Georgia, When you state on Natl TV that you want unConstitutional levels of VP powers….Mooselini is not a stretch. Here’s what Palin People are a thinkin’ Y’all betcha…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVNiR2lw16M

PALIN PEOPLE GUM A FEW THOUGHTS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVNiR2lw16M

She appeals to the “Make Mine a Bud” crowd who married their first cousins and are still in mourning ‘cuz Hee-Haw went off the air. MUST SEE!!! RED STATE NATION UPDATE. NOW WE’RE TAKIN’ PALIN PEOPLE: YEEHAW!! LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVNiR2lw16M

Iris, “Ya betcha!” FYI people are making millions buying .com domain names betting on things to come. If Sarah Palin gets in whitetrash.com will be a big domain. There’s nothing there now….just the smarty pants that bought it and a contact email waiting for the big payoff if Palin gets in and thousands will want that URL and will have to pay big bucks when they bought it for $2.00: http://www.whitetrash.com/

Even though I am not on Peggy Noonan’s ‘team’ I like her. And I do think she got ‘spanked’ for that comment re Palin is BS which she is and had to drink a cup of Kool-Aid for that and now back in the fold. RE: Star’s “I notice you people think Biden won (shocker on this list), but also want your side to crank it up—sign of doubt?” More whinny stuff from the GOP [ie Elizabeth Hazzeldorf or whatever her name is, Princess of GOP Whiners] 1. No, we’re not in doubt but sick of the Demos going for polite. This is politics. Go for the jugular and the win. 2. Biden was given the win hands down. Register complain with networks and newspapers (including ones that have never endorsed a Demo) for crediting him with the win. 3. Re this ‘list’. Hey. The founders are mixed incl Republicans. They have no poltical objective. They have a stated business objective. What has shown up has shown up. Freeper Nation is always an alternative. But then we woulnd’t have you to kick us around, Star, with your snarky wittisms.

And thanks be for that!

Every news organization but Fox (shocker on the list) gave Biden the win. Anyone with a lick of sense can spot an ambitious sports reader with gawd awful English and half a brain reciting canned responses to dodge rather than answers questions. Her wanting expaned extra-Constitutional powers for VP is atrocious to the point of treason. Her dragging around 5-month special needs infant on the campaign trial is child abuse. She is not a candidate but a poltical stunt, and was selected to garner the white trash vote. She also attributed John Winthrop’s “Shinning City on a Hill” to Reagan as if he originated it. But what can one expect from a liar who claims to see Russia from her home, and that equates with Intl relations expertise. Her supporters are thos seriously deficient in the ability to connect cause and effect. From Andrew Bacevich on John Winthrop’s FAMOUS “City on a Hill” speech: “But even more important is that world view that I share with John McCain. That world view that says that America is a nation of exceptionalism. And we are to be that shining city on a hill, as President Reagan so beautifully said, that we are a beacon of hope and that we are unapologetic here. We are not perfect as a nation. But together, we represent a perfect ideal. And that is democracy and tolerance and freedom and equal rights.” — Governor Sarah Palin, October 2, 2008 “In a debate filled with eminently forgettable blather, here we have a statement of genuine importance — a text that demands analysis. Where to begin? Perhaps by noting the origins of this world view to which Governor Palin refers. The conception of America as the “city upon a hill” was not the handiwork of Ronald Reagan, or indeed of any other paladin of the Republican Party. Rather, John Winthrop, founding governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, first voiced the conviction that God had summoned the people of the New World - or at least those settling in New England - to serve as a model for all humankind. Speaking in Boston Harbor to a small assembly of Puritans preparing to disembark from the ship Arabella in 1630, Winthrop announced that “The eyes of all people are upon us.” Should the members of his community fail in their anointed mission, a dire fate awaited them: “we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.” Winthrop described the core of that mission with great specificity. It had little to do with values such as tolerance and equal rights, in which Winthrop had little interest. It had everything to do with forging a covenant with God, who had summoned the Puritans to create a Christian commonwealth. Mindful of that imperative, Winthrop explained [W]e must love one another with a pure heart fervently. We must bear one another’s burdens. We must not look only on our own things, but also on the things of our brethren… We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others’ necessities. … We must delight in each other; make others’ conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body. To violate the terms of this covenant was to invite catastrophe: “[If] we shall neglect the observation of these articles,” Winthrop continued, and, dissembling with our God, shall fall to embrace this present world and prosecute our carnal intentions, seeking great things for ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely break out in wrath against us, and be revenged of such a people, and make us know the price of the breach of such a covenant. Now there are three possibilities. The first possibility is that God does not exist. In that case, the concept of American Exceptionalism first articulated by Winthrop, employed with great political effect by Ronald Reagan, and now endorsed by Sarah Palin, is simply nonsense - a fairy tale that may once have had a certain utility, but that in our own day has become simply pernicious. To persist in this nonsense is to make it impossible either to see ourselves as we really are or to see the world as it actually is. The second possibility is that God exists, but that he has not singled out Americans as his new Chosen People. Indeed, consult Scripture and it becomes apparent that God himself has not spoken directly on the matter. In that case, Winthrop, Reagan, and Palin are remarkably presumptuous in claiming to interpret God’s purposes and will. Further investigation might be in order - perhaps consulting with priests, ministers, rabbis, imams to see what they have to say on the matter. The third possibility is that God exists and has indeed singled out America as his New Israel. In that event, John Winthrop’s charge of 1630 demands urgent attention - not least of all his warning of what will befall America should it be seduced by earthly concerns and carnal desires and tend too much to superfluities. Today no doubt, the eyes of all people are indeed on the United States - what happens here affects the world. Yet many of those who observe us don’t like what they see. The question for Governor Palin and for other believers committed to the concept of American exceptionalism is this: have we kept the Lord’s covenant? If not, perhaps the time has come to mend our ways before it’s too late. Who knows? The sound you hear even now on Wall Street may be God’s wrath breaking out against us.”

FP—She doesn’t answer questions, wants more unitarian power, doesn’t play with by the rules, she recited memorized answers, and began by announcing that Biden and Gwen might not like her answers. Umm, answering the taxpayers. She is Cheney with lipstick and dummer than W. Sheesh.

Fun!! Ernestine can hold her own alongside Oprah…that’s a lot. O usually dominates the frame…not with Ernestine!

Real style died with Jackie and Audrey. Although Anna Wintour and Ines de la Fressange are fun to see. I often like how Anna W puts things together: http://hauteconcept.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/anna-wintour-62508-1…. Jackie and Audrey weren’t herd animals. Jacqueline de Ribes used to look pretty good…now too stiff and what’s with the flower labels? Trying too hard and letting their look be dictated by what is coming UP from the street. Simple chic looks best, IMO.

Tick, Great avatar. Ha.

Diana, The whole drill-baby-drill wink wink wink ya betcha stuff is so horrendous. Added to no respect to the Constitution, wanting more VP powers etc. She is a mess. And would be and is nothing but a big energy tool/fool. A practiced newsreader who knows how to appeal to the dumbed-down K-Mart crowd. As a Canadian broadcaster said, she is on the ticket to capture the white trash vote. What a mess.

I don’t like her because she is repugnantly dumb, a liar, she bankrupted a small town, she can’t speak English, she is not pretty but appallingly tacky, she has absolutely no class or dignity whatsoever. She drags her 5-month old Down’s syndrome baby around as a campagin prop which to me is akin to child abuse. All newborns for the sake of establishing good lifelong habits, need peace, regularity, comfort, safety, quiet, and their mother. Chasing around the US on airplanes and in hotel rooms for a protracted time, with all the noise, cameras, lights, upset and disruption would be very brutal for any baby and esp a special needs child. And then to listen to that loud screeching voice of hers. What she is subjecting that baby to is obscene. Women don’t like her because they see through her. There is nothing to like about Palin, except her energy, and that is misdirected. If you are going to have children then be responsible to them first. Three children? I thought she had five.

Kelly, Jennifer…agree. I do not ‘hate’ anything or anyone, don’t ever use the word. There are loads of women I admire, and nothing’s better than to see and cheer competent women get ahead. Palin is an overreaching, trashy looking, oil company tool, a complete hick, a dolt, and everything I loathe. Can’t even stand to look at her. McCain has put his desire to be prez ahead of what’s in the interest of the country or the world. Look forward to Sarahgeddon winging back to the outback…soon, ‘ya betcha.” Where she and Todd can pop open the Bud’s and get back to work to breeding an entire Hockey team of offspring. It will be a great day when the no class, no taste, no brains duo of Wrinkley and Winky out of my line of sight. Ugh.

She is not MY fellow woman. That is funny, Fifth Gabor. Having shared a hairdresser and lived next door to Arianna (on Riven Rock Rd in Montecito, though don’t know her) I do know some funny stories that go along with that comment. I think she’s fabulous. Prolific and excellent writer, and heard her responses when was being bashed about one of her books. Excellent. Of course she was the prez of Oxford Debate Society. Totally impressive.