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Palin book: Bashes McCain aides, machine politics
November 17th, 2009, 8:50 am · 57 Comments · posted by Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief
Sarah Palin’s much-hyped book, a best seller before a copy came off the shelves went on sale this morning.
I’ll have a full column in a few days as soon as I have time to fully read the tell-all book that has the John McCaincamp fuming, political pundits punditing and Palin’s supporters eager for the details of the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate’s life.
Anyone expecting a road map to Palin’s future political life won’t find it in Going Rogue: An American Life. About half of the 413- page book is devoted to the history of Palin’s life and her job as governor. Much of the rest takes us through the campaign for the vice presidency.
The former governor devotes 30 pages to “The Way Forward” chapter and just a few pages to her decision to resign before her first term was up.
Palin wastes no time setting herself up as eschewing organized politics. On page 2 she talks about seeing her youngest daughter Piper’s baby picture on a local Right-to-Life poster. She says that reminds her of “how impatient I am with politics.’’
Palin says while she was pro-life enough for the local RTL group to put Piper on their poster she wasn’t “politically connected enough for the state GOP machine to allow the organization to endorse me in early campaigns.’’ She never does explain why. But clearly her disgust with party apparatus will be a theme through the book.
“I still hadn’t learned to accept the fact that political machines twist and distort public service - and that a lot of times, very little they do makes any sense,’’ Palin continues.
McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt is also clearly a Palin target in this book.
When she first describes meeting Schmidt in Arizona on the day before McCain would offer her the vice presidential nomination, she had good words for the tough-minded political pit bull.
“I knew instantly that Schmidt was business-to-the-bone,’’ Palin writes. “I respect that in a person…and we were very comfortable with each other right off the bat.’’
(Before Schmidt worked for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Vice President Dick Cheney he ran former state Sen. Bill Morrow’s unsuccessful primary campaign against now Rep. Darrell Issa.)
But that seems to be the last positive things Palin has to say about Schmidt. Later on in the book she says it was Schmidt who was obsessed with the foreign policy aspects of the campaign and wasn’t quick enough to pivot the strategy to taking on the economy.
Even before the memoir – if you can call something by 45-year-old a memoir – became available, the fact-checkers were at it based on excerpts and a few leaked copies that some were able to get their hands on.
Both the Associated Press and Media Matters, a web site that tracks media accuracy, pointed out some inaccuracies in Palin’s book.
Here’s one from the AP on whether the current recession or the one during the Reagan years was worse:
“PALIN: Says Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession than the one that appears to be ending now, and “showed us how to get out of one. If you want real job growth, cut capital gains taxes and slay the death tax once and for all.”
“THE FACTS: The estate tax, which some call the death tax, was not repealed under Reagan and capital gains taxes are lower now than when Reagan was president. Economists overwhelmingly say the current recession is far worse.
The recession Reagan faced lasted for 16 months; this one is in its 23rd month. The recession of the early 1980s did not have a financial meltdown. Unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent, worse than the October 2009 high of 10.2 percent, but the jobless rate is still expected to climb. Click here to read the entire AP report.
And here’s one from Media matters on whether the press singled out Palin for criticism about her spending on clothes, makeup etc. Guess she forgot about the John Edwards haircut-gate.
“Palin: “[M]any wondered at the same time why no other candidates or their spouses were being asked a thing about their hair, makeup, or clothes.”
Palin noted reports that the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 “to clothe and accessorize” Palin and her family and asserted that “many wondered at the same time why no other candidates or their spouses were being asked a thing about their hair, makeup, or clothes.” [Going Rogue, Pages 314-315]
Edwards, (Barack) Obama, (Hillary) Clinton, and (Joe) Biden were subjected to frequent scrutiny “about their hair, makeup, or clothes.”
During the Democratic primary, the media devoted significant attention to John Edwards’ “expensive” haircuts — which were brought up by moderators in two Democratic presidential debates in 2007 — to Obama’s clothing, including during the April 16, 2008, presidential debate and in a Washington Post article stating: ”One of the most distinctive elements of Barack Obama’s public style comes down to what he so often is not wearing: patriotism on his sleeve”; to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton’s clothing, including linking Clinton’s “bright colors” to “likability problem” and calling attention to her neckline; and to questions over whether Biden had “taken steps to pre-empt baldness.”
Click here to read the Media Matters fact checking.
Palin is already on the talk-show circuit promoting her book. Oprah Winfrey got the first interview with the new author. Click here to see excerpts from Winfrey’s Monday show.
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If you’re talking about Palin’s Book, why did you post a photograph of a Photoshop parody of her book cover? Are you attempting to be taken seriously, or is this just another smear campaign against a woman in politics who is not a first lady or in lock step with Nancy Pelosi?
that’s better (for the record, the original book pictured said “Going Rouge” and I’ll spare everyone the rest)
bpsqwerty: You’re correct. Dena, make sure your graphic artists change the picture. Actually, the Merriam-Webster definition of rogue is much more derrogatory than rouge. This is Palin’s definition of herself:
1 : vagrant, tramp
2 : a dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel
3 : a mischievous person : scamp
4 : a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
5 : an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation
I think she qualifies for every interpretation.
The libs must be terrified of Sarah Palin since they go after her in such ugly ways. Read the book. Don’t take AOL’s, Yahoo, AP, or any other outlet on the liberal media’s word.
Read it for yourself, then make your own decision. You surely won’t get it from the liberal left.
Bob Shieffer’s got it right!
Palin as the Republican nominee for president would be “2012’s equivalent of 1964’s Barry Goldwater,” Sabato, calling her possible position at the top of the GOP ticket a potential landslide for Democrats.
“If Sarah Palin is the 2012 GOP nominee for President, the Republican Party platform will be the longest suicide note ever written,” he twittered.
You can see it all here in living color!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5667667.shtml
Or……NOT! There are a lot more true conservatives out there than you think. Just because there seems to be a shortage of backbone from the male politicians does not mean that a person (female) with guts and backbone cant’s take our country back for us. Palin is a very smart gal that connects with the citizens of this country. That is exactly why the libs work so hard to discredit her. Let the bird brain “twitter and tweet” all he wants.
Well RD, I’m one liberal who is certainly terrified of her, and also terrified of a segment of the population that would actually consider putting her in a top leadership role.
VERY scary!
That’s classic Bryan. You are terrified of Palin? And you and your brain-dead buddies put Obama the Marxist illegal alien in office? Now that’s funny. Oh, you liberals are an amusing group. Oh, and I think most of you male liberals are terrified of all women….not just Palin.
Palin is an idiot and no one should even listen to her let alone buy and read her book. hah. Anyone who would actually pay money for a book written by that numbskull needs counseling. The thought of her in a high office with influence over my life sends shivers up and down my spine. Really frightening.
but the book is ABOUT her, its not written by her. she couldn’t write a coherent, 400+ page book if her life depended on it. the most ridiculous thing about this book is how it made limbaugh into a sycophantic, subserviant, foot-licking idiot calling palin’s book “the most substanitive policy book i’ve read in a long time”. hockey mom is amazing in one respect: her ignorance. she just doesn’t have any personal knowledge of history or economics to formulate an original thought about what is going on. if she were president it would be in name only. all decisions would essentially be made by the last person who talked to her. she makes bush look like stephen hawking.
gdb, yeah. I know. All you said is correct. It’s scary that party and political ideology could brainwash so many people who purport to be driven by common sense and rationality. The woman is a space cadet. Seriously, I have had nightmares about her holding a high influential national office.
Yah but your master, Obama, sure has done wonders, right… lol I honestly cant take you Kool-Aid drinkers seriously. Nothing but hate comes from your mouths. And you cant seem to back up anything. You have been emotionally compromised.
At least Palin WROTE her own book. Your buddy Obama had to have his terrorist pal write his for him. What planet are you moonbat liberals from anyway? I’ve also noticed that liberals are prone to “tingles up their legs” and “shivers up and down their spines”, This could be a sign of brain damage. Oh, and speaking of “high office”, your candidate, Obama the finger puppet has not exactly filled the role. But, come to think of it, he has never had a “real” job. And you bozos gave him the presidency. Once again, you liberals are too funny.
I would have to question the integrity of any “journalist” that refers to Media Matters fact checking. It is too bad that you cannot at least present the appearance of an unbaised account of the book. Sarah-bashing amoung liberal and conservative media elites truly reveals their hatred of middle america and Main Street ideals. Just because this woman did not suckle at the heals of the liberal institutions makes her a monster to be demonized. It is disgusting to me that the discourse in this country, especially amoung media hacks such as yourself, has digressed to a point that a common person (man or woman) is instantly belittled unless they are spewing liberal rants.
Amazingly, the liberal personna is so insecure that the name calling and belittling has to take the place of actually challenging the woman based on her ideals. Yes, I am sure that Media Matters will even tell us that she spells her name wrong, but at the end of the day, she is not the one that gave us double digit unemployment, no clear foreign policy (aside for apologizing for everything we stand for). and the soon to be double digit inflation and interest rates. No that all happened on your guys watch. You won, you should ignore her, but you can’t because she threatens the very core of your belief that only elite liberals can resonate with the people.
Keep on bashing her Dena, she will laugh all the way to the bank while the rest of pay for the arrogance of liberal elites like yourself.
She’s Richard Nixon all over again.
she couldn’t hold nixon’s jock. nixon’s intellect was 16 orders of magnitude above hockey mom. i do not know why folks are so eager to flush the republican party down the toilet and play russian roulette with their nation. the outrage at hockey mom is not about where she “suckled” it is about the fact that she did not “suckle” (i.e. absorb knowledge) anywhere! she proves it conclusively every time she opens her mouth. if you want to see to what extent putting forward an ignoramus like hockey mom is the republican party scraping the bottom of the barrel, go read a transcript of the famous nixon/kennedy tv debate. that’s real depth. or look at the resume of ghw bush before he became president, that’s real service to the country and party. and reagan still right at this minute may know more about this nation and its government than hockey mom ever will. she couldn’t do obama’s job for 15 minutes w/o quitting. watching the party fawn over this piece of trash helped me realize that the party is essentially just a bunch of white evangelicals now who want someone to “take back this nation for christ” and enable their bigotry. at least i have hockey mom to thank for never being a republican again. probably not voting for them either.
For your info., I’d rather vote for Nixon than Palin. Nixon had far more experience and had known and met far more leaders than Palin would ever meet in public. Nixon would’ve been considered a great president if we could only focus on his accomplishments like the opening to China, establishing detente with the Soviets, and so forth. Of course, Watergate had put a damper on those accomplishments.
Name callling?
Name calling?
surely the RIGHTIES wouldn’t do that. They’d never say “death panels” (oh, that was Palin, wasn’t it) They’d never say Nazi (when in fact they don’t know that it was an ULTRA RIGHT government). Nooooo…
The Palin mystique has evaporated, but some are still wearing their rose colored glasses.
Move over octomom. You’ve got another loony to share the press with.
Grandma, if Obama and Nancy get their way, when you fall and break your hip in the next couple of years, you will find out what she was talking about as they give you a couple of pain killers and find a place in the corner for you to die. There won’t be a death panel per se, just a bunch of bureaucrats deciding how much treatment you should get due to your age and condition and forming a generic one-size fits all approach to your medical condition.
By the time you realize that she was right, you will be in too much of a morphine induced trance to tell anyone.
Oh yea, like that’s not happening now, only for profit corporations are the decision makers, and charge a lot more for the priviledge.
Take a pill granny and try to think back to your days of yesteryear…”flowers in your hair, a few tabs of acid, good….now just sit back and take a breath….no, those aren’t flying spoons….r e l a x.
You can’t be a plain honest person and run for office. It’s a mud slinging bussiness. Everyones out to trash you. Everyone has some dirt in there closet. They say that’s there’s only ONE person who walks on water, and that person’s NOT running. So get over it. Accept people as being HUMAN. Humans make mistakes. Be honest. If you can’t accept that, then who cares. The media had it out for her. If you don’t think so then your just plain STUPID. Look at Obama, see how he’s back peddling already. I will promise you the world, doesn’t mean I have to deliver.
Posting the wrong picture was my fault. It was on the AP server we get our photos from and I just grabbed the wrong one….I also point out that not only did I post the Media Matters site but the Associated Press, which selected some of the same book passages to fact check.
Love ya, Dena!
Oh, yeah, thanks for making my point because we all know how the unbiased approach that the AP takes. I love the one where we are arguing over who has the deeper recession. You libs even fact check opinion, how novel, of course only to be topped by fact checking SNL skits when they are critical of the left.
Palin really is not the point here. She is a very shrewd, and soon to be very wealthy woman. It will be interesting to see if she can create her own personna outside of the ignorant gun-toting bimbo that our “Washington Bureau Chief” (how campy) and her ilk at media matters, the AP, and the rest of the “lame” stream media paint her to be.
For the Palin haters in the room, Palin could be anyone that the press picks. Even if you dislike her, you must admit that the unfair and abusive behavior of the media will make even the most competent and poised woman think twice about challenging the liberal elites.
Lemme guess, the only unbiased news source you listen to is Fox? Or any other news organization that upholds your prejudiced opinion.
p.s., the facts are the facts, if they came from AP or Media Matters, go ahead and do your own independent research and you will find their fact checks on this book to be correct.
Jeeze!
Thanks Dena, you and Martin seem to be voices of reason within the OC Register community. You could have ignored the mistake, but you didn’t.
Nobody is trashing the ‘common man’ by trashing Palin. She rightfully deserves the ‘idiot’ title. One stupid blunder after another during the campaign. Everytime she opened her mouth it reflected her 98 IQ. Even McCain tried to shut her up and made her off-limits to the media. And her gubernatorial reign in Alaska was one scandal after another. And her family life was like watching ‘the best of Jerry Springer’. hah. Face it. She’s a crackpot. If you want to follow her be my guest. But for god sakes. Keep her out of high office. She’ll be our final nail.
don’t forget the ‘victim’ title, too. You can’t get anymore unaccountable for your actions, than her. And you are spot on with her having one of the most dysfunctional families out there! She thinks she can lead the country when she can’t even lead her own family? crackpot is right. I wonder if McCain will ever admit how bad of mistake she was.
OC, you gotta be kidding me right? Are we talking about the same McCain who forgot how to give a speach until he made his concession? The same McCain handlers that booked her on Curic and Daniels with no prep, no advance on questions? Do you think Obama does interviews without some pre-disposition as to the questions? And how did she gaffe? The “you can see Russia quote was taken out of context, as obviously she was referring to the proverbial territorial neighbor. She gave the same damn speech for three months because that is all the McCainers would let her say. Maybe if they would have unleashed her and had her play to the base, they could have propped that old fart into office. The media crucified this woman at every turn, attacking her kids, investigating lame ethics charges that were trump by every Alaskan lib with a cell phone and 5 minutes on their hand.
And why do they care so much now, if she is such a simpleton? Why the politics of personal destruction? Because they want those that do like her and follow her to know that they are the idiots and that middle america has no place among the liberal political and media elites. I have never been a big fan of Palin, but all this garbage has me taking a second look.
Charlie Daniels = Charles Gibson (sorry, one of my terms of endearment snuck in on me)
Here are some more Palin quotes (with context, btw) hah.
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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. “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted about Obama’s health care plan, Aug. 7, 2009
3. “Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It’s a disturbing trend.” –Sarah Palin, pushing a conspiracy theory3 that “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of coins because of the Obama administration (the change was made by the Bush administration in 2007 and was later reversed by Congress, before Obama took office), West Allis, Wisconsin, Nov. 6, 2009
4. “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 fundraiser4 in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008
5. “Ohh, good, thank you, yes.” –Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler’s “Nailin Paylin5,” Nov. 1, 2008
6. “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 7. “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
8. “[T]hey’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 wrong11 after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008
9. “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 Francisco13, Oct. 5, 2008
10. “I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out.” –Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist14 while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn’t be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009
You have way too much time on your hands.
I am sure I could compile a list of gaffe’s by Obama and Biden to rival your list. All politicians make mistakes and mistatements, these folks are under incredible pressure to be “on” all of the time. Heck, Obama regularly gaffes when he is away from his teleprompter, and Biden, well I am sure there is a word limit on this blog.
The point of this whole argument is that the media is selective in who they seem to hold to the fire. Sarah Palin may well be a bumbling idiot, I am not contending that she is not. I just think that the media attack has more to do with your disdain for the woman than what she really stands for…..
Just to make my point: I just thank God that our President has been to all “57 States”. :<}~
Well, she must be doing something right or else she wouldn’t be getting all this press and excitement from the “other side”. People don’t complain about people they are not afraid of. The democrats must be seriously troubled if they are this upset about her.
Stephen,
I’m not a dem. I’m an independent and a former pub. Palin was one of the main reasons I left the party. There comes a point when it’s impossible to ‘rescue’ a failed cause. One just has to step over the dead and look for the answer someplace else.
No one’s complaining. Can’t you hear the laughter?
Actually, that is Palin laughing all the way to the bank, it is barely audible over the ching at the cash register, as her book goes to number one and the NYT Best Seller List.
From your numerous posts about Palin making gobs of money off her book, it is pretty obvious that you see money as the primary measure of success. People like you and Ms. Palin represent everything that is wrong with this society. Do you live in Coto - home of the “Housewives.” Too bad those gates aren’t there to keep you from getting out.
Gee Wade, I was just making the point that her book will be a best seller and that she will make a bunch of money. Great for her, but she is not the point. The point is that the media fails to report news in favor of shaping it and the result is the election of the least qualified president and congress in generations.
Next time, try reading all the words, it works better.
CotoChris, if you watch Fox and Friends you will see a commercial for a conservative website that is selling Palin’s book and 6 issues of their monthly newsletter and membership for $4.97.
I’m pretty sure more than one wealthy conservative group bought up huge lots of her book that they will give away. This is a common practice in politics to bolster sales and make a trivial figure seem more important.
I was tempted to buy her book for the entertainment value. I didn’t and won’t. Well maybe I’ll pick one up in a garage sale for 50 cents in a coupla months.
observer: Welcome back from the dark side. One can be in favor of policies that make sense and still be agianst those of Pilosi, Reid and Boehner which don’t make any sense whatsoever.
Oh, I don’t know StephenR, Octomom and Baloon Boy’s daddy get lots of attention, and I don’t think they did anything right or are feared much by the public.
Palin is right on par with the above mentioned “celebrities”.
But maybe the fact that she stood there and egged on angry mobs that were shouting “he’s a terrorist” and “kill him” at her campaign rallies, could have something to do with our disdain for this woman.
Gee, I have to wonder what would Palin say about the Iraq War. That the war is within God’s master plan??? The war that had cost us so many lives, so many tragedies, so much suffering and calamity, and so much $$$ with no Osama bin Laden in captivity, is within God’s plan???
Can anyone fathom the thought of this stupid idiot holding court over the Joint Chiefs, giving direction to America’s top military officers…this insidious female air head bimbo.
I seriously don’t think they would pay any attention to her, nipit.
They would be courteous but as soon as she left the room laughter would break out.
I’ve seen what happens in lower-level military meetings. I can only imagine what happens with the big boys.
Here’s the rebuttal to the AP so-called fact checkers.
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/11/fact-checking-fact-checkers.html
On Governor Palin’s Assertion that Reagan Faced A Worse Recession and Reagan’s Prescription for Getting Out of Recession
AP “FACTS”: “The estate tax, which some call the death tax, was not repealed under Reagan and capital gains taxes are lower now than when Reagan was president.
Economists overwhelmingly say the current recession is far worse. The recession Reagan faced lasted for 16 months; this one is in its 23rd month. The recession of the early 1980s did not have a financial meltdown. Unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent, worse than the October 2009 high of 10.2 percent, but the jobless rate is still expected to climb.”
THE TRUTH: According to Richard Rahn, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth, “President Reagan inherited an economic situation even worse than the one President Obama has. When Reagan took office, the economy had been in recession for about a year, the unemployment rate was almost identical to today’s, but the labor force participation rate was smaller, and inflation was out of control.”
Mr. Rahn has also noted: “Both President Reagan and President Obama inherited an economy suffering from a year of no growth, along with rising unemployment. (The numbers are almost identical.) But Mr. Reagan faced a far direr situation in that inflation was in the double digits and the prime interest rate was at 20 percent. In contrast, Mr. Obama inherited an economy in which inflation was falling (in fact, inflation has been close to zero for this year) and interest rates were very low.”
The unemployment rate in November 1982 was 10.8%. Our current unemployment rate is 10.2%.
The first quarter of 1982 was the worst of the Reagan recession as the economy shrank 6.4%. So far, the economy has shrunk 6.3% in the fourth quarter of 2008 and 5.7% in the first quarter of 2009.
Governor Palin believes in Reagan’s supply side policies of cutting taxes and reining in spending. She never said anything about Reagan and the death tax. She was speaking about solutions to today’s economic troubles using the supply side lessons of the Reagan years.
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Read the rest.
Supply side Reagonomics never existed. Neither did trickle down economics. Reagan simply instituted the ultimate stimulus plan by dumping billions of dollars into defense.
Very true. In fact, the entire history of California has been one of living off of Federal largesse, beginning with the railroads, to agriculture, to defense, to “green” jobs.
If the rest of America voted like Orange County, Sarah Palin would be our Vice President. I think that speaks for itself.
Let’s face facts. Neither party has a lockdown on intelligent candidates. No “normal” person in their right mind would put themselves into the vortex of public opinion to run for high office.
It just isn’t logical.
Which leaves us with a few floaters at the top of the cesspool to select from . . . great.
I will not be able to read Sarah Palins book Going Rogue. I have seen and listened to more than enough of her ravings. She is one of many people I have seen recently who believe that the truth is a matter of your point of view. She avoids facts as if it were the H1N1 virus. I cannot imagine a way that she can help our nation become a better place for all Americans.
She behaves as though anyone who does not worship her is misguided. Her view of America at its best is a nightmare. When John McCain chose her as his running mate that signaled that he was throwing in the towel. If he had known what he knows about her now, he would not have touched her with a ten foot pole. She sunk his campaign long before she decided to go rogue.
This book will sink her political career. She has enjoyed her fifteen minutes of celebrity and then some. Her time is up.
Philip Henderson
The moose don’t like her either.
She isn’t any different than the other worthless politicians that continue to hold a political seat.
If you really think she is that bad, how in god’s name can Pelosi hold a seat in congress? Top seat????
Maybe voting in these fools are the reason why this country is in the shape it is in?