Heckuva job, RNC
Ugh.
This is the number one story in the blogosphere right now:
Yes, Joe Biden is imploding, but Sarah Palin’s RNC-funded wardrobe budget is the headline. The libs are claiming that some unnamed Republican National Committee donors and members are “disgusted” by the expenditures.
Are you surprised? The RNC has squandered its time and money on a lot of stupid things.
I’m with Mark Tapscott:
Every time I think the campaign professionals at the Republican National Committee can’t possibly do anything else to sink the party, they do something else that simply defies logical explanation. Like taking a candidate who epitomizes Middle American values and spending $150,000 to dress her up in Saks Fifth Avenue finery.
Apparently, they just couldn’t stand the thought of a GOP candidate for vice president actually wearing the same clothes on the campaign trail that she wears in real life. No, they had to go make her look like … one of them.
Did nobody over there think it through and realize doing this would hand Obama and the Democrats the last perfect piece of evidence of how out of touch Republicans are with the real world?
Heckuva job, RNC.
Here is the real Sarah, pre-RNC makeover:
Fortunately for the party makeover consultants, it doesn’t matter what she’s wearing.
She’s got something special that money can’t buy.
SNL’s Lorne Michael acknowledges it:
“I think Palin will continue to be underestimated for a while. I watched the way she connected with people, and she’s powerful. Her politics aren’t my politics. But you can see that she’s a very powerful, very disciplined, incredibly gracious woman. This was her first time out and she’s had a huge impact. People connect to her…
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Should I take it that you disagree with their goal, or is this simply a debating posture with you?
There are a lot of people in America with goals I disagee with. I’m sure the same is true of you. But somehow I suspect that the AIP ranks right at the bottom of both our lists.
You are assuming a lot I think. I listened to her explanation and wasn’t convinced, especially since she mentioned this statement in at least three different campaign events. I still don’t understand how she has nothing to be proud of until now.
I agree, but Obama’s got much more to explain than Todd Palin. Until I hear Todd Palin say he wants to or wanted to seceed from the US, I can’t comment on his “feelings” about it with enough accuracy. If you can dig up some photos of him standing on the American flag, like Ayers, let me know.
I didn’t twist her words. She said it 3 times! She didn’t say she was proud because of the political process. She never qualified what she said when she said it. Based on her patronage of the church whose pastor exclaimed “God @amn America” and the “US of KKA”, I have reason.
Let me say one more thing. Don’t ever question my patriotism or my love of this country. I have stood by my husband who has served honorably for 20 years and that makes me proud of him and my country. You can smart off to those who do the same to you, but your attitude is misplaced with me. I don’t agree with you, but I don’t think you are unpatriotic for your views, nor do I think you are dishonest. I may think you don’t know what you’re talking about or you are deluded, but not a liar.
Which says what, exactly? That they will not violate the constitution? Cool. They want to do it legally? Fine. But please do not try to tell me they are not in favor of secession. Even atheling has admitted that for pete’s sake.
It is pretty bad when atheling is making you look dumb.
Now lets discuss Obamas TWENTY TWO YEARS in a black liberation church. Does he agree that the CIA created AIDS to kill off black people? Do you libs agree that Obama agrees with this???
To quote Obamas spirtual mentor “god damn america”
I didn’t hear Obama say “God damn America” but apparently his membership in a church whose leader did was enough.
#392
The problem is hypocrisy. You can’t be the darling of the blue collar working class, a hockey mom everywoman, and spend #150,000 in a MONTH on clothes, which, of course, is more than most people do in ther LIFETIME. Doesn’t really jibe with most Americans, unless of course they’ve stretched their values so far around that they can see behind themselves!
Sure. Although I still don’t see why you think that’s a major debating point.
I mean, you’re an inclusive liberal, right? You don’t think that the governor of Alaska should refuse to meet with her constituients about their legitimate issues, do you?
Enough for what????
Ironic, coming from someon who manages to look pretty damned stupid all by himself.
But stupidity isn’t your only problem.
For the right to attribute that statement (or its sentiment) to Obama.
True. I also can’t get enough of you, atheling.
watershed, you need to check your definition of hypocrisy. Ironic – maybe. But not hypocrisy.
Are you refering to his spritual advisor for TWENTY TWO YEARS reverand wright who regularly attacks america?
I thought you might be talking about rescko who helped him out by saving him 300,000 on a house in exchange for what?
I’m afraid that I don’t accept the parallel you are trying to draw. If all Wright had said was that he wanted blacks to seceede from America, he’d be a lot less objectionable a figure.
Was Todd Palin a member for 20 years? WAs the leader of the AIP a spiritual mentor to him? Did he also baptize the Palin children? Is the leader of the AIP a racist?
How obtuse can you be? The man sat in a church for 20 years where the cleric spewed racist, anti American hate speech, and you are trying to say that he is not tainted by association?
How stupid are you? If McCain or Palin sat in a all whitey church for 20 years and listened to that crap you’d be all over them for it.
You know, maybe you’d be able to see more clearly if you weren’t so focused on the crack of your Dear Leader’s ass.
#406
Nope. Hypocrisy works just fine. But thanks!
Give me $150,000. and one month and I can do it too.
Oh and did Todd Palin only quit the AIP when the media found out about it? Oh no that was Obama.
No I didn’t say that. I am saying that if Obama is tainted by association then so is Todd Palin for being a member of a secessionist party, even if he never came out and said he was in favor of such.
ha ha ha.
Another liberal who has a hypocrisy fetish but does not even know the meaning of the word.
No he didn’t quit the AIP to further his own political career (like Obama admittedly did with his church). He did it to further his wife’s.
I don’t see any taint in Todd Palin’s association with that party. In fact, I’m starting to find secessionism quite appealing, especially if it means that we won’t have a voter pool consisting of idiots like yourself.
Nobody attributed the statement to Obama. It’s wrong for you to suggest otherwise. They’ve merely stated that he was obviously comfortable being a member of an organization that espoused those type of views.
I will accept that since todd palin is NOT RUNNING FOR ANYTHING. Obama is.
Are you going to do it peacefully like Todd, or advocate violent upheaval, as you have in the past?
I don’t care what Palin wears and I agree with the Lorne Michael’s assessment of Palin that appears at the top. However, she proves time and time again that she is way out of her depth. Someone needs to clue her in to the role of the VP in the Senate. The VP is NOT “in charge of the Senate” as she claimed in a recent interview. I agree that she is proving to be more of a drag on the ticket than Bush. And I question McCain’s decision making abilities for having selected her. I cringe at the thought that a 72 year old man with a history of cancer (that is only in remission – it could come back any day, and the chances are very high that it will given the stress of the job) stands between Palin and the most powerful job in the world. For that reason alone, my vote goes to Obama, in spite of the fact that I abhor many of his socialist policies. McCain really did the country a disservice by choosing Palin as his running mate.
This thread is a riot.
That is what I meant by “(or its sentiment)”.
AGAIN Todd Palin is NOT RUNNING FOR ANYTHING!!!!!
You obviously didn’t check the definition.
chapoutier said:
After Obama had heard Wright’s words condemning America, Obama said he still stood with his preacher – “I can no more disown him than blah blah blah.”
So Wright can say all kinds of things slandering America, and he will stick with him. But once Wright pointed out that Obama “just says what politicians say,” Obama’s hypocrisy, then he disowns him.
I see that Obama is more concerned with himself than with his country.
Country first.
McCain/Palin 08
NEITHER IS MICHELLE OBAMA BUT APPARENTLY HER COLLEGE THESIS IS RELEVANT AND ATTACKABLE!!!
On October 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm, chapoutier said:
I’ve kinda taken a shine to “Dear Leader” myself.
a “Shine?” RAAACCCIISSSSTTTT!
Anyway, this has been fun. Time to get some work done.
Atheling, meet me at our secret place at midnight. I’ll bring the champagne and rose petals. You just bring your pretty self and your dirty mouth.
You are the one attacking a candidates family, Glad you brought up michelles Thesis, reveling as to her true feelings isn’t it.
Take a step back and consider how far into the weeds you have gone.
You are now trying to compare Todd Palin, private citizen, to Barack Obama, the man close to becoming President.
Todd Palins associations are not the issue, Obamas are.
Your equating the AIP with Wrights church is the next weak link. By all accounts the AIP was a sane and sober group of people compared to Mr “White People Invented AIDS”.
And lastly, you are skipping the whole Ayers connection.
If Sarah Palin herself had a connection with the AIP, and if the AIP was some sort of cross between Ayers and Wright, then your “they’re all the same’ line would work.
But those things are not the case.
Wow. The Pre-Election tension runs amok!
Look, B. Hussein Obama is probably gonna’ pull this out on the 4th. I don’t like it, you don’t like it, but ACORN, the Entire MSM, 3/4ths of the current government, ALL the nations of the world, and George Soros DO like it. Conservatism is the underdog, despite this nation being 80% middle-right. We can’t battle the lies, corruption, cash, influence, and favors that are being leveraged at every level from now until the vote. We’ve lived in this dream-world where we believed that ‘this could never happen here’. But it’s most likely gonna’. The U.S.A. is going to elect a communist as President. And any lefty who bristles at the ‘name calling’ can —– — – —– —— — —— ———-. Just because they don’t have the guts to ADMIT what they are, doesn’t keep the truth from being known. Barry wants us nice and docile for the revolution. I say he can want it all he wants. But unless they can grab it all…and I mean ALL, they will lose it all in two years. ‘Cause no matter how you slice it, ‘my 80% of this country can kick your 20% of this countries butt’.
But who knows? November 4th ain’t here yet. Is it?
You’re reaching.
I’d expect better than that from you. Stop trying to change the subject.
Hey chapoutier…I just dropped in and noticed one of your posts that leads me to believe you don’t have any children. On behalf of all the unborn children in the world, THANK YOU.
He left for work. pity, I was almost through with him.
#415
Goodness. I am not gonna get into a word war with you. Not holding yourself true to the beliefs you espouse for others is HYPOCRISY. Stop trying to win the “clever” game.
The thing that scares the hell out of me is the thought of a democrat congress and an Obama presidency. You demos have no idea what you are about to do to America and to the society that we have loved for so long. If this happens, its on your heads when the crap hit the fan.
Enjoy your new socialist state comrads.
she’s not spending it. its like a model getting clothes to try on.
no ‘hypocrisy’ only your desperation. sorry.
You forget to say “I’m a long time Republican and a Christian conservative”. Don’t they teach you anything at moby school?
You have no problem with a comminity activist being President, but you are scared of a successful governor. Hmm, why on earth don’t I believe you?
#438
Let me be the first to say WHOOPIE!
Does Palin have a “belief” that people should not wear expensive clothes?
You’re full of it, as usual.
Well we had chapoutier admit that todds aip membership was just as relievant as Obamas contection to Rev Wright, michelle obamas college theses, and I was almost there with ayers.
chapoutier considers todd palins membership VERY relievant. No wonder he had to “get back to work”
#439
Oh, come on. Streeeetching.
Let’s hear your reaction to the fact that John Edwards RETURNED THE MONEY for the haircut? Give me the same ol’ sweet rationalizations. Go for it!
Check the Constitution, and then check the definition of President. As in “President of the Senate.”
On October 22nd, 2008 at 5:01 pm,
I’m not the one licking the Dear Leader’s arse.
Yeah, we’ve all heard Palin, in her regular stump speech, giving out about people who were clothes from Saks.
I think she even tried to get a law passed that nobody in Alaska could wear any clothes that cost over a thousand dollars.
/waterheads dreams
Stop using the wrong word.
And see flenser #442. HE understands.
not.
unlike you sanctimonious libs, I don’t care how much he spends for a haircut. guess he wanted to try to downplay the obvious hypocrisy on his part.
#442
She doesn’t espouse “small town values” every day on the campaign trail? And then we find out she got her clothes from Barney’s? Are you being deliberately obtuse?
#449
Good. I dont care either. I care about the blatant double standard applied to Palin in this situation. Hope you do too!
chappy convinced me. I’ll agree that Todd Palin should not be POTUS. And I’m sure that in return chappy will admit that neither should Obama.
Again so what??? EVERY politician wears expensive clothes. SO WHAT??? To quote your masters, its a distraction.
I don’t see any double standard, all I see is desperation on the left, you will do anything to trash her.
we’re not buying it, obviously.
bottom line in regards to the subject of this thread, SO WHAT?
did you mean rotten or riot? Feed the trolls and the subject matter gets changed or distorted…oh well.
What “double standard” is that?
Is it like the “double standard” you guys used when you decided that Clintons sex life was nobodies business, although you consider the sex lives of Republicans everyones business?
Wow. You really, really miss the message that she is espousing.
Try really hard not to confuse an espoused message with the fact that blue collar works seemed to identify with her.
I was about 5 posts away from that. I think he figured it out.
Are you really so stupid as to think that “small town values” include “no clothes from Barneys”?
Yes, you are.
#453
I think you get what I am saying and don;t care. And you know what? It’s cool you don’t care. Whatever. Vote the way your heart tells you. Hold your own standards.
BUT, many, many people do care about flagrantly fake populist frames. Thank goodness! And because they do care, a nice change is coming Nov 4th. Thank goodness again!
Yeah, that’s why he suddenly remembered he needed to trim his toe nails.
Medved’s column is about how slavery is used to bash ONLY America when it was a) global, b) detrimental to those states which retained it, & c) abolished here before a lot of other countries. He never says it wasn’t “all that bad.”
B is in response to those who say America got rich off of it, when the more industrious and prosperous states were those which abolished slavery early on.
Having said that what does that have to do with the truth of the first article I mentioned, or were you just hoping that (erroneously) saying he defended slavery would be enough to discredit anything else he might say?
If NYK would have actually READ the article concerning the Al Qaeda/John McCain thing, he would have realized WHY. They know that Obama will NOT fight them. They know that Obama will NOT commit the military to go after terrorists.
The reason they mistakenly think it is a good thing for McCain is that they believe that the United States Military wil eventually just tire out, have no more soldiers and weapons and money and will eventually just basically go away forever.
nyk would have realized the idiocy behind their reasonings.
But again, that would have meant that he actually read the article instead of demonstrating the fact that Liberals are all about feelings, emotion and 10 second sound bites and they have absolutely NOTHING to do with facts, reality, or truth.
And having them wanting for a McCain win is not the same as an ENDORSEMENT which is what they, along with every single despot and terrorist leader, supporter, and fan have given Obama, including Iran, Hammas, North Korea, Venezuela…
But hey, thanks for demonstrating to everyone what a ridiculous charicature of a human you are.
Like Obama? Once they figure out what a fraud he is they are going to be mad!!
Change is coming since bush isn’t running. But if you mean Obama, I will never support his fraudulency.
And is it the contention now that MO does NOT use room service, stay at expensive hotels, drive around in expensive cars, dress in multi-thousand dollar dresses etc.?
I mean, the Martha Stewart line of shower curtains ain’t cheap.
Is there a more fake populist frame than the one that says that the Democrats are the party of the working man? The one that has Joe Biden, 300 years in the Senate, pretending to be a regular guy?
Everyone knows who the rich are voting for – Obama.
Wow – MJ, NYK, LGM, Chap, Watershed, RSS – all one thread, and in the same day! Don’t tell me the Left isn’t scared about Obama’s chances.
#459
$150,000 spent at a high end urban chain? For a “hockey mom”? That isn’t a disconnect there? You did read MM’s own post, right? I mean, even she gets it.
You ARE being deliberately obtuse! Whatever. If that works for you, cool!
Sorry to have left for a whole 23 minutes folks. But if you can please point to me where I said that Todd was disqualified for presidency because of his association with AIP, that would be super cool.
My point only extended to how one defines a relevant association and how one ascribes a belief based upon that association. We could leave Todd out of it completely and talk about any random person in any random group and what the relationship is.
And FWIW, Todd is disqualified in my mind because he is a rube.
Sarah Palin and her husband ARE from small town America. It has been demonstrated repeatedly just how small of a town she is from. They are the epitome of what it means to obtain the American Dream. They should be celebrated as what happens if you work hard, get your education etc.
If she came from nothing and now has money from her hard work and dedication, more power to her.
It isn’t as if she is a graduate from an Ivy League School, is a lawyer or anything like that.
The Palins have not lived like an elitist snob of a family such as the two people running on the Democrat ticket.
I’m glad that MJ, NYK, Chap, Watershed, RSS are on here. They allow us to debunk all the liberal talking points.
It was boring debating lgm. It was like trying to have a serious discussion with someone on heroine.
Feeling quite good actually.
#467
Actually, I just cam in to savor some schadenfreude (it’s yummy today!), and watch some people start talking about how secession is cool, and how elitist spending sprees are ok when it’s YOUR elitist doing the spending.
All in all a very good day for me.
I simply understand that people running for congress need to dress their best. Nothing new there. It doesn’t change anything more than say Obama taking money from millionaires then claiming to be for the little man.
Todd holds down two, count them, two jobs. One as a commercial fisherman and the other, an oilman.
Have you thought about the fact that the young man maybe, just maybe wants to be responsible and take care of his own family? You clearly don’t understand young people who aren’t obsessed with trotting off to some institution of liberal indoctrination. I highly doubt that many Alaskans have college degrees but they manage to take care of their families.
for congress = for office, ugh
And the wealthiest members of the Senate are NOT Republicans. The top 5 (unless the list has changed recently) are ALL DEMOCRATS!
Party of the Middle Class indeed.
How the he## did so many trolls take over these threads??? We are all of a sudden overrun with them. They really make things nasty and vitriolic. If the liberals were only able to have a rational, civil debate, it might be worth it. But most of them are just trying to hijack the thread. I can hardly stand to come in here lately. Where are all the “folks” I was getting to know? If you republicans and conservatives think you are going to change their minds by engaging in conversation, you are beating your heads on a brick wall. They only want to insult, not debate. And in the end, they will go on their uninformed, brainwashed way and vote for That One.
When your side controls the MSM everyday should be a very good day for you.
Don’t forget his snowmobile racing, which expenses he deducts as if it were a job and not a hobby, which is very spurious.
1) She’s a VP candidate. Guess you never got the word.
2) The money was not spent on her, but the whole family.
3) Kindly let me know what you consider to be the correct budget for outfitting a national politician.
Waterspout said:
Blah blah blah hypocrisy blah blah $150,000 blah blah hypocrisy blah blah $150,000 blah blah blah hypocrisy blah blah $150,000 blah blah blah hypocrisy blah blah blah ad infinitum.
Hey, atheling is the one throwing the a-bomb left and right.
Todd Palin LEFT his job in the oil industry some time ago.
Try and keep up with facts and not rhettoric.
Are you attacking 30 pieces? I think she meant it as a compliment.
Look, you guys are the ones imploding. Forealz. You might wanna stop grasping SO HARD to the very rotten attitudes that have gotten you there and take a long hard look at what you might have to do to get yourselves out.
Because THAT’s what America is all about. Not crazy rationalizations about secession when things don’t go your way…!
Don’t play that game. Medved is not a racist and he was not defending slavery, he was attacking how it is used to single out the US as the only guilty one.
By replying with an equivalence you tacitly accept the watershed’s lie and change the direction of the argument.
Classic misdirection tactic.
Again…how much money was spent on outfitting the opposition?
Anyone?
Are you implying that secessionists hate the entity from which they want to secede?
#482
Why don’t you just secede from the country if you don’t like what other people in it have to say? Apparently that’s something you find appealing, you ol’ patriot, you.
That’s fair enough. I don’t question your patriotism. I’m sorry if I came across that way.
You never addressed this, and I most certainly stand by this statement. Take all of her ambiguously “unpatriotic” statements off the table,but if MO had the same secessionist past as Todd Palin, I think you and other rightwingers would be disgusted by her. This is politics and I think you’re playing “teams” and believe in double standards. That’s all.
#488
Ohhh, you want to leave the country because you love it so much. Got it.
Another scandal!!!!!
I’ll assume you’re joking, as you do from time to time in a rather unliberal fashion.
And as was amply demonstrated, your attempt to come up with a definition which made Palin the equal of Obama in terms of connections to shady characters was a failure.
No. I take potential tax fraud very seriously. The IRS does too.
But I will give him the benefit of the doubt and just say he is pushing the limits of what the law allows.