Dan Savage posted this vid with this commentary:

I was at the 2008 Republican National Convention and on the convention floor when Sarah Palin give her GOP-VP-nomination-acceptance speech. It was kinda scary. So this video is pretty satisfying.

My favorite moment at the 2008 convention: asking the GOP's youngest delegate, who was thrust before me and the "Real Time" camera crew by her media rep, if she was a virgin. When she refused to answer the question I said, "We'll have to take that as a 'no,'" and she got upset. Then I explained to her that the GOP backs abstinence-only for kids her age and so the question was legit. She conceded the point and gave me a hug.

I was, she said, the first gay man she had ever touched. She was, I told her, the first straight teenage Republican whose boobs had ever been pressed against mine. In Minneapolis.

Memories!

Cumb Dunt!

I've been saying for over a year that she would not run.
The "campaign" was all about getting money from her marks supporters.

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Funny (but not surprising) that she uses the term 'voodoo economics' - which is a derisive nickname for the type of trickle down economics that she supports.

Sarah Palin, the Vanilla Ice of politics.

The Washington Hillbillies have lost all their folksy charm after people who believed in her realize their wallets are thinner after she blew through town selling nothing but snake oil.

What does she care if she's gone from the spotlight. She's made her millions and can retire to a quiet life of luxury and moose huntin'.

Nobody cares about you Sarah, there's crazier than thou now... *looks at the Bachmann almost all the current GOP runners*

If only we never heard from her again. The media seems to love stupid and opinionated, and as long as that trend continues we'll keep seeing her pop up.

It has been a dramatic improvement lately!!

>> ^ponceleon:

Sarah Palin, the Vanilla Ice of politics.


That's an insult to Vanilla Ice.

Vanilla Ice made a much more substantive contribution to American culture than Sara Palin ever will.

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But what exactly happened? Did all the media collectively refused to cover her bus crusades or did she stop bus-crusading?

one thing is for sure:

you haven't seen the last of her.>> ^Drachen_Jager:

What does she care if she's gone from the spotlight. She's made her millions and can retire to a quiet life of luxury and moose huntin'.

I always looked at her as a threat by the parties. Kind of a "If you don't support someone, we'll run Palin."

So yeah, I doubt we've seen the last of her. They'll trot her out when things are looking down in the polls to make that unspoken threat fresh in our thoughts.

Sarah Palin is a Fucking Retard.

But she's a glittering jewel compared to Joe Biden or Harry Reid.


You'd really prefer to listen to Nancy Pelosi or Janet Napolitano?


wow

But she stood up for the America that matters!

Palin out of the picture?

Wishful thinking from the libmedia assassins.

Even my uber conservative father is somewhat embarrassed by her now. Started out a big fan.

So really? You really think this person is a viable political candidate for anything?

She does make a great Fox pundit. PS. That is not a compliment.

PPS Still waiting to hear from you about whether you are okay with the state executing innocent people. Yes or no. (Hint -- If you can't say it, you probably shouldn't be doing it.)


>> ^quantumushroom:

Palin out of the picture?
Wishful thinking from the libmedia assassins.

Sarah Palin is the only potential candidate with the same "rockstar" power as The Kenyawaiian. Cain is smart and would make a fine candidate, but people are not logical or overly using their reasoning abilities; they are emotionally-driven from the reptilian brain, with only a thin veneer of reason. Palin = Rockstar. Obama = Rockstar. No other candidates anywhere have this power at this time.

Palin is far smarter than the meager credit given by her critics. You don't become governor of Alaska by being a dummy. Nobody kicks a dead dog, and the disgraceful way Palin and her family have been treated by the libmedia since Day Uno should give anyone who 'trusts' any kind of media pause. I can't think of anyone else on the entire political spectrum who has been the target of such outright vitriol, personal and political, including Obama.

We can discuss Palin's verbal gaffes or 'hypocrisy' on issues; it does not matter. Palin loves America; I have never gotten that vibe from Barack. Ever. He seems a disdainful tea-sipping Eurointellectual, which would be forgivable if he ever did anything of note.

Palin = Rockstar. Obama = Rockstar. That's really it. It would be no shame for her to run and lose, but if she didn't run at all, that would be cheating herself. If she doesn't run NOW, she'll be a ghost for 2016 and beyond.


Re: executions. Sorry, I did not see this question before now. Correct me at will, but I think the question you're really asking is, given the risk of accidentally putting an innocent person to death, do you still condone executions?

My answer is Yes. Liberals have not been able to prove an innocent man or woman anywhere in America has been executed, since at least 1950. Even were it so, it's a risk I'm happy to take.

The System needs to be fixed. This endless appeals bullshite needs to stop. No one sentenced to death should live longer than 10 days more.


The only way I would support ending the death penalty is if life in prison w/o any chance of parole was actual punishment. Federal crimes should be served in a federal gulag somewhere cold in the middle of nowhere, with few amenities. Every day should be hard labor until natural death. Once a month we can offer all the inmates a suicide pill. I'm sure you won't agree with much of this and that's fine. Most people in prison belong there. They are not nice people.





>> ^bareboards2:

Even my uber conservative father is somewhat embarrassed by her now. Started out a big fan.
So really? You really think this person is a viable political candidate for anything?
She does make a great Fox pundit. PS. That is not a compliment.
PPS Still waiting to hear from you about whether you are okay with the state executing innocent people. Yes or no. (Hint -- If you can't say it, you probably shouldn't be doing it.)

>> ^quantumushroom:
Palin out of the picture?
Wishful thinking from the libmedia assassins.

She's not running: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/05/breaking-sarah-palin-will-not-run-for-president/?hpt=hp_t1

>> ^quantumushroom:

Sarah Palin is the only potential candidate with the same "rockstar" power as The Kenyawaiian. Cain is smart and would make a fine candidate, but people are not logical or overly using their reasoning abilities; they are emotionally-driven from the reptilian brain, with only a thin veneer of reason. Palin = Rockstar. Obama = Rockstar. No other candidates anywhere have this power at this time.
Palin is far smarter than the meager credit given by her critics. You don't become governor of Alaska by being a dummy. Nobody kicks a dead dog, and the disgraceful way Palin and her family have been treated by the libmedia since Day Uno should give anyone who 'trusts' any kind of media pause. I can't think of anyone else on the entire political spectrum who has been the target of such outright vitriol, personal and political, including Obama.
We can discuss Palin's verbal gaffes or 'hypocrisy' on issues; it does not matter. Palin loves America; I have never gotten that vibe from Barack. Ever. He seems a disdainful tea-sipping Eurointellectual, which would be forgivable if he ever did anything of note.
Palin = Rockstar. Obama = Rockstar. That's really it. It would be no shame for her to run and lose, but if she didn't run at all, that would be cheating herself. If she doesn't run NOW, she'll be a ghost for 2016 and beyond.

Re: executions. Sorry, I did not see this question before now. Correct me at will, but I think the question you're really asking is, given the risk of accidentally putting an innocent person to death, do you still condone executions?
My answer is Yes. Liberals have not been able to prove an innocent man or woman anywhere in America has been executed, since at least 1950. Even were it so, it's a risk I'm happy to take.
The System needs to be fixed. This endless appeals bullshite needs to stop. No one sentenced to death should live longer than 10 days more.

The only way I would support ending the death penalty is if life in prison w/o any chance of parole was actual punishment. Federal crimes should be served in a federal gulag somewhere cold in the middle of nowhere, with few amenities. Every day should be hard labor until natural death. Once a month we can offer all the inmates a suicide pill. I'm sure you won't agree with much of this and that's fine. Most people in prison belong there. They are not nice people.


>> ^bareboards2:
Even my uber conservative father is somewhat embarrassed by her now. Started out a big fan.
So really? You really think this person is a viable political candidate for anything?
She does make a great Fox pundit. PS. That is not a compliment.
PPS Still waiting to hear from you about whether you are okay with the state executing innocent people. Yes or no. (Hint -- If you can't say it, you probably shouldn't be doing it.)

>> ^quantumushroom:
Palin out of the picture?
Wishful thinking from the libmedia assassins.

Hmm the person who thinks homosexuals are after him votes Palin.

because she's viable , not because shes a bigot, right...

No surprise here really. If she was going to run she'd have had to have jumped in a month ago or more. But more than that - I don't think that the GOP wanted anything to do with her. She's much more of a maverick than John "Loser" McCain ever was, and the GOP doesn't like candidates they can't control. Palin will never be anything in the GOP again except a booster, commentator, or side-show attraction. I think she can help out by drawing in folks, but I don't see her ever holding major office again.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

I don't see her ever holding major office again.


Again? She never held anything major to begin with. Once she resigned as governor of Alaska all she did was become a VP-nominee and then just a pundit.

At least she made some money out of the deal.

Fair enough. "I don't see the GOP ever nominating her for a major office again."