Unvetted Palin Says Republicans Should “Vet One Another.”
Sarah Palin, perhaps politics’ most high-profile vetting escapee seems to have a strong opinion on the matter of vetting when it comes to people who are not Sarah Palin. Despite documentation that proves Palin was never vetted (as John McCain and others claim), she is waving the red flag, encouraging Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and others to continue their public “vetting” of Mitt Romney and the cast of Republican presidential hopefuls.
Palin says that criticism of Romney’s record as the head of Bain Capital is fair and that he should provide the public with proof of his claims that he helped to create 100,000 jobs during his time with the firm.
“Sometimes it gets rough and tumble as you try to hold these candidates accountable for what they are claiming,” the woman who claimed to have said “thanks, but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere” said in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel Wednesday.
The woman who told Alaskans to hold her accountable before she didn’t want them to, went on to defend candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry, saying he was simply holding Romney accountable when he called him a “vulture capitalist.”
“This isn’t about a politician making huge profits in the private sector,” best-selling author, Fox News analyst, and new lecture circuit multimillionaire Palin said. “I think what Governor Perry is getting at is that Governor Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and people are wanting to know is there proof of that claim?”
Back when Palin was a Republican governor herself, she was far less concerned with the goings on of Republicans on the national scene. When she was elected governor in 2006, current Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney who is now on the receiving end of Palin’s waggling finger, was the head of the Republican Governors’ Association. Then Republican Governor Sarah Palin wasn’t even sure who he was. Internal emails from Palin during that time show her referring to him as “Milt Romney” until she was finally corrected, and confessed:
I argued with [aide] Frank [Bailey] and others, as I insisted his name was MILT, not Mitt.
That’s keeping your finger on the pulse of the national party.
Palin said in the Hannity interview that it is better for the Republicans to do the vetting now, since the Obama campaign is only going to do it later if Romney is the nominee.
“They need to vet one another,” Palin said of the Republicans hoping to get the nomination. “We’re not going to get the lamestream media to help vetting on the other side of the ticket, so we’ll vet within our own party and we’ll allow that uh… most prepared candidate to rise to the top.”
Palin (who is on record as a tax cheat) went on to criticize Romney for not releasing his tax returns. She who authorized the creation of secret email accounts and withheld tens of thousands of state emails from public record, and who refused to release her own medical records during the 2008 campaign, also took Romney to task for not making his records transparent to the public.
The new convert to vetting within her own party received virtually no vetting herself in advance of the 2008 presidential race, as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. She was first formally notified that she was under serious consideration for the position, and received her first request for basic information about herself, on Sunday, August 24, 2008 – four days before she was announced.
Three days later, Palin was flown from Alaska to Flagstaff Arizona, arriving around 10:00pm, after which she was interviewed over the phone by Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr. who ran McCain’s “vetting team.” Apparently, by that point in the campaign he was all “vetted out,” because Palin was offered the job the following morning. (My emphasis added below for purposes of irony)
More startling, as of 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 26, nobody in the McCain camp had seen Sarah’s financial disclosures, tax records, or the formal lengthy questionnaire delving into her background. At that time, Sarah had not yet finished preparing them.
Culvahouse, only a day or two from having Sarah offered the job as running mate, seemed nonplussed and asked for the tax returns only “if possible.” As late as 9:30 p.m. Arizona time that same Tuesday, at least some of the financial documents were still being assembled by Todd with the assistance of Kris Perry. Not that Culvahouse seemed particularly concerned. He indicated to Sarah he did not intend to begin sifting through these materials until the next day anyway, which happened to be the same Wednesday Sarah arrived for her face-to-face with McCain. The process was: 1) review Sarah’s file for the first time on Wednesday 2) interview her late that night, and 3) based on that, it’s welcome-aboard the Maverick Express on Thursday, August 28, at around 11:00 a.m. [from Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin - A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years]
In 2009, Culvahouse proudly declared that “me and two of my most cynical partners interviewed (Palin) and came away impressed.” On Monday, September 1, two days after the announcement, McCain adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin said that Palin “was completely vetted by the campaign” before she was chosen. Apparently, Republicans are not only easily impressed, but also not that hung up with the actual qualifications of candidates – but one look at any of the GOP debates thus far will tell you that.
So, by all means everyone, grab some popcorn, grab a seat next to Sarah, and enjoy the elephant on elephant pile-on. It’s their duty, after all, to give each other a good pounding so they can send their best and brightest limping bloodied elephant into the real fight in November.
I think Obama may be the most high-profile vet-escapee. And look how those mistakes are doing us in.
I don’t feel done in, I feel relieved. I do feel sorry for you however. The war cry of the whack job, no matter what the subject: “Obama! It’s all his fault! I know we are talking about bobbing for apples on Groundhog’s Day – but just so you know, everything is Obama’s fault!” Shared oxygen would be put to better use if you actually stuck to the subject and had a coherent thought for once.
Every morning I thank God that we elected Obama. We finally got our country back after 8 years of misery. I shudder at what things might have been like under McCain. We know what he did to us when he voted to deregulate Savings & Loans. We know that he changed most of his positions to get the nomination.
You da man, John!
Palmer gal, I suggest you look up a psych concept: projection.
I’d advise to look into a mirror, but your eyes may be too dilated to focus because whatever you are on, it is dangerous for your mental health.
President Obama is a blessing. Do your homework – but not with Fox news or any of its pundits, particularly not Sarah Palin. You might actually have to face reality, though, so be prepared for a shock to your system.
I’m just going to be blunt and say feck off you moron.
I’m with you Girl
Citizens United
Gingrich doing a bit of “vetting” of his own (courtesy the Supreme Court)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ41_S93df8
That is a killer.
You’re delusional. If winky and mcfuddled had won we’d be living scenes out of Road Warrior…
Agreed. Both McCain and Palin have a reputation for speaking and acting without thinking. After seeing what Palin did as mayor and governor I have no wish to see that behavior repeated in any other office. Obama isn’t perfect, but he’s been much less damaging to our country than they would have been.
How are they doing us in, exactly? My firefighter friend’s 20-year-old daughter gets to remain on his health insurance, because of Health Care Reform. We are winding down, finally, an exhausting, expensive and unnecessary war in Iraq. Our leader has the respect of other world leaders. The economy is improving slowly, and jobs are coming back. Middle class people — the people who really make this country work– were given a tax cut. I could do with a few more mistakes like these.
Obama and Hillary were tough competition for each other. A year of campaigning, interviews and debates did more to vet both of them than Palin ever went through. Palin was selected by McCain and Company. She barely survived one debate and two interviews. For the rest of the campaign, she was shielded in controlled events. Her appearances on Fox appear scripted; half of the time she doesn’t seem to know what she is talking about. When Sarah wants to show her tax returns, her medical records, and the financial disclosures of her PAC, we’ll talk about some vetting.
I am so sick and tired of this foolish idea. The man served in the State legislature in Illinois for years before becoming a federal senator.
Can anyone go look at his voting record, talk to folks in Illinois, etc?
Oh for heavens sakes , no!
Put Hillary Clinton’s useless snipe about hundreds of “present”votes ( no context as regards the THOUSANDS of yes-no votes which surround em ) into whatzername’s mealy snipy mouth, throw in the absolutely bizarre crap about palling-around-with-terrorists, community-organizing-is-all-he’s-ever-done, and wierdo phony birther meme with a dash of phony mystery about where he came from and Poof! Instant Straw Man of never-been-vetted fame.
Pffft
What a crock.
Wanna disagree with him, disagree.
Wanna tell fairy tales, tell fairy tales.
Do not keep up the horsepunky fairy tale about this man being un-vetted.
People who were paying attention saw the info including some of the media.
Lulubirds like McCain, whatzername, and the whole “machine” of disinformation which is what politics of both parties love to fire up and run down Main street every election cycle had more fun just making stuff up.
Making up a man with no past.
Making up a man with no experience.
Making up a bunch of crap.
Pffft.
Good call on the “present” votes as they work out to be a grand total of 3% of his entire voting record. Palin’s obsession with President Obama exists to this day, even being mentioned by Steve Schmidt who said she knew far more about Obama than she did about McCain in ’08. She’ll never get over Barack & Michelle Obama living in the White House and her jealousy is easily seen and heard in every remark she makes. Poor Sarah, she never should have been elected Mayor, let alone be considered as a national politician. If she had any brains, she wouldn’t be taking the easy way out, using her advisers paid for by her PAC, to write her talking points for her. An intelligent, accomplished woman could do it on her own, but then Sarah is neither.
What makes you say he wasn’t vetted? I think his whole life and family was thrown open for review. To what mistakes are you specifically referring? All presidents make mistakes. By and large, he is on the right path. If more of his policies were in place, we would all be better off, such as: increasing the tax on capital gains, closing loopholes in the corporate tax laws, a public health option. Those are all things that would help the 99%. I don’t know about you, but I’m more than tired of the 1% raping the middle-class.
I’m not sure how this ended up under #1. It should have been under #5.
Whoa Mudpups! I disagree with Palmer Gal was well but I had to read down to Wallflower’s comment (1.7) before I got to a response that actually addressed her topic. The name calling and suggestion that she screw off had me thinking I was on the Fox News comment site.
PG doesn’t come here to discuss or listen so I have no problem letting off a little steam at someone who tries to derail the post and only talks about how intimately she knows Sarah’s family (from Michigan) and how awful Obama is. PG has no substance.
Heh… no one is more highly vetted, day in and day out…. what other President was ever asked for their birth certificate for goodness’ sake?
She’s lucky that fireplace off to her right didn’t set her pants on fire. Or her hair, or whatever that thing is on her head.
Projection thy name is Palin.
The woman’s whole life is one gulping bucket of ironic insanity.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle blah…….
“…me and two of my horniest partners interviewed (Palin) and came away inflated.”
That’s what he really meant. They all belong in front of a firing squad of rotten tomatoes and dog poo.
True, but shouldn’t it concern you more that the democrats have the manipulated the media to the point of destruction of a country?
Are you talking about this country? It concerns me more that anyone could make the comment above with a straight face. I’m guessing the ones that told you that the Democrats have manipulated the media are Republicans, and Fox News. AKM
this person sounds like the other troll who trolls around here whenever it wants. it changes it’s name but sounds the same. although to be honest they all sound the same. please make it go splat.
Hmm, it makes me wonder if they are the same person and perhaps a person who has initials from the two names – there is a “s” in Salmon and a “p” in Palmer gal. And after reading Blind Allegiance, it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Not to mention that the above post by salmon has a slight flavor of word salad. It’s oddly phrased.
AKM – loved your comment.
Were things really so simple…and you know it. Everyone tries, and many succeed, in manipulating the media. Free press? Not so. There are two obvious answers to your silly and oversimplified statement of imagined fact:
1) If all media is so easily & manipulated, by anyone, then they are crappy media and should be circumvented, ignored and redesigned through boycott. I do that every day. I make my own choices. I’ve experienced horrific media coverage first hand, for a long time.
2) Any informed, interested voter who only listens to the media, esp. TV media, for news & commentary & believes everything they read or hear without question, isn’t really an informed and interested voter. Period. Apparently, they are like you – and I doubt that you are a Democrat.
Your point, if there was one, was what? That Ds control the world through media manipulation? Can you name a few super rich Ds who control and own media and compare them to their super rich R counterparts?
maybe Salman says should see Oz Mudflats article: http://ozmud.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/apparently-it-only-takes-28-minutes-to-kill-a-candidacy/
I got this off of The Immoral Minority blog. It is really sad to see what some people claim, that are such big lies.
Amen, AKM!
Salmon, Rupert Murdoch is the major owner of the largest news media conglomerate in the WORLD. He certainly isn’t liberal. He is THE major player in manipulating the media AND influencing policy around the world. So get off that dead horse about the liberal news bias. No matter how many jockeys you try and how big a whip you use, that horse ain’t running.
WakeUpAmerica says:
January 12, 2012 at 5:52 PM
What makes you say he wasn’t vetted? I think his whole life and family was thrown open for review. To what mistakes are you specifically referring? All presidents make mistakes. By and large, he is on the right path. If more of his policies were in place, we would all be better off, such as: increasing the tax on capital gains, closing loopholes in the corporate tax laws, a public health option. Those are all things that would help the 99%. I don’t know about you, but I’m more than tired of the 1% raping the middle-class.
Thank you for leaving this comment here AKM.
This is one of those oft repeated hoo-bobbies which is ripe for being used as a lesson in fallacious reasoning.
1- there’s a Straw Man here (don’t be putting this near any of those flaming britches posts or we’ll have a conflagration! ), maybe 2. Media. Dems.
Look up Straw Man Salmon!
2- there’s the laughable point that Dems have manipulated the media . Both parties attempt to manipulate the media. So?
Really truly everyone tries to -esp and even the Reps!
3- media manipulated to the point we are nigh on destroyed as a country? Pfft.
Hon, Salmon!, hon-
Greed in high places in the financial world and being-asleep-at-the-switch in the regulatory world along with phony free-market-will-fix-everything mantras getting sung on the floor in Congress is what nigh on destroyed us.
We everyday people didn’t pay enough attention fast enough during that last bubble- maybe too many of us wanted to believe the fairy tales, maybe too many of us couldn’t yell loud enough… whatever. But we certainly let it happen. The media mostly just sucked along for the ride .
4-you buying what whatzername calls vetting ? you buying her lamestream-media meme? there’s plenty to find fault with in the world of corporate media, consolidation of media into a tighter and tighter small circle of corporate fists but ole whatzername has no clue about any of that.
and I’m afraid her questions re :Milt are dumber than a donut- no vetting going on there. sheesh.
Fox News — who can’t open an outlet in Canada because that country has a quaint law that says that people who say they report “news” have to *use facts.*
I have a hard time believing they didn’t know about her. She had been on national radar since early 07. I’m convinced it was someone in Washington that put the DS baby idea in her head. I think a bigger question is, why did the RGA pay her legal bills? I see corruption from my house within DC and this time for once, it’s not on the left.
I’ve read the emails, and Palin was not vetted in any way, shape or form. They may have “known” about her, but they did not ask questions until days before announcing her, and her vetting was done by the media AFTER she was nominated.
It was the Republican National Committee (RNC) that paid her legal bills as a candidate, not the Republican Governors’ Association (RGA).
The fact that her husband was a longtime member of a subversive group whose main objective was seceding from the US should have knocked her out of the running. Instead the know-nothing has the audacity to accuse our president of “palling around with terrorists”. Right now, after reading and listening to the rant she made about our first lady I am so angry I could spit nails. I wonder how it feels to have that effect on over 80% of folks familiar with her hateful, divisive ways. She is and will remain the most reviled woman in my lifetime. She is the Eva Braun of my era…
What about that illegal RGA ad? Why hasn’t that been brought up? Mitt romney was involved in that, wasn’t he?
I think what they knew was: 1) she was a Republican; 2) she came in as a “clean up the town” reformer; and 3) she was cute and female. She *was* cute.
“Put the DS baby idea in her head?” Like, some DC operative suggested “hey, why not go have a Down Syndrome baby?” Are you serious?
Well, I guess it could be a possibility if she adopted.
lol….the baby was in her head and nowhere else.
There’s so much legit stuff to criticize about her, I wish the after-birthers would let this cookiness go. Not least because the truth is so much worse than their conspiracy theory. But the latter is getting us into Obama birth certificate territory.
Bring on Dairygate then!
There’s four choices here:
1. She was vetted, and it was done by an incompetent. which was stupid.
2. She was vetted by a democratic spy, so they were stupid.
3. She was vetted, and they took her anyway, which was stupid.
4. She wasn’t vetted, they took her anyway, and then found out they were in a mess, which was stupid.
Any way you look at it, the GOP and McCain’s staff and McCain acted stupidly. That’s not to say that democrats haven’t done stupid things, but we haven’t seen anything this stupid since the plumbing job at the Watergate–which was done by Republicans.
I’d say the invasion of Iraq was more stupid than Watergate and McCain’s VP pick put together. Add torturing prisoners to that, and you have a double-header of GOP stupidity.
I personally wouldn’t call the invasion of Iraq stupid, but it’s true that it had unintended consequences! Also, SP and Watergate were all about elections and keeping Dems out of office.
OK, so 3 really stupid things since, oh, 1971, and all done by Republicans Do the Democrats have anything this stupid?
Her hubris is fueled by a tank that overfloweth with stupidity, ignorance, and dishonesty.
Palin talking about transparency?!? I she couldn’t even answer a simple question about what newspapers she reads!
Ridiculous.
She couldn’t answer a child’s question of what a VP does !!!
Things are going from bad to worse
Our Sarah has every reason to be concerned!
http://gawker.com/5875123/hostess-bankrupt-ding-dongs-in-peril
I always said that Palin wouldn’t run for President because she would be pressured to release her tax returns. Since she doesn’t have to, she’ll make herself apparently relevant by demanding Romney do so.
In early 2011, I was telling people I work with, a lot of them Republicans, that Sarah wouldn’t run because she didn’t want people to know how much she was raking in while still trying to maintain the “I’m plain old Sarah from Wasilla, one of you” persona. She didn’t run for the same reason The Dumald didn’t run. He didn’t want anyone to know how much he was worth either, although in the other direction.
New book: “Four Vettings and A Funeral: The Sarah Palin Story, August 2008-November 2008.”
hah!
What about the destruction of the last bits of evidence held from Shailey Tripps arrest?
Malia Litman is on that one. Why would the police destroy evidence?
After all, if there was nothing there to implicate the first dude, why not release these items to their owner?
One of these days everything will come out and bury these two. The first dude and first dudess.
Just makes me think Alaska is the most corrupt state in the union, and we’re talking some stiff competition here…
Show me your papers
McCain not comfortable with Palin’s “racial profiling” of his good Mormon buddy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/12/1054097/-Why-did-John-McCain-stop-being-an-enemy-of-capitalism?via=blog_1
“Racial profiling”?! Another one of those key Rethug words and phrases GOPers are supposed to use to squelch any grumblings.
While I would applaud anyone who reduces some of the screechy world salad from the Rogue Chef, I would not call Christianist suspicion of Mormons “racial profiling”.
Maybe she feels the candidates need to be vetted since she never was, and thought how horrible it was to have her on the ticket w/o vetting? ? =) Nay, she’s just mouthing off crap as usual.
Interesting. Sarah “We’re building that pipeline!” Palin wants Republican candidates to be fact-checked on their claims? Anyone see a pipeline? Class? Anyone? Bueller?
I could swear I saw it right next to that bridge she supported. Oh sorry, she didn’t support it. Wait, yes she did, but then she didn’t. Also. Too.
Never mind, I’m getting a headache.
But she kept the money that had been allocated for that bridge.
Not I. I see no pipeline.
I checked my dictionary, and her picture is right next to the word “irony.”
Dang. I thought her picture illustrated “moron”
That’s odd I checked mine and she was right there under harridan…
hmmm. i checked my dictionary and you are absolutely correct John. funny her face appears next to hyena, idiot, jackass and nincompoop also too. poor little sweetie pie Sarah.
I was a bit sad that this election had little to no humor. Glad to see Miss Sarah is bringing back the funny. You go girl!
pot meet kettle….
i don’t know. i thought Herman Cain was hysterical in a disgusting, perverted kind of way. Jon
Stewart nearly cried and poor Colbert was inconsolable. the others are just nasty and mean. they have no charm or graciousness to mitigate their pathology. they do and say things we think are funny but they are by no means funny. they are dangerous sociopaths.
For any of our visitors who are taking a break from threatening to gobble up the three billy goats gruff, here is the President’s CV. cdn.theladders.net/static/pdf/Senator_Obama_Resume.pdf Note, it opens a PDF.
And if you’re still worried about his grades, you might notice that one does NOT get a JD from Harvard Magna Cum Laude unless you have rill good grades.
There is a Huge Difference between a sanctioned heavy-weight boxing match between two “vetted” contenders, and a “y’all come”, brass-knuckled, chair-throwing, head-bustin’, free-for-all at the bar full of assorted bad-adzes and ne’re-do-wells. HUGE! And yet Missy Quitty-Pants endorses and encourages as the GOTPs ‘vetting process’, the later type of behaviour? What in blue blazes is wrong with her?
Does she not comprehend that *any* dirt thrown by one GOTP candidate at another –whether the dirt ‘sticks’ or not– is another negative towards that ‘thrown-at’ candidate in the minds of voters? And that the candidate the party eventually puts forth as its nominee for POTUS, is not going to so much be running for the office, as limping along — how could the eventual candidate not? They’ve just had [members of] their *own* party relentlessly do its damndest to smear and discredit and vilify and negate them — on every thing and anything — IN PUBLIC!
When I got married, my brother gave Steve and me some sage advice: “Don’t air your dirty laundry in public.” The GOTP –and S**t for brains, Sarah–, apparently, have never heard that expression. I’m all for transparancy, particularily in politics, but, geeze, Louise!, when it comes to vetting potential candidates, some thing are Best done behind the scenes, FIRST. That should be a no-brainer.
The devolved GOTP: What an embarrassment to our nation’s political dialog; what an embarrassment to our whole political system! Aaaargh, but they sorely vex me! beth.
Here here. And please pass the xanax!
I agree with her highness on this one. Or at least, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Romney is a Vulture Capitalist. I hope the term sticks.
The woman who told Alaskans to hold her accountable before she didn’t want them to, went on to defend candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry, saying he was simply holding Romney accountable when he called him a “vulture capitalist.”
seems as though the candidates got the message about Bain and Mittens, and that is to find something else to go after him with. All that slamming Romney for being a capitalist wasn’t such a good idea afterall. =) Guess Palin didn’t get the note, oh that’s right, she’s not running. The Republican’s do eat their own, but spit them out because they leave a bad taste in their mouths.
Poor Mike’s missing some more of the fun! Come back soon, Mike.
Yes Mike. Hope you get fixed for whatever ails you.
Also—-want you to know that you are missing out on all the new robo calls. The Reps running for State offices are making there run– Just when I thought all the fanfare was over for awhile. Grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
His message machine will be full–and not of good wishes because his friends couldn’t get through.
Wow, this is a prime example of “concern-trolling” on the part of the world’s biggest attention whore.
She heard the word “vet” applied to her, and still has no idea what it means
“…and she still has no idea…” pretty much describes Ms. Twit in toto.
“And Toto, too?”
“Yes, Toto, also too!”
Bwa ha ha! Good one…
She probably told Mr. Culvahouse and Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt that since they didn’t have a dog or a cat or a turtle they had no need for a vet.
And also too these candiditories need vettin’ ’cause all GOPs are elifunts an’ they need a vet donchaknow alsotoo that vets healthyize the sick whose got health insurancers or has money to pay for care ’cause they don’t rilly care donchaknow they just fix brokenated bodies for money ’cause that’s capitalism but they don’t help vultures at all ’cause vulture capitalism is bad except when growin’ our GPS and incintivizin’ the vets whose vetting the vetters then vulture vets capitalism and bane sets in taken care of the vets which are the heartland of the rill dill bein’ the Todd of the iron dog machinin’ around roarin’ that big capitalization machine makin’ money on rillality Tee Pee for those vets in uniform we love so much that they’re on food stamps the anti vet program that rill Amerikans are cuttin. Also too.
Alaska has Palin to thank for all the notice of the corruption in the state.
Knew it before, because of the Bridge to Nowhere, but now. Pee ugh it reeks to high heavens like rotting fish.
Over the last month I have noticed when Sara appears on Fox she looks a little less perfectly groomed;her make up & hair not it’s past beauty pageant perfect;almost like she threw herself together for her 3 minutes of punditry from her studio/bunker.She looks depressed & her face looks slack & tired. If this woman doesn’t have a chemical imbalance I don’t know who does? Prozac anyone?
I think watching Bachmann steal her thunder (“that should have been me”!) the past few months. With Palin’s vicious competitiveness,watching all the press attention Bachmann has received & observing how relatively well she did in early debates/poles,must have driven Palin to the brink with jealousy & resentment.
Her hair/face look down right ratty. I’m thinking that she’s cheaping out and having Bristol do it now that she’s no longer a six figure speaker fee anymore.