1 Can Palin endorse herself in the 2011-2012 primaries?

2 Don't forget that Inglis also got turfed out pretty convincingly, and that Son-of-You Lied! won his primary for State Attorney General.

3 9-3 gets you a pretty good bowl game, usually.

4

Bridgewater should have refused Bennett's endorsement.  He might have won without it. 

Lee is a big upgrade over the McCain like BB.

5 Holy crap. The 2012 race starts in six months. Holy crap. Huck will say "He's Romney, I'm Huck"

6 What?

7 Precedent Obogey's handicap in elections is what; 40+?

8 @5 South Carolina might just be the primary that KO's Huck, believe it or not.

9
The secret to Nikki Haley's win was her dot.  We now understand that the dot has magical powers the same as Dick Cheney's WarCock!

10
Just remember this, wingnuts: Apres moi, le deluge! Which is French for, The lame-duck Democratic Congress is going to bone you so hard ... !

11 And a dot-com joke can be expected in 3..2..1...

12

Huck ain't going anywhere.  He damn near has to win Iowa and I don't see him doing that. 

The base is fed up.  I know the GOP is the stupid party but I think conservatives will rally around new blood.  I'm hoping its Ryan, but their are a few other good possibilities as well.

Mittens, T-Paw, Huck and the like (especially Huck) are toast.

 

13 Holy crap. The 2012 race starts in six months.

brb committing seppuku

14 The SC results are a victory for the underground GOP cocaine cabal. Wake up, America!

15 Don't forget that Inglis also got turfed out pretty convincingly

Turfed indeed.  Gowdy came away w/ 71% of the vote.  I was happy to do my part to oust Inglis and get Haley to that Governor's mansion.

16

9-3 gets you a pretty good bowl game, usually.

Cotton Bowl for Mrs Palin!  Soft, shimmering cotton, falling loosely across her breast. 

17
When Huckabee's gig at Fox is over, he can do another Jerry Springer or Maury Povich public interest show such as "Confessions of Truthful Politicians."

18

Yesterday was the first I'd heard of the dog-killing incident. It only came to light when Huckabee's son was arrested for trying to get a Glock on a plane.

19

Watching the GOP founder around like a blind hog in a bog is painful. How long are they going to tolerate Steele's weak tea? The SOB has all of the leadership abilities of Comrade Zero. None. We don't have the luxury of keeping a wimp like Steele. The GOP needs a direction. The Gop needs a coherent message. The GOP needs a leader. They got nuttin.

How about John Voight? He seems to be a much better voice for conservatism than anyone else  at lleast he isn't hiding. Fuck me runnin'.

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE GOP?

20 Yes, good times here. ALL my candidates won. Palin won big time.

Can we haz Palin-Haley ticket in 2012?????

21

Can we haz Palin-Haley ticket in 2012?????

No.

22 The press keeps saying Inglis lost because of an anti-incumbent sentiment among voters.... THAT IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG.

Inglis turned into a moderate in the last two years, notice that his predecessor for that seat (and his successor from 20 years back) Jim DeMint had no trouble holding on to his nomination this election cycle, nor did Joe "You Lie!" Wilson.

23 Maybe this is Sarah's slot in politics.  The lying press may have fooled too many people into disrespecting Palin, including some on the right, for her to viably run for president.  But if she stays in the background as a private citizen, playing kingmaker for good conservative candidates, that's almost as good if not better.

24

Watching the GOP founder around like a blind hog in a bog is painful

 

On the up side, it does rhyme.

25 Praise Jebus the primary is over in South Carolina, that was dirty.

I didn't know Amanda Marcotte had posting privileges!

26

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE GOP?

Posted by: maddogg at June 23, 2010 09:53 AM

What?  Conservatives won a bunch of primaries yesterday, so methinks me likes the current trend.  Any day we do not hear from Michael Steele is a good day.

27 Wazup?

28

@mallamutt

Agree with everything you said.  He won't sneak up on anyone and he's got more baggage now than last time around. 

His compassionate conservativism on steroids is a big loser in this climate as well.

29 Huck ain't going anywhere.  He damn near has to win Iowa and I don't see him doing that.

Hello.

30

@30

Heh. I'm aware of 2008.  Won't happen again though. 

Alan Keyes came in third in Iowa in 2000 and I don't see that happening again either.

31

Minnesota's Congresswoman, Michelle Bachman, is an extremely effective force for change with which the Democrats will have to reckon. Her laid-back, thoughtful, soft-spoken  and level-headed approaches to addressing and resolving issues serve in stark cotrast to the shrill screeching of Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, and unlike those two witches, the honorable Ms. Bachman is a classy, charismatic and very pretty woman, too.

Although both of them are are now on FOX's payroll, it is perhaps interesting to note the frequency with which FOX's executives call on Mike Huckabee in give his viewpoints on issues versus the infrequency with which FOX's executives bother to get Sarah Palin's analysis of issues, a situation which is, I suspect, similar to the problems that McCain's people had with Ms. Palin, also, during their unsuccessful campaign in 2008.

Compared to Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin is a lightweight, and voters would recognize that in a head-to-head contest between the two of them.

32 Maybe this is Sarah's slot in politics.  The lying press may have fooled too many people into disrespecting Palin, including some on the right, for her to viably run for president.  But if she stays in the background as a private citizen, playing kingmaker for good conservative candidates, that's almost as good if not better.

Posted by: Crusty at June 23, 2010 10:02 AM (GvSpB)

I understand where you're coming from but fuck that shit unless this is her choice on her role.  It is unacceptable for the MFM cocksuckers to dictate who I can or can't vote for.  Those quislings have already done too much to fuck over this country for us to put up with anything further.

33

@mallamutt

Yeah, lol...I forgot about Keyes last minute appearance in that debate.  Wasn't that the won Teh Fred sleep walked through?

34 Seriously, remember how surprised everyone was when, during the final debate before the Iowa caucus the PBS station doing the debate let Keyes participate.

Hell, the IPTV debate is why I voted for him in the 2000 caucus.  He was the only guy up there who bothered to answer the questions with anything resembling a governing philosophy.

I'm not getting a sense that Iowans have learned jack shit since 2008 (except how easy it is to pack the Dem caucus with out-of-state college students).  Huck and Obama again in 2012...unless either of them mentions cutting corn subsidies to lessen the amount of high fructose corn syrup in the American diet in their fascist desire to control our eating habits.  Bah.

35

Although both of them are are now on FOX's payroll, it is perhaps interesting to note the frequency with which FOX's executives call on Mike Huckabee in give his viewpoints on issues versus the infrequency with which FOX's executives bother to get Sarah Palin's analysis of issues, a situation which is, I suspect, similar to the problems that McCain's people had with Ms. Palin, also, during their unsuccessful campaign in 2008.

Compared to Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin is a lightweight, and voters would recognize that in a head-to-head contest between the two of them.

Posted by: A Thought, Or Two at June 23, 2010 10:24 AM (sYrWB)

I suppose you don't really watch FOX all that much. Palin has been all over FOX the last several months, including Fox Business Network.

All of the programs on FOX are always trying to get Palin on their timeslot, she is the biggest ratings draw they have.

Your opinion here is very ignorant. Palin is no lightweight, and Bachmann and Palin are friends who are mutually supportive.

No head to head will happen there.

Doesn't even make sense.

36

Re: #33 - My, um, subtle point there was that Sarah Palin is not a viable presidential candate. She speaks from her heart, not with her brain. In a match up with a calm, thoughtful and level-headed Democrat, she would have her ass handed to her. Savvy leaders of the Republican Party recognize that fact.

BTW, have you noticed that the MSM likes Michelle Bachman? They would be hard pressed to ever get any dirt on her. Adversely, they have already categorized Sarah Palin as an entertaining ditz, and not without some justification. Her voice is like the screeching of fingernails on a blackboard.

37 In a match up with a calm, thoughtful and level-headed Democrat



???

You'd have better luck finding one of Obama's skittles-shitting unicorns.

38 Posted by: A Thought, Or Two at June 23, 2010 10:59 AM (sYrWB)

Remember, only McCain can beat Hillary.

39 Savvy leaders of the Republican Party recognize that fact.

What savvy leaders would those be?  The collection of clueless fuzznuts that brought us the McCain campaign?  And learn what a fact is, dicknose; it's not your dumbfuck opinion.

40 A thought or two---You say she speaks from her heart and not her brain? Obam speaks from his brain, Biden speaks from his brain, Pelosi speaks from her brain, must I go on? The point being give me your heart felt thoughts and the world would once again be right side up. When the heart speaks, it lets the world know exactly where you come from and where you're going. Give me all the speaking from the heart that she can .

41 Good God Al'Mighty!!!! KKK Kameron just said Nikki Haley had the support of SC establishment Republicans. WTF kind of spin is that? She didn't even come close to getting their support until after the first primary and beat the crap out of the "establishment" candidates.

42 Palin lost her small amount of magic for me when she endorsed Mary Fallin in Oklahoma.

43

This is too funny.

Okay, let's put it this way: In a primary match up with heavyweights like Ryan or Jindal or a few other heavyweights that I could name, Palin would be way out of their league.

One never knows, though. There is always the whimsical factor; i.e., the question of who women voters will support, for whatever the reason. A case in point: In their debate, Devore was very impressive and Fiorina came across as lackluster at best, and yet Fiorina won the the primary, giving Californians a choice between an obnoxious Democrat or a sleazy Republican in the upcoming fall election for that Senate seat. Go figure.

44

Underestimate the Cuda at your own peril.

45 48, you continue to accuse and make incendiary declarations - with NO evidence.

Big Oil execs respect her negotiating prowess. She won lawsuits against them. And got them to spud new oil wells for the first time in 30 years.

She got the AGIA legislation passed 59 to 1 in the AK legislature.

That's toughness.

That's practical bi-partisanship.

That's pretty heavyweight stuff.

You apparently know nothing of her record. Read none of her notes. Listen to none of her commentary. And don't follow the feedback on her commentary, including how many others continue to say "Palin was right."

Would a lightweight get the support of IBD in several editorials?

Or of prominent Jewish Americans www.jewsforsarah.com?

So.

Who's your candidate?

What's your self-interest in shooting down Sarah Palin everywhere you go?

46

Yeah, Palin's picks have been pretty dam& solid. Haley and Scott are both winners cut from her mold. If she helps Fiorina beat Boxtard for the CA Senate this fall, Palin will be very hard to beat for the nomination in '12.

47

"Or of prominent Jewish Americans www.jewsforsarah.com?"

 

"Prominent"? I'm skeptical. Many, though certainly not all "Prominent" Jewish Americans have been the lunatic fringe in this country for years. I can think of, um, two exceptions.  (How's that for "incendiary"?)

48

53-A Thought, Or Two

I gather that is your quota for the month.  Keep trying, you've got a week left.

49

Palin  2010  kingmaker

 

Palin 2013  Madame President

50

#51 - You're not paying attention. It's perception, perception, perception and the new record that little Miss Cutesy is making for herself.

Rightly or wrongly, she is pereceived to be ditzy and too cutesy, you know, kind of like a beauty pageant contestant, who lost, but who refuses to get off of the stage, and who keeps doing encores of  her corny tap dancing routine repititiously as the audience leaves the theater. Ah for the good, old days when a guy off stage with a hook would have hooked her neck and dragged her kicking and screaming off of the stage.

Don't get me wrong. I like little Miss Cutesy. No, let me rephrase that. I don't dislike her. I just think that it is by design that, to make Republicans look foolish, the MSM are putting a spotlight on her that should be put on much more qualified and much more electable Republican presidential candidates, and, therefore, I wish that she would get her fat ass off of the stage. Not that she will, for she'll keep dragging out her 15 minutes of fame tediously to the appluese of the small handful of  eccentrics left in the theater ...; the beauty pageant contestant who will never go away, like a ghost ship forever sailing and haunting the seven seas.

51 .... and to the applause of the eccentrics, too.

52 55

Palin  2010  kingmaker? Yeah, right. Get real. They would win without her endorsement. She needs them more than they need her.

 

Palin 2013  Madame President? Yeah, right. In your dreams. Get real.

Posted by: unseen at June 23, 2010 01:37 PM (aVGmX)

 

FIFY 

53 using Nikki Haley and "pulled out" in the same sentence is almost X-Rated.

54

 A Thought, Or Two

The mere fact that Palin irritates you so much is, in itself, sufficient cause to want her to stay around the political scene for the next 20 years or even more. However you (and your clones) have been calling her an irrelevant no hoper for nearly two years yet she is still around and clearly having a major impact on politics.

She doesn't dance to anybody's tune on the right or the left and doesn't care who she antagonises and what you can't grasp is that is the source of her strength - unlike most politicians she says what she thinks is right not what she thinks people want to hear and that is leadership, in spades.

She doesn't play to the normal rules of politics yet, so far, she has shown herself to be one of the canniest and cunning players on the current scene.

Would she become President? does she want to be President? Who knows...but I wager that many people would sleep more soundly in their beds at night knowing that this rather mysterious woman was keeping watch.....

55 A mere thought, or two...here's my thought or two The very fact that Sarah Palin irritates you says to me that she's fighting the good fight. You tell me who amongst the Republicans has been at the forefront of this war we're currently fighting with a president and his cohorts determined to drive us into socialist oblivion? I'll tell you who Sarah Palin. Front the beginning with healthcare debate which she single handedly change the course of (death panels?), cap-n-tax, Energy policy, free-market solutions, runaway deficit spending, supporting Israel, helping common-sense conservatives get elected. She has been in trenches for us, growing stronger and countering each attack (Rahm, u lie) and you come in here spouting ridiculous nonsense wanting her to sit down and shut up? Sarah Palin ain't leaving stage! I got newsflash for you Sarah Palin is here to stay and we will not spare this woman because she fights for us.

56 Posted by: callingallcomets at June 23, 2010 07:00 PM (Rl6PR) Amen