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Wednesday, July 8, 2009 12:00 AM

Can Palin ever come back?

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:02 AM

Someone suggested I read your column cause it's too funny

Yeah if you think Bill O'Reilly in drag is funny. Bye.....

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:07 AM

Just curious...

What's the female equivalent of a douchebag? I always wonder that when I read Camille Paglia's columns. Can't think why!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:13 AM

-- Diable4

hee hee thanks for the great idea.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:18 AM

Molly Ivins writing in Mother Jones Magazine, September/October 1991

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit. The Norman Podhoretz of our gender. That this woman is actually taken seriously as a thinker in New York intellectual circles is a clear sign of decadence, decay, and hopeless pinheadedness. Has no one in the nation's intellectual capital the background and ability to see through a web of categorical assertions? One fashionable line of response to Paglia is to claim that even though she may be fundamentally off-base, she has ``flashes of brilliance.'' If so, I missed them in her oceans of swill.

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~erich/misc/ivins_on_paglia

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:19 AM

@ah23;Bobswire;Giant Bastard; Furby; JohnRobey; lviapeacock;Xrandadu Hutman

What a great society you are building.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:19 AM

Now this version of Ask a Wingnut I can get behind...

Ditch AAW and just run CP answering reader questions! She offers a much more revealing and less guarded conservative viewpoint.

Oh, right. She's a democrat. Nuts!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:22 AM

Does one's politics matter to Paglia?

Why do I get the feeling if she were writing in the 30's we might read something like this:

"His esprit de corps is undeniable; at his rallies, his enthusiasm is contagious. His no-nonsense approach to the humdrum workings of government and politics make Hitler a refreshing and welcome member of the international stage."

and, of course, she would also talk up old Fatty Arbuckle films.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:27 AM

I hope not

Sarah Palin is a nut I can't understand why other normal hardworking middle class people can't see that she is a product of right wing talk radio parnaniod and uninformed I hope she is gone for good . Sarah Palin loves attention she is a talking head and that is it .

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:28 AM

Please don't advocate that Sarah be like the rest

You wrote "Something so politically consequential needed more careful composition and rehearsal. Why provide more fodder for the vultures and harpies of the Northeastern media?"

The beauty of Sarah Palin (double meaning intended) is that she speaks in real terms that the poor, uneducated electorate can understand. We don't need to hear the usual BS that "professional, polished politicians" provide us with on a daily basis. I personally thought her words were restrained. If it was me I would have named names and called a few names.

Also it seems to me, based on the current state on the newspaper business, that many of those Eastern papers will be out of business before the nxt Presidential election (well, one can hope).

If she decides to run for President she will certainly get my vote. The current President has provided ample proof that the concerns that his lack of leadership and experience would be a detriment were totally correct.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:31 AM

WORLD'S BEST ANAGRAMS

WORLD’S GREATEST ANAGRAMS OR PROOF THERE IS A GOD

1- GEORGE BUSH rearranged is HE BUGS GORE

2- AL GORE is LA (Spanish for “THE”) OGRE( a monster who eats people.)

3- GEORGE SOROS translates to SOS OGRE GORE

4- DORMITORY becomes DIRTY ROOM

5- EVANGELIST is EVIL’S AGENT

6- PRESBYTERIAN turns to BEST IN PRAYER

7- DESPERATION is A ROPE ENDS IT

8- THE MORSE CODE rearranged is HERE COME DOTS

9- SENATOR TED KENNEDY turns out to DONKEY RAT NEEDS NET

10- SLOT MACHINES becomes CASH LOST IN ME.

11- ANIMOSITY turns to IS NO AMITY

12- MOTHER-IN-LAW (This one is good) WOMAN HITLER

13- SNOOZE ALARMS becomes ALAS! NO MORE Z”S

14- A DECIMAL POINT turns to I’M A DOT IN PLACE

15- NANCY PELOSI is A CO-LENIN SPY

16- SEN. HARRY REID becomes A DINER SHERRY(y uck)

17- THE EARTHQUAKES is THAT QUEER SHA KE

1 8– ELEVEN PLUS TWO becomes T WELVE PLUS ONE

19- PRINCESS DIANA changes to ENDS IN CAR SPIN

20- JOHN KERRY becomes HORNY JERK

21- SEN. JOHN EDWARDS is WE- DR. DEAN’S “JOHNS”

22- NANCY PELOSI become s - LIE’N CYAN(blue) POS

23- SENATOR DURBIN - becomes - SENORA TURDBIN

24- SENATOR DICK DURBIN- changes to - A SENOR TURDBIN DICK

25- K ATIE COURIC -changes to - CIAO CUTE IRK

26- CHRIS MATTHEWS - becomes - SHH -SCREAM TWIT

27- TIM RUSSERT - changes to MISS TURRET (def-spindle tool )

28- NATALIE MAINES( Dixie Chick) turns out to - INANIMATE SEAL

29- VALERIE PLAME - becomes - LIVE EEL PARMA(cheese)

30- TED TURNER - changes to - TREED RUNT

31- TERRY McAULIFFE - becomes - A RECTUM FIRE-FLY

32 - SENATOR TOM HARKIN - changes to - A TIN-HORN MAKES ROT

33 - DAVID LETTERMAN - becomes - MAD LAVENDER (gay) TIT (boob)

34 - JOE SCARBORO - changes to - COOR’S BAR JOE

35 - KEITH OLBERMANN - turns into - A TINKLEN HOMBRE

36 - KEITH OLBERMANN - changes to - ILK BORN METHANE

37 - KEITH OLBERMANN - becomes - ENEMA BROTH KILN

38 - MOVEON-ORG - changes to - MOON GROVE

39 - SENATOR BARRACK OBAMA - becomes old hillbilly saying - “A RACK-O-EARS TAN BOOB-MA ! ”

0A

40 -BILL SCHNEIDER - changes to - RED’S LIB LICHEN (a fungus)

41 - COLIN POWELL - becomes - PEW ! ILL COLON

42 - BERNIE MADOFF - turns into - OFF - BIRD ENEMA.

43 - SENATOR CARL LEVIN - becomes - A CLAN’S LIE’N VOT ER.

44 -SANDY BERGER - turns to - GRABS RED YEN

45 - WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON

becomes -JAIL MRS CLINTON:FELON WIFE

46 - PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA

becomes -TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

AND THE GRAND FINAL

47 - PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA - becomes - AN ARAB BACKED IMPOSTER

OK Folks – Hear is some Sarah Palin ammunition.

I just did the anagram for “Sarah Palin” and it came up “La Piranhas”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxw1EFcm3vw

NO WONDER THE LIBERALS ARE AFRAID OF HER.

AND LOOK AT WHAT SHE DID TO THE LAME DUCK

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:35 AM

I have to chuckle

The conservatives have become the party of excuses to support a quitter Sarah Palin is a quitter and cannot stand up under pressure she is not leadership material and I Pray to god her political career is over for the last eight years we had the same kind of president Sarah Palin would be.

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