Sarah Palin does Oprah Winfrey
I watched Oprah Winfrey interview Sarah Palin and I thought she sounded good. Sarah Palin that is. She didn’t sound as clueless as she did during the 2008 campaign, but then again, how could she? It was almost hard to believe that this was the same woman that couldn’t name a single magazine she reads.
Almost.
The most interesting part of the interview was when Oprah asked her why she resigned as Alaska’s governor. Palin said it was because she had already decided that she wasn’t going to run for reelection and she felt like she was a lame duck. She also said something that sounded really odd. She blamed the reason for stepping down on Barack Obama. She said that people from the Obama camp were coming up to Alaska to do “opposition research.”
Watch it here:
I understand there are some on the right that want to blame everything on Obama, but this? I have a hard time believing that after winning the 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama really cared about Sarah Palin. Why would he send people up to Alaska to do research on her?
I think the reason she quit was so that she could cash in on her sudden fame. If she resigned as governor, she could go on the paid lecture circuit and write a book. Instead of just admitting to this, she instead blames Obama.
She should have just said she wanted to make money.
The NRA wants you to know that Obama has probably never hunted a day in his life
If this wont make you want to vote for McCain, nothing will. Men that wear camouflage and shake their heads in disgust while they pump gasoline into their American made pickup trucks want you to know that your freedom depends on defeating Barack Obama.
Every four years around this time, the National Rifle Association tries to get their members into a tizzy by scaring them into thinking that whoever is running on the Democratic ticket wants to take their guns away. I don’t know why they continue to fall for it. Nobody wants to take their guns away.
Ron Paul quits
It appears Ron Paul is throwing in the towel. I’m not sure why. Just because he has no chance of becoming the Republican nominee shouldn’t stop him or his campaign. He never stood a chance to begin with.
I wonder how much of that money he still has. He very well might need it to win back his congressional seat. I’m not sure if his vanity run for president is costing him back home like it is Dennis Kucinich, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it was. Just because Ron Paul got real popular with guys on the Internet doesn’t mean he did with the folks back home.
What do the members of the Ron Paul cult do now? Scientology is always looking for people.
Here is a message he sent to his followers:
February 8, 2008
Whoa! What a year this has been. And what achievements we have had. If I may quote Trotsky, of all people, this Revolution is permanent. It will not end at the Republican convention. It will not end in November. It will not end until we have won the great battle on which we have embarked. Not because of me, but because of you. Millions of Americans — and friends in many other countries — have dedicated themselves to the principles of liberty: to free enterprise, limited government, sound money, no income tax, and peace. We will not falter so long as there is one restriction on our persons, our property, our civil liberties. How much I owe you. I can never possibly repay your generous donations, hard work, whole-hearted dedication and love of freedom. How blessed I am to be associated with you. Carol, of course, sends her love as well.
Let me tell you my thoughts. With Romney gone, the chances of a brokered convention are nearly zero. But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get. But with so many primaries and caucuses now over, we do not now need so big a national campaign staff, and so I am making it leaner and tighter. Of course, I am committed to fighting for our ideas within the Republican party, so there will be no third party run. I do not denigrate third parties — just the opposite, and I have long worked to remove the ballot-access restrictions on them. But I am a Republican, and I will remain a Republican.
I also have another priority. I have constituents in my home district that I must serve. I cannot and will not let them down. And I have another battle I must face here as well. If I were to lose the primary for my congressional seat, all our opponents would react with glee, and pretend it was a rejection of our ideas. I cannot and will not let that happen.
In the presidential race and the congressional race, I need your support, as always. And I have plans to continue fighting for our ideas in politics and education that I will share with you when I can, for I will need you at my side. In the meantime, onward and upward! The neocons, the warmongers, the socialists, the advocates of inflation will be hearing much from you and me.
Sincerely,
Ron
Ron Paul supporters turn to the FCC when Fox News excludes their canidate from a debate
Ron Paul claims that he’s been excluded from a New Hampshire January 6 Republican debate being organized by Fox News. This is the weekend before the New Hampshire Primary. Ron Paul says he is being excluded because Fox News is scared of him. Why is Doctor Paul constantly questioning everyone’s bravery? First a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor and now a cable news network.
Ron Paul’s Internet fans aren’t taking this exclusion sitting down. They are organizing a boycott against any company that advertises on Fox News. They have a list. They are getting the word out to all followers of Ron Paul to not to buy products from these companies.
One of these companies is Gold Bond. That means if a Ron Paul fan were to get a rash in an embarrassing place, they would have to turn elsewhere to get some instant relief. Let’s just hope that they go rash-free.
What’s even funnier is that some Ron Paul supporters are also advising fellow Ron Paul supporters to contact the FCC and complain. This is from a post on a Ron Paul message board:
I’m actually surprised that I haven’t seen this tactic posted yet. Along with advertisers, this is the other major weakness of broadcasters/networks.
The other critical items we can influence directly are the FCC broadcast license for each affiliate, AND FCC approval for station purchases/mergers/trades. By specifically targeting FCC approvals, your comments will have a LOT more long-term weight. Endangering the local affiliate’s license with enough negative comments in the right way will change their attitude from “It’s the network, nothing we can do” and largely ignoring you to actually calling the NewsCorp on your behalf saying “OMG, fix this NOW!”
Remember, the FCC threatened to hit EACH broadcast station with a 6-figure fine for the half-second “wardrobe malfunction” at the SuperBowl*.
This is funny for two different reasons. First, Ron Paul represents a political philosophy that believes a big federal government is bad. If he had his way, not only would the FCC cease to exist, so would the IRS, the Department of Education, the CIA, the FBI, and a whole host of other federal agencies. What do Ron Paul supporters do when they think their man has been slighted? They whine about it to a government agency.
It makes you wonder why they are Ron Paul supporters in the first place.
Secondly, the FCC doesn’t have any jurisdiction over Fox News. It’s a cable network, not a broadcast network. Whining to the FCC about something a cable network is a waste of time. Then again, why should that stop a Ron Paul supporter?
And why is Fox News excluding Ron Paul from the debate? Because there is no debate. It was canceled three weeks ago because of it’s close proximity with another similar event. Ron Paul had been invited to attend, but reportedly his staff never got back with the event organizers to confirm that he would attend.
Why would Fox News exclude someone like Ron Paul from the debate? Including Ron Paul ensures more people will watch. Not only his rabid die hard fan base, but people like me that think he’s a loon. I would watch just for the entertainment value. Who knows what he would say.
Stick a fork in Huckabee, he is done
Evidently Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has a hard time telling the difference between AIDS and a highly contagious and scary disease from the middle ages. Back in 1992 when he was trying to become a U.S. senator, he answered 229 questions submitted to him by The Associated Press. I have to think somebody at the AP kept Huckabee’s answers in a special file. The file was probably entitled, “WHACK JOB”.
Among the things advocated by Huckabee:
- He wrote that, “If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.”
- He suggested that Hollywood celebrities fund AIDS research from their own pockets, rather than federal health agencies.
- He wrote that, “It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.”
In case you don’t remember, by 1992 we already knew that you couldn’t catch HIV or AIDS from casual contact with those that were infected. As far as infectious diseases go, it’s fairly difficult to contract. You don’t get it from shaking hands with someone or sitting next to them on a bus. Unless you are exchanging bodily fluids with someone who is either HIV positive or has AIDS, you have nothing to worry about.
Even back in 1992, people knew the idea of putting people with AIDS in special camps was a dumb idea. Everyone except Mike Huckabee.
Girl that takes off her clothes on the Internet likes Ron Paul
Not only is Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul popular with dorky men on the Internet. He’s also popular with at least one live girl who likes to take her clothing off while standing in front of her webcam. She says she’s a Paul supporter because his presidency would mean more personal liberty for individuals.
Unless of course she was raped and needed an abortion.
In that case, Ron Paul wouldn’t want her to make that decision. No, he would want that decision to be made for her by someone else. He believes that the issue of abortion should be made not by the woman, but by the state in which a woman lives.
If every state decided that the issue of abortion is strictly a private matter and should be up to the woman, Ron Paul would most likely then say the issue should be decided at the county level.
Even though he pretends that the issue of abortion should be decided at the state level, Ron Paul tried to invoke a federal law that stated human life begins at the moment of conception. He authored H.R. 776, the “Sanctity of Life Act of 2005.”
That means the moment a rapist’s sperm fertilizes his victim’s egg, the result is a human being no different then you, me, or any other real person. I have no doubt that if the impossible happened and Paul somehow became President, he would abuse the power of the Oval Office to promote his own personal beliefs about abortion. Much like he has tried to do with his position as a congressman.
Ron Paul believes this microscopic fertilized-egg citizen deserves all of the rights and privileges afforded to all Americans. Is it any wonder why Ron Paul attracts so many kooks?
John Kerry says he won’t run for President in 2008
What a coincidence. I already decided I wouldn’t be voting for him in 2008. Once is one time too many as far as I’m concerned. I voted for him in 2006. It’s not something I am proud of.
What choice did I have? Picking between George W. Bush or John Kerry was a lot like picking between drinking a gallon of spoiled milk or drinking something else nasty and foul. Something just as bad as spoiled rotten milk. Maybe a domestic beer or something else that tastes really bad.
Not only did I vote for John Kerry, I even affixed a John Kerry bumper sticker on the rear bumper of my Hyundai Accent. It remained there for three whole days until somebody removed it while I was shopping at Kmart.
That’s what I get for shopping at Kmart.
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