Posts filed under “Lipstick on a Pig”
Taking Our Country Back
(1) Last month, Sarah Palin went to Iowa, to headline the Iowa Republican Party’s Reagan Day dinner. Among other brilliant statements, she declared: “It’s time to take our country back.” I’ve been waiting patiently, but she still hasn’t clarified how many years she wants to take us back. (2) As I sat down to write [...]
Drugs Will Do That
Here’s one for the ages (hat tip: Kiko’s House): We’ve been breaking everything on our national poll this week down by whether respondents have ever smoked Marijuana before and here’s one I wasn’t expecting: Sarah Palin is the top choice for the 2012 GOP nomination among Republicans who have. Granted it’s a sample size of [...]
The First T-and-A Speaker Of The House?
Although I don’t expect it to happen — that is to say, I assign to it a probability of significantly less than 0.5 — if Republicans win control of the House in November, and John Boehner becomes Speaker, I believe he will be the first T-and-A speaker in the history of the House of Representatives. [...]
All In A Good Cause
It’s probably not a good sign when USA Today cheerfully publishes a story predicated on the assumption that Sarah Palin, is first and foremost, an opportunistic money-grubber. One thing to consider when pondering whether Sarah Palin should run for president: Will she accept the pay cut? ABC News reports that Palin has made at least [...]
Another Vote For Palin The 3-d Chess Grandmaster
The Sarah Palin = 3-d chess grandmaster contingent is growing. The latest supporter of the thesis is the NYT‘s Frank Rich. He has a slightly unusual take, though. His argument seems to be that Palin may not be smart at all, but she’s super-cunning. And her palm-prompter debacle may have been a deliberate super-cunning stratagem: [...]
Perfect Comedic Timing
I have always regarded David Broder as a complete joke. (I will never understand how or why he acquired the title of “Dean” of the Washington press corps.) I am glad to report that Broder has now honed his comedy act by incorporating an impeccable sense of timing. Yesterday, he put out, in the Washington [...]
Guess Who’s Playing Three-Dimensional Chess Now?
Remember how Obama supporters, pressed to defend actions and decisions by him that did not appear to be easily defensible, loved to argue that he was engaged in a game of 3-dimensional chess that his critics were just not equipped to understand? There’s a lot less of that going around lately, but it seems the [...]
The Babe Who Would Be King
Ladies and Gentlemen, Sarah Palin‘s finest moment at the National Tea Party Convention (acronym CROCK*) in Nashville: The weirdest part of the evening came not during the speech but during the following Q&A session. Asked what she thought that a Republican-controlled congress’s top three priorities should be, she answered: stop spending, energy policy and … [...]
The Retarded Rush Limbaugh Exception
Sarah P. teaches this to her children (and you teach it to your children and grandchildren, too, don’t you, dear reader?): “Name calling by anyone is just unnecessary.” And retard is a very bad name for one of Sarah P.’s key political props God’s own children, so Sarah Pee can take deep umbrage if someone [...]
The Best Laid Plans Of Men and Mice…and God?
It’s a good thing that God plays such an active role in Republican politics. Here he is, putting Sarah Palin forward as their vice-presidential candidate in 2008: Sarah Palin believed that Sen. John McCain chose her to be his running mate in 2008 because of “God’s plan,” according to a top political strategist in the [...]