I find this story to be quite plausible, if taken in the general context of the media’s attempts to make Caribou Barbie into something she isn’t.
You know what I mean. They have been her faithful servant every step of the way as she’s tried to portray herself as intelligent, down to earth, “just like you,” popular…. you will find scarcely a story anywhere in the major media about how she pumped up sales of her book by using her PAC to buy a whole bunch of them, or first-hand accounts of her stunning ignorance about little things like Africa being a continent, or the fact that she didn’t know why there are two Koreas (and good Dog Almighty, she is from a generation that grew up with *M*A*S*H in their living rooms once a week.) The MSM also doesn’t seem to know anything about the fact that she’s walked off of practically every job she’s ever had, or her sweetheart deal while she was Mayor of Wasilla that got a Wasilla contractor to supply the building materials for her mansion dirt cheap, or….. I’ll just stop here. You know what I mean.
No, I don’t find it hard to believe that Leno would have done what he could to make her appear more popular, as he has a long history of kissing right wing asses. I wasn’t ever planning on watching Leno again anyway, but this seals it. I’m with Howard Stern when it comes to Leno; the mere mention of his name makes me want to vomit.
I’ve dealt with sound engineering for 30 years, as a film maker, interviewer, musician, working with master reel to reel tapes/decks at EMS Music in Seattle in the 80’s as a sound duplication engineer, or setting sound levels for my and other bands in live situations at shows. I won a Hollywood award for animation in 2000. I know sound. And it’s my opinion that audio portions of Sarah Palin’s March 2nd appearance on Jay Leno’s Tonight show were added or amplified, edited before broadcast to make it appear that Sarah Palin was more welcome than she was.
I know. I was there.
They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn’t help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical – nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.
After sitting through the taping of the show in the studio I can recount many portions where there was little or no laughter or response, but at the later broadcast they are smoothed over with applause and laughter that WERE NOT THERE at the taping. Groans, hoots, grumbling, or just dead silence – all missing.
Well now isn’t THAT interesting?
You know I wondered how Palin was able to elicit such big laughs from an audience that I assumed was probably made up of mostly progressives. This fellow’s explanation certainly makes sense.
From my seat to the right of the stage, by the band, I could tell that an average of 70% of the audience did not like Sarah Palin. Many literally sat on their hands. This is LA and I wondered when we went in, just how many people would be into Palin here. C’mon, this is LA, man! Make no mistake, the national figure for nutjobs were represented, the same insane 30% of the country that always believe in racism, GWBush, War, Torture, the Libertarians, Teabaggers were there too, and quite vocal. Throw in a shotgun microphone and you’ve got yourself a laugh riot with these guys.
Now in the interest of full disclosure it should probably be noted that this guy is NOT a Palin fan, and in fact he and his wife created the “Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book”.
However that alone does not insinuate that he is a liar. In fact, using my own personal measuring tool for determining if a person is lying, the very fact that he reports the opposite of what Sarah Palin wants us to believe virtually assures that he is being honest.
Check out this guy’s description of what Sarah’s stage presence looked like from the audience and decide for yourself if it does not jive with other times you have seen Palin in front of a live audience.
Jay came out to raucous applause, hell, we clapped too, I like the guy, not as much as Letterman or Connan but I’m a comedy fan, and some of the show as funny. Shaun White was way cool, funny, authentic, there multiple ovations, and Adam Lambert ROCKED the house, as the latest and future incarnation of David Bowie. Lots of fun.
But when Jay brought out Sarah Palin, she was completely nerved. Watch the video, check out her breathing, she’s Freaked and talks a mile a minute. Both my wife and I agreed – when you actually get close enough, she’s just plain Creepy, and those yech vibes filled the room. Nevermind the applause sign – something that’s a staple of late night shows.
Now as somebody who has witnessed a number of Sarah Palin speeches first hand, this rings very true. Even while giving her speech in front of her hometown crowd she was often frantic, with her voice changing pitch in the oddest places throughout her speech.
Now what I am REALLY interested in is whether having the Tonight Show technicians put a positive spin on the audience reaction was part of her deal for showing up. And whether that is also the case when she appears on other programs.
If true it absolutely guarantees she will never do a David Letterman show, or sit with John Stewart, or even Stephen Colbert. THEY would never provide cover for her on their shows. And I have NO doubt that Palin would never expose herself to their hostile audiences without some protection.
And speaking of protection check out what our friend says about Palin’s security.
The basic rules for the studio audience were simple: NO Eating, NO drinking and NO shouting anything out. Other than that, knock yourselves out, have a good time. Yet, judging by the Security surrounding the stage where Palin brought the Silly, shouting out, “Hey Sarah, How many wolf puppies have you gassed?!” would have been suicidal.
What the hell is she so frightened about?
“Hey Sarah! Liberals don’t use violence! You don’t have to fear us. The only thing we would assault you with is the tru……oh….now I get it! I guess in Sarah’s world truth is the scariest weapon of all.”
Any time Caribou Barbie is running without a net, she’s frightened. Somewhere in the back of what passes for her mind, even she must realize how woefully inadequate she is for just about any task. There’s a reason she only presents herself in venues where she doesn’t have to answer any questions, or face any surprises.
I did watch a bit of the Caribou Barbie appearance on HuffPo, and now I wish I didn’t. Like everything else Caribou Barbie, it appears to have been a lie. That figures though; a liar like Jay Leno would have been completely at ease with bringing an even worse fraud than he is on his show, since it almost “normalizes” both of them to millions of unsuspecting eyes.
You all know that I’ve called Caribou Barbie stupid many, many times. And I stand by that, but I think I’m going to have to amend it just a little. She IS, in fact, a savant of sorts.
I have to hand it to Caribou Barbie-there are no equals to her when it comes to thinking up ways to separate rubes (sometimes known to Rushpubliscums as “donors”) from their money.
While she was Mayor of Wasilla, she got enough materials thrown her way to put up a mansion, cheap. During the Rushpubliscum Presidential campaign, the RNC gave her a credit card, which she melted down, as she was running it through the swipers at Nieman-Marcus and Sak’s Fifth Avenue at about 4 times the speed of sound.
Caribou Barbie “got it.” She figured out Alaska was small potatoes. The REAL money was down in the lower 48, where the dupes were practically begging to be fleeced. All it takes is a lot of lying and a little sleight of hand, both of which Caribou Barbie does better than almost anyone else.
Look at how she’s prospered! No more crummy building material payoffs for this gal. She quit that stupid Governor’s job and headed south, dragging along a few steamer trunks to load up with the proceeds of her con games. And what con games they are! First, she had someone else write a book for her and collected a multimillion-dollar “advance” for “her” troubles. Then, she got FOX “News” to give her a slot on their network, undoubtedly with some remuneration. She’ll also be relieving the “teabaggers” of $100,000.00 in the near future.
But you know, even with all that going on, Caribou Barbie’s best con game of all is her PAC. As you can see here, she’s figured out how to get it to pay her without just sticking her hand in the till.That PAC could continue to pay her long after her other schemes lose steam. Actually, we KNOW it will, because the idiots donating to it all have their blood down in their extremities, rather than up in their brains (and I use that term loosely.)
Yeah, this one’s just a reg’lar old hockey mom, yessirree. Just like you and me.
Sarah Palin’s political action committee has spent more than $63,000 to buy copies of her autobiography as “books for fund-raising donor fulfillment” and paid her publisher $20,000 to send a photographer and aide on her book tour.
The payments went to Harper Collins, publisher of “Going Rogue,” and in some cases to HSP Direct, a fund-raising company that serves conservative politicians and pundits. The payments were first reported by ABC News.
SarahPac, which raised $2.1 million in 2009, spent an additional $8,000 on colorful bookmarks designed by a Nashville firm.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is due another payday this week at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. Palin is being paid $100,000 as the convention’s keynoter.
Reps Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., who was to introduce Palin, withdrew from the convention last week, as did Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. The two congresswomen backed off amid protests from various tea party organizations over the for-profit outfit running the event.
“Oh, you betcha I’m going to be there,” Palin, a pundit on Fox News, told Fox’s Greta Van Susteren.
“I’m going to speak because there are people traveling from many miles away to hear what the tea party movement is all about and what that message is that should be received by our politicians in Washington. I’m honored to get to be there.”
Oh, we know what the movement is all about. For Caribou Barbie, at least. If Caribou Barbie’s involved, we know there’s a big payoff coming. Always.
I’m not sure what “message” she’s thinking the Washington pols should be receiving, though. Could it be, “YOU ARE SUCKERS!!!”, perhaps? None of them, for all of their corruption, can hold a candle to the Queen of the Grifters.
I have been keeping an eye on the speakers lineup for the annual neocon lovefest here in Bakersfield, called interestingly enough: Bakersfield Business Conference. There has been one regularly for decades. It’s put on by the largest business law practice in this part of the state and possibly state wide. Borton Petrini.
Full disclosure: I worked for the firm for a very short time. As in 85 days. We didn’t ‘blend’ well which means it was far too rightwing nutter for me.
And they weren’t fond of me either. But I digress…the list of neocons that will be speaking there is like a who’s who of the entire fucking group of well-known rightwing nutters:
Newt Gingrich
Palin
Mitt Romney
The Big Dick Cheney™
Lynne Cheney
Laura Bush
Rudy 911 Giuliani
Eleanor Clift
Rove..yes that Karl Rove
And they are adding to the list weekly. Laura fucking Bush?? WTF is that about?
And some of you actually didn’t believe me when I said in live in the reddest part of California. tsk..tsk..tsk. Now if only the planets would align on that day and the biggest bolt of lightening ever seen hits that fucking building.
This would be one area where I’d think this ignorant POS would be afraid to throw stones, but I obviously misunderestimated how stupid she actually is.
She might be able to lie about having produced a birth certificate herself, but it doesn’t change a thing. The simple fact of the matter is that there is a hell of a lot more proof available as to Obama’s origins than there is to Trig Palin’s.
Let’s face it-anyone who has heard the story she tells about the many hours she spent speaking and jetting after her “water broke” knows she’s a lying piece of shit. I can’t swear as to exactly what the circumstances of Trig’s birth actually are, but I’d almost swear as to what they AREN’T.
In a radio appearance Thursday, former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said questions about President Obama’s birth certificate — a spurious attempt to argue that he’s not a US citizen and thus ineligible for President — are fair game for debate.
Transcript and video follows.
HUMPHRIES: Sarah Palin here on the Rusty Humphries Show. One of the questions Jason asks is would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?
PALIN: I think the public rightly is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue because I think there are enough members of the electorate that still want answers.
HUMPHRIES: Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?
PALIN: I think it’s a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game. You know, I’ve got to tell you too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area. We didn’t call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don’t think that was fair to voters to not have done our job as candidates and a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we’re seeing manifest in the administration.
HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama’s past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?
PALIN: Hey, you know, that’s a great point. And that weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn’t my real son, and a lot of people that went “Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he’s your kid,” which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one.
No, as a matter of fact, they sure haven’t done that. Why don’t they get us a few sworn affadavits while they’re at it?
There is something very, very wrong that is being covered up at the heart of the Trig Palin story. I have a feeling I know what it is, and if I’m right, a bunch of people belong in jail somewhere, instead of shopping their ridiculous afterbirther bullshit.
The Palin clan, exemplars of American values, hunting from aircraft, hunting without a license, conducting petty vendettas against ex-family members and local officials, firing officials who resist their abuse of power, money grubbing grifters defrauding Republican donors with their unrestrained shopping sprees, rabble rousing hate mongers at political rally’s, high school drop outs, drug dealing mothers, announced the birth outside of wedlock of Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, and the payment in excess of $100,000 for the rights to publish the first baby pictures.
A fine example of the American work ethic and human values. Is there any mystery as to why Americans have a poor reputation in much of the rest of the world?
Twenty first century hillbillies, who if they were honest would name their new offspring “Meal Ticket Johnston Palin”.
“McCain’s VP choice, Sarah Palin, suddenly made me want to vote for him, as long as the LORD smites him while he’s in office. She’s consistently conservative on all the issues, and if she’s good enough for The Forerunner, she’s good enough for me. The Forerunner agrees with me that McCain must be smitten, as well, so I’m obviously not alone in my viewpoints.”
“Pray for John McCain’s salvation and speedy death.”
“May the LORD cause McCain/Palin to win the White House in 2008, and then smite the godless McCain in favor of Palin. Amen.”
Patt Morrison, writing for Huffington Post has (gleefully) not let up in terms of going after the hypocracy of Sarah Palin:
Over the weekend, Governor Sarah Palin was backing away from Wardrobe-Gate like, well, like an Alaskan moose backing away from the barrel of a 30-06 Winchester.
She was back to wearing her own clothes, Palin said pointedly. And she had bought a lot of them from her favorite store, a resale shop in Anchorage called ”Out of the Closet.”
That name … it rings a bell in Southern California ears, doesn’t it? “Out of the Closet” is a chain of nonprofit thrift stores operated by and for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Liz Taylor has donated stuff to it. So have Carol Burnett and Aaron Spelling and the makers of “The X Files” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
I raised questions about this in my weekend blog here and on the LA Times site. Why? Because the OOTC shop in Anchorage, beloved of Palin, makes no mention whatsoever of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation on its website. OOTC’s AIDS charity status is a huge selling point for the California stores. So I posed the question, “Trademark lawyer alert?”
Question answered. At a press conference today, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation did two things…
And two, the foundation’s lawyers are pressing the trademark infringement issue against the Anchorage OOTC, sending off a ”cease and desist” letter about the name that’s been above the doors of the foundation’s AIDS benefit shops since 1990.
“Out of the Closet” is a federal trademark, and yes, that means Alaska, too. As Palin herself noted rather indignantly in a Katie Couric interview, “Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, `Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C. may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?’ ”
If this woman can not even formulate an effective response to such an (ultimately) insignificant issue as this, that does not get her in to deeper doo doo, how the hell does any person capable of rational thought think Palin is capable of holding the office of vice president?
i don’t tend to be subtle when it comes to blogging. unlike john mccain, i genuinely try to be a straight talkin’ person because honestly, i don’t think i have room in my head to remember so many lies. apparently, he doesn’t either. but i digress. there is no other way to put this so here goes- america is fighting a third war- here in america. it is the 2nd civil war- and it doesn’t pit north against south- it pits right against left; rich against poor. the right has declared war on ‘liberals’ and all one has to do is listen to hate radio; faux news; and, apparently, congress where bachman recently wanted to revive mccarthyism against members of congress and americans on the left. make no mistake- and i am deadly serious- these people want to eradicate liberals and democrats. by any means necessary. democratic party headquarters in denver were recently vandalized and numerous death threats against senator obama have come out- and the secret service have half assedly investigated a few.
the sad part is- people in this country middle and left- really believe that voting is going to work and that everything is going to be alright again. if the last 8 years haven’t proven that this country isn’t about business and politics as usual- i am wasting my breath. make no mistake- america as we knew it is over and those neighbors you thought you knew- well, take another look.
The last presidential debate is over.Fewer people watched this debate than watched the second. Most people think that Barack Obama was the more successful debater. And, because that is the case, the Republican smear machine is still in operation, according to Wired.com (#).
E-mail smears have targeted Obama’s patriotism since his presidential run began, but the Sacramento website appears to be the first case of the smears being openly adopted by an official GOP organization. The attacks come as polling shows voters growing increasingly impatient with the perceived negative tone of Obama rival John McCain’s campaign, following attacks seeking to link Obama to a former 1960’s radical.
Truth squads are out. There are websites dedicated to that work. Television networks make some attempts to help viewers sort fact from fiction. Attempts to define Barack Obama as somehow dangerous are back-firing. Recent weeks have proven that racism remains a nasty reality* in far too many places#. And it was unleased# by the McCain campaign#. John McCain has been playing with fire.# People worry about the potential for violence#. Moreover, McCain is losing credibility as a true maverick with the general public, and also with many in the mainstream media*.
“Joe the Plumber” is on the hotseat, along with Sarah Palin,# according to Yahoo! News#. Joe is actually a worker. He is not a licensed plumber, and several government entities that have jurisdiction are probing further. Veep candidate, Sarah Palin, is also having major ethics problems#. Palin’s problems are turning out to be the perfect example of that old saw, “the pot calling the kettle black*.”
TV ad buys for presidential candidates are in a state of flux. It is quite a contrast. Obama is going to be speaking to the nation on many major networks for a half hour soon. And the Republicans are forced to cut back on any advertising in several states. Voting has begun for many people. Many people worry that the Republicans will somehow steal the election#. There are predictions that there will be major voting problems, a possible “major meltdown, according to Yahoo News#Time magazine reports that college students will be particularly affected, “facing major stumbling blocks#.”
President George W. Bush has 94 days left in office. There have been 4185 military deaths in the Iraq war since March of 2003. And in 18 days it will be Election Day. Get the picture?
Hat Tip Key: Most of today’s story leads came from my regular contributors, Jon (#), and “betmo” (*).
i don’t care what david frum thinks- humor, satire, etc. is what we need to be able to break the ice and get down to the truth and real issues. thanks to mark fiore for always delivering. h/t to our very own fran of ramblings.
There are a bunch of reasons I hate the idea of John McCain being the next president. His palling around with the Bush/Cheney bunch is one. The fact that he wants to keep our troops in Iraq for a long long time is another. I really don’t like his ideals or the way he panders to those who would take away womens rights. But the biggest reason I hate the threat of a McCain administration is he is fucking old.
Now, don’t get me wrong here. I am not saying his age would keep him from leading us down that road to hell even faster than the Cheney administration has. Not trying to say a 70 plus man couldn’t make a few decent decisions and even sponsor a bill or two that may do our nation good.
Look at Ted Kennedy for example. He has done many good things, even in his later years. Some screwed up things too but good over all. But he is old now as well and I would probably be scared if he was running for POTUS. See…old dudes tend to have a bigger chance of dying soon.
I am one of a huge, and growing group of Americans who see the big probability of Sarah Palin becoming the successor to the vacated office John would leave if he died. The majority of us are more frightened of her than of him. Her constant babbling shows she is not ready to be the Supreme Figurehead. In fact we realize she will never be ready.
I was playing around on the internet today and saw some stuff that scared me. A lot of you have probably seen the footage of her speaking at the church graduation where she is a member. Thats some scary stuff.
I mean it “is gawds will” that a pipeline goes up in Alaska. The war in Iraq is an annointed mission that is also gawds will. A holy war if you will.
With the announcement of Alaska officials that she violated laws and abused her power in getting her family grudge settled I grew even more fearful of a McCain presidency. If she will violate rules and judicial proceedures on a state level how many federal and international regulations and treaties will she break? Will she take the Bush/Cheney Executive priveledge to even more horrific levels? Will she expand the holy war already being fought in the Middle East to a world wide destructive level?
I think she would. I think the blessings given her by her former pastor and the re blessing of the current one is her “Voice From Gawddd”. These men are the ones running her life and thoughts…well…at least until now. She has more right wing powerful religious zealots backing her now. And the are gonna back her until they use her to bring the Bible’s Book Of Revelation to pass. At least thats how the Assemblies Of God churches believe it will happen and most will back her to the death…of the world.
Use your favorite search engine to check out her churches (the Wasilla Assembly Of God) “Master Commission” program that she is a degree holder in. See if that doesn’t scare you a bit. Then sit back and imagine if the McCain/Palin ticket gets voted in. Hell…she may even have him offed so she can be the one to usher in the Armageddon of prophesy.
After all her Master certificate says she is now one of “Gawds Prophets”.
Fuck all of the P C crowd that defends the McCain ticket us “Agists”. I am just wanting the best for my country.
we have been bombarded from all sides lately- election crap, economy, corruption and erosion of civil liberties… the list goes on and on. i have a sneaking suspicion that all of us just want the damned election to be over- the damned holidays to be over- and the damned depression to be over. but we would still be left with a significant mess. stop and think for a moment and sift through all of the senses that have just been overloaded- and what you are left with is a bigger problem than the economy or the election. it’s us as a nation.
we, on the left, like to think that we are above the knuckle draggers on the right- the ones we continue to see played over and over on youtube. but we aren’t. we aren’t because we have closet knuckle draggers on our side. the ones who blah, blah, blah about inclusion and sing kumbaya but then work to exclude people of color from actually participating. i have heard that allegation many times from women of color and lgbt women regarding the feminist movement and it was complained about in the last few elections from ‘minority’ folks who felt ignored by the democratic party until election time. not only that, but we have allowed the rabid right wing base to take over this country through our inactivity and lack of engagment for decades. we treated our civic duties the way we treat our children- hands off and an accessory to our lives while we go to work in our suv and then to the all included cruise to the bahamas every year. it’s up to someone else to deal with- and the rest of the world be damned. yes, dems are as guilty as the rethugs.
i am always interested in points of view that aren’t american or are americans abroad observing. ‘young americans abroad‘ expresses the arrogance that many talk about when describing americans in general- and the jingoistic nationalism at palin rallies just drives that home. and palin seems to naturally gravitate towards that group- the nationalistic, white supremacists who tote guns and call themselves ‘middle class’- who don’t necessarily want women in positions of power but hey, it’s better than a black muslim arab terrorist guy, right?
we, on the left, played politics as usual for decades- we just sat by and grumbled and griped and waited it out until the next election. something finally dawned on us though- there may not be anymore elections if we don’t get ourselves involved. unfortunately, it came too late- because the legislation passed is almost impossible to overturn now- even if the folks who take over were of the mind to try. and i doubt that they would be. unbridled power is heady stuff. so, like it or not, america is what we never wanted to believe or face- it is not the best and brightest; it is not the beacon of democracy or a shining example to the world; it is a wannabe empire that has no regard for non westerners and non whites and wants what it wants of the world’s resources and starving children in africa be damned! and our only hope is that the world doesn’t stop being hospitable to life before the inmates stop running the asylum. ’cause the inmates are us. and the left is just as guilty as the right for buying into the ‘fighting terror over there so we don’t have to fight over here’ and ruin our middle class, suburban way of life. and, just like john mccain- we have sown the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind.
or maybe she prayed and it all got better. who the hell knows? no one can ask her. coming on the heels of her ‘coming out debut’ i mean vice presidential debate, the guardian, uk, ripped palin a new one. and today, uber conservative talking head, david brooks said that she ‘represents a fatal cancer to the republican party.” ouch. well, i guess it’s a good thing that she lives in alaska far away from all of the meanies in the lower 48 states. alaskans apparently don’t like us all that much.
i am thinking that the decison to do character assassination by bringing back the wright, ayers and reczko things- well, i have a feeling it’s going to backfire. palin has a scary church of her own- as well as ‘palling around with terrorists’ up in alaska. and mccain, apparently, of a group who, according to the anti defamation league “had increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racist and anti-Semites.”
but i guess if you have nothing to run on- you can only fall back on running your opponent’s name through the mud.
do candidates usually go mia during campaigns? well, pow maverick john mccain sure does! you betcha! first, he allegedly suspended the whole campaign. now, mccain is retreating back to his ranch in sedona, arizona after raising ‘the white flag of surrender’ in michigan. allegedly, to prepare for tuesday’s debate. since it worked so well for bible spice, i guess old spice decided to give it a go. according to rasmussen today, obama is currently leading in the polls 51% to 45%. the vp polls are supposed to be released later today.
The Palin clan, exemplars of American values, hunting from aircraft, hunting without a license, conducting petty vendettas against ex-family members and local officials, firing officials who resist their abuse of power, money grubbing grifters defrauding Republican donors with their unrestrained shopping sprees, rabble rousing hate mongers at political rally’s, high school drop outs, drug dealing mothers, announced the birth outside of wedlock of 
i am thinking that the decison to do character assassination by bringing back the wright, ayers and reczko things- well, i have a feeling it’s going to backfire. palin has a scary church of her own- as well as ‘palling around with terrorists’ up in alaska. and mccain, apparently, of a group who, according to the anti defamation league “had increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racist and anti-Semites.”
