Finally! Someone who sees through Palin's flimsy character and tells it like most intelligent people see her. She is nothing and never will be. Men need to get their hormones under control, and the Repugs need to move on and stop being such sore losers.

And another thing.....Repugs keep complaining about Obama getting us in debt. Hello??????? Bush is the one who invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and has run up the USA's tab to several trillion dollars deficit.

Thanks to Joe Conason for finally revealing what most of us suspected about loser Palin. Maybe a few more journalists will now admit they do NOT see the Emperor's New Clothes!

Troll.

How dare you use her name.

You suck.

Troll.

Biden and Obama are even worse.

that you need a CHAINSAW to cut through it.

You have Bush 3 in the White House so you want to pillory the one who ISN'T in the White House - or the Naval Observatory.

Palin is leaving the Governorship so she can be ready for the next round.

It really doesn't matter which party wins - the American Public will lose.

Nothing makes an evil moron happier than full blown hatred.

Pretend that there is difference. Go right ahead.

While you are at it. ENLIST. Obama needs you. Just like Bush did.

Frivolous to Palin fanatics, sure.

Here's the truth about that state "financial drain," which Palin claims is in the "millions":

Palin administration officials provided the [Alaska] Daily News with a breakdown of what it says are $1.9 million in costs. Most if it is a per-hour accounting of the time state employees, such as state attorneys, have spent working on public records requests, lawsuits, ethics complaints, and issues surrounding the Legislature's "Troopergate" investigation last summer of Palin.

"Is it a check that we wrote, no, but is it staff hours, yes," Sharon Leighow, spokeswoman for Palin, said of the expenses related to state employee work.

Those state employees would have been paid regardless...The public records requests to Palin are largely from members of the Alaska and national press, although some are from people who have filed ethics complaints against the governor.

So, unless you think all state governors should be exempt from scrutiny by citizens and the media, stop whining already.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/858523.html

I could not agree with you more and I thank you for this article. One would think, in the future, any campaign with these operatives attatched, will be doomed from the start.

We are now expected to listen to the Republican Party when any and all of them critique policy, process, and the personal characteristics of the new President and this Administration. To all of those mentioned in this article, responsible for what came and continues to come out of Wasilla; to all of those who tried to endorse this assault on our democracy; and to all of those who merely posed with her to give her authenticity or, worse, kept quiet!!!, I say, "forgettabot it!" It will be a very cold day in July before I, and many others, will ever trust that you have anything credible to offer. The significance of their actions is more egregious when one considers the absolute mess this country was in, on all fronts. Book 'em! Put them in the cell right next to Madoff and give them each 150 years.

Can we not forget to include in this grievance the RNC National Convention where everyone was a Joker?? Whenever I see or hear of Romney, I remember him and his address at this fiasco. An entire rostrum of Jokers with bad jokes. What an insult. They got what they deserve and it is not over yet.

Sarah Palin will ultimately win. It's obvious that she sells. America loves an underdog who fights back against the Establishment. Mrs Palin will become the first 21st century political hero, and the woman who saved the USA from comrade Obama. My proof? She's irrestiable- 321 hits, and counting, for a poorly argued blather on a left wing site. I doubt Hillary, Biden or Barrack "Birth Certificate" Obama could match that together.

Again. Why can't lefties produce strong female leaders?

The media shares blame for the disaster, along with Mc Cain, a man who knew better. He either pulled an Ensign or a Sanford (fell in love,) or lost his mind. The media turned it into tabloid crap. They are continuing to do just that. Seems the news for past several weeks confirms it.

Lastquarter, the media didn't turn Sarah Palin's selection as the vice-presidential nominee into "tabloid crap."

She did a fine job of it all by herself the minute she said yes to John McCain, despite Bristol's pregnancy. In any other family, a teenage daughter's pregnancy would be a crisis of major proportions, requiring the close attention of both parents.

But not for Sarah Palin, already handling a governorship. No, she jumped right into the national spotlight, Bristol in tow, front and center.

Trashy all the way, that's Sarah Palin.

It's typical of the right to think that a person's popularity proves their worth. But that's all they have with Palin. She's popular with the base. Not with the American people, which they obviously and conveniently forget. The American people don't like her. But the base does. The base is so blinded by their fanboy brains, they can't see that the Dem leadership would love to see her at the top of the ticket for the GOP. That would guarantee a Dem victory.

Progressives would love, love, love to see Palin run. We want her to run. Again, it would guarantee another loss for the totally discredited right.

Also notice that, again, except for readerreader, none of the mouth-breathers ever, ever spell out what it is they even like about Palin. They all just talk about her supposed persecution, her self-created martyrdom, and the supposed idea that the left "hates her". They're continuously grasping at the smallest of straws, and then knocking down strawmen by the boatload.

They got nothing.

Then, of course, we have those on the right who seem never to have gone beyond fifth grade, which they demonstrate when they try to talk history, or politics, or pretty much anything. Calling Obama a marxist or a socialist immediately disqualifies you from the adult club. If you say that Obama has spent more than all other presidents combined, you're barely able to claim third grade status. It just shows you never passed a math class in your life.

If you're a "birther", it just shows you that you've spent your entire life with a tin foil hat on your head, watching the X-files.

In short, there have been hundreds of posts rabidly supporting Palin. There have been perhaps two or three that even try to describe why anyone should be such a fanboy. That's not a very good performance and points to the weakness in the premise from the getgo.