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May 25, 2011

Preview of New Palin Film
— Ace

It is shot like a campaign commercial, which I know no one will take as an insult, because her supporters want it to be a campaign commercial.

I'm thinking this is still testing the waters. It's not so terribly different from publishing a book.

Posted by: Ace at 06:45 PM | Comments (112)
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1 Run, Sarah, Run!

Posted by: Cicerokid at May 25, 2011 06:48 PM (5BENw)

2 First! and last! Everybody to the FEMA camps now! Don't make me come out there!

Posted by: Jesse Lee (new Internet poobah) at May 25, 2011 06:48 PM (Zv/J9)

3 Another round of storms coming. I'll be digging drainage for the garden tomarrow. Be safe tonight.

Posted by: Cicerokid at May 25, 2011 06:49 PM (5BENw)

4 Dammit Cicerokid! I'm the new POOBAH! Go fall on a sword or sumpthin'.

Posted by: Jesse Lee (new Internet poobah) at May 25, 2011 06:50 PM (Zv/J9)

5 yeah Alaskan citizens get dividend checks from the oil and gas companies like Kuwait!!! Its our damn land so we should get paid for the oil and gas !!!

Posted by: Krazy Kat at May 25, 2011 06:51 PM (oNphh)

6 Hannity showed a preview of Sarah PalinÂ’s new movie which focused on AlaskaÂ’s fight with Exxon over drilling. Apparently Exxon was trying to postpone drilling on land they had leased from the state and Alaska decided if they werenÂ’t going to drill, they wanted the land back.

Point Thompson is going to be her go to moment? She got her ass handed to her in court because she didn't have a legal leg to stand on and more then that, she was wrong. This is the conservative position? Break binding legal leases because the state says so regardless that the economics of anyone drilling at Point Thompson right now makes no fiscal sense?
I'm just shaking my head.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 25, 2011 06:51 PM (GZitp)

First and third!

My 11-year old has an autographed copy of Palin's book and actually read 3 chapters! Yoo hoo!

Posted by: Cicerokid at May 25, 2011 06:51 PM (5BENw)

8 Heck, its perfect for morons and etts that can't read.
I'll just wait for the book to come out.

Posted by: Gmac at May 25, 2011 06:53 PM (Lv4RQ)

9 That clip is the exact same rhetoric that comes out of the Obama Administration and the leftest blogs and press. Big old mean oil companies, why give them any more leases if they don't drill on the ones they got.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 25, 2011 06:54 PM (GZitp)

10 You betcha!

I say we might as well go down in a blaze of glory! We're gonna lose.. so why not lose big? Let's lose in an epic way! Embrace the suck!

Ok.. who wants a snifter of this damned-good brandy?? Yee ha!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 25, 2011 06:56 PM (qsodE)

11 No.

Posted by: ErikW at May 25, 2011 06:57 PM (SdZyN)

12 I was on the fence but that short preview alone was enough to convince me.

GO T-PAW!

Posted by: Captain BlowMe at May 25, 2011 06:58 PM (TCyyS)

13 Sarah!
Sarah!
Sarah!
Sarah!
is that enuff?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 25, 2011 07:00 PM (qsodE)

14 Not again. Fuckit. Goodnight.

Posted by: real joe at May 25, 2011 07:02 PM (w7Lv+)

She's almost as annoyingly populist as Huckster. Will Chuck Norris's wife be there to shake her head at the crap Saintly Sarah Spews like she did in 2008 Iowa?

Sarah,

Just enjoy your millions and annoying liberals and hang out with the fam.

Love,

Your Friends, The Majority of Americans

Posted by: Nora at May 25, 2011 07:02 PM (VxqUc)

16 Sarah Palin defying all expectations ♥ Ace being obsessed with her ♥♥♥

Posted by: lansing quaker at May 25, 2011 07:04 PM (w88NO)

I'll sit back and read the thread.

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at May 25, 2011 07:08 PM (u8JAM)

So the big selling point is a legal drama that has no "good guys?"

Government v Oil Companies is often a case of Beheading v Poison

or Romney v Sarah....

Posted by: Nora at May 25, 2011 07:08 PM (VxqUc)

19 Are there any sex scenes?

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 07:08 PM (th0op)

20 Is this safe for work?

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 07:09 PM (th0op)

"Are there any sex scenes?"

- that would be Ricky Hollywood terroritory....

Posted by: Nora at May 25, 2011 07:09 PM (VxqUc)

22 Palin would be a terrible candidate and run a terrible campaign.

Posted by: Steve Schmidt, McCain 08 Campaign Manager at May 25, 2011 07:10 PM (bgcml)

23 This means we'll get Ace's rewrite of the entire screenplay substituting candidate/state/spouse/story when the film is released.

Posted by: USA at May 25, 2011 07:11 PM (YZISw)

Thinking you need a movie-length commercial is a sign you shouldn't run.

Posted by: Annabelle at May 25, 2011 07:11 PM (3+mHn)

25 Palin would be a terrible candidate and run a terrible campaign.

Posted by: Ace's Bitterscotch Pudding Cup at May 25, 2011 07:11 PM (w88NO)

26 I like the part where she invades ExxonMobile HQs with a minigun dressed like Aeon Flux and takes the leases back. But they shouldn't have used O Fortuna, it's so played.

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 07:14 PM (th0op)

Sacred Honor prohibits me from discussing this subject, twice in one night, IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: The Real Will Folks at May 25, 2011 07:14 PM (bgcml)

28 Also there's too much violence and bloodshed but I can't afford a baby sitter and go to the movies so I will bring the toddler anyway...and sit next to you...and keep checking my iphone....every 5 minutes...while I fart, constantly.

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 07:17 PM (th0op)

29 Does this qualify for the VIP Super Saver Discount?

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 07:19 PM (th0op)

30
A movie, are you FUCKING KIDDING ME? That's as lame as putting Grecian columns behind yourself and hauling out a bunch of lame-ass Ordinary Americans to stand behind you instead of prominent people who have actually accomplished something. Oh, and you know your candidacy is in trouble when you tolerate massive voter fraud and use ACORN to raise illicit funds.

Posted by: arhooley at May 25, 2011 07:20 PM (+/eKV)

31 Tap on shoulder ..."What the fuck is going on up there ?" Me..... " They're forming a giant circle . They do this every day . " Tap on shoulder ....... " Why ? " Me ..... " It's what they do . "

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at May 25, 2011 07:23 PM (npr0X)

Liberal moron lowlife rodent heads exploding . Life is good.

Posted by: jACK at May 25, 2011 07:24 PM (Sd39l)

33 See this is why I really like Sarah Palin. In ordinary mvies when the zombies have the hot chick surrounded she just freezes up and screams waiting for the zombies to bite her brain. But not Sarah. She resigned and got the hell out of there.
Does this open memorial day weekend or the Fourth of July?

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 07:24 PM (th0op)

34 We should always aspire to be as cheezy as democrats....

Posted by: Nora at May 25, 2011 07:25 PM (VxqUc)

35 I'm just shaking my head.

Posted by: lowandslow

Still trying to get that brain functioning are you?

Posted by: heshtesh at May 25, 2011 07:27 PM (Y/7cK)

36 Palin's record as governor is nothing to be proud about. ACES, the oil tax regime that is one of her two major accomplishments as governor, is a disaster. When oil is over $80 a barrel, the state of Alaska takes 90-93 percent of the profit. It has killed exploration. There is one - ONE - exploration well being drilled this year while oil has been over $100/barrel because the oil companies won't reinvest where they can't make money, and the federal situation isn't any better with the EPA shutting down the Arctic and NPR-A.

But all you need to know is that the biggest defenders of ACES are Democrats and liberal Republicans. Palin's signature attack on oil in Alaska is has crippled exploration in the state, so the one thing she had going in terms of energy knowledge is mere blather.

AGIA, the Alaska-Gasline Inducement Act and her other signature accomplisment, has collapsed and the state is looking at a $500 million boondoggle to spur development of a $40 billion gas line with no customers in the lower 48 because of the shale boom.

I'll buy that she had to resign, because in Alaska the state attorney general cannot defend the governor from ethics complaints. She was being bankrupted and had to quit. Such a situation wouldn't happen as president, but that's irrelevant considering her record as gov.

Posted by: the dandy at May 25, 2011 07:29 PM (1h53u)

37 Nothing like a good Alaskan oil lease controversy to jack up sales. Salacious.

Posted by: swamp_yankee at May 25, 2011 07:30 PM (hInJ6)

38 dandy cut 'n' paste

Posted by: Doofus at May 25, 2011 07:30 PM (5hgSJ)

39 "Posted by: the dandy at May 25, 2011 11:29 PM (1h53u)" tl;dr;alol. Needed more Amy Adams Disney songs, or at least a fun Hanna-Barbara clip interlude.

Posted by: lansing quaker at May 25, 2011 07:31 PM (w88NO)

40 Since the thread isn't moving anyways I'll give a little primer on Point Thomson. Point Thomson stinks with gas, just a huge reserve. EXXON and others have most the long term leases sewn up. Problem is with all this gas there isn't really a way to get it to market feasibly. So the producers sit on the leases and make plans of action(POA) to produce in the future. So after pressure from the state to finally start doing something to produce EXXON submits a POA to set up one rig to produce some oil, meeting all the requirements of the renewable lease. The state starts throwing roadblocks at EXXON by denying permits, etc. it then tries to takes the lease away claiming EXXON wasn't working in good faith to develop there. Off to court it goes.
The reason Palin and the state was doing this is because they needed Point Thomson to be producing gas to legitimize her fantasy pipeline.
Long story short, she lost. EXXON kept the lease and set up it's rig. Should be producing a moderate amount of oil in a few years. They're not moving on the gas because there's still not going to be any way to move it.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 25, 2011 07:31 PM (GZitp)

41 I guess my opinion should be discounted given my biases, but man...Sarah Palin really isn't doing any favors by focusing on stuff like *this* in her movie-mercial, or whatever it is. It's anti-conservative, populist guff.

In a way, it really does serve as a litmus test for her followers, however. The question must ultimately be asked: what are you people? Are you conservatives or are you simply Sarah Palin fans? As in, do you hew to a set of free-market, small-government, conservative principles that should make you blanch in horror at what Palin did in the excerpt given here...or are you just cheering because, hey, Palin stuck it to The Man!

One way or another it will be a revealing moment.

Posted by: Jeff B. at May 25, 2011 07:32 PM (hIWe1)

42 The Triumph of the Sarah

Posted by: Ben - People's OOT Front at May 25, 2011 07:32 PM (DKV43)

43 Any chance she's willing to reprise in the VP slot?

It would totally confound any opposition to whoever took the POTUS nomination, and she would bring a ton of votes from her dedicated constituency.

Posted by: ThomasD at May 25, 2011 07:32 PM (LcNn7)

44 Posted by: lowandslow at May 25, 2011 11:31 PM (GZitp)

I really hate this when fans of the book go off about the film. Nobody wants to see the hero lose in a film. It's the directors film and he can make any changes he likes. Having her off half the board and snatch the leases is just some poetic license.

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 07:35 PM (th0op)

45 Yes, you recall how Obama has shuttered the whole country, how Shell lost 3 billion dollars, petitioning for leases, it's the other line, the Denali backed and low slow's pals BP and Conoco,that fell through. All the complaints were bogus, the most ridiculous of which was about the legal defence fund to protect her from
phony ethical complaints, that was the Kafkaesque moment,that told her, they
would never stop. and they filed three complaints after she announced she would
step down,

Posted by: Randolph Duke at May 25, 2011 07:35 PM (YGNmh)

46 *my* little fantasy is that this is a ploy to make the NPD prezughdent and his Hollywood fanbois jealously release their own documentary, thus removing more of their mask. I've read often that politics is acting for ugly people. Well SP isn't ugly, she has the Fox gig, had the LC reality series... She doesn't need to continue in politics to get attention IMO. flip side of that is for Barry politics is acting for someone too stupid to memorize lines and needs to read EVERY word off a prompter.

Posted by: palerider at May 25, 2011 07:37 PM (dkExz)

47 Eh, this particular Palin supporter is less interested in this movie than her detractors appear to be.

Posted by: Kensington at May 25, 2011 07:37 PM (uaEZS)

48 I guess my opinion should be discounted given my biases, but man...Sarah Palin really isn't doing any favors by focusing on stuff like *this* in her movie-mercial, or whatever it is. It's anti-conservative, populist guff. I thought we needed someone who wouldn't be boxed in to the conservative slice of the country and could appeal to other kinds of people? Well, this kind of rhetoric helps do that. She's not going to suddenly become liberal by doing that.

Posted by: mAc Chaos at May 25, 2011 07:38 PM (6s7n2)

49 eek, past time for me to leave, sorry for posting and running if anyone wanted to debate crazy WAGs.

Posted by: palerider at May 25, 2011 07:42 PM (dkExz)

Read my lips:

NO MORE TOUPEES!

NO MORE GREEN WEENIES!

NO MORE WANNABEES!

NO MORE AFFAIRS!

NO MORE RINOS!

AND NO MORE DUMBSHITS THAT DON'T UNDERSTAND CONTRACT LAW!

AND FUCK THE LAWYERS - NO MORE OF YOU EITHER!

Now who's left?

Posted by: 57 States at May 25, 2011 07:42 PM (K5N29)

51 Well it's much of what we already knew. but Lisa Murkowski stabbing Ryan (and Medicare) in the back is more some people's speed.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at May 25, 2011 07:44 PM (YGNmh)

52 Posted by: Randolph Duke at May 25, 2011 11:35 PM (YGNmh)

I don't know what language that is but I think I made out where you were crowing about the Denali pipeline plan shutting down. Do you know why they shutdown and TransCanada hasn't yet? Denali was using company money to look into the pipeline prospects, they report to shareholders and the bottom line is a pipeline isn't economically viable right now.
TransCanada doesn't have to quit till they use up the states 500 million. They still can't make a pipeline of course because they don't any commitments to fill it and they never will.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 25, 2011 07:47 PM (GZitp)

53 is it pg 13 perchance?

Posted by: Ben - People's OOT Front at May 25, 2011 07:52 PM (DKV43)

54 Great. This thread was dead before it started. Can we do all the Palin threads between 10:30 and midnight?

Posted by: The Mega Independent at May 25, 2011 07:54 PM (5I0Yr)

55 Yeah, wow.

Posted by: CAC at May 25, 2011 07:58 PM (JEVge)

56 is it pg 13 perchance?

Posted by: Ben - People's OOT Front at May 25, 2011 11:52 PM (DKV43)

Well she calls Obama a cockholster. I don't think you can say that and get it below and R. Maybe they'll have a different edit for the kids. Plus they have to cut the full frontal nude scene with her and Todd.

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 08:00 PM (th0op)

57 Why is Hillary! toeing the line? Who is pulling her strings? Is she just another washed-up old, forgotten husk of a puppet master, ready for the dustbin of history, unworthy of the kind of progressive glory she once pursued?

That bitch used to have some fire in her belly, but sadly now, - it seems, - she's nothing more than another collectivist clown unquestionably do the bidding of her pimp daddy, Barky the Orator.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Fritz at May 25, 2011 08:01 PM (AN8d5)

58 You'll never see this film wingnuts. Everyone knows I invented documentaries and I did not give her permission to make one and she ripoffs my style to boot. I've already called my attorney to get an injunction. I also called my good friend Eric Holder and an indictment is in the works. Dont' forget though The Civil War and Baseball are now available on Blueray disc from Amazon at a deep discount so buy it today! I have a pledge to the Obama campaign I need to meet.

Posted by: Ken Burns at May 25, 2011 08:09 PM (th0op)

59 That is a confusing clip. Gov't can take away your lease if you're not drilling? We're for that? Seems like the Kelo decision to me.

Posted by: t-bird at May 25, 2011 08:11 PM (FcR7P)

60 This film is full of lies. I am already filming a rebuttal called 'Stupid, Pretty Bitch who wouldn't give me the time of day in high school so I hate her' which exposes the true Sarah Palin. Andrew Sullivan has already agreed to be a fact checker so you know it's legit. I meeting him at the In-N-Out in half and hour to go over the script.

Posted by: Michael Moore at May 25, 2011 08:14 PM (th0op)

61 Why is Hillary! toeing the line? Who is pulling her strings? Oh, man. I read too fast and got 'camel toe' out of that.

Posted by: t-bird at May 25, 2011 08:14 PM (FcR7P)

62 That is a confusing clip. Gov't can take away your lease if you're not drilling?

No, she lost. Here's the ruling.

"Because the contractual agreement between DNR and the appellants precludes the termination of the Point Thomson Unit in these circumstances without consideration of "good and diligent oil and gas engineering and production practices," and because DNR(State of Alaska) failed to accord the Appellants their constitutional right to procedural due process in the remand proceeding, DNR's(State of Alaska) decision is reversed."

Posted by: lowandslow at May 25, 2011 08:18 PM (GZitp)

63 That is a confusing clip. Gov't can take away your lease if you're not drilling? We're for that? Seems like the Kelo decision to me.

Posted by: t-bird at May 26, 2011 12:11 AM (FcR7P)

Tell me about it. I'll drill when I want to. Why are you letting some shit like who I'm laying the pipe to fuck with you?

Posted by: Nino Brown at May 25, 2011 08:18 PM (th0op)

64
is it pg 13 perchance?
Posted by: Ben - People's OOT Front at May 25, 2011 11:52 PM (DKV43)

No. If you read the whole our-tickle you'll see it opens with a bunch of celebutards calling her a cunt, saying she should be raped, etc.

Posted by: arhooley at May 25, 2011 08:20 PM (+/eKV)

65 North to Alaska!

Posted by: Johnny Horton at May 25, 2011 08:22 PM (th0op)

66 63 That is a confusing clip. Gov't can take away your lease if you're not drilling? We're for that? Seems like the Kelo decision to me. Posted by: t-bird at May 26, 2011 12:11 AM (FcR7P) Well, I assume that with a natural resource like oil, the companies don't actually OWN it with a lease, the government of Alaska is merely outsourcing the drilling to those companies, for the purpose of getting the oil flowing. It's basically like getting hired to do a job, and for that they get granted access to the oil. But if they're just going to sit on it and do nothing, then I don't see why the state of Alaska wouldn't want to renegotiate things. I could just be completely wrong though. That's just my assumption. I don't know why else it would be an issue. Then again, I guess that's what watching the full video is for instead of this clip.

Posted by: mAc Chaos at May 25, 2011 08:23 PM (6s7n2)

67 No. If you read the whole our-tickle you'll see it opens with a bunch of celebutards calling her a cunt, saying she should be raped, etc.

Posted by: arhooley at May 26, 2011 12:20 AM (+/eKV)

Yeah stupid rightwing slut deserved it.

I'm sooooooooooooo sorry.

Posted by: Ed Schultz at May 25, 2011 08:25 PM (th0op)

68 Palin is for immigration reform of legalizing the invaders in our country. Herman Cain says no reform; enforce the law.

Posted by: Illegal at May 25, 2011 08:25 PM (XU8MS)

69 Palin is for immigration reform of legalizing the invaders in our country.
Herman Cain says no reform; enforce the law.

Posted by: Illegal at May 26, 2011 12:25 AM (XU8MS)

That's true. She didn't do shit to get those Eskimos out.

Posted by: Ed Schultz at May 25, 2011 08:27 PM (th0op)

70 what Jeff B said

Posted by: YRM at May 25, 2011 08:27 PM (UzBwz)

71 Come on guys! We can get to comment 666!

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 08:31 PM (th0op)

72 29 I like the part where she invades ExxonMobile HQs with a minigun dressed like Aeon Flux and takes the leases back.
________

Does she have a bit of her spine she can take to make her moar flexible?

Posted by: Anachronda at May 25, 2011 08:32 PM (6fER6)

Does she have a bit of her spine she can take to make her moar flexible?

Posted by: Anachronda at May 26, 2011 12:32 AM (6fER6)

They don't show it in the preview but she does catch a liberal journalist with her eyelash.

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 08:35 PM (th0op)

74 It's basically like getting hired to do a job, and for that they get granted access to the oil. But if they're just going to sit on it and do nothing, then I don't see why the state of Alaska wouldn't want to renegotiate things.

It's impossible to produce on all the leases. There just isn't enough equipment to do so. They produce on the land that is most economically feasible. They secure most leases for future development. Doesn't make any difference if the producer has the lease for five years or fifty, if the money doesn't work out they're going to sit on them. They answer to their shareholders not the state. If they are legally meeting the requirements of the lease that's all that matters.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 25, 2011 08:37 PM (GZitp)

75 Palin's job plan for America. make lots of tv shows and movies about herself.

Posted by: Illegal at May 25, 2011 08:39 PM (XU8MS)

76 No, she lost. Here's the ruling. Ok, good. At least some court resists government overreach. I'd never release that preview if I were her.

Posted by: t-bird at May 25, 2011 08:40 PM (FcR7P)

77 shweet

Posted by: cartman at May 25, 2011 08:43 PM (5d5ys)

78 Ok, good. At least some court resists government overreach. I'd never release that preview if I were her.

Posted by: t-bird at May 26, 2011 12:40 AM (FcR7P)

I can't believe you guys. You probably rooted for the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Posted by: Rocks at May 25, 2011 08:51 PM (th0op)

79 But she's not afraid to die, the people all call her Alaska
Between worlds so the people ask her 'cause it's all in her mind
It's all in her mind

Posted by: Lou Reed at May 25, 2011 08:59 PM (th0op)

80 @44 &45... right on. Jeff B especially, that is the KEY question, one that I have not seen asked, and I've been around this big ol net since it Algore invented it. Her whole "80% popularity claim" was based almost exclusively on the HUGE dividend checks she was able to give to the voters. She was popular because she was spreadin' the (federal taxpayer, increased oil taxes) wealth around...Now she's against removing oil subsidies, against the very earmarks that made her so flippin' popular. Her fans don't know, don't care, they just like her hair. This film is going to be a truly, legendary, epic fail.

Posted by: Loose Era at May 25, 2011 09:03 PM (lMB6H)

81 Entertainment Tonight never mentioned the Pawlenty news. Or Perry. Odd. Even with all the Oprah adulation there is always time for Palin. In the entertainment media/hard news circle jerk, only Palin keeps any alternative point of view or sense of urgency visible on both halves. Breitbart counts it as a victory and so do I. Now what are you going to do about it, Overton Window?

Posted by: FeFe at May 25, 2011 09:48 PM (TjlA2)

82 Now this was really interesting. It was the exact same ignorant "use it or lose it" argument recently used against Big Oil by the Obama regime.

Of course, those of us who've been paying attention already knew that one of Palin's main "achievements" as governor was going after the oil companies.

She's a populist. Nothing more.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at May 25, 2011 10:14 PM (FYCiJ)

83 Hey, if she can't round up rich donor buddies like Mitt, she at least earns her own campaign pot!

Posted by: Scott at May 25, 2011 10:18 PM (ACWui)

Your tears sustain me.

http://yumurl.com/Ovw68V

Posted by: rae4palin at May 25, 2011 10:50 PM (G4RRM)

85 The oil belongs to Alaska. I don't see the point in going after lessees who are abiding their contracts, but I think Alaska was justified in undoing some of the deals oil companies made with some Republicans in Alaska. They did have something of a corruption problem. Just because the democrats pretend big oil is pure evil doesn't mean there isn't a degree of cronyism to some of their dealings.

One reason Palin was popular is that she got a higher royalty for the oil in Alaska. She wasn't serving the oil companies the way other politicians were.

Yeah, there's a fine line between this point and utter populism. I think this video crosses that line, too. Hopefully the full movie has more details that better explain the situation.

Posted by: Dustin at May 25, 2011 10:59 PM (Q3nWV)

On what planet are people eager to sit through a 2 hour campaign video? Why not spend the money on 30 second commercials?

For 90% of Americans, if you gave them the choice between watching a two hour political campaign video or spending two hours getting ass-raped by a rhinoceros, they'd be reaching for the nearest jar of Vaseline.

If it takes 2 freaking hours to make your case, you've lost. On the other hand, the projectionist will take her example to heart and decide to take a better paying job half way through.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 25, 2011 11:08 PM (WRW1S)

yeah Alaskan citizens get dividend checks from the oil and gas companies like Kuwait!!! Its our damn land so we should get paid for the oil and gas !!!

Alaska gives an entirely new meaning to the phrase "welfare state".

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 25, 2011 11:14 PM (WRW1S)

88 Hollowpoint, it's hard to argue in Alaska's defense, I agree. They get so much federal money, yet they also have tremendous resources. Texas uses her oil to pay for universities. Alaska could have world class schools instead of checks offered in exchange for... nothing apparent, but I assume populist politics.

Yes it's their damn land, and I think Palin fought some corruption from oil companies (ordinarily I do not agree with the demonization of oil companies, btw).

Still... Alaska does not come across well when I read about this kind of stuff. No wonder Murkowski did well there.

I do wish each candidate did something more like a 2 hour video, or even a book (They actually wrote, instead of relying on a ghost author). The problems in this country are very complicated and require a lot of discussion.

Not that you're wrong. 99% of voters will not watch or read a single such thing, let alone enough to compare many candidates.

Posted by: Dustin at May 25, 2011 11:39 PM (Q3nWV)

89 Hollowpoint: Welcome to the 21st Century. Things are different here.

Now do the world a favor and pull your lip over your head and swallow.

Posted by: Banji Kazooie at May 25, 2011 11:43 PM (S8aPX)

Hollowpoint: Welcome to the 21st Century. Things are different here.

I'm pretty certain that the desire for free shit at the expense of others isn't a 21st century phenomenon.

If you went back in time 10,000 years ago, I'm pretty sure that you'd find cavemen justifying to themselves why they deserved free shit from those living in all the other caves.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 25, 2011 11:57 PM (WRW1S)

91 The poor girls got to do something to counter all that pure magnetic macho charisma of T-Paw.

Posted by: Case at May 26, 2011 02:11 AM (0K+Kw)

92 Drilling it on time is part of the lease you buy. She made them fullfill their contract obligation.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at May 26, 2011 02:23 AM (bAL0J)

93 102 Drilling it on time is part of the lease you buy. She made them fullfill their contract obligation.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at May 26, 2011 06:23 AM (bAL0J)

No she didn't, they were already fulfilling their contract. She did everything she could do to make them default on the contract. And when it came down to it she lost, in court.

She's lying when says otherwise. Something you supporters seem to forget, she's a politician, they've been known to lie.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 26, 2011 02:59 AM (GZitp)

94 Lowandslow

So out of nowhere she decided to sue them , so she could later lie about it?

Yeah right, no really..

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at May 26, 2011 03:03 AM (bAL0J)

95 I saw this today.

http://bit.ly/mA288m

But let's keep pretending the public agrees with us. The "Us vs the liberals" mentality sure is working nowadays.

Posted by: Anony at May 26, 2011 03:16 AM (7ahtU)

96 So out of nowhere she decided to sue them , so she could later lie about it?

Yeah right, no really..
Posted by: Temper Tantrum at May 26, 2011 07:03 AM (bAL0J)

She didn't sue anybody. The state was hamstringing EXXON then illegally revoked their lease. They sued her and won.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 26, 2011 03:21 AM (GZitp)

97 I saw this today.

Is Bill Corbett somebody I should have heard of?

Posted by: toby928™ at May 26, 2011 03:21 AM (GTbGH)

98 Lowandslow , the move was to get Exxon to drill as obligated , did they?

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at May 26, 2011 03:29 AM (bAL0J)

99 Lowandslow , the move was to get Exxon to drill as obligated , did they?

No, the move was to take the leases away. EXXON had a plan of development that was in place long before Palin became Governor. They would have put the one rig up if Palin was there or not.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 26, 2011 03:43 AM (GZitp)

100

They would have put the one rig up if Palin was there or not.

The Pee-wee Herman defense..

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at May 26, 2011 03:48 AM (bAL0J)

101 I can't wait for the first college kid to ask her, "Bald or Landing Strip?" You know it's coming.

Posted by: CoolCzech at May 26, 2011 04:12 AM (kUaEF)

102 getting ass-raped by a rhinoceros

That can be arranged.

Posted by: Huntsman 2012!!!! at May 26, 2011 04:55 AM (F26W1)

103

Nothing like a Palin thread to run up the post count. Ace, you are a GENIUS. You don't support Palin, but you will ride her (figuratively speaking) all the way to higher thread counts.

Shame you don't support Rick Perry, the real GOP choice for POTUS.

Posted by: Dick_Nixon at May 26, 2011 05:46 AM (kaOJx)

104 Pawlenty supported cap-and-trade and hawked ethanol subsidies. But that's okay 'cuz it was a long time ago. Huntsman is an Obamaite and has few if any conservative positions. But, stardust. Romney was pro-choice and pro-government healthcare until he wasn't, but hey, he's electable. Sarah Palin try to fight corrupt deals with oil oligopolies? She's both a traitor to conservativism and far too conservative to get elected. I see what you did there.

Posted by: alwaysfiredup at May 26, 2011 07:16 AM (UKAnE)

105 Two hours?

Posted by: davod at May 26, 2011 08:46 AM (C5U9L)

106 What someone should do is show what she achieved in her shortened term.

Posted by: davod at May 26, 2011 08:47 AM (C5U9L)

107 Is the movie going to be called, "The Passion of the Sarah"?

Posted by: tinkerbella at May 26, 2011 08:51 AM (XEGK/)

108 Indeed, Sarah Palin is considering a run. There would be no reason to waste money on such a thing in Iowa unless that was the case (unless Ms Palin has a really weird sense of humor).

I think she is strongly leaning that way but still weighing things (that is, checking the fund raising prospects).

Posted by: Full Moon at May 26, 2011 10:17 AM (m75CK)

109

Sarah is pro free enterprise and big business is usually a co-conspirator with big government against the free market.

That's the crony capitalism she talks about and she seeks to use the government power to prevent, not enable, the Corrupt Bastards of the Industry/Govt complex from just having their way.

Its a good instinct.

Posted by: nj in fl at May 26, 2011 12:04 PM (M2X9r)

110 Join me for blowjobs, Chi-Town Jerry. Warbetweentheundeadbates is bringing the lube or, as other people call it, cottage cheese. And screw you 'snowers'.

Posted by: the boston herald at May 26, 2011 01:01 PM (xwvfe)

111 Yeah, the only thing two hours long I can sit through is a constipated dump.

Posted by: the boston herald at May 26, 2011 01:02 PM (xwvfe)

112 The boston herald? That's supposed to be me, Shallowpoint the intellectual colossus.

Posted by: Shallowpoint at May 26, 2011 01:03 PM (xwvfe)

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