palin derangement syndrome continues
By American Girl in Italy on July 1, 2009 at 7:00 PM in Andrew Sullivan, Bill Clinton, Current Affairs, Media, Print, Sara in Italy, Sarah Palin
Todd Purdum from Vanity Fair just wrote an article about Sarah Palin, and I can’t decide if he wants to take her down, or get down with her.
“Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics….she is by far the best-looking woman ever…the first indisputably fertile female to dare to dance with the big dogs….she looks like a beauty queen….When she chooses to reveal herself….Palin is at once the sexiest and the riskiest brand in the Republican Party…Palin turns her debate with Joe Biden into a winkathon…nailing…knockout…she was a fresh-faced reformer…”
“It Came from Wasilla” is an idiotic hit piece, filled with anonymous sources, and a revival of Trig trutherisms. “Complete with a slew of juicy, negative quotes from insiders and a smoothly crafted narrative that demeans and diminishes Palin’s accomplishments.”
Real Clear Politics says it best:
Todd Purdum pulls down the black ski mask and whips out the sawed off shotgun for this utterly predictable hit piece on Sarah Palin in the August issue of Vanity Fair.
To be clear, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the elitist MSM’s contract-killer journalism against political figures with whom they disagree – which, more often than not means conservatives.Purdum’s piece is an absolute classic of the genre, complete with a slew of juicy, negative quotes from insiders and a smoothly crafted narrative that demeans and diminishes Palin’s accomplishments and portrays her as an ignorant white trash whack job who stumbled her way into the governorship of Alaska through a combination of raw ambition and blind luck.
What the hell is Vanity Fair doing running this crap? A womans magazine that takes down succesful working women and mothers?
I thought this was a great discussion, from Hannity:
The Campaign Spot was nice enough to read and mock the article, so you don’t have to. Here are a couple of highlights:
Whatever her political future, the emergence of Sarah Palin raises questions that will not soon go away. “What does it say about the nature of modern American politics that a public official who often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but applauded?”
I’m still looking for any quote from Palin at any time where she expressed pride in what she does not know. The closest we come to in the article is an anecdote in which she tells a gubernatorial rival that she’s amazed at his command of “facts, figures, and policies” but then looks into the audience and wonders whether any of it really matters. We don’t know which “facts, figures, and policies” she’s referring to, but we have all seen detail-heavy speakers incapable of communicating a core message. Keep in mind that the current president was elected on a core message of “hope,” “change,” and “yes we can.”
What does her prominence say about the importance of having (or lacking) a record of achievement in public life?
Again, four years in the Senate, two of which were spent campaigning, is considered proper preparation for the presidency; two years as governor is somehow scandalously little experience to be vice president.
Her first trip to Washington since the election was to attend the dinner of the Alfalfa Club, an elite group of politicians and businesspeople whose sole function is an annual evening in honor of a plant that would “do anything for a drink.”
Ah. How the group got its name is very important to this story; otherwise it might that Palin appeared at a traditional get-together of prominent political figures, instead of the insinuation that she’s hanging around with a bunch of lushes. The fact that President Obama spoke to the group* is strangely omitted.
Palin worked hard, and the results were adequate. Palin’s winking “Can I call you Joe?” performance against Biden was nothing like a disaster.
In this kind of a profile, this is an admission that she won the debate.
I think Bill Clinton best summed up Todd Purdum (responding to the hit piece Purdum wrote about Bill):
“He’s a really dishonest reporter…. But he’s a real slimy guy.” When Fowler reminded Clinton that Purdum is married to his former press secretary, he responded: “That’s all right – he’s still a scumbag” and later added “He’s just a dishonest guy – can’t help it.”
Clinton went on to observe: “It’s all politics. It’s all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don’t think anything about it. But I’m telling ya, all it’s doing is driving her supporters further and further away – because they know exactly what it is – this has been the most rigged coverage in modern history – and the guy ought to be ashamed of himself. But he has no shame. It isn’t the first dishonest piece he’s written about me or her.”
Bill Clinton also said about Purdum:
“The editor of Esquire— he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he’d seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it.”
“You know he didn’t use a single name, cite a single source in all those things he said. It’s just slimy. It’s part of the national media’s attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It’s the most biased press coverage in history. It’s another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn’t do anything about it. The first day he said ‘Ah, ah, ah well.’ Because that’s what they do— he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain— maybe I better quit the church. It’s all politics. It’s all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don’t think anything about it.”
Eerily similar isn’t it? So, perhaps it isn’t Sarah Palin that Purdum is obsessed with, but Obama…. Watch out Dee Dee!
Purdum also wrote:
“Several [people in Alaska] told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly.”
That is SO funny, because several people told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the Henry Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body, and confirmed that Purdum is an asshole.
It’s true. People told me. And I read it on the internets machine.
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Sarah Palin’s entrance on the national scene this past year elicited very heavy positive response from a cross section of people in this country in both parties. Certainly as a result she will continue to be attacked just because of that in order to attempt to crush or demean whatever future she may choose to pursue in national politics.
Slime overrunneth …in the media..and the underground hit men and women who brought us the Obama train continue to roll out on the tracks more of the same…
VFair’s lovefest w/the O continues. I’ve stopped my own subscription, disc. gifts.
Thanks for the great reporting. It’s why I keep coming to NQ. Actually it used to be why I kept reading VFair.
You guys rock.
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I heard that Todd has a T tattooed on his left buttcheek and a dd on his right buttcheek so that when he bends over it spells his name. Actually, I’ve heard that from several guys.
Hurray for you, Sara in Italy.
” “IT” came from Wasilla” speaks multitudes about the creep that wrote the trash. Todd Purdom can be best described as “IT”. IT came from Vanity Fair and IT is no less than regurgitated Obama mysoginy sexism. IT is the brainless night crawler, or in this case the pinworm that desires the refuge of crawing up Obama’s ass.
there are a lot of issues i don’t agree with sarah on, but i voted for her and john mccain. the more they try to take her down, the more they prove to me that they’re scared shitless over her.
The fact is that Sarah was a sensation and if it were not for the democrats setting up a crash in the markets McCain/Palin would have won.
As a long time recently exdemocrat who had an epiphany in regard to what the democrats have become I believe that Sarah represents my values and traditions and will follow the constitution and be good for business.
The democrats are worried because Sarah represents the New Republican Party….
The party of White Women Leaders. A great strategy and one that will save America from the Marxist socialist slobs in power now.
The Democrats are petrified that women will be the leaders of the Republicans and not their white male stereotypes.
For me I think this is a brilliant strategy and look forward to the next President being a strong moral principled woman.
I would be on couch rations if even I defend Palin as a human being in my neck off the woods.
The problem is epic. There are policies the Governor of Alaska I would not agree with, but the more the character assassinations that are suffered at the hands of the MSM thugs, the more she will have my support.
Choice is one of the issues that many folks don’t agree with Palin about. However, she has not worked to legislate anti-abortion laws in Alaska, and she’s appointed a pro-choice judge to their bench. In fact, her expressed views about abortion are no different than Joe Biden’s or Harry Reids.
Make no mistake, if she were a Democrat, that would all be swept under the rug, and the Dem party would love her- as long as she was willing to wait her turn and go along with corruption, that is.
Words from a thoroughly disgusted with the DNC/dem party Democrat (now in name only).
And the thing is, the Dems have as their Senate Majority Leader a man who believes very much like Sarah Palin does. As does the CHAIR of the DNC, Tim Kaine. But hey – let’s jump all over HER for her beliefs, someone who has made those very choices for her own body, and let the Dem men off scot-free. Talk abt your double standard.
And you make a GREAT point – though “waiting one’s turn” seems to only apply to women, doesn’t it?? Sheesh.
Great post, AGII!
No kidding about waiting applying only to women. And I had forgotten about Kaine. Let’s add to the list the woman he appointed to head the faith based and community initiatives program of the HHS. She apparently does not approve of birth control even in the setting of heterosexual marriage.
I agree. Biden got 100 people to hear him speak today in Erie Pa. They even took out 30 chairs to make the room look full. Sarah got a crowd of over 20,000 in Auburn & Seneca Falls, NY a few weeks ago celebrating the Birth of Sec Seward who bought Alaska from Russia and Harriet Tubman’s home in Auburn, then drove to Seneca Falls to visit the Women’s Rights Historic Park and the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
President Palin 2012.
Fabulous. Loved it AGI!
Great post AGI. Think I’ll start a subscription to Vanity Fair, just so I can cancel it.
Great post! Love the Gray’s Anatomy cite. What an a$$hole is right!
This is not the first time that Vanity Fair has gone after Sarah Palin. Have you seen the pictures that Wonkettes did of little Trig.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/palin-the-thrilla-from-wasilla.html
“This is not the first time that Vanity Fair has gone after Sarah Palin”
Well, I just noted these facts on another thread after Catherine observed that Todd Purdum (editor of Vanity Fair) is married to Dee Dee Meyers:
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0f14bxGgFe50n/340x.jpg
It’s misogyny, pure and simple. Vanity fair is horrified and obsessed with the fact that she’s “fertile.” The rumors are flying that some Republicans accused her of having post partum depression. Andrew Sullivan, sleezeball in chief, is still obsessed with the details of her child birth, for over an year now!
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/and-the-story-the-msm-still-wont-touch.html
This is the same old crap. Women have icky girly parts, they make babies, and they have dangerous hormones that make them unstable. That’s why they shouldn’t be airline pilots. Or presidents. Or have any part in financial matters.
Women will have equality when we finally come together and say enough already. Unfortunately there are still a lot of women in this country who don’t understand that when they attack Palin, they are attacking us all.
Well stated, yttik. Thank you.
Women who get on the bandwagon to attack Palin like this don’t understand the slippery slope they are on. When you employ the tools of woman-hate, criticizing the person, not the policy, you empower the leaders of such unjust action to employ the same vile tools against you, should you ever become inconvenient for any reason.
well said!!!
I found Purdum’s article surreal. I swear he was talking about Obama most of the time. His description’s of Palin fit Obama to the letter.
Hi John, went and read your little article on this theme at Liberal Rapture. The “narcissistic personality disorder” charge is particularly ludicrous. Here at No Quarter we’ve been discussing Obama’s narcissistic tendencies since way before the election. I mean, Thee One? Who had Greek Columns, Barack or Sarah? O’s narcissism moves way beyond the bounds of neurosis into the realm of messianic psychosis. I don’t think that Sarah has a site “honoring” her divinity to compare with this:
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
Ride these calls of sexism to the bank, ladies. Maybe Gloria Steinem can be Secretary of State.
Still trying to destroy her even after their guy won. What does that say about this mag and the MSM? They keep saying they want her “to go away” but they keep writing and making jokes about her–this is indeed a very strange reaction. Palin came out of nowhere for the BO campaign and presented a capable, fresh, genuine and maternal spirit and I guess it was just too much for the scum like this writer; if you’ve lived near manure long enough roses smell funny.
Over at Conservatives4Palin the discussion is that they are trying to take her out now, and the “they” are Mitt Romney and the RINOs/Washington elite. Today, HuffPo and Daily Kos basically endoresed Romney. Do the Repubs actually think Romney can win or are they conspiring with the Dems to re-elect Obama? Palin actually is their strongest candidate but she is not controlled by the elite or the Repub Party..a big threat. You ought to go over to C4P to listen to the John Ziegler interview with this guy Mike Allen from Politico who was on the Scarborough show this morning and made this comment about Palin giving circus interviews. When Zieglar tries to get him to identify which interviews he was talking about, he refused to answer, kept avoiding the question…they want to take her out asap. She is a serious threat apparaently to the power structure in this country. All the more reason to support her.
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/
What are Kos and HuffPoo doing endorsing repubs? I thought they were liberal dems, leaders of the progressive blogosmear. Or was that just a marriage of convenience to get the current corporate president, Obanker, into office?
This was a hatchet job and Vanity Fair should be ashamed of itself to pretend that a piece like this is anything more. I agree with Clinton: pure slimy politics. These morons don’t seem to understand that the more they do this sort of thing, the more traditional Dems [not to mention Independents (an important voting block) and Republicans] are disgusted, turned off and will turn away, even from their idol, Obama. That doesn’t mean I’ll run into Palin’s camp because I’m not aligned with her philosophically or politically, but it does seal the deal: the Democratic Party no longer represents me.
I’m guessing the article has created alot of heat because Purdum is presumably defending the piece.
What’s clear to me is that the Dems have gone completely off the rails. They’re irrational about Palin, as they were with Hillary Clinton during the primaries. And yet, they insist they represent women’s issues. What a bitter joke!
Chuck Todd, Chief WH Correspondent for NBC News, filling in for Chris Matthews on Hardball, interviewed Todd Purdum about this article about the Governor. He not only endorsed TP’s failure to use direct quotes but immediately afterward ends the interview with this compliment, which I quote.
“There’s no doubt, you’re one of the best writers and reporters I’ve met in this business.”
Todd on Todd
I heard from several reliable guys who told me independently of one another that Chuck Todd has the very same tattoos on his buttcheeks as Todd Purdum (see my comment at the top of the thread).
Good comments all the way up!
And both should have This space for rent tattooed to their foreheads.
I didn’t realize Bill had said all that! Nice! thanks for the info.
That being said, people write hit pieces all the time, Palin isn’t the only one ya know. I have been seeing quite a bit of Palin Obsession Syndrome lately, and it’s becoming eerily similar to Obama Obssession Syndrome.
I think it is also safe to say that if Obama’s approval numbers start going down, the hit pieces on Palin will increase in direct proportion to that.
I also think Romney is a bit of a slime and wouldn’t put anything past him either. Another hairdo.
I saw a news bit about Romney today breaking out a giant portrait of himself. He may well be the corporate sponsored media favorite of the future. He is starting to smell a lot like Bush and Obama already. If we are to save this nation, we need to elect whoever it is the media dislikes the most next time. That is our litmus test.
Funny you should say that — that was my criteria in both the primary and the general election last year — I voted for the who the media DID NOT want.
While I would have scoffed at that idea two years ago, it now seems as good a criteria as any.
Ani,
I, too, supported the candidates that the media hated! IMO, the media is patriarchy’s last defense against women finally breaking the glass ceiling and showing the world what they’ve been missing and what we’ve lost as a result of this terrible mindset.
I distinctly remember when the dems protested at the top of the lungs that the media was too protective of bush II. Now the dems are silent in the face of that same media doing the same for obama, but with an even greater ferocity of bias. I didn’t think that could be possible!
And the portrait was hideous as it looked as two-dimensional as its subject. Moreover, I’m surprised he wasn’t pointing towards Salt Lake City.
Yeah, they are definitely scared to death of her, she’s charismatic enough to win. Personally i am scared as well, but i am scared of any conservative who can win. I am not too clear on exactly what her politics are, it’s too bad the f-ckfaces at VF don’t dare write about that. *sigh*.
That being said, i almost take back my original comment, this hit piece was worse than most i have read on a politician. Especially the term “it”. that’s just plain dangerous.
Before completely scathing the writer, reports have been pushed in the media that much of his coverage was provided by McCain’s campaign staff. At least, those were the headlines yesterday–or the day before yesterday–when excerpts of the article were being published online.
I also think that RealClearPolitics’ little “commentary” is more than just a bit self-serving and, dare I say, whiney. Quote: “To be clear, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the elitist MSM’s contract-killer journalism against political figures with whom they disagree – which, more often than not means conservatives.” Oh, really? Conservatives are “more often than not” the targets of the MSM? Hmm. During the high point of the Bush/Cheney administration, who were these “targets” of the MSM? The REALITY (that RCP conveniently ignores) is that the MSM is NOT liberal or progressive. The MSM IS conservative. Plain and simple. No matter how much self-martyrdom RCP wants to generate for conservatives, these “conservatives” have only become “targets” because of their own actions.
Neither Bill nor Hillary are “conservative”–they are both very moderate Democrats, and both were vilified, not only by the “conservatives” (like Limbaugh and the fucking Religious Right) but also by members of their own party (Bill’s toughest opponents for the first two years of his administration were “fellow” Southern Democrats, most notably Sam Nunn and Richard Shelby–the latter of whom switched to the GOP in 1995; as to Hillary, she was the victim of a smear campaign which painted her as too “polarizing” to be an effective Democratic Presidential candidate) as well as the MSM which took THEIR leads from the fucking right-wing Clinton haters. (Bear in mind how Hillary was attacked when she made that very prescient claim early in Bill’s presidency about the “right-wing media conspiracy”. Of course, the right-wingers attacked her and they didn’t hesitate to use the MSM–which is now supposed to be attacking Palin because of “liberals”. I call bullshit.)
What do you expect from people that were running a horrible campaign for McCain. That’s why he lost because of all his ignorant people he had around him. All they want know is publicity…
Thank you so much for this piece. I read that dumb article a couple of days ago and it made me sick. The cheap shot about her purported $150,000 “shopping spree” was a dead giveaway that this entire article was based on false info and full of crap. Hope more sources continue to trash this piece of trash article.
I just found this at Flopping Aces, John Ziegler interviews Mike Allan and makes him look like a fool for what he said on MSNBC. Allan tries to dance around his questions. Basically claiming he never said anything wrong about Sarah he was talking about the campaign. A must hear.
http://www.floppingaces.net/
Oh tahnks! listening to it now.
Joe Sco took some criticism for his *circus* comment, but I understood it to mean that she was being turned into a circus by the media like they did to Quale. He has defended Palin in the past, so it was a little bizarre.
that was just unbelievable, and so delicious! thank you for posting!!
Your welcome. I just happen to be clicking on the blogrolls to see what other’s are posting. I’m thankful there were no flies in the house as I sat here with my mouth agape going unflippinbelievable!
That Purdhum hit piece is one of the worst pieces of journalism I’ve seen lately – and that’s really saying something.
Once again we are treated to the sexist theory that ambition in a woman is somehow a negative, while the same ambition in a man is a positive.
I don’t know Benjamin the one he did on President Clinton was just as bad. Then he had the gall to say he was stirring the pot of gossip when he was cornered on it, after he presented it as facts.
Palin represents domestic energy sources and development. Alaska has untapped resources that could end our incestual relationship with the Saudi’s. Most politicians in D.C. have Saudi tinted skeletons in their closets, both Dem and Repub. TO me it is obvious, those that denigrate Palin have dirty little secrets that would come out and end their cushy lifestyle, those who support her have some ethics. Palin is the litmus test for those politicians that work for the American people and those that are getting filthy rich screwing the American people. That is why they fear her so much and are hellbent on destroying her.
you know, i never even thought about that. that is a very interesting point!
Great Post!!
“That is SO funny, because several people told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the Henry Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body, and confirmed that Purdum is an asshole.”
LOL
I checked myself and yes, add me to the list of anonymous people on the interwebs confirming that he is indeed an asshole. Quote me in any major publication you would like as a “credible source with inside knowledge”.
see look – i even have named sources! ;O)
there must be some inside polling going on right now that shows palin with a above 50% aproval rating.
why else would they unload in early july of 2009?
Agreed. Palin’s not even running for national office so why the constant attacks on her and not any other Republican governors?
Hardly a peep of criticism from Vanity Fair and the other parts of the MSM about Arnold’s handling of the economy of California. If California crashes the rest of the nation is in real financial trouble.
So why not report about that?
The internal polls must be looking pretty bad in a head-to-head match-up with Palin.
As an aside, why is Dean defending the very people who had him fired when as the head of the DNC he can be credited with winning two elections in a row?
Candymarl. California HAS crashed.
I am on work furlough for a week. The next round of cuts will be very deep and the point of no return has come and gone.
Sorry to hear that TWK. I just heard a report about Arnold proposing more cuts for the mildly disabled. From the report I got the impression that these are people who need some help but also can work to a limited degree.
What’s next? Meals On Wheels? Those elderly eat too much anyway! Good grief.
The voters of California weren’t content with merely being in the frying pan with Gray Davis, apparently preferring direct contact with the fire under an Ahhnold administration.
One idiot replacing another idiot. This sounds all too familiar.
Drat–Lost another comment to the Scrubbinator. I don’t know if it was the frying pan or fire comment that set it off on its self-directed tangent this time.
Can an administrator please rescue my comment?
Asking and answering the question, Why the constant attacks on Sarah Palin in 2009? will tell us a lot about the state of politics and politicians in America right now. I think it would be incredibly revealing, a litmus test as already mentioned.
I think a post on politicians relationships to Saudi’s would be very useful and interesting, starting with B0s free ride at Harvard, compliments of a Saudi Prince.
Purdum is just one more exhibitionist sexist pig. They are still around.
I don’t agree with Palin on almost anything, but I believe in honest criticism. Stick to the actual issues.
Great post AG in I! (You are clver and also very funny!)
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THANK YOU! I try! ;O)
[...] Big surprise – Vanity Fair has published an unsubstantiated piece of journalistic garbage that portrays Sarah Palin… Wow, what a surprise! (That’s sarcasm [...]
McCain’s Camp Praises Sanford and Trashes Palin?
There something wrong, very wrong, when Sarah Palin, a bright, shining light for conservatives remains the prime target of the existing Washington machine, while Mark Sanford and other hypocritical liars are serenaded as getting a raw deal by the very public daughter of a defacto leader of the party.
For some reason, Meghan McCain, writing in The Daily Beast, seems to think adulterous politicians, like South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, should be forgiven and can still do a darn good job representing their constituents. Why? Because lying, cheating and betraying the ones closest to you should not at all be held against you nor should it make people presume you might betray complete strangers known as “constituents.” While you use tax payer money to indulge in your cheating. And while it exposes you to blackmail and other sundry stuff. Not at all. No Sirree. Because, you see, marriage can be “complicated.” Gee, I wonder where she gets these ideas?
Now to John McCain’s other people who just can’t seem to stop maligning Sarah Palin. A woman who was chosen by them, a woman who single-handedly made the John McCain campaign relevant and viable. And what do they do in return? Continue their own backstabbing jihad. Why? Maybe because she doesn’t fit the scenario noted above by Meghan “Deep Thoughts” McCain? The more likely scenario, of course, is those in charge of the Worst Campaign in History want someone else to blame.
I don’t know why at least two McCains (and various hanger-on-ers) seem to be deeply irritated by a politician/wife/mother who has managed to do a great job for her state, represent the Reagan legacy and Christian values without being a lying, cheating, adulterous hypocrite. In today’s McCain/Bush/Romney/Cantor/Steele-led GOP, that is a dangerous threat and one to be smeared and eliminated. In my world that’s something to laud. We know there are good, honest people out there ready to serve this nation and treat America to the same fidelity and commitment they honor in their relationship. This nation deserves that respect and we demand nothing less.
Accordingly, the folks at Conservatives4Palin.com are rightly appalled at a massive and outrageous hit piece on Palin in the August edition of Vanity Fair. Joseph Russo takes sharp aim. In John McCain’s People Can Not Stop Trashing Sarah Palin he notes:
I am amazed that somebody was actually paid to write this garbage, and that is exactly what it is: garbage. The same tired old lies and distortions are thrown at Governor Palin by the same tired old backstabbers from the McCain campaign. You know, I really hate to say this, but the behavior by these staffers really shows you what kind of people John McCain attracts as a politician. So, John, “my friend,” please stop sending me fundraising e-mails.
People like John McCain and others who have been part of the self-absorbed, navel-gazing and corrupt Washington environment for a quarter century no doubt resent someone not “of them.” But it is indeed odd when Sarah Palin, a bright, shining light for conservatives remains the prime target of the existing machine, while Mark Sanford and other hypocritical liars are serenaded as getting a raw deal by the very public daughter of a defacto leader of the party.
This tells you a few things about self-styled GOP “leaders” themselves and the fact that they seem more than comfortable turning the Reagan GOP (Grand old Party) into the Ensign/Sanford GOP (Grand Old Partaaaay!). Independent Conservatives know there are two revolutions needed, one to take back the GOP from limp, visionless faux “conservatives,” and then on to Congress stopping Obama’s destructive and reckless agenda in its tracks.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/01/mccain-camp-praising-sanford-trashing-palin/
And now CBS has a new “expose” where Palin is being “unreasonable” by asking the McCain campaign to assist in rumor control about her husband’s link to the Alaska Independence Party.
I love that our MSM lambastes Palin for the media “circus” they created for her during the campaign and that they continue to create for her even now.
If John McCain were any sort of man, he would stand up for Governor Palin and tell his ridiculous daughter to zip it while he is at it.
So now it’s a bad thing to ask the campaign you’re a part of to assist in “rumor control”? OMG. Every politician including our current President does that. Now that they found out Palin asked for rumor control it’s something new?
They are really reaching here. I guess the powers-that-be didn’t liike the way folks of all political stripes were quick to defend Palin’s daughters.
News flash MSM: Attacking Palin will not change the general public disgust for the behavior of both parties.
Once again the media, along with the DC insiders, are trying to create controversy where there is none.
I agree with those who say Palin must scare them all to death.
Palin is finally doing something smart: stepping down as Alaska gov. It’s about time.
At least now Alaskans can get some respite from that woman’s interminably irritating voice!
I think this is a testament to how afraid those political forces, who hate America and the Constitution, are of Sarah Palin. She speaks with common sense on topics like drilling for oil in Alaska and using American resources rather than delving into more Ponzi and derivative stock market scams like Cap and Trade. Palin has my vote. Keep attacking her and the American people can see more clearly what she stands for. Keep it up press; it just doubles my resolve to back decent people with traditional America values that will actually benefit this country.