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2008-08-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-08-30 03:52|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 She's surrounded by horny males.

None of the females are wearing horns, are they?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-30 04:24|| 2008-08-30 04:24|| Front Page Top

#2 The young lady on the upper right is wearing some interesting breast protectors.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-08-30 05:31|| 2008-08-30 05:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Thor's Raiding Party poses for a Sarah Palin endorsement photo

Posted by badanov 2008-08-30 06:17|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-08-30 06:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Good, but I like the fish photo better.

Weird comes to weird (and it usually does) she's next up for the Rethuglicans one way or the other.

Long way off, but I see a glimmer of Jacksonian Populism. Long way off, long, long way.

Posted by .5MT 2008-08-30 07:45|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-08-30 07:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey wait a second, is that DecaonMan in the brown-fur in the back row? Missed him first time.

Posted by .5MT 2008-08-30 07:47|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-08-30 07:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Pics like this make me love her even more.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-08-30 07:50|| 2008-08-30 07:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Reminds me of the cartoon of a north woods woman saying, "But I wanted a CLOTH coat"

Posted by bruce 2008-08-30 07:50|| 2008-08-30 07:50|| Front Page Top

Posted by Slavitch White4893 2008-08-30 08:11|| 2008-08-30 08:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Yannow iffin you post elsewhere like on a lefty blog you will raise the level of discourse in both places.

A twofer!

Posted by badanov 2008-08-30 08:14|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-08-30 08:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, SPAAAAAAAAAMMMMM wonderful Spam. SPAAAAAAAAMMMMMM wonderful spam!

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-30 08:24|| 2008-08-30 08:24|| Front Page Top

#11 As a respectably married lady, I don't see that Mrs. Palin's sex life is any concern at all of itinerant trolls. On the other hand the fascination with such things says a lot more about Beauzeau's thought processes than about Mrs. Palin. But nobody's surprised, because that's the level of discourse we expect from the left, isn't it?

Posted by Fred 2008-08-30 08:35|| 2008-08-30 08:35|| Front Page Top

#12 the Palin pick seems to have resulted in a disturbance of the force on the left side....heh.

/Panic!!111!!!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-30 08:41|| 2008-08-30 08:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Must have been Viking night at the Great Alaskan Bush Company.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-30 08:46|| 2008-08-30 08:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Frank, I truly believe they're about to drown in flop sweat right now. They've been so sure for so long that this election was locked up, the thought of actually losing it has never occurred to them. The only lefties that aren't absolutely terrified now are the Hillary supporters who are seeing Palin as a candidate they can happily support until Clinton gets another shot in 2012.

Bumper sticker I liked (on a Dem site): "NObama '08: Keep The Change!"

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-08-30 08:52|| 2008-08-30 08:52|| Front Page Top

#15 The best thing about Palin, aside from the fact that she still wears her glasses and remains drop dead gorgeous, is that she at once reconciles the right wing of the trunks to McCain without offending, in fact she appeals to, a lot of folks in the middle and even donks. Look at the Hillary Clinton Forum. The comments over there are over 90% pro McCain-Palin and they've had 50,000 hits, and 500 comments.

As I've said before, if the debates go as well as I expect, this could be McGovernesque and in February every body will be wodering why people were so entranced by somebody named Barrack Osama, or whatever it was.

Also looking at the response at the HCF and her family, history, etc., I would not be surprised to hear that they are no longer called Reagan Democrats, but now Palin Democrats. The donks could be in real trouble after this election, especially if Palin's main job becomes cranking up the '12 campaign for the trunks. All those '06 donk wins will be up for grabs in '12.

In addition to being well inside Barrack's OODA loop, McCain is playing very long ball.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-30 09:06|| 2008-08-30 09:06|| Front Page Top

#16 As for the debates, Biden had better buckle up! This young lady is no pushover.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-30 09:10|| 2008-08-30 09:10|| Front Page Top

#17 In addition to being well inside Barrack's OODA loop, McCain is playing very long ball.

My take on it too, NS.

I've got family in PA to go talk to .... ;-)

Posted by lotp 2008-08-30 09:27|| 2008-08-30 09:27|| Front Page Top

#18 If you can pry them away from their guns and Bibles.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-30 09:30|| 2008-08-30 09:30|| Front Page Top

#19 Finally, if Bush is seen as a Lincolnian president as I expect he will, McCain will be seen as TRian, even to the point of being disappointed with where his veep takes the country. The difference is that McCain will be too old to do anything about it and the Palin-Jindal ticket will have done too much to change the rules.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-30 09:37|| 2008-08-30 09:37|| Front Page Top

#20 All dressed up for next week's convention in Minneapolis...

Posted by GK 2008-08-30 09:54|| 2008-08-30 09:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Don't see a fat lady in the pic. She must be warming up to sing for the Obama/Biden ticket.

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2008-08-30 10:26|| 2008-08-30 10:26|| Front Page Top

#22 Kirsten Powers (No GOP fan) in the NY Post:

"I can't help wondering if this is a trap. The McCain camp watched and learned as Obama supporters offended Hillary supporters by their treatment of her. The McCainiacs had to know that this group is incapable of behaving, that Palin would bring out their worst instincts.

One top Republican said to me: "Just wait until she is debating Joe Biden and he starts attacking or condescending to her. Hillary voters are going to say, 'Oh yeah, I remember this.' "

yep, the frothy 'bats will be hitting the burg and every other site. They are apoplectic, and will only demonstrate their incivility and crazy rage as the election gets closer. Next week, the Mods better keep the "dump" button handy

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-30 10:43|| 2008-08-30 10:43|| Front Page Top

#23 Barack is really a weak candidate. His only credential is his "cool" factor. He hired stuffy Biden because he realized that some people actually look at the resume.

Now she comes along and is waaay cooler than he is.

Obama's response when Palin was announced was to stomp his foot and say that she wasn't experienced. I don't think that in a million years McCain realized that Barack and his team would respond by calling ATTENTION to her lack of experience when she has more experience than Obama. I suspect McCain never dreamed he would be THAT foolish.

But McCain understands how weak and vain Obama is and he's playing him like a fiddle.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-30 10:47|| 2008-08-30 10:47|| Front Page Top

#24 Well there is this photo of the Governor in circulation, but it may be photoshopped.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2008-08-30 11:01|| 2008-08-30 11:01|| Front Page Top

#25 She comes from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying:
Obama, I am coming!
On we sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the White House door.

Posted by Mike 2008-08-30 11:04|| 2008-08-30 11:04|| Front Page Top

#26 His only credential is his "cool" factor.

No, he was the anti-Hillary factor. And he organized his campaign around the operation of that clan. However, he 'assumed' that McCain was just another senatorial ~~jerk~~ pol like most of the others he has had contact with.

I doubt they taught at the Ivy League schools the admonitions of Sun Tzu -

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

John McCain's team has the O'teams number. As demonstrated, the O'team doesn't have McCain's.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-30 11:05|| 2008-08-30 11:05|| Front Page Top

#27 Nimble Spemble, your vision of a 2012 Palin-Jindal ticket just makes me wild with excitement. What a wonderful thought.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-08-30 11:08|| 2008-08-30 11:08|| Front Page Top

#28 Wudja?

Posted by Mike N. 2008-08-30 11:21|| 2008-08-30 11:21|| Front Page Top

#29 Before we tout a Palin/Jindal ticket, first she has to win.

History is not kind to losing vice-presidential nominees. Edwards. Liebermann. Kemp. Quayle. Ferraro. Mondale. Dole. Eagleton. Muskie. Miller. Lodge.

Any of those folks become President?

Nope, they didn't, and some sunk out of sight quickly (though in Edwards' case, not quickly enough). Some had successful careers otherwise, but none grabbed the big prize.

So first, Sarah Palin has to help John McCain win. After that we can talk Palin/Jindal.

Posted by Steve White 2008-08-30 11:17|| 2008-08-30 11:17|| Front Page Top

#30 I'm guessing these vikings could teach the Minnesota Vikings a thing or two about how to party without breaking a gaggle of laws.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-08-30 11:40|| 2008-08-30 11:40|| Front Page Top

#31 lets get her in one of those metal breast cup corset things.

Posted by Ominemp Henbane2659 2008-08-30 11:56|| 2008-08-30 11:56|| Front Page Top

#32 Well there is this photo of the Governor in circulation, but it may be photoshopped.
Bet this one wasn't

Posted by tipper 2008-08-30 12:02|| 2008-08-30 12:02|| Front Page Top

#33 And this is her best action shot.

Posted by tipper 2008-08-30 12:17|| 2008-08-30 12:17|| Front Page Top

#34 I admire Palin. She's everything every strong woman wishes that she was... a strong, sexy super-hero with a beautiful family and a stud for a husband.

And don't get me wrong, I get a laugh out of the good-natured "hot" jokes just like everyone else does.

But when I see her opponents "looking for naked pictures" or morphing her head onto a hot body in a political effort to paint her a bimbo.....

.....well, as a woman, it just downright pisses me off. I think the dems better pull in their attack dogs on that subject cause I suspect most women are like me: Taking notes and feeling the steam rise in the kettle.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-30 12:18|| 2008-08-30 12:18|| Front Page Top

#35 Betty, they won't be able too help themselves. They can not control themselves. Bambi's worst enemy is his own supporters.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-30 12:19|| 2008-08-30 12:19|| Front Page Top

#36 Betty this women is right there with you.

Mr. Lotp thinks that Palin is 'hot' and that McCain was wonderfully evil to choose her.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-30 12:25|| 2008-08-30 12:25|| Front Page Top

#37 Power Line has some great photos of Sarah Palin in the linked article. The one of her as a candidate for Miss Alaska shows she has a beautiful face.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-08-30 12:35|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-08-30 12:35|| Front Page Top

#38 Heart - Barracuda

Posted by tipper 2008-08-30 12:38|| 2008-08-30 12:38|| Front Page Top

#39 My wife works at Mat-Su schools, and many of her colleagues personally know Sarah Palin. She is just a regular person, interested in her children, an active participant in her children's school and activities. She ain't yer typical eastern elite politico. And that is where the political establishment feels threatened, so they will initiate personal attacks to discredit her.

The principal at my wife's school gave her teachers the option of watching Palin's speech on TV, as they have such a close relationship with her. Pretty cool.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-08-30 12:45|| 2008-08-30 12:45|| Front Page Top

#40 Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Bush. But, yes VP is not a great place to launch from. But unlike all those, Palin has been a Governor first. There is another very important undiscussed factor, generation.

John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936)
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (November 20, 1942)
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961)
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964)

Using Strauss & Howe's classifications, McCain is a solid Silent, Biden a very late Silent, almost a Boomer. Obama is a late Boomer. And Palin, early Gen X. McCain will make this an implicityly anti-1968-Boomer election. And Obama is a solid 1968-Boomer, not so much by date, but by ideology and action. He is a direct, but younger, brother of the Clintons, striving to follow in their footsteps. That is why the Ayers connection will come out and will make this a referendum on the elite of the 1968-Boomer generation.

By picking Palin, McCain has dissed the 1968-Boomer elite and handed the torch to the next generation. There are plenty of boomers who are fed up with the elite 1968-Boomers and will be happy to support John and Sarah in throwing the ME generation out of power.

I'll not miss them one bit.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-30 12:46|| 2008-08-30 12:46|| Front Page Top

#41 There are plenty of boomers who are fed up with the elite 1968-Boomers and will be happy to support John and Sarah in throwing the ME generation out of power.

Count me among them.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-30 12:53|| 2008-08-30 12:53|| Front Page Top

#42 The ~~communists~~ left are acting like a bunch of rabid dogs over Senator McCain's selection because she is a strong Pro-Life advocate. The fact she is a woman is totally ignored and set aside for the... greater issue. The woman and "glass ceiling" thing has been a convenient cover-for-action for the left for many years. It's all about the continuation of infanticide. Just my humble opinion.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-30 13:01|| 2008-08-30 13:01|| Front Page Top

#43

In any case, it will be amusing to see how O's attack dog reacts to her.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-30 13:08|| 2008-08-30 13:08|| Front Page Top

#44 Another thing, she looks like Tina Fey.

Posted by tipper 2008-08-30 13:27|| 2008-08-30 13:27|| Front Page Top

#45 I think it's great. Obama picks Joe Biden, and then McCain goes and finds someone from the auditioning room at "Deadliest Catch." And she's apparently been endorsed by the Vikings!

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-08-30 13:33|| 2008-08-30 13:33|| Front Page Top

#46 Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Bush. But, yes VP is not a great place to launch from.

"People noticed the next vice president. Cowboy, scholar, naturalist, impetuous enthusiast for numerous ideas and causes, Theodore Roosevelt owed his nomination to the desire of New York state political bosses to get him out of the state's politics[P2K-Heh]. The former Rough Rider held presidential ambitions and worried that the job could be "a steppingstone to . . . oblivion." He also felt that he lacked the financial resources needed to entertain on the grand scale expected of his immediate predecessors. Roosevelt argued in vain that the party should find someone else, but Republican leaders wanted him, believing he would bring a new kind of glamour and excitement to President McKinley's candidacy. When his magnetic presence at the national convention fired the enthusiasm of his partisans, the nomination was his. Roosevelt then defied conventional practice by waging an active national campaign for the ticket, publicizing the Republican cause in a way that President McKinley could not. Had not an assassin's bullet in September 1901 propelled Roosevelt to the White House, his impact on the vice-presidency during a four-year term would most likely have been profound. In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt became the first vice president who succeeded to the presidency to be elected president in his own right." source

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-30 13:44|| 2008-08-30 13:44|| Front Page Top

#47 TR was also governor of NY for less than 2 years before being tapped.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-30 13:51|| 2008-08-30 13:51|| Front Page Top

#48 watch this interview with maria bartoromo.

biden who? our own political establishment has set the table for the peak oil creeps, putin at the helm, democrats in the house and senate.....god do we need this woman.

Posted by Spiny Gl 2511 2008-08-30 13:53|| 2008-08-30 13:53|| Front Page Top

#49 The clarity we loved in Fred Thompson, but with energy.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-30 14:02|| 2008-08-30 14:02|| Front Page Top

#50 Pailin will disarm Biden in the debates. Biden will come off like an attack dog and Sarah will come off like Reagan in those "There you go again" refrains.

By the way...that picture is quintessential Alaskana. You have to live here to understand.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-08-30 14:15|| 2008-08-30 14:15|| Front Page Top

#51 She'll disleg him, too.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-30 14:18|| 2008-08-30 14:18|| Front Page Top

#52 I don't think that in a million years McCain realized that Barack and his team would respond by calling ATTENTION to her lack of experience when she has more experience than Obama.

Actually I think that was likely precisely what Team McCain had in mind. At some point voters lose interest in hearing a candidate recite the same criticisms over and over and the argument loses its potency. McCain can ride that horse a bit longer himself but in Palin he has set out what appears to be a very effective tar baby that Obama and his surrogates won't be able to resist. It's downright Machiavellian.

The past month or so but particularly the past couple of weeks McCain's team has been so far inside Obama's decision loop that it seems as if McCain is actually driving the direction of the Obama campaign. It's a bit like watching a group of ancient hunters stampede a herd of bison over a cliff.

Posted by AzCat 2008-08-30 14:48|| 2008-08-30 14:48|| Front Page Top

#53 It's certainly true that the Obmanuts are a herd of cattle.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-30 14:51|| 2008-08-30 14:51|| Front Page Top

#54 Now you have to go and insult cattle.

Cows are some of the stupidest creatures on this earth (IMHO) - but at least they don't attempt to believe two contradictory things at the same time - which is a regular for leftest.

You won't hear a cow say things like "Capitalism is evil - here buy this Che Shirt!" (even if they could speak).

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-08-30 15:01|| 2008-08-30 15:01|| Front Page Top

#55 Bastards!

You mean those "Eat Mor Chikkin" ads are faked??

Posted by badanov 2008-08-30 15:08|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-08-30 15:08|| Front Page Top

#56 Don't be so sure about that CrazyFool. Cows just might surprise you ....

Posted by AzCat 2008-08-30 15:10|| 2008-08-30 15:10|| Front Page Top

#57 "By picking Palin, McCain has dissed the 1968-Boomer elite"

In BOTH parties

... some boomer GOP elties are grumbling too, the old Manhattan/DC-Beltway Country Club Repubs.

I bet Sarah has shopped at Sam's Club or Costco. I bet none of the others have.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-30 16:06|| 2008-08-30 16:06|| Front Page Top

#58 I think she has the potential to be another TR.

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-30 16:36|| 2008-08-30 16:36|| Front Page Top

#59 Just the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain's veep took the oxygen out of BO's acceptance speech the night before. When I see BO's masses of teary eyed fawning fans hanging on his every word, I begin to worry about images of history's demigods and messianic figures.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-08-30 17:22|| 2008-08-30 17:22|| Front Page Top

#60 "1968-Boomer elite?"

You guys talking about Obamabuddy Ayers?

Posted by Mercutio 2008-08-30 17:27|| 2008-08-30 17:27|| Front Page Top

#61 .5MT, I wish that wuz me but it ittint. My Viking Helmet has wings.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-08-30 17:53|| 2008-08-30 17:53|| Front Page Top

#62 Sarah in Dodge Vipers

book review: Kaylene Johnson's "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down"

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-30 18:13|| 2008-08-30 18:13|| Front Page Top

#63 Deacon, that pic frightens me, and I'm 1/4 Norwegian

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-30 18:47|| 2008-08-30 18:47|| Front Page Top

#64 and I'm 1/4 Norwegian

Sorry, but I gotta ask:

Which 1/4?

Posted by badanov 2008-08-30 18:51|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-08-30 18:51|| Front Page Top

#65 Mom's Dad. Christopher Gaaseruud, came over as a baby. His Dad was Olaf - Old Country.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-30 19:02|| 2008-08-30 19:02|| Front Page Top

#66 Frank, did Olaf Old Country's son buy any 'Frank G and the Turbans' records or were you written out of the will then and there?

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-08-30 19:45|| 2008-08-30 19:45|| Front Page Top

#67 wel, he wuz dead long before I joined that ill-fated troubadour group. We always had headgear issues

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-30 20:08|| 2008-08-30 20:08|| Front Page Top

#68 I seem to scare pregnant women and small children. I have no idea why. I think it's my piercing blue eyes. Dogs like me.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-08-30 20:22|| 2008-08-30 20:22|| Front Page Top

#69 You're right! there is blue behind the red! Go figure

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-30 20:37|| 2008-08-30 20:37|| Front Page Top

#70 Yep, ole Deacon 'Fireplug' Blues is a legend out here in flyover country.

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-08-30 21:51|| 2008-08-30 21:51|| Front Page Top

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