Chapter Three – Drill, Baby, Drill (Part One)
18 11 2009Once again a great beginning.
Page 105-106
It’s the middle of winter, and ten degrees below zero. It’s nighttime and it’s dark. It’s Thompson Pass on the way to Valdez. Driving is “treacherous” and this area has very little traffic, hazardous conditions, and an average snow dump of 50 feet in the winter. Sarah Palin is cresting the pass which skirts a 400 foot precipice, zipping along in her black Jetta drinking sugar-free RedBull and fumbling around to put on a Toby Keith CD while she is driving with the window down to keep herself from falling asleep. She wishes she’d taken Todd’s big 4-wheel drive truck but she didn’t so she’s in this little Jetta. AND HER CHILDREN ARE SLEEPING IN THE CAR! This trip, according to Palin, was the same distance as New York to Raleigh North Carolina, and it was a trip she didn’t need to take. Unbelievable. Every Alaskan parent is cringing right now. Well….except her.
“It was a tough road to barrel down in the dark.” But she was running for governor now and she was having a ball getting out there and meeting people, so it’s all OK. Former State Senate President Rick Halford asked her to run for governor. Thanks, Rick. His encouragement was a “signpost on the road.” Not the frozen treacherous road she was barreling down in the dark with her kids in the car, the road from God.
Page 107
Halford reiterated that it would be brutal on family life, but that she should do it anyway. She agreed.
Andree McLeod is mentioned. “Andree the Gadfly.” (More name calling. Welcome to Jr. High yet again.) When McLeod ran for mayor she had an “ill-advised logo of giant red lips and the slogan ‘Kiss off Special Interests.’” Oh, reeeeealllly…..
Good thing she never had anything unfortunate with big red lips like that. It would have been most ill-advised.
Everyone was afraid for their children’s freedom. Alaska was going to be “Left Behind.” Growth of government bureaucracy was out of control! We had to stop it and had to stop it NOW…. This was the root of our problems.
Page 109
Voters wanted drilling and they wanted change. Kicked off her campaign on Bristol’s birthday so they had cake at the gathering.
Back to the death ride from Valdez. Here she was “still toting kids on the campaign trail” only now it was in the Jetta instead of on a sled. She talked at the event about “unshackling the private sector.” She promised in front of everyone that if she was elected governor, “I won’t let you down.” (Ummm… like accepting the VP nomination and then quitting?)
Page 110
She was the first one to file for governor. Clark (high school friend) and Kris Perry got her campaign off the ground. She painted her campaign office red. (No, I guess it didn’t just ooze from the walls spontaneously that way)
Page 111
“We built a network of nonpolitical, hardworking, Alaskans…” (Were there any from the DemocRAT party perchance?)
Puff paragraph on Kristan Cole. They were both “wired to handle that pressure through faith in Providence…”
Her focus on the campaign would be to get that gas pipeline built that so many others before them did not. Other people had promised to do it but they didn’t do it. SHE was going to do it. (Looking through binoculars for pipeline) No more sponging off the federal government for us. We were going to give baby give.
Page 112
Intro to the Corrupt Bastards Club – She was going to clean up the “favor factory” in the Capitol building. Alaskans felt disenfranchised from their own government, and they were going to clean it up. Since she was campaigning on ethics reform “critics start trolling to see what kind of dirt you’ve got under your fingernails.” She told everyone to dig deep. She’d gotten a D in a college course (English?) and yelled at the wrong kid for not taking out the trash. Those are her skeletons.
***********pause for laughter************
Page 113
Road trips to tiny towns “flung across” Alaska.
Page 114
People gave them pie.
They played the BlackEyed Peas and LL Cool J in the car.
She found it amusing when Barack Obama “one of whose senior advisors (come to think of it) – had roots in Alaska – adopted the same theme. Yes folks, you read that right. She is insinuating that Barack Obama stole HER idea to run a campaign on “change” via Pete Rouse. I bet nobody in political history EVER ran a campaign with a change theme before.
Page 115
A round-table primary debate allowed Murkowski and Binkley to go after each other with “claws” out. She just let them fight and then swooped in at the end acting like a mom and saying that Alaska deserved better discourse, proving that there is no better preparation for politics than motherhood. (I wonder if she took a road trip with them at 10 below in a Jetta across Thompson pass drinking Redbull and rolling the window down to stay awake. Now THAT’s motherhood.)
Questions turned to abortion. She would choose life in each and every case, and said so – if a woman were raped, if it was her daugher, if it was incest or whatever.
She won the primary.
Page 116
This piece of brilliance came from the Alaska Dispatch. And thank you Andrew Halcro for correcting what was an obvious unintentional blunder from Palin who said “Democrat governor” instead of “Democratic governor.” I’m glad you said it correctly, despite you being all effete and everything.
Page 117-118
Halcro, “the Wasilla town crier” (Kilkenny) and “the falafel lady” Andree McLeod were considered credible sources by the national press. Imagine that! I wonder if they engaged in juvenile, petty bitter name-calling? That would be really lame, and people would find it hard to take them seriously. You know, like if they called you “the crazy lady” or “the Wasilla town whack job” or something.
There was a debate at a chamber of commerce luncheon. She chose to send Sean Parnell (the Lt. Governor nominee) to attend in her stead, and she went instead to visit with the troops who were about to be deployed because that was more important than a silly Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Irony Alert! The very same Sean Parnell (who became governor when she quit) decided it was more important to attend an Association of General Contractors luncheon than to meet the President who was stopping off 2 miles down the road to honor the troops last week. I just had to throw that out there.
Todd has an interesting Grandmother who is an Alaska Native.
Page 119
Campaign staff all brought their kids on the road. They memorized Big & Rich, and Travis Tritt songs. Her commercials were “Little House on the Tundra.”
Page 120
She won the governor’s race.
Her father and his friends went to Humpy’s bar “which they said was like a funeral” because it was the Tony Knowles’ crowd. They gloat and try to start a hip hip hooray cheer for Sarah but it doesn’t go over well. Nice guys.
Page 121
In the first of many “Juneau last” incidents, she decided to be sworn in in Fairbanks in the hockey arena.
Page 122
She thanks the students who played hookie to attend the inauguration for “warming up the place”.
She winked at Kris Perry. (Is she trying to establish a pattern of winking behavior, or what? This is the second winking reference.)
Page 123
She said “Alaskans, hold me accountable, and right back atcha!” (Umm…. OK. Will do.) God decided to “overwhelmingly bless” Alaska, because Alaskans are better than all the people that were underwhelmingly blessed.
Page 124
Decided that until there was a road built to Juneau that she should just work in Anchorage and not in the capital because she was all about open and transparent government and giving the people access. (chuckling)
From her office “We overlook Cook Inlet, abundant with sea life, including salmon, halibut and beluga whales, all safely coexisting with offshore oil rigs for the last thirty years.” (Yes, if by “safely coexisting” you mean that the beluga whale is now on the endangered species list after a population crash and you decided to dispute the listing and threatened to sue the federal government over it. Then, yes.)
We all need to be like Ronald Reagan. Again.
Page 125-129
All about starting off getting a gasline. (I look around for a gasline. I peek under my napkin. “No gasline here!”)
She meets with oil executives who backed her opponents and thought to herself, “Hmmm. You just spent a year trying to kick my ass. I just spent a year trying to kick yours. And now we’re in this room together. Out loud I asked, ‘Want a cookie?’”
(THUD)
That was the sound of my head hitting the desk.
They were reaching out to Greenies, Grannies and Gunnies to support the gasline. (clean burning fuel, price of energy, and national security)
Page 130
Alaska is big.
Willow dragged a bunch of girls in pajamas outside to see a sow and cubs.
Track was away playing hockey in Michigan for the semester.
Page 131
The Governor’s Mansion in Juneau is really cool.
Page 132
Tried to light a fire in the fireplace, but the dampers were shut. Fire department came.
Staff loved Piper.
Page 133
The chef “seemed so darn bored” because the kids didn’t like fancy food so they fired her to save money.
They saved the state even more money by eating fish they caught themselves, and moose chili.
If any vegans came over she could explain “her philosophy on being a carnivore. If God had not intended for us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?” (So, why did he make us out of meat? Does God want us to be cannibals? Oh, the dangers of bumper sticker wisdom.)
Hollywood pressured her to “halt hunting, ban guns, and end wildlife management such as predator control.” (Banning guns? I believe it was shooting wolves out of airplanes. Slight difference.)
Page 134
“I had plenty of backup when telling Hollywood liberals what I thought of their asinine plan to ban guns.”
“One animal rights group recruited a perky, pretty celebrity” to attack the policy of shooting wolves from airplanes. The “perky pretty” celebrity is also known as a “delicate starlet” in previous Palin snipes. That would be Ashley Judd. So why does she pick on other women’s “perkiness” or “prettiness.” To quote her famous retort – would that happen to a man?
She finds it ironic that Ms. Judd would oppose shooting wolves from airplanes which was backed up by TWO ballot initiatives, but is perfectly fine accepting a role in Hollywood where she uses guns to kill “predatory humans.” (Um, ex-governor? Hollywood movies aren’t REAL. They’re just pretend…like a made up story. Nobody actually dies, and the guns aren’t real. But reality IS real. Do you see the difference? Am I making sense?) And besides if we didn’t shoot wolves from airplanes Alaska Natives would starve!
Page 135
Piper joined in at the table during important meetings in the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau, and served cake and sat in her lap and whispered things to her.
Page 136
Entitlement programs get people dependent on them.
Todd was called the “Shadow Governor” only because nobody could find anything legitimate to pick on him about.
Page 137
They got a puppy named AGIA for the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. She will not forgive the people that gave her the puppy. Willow got “busted” bringing the puppy to her office. There was another puppy too. (What ever happened to those puppies? They vanished. What the heck was in that darn chili?)
Trying to avoid “any whiff of impropriety” she banned Willow from riding with her dear friend’s mom because she was a lobbyist. Willow said ethics laws would ruin her life, and that people wouldn’t “pick on her” if she didn’t do anything wrong. “You’d be surprised,” her mother answers. (oy.) Finally she gives in but makes sure to note the ride sharing on her disclosure forms but insisted Willow cannot take so much as a Gatorade from the family. Willow rolls her eyes farther back into her head than any teenager alive.
Page 138
There were threats against Willow of gang rape by “students at her Juneau school.” Same threats against Bristol. Somebody threatened to shoot Bristol from a helicopter.
Piper learned how to ride a bike. She got to yell “Yay me!” with nobody to tell her to be humble and quiet. She wants every child to say “Yay me!” without being humble and quiet.
Page 139
She did not require her staff to live in Juneau.
Meg Stapleton did work previously for GOP “power broker” Fred Malek. (Didn’t know that)
Page 140
McCain campaign would only allow her to bring one staffer on the trail – Kris Perry.
Juneau is a den of iniquity. Drunken bowling, drunken brawls, sleeping around, quickies at lunchtime, infidelity, secret meetings, illegal acts. “In short it was a lot like Washington D.C.” She didn’t have time to keep up with the “cocktail circuit” and all the gossip. Some people held that against her. But some people were good.
Juneau’s corruption problems are because it’s inaccessible. Some people want to keep it that way so it can stay corrupt.
Page 141-142
Corrupt Bastards Club and ethics investigation. She reached across the aisle to Democrats. Republicans didn’t like it and told her not to try to reform things. They knew which bills would pass and which ones wouldn’t, and it all depended on who was sleeping with whom.
Page 143
Doesn’t believe in homosexual marriage, but the constitution said that denying benefits was unconstitutional so she had to support that.
Page 144
Slamming John Bittney (not by name). Her “first legislative director” was a “Blackberry games addict who couldn’t seem to keep lunch off his tie.” He liked to think of himself as a “player” in Juneau. He told her to have a “come to Jesus” meeting with lawmakers and tell them that they needed adult supervision. She did tell them that and they didn’t like it. She wanted to blame him, but he shrugged.
Page 145
She told the Democrats that for every law they enacted she wanted to see two repealed. They didn’t like that.
Page 146
Bumper sticker – Dear God, Please Give Us Another Oil Boom an We Promise Not to Piss it Away This Time. (I’ve only seen that bumper sticker that said “Spill” instead of “Boom” and yes, I was horrified.)
Quoting Thomas Paine? Does she actually know who he is?
Page 147
Both parties spend too much, but at least with Democrats their “fiscal liberalism is expected.” Like how they want to fund a Woodstock Music Festival museum and have the taxpayers pay to celebrate an LSD flashback.
Murkowski grew the budget and he bought a jet. “That darn jet.” “After I was elected, I listed the thing on eBay and an agent finally sold it.” ((Ding ding ding! A moment of TRUTH!)) Remember in the campaign speech when she said that she put the jet on eBay and that was IT? Now, at least she drops that it was an agent who sold it. Maybe next time, she’ll fess up altogether and talk about how she sold it at a loss.
She saved money by firing the chef so they didn’t have to pay for fancy meals. “My kids still hold that against me.” (Wildly flipping back and forth between page 147 and page 133 where she said that the kids DIDN’T like fancy food and the chef was “so darn bored.” Well, I don’t know which it is, but ….
Page 147
She was noble and took per diem only for herself and did not accept the $60 per day per diem checks for all the other members of the “First Family.”
Page 148
Denies ever accepting per diem while living in her house. (!!!) Slams Kim Elton for taking per diem while she looks for a hotel in Anchorage that will put up a family of seven and feed five kids for $60 a night. (!!!)
Page 149
Her first budget. There was whining. People wanted things funded including “a lawmaker’s friend’s suicide memorial.” (No I have no idea what that means)
Back to (former High School buddy) John Bittney. He should have been there, but only occasionally wandered through, played on his Blackberry and nibbled cookies. Staffers on their way to the bathroom peeked over his shoulder and ratted on him that he was playing “Brick Breaker.” As she was ready to announce budget cuts he was slouching and had his shirt buttoned wrong and poking through his fly. (OMG! How does anyone think that this kind of thing helps them in a political career. I cannot imaging anyone ever wanting to work for someone who talks about people like this!)
Page 152
More hatchet job on Bittney. He never told lawmakers cuts were coming so she was accused of blindsiding legislators. He was too busy with personal affairs to do any state business. She fired him and he went to work for a legislator who then became a critic of hers.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
eviscerates
November 18th, 2009 at 8:40 AM
This book is such a rookie mistake. Any good writer knows you get all this personal junk out in the first draft and THROW IT AWAY, then sit down and start in on the hard work of producing a thoughtful, interesting book that is worth reading. Whoops.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Even that A$$Hat Halford warned her that running for office with a family full of little ones was going to be murder on her family – her mama bear instincts is to go for it anyway? She lugs them around. Forces them to become a part of her Administration.
Flash forward, she campaigns further, asks Alaskans to give her a very demanding public job, the highest office in the State, and complains she shouldn’t be punished for having young children. She should be able to see them, have them participate and diminish the importance of State business in meetings with her constituents, put up with cookies and cakes and a shadow Governor to boot. Doesn’t see anything wrong with using State monies to finance her family time but criticizes every other government funded program under the sun.
Tells villagers with energy challenges (cause the State never invested any of their multi-Billion dollar budgets into energy infrastructure) that the realilty is, they need to move to make a living. Flash-back folks and realize, she CAMPAIGNED for a job that required her to live elsewhere, but she changed the rules to fit her preferences to live in her nice big warm house in Wasilla. And took a per diem for that privilege and exploitation! Villagers, with an ancient homeland – aren’t allowed that kind of consideration. . .
This was test enough, but she thought gunning for the second highest office in the NATION was going to improve her family time and relationships?
Let’s keep in mind too, also, that Sarah once again swoops in and stands on the shoulders of a two year national campaign by veteran Senator John McCain and manages to bungle it further in a matter of weeks. Weeks, in comparison to years. . .and she still thinks it was exhausting, confusing, hindering, unfair and bottled up. Of course she would throw the party that plucked her from obscurity and throw them under the bus, look at her record!
I’m sorry people, but I am GLAD and GRATEFUL this book is out there, it clarifies for anyone that was on the fence (but not her devoted supporters) that she is a world class self-serving, juvenile, vindictive, delusional, child exploiting and abusing lunatic and does more damage to herself than all of our bloggers and biased reporters put together.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:50 AM
As anyone who has ever watched a horror movie knows: When the walls start bleeding, you start muttering “don’t go in there…get out…get out now!”
November 18th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Andrew Sullivan has had enough. It appears that he is taking time off to get to grips with all of Palin’s lies.
“And we have had the book for less than a day. We feel we owe it to you to get it right – or as right as we can – until we post or publish anything. As readers know, we also differ on some key issues and intend to air them and thrash this out until we are confident that whatever we publish is as fair as possible.
At some point, we will also go back and make sure we have not missed all the evidence of the other lies that Palin is now peddling. We won’t miss anything. But we ask for your patience.
There is a possibility here of such a huge scandal that we would be crazy not to take our time either to debunk it or move it forward for further examination.
We have only one commitment: to get this right. Please bear with us as we do the best we can.”
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/to-our-readers.html#more
November 18th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Palin supports Isreal’s limitless expansion into Palistinian terrirtoy. She said Obama doesn’t deserve Peace Prize. She wants a surge in Afghanistan. Just send whatever troops McCrystal wants. She likely doesn’t understand McCrystal isn’t Commander in Chief or simply does not support the Commander in Chief during a time of war.
Palin states Ft Hood shooting was act of terrorists and supports the profiling of all American Muslims. Although she thinks abortion clinic bombers are just misguided and should re-frame from acts of violence.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Dogs? These people had dogs??? OMG where is the ASPCA? Everyone knows that there is often a direct parallel between how people treat their animals and how they treat their children. Hmmm.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:48 AM
# 47 Irish Girl:
Excellent link!
OUCH!
November 18th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
A very minor point, compared to all the other stuff, but I found her comment about vegans enlightening. Presumably, anyone coming to her home for a meal would be friends, colleagues, etc. Yet, even with these people, she is totally self-centered and lacking in graciousness. She is dismissive, and even demeaning, of their views. She is so certain that her way is ALWAYS the correct way that she won’t even entertain another’s preference.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Dear Sarah of Wasilla (not to be confused with Sarah of Palmer, Sarah of Talkeetna, Sarah of Eagle River, Sarah of Timbuktu, etc . . . frankly sometimes I do get confused) :
I’ve disguised myself in previous entries here– actually, I’m God.
As God, I don’t know if I can tolerate another chapter of your book– I’m feeling a building pressure.
Despite claims in “your” “book”, I have not chosen you for anything special. We can talk about that later. I’m in no hurry.
If you have any questions in the interim, feel free to contact my representative, AKM. Or just subscribe to Mudflats.
You are no prophet. Prophets are generally literate, or at least they can speak for themselves.
Cheers,
God
November 18th, 2009 at 10:34 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxuI3CoFf8
I don’t know if everyone has already seen this. I just learned about her ‘latest ignorance’ when she gave an interview to the Alaska Daily News after she quit her job as governor. Wow, she really doesn’t know at all not only how her country runs, but what the various government departments are – incredible considering this nutty critter was running for VP (actually President when you consider that all VPs really are running for President too).
November 18th, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Mary Matalin’s thoughts
http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/18/matalin.palin.book/index.html
November 18th, 2009 at 11:08 AM
I wonder what the back story is at Harper Collins: why did their editors ever let her go through with publishing this mean spirted, childish screed. Was there a draft that was even worse than what they ended up publishing or was it their intention to let her through herself under the bus?
November 18th, 2009 at 11:09 AM
ooops—”throw”
November 18th, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Jimmy Fallon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/going-rogue-goes-rogue-sa_n_361803.html
November 18th, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Ok, Ok I will give you the purple heart for having to read this book. But please stop now, my head is spinning and I can’t take it any longer. Honestly, I don’t know how you do it. I have managed to not watch any talk show that has had her on. Its bad enough to hear her on the news show.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:52 AM
AKM, you continue to rock! I hope you will consider publishing the definitive (Over The) Cliff Notes version of “Going Rogue.” That’s one book I’d stand in line to have signed. Thank you for faithfully keeping the reading lamp lit.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:32 PM
I just LOVE the pants-on-fire jabs…love’em. They made me laugh the first time, and every time I see them I laugh. Ha ha ha hee hee hee hee har har har whew! So appropo …
November 18th, 2009 at 12:52 PM
GA Peach @62, that Matalin article was IMO pretty terrible. The last paragraph has a glaring grammar error and I’m pretty sure there were other ones as well.
I haven’t read her before so thanks for sharing and exposing us to new stuff.
I read this quickly and if somebody wanted to ‘factcheck’ me, I might have overlooked something, but here’s my take on her article:
As nicely toned as it was, it was sad how she had to bend over so far backward to make excuses for Sarah (and that comment amount a woman getting slapped? What woman puts up this that? At my most generous, I would demand he apologize profusely, and promise never to do it again with the backing of the boss that if he slaps or hits anyone, ever again, his A$$ gets fired then and there.)
No doubt Palin remembers the incidents painted in how she was viewing things at the time. And to say that that technically does not make them lies is beyond generous. The point is, if someone under stress cannot react to the reality of the situation at the moment, if they cannot stop reading their projections into what is being said rather than just LISTEN TO WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEING SAID, they have no business in …. well, any business that involves negotiations, or discussion of important matters … i.e. totally unfit for POTUS and SWL (Significant World Leader – I just made that up!)
So once again, by covering for her, Matalin brings to light all the exact reasons why she is unfit for high office (heck, even low office).
And once again, in all those words (learn to edit, honey!), Matalin STILL did not articulate any good, substantials reasons why Palin would be so good for the country. What does she believe in? What are her policy positions? What was her record as government? Seem your piece was all opinion and no fact, which is fine as long as it is billed that way. Still, facts, statistic, footnotes, links to supporting documents, make your opinion stronger and more convincing. Use of ‘common-sense conservatism”? Not so much.
Needless to say, you failed to convince me.
Is Sarah Palin ‘picked on’? Well, in terms of sheer negative volume of what the media has produced about her, I can see how one might get that impression. But being ‘picked on’ implies that one does not actually deserve the criticism.
When in living memory have we had a candidate who’s own behavior and choices is what brought on all this predominantly just criticism?
She tries to compare her treatment to that of Joe Biden. His gaffes were not ignored, but were not dwelt upon, I’ll grant you that. But they were just that, gaffes. And he did not turn around and blame someone else for those gaffes. And when did he say mean things, lie, drag his children around as props? Accuse John McCain of being associated with terrorists? Imply that only certain parts of America contained ‘Real Americans?’. Have a lawsuit against him in which he was found to have abused his power as a state or fed. official? I’m sure no elected official is perfect or able to be criticism-free but SHEESH! Sarah Palin has done, and said, on the record, tons and tons of things that can be legitimately criticized. She is hardly being ‘picked on’ if she continues the kind of behaviors that bring on the criticism.
Overall impression of article? Mary Matalin, Human Pretzel for Palin
November 18th, 2009 at 1:22 PM
This is fantastic….I am so ha
ppy that you are nailing yourself to the cross for my benefit.
What I find most intriguing is that e-mails written by Sarah Palin have surfaced from the McCain campaign disputing some of her allegations. In each one, Todd Palin is cc’d on the e-mail.
In 14 years of using an e-mail address daily to conduct business, I have never cc’d my wife on a business e-mail. John McCain is a great patriot and heroic figure, but he should be ashamed for foisting this trainwreck upon the people of this great land.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:33 PM
I really do feel like this whole thing is her junior high diary updated to include her post-junior high years. But it’s clear that she hasn’t matured at all.
And wow! She was hauling those little kids all over in a wagon and then a car late at night while she campaigned? Well, at least she has done one thing consistently – use her children as props instead of thinking of their safety and welfare. Those kids have even less chance of turning out to be normal human beings than I thought. They’ve never had any semblance of a normal life. So very sad.
And now I have to take a break before tackling Chapter 3. I suppose this book can actually get worse. Someone should sue the publisher for inflicting this on the American public. No, we don’t have to buy it or read it (I won’t), but there it is, out there, and there she is, still talking. What idiot made the decision to give her a book deal? Hope he’s losing sleep over this one.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Rogue “Going Rogue” watch at local Target:
Now, I suppose it is possible the shelves have been restocked, but …
… seems a whopping 4 copies have flown off the shelf.
And I live in what would be considered a major metropolitan area, near Ft. Lauderdale.
Ah, that explains the disinterest. Target book buyer appears to know her customers!
November 18th, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Kinda makes you wonder what her ‘writer’ was thinking as all of this was being compiled – does she really want her name on this book as the person responsible for making it legible, readable, credible, factual, yada yada yada. Because even if those *weren’t* her responsibilities, from this day forward she’s forever linked to Sarah Palin and this book. And you’re right: Who would ever want to be associated with Sarah Palin, knowing that at anytime in the future she’d hand you over if she thought she could get a laugh, a vote, a second look. She’s worse, so much worse, than America deserves. Having said that, however, I think this book may well be the knot in her noose…
November 18th, 2009 at 3:18 PM
#53 I See Villages from my House Says:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
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Outstanding post!
November 18th, 2009 at 3:57 PM
You are a better person than I, AKM. I’m curious about the book, but the idea of even taking it out of the library makes me nauseous, let alone buying it. Thanks for sacrificing your eyes and brains to share with us all her ridiculousness.
MSNBC certainly seems to have bought the Palin Kool-Aid, though, unfortunately: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34000354/ns/politics/
November 18th, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Thanks AKM for your self-sacrifice and taking one for the team. I surely could not… I need to keep my food down not up and out… I would surely starve especially because of the time it would take me to slog through the book’s entirety.(sp?)
Andrew, Harco Bravo! Short but sweet and quite debonair in a tux. Masterpiece Theater meets Monty Python. (kinda, but y’all get my drift)
November 18th, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Just read a report on Immoral Minority that SP signed a jacket for some guy in Grand Rapids today.
Let the floodwaters break open.
Umm … the rules said “only books will be signed, only books bought from here (or another store in our chain) and no personalization.
Rogue-y Sarah has now opened the floodgate for every fan to bring anything they want signed to the book tour, and they can rightfully claim, “well, you signed HIS jacket, so you should sign my [whatever] too!”. If she wants to explain to her fans why that guy’s jacket was more worthy of signing than your daughter’s Hello Kitty Journal from the last year filled with great things to say about Sarah Palin as a role model …. well then, have fun with that. Or, if you want to explain to little Susie, “sorry, personally, I’d love to, but this dang bookstore has a policy that says I can’t”. And because Susie’s parents rightly take affront to this, they decide to never shop at that bookstore ever ever again (yeah, I think book tour venues agreed to host her because they thought the tour would PROMOTE sales, not DRIVE THEM AWAY!)
It’s not that she couldn’t have organized an open signing if she had wanted to. Oh wait, she’s not paying for it. So, yeah, HarperCollins called the shots. BlameFest in three …. two… one …
Practical upshot: If she continues to “Go Rogue”, and allow herself to sign whatever she feels she wants to (which would be anything and everything), that will mean she will either not have enough time at one stop to sign the books of the people who did legitimately buy them there (royally and rightly cheesing them off) or she will end up being late to the next book venue, once again jeopardizing the ability of the people who legitimately bought books and followed the rules, to get their book signed by her.
The above assumes there will be crowds of people flocking to see her …
Popcorn sounds REALLY good right now …
November 18th, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I cannot imagine your pain in reading this book. You need to spoil yourself with something fun this week.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:08 PM
how long until the signed books appear on e-bay so impoverished Michaganders can try and make a buck?
November 18th, 2009 at 7:36 PM
terpsichore your post about the matalin article was right on..How any woman would stand for any one slapping her in the face and doing or saying nothing about it explains why so may republican women stay with cheating husbands. She does sort of bend into a pretzel doesn’t she(rhetorical)
November 18th, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Stephen Colbert just used SPs magmum opus for his “WORD”. Had me belly laughing. Big time. beth.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:24 PM
my dog, enough about selling the jet sarah – you then proceeded to monopolize the dept. of public safety’s king air prop jet to commute to and from juneau and fly around on your going away thank god state tour – including taking family to see the bears at mcneil. operating costs are around five thousand an hour, including crew and not including security, etc.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:26 PM
I was afraid I’d crumble under the pressure and go buy her book, hating myself for whatever royalty crumbs would end up in her coffers. You’ve saved me the humiliation. Now I’m content to wait for Amazon’s .01 cent copy and in the meantime enjoy the show as America recoils in horror from what the GOP has wrought.
Thank you.
November 19th, 2009 at 5:15 AM
“god knew what he was doing?”
I HATE that when people say that God GAVE their kid autism or DS to, I don’t know, test the faith of the family or whatever justification they come up with.
Autism can be absolutely heartbreaking and the stats on couples with special needs kids are bad — very high divorce rate. Our sitter tried to work for a family with a serverly autistic kid, he screamed all day, it was just awful and sad.
No God I could respect would GIVE disabilities to some people, just to do it.
I don’t believe in a God that micromanages the Universe. The universe was created to run itself on natural laws.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:22 AM
“‘She had to go to the ER, and Track was there and they wouldn’t give him water because he was a minor and if they had to do surgery he was supposed to have an empty stomach. She understood but was furious because an underage girl “could undergo a painful, invasive, and scary abortion and no parent even had to be notified.’”
What a load of hog’s wallow. She is right that if someone is or might be undergoing surgery they need an empty stomach so that they won’t vomit and drown on their own vomit of stomach reflux. But that has nothing to do with their age. It has to do with normal medical precautions.
The major reason for the need for non-parental consent for pregnant teenagers, is
1) incest – highly possible
2) abuse – possible
3) unreported rape, date or otherwise – pretty common
4) bad parenting – probable
Remember that when, I believe Colorado, passed its parental consent law, one of the first girls impacted by that law was murdered by her parents when they discovered she was pregnant.
“Looking for love is all the wrong places.” isn’t just the title of a song.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:47 AM
“Thanks God for second-greatest generation.”
Tells us what she thinks of the Viet Vets, doesn’t it?
Not just Kerry, but all of them, Repugs and Christian conservatives and kids who died believing they were doing the right thing. In fact the entirety of them. Of course Chaney, Bush, and Rush, the Viet draft dodgers, are OK by her.
She is a disgusting human being. 50,000 died and she blows them off but expects the rest of us to respect the military. No wonder she chokes up as the military, but not non military, play the Star Spangled Banner, she is chocking on her own hatred and prejudices.
She is so internally conflicted I’m surprised she can walk in a straight line. But her inner truth teller keeps telling us what she really thinks. And it is UuuuuglE.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:55 AM
Page 191
She’s 7 months pregnant and “hadn’t put on a lot of weight” so she was able to conceal her pregnancy with scarves.
(NO. I won’t make a joke, and you can’t make me! >clamping hand on mouth<)
November 19th, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Another thought, isn’t a Jetta one of them ‘furrin’ made cars? Why, why, that’s totally un-American.