Apparently everyone decided yesterday was the start of the 2012 presidential election, and Mark Halperin of Time (or as Politico calls it, “Time” magazine, snarkily) reported that a “Romney intimate” (GROSS!) does not believe Sarah Palin is a “‘serious human being,” correctly. So Politico called up a Palin intimate (ALSO GROSS), and that person does not like these comments at all! The person called it “frankly immature,” and probably knows something about frank immaturity, being a “longtime Palin aide.” And thus we have an election on our hands.
Halperin:
Some of the other would-be candidates and their senior advisers have known Palin over the years, primarily from her days as governor, but most have literally never met her or had a substantive talk with her. That is a strange situation to say the least; it forces them to evaluate her without any direct insight into her strengths and weaknesses.
Perhaps it’s best not to assume she is able to do things such as “substantive talk,” candidates.
Still, few express much regard for Palin’s ultimate chances. One adviser to Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and, by traditional standards, the putative 2012 frontrunner, says of Palin, “She’s not a serious human being.” Another Romney intimate warns, “If she’s standing up there in a debate and the answers are more than 15 seconds long, she’s in trouble.”
Sounds about right. But “frankly immature!” Take it, Palin aide:
“It shocks me that anyone would try to do that,” the aide said. “You’d think we’d all be working together toward a common goal — that being 2010 — and that should be the focus right now. Those who try to claim the mantle of Reagan would be good to follow one of his most sacred tenets.”
Selling arms to Iran? Funding the contras?
“For Washington consultants to sit around and personally disparage the governor anonymously to reporters is unfortunate and counterproductive and frankly immature,” said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Haha, nice attribution there, Politico: “who spoke on condition of anonymity.” How dare that person SIT AROUND and be anonymous?
The Palin adviser also jabbed at Romney for having changed some of his positions and suggested that Romney does not have full “control” of his team.
But perhaps this is not the cat fight of the century YET. Romney tweeted this:
“Anonymous numbskulls” may sound tame, but that is a major burn for a Mormon. [TIME/P'o]
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I think MaMa Grizzly Pit Bull will win this over Mittens.
Thou shalt not criticize the Queen of the movement, lest she smite you and cause the rabble to rise up in anger.
“Anonymous numbskulls” may sound tame, but that is a major burn for a Mormon.
So are:
Scurrilous haberdasher!
Vituperative Shrew!
Barb’rous Infidel!
and
African-American!
“Those who try to claim the mantle of Reagan would be good to follow one of his most sacred tenets.”
Oh, great, the Palin campaign has hired Severus Snape.
I can’t wait for the Intimate CageMatch, wherein ‘Magic’ Underpants will be go up against ‘Moosehide’ Thong?
Romey then tweeted “Why, I oughtta…!”
Sarah’s problem is not the length of her answers, which are always longer than 15 seconds. It’s that they’re grammatically impossible, peppered with random catchphrases, incoherent, repetitive and ultimately completely unspecific. When Bill O’Reilly makes her look like an idiot on an issue she talks about all the time, you know she’s got nothing.
I’m gonna go grab a beer and a lawnchair. I gotta see how this goes down. brb.
Who let the dogs out?
Sanity in 2012?? Who in the fuck waves these signs?
It’s kind of a drag waking up every day knowing the only thing that can save America from collapse is wholesale murder.
She has indeed proven her smarts! That she don’t got none!
[re=619098]La Cieca[/re]: Sounds almost like dame peggerington nooningtonhampshiredick-in-mouthwold.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and, by traditional standards, the putative 2012 frontrunner, says…
Fuckin’ Politico, shouldn’t that be, “if you will, by traditional standards, perceived to be, the putative 2010 frontrunner, as it were…”?
[re=619096]Tommmcatt[/re]: That would be “Son of Ham”.
governor- I do not think so. She quit the job so does not get the honorific
[re=619101]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I think her grammar is perfectly cromulent. And her oratorical style, it embiggens all of our souls.
Shouldn’t she have “Refudiated” Mitten’s comment?
So like he said, “You’re SO immature.”
And then she goes, “I know I am but what are you?”
Palin: …her days as governor…
Well that comment was at least using the proper measure of time.
Half-governor, half-baked, half-wit, …
Oh look the GOP front runner is bending over backwards to stay on good terms with the lowest common denominator of the party, this is shocking!
republicans, you say? looks and sounds like an alley full of caterwauling pussies.
[re=619116]Prommie[/re]: did you mean cromulent in the Simpson’s context or as something out of Cromwell, like virulent from virus.
I – I’m confused. How can someone working for Romney actually say something that’s true? Unfortunately for Mittens, Sarah’s stupidity and lack of seriousness is a plus to the teabagging base, who wallow in their own ignorance.
One other advantage for Palin: now that she’s a grizzly instead of a pitbull, Mitt can no longer tie her to the roof for a cross-country drive.
I’m probably gonna need new magic underwear for saying it, but Sarah is a cum-stained wet dream for rethug candidate. Eat me, bitches. Eat me.
[re=619122]Aunt Fancy[/re]: Yes, but he’s donning the fudge glove for the packing phase. I eager await the carnage when Romney et al. start to rid them of this turdulent pest.
“,,,.evaluate her without any direct insight into her strengths and weaknesses…”
Turning the clock back to 2006 and pretending you haven’t really heard of this woman IS a strategy, I suppose.
“Romney/Palin
Sanity in 2012″
Okay sign, which is it Romney & Palin or Sanity? we can’t have both.
Ha ha ha. Longtime Palin aide. “Hey! Eskimo Lady! You like runny-quitty? Me aide you longtime!!”
I hope these two do run. Obama is almost surely a two-termer, but if this happens it’s a foregone conclusion. Can you IMAGINE the howls of rage from the teabagging douchetards, as well as the sounds of heads popping over at Faux? I’m gonna stay inside for a month afterwards.
[re=619126]weejee[/re]: I filter all of life through the Simpsons lens. Sara Benincasa is my Lurlene Lumpkin.
She has proven her smarts.
She’s smarting from an interview with Katie Couric.
She’s smarting from an interview with Glenn Beck.
She’s smarting from answering a question posed by a CBS correspondent.
She has proven that she has many, many smarts.
[re=619098]La Cieca[/re]: Sounds am awful lot like idolatry too. Who is more important in Palin’s life, God or Reagan?
[re=619116]Prommie[/re]: “Well, Charlie, I’m all for straightforward commonsense grammar that expresses ideas that are what the people want, because all too often the Washington elites try to hide behind confusing syntax to dismember their true intent and that’s another way they’re betraying the trust of everyday Americans and turning our nation of hardworking patriotic mama grizzlies and Joe Six-packs and our brave troops who are out there on the front lines fighting for our rights and moving our great nation to some European ideal that our founding fathers, if they could see it today would barely recognize, and this is why I say that what we need is another great awakening — a revival, if you will, of the values and principles that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and them all fought and risked their lives for and were blessed by God and this great nation that’s a thriving city on a hill will turn around and get back to its basic core values before it’s too late.”
Don’t blame me I voted for Kodos.
Stop the presses! 2 pussys in a cat fight!
[re=619098]La Cieca[/re]: Some of these ‘baggers really are out of their minds. They make it sound like Reagan is a giant bronze idol god and they are planning on scaling him and taking the ruby out of his forehead. Fuckers really creep me out.
And by the by prospective mantle-grabbers and tenet-obeyers: Reagan was a scheming half-wit pussy shit-eating rat dick and terrible President: see: Graphs of the deficit and income disparity, see: ruination of American industrial sector and re: foreign policy: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nicaragua, El Salvador.
He gets no points for not-nuking anyone. He gets minus points for thinking about it so hard.
Anonymous Numbskulls=Great band name
[re=619152]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Awesome, but I suspect she wouldn’t use the word “syntax”. Maybe sin tax, sure, what with all the smoking and drinking (not too mention vicodin-swapping; my brother up there once got 15 vicodin for a broken snowblower) that goes sullenly on up there in Alaska.
[re=619150]Butterscotch Stalin[/re]: Oh, the Reagan-worship is yet to begin, Reaganizing his Reaganly Reagan-ness is Mitt’s specialty, so for Palin to start a Reagan-off with Mitt, the most Reagan of Reaganly Reaganeers, is, in its audacity, very Reagan-like. And really, Palin probably has Mitt beat in Reaganacity, because she’s got the stupid, that Reagan, cluelessly stupid so stupid she doesn’t know she’s stupid stupidity, which is the most Reaganist of Reaganly traits. Dontcha remember the GOP primary debates in ’08, all they would do is argue about who was more Reaganish, or Reagan-y, or Reaganesque, someone at one point once said “I am the true Reagan condidate, I am more Reagan than he is Reagan.” Also Reagan, over there, with his morning in America.
[re=619163]NYNYNY[/re]: Remind them that he pulled the Marines out Beirut after a terrorist attack and you can revisit the scene from Scanners.
That signmaker is deluding himself. There is no way Romney could win the nomination without promising the VP slot to the lizard people.
[re=619098]La Cieca[/re]: Fabulous! [re=619149]Geogre[/re]: Ow, ouch, and owie.
[re=619170]Prommie[/re]:
‘cusies, but a small spelling correction. We now have all Reagan wanted, low taxes, de-reg, et al, and it is mourning in America.
grazi
The continued use of the title “Governor Palin” is chocolate coating to hide the sociopathic nougat center.
[re=619170]Prommie[/re]: Sarah Palin is more like Reagan than Reagan ever was. But mostly because of the hair.
As Politico knows all too well, the surest way to get aides is through intimate contact with anonymous sources.
OH PLUUUULEZE let them be forced to run together!!!! It will be like watching comedy central all day long
Wait, I thought “Anonymous Numbskulls” was the name of one of Mitten’s many children…, Or Palin’s…., it so hard to keep it all straight.
[re=619150]Butterscotch Stalin[/re]: Neither. The answer is Sarah.
If she has proved her smarts, I have also proved that I have a 14-inch pussyhammer.
[re=619241]BklynIlluminati[/re]:
Put Palin with any – and I mean any – plausible (or even implausible) Republican candidate and you have instant “Lowest Total IQ in History” running for Pres and Veep.
If more fun if, every time she says “freedoms” you silently imagine she’s saying “femdoms” instead. And every time she says it, everybody has to take a drink.
So Fox did a head-to-head poll for 2012(!) matching Obama and a bunch of ‘likely’ contenders. The last on that list was…Jan Brewer. Not as a potential VP nominee, but as an actual candidate for President (of the USA). Jan Fucking Brewer.
Oh, you’ll be happy to know that Barry polls quite well against Jan Fucking Brewer. Phew!
This sounds to me like the conversations I used to hear about in Junior High. Did you hear what one of Mitt’s friends said about Sarah? Then someone runs and tells Sarah’s friends about this and asks what Sarah thinks of Mitt. It’s gonna be a looong weird wait until 2012.
[re=619332]user-of-owls[/re]: Jebus wept. I want her the fuck out of my state, but that’s not a happy alternative.
It’s time Romney refudiate, er refrudinize, ah retarderate those statements.
[re=619170]Prommie[/re]: [re=619149]Geogre[/re]: [re=619152]SayItWithWookies[/re]: [re=619120]weejee[/re]: This comment thread is the gift that keeps on giving.
They are all trying to wear the mantle of Reagan. Me, I prefer the Maris of Reagan.
It makes no difference which of us you vote for. Either way your planet is doomed! End transmission.
after something or other obamacarecrisisFAILsocialistLOSELOSELOSEnov on the teevee last night i decided — until 11/10 and possibly for a month or two thereafter – that i will watch my own personal abbreviated version of ‘inglorious bastards’ every night.
once upon a time in nazi occupied france.
I saw an ad for Men’s Warehouse in the sidebar, and it hit me that I DO want Mittens to be President, of Men’s Warehouse. Seems like a good fit for the ol’ fudgicle.
[re=619717]Dadaio[/re]: Hair Club For Men might be an even better fit.
Sanity in 2012… Plus magic underpants and turkey cones. Hot diggedy!
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