comment #1

BurmaShave says ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos

They churn these out for every damn thing now, but I laughed a few times. Happy 4th everybody.

comment #2

Movie Watcher says ...

I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. How can she possibly consider a run for prez? Does anybody think that will happen?

comment #3

Jay T. says ...

I *really* hope she runs for President and the Republican Party nominates her.

/ Obama supporter

comment #4

Travis Crabtree says ...

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

comment #5

ZayTonday says ...

Darn it, I was hoping she would run for President in 2012. That would have been HILARIOUS. Think of the debates!

Palin: Abe Lincoln was a friend of mine, and you sir are no Abe Lincoln! Where's the beef? Say it ain't so Barack, there you go again, you betcha! Oh I'm sorry, what was the question again?

comment #6

MovieBob says ...

She thinks she's running, and she was going to decline another term sooner or later in order to do so. This mostly hastened it.

Her existance puts the GOP in a classic political bind: She can't win. It's TRUE that the press will largely be against her, but a good candidate can overcome that or even disarm it (see: McCain being neck-neck with Obama BEFORE this chick and the economic collapse) but she's NOT a good candidate. She's a walking disaster...

...BUT, she's a walking disaster that their base LOVES. She's still their biggest fundraiser draw. And while the brains of the GOP have nothing but ever-increasing contempt for the "jesus freaks" they know they NEED them to tip the scales in key regions; which means they can't boot Palin or even be unkind to her so long as she wants to keep inserting herself into the race. So they have to let her run, hope she flames out on her own and that "the base" was happy enough to see her "get a chance" that they'll stick with the real candidate afterwards.

comment #7

Travis Crabtree says ...

Contrarily her non-existance puts liberals in a bind. If she disappears from the public eye, who will they talk about, tell jokes about, write ENDLESS blogs about, hate, make fun of, fear, despise and treat like the 23rd coming of the apocalypse?

Ironically, Liberals have kept her alive. She is (was) the governor of faraway Alaska and was, many months ago, the VICE Presidential candidate on a losing ticket. She'd have a similar public profile right about now to Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Tim Pawlenty if she hadn't been kept on permanent life-support by a liberal blogosphere that wants to showcase her (and Limbaugh) as the "face of the Republican party". The irony lies in the fact that it's caused many on the right who otherwise wouldn't pay her much heed to rally to her defense.

Anyway, she's gone. Time to find a new boogieman.

comment #8

BurmaShave says ...

Right, that's why she goes to dinners in DC, from which she's been disinvited and has no speaking role, just to walk across the stage and wave.

comment #9

George Prager says ...

Crabtree is right. There was nothing interesting about her other than the fact that she was the losing VP Candidate in 2008. Conservatives had pretty much forgotten about her. By this time the media should've forgotten about her because she's been living a pretty low-key hermetic existence since, then-- think Lloyd Bentsen after 1988. She put her nose to the grindstone, but they couldn't leave her alone. So she had to quit. They had to go looking for her like people used to go looking for Garbo. It's pathetic.

comment #10

DeeZee says ...

Bob: "...BUT, she's a walking disaster that their base LOVES. She's still their biggest fundraiser draw."

That says more about why they need to wean themselves off that base and marginalize it than anything else.

"And while the brains of the GOP have nothing but ever-increasing contempt for the "jesus freaks" they know they NEED them to tip the scales in key regions;"

That used to be the case, but now those fundies are turning into a liability. It's becoming a mutually-parasitic relationship which benefits no one.

Travis: "If she disappears from the public eye, who will they talk about, tell jokes about, write ENDLESS blogs about, hate, make fun of, fear, despise and treat like the 23rd coming of the apocalypse?"

That's amusing coming from the party perpetually willing to blame Carter and Clinton years after being out of office.

comment #11

Travis Crabtree says ...

I'm always a fan of your sarcasmasticness, George, but I don't think it's really warranted. The press, (mostly the section of the press that can't stand her), reports on her every move. She has been kept alive for the past several months by, primarily, the left. ("hey look everyone! Here's the biggest star of the Republican party. Ain't she crazy/awful/ a bitch / stupid?")

Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, etc, go around the country all the time making speeches to groups of Republicans and on behalf of local politicians... how often are the covered by Kos, MSNBC and HuffPo? It's not like she's on Oprah or Larry King every other day.

Seriously, if she truly DOES quit politics all together and sticks to her family in Alaska (which is what I hope she does, we'll see) what IS the Left going to do?

comment #12

Travis Crabtree says ...

Case in point - FOUR separate threads in the past 24 hours on a sight called Hollywood (as in "movies") Elsewhere.

comment #13

frankbooth says ...

Better check back in later to see if he posts another one, so you can tell us how bored you are. Maybe if you ask Wells nicely, he'll email you personally and give you a heads up.

comment #14

DeeZee says ...

Travis: "She has been kept alive for the past several months by, primarily, the left."

And how long have we had to endure your comments about Obama's middle name and father's birthplace?

"Seriously, if she truly DOES quit politics all together and sticks to her family in Alaska (which is what I hope she does, we'll see) what IS the Left going to do?"

Rejoice in knowing that your party is a mess.

comment #15

frankbooth says ...

P.S.

When I finally get around to watching Downfall (I know, I know, it's been out for years) it's gonna be VERY hard to watch that scene with a straight face.

comment #16

Travis Crabtree says ...

Which scene in Downfall? The MJ one? Or did someone do another version with Palin?

Who the fuck are you talking to fake Daniel Zelter D.Z.?

MY comments about Obama's middle name and father's birthplace? When did I ever say..... oh, right... it's you... (not worth the time)
I voted for McCain, and he wasn't born in the U.S., f.y.i.

MY party?

Ohhh. I see. I'm a strawman. Cool!

comment #17

SpinDozer says ...

'Ohhh. I see. I'm a strawman. Cool!'

Not a strawman, a Dickhead, a walking, talking, typing Dickhead, gibbering about shit you don't know to people who don't care.

You want to know what the Left is gonna do now that they don't have the top-half of the Palin-Jindal ticket to kick around anymore. Here's your answer: Find the next worthless piece of shit politician the wingnuts promote and piss on them. Clear on that? Good. Now go Fuck Yourself.

comment #18

Travis Crabtree says ...

I'll bet SpinDozer doesn't have any friends.
(I promised myself I would ignore him but I just can't quit him!)

You are SUCH an angry little child, aren't you? You really need to chill. Life isn't so bad. Living in your mother's basement can't be ALL bad.

By the way. Where do you live? Could I meet you somewhere? I'd simply LOVE an opportunity to kick the living shit out of your scrawny, effeminate, oft-visited ass. You've gone personal. Now I would like to beat upon you.

Pussy.

comment #19

SpinDozer says ...

I'll make this easy for you Trav, meet you at MSP concourse B (as in beast) stall 3rd from wide-stance right. tippity-tap-tippity-tap. Beat me up, big boy.

comment #20

SpinDozer says ...

Ps. Don't forget the macy's bag or the lubricant, you're kinda ruff around the edges, sweetgums!

comment #21

oldnumberseven.wordpress.com says ...

@Travis Crabtree

I am pretty confidant another moron will emerge. Not sure why you think the left needs Palin. There is opportunity everyday for the headline 'Another Republican proves he/she is an idiot.' No idea why you might think otherwise.

comment #22

Spongebob Cubiclepants says ...

Travis:

Why don't you post your email so that anyone that wants your thoughts can apply directly. That would save the rest of us from reading your endless and childish emotional outbusts. I know that you are under the impression that you can intimidate people by threatening to 'beat them up'. Here's a free tip: you are mistaken.

comment #23

Natali Watson says ...

Great article!) Thank you!
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