Of The Barrel Screwball Mental Defectives Themselves.

Take Two Shock Treatments And Call Yourself In The Morning, Tool Job.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:39PM

Now, Clint, why would you remind me of a tampon? Let's reason together. Hmmm....

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:48PM

Gee, Loser Bottom Barrel Government Shrink,
Probably Because Everything Reminds You Of Tampons & Other Things You Can Put In Yourself.

Wow, The Government Actually Sends Poor Mental Patients To This Twisted Self Help Whacker, Tool Job.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:13PM

Tampon---Manpot, pot head, Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.

That's it!

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 5:59PM

Your Government In Action.
The Government Actually Sends Poor Mental Patients To This CrazyAss Bastard, Self Help Whacker, Tool Job.

Tool Job's Tee Shirt: " I'm From The Government & I'm Here To Help You."

Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha .

WJ| 7.15.11 @ 8:24AM

The Palin freaks on this site are every bit as hysterical as the Paul freaks. Any criticism of their gal, as sorry as she might be, is met with howls of indignation.

Look all you Palinistas. The woman is a dummy. She will never,ever be president. She has no more chance than Ron Paul .

Let's nominate a conservative with some brains instead of an aging hag with nothing between her ears. Check out the ridiculous pose on the cover of Newsweek for confirmation.

Redstateboy| 7.15.11 @ 8:54AM

Clint?? you've should have stopped at your first paragraph and I might have agreed with you but you Liber-ul Palin-haters just can't help your pathetic loser selves. Palin a "dummy"? I would be you voted Hussein and Palin's a dummy????

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 9:56AM

You sound confused.

What are you tryin' to say,Redstateboy?

You're Up, Sport.

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 8:59AM

Just out of curiosity, WJ, can you tell me one person on this planet who is not aging? You, perhaps?

What a gratuitous, shallow swipe.

I don't know Palin. And neither, I'm guessing, do you. But you've clearly been salivating for your Two Minutes of Hate.

Feels good to get all that out early in the morning, doesn't it? Now you can don your mantle of virtue without encumbrance.

Ok, she's a dummy. Yeah. Who are you comparing her to? Democrat nominees since 1976? Let's see: Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Hussein Obama.

Now there's a MENSA meeting right there. Not a friggin scruple in the bunch, far less intellectual firepower than meets the eye and a veritable desert of common sense. A motley assortment of fools, crooks, bullies, pretensious fops and pseudo-intellects.

And I'm SOOOO glad we have a president now who's clearly a genius. How do I know that? Because all of the pundits who have excoriated Palin non-stop since she arrived on the public scene pronounced Obama to be the Wizard of Oz back in 2007.

They were pretty close to right about Obama. They only missed the fact that he's hopelessly pedantic, unoriginal, cowardly, indecisive, ignorant, racist, petulant, foolish, puerile, arrogant, vengeful, Marxist, lazy, thin-skinned, corrupt, a pathological liar, petty, cruel, narcissistic, sociopathic.

All that aside, the crease of his pantleg remains AWESOME.

And, since you are a clearly a deep thinker, I'll take your word for it that one glance at the Newsweek cover makes your case that she's an idiot.

What a paragon of, well, nothing you are.

russel| 7.15.11 @ 10:26AM

You left out the big Kahunga , Pelosi . Now THERE is a piece of work . Only the Lord knows how much damage her one- crone road show , The Lunacy Tour , has done .

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 10:49AM

She has run and won for 24 years. She worked her way through the leadership ranks and became the Speaker.
Her legislative record shows she does not lose when in charge. Boehner, Hastert and Gingrich do not come even close to her batting average.

Palin: quitter. Nuff said.

I resent Pelosi's politics, but as an operator, she is second to none, especially to Sarah and MB.

We need a Pelosi type in our ranks. Think about it as you falsely attempt to chivalrously defend women in the GOP.

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 11:42AM

Yes, think about the fact that, once you scratch a millimeter below the suface platitudes, every one of you "progressives" (and it would be far more accurate in every sense to refer to yourselves as "regressives") is an abject misogynist. And a racist. And a bigot. And a liar.

As long as liberals walk the earth, conservatives can never be the most hateful group of people on the planet.

I assume you typed that line about how "we" need a Pelosi type in "our" ranks with a straight face. No doubt she's perfect for YOUR ranks.

If you think Pelosi is anything but a dumb criminal, you are one of the following: A fool, a crook, a pawn or a revenge seeker.

Care to share with us which one you are, or are you more complex than that - perhaps a poo poo platter of idiocy?

russel| 7.15.11 @ 6:44PM

Griz , I've said it before and this Canuck is right , she's a nutcase but she accomplishe's . A rabid Pitbull that we need desperately , not a wimping RINO . Her purse contains more cajone's than what our white-hairs can muster ..

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:26PM

Yeah, it's REAL tough to get re-elected as a hard-left, liberal loon from downtown San Francisco, isn't it?

Dummy...

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:11PM

Canuck,
Stalin won a lot, too.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 2:26PM

Stalin thought Nancy Pelosi was a left-wing nut-job...

Anthony| 7.15.11 @ 2:28PM

Oh canuckistani, you pathetic fool, here's some oldy lyrics you need to relfect upon:
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's " off with her head"
Remember what the doormouse said:
Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head.........

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:20PM

"Our" ranks? How are you part of" us," Kemosabe?

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 11:31AM

Not to mention that Pelosi couldn't spell "cat" if you spotted her the "c" and the "t."

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 2:12PM

And the "a." She would spell Chicago Transit Authority.

Roy| 7.18.11 @ 3:29AM

When Pelosi became speaker she said something along the lines of "The children of America now hold this gavel", and I couldn't have agreed more.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 10:43AM

People are against Palin, because they know viscerally that she represents the worst of America.

She quit probably the safest job in all of GOP land.
She has cashed in on morbid curiosity and a confusing sex appeal - kind of pretty with a chalkboard scratching personality. As a man, one would understand. Inviting but repellant at the same time.
She whores out her kids to the media (this is not unique, but relevant to the uber-mom narrative.)
She is counted on to provide spectacularly amusing soundbites within minutes of any shot against her.
She has created a sideshow for repubs, and she is not even running - meaning any traction the current slate has attempting to generate is being eaten up by the circus sideshow called Sarah Palin.

She is impossibly intransigent when prodded into self-examination, and makes sober thought and consideration look like a deadly sin.

When one uses BHO lacks as the comparison, it means the shots against SP are hitting pretty close to the mark.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:26PM

Actually, you represent "the worst of America", thanks to Lyndon Johnson's idiotic immigration policies...

George True| 7.15.11 @ 1:59PM

Canuck, your PDS is causing you to not be able to see obvious things. It is the Commiecrats and the leftist MFM that are viscerally against Palin. Anyone whose vision is not clouded can see this. The more that average people learn about her, unfiltered by the MFM narrative, the more they like her.

I don't care that she resigned early as governor. People resign from all kinds of positions for all kinds of reasons in all walks of life and that doesn't make them all quitters.

She does not whore out her kids. The fact that you think so doesn't make it true.

Her responses to criticism or her comments on the current scene are invariably well thought out and right on the mark. The fact that you don't like her commentary is neither here nor there.

The areas where she is intransigent are in her ideology of smaller, less intrusive government and not spending more money than you have. Intransigence in these areas is a good thing.

Steve G| 7.15.11 @ 11:49AM

Wonderfully put, Grzmlyk. If you don't have a blog, please start one.

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 12:07PM

Thank you, Steve.

Tina B| 7.16.11 @ 11:37AM

Amen.

JmsA| 7.17.11 @ 10:18AM

"They were pretty close to right about Obama. They only missed the fact that he's hopelessly pedantic, unoriginal, cowardly, indecisive, ignorant, racist, petulant, foolish, puerile, arrogant, vengeful, Marxist, lazy, thin-skinned, corrupt, a pathological liar, petty, cruel, narcissistic, sociopathic."

As usual, very eloquently put, Grzmlyk.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 8:26AM

Box Of Tissues RINO-CINO Crybaby ?

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 8:29AM

Based on watching her in action for three years, I believe the piece is more true than not.

Face it, she DOES seem to have a bunker mentality which would not serve her well as commander-in-chief. Arguably, this might be justified in her case, but as president she needs to deal with her perceived enemies a little better. Let's go down memory lane and revisit Richard Nixon if you don't think this might cause just a leeetle bit of a problem.

Dai Alanye | 7.15.11 @ 9:39AM

This comment is less than thoughtful. Palin *does* deal well with her critics, usually responding calmly and humorously to ill-mannered slander. Grant would have been far better advised to use Obama as an example of thin-skinned excessive response to criticism.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 10:26AM

I agree. Obama is extremely thin-skinned. This mainstream media spin that Obama has some superior temperament is pure fantasy. It's a joke to any thinking person.

On the other hand, I will not turn off my brain when analyzing Palin. She too has a questionable temperament. She seems to obsessed with people who have done her wrong. Her husband tends to enable this mindset.

I see a lot of similarities between Palin and Obama.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 11:48AM

Not really, Bob. Palin, unlike most Republicans today, actually knows how best to respond to the MFM and certain politicians from both sides of the aisle when they slander her. She strikes exactly the right balance. Her responses via Facebook are very well thought out, even tempered, often humorous, and always right on the money. I only wish other Repubs had the smarts and the gonads to respond effectively when smeared.

Palin seems to be one of the very few Republicans who learned from the unfortunate example of GW Bush. Bush remained silent over the years of his administration while leftists and the MFM slandered and excoriated him relentlessly in a hundred different ways. He remained silent for the right reasons, but it was the WRONG thing to do.

Because the DNC allied with their defacto propaganda arm in the MFM is nothing more than a smear and slander machine today, a conservative pol cannot allow them to say what they will and not respond, quickly and forcefully. Not to respond, a la GW Bush, is political death today. Sarah Palin learned that lesson very quickly, and she is the master of the well-reasoned, set-the-record-straight response. Other Republicans would do well to emulate her in this regard, and will surely do poorly if they do not learn to do this.

Jack London | 7.15.11 @ 4:23PM

GW was silent, George, because he had difficulty in putting two words together that made sense. Sadly for you, Palin would be strongly advised to keep quiet too.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:41PM

Yes, Jack, and our current President was just back from travelling the 57 States to honor the Corpsemen and the other fine dead soldiers he put the Medal of Honor around the necks of while going off script and saying he liked them even though he can't remember their names once the Teleprompter shut down.

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 9:40AM

The thing is, in his ascendance to the national stage, Nixon wasn't subjected to a malevolent media colonoscopy every minute of every day; Palin has been scrutinized by hundreds of media outlets staffed by thousands of people who literally want to destroy her entire life from day one.

Nixon was a complex character, and even a cursory look at any part of his life reveals a definite, and troubling, pathology, much of which was manifested in paranoia - along with an amazing tenacity and a great deal of intelligence. I believe that, as toxic as Nixon's mind was, it was nothing compared to Obama's. Or Clinton's. Or Carter's.

Also, Watergate was payback for the Hiss case; Nixon himself was the victim of a slow-motion lynch mob. Watergate was in fact the creation of the liberal model of the politics of personal destruction the media is using to destroy Palin today (and yes, I know Nixon engaged in smears himself - he was no innocent, but, had he been a Democrat, Watergate would not have happened. You see the disparity now with the far more sinister "Gun Walker" non-scandal).

Whatever else she may or may not have, it seems to me that Palin has a lot of courage. I'm not saying that there are no problems there, and I'm sure she swims in the same pool of human foibles as the rest of us. Nobody who seeks to bestride the world stage is without psychological "issues."

But I don't see this bunker mentality as a defining trait. Maybe that will change - I continue to be willing to be persuaded that Palin's half as bad as her detractors claim. So far, I am not so persuaded.

In fact, I think she's been admirably judicious and restrained in her public utterances that are directed at those who want her and her family DEAD.

In fact, publicly, she seems relatively thick-skinned to me. Perhaps that's untrue, and if that's the case, I want to see the fissures in her for myself - not as depicted by a vanity-intoxicated mob armed with pitchforks and torches. The same mob, by the way, that spent all of its time forging and polishing a halo for Obama without so much as a cursory glance at the empty adolescent brat upon whom they were affixing it.

Palin has a boatload of common sense, she's truly conservative and I think she has courage in spades. If she runs, I will scrutinize her for myself and come to my own conclusions as to whether she's the best in the field.

Then again, the only job the next president will have to perform is turning out the lights, because, whomever is elected, the party is over.

Well, the party that was America is over. The new party - the Communist Party - is just getting started. They will feed on the carcass of American Exceptionalism until every last bit of human decency has been consumed.

Anthony| 7.15.11 @ 10:33AM

Grzmlyk, A superb post. I'm not quite ready to admit the party is over, just yet.
It's still a toss up as to who will be feeding on whos carcass.
As Mark Levin opined the other night, America has defeated the likes of Stalin, Hitler, and the mighty Soviet Union.
I believe we can handle the likes of the arugala loving Obozo, Bill Ayers, and the rest of the efite elitists on the left.
Just think Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd manning the barricades; you'll die of laughter before they can get off a shot.
I for one, am itching at the prospect of some serious ass kicking. It's way overdue!!!!

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 12:04PM

Thank you, Anthony. I appreciate your kind words and respect your opinion. And I hope you are right.

But I think the math is irrevocable in terms of our debt.

As far as I can tell, the only way any nation-state gets out of that kind of debt - and if you add in the unfunded madates, we're talking well over $100 trillion - is to print money, which we are doing. Debauch the currency. Inflation. And that is taxation by other means. It is default by other means. It is the most insidious, "animal spirits" killing policy a government can pursue.

It's going to buy time, but that's all. We are going down the tubes; the destruction of the dollar is a fait accompli. If the Euro weren't right there along with us, the Yen on life support and the Renmibi teetering on the edge, the dollar would already have been ejected as the world's reserve currency.

It's not just Obozo, although he has certainly put his foot on the accelerator of destruction. But ever since the dawn of the progressive era a century ago, we have pretended there's a free lunch; our culture has lulled the wealth producers into either a cyncial "government greed is just the price of doing business" mentality or, worse, a moral vanity that sees redistribution of wealth and social justice as absolution for the original sin of being white and/or wealthy and/or a capitalist.

Government's sole occupation is a three-pronged approach to dictatorship: punishing producers, destroying the cultural fabric of this nation and looting the private sector to pay off cronies and constituents.

We are a de facto banana republic.

This diversion about raising the debt ceiling is risible in comparison to what we face - we're arguing about whether we should put 2 or 3 grains of sand in our teaspoon for each trip we make to the car in our attempt to empty the Sahara Desert.

I do not think there is a politician alive who has the courage to tell the truth to Americans; we are pretending we can sustain a welfare state in which we currently borrow $188 million every hour of every day. We can't. And, when interest rates go up, the ship of state will capsize.

We are not only going the way of the Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, our collapse is going to make theirs look like child's play.

I love your optimism, but, short of cutting our federal budget across the board, NOW, by about 50%, any measures we take are only prolonging the inevitable.

I'm sure a troll will comment that we have plenty of money. Well, you could confiscate all of the wealth in this country - every dime - and it wouldn't pay our debt for a full year. And I'm sure these trolls aren't willing to cough up 100% of their assets in order to "share the sacrifice."

On the bright side, football season's almost here, and the lockout will probably end soon. Like the orchestra aboard the sinking Titanic, I say we sit down, have a glass of wine and enjoy the music until the inevitable occurs.

The Libertarian Menace| 7.15.11 @ 12:42PM

Take that, Progs! Grz, where can one learn, as you have, how to type at the speed of thought?

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 12:53PM

Not sure I was typing at the speed of thought, but I did take touch-typing in high school and there are many periods in my life where that skill alone sustained me.

Glad I chose that elective and not "Trans-Gender Studies and the Patriarchial Politics of Male Genitalia," tempting as that might have been.

:-)

Tina B| 7.16.11 @ 11:56AM

G. . . not you, that class was more Clint's style.

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:31PM

And his imaginary Israeli friends who love hearing him talk about how they should be killed off by Arabs. He'll be palling around with "Harvey" any day now.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:42PM

Mr. G,

awesome. As usual.

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 5:01PM

Thank you, Occam. I appreciate your kind words.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 9:52AM

Sheer nonsense.

She defends herself - strongly - against her idiot, liberal critics??

GOOD! We need some GOP leaders with backbone.

Would you prefer the McCain approach? The one where you stay "above the fray" to curry favor with the New York Times...and lose???

Your assertion is absurd. And your comparison to Richard Nixon is nothing short of idiotic.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 11:35AM

You've gotta think practically about this. Let's put the Palin fan hat down for a moment and think about how President Palin would act under various conditions. She would not preside in some bubble, passing law at the snap of a finger like our current president believes the way it should be done.

Who would be her advisors? Who would she turn to to brainstorm? What's her style in dealing with people? Who's her Valerie Jarrett or Rhamn Emanuel? Does she even have an inner circle?

No idea.

We got a better sense from previous candidates.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 11:56AM

Palin's conservative bonafides are beyond reproach. As such, I do not care specifically who she might pick as her advisors and cabinet members. She would obviously pick advisors and cabinet members who would help dismantle the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda, and replace it with an agenda of less government coupled with an Austrian School economic approach. That's all any rational person would need to know.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 12:19PM

You are basing your opinions of Palin on an article of faith. What sparse record she does have tends to be moderate variety while she went after the "establishment".

I love what she SAYS but neither you or I really know what her true inclinations are. She's way too protective of granting interviews and sharing her views and knowledge of various topics. The only way we'll really know is when she's out there on the stump, giving speeches, and granting interviews on a daily basis. Like other candidates.
Facebook postings don't impress me.

I'm open to changing my mind but quite frankly she's demonstrated nothing to me in three years.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 12:41PM

Nonsense, Bob. Of course we know her inclinations. Smaller government, lower taxes, a balance budget, less regulation, and less government intrusion into our lives. These things are her mantra.

I don;t give a dams whether her commentary is on Facebook or wherever. WHAT she says is always well thought out, and right on the money.

Your PDS is raging today.

mcr| 7.15.11 @ 1:45PM

Bob
Please go see The Undefeated, the movie about Sarah Palin. I believe all your questions about her will be answered and you will learn about the true Sarah Palin. In fact I recommend everyone here on this site go see the Undefeated, its worth a road trip.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 3:05PM

Instead of making a movie, how about if she gives a real interview.

mcr| 7.16.11 @ 9:23AM

She did not make the movie, she had no part in its production, in fact she did not even have the idea of it, it is all thanks to Steve Bannon. But the truth is Bob you are never going to give Sarah an inch, and I am starting to think you thrive in your capacity of being so hard on her.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:17PM

I suppose you'd prefer she got "advice" from the usual cast of GOP-establishment clowns in D.C.??

Stop thinking "practically". Think smart, instead.

Grzmlyk| 7.15.11 @ 2:06PM

Obviously, we do not know how Sarah Palin would govern. I think it's legitimate to ask - and it's legitimate to draw one's own conclusions. I would not begrudge anyone doing that. I just worry that the balls-to-the-wall efforts to destroy her have bled over into the consciousness of even the most resistant of conservative minds. It is not easy to assert a contrary point of view in the midst of a typhoon of public opinion going the other way.

But we NEVER know for sure how one is going to govern; I'm sure FDR would be amazed that Truman would stand up to McArthur (for better or worse) and, in the fullness of time, the "little haberdasher" would become a hero to many on both sides of the political specturm.

I would agree with you that Palin appears right now to be more opaque than, perhaps, some past candidates. However, she's less opaque than others. Look at how many presidents were elected as one thing and, in governance, became quite another.

I think Palin is the victim of character assassination on a scale we haven't seen since - well, since George Bush and Dick Cheney. I think she's an impressive person; my gut tells me she's the real deal - smart, savvy, capable, common sensical, ethical and that her motivations are good.

I do not know what's in her head or her heart; like those who detest her, I'm simply trying to make a reasonable judgment about her.

But, as Shakespeare said, some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. One thing's for sure - whomever the GOP nominee is, a great deal of greatness is going to be needed.

BackToBasics| 7.16.11 @ 1:30PM

from your post - "I think she's an impressive person; my gut tells me she's the real deal... "

I've written similar comments a couple times about my gut instincts regarding Plain. But I have also included that instincts can be wrong and I'd sure feel better about her if she could improve on the answers she gives during interviews. I'd love to see her do well but I also do not want another Republican of the likes of GW Bush who cannot give coherent policy speeches to the American public. We need not only a conservative, but one who can also be a great communcator to a nation that needs so desperatley to hear the truth in a clear and understandable way.

Presidential speeches alone cannot make up for the huge knowledge gap regarding conservative political and econmic policies in the collective American mind. However, a true presidential voice in these matters is still needed, desperately so. She can give a rousing speech. I hope she can give informative ones as well and not just catch phrases. But as to her personal interview skills, which also show her intellect and personality in a way that no other venue can, time is getting short on that one. So far she's more like GW Bush on that one than she is not. Another GW Bush will not save this nation. And the bottom line to all conservatives here is that we want to get a president who will be a strong leader in hopes to save the nation and we suspect 2012 is our last chance!

I'll both support and vote for her if she gets the nomination, but let's get the BEST communicator who is ALSO Conservative that we can. I think Bachman and Cain edge her out in this.

Truth to Power| 7.15.11 @ 10:00AM

Gosh Bob. Would you stop humping her leg? Before you came along only crazy lefties exhibited this derangement. It was a sure way of spotting lefties who were making mischief. Palin isn't running and you just can't stop yourself. No offense but your life's work of advocacy has led to Michael Bloomberg. Ok maybe I meant it as an offense but you really irritate me and I am not even a Palin supporter.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 10:39AM

Geez. I'm just responding to an AMSPEC article; not exactly obsessed with her. As a matter of fact, I haven't given her any thought the past several months. I'm pretty conservative in my thinking on every issue down the line. Heck, I bet I agree with practically everything she stands for. I just believe she does not have the chops to be an effective president; someone who can make the deal without giving up the store; someone who can command loyalty among a small group of (qualified, respected) people who will be in charge of moving her agenda, i.e., advisers, cabinet secretaries, etc.

Her operation seems to consist of Todd and herself. She doesn't seem to trust many people. Hence, the bunker mentality.

Voters are not THAT stupid that they wont pick up on this.

She hasn't proven anything to me at this point other than demonstrating she can give somewhat cogent interview with the likes of Hannity, Van Sestern, and O'reiley.

Truth to Power| 7.15.11 @ 12:01PM

Geez, somebody brings her up and you go into your routine. She is not running and we get that routine anyway. The fact that David Bass and others here feel they have to educate the unclean doesn't give you cover. None of you knows the first thing about building a political movement. It doesn't have anything to do with running down Sarah Palin at every opportunity. By the way, do you remember Donald Regan? Politics can be like radio. With narcissistic big egos, the respect given is only to the mirror. Sarah Palin is not the first politician who was attacked by the help and she won't be the last. Piling on only brings amusement to bozos like crapistani and accomplishes nothing else but hard feelings. Congratulations.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 12:26PM

I'm not here for Kumbaya, I'm here to try to find the best candidate to remove USA's first dictator.

Truth to Power| 7.15.11 @ 12:32PM

Then advocate for somebody. Any strategy that irritates your friends and amuses your enemy is stupid. Congratulations.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 1:05PM

My strategy is to weed out 'til one stands. How's that?

Truth to Power| 7.15.11 @ 1:20PM

Your strategy is to irritate your friends and amuse your enemies. That makes sense for someone that is a self-absorbed grade B celebrity. It doesn't surprise me that you aren't really supportive of anyone. With friends like you, who needs enemies. Gigante indeed. What is the Italian word for midget?

Louis Tully| 7.15.11 @ 1:32PM

Start by telling us who you support...so the rest of us can avoid that person like the plague.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 3:13PM

I support many people. Some more than others. Others, I'm holding out because their record is incomplete... ala Sarah.

As soon as she conducts herself like a presidential candidate, and not a B-rate celebrate (as you describe me), I will begin to evaluate her as a possible candidate. Otherwise, she's no different than say...Kate Gosselin who opines on politics of the day via her twitter and facebook accounts.

Truth to Power| 7.15.11 @ 3:57PM

When you take unnecessary shots at somebody that is not running I wonder about you. I think you have convinced crapistani that she is not the right candidate but otherwise you have just caused irritation amongst those that you will want to make common cause with later. There is no fool like an old fool. Kumbaya, Mr. Piccolissimo.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 4:21PM

This is what a primary is all about. Indeed, I hope to make common cause with all here during the general. As a matter of fact, if Sarah runs and wins, I will buy all the Sarah memorabilia I can afford. I'll be her biggest fan. Bring out the smores and hot chocolate; Kumbaya up the ying yang....how's that Truth?

Truth to Power| 7.15.11 @ 4:40PM

She is not running. She writes and talks about debt ceiling while you write about your fantastic nightmares. She rows in the right direction and you entertain visiting progressives. Keep us posted on Kate's tweets.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 12:04PM

You're seeing things that aren't there, Bob. I see no evidence of "bunker mentality".

Doesn't have the chops? Get real. She would be two orders of magnitude better than any Democrat, and at least one order of magnitude better than any RINO. She more than has the chops. Palin, Cain, West, Rubio, Christie, Santorum, Pawlenty, Bachmann. All of them have the chops. Any of them would be acceptable.

Your PDS is flaring up a bit today, Bob. Dr. True suggests two ounces of medicinal alcohol, and call me in the morning if you are not better.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 5:39PM

Too many others have mentioned the bunker mentality. I didn't just make that up.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 8:09PM

I'm sure you didn't make it up, but the MFM did. Why promote their narrative?

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 10:20PM

Correct me if I'm wrong But I don't think John Zeiggler is from the MSM.

Louis Tully| 7.15.11 @ 8:38AM

Hit job
Drop dead TAS

Anthony| 7.15.11 @ 8:39AM

I admit that I'm a big Palin supporter, but by any objective analysis of your review, this book is nothing more that pure unadulterated bullshit.
Everything you've told us Mr. Bailey wrote, flies completely in the face of what any rational person, not afflicted with Palin derangement syndrome, has seen and witnessed about this remarkable woman.
I don't know what motivated this Bailey clown to crawl out from the rock he was hiding under, but if he thinks he has to make up for his sins of aiding Gov. Palin, then we really are living in Alice in Wonderland, because by that criteria, several hundred people who gave Barack Hussein Obama to America, should then commit suicide for the sins the committed against America!!!
No Mr. Bass, this is not a worthwhile read, and contrary to your final comment, this POS hit piece is not more baggage that Gov Palin must carry. Rather it is just more garbage that need to be deposited where it belongs.
BTY, did this fraud move in with the other POS who moved next door to the Palins to write his bullshit book? I suppose you'll find that a worthy read as well, eh?
Meanwhile Obozo has America on the verge of bankruptcy, yet all lefty eyes are on Palin. God help this country.

WJW| 7.15.11 @ 10:40AM

To Anthony: Just wanted to say good comment.

Want to comment on just one part of this hit piece review.
"Bailey also contends that "Sarahcuda" cared little for her family. “I recall one day when Bristol [Palin} phoned from school crying while Sara sat in my office," Bailey writes. "Sarah rolled her eyes and held the phone out, as if to say, 'You wanna listen to this?'"

How could any sane person interpret that Palin "cared little for her family" because MAYBE one time Palin did not act (according to a possible liar) in a super caring way when Palin's daughter called crying.

Are either of you parents? Why was Bristol crying, bad test, lost phone, boyfriend, not getting to go to a friend's house? Was Bristol crying over something that Palin might have dealt with earlier and Palin knew it was a trivial drama in her daughter's life?

How can anyone who is not on a vendetta against Palin use this instance as a blanket condemnation on her feelings for her family?? It is ABSURD beyond belief.

Am Spec should not use this David Bass writer again. Mr. Bass, you do not try for accuracy, but to slant & skew information for your own reasons.

Tina B| 7.16.11 @ 12:28PM

Exactomundo, WJW. I resonate with your kudos to Anthony as well.

I am often relieved when I finish an article such as this, with anxiety over some facts I just learned. And then I read your posts in response and am satisfied that some other thinking people are also aggravated by the same things.

So many of you say it so much better than I, and Grzlymk, Anthony, Truth to Power and WJW and even (sometimes pure potty mouths) OT and Dr. R.

As a 62 year old almost retired PS teacher I just want to say. . . don't engage Clint. He lowers the level of the repartee. He is somewhat ignorant, and he's a guy who just doesn't know that he doesn't know. And that is the worst kind of ignorance.

Furthermore, he thinks that he does know, throwing around his big words with capital letters one after another, with no commas. Tacky and getting very old. Beneath you guys.

Otherwise, carry on y'all, I love it.

John Navratil| 7.15.11 @ 8:54AM

Anthony,

I think the whole world has Palin Derangement Syndrome. For someone who is argued to be flighty and inconsequential, she sure garners a lot of attention. Perhaps Occam's Tool can tell us about mass hysteria.

Anthony| 7.15.11 @ 10:08AM

I quite agree John. I believe cultures and civilizations experience, from time to time, periods of mass irrationality, hence the demise of once great civilizations, only to have civilization once again rise and humanity moves forward.
America has been in this titanic tug of war, between the left and the right for decades.
As the left attempts to transform America, their irrationality grows exponentially, as everything they stand for is anethical to what America was founded on.
Every day we are bombarded with the insanity coming from the Alice-in-Wonderland left, where up is down and white is black.
Obozo, the petulent dictator walks out of a debt ceiling meeting because he's not getting his way and the MSNBC idiots talk about Eric Cantor's behavior.
This Palin thing arises from the same insanity and the win at all cost mentality. I don't think this will play out well, the pressure keeps building and building. I fear America will devolve into a civil war before sanity is restored.
I truly fear for America.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:45PM

She is a Transference Object for the Mob. People project their fantasies on her. She is dangerous to the Left BECAUSE she communicates so well.

Here's why I like Sarah: will keep taxes low and hit people overseas who need punching.

The Presidency, done properly, is very simple. Quite hard, but very SIMPLE.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 5:41PM

Being charismatic does not necessarily translate to "...communicates so well..."

Ya lost me Tool. .............don't be a tool.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:08PM

Her books sell millions of copies, Bob. Her TV series gets millions of viewers. Her acceptance Speech at the National Convention was Brilliant, Bob. She Communicates well. She is also Charismatic.

Please save the ad hominem for Clint, Bob. He has both the Personality of a Rabid Chipmunk and the idiocy of a brain damaged C. Elegans to pull it off. You, on the other hand, do urbanity much better. I will not retaliate towards you as I usually respect you even when I disagree with you.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 10:23PM

Uh...A lecture, a 'dis', and a complement (I think?) all in one post.

Redstateboy| 7.15.11 @ 8:56AM

Sarah Palin is a flawed Human being... for those of you who are not.. please identify yourselves.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 11:07AM

She has flaws, but a much fatter bank account than mine. Kudos to her for cashing in.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 12:15PM

So Does That Bum, Sleepin' In The Refrigerator Box,Under The Bridge, Canuckistani.

You've Won The Underachiever Award.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:46PM

I thought that Bum was you, Clint? Unless you are a trust fund twerp.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 4:57PM

Now,Government Barrel Bottom Loser Shrink,Tool Job Attempts To Play Class Warfare On Tea Party Clint.

Someday, If You Pray To God & Are A Good Boy & Mend Your Loser Ways, You Too Can Have Money & Not Be Upset With Others,Who Already Have It.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:04PM

Clint, Dear Boy, I'm rich.

I am simply pointing out that given your lack of intelligence, charm, and coherence, and the fact that you didn't make it to the Bigs in Baseball, I fail to see how you earn your keep.

Trust Fund scumbag explains much. Thank you.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 7:36PM

That's Pretty Bold Attempted Class Warfare Bullshit There, Little Short, Fat Agin' Government Barrel Bottom Loser Shrink.

Now, You're All Obsessed With How I've Earned My Money.
Hint: Big Co-------. Fi-----.
Will The Little Short,Fat, Agin' Government Loser Shrink,Tool Job Ever Get It Out Of Tea Party Clint ?

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 7:40PM

Aaaaand, Don't Call Me "Dear" , Shirley.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:10PM

Dear Clint, Dear, dear, retarded boy.

Big Cock up my ass from Filthy rich terrorist? Is that the way you made your money? I understand now, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear little boy.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 3:01AM

Uh Oh !
More Gay Talk From The Government Sorry Ass Excuse Barrel Bottom Shrink,Tool Job.
We Hear You're Still Catchin' For Your Goat, Billy The Beard.

And Don't Call Me "Dear" Shirley.

Roy| 7.18.11 @ 3:33AM

Now I see how this thread got to 419 comments.

Louis Tully| 7.15.11 @ 8:59AM

Lets see:
1) take a 3 month old story
2) ignore the fact that the author and the story have been thoroughly debunked
3) publish said story on the day the Palin Documentary is released.

Result--Stale propaganda. Nice try, RINO scum.

I'm proud to say I do not subscribe or contribute to TAS. The rest of you ought to do likewise.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 11:09AM

Let's see:
Schedule bus trip during GOP announcement period. Schedule a stop on the site and date of WMR's announcement. Suspend trip indefinitely - apparently job done.

Cynicism misplaced?Hmm.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 12:43PM

"...suspend trip indefinitely."

So what???

Seek| 7.15.11 @ 2:48PM

The fact that I don't think Palin is qualified to serve as president (not too many people are) doesn't mean I suffer from Derangement Syndrome. It just means I'd rather look elsewhere.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 3:18PM

Seek, oh no... you march right in and burn your republican registration card. You don't support Sarah?...fine, you forever considered a RINO and no longer welcome in the conservative tree house.

Ran | 7.15.11 @ 9:22AM

Mr. Bass,
Your report reminds one of Gahan Wilson's classic: The artist with a canvas chock full of ghouls and horribles set on an easel before a barren landscape. "I paint what I see!"

It's a neat gag when you can pull it off. Perhaps next time?

P. Aaron| 7.15.11 @ 9:26AM

So, certain folks in republican circles are concerned about Palin, after a communisty-organizer with ties to domestic terrorists is elected president? Republicans, even moderate one will ALWAYS be subject to criticism from the left. The politicians on the right seem to accept this fact to a degree. When will the establishment get on board? Not any time soon, it appears.

Michael L. Hauschild| 7.15.11 @ 9:42AM

Here Mr. Bass, your hit peice is the perfect vehicle.
http://nation.foxnews.com/sara.....t-theaters

Drunken Sailor| 7.15.11 @ 9:46AM

"Bailey has an ax to grind"

That is all I have to know to determine that the book is not a objective piece. I am sure she has her flaws (as do we all) but once it is obvious someone is grinding a ax they lose all credibility. Huckabee lost me the same way with the repeated whining in his book. Until then I liked him.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 9:52AM

Boy, there's a LOT of folks in the GOP who are deathly afraid of Sarah Palin...

...I guess we should add TASOnline to the list?

Ran | 7.15.11 @ 10:32AM

Eh. She has her fanciers here at TAS, not the least being RET. Detractors too. It's a mix. (I rather find her fans more convincing.)

DP Galland| 7.15.11 @ 10:01AM

To all you Palinistas who are having trouble deciphering all this, let me help. I'm an Alaskan who was there during the Palin administration. I'm also a staunch conservative who's tired of this woman passing herself off as someone she's not. She is an opportunist of the highest magnitude. If Liberalism was currently in vogue, she would be leading that parade. She touts all the work she did on the Alaska gas line and ACES (Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share), yet the gas line still isn't even close to being built and looks less likely every day, and there is a huge movement in Juneau to overturn ACES because it's killing jobs and driving the oil companies to explore elsewhere.
Let's not fall for another charismatic pied piper with no track record. There are better choices on the Republican side.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.15.11 @ 11:08AM

Hey DP 88 % of Alaskans liked her....dope

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 11:14AM

If he is who he says he is, why doubt his sincerity?

Truth hurts?

George True| 7.15.11 @ 12:08PM

Because he is obviously part of the 12% of Alaskans who didn't like her.

Anthony| 7.15.11 @ 12:01PM

By all means DP, let's not allow a real leader with the steely determination to save America become our nominee. God forbid, we might actually WIN!! Well, we can't have that, can we?
Rather, let's chose another McCain in the likes of Romney, in order to insure that the real charismatic pied piper empty suit of a Marxist gets his second term in order to finish off America.
You say "if liberalism was currently in vogue, she would be leading the parade". Are you f'n serious?? Liberalism IS in vogue, and if this woman was the opportunist you claim she is, if she just hinted that she's changed her politics, the left would build monuments to her, statues would be erected, Chris Matthews' leg would be tingling so much he wouldn't be able to walk, and the left would send Obozo back to Kenya faster than a Nolan Ryan fastball.
Wow, with Rs like you, who needs leftists?

POST American| 7.15.11 @ 10:04AM

The CFR/RIIA capstone foundations
cabal IS running the show. Make no mistake
about that.

Obama's a Harvard 'innie' and son of CIA-Globalist
linked Ann Dunham, his first job was working for
Kissinger, and we're still betting he's secretly
related to the grandaddy of RED China set up
and TREASON --Averill Harriman.

Palin ---'Pale-in' (the 'Big Boys' love wordplay
remember) --couldn't matter less as the country
is bled to death.

But then the name is fitting.

As you refuse to take in the reality unfolding,
or the source of that reality,
at least take consoling amusement wherever
you find it.

Jon H. Lee| 7.15.11 @ 10:19AM

Not having read the book please excuse me for believing this review 'wrote itself.' While dutifully acknowledging the author's vested interest in a 'smeer' book, this reviewer does nothing to address the credibility of the source, which leaves me questioning the objectivity of the reviewer. "Conservatives ignore this at their peril" indeed. What tripe.

somnolence| 7.15.11 @ 10:31AM

The intent of the book is to destroy Sarah Palin, and on that account it is failing tremendously. Just another sour grapes author who felt (or feels) slighted. The American Spectator will also fall on its keester if it blatantly attempts to prevent Sarah from running. Most of the negative posts here, are in fact, those of desperation. Their RINO status is threatened at the moment. My current choice is Bachmann/Cain for 2012, but if Sarah decides to announce and enters the fray in a full force gale with no letup, including beating the hell out of pundits such as this one, she has my 100% support.

Redstateboy| 7.15.11 @ 10:32AM

I don't know what j'y'all are get'n so freaked out about.. this isn't a "hit piece" - it's actually pretty balanced. Yeah the author and co-authors are swine but Palin's not perfect... but she's No "dummy". She IS a Great, accomplished, Patriotic Conservative American woman in the finest tradition and anyone who says less never can point to anything of substance to back up their blather.

Ran | 7.15.11 @ 10:53AM

With you, mostly.
"blah blah blah ... tarnished."
Balanced. All hit pieces have to sound "reasoned", "balanced." Thing is, Bass doesn't play the game terribly well. In a medium where Palin Derangement Syndrome is dwarfed only by internet pr0n, he's going to have to work a lot harder. The "tarnished" conclusion is kinda lame as a conclusion. He hasn't shown that the book's reach went much beyond established anti-Palin freakazoids. [Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #22,216 in Books] For an "investigative reporter" he seems rather invested.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:55PM

Dear Ran,

Have you ever noticed how small in sales Liberal books tend to be? Simply amazing. I remember looking at my sister's bookshelves once in Copenhagen. Leftist as hell. MBA from U of Odensse. Fluent in English in Danish, with smatterings of German and Spanish. Harlequin Romances/Equivalents and nothing but.

Liberals don't think enough to read, the great majority of them.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 5:44PM

What about Ophrah's Book of the Month Club?

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:11PM

Not always Liberal. Sometimes fradulent. Not always read.

Redstateboy| 7.15.11 @ 10:33AM

I'd take Sarah Palin over Hussein any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 10:52AM

Ditto. Which tells you how utterly sucky Hussein "Dick" Obowma is.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 11:16AM

That's a revealing point, BG.

Race to the bottom?

Boy would take a quitter from a nothing state over BHO. What a leap.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 12:14PM

Hey genius, just about anybody picked at random from the phone book would be better than BHO.

You really think that someone who comes from a densely populated state would automatically be better than someone from a sparsely populated state? Wow! You're a deep thinker.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:19PM

Don't get angry, George...

The 3rd-world cesspool that spawned Craplakistani has a population density of 27 people (and 10 spider-monkeys) per shoebox, so he's freaked-out by the wide-open spaces of a place like Alaska...

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 12:20PM

Then,We Wouldn't Be On The Bottom.

Just Canuckistani & Obama Would Be Left There.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 12:32PM

You can thank your boy Obama for lowering the standards.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:56PM

Yes, Canuck. And Alaska is not a "nothing" State. But, to use an earlier metaphor again---Obama. Palin's Used Tampons. Unworthy to dispose.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 5:03PM

Uh Oh !

More Feminine Hygiene Talk.

Girls ! Girls !

Stop This Purse Swinging Cat Fight.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:17PM

Part of what makes you annoying, Clint, is that there was nothing in the above comment about Obama and Pailn that you disagreed with.

You're just fixated with your little 302 brain cells worthless trust fund punk who stands small in daddy's shadow. Oedipus much?

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 6:13PM

Uh Oh !

Now, The Little Short, Fat, Agin' Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Tool Job Is Gettin' All PMS'y & Upset By Tea Party Clint.

Maybe, You're Still Mad Because You Didn't Get That Red Bike When You Were Five & I Did.
More Class Warfare By The Little Israel Firster Nut Bag,Tool Job.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:13PM

I couldn't care less, moron. The point is that the red bike is still your major mode of transportation since they took away your license for bashing in mailboxes with a baseball bat in your neighborhood.

What about the childhood trauma of your dad making you eat his shit?

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 3:20AM

Uh Oh !

The Little, Short, Fat, Agin' Israel Firster Fanatic RINO-CINO, Tool Job Attempts To Play The Class Warfare Card & Badmouth Tea Party Clint's Highly Decorated American Combat Warrior Officer Dad Again.

Like I Say, You're One Sorry Ass Barrel Bottom Government Excuse For A Shrink,Tool Job.

Tool Job's Scooter's Flag Inscription: "I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help You."

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:34PM

My Grandad was a Grunt, too. My father-in-law was in two wars, WWII with OSS, and Korea.

You, like me, have done nothing Military. But I at least volunteered.

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:35PM

Like I say, Clint: You are a disgrace to your dad, and a terrorist Catamite. You also only have 302 brain cells .

Roy| 7.18.11 @ 3:36AM

"Like I say, you're one sorry ass barrel bottom government excuse for a shrink tool job."

See how much more persuasive that looks?

matthew s harrison| 7.15.11 @ 10:45AM

While I am not a giant Palin fan, I find it fascinating that the entirety of the left say she is useless, yet their laser focus on her hasn't wavered in 3+ years. Me thinks the left doth protest too much!

The Chicken shit left still attacking palin is round about what we on the right are going to do to barry for DECADES after we finally get his illegal alien butt out of the WH and into exile!

Paul from SA| 7.15.11 @ 10:45AM

American Spectator: the anti-Sarah Palin website.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 11:23AM

No, the "pro-examination" website.

I rail against the loons on here, but the writing is pretty good, and clearly evokes visceral responses.

"An unexamined life is not worth living" - Plato

Can SP or any of the TP's sycophants live up to that philosophy? We should demand better.

We jumped on Bush 41's wagon because we thought he was RR2. We jumped on Junior's wagon because he used terms like "compassionate conservative" and "America first", when really he was born on third base and thought he hit a triple, leaving us to step in as relief.

Why be fooled again?

Think.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:21PM

Brilliant, Deepak...

Now do like Joe Biden sez', and fill'er up with regular!

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 12:26PM

Apparently, Canuckistani Is Here, Because He's "Jonsein' For His Negative Attention Cravin' Fix.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 12:29PM

Either that, or he's cruisin' for a hunky cowboy!

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 1:14PM

Uh Oh !

More Gay Talk From Dr.Reich.

Apparently, You Two Need To Get Somethin' Straight Between Ya.

Carry On Girls.

Doctor Right| 7.15.11 @ 2:29PM

And it looks like he found one in Clint!

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 3:40PM

Apparently, Canuckistani was "In" You, Dr.Reich.

Carry On Girls.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 4:59PM

Dear Clint...why do people automatically think of gerbils or tampons in connection with you?

Your Biggest Fan (You Dreamboat You),

Dr. Ron Paul

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 5:09PM

Maybe Because You Think Everyone Thinks Queer Thoughts Like You & Wants To Put Things Like That In Them, Like You.

I Don't Know.

Why Don't You Ask A Real Psychiatrist, Instead Of Talkin' To Yourself.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:19PM

I'm sorry, but I'm not talking about swinging handbags or defending MYSELF against gerbiling accusations. ;)

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 5:49PM

I thought we were here to discuss Sarah Palin's pathologies. Not some Richard Gere fantasy.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:17PM

Sorry, Bob, you're in Clint territory now. Whenever he enters, the IQ goes down 80 points.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 6:23PM

Uh Oh !
The Government Barrel Bottom Loser Shrink Is Talkin' Gerbils Again & Swingin' His Purse At Tea Party Clint.

Be Careful, You're Gonna Hurt Yourself.

Attendants !
Attendants !

Bring Tool Job His StraitJacket.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:16PM

We don't use straightjackets, moron. Excessive problems with tissue breakdown and myoglobinuria.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 11:19AM

You're Tissue Broke Down Long Ago, Little, Short, Fat, Agin' Bottom Of The Barrel, Loser, Sorry Ass Excuse For A Government Shrink.

Inscription Across The Front Of Tool Job's Straitjacket," I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help You."

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:37PM

No, asshole. "Your" tissue. You're tissue is You are tissue, which is grammatically incorrect and illogical, kind of like you.

Again, we don't use straightjackets. Rhabdomyolysis with consequent myoglobulin overload and renal shutdown.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:20PM

"I Don't Know."

The truest words you've ever said, and applicable to your entire life, Clint.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 7:20PM

Gee, Israel Firster Fanatic Screwball, Tool Job You Wouldn't Know The Truth If It Jumped Up & Hit Ya , Serial Slandering Head Case .

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:21PM

Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 1995; Reboarded, with score of 92% (one of the highest in the Country) 2005.

Sorry, son, I'm the real deal. And usually I'm not maleficent. But you aren't my patient, nor human.

Clint| 7.15.11 @ 6:26PM

Yes, You've Rebored Us, Once Again.

Screwball Government Shrink, Tool Job Is The Chairman Of The Bores.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 9:14PM

No, just pointing out uncomfortable facts. Truth and Ron Paul tend to be mutually exclusive.

Clint| 7.16.11 @ 3:24AM

Comin' From American Spectator's Resident Screwball Serial Slandering Israel Firster Fanatic Liar Bore, That Makes My Point.

You're The Chairman Of The Bores, Tool Job.

George True| 7.15.11 @ 12:32PM

Your PDS is apparently causing other impairments in your logic. We voted for GHW Bush because he won the nomination, plain and simple. Like we were going to vote for the Dem just because GHW Bush was a mere shadow Ronaldus Maximus?

Likewise, we did not "jump on Bush 41's bandwagon". He won the nomination, so we voted for him instead of the Democrat. It doesn't mean we thought he was the best thing out there. Far from it.

Finally, after decades of nothing but RINO's winning the nomination, there is a chance that we could have an actual conservative to vote for. Someone who, if elected, would at least try to roll back the socialist agenda, and seriously trim the size and cost of government. I don't care if that person is Palin, Bachmann, Cain, Pawlenty, or whoever. Any of them would be fine, because all of them are ideologically coming from the right place. That's really all that matters.

Tina B| 7.16.11 @ 12:43PM

Amen to all of that.

Margie| 7.16.11 @ 2:20PM

Seconded!

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:42PM

Finally, my favorite Evangelical Christian Lady has arrived. Hello, Margie! I hope Victor is well. We have a new kitten in the Occam household. her name is Ginger, and she's in huntress mode. Quite hilarious.

You are a wonderful person, and I'm sorry that fleabag gives you such a rough time. Look up the roundworm C. Elegans. It's my nickname for him, and fits in a dozen different ways.

G-d Bless.

Margie| 7.16.11 @ 6:10PM

Thanks, OT!
We rescued a lovely orange Tabby long haired ball of fluff about a year ago, while house hunting. (Which by the way has finally come to fruition).
I named it Peachy, hoping it was female (we couldn't tell).. but we found out it's a he! Well, Peachy just didn't fit. Kitty cat & Tiger is what he knows. He's gorgeous.
Wish we could post pics.
He runs from window to window when he spots a stray outside, meowing out loud, so funny. But we're keeping him in.

God bless you and yours also, and be like the green olive tree, Occam.
(Ps. 52:8).

Margie| 7.16.11 @ 7:52PM

Link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....olics.html

Margie| 7.16.11 @ 7:52PM

Hey O.T.~

Check this out about Michele Bachmann. She's the real deal as far as what evangelical Christian truly means. They'll be attacking her soon enough for her "hatred" too~ but that's what real Christians do~ speak the truth to lies and deceit.
Bravo, Michele!

Tina B| 7.17.11 @ 10:46AM

Hi my friend and sister, Margie.
As always, good to read you. God be with you today and always.

Margie| 7.17.11 @ 1:19PM

Thanks for saying that, Tina, I appreciate YOU very much.

As to the above article I posted~ we really don't know why Michele left that particular church, I am just glad for the fact that she joined a non-denominational one~ this is where one is usually freed up from unbiblical doctrines, and where the members usually stick to the Bible.

I wish her well.

Sandra | 7.15.11 @ 11:04AM

I would not read this trash if a copy was given to me. It is a pity what ex-staff members of conservatives will do to make a few dollars. The only people who will buy this piece of junk are Palin haters.

Citizen Jerry| 7.15.11 @ 11:05AM

I've seen this toad on the Fox New shows. He's a smarmy little opportunist -- much like your standard democrat politician. At least his book might sell, say, 50 copies.

canuckistani| 7.15.11 @ 11:24AM

She hired him, so is her judgment being challenged?

Doubt it.

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:23PM

People do make mistakes, you know.

victor| 7.16.11 @ 5:46PM

canuckacanuck:
"She hired him, so is her judgment being challenged?"

Someone hired you, maybe his judgement should be questioned as well?

St. Thor| 7.15.11 @ 11:10AM

A book is worth reading far a first hand account of a "scandal" even though the boo's version is inaccurate? Give me a break. I've got better things to do with my time.

joellen| 7.15.11 @ 11:32AM

Just another weak/phony "republican" trying to undermine a true conservative Sarah Palin. I only pray that more and more people are waking up to who truly loves this country, i.e., Palin, Bachmann, and elect true Conservatives who follow the Constitiution. NO MORE RINO'S, they are worse than the dem's/libs'. And, I too will not finance all these "conservative" news media who perpetuate this rot against true conservatives.

Gary| 7.15.11 @ 11:36AM

Merits of this book aside, I hope there is a special place in Hell for scum buckets that work for prominent people then choose to profit by writing "exposes'. Forgive me if I give little attention to their mud slinging antics. Such people have no honor.

Who Knows?| 7.15.11 @ 11:38AM

It’s not what you used to be, but what you are today.

Memory says it was this way. Pride says it was another way. Pride wins---to paraphrase Nietzsche.

As I return to what I was before my father and mother were born, it’s easy to spend a second remembering an interview of the newly famous Palin, on CNBC or MSNBC, in 2008, when she was being floated as a possible choice of VP candidate by McCain.

What if McCain had chosen someone else?

Since he DID pick Sarahcuda, from now until we all die, she’ll be part of the parade of famous media stars we have to endure. However, in time, she’ll drop out into an ordinary play of her life, more or less like what happened to Geraldine Ferraro.

Enjoy it.

Michael L. Hauschild| 7.15.11 @ 12:20PM

McCain realizes it now. The only positive thing in his life that he had any control of was selecting Sarah Palin. His war record was the random trajectory of a piece of shrapnel; his legislative record is so narcissist that the Supreme Court reverses it regularly; his signature legislative records are coauthored by murderers, similar elitists, and the progressive with the same doctrines as his communist torturers. The only thing he will be remembered for is Sarah Palin who nearly singlehanded saved his campaign, and who would have saved America from the jug-eared clown had he been someone else.
Sleep well John, she will do what you could not.

Anthony| 7.15.11 @ 1:49PM

Game, set, and match to Mr. Hauschild!!!!

Occam's Tool| 7.15.11 @ 5:01PM

Dear Michael:

I need to learn at the feet of the Master. Thanks.

Abu Nudnik| 7.15.11 @ 12:13PM

Nudnik's rule #1: Gossip tells us most about the person gossiping, something about the person listening and little if anything about the subject of gossip.
Nudnik's rule #2: Gossip is always political: it has a motive. Discover the motive, discover the meaning.

Abu Nudnik| 7.15.11 @ 12:19PM

BTW: If true, what mother hasn't rolled her eyes when one of her daughters is doing drama queen (if that's what she was doing)? I remember my mom telling me she wasn't going to fight my battles for me. Good mom or bad mom? Good, in my opinion. According to the author, she's supposed to drop everything over every little adolescent whimper. Some kids don't know the limits. Rolling the eyes is sometimes the best response... if the book is as trivial and judgmental as that throughout... well...

CalMark| 7.15.11 @ 12:23PM

An oh-so-serious hit piece about an oh-so-vicious hit book. The piece and book reflect more on their authors than on the subject.

'Nuff said.

Anthony| 7.15.11 @ 1:47PM

......Meanwhile, the Emperor Obozo's true and nasty self is emerging. The debt ceiling talks have this man on the verge of revealing, even to his drones, the cold blooded, SOB, Marxist dictator that he thinks he is.
He is naked to anyone with eyes to see and a mind to comprehend.
And guess who took him on, yep, Sarah Palin.
Please Sarah....run!!!!!

Wayne | 7.15.11 @ 2:09PM

So where is the similar piece on Obama? Where are his email's, his papers, his body of work? Palin is a private citizen, and a hit piece like this is obviously just mean-spirited. Obama meanwhile is running this country into the ground, and Palin is a strong voice calling him out. Makes me wonder sometimes just what side American Spectator is on.

GENE HAUBER| 7.15.11 @ 2:18PM

JABEZ, HMMMM,
AN INTERESTING "PEJORITIVE" TO BE SURE.
A CHARACTER BLESSED WITH RICHES FROM GOD.

I COULD BE JABEZ FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. NO BODY IS MORE BLESSED THAN I AM WITH THE GIFTS OF MY WIFE, MY CHILDREN AND MY GRANDCHILDREN AND MY NEIGHBORS AND MY FRIENDS AND I AM A NOBODY.
SARAH PALIN IS BLESSED BECAUSE SHE IS A GOOD PERSON AND CO-OPTING THE NAME JABEZ IS VERY APPROPRIATE TO ME.
HEY, FRANK BAILEY......STICK YOUR "UPSET" UP YOUR ALIMENTARY CANAL.

Cpm| 7.15.11 @ 2:24PM

This reminds me of the skeevy book by Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, published so their liberal friends will like them again.

talkradio55| 7.15.11 @ 2:45PM

So some half-baked former employee writes a book as a hit piece to undermine Sarah Palin if she decided to run for president and all the idiots come out to take it as gospel? Are we surprised? The fact that the Spectator is running this without rebuttal is very telling. Can anyone say Scot McClellan? Bashing Sarah Palin makes you popular with the "in-crowd", so here he is paying his dues. As Dick Morris said about McClellan's hit piece, "There's nothing there." So let's move on and this book will be lucky to sell 10 copies.

Thom| 7.15.11 @ 3:39PM

While no one is on the top of my list of possible Republican candidates at this point I am consistently reminded that the two possible women on the ticket get handed daily a double standard to deal with not simply by their natural enemies but by those that claim to be their “friends” from the past. Judas is a popular figure in political life going back as far as there are records. There is clearly a double standard at work here and one that will not set well with the female side of the Republican vote if this continues.

As for Palin being an opportunist, there isn’t a shred of evidence to support that going back a very long time in her life and public career. Unlike several RINOs in the current beauty contest she has been relatively consistent in her stances and beliefs and that has earned her a lot of enemies on both sides of the political fence along the way. Nothing new there and people who are not malleable to the pressures of all the special interest groups are often time painted at unfit for the office.

As for Palin being in this just for money, well money is the life blood politics and her detractors would be very hard pressed to find a single modern President that wasn’t already very well off or became so during and after their stay in the WH. King Obama could walk away tomorrow with more net wealth than the Clintons who claimed poverty during their run for the WH. Palin has never claimed to be Christ as I remember but the current and several Democrat Presidential candidates have come pretty close to taking on that mantle more than once. By the standards of the current King and his lying gasbag VP, one of my Cats is more qualified for said office.

Neither Palin nor Bachmann may make it to the nomination, get nominated or receive enough votes should they make it that far to overcome the Orcs that blindly follow the current King but if this double standard keeps on, who every the nominee is will fall short of the votes required because of this practice. If Christ is the standard bearer for a republican candidate for President then we all had better become comfortable with the current Devil and the consequences to come. Business as usual got us to where we are today. That practice won’t save us. The next President is going to have fall into their lap some pretty hard choices to make and that will make a lot of enemies within and without of the political spectrum and those that make a living off of that.

Hit pieces such as this POS aren’t worth my time. Judas is clearly a live and well.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.15.11 @ 3:49PM

I'm still praying earnestly that Sarah will run.

Thom| 7.15.11 @ 3:51PM

Would you understand why she may not given the climate?

Scott| 7.15.11 @ 3:59PM

And the other 80% of the country is praying just as hard that she won't.

Wayne | 7.15.11 @ 6:15PM

BS

John Navratil| 7.15.11 @ 5:06PM

Ken,

I'm with you, if only to agitate Scott's other 80%. It will be a refreshing change when the people get exercised over the candidates instead of waiting for the MSM to pronounce the winner of the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire as the winner of the primary. The potential late entries of Palin and Perry are very upsetting to the professional pundit class. I couldn't be happier.

Scott| 7.15.11 @ 3:56PM

How is this really any big revelation? Anybody that hasn't completely been brainwashed by this woman just has to use some common sense to realize that her personal potential should have stopped at mayor of Wasilla.

Quiting in the middle of her first term as governor so she could go out and rake in the cash should tell anyone what kind of person we are dealing with here. She's an entertainment spectacle and should stick to the book circuit and Fox News, and raising money for candidates where she can.

She has zero shot at any type of politcial success on a national stage. Her and everyone around her know that. The only people that haven't gotten the message are the 15% or so of the population that are brainwashed.

Wayne | 7.15.11 @ 6:17PM

No, we are waiting for some internet weeny to show us the way. We can't think for ourselves and just need you wisdom to set us straight.

Thom| 7.15.11 @ 7:31PM

"Quiting in the middle of her first term as governor"

When your family is in debt to the tune of half a million dollars in legal bills due to 18+ frivolous lawsuits without a shred of evidence to back them up and facing bankruptcy your view might have some credibility. She would not have lasted two more years under the circumstances that put her there in just two years so try dealing with some facts for a change.

So Cal| 7.15.11 @ 6:16PM

It is not wrong to be "paranoid" when they are truly out to get you !

wodiej| 7.15.11 @ 6:54PM

garbage article. take it out with the trash where it belongs.

Nick| 7.15.11 @ 7:05PM

"A self-described "Fox News conservative" and evangelical Christian, author Frank Bailey was a staffer for Sarah Palin during her bid for the Alaska governorship in 2006."

If I remember correctly, David Brock also claimed to be a "conservative" man. Then he turned out to be a liberal homo.

There is one reason, and one reason only, that liberals hate Mrs. Palin: She did not kill Trig when she and Mr. Palin found out he had Downs Syndrome.

For liberals, there is only one proper response to being informed that your unborn baby (fetus in Latin) has Downs, or any defect (no matter how small): You must exercise your choice to kill your baby.

(So, you won't have to put up with all the inconvenience, hard work, and heartbreak which might be involved with raising such a child.)

I would hazard to guess that most liberals either know someone who killed their unborn baby (fetus in Latin) because of some perceived flaw (thanks to the evil amniocentesis), or, they have killed their own child based on such selfishness.

Every time they see Mrs. Palin with Trig, it is just another reminder of what they did.

Children are a blessing, liberals. Every child. They are not a burden, or, a disease, as many of you seem to believe.

Margie| 7.16.11 @ 2:19PM

Beautifully spoken, Nick. Especially paragraph 5, which is the real bottom line, sadly.

It reminded me of my 90 yr. old Great aunt now in a nursing home, who raised a daughter severely crippled by Cerebral Palsy, and who could never walk her whole life. She also had no teeth in her mouth and only her family could understand her when she spoke. She had to be carried from her bed to the toilet every day. Her Father used to carry her but when he died of Cancer in the late 70's, Mom and Son took over, along with the other 2 daughters.
She lived till her early 50's, and had one of the best lives anybody could have had, because of a loving family.
Some of the very best times of my life were spent at their house as a child and teen, and one of the daughters was also my best friend and pen pal.
LOVE means everything.
Bless you for your post.

Nick| 7.16.11 @ 5:38PM

Margie,

Thank you for the kind words, and the moving anecdote.

I hope all is as well as can be expected with you and your family.
God Bless!

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:43PM

Exactly, Margie. So true.

And some people have bodies that allow them to play college baseball, and are yet complete wastes of carbon.

victor| 7.16.11 @ 5:59PM

Thanks, guys. And my cousin wasn't actually bound to her bed. After I reread my post it may have seemed that way, but no. She got around the house in a simply made metal frame that had a seat and wheels on it. They lived in a ranch. She came with us on vacations and her Dad would carry her through the woods in upstate NY where we would go to the lake.. it was called something like Sackindawga.. I don't know how to spell it. She joined us in our inner tubes in the lake as we floated along and had a blast. She never complained and we never knew her pain. She used to light up when we came to visit.

Anyhow~ love conquers all.

Margie| 7.16.11 @ 5:59PM

Oops, that was me.

Nick| 7.16.11 @ 8:11PM

Margie,

"Anyhow~ love conquers all."

Amen to that!

dennisl59| 7.15.11 @ 9:26PM

On LABOR DAY, Monday, September 5th, Noon, EST all the PDS maniacs will go into complete, utter and total mental breakdowns when she announces she's running for President. Palin/Rubio 2012

Karl Jay| 7.15.11 @ 9:28PM

Is one really paranoid if, in fact, lots of people are out to destroy you?

And make no mistake, the Liberal/Leftist Establishment is out to destroy Sarah Palin. And, sadly, there are some RINOs thrown into that mix of enemies as well.

So, after the last two and a half years would I take Sarah as President over the current occupant of The White House....you betcha!

bobbymike| 7.15.11 @ 9:53PM

I would really like to know how much of the book is just he said or he observed? Was there any corroboration as I was in the room with Palin, her chief of staff or anyone else?

You would think you could marry this book with the 24,000 emails and find parallels, right? But you can't.

PCP Smoker| 7.15.11 @ 9:55PM

Glad the truth is coming out here at The Weekly Standard. I'll like to contribute too. I heard she takes daily showers to ward off infection and be "clean".
What a religious nut!

Bye Bye Am Spec| 7.15.11 @ 9:57PM

I can not believe you clowns put this up on your web site.
I was coming close to donating a few bucks, that annoying pop up was effective, but now you can go F yourself.

I can read this crap on Huff Post.

I am gone and I am not coming back

Bye Bye Am Spec| 7.15.11 @ 9:58PM

I am going to the American Thinker, just deleted you from favorites.
You are the A holes that gave us David Brock.

Bob Grant| 7.15.11 @ 10:31PM

Come on! The next time there's a link from HotAir or Drudge about an AmSpec article featuring Sarah you'll be here in two clicks. And read the entire article. And spend time posting comments about how you'll never venture into AmSpec again.

The cycle of life continues.

Hobbes| 7.17.11 @ 12:52PM

Jeez. If you ain't singing this Bimbo Palin's praises you are a traitor to the cause. I remember when conservative used to mean "intellectual." Before talk radio, populism and Palin. Good riddance.

PCP Smoker| 7.17.11 @ 9:29PM

I remember when conservatives did not go about trashing each other. Fuck you ass.

POST American| 7.16.11 @ 12:23AM

---The greatest world nuclear disaster of
all time now being widely spoken of among
the British medical establishment as ---'clearly
a world depopulation op' (SEE Timothy Busby)
--but covered up worldwide.

The opening of 50 square miles south of
Boise to soveriegn RED Chinese status,
the first of several economic zones.

Those MASSIVE tunnel projects underway
between Pigeon Lake and the North Asia
land mass.

The further saturation and undermining
food stocks by the monopoly corporate
mega giant with GM food (BTW 5 people
on my little street have gone ---the latest
a clean living 45 year old family man with
stomach cancer).

The undeniable 'continuity of agenda' from
CFR-Chatham House Bush Sr. ---right through
Harvard man, son of CIA-Globalist Ann Dunham
--Barack Obama, as TREASON comes round the final bend.

These and a host of other massive issues.

WHY are you all, one and all, such scared little
school girls hanging out on your Auntie's porch?

How many of you are computer gernerated?
(we're sensing several)

How many of you are FREEMASON front ops.
NOTE: most anyone is maga media either IS
Mason or answers to 'the agenda'.

WHY such little girls?

You're country, family, culture, posterity
are being destroyed before your eyes--------------

---------------------WHERE ARE YOU?

IT'S HERO TIME----------------------------------------

Cpm| 7.18.11 @ 5:11PM

You promised (under another name) that you wouldn't post your paranoid ravings here anymore. Liar.

Bob| 7.16.11 @ 7:31AM

Thank you Am Sp. Sarah (Paul Revere) Palin riding her caribou the liberals are coming the liberals are coming was stabbed in the back by one of her own flunkies, delicious. Sarah can now devote full time with the other dogs to the Iditarod II racing from Wasilla to ANWAR. Keep pumping up those biceps Sarah.

Michael Tomlinson| 7.16.11 @ 8:29AM

This Democrat tool is Palin's version of the repugnent Bush era little pr*ck Scott McClellan or Reagan's backstabbing David Stockman. They're all sleazy little pieces of dog excrement.

Michael L. Hauschild| 7.16.11 @ 11:37AM

Excellent analysis, MT.

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:44PM

As usual, Mr. T: beautiful, succinct, and pungent.

Tina B| 7.16.11 @ 12:57PM

And said like a gentleman, Michael T.

JimmyMac| 7.16.11 @ 1:48PM

A suggestion for a new name for your publication, "The American RINO".

Margie| 7.16.11 @ 2:23PM

Actually, it should be "The American Libertarian."

Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:46PM

There's only three, and only one is truly smelly---like a mackerel on the dock by moonlight, he shines as he stinks.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.16.11 @ 3:10PM

Turds,
I will support whoever Sarah supports...if she chooses not to run, or is defeated in the primaries.

Longplay| 7.16.11 @ 7:24PM

There are plenty of books like this about Obama and in 2010, people will still vote for him.

stmichrick| 7.16.11 @ 9:56PM

Shades of David Brock. This is a guy in search of a new career.

Timothy Jones| 7.17.11 @ 2:27PM

Let's see...we have to read through eleven paragraphs before we get to the REAL story; that the book is a hit piece co-written by commie HufPo devout Palin-haters and should be regarded as tainted throughout with bias. What crap! Go see "Undefeated" instead. Whether one votes for her or not, one has to admit that Sarah Palin is accomplished, vivacious, dynamic and rabidly patriotic; some qualities we could use in the presidency. And as for Mr. Tod Palin? He's a real "man's man" and to be greatly admired also. I'd much rather have him in the White House than Michelle any day!

Constance| 7.17.11 @ 2:51PM

Any time you see the words Former Staffer and New Book together in the same sentence... be suspicious. I'm not listening anymore. I certainly am not buying this "former staffer's new book". Please.

shipley130| 7.17.11 @ 4:50PM

Sounds like Sarah Palin should have been wary of the staffer. What a horrible day when a state governor knows that a state trooper is a wife beater and tries to get him fired.

Conserdude| 7.17.11 @ 10:17PM

David Bass an evangelical Christian? More like Judas. Such people don't team with hacks from Huffington Post to do hatchet jobs on their former employer. Shame on him. Sarah Palin is not my first choice for president, and quitting the governorship was a fatal mistake, but she doesn't deserve smears from people that she helped in their career.

simon templar| 7.18.11 @ 12:32PM

Paranoid? No! How could she even think anyone is out to get her? For those too stupid, that was sarcasm. That includes the author of this article.

JP| 7.18.11 @ 2:14PM

We all have our moments but by this review I'd say the book is about a statesperson forgetting or unawares of what statespersonship is about penned by a Christian forgetting or unawares of what Christ was all about. Signs of these sad times.

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