Palin: ‘Incognito,’ or a Wink to Supporters?
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Sarah Palin claims she meant no offense to Sen. John McCain by wearing a visor with McCain's name blacked out while vacationing in Hawaii — as captured in photos posted to TMZ.com.
"I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way. I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection," she said in a statement released to Politico. "So much for trying to be incognito."
Notwithstanding the unlikelihood of Palin being able to be "incognito" anywhere on Planet Earth, might there have been a broader message at play? Or at least one that some of her supporters might read into her choice of headgear?
ABC's John Berman points out that McCain-Palin bumper stickers with the "McCain" portion ripped off have become fairly popular among those who may have more fondness for Palin than the famously "maverick" McCain.
Berman e-mails over this photo snapped earlier this fall in upstate New York — affixed to the car that shuttled Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman around New York's 23rd congressional district.
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Posted by: Amy in Maine | December 17, 2009, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Oh, this is good stuff. It appears “Sarah Stupid” will wreak havoc on the Republican Party after all with her legion of robots…
Posted by: CND FOX | December 17, 2009, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm
How very sad it is that this is the only thing you have to report.
Posted by: stone | December 17, 2009, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm
I just find it stupifying trying to understand anyone that would support this woman for any political office, let alone take her seriously. She has now become a celebrity in her own right, although the group she belongs with is the Hilton’s, Ritchie’s, Spellings, and most of the other pseudo hollywood types just looking for attention. She will split the Republican party in half, and not really give a damn in the process.
Posted by: Chuck | December 17, 2009, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Mr. Mc Cain…it seems you have created a monster. She turned on you even during the campaign and you have been more loyal to her over the course of the campaign and since. Shows you the appreciation and respect she refuses to give you. What a gal!
Posted by: talmag | December 17, 2009, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
CND FOX I would think you need to open your eyes. If the dems where not afraid of her they would leave her alone. Palin will lay it all out on the table. She has nothing to lose. So if she runs better watch out. She will say it like it is and name names of dems who did this wreck on our country.
Posted by: Jim Rod | December 17, 2009, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm
The more the Liberals are afraid of her, the more vile the attacks are on her. If she is such a light weight and air head, then why do you bother. I think that she may really be a contender up against ol’ Mitt and Romney is a Good ol’ Boy that the Libs can work with and Sarah is not! Therein lies the cruxt of the matter.
Posted by: Gunrunner | December 17, 2009, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
The more I hear about this woman the more I like her. Palin is a millionaire many times over now and she could have easily bought another visor. Instead, she chose to reuse that one rather than buying another one- sounds thrifty to me.
I can’t wait until she gets to the white house and starts using the sharpie marker to alleviate all of the excesses the government blows our money on (like the $100LB kobe beef the limousine liberal obamas served at the superbowl party this year with our taxpayer dollars). Change is coming you mindless obamabots!
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2009, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
JimRod…I am going to repeat myself again. Nobody who disagrees with her is afraid of her as a candidate. We are afraid of what is happening to politics in general where voters would actually consider an “airhead of this magnitude” as a contender for the leadership of our nation. It makes us a “laughingstock” to the other nations of the world. Similar to what happened to us in “W”‘s final term. Oh and by the way…my eyes are open. It is too bad that those who would support this lightweight moron’s aren’t.
Posted by: CND FOX | December 17, 2009, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
@Dave, use common sense! Sarah is not writing on her FB the ghostwriter is penning it for her. Her stupidity shows each time she opens her mouth…
SP is a tool and she will not say nasty things about McCain b/c he can spill the dirt on her fast. This is the reason she will not run as republican b/c it will reveal the lies she tells.
Posted by: Thomas, AK | December 17, 2009, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
I am a democrat (more correctly, a anti-
Republican) but I have to truly wonder if Ms. Palin is really the best that the Republican party has to offer. She is a political lightweight and running her in 2012 is just handing Obama a 2nd term. The Democrats are in the process of shooting themselves in the foot with this purported health care reform. I am getting just soooo disillusioned with our politicians period …. stuck between the conservative, fear mongering, obstructionist Reps. and incompetent and truly divided Dems. Our country is suffering while both parties carry on their petty non productive agendas. I wish the people of this country would just set their partisan differences aside long enough to vote all incumbents out of office …. and keep voting them out until we get some politician in office who owe their allegiance to the people, not special interest groups. United we stand, divided we fall. Peace All
Posted by: Robert | December 17, 2009, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm
All the Sarah “haters” are jealous of her beauty, intelligence, and because she has accomplished more than Obama could ever hope for……..she is very important today in politics! Long after BO is gone, she will still be in the spotlight
Posted by: lyineyes1956 | December 17, 2009, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Thomas AK
Just like bill ayers ghost wrote BO’s book, Dreams From My Deadbeat Father”, or was it the other one inspired by rev racist’s speech, “Audacity of Hope”?
Palin was the governor who sold the private jet, fired the private jet and refused the governor’s limousine.
On the other hand, BO used convicted slumlord/felon tony rezko, who was also his senate campaign organizer, to land himself a million dollar mansion through a “sweatheart” deal. Why don’t you start using common sense?
BO crawled out of the dirtiest political city in America without ever speaking out on the corruption plaguing the city.
When Palin became gov, she sent dirty repubs and dems to jail. Many were also fired. Both political establshments hated her and the people loved her for it.
Where is BO’s record of reform? Oh yeah, there is none. One would have a better chance of finding him saying something positive about America, prior to the campaign trail, then of ever speaking out against chicago’s pay to play way.
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2009, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm
Thomas AK
Just like bill ayers ghost wrote BO’s book, Dreams From My Deadbeat Father”, or was it the other one inspired by rev racist’s speech, “Audacity of Hope”?
Palin was the governor who sold the private jet, fired the private jet and refused the governor’s limousine.
On the other hand, BO used convicted slumlord/felon tony rezko, who was also his senate campaign organizer, to land himself a million dollar mansion through a “sweatheart” deal. Why don’t you start using common sense?
BO crawled out of the dirtiest political city in America without ever speaking out on the corruption plaguing the city.
When Palin became gov, she sent dirty repubs and dems to jail. Many were also fired. Both political establshments hated her and the people loved her for it.
Where is BO’s record of reform? Oh yeah, there is none. One would have a better chance of finding him saying something positive about America, prior to the campaign trail, then of ever speaking out against chicago’s pay to play way.
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2009, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
Very petty and small. After all Mccain did for her. Anyone on vacation in Hawaii would have bought this woman a visor if she really needed one. Jealous of her beauty? Yeah, I want a turkey neck too! She’s not running, she couldn’t serve one term of governor, she doesn’t want to be President. She wants the money and the perks and she’s going to use the uneducated to get them. Find one of her supporters who has a college education or received their passport before they were 46.
Posted by: clt | December 17, 2009, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
This is so Sad that Sarah may be the choice of the GOP. Didn’t they see how ridiculous she was during the campaign.
Posted by: pt | December 17, 2009, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
Dave…..she’s a lightweight and quitter. And may I add, that the “machine” you’re talking about is with local politicans in Chicago…and if there were any “dirt” on the Prez, REAL NEWS station there REPORTS it, unlike in the SOUTH, where there’s corruption, and the news media can not get any information, due to cronyism. Look at South Carolina governor! So despite your MISinformation or what you want to believe that’s not true. He bought a piece of land 60X60 next to his house After he bought the house. The Prez was 3 yrs old, and met Ayers at a REPUBLICAN charity organization where both were board members…remember the ANNEBERGS. And Rev. Wright did not preach these kinds of summons each Sunday…I was a member. He was about self reliant and community….charity. He was also a U.S. Marine, and I doubt if the Prez was in his church more than twice per month, since he was first a State Senator in Springfield and then Washington. Believe what you may, but truth is more powerful, and will forever enlighten you out of Your darkness. Sarah Palin is a hate and fear monger, a poor mother with nothing to offer, who has made her hate very lucative. She doesn’t have the brains of the Prez nor the education to Ever be President. But she can cash in on Ignorance, as she has and run all the way to the bank.
Posted by: sara | December 17, 2009, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
Someone opined, “All the Sarah “haters” are jealous of her beauty, intelligence, and because she has accomplished more than Obama could ever hope for……..”
Right. Quit halfway through only term as a governor versus President of the United States. She sure has accomplished more……………NOT!
And her intelligence? Bwahahahahahahahahahah! She’s stupid enough to think she could remain incognito by blacking out the name ‘Mccain’ on a hat! ROFLMAO!
Posted by: SearamblerOne | December 17, 2009, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
Dave…that 2:19 post to Thomas AK ..you had to reach way down low for that instructive piece of “logic”. I can see now why “simple minded Sarah” appeals to you. A great example of simple minded “backlash” thinking. Just exactly what she appeals to.
Posted by: CND FOX | December 17, 2009, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
The bad news is that Sister Sarah is lying yet once again.
The good news is she finally found a use for her head……….a hatrack.
Hey, Sarah…..whatcha got on your mind besides your hat?
Posted by: Doppelganger | December 17, 2009, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Attention Obamabots
Palin stepped down because her administration was drowning in frivilous lawsuits brought on by the obama machine. Her and her staff spent thousands of hours, along with millions of tax payer dollars, dealing with these lawsuits. When she resigned, her administration was 20-0 in defeating them, with another 20 lawsuits lined up. I wonder if BO, the corrupt socialist from chicago, could have survived such investigations?
BO is a fraud and his approval is down to 44%. He crawled out of the political slums known as chicago, and now the halo has fallen off.
BO has surrounded himself with some of the dirtiest people his entire life (bill ayers, bernadine dorn, rev racist, rashid khalidi, tony rezko, blago, saul alinsky, ACORN) all in the name of “pay to play” and getting ahead politically.
When Palin stomps on him with her high heels in 2012, I can’t wait to here all of the liberals jumping from the roof tops!
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2009, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
“We are afraid of what is happening to politics in general where voters would actually consider an “airhead of this magnitude” as a contender for the leadership of our nation.”
As opposed to the genius running our country into the ground now? Obama never had a successful record as a chief executive and it shows.
Hey Detroit, how’s that 50% unemployment working for you? Just remember: CHANGE IS HARD!
Posted by: Jenn | December 17, 2009, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
Why is this news? It’s a hat. She was wearing it on vacation. Who really cares what she thinks about McCain anyway?
With all the problems our country faces right now, I don’t think the media should be paying too much attention to Sarah Palin’s head gear.
Posted by: Piatigorsky | December 17, 2009, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
Even if Sarah Palin came out and said she hated John McCain and hoped he would fail, would anyone really care?
Sarah Palin is a private citizen. She has not announced any intention of ever running for office again. This intense media scrutiny over everything she says and now, what she wears, is becoming silly and it’s only helping her to sell her book.
Posted by: Really? | December 17, 2009, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
What I cannot understand is the illogical thinking of her supporters. Honestly do you really think that the liberals are afraid of this woman? In my humble opinion it merely goes to show that lunacy is contagious and Sarah is the conductor on the crazy train. Do you honestly believe that she will become President? Has she even been courting the Hispanic voters who are now close to being the majority vote in this country and most are Democrats? Well the answer is NO because she is too busy playing upside to the gun-slinging, bible toting, tambourine shaking nutcases of the right wing. Roll on crazy train, roll on and take the rest of the nut-jobs with you, PLEASE!
And as for the hat… just another Palin kick to the GOP that she plans on destroying… well she did quit her job maybe she cannot afford a new hat.
Posted by: Addertongue | December 17, 2009, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
You forgot to report that her Tshirt says “If you don’t like America” on the front, “then get out” on the the back. Her way or the highway.
Posted by: The Little People | December 17, 2009, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Sara
BO called rev racist his “mentor” and his “best friend”. His book “audacity of hope” was titled after the rev’s sermon titled “audacity of hope”.
BO was a member there for 20 years. For you to say he didn’t know that “GD America”, “America is the worst terrorist nation in the world”, “US of KKKA”, “America created the AIDS virus” and “America deserved 9/11″ were the recurring themes there, makes you look foolish.
As for bill ayers, BO had his political coming out party in the guy’s living room. Again, for you to say that their friendship was limited to a few chance meetings, also makes you look ridiculous.
Spit out the left wing kool-aid that the media has been serving you and realize that you have been tricked.
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2009, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
Archarito
The video at conservatives4palin is hilarious!
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2009, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm
You (almost) have to feel for the neo-cons. Palin is a cleaver down the heart of their party. With her dismantling the repos and the dems cleaning house on all the blue dogs, we’ll finally see the death of social conservatism and the greatness of our country restored.
Posted by: Mangalore | December 17, 2009, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
“Change is coming you mindless obamabots!” — LMAO! Someone missed the boat – about 12 months ago. Change has already come and that direction of change will continue until the neo-cons are all crying like little girls. Which is what your post is all about.
Posted by: Mangalore | December 17, 2009, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
She does everything she can to keep the attention and her and it works. The media jumps on it. Incognito, my ass. She has other visors, as evidenced by other photos. Plus, she’s wearing a t-shirt with an inflammatory message. She knows what she’s doing. What a liar.
Posted by: linda | December 17, 2009, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm
Addertongue
She needs to start “courting some of the hispanic vote”? More like bribing them. That is what the democrats always do.
As I have said before, the democrats are the party of the 4 S’s- slavery, secession, segregation, and now socialism.
They go around telling everyone that this is an unjust and racist country and only through their help, can one succeed.
Nevermind that the majority of millionaires in the house/senate democrats (limousine liberals), it’s the republicans who are the rich people!
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2009, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm
The video at conservatives4palin is actually the smartest thing that woman has had to say since she came into the limelight… To all you Palin supporters it merely goes to show that like minds think alike.
Posted by: Addertongue | December 17, 2009, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
oh lets ignore dave….sounds like lets just sit down and talk with iran while they blow off missles. dave seems alright with me and so does sarah palin. have you ever met a happy liberal woman? probably not and therein lies the left hatred of palin,,,she is happy in her own skin and doesnt have to have it stretched tight like pelosi.
Posted by: catman | December 17, 2009, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Dave, Dave, Dave,
Are you confused are merely a contradiction in terms?
For the record I am what one might consider a blue-dog Democrat and all member of the house, the senate and the executive branches of government are either extremely well-off or down right rich and on the take to special interest. Do you honestly think that what you refer to as the 4S’s is merely a Democratic thing are did you forget about the Patriot Act or are you just grasping at straws? Lay off the turpentine honey or that snake might bite you.
And by the way what do you think the SarahPac is?
Or do I need to spell it out for you?
Posted by: Addertongue | December 17, 2009, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
Hillbilly alert!!! Guess the money she’s making from her (and I use the term lightly) book isn’t enough to buy her a new visor. Self-promotion queen at it again. Yee haw!
Posted by: pamp205 | December 17, 2009, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
catman
You have hit the nail on the head. Sarah Palin is a self-made woman who rose to power while her husband worked as a fisherman. Now let’s look at the list of powerful liberal woman…
huffington, pelosi, kennedy, clinton ALL got to where they are by riding the coattails of powerful/wealthy men around them, but somehow they are the ones who the feminists support?
Women in general are just hateful to eachother so the attack on an attractive, self-made, HAPPY, conservative woman is predictable. It makes them feel better about themselves.
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2009, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm
If Robert thinks Sarah Palin has intelligence,Robert needs to go back to school with palin.
The poor women is a just above being a MORON.
Posted by: bugs | December 17, 2009, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
- Troopergate was a bust.
- Ethics charges were all baseless, and tossed out.
- Trig not being her baby was just a media lie.
- Eleven AP reporters were sent to find lies in her book and turned up…. nothing.
- Detectives sifted through her garbage and found….. nothing.
Now THIS?!? THIS is what the media is trying to make into a story, so that the public turns on Palin… a VISOR?!
Perhaps the media should focus more on the rights of the American people that are under assault daily in Washington. Or the willy-nilly spending of our childrens’ and grandchildrens’ future. Or the dismantling of capitalism before our very eyes. Or the government takeover of 1/6 of our economy. Or the grand scam that is Man-made global warming. Or the Constitution being used as toilet paper by Obama and Congress.
But those aren’t stories when the newspapers and networks are STATE-CONTROLLED. Apparently there are too many reporters with too little to do. Better raise taxes so government can bail out their media lapdogs and create more make-work Palin stories.
Posted by: OverTheCoastline | December 17, 2009, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm
Seriously…liberals are not afraid of her. She is so entertaining! I can’t wait to see her debate other Republicans in the primaries. Her own party will expose her for the intellectual lightweight she is. Of course, some of her supporters like this trait in her.
Posted by: DK | December 17, 2009, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm
“Seriously…liberals are not afraid of her.”
Sure they are.
Posted by: Mary | December 17, 2009, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm
Go Sarah! Rip up the GOP! It is so worth it to see!!!!!!Honestly, I never thought I would live to see the day.
Posted by: Bravebrick | December 17, 2009, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm
Jim Rod sez: “Palin will lay it all out on the table. She has nothing to lose.”
True. All her marbles are long gone.
Posted by: Aaron | December 17, 2009, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm
Obama is going to get clobbered by this woman in 2012. The media has done EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER to destroy her while protecting obama, and yet her popularity keeps climbing and his poll #’s keep dropping.
The public will not soon forget this second coming of jimmy carter that the media shoved down our throats last year. The only entity with worse approval #’s then obama’s is the main stream media.
Posted by: Palin4prez | December 18, 2009, 12:10 am 12:10 am
Go Sarah- You got’em where you want them-begging for more. All this free publicity. Thats great!!!
Posted by: John Demeter | December 18, 2009, 2:33 am 2:33 am
talmag You are WRONG! Sarah didn’t turn against John McCain at all! McCain turned his back on her months ago when he refused to support her. Sarah worked tirelessly for three months trying to get him elected. She was on the road campaigning for him nearly 24 hours a day everyday from September – November 2008 and that was the thanks she got! No, never has Sarah Palin ever turned against John McCain! In fact it’s just the opposite. I don’t blame her at all for blocking out his name on her visor considering the way he’s treated her for the last several months! He turned his back on her long ago! It’s time she stopped supporting him!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 18, 2009, 3:19 am 3:19 am
The bad news is that Sister Sarah is lying yet once again.
The good news is she finally found a use for her head……….a hatrack.
Hey, Sarah…..whatcha got on your mind besides your hat?
Posted by: Doppelganger | Dec 17, 2009 3:32:33 PM
Exactly what is she lying about?
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 18, 2009, 3:24 am 3:24 am
I just find it stupifying trying to understand anyone that would support this woman for any political office, let alone take her seriously. She has now become a celebrity in her own right, although the group she belongs with is the Hilton’s, Ritchie’s, Spellings, and most of the other pseudo hollywood types just looking for attention. She will split the Republican party in half, and not really give a damn in the process.
Posted by: Chuck | Dec 17, 2009 12:49:46 PM
I find it stupifying that you don’t support her!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 18, 2009, 3:27 am 3:27 am
Attention Obamabots
Palin stepped down because her administration was drowning in frivilous lawsuits brought on by the obama machine. Her and her staff spent thousands of hours, along with millions of tax payer dollars, dealing with these lawsuits. When she resigned, her administration was 20-0 in defeating them, with another 20 lawsuits lined up. I wonder if BO, the corrupt socialist from chicago, could have survived such investigations?
BO is a fraud and his approval is down to 44%. He crawled out of the political slums known as chicago, and now the halo has fallen off.
BO has surrounded himself with some of the dirtiest people his entire life (bill ayers, bernadine dorn, rev racist, rashid khalidi, tony rezko, blago, saul alinsky, ACORN) all in the name of “pay to play” and getting ahead politically.
When Palin stomps on him with her high heels in 2012, I can’t wait to here all of the liberals jumping from the roof tops!
Posted by: Dave | Dec 17, 2009 3:47:24 PM
I don’t know about the jumping from the rooftops but I think the liberals will be doing a lot of tantrum throwing and crying and whining on the morning after the elections in 2010 and 2012. They act like two year olds anyway! They are going to turn into real crybabies when the republicans take back control of the house and senate in 2010 and then go on to win back the presidency in 2012! Judging from the things they say in these comment boards I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them actually laid down on the floor and kicked and screamed!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 18, 2009, 3:48 am 3:48 am
Obama is going to get clobbered by this woman in 2012. The media has done EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER to destroy her while protecting obama, and yet her popularity keeps climbing and his poll #’s keep dropping.
The public will not soon forget this second coming of jimmy carter that the media shoved down our throats last year. The only entity with worse approval #’s then obama’s is the main stream media.
Posted by: Palin4prez | Dec 18, 2009 12:10:55 AM
If Obama’s approval rating keeps dropping at the rate it’s going, he might as well not even bother to run again! It will be a waste of his time and a huge waste of his supporters’ money!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 18, 2009, 3:59 am 3:59 am
When the media attack her on something as benign as this it only proves her point. The media are biased.
Posted by: Bassman | December 18, 2009, 6:49 am 6:49 am
palin is the most beautiful woman like obamas wife, lets have them as running mates!
Posted by: sam gettie | December 18, 2009, 8:05 am 8:05 am
It is certainly very telling when the media and the libs have to scrape together a completely inconsequential “news story” to pursue their smear campaign against Sarah Palin. She accomplished more in her incomplete term as Gov. of AK than Obama has in his entire career. So keep telling yourselves she stupid…HA. Check out her background and experience, and you’ll see she is anything BUT! The Dems keep trying to discredit her because they fear she will expose them and boot them, like she did to the secret corruption in the legislature and politicians in AK…on both sides of the aisle. Obama, et al don’t know the meaning of “transparency”. She does just talk the talk, she walks the walk.
Posted by: M.O'Malley | December 18, 2009, 8:38 am 8:38 am
As President Obama tries to curb global warming in the hothouse of Copenhagen, Sarah Palin has butted in to claim that climate change occurs naturally “like gravity,” while warning that reducing greenhouse gas emissions will mean “job losses” and “economic costs.”
A few weeks before she mounted the national stage, in July of last year, then-Gov. Palin told her state:
“Alaska’s climate is warming. While there have been warming and cooling trends before, climatologists tell us that the current rate of warming is unprecedented within the time of human civilization. Many experts predict that Alaska, along with our northern latitude neighbors, will warm at a faster pace than any other areas, and the warming will continue for decades.”
She created a subcabinet group to look at “carbon-trading markets” and examine “the expanded use of alternative fuels, energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy.” She’s now bashing scientists and telling Obama to stay away from Copenhagen.
Was that a flip or a flop? Sister Sarah is the biggest idiot in history to hit the national political stage, ever. Anyone who supports this complete and utter moron needs to have their head examined. Her supporters are as stunningly clueless as she is…….
Posted by: SearamblerOne | December 18, 2009, 8:52 am 8:52 am
One important item to keep in mind is this: never confuse education for intelligence. To be so caught up in Sarah’s supposed lack of intelligence is another sign of the left’s elitist attitude on the subject of education. A person can always be taught the finer details of geography ie. that no, South Africa is not a continent just as easily as a Harvard grad can be taught that there are not 57 or 58 states but still just the 50 we’ve had since 1959. But intelligence is altogether another manner; socialism doesn’t work, never has, never will. Evil capitalism does, plain and simple.
GMA’s Sam Champion slammed her for not buying a new visor since they are available everywhere in Hawaii, what is the definition of ‘frivolous’? is it to buy something that isn’t needed, or is it this story?
Posted by: j870h | December 18, 2009, 9:08 am 9:08 am
I love the way the left hates her….most libs i know are UGLY, palosi, clinton, and u as well…hahaha…and they cant stand the fact that a beautiful intelligent women can represent millions who follow her…she is a threat to “Washingtons agenda of big government and control of the American people”….Go Palin, the more I see her the more I lean toward supporting her…better than my vote for OBAMA, I was FOOLED!!!!
Posted by: Israel | December 18, 2009, 10:27 am 10:27 am
WOW! ABC you really out did your self with this hard hitting ‘news’ story. And I see the comments are as sophisticated as the cutting edge story. I see a noble prize for journalism some where in your future!! Congratulations! Clowns.
Posted by: Ruler4You | December 18, 2009, 10:39 am 10:39 am
Wow! As I watch the left berate and vent against Palin, I often wonder why. I’ve concluded that the left truly believes that they are smarter, wiser than the average American, esp anyone between the coasts. Palin has tapped into the resentment of those folk over the condescension of the left’s “we know what’s good for you because you’re too stupid to figure it out, you dumb hick” attitude. She has a real chance of coalescing this resentment. Can she be elected to the presidency? Probably not. Is she the leading candidate? No. Is she the best the Repubs can offer? Of course not. Can she help shape the terms of the debate for 2010 and 2012? Yes. And the idea of Middle America, even in NY and CA, turning against the left’s paternalism, seriously worries them. Ironically, the more the left makes fun of Palin, especially the denigrating comments about her intelligence, the more they define themselves to Middle America as whining elitists.
Posted by: Zoomie75 | December 18, 2009, 10:43 am 10:43 am
Only The Dumbest of the Dumb could think Palin is a Contender!!! Lets see — She Quits her job as Governor — A Public trust she took an oath to dilligently pursue– To make more money on a lucrative book deal– That a ghost writer compiled for her!!! Wow that really is a great GOP resume !!!!
Posted by: brian | December 18, 2009, 11:24 am 11:24 am
“McCain” blocked out ? How come I can see it ? The loony left will look for any reason to attack America’s leading feminist.
Posted by: Ron | December 18, 2009, 11:45 am 11:45 am
Gunrunner actually believe that Sarah was just being thrify in reusing the McCain hat. It was a slap to McCain, simple. Gunrunner, the perfect Sarah supporter.
Posted by: vet_sk | December 18, 2009, 11:45 am 11:45 am
SearamblerOne Mark my words! Obama’s trip to Copenhagen will be as much of a failure as his trip to Europe last summer to try to secure the summer olympics for Chicago!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 18, 2009, 11:52 am 11:52 am
GM
16 words:
Rev Racist
Bernadine Dorhn
Bill Ayers
Rashid Khalidi
Louie Farrakhan
ACORN
Saul Alinsky
Tony Rezko
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Posted by: Dave | December 18, 2009, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm
brian She quit her job as governor because she was forced out by the stupid baseless ethics complaints that were costing her thousands upon thousands of dollars in attorney fees to fight them! I remind you that only one of those complaints were found to have any merit or basis at all and it wasn’t a criminal offense. She only had to pay a fine for it! She also finally grew tired of the constant bashing of her children, especially her daughter Bristol, by the stupid late night comedians and the people on these comment boards. No, she didn’t quit because she wanted to! She quit because she was forced out! She had all she could stand financially and she had taken the stupid remarks and “jokes” about her children as long as she could!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 18, 2009, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
I LOVE SARAH!! Maybe she’s not the best canidate for Prez yet but she has more integrity, brains and class in her little finger than most liberals have in their entire body.
Posted by: shelly | December 18, 2009, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm
The biggest difference between Sarah Palin and 99.99% of other politicians is that she has never been concerned with her political career. Rather, she claims to be “for the people” and she actually is, without regard for political strategy.
How many other governors rose to power fighting corruption on both sides of the isle, COMPLETELY ostracizing themsevles from both political establishments in the process? Most other politicians would never go after members of their own party. She did.
How many other governors slashed the excesses usually enjoyed by previous administrations (private jet, private chef, car and driver)? Hillary clinton actually remodeled the governor’s mansion while slick willie was gov of AR, raising taxes to pay for it.
How many other people could live under the incredible scrutiny for the past year and a 1/2 that she has (hundreds of obama’s henchmen reporters went to AK) without ever making a big mistake? The media has targeted her and protected/promoted obama, and she is still standing strong. Imagine if she had proclaimed that “Roosevelt went on television in 1929 to calm everyone down” (biden), or that she “has been to all 57 states” (obama). Both obama and biden were allowed to say ludacris things, while Palin’s every move was scrutinized. Biden was allowed to say 14 false statements during the debate, but all the media focused on was Palin’s winks. Also, her crowds almost matched obama’s after one month on the campaign trail.
Finally, she resigned as governor to free up her state and turn power over to her lt gov. She refused to waste any more tax pay dollars dealing with these frivilous lawsuits. ANY political advisor would have told her this was not a good move if she wanted to seek a higher office in the future, but she didn’t care. “If I die politically, so be it”, she said in an interview afterwards. She knew it was the right thing to do, so she did it.
Posted by: Palin4prez | December 18, 2009, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
If I remember correctly, we the American people spoke on November 5, 2008 (for those of you who forgot.) I am so tired of hearing those of you who lost that happy November day the “we need to take our country back.” If I may ask who are you taking it from? Americans?
Posted by: kathlen | December 18, 2009, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
She will divide all of America….
It is a shame she wasnt born a Deer or a Moose….
Posted by: Antonio | December 18, 2009, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
She “quit” her vacation and released a statement. This has to be a joke.
Posted by: Clt | December 18, 2009, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
Antonio
Have you seen obama’s poll #’s lately? Talk about dividing America!
Obama is a racist, anti-American, left wing loon, otherwise known as a liberal. His #’s will continue to fall as long as he continues to bash this great nation of ours and rams legislation down our throats that the majority of Americans don’t want.
Posted by: Palin4prez | December 18, 2009, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
All of Sarah’s supporters wish they were as smart as she is… the rest of America just wishes Sarah was smart enough to keep her mouth shut. Jealous…? Of what? A failed Governor? Jealous of the idol of American Morons… highly unlikely.
Posted by: DewyB | December 18, 2009, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
How does the main stream media artifically keep Gov. Palin’s poll numbers low? They ridicule her for the visor she wears while ignoring the auction of the red jacket she wore on the cover of “Going Rogue”. It just went for $57,000.00. The money will go to wounded soldiers.The media will cover up this story.
Posted by: Bassman | December 18, 2009, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm
DewyB They are jealous there is no one in the democratic party who is anywhere near as popular or has nearly as many followers as Sarah Palin! NO ONE! Not even the president himself!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 19, 2009, 2:28 am 2:28 am
Who is this woman trying to fool? Marking out McCain´s name so that only Palin appears is a tacit way of yelling “Here I am.” And cutting short her Hawaii vacation because of the press notice….give us a break! Sometimes Palin acts more like a publicity chasing celebrity, a la P. Hilton or L. Lohan, than a serious political leader.
Posted by: BachisBest | December 19, 2009, 8:06 am 8:06 am
“Sometimes Palin acts more like a publicity chasing celebrity, a la P. Hilton or L. Lohan, than a serious political leader.”
LOL, actually I think Hilton is a whole lot smarter – and richer – than Sister Sarah!
Posted by: SearamblerOne | December 19, 2009, 9:29 am 9:29 am
SearablerOne…”Sister Sarah is the biggest idiot to ever hit the national political stage..” Enough said. You could not say any more than that and be any more accurate.
Posted by: CND FOX | December 19, 2009, 11:39 am 11:39 am
CND FOX No he could not be any LESS accurate and neither can you! You both greatly under estimate Sarah Palin’s intelligence simply because you don’t agree with her! You both are like all the other liberals on these comment boards! You think that anyone who disagrees with you, or has different views than you, is stupid!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 19, 2009, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
SearamblerOne Have you seen the reports on Sarah’s book sales lately? It’s debatable as to whether Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan are richer than Sarah Palin now! Her book sales now number into the millions and it’s still selling! Also I don’t know about Paris Hilton but Lindsey Lohan has been known for her drug use and drinking in public for years. In fact most people would call her addict and an alchoholic. She has been in and out of rehab clinics for years. As far as anyone knows Sarah Palin is not known to use drugs or for being drunk in public. She is not that stupid!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 20, 2009, 2:51 am 2:51 am
“As far as anyone knows Sarah Palin is not known to use drugs or for being drunk in public. She is not that stupid!”
Yet she blacked out the name ‘Mccain’ on her hat because she thought it would make her unrecognizable and help her to remain incognito. I mean seriously – really? Sorry, Girl, but I have yet to see any evidence of Sister Sarah’s supposed ‘intelligence’……
Posted by: SearamblerOne | December 20, 2009, 8:53 am 8:53 am
“SearamblerOne Have you seen the reports on Sarah’s book sales lately? It’s debatable as to whether Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan are richer than Sarah Palin now! Her book sales now number into the millions and it’s still selling!”
Ummm, no, there’s no debate there. Both Lohan and Hilton still have a net worth much higher than Sister Sarah. You DO know who Paris Hilton’s family is, right? And do you know exactly how much Sister Sarah gets from each book sold? I know for a fact that you can pick up this book for under five bucks on some websites. So while she has certainly achieved her goal of getting rich by abandoning the people of Alaska who elected her to do a job, she still has a ways to go to compete with the party girls…..
Posted by: SearamblerOne | December 20, 2009, 9:06 am 9:06 am
So the elitist, that claims she’s against the elite, took a magic marker to her hat? And then she had to leave a vacation over the fact somebody noticed?
Add this to the trasure trove of “poor Sarah is abused” stories I guess. She deserves to be abused for bad fashion on this one. Who takes a marker to their hats?
Posted by: secondlook | December 20, 2009, 9:51 am 9:51 am
Bill O’Reilly: Let me be very bold and fresh again, do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?
Sarah Palin: I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have I believe the values that I think are reflective of so many other American values, and I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the uhm, the ah, a kind of spineless, spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite, Ivy league education and, and a fat resume that is based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans are could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership, I’m not saying that that has to be me.
(I love how she never even answered the question. Someone tell me again why they think this woman is presidential material…..)
Posted by: SearamblerOne | December 20, 2009, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
Ron wrote, “”McCain” blocked out ? How come I can see it?”
(Ummm, because she did a lousy job of it. Ya know, kinda like that whole Alaska governor thingy……….)
Posted by: SearamblerOne | December 20, 2009, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm
secondlook A person who wants to take a family vacation without being bothered with a bunch of reporters and people constantly taking pictures that’s who! Clearly she just wanted to be left alone to spend some quiet time with her family away from reporters and their cameras! She is being chased as much as Princess Diana who was literally chased to her death by reporters!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 20, 2009, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm
Yes, I know who Paris Hilton is. Her father is Conrad Hilton the owner of the Hilton hotel chain. Just because her family has money doesn’t mean that she has access to all of their money personally. Most of it is probably tied up in real estate holdings, stocks, bonds, etc. Paris herself probably receives a small portion of it. No doubt she won’t receive the bulk of her father’s estate until his death which could be years from now. Even then she won’t receive all of it because she has a sister! Her sister will likely receive half of it! Like I said, Sarah’s book is still selling. It’s selling by the thousands every day. It’s already sold more than both of Barack Obama’s books combined! She is still making money on it even if some websites are selling it at discount prices. She’s still not losing money on it! By the time it goes out of print she’ll be even richer than she is now. In fact no one really knows how rich she’ll be. And as far as Lindsey Lohan goes I imagine all of her money is going for drugs and alcohol. In fact it’s probably going right up her nose or shot right into her arm! I doubt seriously that any of it’s being saved. She is probably making it fast and she’s spending it faster than she makes it. I’m going to repeat that at least Sarah Palin is not known to be an addict or an alcoholic! The bulk of her money will probably be invested in things that will make her even more money. One thing is for sure, she’ll never be poor. She’ll die very rich indeed and her children will have an inheritance!
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 20, 2009, 11:57 pm 11:57 pm
My last comment was to SearamblerOne.
Posted by: JimVgirl | December 21, 2009, 12:02 am 12:02 am