Is it me? Or was Sarah Palin simply chosen because she gave William Kristol a hard-on?

[devilgrrl]

That's pretty much what I gleaned from an interview I heard today between Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and writer from the New Yorker, Jane Mayer.

You can check it out for yourself here: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/29/jane_mayer_on_th...

Jane Mayer on “The Insiders: How John McCain Came to Pick Sarah Palin”

Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin has cast herself as an antidote to the elitist culture inside the Beltway.
But a new article from New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer says Palin’s sudden rise to prominence owes more to members of the Washington elite than her rhetoric has suggested.

No matter who wins the White House on November 4th, a group of prominent conservatives are planning to meet the next day in Virginia to discuss the way forward for the movement. And, regardless of the outcome, Governor Sarah Palin will be high on the agenda. The New York Times reports that if John McCain loses the election, Palin could emerge as a standard bearer for the conservative movement and a potential presidential candidate in 2012, albeit one who will need to address her considerable political damage.

Most Americans had never heard of Sarah Palin when McCain first announced her as his running mate back in August. Her national debut came at the Republican party’s convention in Saint Paul where she sought to cast herself as an antidote to the elitist culture inside the Beltway.

Sarah Palin’s sudden rise to prominence, however, owes more to members of the Washington élite than her rhetoric has suggested. That’s according to an article in the New Yorker Magazine by investigative reporter Jane Mayer. It’s called
"The Insiders: How John McCain Came to Pick Sarah Palin.” Jane Mayer joins me now from Washington DC.

Jane Mayer, staff writer for the New Yorker. Her latest article is called "The Insiders: How John McCain Came to Pick Sarah Palin.” She is author of "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into A War on American Ideals.”

[Voice for Peace]

1. This is an interesting story. I don't think Kristol was the only one

and I do think that was a major deciding factor. Honestly. That and Jesus.

[niceypoo]

2. Bring her on...

She is a gift to the Democratic party. I hope they run her every four years until she is 115 years old.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. She gave one to most males in the whacko wing of the party.

Just look how they drool at the sight of her.

Too bad Viagra sales can't be tracked by party affiliation.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

4. I read her piece in The New Yorker

That's essentially what I took away from it.

[CanonRay]

5. True, but remember, that's not easy to do!

[notadmblnd]

6. Unfortunately, it appears he was thinking with his abdominal brain

To bad he didn't shove one of those abdominal brain warmers, they had for men at the turn of the century, up his ass before thinking. It might have helped.


This 1918 invention incorporates a 25-watt light bulb to heat a dildo to shove into a man's ass in order to stimulate the prostate.

The bulb didn't heat the dildo, and was pretty much a dildo with a light bulb attached to it.

[wryter2000]

7. You're wrong

They chose her because she gives Grampy a hard-on, and at his age, that's quite an accomplishment.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. No, it's you: you give William Kristol a hard-on.

I'd start running now if I were you.

[Swamp Rat]

9. William Kristol fucked the GOP with that 'boner'

HAHA!

[Mari333]

10. The Council for National Policy picked Palin

Bill Kristol is deep in their pockets..he was just following orders...sarah is a member.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Polic...

Other Members

* Several groups have listings of CNP members on websites. However, the primary source documents for these lists are not included. Some listsings are at:
* Council for National Policy membership roster, last updated July 2001:
* Member Directory.
* CNP Members Database.

A copy of the membership roster obtained by Institute for First Amendment Studies, listed current and former members as including:

* Attorney General John Ashcroft (former member)
* Tommy Thompson, Health and Human Services Secretary (former member)
* Holland Coors and Jeffrey Coors of the Coors brewing company
* Richard DeVos, founder of Amway and Orlando Magic owner
* John Ankerberg, who believes that biblical prophecies were literal promises and are coming true;
* Dave Breese hosts The King Is Coming, a show devoted entirely to Christian eschatology
* Chuck Missler, an Idaho radio host who has predicted an imminent invasion of Jerusalem by forces guided by the Antichrist
* Pat Robertson, former presidential candidate and Christian Coalition founder
* Steve Stockman, former Texas Republican Representative
* Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association
* Rev. Rousas J. Rushdoony, founder of Chalcedon Foundation (deceased)
* Williams, the founder of BAMPAC, a political action committee that promotes black conservatism
* Sam Moore, president of Thomas Nelson, the country's most successful Christian book publishing company
* Henry Morris, prominent creationist
* Dora Kingsley, political scientist
* John W. Whitehead founder of the Rutherford Institute
* Bob Jones III, President, Bob Jones University
* Phyllis Schlafly
* Oliver North

Other members who list their membership in their biographical profiles include:

* John Taylor, the chairman and president of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy<5>
* Brent Bozell<6>
* Charles W. Jarvis, chairman and chief executive of USANext and United Seniors Association

Mark Crispin Miller adds the following members:

* Gov. Sarah Palin
* Tom DeLay
* Trent Lott
* Lauch Faircloth
* Ed Meese
* Howard Ahmanson
* Jerry Falwell
* Tim LaHaye, author of the Left Behind Series,
* James Robison
* Lou Sheldon, traditional values coalition
* Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Addressed the CNP:

* John Ashcroft
* George W. Bush, 2000


Funding

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

13. That is my understanding as well

That list leaves out James Dobson, a key figure in greenlighting the McCain-Palin ticket.

From Max Blumenthal's blog for The Nation, 9/1/08:

Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.

CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.

(...)

I learned of the get-together only through an online commentary by one of its attendees, top Dobson/Focus on the Family flack Tom Minnery. (Watch it here) Minnery described the mood as CNP members watched Palin accept her selection as John McCain's Vice Presidential pick. "I was standing in the back of a ballroom filled with largely Republicans who were hoping against hope that something would put excitement back into this campaign," Minnery said. "And I have to tell you, that speech by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin -- people were on their seats applauding, cheering, yelling... That room in Minneapolis watching on the television screen was electrified. I have not seen anything like it in a long time."

(...)

The members of the Council for National Policy are the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick. With her selection, the Republican nominee is suddenly -- and unexpectedly -- assured of the support of a movement that once opposed his candidacy with all its might. Case in point: while Dobson once said he could "never" vote for McCain, he issued a statement last week hailing Palin as an "outstanding" choice. If Dobson's enthusiasm for Palin is any indication, he may soon emerge from his bunker in Colorado Springs to endorse McCain, providing the Republican nominee with the backing of the Christian right's single most influential figure.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352178/s...

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

16. If anyone needs a case of assholes, now they know

where to look.

[KG]

11. it;s not like there weren't more quaified repook women.

[EFerrari]

12. Wasn't that a great segment? Barbie's outsider shtick is from Dick Morris!

You really can't make that stuff up. lol

[FLAprogressive]

14. Sarah Palin must be the only one able to give him a hardon without chemical help. nt

[MotorCityMan]

15. There was a recent post by the Rude Pundit

intimating that Sarah P. gave Kreepy Kristol more than that...

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Well if that were really the case I can't understand why they didn't

pick Joe Lieberman?