Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

11 Comments

• VWgal
  July 3rd, 2009 at 5:42 pm

  Talk about totally RANDOM!

• Sean
  July 3rd, 2009 at 6:31 pm

  Clearly, this is a question that only the ‘liberal gotcha’ media would ask.

• Julian Diller
  July 3rd, 2009 at 6:33 pm

  She gets to focus on her family for 2 years, then emerge like a phoenix from the ashes and claim the nomination!

  I think she did it because her governors race was going to be a nasty one with too much ‘liberal’ media attention.

• Kenny Jacobs
  July 3rd, 2009 at 6:43 pm

  She didn’t quit, she went “Galt.”

• boredinaz
  July 3rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm

  The same way “only dead fish go with the flow.”

• lavender
  July 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 pm

  she allegedly is about to be indicted for “the house for free for the sports center complex contract- gate.” Check the update towards the end of the page.
  http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/03/palin-resigns/

• Eli_Blake
  July 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 pm

  The GOP wanted to gear up their attack machine to get their message out against the Obama health care plan, the global warming bill, Sonia Sotomayor, etc.

  Then came John Ensign (engine stall.)

  So they got it cranked up again and then came Mark Sanford. (another engine stall.)

  So they started to get it going again and now this.

  Have you ever seen someone who doesn’t know how to drive a stick and has no clue what at clutch is, trying to drive one?

  putt. putt. backfire. lurch. stall.

  There’s your GOP attack machine the past three weeks.

• sonorandesertrat
  July 4th, 2009 at 10:21 am

  Eli, that’d make a great slogan for the Republicans. “Vote GOP – We finally learned to drive a stick!”

• VWgal
  July 5th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

  …and thanks to Fox news, I thought Mark Sanford was a Democrat hahahaha

• Rex
  July 5th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

  If you have not done so yet, read the Todd Purdum piece on Palin from Vanity Fair:

  http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908

  I must admit that I initially thought that the Palin pick was a master stroke by McCain. As her candidacy foundered, I mostly blamed McCain’s staff for the poor way in which they had both prepared and packaged her. After reading the Purdum article and considering its insights, along with everything else that has come out about Palin since her admittedly impressive speech at the GOP convention, I am ruefully aware of how initially wrong I was about her. She is a callous, self-absorbed and calculating person who has used people and then discarded them when it suited her needs.

  What the Palin pick says about McCain is open to many interpretations, but it does call into question both his judgment and his arrogance, the latter trait being something Arizonans have known about for some time. How could McCain and his people have been so hasty and haphazard when they were vetting her? The choice of Palin also points to how scared McCain was of the same people on the Right who vilified him in 2000 and how willing he was to kowtow to them by selecting their new darling, Palin.

• kralmajales
  July 5th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

  The right, the tea partiers, this new populist GOP, is done for if it finds a candidate like Palin to back. For real, populism doesn’t fly in America…never has…never will. The right has taken over the party and what I can’t believe is that moderates in the GOP and businesses are still there at all. The “new” GOP attacks business, the new GOP attacks all forms of govt., the “new” GOP attacks all taxes, attacks immigration, attacks, attacks, attacks,…and cannot govern, cannot solve problems, and rests its entire existence on half-assed Austrian economic theory combined with a picking and choosing of biblical fundamentalism.

  There just aren’t enough votes for that kind of ideology to win elections…except in Arizona apparently.