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Mean girl Sarah Palin has a way of using "old boys" -- then dumping them when they become inconvenient.
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  • Obama's done nothing?

    Here's a breakdown of his years in the Illinois Senate:

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4578207

    What's all this about what Palin has accomplished? Running on a fiscal conservative policy to be mayor of Wasilla and leaving the city in $20M+ in debt.

    Can the tired old wingnut talking points.

  • @Linda Mae

    It scares me...if it's even true...that you ever taught anybody.

  • Randy Reudrich

    "And during her 2 years as governor she failed to drive "the state GOP chairman Randy Ruedrich from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for flagrant conflict-of-interest abuses". He was only fined $12K and publicly disgraced."

    Randy Ruedrich is still state GOP chairman and is now a very prominent Palin buddy, helping to organize and orchestrate Palin campaign events. So much for Palin rejecting Randy Ruedrich and his ways.

  • Not an issue

    This is just more of the same nonsense. obama has thrown more folks under the bus since the primaries began, starting with the man he could never disown and then promptly did when he became a political liability, i.e. Rev. Wright. And don't rely on someone else's view of obama's record, examine his actual votes yourself--they're listed on his own website.

  • @ LInda Mae

    Could you please provide us with some examples of what Rev. Wright said that indicates a "hatred toward Jews"? I would really like to see it, I must have missed skipped over it somehow. I am sure that you have some and are not just running off at the mouth like school child.

    And while you are at it, could you explain to the class why Barack Obama is responsible somehow for the thoughts and beliefs of another human being? When I was in grade 8 my teacher taught me that we independent operators who are responsible for our own thoughts and beliefs. Or maybe I learned that in grade nine...

  • @BarbaraZ

    "This is just more of the same nonsense. obama has thrown more folks under the bus since the primaries began, starting with the man he could never disown and then promptly did when he became a political liability, i.e. Rev. Wright. And don't rely on someone else's view of obama's record, examine his actual votes yourself--they're listed on his own website."

    Talk about nonsense! I'd suggest a look at McCain's voting record, especially in regard to what's happening now in the economy (oh, yeah, and there are those wars we're paying for, too) and how many people he's had to throw under the bus during his own campaign. He's staved off on the lobbyists. Carly? She got millions after her decidedly, verifiably bad stint at HP. Gramm? He's STILL the advisor, and we the people are just a bunch of whiners. And hey, how about those Reverends Hagee and Parsley? Courted first and then dejected? Uh, YES. But Sarah stepped in--Evangelicals aboard. And if anyone cares about so-called "women's issues" or health care or Head Start for kids or the mininum wage or benefits for the troops, check out those votes by McCain, too.

  • McCain had better watch out!

    Isn't he an "old boy"? I'd be watching my back, if I were him!

  • Read Bill Dyer's Article Refuting this one.

    Hey Guys, read Bill Dyer's article refuting everything that David Talbot has written in this article! It's so false & distorted that another journalist (who actually knows Alaska politics) felt the need to set the record straight. This is purely a smear piece & shows Talbot's ignorance &/or bias toward Palin. Talbot, you either don't know the facts or you purposely set out to distort them! But then, I guess you're one of those media clones who are in the tank for Obama.

    http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/0d495ec4-a02e-4802-a14f-bc98e31047e0

  • So someday soon she'll dump McCain, right?

    THIS is the deeper vetting that McCain's folks might have considered! Even ultra-Christian Rove-trained sneaks should have ONE psychologist around to observe this doll's con: From city council to state administration, if her relationship with powerful older men has been to schmooze'em, use'em, and lose'em, shouldn't McCain staffers who genuinely care about their boss, & want to personally spare him bruised feelings, be worried? She may bring a dagger, as well as a moose-gun, to the party, and should not be expected to guard his six.

    Even so, he might not care. McC 's eyes are on the prize only six weeks away, and there's no question that Lady McPalin is smart enough to not slit the throats of his guards, slip arsenic in his beer (or slip dinosaurs into the White House Christmas Creche) until after Inauguration Day. Hell, she'd probably stay Obedient Barbie for 6 months or so, until secure in her own separate power base. We'd just watch her charmingly siphon Energy Deparment jobs & funds to her family; use the Patriot Act to punish kids who were mean to her in 2nd grade, or those yucky Jew-boy reporters who might not show her enough deference, and so on.

    But boredom is a dangerous state for a sleep-deprived, baby-toting, red-bull-addicted Moose-Maiden. When Sarah gets left behind in the Official Residence Bubble too often, thats when McCain should double up on double-secret Secret Service. The King's loyal thanes must remind him not to seek hospitality from the Lord and Lady MacPalin, lest they heed the foul witches of their sadder nature, start lobbying for his removal on health grounds, and then taxidermying the Great Seal as their prize rack-of-antlers-souvenir from her Presidency.

    The daugther-overthrowing-father archetype would be a tragi-comedy, and may yet be a great modern opera. (Never mind Tina Fey: think Sarah Brightman-meets-Thelma & Louise)

    To bad that We, the American people, would be left with the Reality show.

  • The Nuclear Option

    It's frightening to think of impulsive, impatient, fly off the handle, quick on the trigger, shoot from the hip John McCain with his finger on the nuclear button. The only thing more scary is the thought of our nuclear arsenal under the control of a Pit-Bull in Lipstick.

  • @blogon

    Hugh Hewitt, Hugh Hewitt, that is your proof!! Hahahaha, I laugh in your general direction. Fool.

  • @nirmalajc

    She already has didn't you see the video of her calling the campaign the Palin McCain campaign!

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