Sarah Palin’s Book Signing at Elmendorf AFB in Alaska (PHOTOS)
I got some pictures back from those who attended Sarah Palin’s book signing today at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I had to work today and was unable to attend the event…but between you and me, it didn’t break my heart all that much.
The word back is: Todd-less, ring-less, and virtually minority-less.
This officially ends the book tour, but according to Palin’s own tweet, there will be a public event in Alaska “later.”
Here are a couple shots from Mudflatter Rishi Maharaj who attended.
And more from Dennis Zaki:
I see we’re wearing the same crushed-velvet jacket we wore at Walter Reed…and that Piper is now wearing the green cap. (Why does the word “brat” always come to my mind when I think of ‘Perky’ Piper?)
The Snow Queen, I do believe, is in SEVERE competition with her daughters ~ everything and anything she can do to ‘look’ young and appear as if she has a clue, she will. Sadly, she can’t (or won’t) see what the sane world sees: she is no longer as young as she once was and she is *certainly* not in touch with reality…
Willow, on the other hand, could be Scarah’s “Dorian Gray” ~ she looks like a middle-aged matron in the photo. How sad. beth.
We need to cut the kids a little slack. No matter what, SP is their mom and they’ll defend her, even if they think she’s wrong. Even if they’re teenagers. They’ll only complain to their friends about things she does that bug them–the normal stuff like curfews and not liking boyfriends and needing to do homework. No kid wants to hear their parents put down.
It’s like us. We know this country has problems and we complain about them. But have someone from another country complain about the same things and most of us are up in arms.
I feel sorry for Piper. She looks miserable (and also very cute).
AKM, I hope you and all of the AK bloggers can make it to the “Public Book Event” if it happens. I would love to see what happens. I just posted my sentiments on the last thread so won’t repeat, but to say the least I am so happy this crazy tour is now over.
So what is next?
Her kids are cute, her hands and soul are ugly.
Holy Something! That is Willow sitting next to her? Whoa!
Man, Willow looks about as disinterested as I have ever seen a teenager.. and I’ve seen my share, believe me. I feel sorry for her. Willow, that is. She’s old enough to make her own choices to attend, no doubt, but young enough to be forced to comply with parental authority. I’m sure she would have chosen to stay home, wherever that may be these days. But no, her mother has to drag her along as a prop. Like Piper. But Piper is just tired of it all. What a mess she’s put her children through. Glad not to see Trig.
*sigh* Will someone put us out of her misery?
is she now going on hiatus from show-biz to spend the holiday with her broken family? …or is she just going to re-load!
Willow sure looks very “native” in that pic, also, too, she don’t look none too happy. Gramps looks like he swallowed the canary (pervish), to me anyways. Thank God it is over, but I fear it’s not the last we’ve heard from this Ice Queen.
Thanks Dennis, nice pictures.
I think Scarah deliberly wants to be seen wearing the same clothes to get away from the image that she recieved clothes from the campaign. How else could she shed that image other than being seen wearing the same clothes . Don’t be surprised if we see her in that cap again because it probably makes her feel like she is glamorous and it gets her a lot of attention. She will probably will come out with caps identical to the one she worn earlier but in different colors.
We do need to make sure we cut the kids some slack because they don’t want to her their mother put down.
It is interesting that she isn’t wearing her wedding ring. Although seeing how Scarah likes to put up a false facade, wouldn’t she still wear the wedding ring even if the marriage was (has) gone south. She may not be wearing her ring because of swelling of her hands from signing her books. But, hasn’t she been seen not wearing her wedding ring before this?
How long has Palin been ring-less? Oprah? Walters? Noone asked her about it?
That chick gets a pass out of life card like noone I’ve ever known!
[[ weaver57 @ #7 ~ Willow is in the third picture, down - the one with all the balloons. The 5th photo, down, is of SPs dad, Chuck Sr., brother, Chuck Jr., and mom, Mary Heath. I don't know why folks would want to have photos made with the extended family...vicarious glory, or something? Kind of like my sister-in-law's mother went to school with Julia Childs so that makes me important because I have a photo of me with my sil's mom? Saints preserve us! beth]]
I’m sorry to say this about somebody, but every time I see a picture of Chuck Heath, he looks more and more like something you’d find under a bridge — or a rock. Somewhere between a troll and a frog in that one picture above.
Of course my feelings are colored because the ol f@rt reminds me of my own father, who was a soulless secretive SOB with the same expressions on his face that I see on Chuckie Sr.
Thanks for the photos, Rishi and Dennis! That is one discontented couple of daughters.
Great pics! Thanks for posting them AKM.
Got to admit, kids will just be bored at most events like this, especially if they have done them repeatedly. That is really normal and I’m sure they would rather be either home or with friends and family rather than at some dumb book signing, even if it’s their mom.
Now I’ve thought about it, I’ve never seen kids on a adult book tour by other authors before.
Has anyone else?
Are those two women in photo #4 telling SP how to spell her name….?
Pacos_gal…not only have I never seen kids on the book tour thingy, I’ve never seen the press hooplah, extended family members, and the security. You are right about the kids just being normal. I really don’t like commenting about them other than to express sympathy and have hopes that they are ok.
Another thing I thought of is usually authors who go on tour usually go on C-Span to discuss and take questions on their book. We watch it all the time here and I’m betting she won’t be showing up there. Where is C-Span on this “Huge, best-selling” “book”?
“This officially ends the book tour…”
But, wasn’t she scheduled to go to 2 bases today…Elmendorf and Eielson?
I have had the greatest good luck to have had quite a few chances to have books signed by their author. This is the first instance of an author having family members co-sign books that said family member did not co-author. And, this is the first time that an author has been given a platform to forward a belief system when said author exits a mode of transportation.
Sarah, ick. Just ick. Really. Ick.
Found this on her Twitter page from 2 days ago:
Packing up 4 return 2 Alaska in time 4 kids’ dance recital&bball game + 2 great book events @Elmendorf/Eielson!Its been a great trip Outside 9:27 AM Dec 11th from TwitterBerry
No tweet following the Elmendorf signing which I think she’s always done after the other tour stops.
“Todd-less, ring-less, and virtually minority-less.” – Priceless quote.
Check out the Face of the Day on Andrew Sullivan’s blog. I challenge you not to crack a smile.
I wish to hades she’d come to my part of pennsyltucky… if rick “mr. misogyny” santorum picks her as his vp running mate, perhaps she’d make a cameo.
Or maybe he’ll pick someone with a working brain.
I think she doesn’t wear her “yes-I’m-married-ring” because it steps on the fantasies of the white, middle-aged, male beer-drinkers (and Rich Lowry) who love her so. No wedding ring makes her “available”.
It’s like when a “teen” idol gets married:all the young fans with a crush are extremely disappointed because all their girlish dreams go up in flames.
In the grifter’s case, she’s working the illusion the other way.
Palin does have some cute girls but they are saddled with their mother’s genes. Such a shame that those apples won’t be falling far from the tree.
What is with all the comments on her hands? Am I missing something here….do I need to look closer at those “Paws”? So many comments about her hands as well as what’s in between her ears. Explain the hands issue…please someone?
Criminy, David – no warning attached?
“Check out the Face of the Day on Andrew Sullivan’s blog. I challenge you not to crack a smile.”
Actually, I didn’t smile, but emitted a sort of Beavis & Butthead snicker. I’m so ashamed. But not as ashamed as I’d be to actually wear that shirt in public.
@ Women Who Run With The Wolves
i rarely comment on SP’s looks – but I do notice her hands are bony and old looking. That’s fine with me because I see it as a sign of poor health, whether mental or physical. It’s not something she can fix or plasticize. I don’t say it to be catty. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!
Either:
$P wore her daughters hat to a public event. or
SP wore her own hat, and her daughter wore it to a later public event.
Sorry, my mother would never do/allow either.
And we are just plain folk too.
Thanks@
Martha unalaska Yard Sign
You are not the first to comment on her hands…I was curious because I rarely look at her hands, and only look at her when needed. Catty I am….I am sooooo tired of this bus/leer jet tour, just makes this, “Alaska Woman” irritable at the crazies that follow her. Icky pooh.
The Softball issue is still going on here. I think those “Crazies” have the market on CRAZY! It’s sooo true that a bird of a common feather, flock together. Nuts is the best description.
The Snow Queen, I do believe, is in SEVERE competition with her daughters ~ everything and anything she can do to ‘look’ young and appear as if she has a clue, she will. Sadly, she can’t (or won’t) see what the sane world sees: she is no longer as young as she once was …
Willow, on the other hand, could be Scarah’s “Dorian Gray” ~ she looks like a middle-aged matron in the photo. How sad.
Isn’t it something — the way her two elder daughters have sadly unflattering plain-Jane hairdos, while Sarah has these elaborately teased and extended/augmented concoctions. Does she travel with a stylist? How much time does it take every morning to get her hair in place?
Did I miss something or was there noticeably NO mention of the book signing in today’s ADN? Nothing on the community calendar page, nothing in the news section. What happened to the Sarah Adoration section of our town paper?
My hands look as bad as SP’s hands, but I use my hands for honest work.
okay, my observations are, please tell me Piper’s eyebrows are not being plucked.
And, if the younger under 18 yr old Palin children are ONLY showing up, well then, that means the older than 18 are refusing, eh? Me thinks they have very good cause. And they are exercising their rights. Amen to them.
Scarah’s hands………the deal is, if one is dehydrated, one’s hands look old.
As long as everyone is writing about Sarah’s hands, please compare the color of her pale hand with her makeup. My guess is that she and John Boehner go to the same orange-tanning spa, or Sarah is still using summer makeup.
For those who looked at Sully’s Face of the Day, did you click through to the “remix”? Photoshop gone wild.
Snowlady, ADN had an article on her signing at the two bases with no public allowed a few days ago – no comments allowed. I commented on the Letters to the Editor in response to someone else who criticized ADN on the letter’s policy. The trolls were out, so I asked why ADN didn’t allow comments on the no public allowed story, and merely asked what $P was afraid of, was this her idea of helping Alaska by avoiding Alaskans by slinking in and out of the state and refusing to meet other Alaskans, etc. The comment disappeared quicker than you could say Jack Frost and all that were left were troll comments, completely ignoring the $arah subject.
I read somewhere that they were going to strictly enforce the no-public restriction until they got so many complaints from the military who had friends and family who wanted to attend. Then they limited it to guests. Seems others slipped in.
Thanks Rishi & Dennis! Great pictures!
PS – $carah had her wedding ring on for all the signings in the lower 48. I made a point of looking for it.
Face of the Day and the remix is just tooooo funny! i think the woman wearing the shirt must think she resembles Palin. Yuck!
Disappointed that Elmendorf decided to let others onto the base, but those are the ones who probably boosted the attendance. I still would like to hear that the guy who shouted at the young girl with the Obama shirt got an earful himself.
Piper had the whole hair/make-up routine done for Barbara Walters and Oprah, so it’s probably continuing. Any young girls of her age bracket would quickly take to that sort of thing if allowed/encouraged. Sarah is going to rue the day that she’s pushing that child to be an adult and *in your face*. It was disappointing to see her right in there signing posters with her mother way back during the campaign.
For those of you who asked if it’s normal for the family to come along to the author’s book signing, I’ll answer in terms of a member of our family who is an author and does book signings.
I should also mention that some time ago, he followed an author selected by the publisher for the first rate paid for book tour, something that is done now for only a few authors who are really expected to hit it big. The book tour that he followed was for an article about how publishers promote books, in fact, what goes into selecting those few special books. The tour involved interviews on morning and afternoon local news shows, with book signings squeezed in. (Yes, every TV show interviewer asks the same questions). It was often several stops in a day, tightly programmed by the publisher. Very few authors get this kind of treatment, too expensive today. (The book that he followed and the author did not meet publisher’s expectations, and you’ve never heard of them).
As for his books, they have local interest, so he has done most of his appearances and signings in local bookstores. There isn’t much cost in transportation. The only cost is shipping a carton of books to the location ahead of time (on the part of the publisher). He never brought wife or children along. When Sarah’s tour started, I asked him if his parents came along a la Heath. (They live nearby). He admitted that sometimes they did, standing in the back of the room, filled with admiration, love and pride in his achievement. His father is the family hero, visiting local book stores and placing his son’s books on the best seller table in the front of the store, whether the store wants it there or not. He keeps those books front and center!
The books are non-fiction, and he has appeared on TV as an authority on the subject of his books. No, the family does not accompany him to the studio, as the Palin family appears to have done when Sarah appeared on Conan’s show last week.
To be serious for a minute, we shouldn’t look at the Sarah Palin-palooza as a standard book tour. She is not an author; she is aiming for celebrity with political opinions. The bus reeked of political campaign. The traveling family circus is not normal for book tours; this was something else- maybe an out-of-town tryout for Sarah, maybe to test political waters, and of course, to make money and keep Sarah in the headlines. If anyone is looking at the whole thing with sheer admiration, it would be P.T.Barnum.
Good thing nothing happened on base that required military police. I think everyone of them was over at the Exchange including the Squadron Commander for the Air Force MP’s. You would have thought someone important was there not a loser and a quitter. Spoke with some people there and one comment I got was that she had on more make up than a crack head. That was extremely insulting…. to the crack head. And yes, the crowd was as white as the trees in my yard right now from the frost. Heard one guy get asked if he was there to see Sarah, and he replied, a little loudly for effect I think, that no, he had a life and had better things to do like go home and clean his bathroom. Ouch.
Sarah’s latest tweet:
22-degrees below zero here@Eielson Air Force Base,but so many warm hearts made r book signing event toasty, energizing, welcoming!Thx Frbnks
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry
The absence of a tweet thanking Anchorage/Elmendorf is glaring!
Maybe it just wasn’t cold enough at Elmo today to awe the Twitter followers. Minus 22 gets your attention a little more.
It’s curious that she would end up at Eielson, far from home, instead of Elmendorf, close to home. Unless she’s here to visit Track down the road at Ft. Wainwright and conduct other business. Maybe a global-warming-denying photo op. The weather would suit.
My husband is so disappointed his book could not get signed…
he’s also very shocked that we have a copy of ‘Rouge’ at our house
Hee Hee Hee Ha ha ha ha ha
Where was the military in that line?? I did see one person of color in uniform and another uniform in one picture but WHERE were the soldiers? Guess she decided to let guests in because no one would have been there without the “Bots” and our intrepid “boots on the ground.” Good for them!!
@ DavidinEagleRiver Says:
December 13th, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Check out the Face of the Day on Andrew Sullivan’s blog. I challenge you not to crack a smile.
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That pic was screamingly funny. BUT did you see the “Remixed version” Sullivan links to?
My eyes! My eyes!
Insane Sarah Palin Shirt
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kthorj/okay-i-really-need-to-figure-out-a-way-to-let-5m3s-roe/
ps – Mike Doogan was at Title Wave book store today – with a couple of other authors.
I made a remark to the cashier that Doogan looked like Stephen King but probably wasn’t half as interesting – he laughed and laughed.
Not sure if the link was given for the original Andrew Sullivan’s Face of the Day, partway down the page:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/
So the book tour is over,thank goodness.
Now she has to furnish her new home.
That is going to take serious money,No Xmas presents for the children.
s’arah palin gold MEDALLIONS!!!!! She has gone over the edge.
http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/12/13/17/PalinBook10.42861.original.standalone.prod_affiliate.7.JPG
I never ever thought I’d find myself defending Sarah, but sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.
Since I took up knitting several years ago, I’m more comfortable when I am not wearing rings or bracelets. Sometimes I think I should wear my wedding ring on a necklace, but that would compete with the clock pendant around my neck. The clock wins — I *know* I’m married, I don’t usually know what time it is!
And my hands always look dry, regardless of lotion, plenty of hydration, and fish oil supplements.
As here_in _PA said, Willow does have a “Native” look. So do Bristol and Piper. Not so Track. The girls look more Native than Todd does, imho. And they don’t really resemble Sarah.
@51 kejia
Sarah Palin is not knitting or washing dishes or doing anything that would preclude her from wearing a ring or bracelet for that matter.
I’ve remarked in the past that her hands look OLD. The hands can really reflect the age of a woman. Elasticity is lost, tendons bulge and age spots appear. As she is 45, she is probably in peri-menopause. That can start about 15 years before actual menopause which is at the average age of 51 for most women. She’s not that far off. I think, for a rapidly aging vain woman, looking into the mirror each morning must be a horror.
Personally, I admire women who allow the beauty of their lives to be reflected in their faces. Which is not to say I personally don’t fight gravity on a daily basis, but I’m not ashamed of my laugh lines either! I’m not a giddy young woman any more and have no desire to be in competition with my beautiful daughters. Youth, in my opinion, does not trump intelligence.
Hey look……more white people!
Her parents seems to be drunk on celebrity…just like their daughter.
A blogger in todays Anchorage Daily News wrote: (get your barf bag ready)
I just finished reading Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue.” Those critical of it are wrong. After all the garbage that has been said about her it was refreshing to hear her perspective on everything. Those people who hate her will never change their minds. However, this book is a must-read for Alaskans with open minds who have questioned some of her decisions. You will then understand why she did what she did, every step of the way. She saves the best for last in her final chapter, The Way Forward. She gives all Americans hope for the future. While she doesn’t say it, to me there is no doubt she will run for president in 2012. America will be lucky to have her, and all Alaskans should be proud.
– Richard Rhyner
Anchorage
Thanks for the boots on the ground photos. My impression is that SP looks tired and shabby.
There ya go, Polly. That commenter just used the old canard: “open minds.”
The people who write road apples like that have no minds, let alone “open minds.”
btw, now that Palin’s bus and jet tour are over, she’s found a new mode of transportation: http://failblog.org/2009/12/14/candy-man-fail/
Looking at those photos of the girls, I have a feeling that there is a Mommy Dearest book in the future.
I also think those girls are not very different than their mother. They are very attractive, but I think they know it and feel the power of their mother’s celebrity.
As an aside..there is/was a ‘finding’ that 65ish % of the time..male children show more of their mothers genetic inheritance..whereas female children show more of their fathers genetic inheritance. Therefor..one could ‘look’ at the palin grandfather..to note what..qualities have been strongest. As time goes on..one may be able to trace patterns of interest..and ability. That said.. the other percent of the time..one may have a daughter that absolutely ..mirrors their birth mother in every way, and the same for sons mirroring their birth father. I have always used the basic info..in helping people who have come for any sort of counseling..to ..stroll through their family trees..to discover the weaknesses and..Strengths.
Richard Rhyner needs to have an intervention to help him deal with his “reality disconnect”.
Kajo said,” Of course my feelings are colored because the ol f@rt reminds me of my own father, who was a soulless secretive SOB with the same expressions on his face that I see on Chuckie Sr.”
Damn, girlfriend. You too??
One thing I can say about the picture of Sarah booksigning, is that she’s wearing a beautiful quiviute neckup similar to the one I bought for my Mom at about $200+. Must have been cold in that building.
I wonder what she will do in Hawaii with all the people she was so “afraid” of in her youth. She is doing a few impromto signings while over there so maybe the tourists will bombard her because the locals would scare her to death.
You are right about the observation of non-minority- that is her draw …all those who thing this land is their land and that minorities need to be seen, not heard or dealt with…
The ring thing is overated. Maybe she is getting an upgrade or maybe it just hurts her fingers when she is signing books. Like her or not- she did well on her book tour-cheers to her. (And even realizing she had a ghost writer- a lot of books have that secret writer). I saw an earlier blog where a military nurse found her charming. She probably is a charming lady after all. I don’t agree with her politically but face it she seems lovely and is gorgeous. I just think the hate Sarah stuff is a bit over board. Challenge her if she wants to be a politic but disliking her because we made her a big celebrity might be our own doing. Kind of like Jessica Simpson… maybe even Jenny on the Block
Lynne Vincent can’t talk about her part in Rogue, but has anyone read other writings by her? I’d like an idea how much of the intricate detail woven into parts of Rogue, such as inaccurate weather descriptions, came directly from Sarah or if Vincent embroidered to give “color”. Probably at some point Vincent will be blamed for sloppy reporting- this would be more believable if the other book she did was inaccurate also. How many times is God invoked?
Or conversely, what things did SP tell her that got “left on the floor”?
Maybe instead of feeling ill when we see that dog and pony show she has been involved in, we can surround her (and ourselves) with love, as real Christians do, and lead her away from the advocacy of defence spending, hate speech, attacking other people and their families and putting our own loved ones on the altar of blood sacrifice for the sake of the corporations. She’s got the celebrity thing going there, but it seems a misuse of what she says she stands for…and I , one of many, am disappointed at the lost opportunity to do some real good.
Juat sayin’: I agree that this is the waste of a talented person. It’s sort of like the stories you read of elaborate hoaxes and crimes by an intelligent person. I often wish the hoaxer had spent some of that energy on a real job. SP is very good at making people think they are very special to her. Can you remember the video when she was on the Franklin fly-in with cookies. (I can’t remember his name, Nick?) the old man engaged her in conversation, and she seemed sincere. As soon as he questioned her, she immediately turned to someone else who was fawning. This book signing is an excellent use of her 5 second connection.
I don’t think she would know if we surrounded her with love. She seems to recognize only adoration.
Renee @ 65: Yes, Sarah is pleasing to look at. Looks, alone, though, do NOT a good, moral, and/or ethical person make. And looks, alone, certainly do NOT an intelligent person make, either.
People go on and on about this and that about her ~ negative and/or positive; that is their prerogative. MY overriding concern about her and everything she stands for, is her [absolute, verbalized, and demonstrated] “world view.”
When it comes right down to it, the fame, the notoriety, the adulation she engenders (and encourages with her every action) is all specifically designed to promote the “world view” of her religious sect. Her sole aim is to get to the ‘big people’s table’ …once she does, once she has grabbed power, she can (and will!), guarandamnteed, enforce her way, as taught by her sect, on us all.
I think we’ve all gotten ‘distracted’ over the past year, by the statements she’s made, the things she ‘s done, and in our trying to figure out what her next ‘move’ will be. (I’ll give her that: she is predictably unpredictable.)
The thing of it is, though, in our ‘distraction,’ we tend to forget the very CORE of the woman. We tend to forget what her driving force is. At her core, at the very center of ALL she does, is a quest for glory DRIVEN BY her ‘religious’ beliefs. She believes she is ‘ordained’ by G_d to carry out His mission and she will do ANYTHING to fulfill what she believes she has been ‘called’ to do…and she’ll do it without [thanks to Rev. M. for that laying-on-of-hands] witchcraft hampering her.
IF she did not have the looks she does, if she was overweight, had acne scars, had a great overbite, was frumpy, was abnormally tall or short, and/or etc. ~ if she looked any way other than she does, no one would give her a second thought. She’d be relegated to the heap of snakeoil salesmen who are dismissed as nutjobs right out of the starting gate. It is only because she is ‘pretty’, that people have not done so with her ~ that they keep listening in hopes her words (and/or intellect) will match her looks. People want her ‘message’ to be as pretty as she is. Minor problem…
Her ‘message’, at the CORE, is the same as that of any died-in-the-wool ‘religious fanatic’ though. Her ‘pretty’ has blinded otherwise sane and rational people into ignoring that basic fact…instead, the ‘debate’ rages over whether she is or isn’t doing this or that, if she did or didn’t say this or that.
Think about it: Jim Jones and David Koresh were both handsome men. Billy Graham was quite the ‘looker’ in his day, too. They [and others] were ALSO snakeoil salesmen who were pushing their “world view”…to the GREAT detriment of the people they conned with their charm and good looks. Sarah is NO different…it is just that she has amassed a much wider audience in a much shorter span of time than did the others. She, too, like those men did, gotten people to stop ‘looking behind the curtain’ to see what is truly driving her onward [the "world view" of her 'religion'] ~ that is great for her, not so great for everyone else.
That she has somehow managed to get otherwise sane and rational people to react to her latest moves/actions/words RATHER than have them constantly and relentlessly expose her driving force, her core, makes her ‘job’ that much easier. It is, however, incredibly dangerous for anyone who is not her or who does not have the same “world view” as she does.
Next time you are with a group (or even one} Palinbot, ask them, all casual like, if they believe in witchcraft. Dollars to donuts, they’ll look at you as if you’ve lost your mind: “Who would believe in that clap-trap mumbo-jumbo?” they’ll ask. Just for giggles, then tell them about Sarah and her ‘church.’ Expose her -to them- over the very thing that they think they have in common with her: religion. You’ll, trust me, be amazed at their reaction. They, too, find that piece of Sarah to be beyond the pale.
It’s just that everyone is so distracted by the ‘glitz’ that they haven’t a clue about (and/or aren’t being exposed to) what is behind it. In short, Sarah Palin might be pretty to look at and might be as charming as all get out, but she is a dangerous, dangerous, dangerous woman. beth.
Sandra, that was tribal elder Nick Tucker. The video is still up at YouTube–you can just see $P’s face freeze when Tucker dares ask a question, in his courtly way…
KateinCanada asks, “Lynne Vincent can’t talk about her part in Rogue, but has anyone read other writings by her?”
Oh my yes. I bought (for a dollar plus shipping) her most recent book, “Donkey Cons,” about how the Democrat [sic] Party is and always has been chock full o’ perverts ‘n corruption. Her co-author on this toxic little volume is Robert Stacy McCain, a white supremacist who recently was booted from the Washington Times [the Moonie paper] for being… too over-the-top. RSM is the one who threatened Audrey of http://www.palindeceptions.com. She and her husband retained legal counsel, and she stopped new posts in August, but all of her previous posts are still available.
And RSM BRAGGED about this on his blog! BreePalin estimates that this threatening (as well as $P, through Von Flein, hassling Gryphen of TheImmoralMinority, and Shannyn Moore) occurred last summer while $P was holed up in San Diego with Vincent. I could just picture a swollen, discolored, post-plastic surgery $P whacked out on Vicodin and Red Bull, fantasizing away while LV pounded the keyboard, and threatening bloggers with legal action… that somehow never was followed through. Truth is a complete defense in libel cases for a public figure, as I learned when studying New York Times v. Sullivan.
@65 renee and @67 just sayin’
I agree that when the discourse degenerates into emotional reaction and name calling, I want to distance myself. She is what she is, and, as I see it, those who disagree with her activities (which I do, very much) would serve their opposition purpose better by objective observation than by simple derogatory comment.
My new hero is, HooahRN and Brian!
Scary she needed a detox though, but that is better than the bullet Scarah would give Brian.
Sarah is looking very plastic and that look makes one look old.
Whenever I see her holding Trig, my first thought is, “Oh, that’s her grandson.” — that’s how the age discrepancy strikes me.
So true, beth. Politics and religion combined in an attractive package filled with a word salad; good to go for the grifting, which I believe is all that she is about. However, grifting our country is a very. serious. matter.
Just a few thoughts here.
Yes if Ms Sarah had been homely, etc. she would have not attracted the attention of the “Viagra Base white old man GOP.” But why does ANY woman in the USA find her the least bit interesting? I contend that her female “base” consists of those poor, desperate females who would do anything to be “popular,” as if “popularity” mattered. Those of us who have smarts and confidence don’t give her the time of day. Just look at the sad female souls who attend her book signings! Women with no intelligence, no sense of fashion and limited access to low calorie food!!
I do not live in a cosmopolitan area. In fact, I live in a really redneck area. However, only the lowest of the low-lifers would dress the way she has done (and her parents have done – what’s with the flood pants and ugly sneakers?) during this book signing tour. If one wants to be considered a serious national contender then dress the part and have your entourage dress the part! Obviously, this is why the RNC had to spend so much $$ on her VP wardrobe.
My heart aches for the children of this family!
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sandra in oregon, “Nick” is Nickolas Tucker, Sr. village elder from Emmonak, Alaska and the courageous leader who publicized the plight of villagers last winter in the Lower Yukon and Kuskokwim who were forced to choose between food and fuel. This was a crisis which Governor Palin was warned about the summer before but which she chose to ignore. Palin even waited weeks before her highly publicized visit to the villages (bearing a plate of cookies.)
Then-Governor Palin’s disdain and disrespect for Nickolas Tucker, captured on video, is, for me, disgusting, and evidences Palin’s bone-chilling callousness and arrogance as well as her utter unfitness for any sort of public office.
I met the flight crew of an F15 from Elmendorf Air Force Base at the Abbotsford International Air Show this summer. Nice people. What is SP doing there?
It appears to me that Willow is actually plugging her ears. Do you suppose that she’s heard enough adulation?