John Kerry on Sanford: Too bad Palin didn’t go missing too
posted at 6:38 pm on June 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
Don’t be too hard on Waffles. His humor’s always been laced with nastiness, which is why he periodically finds himself in clusterfarks over “botched jokes.” It’s not that he hates Palin. He’s just a jerk.
The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders in town at his invitation about the “bizarre’’ tale of how South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had “disappeared for four days’’ and claimed to be hiking along the Appalachian Trail, but no one was really certain of his whereabouts.
“Too bad,’’ Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’
The Democratic-centric crowd laughed.
He said this before Sanford’s presser so it’s not an adultery dig at her, just an “I wish you were lost and left for dead somewhere” dig. Which, believe it or not, isn’t the nastiest Palin attack circulating in the ‘sphere today.
Pew’s got a new poll out today showing Romney’s net favorable rating at +12, compared to just +1 for Sarahcuda. With Sanford and Huntsman now out of the game, Jindal almost certainly biding his time until 2016, and Palin possibly too polarizing to win against The One, we’d all better hope Mitt runs. Because if he doesn’t, an ominous scenario presents itself:
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Nah, not on the GOP side. With the exception of George W. Bush, we’re notorious for nominating someone who was involved in a former election or primary. We make our nominee earn their dues by going through a previous grueling primary or a general election; we rarely just hand it to someone who hasn’t been tested on a national level.
It will be one of the 3: Palin, Romney or Huck.
yogi41 on June 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM
A lot can happen in 6 months…None of it has been very good!!!
dthorny on June 24, 2009 at 7:27 PM
sore pathetic loser.
moonbatkiller on June 24, 2009 at 7:27 PM
It starts off with Tim Traveler whining about being lazy, like the song of the whales…ewwwwwww, ewwwwwww, you will hear the whine of the liberal calling to each other…quite dramatic. Mixed in with a few screams of dying baby’s being pulled from the womb…followed by the silence of the “liberated women” not caring…the howl of the mighty race card is constantly heard in the background…well I don’t want to spoil it all…but emerging from all the whining and crying, will be the soft song of Palin, pushing UPINAK forward, destroying all that is destroying America…a beautiful story of beauty and of strength…battling the whining and whimpering of the liberals.
It will be out in 2012…shown everywhere…preview in 2010.
right2bright on June 24, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Don’t forget the “million electric cars” that will be recharged from the pollution-free electric outlets in our homes.
Personally, I’ve always liked Romney. I know he’s not acceptable to some due to perceived indecisiveness on abortion, but it’s hard to imagine anything happening on that front in the next few election cycles anyway — with the country in the septic tank and the wacko Kim with his TinyDong 2 missile, and who-knows-what in Iran, it’s not going to get to the top of the agenda.
What I do believe Romney could do correctly is roll back the FedGov sharply, and dismantle all the crap Oboingo may (or may not?) put in place. He needs to come out strongly as a 10th Amendment, security-and-order, free-market, drill-here-and-now guy, which I think he is.
mr.blacksheep on June 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
One thing is a safe prediction – if Palin is the R nominee next time, Obama’s team will move heaven abd earth to make sure he never has to debate her one-on-one. She is so much better spoken than he is that there is no comparison. Without his media question-proof armor, Obama is a pushover… of course we have never seen him without it, but someday we will and it won’t be pretty.
drunyan8315 on June 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Too bad Kerry didn’t get his face blown off in Vietnam instead of getting a damned splinter that he got a purple heart for.
Spiritk9 on June 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Senator Lurch
Kerry Speech
William Amos on June 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
blatantblue on June 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM
You really know how milk this woman chaser image, kiddo.
By the way, Kerry, when your opinion becomes relevant, we’ll wake you up and let you know.
kingsjester on June 24, 2009 at 7:29 PM
I’m starting to regret my vote in ’04. McCain and Palin coulda taken this guy easy.
Jim Treacher on June 24, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Fair enough. Alright. Are you both on Allah’s fansite?
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Attn: I think the heat on John Kerry needs to be turned up a notch. Let’s get into this limp handed dorkfark life a bit shall we.
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A review of this Sen. from Mass. is required.
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If wants to get popular again then let us put him on the defensive and deter his aggression to attack. There is so much negative information about this waste of space. Kerry is one of record of having no positive features to support any type of his snide remarks. He must be hobbled in such a way that demonstrates that his mind is only impeded by some mental limitation derived by his limp liberal standards of decorum.
Americannodash on June 24, 2009 at 7:30 PM
He didn’t? Sure looks like he did.
mr.blacksheep on June 24, 2009 at 7:31 PM
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Actually, I am not on FB. I just see BB begging you all the time..I thought if you said yes to me it would rile him up.
Bawhhahahah- luv ya bb
bazil9 on June 24, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Now that’s a train of thought I hadn’t considered.
I can’t stand Comrade John F’n Kerry.
Don’t think I coulda done it.
Brian1972 on June 24, 2009 at 7:31 PM
What a fool…you made an error, was pointed out and now trying to cover.
TT, a little liberal troll trying to fly under the radar.
right2bright on June 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM
2012 Will come down to the question of whether 0bama has been such a disaster that the msm can’t cover for him any more. If the answer to that question is ‘yes,’ SP can beat him. If the answer is ‘no,’ then she should let Slick Willard take the gas and bide her time until ’16.
Lou Budvis on June 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Kerry is even a bigger slug than I had ever imagined. The ketchup lady needs to find something constructive for him to do.
rplat on June 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Yes I am hornet
go to the wall and lookat the posts.
blatantblue on June 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Yeah, I’ve thought the same thing. We would have had to deal with 4 years of J F’n Querrie, but at a less dangerous time than we have now with (God help us) Obama at the helm.
funky chicken on June 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Well, I hope she knocks her future interviews out of the park. She can recover she only needs to join some think tanks and do some actual work. I will punch that kid Levi in the face so she doesn’t have to worry about that idiot.
TimeTraveler on June 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Democraps fear Palin.
paulsur on June 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Too bad both senators from Mass didn’t get brain tumors. A$$hole.
infidel4life on June 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Importing a comment I made in the headlines about this:
Actual post:
You’re too predictable on the Palin posts, AP.
cs89 on June 24, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Bob Riley of Alabama is a great guy, and has done amazing things for the state.
funky chicken on June 24, 2009 at 7:35 PM
LOL
“Too bad,” Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.”
Too bad both senators from Mass didn’t get brain tumors. A$$hole.
infidel4life on June 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
LOL
Too f*cken funny!
I WAS going to make a comment but damn ! I cannot top that !
That is all, Carry on!
LOL ^5.
ColdWarrior57 on June 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM
You know the live (?) Easter Island Mask will never leave his inherited-millionaire wife. He might actually have to go find a job. This guy is as big a waste of air as Ted Kennedy, who I believe “represents” the same state of idiots: Massachusetts.
Sort of gives you an idea of THAT state’s electoral brainpower too.
bradley11 on June 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM
I disagree. I like Palin in a lot of ways; she’s not cut from the same GOP cloth that most others are, and that’s appealing. She would make a good Veep, a great energy secretary, but I don’t think she’s ready to be President.
It doesn’t matter that she had more experience going in to the election than Obama did; the press ignored that and in 2012 Obama will have 4 years under his belt (God help us).
She also got pigeonholed (read: controlled) too much under McCain’s team. They gave her no leash, and it will take a while for people to forget the repetitive mantras she was reduced to reciting in interviews and on the trail.
I don’t know that Romney has run his course; it’s funny that a top 3 showing in the primaries and he’s ‘over’ yet McCain ran several times, even when it was pretty obvious that he’d been ‘Washington-ized’. At least GW was a governor (as are Romney and Palin).
We need to stop this indebtedness mentality in the party. We need to present someone who is a good standard bearer for the GOP; down to earth, very little poli-speak about consensus and ‘my esteemed colleague’. McCain botched many opportunities to take it to Obama, and while that probably would not have changed the election outcome, it might have narrowed the margin. We need a clear vision for America, bam-bam, like the Contract with America was. Goals, why and how, period. Then execute.
I don’t see that right now; I see the GOP field crowded with wannabe superstars (Crist for example), who are probably blocking the way for some very good up and coming grassroots GOP candidates. We also need to stop defenestrating our own guys, like Ryan in Illinois. As some here have said, lots of people fail and make mistakes and if Barney Frank can still be in Congress after his boyfriend ran a prostitution ring out of their townhouse, we should be a little more understanding when the odd (not egregious), fall occurs.
We are so easily ‘shamed’ so easily cowed, as if one person’s failings is suddenly an indictment of the entire GOP and our ideas. Our ideas are good, they are true and they are better for America than socialism lite – we need to focus on that and not get distracted by things like this Sanford debacle, although I could spank him for doing this, because it’s like a piece of dripping meat dangling in front of the lib news hounds.
linlithgow on June 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Go check out the site. I’m easy to find now.
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Hanoi-John “the Gigolo” is a nasty buffoon.
sinsing on June 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Why does it have to be Romney, Palin, or Huckabee?
Why can’t it be a dark horse? Heck, South Carolina happens to have another really good republican. And no, I’m not suggesting Graham…
clement on June 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Mitt is a RINO and a failure.
Get over it.
DJ Tablesauce on June 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM
I’m not sure I see the ominousness (?) (ominasciousness?) (ominitudinosity?) (anyhoo) of Huck running. He’s pretty good.
What you need is Huck for president and someone with good foreign policy for Sec State to balance him out in that arena. I recommend McCain. Romney or Palin for VP and you’re set.
Gaunilon on June 24, 2009 at 7:41 PM
One sex scandal is enough. Think of the headline: ‘Sanford Spanked by Supporter’
aengus on June 24, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Thank you!!
Cindy Munford on June 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Just joined the Allahpundit FB fanclub. Now my life is complete. ;-)
linlithgow on June 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Blatant,
Not that I need to explain myself to you. Even though you seem to be the DAD of this post. My computer froze and I didn’t know the first one posted. You on the other hand are the “I will merely comment on what others have said so I don’t have to form an original thought” kind of guy
Dan Pet on June 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM
That’s my Junior Senator for you! “Botching|” jokes & making friends wherever he goes. We are so proud of him!
TheBigOldDog on June 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Dan Pet. Don’t make me send you to the kennel.
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Kerry is an A******.
inviolet on June 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM
I can believe Romney and Huck have the best chance. I see Palin actually not running in 2012.
kanda on June 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM
The ’08 campaign will be ancient history by the time 2012 get here. Sarah is already improving her image, it’s just beginning, but it’s happening, with a little boost from David Letterman.
I think you underestimate her potential to expose Obama’s big government schemes and rally people to her side.
The public is already souring on Obama’s policy proposals, and we haven’t even started the health care or immigration reform debates yet.
Also, the enemies overseas get a say, as they are showing now in Iran and North Korea.
I don’t see any Republican outdrawing Sarah Palin. She can get 10,000 people or more to show up anywhere, any time.
Who else can do that? When the election season heats up again, this will only increase. With the right message for the environment that will exist, she can be a force like no other.
Brian1972 on June 24, 2009 at 7:48 PM
That’s funny because following her schedule and achievements she appears to be one of the few politicians who actually earns her salary—and then some.
KittyLowrey on June 24, 2009 at 7:51 PM
It drove BB nuts when Hornet added me…
btw, hornetsting…I’ll be back on FB soon…
ladyingray on June 24, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Listen to HornetSting…back away very slowly so as not to rile her…and remember, she, and BB, have many friends here…
ladyingray on June 24, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Hey John, once an ass, always an ass! You’ve got lots of class……………all low.
GFW on June 24, 2009 at 7:53 PM
I just added BB.
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Kerry is a putz.
DeathB4Tyranny on June 24, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Hey, what’s wrong with Huck?
mjbrooks3 on June 24, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Uh, he’s not a conservative. other than that, nothing.
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 7:56 PM
I’m terribly sorry for you that you gave into your weak moment…
ladyingray on June 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Kerry, Palin… Kerry, Palin… Kerry… Are you kidding? Ms. Crazy Catsup is calling you, loser.
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RalphyBoy on June 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM
aengus on June 24, 2009 at 7:41 PM
That type of scandal might ingratiate him with, uh, certain groups, but I get your drift. ;-)
linlithgow on June 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM
What makes you think both didn’t?
Patrick S on June 24, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I’m such a sucker for a cute, younger guy! I was victimized in my moment of weakness.
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Hey, what’s wrong with Huck?
mjbrooks3 on June 24, 2009 at 7:54 PM
.
Tell us what is right about Huck first.
Americannodash on June 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Well don’t tell him that…you know how he is!
ladyingray on June 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM
uh oh, hornet will regret that comment…
bazil9 on June 24, 2009 at 8:04 PM
So I had a friend tell me Farm Town is addictive… I just started. Is it really that great?
linlithgow on June 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM
That’s all I’m sayin’…
ladyingray on June 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM
linlithgow on June 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM
My roommate is on it ALL the freaking time. I don’t get it.
So yes, as far as I can tell.
bazil9 on June 24, 2009 at 8:06 PM
I still wonder if there is some chemical in the water of Massactaxetts that depletes all the testoserone from the men? Not to mention common sense.
LSUMama on June 24, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Geez, a guy gets stuck in meetings all day and misses all the good stuff.
HoustonRight on June 24, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Don’t I know it. I’m tired, I have a lot of work to do tonight, and I’m out of iced tea. Weakness….he separated me from the herd.
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I’m hoping for Palin\Cheney in 2012
At that point Sarah will be doing us a huge favor to serve…
CCRWM on June 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM
I just can’t keep up with all this stuff- FB, Twitter, My Space, email…plus all my business and personal emails, voice mail, blackberry.. Tooo much.
bazil9 on June 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Short answer.. yes. Starting back before the Kennedy’s. Must have been bad bootleg.
HoustonRight on June 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Kerry never got over being PO’d about not being elected President so he could be the 2nd JFK.
blr2449 on June 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
John Kerry is an EPIC FAIL on every possible level.
HumblyRight on June 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Just when I forgot all about this scum sucking cockroach.
What was it the last time? O yes booty call. How could I for get about Kerry getting drunk with some coeds.Please
Help me. I dont want to here about this cockroach,Thank You
Denniscat on June 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Tomorrow he’ll say he doesn’t want her to go missing.
LibTired on June 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
(sniff sniff) Is that fear I smell?
Crusty on June 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Denniscat on June 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Drunk with co-eds drinking out of penis straws, if I remember correctly.
bazil9 on June 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
You know…..BB has gotten awfully quiet. I better put the dog on patrol.
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Which Massassachussetts Senator has the IQ of a bar of soap?
OK, maybe that’s too tough to figure out offhand.
It’s not Bawneys Fwank, he is a Representative from the out of control health care State.
Why would any sane person listen to any of these people.
tarpon on June 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Denniscat on June 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Getting drunk with co-eds that were using p*nis straws.
bazil9 on June 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
See Kerry, now THAT’S funny :)
unwashed minion on June 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Bawney Fwank has his panties in a twist! This is great entertainment.
HornetSting on June 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Pass.
Mitt reminds me of a fish out of water. He flip flops around like crazy but in his case he isn’t trying to get back in the water.
FloatingRock on June 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Does Barney Frank have teeth?
lonestar1 on June 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Kerry is a pathetic bastard. His snark always has that touch of envy behind it. Is he planning on filling in for Letterman?
The Dems must really fear Palin. They never miss an opportunity to bash her.
I love hotair, but I do get tired of Huckabee.
onlineanalyst on June 24, 2009 at 8:23 PM
There are a high percentage of Independents and former Hillary supporters (PUMA’s) that just love Palin. I’m thinking there are a lot of supporters that are going uncounted.
As to Kerry – day late, dollar short. But when you really consider what he said it could be construed as incitement to commit a crime. It just wasn’t funny. When is Biden going to weigh in and really stir it up?
24K lady on June 24, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Living where I do, I have to constantly appologize for Kenendy, Kerry, Frank, and even Markey.
Sorry, again, to hail from the place the JK calls home.
Not sure I cared for this one, though…
Not cool.
massrighty on June 24, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Kerry and Biden. It’s amazing to me who gets elected to the Senate.
The fact Biden was picked as Obama’s second banana shows definitively that in government incompetence gets rewarded.
FireBlogger on June 24, 2009 at 8:24 PM
He’s young…my guess is that he actually has a L-I-F-E! He’ll turn up…he always does…like a bad penny….
ladyingray on June 24, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Look its a long time politically speaking until 2012 and so much can happen between now and then that speculating about who will get the GOP nomination is really just an exercise in political day dreaming. However at the moment the three main contenders have to be Romney, Huckabee and Sarah Palin, purely because those are the only three realistic potential GOP 2012 candidates left with a big enough national profile to build any sort of real support and publicly take on Obama in the media with any sort of credibility.
Interestingly though you just have to look at the way the left continues to attack, deride, and ridicule Governor Palin to realise exactly who they fear the most when it comes to potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates.
Besides whats the bet if Palin does decide to run in 2012 and gets the GOP nomination for President, the first thing Obama will do is to dump Biden as VP and replace him with Hillary Clinton or some other high profile female democrat politician?
Dreadnought223 on June 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Lets see, Palin is overseas visiting our troops and one of the so called front runners for the nomination is off visiting his lover.
KBird on June 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Kerry. Frig tat hasbeen
johnnyU on June 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Kerry wishes Palin would go awol and show up on his doorstep.
BottomLine5 on June 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM
It is a lot…I got a blackberry last week…twitter last night, which i can’t freakin’ figure out, i need help…i need a 12 step program I fear…
ladyingray on June 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM
I think “Trig Trooferism” is deranged, obnoxious, etc. I don’t see what THIS has to do with that. Trig isn’t even in the image anymore, except as a generic baby body upon which another guys face is pasted.
What are you suggesting to be the meaning of this photoshop that is so “disgusting”? There is no clear meaning which is offensive that I can see; it seems to be implying that she is coddling/babying a conservative radio host.
You guys aren’t really serious about this, right?
DaveS on June 24, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Poor old Mitt. He tried so hard for that Reagan sunniness but forgot to bring the heat.
And in 2012, it’s going to take some serious heat.
Palin’s rise and triumph in 2012 will be the most fascinating and poetic political story of our time.
rrpjr on June 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM
All one needs to know about Jeanne-Claude Kerri is that he said in 2004 that his favorite Boston Red Sox player was Manny Ortez
Del Dolemonte on June 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM
He’s young…my guess is that he actually has a L-I-F-E! He’ll turn up…he always does…like a bad penny….
ladyingray on June 24, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Give the lad a break. He’s got a soft heart. :)
txag92 on June 24, 2009 at 8:31 PM
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