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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    So it's obvious Palin's vapid little head has gotten so big that she's planning a run for president in 2012 but I would love to know how she think she's going to pull it off considering she pretty much blames everything that went wrong on the RNC and McCain's staff. Granted backstabbing isn't a new or rare thing for and amongst republicans but isn't it a little early? Perhaps she should've waited to play the victim and blame game until after she lost the republican primary.

    Also, devoting so much in her book to the Katic Couric interview is playing a little defensive. Is this really supposed to make her look better or just dumber than she's already come off? OK, stupid question given the demographic that will be buying her book. If they believe in the rapture, they'll pretty much believe in anything.
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    Why is she directing all her rage and hatred at Couric? I love how she throws insults at Couric whose only crime was asking her questions she should have easily known the answers to. She pitied her and thinks she ignorant? The irony.

    And about glamorizing Bristol's pregnancy, didn't she let Bristol pose for People magazine after giving birth? #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    My evil side wants to hit up every B&N and move her book to the Fiction section, but I know that only makes it hard on everyone who works there. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @noonecaresowen: Don't worry - as a former Borders clerk who had to sell the Rush Limbaugh books and the Anita Hill slasher, I promise you the bookstore clerks will come up with their own pranks. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    For those of you keeping track of these things, Ms. Palin is the cross-gendered, next generation of Ronald Reagan's ghost, all show, no go. Granted, Reagan's ability to convey a message was more effective, more seemingly credible, but the underlying dynamic still applies: the American electorate (increasingly) wants to buy an image that allows them the luxury of checking out. Of avoiding the titanic responsibility for all the gargantuan misdeeds that have been perpetrated by their representatives in the name of Uncle Sam, hot dogs, baseball, and Chevrolet.

    What is mind-numbingly stark is the level to which we have fallen when it comes to the quality of the image we will embrace. When you looked into a crowd of Reagan supporters, waving their little flags with just a little too much urgency, wearing their Oliver North pins, didn't you ask yourself how could it get any worse? Now recall the throngs that cheered this absolute black hole of a human being who has the brass breasts to stand up and claim to represent me and you--there is your soul-sapping answer.

    As my Uncle Tasso used to say, "May God have pity on our wretched asses." #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: Don't worry. It's going to be all about Huckabee in 2012. I didn't understand why he wasn't picked for VP slot. He's the less hot, less stupid version of her. Also, far more intelligent and likable, which makes him doubly scary. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @T-RO: "Don't worry"? By your own admission, your insights are cause for nothing but worry. Or in the alternative, some time spent rethinking becoming a citizen of the world... #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: sarcasm, dude. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @T-RO: Since when is Huckabee less stupid than Palin. Or for that matter, less corrupt. [www.youtube.com] #sarahpalin
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    11/14/09

    @Sullygulliver: Lesser of two evils, or at least the appearance of being the lesser of two evils. See also: [nymag.com] #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    Palin was surrounded by disloyal officers. Ahhhh, but the strawberries... #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    As a journalist, Couric does have to have at least some bias against people who can't name a single newspaper, seconds after claiming they read newspapers (all of them!) every day. I must admit, that's a bias I share. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    Ya just won't stop on Sarah Palin. What's wrong, Obama isn't faring as well as y'all hoped? If a liberal democratic woman took the trash that you deal out to Palin, the NOW would be going nuts. But the National Organization of Women apparently only speaks out pro-Democratic party, as we saw when it stayed silent on all of Bill Clinton;s gropees (I said gropees, not groupies!). NOW should normally be up-in-arms on this assault on a woman. And a lot of it has been gender-based, but i guess she's only a part of a gender-racial protected group if she votes the right way! Women like her and Condi Rice don't get the normal gender-racial preference. They're in the wrong party.
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    11/13/09

    @karchad: Really? She doesn't seem at all like a prime target for ridicule? The root word of "ridiculous" is "ridicule." She doesn't seem the least bit ridiculous to you? The stammering interviews? The resignation? The Tweeting? The ghost-written newspaper columns? The behind-the-scenes hissy fits? The plan to give a concession speech?

    So, no. I, for one, will not "stop on Sarah Palin." I comment on this site to poke fun at the sublimely ridiculous and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @karchad: The assault on Sarah Palin has nothing to do with her gender. True, some media outlets did focus too much on what she was wearing and how she looked, treatment male candidates rarely receive, but the same applied to Hilary Clinton. The fact is Sarah Palin, first and foremost, was a poor candidate for vice-president and the Republican Party did a great disservice to the country by ever offering her the position. And those who embraced her because she is a woman, and then turned a blind eye to her obvious deficiencies, missed the point completely. An election isn't about demographics. It's about selecting the better candidate, the individual, regardless of race, creed, or gender, who can best do the job. Palin is many things - a petty narcissist, a governor who abandoned her state - but she was certainly not that individual.
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    hotpinklovesofa promoted this comment Edited by headexplodenow at 11/13/09 12:00 PM headexplodenow was starred headexplodenow was unstarred
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    11/13/09

    @karchad: Listen, hoss--NOW tries to protects people from being attacked based on their gender. It does NOT protect people who have a gender from being attacked. Being a woman does not make Sarah Palin immune to criticism--especially if she is a HUGE FUCKING IDIOT. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @karchad: NOW seeks to protect women who are suffering bias for their gender, not their stupidity. they're not stepping up for carrie prejean, either. so. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @karchad: Yes, because we all know that Sarah Palin's ridiculousness stems only from the fact that she has a vagina. Now go back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich, sweet cheeks.

    We're still playing the race/gender/sexuality card in 2009? If I was a woman and I read your comment, I'd be even more offended. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    What's Wrong With Alaska
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    Edited by Mediahohoho at 11/13/09 10:31 AM Mediahohoho was starred Mediahohoho was unstarred
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    11/13/09

    @Mediahohoho: Short answer: The population of the entire state is smaller than the population of the Akron metro area yet it receives the highest proportional amount of federal money of any state (per capita expenditures).

    And it gets two senators. Imagine if Savannah, GA got its own senator -- that how disproportionately that big, fat red welfare state is over-represented in Capitol Hill.

    686,000 people sponging off the national trough (including, incidentally, lots of poor indigenous peeps who live in third world squalor up in the North Slope while the drilling destroys their subsistence).

    Sarah Palin is barely fit to be mayor of Oklahoma City. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    I'm pretty sure the chief underminers of Sarah Palin's campaign was Sarah Palin's brain, mouth and world view. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    Let's just call like it is, 99% of the people who buy this book don't even know what an index is. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @MisterMustard: Touché! #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    So, wait, the pigs were the inspiration for that communist private-profit seizure oil money dole out she used to get popular? I get it now! She's all Huey Long with a lobotomy. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Mean_Ol_Liberal: She probably thought 1984 was a calendar. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Or an album by Van Halen. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Good point. That explains Trig's name. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    Her favorite books are middle school classics because those are the last books she's ever read. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Maxichamp: she better mention that bestseller written by God! #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Maxichamp: I'm sure she knows as much about Animal Farm as Dohbya does about The Stranger. The books are both high in content and low in page count, whereas the "readers" are precisely the reverse. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    The pigs were the bad guys, what does that says about her? #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    "If those pigs beat the odds, so can I."

    She does know the pigs where an allegory for the communist movement right? That the fact that the pigs faces changed by the end of the book was to allude to the communist movement by the end being no different than the czars they overthrew in the name of freedom? #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Jim Topoleski: You don't really think she understood that, do you? #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Jim Topoleski: You do know that is not an actual quote, right?
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    11/13/09

    @Jim Topoleski: No, no she doesn't. There's no metaphor, nuance or subtlety in her world. She's not dumb -- just woefully incurious. And so are her followers. I wish them the best of luck with that. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @sharesuz2009005: well i was quoting the post, but even at that, she found it an uplifting story... It ENDS bad, VERY VERY BAD for the "animals" while the pigs party along with the humans they overthrew. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Better to Eat You With: You don't seriously think she actually read the book, do you? She just picked the first title she could think of that sounded halfway impressive. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin's Historical Fiction Memoir: 10 Juicy Items from the Sneak Peeks
    Good news and bad news for Democrats. Good: It looks like her dumb ass is painting herself as a dark red rebel outside of the moderate conservative base and thereby ensuring she'll carry the Deep South and nowhere else in the primaries. Bad: Mitt Romney is a much stronger candidate and will have had four and a half years to work out his robotic kinks when 2012 rolls around. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: its took 12 years for Al Gore to work out his robotic kinks. I'm not too worried. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Jim Topoleski: Are you saying that sons of charismatic, self-made politicians are cheap, robotic knock-offs of the genuine issue? The ghosts of Al Gore, Sr. and George Romney would like a word with you.
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    11/13/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: True. "Mittens," however, is still Mormon, and the talibangelicals won't be having that. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: He was also for everything the Dems favor before he was against them. He was basically a Democrat that preached fiscal conservatism. He is at best, a cheap GOP knock off of what they portrayed John Kerry to be. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @AliHajiSheik: Actually I think he's far worse than that. Craven, pandering, free-market absolutist except when he's not, just a weathervane blowing with the wind. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Right. He'll lose the primaries in the Deep South, but, um, he just might be able to keep the Deep South red in a general election against Barack Obama. He could get North Carolina and/or Virginia back to red, as well as some of the Rust Belt (went to high school in Michigan; dad was a legendary auto exec). #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: My parents are super conservative Catholics who like Palin, but wanted Romney over McCain. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: There's a rumor he actually has those golden tablets Gabriel gave to their founder, and will present them in Iowa come next spring. He'll even provide an index! #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: lol @ talibangelicals....love it!! #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Stream Of Consciousness: Can't take credit for it. Pass it on. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Betty Draper: A lot of awake and breathing non-insane Republicans made the same choice, but not enough. #sarahpalin
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    11/13/09

    @Tremonius: Why doesn't he confirm it or deny it? What is he hiding? #sarahpalin
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    11/14/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: The Golden Tablets? They're really pyrite. Fool's Gold. #sarahpalin
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