Sarah Palin gets hit on and often

I have to admit I was wrong. I thought that after the election, the right would realize how wrong she is for their party and the country. I guess there is a silver lining to all of this though, it will insure that the republicans will continue their downfall and defeat. True, she is well liked with the RR and book banning type, but she scares the bejesus out of most moderates. I can't help but chuckle when I think this is the best they can come up with.

Palin represents a firm ideological right wing - Obama represents the middle ground. We are blessed to have Obama. In historical terms, moderation always wins. Center Left or Center Right are both areas of complimentary solutions. ...........

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/11/29/governing-from-center-left-or-center-right/

Sarah Palin on the 2012 ticket, the "writing on the wall" is beginning to show already-

Lycos is shutting down owing to its inability to attract invester interest.

Could this be part of the reason?

Only the marginally retarded use that search engine?

For Sarah's fans:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NtgXlrcvXZA/SR4Wd9x1KBI/AAAAAAAASHo/6hyh1kc0xsY/s1600-h/CHUCKMAN+-+PALIN+-+DOOR+TO+2012.jpg

Palin certainly adds entertainment value.

Many people look her up just for that. I know I do.

Sarah – The All American
Gov. of Alaska at 42 years old
Five children
Beautiful and Sexy
Very graceful and intelligent
Very discipline
Strong as steel
Role model
Can Hunt
Can Fish
Athletic
Runs a business
Runs household
Runs a State

You can agree or disagree with her political views but one thing is for shore Sarah Palin is a truly remarkable human being.

Palin's name is like red meat for the flatliner loons. The GOP can use her as a decoy as the other canidates line-up. I guess woman-rights can only exist in a left-leaning world.

Sarah the Blunder Woman is dumber than a bag of rocks.

She represents the low IQ GOPer base PERFECTLY!
.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271557392/bctid2957154001
.

She's partially popular partly with the theocon base for articulating their version of what a pentacostal white house would be like.

but she's also popular among not conservatives ie moderates and democrats in the way some people stop to gawk at a traffic accident. they want to see what ignorant dumb thing she says or does next. They're amazed at the republican's nominating someone even more ignorant, and in greater denial of that ignorance than bush. not too mention the abuses of power and the crony corruption she's infamous for.

while she's a great political celeberity who knows how to get attention, she's so stupid she makes bush look like an intellectual that's well read and competent.

lycos stopped being relevant a decade ago, just like sarah palin's ideas.

Sarah Palin came into play to enliven McCain and rejuvenate the extreme conservatives just as Obama made wild promises that now have extreme liberals angry.
Always thought that "centrist" would come through while everyone bashed words such as moderate as if it had vanished and would not serve anyone well anymore. Truth being, moderation is successful. Another futile attempt to put Obama vs Palin when both were candidates for different positions really made people take a look at things. And, now we have war yet on our hands and a shaken economy. For which all Americans are accountable to and for. America is watching to see what Obama will do and yet watching Palin for she is still out there and a going. It's a new day, or is it.

Nice Chuckman, you idiot. Melding "mildly retarded" and Sarah Palin in the same sentence knowing about Trig.

You are a real genius.

I read whatever is out there re:Palin becuase I cannot believe anyone in their RIGHT MIND would even be considering her for 2012..Her views are totally outdated{ she wants Leave it to be Beaver Days} again but with the Mother the worker...Nuts!!!...Stay in Alaska please.....

I wonder if Rich Lowry of the National Review is still seeing sparkles and fireworks everytime he see's a photo of Bible Barbie from Wassilla?
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSZw1_lDcxo
.

Interesting that all of you folks automatically assume that conservatives are the people driving the search engine frenzy surrounding Sarah Palin. Yet, right there in the article, two specific video items are referenced, neither of which is flattering to Sarah Palin. Now who would have an interest in viewing those? Her supporters? Certainly not. It seems to me the fascination with Sarah Palin (at least in terms of Web traffic and media attention) comes from the Left, who, like a football fan that has recorded a championship won by his team, prefers to watch a key play over and over again -- perhaps the play in which the player for the other team that he despises the most gets bulldozed as your team scores the game-winning touchdown.

While I don't truly believe she is presidential material (at this point anyway), there is a certain freshness about her "common" appeal. If she only supported abortion rights and social spending, then she would have immmediately jettisoned into the pantheon of liberal greatness, sans Obama.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/washington/30labor.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

This is the sort of thing we should be focusing on...not Sarah Palin and how many "hits" she gets....this is very scary! The Bush admin wants to keep us afraid...well this is one of the reasons we have unions.

"The mere mention of her name (Palin) at the top of a posting is good for driving up traffic, something we've noticed plenty here at The Swamp."

- Frank James

Hey Frank,
Your site would get more hits if you canned the rightwing droids that you hired to censor comments during the week days, unless you're looking to attract the Faux News crowd while alienating everyone else. The fact that your censors dump a majority of the Dem posters posts during the week while printing everything and anything that the rightwing nuts puke up is the number one reason why the number of hits your site gets is way down. Your hits were lower than other sites during the general election for this very same reason.

She's a joke. Can you imagine that winky-blinky none-nonsensical sentence structure addressing the Security Council at the UN as the representative of the United
States? Who would take that seriously? She's a joke. And she'll stay that way.

Oh, yeah, I get it - she gets "hit on." Funny. Ha Ha. Good one! Boy, Frank James, you are a true comedian. Odd, I didn't see you referring to Barack Obama getting "hit on and often, despite the fact that he gets more "hits" than Palin. But then again, your sexist "humor" wouldn't work then, would it? As usual, the media chauvanist pigs just can't help themselves.

Palin will slowly move to just right of center as she and Bobby Jindal postition themselves as the new leadership of the GOP. As Obama slips into a Carter like Stupor by 2011, Palin might seem to be a viable alternative as we battle with Portugal over who has a bigger Navy.

Of course Governor Palin is getting a lot of hits. 58 million Americans voted for her. What, you think they voted for McCain?

Governor Palin is extremely sharp, and extremely competent. She has 14 years of executive experience, Barry O has zero.

Governor Palin ran the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the agency that oversees the oil industry up there. Not only did she get big oil to tow the line, she rooted out corruption both from inside and outside the agency.

Governor Palin even took down the leadership of the Republican party because of massive corruption. Finally she beat the sitting Governor of her own party in a landslide!

Governor Palin sits as chairman on two major oil regulatory boards currently, one an interstate board.

Governor Palin is also Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard. Her command is the only one in the nation that is permanently deployed. They are deployed to the Alaskan Air Defense Forces. They are the first line of defense should Russia, North Korea, or China want to cause trouble.

As such, Governor Palin carries a high national security clearance, something neither Obama or Biden would have never had, and is regularly briefed by Homeland Security as well as other intelligence agencies.

Governor Palin is not going away. in fact, there are several serious groups that are working toward 2012. These aren't groupies, but instead serious activists that plan on taking back the Republican party from the RINOs, and the country back from the socialists.

Palin 2012

There has been a lot of loathsome and hateful reporting of Gov. Sarah Palin from the national mainstream media. Such outlets as MSNBC have been nothing but ‘infomercials’ for the Obama campaign.

However, to paraphrase Isaiah 1:18, it is time for us to “Come now, and let us reason together…” and review a few relevant issues.
This Republican Vice-presidential candidate’s experience consisted of being a governor of a state for less than two years; this same governor was considered a political reformer who took on the corrupt politicians within the party. This governor enjoyed hunting and fishing and successfully shot and harvested moose and caribou. Additionally, this governor was under 45 years old when nominated and had five children. Now according to the liberal media, this background would be a detriment to anyone desiring to be the vice-president. The person I just described was Theodore Roosevelt, who was nominated and elected as vice-president in the year 1900. Yet Sarah Palin possesses these same attributes and suffers venomous attacks from the likes of CNN and the New York Times.

Looking further into the background of Gov. Palin and comparing that to Sen. Biden (although her executive experience compares favorably to Barak Obama), her nomination as Vice-President seemed even more justified. Joe Biden has spent a lot of time in the Senate. In fact, Biden was a senator when John McCain was still held captive by Communist North Viet Nam; what is really a laugher, is that Obama’s campaign touted his desire to take on the Washington establishment, yet Biden is the poster child for the status quo. There is no doubt that over the many years Biden enjoyed the Washington D.C. insider social circuit and has a background in some of the detailed minutiae of the policies that evolved. An apt characterization of Sen. Biden would be that of a ‘policy wonk’; he reminds me of the definition of an ‘expert’ that I learned from an old Navy chief; it is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. With all of his touted expertise concerning the international scene, Joe Biden was terribly wrong concerning his unwillingness to support the successful troop surge in Iraq; this initiative was championed by John McCain, implemented by Gen. Petraeus, and has shown huge successes in the field. If Sen. Biden would have had his way, Iraq would not be on the road to stability that it is on now. Furthermore Sen. Biden also proposed that Iraq be split into three separate countries; one would be a Kurdish nation, another Sunni and another Shiite. This would have led to mass instability in the area with the Iraqi Kurds fighting Turkey, the Shiite nation being absorbed by Iran and making that country even more powerful and the Sunni section becoming a safe haven for Al Qaeda. Joe Biden was woefully mistaken on these issues and many others. It is interesting to note that Barak Obama picked Biden to complement Obama’s glaring weakness in the foreign affairs field and military matters; yet Biden’s perceived expertise’ has been shown to be sadly lacking. Perhaps that is why he is effectively dumped by Obama as demonstrated by Hillary’s appointment to Secretary of State. In fact, the latest game for the media to play is “Where’s Biden” – similar to the “Where’s Waldo’ puzzle.

On the other hand, Gov. Palin couldn’t be described as a ‘policy wonk’. However, she has demonstrated the leadership to take on corrupt politicians within her own party in Alaska, made agreements with the oil companies that benefited the residents of Alaska and insured the dependability of America’s own oil supply and participated in the negotiations with Canada on a new gas pipeline. It is interesting to note that while we in Illinois suffer under a governor who has a 13% approval rating, Gov. Palin’s approval amongst Alaskans is in the mid 70’s. The citizens of Alaska are common sense thinking folks like just like us in Illinois. Their judgment tells them that Gov. Palin is a great leader. I suggest that we heed the opinion of the folks in Alaska instead of the vitriolic diatribes of Palin haters such as Joy Behar of ABC-TV’s ‘View’. Sarah Palin is a leader; Joe Biden is a ‘policy wonk’. Policy wonks very seldom become leaders; leaders, however, can use or hire ‘policy wonks’ in order to hear diverse viewpoints.

John McCain selected Gov. Palin as his running mate the day after Sen. Obama gave his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention. The far-left slime machine immediately attacked Gov. Palin as an insignificant mayor of a small town in Alaska and denigrated that office of mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, yet conveniently passed over the fact that she was also the governor of the largest state in the union. She made more executive decisions in one week than Sen. Obama made in his entire time in the Illinois or U.S. Senate. Yet when Mayor Giuliani compared her experience as a small town mayor to that of Obama’s touted experience as a community organizer allied with the Acorn organization, the ultra-liberal press were much in a dither and got their skivvies all bunched up with the perceived slight of community organizing. The hypocrisy of the liberal propaganda machine would be laughable if it were not so significant and damaging.

We also hear a lot of Biden’s much touted intellect. Yet during this campaign, we have heard Joe the Senator refer to a three letter word ‘J-O-B-S’ (looks like 4 letters to me), asked a crippled Missourian to stand up out of his wheelchair, discussed how the U.S. kicked Hezbollah our of Lebanon, and that FDR talked to the American people on television during the 1929 stock market crash. One has to wonder if Joe Biden knows how to spell ‘potato’. Honestly, Joe Biden makes Dan Quayle look like a rocket scientist.

However to his credit, Sen. Biden was correct when he recently said “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.” Many of us recall when Nikita Khrushchev tested John Kennedy. The result was about 30 years of the Berlin Wall and the a Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought us to the brink of nuclear confrontation. And now we see the uptick in terrorist activity in Mumbai. Maybe that’s why Obama has selected Hillary for State; he needs someone to handle the 3 AM phone call.

I know that the koolaid term is usually only used by the conservatives posting here, but can we all agree that Gary drank a little too much? Wow.

Also, Terry: your comment, " I guess woman-rights can only exist in a left-leaning world." In case you didn't notice, its not that she's a woman, its her views that we don't like. Most people on the left don't like George Bush. That does not mean that all liberals dont like:
Men, People born in Connecticut,
Texans, All men with the first name of George, etc.

Gary,
I'm with you, where can I sign up to donate to the "Palin in 2012" fund?

As a longtime Democrat nothing would make me happier than a Blunder Woman Palin/Piyush Jindal ticket for the floundering Repugs in 2012.

I WANT Palin to run in 2012. I want her on TV every single day. She's funnier than the Daily Show.

C'mon...She reads EVERY newspaper, keeps an eye on Russia, and holds press conferences in front of turkey slaughters. The greatest comic geniuses couldn't have made this stuff up.

It doesn't get any better than this...
.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=211448&title=the-daily-shows-best-sarah
.

t's amazing how many of my nephews and their friends think Palin is "dumb.' They are proof that the media was successful in their concentrated effort to discredit her. Thank goodness, they were only 1/2 successful and the results of the election support that. The more I look at Palin's on the state of Alaska's web site, the more I am convinced she was qualified to be an executive. My grandchildren were excited to see her pardon a turkey and then were crushed to see the bloody shots the photographer took. What was he thinking? Where is his journalistic integrity? Or that of the paper? Or the producer of the spot that decided to show it? Will the next step be coverage of the beheadings of hostages by terrorists? Keith should be ashamed of his coverage of the event. I wonder how many other families had to console their toddlers who were exposed to his poor judgment? They had to know that a cutsy feature in which a turkey is pardoned would attract kids and family viewing. Heads should roll - photographer, reporter , Keith, show director, producer - such poor judgment needs to be removed from our media.

Gary and others, you could not be more right. Please tell all of your friends what you post here and I sincerely pray for a Palin ticket in 2012. The more we can get the word out about her, the more people will know what a nice person she really is. The problem with the left is that they have no faith, and all we need to do is prove to the world how faithful we are to her and her cause. The world needs Palin to run in 2012, so that the true evils in this country can be exposed.

If the media had treated Obama's lack of experience as disrespectfully as they treated Palin's lack of experience, Barack Obama would not be where he is today.

I'm glad that Obama is President, but please don't act like his utter lack of experience wasn't given a complete pass.

What might the media have done with his "57 states" or "beyond my pay grade" remarks if they had wanted to do him in, like they obviously wanted to do to anyone who opposed him?

Thanks, Gary. You covered just about all the bases. A couple of other factoids of note:

1) Sarah is a lifelong feminist, which her life achievements clearly demonstrate, and she has very strong credentials in dealing with women's issues (by "feminist" I mean the real thing, not the ones who believe "choice" is the only criterion); and

2) Alaska has one of the most diverse populations in the country, with nearly 1 in 6 Alaskans being native American (by far the highest % of native American population of any state) and many other minority groups as well. And Sarah has a VERY high approval rating among all of them.

American voters are going to be amazed at how extraordinary and accomplished a leader Sarah Palin is, once they really get to know her and her record. I am SO looking forward to Palin 2012 -- thankfully sans the McCain campaign's abysmal mishandling of her. She will such a wonderful change in the White House and our country after 4 years of the empty, unprincipled, artificial celebrity of the obamas.

And Sarah has a VERY high approval rating among all of them.
Posted by: JB in VA | November 30, 2008 9:06 AM

Is that among the same Alaskans that nearly voted to put a felon back in Washington? How could anyone question that kind of judgement?

Gary, Perch, JB: Thanks for the review of Governor Palin's responsibilities, experience, and fine qualities. She got my vote and she will get it again when
she gets her next run at national office.

DNC: That Dilly Show video is all the proof anyone could ever need of liberal media's innate meanness as well as their
fear of Gov. Palin's popularity.

Marty,

If you want to disagree with her views fine, but many loons and the MSM went after her in no personality (as ditzy) and her looks (she's pretty-good looking) to portray her as inept. If you compared her comments to Biden's during the campaign, she sounded like part of the Mensa Society.

Terry, the media and the loons attacked Palin’s COMMENTS (or lack of comments in many cases), which in turn made her look like a fraud. She’s hot, so what? Her ineptness portrayed her ineptness. And which part of Palin’s interviews with Couric or Gibson impressed you? You must really have a low bar for what you consider a Mensa mind. Most people that I know in Mensa, actually completed college in 4 years. I really do hope she runs in 2012. She would be the PERFECT flagship for the pugs.

If you compared Palin's comments to Biden's during the campaign, she sounded like part of the Mensa Society.

Posted by: Terry | November 30, 2008 12:13 PM

Yes Terri, we are all well aware that she connected with nutty Wingnuts like you and other Repugs who believe in Successionists and Witch Doctors.
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDfkAnCvKY
.

PALIN/PLUMBER - 2012!
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYle7RydD5U
.

Palin's a fairly accurate representive of the GOPer base.

For the GOPer base, every public screwup of Palin's is yet more evidence that the imaginary "liberal media" are "afraid of her message" and are "trying to make her look bad".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adWoAjORtYo
.

I'm not surprised in the least that the so called "intellectuals" of the Republican Party are leaving the party in droves. The 2009 GOP gives a whole new meaning to the word "dumb".

1. - "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border."
.
--Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008--

2. - "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."
.
--Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008--

3. - "Ohh, good, thank you, yes."
.
--Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler's "Nailin Paylin," Nov. 1, 2008--

4. - "Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―"
.
--Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008--

5. - "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years."
.
--Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008--

6. - "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan."
.
--Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008--

7. - "They're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom."
.
--Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008--

8. - "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere."
.
–Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it--

9. - "If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
.
--Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional, radio interview with WMAL-AM, Oct. 31, 2008--

10. - "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'"
.
--Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council--

Well put Terry.

I love Palin. I'm not the Jesus type and not into book burning and I sure didn't see her as caught up in either one in a way that would cause me to dislike her in the least.

She's very confident, pretty, and smart. She's taken on lots more than most men I know could....working, involved with the kids (busy mom) and I think the MSM screwed her on an election she should have won easily.

She has my vote in 2012, so if Obama changes thing for the better in some areas which I think he might, I would still vote her in over him in a heart beat.

Bill r>you are set in your thinking and if I can see some good in Obama you can open your mind and see something worthy in Palin.

This is all a lot of nonsense. Today's fascination with Sarah Palin is no indication of who is going to be in charge of the Republican Party four years from now, much less any indication of who will be running for office then. The favorite Democrat and Republican contenders from a year and a half ago didn't even get their parties' nominations, and neither are headed for the White House. That's because people change their political tastes with a change in circumstances. Fate will bring the new contenders to the front when the time comes. In the meantime, the Republican Party is going to need some soul searching and reprioritizing in order to square its goals with those of its traditional voter base. Sarah Palin may or may not make the cut as a party leader in the process.

Loons here is a link to some of Biden's memorable moments - not a complete histor, but some highlights:
.
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/23/biden-turns-on-the-gaffe-machine.aspx
.
Palin's IQ - estimated 125
.
http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/r-prez.html
.
Not a dimwhit as portrayed by the teleprompter readers in the MSM.

Who can get 7 million dollars for a book deal (hired Obama’s ghostwriter Ayers)?
Who is set to make millions more and more and more…..?
Who has been asked to do documentary or movie of their life?
Who has received over 800 requests/invitations for speaking endorsements and interviews from all over the globe?
Who has been asked to do commentary for CNN and FOX News?
Who has been asked to host a TV show?
Who has millions, millions, and millions…… supporters?
Who has raised hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars for their party in one month?
Who can name their own ticket?
Who’s the d,,I,,,m one now?
I heard she hired Obama’s ghostwriter.
Who is laughing all the way to the bank?
Who is jealous?

John W- I disagree with you. I think Palin will be a strong contender in 2012. She is getting enough attention that she will be a force to be reckoned with. She never got a chance to define herself while the media was trying to do it for her.Now she will shine and we can see all that she is without so much BS in the way. I promise she will be shinning like a beacon for all to see in four years from now. She most definitely has that traditional appeal not only from the conservative RIGHT but the conservative religious RIGHT as well, and you couple that with the FEMALE voter and you have some trouble on your hands. Watch and see.

In response to John Chuckman's comment, to clarify, it's Lycos Europe that's closing down, not Lycos U.S. Lycos U.S. is still very much alive with 60 million + users worldwide.

Teresa,
.
It isn't really a question of whether Sarah Palin could be a strong contender. The question is whether she really ought to be the Party's standard bearer. It is the latter of which I am unsure. She doesn't have a good reputation as a fiscal or institutional conservative. Conservative voters abandoned McCain and other Republican candidates at the polls last November because they were tired of the lip service to fiscal responsibility and small government while seeing politicians spending like drunken sailors and expanding the federal government faster than FDR. We also have to consider that, by the time the coming spending frenzy ends, we will be in need of people in government to put the financial and institutional pieces back together. No one is going to trust the Bush neo-cons to do so. So, for Sarah Palin to succeed, she will not only have to distance herself from Bush and McCain, she will also have to do a much more convincing job of showing her conservative bona fides with regard to fiscal and institutional matters. To date, she has done neither.

John W> I thought she saved her town all this money?