John McCain, You Don’t Deserve Someone of Sarah Palin’s Class & Calibre

I’d like more of a clue about what is on the video — I have dial up and can only watch very short short clips.

But hey — I’m not a bot — taking up the first spot!

I thought McCain DID defend Palin on Leno last night? I respect the opinion, but I can’t bash McCain. I have a feeling in six months about 1/2 of the 60 Million people who voted for OVomit will be wishing they voted for him. I know I wish he were my President.

Northwest rain
Sarah is getting more attention thean that one

Talking about her shopping and she was trashed about
buying silk shorts for hubby…
its saying how it took J mac 6 days to say anything and O Riley saying is sarah was your friend would it take u 6 days to talk up for her.

It shows because we are STILL talking about her seems she is a force to be reckoned with

That is it in brief

Who is John McCain?
And who is Sarah Palin?

John McCain is the person who SHOULD be President and Sarah Palin is the person who SHOULD be Vice President. You know..if it had been a FAIR and LEGAL election. Tell your boss OVomit to bite me.

bobwire |

2 citizens you would never be a match for!
They are way over your paygrade
Truthful people who do not seal votes and call people racists…

That is a start

bobwire |

please make sure the wire is live

ROFLMAO

The greater question is who is Barack Obama?

I have to agree with what mi amigo, Kinky Friedman said tonight on O’Reilly’s show. He eloquently (Texas style) defended both McCain and Palin—that is, when he could get a word in edgewise around O’Reilly and that snarky, supposedly “conservative” female reporter from the NYP. He noted that McCain, who is 72, just came off a hellishly difficult, demanding campaign that ended in a bruising loss for his ticket and his party; that McCain had indeed defended Palin when he appeared on Leno’s show; and that Palin was quite capable of defending herself. He countered the reporter’s contention that Palin was still in the news only because she was a “curiosity”—he said that she was, instead, still of interest because she’s a bright, powerful woman whom the left considers her to be a great threat. He called her a genuine, real person who was being targeted in this way by both sides because she didn’t have that false veneer of entirely created personality that the media and the party elites understood.

I’m a 100% Palin supporter—voted for her more than I did for McCain—but I agree with Kinky. Yes, McCain could have done more, if there had been time during the campaign, to deal with the sniping from within—but there was no time. The McCain campaign made serious mistakes in the way it “handled” Palin, but again, as she herself has said, there just wasn’t time to change that in the final weeks of the campaign.

BTW, for those of you who don’t know or “get” Kinky, consider this: Back in the 70s he wrote and recorded a satirical (like most of his work) song titled, “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed.” This was framed as a redneck’s complaint against feminism, but it was entirely intended as a satire, designed to skewer that mindset—which it certainly does. Some of the country music crowd took it a different way, but as Kinky says, “Bigots need to be entertained, too.” NOW also took the song as serious and “awarded” Kinky the title of “Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year.” Kinky showed up at NOW’s annual convention that year to “accept” this specious award, and in his appearance there, won over most of the audience. They “got” him.

O’Reilly, and I thought I’d never say this, has a point. However maybe Palin asked McCain to stay out of it. We don’t know.

Pointless. What matters now is to obstruct Obama’s agenda, frankly.

I am sure Palin actually like most women came out stronger initially with the lost on the 4th of November.
Women are strong, emotionally stronger than men and I am sure John McCain was devastated he again did not get the chance to serve his country in the Whitehouse.

If I had been in Sarah Palin’s shoes I would of told him oh don’t worry I can handle this alone….

John McCain gave her the respect she deserved and allowed her to go forward and handle the incident in her own way.
Sarah has done well and the fact she has been interviewed more than O shows that is a force to be reckoned with…. Sarah will grow from this, Politically mature and will leave O by the wayside in her own time…

Mark my words…

with the “loss”

I guess I am too emotional still to evaluate this. Last night on Leno McCain was funny, sweet, heartwarming and I got upset again. I loved when he said that since the election is over he “Sleeps like a baby. He goes to sleep wakes up every two hours and cries, and goes back to sleep.” Awwwwwwww…..I got OVomit instead and I’m still freaked.

Palin is rolling on these interviews and chewing people up. She’s going to be fine on her own. And in an odd way it’s actually cool that she didn’t have to have a man come rescue her. Didn’t someone say (Hannity?) that the RNC isn’t even booking these interviews? That she’s doing all of this on her own?

It’s funny to see people like Matt Lauer with her. They are all seeming to start to “get it” about her. 2012 is a whole new ballgame. As long as we survive OVomit’s reign of terror.

Sigh.

She’s incredible.

People in 4yrs will feel just as they did this year come election time and we will get the

“True Change” we are all looking for when
Sarah Palin is in the Whitehouse…..

Now that’s change you can believe in…

Just sad this year the election was stolen…
We needed change this year not false promises that have ended up in the gutter.

I agree and the sadess part is

Sarah Palin will be sad that it is not John McCain at her side….

Go Sarah show them what it is like to have a true worker for the people….

In honor of what SHOULD have been…

A little hokey but fun for those who haven’t seen this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpESyx58qmA

“I’ve Got a Crush on My VP”

sorry guys…

but i never thought i’d hear this kind of trash talking againt Mccain on this website…

i’ve been here a while but seriously i think your heads are exploding…

John Mccain has made it perfectly clear his respect for Palin…

pull your heads out morons… he only picked her for his running mate…

if you all had any balls you would be aiming your angst at N.O.W. , Bill Ayers (who is now cashing in on Obama’s criminal activity) and various other issues and people…

how about all those Bush cronies that are now involved with Obama?

how about Bush’s involvement in stopping the deportation of Obama’s aunt?

i could go on and on…

you people are becoming pathetic…

a. hillary
b. mccain

america first!

I agree with you 100%. My biggest level of disgust is towards the Coven of Witches entitled NOW. I hope they lose members and support like crazy after their rabid, scathing attacks on one of their own. And I’m really glad that OVomit will be adding Billy Ayers to the permanent Guest List at the White House. Yeah, it’s great news all around. And I will never bash McCain. I wake up every morning STILL and think this had to have all been one big nightmare and he’s really our CIC.

I agree. Bronwyn, time out.

Thank you!!

Will the real Obama stand up?

Is he a corporatist fascist?

Is he a socialists or a Marxist communists?

Is he a liberal (whatever that means)?

Can he write? Are there any examples of his writing — besides some really bad poetry? Books can be ghost written.

We don’t know if he is really an American — since he refused to show his copy of the vault, type written birth certificate (primary record, from eyewitness to his birth, made close to the time he was born — not an unverified computer generated document).

——————

We know he isn’t well spoken when not linked to his teleprompter. We know that he doesn’t think well “on his feet”.

We know he is a passive aggressive.

We know is willing to throw anyone under the bus (train) when they are no longer useful.

We know he wasn’t raised poor.

We know he wasn’t raised in the black culture.

We know who some of his friends and acquaintances are (one is in jail).
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Yep who is this Hopey Dopey guy anyway?

I think you are probably correct.

Palin is a very strong woman — the likes of which Obama has never seen before. He’s used to dealing with democrat women who seem to passively toe/tow the line (used in the nautical sense — of a tug towing the line of a barge).

Palin will remain a thorn in the ONE’s side — because she knows exactly what he is — a con man. She’s faced more challenging situations then he has and she knows how the system works from the ground up. O-zero will be challenged but I’m doubtful that he’ll ever manage a crisis skillfully.

Actually Palin is much off in the Republican party – I just don’t think that the democrat party is helpful or healthy for women.

But, as Bronwyn’s Harbor reminds us, we do know what he once called his wife. Clearly McCain is without decency, as Larry Johnson has argued.

I am tired of all the anti-McCain talk. We don’t know what he and Palin have said to one another about this, but we do know he picked her and that he spoke enthisiatically on a number of occassions.

And I find speculations about what McCain said to his wife off topic.

No, we don’t know he called his wife the c word.

Some guy wrote in his book that 3 anonymous reporters told him that Mccain called Cindy a trollop and a c***.

I think it was a bunch of crap to sell a book.

O’Liely was commenting and giving McC a smack down for not complimenting Palin sooner (than 6 days after the election).

It refers to this

I don’t like Leno. I never watch Leno, and I did see within the last 2 days McC totally defending Palin so I don’t know where all this is coming from. (besides the fact she’s defended her self quite well)

I agree totally

Critisizo,g MacCain is going much too far. Obots would do that, not decent americans

Let us concentrate how to get ride of Obamanation first

as the poster a few above you said, “but seriously i think your heads are exploding….”,

this place isn’t the place it was a year ago, or back when this site came to be- it’s taken on a life of it’s own (if it can be called that)

And now we learn that the Palin/Africa story was a hoax.

/www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?hp

NOW sent me a letter requesting donations – so I sent it back to them on their dime (postage paid envelope) telling them all they’re getting out of me is my 2 cents – and proceeded to give it to them. I also did that every time I got a request for money from Obama or the DNC this cycle, too. Granted, it’s not much, but at least it makes me feel better to vent a little.

John McCain is dealing with his own disappointment. He has defended Sarah Palin, but hey, she’s a big girl, she’s doing fine on her own.

Well aren’t we just all self righteous and bashiing McCain when we dont’ even know what is going on.

So, let me get this straight. McCain, the worthless disloyal creep who won’t stand up for Palin after all she’s done for him is the guy who should be our President. (That was kind of the subject of this thread wasn’t it?)

Yeah, and it was definitely a stolen election. Unlike the previous two presidential elections that were models of perfection, this one was filled with really strange and inexplicable outcomes like pre-election polls, exit polls, and election results all agreeing quite well. Now, that’s a sure sign of fraud. And with ACORN out there making sure that Mickey Mouse voted a million times in every state, it’s no wonder you are so suspicious.

Look, John McCain still wants to be president and you obviously want to be his adoring servant. Why not get yourself a country and invite John to be president. I don’t recommend you hold an election, because John’s campaigning techniques aren’t very good — “He’s a Marxist, he’s a terrorist, he hates America, he’s going to steal all your money and give it to people who refuse to work, and don’t forget he’s a Marxist, and a terrorist….Who is he really? Who is the real Marxistterroristsocialistamericahater?” ZZZzzzzzzzzzz, ZZZzzzzzzzzzz, etc.

Jeez, man, it most be really lonely in whatever private hell you’ve constructed for yourself. You have my sympathy.

Put the blame for the Sarah Palin smears where it belongs, on the sick perverts that make it up or report it without comment. This includes several “comedians” on late night TV, both broadcast and cable.
I am of the opinion that the ones who started the smears, from Trig Palin to Africa are closet wife/girlfriend beaters. They detest women but know that an arrest for battery would end their careers.
I wonder if there were any “disgruntled McCain staffers” or if that was part of the lie made up by the “journalist” reporting this crap.

We know Maureen Dowd wasn’t above putting words in John Kerry’s mouth so making up stories out of whole cloth isn’t a strech. Remember the “kill him” lie reported by some nobody in Pennsylvania looking to break into the big time media? People still believe that though it was debunked by the Secret service agents sent to keep an eye on the Anointed One.

Somebody else said that the probably won’t be a New York Times news paper and a CNN cable channel 10 years from now. We can only hope MSNBC goes the same way.

McCain’s first marriage fell apart after repeated affairs. He hasn’t issued a formal statement defending
his running mate against specious attacks.

How does this translate into a pattern of contempt and disregard for the entire female sex ? It’s simply ridiculous.

There are two sides, at least, to every story and anyone who challanges the casual overuse of ‘racism’ as an epitaph should be very cautious about the road they’re going down with gender hatred.

I think this is playing out well for Palin. She’s not some damsel that needs McCain to come to her defense. She’s setting up and knocking down interviews right now showing that she’s capable & accomplished – I really think that if McCain came out right away to ‘defend’ her, it would lessen her impact right now and make her look weak. She doesn’t need anyone to defend her, she can punch her detractors lights out on her own!

Folks are afraid she’ll ake a run at Stevens senate seat…They don’t want Palin in Washington…lol…Palin is a force to be reckoned with…imho

Sarah can take care of herself. John picked her as his running mate, he thanked her in his concession speech, she commended her on Jay Leno.

The RNC best be doing a post mortem on the campaign and learn from it.

We the People best be keeping each other informed and creating our own press as the MSM has been nothing but propaganda for the fraud.

Keep challenging that birth certificate.

oops, HE commended her on Jay Leno.

maybe Palin told McCain she can handle it alone (who knows??) but he should have gone on air IMMEDIATELY defending her anyway. After all, it’s about 100 journalists attacking and only one Palin defending.

Loyalty, gratitude, fair-play and chivalry demand that he step forward. And I do not see chivalry as a male-only attribute, btw!

I think that it is more powerful that she can stand up for herself and do it with that winning, not whining personality. I think that she is used to kicking doors open for herself. With all due respect to this thread … wtf?

No disrespect for him here. He made her his selection. I think his admiration for her is evident all the way. I would love to see her appoint herself to Senator Stevens seat and let John McCain introduce her to Washington!

She.is.doing.it.for.herself.

She is far more persuasive than he could ever be. And it doesn’t look like whining when she does it. If she wants a future in politics, she has to do this for herself. Would he have to defend a MALE running mate??????? If we want to be equal, we have to BE equal.

They hardly have any members and they tries to put words in you mouth and control you. It would not take much for a few million women to get together and make them irrelevant. Half the women in NOW are ready to jump ship. I do not why women have not seen this. It has been this way for 20 years and they just sat by and watched the nasty NOW people dominate them.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/11/12/camille-paglia-attacks-medias-sadomasochistic-anti-palin
This is a good read…and from Paglia standing up for Palin…

Hey Bee…I posted a link up thread to Camille Paglia’s xcellent defense of Palin and the media. When things go wrong…Folks blame the Female…Sheeesh! Hope you enjoy the read. Check it out.

Maureen O’Gag Me…is a joke…sheesh!

Quit demanding that men stand up for women, already. You are part of the problem. You have no idea what is going on behind scenes or why they are acting like they are. If McCain was out defending Palin, who looks like she is perfectly capable of dealing and also doing so very well, people would be saying she needs a man. No no no! Women can’t need a man and still be capable of doing a man’s job! Sheesh, this is getting like “Why is Hillary campaigning for the UnOne? I hate her now, she isn’t doing what I think she should.”

80% of the brave men and women who defend our nation voted for McCain. I am proud that I joined with them to vote for a patriot and honorable man who has devoted his life to public service.

Enjoy your puppet regime – you are unbelievably naive if you think that 0bannion is his own man.

I really don’t feel like bashing McCain or even Obama (hasn’t McCain been beat up enough during his life time, as a POW as well as by the media during the general election). I’m not going to blindly believe the rumors about him, because I’m sure much of those were exaggerated (plus, what’s the point now).

I sense that there is a lot going on within the Republican Party and the media that we don’t fully understand. The Republican Party did not seem motivated to win, I didn’t see any real get out the vote efforts, and I don’t think they even pushed to get the evangelicals out. There may have even been players within the McCain campaign that didn’t want to see him win. Palin seems to have thought they weren’t trying hard enough, as she started contacting media personnel on her own, and that may be part of the reason she’s being attacked now (because she is such a fighter).

Would it have been nice if McCain came out earlier? Sure. Is there a chance he’s a little old fashioned in his thoughts about women? Sure. But, but then again he seemed to have more high profile female surrogates than Obama, and he is much older than Obama, and for some reason I’m a little more tolerate of sexism from a guy in his 70′s than from a guy in his 40′s (due to his age, I think Obama’s sexism will have a larger impact on society and the younger generation, with sexism viewed as being currently acceptable, rather than being an unfortunate hold over of an older generation).

As for Obama, I’m not going to put blinders on either, but hope he out performs the expectations of his detractors. My biggest concern is that we all get accurate information so good decisions will be made going forward. Too often it seems like the media pushes a single narrative and is essentially driving public opinion to suit an agenda.

I couldn’t get the link to work and then when I played with it I got the visage of that dreadful huffing woman. I read one at Salon. Is that it? It was really effective in that Camille is very left. I had a run-in via telephone and email with her tightly wrapped little major domo. He was a major twit.

And, for lack of a better place to add this:

Congratulations to all of those exchanging vows in Connecticut. MAZEL TOV!

Yeah that’s it…Sorry about the link. I like it that she mentions Barky’s BC problem to her audience…chuckle…that should be a real eye opener to those sufferin from the Hangover

I’m not going to bash McCain, either. Not unless I hear something from Sarah Palin that gives me reason to. So far, I’ve heard her in interviews with both the local Alaska media and the national media. She has obviously spoken with John McCain several times since the election, and still speaks of him with great affection and admiration. I haven’t heard her say anything that would even give the suggestion that she thinks he should be doing more to defend her. I heard McCain on Leno brush it off as politics as usual CYA by Washington insiders. In the meantime, Palin is all over the airwaves, and she isn’t being bashful about what she thinks. I do agree with whoever it was who said that the McCain campaign should be charged with political malpractice for their mishandling of Sarah Palin.

And the lack of information about his college attendance. Gee. Just the facts, ma’m.

lol…You Betcha!

Kinky is great! He tells it like it is. I also agree that the woman opposite him on the show was a perfect example of the self-important, snotty, arrogant left-wing feminist that mouths platitudes about “allowing the full range of women’s choices” but never really means it.

Kinky was brave enough to expose the fact that women often do not support other women. In the vein, an interesting book that explores the history and psychology of these types of rivalries is “Catfight” by Leora Tanenbaum.

Kinky was also understanding about McCain and surprised that he was strong enough to venture out onto Leno so soon. I think we should give him a break. Sarah is doing well speaking for herself. I thought her Larry King interview was particularly good.

I totally agree with you on Palin but I think to a large extent you are wrong about Hillary campaigning for barky. hmmmmm. Where were the rest who ran against him? And what exactly has she gained in putting her reputation on the line? While people like Rahm and Madeline Albright who were on her team are getting the plums, Hillary is being publicly ignored. I don’t see that it would could have been any worse than if she had done a Diane Feinstein and just thrown herself carefully down a flight of stairs and been laid up for the campaign. She is getting her teeth kicked in. Is that what you have in mind for women? If so, leave me the hell out, thanks just the same.

Cute! Thanks for that.

Ask anyone who spent considerable time as a prisoner of war about their marriage. Please don’t make a sweeping generality. If the first Mrs. McCain has forgiven her husband, is it still a discussion topic? Women are not chattel. She is a seperate person. Enough.

No, what I mean is the illogic, based on unknowns. We don’t know why McPalin are taking the tack they are, and we don’t know why Hillary campaigned for O. It seems on the surface they should be doing things differently (especially Hillary, that is really bizarre to me too) but–what do we really know? We trusted both these people to run the country once. Are they different people today when they lost and were punished, even? (Hillary) Were we as bamboozled as the Obots by someone who was unworthy?
To return to the focus of the argument, why isn’t McCain standing up for Palin? I stand by my idea, women who are competitive have to take the hits and they are preempting charges of weakness. These women did have men standing up with them, but it wasn’t enough, apparently, the opposition outnumbered them. That’s politics and isn’t the same as men standing up for them. Having to have a man stand up for you perpetuates the power distinction.

Oh Please every one, let’s not put down McCain. Remember he had the guts topick a woman as runningmate. He gave Sara a chance to be where she is. I have a great respect for him and what he stands. He did defend Sara and that should be the end of the story. Sara is being attacked because hussien obama already thinking about 2012 ad he does not want any one to challenge him. because Sara will capture all the attention for 4 years and he does not.

I believe that a major mistake made by the campaign was in not setting Sarah loose after the debate. A roll of the dice at that point could have worked to further dilute any memory of the Couric interview.

I thought that Palin’s reply to Larry King re: Katy’s recent suggestion that she steep herself in policy and keep her head down was priceless. Sarah, amidst one of her engaging smiles, sweetly (but also sara-castically) thanked Katy for her advice, then proceeded to say how she would never venture out to advise Katy in her profession because it was a different field. Point made and oh, so effectively.

Maybe O’Really and the rest shud ask Sarah Palin if she wants anyone (including McCain) to speak up in her defense.

As was pointed out, the mere fact that she is still talked about – equally as Obama – says that she is a future force to be reckoned with.

Here is Sarah Palin on 8/28/08: At a NEWSWEEK forum on Women in Leadership last March, Alaska governor Sarah Palin was asked if she thought Hillary Clinton was being treated unfairly in the press. (Video: Randy Juergenso… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Y8FKAsxmk
///”you have to plow through that”
///”any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism”
///”under that sharper microscope”

By that logic all criticism about anything becomes unwarranted.

What we do know is that McCain jumps on anyone who says the slightest thing against a democrat but does nothing when it is against member of his own party. THIS IS A FACT.

McCain should try to “name names and make them famous”; he should question the people in his own campaign and find the lying leakers.

He could get to the bottom of it, but he won’t.

Read this

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/12/heckuva-job-mclame/

I hope you also read the comments. They pretty much mirror what we are saying here.

I just have to say, I don’t think it fair or right to put down someone else, John McCain, as a means of standing up Governor Palin.

I don’t like this post.

And for you to jump right in to “RUMORS” you heard about about John McCain, for not coming out publicly earlier, for you, is wrong. Talk about fair weather support. Uncalled for and just the same as others throwing out the other rumors because they feel justified in politics to try to squash her heavy support for 2012.

You are helping the smearers while claiming superiority.

The story of Sarah and her “stupidity” has now been outted as a complete hoax, and it sure is worth every single bit of attention. Sarah stuck to her guns. “Who is saying this?” Aides at the top dismissed the story. Still the media went on and on and on.

TODAY we learn it’s a phony blog site, and not only that, but it’s the same phony blog site that pumped out other false stories during the campaign that nailed Huffpo, Mother Jones.

THIS hoax now outs…..MSN, The LA Times, the NY Times, and other mainstream press sources.

Well, well, well…..delicious, isn’t it?

Not only is the nasty smearing of Palin obvious, but we also get to see that “journalists” no longer even verify their stories before running with it.

I love it.

And Senator John McCain’s responses on Governor Palin were good. Why don’t you report THAT.

“Governor Palin is part of a new generation of young Republicans that will play an important part in America’s future”.-Senator John McCain

And I’d say he has done nicely in laying the ground work with her becoming that leader in the near future. She is the antidote to bring the Republican Party back to their fiscal conservatory and can make them the Reform party for removing waste which the country will need after Obama.

You betcha, Mike….

And egg is on their face today.

BIG, BIG story.

They ran a hoax story. Worse, the guy with the fake blog that published the latest and greatest smear story was even KNOWN to be a joke.

I just love it.

And, btw, I think McCain apparently DID handle this properly.

Defend against a hoax? How?

Regardless of why McCain remained silent for as long as he did, Sarah benefited from it. If he had taken the hot air out of the ballooning lies of the left immediately, the interest in her would have dissipated too soon. In having to defend herself, she has shown the world who she really is–an intelligent, competent, and qualified woman who was qualified to run for VP. She made lemonade out of lemons.

I’ve personally tried to give McCain every break I can on this, and I can’t help being terribly disappointed that he didn’t come out immediately and thunder–THUNDER–that he knows Palin did not come out in a towel or not know Africa isn’t a country and is familiar with the nations of N. America! There’s simply no excuse, anymore than there was when Bobo declined to condemn accusations of racism against the Clintons! McCain started out by praising Hillary, and I was able to choke down my bad feelings about his deplorable joke about Reno and Chelsea. Then he chose Palin, and I was really able to set aside my aggravation over all his dumb jokes. (I would have even supported flip-flop Mitt against Bobo!) When people don’t heartily back associates whom they have chosen, it appears that they believe accusations and are abandoning them. And McCain is supposed to be a well-bred gentleman who knows how to act, even if he sometimes does sink to a lower level. And Palin is a lady who did absolutely nothing to deserve the treatment she has received. She has been treated as though her actions were those of a stupid tart. It’s not enough to say, “Well, she’s playing with the big boys.” If these big boys had just treated her as an equal, the treatment would have been at least more tolerable. But they attacked her AS A WOMAN. Who would have reported that Bobo appeared to reporters in a towel with wet hair? (If he had, there would have only been giggles and gushing!) If Sarah is to be treated as a woman, then a REAL MAN needs to come forward and be a gentleman and decry this outrageous treatment! John McCain, I thought you were one.
I’m still waiting….

Gee, is the topic of this thread for real or is it satire that’s going over my head?

Would Palin have been booked on so many shows if McCain made a point (inappropriately IMHO) of coming out forcefully to shut down the rumors himself? I doubt it. The story’s mainly about her after all, not him. And any true feminist fan of Palin believes she’s quite capable of defending herself and what’s more, has succeeded. For her political future, she NEEDS to move away from McCain now, not be protected by him.

The rumors have actually backfired by making her more newsworthy than any other losing VP candidate in history. And they’re an excuse for a lot of good exposure and attention she’s getting. I bet Obama’s seething with jealousy.

I saw McCain on Leno and thought he did what’s best — praise her and brush off the inane rumors.

And BTW, I believe he called his wife the C word in front of several still-anonymous people as much as I believe the-only-person-to-hear-it who reported someone shouted “kill him (Obama)” at a Palin rally.

Obama is a Fraud

I’m with you on JMac. I find him to be an honorable man who HAS defended Palin.
I don’t get the latest bash JM memo- yes, he made mistakes but I still wish he would be our President than the disgusting filth that mugged his way in. Bush is a happy man these days since the title of Worst President Ever will be a crown barky will take from him

I meant to add that I’m not a fan of many political pundits, including the pompous self-promoting O’Reilly (or his nemesis, the odious and obnoxious Olberman for that matter).

Isn’t this the richest story of the entire campaign?

The over-valued LA TIMES as well as the nutcases at MSN push a story without even BOTHERING to verify the sources.

Boy, there are a lot of embarassed editors today.

It just goes to show you. Give em’ enough rope. They hang themselves.

I’m giddy over this one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?hp

This is just too much fun, guys!

Enjoy!!!!!

Yes, it’s fun in a sad way.

R.I.P, Journalisam!

Bunch of phonies, eh?

They have as much credibility now as bloggers.

Isn’t it great to see our tv personalities, used to be known as NEWS or journalists, do nothing but gossip and tell tales?

This is why they deserve to go under.

and this

Turns out CBS and Katie Couric may have been behind all the smears and attacks on Governor Palin. Her friend, former Political Analyst who went to work for McCain Camp, Nicole Wallace and then she hired the 2 stylists that also worked for CBS and Kouric, then they reported WHAT THEY DID as Governor Palin’s actions. They knew, because they were the ones who did it and gave Katie Couric the scoop to help save her job.

Looks like the one flapping is the one responsible for the biggest problems with the campaign.

“Today, a source close to John McCain’s presidential campaign revealed exclusively to wowOwow that it was two stylists who often do work for CBS journalist Katie Couric who were hired by former CBS News political analyst and McCain senior strategist, Nicolle Wallace, around the time of the Republican National Convention. Wallace had worked for CBS Evening News until May 2008 when she left to work on the McCain campaign. Said the source, “They weren’t given any budget or parameters. They just told the stylists to work for her, because coming from Alaska, she needed a new look. She was a small-town girl who needed to look like a big-city girl.”

Wallace is close friends with Couric. Couric would go on to get the second major interview and the longest television time with the former Republican vice-presidential candidate.

The two stylists, whose names have not been released, were the ones who bought the controversial wardrobe that Palin went on to wear. The source said that Sarah Palin “was used to wearing Ann Taylor and then all of a sudden, clothing was being brought in for her family.” Concluded the source, “They simply picked out the clothes for Gov. Palin and told her to wear it. The stylists were told not to tell her how much the clothes cost but just to put them on.”

Full story
http://www.wowowow.com/post/palin-innocent-clothing-shopping-scandal-katie-couric-140128

Kinda pathetic that Couric would need to savage an historic female candidate to save her career. Great role model for her daughter. Just great.

I agree, as someone else on another thread said it is better that she defend herself and not have McCain help. She is showing she can take the heat and deal with it. The Senate will not be to kind to her and this will only make her shine more because she can deal with it.

This is not McCain’s fight. He’s been home nursing his wounds, as is his right. What we have is a fight between the traditional, economic conservatives (like O’Riley) and the social conservatives (like Sarah Palin) for control of the Republican Party. They’re out gunning for each other with large-caliber weapons. (And, of course, Palin doesn’t avoid the fire by walking repeatedly into the middle of the shooting range, but that’s her choice, I guess.) The conservatives have their guns out for each other, and anyone who wants to play is going to get shot at.

Personally, I give McCain credit. He will publicly defend Sarah Palin regardless of how he feels privately (and I personally don’t know). He’ll defend her from time to time to do the right thing, but he has obviously decided not to get into the trenches and be a part of this firefight.

From where I sit, a lot of the “liberal” media has kept its distance and has reported the attacks on Palin by carefully noting that they have come from within the campaign staff from people with axes to grind. On Fox, those axes have more of a tendency to just be flying through the air. In the liberal media, their reporting on a fight. In the conservative media, they’re really fighting–with each other.

Oh, I see. It was the stylists that did her in. The blog said so. It must be true.

Pull your head out of your butt, push your penis out of the way and take a look at the real world as it applies to women why dontcha?

Hmmmm. Interesting read. But actually, this story reveals that MSNBC identified the “source” of the Africa story as one “Martin Eisenstad,” who in fact is a fictitious character. The identity of the leaker is the hoax. The story that Fox ran with apparently came from somebody else. The whole “story” stinks from top to bottom.

Maureen Dowd IS A BLOGGER!

Palin is a social as well as fiscal conservative.

There was an analysis that described the GOP as a three legged stool: one leg: national security conservative. 2: social 3rd leg – fiscal.

This year McCain represented the national security leg, Romney the fiscal leg, and Huckabee the social contingent. Reagan managed to fuse all three.

So does Palin, but as we have seen it’s tough to battle the good ol’l boy network. I hope she does make it to the Senate. We do need her in D.C.

Frankly I do not have a lot of hope for her as POTUS in light of how women have eaten their own this year. On both sides of the aisle.

RFLMAO….THEY ALL ARE…SHEEESH!
COLUMNIST/PUNDIT = BLOGGER….Some are interesting & informed…Smoe like Maureen O’Gag Me are highly over rated yellow spleens…lol

Everyone needs to back off John McCain. Sarah Palin is a big girl and can handle herself. If it were the other way around … Obama/ Biden lost and people were going after Biden, do you really think Obama would or should tell people to “Leave him alone”? … No!

I think it’s being handle just fine. Sarah is showing she has the testical fortitude to handle herself. That’s what we want isn’t it?

John McCain is an awesome man!

I voted for him because he had the guts to put a woman on the ticket.
I am a registered Dem who vote McCain / Palin

I’m afraid you got this wrong, Ann. The particular fake “advisor” who tried to claim credit for the Africa leak was a hoax.

But the Africa leak itself — the claim that Gov. Palin didn’t know that Africa is a continent — that’s real, and it came from inside Team McCain.

I voted for him because he had the guts to put a woman on the ticket.

What an intelligent way to determine your vote for President.

I’m very puzzled by the two recent attempts (Larry’s and now this one) to hang a bum rap on John McCain. And using O’Reilly (he’s the guy who let Carl Cameron (of Fox) run off at the mouth (practically foaming) with the outrageous report of the outrageous accusations against Palin by “anonymous” campaign insiders. You’ve go to be kidding. O’Reilly has dismissed/dissed Palin over and over on his show from the day she was picked. He did this in on air conversations with Rove, Morris and Miller. O’Reilly has not show a particular interest in promoting women for national office and has repeatedly questioned Palin’s qualifications. I almost threw a brick at the t.v. as he allowed Cameron to give the post-election Palin attacks real legs as O’Reilly barely offered up a “tut, tut” in response. Now some people here may have a beef with McCain for a variety of reasons but trying to hang the Palin attacks on him just won’t fly. In addition, in order for Palin to solidify her popularity with certain segments of the Republican base, and I’m talking about those segments that have demonstrated a total lack of support for Mac, Palin does not need Mac to defend her. Nevertheless, he has and he has done it in a consistent way with his style. O’Reilly’s recent segment with Cameron was not one of his finest hours on t.v. And Cameron, who I watched all election season on Fox, giving his subdued reports from the McCain campaign trail, was oddly animated and over the top as he spewed this crap about Palin. Even the New York Times admitted they were hoodwinked with this stuff. Instead of attacking McCain, O’Reilly should be apologizing for letting Cameron get away with this stuff. As for Sarah Palin, she shines. The Greta interviews make the O’Reillys and Camerons look like small sexist men. Mac owes no explanations but he has defended Palin several times … several weeks ago regarding “the clothes” (and y’all should be shredding Maureen Down on that one as she’s at it again today) … and again on Leno. Mac is a realist and Palin needs to get in step with Hillary and plough through the sexist crap (even O’Reilly put his tail between his legs when he interviewed Hillary as she gives no quarter on this crap). Palin will be slugging it out against Jindal and Pawlenty and all the other young turks in the Republican Party. She needs to step over this pile of doo-doo on her road and pave her way with strong positions, clearly explained, on the issues of the day. The Republican boy-toys cannot approach her level of charisma and her ability to draw enthusiastic crowds. She needs to build on that with even greater substance. e.g. In last night’s interview segment on Greta, Palin remarked (with a touch of sarcasm in my view) that Alaskans pay more for gas than people in the lower 48, despite the fact that the gas was refined in Alaska. Greta urged her to explain by remarking that this did not make sense and Palin, agreeing, said she did not know why but there were going to get to the bottom of it with an investigation. That answer intrigued me but I wanted more. Sarah needs to get answers like that to the next level. When she does (and I believe she will if she spends the next two years wisely) nobody will catch her. Believe me, in a race of Palin against Hillary Clinton, I would vote for Hillary, but I want to see Palin get to Hillary’s consistent “depth” on the issues. She’s (Palin) not there yet. 67% of the electorate repeatedly polled “yes” to drilling offshore. Now that Obama has been elected, he will certainly rescind Bush’s executive order to lift the ban. Palin needs to travel the country and defend the drilling position and remind the public that Obama is not listening to the people. Let’s hear O’Reilly talk about that.

Senator McCain defended Governor Palin several times, as did Mrs. McCain, and numerous other Republicans…Gingrich and Rudy were very strong on her.
She can handle herself, no doubt about it, and she will get stronger as she speaks for herself, instead of a scripted production.
Let her present herself, up close, personally, and professionally!
I,m proud of my vote, and will vote for her again, given the chance!
This life long dem has gone conservative!

treadlightly—why are you still here? Deep down you know we are right about your Precious. Just admit it. The truth will set you free.

They were both exhausted. Palin’s responses were iffy as she just came off a long campaign. McCain was exhausted. All politicians take some time to disappear. Looked like McCain came out of hiding to help.

The piece with Greta said Palin was out trying to repair her image while she could get media attention. The media could disappear her and people would still complain. I personally, don’t care for Palin, but she is a politician so I don’t care that she’s trying to milk the media attention either.

What is up with Maureen Dowd? Has the woman totally lost her mind-reporting obviously debunked stories as fact in the pages of the country’s biggest paper? We all know that she’s been one of the most virulent sexists of this campaign but clearly she’s gone way of the edge. Why don’t we all write her some letters?

O’Rielly’s been p*ssing me off with his commentary on Prop. 8. recently, but once again he’s right about Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin has been at the Govenor’s Conference this week in Miami. During today’s press conference, the attention was all on her, questions fielded left and right. The curious thing is that there was no rancor among the other governors, no sour grapes that she was getting the spotlight and they weren’t. Palin is a force to be reckoned with and that’s why the liberals are trying their best to knock her off the playing field.

Palin doesn’t need John McCain to ride to the rescue. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if she asked him to remain in the wings. She had a very good interview with Greta Van S. this week. Greta is one of the few journalists who put their asses on a plane, went to Alaska and actually spoke with Palin and the people who know her best. This is in sharp contrast to the dumpster-diving journalists who tried so very hard to dig up the dirt. And failed.

Sarah Palin will not go away anytime soon. I don’t agree with her on several issues, but she has my attention and respect.

That’s ridiculous spin. You have no idea if either the leak or dubious claim itself is true. You only know that it was REPORTED BY THE MEDIA that the suspect claim came from inside Team McCain.

Yes, it’s as intelligent as voting for a candidate based on his race.

How on earth is McCain responsible for the scum attacking Palin? This is ridiculous.

McCain demonstrated his respect and support for Palin when he picked her as running mate and gave her all the opportunities she wanted to attack Obama on his record and actions. He doesn’t need to do one more thing in support of her and I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t want him to.

Perhaps McCain isn’t responding to the criticisms because response would give credence to them. She also might not want him to because it would look as if she needed a man to defend her. Politicians don’t usually come to the defence of other politicians. I didn’t see Bill Clinton being expected to run to the aid of Al Gore or John Kerry when they were getting smeared by the republicans and the media.

Put the blame where it belongs, squarely on the shoulders of a corrupt media and a whole lot of woman-hating democrats. John McCain did a lot for women and for Sarah Palin when he appointed her as his running mate and I for one am grateful to him for that.

Don’t be so stupid. Do you really believe that the campaign managers leave it up to the candidates to plan and style their wardrobes, as if they didn’t have enough other things to think about when they are on the campaign trail.

Campaigns use professional people to take decisions about wardrobe and what will look good on television. Somebody else was taking the decisions about Palin’s clothes, it wouldn’t have been her, any more than Obama goes out and buys his made to measure suits or Hillary went out and shopped for her fantastic multi-coloured wardrobe.

People are so naive about this stuff it’s just incredible.

I watched a bit of the Larry King interview last night and thought she was excellent–clearheaded, extremely well spoken, and highly charismatic. It’s obvious to me that many factors were behind her problematic interviews during the campaign–not the least that the campaign very likely was muzzling her, causing her to freeze up at times as the conflict between her impulse to speak freely and her desire to remain true to the strategy laid before her. She didn’t want to do or say anything to harm the campaign and ended up harming herself.

MOE RON she was talking about the stolen PRIMARIES!!

Where the HELL WERE YOU while that was taking place?
Koolaid land with Bambi and all his cult followers?

We will never forgive or forget!

What’s that old saying about a dish best served cold?

you’re giving Witches a bad name comparing them to NOW! lol

Indeed!

Yawn. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Yawn. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

You’re so cute when you’re throwing a tantrum.

Don’t hurt yourself.

Maureen Dowd has always reminded me of those miserably insecure people who only feel better about themselves by demeaning others. Besides, she’s a lame Dorothy Parker wannabe.

The target of Sarah Palin, who’s a woman of action, is hard to resist by the likes of a boozy blatherer. In Dowd’s zeal and impatience to pile on, she got yesterday’s story wrong. And since all she does is tell stories, that makes her a failure.

IMPORTANT

Source of all the slander: a nasty prank

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

(A Fake Expert Named Martin Eisenstadt and a Phony Think Tank Fool Bloggers and the Mainstream News Media)

Given the emotions etc. I don’t think this is responsible behaviour. It’s easy to bring a rumour into the world but difficult to get rid of it.
Almost calls for a get-even.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-JbRH2morI

Obama Bought The Presidency

I think Michael Savage says it best: McCain is too busy trying to please everybody (the MSM, left wing liberals, etc….) b/c he is brainwashed from his prison treatment in hanoi. Being a prison of war has let McCain be willing to befriend his enemy instead of stand up to them.

That is why he has failed 3 times to be president. He has lost the fight in him to lead. There is a point where you take your aides to back room and whoop their ass for lying and divulging information that is confidential. I wouldn’t want these people running a campaign. They have no loyalty or trust.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO NOW:
http://www.november5.org
Now is the time to rapidly shift the focus to Congress. Bringing our efforts to bear on Congress is the only way we can achieve a single-payer system of health care, a living wage comparable to that at the end of the 1960s — $10 — and a less belligerent foreign policy. In each Congressional district we need to start organizing ourselves — and quickly Though some of us are now involved with the new effort at November5.org, Please visit that website and sign up today. Let your friends and family know about it. We’re all shifting direction, and the faster we go about it the better.

The World Can’t Wait
http://www.worldcantwait.org/

I for one am grateful to him for that.

BINGO!

The more we fight among ourselves, the more we become divided. Divide and conquer is the tactic of a warrior who has studied history. We need to start fighting for our cause instead of fighting against each other.

Governor Palin has enivronmental policies in place for oil spills, Obama does NOT! Now congress wants to drill in Virginia? WTF?

Go to http://www.countusout.com to watch all the 6 videos on Governor Palin. Scroll down.

He has lost the fight in him to lead.

Blah blah..Mac did a great job and was fighting his heart out for us. FACE IT! Obama stole this election..talk about that now will ya!

I believe everything I hear on Fox News. Don’t you?

;=)

O’reily says Palin is a force that REMAINS.

Since the “aides” are either anonymous, hoaxes, and maybe in one case a good pal (and stylist hirer) of Katie Couric, I think it would be hard for him to “whoop their ass”.

I don’t agree that McCain tries to please everyone — quite the contrary. He didn’t try to please Iowan farmers when it comes to ethanol subsidies, or pander to laborers by denouncing free trade, or try to please his fellow legislators who larded bills with pork, etc.

I’ll say again that he didn’t fare too badly by losing the GE by 6% in a year the Dems were supposed to win the White House by 15-20%, while up against a uniformly biased media AND outspent 8 to 1.

Some of the armchair psychology and instant revisionism seems way off the mark.

Spot on. You win a free pizza!

The Obots started this distraction with the clothes thing. Sarah went to Arizona to talk to Mac about being VP. He then flew her straignt to Ohio and she had no clothes and no time to prepare..RNC paid for the clothes….it’s a stupid talking point and a huge distraction to what Barky is up to now..watch the inept Barky and track what he’s doing..geez. OFockNoBama..NEVER!

Man, is there anyone you guys won’t turn on? With friends like these, who needs enemies?

I admire Sarah Palin; she is very strong. I could have never taken all the crap she has; I’d run home in tears!

I mentioned before I work in Barkyland. There are pics of him all over the office. Anyway, one of the women here said she had a kidney infection and wanted to know where her kidney was. When I told her all mammals (including us) have two kidneys, she was surprised. And this was a woman who was constantly talking about how stupid Sarah Palin was.

Stupid is as stupid does . . .

Feeling weak again? You need another hope injection.

So, are you happy that your marriage was banned in California? You know who to blame, buddy. So much for Hope and CHANGE! Now don’t go hurting yourself trolling over it.

The Obots are working hard to attack McCain for not defending Palin from the Obots own attacks on her. it obviously a little game for them. Obama has trained his bots well. Remember that if it wasn’t for McCain, we would not have known Palin now. So any stupid, petty media lies are all irrelevant. We don’t know if McCain was even given a chance to defend her by the media until he appeared on a talk show. The media is still in the tank for Obama, so do not forget their willingness to lie, edit, and misquote their arses off to protect their baby.

Whoo…I LIKE this quote…Palin REMAINS!! YESERIEE BOB SHE DOES!! Let’s help her REMAIN for 4 more years and then INTO the White House!

Go Sarah..go TeamSarah1012.com

Another psychotic rant from Bronwyn