Sarah Palin Quits

Scandal plagued failed GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin Has Resigned as Governor of Alaska

The Wasilla Dingbat gave another bizarre statement to the press trying to explain why she made such an erratic move, raising more questions than answers. There are many rumors of another "iceberg scandal" coming, and people close to her claim she is out of politics. Or is she really dumb enough to think she has a shot at becoming president in 2012?

Of course, Palin's lack of any qualification to be President, her lack of intellectual ability, and her poor job performance as Gov. of Alaska, don't keep the penis-hating, vagina-loving right-wing "Feminists" at Tennessee Guerilla Women from defending the anti-feminist, religious fanatic from the "women-hating" liberal media....Never mind that Palin had more support from anti-feminist conservative MEN than from women!

(The TGW blog sounds more and more like a Phyllis Schafly Eagle Forum Newsletter!)

This article refutes the TGW Palin victimology propaganda:
The MYTH of How the Media Destroyed Sarah Palin

Eugene Robinson: "Victim" With a Constituency

The Real Story Behind Palin's Bombshell

Robert Perry: Sarah Palin's Latest Crazy Move--Are Republicans a Danger to the Republic?

Sunday Roundup

Iraqi JournalistThrows Shoe At Bush During Press Conference: "This is a Goodbye Kiss You Dog!"

Bush: Iraq War is Not Over

More of Bush's Iraq Legacy: NYT Report--$100 Billion Failure to Rebuild Iraq

Colin Powell on Don't Ask, Don't Tell: We Should Definitely Re-evaluate It

Earlier in the Week, Powell Slammed Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and the Republican's Divisive Campaign

Sarah Palin's Church Burned

John McCain is rediscovering his moral compass: McCain Disagrees with RNC Attacks on Obama (Tying Obama to Ill. Gov. Baglojevich).

Don't Get Burned Again: Vote Nov. 4!

Stonewall Democrats United web ad "Don't Get Burned" highlights the Palin/McCain anti-equality record on issues important to pro-equality voters.

Gay and Lesbian voters: Ignore the Uncle Tom Log Cabin Republicans who endorsed the anti-gay McCain/Palin ticket!

Obama Lead Grows

Obama Opens Double-Digit Lead Over McCain

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has opened up a 10-point lead over Republican opponent John McCain two weeks before the November 4 U.S. election, according to Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released on Tuesday.

The poll found 52 percent of voters favor Obama compared with 42 percent for McCain, up from a 6-point Obama edge two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The 10-point lead is the largest in the Journal/NBC poll to date and represents a steady climb for Obama since early September, when the political conventions concluded with the candidates in a statistical tie, the newspaper reported.

The poll also found that the popularity of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has fallen. Voters are less likely to see the Republican vice presidential nominee in a positive light, and much more likely to report negative feelings, the Wall Street Journal said.

Forty-seven percent view Palin negatively, compared with 38 percent who see her in a positive light.
Fifty-five percent of voters say Palin is not qualified to be president, up from 50 percent two weeks ago.

Pew Poll: Obama Lead Widens 52-38%

ABC/Washington Post: Obama by 9% (Likely Voters) 52-42% (Registered Voters)

Olbermann: John McCain, Suspend Your Campaign!

Keith Olbermann tells John McCain to "SUSPEND YOUR CAMPAIGN"!

Olbermann: McCain, suspend your campaign
The GOP ticket is inciting supporters to violence against Barack Obama
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
updated 8:07 p.m. CT, Tues., Oct. 14, 2008

And this is where the satire ends and the Special Comment begins. Because this is not even remotely funny.

1:25 p.m. Eastern Time, today, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. During the warm-up act by a red meat Congressional candidate aptly named Chris Hackett, Hackett mentions Obama and a Palin audience member shouts, “Kill Him.”

And Gov. Palin, as usual, does nothing about it; says nothing to these thugs and psychos. She may not have heard this one. It is impossible to believe that by now she has not heard about the other ones. Her silence is deafening. Just as, Senator McCain, you have done nothing when violence has been asserted. Correction. You have done one thing.

Asked why, in real time, you do not repudiate this hatefulness, you act as if you are the victim. Speaking today to our NBC Station in Washington:

McCain: “Sure and I repudiated it as I have on several occasions. Unfortunately, Congressman John Lewis is an American hero who I admire who made the worst, most unacceptable statement a couple days ago that I have ever heard. He accused me and Sarah Palin of being involved in segregation, George Wallace and even made reference to a church bombing where children were killed. Senator Obama has not repudiated that statement. Senator Obama should do so immediately. Its the most outrageous thing that I have heard since in politics…it is disgraceful.”
Disgraceful?

Obviously, Senator, you haven’t heard your own speeches, and Gov. Palin’s, and what people shout during them. And you haven’t heard your state GOP Chair in Virginia, Jeffrey Frederick, giving talking points to 30 of your field-operatives heading out to canvass voters in Gainesville, Virginia, with a reporter present, telling them to try to forge a connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden to emphasize bombings and terrorism. And you haven’t heard those volunteers, your volunteers Sen. McCain, shout back, “And he won’t salute the flag” and “We don’t even know where Sen. Obama was really born.”

Sen. McCain, these people are speaking for you! And how dare you try to claim Congressman Lewis was linking you to Gov. George Wallace’s segregation? He was linking you, aptly, to Gov. George Wallace’s lynch-mob mentality.

“As public figures with the power to influence and persuade,” said Congressman Lewis, “Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all.”

Sen. McCain, your supporters, at your events, are calling Obama a terrorist and traitor and are calling for him to be killed. And yet you keep bringing back these same rabid Right Wing nuts to deliberately stir these crowds into frenzies. And then you take offense when somebody who remembers the violence in our political past, calls you on it. You, sir, are responsible for a phalanx of individuals who are shouting fire in a crowded theater.

There are some things to respect and honor about you, Sen. McCain, but on this you’re not only a fraud, Senator, but you are tacitly inciting lunatics to violence. If you want to again grand-stand and suspend your campaign here’s your big chance. Suspend your campaign now, until you, or somebody else, gets some control over it and it ceases to be a clear and present danger to the peace of this nation.

© 2008 msnbc.com

McCain/Palin: Arkansas vs. Reality

Well you wouldn't know it up here in North Arkansas where I'm taking a few days of "vacation," but McCain/Palin are loosing the election. McCain/Palin signs are everywhere up here. Driving to Blanchard Springs from my mother's place near Mtn Home I actually saw a large hand painted sign that said "Use Your Brain, Vote McCain" with a picture of what I hope was Osama Bin Laden with a noose around his neck, but it could have been Obama!

The white folks up here are scared to death of Obama! Maybe they have been listening to Sarah Palin too much. They are in denial of reality.

I haven't been able to post all the Sarah Palin news up here, but you probably saw that Sarah Palin was found GUILTY of "abuse of power" and violating Alaskan ethics laws, but for some reason the McCain/Palin campaigns keep saying she was found NOT guilty... huh?

Some good news, I put a Obama sign up in my mom's yard, and brought another one for my brother, and a few bumper stickers I was going to give to family, but an old couple drove by and begged me for my other Obama yard sign and a bumper sticker. The Democratic Party here did not order any Obama/Biden signs!

Why is it that the Republicans got their McCain/Palin signs spread all over Memphis and North Arkansas but the Democratic parties couldn't support their candidates and provide their people with signs and bumper stickers? Oh well..

I'm hearing a lot of fears about Obama being linked to terrorists, but not much about all the McCain/Palin terrorist connections. Go google McCain and G. Gordon Liddy and Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party..

Luckily the rest of the country seems to be more sane than folks up here in North Arkansas... Looks like Obama's lead over McCain keeps growing (10% according to Gallup and ABC News polls..)

And George Bush's approval rating is now 23%, even lower than Richard Nixon!
(Keep in mind that the morons supporting McCain also supported the most disliked President in history!)

The Make-Believe Maverick, and His Pit Bull With Lipstick

Rolling Stone exposes the truth about John McCain: Make-Believe Maverick

and his "Pit Bull With Lipstick": Mad Dog Palin

McCain/Palin go Negative

With Obama Surging Ahead in Crucial States, the McCain/Palin campaign is stepping up its negative attacks on Obama.

Sarah Palin seems to be the McCain campaign's attack dog ("pit bull with lipstick") to go after Obama. Here's an example of how desperate the McCain campaign is and how low Palin will go to win: Palin Says Obama "Palling Around with Terrorists"

Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She also said, "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America."

Maybe it is time for the Obama Campaign to point out some of Sarah Palin's associations, especially the one with the anti-Semite witch hunter who anointed her to be Gov. of Alaska!

And if past associations are going to be a campaign issue, lets take a look at McCain and Charles Keating!

QUESTION: HOW CAN MCCAIN AND PALIN GET AWAY WITH CLAIMING THAT THEY WANT TO STOP THE "PARTISAN BICKERING" IN WASHINGTON D.C. WHILE CALLING THEIR OPPONENTS TERRORIST-LOVING LIBERALS WHO ARE NOT REAL AMERICANS??

Biden vs. Palin

Joe Biden clearly won the V.P. Debate tonight. He answered the questions, Palin did not. He had facts, Palin recited talking points that usually had nothing to do with the questions she was asked. I thought she was the same dingbat we have watched in horror the past week babbling with Katie Couric. But, she stood on the stage with Joe Biden and didn't faint, which is considered a "victory" for the Palin supporters.

Biden did a masterful job of linking McCain (and Palin) to failed Bush Administration. He demolished Palin's "maverick" talking points, showing that McCain has NOT been a maverick on most important issues.

Palin made a scary argument that the Vice President should be given more power! She sounded like Dick Cheney!

Palin seemed to agree with Biden that gay couples should have the same civil rights as heterosexual couples, when actually, McCain/Palin do not support the legal recognition of any of those rights! She keeps trying to fool people into thinking she is "tolerant" of those who "choose" to be gay when her policies are not tolerant at all.

Biden flubbed the question about "domestic partnership benefits" and gay marriage as well. Like Obama and other squeemish Democrats, he opposes marriage equality for gays and lesbians but tried to say he supports "equal civil rights" for gay couples? Huh? Didn't make any sense. Instead of letting the question about D.P. benefits in Alaska make it appear that Palin supports those beneifts, Biden should have pointed out that Palin only signed the bill into law because of a court decision that said it was unconstiutional, in Alaska, to deny those benefits to gay couples. She actually supported an attempt to amend the Alaska constitution to make it legal to deny the beneifts!

Patrick Buchanan said she clearly won the debate--what planet does that fascist live on?

Luckily the viewers seem to be smarter than Buchanan, according to the CNN Polls:

After Debate, 53% Still Believe Palin Unqualified
Despite Palin exceeding expectations, majority still think Palin unqualified to take over as president.

Who Did the Best Job In the Debate?
Biden 51%
Palin 36%

Biden did better or worse than expected?
64% better
14% worse
20% same

Palin did better or worse than expected?
84% better
7% worse
8% same

Palin qualified to serve as President?

Before debate:
42% yes
54% no

After debate
46% yes
53% no

A CBS Poll of Uncommitted Voters: 46% Biden Won, 21% Palin

REVIEWS: BIDEN WON DEBATE

Thankfully, this was the ONLY V.P. Debate between Palin and Biden. Thank goodness I don't have to watch that dingbat batting her witless eyelashes on my TV again.

Conservatives Start to Bail On Sarah Palin

After a horrendous interview with Katie Couric, some conservatives are even questioning her qualifications to be V.P. and asking her to step down.

Kathleen Parker, Palin Problem: She's Out of Her League

"Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

Do it for your country."

Fareed Zakariah, Palin is Ready? Please

"Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants, in that wonderful phrase in American politics, "to spend more time with her family"?"

Ouch!

More Sarah Palin Problems...

Can't wait for the V.P. Debate Thursday!

Sarah Palin Gets Anointed by Anti-Semitic Witch Hunter!

This is a MUST read/see!
Back when she was running for Governor, the visiting preacher at the Wasilla Assembly of God, Thomas Muthee (a “witch-hunter” from Kenya), “anointed” her to fight witch craft and “the enemy” (non-Chistians) and preached about how “tongue-speaking” Pentecostals should take over the government (Schools, media, etc.), and then he and the church “laid hands” on Sarah Palin to anoint her the Gov. of Alaska!
This is the nutcase that John McCain chose to be V.P.!

PLEASE READ AND WATCH THIS!

Will the mainstream media play this the way they did Rev.Wright???

UPDATE: The media has only focused on Muthee's comments about witchcraft and saying that he was praying to protect her from witchcraft, but have missed the REAL problem with Muthee's sermon and the anointing of Sarah Palin. He was preaching about the goal of a THEOCRATIC government ran by "spirit-filled" (i.e., pentecostal) Christians.

He also made an anti-semitic statement that was overlooked: If you go to 1:20 into this Youtube, you will hear Muthee, who later anointed Palin, say the following words in Palin's presence:

"The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today."

Let's see if the mainstream media picks up the REAL story...

Sarah Palin DID Try to Ban Library Books-Gay Ones!

Even though the Palin campaign has tried to discredit reports that she tried to ban library books (and a list circulating on the internet turns out to have been a list of books that are commonly the target of book banners), it turns out she DID try to remove two books from a public library--both dealing with homosexuality!

According to a report in the NYT, Palin Personaly Sought to Ban "My Daddy's Roommate" from the Wasilla Public Library when she was a councilwoman, and later got "Pastor I am Gay," a book that her church was trying to get banned, removed when she was Mayor.

Author of My Daddy's Roommate: Palin is My Mortal Enemy!

Guess this is what the Log Cabin Republicans call "tolerant" Republicanism??

McCain/Palin LIES!

The LIES of Sarah Palin and John McCain keep piling up, and the media is finally starting to point them out.

Sarah Palin LIED about opposing the "Bridge to Nowhere", which she supported before it came under scrutiny.
She has LIED about opposing earmark ("pork") as Gov. of Alaska

McCain "Misstates" Palin's Earmark Record

McCain/Palin LIED About Obama's Immigration Votes

McCain/Palin LIED About Obama Sex-Ed Record

McCain Attack Ads Get Facts Wrong

And the McCain/Palin campaign LIED about Obama's "lipstick-on-a-pig" comment, claiming he was making a sexist comment about Palin when he was clearly criticizing the McCain/Palin claim of being for "Change" but wanting to continue the same failed policies of George W. Bush (actually, if you want to interpret the comment literally, I think Obama was calling Bush and his policies the pig!)

St. Petersburg Times: Campaign of LIES Disgraces McCain

NYT: McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry as Distortions

Why McCain is Going So Negative, So Often

Robert Parry: Will McCain/Palin Lies Hurt Them?

Paul Krugman: Blizard of Lies


Amazing how the GOP can manipulate the truth and the public!

Lipstick on a Pig ?!?!

Never mind the mortgage crisis, unemployment, healthcare, the Iraq Occupation, etc. THIS is what the American Media is talking about??? Lipstick on a Pig!!!

Once again, the Republican attack machine has managed to divert the medias attention away from real issues to smear Obama. It looks like the McCain campaign's strategy is to hide behind Sarah Palin and play the gender card against any attacks from the Obama camapaign. (Sound familiar?)

The media is running scared once again! MSNBC caved in to the right-wing media machine and is dropping Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann from anchoring any more election coverage. (Wonder when FOX will be dropping O'Reilly and Sean Hannity??)

The corporate media (Republican-controlled) is just as gullible as the American people to the right-wing smear machine.

It looks like this is backfiring on the McCain/Palin campaign!

(Thanks to Talking Points Memo for the McCain/Palin Lipstick on Pig )

The Hillary Factor

Lots of people have been expecting, suggesting that Obama should let Hillary Clinton go after Sarah Palin, and maybe Obama hoped she would, but Hillary will have none of it.

On Trail for Obama, Clinton Avoiding Palin "Cat Fight"

In fact, some Hillary supporters are defending Palin!

I wonder if these articles are connected to this one:
Poll Shows Big Shift to McCain Among White Women
A Washington Post/ABC News survey published on Tuesday found most of McCain's surge in the polls since the Republican National Convention was due to a big shift in support among white women voters.

Could these white women be racist?

Maybe Hillary Clinton, and some of her bitter supporters, want Obama to loose, and want Palin/McCain to beat him to avenge her from the primary defeat and Obama passing over her for V.P. (and so Hillary can run again in 2012)??

And I'm tired of hearing all these claims of "sexist" attacks on Hillary Clinton from the OBAMA Campaign... I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO DOCUMENT ONE INSTANCE OF A SEXIST ATTACK ON HILLARY CLINTON BY BARACK OBAMA OR HIS CAMPAIGN!

Here's How To Fight Back!

Finally! The Obama campaign shows how to FIGHT BACK!
They actually call McCain & Palin LIARS!



And Here's another FACTCHECK: PALIN AND THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

Will Obama and the Democratic Party Blow it Again?

Obama's first appearance on Fox News' the O'Reilly Factor does not look promising at all. (Obama actually agrees with O'Reilly and McCain that "The Surge" was very successfull!). On This Week on ABC Obama even questions whether he will rescind the Bush tax cuts on the rich if the recession worsens!

In the meantime, McCain/Palin are Now Leading Obama/Biden--USA Today/Gallup: 50% McCain/Palin, 46% Obama/Biden (McCain/Palin get 54% of "Likely Voters"!)

The Obama campaign has not even tried to expose the TRUTH about Sarah Palin, so most voters seem to like her and the McCain/Palin ticket. The Democratic "strategists" have once again made a major mistake by NOT aggressively going after Sarah Palin. Why didn't the Obama campaign have an ad exposing the truth about Sarah Palin right after she spoke at the RNC? The GOP had ad an out the day after Biden was nominated!

Apparently the Democratic "strategists" thought that just running against George Bush and high gas prices (which Obama could not affect in the short run if he were elected) would win the election. They have still not learned from 2000 & 2004 how to fight back against the right-wing political machine.

Democratic "strategists" and many progressive bloggers and talk shows, have advised the Obama campaign to ignore Sarah Palin and focus on the McCain/Bush economy. They think that the American voters are smart enough to focus on the issues and the record of the Republicans the past eight years. I've even heard several liberal commentators predict that McCain will drop Sarah Palin soon. Instead, Palin is now the star of the Republican party and is drawing more crowds than John McCain!

Once again the Democrats are underestimating the stupidity of American voters!

It is unbelievable that McCain, who was politically dead a few months ago, is now ahead of Obama in an election year in which Bush's approval rating is 30% and voters have turned sour on the Republican Party. Obama & Biden are great candidates, and the GOP is very unpopular, so why are they not way ahead? Part of the blame must be the continual errors made by Obama and the Democratic Party in not attacking McCain/Palin and the GOP as hard as they should and capitulating on so many issues. They have not been as good as the McCain campaign has been on staying on the offensive and sticking to a clear message. And some Hillary Clinton supporters, a minority but still significant in a close election, refuse to support the Democratic ticket and are voting for McCain/Palin.

The media is also a major problem. The corporate media has focused on personal attacks rather than on the issues, which has played right into the Republican's strategy.

If the Democratic Party loses to John McCain, Sarah Palin and an unpopular Republican Party, they should just close the party down after the election.

I'm not Alone!

We're Gonna Frickin' Loose This Thing!

Obama and Biden Go Back to a Losing Message

David Sirota: Why Is Obama Losing? Because he Won't Say Which Side He Is On!

Palin and McCain's Shotgun Marriage

Great column in the NYT by Frank Rich:
Palin and McCain's Shotgun Marriage

You have to read it for yourself. An excellent expose of the McCain/Palin fiasco that the Obama campaign should use.

So far, however, the Obama campaign has refused to attack Sarah Palin directly, and the campaign says it has no plans to do so. If the Obama campaign thinks they can ignore Sarah Palin and focus on McCain and Bush they will loose this election.

The Case Against Sarah Palin--In Her Own Words!

The Case Against Sarah Palin
The Editors, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, September 24, 2008

On the vice presidency:

"But as for that v.p. talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it, exactly, that the v.p. does every day?"

--July 31, 2008, CNBC's "Kudlow & Company"

On Iraq:

"I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice, and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place."

--March 21, 2007, Alaska Business Monthly

"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [American soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

--June 8, 2008, Wasilla Assembly of God Church

On creationism:

"Growing up with being so privileged and blessed to be given a lot of information on, on both sides of the subject--creationism and evolution. It's been a healthy foundation for me. But don't be afraid of information and let kids debate both sides."

--October 25, 2006, gubernatorial debate

On global warming:

"A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one, though, who would attribute it to being man-made."

--August 29, 2008, Newsmax

On energy:

"I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that."

--June 8, 2008, Wasilla Assembly of God Church

On receiving $1.8 million in federal earmarks for the city of Wasilla:

"FYI This does not include our nearly one million Dollars from the Feds for our Airport Paving Project. We did well!!!"

--June 14, 1999, Wasilla City Council Informational Memorandum 99-62

On that "Bridge to Nowhere":

Question: "Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?"

Palin: "Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now--while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist."

--October 22, 2006, Anchorage Daily News

On library books she doesn't like:

"What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?"

--October 1996 conversation with librarian Mary Ellen Emmons, Anchorage Daily News

On the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party:

"Your party plays an important role in our state's politics ... keep up the good work, and God bless you."

--2006 video address to Independence Party's convention

On Ivana Trump:

"We want to see Ivana because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture."

--April 3, 1996, Anchorage Daily News

On running Wasilla:

"It's not rocket science. It's six million dollars and fifty-three employees. "

--October 1996, Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman

On being governor:

"I will unambiguously, steadfastly, and doggedly guard the interests of this great state, as a mother naturally guards her own. Like a Southeast Eagle and her eaglets, or, more appropriately here in the Carlson, like a Nanook defending her cub."

--December 4, 2006, inaugural address

On the prospect of becoming a candidate for vice president:

"It kind of cracks me up. It is so far out of the realm of possibility and reality."

--August 14, 2008, Financial Post

Copyright © 2007 The New Republic. All rights reserved.

SEE ALSO, Palin Vs.Reality

Sarah Palin's Church "Cures the Gays"

Palin's Church Promotes Converting Gays

Gov. Sarah Palin's Wasilla Bible Church is promoting the Focus on the Family's "Love Won Out" Conference that claims to convert gays into heterosexuals through prayer.

Wonder if the Log Cabin (Uncle Tom) Republicans will rescind their endorsement?