Palin in Georgia after she fucking LOST? WTF???

[Labors of Hercules]

All I have to say is...

If Jim Martin doesn't win this thing,

I'm goin down to Georgia to initiate a sorry-dumbfuck-redneck ASS-WHOOPIN!!!! :grr:

[Muttocracy]

1. I was thinking Georgia the country, and that Putin better watch out. nt

[Sabriel]

3. I don't think she can see Georgia from her house

It's on the far, far end of Russia.

She'd have to stand on a piece of lawn furniture to see it.

[DJ13]

2. She's playing up to her base of support

[opihimoimoi]

9. Desperately seeking Attention she is.....what is her intent? Build a following?

I guess that what it is....attention whore...a wannabe bigger...higher.....than qualied....a Female Power Hungry Thingy on the Prowl

She is a Predator....she kills Mooses, skins and guts them....I don't think she does baby seals....

There are a lot of peeps out in Georgia that like her type...she will do well there......

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

4. What the hell,the weather is better.

[laconicsax]

5. She just wanted to visit the midwest.

Or at least the part of the country she thinks is the midwest.

And--who's paying for all of this?

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Here's the way it's being reported here.

The State of Alaska is paying her way to and from Philadelphia for the governors' thing with Obama, the RNC or the Chambliss campaign is paying the Philadelphia to Georgia leg. I have no idea who's paying her expenses, but my guess is she's charging that famous "per diem" she loves so much.

[mitchum]

6. Georgia LOVES losers...they carved three of them onto a mountainside

[hlthe2b]

12. uhh ohhh.... They just might "rise again" in the "end times..."

:eyes:

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I tried to warn you guys...

I think I said something way back at the end of August like "don't underestimate this woman." Her middle name is Ambition, and she doesn't care who doesn't like it.

[spindrifter]

11. Will Alaskans get tired of the time she's spending on

her Sarahcentric campaigning--or have they given up?

[Raschel]

26. The Alaskans? What about her kids? The poor baby and pregnant teen. Thanks mom.

[hlthe2b]

18. She seems to have already blown off AK public opinion....

It certainly doesn't seem that she cares any longer what you guys think, beyond her need for a jumping board for 2012 (or Congress, should the chance arise).


I find it really disturbing that so many people were taken in by her and so many low information voters, apparently still are... That doesn't even include the RW fundies, who are hopeless.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Yeah, I really don't think she cares at all what we think...

The comments to articles about her in the Anchorage Daily News run about 10 to 1 against her, but the best she's been able to do for PR since she's been back here was the disastrous turkey pardon. Andrew Halcro laid out real clearly in a blog entry yesterday http://www.andrewhalcro.com/talking_turkey_less_gobble_more_meat_please some of the problems for Alaska that have come up in the past two weeks, including

Oil has dropped to $45 per barrel down from $144 in July, while state spending is based on an average of $83 per barrel. The problem is that demands are increasing including from communities that are asking for more help for everything from cost shifts from rural Alaska to a greater subsidy for energy costs.

Alaska's unemployment rate jumped to 7.4% compared to 6.2% at the same time last year, prompting the Alaska Department of Labor to say ""The rate increase raises questions about the state's economic health."

At the annual Resource Development Conference, many firms said they have put off capital investments due to increasing costs, higher state taxes and the lower price of oil.

With the national economy in a nose dive, University of Alaska economists predicted that both mining and tourism could be in for soft years.

The ninth circuit court of appeals shut down Shell's plan to drill for oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea.

A recent national study shows Alaska's drop out rate is twice the national average.

A recent Federal report says the Alaska Office of Child Services is failing in key areas.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources rejected Exxon's permit application to build an ice road to Point Thomson that would have allowed them to finally drill baby drill.

A New York Times article this past week quoted former Governor Knowles and Murkowski pipeline consultant Pedro Van Meurs as saying "Current economic conditions are not good for the Alaska Gas Line, and I expect considerable delays."

I'm sure this is much more than she wants to deal with -- it certainly isn't glamorous and might actually require some real work -- so it must have seemed to her like a good time to go on another junket.

Several of the progressive bloggers here have formed the Alaskans for Truth PAC http://alaskansfortruth.blogspot.com/ , and the plan is to bombard the legislators continually with calls to investigate Sarah's ethics until they call her to task.

She was famously MIA in Juneau before this VP thing -- to the point where some of the people down there were wearing "Where's Sarah?" buttons -- but she's completely out of control now. Maybe in January when the legislature comes back in session things will settle down, but I'm not too hopeful.

Sarah's actions are all the more disturbing because she promised us open and transparent government. That's how she got elected because everybody was so tired of Frank Murkowski's corruption. Now we find out she's not all that different.

I don't know what we've got to do to get clean politics up here, but it's pretty darn discouraging.

[hlthe2b]

25. So could you imagine enough dissent to power a recall effort?

Assuming AK has recalls... or impeachment? That would be one way to close off her ridiculous "future" aspirations. I know plenty of Dems think she's the best thing to happen to us since sliced bread, but having just had 8 years of her male counterpart, Bush* screwing us up for the next decades, I wish to take NO chances. It is disconcerting that she is able to so bamboozle low information voters--and not just the stupid ones.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. She had everyone here bamboozled for the first two years,

but she was popular for a completely different reason than she's popular down there with the mouth-breathers. Here she seemed to be getting things done, she worked well with the legislature, and she certainly wasn't this raving lunatic partisan that we've seen over the past three months. I never would have voted for her, but I thought she was okay. Compared to Frank Murkowski, she seemed pretty great.

Now we just feel like we've been used as a stepping stone, like none of that was real at all but just a way for her to "progress" her ambitions and her crazy right-wing agenda -- which hadn't surfaced during her time as governor. Apparently the people in Wasilla knew, but they weren't talking.

It's obvious now that she was making national connections during the two years of her governorship or she never would have been chosen by McCain, but we sure didn't know anything about that. We were completely surprised when she was picked -- and then as the stories started coming out it was just shocking. We felt so duped and lied to.

Many of us here are very, very angry. I just hope the legislature finds the courage to investigate. That's always the first step, but I'd really like to see her gone. She's been such a disappointment.

[hlthe2b]

8. With respect to GA DUers', never underestimate the stupidity

of the Georgia rubes.... They are consistently stupid, but manage to show up to vote.... (or someone votes for them)

Everyone I know in GA has been nagged or is nagging others... I think the African American vote could pull Martin through, if they will turn out.

[Labors of Hercules]

16. They fucking better turn out.

Are you knocking on doors? Or do I have to come down there and do it for ya???

[hlthe2b]

17. Well, given that I am in Colorado, no...

Although your question may have been rhetorical...


'Lived there in a prior life, though and am intent on getting out everyone I know that is still there to vote

[SmileyRose]

13. IMHO Jim doesn't have a prayer in hell.

Even with a split Republican vote he lost. The libertarian vote will now go to Chambliss. I'm working my butt off for Martin on getting out the Democratic vote, which is why I have not been here as much lately, but the deck is stacked on their side. Hopefully blood, sweat and tears will turn it just enough.

[quakerboy]

14. She won in Georgia

did she not?

[Thrill]

15. GA is a lost cause. I'm not even expecting a win there

And I'm usually optimistic.

Any state that would re-elect that piece of shit Saxby Chambliss after what he did to Max Cleland is a lost cause.

[BlooInBloo]

21. Yah! Back to the pre-Dean electoral strategy I say! Because it worked SO WELL!

:rofl:


EDIT: We fight EVERYWHERE, fool. Not just the places that are in our favor. I really hate not being able to choose my own team sometimes.

[BlooInBloo]

19. Gawd I wish Tina Fey could dust off the character one more time...

And do a "Disneyland" skit about that.

[lurky]

20. Going back to Alaska has to suck for a narcissist like her.

She went from being the center of attention back to being the administrator of a small rustic state far from the center of power. You could see it in her eyes during that whole turkey-holocaust interview. Mark my words, she will do whatever it takes to get back in the spotlight.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Yep.

[frogcycle]

22. well, there aren't exactly any puglican winners to trot out

Happy Thanksgiving!

[tammywammy]

28. She's very popular with conservatives

It shouldn't be a surprise that she's headed to Georgia. :shrug:

[democracy1st]

29. I noticed sin is very popular with conservatives too