sarah palin

OK, I know I said I’d never do it again, but this is just too good to pass up. I think it’s really Tina Fey being interviewed by a Katie Couric look-a-like!

OK, there’s a great article in the latest New Yorker magazine with the title, The State of Sarah Palin, which happens to be online. I finished reading it yesterday and it gives a fine insight into not only her but Alaska as well: Alaska, that far-out state where Mastodon teeth are no big deal. Well, over 50% of the population are Independents, 25% Republicans, 15% Democrats, and they do have running water most places.

The article is by Philip Gourevitch who spent a few weeks up in Alaska interviewing her and discovering the lay of the land. The article has the sub-title, The peculiar political landscape of the Vice-Presidential hopeful. I came away from the reading with a better grasp of her personality and also that of Alaska.

OK, now that her popularity is in decline (see the chart below), I can say this will be my last word on this distraction. From now on it should be all about Obama! I agree with Anne Lamott in her post A Call to Arms.

Thanks to Matthew Yglesias for this chart from Research 200 Tracking and Poll Data.

Mudflats nails it again, let us hope. Check her yesterday’s post Palin Throws Alaska Under the Bus. She leads in with the lead in paragraph from the Anchorage Daily News for yesterday morning:

GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska’s governor to John McCain’s political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit embarrassing disclosures and carefully shape her image for voters in the rest of the country.

Here’s what I think is her key paragraph epitomizing the mood — backlash against Palin — in Alaska today.

This is not going over well in Alaska. I’ll use my usual caveat that there are lots of Alaskans who happily subscribe to the “Sarah right or wrong” mentality, and will continue to do so. However, the progressive take on this whole latest mess is only slightly short of taking torches and pitchforks and surrounding the Attorney General’s office, demanding an end to the stonewalling. I’ve watched Alaskan progressives that I personally know go from saying, “Wow! I can’t believe I voted for a Republican!” to, “She’s doing OK. I don’t agree with everything, but I don’t regret my vote” to being so furiously seething angry they just can’t say anything.

Let’s hope she’s right. But it’s likely she does have her finger on the pulse of what’s going on in Alsaka.

Believe it or not, there are people in Alaska who don’t like Sarah Palin. Appears there was a big anti-Palin rally in Anchorage, Alaska, in another part of town the day (9/13/08) Sarah was greeted by about one thousand people at the Dena’ina Convention Center. This anti-Palin rally was held in the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. The video below was taken by an Alaskan blogger named Mudflats who has a great write up of this event on his blog and dozens of other pictures of this huge rally. He estimates about 1400 anti-Palin people with maybe 90 or so counter demonstrators.

Below are three of the 82 photos Mudflats took during this rally. All of the signs were handmade in a very short time.

Josh Marshall provides the facts on John McCain’s lie that Sarah Palin vetoed earmark spending while governor. Josh calls it McCain’s lie of the day.

E. J. Dionne, Jr., of the Washington Post has it right! Obama has been tiptoeing through the mud. He needs to lash out and hurl both facts and mud back at those lying scum McCain and Palin! Here are a couple paragraphs from Dionne’s Op-Ed today:

In short, few Americans know what (or whom) Obama is fighting for, because he isn’t really telling them. And few know that McCain’s economic plan is worse than President Bush’s. As Jonathan Cohn points out in the New Republic, McCain would add $8.5 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years. It’s McCain who should be on the defensive.

And here’s Dionne’s closing paragraph:

McCain has shown he wants the presidency so badly that he’s willing to say anything, true or false, to win power. Obama can win by fighting for what he believes. What he can’t do is wait for the media to call McCain out — although they should — or expect voters to know he’ll fight for them when they are not yet sure that he’s willing to stand up for himself.

And it’s going to be doubly hard for Obama to do this because of the gutless, corporate controlled MSM’s determination to present two sides of every issue even when one side is an obvious lie. GOBAMA GO !! You’ve gotta to do it to save this country from irresponsible and cocky wackos like McCain and Palin!!

I hate to think this person is right, but sadly she may very well be right. This country sucks. I hate America! But still, I’m not leaving.
Posted by Kathleen Sep 09, 8:47AM - Link

Dan Kervick,
You’re correct, people who read blogs, and most liberal/progressives, think everyone takes the time to be well inforned., so they assume that no voter will choose based on gender, race, or ethnic and religious factors…most Americans don’t vote at all, and many who do, don’t do so on more than the sound bytes.

Democraps are good at stopping momentum…they always hedge their bets and lose the lead…can’t generate excitement being long-winded, highbrow sissys..As usual, it’s painful to watch…for me at least.

OK, OK, too many posts on Sarah Palin! I promise this will be my last one. (I hope…) The NYT Op-Ed by that old neocon, Bill Kristol has already garnered over 200 overwhelmingly negative comments, this morning. The main thrust of his article is that Sarah Palin will win all the “Wal-Mart Mom” votes and that she herself is a “Wal-Mart Mom”!

This little over 3 minute video by David Kurtz of TPMtv at the Republican National Convention sums up the lovefest. I can barely stand watching, but here it is, and he sums it up very well!

Samantha Bee, that deliciously over-the-top comedian correspondent for Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, tells it like it is: “As a proud vagina American myself, I’ll be voting for McCain in November…”. Why? Because the woman Sarah Palin is his running mate of course! Hilarious!

NOTE: The video I previously had here is “no longer available”, so, I had to replace it with a slightly longer one of a little over 4 minutes run time.