Run, Sarah, Run!!

Palin/Bachman 2012? Please, please, please!! CBSNews (10.07.12), via DailyKos:

"Sarah Palin is viewed unfavorably by nearly 50 percent of Americans, a new CBS News poll finds, a significant challenge for her to overcome should she enter the 2012 presidential race."

Poll: Sarah Palin Favorable Rating Just 22 Percent

Embarrassing To Be A Conservative

Ouch. Via Balloon Juice.

And coming in at NumberOne:

"A poorly educated ex-sportwriter who served half of one term of an minor state governorship is prominently featured as a -- if not the -- leading prospect for the GOP's 2012 Presidential nomination."

With Friends Like These

Poor Sarah

Just can't catch a break.

Sarah!

Via Crooks and Liars, Ms. Panderiffic is at it again.

Our favorite former half-term Governor seems to have a talent for bullshitting. Shocking, eh?

Palin/Bachman 2012

One can only hope.

If we're gonna do stupid, let's go all the way.

Sarah Speaks

From a fundraiser this weekend in California. Alaska Dispatch (06.28.10), via Oliver Willis:

"'...(T)his is Reagan country and (applause), YEAH! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and inter-linked to the Golden State.'"

Palin blunders on Reagan's education

Saint Ronald of Reagan did indeed go to Eureka College. Which is in Eureka all right. Eureka, Illinois.

Ooopsie!!

All Your Governor Are Quit While Half Done

Sarah speaks. Cesca, via Digby:

"'...I think Obama is kind of flirting with also, some government overreach. We are a rule of laws, not a rule of presidential fiats that I think President Obama would rather have sometimes, it seems.'"

Stupid Palin Thing of the Day

Jesus frackin' crackpipes.

Bob sums it up: "She explains how she, as governor, personally forced Exxon to pay victims of the Valdez but then suggests that the president's BP escrow fund is 'government overreach.'"

And some folks actually pay good money to hear this stuff. Pretty funny, eh?

Dear Tea Partier

If you only knew. Kaiser Health News (04.22.10), via The Left Coaster:

"And as in previous polls, when people were told the specifics about what the bill does, they approved. Nine in 10 favored new tax credits for small business. Eight out of 10 said they favored provisions to provide free basic preventive care, financial aid to senors with high drug bills, and ending insurance companies' practice of dropping people with pre-existing medical problems."

Poll Finds More Confusion Than Anger Over New Health Law

"All of these provisions kick in this year."

No "death panels" either, no matter what our favorite former half-term governor of Alaska might say.

Sarah Gives A Speech

Our favorite former half-term governor visits a charity fundraiser in Hamilton, Ontario. "Palin collected a fee somewhere between $100,000 to $200,000 (according to which press report you read) for a speech, book-signing, and VIP photo-session." And what did she talk about? Sounds like it was a bit hard to understand. Frum Forum (04.17.10), via Wolcott:

"If you tried to parse (Sarah's speech), you couldn’t. There was not a single memorable line, not a single new political idea, not a single proffered solution beyond the cliche of 'needing new solutions.' And when the moderator 'opened the floor' to questions, guess what? Even those questions had to be written down by the tables and submitted in advance, to be selectively chosen by the moderator."

Sarah Palin’s Regional Tour

Wolcott takes a shot: "Sarah Palin is a phony and anyone who falls for her act is a phool."

We couldn't agree more, though the terms charlatan and fraud come to mind as well.

We so hope she runs in 2012.

Twinkly Little Starbursts!!

"Since this can't be mocked enough...":

"I confess to being immune to Palin's contrived charms. Everything about her strikes me as phony--she possesses about as much depth as aluminum siding."

Winky Dinks

Face it folks; the woman is a moron.

UPDATE: Too lazy to click through? Well say no more!!

Sister Sarah Goes Nuclear

Reuters (04.08.10), via BalloonJuice:

"President Barack Obama on Thursday made clear he was not going to take advice from Republican Sarah Palin when it comes to decisions about the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Palin, the former vice presidential candidate, has not been shy about criticizing Obama's policies and this week weighed in on his revamped nuclear strategy, saying it was like a child in a playground who says 'punch me in the face, I'm not going to retaliate.'"

President Obama questions Sarah Palin's nuclear acumen

"'I really have no response to that. The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues,' Obama said in an interview with ABC News."

"Pressed further on Republican criticism that his strategy restricts the use of nuclear weapons too much, Obama added: 'What I would say to them is, is that if the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are comfortable with it, I'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin.'"

Mostly 'cause she's almost too stupid to know how to breath.

What Dreams Are Made Of

We can only hope and pray. TPM (04.08.10):

"'Are either one of you considering a run for the presidency in 2012?' Hannity asked the two. 'I'm just asking. Gov. Palin, I'll start with you -- but before I get their answers, how many of you would like to see a Palin-Bachmann ticket?'"

Hannity: Would You Like To See A Palin-Bachmann Ticket?

"The live audience from the Minnesota Republican Party rally that day roared in applause and cheering at this idea. 'Well that sounds kind of cool,' said Palin."

A half-term former governor and a half-wit current member of Congress. Please make it so!!

The Dumb Bastard Club

Ha!! Our friends, the Republicans: "the party of unadulterated quackery...." The Atlantic (04.07.10), via BalloonJuice:

This is who they are--the proud and ignorant. If you believe that if we still had segregation we wouldn't "have had all these problems," this is the movement for you. If you believe that your president is a Muslim sleeper agent, this is the movement for you.

Proud Of Being Ignorant

Daniel L Tees Off On Sister Sarah

American's favorite Half-Term Governor. The American Conservative (03.29.10), via Balloon Juice:

"How can it be a point of pride that one would prefer an ignorant political failure because she happens to say the right things?

It may be true that expertise in international affairs is 'no guarantee of wise leadership,' but I don’t believe staggering ignorance has ever produced wise leadership."

Irrational Tribalism

Yet another gem from TPM: "It looks like Fox has created the perfect interview show vehicle for Sarah Palin. An interview show based around her interviews with people she's never interviewed."

Run, Sarah, Run!!

God, we so hope she runs in 2012. Washington Post (02.11.10), via those Commie bastards at DailyKos:

"Although Palin is a tea party favorite, her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey.

Fifty-five percent of Americans have unfavorable views of her, while the percentage holding favorable views has dipped to 37, a new low in Post-ABC polling."

Poll finds most Americans are unhappy with government

There is a growing sense that the former Alaska governor is not qualified to serve as president, with more than seven in 10 Americans now saying she is unqualified, up from 60 percent in a November survey. Even among Republicans, a majority now say Palin lacks the qualifications necessary for the White House."

Edjumacation

At the rally:

What can you say?

Don't Need No Stinkin' Teleprompter

Our gal Sarah does a little palm-reading.

See, also, Portrait of a Grifter.

God, we so hope she runs in 2012.

Ha, Ha

Uhhh, don't call us; we'll call you. B&C (07.29.09), via ThinkProgress:

"The main objection to Palin as radio talk-show host is that she would have to hold forth for three hours a day."

Syndicating Sarah Palin

And there's reason to believe she couldn't do that? Jeepers. Where'd they get that idea?

Sarah

Or them Justice League of America folks could look at 'em too, doggone it. ABCNews (07.07.09), via Eschaton:

"Palin said there is a difference between the White House and what she has experienced in Alaska. If she were in the White House, she said, the 'department of law' would protect her from baseless ethical allegations.

'I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out,' she said.

Palin: 'Politically Speaking, If I Die, So Be It'

"There is no 'Department of Law' at the White House."

Sarah

Andrew Sullivan (11.12.08), via TBogg:

"Let's be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy."

Why Palin Still Matters

How did it happen? "It happened because John McCain is an incompetent and a cynic and reckless beyond measure."

So what's the big deal about Sarah?

"This deluded and delusional woman still doesn't understand what happened to her; still has no self-awareness; and has never been forced to accept her obvious limitations. She cannot keep even the most trivial story straight; she repeats untruths with a ferocity and calm that is reserved only to the clinically unhinged; she has the educational level of a high school drop-out; and regards ignorance as some kind of achievement. It is excruciating to watch her - but more excruciating to watch those who feel obliged to defend her."

Face it; Sarah's a fucking moron.