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The People’s Palin

By on 9.6.11 @ 6:08AM

Are chants of “Run, Sarah, Run!” a populist battle cry?

MANCHESTER, N.H. — “Thank you, Tea Party Americans,” Sarah Palin said as she began a 25-minute Labor Day speech at Veterans Memorial Park here, crediting the crowd with inspiring her. “You keep me going, and I thank God for you.”

The crowd was variously estimated between 600 and 800 people — certainly not as large as the biggest Tea Party rallies of the past two years, but large enough to raise eyebrows. “Palin, not even in the race, draws double the size crowd as [Mitt] Romney,” was the headline on a CBS News story. Considering that the former Massachusetts governor is the presumptive favorite in next year’s New Hampshire primary, what does it mean that Palin drew more people Monday in Manchester than Romney did Sunday evening in Concord?

Perhaps that’s an apple-and-oranges comparison: Romney is, after all, a familiar face to Republican voters in the Granite State and has campaigned tirelessly here, whereas Monday’s appearance in Manchester was only Palin’s second New Hampshire visit this year. Nevertheless, the size of the Labor Day crowd — and the sound of hundreds of Palin supporters chanting “Run, Sarah, run!” — were sufficient rebuke to those who have derogated the former Alaska governor’s presidential potential.

The dismissive sneers of Palin’s detractors were, quite literally, front-page news in the local press. “You tend to get a sense now that the times have passed by her.… People are looking elsewhere,” a University of New Hampshire political science professor said in an article splashed across the top of the front page of Sunday’s Manchester Union Leader. That article also quoted the head of a New Hampshire conservative group who jeered at Palin, the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee, for “stringing the media along” and playing a “coy game” about her 2012 plans. People are “kind of over Sarah Palin at this point,” Kevin Smith, executive director of Cornerstone Action, told the Union Leader, saying that her long-delayed decision “is turning people off.”

The people at Veterans Memorial Park, however, weren’t turned off nor were they “over Sarah Palin.” Many traveled long distances to attend the event, including Mary Watson, a law student at Virginia’s George Mason University who had come to New Hampshire to distribute flyers for Students4Palin.com. What got her so fired up for Palin? “What is there not to be fired up about?” Watson answered. And like the Mama Grizzly’s hard-core supporters everywhere, she is “absolutely” certain that Palin will enter the 2012 race. “She’s biding her time and we’re all getting ready for her,” Watson said. “We’re gearing up, so whenever she says the word, we’re ready.”

That opinion is directly at odds with the view of most pundits and other members of “the permanent political class” whom Palin excoriated in her Manchester speech. It is nearly impossible to find any political reporter or commentator who thinks Palin seriously intends to join the GOP presidential field, and even conservative Republicans with strong Tea Party connections have discounted the possibility. “It doesn’t appear” Palin will run, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint told CBS News Monday, and insofar as traditional political methods are concerned, there are no real indications that Palin is putting together a campaign, but…

Well, one must always place an asterisk besides any prediction about Palin. None of the political experts who are now scoffing at her potential candidacy expected her to be picked as John McCain’s running mate in 2012, and Palin seems to delight in doing the unexpected. Without any advance warning to the press, for example, she ran a half-marathon race in Iowa over the weekend — a move that could be seen as an obvious metaphor: Nobody expected her to run, and yet she did.

Among Palin’s hard-core supporters, the reading of tea leaves has become a passionate avocation, and they point toward the text of her two speeches this weekend in Iowa and New Hampshire as evidence of her intent. Her criticism of “crony capitalism,” they say, is aimed at Texas Gov. Rick Perry. (See Christopher Horner’s analysis of Perry’s record on that score.) Palin endorsed Perry in his 2010 GOP primary against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, but Palin’s supporters insist that she would be willing to challenge the Texan who has quickly zoomed ahead in the Republican presidential field. And her self-imposed timetable for deciding on a 2012 campaign just happens to fit neatly with that theory.

Palin has repeatedly specified September as the fish-or-cut-bait month for her entry into the race. There will be three debates among the GOP contenders this month: Wednesday at the Reagan Library in California, Sept. 12 in Tampa, and Sept. 22 in Orlando. One imagines that, if Palin is seriously considering a 2012 run, she’ll be watching these debates very closely — especially because these will be Perry’s first debates of the campaign. Should Perry falter or stumble during the next three weeks, that might provide Palin the opening that her supporters so clearly want her to see. At least one reporter at Monday’s speech saw it, too. Danny Yadron of the Wall Street Journal said Palin “made clear a big gap in the 2012 GOP field: the lack of a strong conservative populist.”

“Run, Sarah, run!” the Manchester crowd chanted, forcing Palin to pause her speech and say, “I appreciate your encouragement. I do.” Will that encouragement be enough to bring Palin into the 2012 campaign as the bearer of the populist banner? The mere possibility is enough to give the “permanent political class” nightmares, and to inspire pleasant dreams for the people whose prayers her campaign would answer.

About the Author

Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (341) |

Kitty| 9.6.11 @ 6:31AM

I say Sarah Palin is running now; she just hasn't declared yet. She's running right in front of you, just like in that half marathon, in which nobody recognized her (she placed 2nd in her age group, btw), and people don't recognize it. She said she'd run an unconventional campaign -- and she is.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:41AM

She can only do better than the GOP males who are running.
I saw Huntsman on tV the other day, he was so nervous you could almost see him shaking; he tried to play the piano but even though he can play, it sounded wooden from nervousness.
We don't want Huntsman's shaky finger on the nuclear button.

Vern Crisler | 9.6.11 @ 11:58AM

Agreed. I don't like Huntsman at all. I like Perry, but Sarah's charisma makes Perry appear boring, which I'm sure he isn't. Also if Perry wins the nomination, the Democrats will be comparing him to George Bush at every opportunity. They can't do that with Sarah. Run, Sarah, run indeed!

DaveS| 9.6.11 @ 5:47PM

Wrongo, on doing better than the males (As a sure thing.)

Her achilles' heel is her family. In print, she's great; on the audio, she's shrill and occasionally paranoid. The press has been vicious to her as a Vice-Presidential candidate - because she's in the wrong party. She should have stayed on as governor longer: 18 months of Alaska doesn't compare to Perry's years in bigger Texas.

Vern Crisler | 9.6.11 @ 9:24PM

Sarah was mayor for eight years before becoming governor, 12 years of executive experience. That fact is, in Texas, it's the legislature that really has all the power, and the governor is somewhat secondary. Sarah's speech a couple days ago was very eloquent, not at all shrill. I don't care much about Sarah's family; and the press is going to try the same thing with a male candidate as well. The good thing is Sarah has already gone through it, and there aren't any last minute surprises.

Sarah should run, and the males should step out of the way.....

Vern Crisler | 9.6.11 @ 9:25PM

Sorry, 10 years.

WJ| 9.6.11 @ 3:43PM

If Palin runs and gets the nomination we are screwed. Completely.

I hate to break it to you deluded types but Palin can't beat Obama. No matter how much you adore her. The mushy middle Independents which are the true key to the election will never vote for her.

On top of her lack of knowledge, listening to her voice is like pouring ground- up glass into my ears. It is literally painful to listen to her shrill and often silly speeches.

Amjean| 9.6.11 @ 4:04PM

I bet you just love the velvety voice of Obamarama telling us all those lies.

DaveS| 9.6.11 @ 5:48PM

You have it right.

La Fong| 9.6.11 @ 11:09PM

Can't beat Obama? I beg to differ. Obama
is destined to lose California at the rate he is going. Even his press lamphreys are slowly detaching themselves. I live in Cambridge, MA and have seen maybe 1 or 2 Obama 2012 stickers anywhere.

Rw78| 9.7.11 @ 4:05AM

Obama is finished unless he calls marshall law or miraculously morphs into Ronald Reagan. Independents will vote for an empty milk carton rather than Obama. No matter who wins the Primary, we will all be a thousand times better off than the we are now.

Michael Teuber| 9.6.11 @ 6:30PM

This country (especially the Republican party) can't afford another 'electable' candidate, eight years of Bush should have taught us that. Changing out one 'political class' Democrat for a 'political class' Republican changes nothing but the identities of those who receive patronage jobs, political appointments and fat Federal contracts. To read some of Sarah Palin's (alleged) Republican and Conservative critics, you would think they believed themselves to be in line for such favors if only the next President were to have an '(R)' appended to his name. Simply being unloved by the Bush family is not enough to qualify you for 'Tea Party' status. Lets focus on candidates with the right, rational, constitutional governing philosophy and the record of implementing this approach in office.

Sarah Palin 2012 (Run, Sarah, Run)

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.6.11 @ 6:36AM

I'm still praying earnestly that Sarah will run.

She will simply not let the "beltway" bs stand.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:46AM

Will see:
I might vote for Palin if she PROVES she can do better than Obama, in the same way Reagan proved he could do better than Carter.
However despite what you say, Obama is a great deal better than Carter-- he can't help but be;
"Anyone But Carter" was a bumper sticker I remember from '79.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 9:41AM

Obama has the brains
Obama has the experience

Palin only has the looks.

Dai Alanye | 9.6.11 @ 9:51AM

That does it. I've now decided that AB has an ailment only treatable with psychotropic drugs. The man is all over the place with his political comments, contradicting himself again and again.

This is what trying to find an excuse for voting for Obama does to a person.

Margie| 9.6.11 @ 1:26PM

I think he's pretending to be dumb. Right, Alan? LOL.

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 10:18AM

Obama has the brains
Obama has the experience

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Thanks Alan, I needed a good laugh to start the day.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 11:09AM

You think Palin is smarter than Obama?

DesertFox| 9.6.11 @ 11:31AM

Absolutely.
Even as of today, Palin still have more years of executive experience than Obama and Biden combined.
Obama has brains? Where is your proof?
Obama is the first affirmative action president. Plain and simple.

irish19| 9.6.11 @ 11:35AM

Yes. However, I can't really prove it since zero has all of his transcripts sealed by executive order. I can only go by his political record. That record says he's an empty suit and a hack. Ergo, Palin is arguably smarter. QED.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 12:08PM

What makes Obama smart?

Seriously.

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 11:12AM

How do you know? Your too stupid to make that evaluation.

Teaghan| 9.6.11 @ 11:24AM

There you go again Alan. You best put down that crack pipe, it's clouding your thinking.

carnot| 9.6.11 @ 5:42PM

he just doesn't have the results!

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:24PM

only simpletons are consistent.
For instance I said I MIGHT vote for Palin given some circumstances someday (and as far as you are concerned, what is wrong with that?). At any rate, Palin might not even run for any office- let alone president.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:47PM

So how did Obama get through Harvard Law School if he wasn't (and isn't still) smart? they don't let 'tards enroll at Harvard.
Say what you want about Obama's policies, you can't deny he is smart unless you want to diss him for politics' sake.

Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 9:15PM

I know some Harvard and Yale Law grads. None had my brainpower---not close. HLS graduates over 60% of its students "with honors." How does that work? Only 15% or less of Medical school classes in the US get honors.

By the way, my 1979 college pre-app scores were as follows: PSAT was 215, my ACT was 33, my SAT was 1420. My MCAT in 1983, again old style, was 68 total. I'm younger than he is; I got my MD (from University of Texas) before he got his Law Degree. I was taking care of indigents in LA County public hospitals while he was hobnobbing with various Libtards. I was flirting with a Playboy Playmate while he was dating Thunder-Thighs.

I am QUITE underwhelmed by Barrack intellectually.

No Affirmative Action for White Jews exists, and I still was kicking him in the ass intellectually, and still do.

irish19| 9.6.11 @ 11:27PM

You got me by one on the ACT. Not sure I remember my SAT's.

Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 9:06PM

What Brains does Obama have? The experience of cratering America's economy is not impressive.

Palin reminds me of an old GF of mine---beauty and brains, all in one chick.

apnep| 9.7.11 @ 9:16AM

Give me a break. Obama is a poser and a wannabe celebrity! Sarah Palin is going to kick his and all the other poser conservative's arses. She's already doing it.

Margie| 9.6.11 @ 1:25PM

I agree, Ken. Sarah has that courage, and we know where it comes from~ the Lord our God.

See that picture of her above? My first thought was that she's saying to Obama, "There's the door!!

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:54PM

Well, Palin is a '10',
which nobody can deny.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:56PM

...plus she is NOT "over the Hill"!

Brian Mc| 9.6.11 @ 6:56AM

The political 'specialists' and oh,so wise professors hired by the DNC are killing me. The attacks seem to be on the back burner, simmering while they are running around like squirrels burying acorns, with their "Think like we do" remarks about her has-been status; hoping that some of it might bear fruit. They never seem to tire of the approach first taught them by Joseph Goebbels, say it enough times and hopefully, it will come true.

The casual observer, especially those who voted for the alien, might take their quotes to heart and reinforce what they've absorbed around the water cooler in hopes that other like-mindeds will continue to spread the lies, but this American ain't buyin' what they're selling.

I only wonder if there is enough of us out there, keeping track and assessing the propoganda in order to discern the truth so that the debate can remain healthy. After all, the attacks have yet to come. I say, go ahead and run. Then, we'll watch the attacks once the packs of profs and lib insiders are unleashed in a frenzy. Sarah has to be mindful of what these 'think-like-me's' are cooking up; if the last go-round is any indication, it will get ugly...and ferocious. And the hatred they are fomenting quite possibly could cause activity in the coming election that will put the word 'riot' to shame. It's looking more and more like an "Us vs. Them" winner take all battle and the considerations concerning the results of their efforts terrify me.

Teaghan| 9.6.11 @ 7:38AM

Oh Brian, it is DEFINITELY us against them. The divide is wider and more volital than ever and this campaign season will be down and dirty. I hope the Republicans are ready to fight dirty as the progressives and hit 'em where it hurts. We have to win this election or we're done for.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 9:35AM

No, RINOs will be done for. That's the beauty of it; if you lose, you will have to go back to the drawing board.

Teaghan| 9.6.11 @ 11:25AM

And will we be rid of you Alan?

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 11:34AM

You are being evasive.

Solo| 9.6.11 @ 7:06AM

I think Palin could have a positive impact on the nomination process. She might even win.

But....she needs to stop with the coy teasing. It's getting real tiring.

Put out or get out....as the saying goes. She's beginning to be a negative drag on the campaign process, imo.

Kitty| 9.6.11 @ 8:13AM

I repeat: Clinton declared his candidacy on October 3, 1991, and Reagan declared his on November 13, 1979.

Personally, I'm getting tired of Pataki's tease. It's about time he tell us if he's running or not ;~)

Dai Alanye | 9.6.11 @ 9:53AM

Good one.

Mike DeVault| 9.6.11 @ 10:46AM

You are blindly accepting the MSM meme about Sarah being a tease, or, using your words, coy.

She has consistently said she will announce her intentions in September. I don't want to be rude but what part of that is not understandable?

Teaghan| 9.6.11 @ 11:27AM

It's the MSM who is about to pull their hair out. We are patiently waiting for Sarah to announce she is running. I love the way she toys with them ;-)

Solo| 9.6.11 @ 4:12PM

I wasn't aware that she stated she would make a decision in September.

Well then...."You Betcha"!! Put some lipstick on the Pitbull and let's get with it!

I can see America from my house. And all 57 states!

;)

Go get em, Sarah!

Miachael Carr| 9.6.11 @ 11:37AM

If Palin were a man would use words like "coy" and "teasing"? You slip is showing.

hrh| 9.6.11 @ 12:48PM

Check out the video regarding when former presidents announced their candidacies:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CT.....RP6OKNIvow

And stop listening to the media and GOP Establishment types.

The facts are that deadlines to get on ballots are in October/November.

Palin has a national organization. It's called www.organize4palin.com. We signed up near-on 200 more at the Manchester event alone.

Solo| 9.6.11 @ 4:13PM

No! And I wouldn't have used the expression: "put out or get out, either"

What's your point?

Margie| 9.6.11 @ 1:30PM

It is scientifically impossible for Sarah to be a drag on anything, including the campaign process.

How's that you may ask?

She has the Joy of the Lord as her strength, and is virtually unstoppable.

apnep| 9.7.11 @ 9:18AM

If you listen to Sarah's speech over the weekend, she talked about what her plan would include and all the things she beleives in. Sounds like she is running to me. Just because she hasn't officially announced doesn't mean she's not in. People are going to surprised when they see how much support she truly has.

nister| 9.6.11 @ 7:25AM

Drew 800 listeners? Obama drew one hundred times that when campaigning.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 9:38AM

They're blinded by their hatred of Obama. And their guilt at having wasted 12 years with the Shrub dynasty.
Palin is a '10', that's what it's about, and if she ever becomes president it would be a sop to right-wing feminism.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:51AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 11:21AM

Perry will give him a run for his money. That's why I'm hoping, like Ken, that Palin runs. She's very popular on the GOP side, but as the polls show, she has the very highest negatives and runs the weakest of all potential candidates. Run, Sarah, run!

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:28AM

Palin has the highest chance of losing to Obama despite his being Carter II. Why take the chance with a candidate who stands such a high probability of losing? Losing to boost Palin's ego isn't worth it. We did that in 1976 and 2008 and look where that got us.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:35AM

I forgot 1996.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:00PM

Little Micky RINO Makes A Habit Of Badmouthing Our Tea Party Co-Favorite, Sarah Palin.

Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 9:17PM

And Israel Pin Wearer, Sarah Palin, Clint. Try being consistent in your aim, Clint, it makes for fewer pee stains on your shorts.

Clint| 9.7.11 @ 12:53AM

Shut Your Fag Mouth, Screwball Israel Firster Traitor Bastard Coward, Tool Job.

Margie| 9.6.11 @ 1:41PM

My opinion is that you underestimate Sarah's potential to win, however I do respect your opinion, Michael, because I believe you mean well and want to win.

I know even die hard Liberals that really like Sarah and would vote for her. Even Liberal men like her. Sarah is not only a courageous conservative who would be fearless in her serving of the people~ she would actually DO what's needed to be done to bring our country back to prosperity again, but she is able to win over the liberals and independents.

Not only does she have a winning personality and glowing spirit~ but those attributes of hers are engaged in reality. The reality of knowing what America is about~ what it needs and what it doesn't need.

The liberals, independents, and Libertarians all like her (for the most part), because she is rooting for all of them, and all of us conservatives.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 4:17PM

Then why does she do so poorly in ALL the polls compared to other GOP candidates?

DesertFox| 9.6.11 @ 7:24PM

"Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers."
Sarah Palin, Indianola, Iowa, Sept. 3, 2011.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 9:52PM

....right

Seek| 9.6.11 @ 11:18AM

She's decent-looking, though a bit over the hill. Kind of like her campaign.

Teaghan| 9.6.11 @ 11:28AM

It would take your twisted sense of logic to see it that way. Ignoramous

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 11:37AM

Teaghan,
if Palin were ugly, no one would vote for her.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 1:33PM

Then explain Hillary's success...

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 4:17PM

Hillary is cometent and smart.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 4:18PM

"competent"

Sophist Watch| 9.6.11 @ 4:24PM

That is what Dick Cheney says anyway.

Nick| 9.6.11 @ 5:39PM

RCV,

The two words I would never use when describing Shrillary the Hut is competent and smart.

The best words to describe her would be diabolical and corrupt. Like her husband. Two peas in a pod. Or, as I prefer, thick as thieves, those two.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 6:05PM

I would certainly grant you "scheming". I think Hillary is a very calculating, very smart and astute politican -- much smarter than her husband, but without his natural politician charm. I really don't believe she is corrupt. Power means more to her than any monetary gain. She is ruthless.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 6:07PM

There's an old story Democrats used to tell of Bill and Hillary attending her high school reunion. They meet Hillary's old boyfriend, who is now the manager of the local McDonalds. Bill says to Hillary. "Just think, if you'd married him, you'd be the wife of a McDonald's manager." Hillary replies, "If I'd married him, he'd be President instead of you."

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 6:09PM

BTW, Nick, everything I've read about Sarah Palin convinces me that she is cut from that same cloth as Hillary - utterly ruthless.

Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 9:18PM

Yup, and she went to my high school, as did Harrison Ford.

Nick| 9.6.11 @ 11:25PM

RCV,

Not corrupt?

Starting with her work on the defense of the Black Panthers, while at Yale; to the handling the "bimbo eruptions"; to her years at the Rose Law Firm and Whitewater; and moving on to Vince Foster's suicide (not that she was involved, just the ordering of clearing out his office, by Betsey Wright, before the police showed up); how was she anything but corrupt?

And smart?

Remember the "Vast Right-wing Conspiracy"? Was that smart? That gave Rush material for years!

Nick| 9.6.11 @ 11:30PM

Oh, and to refer to Mrs. Palin and Shrillary in the same sentence is very unfair to Mrs. Palin.

Ruthless? Why? Because she shoots deer and moose? Or, are referring to all the gossip that is reported as if it is fact?

RCV| 9.7.11 @ 12:41AM

No, my comments have nothing to do with her abilities as a hunter, which in fact are rather endearing and add to her undeniable attractiveness. They have to do with the recounting of many who have worked closely with her in government, and with the glimpses we saw of her in her dealings with Joe Miller, when he had the audacity to decline to endorse her ability to be President. The phone messages that leaked out were glimpses of how she uses her influence and power to further her own ambitions, in much the same ruthless way Hillary does. They're made of much the same grit.

Nick| 9.7.11 @ 5:59PM

RCV,

I must have missed those phone messages. I will look them up.

I still think, given my response, below, about Hillary, comparing her to Mrs. Palin is like comparing apples and king crab legs.

(See how I did that? The apple reminds people of Satan, in the Garden of Eden, i.e., Hillary; and king crab legs come from Alaska, and are better than apples, i.e., Sarah. Ha-ha! Sometimes I crack myself up!)

RCV| 9.7.11 @ 12:36AM

Not sure how working on a legal case for the Black Panthers constitutes "corrupt" as I understand the word. Handling Bill's infidelities may show how ambitious she was, but not "corrupt" - the same with Foster's files. The latter two confirm her ruthlessness in furthering her ambitions, but "corrupt", no.

Whitewater certainly comes closer, although for the life of me, as deeply as I waded into that morass, I could find no evidence of actual wrongdoing or corruption -- which is the same conclusion that Ken Starr (whom I know well from legal practice) came to.

Her comments on a " vast right wing conspiracy" to get Bill and her weren't far off the mark, but again, no matter how you view that political rhetoric, I hardly see that as evidence of corruption.

Nick| 9.7.11 @ 5:48PM

RCV,

The Black Panthers were corrupt. So, I look at anyone who defended them as I do mob lawyers. They are also corrupt.

"Handling Bill's infidelities" as you put it, involved threats, intimidation, extortion, and bribes, if I recall correctly. These activities are corrupt.

Clearing out Mr. Foster's office was, at the minimum, interfering with a homicide investigation. This is corrupt. Especially, coming from the First Lady of the United States of America.

Ken Starr found plenty of evidence of wrongdoing from the Whitewater affair. Several people went to prison, including the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker (Clinton's Lt. Gov.) and Webster Hubbell, Clinton's Associate Attorney General (#3 at Justice.) Mr. Starr just didn't have enough evidence to convict Bubba and Shrillary in a court of law. Which is a shame.

In a perfect world, the two of them should just be getting paroled from prison about now.

I didn't say that Hillary's VRW conspiracy nonsense was corrupt, I said it was not very smart. It might have rallied the liberal base, at that time, but, it made her look foolish when Bubba finally had to....um....no, I won't do it! When Bubba finally had to admit that he lied. No double entendres today.

Corruption is not confined to law breaking, by the way. But, Bubba and Shrillary did break many laws in their long career. The fact that they are considered rock stars in the democrat party, says much about your party, I'm afraid.

RCV| 9.8.11 @ 4:26PM

Nick - your humor cracks me up as well!

As to Bill and Hillary being well-liked, I myself confess that as to Bill, I'm in the "love the sinner, hate the sins" category. I don't feel the same warmth toward Hillary and I doubt most Democrats do either, even those who support her.

Nick| 9.8.11 @ 5:36PM

Thanks, RCV!

Trying to remember all that Whitewater stuff, took me back to my dark place. I needed to lighten it up a little!

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:41PM

"Then explain Hillary's success..."

So you admit Palin's success is based on her looks?

Seek| 9.6.11 @ 1:39PM

It hurts to admit that there just isn't much substance there -- that Sarah Palin is way overhyped fluff plucked from semi-obscurity in 2008 to fulfill a neoconservative fantasy of a Red State "coalition." There's an ignoramus in the room, all right, but I'm afraid it's not me.

Margie| 9.6.11 @ 1:45PM

"It hurts to admit that there just isn't much substance there -- "

Seek, you say that, but then you don't consider God to have any substance either, right?
You have stated that you're an atheist.
So, your judgement concerning Sarah's substance is pretty much null & void.

Seek| 9.6.11 @ 3:54PM

In no way have I stated here or in any other public forum that I am an atheist. You have willfully misrepresented my views. In any event, my belief or disbelief in God has nothing to do with my ability to render a sound judgment about Sarah Palin.

Margie, if this magazine ever initiated a J. Gordon Coogler award for the most consistently absurd posts, you would be the consensus winner.

Margie| 9.6.11 @ 11:06PM

Willful, no. Mistaken perhaps. And I have always rather liked you, Seek, and have posted kindly to you as far as I know.

If you aren't an atheist then I was mistaken, and apologize profusely.

I did recall your abhorrence towards Christians though, such as this:

"Seek| 8.15.11 @ 12:49PM

When surrounded by fundamentalists, I don't have to worry about hell. I'm already in it."

Biblically speaking, if one abhors Christians, they abhor God. If one receives Christians, they receive God. Mt. 10:40.

As to the award that you speak of~ I'm sure many who abhor God and Christians would also agree with you.

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 11:35AM

Speaking for myself, your correct about "hatred of Obama." I hate people like him and people like you who were stupid enough to vote for that racist ideologue.

Talk about "blinded." You love a dope smoking, anti-American terrorist lover who attended a racist preachers church for 20 years. You blindly followed and voted into office a man whose history had to be expunged or sealed from public view. The man you blindly follows, lies to "you" and everyone else, every time he opens his mouth and still you love him.

You willfully ignorant liars and loves of lies can't seem to find one fault in Obama. Anytime anyone points out the evil he embodies you just stick you fingers in your ears and start yelling la, la, la , la.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 11:40AM

"I hate people like him and people like you who were stupid enough to vote for that racist ideologue."

Boar Banger,
I did not vote for Obama in '08, but will vote for him next year.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 12:59PM

So you're doubling-down on stupid, Alan?

Sorry, but we on the Conservative side of the aisle are a forgiving bunch. In that regard, we can forgive people who voted for Obama in '08, both because of the "historical" nature of his Presidency (a crock, but whatever), and the pathetic alternative that John McCain presented.

But anyone who, after three utterly disastrous years that highlight Obama's total ineptitude, proclaims his intention to vote for Obama in 2012 is either:

1. Willfully stupid.
2. A member of a "privileged" class (like Unions) that stands to personally benefit, or
3. A member of the "aggrieved" class who use their ethnicity to continually extort money and/or preferences from the rest of us.

Based on your past posts, I think # 1 and # 3 above apply to you.

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 6:25PM

The fastest way to change a liberals mind is with a rock.

Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 9:18PM

What mind?

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:34PM

I TOLD you: if Obama is re-elected, it will not only put an end to chances of RINOs being elected but also put an end to any more Bush-type dynasties. I have written that many times; if you didn't notice then you haven't read what I have written and you can't judge me on these issues.
Besides, all sorts of things were said and are still said (i.e. at AS) about Bill Clinton-- but he was reelected in '96 and is quite popular because of nostalgia for the era before Bush became president.

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 6:24PM

Thats cause your anti-american just like the idiots you prefer in elected office.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 8:05PM

Clinton was THE Master politician. Perhaps Obama will wind up being the same; but it is too early to say. JFK served less than 3 years as prez so there is no way to know how he would have done if he hadn't been assassinated.
If Obama doesn't do well next year, he wont be reelected-- and since so many of you want him to fail you will be vindicated and can lick your chops in satisfaction and dance the Loop de Loop.

Al in LA| 9.6.11 @ 9:41AM

But that's just it nister....she's not campaigning...she's just showing up to talk to plain folk who are tired of listening to the D.C. establishment. I'm sure that when she "officially" starts campaigning, you'll be seeing record crowds, only this time, they'll be supporting an honest, patriotic, dye-in-the-wool American who will do the opposite of our current POS and bring this Nation back from the brink of disaster.

nister| 9.6.11 @ 2:19PM

One hundred times the crowd size. Fact, not assertion or wishful thinking. 10,000%, or, in the instance of his German speech, 31,000% [+/-].

irish19| 9.6.11 @ 3:05PM

The German speech was scheduled to coincide with a fair and a free concert, thus the crowd. And so what. The last time I checked, none of them were eligible to vote in our elections.

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 10:20AM

That's because most Obama supporters don't have jobs.

Alan Brooks| 9.6.11 @ 7:37PM

Thanks to Bush's policies. The meltdown began in 2008, not '09.
Don't you remember the autumn of '08? it was only three years ago.

Drunken Sailor| 9.7.11 @ 9:04AM

Why yes, Alan I do remember the autumn of 08. That was 2 years after the Democrats took control of Congress and we began going downhill. Then in 08 they got the Presidency and stepped on the gas to see how fast we could get to the bottom. How is your memory?

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 7:37AM

While polls can be misleading or predetermined (like the recent AP GfK poll that surveyed twice the number of Democrats to Republicans and found RINO liberal Ron Paul's favorability higher than other Republicans); the fact Sarah Palin is so unpopular in poll after poll is not a portent of success. Speaking only to favorable crowds can often confuse a politician that adoring fans adulation is public sentiment when it isn’t.

Pollster.com shows Sarah Palin’s favorability rating to be 31.4 percent while her unfavorability rating is 59.9 percent – that’s Barack Obama territory. A Pew Research poll found a full 41 percent of Republican voters say there is absolutely no chance they’d vote for Palin. More Republicans would be open to voting for RINO Ron Paul (a socially liberal RINO with a George Soros foreign policy that blames America for terrorism and the world’s ills). Even if Palin enters the race, and clinches the nomination, nearly 70 percent of American voters say there is no chance they would vote for her. Substantial majorities of have ruled out voting for Palin; 67 percent say there is no chance they would vote for her. The best she could potentially get under Pew’s scenario is 34 percent of the vote – and that’s only if she managed to win over every single person who was merely open to voting for her.

A large majority of Tea Party members want her to stay out of the 2012 presidential race, according to a Fox News poll. A staggering 66 percent said that Palin should sit on the sidelines, while only 28 percent wanted to see her in the race. Even more Republicans -- 71 percent -- thought she would be making a mistake by declaring her candidacy. In all, 74 percent of voters hoped she would not be getting in.

Like Rep. Paul Ryan tens of thousands of Republicans do not believe the GOP has to nominate the heir to the last failed nominee (Sarah Palin) or the runner-up (Romney). What is needed now is a solid Republican with leadership experience and a record of success and competency that contrasts with the FAILED Obama and his Democrat cronies who’ve destroyed over 8 million jobs, decimated the housing market, wiped out middle-class income and savings, nearly doubled the national debt, undermined the US military’s war against Muslim extremists and worked to destroy American supremacy in the world.

Brian Mc| 9.6.11 @ 8:54AM

All the numbers you have presented support my hypothesis concerning the liberal media and the stranglehold they possess on the news that is viewed by the ignorant masses of voters. If this continues on its present course our hopes for a smaller government that sticks to the Constitution are a wasted effort in futility.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 9:06AM

Brian Mc it is not opposition to smaller government, but to Palin. The two are not the same.

Every Republican candidate supports the principle of smaller government and they're not lagging in GOP or national support. Palin is a controversial figure disliked as intensely as she is supported by her hardcore followers.

A rejection of Sarah Palin is not a rejection of limited government.

Margie| 9.6.11 @ 1:48PM

About that poll of TEA partiers~ I wonder how many of them polled are the rabid Paul-bot types?

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 3:32PM

" Tea party activists are divided roughly into two camps, according to a POLITICO/TargetPoint poll: one that’s libertarian-minded and largely indifferent to hot-button values issues and another that’s culturally conservative and equally concerned about social and fiscal issues.

The survey, an exit poll conducted Thursday by Edison Research at the massive Tax Day protest on the National Mall, found that the attendees were largely hostile to President Barack Obama and the national Democratic Party — three-quarters believe the president “is pursuing a socialist agenda.”

Yet they aren’t enamored of the Republican Party as an alternative. Overall, three out of four tea party attendees said they were “scared about the direction” of the country and “want to send a message to both political parties.”

Palin, who topped the list with 15 percent, speaks for the 43 percent of those polled expressing the distinctly conservative view that government does too much, while also saying that it needs to promote traditional values.

Paul’s thinking is reflected by an almost identical 42 percent who said government does too much but should not try to promote any particular set of values — the hallmarks of libertarians. He came in second to Palin with 12 percent.

When asked to choose from a list of candidates for president in 2012, Palin and Paul also finished one-two — with Palin at 15 percent and Paul at 14 percent. "
We Dr.Ron Paul Supporters Respect Sarah Palin & Welcome Her To Run With Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr.Ron Paul And Michele Bachmann.

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 3:35PM

Many Of Us Tea Party Patriots Respect Sarah Palin & Welcome Her To Join Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr.Ron Paul And Run For Office, As Michele Bachmann Has Already Done.

Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 9:20PM

I love Michele and Sarah. They would balance the budget and keep America safe. Both of them have close ties with Israel, Michele working on a Kibbutz there as a youth.

Most Tea Partiers support Israel. Only a few whackos don't.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 9:55PM

Perry's candidacy has dealt Michelle's a fatal blow, as the resignation of her veteran respected campaign manager, Ed Rollins, confirms.

Nick| 9.6.11 @ 11:33PM

RCV,

Ed Rollins is not that respected. Especially by conservatives. When he isn't running bad campaigns, he can only get hired by CNN!

RCV| 9.7.11 @ 12:44AM

Michelle Bachmann, who we're told is no dummy, thought enough of him to seek him out to run her campaign.

Nick| 9.7.11 @ 6:10PM

We all make mistakes, RCV.

I will chalk this up to Mrs. Bachmann's inexperience, which is her most serious liability.

She has only held elective office for ten and a half years. She has only been a U.S. representative for four and a half years.

I like her very much, but (monkey,) running for the presidency from the House of Representatives is always a long shot, at best.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 4:58PM

Ron Paul gets desperate:

http://www.politico.com/news/s.....62677.html

Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 9:21PM

Rick Perry should show the film of Ron Paul attacking Ronald Reagan. It is a pleasure sharing the planet with you, Doctor.

Margie| 9.7.11 @ 12:35AM

Does the man not remind you of this clown?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com.....d47803.jpg

wodiej| 9.6.11 @ 9:22AM

"polls are for strippers and skiers." lol, intelligent people think for themselves and don't let polls form their opinons.

sue ward| 9.6.11 @ 11:33AM

that poll was done by slick rick perry's poll team - what kind of results would you expect? Like Sarah said - polls(poles) are for strippers & cross country skiers -

DaveS| 9.6.11 @ 9:13PM

If Sarah said it that way, I'd advise here to stay clear of comparable commentary in the future.

Miachael Carr| 9.6.11 @ 11:42AM

According to polls as much as 29% of GOP primary voters will vote for Perry. That means that 71% of GOP primary voters wont vote for him.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 12:09PM

But they're not Palin voters. The next in line is Romney and you can go down the list from there. Even Huntsman usually comes up with 1%. As the "lineup" thins out people will have to choose between Perry and Romney. Based on electability and likability (a real reason independents vote for someone) Perry will win the GOP nomination and Presidency.

If Palin hurts Perry (doesn't look that way now) Romney will be beneficiary and likely the nominee.

Aside from Obama Palin is probably the most unpopular person in Presidential politics at this time. Can she turn that negativity around unlikely, but she'd have time if she won the nomination, but the GOP and nation crave competency and that's why she's less likely to get the nomination.

Republicans want to win not vindicate Sarah Palin or stick it to the MSM. Whe we beat Obama we've accomplished the latter.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 7:42AM

Little Micky RINO Badmouths Our Tea Party Co-Favorites Sarah Palin & Dr. Ron Paul, once again.

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Rise Up.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 7:47AM

Clint I thought you were a support of the faux conservative RINO Ron Paul? Have you finally grown up and dumped the liberal RINO Paul?

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 8:10AM

WeTea Party Patriots know that You, Little Micky Rino are a RINO-CINO Apologist Flunkie Stooge.

Aaaand, Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Sarah Palin has Your Faux Conservative PlasticBoy Perry's Number.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:08AM

Today's national Battleground Poll put Texas Gov. Rick Perry on top of the GOP presidential pack, with 36 percent tapping him as their choice. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 17 percent; followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann at 10 percent; Rep. Ron Paul at 10 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum, 5 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 5 percent. Businessman Herman Cain had 4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 1 percent.

russel| 9.6.11 @ 10:59AM

I don't care what MT may be , but common sense must prevail or we're stuck with Spanky and his nightmare all over again . Palin is radioactive . Let her stick with what she's very adept at - attack dog , running back blocker , etc.. If nothing else , I'd like to see her run and beat MurCOW ski . Now that would be common sense amd quite productive .

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:39AM

Russel,
I'm a traditional conservative and lifelong Republican and want to win in 2012. Even if I must support a populist. Obama must go and anyone who puts his reelction in the realm of possibility must go.

Palin is a pitbull on the stump where she risks nothing and I say take the leash off and let her go after Obama, but not as the GOP nominee.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 11:24AM

Clint pretends he supports Palin so he can pretend he's a tea partier. The truth is that Palin is an ardent neo-Conservative as pro-Israeli Republican of the type that Clint rants against.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:42AM

RCV,
You nailed the phony RINO Muslim terrorist apologist.

Palin's pro-Israel stance would make it that much easier to vote for her. She'd be a terror to the Muslim terrorists and jihadist RINO Ron Paul and Clint love.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:05PM

Read Our Tea Party Patriots Mission Statement Obama LawBoy Israel Firster , RCV. There's Nothing In It About Israel.

We Tea Party Patriots Don't Have Your Israel Firster Litmus Test About The Foreign Nation Of Israel.

We Ain't Voting For The Knesset Or Israel's Prime Minister ObamaBoy Israel Firster RCV.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 12:14PM

"Sarah Palin traveled overseas this past weekend. Gateway Pundit and HotAir covered the speech she gave in India, which was quite a speech, by the way. From there she traveled to Israel for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Fox News interviewed Israeli reporter and talk show host Aaron Klein. Klein noted how the Israeli people tend to favor Republicans, and are wary of President Obama. (With good reason?) When asked if the people in Israel like Sarah Palin, Klein said they don’t know a whole lot about her, but they do know she loves them."

Thank God Sarah Palin is such a big supporter of Israel. If she does get the nomination that will make it easier to vote for her despite her lack of experience and depth.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 1:42PM

Dang!

GOOD point, RCV!

I agree with you; the world just shuddered on it's axis...

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 4:20PM

We have to stop agreeing like this, Dr. R.....

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 6:40PM

Unlike the rude, thoughtless, snot-nose, drooling window licker Clint,

...being a thinking adult, I have determined that "if" Dr. Right were presented with a valid and persuasive argument, he would reconsider his opinion and appropriately and graciously change his mind.

That is not possible with someone as passionately invested in his stupidity as Clint.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 9:57PM

True that!

The One Who Runs Like a Duck| 9.6.11 @ 10:03PM

Shut up, you son of bitches, RCV. You are either for us or against us. When you make nice with the good Doctor then I gots to draw the line. I will bring down a whole army of union thugs to take you out if you're not careful. You''ll be a racist slave owning hang a black from the nearest tree teabagger if you don't follow my example of civil discourse. I will ram solar powered wind farms based on high speed rail where the sun don't shine unless you treat these ingrates like we tell you to. Remember:

"But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -- at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do -- it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds."

Boy that was a bunch of crap wasn't it? RCV, you support me and stick up for me everyday here. I expect more of you. You should accusing these guys of racism 10 times a day. You should insult their religion and their non Stanford outlook every chance you get. No more of this kind of discourse. I want civil discourse. Do you feel me? Wink, wink!! Take high speed rail to Martha's Vineyard and join working man Jimmy Hoffa and me for an expensive round of golf. Democratic voters are the biggest saps around, baby.

RCV| 9.7.11 @ 12:46AM

Zzzzzzzzzzz ......

Margie| 9.6.11 @ 2:11PM

RCV,

He's part of a sect in the TEA party~ the Paul-bot sect!
LOL.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 3:21PM

Many Of We Tea Party Patriots Support All Our Tea Party Candidates,Unlike You RINO-CINO Israel Firster Agendists.

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 6:41PM

Your not in the Tea Party Clint.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 6:11PM

That's DOCTOR Paul to you, Margie!

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 8:20AM

Paul and his demented followers are on the Express Train to Obscurity-Ville.

Clint-wit desperately wants people to think that he's a die-hard, driving force in the Tea Party (when he's not even a member), and that he can pick a winner.

The only thing Clint can pick is his nose.

Mick Hawk| 9.6.11 @ 8:32AM

Tea Party patriots have no connection to Rube Paul, the aged neo-progressive Libertarian with the coterie of kooks following him.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 9:12AM

Asked & Answered Ad Nauseum.

These Israel Firsters Are Scared Of The Tea Party.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 9:49AM

Well since I'm IN the Tea Party, that's kinda' funny!

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 11:14AM

Doctor Reich Answers To Israel Firster.

Aaaand, If You're A Real Tea Party Patriot , Ya Gotta Admit That Sarah Palin Follows Our Tea Party Mission Statement More Than The Phoney Tea Party Poseur, Rick Perry.

So Admit It, Doctor Reich.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 4:21PM

What policy differences do Palin and Perry have, Clint?

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:15AM

Today's national Battleground Poll put Texas Gov. Rick Perry on top of the GOP presidential pack, with 36 percent tapping him as their choice. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 17 percent; followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann at 10 percent; Rep. Ron Paul at 10 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum, 5 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 5 percent. Businessman Herman Cain had 4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 1 percent.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:51AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 8:52AM

You're A Liar, Social PropagandaBoy Doctor Reich.

Still Hidin' In Joisey ?


"News reports have shown that some donors to Texas Gov. Rick Perry received state appointments. And this year, he has been slammed anew by many conservatives for a 2007 executive order requiring sixth-grade girls in Texas to get a vaccine made by Merck & Co. to help prevent cervical cancer; Mr. Perry’s former chief of staff is a lobbyist for Merck. Mr. Perry later said that was a mistake. When Ms. Palin was asked afterward her speech if she had Mr. Perry in mind, she replied, “I want all of our GOP candidates to take the opportunity to kill corporate capitalism that is leading to this cronyism, which is ruining our economy.”

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Rise Up

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 9:27AM

Today's national Battleground Poll put Texas Gov. Rick Perry on top of the GOP presidential pack, with 36 percent tapping him as their choice. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 17 percent; followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann at 10 percent; Rep. Ron Paul at 10 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum, 5 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 5 percent. Businessman Herman Cain had 4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 1 percent.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 9:48AM

Still a repressed closet-case, Clint-wit, masquerading as a Tea Party member??

Wanna' hear something funny?

I had some time on my hands over the long weekend, so I called David Adamski, Jr. Sound familiar?

It should. He's a co-organizer of the Valley Forge Tea Party Patriots. (http://www.meetup.com/VFP-TeaParty09/members/?op=leaders).

He's NEVER heard of you.

When I explained that I wanted him to know that a Rube Paul crank was proclaiming his membership in VFTPP, and trying to link the Tea Party to Ron Paul, he wasn't too thrilled.

The jig is up, Clint-wit.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 11:46AM

Foist, Dumbass, My First Name Ain't Clint.

Second, Adamski runs The King Of Prussia Branch Meetings Of The Valley Forge Tea Party. My Buddies And I Are Phoenixville Branch Members. I Heard Him Speak at Their King Of Prussia Meeting In July. He's An Architect & thinking of Running for Office.

However, I will Make It My Business To Talk To Adamski Tonight At The Bistro Meeting In K Of P And Ask Him About You. This Should Be Fun.

Interesting, His Phone Number Isn't Listed.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 12:12PM

Yeah, I'm sure you will...

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:49PM

You Can Take It To The Bank, Liar.

I Just Called My Buddy Don & We're Both Gonna Talk To Adamski About You, Israel Firster, Doctor Reich.

This Should Be Interesting.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 1:01PM

Uh-huh.

I'll be waiting with baited breath.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 3:53PM

Then, We Won't Stand Down Wind Of Doctor Reich.
What We Will Do , Is Meet With Adamski At 6:00 PM.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 1:37PM

Let's see...

Here's a list of the folks attending tonight's meeting in King of Prussia, PA:

David Adamski Jr.

Andrea Faggioli

Barbara Fritz

Barbara German Kairis

Mary

mark driver
Phil is a great speaker & very knowledgeable on our constitution, PLEASE COME and learn how to save our republic !!!

Ray Conway

gmicksmith

sharon delaney

Jim Brown

Which one are you, Clint?

I'm guessing that you might be mark driver. Like you, his grammar is horrendous.

Aaaaaaand...He's the only one who felt the need to make a "statement" on the sign-in page.

Clint-wit = mark driver..?

Time will tell.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 1:37PM

Either that, Clint-wit...or you're "mary."

Truth to Power| 9.6.11 @ 7:24PM

I am betting on Andrea Faggioli. Can we have a pool?

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 3:55PM

I'm The Guy That's Gonna Talk To Adamski Tonight, Doctor Reich.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 1:44PM

I noticed you didn't address the "closet-case" comment.

Sometimes what you DON'T say, Clint-wit, is just as revealing as what you do say.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 4:03PM

O.K.
Apparently, You're A " Closet-Case".

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 9:50AM

The vaccine story is OLD news. Been out for over a year.

Yet Perry still vaulted to front-runner status as soon as he officially entered the race.

Yeah...the vaccine story! LOL! That'll push Ron Paul to the top!!!

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:16AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Miachael Carr| 9.6.11 @ 11:48AM

With 90% of all major media slobbering over him like lovesick schoolgirls, he can only garner 47%! With 90% of all major media trying to bury her under a torrent of distortions and lies she still manages to garner 35%! I wouls still put my money on her.

RCV| 9.6.11 @ 4:23PM

Do you think the media will ease up on her if she gets the nomination? If not, why would her numbers change then?

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 10:21AM

I beg to differ Dr.

Clint can also pick his ass.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 10:25AM

Too early for such a bad image...

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:11PM

Drunk Swabbie Picks The Phoney Conservative, Perry's Ass.

Sarah Palin Trumps Perry.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 1:39PM

Why Is It That When I think About Men, My Skin Gets All Flushed Aaaand Then I Get Real Angry??

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 4:07PM

Why Is It That When I think About Men, My Skin Gets All Flushed Aaaand Then I Get Real Angry??

Seek| 9.6.11 @ 11:22AM

The contributors to www.lewrockwell.com -- all of them -- insist Ron Paul is a shoo-in for the nomination and election. In fact, Llewellyn Rockwell and Walter Block each have guaranteed a Paul victory in November 2012. I don't necessarily agree with that, but you can believe that Ron Paul's supporters are convinced their man is going all the way.

What's your take on the Old Right libertarian view?

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:44AM

Lew Rockwell is a small minded little man who want own up to writing the anti-Semitic filth in Ron Paul's newsletter or belittling President Reagan to advance one of Paul's failed Presidential run. No cajones or integrity, but probably a sheet and hood in his closet along with his brown shirt.

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 9:23PM

Michael, Clint is a lifesupport system for Clint's anus, the most important part of his body. By using his anus in a number of creative (and, in certain municipalities, illegal) ways, Clint provides for himself. Haven't you figured it out by now.

R Martin| 9.6.11 @ 7:44AM

"The mere possibility is enough to give the "permanent political class" nightmares, and to inspire pleasant dreams for the people whose prayers her campaign would answer."

Those of us who are not members of the political class also have nightmares, but they revolve around a Palin candidacy and the re-election of Obama. The pleasant dreams are mostly among Obama supporters who would love nothing more than to run against her.

scotchieguy| 9.6.11 @ 9:13AM

The only way Obama wins a second term is if Palin or Ron Paul win the nomination. The lefties are in the weeds just licking their chops, as are the lemmings in the MSM. This would be a disaster.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:47AM

We should be safe.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:16AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 11:37AM

Plin has not announced and she still has 35% huh, imagine that.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:49AM

Actually not surprising. I'd vote for her against Obama and I'm anything, but a Palin booster. The only person I wouldn't vote for is RINO liberal Ron Paul and possibly Huntsman, but I'd probably still vote for the latter grudgingly.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 7:45AM

During her appearance in Indianola, Iowa on Saturday, ( Sarah ) Palin appeared to criticize Perry by referring to his deep-pocketed donors.

"Some GOP candidates," she told the crowd, "they also raise mammoth amounts of cash and we need to ask them, too: What, if anything, do their donors expect in return from their investments?"

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Rise Up.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 8:13AM

Of course she's attacking Perry, Clint-wit...

He's ahead of her by 20%. Duh.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 8:57AM

Duuuhhhhh !

Sarah Isn't Running Yet, GOP Flunkie Stooge Buffoon , Doctor Reich.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 9:54AM

Ooooh, you got me!!!

Hey, Clint-wit!! Perry was in the lead BEFORE he got into the race.

Palin's not.

Toying with you is too easy. I should feel bad about it, but you're such an obnoxious fool, I simply don't.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:17PM

Perry is being exposed by The Texas Tea Party & The New Hampshire Tea Party & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Sarah Palin, For The Fake Conservative He Is.

Aaaand, I'm Gonna Expose You & Talk To Adamski, At The King Of Prussia Tea Party Meeting Tonight, Doctor Reich.

More later........

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:14AM

Today's national Battleground Poll put Texas Gov. Rick Perry on top of the GOP presidential pack, with 36 percent tapping him as their choice. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 17 percent; followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann at 10 percent; Rep. Ron Paul at 10 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum, 5 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 5 percent. Businessman Herman Cain had 4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 1 percent.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 10:24AM

But Mike...

Clint-wit has ANOTHER poll that shows Ron Paul is the leader!!

He won't cite the source, but we should trust Clint-wit, anyway.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:20PM

Like This One, Israel Firster Doctor Reich?

Hmmmm?

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 1:46PM

I just realized...

...According to Clint, I'm an Israel-Loving Nazi!

If that's NOT ironic, then I don't know what is!!!

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 12:23PM

Doc:
As an Israel seconder and British/Canadian thirder I'll be voting for the third party candidate if RINO liberal, Iran loving, terrorist apologist Ron "Wild Shrimp Earmarks" Paul is the GOP nominee, but I really don't have to worry about that Sarah Palin will destroy him for us if she runs. Helping Rick Perry secure the nomination and White House.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:52AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:52PM

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

Elron H.| 9.6.11 @ 1:51PM

Associated Planets Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new intergalactic poll of the general population in the Crab Nebula Empire has revealed that top tier candidate Arkon the Conquerer is the most favorable choice in the Galaxian Presidential nomination race.

Close behind Arkon are Kang the Conquerer (no relation), and The Thing From Planet X. Texas gynecologist and all-around loony-toon Doctor Ron Paul is a distant 4th.

Arkon 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Kang 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
The Thing From Planet X 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Ron Paul 15% favorable vs 73% unfavorable = -8

Elron H.| 9.6.11 @ 1:57PM

Associated Planets Press-GfK poll:

CORRECTION:
In a prior article, it was stated that Texas gynecologist and all-around loony-toon Doctor Ron Paul was "the most favorable GOP candidate."

This was factually incorrect. Paul is currently in fifth place and fading fast in the political race in one of the sub-divisional territories of planet M-012 ("earth").

In addition, Paul is a distant fourth in the race for Intergalactic General Secretary and Commisar, where he trails Arkon the Conquerer, Kang the Conquerer (no relation), and The Thing From Planet X.

Associated Planets Press (APP) tried to reach Paul via a Zeta-beam channeled through his tin-foil hat, but Paul was busy blaming America for the downfall of Byzantium, and was unavailable for comment.

The APP regrets the error.

Elron H.| 9.6.11 @ 2:01PM

Associated Planets Press-GfK poll:

CORRECTION:
In a recent article, it was stated that Texas gynecologist and all-around loony-toon Doctor Ron Paul was running for the position of Intergalactic General Secretary and Commisar of the Crab Nebula Empire.

This was, in fact, inaccurate.

Texas gynecologist and all-around loony-toon Doctor Ron Paul is, in fact, running for the position of Galaxian President. If victorious, Paul will serve no more than three (3) consecutive terms of 1,000 years each. Critics claim that Paul is too old for the job.

The fact-checkers at APP are asleep at the switch today.

The APP regrets the error.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 4:10PM

I'm hiding in New Jersey & I can be Elron H. if I want.

Don't Tell Big Mama.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 4:13PM

Don't tell on me.
I'm Elron H.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 4:14PM

We have Our Nazis R Us Meeting tonight in Camden.

martin j smith| 9.6.11 @ 7:46AM

Palin cannot lose if she runs or not. But which ever she chooses I hope to hear more speeches from her attacking the establishment in Washington. That is at least one very good line of attack though there is a lot more. Business as usual has to end.

I think nister( is that short for sinister ? ) is a SOCIALIST DRONE. Identify,Isolate,castigate,
and insulate.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 8:05AM

If Palin is the nominee, I'll vote for her.

But I'm not a member of "Team Sarah" for the primaries; that ship has sailed.

Speaking only for myself, Palin's act had grown somewhat thin. This constant game of "Will she, won't she??" that she plays with the media has become a distraction. While other candidates were building support, she was doing reality TV.

Additionally, a lot if her early supporters are now firmly ensconced in some other candidate's camp, particularly Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman. And despite Palin's personal connection with Conservative voters, Perry has FAR more experience and manages a major state.

Again, if she wins the nomination, I have no trouble supporting her. She's just not my first choice, anymore...and I'm probably not alone.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 8:19AM

Doctor if she gets the nomination I'll join you in voting for her, but her lack of experience and seeming need for media attention make me wonder if she could even beat Obama or stand up to his mud slinging (since she couldn't handle false allegations in Alaska).

There is only one candidate running for the GOP nomination that I wouldn't vote for and that's faux conservative the liberal RINO Ron Paul with his George Soros foreign policy and beltway double speak to explain his addiction to gov't pork.

Clinton| 9.6.11 @ 8:31AM

Ron Paul is an American hater.

Astonishingly, during the first Republican debate in South Carolina, Ron Paul responded to a question about terrorism by saying, “I think secret prisons...keeping people there for years and years without due process is not a characteristic of a republic that believes in freedom. It’s just not the process. It’s more typical of an authoritarian government to have secret prisons, so I don’t think it serves our purpose. We have tried nearly 300 suspects in civilian courts, and hundreds have been convicted and put away. So why are we afraid of openness? Why do we have to move in the direction of giving up the right of habeas corpus? Why shouldn’t we treat people the way we think we might be treated under dire circumstances? We do not need secret prisons, nor do we need the torture that goes on in secret military prisons.” Eric Holder couldn't have said it better.

Eric Holder, who spent time between the Clinton administration and 2009 finding ways to support terrorists’ rights, has gone out of his way as attorney general to divert terrorists from military tribunals and into our criminal courtrooms. He’s even gone so far as to have enemy combatants captured on the battlefield read their Miranda rights. Because they are not captured in this country, how can enemy combatants possibly be granted the protections of the U.S. Constitution? It’s inconceivable, and yet they are.

The proper legal jurisdiction for those who take up arms against us or are captured on foreign soil for planning or participating in terrorist acts should be a military tribunal. But that’s not how Obama and Eric Holder see it, and apparently Ron Paul agrees with them.

In response to such lunacy and ignorance, let’s start with one of Paul’s questions: Why are we afraid of openness? First, classified documents that may be critical to getting a conviction may not be able to be placed into evidence in a criminal trial because they contain information that compromises national security. But, if they are not used, a high value enemy combatant could walk.

Second, the rules of evidence and the closed nature of the military tribunals allow for the use of those documents without the worry of public exposure.

Third, if bin Laden had been captured, under Holder’s arbitrary and twisted view, all of the material collected at his hideout would be inadmissible in civil court because it was obtained without a search warrant, even though it was found in Pakistan.

Finally, juries are always wild cards comprising people with different ideological beliefs, especially if they are secretly Muslim terrorist sympathizers. Anyone harboring such beliefs could well set a dangerous terrorist free, to assume otherwise is dangerous in the extreme.

Further to the criminal jurisdiction viewpoint, Paul mentioned “due process” and “habeas corpus,” both of which are indigenous to our criminal courts, not military tribunals, per se. And, Paul’s neo-biblical claim that we should treat our enemies as we would want to be treated by them is both ingenuous and illogical. The Islamic combatants’ rules of engagement mandate that they take no prisoners, so concerns about how our captured soldiers might be treated are moot.

And those few people who have been captured, including non-combatant journalist Daniel Pearl, have experienced Muslim extremist compassion first hand by losing their heads. As such, the “treat-others-as-we-want-to-be-treated” concept makes Paul deliriously gullible; it’s a viewpoint that demonstrates an alarming lack of understanding about how this enemy thinks. That is horrifically troublesome coming from an alleged conservative and a man who would be president.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 9:01AM

Clinton,
Your post reminded me of how RINO liberal Paul blamed America for Iran's current theocratic oppressors. RINO Paul responding to conservative Rick Santorum blamed America for the current bad blood backing up his ludicrous theory by referring back to the 1953 coup that overthrew Soviet surrogate Mohammad Mosaddegh and led to the Shah being restored to the Peacock Throne.

The quintessential RINO, sounding like Democrat Dick Durbin, states the CIA taught the Shah’s secret police force, Savak, how to torture (RINO Paul provides no proof), but ignores the current torture and murder being carried on by the Iranian despots he defends. As you point out RINO Paul is more like Eric Holder than a Republican.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 9:10AM

These Israel Firsters Are Scared Of The Tea Party.

"After the attacks on 9/11, Congressman Ron Paul introduced a bill in the Congress, which would have specified the scope for a mission to take down the terrorists responsible for the attacks on 9/11. First and foremost, the proposal was Constitutional and secondly, it was highly targeted and wouldn’t have resulted in thousands of Americans being killed senselessly. Had Congressman Ron Paul’s proposal for letters of Marque and Reprisal, HR 3076, been passed by the United States Congress in October of 2001, trillions of dollars and thousands of lives would not have been lost in the search for Osama bin Laden."

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Rise Up.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:09AM

Today's national Battleground Poll put Texas Gov. Rick Perry on top of the GOP presidential pack, with 36 percent tapping him as their choice. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 17 percent; followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann at 10 percent; Rep. Ron Paul at 10 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum, 5 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 5 percent. Businessman Herman Cain had 4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 1 percent.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:52AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 11:05AM

Wrong Date.

And They Polled Obama verses Dr.Ron Paul, 10 days earlier.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:15AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:21PM

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

Elron H.| 9.6.11 @ 4:34PM

You mean "versus", don't you? "Verses" are what's contained in a poem or a song.

Are you saying, in some bizarre way, that Obama writes poetry? And that this happened 10 days ago, or so?

You're a strange little fellow.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 12:25PM

Clint I prefer Israel seconder. I know Lew Rockwell does your thinking for you, but please have a bit more self-respect than to parrott a moron like Lew "Witless" Rockwell.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 9:03AM

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Carpe Diem.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 9:16AM

AP-GfK routinely over polls Democrats and Democrat leaning independents as they did in this poll. It is not surprising they like a liberal like RINO Ron Paul. You fail to note in the same poll Rudy Giuliani gets a 50% favorable and 40% unfavorable and Romney 46% favorable and 31% unfavorable.

Of course a poll that favors Democrats will have them unfavorable to real conservatives like Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and Sarah Palin (45% favorable and 50% unfavorable).

Conservatives Rise Up and Reject the liberal RINO Ron Paul.

Illegitimi non carborundum

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:10AM

"Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul earns 38% of the vote to President Obama’s 39% in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters. Fourteen percent (14%) like some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) remain undecided."

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Veni, Vidi, Velcro.

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 10:27AM

Nice cherry picking Clint. Same poll
Perry 44% Obama 41%
Romnety 39% Obama 43%

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:55AM

You Pick Your Ass, Drunk Swabbie.

"Fresh on the heels of his well-received second placing in the Ames straw poll on Saturday, Ron Paul has trounced so-called “frontrunner” Rick Perry in a presidential survey of voters in both candidate’s home state of Texas.
“Answering the question, “If the Texas Republican primary were held today, which presidential candidate would you be most likely to vote for?” 22 percent of those polled selected Mr. Paul. Just 17 percent of respondents voted in favor of Mr. Perry,” reports the State Column.

The survey was conducted by Azimuth Research Group."

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 11:40AM

Ron Paul is a nut. You are a nut supporter. Please stop supporting Palin and claiming you are in the Tea Party Clint, it makes the baby Jesus cry.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:55PM

Let's See Ya Make Me RINO Perry Boy Flunkie Stooge.

Sarah Palin Trumps Your Faux Conservative Perry.

Elron H.| 9.6.11 @ 4:43PM

It's beyond amusing when someone says something akin to "Let's See Ya make Me" on an online, anonymous message forum!

The faux-bravado of the individual issuing the phony challenge knows full well that it's a false threat, and that the person they're challenging has neither the time nor the inclination to travel across the country to meet with them and "throw down".

And yet they do it anyway. And funniest of all (or saddest, depending on how you look at it), they convince themselves that their manliness is affirmed merely by making the challenge.

These folks have serious issues with self-esteem.

Here. Watch this:

"Clint, you are a pathetic, limp-wristed, moronic fool. You've never seen a naked girl who wasn't in two dimensions, and you masturbate prodigiously. Your idiotic posts and semi-intelligent ramblings are the stuff of legend on this board. You haven't had an original thought since 5th grade.

Meet me tomorrow at high noon outside of Yankee Stadium so I can KICK YOUR ASS, pussy-boy!!!!!

FYI, a failure to show will mean you are a total coward!"

See? What did THAT prove?

Ridiculous.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 5:34PM

That You're A Fixated Asshole, Like You Have Proved Over & Over.

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 12:00PM

Why yes, your poll shows that IN TEXAS Ron Paul was the favorite canidate. Then again your poll was taken BEFORE Perry announced his run.

Poll Date: 5/29-6/3, 2011
Poll Method: Monitored and automated calls
Poll Sample: 882 highly active Republican voters in Texas
Margin of Error: +/- 2%

http://www.fontcraft.com/azimuth/?p=11

See the dates? 5/29-6/3, 2011
Perry announced his run Aug13th.

Cherry Picking again Clint.

Interesting that you didn't show the other poll they did at the same time showing the most UNELECTABLE Canidate were your boy Ron Paul got 9% and Perry wasn't even mentioned.
http://www.azimuthpolls.com/?cat=4

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 12:27PM

Sailor,
Drunk or sober you always kick Clint's ass. As an Israel Seconder and British/Canadian thirder I really appreciate your hard work in dealing with these faux conservative RINO liberal Ron Paul cultists.

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 12:42PM

Thanks MT,
He froth's at the mouth so much he is pretty transparent. Doctor Right, really enjoys tweaking his nose and seems to have a talent for it.

Israell 2nder and British/Canadian 3rder huh? Sounds about right, can we get membership rings?

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 1:02PM

Little Micky RINO makes it a habit to badmouth Sarah Palin & her chances.

He's A Faux Conservative Perry GOP RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooge.

The Texas Tea Party, The New Hampshire Tea Party & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Sarah Palin Are Exposing Perry For The Fraud He Is.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:25PM

Do Your Homework, Uninformed Perry Flunkie Stooge.
They Polled About Sarah Palin On August11-12.

They Polled About Dr.Ron Paul August 15-16.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:53AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:25PM

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 9:28AM

Today's Battleground Poll put Texas Gov. Rick Perry on top of the GOP presidential pack, with 36 percent tapping him as their choice. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 17 percent; followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann at 10 percent; Rep. Ron Paul at 10 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum, 5 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 5 percent. Businessman Herman Cain had 4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 1 percent.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 9:53AM

"Fresh on the heels of his well-received second placing in the Ames straw poll on Saturday, Ron Paul has trounced so-called “frontrunner” Rick Perry in a presidential survey of voters in both candidate’s home state of Texas.
“Answering the question, “If the Texas Republican primary were held today, which presidential candidate would you be most likely to vote for?” 22 percent of those polled selected Mr. Paul. Just 17 percent of respondents voted in favor of Mr. Perry,” reports the State Column.

The survey was conducted by Azimuth Research Group."

"Paul has lambasted Rick Perry as another RINO Republican, a wolf in sheep’s clothing who poses as a firebrand conservative and yet through his actions has proven himself to be an establishment figure.

“[Governor Perry] is getting into the race, I think, doesn’t bother me at all, obviously because he pretty much represents the status quo. And the other candidates, in one way or the other, are part of the status quo. And I represent something different,” Paul said earlier this week."

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Rise Up.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:09AM

Today's national Battleground Poll put Texas Gov. Rick Perry on top of the GOP presidential pack, with 36 percent tapping him as their choice. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 17 percent; followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann at 10 percent; Rep. Ron Paul at 10 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum, 5 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 5 percent. Businessman Herman Cain had 4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 1 percent.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:16AM

You're Scared of The Tea Party.

"Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul earns 38% of the vote to President Obama’s 39% in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters. Fourteen percent (14%) like some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) remain undecided."

The Tea Party Rebellion Here.

Rideo, ergo sum

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:53AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 12:26PM

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:13AM

Today's national Battleground Poll put Texas Gov. Rick Perry on top of the GOP presidential pack, with 36 percent tapping him as their choice. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 17 percent; followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann at 10 percent; Rep. Ron Paul at 10 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum, 5 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 5 percent. Businessman Herman Cain had 4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 1 percent.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:18AM

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 10:22AM

"A new national poll"..???

From where? Cite the source, Clint-wit.

Is this from "OnlyRonPaulCanSaveAmerica.com"??

You have ZERO credibility.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:50AM

Duuuuhhhh !
Associated Press GfK Poll: August,2011:

Doctor Reich : The Axis Sally of American Spectator.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:53AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:13AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:13AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:14AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

da monk| 9.6.11 @ 9:30AM

Clinton: Have you ever studied the Constitution, better READ the Constitution? Our Constitution gurantees those on trial the right of Habas Corpus and Due Process....and the Supreme Court agreed when it declared that part of President Bush's although Military Tribunals have the right to try terroists the Tribunals must accord the accused of Habeas Corpus and Due Process along with other rights granted to those on trial.

Clinton| 9.6.11 @ 9:52AM

The Constitution was not written in defense of Muslim terrorists waging jihad/holy war against the US. Habeas Corpus and due process are to insure criminal's and law abiding citizen's civil rights are protected in the United States. Please review what the Consitution actually says.

The Muslim terrorists/jihadists/mujahedeen you wish to protect are at war with the US and thus not covered under the Constitution, because they are not criminals but a type of foreign "combatants" (though even under the Geneva Convention that description is dubious). You might want to actually read the Constitution and stop allowing Ron Paul, of dubious intellectual ability, to think for you.

I know Ron Paul has justified Muslim terrorism against the US by citing Osama bin Laden’s fatwa’s as definitive proof the US is evil, but no serious legal scholar or patriot would use the words of a terrorist to argue they deserve Constitutional protections (no doubt Eric Holder and Barack Obama would agree with fellow liberal Ron Paul’s bizarre read of the Constitution).

Why don’t you followers of Ron Paul just embrace your radical liberalism and join the Democrat party, because you are definitely outside the true conservative mainstream of the Republican Party.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 9:57AM

"Michael Scheuer, who was the head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Alec Station, and authored the books Through Our Enemies Eyes and Imperial Hubris, said “I thought Mr. Paul captured it the other night exactly correctly. This war is dangerous to America because it’s based, not on gender equality, as Mr. Giuliani suggested, or any other kind of freedom, but simply because of what we do in the Islamic World because ‘we’re over there,’ basically, as Mr. Paul said in the debate.”

Scheuer also agreed with Dr. Paul’s statement in the debate that the war in Iraq was a diversion from capturing or killing Osama bin Laden and that bin Laden was “delighted” that the U.S. is occupying Iraq as it has become a training ground and recruiting tool for new jihadists joining the movement."

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:54AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Dai Alanye | 9.6.11 @ 10:01AM

Justice Jackson: "The Constitution is not a mutual suicide pact."
(Or words to that general effect.)

We do not extend Constitutional rights to our enemies during wartime.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:10AM

RINO liberal Ron Paul and his fellow travelers George Soros, Eric Holder and Barack Obama would.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:21AM

Ronald Reagan,
"Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."
The Tea Party Rebellion Is here.
Rise Up.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:54AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 12:29PM

RINO liberal, Iran lover, terrorist apologist Ron "Wild Shrimp Earmarks" Paul has been bought and paid for by Iran's sugar daddy Russia. He's an agent of a foreign power.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:25AM

George Washington,
" The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

Carpe Diem.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:54AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 4:48PM

The issue you're trying to make has sailed right over your own head with a loud and decisive "Whoooooosh!"

The point is NOT whether those "on trial" in the USA have a Right of Habeus Corpus...

...The point is that the terrorists captured on the battlefield DO NOT have a right to a trial, regardless of whether or not some idiotic Judge thinks that they do.

Are you under the impression that when we captured German and Japanese soldiers on the battlefield during WW II that we gave them trials? That we mirandized them?

If you are, then you're utterly, hopelessly clueless.

And you have the gaul to ask if Clinton has ever studied the Constitution?!?!

Have you, dim-wit???

irish19| 9.6.11 @ 11:41PM

Terrorists captured on the battlefield can be stood up against the nearest wall and shot. That's in the Geneva Conventions.

Doctor Right| 9.6.11 @ 8:39AM

I DO think she made the right decision to step down as Governor, and I don't think it was a lack of intestinal fortitude.

The long and short of it is that the endless stream of frivolous, politically-motivated lawsuits against her office in Alaska would have made it extremely difficult for her to discharge her duties as Governor, NOT because these lawsuits had any merit, but because she would have had to devote considerable time to defending herself against them.

By becoming Governor, Palin made enemies of the Alaskan political class on both sides of the aisle. Some of he'd staunchest political enemies are the loathsome Murkowski-clan, including the corrupt former Governor and his brain-dead daughter, the Senator. So in fighting these lawsuits, Palin would have received little help from much if the GOP establishment in Alaska.

She did the right thing for her state. Since she resigned, those lawsuits seem to have vanished.

wodiej| 9.6.11 @ 9:24AM

Lack of experience? LMAO!!!!

Clinton| 9.6.11 @ 9:59AM

Please, what is Sarah Palin's experience? I've got the basics -- small town mayor, 2 years as Governor of Alaska, running mate to failed Presidential candidate John McCain, reality TV show "star," FOX news contributor and paid public speaker. But what are the details of her "vast" experience that make her the best candidate for the GOP? Even RINO Ron Paul has a record that is verifiable.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:04AM

Clinton,
While I'm critical of Palin's lack of experience when it comes to Obama and Democrats I ascribe to a version of Buckley "principle" that the first 2,000 people in the phone book would do a better job of governing than Democrats.

While Palin lacks experience and has shown a willingness to compromise with Democrats and even support their elections I'd still vote for her before Obama or any Democrat. I just think we can do better and have some solid candidates running now whose experiences in government and the private sector make them solid candidates for President.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:27AM

Little Micky RINO is Afraid Of Sarah Palin & The Tea Party.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:55AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 11:42AM

You forgot Ron Paul

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:53AM

No I didn't forget him. To me he's the muck that used to get on my boots when cleaning the stables.

Since the article's about Palin I felt it was only fair to include her.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 1:03PM

You Forgot, You're The Chairman Of The Bores.

russel| 9.6.11 @ 11:06AM

DR , I didn't get down to your post , but I agree . Read my post above . It's common sense and a cool head we need to kick the Token out of Washington .

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 11:45AM

"And I'm probably not alone."

Nope, I'm in that same boat. I honestly don't think she is running as she doesn't even have the groundwork of a team put together. All the top dogs are spoken for. I think she is just tweaking the Lamestream media's nose but it is getting tiresome and distracting. Announce one way or the other so she can get back to stumping for conservative principles. Otherwise she risk making herself inconsequential.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 1:06PM

These Perry Flunkie Stooges, Like The Drunk Boy Here, Make It A Bad Habit Of Badmouthin' Sarah Palin & Her Chances.

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 1:58PM

Wrong again Clint-wit. I like Sara. I just don't think she is running or if she is that she may be making a tactical error by waiting to long. I would vote for her over Ron paul anyday.

POST American| 9.6.11 @ 9:08AM

"--And no matter who's in office, for decades
now, the 'age--enda' is
NEVER questioned, NEVER changed,
much less challenged. This tells
you that, at the top, they're ALL 'on board'.
ALL of them. Absolutely ALL of them."
-ALAN WATT

---------------AND 'Que Sera' Sara Pail--in?

Well, catch those flickers of crooked smiles.

Like BOTH Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, Cheney,
Perry and ROME-KNEE -------

-----Those crooked, crooked smiles.

--------Globalist RED China sellout TREASON

-------------and crooked, crooked smiles.

-------------YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED-------------

Louis Jenkins| 9.6.11 @ 9:11AM

All of the candidates have anted up, with the exception of Palin. Perry has the wind in his sails, however, his governorship also has a few problems, none of which are substantial, but problems none-the-less. Palin should get in the race, if for no other reason than to see how well she can do. A vote for Palin is not wasted. Let us not return to the election of '08 when we held our noses and voted. We've been holding our noses too long. It's time to get off of the pot Palin, and get cracken.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 9:18AM

If she gets the nomination I'll hold my nose and vote for a woman who took 97% of the stimulus money (claiming she didn't) and worked with Democrats against her on Party for the couple of years she was Governor of Alaska.

Dai Alanye | 9.6.11 @ 10:22AM

There was no "stimulus money" while Palin was Governor. There was earmark money, which she accepted when it was helpful to her state but refused when it was not. The "bridge to nowhere" is an example of the latter.

Palin went after corruption in the Republican Party, and very effectively, too. It led in large part to her successful run for Governor. This is hardly a fault by the standards of honest voters.

When Governor, she managed to get considerable cooperation from the Dems, using her native charm much as Reagan did. Again, no fault by rational standards.

Palin's biggest electoral weakness is how effectively the media has defamed her. Fortunately, that can be overcome. Her main strength is her instinctive love for freedom.

With all that being said, I'd still prefer to see her as Interior Secretary, expressly charged to create American energy independence, but if she obtains the nomination for President she'll have my vote and active support.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:58AM

After Obama was elected and before she resigned she took all, but 3% of the stimulus money he offered Alaska.

She compromised with Democrats as Reagan did too, but I don't fault her for that, because that's the way our system works. I only bring it up, because her followers act like she's never compromised and is the only person with principles. Far from it she's a typical politician.

Her biggest weakness is people just don't like her. She's like Obama the more the American public see her (that's her decision) the less they like her.

wodiej| 9.6.11 @ 9:27AM

It's obvious that there are many still in need of having the blinders pulled off. No candidate will beat Obama with the same old tired GOP playbook.
The only one who isn't doing that is Gov. Sarah Palin.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 9:34AM

"Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obama’s inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

More than 60 percent of those surveyed say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the economy and, what has become issue No. 1, the stagnant jobs situation. Just 43 percent now approve of the job he is doing overall, a new career low; 53 percent disapprove, a new high."

"Nearly 3 out of 4 voters contend that the country is headed in the wrong direction, and President Barack Obama is becoming increasingly vulnerable to Republican challengers, according to a new Politico/George Washington University Battleground Poll.

The demand for redirection puts even more onus on President Barack Obama’s jobs speech set for Thursday night. The odds against him are mounting, with the poll finding that 50 percent disapprove of his job performance and just 45 percent approve, which is a seven-point drop since May. Only 39 percent approve of his economic acumen, and 59 percent dissing it.

The poll’s finding that 72 percent of voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction either strongly or somewhat represents a 12-point leap since May. Only 20 percent of voters say the country is going in the right direction, a 12-point drop in the same period."

RCP Average 43.8 approve of Obama and 51.3 disapprove.

Obama's double dip recession is killing his chances for reelection. There is currently only one candidate who is as unpopular as Obama -- Sarah Palin. So a matchup of them would be a guess who would win.

Seek| 9.6.11 @ 11:29AM

Palin's views are generally sound, but her intangibles -- e.g., leadership, character, flexibility, emotional self-control -- are appalling. She shouldn't be president.

shoebox57| 9.6.11 @ 9:55AM

Sarah Palin will run. She has a 50/50 chance at winning the nomination. In the general election, it will be an ABO vote and once again, Americans can say, "It's morning in America!"

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 10:12AM

You're right about Palin having a 50/50 chance by why take the chance when we have better candidates who can and will bury Obama and the Democrats in a national landside?

shoebox57| 9.6.11 @ 9:55AM

That's ANYBODY BUT OBAMA! (ABO)

MATT M.| 9.6.11 @ 10:04AM

Perky won't run but she will work the tease like a B-girl in a cheap gin joint until the johns are broke or the joint closes.

Closing time can't come soon enough.

Viator| 9.6.11 @ 10:26AM

A better description of Palin's strategy and tactics is asymmetry. She seems to be someone who knows how to use the tools at hand, not the tools talking heads and the political establishment think she should have, not the tools has Mitt Romney but rather those assets which circumstances make available to her. Asymmetric struggles define our age and people are discovering there are more ways to get from A to B than first class. Palin, that dumb woman from the sticks, may have some tricks to teach the smartest people in the room.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.6.11 @ 10:27AM

I wrote this in my blogsite a few days ago...
www.txbooks.blogspot.com

Sarah Palin’s Toughest Life Decision...

…Does she toss her hat into the ring for the Presidency, or does she go all in supporting Governor Rick Perry?
I for one will be studying her September third speech very carefully for an indication.
I know that she likes Governor Perry, and I know she is essentially a humble person. I know that she truly doesn’t want to be President, no more than Governor Perry wants to be President. There is no question in my mind that the two of them have spent considerable time on the phone.
Governor Perry admits candidly that his own wife “kicked me out of my comfort zone”, and literally challenged him to run….unless he was chicken.
I cannot help but wonder what is going on in Sarah’s household. She and her family have “been through the mill” once already, and have suffered immensely for it.
Having said all of that, If she runs, it will because she is on our side. She will be doing so as our servant. Sorta’ reminds me of Jesus washing his disciple’s feet.
(St. John 13: verses 5 thru 16)
That is what Sarah is referring to when she speaks of serving with “a servant’s heart.”
I hope each of you reading this will pull out your Bible and read those verses.
Sarah’s plan outlined Saturday:
She went on to say “I wanna tell you what my plan is!”
With those eight words, Palin announced what many believe is the beacon of hope for America; the staple of a potential Presidential campaign, her plan.
1st Let’s enforce the 10th Amendment! Devolve powers back locally where the founders intended them to be.
2nd We must repeal Obamacare and reign in burdensome regulations that are a boot on our neck. Let the private sector breathe and grow.
3rd We must prioritize and cut. Cancel unused stimulus funds and have that come to Jesus moment where we own up to the debt challenge that is entitlement reform. The status quo is no longer an option. Entitlement reform is our duty now and it must be done I n a way that honors our commitment to our esteemed elders today while keeping faith with future generations.
4th It is time for America to become the energy super power. The real stimulus that we’ve been waiting for is robust and responsible domestic energy production. We have the resources. Affordable secure energy is the key to any thriving economy and it must be our foundation. Drill here, drill now, let the refineries and the pipelines be built stop kowtowing to foreign countries and dictators… We need to move on tapping our own God given resources that are part of our reserve. I promise you this will bring real job growth. There are enough…projects just waiting in the wings, waiting for government approval that could create more than a million high paying jobs all across the US and this is true stimulus. America’s economic revival starts with America’s energy revival.
5th To make America the most attractive and competitive place to do business, to set up shop here, and hire people here, to attract capital from all over the globe that will lead to an explosion of growth instead of chasing industry offshore. I propose to eliminate all corporate income tax, and hear me out on this…this is how we create millions of high paying jobs, this is how we increase opportunity and prosperity for all. But here’s the best part to balance out any loss from this tax cut we eliminate corporate welfare and all the loopholes and we eliminate bailouts. This is how we break the back of crony capitalism because it feeds off corporate welfare which is just socialism for the very rich. We can change all of that. The message then to job creating corporations is that ‘yeah we’ll unshackle you from the world’s highest taxes, but you stand or fall on your own just like all the rest of us out on Main Street.
Let us seek that hand once more…We will fight for freedom, we will fight for America. We are at the tipping point. United we must stand and we shall nobly save, not meanly lose this last best hope on Earth!""

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:10AM

Ken I often find myself in agreement with you, but I'm dubious about Sarah Palin's humility (that said I don't question her faith or patriotism). I think much of what has been going on with her since being McCain's running mate has been Sarah Palin's version of the Truman Show, but she's the one manipulating her life into a soap opera.

While the press has been unkind to her she seems to do everything she can to stay in the spotlight. A person truly disgusted with the media limelight would have taken advantage of Alaska's distance from the East Coast (all that matters with the MSM) and disappeared. Instead, she courts the media and insures the media knows all about what she's doing (even when she's incognito like the half marathon).

As for her plan, aside from point 5, nothing new, but a rehash of Perry, Bachmann, Cain and even Romney. Her negatives are so high inside and outside the Party she'd make a terrible nominee. It would be McCain II, but this time with a candidate that says the right things. We cannot afford the risk when the stakes are this high.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.6.11 @ 4:16PM

Michael,
thanks for your response.
You know... I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Sarah had called Governor Perry a while back and asked him to run......so she wouldn't have to.

I also wonder if Sarah is watching to see if Governor Perry can reach out nationally and be accepted. We native Texans are delighted he is our Governor, though we got a LOT of U.S. immigrants who haven't gotten "acclimated" to Texas quite yet.

Those transplants, (10 million of them), are still struggling with how we do business over here.

Duh...of course politicians get campaign contributions from companies. Ya got to if you want your message out.

The trick is to promise to LISTEN to them... but NOT bow down to them as Obama has done with the unions.
Unions have never created a job except through feather-bedding.

Texas is a "right to work" State. That fact has gotten us a huge advantage in skilled man/woman power.
They keep moving here.

I think Sarah would be tickled pink to have Perry as President.
I still hope she will run to FORCE the conversation to be honest. She can help Perry accomplish that.

TennesseeVolunteer| 9.6.11 @ 4:57PM

Ken, I always enjoy your comments and agree with you about Sarah. I have always wondered if the final barrier to her running is the real fear for her and her families lives. The last Presidents who were against the Fed and the bankers were all shot (Reagan, Kennedy, Lincoln).
I pray for her everyday and for our country. If it can't be her, I am for Perry.

Simon Templar| 9.6.11 @ 10:30AM

Will she run? Or will she not run? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of an outrageous slanderous and sensationalizing media,
Or to take arms against this sea of troublemakers,
And by opposing end them?

Oh, the passion. Oh the drama.
Please give it a rest.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 10:40AM

Sarah Palin Trumps Perry.

" In her speech at the bucolic National Balloon Classic field in Indianola, Palin will lean on loaded phrases like “crony capitalism” and “permanent political class” in laying out her view of the U.S. political system’s deep-rooted ills, according to a source close to Palin and familiar with the content of the speech.

In this regard she is echoing Perry’s Texas critics as well as free-market conservatives who have complained about Perry’s cozy relationship with big donors: “Though she will not call Perry out by name, Palin’s carefully couched rhetoric will leave the impression that she may soon draw more overt attention to one of the Texan’s potential vulnerabilities as a candidate: his history of doling out plum positions and other benefits to generous campaign donors during his nearly 11-year tenure as the nation’s longest serving governor.”

The Tea Party Rebelion Is Here.

Rise Up.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:01AM

Rasmussen Reports 6 September 2011

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls

Obama 47%, Palin 35%

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 1:07PM

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

Rob| 9.6.11 @ 11:40AM

Ms Palin would make a great pres. The repubs will need the female SWPLs vote to take back the presidency. Sadly, they(female SWPLs) have been captured by the lefts anti-evangelical, pro-abortion, elitist narrative and may be unwilling to vote for ANY repub candidate flying that flag, male or female.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:57AM

White women voters are turning on Obama. AP-Gfk a pro-Democrat poll stated recently, "In the latest AP-GfK survey, less than half of all women and less than half of all men approve of the job Obama is doing. Just 50 percent of women said Obama deserves re-election."

The one thing the polls seem to tell us is Sarah Palin is terribly unpopular with women. That could change as the economy gets worse, but we'll have to wait and see.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 3:12PM

Associated Press-GfK poll: Ron Paul the most favorable GOP candidate

A new national poll of the general population has revealed that top tier candidate Ron Paul is the most favorable choice in the Republican Presidential nomination race.

Ron Paul 37% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = +1
Mitt Romney 39% favorable vs 41% unfavorable = -2
Rick Perry 33% favorable vs 36% unfavorable = -3
Michele Bachmann 35% favorable vs 43% unfavorable = -8

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 4:06PM

And your poll has a error rate of +/- 4%. Or in other words according to your calculations = Dead Even.

Now just comparing favorable ratings your man is beat out by Romney 39% favorable and Giuliani 50%.
Giuliani isn't even running but this is the best poll you could find to push your canidate?

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 4:28PM

You're Scared Of Sarah Palin & The Tea Party Perry Flunkie Stooge.

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 4:57PM

Truth hurts huh? At least have the gonads to post links to your post to show your conviction. But then we would all see they are old post or you have cherry picked the data to suit your spin. We have already seen that on the few occasions you post where your info comes from. Even Moe has a higher IQ than you.

irish19| 9.6.11 @ 11:44PM

Moe Howard?

Drunken Sailor| 9.7.11 @ 9:12AM

Give that man a cigar!

Anthony| 9.6.11 @ 11:50AM

Run Sarah run!!! And after you win, order up your first "shovel ready job", by giving Jimmy Hoffa Jr. a shovel so he can 1) go find dear ole dad in the New Jersey meadowlands, and 2) bury leftism forever!!!!

Tex Expatriate| 9.6.11 @ 12:22PM

I doubt Sarah will run. She should know that she cannot win. Now don't read that wrong. I love her and think she is the best person in or out of the race, and she's my first choice. Put me down for a Palinista. I expect the candidate to be Perry, and I hope he reaches out to Sarah for VP. I'd like it the other way around better, but it aint gonna happen.

Seek| 9.6.11 @ 1:48PM

Sarah isn't going to run. Aside from character issues (see my above comment), she hasn't put together anything resembling a campaign organization in the areas of either fundraising, strategy or policy. Could it be that nobody in their right mind would want to work for her?

Viator| 9.6.11 @ 1:07PM

Yea, she's real unpopular. She' not running yet but still drew the biggest crowd in Iowa and New Hampshire this election cycle.

Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 3:12PM

Gotta give Sara Credit. She isn't even running and she is beating Ron paul.

RCP Average:
Perry 29%
Romney 17.3%
Palin 10.6%
Paul 8.3%
Bachman 8.3%

http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....-1452.html

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 4:26PM

"Texas Rep. Ron Paul trails President Obama by just 2 percentage points, according to the latest Gallup Poll released Monday.

The poll, which finds former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas Republican governor Rick Perry as the leading candidates to challenge Mr. Obama, shows Mr. Paul trailing Mr. Obama by just two percentage points, 47 to 45 percent.
The Gallup poll is the second to show Mr. Paul in a statistical dead heat with President Obama. An earlier survey by CNN showed Mr. Paul as the leading contender for challenging Mr. Obama."

WJ| 9.6.11 @ 3:46PM

Republicans need to quit dreaming of Sarah. She is not running because she knows she can't win. In the echo chamber of conservative web sites it is easy to believe that she has a chance. Don't believe it. Not for a minute.

Palin as the nominee will give us 4 more years of Obama.

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 6:58PM

A dead possum would be elected before Obama, the dope smoking, racist, anti-American, anti-Christian, terrorist loving, job killing, law breaking muslim supporting, economy destroying SCOAMF.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.6.11 @ 4:18PM

Michael, WJ,
Please see my comment above.

Adjoran| 9.6.11 @ 4:18PM

I don't care if "they say" her use of "crony capitalism" is directed at Perry. Most often lately I have heard Palin use the phrase "crony capitalism IN WASHINGTON DC" which seems pretty clearly directed at the Democrats and Obama, since Perry's spread don't fence that fur yit.

Clint| 9.6.11 @ 4:38PM

"The Post looked at Perry’s top 50 donors, who collectively gave more than $21 million to Perry, and found that 34 received some benefit from Perry’s administration or the state, including grants, contracts and appointments. The donor list was compiled by the nonprofit Texans For Public Justice.

Twenty-three donors won Perry’s appointment to state boards, often the boards of regents at the University of Texas or Texas A&M.

Roughly one in three of the top Perry donors had business interests that secured grants, tax subsidies or project approvals under his administration, the Post review found. Five donors gained both an appointment and a state boost to their specific company or interests. "

The True Believer| 9.6.11 @ 5:29PM

Yes, Run, Sarah, Run.Kick the living crap out of the Ruling Class snobs and take the country by storm. Run the scumbags out of office and sweep the government away. Run, Sarah, Run.

Kingofthenet| 9.6.11 @ 6:21PM

Run...Forrest....Run.....(I mean Sarah;)

Boar Hunter| 9.6.11 @ 6:51PM

Your day is coming you oxygen thieving waste of skin. You and all the anti American nazi's on the left are picking a fight you will not win. Please keep it up, some of us out here in the real world are waiting for the opportunity to remind you why the cowards on your side need the government to protect you from all the bad men.

The One Who Runs Like a Duck| 9.6.11 @ 7:20PM

Shut up, you son of bitches. We are going to take you out and take America back. We are the army, tell us who we need to take out. Is it Kingofthenet? Is he a teabagger? Lets go. What I mean is, voting is good. We Democrats are so clever and smart that it is unbelievable. We is nuanced for sure. Now this is what I call civil discourse. We also believe in wind farms and government subsidized solar energy, green jobs, high speed rail. Gosh. Are you feeling our brilliance yet? Back to the golf course. I need a vacation. In my speech on Thursday get ready for some more stimulus spending er sweeping spending initiatives designed to boost hiring. We is so nuanced I can't stand it. I have achieved much with my slightly below average IQ. Should I run again Kingofthenet? Please tell me, Run Obama Run. I love the sound of that, baby.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.6.11 @ 7:31PM

Nope, too late, Sarah Palin. Too late, too late, too late, too late, too late, too late, too late, too late, too late, too late, way too late, and just too late to make up now, for your past, nasty, and coyly evil game. That's what 's blown it for you, showing your true colors, lately, that you could ever, ever be a good, Godly, and honest future President. The more any of us keep giving in to your game, either by idolizing or being afraid of you the more you'll just keep playing us like violins to feed your big, fat ego is all. You're just a mean joke is all. I, for one, am not afraid of you at all, anymore, or your stupid, dragged- out game. Most of all, I'm also glad I'm not afraid of standing up to you or it, anymore, and never will be, again. I hope many others will follow finally standing up to you as well. Again, if anyone here, wants to report my comment as abusive, which I really don't think it is at all, no way, I'm not abusive, go right ahead. I'll only come right back here, though, and put it back on here again. I really will because I have a perfect right to my own liberal free speech as well, always.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.6.11 @ 9:02PM

Kelly,
I'm so sad you are sad.

Kiss my hiney and be joyful.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.6.11 @ 10:00PM

Ken, I'm not sad at all, now. I'm just a liberal standing up to this woman, and her game, now, with no fear of her/it, anymore. I feel sorry for you, actually. Even if I were a Republican, I still would see right through her now. You think she's really your friend, and truly cares about you, and what you care about in America at all? She's just out for herself underneath all that bull. Oh no, you're the sad one right now, the one who can't see past you're black and white undefeated "version", and that's all it is, just a version, of your idol. Don't feel sorry for me at all. No way!

The One Who Runs Like a Duck| 9.6.11 @ 10:17PM

You are the kind of son of bitches we are looking for, Kelly Joanne Cannon. Take the fight to the enemy, take out the terrorist, stand up to the racist teabaggers, accuse them of any crime you can think of. Remember win the future by keeping the barbarians at the gate with any means possible. But while you're doing that remember that these son of bitches really believe in the second amendment and don't get within pistol shot. Remember, just cause you're not pretty doesn't mean you will be no use in the Democratic Party. Ugly women have their place, usually by savaging pretty Republican women who are their superiors. Think of yourself as a mindless tool. Keep saying to yourself, change I can believe in, yes we can, green jobs, wind farms, solar power, and summer of recovery. Whatever it takes to get through your meaningless life. See you on the golf course soon, GI O baby.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.6.11 @ 10:45PM

Wow, to whoever "Runs Like a Duck" is, that's really a just plain pathetic approach is all. If you think that's enough to bully me from turning away from what I don't just think, I know, what's really right in my heart, and what the lord God really wants us to accomplish on this earth, "real truth, deal with real reality, use real common sense to deal with hardship, love, and kindness, and dissolving prejudice", then what that tells me, "Runs Like a Duck" is that you really don't know me that well. I'm not cowardly, and I'll never, ever give up on what's REALLY right through our lord, God, daily. I'll say this to you just as I said to Ken. "You're the sad one. Not me at all."

The One Who Runs Like a Duck| 9.6.11 @ 11:29PM

You are quite the son of bitches, Kelly Joanne Cannon. I am pleased with you as one of my supporters. Whether you are just a dimwit clinging to your religion or just faking clinging to your religion, you are what we need in the Democratic Party. It can't be all shake down artists like myself. We need to have the true believin' community organizin' fools like yourself. I love the dissolving prejudice stuff. Nothing better than accusing everybody that disagrees with me of being a racist for dissolving prejudices. You're on to something there. If you want to say that God wants us to have me pass out hard earned tax payer dollars to my friends and Democratic campaign donors than by all means provide me some cover with that nonsense. High unemployment with no growth is just what those poor folks need and I am here to provide it. By the way I'll be closing gitmo any day now. Really. You can trust me. Repeat after me, this will be the summer of recovery, this will be the summer of recovery... Can you believe it? Michelle wants to go on vacation again. She is tireless in working for the poor. Take the high speed rail to a wind farm and buy some batteries sweetie.

irish19| 9.6.11 @ 11:47PM

"and I'll never, ever give up on what's REALLY right through our lord, God, daily"
So we can count on you to vote against zero then?

Kingofthenet| 9.7.11 @ 12:53PM

Keep the Faith Sister, Reality has a way of silencing someone like Duck, When 'It' hears the chant of Four more years....

Kingofthenet| 9.7.11 @ 12:53PM

Keep the Faith Sister, Reality has a way of silencing someone like Duck, When 'It' hears the chant of Four more years....

Tool| 9.6.11 @ 10:50PM

They can't do that with Sarah. Run, Sarah, run indeed!
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POST American| 9.6.11 @ 11:10PM

-----------------BOTTOMLESS LINE------------------

-ENOUGH 'CRY-SIS creation'!

---AS America dissolves in the hands of traitors
------WHERE in the name of God are the MEN?

Bob Grant| 9.6.11 @ 11:54PM

Sarah as a nominee would have disastrous effects for the GOP in the presidential race. Her followers are sizable enough to cause mischief mainly because regardless of how she's treated by the press or the GOP establishment, they will argue she was treated unfairly and threaten to either go third party or sit out the election. In other words mischief ala Ralph Nader or Ross Perot.

We don't need the potential headache a candidate Palin would likely cause.

She needs to help the cause in her own unusual and unique way but forgo a presidential run.

Rich Fader| 9.7.11 @ 6:48PM

"...if you smellllllllllllalalalala...what the Gov...is cookin'."

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.7.11 @ 9:00PM

To Rich Fader, I smell complete, and total shit, meaning that's what Sarah Palin really is. I'm not afraid of her at all anymore, either. Liberal always, and forever, and always honest------Kelly Joanne Cannon

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.7.11 @ 9:28PM

That total and complete shit, meaning what you just wrote above, Rich Fader, is just utterly and completely useless upon us people who are totally against Sarah Palin, now. Forget it.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.8.11 @ 1:51PM

Everyone, Sarah Palin is also racist against black people. I just, recently, read a small article online describing how she refused to hire any black people at all. The article was titled "Sarah Palin Doesn't Care About Black People". What an utterly sick, destructive, and just miserable bitch. Imagine, attempting, to take our country back to a stupid, just mean, completely unproductive, and prejudiced attitude, that many of us Americans, many people more so than not, are just glad that wrongful period is practically over in our whole, new millenium decade. I like black people very much, have many black friends, and I know I'm certainly glad it's practically over. I was just completely appalled when I read that. Sarah, that's just going way too far. Again, I'm so very glad I finally stood up to you, and your trashy, pathetic, lying, and mean, racist game. I really strongly urge many others to follow finally standing up to you, and your game as well. Boy, I mean that, too. Now, much more than ever before.

Nick| 9.9.11 @ 2:26AM

Miss Cannon,

Nice gutter-talk, from a non-lady.

Let me guess, you aborted your unborn baby (fetus in Latin) because he had Downs Syndrome, correct? Or, you know someone who committed this vile act?

By the way, everyone here, at AmSpec, already knows that liberals don't believe in God. So, stop pretending, okay?

Finally, Sarah Palin wouldn't know you if she ran into you. So, how exactly, are you "finally standing up to" her? What did she ever do to you?

I think your tinfoil hat is broken. Wal-Mart is having a sale on Reynolds Wrap, I think. Hurry, run!

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.30.11 @ 10:37PM

To Nick: Oh, I think that Sarah Palin would definitely know me if she saw me. Once, at the beginning of this year, a little while before I recognized her truly evil, unethical, dishonest, and ruthless colors, she sent me a nice message on her "Supporting Sarah Palin" page on Facebook, and I'm thinking now it was only a message to just manipulate me, a younger, more scared liberal woman into believing she really was a nice, honest woman after I sent her, and her family 2 nice gift cards for Christmas. I guess, no I definitely know that it's fair to say that I really didn't set out to trust her in the first place, but I still didn't know she was as evil, dishonest, and unethical, as I've discovered for the rest of part of this year. Really, I didn't. She's even much meaner, and ruthless, worse, than those people I used to work for at that christian school. Really, she just is.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.30.11 @ 10:42PM

Oh, and by the way, Nick, I believe in God, and we liberals also believe in God, and always will. Perhaps, we believe in him, his love, and guidance even more so than you Palin Republican followers because we think more for ourselves, believe, and act independently praying to God, and aren't just brainwashed by people like Sarah Palin, making her into a God, instead of just relying on the real God, daily.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.30.11 @ 10:50PM

Oh, and again, Nick, Sarah Palin would definitely know me if she saw me also because after realizing I wrote many topix posts against her on Topix she blocked me on Facebook from seeing her page, ever again, where she's been politically collecting more followers is all. Not that I care at all. I don't like her at all, especially now, but for her to suddenly block me like that, I'm definitely thinking now, there was something significant she just didn't want me to see, anymore, like that maybe, she's just not as invincible, as some people are just led to believe. Hey, I'm certainly thinking now, that she definitely isn't at all.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.30.11 @ 11:10PM

Oh, and Nick, hey I'm back to happily annoy you again! Furthermore, what Sarah Palin's been doing has harmed us ALL, not just me, because she 's talked about whether or not she'll decide on whether or not, to run for President of our country for 2012, as if it only has to do with her, her unethical, pettily vindictive stupid spiteful games, and her family, not the rest of us American people, or even her brainwashed followers like you. And yes that also includes we liberals, too, because this happens to be our country, too, and always will be as well. I was also real apalled when I read in the article, where she said that as well, that her choice of deciding on whether or not to run for President for 2012 would have absolutely nothing to do with the rest us, the rest of us American people, that we'd just have no basis upon it at all. Only her family, and children would, is all. That's it. What a very incredibly false, careless, low, very stupid, real dishonest, cruelly, and spitefully manipulative, very unethical, and bullyish unamerican for someone to make when considering whether or not to run for president someday.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 9.30.11 @ 11:32PM

I'm back Nick! I just can't get enough of you, can I, dude? Sorry, I meant to write in my last post above this one that's just an incredibly false, rude, low, very stupid, real dishonest, cruelly, and spitefully manipulative, very unethical, and bullyish unamerican remark for someone --{that someone, meaning Sarah Palin, of course}---to make when considering whether, or not to run for president of our country someday. Sorry, my grammatical error in my above post is all. Furthermore, I, and others against her, are still never gonna lie down, and let her trample upon us as if we're afraid of her, again, because we're still just not, anymore, and never will be. That just won't ever happen again. I, and others against will still just ride, and bite her ass like mean, snarling pitbulls, is all. Only, now, God has now instructed us to move to a different level of standing up to her. Not so much, as attacking her through our posts angrily, but by adamantly standing up to her in the way of just not believing anything at all, that she, and daughter, Bristol say, ever again. They've just lied, and played way too much to believed anymore. What's more, Sarah Palin is still, now, just playing more so than actual doing with deciding on whether or not to run for President of our country for 2012, oh yes, once more, she's doing it, for control, and fear, over other people, and for the money, as she's still getting paid for it, daily, as if the rest of us Americans just don't matter or exist is all, only her, and her family.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 10.1.11 @ 12:12AM

Hey Nick, I'm just back again. Maybe we're just in love, lol, ha ha! Seriously, though, now, continuing my above messages, again, here, I really don't think or believe Sarah Palin will ever have the true guts to finally announce her intentions of whether or not she'll run for president for 2012 at all. For one thing, it's obvious that she loves to induce, and provoke fear amongst people, especially the ones who are adamantly against her, and she even admitted the other day, in a another article that she loves to stir up people against each other at times, aggressively. I just say to her sarcasticly through my post, here, hey Sarah, why don't we just have another civil war with guns like we did back in the mid-1800's but instead of it's being north versus south, now, it could just be Republicans versus Liberals. Wow, how very angrily, and violently cool, really fun, exhilarating, and oldly romantic that would be for our country, to strengthen it, as she commented after those great Tuscan, Arizona shootings. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thus, Sarah Palin doesn't want to give up that sick control, over fear, and aggression, and getting paid for it daily, because she knows that after she makes her announcement of whether or not she'll run for President of our country in 2012, she knows that other people, and especially the ones against her, will just say, okay, what's the worst thing that could happen with her as President, or not as President, and just deal with it, what comes, head on, daily, and not be scared, anymore because they'd know the worst part, being, the fear, is over. In addition, she's also recently made clear in other recent articles that she only follows her own honesty, laws, and rules, a complete maverick leader is what she is. However, she also knows that if she decided to run for President, or be President in 2012 that she'd have to follow honesty, laws, and rules that other Presidents have, and have had to follow in the past, too. She wouldn't like that at all. In reality, the blunt truth exists that there will always be honest laws, and rules for people that they have to follow, no matter, who they are, or what they do. And no matter how crazy this world will get, now, or in the future, no one will EVER dissolve honest rules, and laws, totally. They'll always apply to all of us, no matter what, just always.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 10.1.11 @ 12:41AM

Oh hey, Nick, I'm just back again, with my last post here. Man, I just love annoying you for fun, and others like you, though, dude. Thus, the last part of my above posts is to just bluntly say that for Sarah Palin's followers, like you, to still follow, defend, and support her unconditionally, no matter what cruelly dishonest, and completely unethical actions she performs, just as she's still doing right now, and still refer to her dishonestly, as Governor Palin after she just impulsively quit, in 2009, during her term, well that only makes you all every bit as real little, weak, stupid, very selfish, hypocritical, dishonest, cowardly, unethical, lazy, foolishly impulsively-reacting, rude, bullyish, violence-provoking, violence-believing, patheticly delusional, miserable, bitter, destructive, irresponsible, undependable, cruelly manipulative, sadly backwards, incoherent, and unrealistic as she, Sarah Palin, is right now. You're no longer at all honest, tall, strong, fearless, red-blooded, independent-thinking, forthright, diligent, dependable, realistic, level-headed, reasonable, and/or caring American people. Believe me, bluntly, when I say, it's as if you Palin followers real balls have just completely been cut off. Yours too, Nick, just cut off, completely is all by Sarah Palin, and her constant brainwashing towards you, and her other followers. That's just the real, and only truth is all. Nick, you, and other Palin followers can attack me angrily for this if you want, I expect you probably will, but I'm never taking back or apologizing, ever, to anyone, or you, for finally writing the real blunt truth regarding Sarah Palin, and her followers, or what's really been, is just happening now, regarding them.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 10.1.11 @ 1:16AM

Oh, and one more post is all, and this is especially because I just respect truth so much more so than lies, really I do, thus I'd never, ever take this back, or apologize for it, either. Levi Johnston did definitely NOT rape Bristol Palin. He knows he didn't because he was there, and really recalls that it just wasn't rape. She falsely toyed with allegations towards him for it, and by the way that's exactly what rape is, stealing someone's virginity, but it didn't really happen to her. Joe McGinness's book about Sarah Palin, and husband Todd definitely wasn't full of lies, either, because if it was, she or Todd would have threatened to sue or actually sued much earlier after Mr. McGinness's book first came out. There also wouldn't have been an article before Sarah Palin threatened suing him stating that she'd admitted they weren't lies about her, and Todd, in his book, and because of that she, now, felt her political career to just be over. Another occurrence that wouldn't have happened if Joe McGinness's book was only just full of disgusting lies.

Kelly Joanne Cannon| 10.4.11 @ 9:01PM

What Sarah Palin was actually quoted saying in the article I mentioned way above this post was that her decision of whether or not to run for President for 2012 would only be based on whether or not all her children would want her to run. That all the other American people in this country, from the people against her to her followers, that their opinions would have absolutely no basis at all on her decison of whether or not to run for President. I was just appalled when I read that. My God, I thought, what an incredibly low, stupid, callous, dishonest, rude, unethical, destructive, unrealistic, false, unpatriotic, cruelly manipulative, cowardly prejudiced, and bullyishly unamerican remark for a person to make when considering whether or not to run for president of our country. Sarah Palin actually said this, too. It was quoted that she said it. It's just the truth that she actually said it, is all.

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