Sarah Palin hints she might run again...translation-send me money!

From Politico

Sarah Palin opened the door for another run for public office, railing against liberals who, she says, would like to keep her on the political sidelines.

In an interview Tuesday with Fox Business Network, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee was asked whether harsh criticism of her had driven her away from politics.

“Bless their hearts, those haters out there, they don’t understand that it invigorates me,” she responded. “It wants me to get out there and defend the innocent.”

“[T]he more they’re pouring on, the more I’m going to bug the crap out of them by being out there with a voice, with a message, hopefully running for office in the future, too,” Palin added.

She hasn’t run for office since stepping down as Alaska governor in 2009, in particular declining to run for the 2012 presidential nomination. Last year, Palin said on Fox News that she “considered” a run for the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Begich in November. Begich is in the midst of a close race with Republican Dan Sullivan.

Palin, who retains a strong fan base among conservatives, has been fairly active on the 2014 campaign trail, appearing in Kansas with Republican Sen. Pat Roberts and in Louisiana with Rob Maness, one of two GOP Senate hopefuls in the Bayou State’s nonpartisan primary.

In the interview Tuesday, Palin also praised Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas — two darlings of the tea party movement — and called on the GOP establishment to have “more guts.”


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Sarah Palin is so lazy she won't even watch a Hillary Clinton interview

From Sarah's Fecebook page:


I was out picking weeds in my ridiculously deficient garden, so I haven't seen the Hillary Clinton interview on Fox yet. But Greta's a good one, so I shall do so -- unless you can summarize it for me! I'd love to hear what YOU thought of it, so I can go back to separating the weeds from the chaff (or baby carrots anyway). Thanks! Here’s the link:
 
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/video/video-clinton-on-jailed-marine-sgt-tahmooressi-nsa-spying-sexism-phony-irs-scandal/

My guess is she was too hungover or too high.  Or maybe both.  She hasn't been on Geta's show for a while.  My guess is Greta banned her so Skanky won't watch it.

Sarah Palin is now in the dumpster

 From Politicususa

And now for a break, we head over to the Daily Fail section where Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential nominee, is so hated in her own state that it would go for Hillary over her. Only 19% of Alaskans think Sarah Palin should run for President, 74% want her to sit 2016 out, according to a PPP poll.

The place where they know her best hates her the most.

Only 19% think she should seek the White House, compared to 74% who think she should sit it out. Even among Republicans just 24% want her to run while 70% believe she should take a pass. Palin is actually so weak that she would trail Hillary Clinton 44/41 in a hypothetical contest, even as the rest of the Republican field would lead Clinton. Mike Huckabee has a 43/42 advantage over her, Chris Christie is up 44/41, Rand Paul is up 46/40, and Jeb Bush is up 47/41.

Half of you are already screaming “Who cares!” for good reason — the media’s long obsession with Palin’s alleged “charisma” (of which we saw little after Blood Libel tapped her out) is only now starting to dwindle. But there is a valid and important political point to make upon Palin’s long-wished for exit.

Palin stands for all that is wrong with the current Republican Party. Once voters got to know her, they really didn’t like her. She motivated the GOP base but ultimately helped Democrats, just as she continues to do every time she opens her mouth; while the snide contempt born of the heady and dangerous combination of ill-informed arrogance that Palin specializes in is popular among conservatives, it is not often appealing to the masses — even when it’s hidden behind a pretty face.

The Republican base worshiped her, and some still do. She fed red meat directly into their quivering rage, and made Obama hate viral among a certain set. God had picked her to be President, after all, and only Obama and democracy were standing in the way. But in the end, she was nothing more than yet another puppet, to be used and tossed away when the party was done with her.

Palin was easy to use because she never questioned why the GOP would elevate someone they knew so little about. A more astute person, less blinded by ambition and ego, might have noticed the desperation and asked themselves what end their presence achieved. In Palin’s case, she was the “real conservative” (in spite of her record) and the attack dog, as VP nominees often are, but it went to her head. Instead of understanding her role, she got high off of the rarefied air and became deluded as to her purpose.

The Republican Party chose Palin because of her charisma, beauty and personal story. She was a perfect short term poster girl to distract from and disguise their Bush policies. As the GOP sinks deeper in denial instead of addressing and facing their inherent problems, they will be forced to rely more and more upon people as egomaniacal and deluded as Palin (see Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, et al).

No one else would let themselves be used, unless they were so embedded in the establishment that they knew their family would benefit in the long term.

And this matters, because the faces change but the policies do not. The Republican Party keeps searching for the right puppet. The one who can fool the people. They’ve tried true believers and craven cons, they’ve tried a common woman who is not a witch (!) and a plumber. They’ve tried Richie Rich and they’ve tried their Policy Nerd (aka, the guy who can’t do math and bases policy on a work of fiction).

So Sarah Palin matters because she represents all that is wrong with the GOP, and until they fix it, they should not be allowed to forget her so quickly.

And most people in the lower 48 hate her too.  With the exception of Krusty and Florida troll.

Karl Rove says Hillary Clinton has brain damage, what does that make Sarah Palin then?

From Huffington Post

It's only 2014, but the 2016 presidential race has already taken an ugly turn.

According to the New York Post's Page Six, Republican strategist Karl Rove suggested last week that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have sustained brain damage after suffering a blood clot in her skull.

Clinton was admitted to the hospital in late December 2012, where doctors discovered a blood clot related to a concussion she had suffered earlier in the month. She was released from the hospital several days later.

Rove, however, apparently thinks her stint in the hospital left some questions unanswered.

"Thirty days in the hospital?" Rove said, according to Page Six. "And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what's up with that.”

Clinton's doctors, however, debunked Rove's theory long ago. Prior to her release from the hospital in January 2013, Clinton's physicians at a New York hospital said the clot did not cause Clinton to suffer a stroke, and did not result in any neurological damage.

OK if Karl thinks Hillary has brain damage, then what does he think of the faculties of this one?

Thank you to Katie Annie Oakley for that delicious meme!

John McCain loves him some Hillary Clinton

From Washington Post blog

Since leaving the State Department last year, Hillary Rodham Clinton has racked up scores of accolades and appeared on many a big stage. Still, it might come as a surprise that a past Republican presidential nominee -- specifically, the one who is among the loudest critics of Clinton's handling of the Benghazi terrorist attacks -- would invite her to his desert retreat for a lofty conversation about leadership values.

This is precisely what Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has done.

Clinton, a prospective 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, will appear on stage Saturday with McCain at the Sedona Forum, an annual ideas festival hosted by the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University. Clinton is among the national and international business leaders, philanthropists and public figures appearing at the gathering, held in Sedona, the tony red-rocks oasis in Arizona's Verde Valley.

In a statement released Thursday, McCain called Clinton "my friend" and praised her public service career.

"From her years of service as first lady, in the U.S. Senate and the State Department, one would be hard-pressed to find a leader with Secretary Clinton's informed perspective on the many challenges facing America across the globe," McCain said.

According to a news release, Clinton is scheduled to "participate in a conversation" with McCain. This year's forum will focus on "Crisis in the Middle East: Values, Strategy and Options," and will include a session on Russia and Ukraine and on combating human trafficking.

McCain, along with Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), has been a consistent critic of Clinton's handling of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, when four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, were killed. 
Clinton repeatedly has taken responsibility for what happened in Benghazi. At an event in Boston on Wednesday, Clinton said of the incident, "It's very painful and it was certainly the biggest regret that I had as secretary of state."

Clinton and McCain forged a friendship in the Senate, when both served on the Armed Services Committee, and they and their spouses have supported each other's philanthropic endeavors.

Last month, McCain appeared on stage with Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative University conference in Tempe, Ariz., hamming it up like old buddies. And this week, Cindy McCain appeared at an event in Phoenix with business and community leaders and to promote Too Small to Fail, the early childhood education initiative that Hillary Clinton is helping lead. McCain sits on the group's leadership council.

I wonder when the last time John hosted Skanky and her family for anything.  And I don't think she will be invited to any McCain backyard barbecues anytime soon due to her comments regarding torture, a practice John abhorred.

Chris Christie imay soon join Sarah Palin in the ex-governor's club

From Salon


New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie strode to the microphones in Trenton Wednesday night and took an hour of reporters’ tough questions about a plot by staffers to punish Fort Lee’s Democratic mayor by snarling his city’s traffic for four days. Penitent, occasionally defiant, Christie insisted he didn’t know about the scheme.
But he said he took full responsibility for the scandal, apologized to the citizens of Fort Lee and promised to get to the bottom of what happened.

Oh wait. That’s not what Christie did at all. The famously fearless governor canceled his one public appearance of the day, ignored the story until late afternoon, and then issued an email statement saying he’d been “misled” by “a member of my staff.” There’s word he’ll be talking today at 11 a.m. But yesterday, when all the details broke and questions emerged, there was no press conference. No public statement. No apology to Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich or his city or the people of New Jersey for staffers using the crucial George Washington Bridge as a weapon of political destruction, reportedly in retaliation for

Sokolich’s refusal to endorse Christie’s reelection bid against Barbara Buono last year.
In a statement so full of word salad it might have come from Sarah Palin, Christie threw an unnamed staff member under the bus – and then resumed his silence. He threw his own presidential hopes under the bus too.

Contrast Christie’s limp response on Wednesday to his shtick a month ago, when he aggressively denied that the Fort Lee lane closures were a form of political reprisal, and even joked that he did it himself.  ”I worked the cones actually. Unbeknownst to everybody, I was actually the guy out there. I was in overalls and a hat, but I was the guy working the cones,” he said, mocking reporters, adding, “You’re not really serious with that question.” Then he blamed New Jersey Democrats for playing politics, sneering, “It just shows that they really have nothing to do.”



Yep he is just a male Sarah Palin.

Both of them are bullies and liars.  They are also vindictive assholes with a lot of charisma.  Which power would be a very dangerous thing for them.

Bridgegate is Christie's Troopergate, and I predict his approval rating is going to take a dive after this, just like Sarah and Troopergate.

I think this has killed Chris Christie's chance of getting the GOP nomination.  More shit will be hitting the fan in the next few weeks and months.

I can't really support Hillary Clinton in 2016

I like Hillary Clinton

I really do.

I supported her early on in the 2008 presidential campaign, but had to support Barack Obama after I felt she was getting too nasty and seemed more concerned about winning than actually being president. 

She has done an excellent job as Senator representing New York, and a bang up job as Secretary of State.  She is articulate, intelligent, and well educated.  In the past four years she has matured way beyond her years.

So why am I choosing not to support her?

It's very painful to not support her, but I am concerned about her age, her health, and the GOP Slander Machine.

If she were to become president in 2017, she will be 69 years old, same age as Ronald Reagan when he was sworn in.  In fact he turned 70 two weeks later.  After 70 your brain begins to slow down and ages more rapidly then in your 20-30's.  I fear Alzheimers, which I belived Reagan had.  Even Michael Reagan admitted as much.

Two-her health.  She had that concussion and blood clot last winter which scares the bejesus out of me too.  Being POTUS is the most stressful job on the planet.  I'm amazed FDR lived as long as he had, serving twelve years and he had polio to boot.  His son Elliott thought if they had the same advances in medical care in the 70's-80's back in the 40's FDR should have lived to at least 74 instead of 63.  Even though medical science has come even farther along in this century it's no guarantee.

Three-the GOP machine will have a field day with her.  I'm sure she could handle it, but they are going to be worse with her than they are with President Obama.  Cuz she is a woman and wife of Bill who they could never run out of town.

If she were to get the nomination, I would definitely vote for her, just not in the primaries.  As for 2016 I like long shots MD Governor Martin O'Malley and former MT Governor Brian Schweitzer.  I would like to see another Democratic governor ala Bill Clinton in the White House.  Former MI governor Jennifer Granholm would be great, but is ineligble.

Vice President-one of the men above or NY Senator Kristen Gillebrand, FL Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz, MN Senator Amy Klobuchar.  Any one of these ladies I would be comfortable with as POTUS too.