Paul Begala: Palin’s “about a half a whack job”

posted at 9:20 pm on August 14, 2009 by Allahpundit

Comment bait on a slow Friday night. She’s had a good week and The One’s had a bad one and someone’s clearly a very cranky boy about it. Note, too, his effusive praise for Gingrich as a set-up for his nasty attack on Sarahcuda. That’s a favorite tactic of Begala’s, framing himself as “reasonable” and nonpartisan so that the rhetorical groin-punch that follows stings more. See, e.g., his kind words for Michael Steele as a prelude to calling Rush Limbaugh a “corpulent drug addict.”

As for Newt’s advice to Palin: “Write a book”? Set up a shop inside the Beltway? Except for number four, any Hot Air commenter could have offered the same wisdom. When did Newt suddenly turn so prosaic? Stop phoning it in, bro!

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Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:17 AM

I see…so you are basically a proxy PaulTard who hates conservatives so much (and the black helicopters that fly around your head 24/7, beaming propaganda directly into your brain)..you actually support Obama…brilliant move.

AUINSC on August 15, 2009 at 1:23 AM

Sarah has already done more good with a few keyboard strokes than Begala has done in his whole career.

Christian Conservative on August 14, 2009 at 10:51 PM

That’s all Begala does is stroke it while he sits on his keyboard.

izoneguy on August 15, 2009 at 1:27 AM

Hey Spathi … Chew on this

SARAH PALIN – SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IN 2010…

Yep, when it happens let me know where you will be.. I want to watch your liberal head explode.

bullseye on August 15, 2009 at 1:28 AM

Spathi, are you here? Can I ask you a question?

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:31 AM

AUINSC,

Black Helicopters? No I don’t buy into the conspiracy crap for the most part. Why not just look at what’s in broad daylight. Go read John Yoo’s memos or take a few glances at Abu Ghraib instead of dreaming up all these fanciful theories.

The Federal Government has a scheme of stealing the people’s money, and using it to keep themselves in power and kill random foreigners. I like Lew Rockwell’s saying that our Federal Government is essentially a criminal enterprise almost like the Mafia or something.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:32 AM

Can I ask Spathi a question, please?

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:33 AM

Spathi, did you see the fake Doctor plant at the health care forum?

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:34 AM

Anyway, just shows that Dems lie for sport or for the cause, read this about Palin.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/08/jesse-griffin-just-asking-questions.html

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:36 AM

ps- none of the Bill of Rights apply to the States though. It only applies to the Federal Government

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:07 AM

The people they allow to vote these days…

Spathi is the newest blog spammer. Open registration and all.

ddrintn on August 15, 2009 at 1:36 AM

No I don’t buy into the conspiracy crap for the most part.

I’m curious…why did you feel the need to qualify that statement, rather than rejecting it completely? What conspiracy crap to you not reject, specifically?

BTW, thank you for speaking honestly…I think we all want to know more about your ideas…they are really interesting.

AUINSC on August 15, 2009 at 1:37 AM

As for Ayers well he has always maintained his innocence.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM

OJ maintained his innocence too. Hm.

pilartx on August 15, 2009 at 1:38 AM

As for Ayers well he has always maintained his innocence.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM

Ayers hated corporations til he needed his daddy’s money that he made while working for a corporation, so he could beat a murder rap. Ayers was a pussy.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:40 AM

Other advice Newt could give….

How to screw up a majority in Congress that you’ve been given after 40 years of waiting.

How to get skewered in the Bootlick media over petty little things like getting hacked because you had to sit in the back of Air Force One on the way to the Rabin funeral.

How to talk like a Reagan Conservative one day and a RINO whore the next on some talk show (This Week/Slay the nation/etc.).

I think we’ve had enough of the great idea man. Seeing him and then Bill Clinton makes me glad it’s not 1995 all over again. Both of them should find a think tank somewhere and disappear.

But hey, it’s just a little advice.

PappyD61 on August 15, 2009 at 1:43 AM

As for Ayers well he has always maintained his innocence.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM

Ayers’ daddy made a ton of cash working for the man. Ayers was against the man and the corporate money. Then he was up for murder and daddy and daddy’s corporate money and daddy’s friends let him beat a murder rap. The world would have been better off if he walked away from his little monster.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:44 AM

ps- none of the Bill of Rights apply to the States though. It only applies to the Federal Government

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:07 AM

By the way, look into the terms “incorporation” and “14th Amendment”.

ddrintn on August 15, 2009 at 1:45 AM

PappyD61 on August 15, 2009 at 1:43 AM

I think the mood and the tide has been changed forever. These town halls were illuminating. The congress was shown to be nothing but a bunch of jokes from sea to sea. These twits take our money, they are a disgrace, one after the other.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:45 AM

Other advice Newt could give….

How to screw up a majority in Congress that you’ve been given after 40 years of waiting.

How to get skewered in the Bootlick media over petty little things like getting hacked because you had to sit in the back of Air Force One on the way to the Rabin funeral.

How to talk like a Reagan Conservative one day and a RINO whore the next on some talk show (This Week/Slay the nation/etc.).

I think we’ve had enough of the great idea man. Seeing him and then Bill Clinton makes me glad it’s not 1995 all over again. Both of them should find a think tank somewhere and disappear.

But hey, it’s just a little advice.

PappyD61 on August 15, 2009 at 1:43 AM

You forgot –
How to sit next to Pelosi on a couch in pr campaign to present a feel-good “united front” on fighting , uh…global warming…uh…I mean, climate change.
Conservative my arse!

pilartx on August 15, 2009 at 1:46 AM

bullseye on August 15, 2009 at 1:28 AM

Not very familiar with the House protocol are you? Little something called seniority plays a heavy part of the choice. Sarah would have to put in more than a couple of terms in the house to get to the Speaker chair.

Bradky on August 15, 2009 at 1:48 AM

How about those college transcripts Spazzi?

Have you seen those?

omnipotent on August 15, 2009 at 1:50 AM

Last post,

Odd I’ve never heard about the Ayers murder charge before, and skimming wikipedia I don’t see it there.

Also I didn’t realize that about using the 14 amendment to do incorporation of the Bill of Rights. Is this legally contentious though? I’ve heard Scalia talk about something like this where he said he used to think that the bill of rights did not apply to the states but that he’s gradually grew to accept this…maybe I am imagining it though.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:53 AM

How to sit next to Pelosi on a couch in pr campaign to present a feel-good “united front” on fighting , uh…global warming…uh…I mean, climate change.
Conservative my arse!
I have to say, that we allowed this all to go on, I hope we are serious in making them accountable. There should be no let up.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:54 AM

Last post,

Odd I’ve never heard about the Ayers murder charge before, and skimming wikipedia I don’t see it there.
Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:53 AM

Missing. The. Point.

pilartx on August 15, 2009 at 1:54 AM

Also I didn’t realize that about using the 14 amendment to do incorporation of the Bill of Rights. Is this legally contentious though? I’ve heard Scalia talk about something like this where he said he used to think that the bill of rights did not apply to the states but that he’s gradually grew to accept this…maybe I am imagining it though.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:53 AM

Most of the Rights have been incorporated against the states by precedent. A few haven’t, or are in limbo.

ddrintn on August 15, 2009 at 1:55 AM

Wiki is his friend. Ayers was let go and others went to jail. He was the leader, but his daddy had a lot of money and got him out of it.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Last post,

Odd I’ve never heard about the Ayers murder charge before, and skimming wikipedia I don’t see it there.

….

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:53 A

Yeah, well, here it is, if you want to review it:

Ayers and Dohrn were credibly accused, in classified testimony before a Senate subcommittee in 1974, of involvement in the murder of a police officer in San Francisco, as well as an attempted (and unsuccessful) anti-personnel bombing in Detroit. It is an aspect of Ayers’ story that the mainstream media has completely ignored and even covered up.

Ayers and Dohrn were never prosecuted for their alleged involvement in Weatherman terrorism because of government misconduct in gathering evidence against them. But Ayers has freely admitted to involvement in Weatherman bomb plots, and he has said he does not regret planting bombs. Ayers has defended his actions, arguing, “The reason we weren’t terrorists is that we did not commit random acts of terror against people.”

But Larry Grathwohl, an FBI mole within the Weathermen, connected Ayers to the planning — and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, to the execution— of a police station bombing in San Francisco in February 1970 that killed one officer and injured two others.

Grathwohl testified that Ayers had discussed the deadly incident after the fact. The revelation came as Ayers was talking about the organizational difficulties in running a terrorist cell:

[H]e cited as one of the real problems that someone like Bernardine Dohrn had to plan, develop, and carry out the bombing of the police station in San Francisco, and he specifically named her as the person that committed that act. . . . He said that the bomb was placed on the window ledge and he described the kind of bomb that was used to the extent of saying what kind of shrapnel was used in it. . . . [I]f he wasn’t there to see it, somebody who was there told him about it, because he stated it very emphatically.

Grathwohl also testified about an unsuccessful Weatherman bombing in Detroit, which he said Ayers had planned to be executed when the maximum number of people would be present:

The only time that I was ever instructed or we were ever instructed to place a bomb in a building at a time when there would be people in it was during the planning of the bombing at the Detroit Police Officers’ Association building and the 13th precinct in Detroit, Mich., at which time Bill said that we should plan our bombing to coincide with the time when there would be the most people in those buildings.

AUINSC on August 15, 2009 at 1:59 AM

Wiki is his friend. Ayers was let go and others went to jail. He was the leader, but his daddy had a lot of money and got him out of it.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Oooooh, sounds like 12 Monkeys a little.

ddrintn on August 15, 2009 at 1:59 AM

Ayers is a pussy who got away with everything. That is why he can take a picture like a punk standing on the American flag. Sickest part of all, the Obamas let these sick, f**ks babysit their kids.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 2:00 AM

I have to say, that we allowed this all to go on, I hope we are serious in making them accountable. There should be no let up.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 1:54 AM

I would agree with this to a certain point. I think that where conservatives might have gone wrong is to blindly believe that if a politican has an “R-” behind his/her name then that politician must espouse conservative values. What we’ve seen over and over again has proven that belief wrong. See Specter, even the once somewhat conservative Kay Bailey Hutchison “I voted for the stimulus” TX.
I haven’t yet conceded that the answer is 3rd party voting. I just don’t know what the solution IS.

pilartx on August 15, 2009 at 2:00 AM

Ayers, a Glen Ellyn native who became active in SDS while attending the University of Michigan, is the son of late Commonwealth Edison CEO Thomas G. Ayers. Ayers has praised his dad for standing by him while he was on the lam.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 2:00 AM

Trying to get information but a lot is scrubbed.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 2:01 AM

And Palin isn’t half a whack job, she’s a whack job, period!

Norman Blizter on August 14, 2009 at 10:05 PM

psht. socialist please.

Ampersand on August 15, 2009 at 2:03 AM

I met a daughter of one of the cops his group killed, she took it personally.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 2:03 AM

Paul don’t be a hater. Sarah doing the job ogabe won’t do.

bessex on August 15, 2009 at 2:42 AM

Also I didn’t realize that about using the 14 amendment to do incorporation of the Bill of Rights. Is this legally contentious though? I’ve heard Scalia talk about something like this where he said he used to think that the bill of rights did not apply to the states but that he’s gradually grew to accept this…maybe I am imagining it though.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:53 AM

WOW….if you’ve never heard of the concept of incorporation before, under the 14th or privileges and immunities, you are truly ignorant and should ask for a refund on your shoddy public education. (of course given your prior inability to form a cohesive argument I’m not surprised)

Fighton03 on August 15, 2009 at 2:50 AM

‘Obamacare:’ What does the Constitution have to say?
‘This is an issue federal government shouldn’t be touching at all’
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
http://www.wnd.com
Because the power to regulate each citizen’s medical care is not included among enumerated powers, he (Michael Boldin) said, the federal government does not have the authority to impose a single-payer system.
“You have to look to the Constitution and ask, ‘Is health care listed?’” Boldin said. “No. It’s not.” Michael Boldin, founder of The Tenth Amendment Center
Recently, the issue of nullification re-emerged when nearly two dozen states mounted a resistance to the 2005 Real ID Act. Maine and Utah led the way by passing resolutions to refuse incorporation of federal security features into state driver’s licenses and identification cards. After meeting fierce state resistance to its plans, the federal government delayed implementation twice and later announced it would “repeal and replace” the controversial law.
Lawmakers in as many as 10 states are considering or seeking to propose bills and resolutions to nullify federal health care in their states.
“If these (town hall protests) were all focused on state governments, we would probably see 10 or 20 nullification bills in states already,” he (Boldin) said. “And the health care program would be dead in the water.”
‘Equal Protection Clause’ of 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
All of the above is from the World Net Daily story.
If Equal Protection were considered, how could congress have an alternate health plan, social security plan, etc. We need to wake up and take our government back.

mydogwonthunt on August 15, 2009 at 2:55 AM

will Obama’s ‘pastor’ stop yelling God DMN AMERICA

will obama stop hanging around with non repentant terrorists

What was the context of him yelling “God DMN AMERICA?”

As long as it he was talking about our foreign policy then I don’t mind or maybe civil rights stuff. I actually kind of like that pastor.

As for Ayers well he has always maintained his innocence. He never accepted a pardon either (you have to accept guilt to do that.)

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM

The very first two sentences from a New York Times Interview published, of all days, September 11, 2001:

”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”

A little further in:

“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at,”

From his charming wife. She was commenting on the violent murders by the Manson Family of Sharon Tate and friends:

”Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach.”

Not a lot of nuance there at all.

And then there is this little jewel:

So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ”I don’t want to discount the possibility,” he said.

Yup that Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are a regular Ozzie and Harriet!

This is what I LOVE bout liberals, they can justify the most repugnant, evil behavior imaginable.

gary4205 on August 15, 2009 at 3:10 AM

I always appreciate someone watching these crappy shows so I can just get the cliff notes. Thank you. I could not tolerate the parade.

I do not understand the instinctual personal attacks/name calling habit of the left. Seems mindless. Don’t these people understand how that reflects on them? Don’t they have spouses, children and colleagues that watch these serial displays? Are they not trying to persuade people?

I personally do not care what Begala thinks as I believe SP keeps her own counsel and does not need any advice from Newt.

And AP “Sarahcuda”? Whoa. ::eyebrows raised::

Buckeye Babe on August 15, 2009 at 3:13 AM

She can do no wrong
She is everything everyone hoped and dreamed of
She is the savior of America
She is all the is the Constitution

Magnus

Jealous?

DSchoen on August 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM

ps- none of the Bill of Rights apply to the States though. It only applies to the Federal Government
Spathi on August 15

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr what?

Seriously are you an idiot?

DSchoen on August 15, 2009 at 3:33 AM

Why is Begala “The Forehead” important?
cubachi on August 14

Looking for the scares from when his frontal lobes were removed

DSchoen on August 15, 2009 at 3:40 AM

Also I didn’t realize that about using the 14 amendment to do incorporation of the Bill of Rights. Is this legally contentious though? I’ve heard Scalia talk about something like this where he said he used to think that the bill of rights did not apply to the states but that he’s gradually grew to accept this…maybe I am imagining it though.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 1:53 AM

Legally? Not in the slightest. Politically, I’ve heard many people who would fit the description of “Christian conservatives” object to it. I really have no idea why they wouldn’t want the constitutional protections of the Bill of Rights guaranteed at the state level. Everybody assures me the religious right doesn’t have any intention of doing anything to circumvent the establishment clause.

RightOFLeft on August 15, 2009 at 3:53 AM

Looking for the scares from when his frontal lobes were removed

DSchoen on August 15, 2009 at 3:40 AM

I don’t think lobotomies produce visible scars, because they go in through the nostrils. Just ask Henry Waxman.

DeathB4Tyranny on August 15, 2009 at 4:04 AM

I don’t think lobotomies produce visible scars, because they go in through the nostrils. Just ask Henry Waxman.
DeathB4Tyranny on August 15

Ah!

Well I’ll bet I’m not the only one who didn’t know that.

DSchoen on August 15, 2009 at 4:07 AM

Ah!

Well I’ll bet I’m not the only one who didn’t know that.

DSchoen on August 15, 2009 at 4:07 AM

I really don’t know either.

I just seized an opportunity to mock Begala and Henry Waxman at the same time….LOL.

DeathB4Tyranny on August 15, 2009 at 4:17 AM

Why Begala , did Levi let CNN down?

the_nile on August 15, 2009 at 4:43 AM

I love to watch wingnuts pretend that Palin is some sort of genius. But then, compared to many of the commentors on this site, I suppose she is.

As far as Begala calling her “half a whack job…” he was only half right.

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 7:14 AM

These are truly scary people. They’re waaaaaay more dangerous to this country than some guy living in a homemade bunker in Idaho surrounded by his personal armory looking to avenge Ruby Ridge. Hm.

While we’re sitting around complaining about how they’re treating Sarah Palin and focusing on this health care thing, they’re moving very fast to accrue power. They aren’t acting like they’re just looking at the next four or even eight years (God help us).

We need to put ourselves in their place (yeah, I know it’s hard to think like a Communist) and imagine what we would do if we were in their position given the little information we do have.

Forewarned is forearmed I suppose. That’s something at least.

Dr. ZhivBlago on August 15, 2009 at 7:23 AM

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 7:14 AM

Have you figured out the cause of your perpetual loneliness?

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 7:38 AM

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 7:38 AM

Have YOU figured out why your brain hurts when you try to think?

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM

NathanG on August 14, 2009 at 10:55 PM

I DON’T THINK SARAH PALIN IS PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL, BUT I’LL BE DAMNED IF I CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THIS SH*T ABOUT HOW STUPID SHE IS

My 10 takes on this statement:

1)The definition of damning with faint praise (expressing disapproval by praising inadequately)

2)The definition of cognitive dissonance (contradictory or conflcted mental state)

3)The definition of ipse dixit (argument from authority)
Sarah is not qualified but my sensibilities tell me that Sarah is intelligent

4)The definition of logical fallacy (why is Sarah Palin not Presidential material if she is not stupid?)

5)The defintion of an ex cathedra announcement where one imposes his rank on his conclusions but in the same breath express reservations personally on what he has just asserted

6)The difference between secular judgment and moral justification

7)The difference between perception and reality

8)The personal arrogance of being presumptuous vs the individual rationality of evaluation

9)The subjectivity of premature dismissal vs the objectivity of unfair treatment

10)The joint expression of both intellectual honesty and intellectual dishonesty

technopeasant on August 15, 2009 at 7:48 AM

Every slander and slime against her has failed.

rob verdi on August 15, 2009 at 7:49 AM

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM

Silly loser. Daycare is down the street.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM

She’s a hillbilly. She’s half a whack job. She’s stupid. She’s a fundamentalist nut. She’s not a serious person. Blah, blah, blah….yet, her position on energy is sound, her position of government health care is sound, her position on taxation is sound, her understanding of the Constitution is sound. Mr. Begala, refute her, or shut up.

jimmy2shoes on August 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM

Terry Jeffrey stood there like a effing dead person and let Begala have at her.

Mr. Grump on August 15, 2009 at 7:58 AM

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM

Silly loser. Daycare is down the street.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM

Wait, you lost the election, and your heroine is unemployed.

Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 7:59 AM

Terry Jeffrey stood there like a effing dead person and let Begala have at her.

Mr. Grump on August 15, 2009 at 7:58 AM

It’s probably less painful than defending her.

Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 8:01 AM

Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 7:59 AM

Wow. Registration sure brings out the new Lefty trolls / losers.

Hey, I’d hire Palin to help manage one of my companies. Even better she still makes the Marxists degenerates unhinged.

You… not a chance. Ahhh feeeyall yore pain.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 8:05 AM

But maybe I’m crazy
Maybe you’re crazy
Maybe we’re crazy
Probably

Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 8:10 AM

Should have stopped at the first measure and saved some typing.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 8:12 AM

Me things thou dost protest too much, meaning that a person or group is compelled to utilize DECEPTION to save face after a negative event is brought to light which involves taking umbrage, expressing outrage, levelling ad hominem attacks against the messenger, issuing a hastily or sloppily conceived denial, or overreacting by subsequent actions that proves guilt is an appropriate prism of viewing Begala, Obama, the Democratic Party and the MSM in their visceral attacks against Sarah Palin over the last week as she has completely exposed the Obama’s radical socialist agenda and just as important planted the seeds that one day could expose to the Americans who profess intellectually honesty and integrity ( Republicans, Democrats and independents)that Obama is a false prophet and an utter fraud.

technopeasant on August 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM

I really love the way these libs get so worked up over Sarah. Begala said that she didn’t have the intellect, has he ever listened to Obama off teleprompter? As far as Newt goes he was speaker of the house and now Nancy “our lady of perpetual stupidity” Pelosi is speaker…so much for brain power.

Wills on August 15, 2009 at 8:15 AM

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM

Clearly devolving into a battle between intelligent people, dumbasses, and the dumbasses who defend the dumbasses.

“One of my companies”? They let 12-year old doofuses HAVE companies?

Dumbass.

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM

things=thinks

technopeasant on August 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Wills on August 15, 2009 at 8:15 AM

Ah, yes. The “teleprompter meme” again. When logic fails, go back to what Rush tells you to fall back on.

Seems to me that people who supported a borderline developmentally-disabled fool as president for the last 8 years have little room to criticize someone who thinks before speaking and chooses his words carefully.

But then, that would require getting your head out of Limbaugh’s ass long enough to actually HEAR something other than the sound of blood pumping through his rectal arteries.

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 8:18 AM

Begala’s core problem is that he comes across as a cheap used car salesman while lacking a Lanny Davis ability to put his audience into deep sleep before they realize how much of a phony he is.

It’s a healthy sign that the Obots are still screaming at Palin. They’re apparently now facing the fact that maybe Zero won’t be buying gas for their car or creating that make-work gummint job for them after all.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 8:19 AM

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Silly loser.

Yet you keep desperately trying to convince us of your insecure intelligence?

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 8:21 AM

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 8:21 AM

These companies of yours… can ANYONE see them, or do they only exist in the lonely world of your imagination as you sit in the dank, dark squalor of your mom and dad’s basement.

“My name is Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire! I own a mansion and a yacht.”

Fool.

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM

Goodness. Now you’re starting to sound desperate.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 8:26 AM

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 8:18 AM

Words carefully ? more like stupidly if i could calibrate you.

the_nile on August 15, 2009 at 8:27 AM

They fear her….they do this kind of thing to anyone who they know could beat them….you don’t see them talking about Pawlenty, Romney or Huckabee do you?

Sarah Palin 2012

tatersalad on August 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM

I love to watch wingnuts pretend that Palin is some sort of genius. But then, compared to many of the commentors on this site, I suppose she is.

bschmalfeldt on August 15, 2009 at 7:14 AM

I work with young children for a living. Please allow me to translate for the adults here:

“She’s STOOOOPID….and so are you!”

Grace_is_sufficient on August 15, 2009 at 8:35 AM

I’m new. How do you link to a previous comment on a thread?

redslippers on August 15, 2009 at 8:44 AM

I’m new. How do you link to a previous comment on a thread?

redslippers on August 15, 2009 at 8:44 AM

Copy paste mark and qoute.

the_nile on August 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM

I am not a big Sarah Palin for President person. They put her on the ticket(of course I voted for her rather than the communist)to show how inexperienced Obama was(is, shows more everyday)as she was at least a Governor…

That being said, the left goes crazy over this admirable woman because she is firstly of a reformer’s stance(God forbid someone actually demand the enforcement of the 10th amendment, the Democrat party would be illegal)and secondly she IS the American public…She is far more representative of American women, wives, mothers than say Nazi Pelosi is. It scares the Jesus right out of them if they believed in him(thinking Bill “Bignose,Bigmouth” Maher here)

adamsmith on August 15, 2009 at 8:57 AM

redslippers on August 15, 2009 at 8:44 AM

Nothing much to it, actually.
First click the emphasis button at the top of the text entry box. Don’t be surprised by the tag (HTML) which appears. That is what tells the web page to highlight the text once it’s posted.

Highlight the text you wish to copy and then right click / copy to put that text into Windows “clipboard.” Then put the blinking vertical bar cursor into the text box where you wish and then right click / paste.
Then remember to click the emphasis button again. Again, another HTML tag will appear preceded by a slash mark. That let’s the web page know to stop emphasizing the text at that point.

Hit the Enter key a couple times to put space between the text you’ve highlighted and your comments so the separation between the two will be clear.

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viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 9:04 AM

She is far more representative of American women, wives, mothers than say Nazi Pelosi is. It scares the Jesus right out of them if they believed in him(thinking Bill “Bignose,Bigmouth” Maher here)

adamsmith on August 15, 2009 at 8:57 AM

Are you a leftie plant? Real conservatives don’t compare democrats to nazis. (Or so i read on Hot Air).

Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 9:04 AM

They fear her….they do this kind of thing to anyone who they know could beat them….you don’t see them talking about Pawlenty, Romney or Huckabee do you?

Sarah Palin 2012

tatersalad on August 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM

BINGO!!!…

One time when I was an IT director I got into a MAC/PC arguement with one of the professors in the faculty lounge. I was just having some fun but then I realized that here temples were doing a funny kind of dance on her head. I quit right then when I realized that I could be showered with blood any second.

Remember that saying about every time you do something a kitten dies or somethng like that.

Well, every time we say something true about Sarah Palin a liberal’s Systolic and Dystolic goes up 2 points. Let’s get those heads ‘splodin…

Or maybe the liberals who thing they are so hot can try keeping up with Sarah during one of her runs in the 30 degreee BELOW zero

bullseye on August 15, 2009 at 9:05 AM

who’s Paul Begala and why does he have such a big forehead?

ted c on August 15, 2009 at 9:06 AM

There’s something about Paul Begala that screams “I will one day be found in a parked car with a dead hooker in the back seat and twenty grams of blow.”

Red Cloud on August 15, 2009 at 9:07 AM

Just for the record I like Sarah Palin personally. I don’t think she is particularly dumb, but I don’t think she the political genius her worshipers make her out to be. I don’t think she was versed enough yet to run for VP but she could be with some time. I admire her commitment to her family and her mothering of Trig. I don’t admire her using him as a political prop to pander to those with disabilities, pro-lifers, and to strike fear in those against healthcare reform. She outright lies and distorts the truth like every politician in existence.

I think it was extremely lame for her to quit her job as governor for anything other than running for higher office. President of the United States is probably the most difficult, unforgiven and hardest job in the world. You can’t quit cause you want to write a book or “speak your mind” or because you wasting money on lawsuits. The lawsuits don’t stop when you become become a senator, house speaker, or even President. They get worse.

However mostly I can’t relate to this woman or her ideals at all. I’m offended that she doesn’t not even attempt to even acknowledge other Americans that do love America exist. Yes I am an American. But unfortunately I don’t qualify as a “Real” American or super patriot. I don’t like guns, I’m not obsessed with the second Amendment, don’t live in some small town, don’t sit with the constitution in my back pocket, I want healthcare reform and don’t mind paying into it. It took me getting sick, giving birth to a sick baby, and a NICU stay to nearly bankrupt me an that was with Health insurance that I was paying nearly 1,000 a month for, and I’m still trying to figure out why the Healthcare opponents and tea party protesters don’t seem to look like me except a random one that supposedly got “beat up”.

I don’t know what “Restoring the country what it was when the founding fathers wrote the constitution” or whatever that lady parroted because as far as I know I the constitution didn’t apply to people that looked like me up until about 50 years ago.

I definitely see Palin worship. You ridicule the Left about their so called Messiah with his unicorn and rainbows but deny your own with her promise of assault rifles and unaborted children that you don’t want to raise, provide insurance for or help pay for through welfare.

Magnus on August 15, 2009 at 9:09 AM

I caught a glimpse of O’reilly last night and there was some jerk named Matt who essentially said the same thing about SP. Laura Ingrahm was interviewing him and Tammy Bruce. All the left can do is name call, they got nothing else on her.

vcferlita on August 15, 2009 at 9:10 AM

RINO!

Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 9:10 AM

Comparing Pelosi to the Nazis is logically consistent.

She’s a pretentious Statist, a Socialist, corrupt megalomaniac and her stare could creep out Joseph Goebbels.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM

Comparing Pelosi to the Nazis is logically consistent.

She’s a pretentious Statist, a Socialist, corrupt megalomaniac and her stare could creep out Joseph Goebbels.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM

Intruder!

Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 9:16 AM

Pelosi also wants us to follow her orders.

Intruder? I’ve been here how many years now? And over at CQ for ages before that.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 9:17 AM

As for Ayers well he has always maintained his innocence.

Spathi on August 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM

Perhaps until the criminal charges were dismissed. After that. it was “Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird. – William Ayers”

Spathi, you need to ramp up your source network and not rely on KosKids talking points. For everything.

BigAlSouth on August 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM

So sayeth the forehead.

gryphon202 on August 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM

I’m still trying to figure out why the Healthcare opponents and tea party protesters don’t seem to look like me except a random one that supposedly got “beat up”.

Magnus on August 15, 2009 at 9:09 AM

I’m still trying to figure out why folks can’t speak their mind without having to “look like” anyone in particular. I’m also trying to figure out why folks whose values are, on average, conservative largely cling to a party of left wing radical socialists whose leadership don’t even remotely resemble the guy who “supposedly got beat up”.

littleguy on August 15, 2009 at 9:36 AM

Begala is a slug.

csdeven on August 15, 2009 at 9:38 AM

“about a half a whack job”

Classy.

By the looks of Begala he’s plenty familiar with “whack jobs” (if you know what I mean).

Disturb the Universe on August 15, 2009 at 9:38 AM

deny your own with her promise of assault rifles and unaborted children that you don’t want to raise, provide insurance for or help pay for through welfare.

Magnus on August 15, 2009 at 9:09 AM</blockquote

I don’t know about you, but I kill myself taking care of 3 children alone. Hours and hours of overtime, just to get by.
It is disinheartening to see “free money,” given out to welfare mothers for their kids to get new clothes for school. They seem to have no idea it is at the expense of the person standing behind the counter selling the clothes to them. Corporate welfare is just as bad. In all of this equation are the people in the middle who pay for it all.
They will now add layers and layers of bureaucracy to the
gorvernment. More jobs paid for by the taxpayers and less private enterprise. Where will the money come from, it is an upside down syster? Mandatory except for the congress who are exempt and did you know the unions are exempt?
This is clearly enslavment and I resent it.
PS Millions of parents are looking for children to adopt.
You think an abortion is better because some fragile ego can’t handle giving birth and then giving up the child. Truth is women who have abortions suffer all of their lives for a decision they made in a minute. Except for someone like Whoopie Goldberg, who admits to six, and she could possibly be just plain evil.

tessa on August 15, 2009 at 9:39 AM

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N2E1OTVkNWYzMDEzOGRlNjk1OWY4NzA5ZWY5ODQyZjk

Billy Ayers is in the news, after many years — and well he should be. And we all owe Stanley Kurtz a lot, for his diligence, public-mindedness, and even bravery. I think I first heard about Ayers and his ilk from those invaluable men, Collier & Horowitz — Peter Collier and David Horowitz. I think in particular of Destructive Generation, an important and searing book by men who were part of that very generation (and did some of the destroying, before waking gloriously up). One line of Ayers sticks with me, in particular. Post-acquittal, he said, “Guilty as sin, free as a bird — what a country, America.” I have quoted it often.

Jay Nordlinger

(Sheesh, what did that take me, 30 seconds searching the net?)

BigAlSouth on August 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM

don’t think lobotomies produce visible scars, because they go in through the nostrils. Just ask Henry Waxman.
DeathB4Tyranny on August 15
Ah!

Ah!

Well I’ll bet I’m not the only one who didn’t know that.

DSchoen on August 15, 2009 at 4:07 AM
I really don’t know either.

I just seized an opportunity to mock Begala and Henry Waxman at the same time….LOL.

DeathB4Tyranny on August 15, 2009 at 4:17 AM

Well, if anyone really cares, lobotomies were performed with an icepick hammered through the skull via the eye socket by the tear duct. Shudder. No longer performed.
However, Paul “The Forehead” Begalas would be a candidate as well as crazy Nancy Borderline Personality Disorder
Pelosi. Waxman needs a nose job. I can’t even stand to look at a photo of him since men’s nose hairs on display is disgusting.
Regarding, Sarah Palin: She reminds me of the small-town, slow-talking Southern lawyers who took down tobacco. Nobody else had the courage and Big Tobacco underestimated them.
The Dems are making the same mistake.
I’m loving it.

BTW thanks for the instruction in posting. :)

redslippers on August 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM

redslippers on August 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM

No problem. By the way… I usually use emphasis instead of quote. If you prefer the quote bar along the left margin then “quote” button is the one you’ll want. It’s all a matter of preference. Remember the preview button at the bottom above submit should you use several or nested text mods and want to test those before posting the final edit.

viking01 on August 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409904574350400852801602.html

The first we heard about Sarah Palin’s “death panels” comment was in a conversation last Friday with an acquaintance who was appalled by it. Our interlocutor is not a Democratic partisan but a high-minded centrist who deplores extremist rhetoric whatever the source. We don’t even know if he has a position on ObamaCare. From his description, it sounded to us as though Palin really had gone too far.

A week later, it is clear that she has won the debate.

President Obama himself took the comments of the former governor of the 47th-largest state seriously enough to answer them directly in his so-called town-hall meeting Tuesday in Portsmouth, N.H. As we noted Wednesday, he was callous rather than reassuring, speaking glibly–to audience laughter–about “pulling the plug on grandma.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that Palin has won a legislative victory as well:

A Senate panel has decided to scrap the part of its healthcare bill that in recent days has given rise to fears of government “death panels,” with one lawmaker suggesting the proposal was just too confusing.

The Senate Finance Committee is taking the idea of advance care planning consultations with doctors off the table as it works to craft its version of healthcare legislation, a Democratic committee aide said Thursday.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the committee, said the panel dropped the idea because it could be “misinterpreted or implemented incorrectly.” . . .

The Palin claim about “death panels” was so widely discredited that the White House has begun openly quoting it in an effort to show that opponents of the healthcare overhaul are misinformed.

Keemo on August 15, 2009 at 10:43 AM

The Palin claim about “death panels” was so widely discredited that the White House has begun openly quoting it in an effort to show that opponents of the healthcare overhaul are misinformed.

Keemo on August 15, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Ah, the new lexicon. “Misinformed” = you caught me in a lie; “Misspoke” = OK that was stupid; “Nuance” = talking out of both sides of your mouth. Slightly OT, but I bet Obama pulled the plug on his own grandmother.

alliebobbitt on August 15, 2009 at 10:51 AM

Paul Begalla is a woman trapped in a man’s body.

He fears Palin, which is why he bends over backwards to tank her.

Won’t work, though, because his beloved Democrats will own the deficit, high taxes and inflation, all of which are certainties in 2010, in the next 2 election cycles.

molonlabe28 on August 15, 2009 at 10:51 AM

Golly it’s almost like Begala doesn’t know how politics works…in a democracy… Hm.

curved space on August 15, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Henry Waxman

alliebobbitt on August 15, 2009 at 10:54 AM

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