Category: Sarah Palin

Doesn’t Mercede Johnston Reminds You of That Line From ‘Gone With the Wind’?

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The one where Scarlett O’Hara says of India Wilkes, “Why, if she thought anybody would take after her, she’d walk down the street naked.”

Mercede Johnston is following in her brother’s footsteps and taking it all off for the cameras.
Two years after Levi Johnston bared his bum for Playgirl, his 18-year-old sister will be featured in a four-page nude pictorial in Playboy’s September issue, a magazine spokesperson confirms to Us Weekly. . . .

Mercede has a blog, which might as well be called “I Really, Really Hate Bristol Palin and You Should, Too.” That’s all she ever writes about.

If Sarah Palin decides to run for president, the biggest downside is that Mercede might get a 16th minute of . . . well, it’s not quite “fame,” is it?

Unless you’re reminded that her brother Levi was Bristol Palin’s ex-boyfriend, your reaction to her name is, “Mercede Johnston? Who’s that? And why didn’t her mama know how to spell ‘Mercedes’?”

Kinda sucks when your name looks like a typo.

Guess we’ll see what the rest of her looks like soon enough.

Sarah Palin Stimulates Economy, Boosts Employment, Annoys Liberal Media

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The big “scoop” from the Federal Election Commission report:

Sarah Palin spent almost $14,000 to adorn her “One Nation” tour bus with larger-than-life renditions of the Constitution, Liberty Bell, and her signature.
That’s one of hundreds of expenditures listed in SarahPAC’s semi-annual FEC report, which was filed online today. The former Alaska governor’s political action committee paid $13,708.44 to the Tennessee company Fast Signs for “Bus Wrap” on May 26, three days before her tour of the northeast kicked off.

“She took a bus tour! And paid money to have the bus decorated! Scandal!”

Of course, I’m sure the guys employed by the sign company in Tennessee didn’t mind getting paid for that work. And I’m sure that House Republican freshmen like Ann Marie Buerkle, Allen West and Renee Ellmer didn’t mind the $5,000 SarahPAC donated to each of their campaigns. Also: $18,700 to Young America’s Foundation, one of the most worthy and respectable conservative non-profit organizations, which trains hundreds of high school and college activists.

The liberal media are once again desperately trying to make scandalous mountains out any molehill related to Sarah Palin — FAIL!

Conservatives4Palin:

Scott Conroy [of Real Clear Politics] also notes that even though these are modest numbers, many small donations would pour in if/when she announces. Many supporters are most likely waiting for an announcement so that they can contribute to her Presidential campaign as opposed to her PAC.

There is no doubt she could raise $5 million in a month, because she is a magnet for small donors. The thing about having lots of small donors to a campaign is that you can always go back to someone who has previously given you $100 and say, “Hey, how about $50 more?” and maintain a steady stream of contributions, whereas, once your big donors “max-out” to the federal limit, they can’t give any more.

Finally, it’s reported she’s got $1.4 million cash on hand. Wouldn’t it be kinda nice if SarahPAC started hitting conservative bloggers’ tip jars?





 Shhhh! I won’t say a word, governor. That next FEC report won’t be released until January, right? Who’s gonna notice that $100?


SARAH PALIN IS RIGHT!

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The Right Scoop got a Drudge hit on video of Sarah Palin’s Wednesday appearance on Sean Hannity’s show:

“I don’t trust this President. . . . He doesn’t know how to make those cuts. He’s never had to do this before. He’s always just been one to spend other people’s money even if that money is just borrowed money or printed out of thin air. He’s never had to exercise real executive authority like that.”

Exactly right! Go through Obama’s resume and try to find when he was ever in a position of executive authority, responsible for making tough decisions about budget matters, especially in a situation like this, where spending must be cut or else.

Say what you will about Sarah Palin, love her or hate her, she has put the hammer on the nail of the essential problem with Obama’s presidency: He won the Democratic nomination by out-flanking Hillary Clinton to the left on opposition to the Iraq War (which Hillary had voted for) and also on health-care, where he advocated a Canadian style single-payer system. The presidency he and his supporters originally had in mind was one in which America would have the political luxury of pursuing a pacifist foreign policy while expanding the liberal Welfare State domestically.

And then the economy tanked. Continue reading SARAH PALIN IS RIGHT! →

Cthulhu 2012

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“Why settle for the lesser evil?”

Sarah Palin on the current evil in Washington:

It’s a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add.
The same “experts” who got us into this mess are now telling us that the only way out of our debt crisis is to “increase revenue,” but not by creating more jobs and therefore a larger tax base; no, they want to “increase revenue” by raising taxes on job creators who are taxed enough already! As Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s where we are now. Hard working taxpayers have been big government’s Sugar Daddy for far too long, and now we’re out of sugar. We don’t want big government, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it.
This debt ceiling debate is the perfect time to do what must be done. We must cut. Yes, I’m for a balanced budget amendment and for enforceable spending caps. But first and foremost we must cut spending, not “strike a deal” that allows politicians to raise more debt!

Don Surber has video of Saturday’s meeting of top White House advisers:

“Gentlemen, we must do something Immediately! Immediately! Immediately!”

Perhaps Ann Althouse has something relevant to say about President LePetomane’s “steely nerve, his intelligence, and his groundedness.”

Speaker Boehner has said the two magic words: “No deal.”

So now we’re back to zero. The Lonely Conservative fears they’re putting budget BandAids on a fiscal gunshot wound.

We should listen to the voice of reason: “We’ve got to get our fiscal house in order here in Washington. I’m not sure it’s going to happen under the current leadership.”

Questions for a rube: “Remember? That conversation with Joe The Plumber? Were ya sleeping?”

Yet the larger question remains: “Where Did the Pleasant Cthulhu Go?”


Sarah Palin 2012 Prospect ‘Dwindles’?

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Tucked into a Foreign Policy article by Josh Rogin:

“As of now, it’s unclear how far Palin’s foreign-policy shift will take her. But as the prospect of her presidential candidacy dwindles, it matters increasingly less.”

There was zero reaction from Palin to this morning’s quote from a grassroots organizer in Iowa, saying he’s “100 percent” sure that she’s running. Instead, she reacted to a U.K. Daily Mail article about the Iowa premiere of The Undefeated.

What’s the best way to get Sarah Palin to announce that she’s in for 2012? Encourage a new round of “she’s not gonna run” talk from the Committee of 43 Pundits Who Know Everything.

Because whatever the pundits say, Palin will do the opposite.

UPDATE: Politico‘s Alexander Burns says “her ability to capture the spotlight appears to be fading.” That’s a double-dog-dare-ya, if I’ve ever seen one.


Iowa Organizer Says He’s ‘100 Percent’ Certain Sarah Palin Is Running

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When I called former Des Moines talk-radio host Steve Deace yesterday to talk about recent reports of staff turmoil in the Herman Cain campaign, he told me something that shocked me. And now he has reported it at his Web site:

I met recently with attorney Peter Singleton, who has been putting together a grassroots operation for Palin in Iowa for months now. I asked him point blank if he thought Palin was going to declare her candidacy, and his answer was “100%.”

There you go, for what it’s worth.

Ruh-Roh: Rick Perry Staffing Up in Iowa? And What About Sarah Palin? In or Out?

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First, the news:

The group “Americans for Rick Perry,” which made headlines in the last two days for trying to light a fire for the Texas governor in the form of support at the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa next month, is making hires – including a top former Newt Gingrich staffer, sources told POLITICO.
Craig Schoenfeld, a veteran Iowa strategist, has been brought on board and has started nascent discussions with others about six-week contracts – meaning the duration of the lead-up to the Ames poll, the sources said.

OK, now the gossip: When I was at Right Online, I talked to a Republican communications operative who had just returned from Texas and said he was certain Perry would run. I didn’t report that conversation at the time, because when I started asking questions, the source said he didn’t have any “inside knowledge,” but was just saying that “all the signs” from Perry’s people were that they were gearing up for a campaign.

This “Americans for Rick Perry” is a shadow-proxy operation — not an official campaign — but if you put 2 and 2 together, it adds up to . . . he’s getting in. And this changes the whole game.

Personally, my feeling is that American voters aren’t ready for another Texas Republican governor, and Perry’s got a few weak spots that his GOP opponents may hit. What Perry does have going for him is the nation’s hottest state economy — Texas is booming, despite the recession — and some serious fund-raising potential.

Next, the raw speculation: Is Sarah Palin in or out? Continue reading Ruh-Roh: Rick Perry Staffing Up in Iowa? And What About Sarah Palin? In or Out? →

Dubious Quote Of The Day

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by Smitty

From The Moderate BlatherVoice, emphasis mine:

Well [Representative Bachmann]’s right — the media is always looking for a cat fight, it’s tabloid journalism as its finest. But she is only half right — the real power brokers of the Republican party want a Bachmann-Palin cat fight to split the crazy vote and pave the way to a Romney victory — the only Republican who has a chance to defeat Obama.

Only? Really? Are we that stupid? Because if we are that stupid, it means we might as well re-elect BHO. Which would prove we’re not raaaaacist.