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McCain: No, really, we vetted her! As revelations about Sarah Palin mount, the McCain team scrambles to dispel reports that they didn't know what they were getting into.
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  • Godot: Palin is a worse animal killer than you think.

    "'Governor' Palin is said to 'hunt' elk from helicopters, which is little different from taking potshots at the zebra in a petting zoo. That's not 'hunting'. It's just murder."

    This creature called Sarah Palin actually hunts wolves from planes, which involves chasing the pack to exhaustion and then shooting them as they lay panting. This creature also has put a state-funded bounty on wolves, and even supports the killing of wolf puppies in their dens.

    Why? One, because she's a sadistic bitch, but also because Alaska's hunters view wolves as competitors for their favorite victims, elk and caribou. Never believe these so-called "Sportsmen" when they say they care about conservation. The only thing they really care about is having an ample supply of living targets.

  • Saudi Arabia with snow..

    You actually made me laugh out loud with that one..

    It's gotten to the point I don't find many conspiracy theories too outlandish to at least consider in passing these days. Yours is relatively rational so I kind of suspect it might have a resemblance to something near truth.

    It really bites having to become the political equivalent of a Kremlinologist (damn my spell check recognized that!) just to decipher what is really going on here in the land of the free.

  • DurianJoe

    This creature called Sarah Palin actually hunts wolves from planes, which involves chasing the pack to exhaustion and then shooting them as they lay panting.

    Apparently it's more fun if they torture them first, and then give them cute names like Ziyad and Ali before gunning them down.

    Except during campaign season, when they give them cute names like Ralph and Hillary before gunning them down.

    Republicans are known to do things like that.

  • Speaking of "Pastor Problems"

    Sarah Palin's church:

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13098.html

    "An illustration of that gap came just two weeks ago, when Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus.

    Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced Brickner on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on the church’s website.

    “He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism,” Kroon said.

    Brickner then explained that Jesus and his disciples were themselves Jewish.

    “The Jewish community, in particular, has a difficult time understanding this reality,” he said.

    Brickner’s mission has drawn wide criticism from the organized Jewish community, and the Anti-Defamation League accused them in a report of “targeting Jews for conversion with subterfuge and deception.”

    Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.

    "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can't miss it."

    Palin was in church that day, Kroon said, though he cautioned against attributing Brickner’s views to her."

  • @Aycharaych

    You said that social conservatives believe that:

    "Bristol Palin's pregnancy is apparently something that should be celebrated."

    Social conservatives do not celebrate out of wedlock pregnancies. But people sometimes make bad choices. And if that bad choice happens to be out of wedlock sex that results in a fertilized egg and the beginning of a new human life, we will celebrate young women who choose to take responsibility for their mistake rather than compounding their mistake by making that new life pay the price.

    I know that taking responsibility for one's decisions is not something the left believes in. If they did, they might not invest so much of their time and effort killing the innocent for their parents 'crime' while, at the same time, sparing the convicted for horrible crimes they did in fact commit.

  • DurianJoe

    This creature called Sarah Palin actually hunts wolves from planes, which involves chasing the pack to exhaustion and then shooting them as they lay panting.

    Thought she didn't know about the wars. In other places the Americans call that Close Air Support. After a couple of years of fecund but otherwise boring marriage, Bristol will complain to her Vice Mum President about how Levi spends all his time on the lap top killing elks using predator drone software.

  • ehillesum

    I know that taking responsibility for one's decisions is not something the left believes in.

    Pubs say things like this with a straight face while committing war crimes and bankrupting the country.

    And when has a pub ever neglected to blame their own failings on Democrats?

  • ehillesum

    Social conservatives do not celebrate out of wedlock pregnancies. But people sometimes make bad choices.

    I know that taking responsibility for one's decisions is not something the radical right believes in.

  • Give me a break.

    "I know that taking responsibility for one's decisions is not something the left believes in. If they did, they might not invest so much of their time and effort killing the innocent for their parents 'crime' while, at the same time, sparing the convicted for horrible crimes they did in fact commit.

    -- ehillesum"

    Thanks- I just puked a little in my mouth. I'm so glad that you are the one who is qualified to tell us exactly when life begins. It must be really nice to be on par with god in the knowledge department. And I'm SURE that you are one of those anti-choice people who has an adopted kid or two and contributes to charities that support all those starving unwanted kids out there, right? Because there are a lot of babies born daily who are suffering from physical pain, neglect and abuse who I'm positive are thrilled that their parents chose to go through with that pregnancy. Seriously- suffering for years under the hand of a parent who never really wanted you is much, MUCH better than never being born at all...right?

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