Bristol Palin suggests that President Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia are behind his embrace of same-sex marriage rights, and she thinks that’s a shame. 

In a blog post titled “Hail to the Chiefs – Malia and Sasha Obama,” the 21 year old daughter of former presidential candidate Sarah Palin criticized the president for being overly influenced by his family.  ”While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. 

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In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage,” wrote Palin, a single mother. “Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview. In this situation, it was the other way around.  

I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General.... Read more;

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin threw her support behind Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s (R) bid to unseat six-term Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) today.

It’s a rare endorsement this cycle from the former Alaska governor, who has been notably less aggressive with her Congressional endorsements than in 2010.

“I join commonsense conservatives in endorsing Richard Mourdock to be the next Senator from Indiana,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page. “Richard Mourdock is the conservative choice for Indiana. Senator Lugar’s 36 years of service as a Senator are appreciated, but it’s time for the torch to pass to conservative leadership in Washington that promises to rein in government spending now.”

Palin’s endorsement puts her at odds with her 2008 runningmate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). Lugar’s campaign started airing a radio advertisement this week touting McCain’s support in his own words.

“Indiana is fortunate to have a Senator like Dick Lugar,” McCain says in the radio spot. “Yet, some in Indiana are claiming Dick Lugar is [President Barack] Obama’s friend. That’s ridiculous. And I know it firsthand. Because I fight alongside him every day in the Senate. Dick Lugar is a patriot and a hero, and we need him in the United States Senate.”

Palin’s backing comes less than two weeks before the May 8 primary and after momentum has clearly shifted in Mourdock’s favor. During the last four weeks, national conservative groups, such as the Club for Growth, rallied to Mourdock’s campaign by buying millions in television advertisements on his behalf.

“I appreciate the support of Governor Palin and her endorsement of my campaign to bring conservative values to the U.S. Senate,” Mourdock said in a statement. “Her support will go a long way toward mobilizing conservatives to vote on May 8.”

 

Sarah Palin says the Obama administration wants to ban kids from working on family farms. In a Facebook post Wednesday she charges that the Department of Labor is working on regulations that would stop children from doing agricultural chores that teach hard work and help feed America.

“This is more overreach of the federal government with many negative overtones,” the ex-Alaska governor writes.

Is she right? Are before-school milkings, after-school stall mucking, and summertime hay-bale hauling at risk?

Weeellll, it would have been better if Ms. Palin had gone to the source material before putting this up. Maybe.

We have a winner.

If you had asked me before what the craziest conservative talking point was, it had to be the czars. After all, this was a case of taking something around for decades and claiming it was some sort of new threat to the republic. Plus it came with fun side idiocy, such as the whole czars-as-socialists thing.

But that was then, and this is now, and we have a new champ: that Barack Obama is violating the Constitution by…Congress not passing a budget resolution.

This is, to put it mildly 100% full-on nuts.

Let’s say you’re moving steadily toward wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination and you allow yourself to begin thinking ahead to the question of a running mate.

Your party has a potentially devastating problem with Hispanic voters, so your thoughts naturally drift in that direction. After the contraception wars, it wouldn’t hurt to have a woman at your side. It would be nice if you could have an ambassador to the Tea Party movement to help shore up your credentials with the right. And of course, it’s always helpful to chose someone from a swing state.

In any other year, your musings might lead you to, say, Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico, a former prosecutor who checks all of those boxes, has bipartisan support in her home state and enjoys shooting handguns to boot.

But in the world after Sarah Palin and “Game Change,” the chances of Mitt Romney or anyone else choosing a first-term governor lacking a national brand name and experience are greatly diminished. However good a fit she might be on paper, Ms. Martinez probably bears too many surface similarities to Ms. Palin to get a serious look, as The New Republic and others have pointed out.

Sarah Palin had a Facebook meltdown last night because President Obama dared to use her own words in context in a campaign ad. Naturally, in writing her defense, she doubled down on the things said in the ad while claiming they were taken out of context.

The President’s ads are writing themselves this election season because as we all know, the truth is stranger than fiction for the modern day Republican Party. All the Obama team has to do is roll the tape of any number of Republicans speaking and boom! Lights out for all but the most racist and uninformed.

On Facebook Monday night, Palin slammed Obama for, she claimed, twisting her words in a hard-hitting new campaign ad that seeks to raise money off the new conservative obsession with Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell.

And here’s the lines from Palin as transcribed by TPM (ellipses indicate edits):

Barack Obama I think has never been seen in the conventional, traditional way of we who would describe a man of valor. … And his profession as a community organizer — what went into his thinking was this philosophy of radicalism … he is bringing us back, Sean, to days that — you can hearken back to days before the Civil War … What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin. Why are we allowing our country to move backwards?

The ad splices together several quotes from Palin’s recent appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, where she discussed Bell and other topics (like the million-dollar check an Obama-supporting super PAC took from Bill Maher). Palin suggests the splices are unfair, but doubles down on the right-wing claim that a clip of Obama hugging Bell proves Obama is a dangerous anti-white radical

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did not shoot down the idea of accepting a proposal to run for president should the Republican presidential race lead to an open convention in August.

"Anything is possible. I don't close any doors that perhaps would be open out there, so, no, I wouldn't close that door," Palin said after casting her vote in Alaska's Republican caucuses. "My plan is to be at that convention."

In an interview with Greta Van Susteren scheduled to air tonight, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) criticized President Obama for apologizing to “savages in Afghanistan.” All three leading Republican presidential have attacked the president for apologizing for the accidental Quran burning on an an American base, and in the interview, Politico reports Palin picked up that theme and went a bit farther...

On the eve of the annual Academy Awards, the Razzies came calling for Sarah Palin.

The former vice presidential candidate was nominated Saturday for a Golden Raspberry Award as worst actress for her “performance” in the documentary “The Undefeated,” a film about her political career.

John McCain has no regrets about the biggest and most controversial decision of his unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. Speaking to Sean Hannity on Tuesday evening in New Hampshire, McCain said naming Sarah Palin his running mate was "still the best decision I've ever made."

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) attacked the White House holiday card in an article on Fox News Radio.

The front of the card shows the Obamas' dog, Bo, sitting in a very Christmas-like setting, with a fireplace decorated with wreaths and red ribbons, and a table with a poinsettia plant and presents. "From our family to yours, may your holidays shine with the light of the season," reads the inside of the card, which is signed by the Obamas (including Bo).

"It's odd," she said, wondering why the president's Christmas card highlights his dog instead of traditions like 'family, faith and freedom.'"

"Even stranger than that was his first year in office when the Christmas ornaments included Chairman Mao," Palin said. "People had to ask that it be removed because it was offensive."

n a pre-taped interview set to air tonight on Fox Business Network’s “Follow The Money,” Eric Bolling mentioned to Sarah Palin that people constantly tell him they wish she was running for President. Instead of tut-tutting the idea, Palin — who said on Sunday that she wasn’t ready to endorse any Republican candidate yet — swung the door wide open for a possible entry into the GOP field:

“Any chance we can see you making a play, even after Iowa or New Hampshire?” Bolling asked. “There’s still plenty of time, Governor.”

“You know, it’s not too late for folks to jump in,” Palin replied. “And I don’t know, you know, it — who knows what will happen in the future?”

 

The tea party is still pining for Sarah Palin.

The grassroots conservative movement has yet to throw its support behind a Republican presidential candidate because “we don’t have the female Ronald Reagan running — and that’s Sarah Palin,” said Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party Express.

“We haven’t engaged in presidential politics yet because the movement hasn’t coalesced around anybody, so we’re just sitting back and waiting,” Kremer added.

Rising from the ashes of the KKK, white militia groups sprang up continuing the terrorism and buying into a pure white race mentality.

In the dawn of the 21^st century, millionaire radicals like Dick Armey, Karl Rove, the Koch Brothers and a host of other right wing activists launched the Tea Party groups. The Tea Party Express, Americans for Prosperity and other groups bill themselves as a grass roots movement however they have been bankrolled and supported by some of the most radical anti-American ‘Republicans’ this country has ever seen.  Even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has funneled money into political campaigns that run as teabaggers supporting the Tea Party agenda. 

 

Sarah Palin's erratic process for deciding she won't run for president likely also killed her chances of being picked again as a runningmate or even a cabinet official in a Republican administration. But one thing's for sure: She'll keep making enough money that she'd have to pay President Obama's millionaire's tax.

Knowledgeable sources say that among the reasons she skipped running for president was a concern about the financial hit her family would take, even if she won. The presidency pays $400,000 a year. Unofficial estimates of the cottage industry built around her name and speaking fees far exceed that.

I never really envisioned this column as a forum for harping on a particular individual, day after day, after all, the far right wing (and in all fairness, the far left too) offers far too many dopes to choose from on a daily basis. Yet here I am again focused on Sarah Palin. Well, I didn't 'dope' yesterday and Sarah Palin made some comments to Greta Van Susteren on FOX following Chris Christie's non-denial denial regarding running for president, and they are simply to dopey to ignore.

John Stewart delivers his great takedown here, as usual, and I highly recommend you check it out. However, if you're suspicious of Stewart as being too partisan, I suggest you see the entire comment in context, at the source, Fox News. But the relevant portion is this:

PALIN: OK. For logistical reasons, though, yes, certainly, decisions have to be made. And I think that's why Chris Christie made his statements, or his brother at least made a statement for him today, because you have to get your ducks lined up in order to get your name on ballots. So decisions have to be made in an expedient manner.

 

I'm going to keep repeating, though, Greta, through my process of decision-making with my family and with my close friends as to whether I should throw my name in the hat for the GOP nomination or not for 2012 -- is a title worth it? Does a title shackle a person? Are they -- someone like me, who's a maverick -- you know, I do go rogue and I call it like I see it, and I don't mind stirring it up in order to get people to think and debate aggressively, and to find solutions to the problems that our country is facing.

Somebody like me -- is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of a box, not allowing handlers to shape me and to force my message to be what donors or what contributors or what political pundits want it to be? Does a title take away my freedom to call it like I see it and to affect positive change that we need in this country? That's the biggest contemplation piece in my process.

Wow. Where to begin?

Why would anybody take Sarah Palin seriously when she criticizes President Obama for failures of leadership when she's reduced the office of the presidency to a mere "title"? If she would be "shackled" by the office, and be unable to lead when burdened by the "title" with its restrictive covenants banning "out of a box" thinking, and with its army of overbearing "handlers", and its uselessness in "affecting positive change", how can she hold those same impediments against President Obama?  

The answer, of course, is that she can't. Because those impediments don't exist. If Sarah Palin was sincerely dedicated to "affect[ing] positive change that we need in this country" or "find[ing] solutions to the problems that our country is facing", on a national scale, she wouldn't hesitate to embrace the unique power, opportunity, and legitimacy that flows from that very "title". 

From her perch on Fox News, Sarah Palin litters the public consciousness with the corpses of logically desiccated arguments and criticisms of the President, and she encourages her wake of vulturous supporters to feast upon this empty carrion; and they, like the GOP in general, are slowly starving due to the lack of substance. Further, to hide behind the protective facade of Fox News and to suggest that she can accomplish the same goals, without the constitutional powers of the president, exhibits an astounding egotism and should remove all doubt as to the depth of her narcissism and her inability or unwillingness to contribute to the public good.

Originally published as a Dope of the Day

One friend of the Palins commented, “I cannot ever remember a religious moment in the house. Ever. I can’t remember hearing a prayer. Ever. Todd rarely would get up and go to church with Sarah. When they did decide to go to church, it was a screaming match. ‘We’ve got to go now!’ Sarah would scream. ‘Get your asses in the car!’ The girls would roll out of bed, no breakfast, hair all messed up. Seemed that there was a lot of swearing.” Mad and stressed out, “Sarah often yelled at her family . . . the kids kind of learned to ignore it because it happened so much.”

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has tried his best to carve out a niche within the Republican primary field as the one candidate who's unwilling to dispense with logic in order to score political points. It's what compelled one of his campaign's most memorable moments, when he tweeted that he believed in evolution and climate change. The tweet was interpreted as a sign that Huntsman was a moderate, but it was more likely meant to project reasonableness.

On Sunday, he continued the trend, calling Sarah Palin's pitch to eliminate all federal corporate taxes a "great political bromide" that wasn't based in reality.

While Sarah Palin continues to stoke the fires and keep people guessing about her Presidential intentions, Republican voters seem to be speaking loud and clear:

All in all, most voters — 74 percent — think Palin should stay on the sidelines in 2012. Just 20 percent think she should run for president.

A new Pew Research Center poll provides ample evidence for the proposition that if Sarah Palin decides to run for President, she will not only be defeated, but decisively so:

A nugget from today’s Pew poll that deserves a post of its own: Forty-one percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters say there is “no chance” they would vote for Sarah Palin in a presidential race.

That’s the second-highest rejection rate of any Republican candidate, exceeded only by Newt Gingrich, who was ruled out by 48 percent of respondents.

Palin’s poll numbers are comparable to, or even slightly worse than, Ron Paul’s. Despite being viewed by many as a fringe or fringe-friendly figure, Paul has 21 percent of Republicans who say there’s a “good chance” they’d vote for him, and 37 percent who say there’s “some chance.”

For Palin, those numbers are 24 percent (“good chance”) and 34 percent (“some chance.”) A higher proportion of Republicans have crossed her off the list of options, by a 4-point margin.

These are not the only reality-check numbers for Palin this week. A Gallup survey released yesterday showed that in a race that includes all the current candidates, plus Palin and Rudy Giuliani, the former Alaska governor would draw 11 percent of the vote — tying Paul for third place.

What’s more, a Public Policy Polling survey in Iowa showed that Palin would start out in fifth place there with 10 percent of the vote, trailing Paul by 2 points and local frontrunner Rick Perry by an 11-point margin.

What was supposed to be a publicity stunt to keep their fame clock from expiring turned interesting as Todd Palin was confronted by an Alaskan at the Iowa State Fair who called Sarah Palin a sellout.

Part of the confrontation was captured on video by the San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate:

A woman was engaged in a conversation with Todd Palin and said, “We’re from Alaska. We were heartbroken when she quit.” Todd Palin responded with, “What would you recommend doing when you got $600,000, $700,000 of debt hanging over your head, and you still have all these people filing complaints against you? What would you do?” The woman was prepared and responded with, “Well, you go for the money obviously. That’s what she did. Everybody in Alaska thinks she sold out.” Todd stuck to the talking point, “You have that hanging over your head, complaint after complaint. What would you do?” She replied, “Wait for the complaints to pan out.” Todd came back with, “Hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. You got all this debt going to be there.” The woman got the final shot in by saying, “It’s not there anymore is it? You got quite the deal,” and she is walked away she turned around and said, “sellout.”

GOP12 has some more data points on the box office struggles of "The Undefeated," the pro-Sarah Palin movie that is now headed for pay-per-view release, starting with its weekend grosses:

July 29-31: $5,200 in 4 theatres.

July 22-24: $24,664 in 14 theatres.

July 15-17: $65,132 in 10 theatres.

You can see the clear pattern here. The film opened solidly, at $6,513/theatre. Consequently, its distributor expanded it to new markets and 14 theatres.

But the film actually did substantially worse when it expanded, as ticket sales dropped 62%, and the film went from $6,500/theatre to just $1,762 theatre.

Last weekend, the distributor pared things down and ran the film in only four theatres, which should have raised its per theatre average, even while reducing ticket sales.

True Republicans from the party of Lincoln are adults, and they are ready to sacrifice for the country, and they believe in real American values based on real American history, and facts, science, and education. True Republicans like Eisenhower looked squarely at the global threat to world security and worked for a sound economy. Gerald Ford was a very decent man who would have stood firm with the real hobbits. Ronald Reagan would never have put the world economy at risk by playing games with the debt ceiling.

John McCain is an honorable man and a war hero. All real Republicans put the nation's security and national honor first. Sarah Palin and the rest of the Mad Tea Party are out for sensational headlines and made-up wishful thinking.

  It is time to out the real RINOS! Palin, I dare you to come out of the closet and admit you are trying to destroy the real Republican party. Glenn Beck, you don't care what happens to America, as long as you can dominate the TV ratings (if there are still TVs) after the country is reduced to rubble.

 

More than half of Americans think the press has been either too easy or else fair in its coverage of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), a new poll said Thursday.

A combined 54 percent of U.S. adults said the press had been too easy or had been fair toward Palin, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. Thirty-two percent said the press has been fair, and 22 percent say the press has been too easy on Palin, the potential GOP presidential candidate.

The high-velocity spin around audience figures for the Palin film "The Undefeated" worked fairly well for the political press (we don't know better) but seems to have generated a bit of a backlash in the industry media.

Box Office Mojo's Brandon Gray writes that he feels the need to deliver an "injection of truth."

The Undefeated, the much-hyped Palin documentary, bombed during its second week in theaters, bringing in just $24,000 in ticket sales across 14 screens. The movie’s per theater average, touted as a relative bright spot by promoters, plummeted from $6,513 to $1,713, according to estimates by the industry website Box Office Mojo.

A MSN article highlighting Bachmann's rise to second. A Washington Post article claiming that Palin is now just behind Romney. What's wrong with this picture?

I always say in my articles that I cannot believe people listen and follow and support nutjobs.

Clearly neither will be beneficial to this country. Clearly, both are on the low end of the policy chart. Yet they have supporters. And now only do they have them, those supporters think that they are the greatest people to every walk the planet. What have they done to deserve this support? Is this turning into the riddle of the week?

Seriously. Palin has a bit longer record than Bachmann, but while support may be more understandable, it doesn't make her any less of a dumb***. In English, Palin's playing of that "woman with values" angle may gain her supporters, but I would expect that the people would be able to see through the talk and realize that she really doesn't know what she's talking about or doing.

However the more concerning of the two is Bachmann, who rose to the spotlight and has done nothing except repeatedly claim that gays are evil and some sort of lesser people. I'm serious, even though I've used satire to state that previously. How can someone follow a candidate that has promised to rid this country of gay people and restore Christianity to our government? (I just learned that a certain percentage of republicans live under rocks).

Down the list of candidates, Herman Cain had 3% of the votes as of a few days ago. And somewhat like Bachmann, all HE has done to earn votes has been bashing Muslims, calling them terrorists, trying to ignore the Constitution in his statements and, well, calling them anti-American, even though a large number reside here and don't want to blow their home up.

So I guess the proof that the GOP likes you if you're rich, white, and Christian is right in front of us in the race for 2012. I really hope Romney stays on top. Even though he has drifted to the more extreme views lately, he's not as bad as the three above. 

Of course, I hope that nobody wins this one. I don't think America would benefit from the red when we're in the middle of the gay rights debate.

Journalism is a funny business. The "worthy" articles and essays that you spend days, weeks or even months laboring over sometimes are the ones that get the least attention. On the other hand, a throwaway blog post that might have taken you an hour or two to write goes viral, generating tens of thousands of hits and dozens of reprints all over the Web. 

Such was the case for the Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf, who typically writes about weighty issues connected with "politics and national affairs." He’s a good writer -- even if you’ve never heard of him. Until now.

What has put Friedersdorf on the map is one of those dashed-off blog posts I referred to in the first paragraph. A few days ago, Friedersdor went to see a midnight showing of "The Undefeated," a limited-release Sarah Palin propaganda film then playing in 10 theaters, including one in Orange County, Calif., where Friedersdorf happened to be visiting his parents. He wrote an article for the Atlantic's website about the experience, whose title -- "Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County" -- sums up his thesis.

The tone of the piece might be described as snark lite. He ends his reportage, for instance, by asking the theater manager: "In hindsight, do you wish you’d had one more screen showing 'Harry Potter'?" But overall, the tone isn’t as scathing as you’d expect from a snickering "lamestream" egghead. Good writers let the facts speak for themselves. And the fact that no one in Orange County wanted to see "The Undefeated" tells us a lot about Sarah Palin’s dimming political fortunes now that Michele Bachmann has become the Tea Party’s alpha female.

When news broke about "The Undefeated" -- conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon's two-hour Sarah Palin movie -- pundits wondered whether it would appeal to movie-goers outside of Palin's fan base. It looks like it doesn't.

Sarah Palin had some stern words for her celebrity critics on Tuesday night at the premiere of a documentary on her tenure as governor of Alaska, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The film, The Undefeated, begins with a montage of footage featuring Hollywood stars criticizing Palin. Big names appearing in the flick include Matt Damon, David Letterman and Madonna.

The Hollywood Reporter sought reaction to the criticism from Palin, who until Tuesday night, had not seen the final version of the flick. The outlet asked the former governor, "What would make someone be so full of hate?"

It seems to me that lately the two female politicians making headlines are doing it for all the wrong reasons. Ms. Sarah Palin and Ms. Michele Bachmann, both of whom I have poked fun of recently, are interesting characters. Both conservative and tea party backed, both mothers and religiously minded, both with astounding things to say.

For instance, we have Palin's headlining statement saying that Paul Revere warned the British that the British were coming... how you run from yourself I have yet to discover. Or Bachmann's gaffe on the founding fathers, whom according to Michele abolished slavery in 1776. 

There are also others that aren't American history oriented. Bachmann believes that not all cultures are equal and that you can "catch" homosexuality. For her part, Palin believes that the US supports North Korea, and that foreign policy experience comes from your location, on top of many, many more gems that we've collected since '08.

So, with all of this treasure that has been dropped on our imaginary front door, who takes the cake? Is Palin the bigger idiot, or Bachmann?

BOSTON: In a recent poll, Presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann has topped former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.

The poll, sampled nearly 1,000 men aged 18-40 on the streets of Boston and had several surprising results. Among all of the potential GOP candidates, Bachmann and Palin emerged as clear favorites, ahead of the competition by double digits. However, Bachmann commands a two point lead on the mediacentric Palin.

The final results of the poll (%):

Bachmann- 45

Palin- 43

Romney- 5

All Other- 7

Most men cited their reason to favorite the two women as "appeal" and other synonymous terms. Intelligence and policy were rarely factors described for putting the females on top. 

"Yeah... she's a sexy thing, Palin. But man, have you checked out Obama's babe? She's SO hot, you know what I'm sayin'?" said one enthusiastic subject. Other men in the vicinity agreed.

This poll is a significant turn of events in the race for the GOP nomination. It is the first time that Palin has been overtaken by another female in popularity and the first time that Romney's popularity has plummeted since he emerged as a favorite.

Our own reporter, Loretta von Birch was there at the site of the poll and said, "Leafy it appears that the tides have turned for the GOP hopefuls. When we took the poll into a nearby bar a fight broke out from an argument over the bra size of Rep. Bachmann. We also did approach one couple this afternoon and his answer was consistent with the others, voting for Palin because of her beauty, while she voted for Romney because of his policies and then gave her husband a slap before continuing on their way."

Check back for updates. As always, this is LeafyDebater bringing you the breaking news from Newsvine.com.

SCRANTON: New reports by the Associated Press suggest that the reason for the sub-par performances by the GOP candidates is not a fault of the candidates themselves, but their lack of large balls.

President Obama certainly has a lot of balls to play with as he gears up for his Presidential run. Washington is an endless pit of balls, in fact, Obama himself made space for several balls in the back of the White House, where he plays with them frequently. Former candidates from both parties enjoyed playing with very large and colorful balls during their campaigns and stays in Washington, unlike the current field of candidates.

We all remember dear Bushie the second and his lack of balls and lack of skills with balls, unlike our current President. And the uncertainty of the number of big balls may be the reason Sarah Palin is staying off the ticket.

"Between Rep. Bachmann and me, you know, there just ain't enough of them big balls to go around this time!" she said. "Todd has some very large balls and I don't know if I'm willing to give those up for a Presidential run."

Another person kept off the ticket by the lack of balls? Donald Trump, who possesses multiple golden balls, one of them being over 6 inches in diameter. Being on the ballot would force him to become public about his golden balls.

Many of the men currently campaigning have reported frequent boredom due to the lack of big balls to play with. Newt Gingrich seems to be affected by the shortages the worst, because when his aides leave, often the balls go with them. The lack of balls does not seem to be affecting Mitt Romney, however, who is enjoying more success with fewer balls than in 2008. This may or may not be connected to his religious beliefs, because many Mormons forbid balls, calling them "evil" and "sinful".

So, do you think the lack of big balls is the reason affecting the GOP candidates? Or do they already have enough balls to play with?

There hasn’t been anything close to a bombshell revelation from last week’s much-ballyhooed release of Sarah Palin’s email archive from her first 21 months as governor.

But that’s not all that was missing: the 24,199 pages of emails also didn’t include any records from a nearly month-long stretch at the start of her abbreviated tenure as Alaska’s top official.

State officials say they are investigating the gap, but have given no timetable as to when more information will be available.

On Friday afternoon, Alaska officials released 24,199 pages of Sarah Palin's emails (weighing 100 pounds) — the result of news organizations' Freedom of Information Act request. Reporters are scrambling to read through the "treasure trove of documents," which offer intriguing insights and random tidbits on Palin's Alaska governorship, personal life, and the run-up to the 2008 elections.

Newt Gingrich reached out to Sarah Palin with political advice, emails released Friday by the state of Alaska show.

In an email sent shortly after Palin was selected as John McCain’s running mate, Gingrich suggested a possible way for Palin to handle questions about the expenses Palin billed to the state.

“This should be brought into a single number childrens days not charged equals $X that Palin did NOT charge the taxpayers for that she was legally entitled to,” Gingrich wrote, suggesting that framing the issue that way “offsets 90 per cent of the story’s impact.”

I've gathered enough of my time to go through a select handful of the documents that everyone has been talking about lately: Sarah Palin's emails, recently released to the general public.

I guess that that phrase includes me, even though my mom told me that I was special.

Jokes aside, I was pleasantly surprised with what I found in the emails that I read. I was always planning to write an article about them, yes, but I expected it to be far different than this one. Because if you came here expecting another hate rant from me, you're not going to find it.

I'm sure that some are controversial. Palin seems to have a knack for it. However in the few that I chose to look at, she seemed like a normal, hardworking governor that was truly concerned about her state (until the elections took her out of it). I admit, it is the first time that I have seen her in this light, in this pre-media phase, where her largest concerns are her kids and her job. I didn't review her policies or anything, I didn't get to dive too deeply into important decisions that she made, but I got a true sense of who she was as a human being, and I rather liked what I saw. 

I can see why they elected her to be governor of Alaska.

I still shudder at the thought of her being President, but I don't think that I am as hostile to her as I was yesterday or in previous months. She still has her moron moments, maybe more often than the rest of us, but while reading the emails that I did, I was thinking to myself, "You know, she isn't so bad after all." I still disagree with her on almost every policy she has ever put on the table, but I think that she did a better job when she was governor than the awful one that we have in MA right now. 

I'm leaving those emails and this article in a good mood, in a peaceful state of mind, though I'm sure that it won't be too long lasting. She won't stay out of the media for long, I'll tell you that.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin moved quickly to link a key figure in a corruption scandal that rocked the state's political establishment to her defeated predecessor, newly released documents show.

"FYI -- I've asked Frank Bailey to help me track down soem [sic] evidence of past administration's dealing with Bill Allen," Palin wrote on May 8, 2007, a day after Allen pleaded guilty to bribery, extortion and conspiracy.

The document is one of the roughly 24,000 pages of records from Palin's administration released by Alaska state officials on Friday.

This morning, Sarah Palin posted a criticism of President Barack Obama's efforts to collaborate with Russia on missile defense, ending her rant with "File this under 'WTF.'"

"President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift," she wrote on her Facebook page. "But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can’t buy off Russia. And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability. What happens if Russia gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran or China?"

Sarah Palin said that Paul Revere warned the British during his midnight ride in 1775. Historians beg to differ.

"He didn't warn the British," said James Giblin, author of "The Many Rides of Paul Revere." "That's her most obvious blooper."

During her "One Nation Tour" last week, the former Alaska governor uttered a now-infamous recounting of the Revolutionary War hero's midnight ride, telling reporters that Revere "warned, uh, the ... the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells." She defended her explanation on "Fox News Sunday," saying "Part of his ride was to warn the British that we're already there -- that, 'Hey, you're not going to succeed. '"

Experts agree that warning the British -- Revere was an American patriot, remember, he was against the folks across the pond -- was not crucial to the midnight ride.

Once again the American right rides to the defense of Sarah Palin, this time in response to a gaffe she made on the campaign (?) trail in Boston, Massachusets.  Speaking of Paul Revere's famous "midnight ride" Palin said he "warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free."

"Warned the British?"  Are we talking about the same Paul Revere?

I have actually given this some thought and I was wondering if anyone else would consider moving out of the United States if Palin or Bachmann should win the presidency? It is a very scary thought. Palin is certainly not qualified to run the United States. She proves that she is not capable almost every day. Bachmann is about on the same level as Palin. I can guarantee that if either of these women ever become president, they will set the womens rights movement back to the 50's. The other issue that I am concerned about is the fact that both of these women want to force Christianity into every corner of our country. I am a Christian, but I believe that the church and government should remain separate. Lastly, I fear that our country would immediately become a target for terrorism. I do not believe that either of these women would have any respect from people or leaders of other countries. Neither of them are strong enough or smart enough to handle the extreme pressures of what the world is going through right now. We would become the laughing stock of the world for having either of these women at the helm.

So, if you moved out of the country, where would you move to? My first choice would be Canada. They don't stick their noses into other countries business, they have pretty good gun control, are concerned about the environment, and have a fantastic health care system and school system.  Canada is a beautiful country. The people that I have met from Canada are very nice. Anyway, I'd be interested in what you think. Thank you!

A new movie about Sarah Palin soon to debut in three states key to the 2012 Republican presidential contest amounts to a two-hour-long commercial for Palin.

It paints a glowing portrait of her record in Alaska, stressing her honesty, her maverick history of challenging the establishment of even her own party, and her executive experience.

Like political commercials, it's also entirely one-sided.

Fox Hypes Sarah Palin’s Sunday Talk Show Appearance But She’s Using Teleprompter

Fox News has been hyping Sarah Palin’s appearance on the Fox News Sunday Show, as if she had the guts to do a Sunday panel show like the rest of the candidates will. But of course, Sarah Palin repeated already debunked right wing Pinocchios as fed to her by her teleprompter.

As ThinkProgress reported, during a June 2 stop in Boston on her “One Nation” bus tour, Sarah Palin managed to spectacularly flub the historical account of Paul Revere’s famed “Midnight Ride.” Describing Revere as warning “the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells and, uhm, making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells,” Palin’s version inspired confusion and some much-deserved jibes from across the media.

None of this has deterred Palin herself, however. This morning on Fox News Sunday, she doubled down on her creative re-imagining of Paul Revere’s ride, saying “I didn’t mess up.”

The Republican Party has been on a suicide mission in the months since the midterm elections handed them the House of Representatives last fall, with the US Senate almost within their grasp.

As victorious Tea Party candidates surged into Washington DC, they swore mighty oaths that rather than add a single zero to the debt of the U.S. government they would fast until death, or make a histrionic lunge in that direction, or make a big stink, or a sort of stink. By God, they would draw a line in the sand, if only to get pushed off it.

It's too bad "The Daily Show" is on hiatus until Monday night. Just a few hours ago, Sarah Palin was videotaped explaining Paul Revere's significance in history and it couldn't have been funnier. Since they're not putting together a show tonight, the staff did the next best thing and began tweeting their own historical facts the way they think Palin would interpret them.

Sarah Palin dismissed warnings about the need to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, saying that a failure to increase the limit would not result in an unprecedented government default.

“I don’t believe the debt ceiling has to be raised,” Palin told reporters last night in Seabrook, New Hampshire. “We have to service our debt first and prioritize wisely, cut the budget and cut excess spending.”

In an exclusive interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren on board her "One Nation" bus tour, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said there will be a steep price to pay for President Barack Obama's decision to place a temporary moratorium on new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

"The impacts of that moratorium, where 97 percent of our offshore has been locked up...what we're looking at now is 150,000 barrels per day less next year, and 200,000 barrels per day less being able to be developed from the gulf the year after because the moratorium disallowed the permitting process, disallowed rigs to be able to, economically speaking, stay in the gulf. They moved out," the former Republican vice presidential candidate said in the May 31, 2011, interview.

"So we're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that we're going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf."

During a family bus trip, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a claim about the size of the debt accumulated under President Barack Obama.

"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years," Palin, a Republican, told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren on May 31, 2011, as her bus rolled down the highway. "It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."

This claim is similar to ones we’ve checked in the past -- with varying ratings -- so we thought we would check Palin’s as well.

Governor Sarah Palin swooped into the Pentagon parking lot where all the bikers were gathered on the back of a motorcycle, a half-hour before the procession started. As recognition dawned on the crowd, Palin was met headlong by photographers who hustled past parked bikes to snap images of her arrival.

Palin hopped off the bike, with her husband Todd and two daughters Bristol and Piper at her side, smiling and shaking hands and signing autographs for more than 20 minutes as the media scrum pushed and shoved past bikes and bike owners to get a good look.

Above the roar of rumbling engines and shouting photographers, Fox News' Peter Doocy asked Palin if all the events on the bus tour would be this loud.

"It would be a blast if this were this loud

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/05/29/palin-packs-thunderous-punch-motorcycle-rally/#ixzz1Np3VjQOZ

Some riders were enthusiastic about Palin’s participation; others said politics has no place in the event.

Will the White House get its favorite Republican candidate?

Last October, top White House adviser David Plouffe told reporters of the 2012 GOP contest: “These guys are going to be running through hoops to please the far-right folks who are kind of the acolytes of Sarah Palin. Now maybe she’ll be running herself. Something tells me we won’t get that lucky.”

He might be wrong. The former Alaska governor launches a tour of the Northeast this weekend in what could be the first sign of a presidential run.

Palin may not win the Republican nomination even if she enters. But top Democrats believe her candidacy would help them even if she did not win, forcing the other Republicans to take more conservative positions than they would otherwise to compete with Palin among GOP activists.

From Newsmax:

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh says that, if he were President Barack Obama, he would not want to face a staunch conservative such as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin because she carries a frightening message — that he is beatable. Limbaugh also said on Fox News Thursday night that the GOP establishment fears Palin as well.

Given the real lack of exciting and viable Republican candidates for President it is no surprise that conservatives might flock to someone with Sarah Palin's star power in the run-up to the Republican Primaries.  Elections are not won by the downcast and defeated; Republicans need to believe that Obama is beatable and they need to believe that they have a candidate who can do it.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and businessman Donald Trump have formed a political bond, one united by their populist ideology and contempt for the mainstream media.

Their kinship grew during the height of the birther controversy. As Trump called on President Obama to release his birth certificate, Palin rose to Trump’s defense, excoriating the press.

The White House on Wednesday morning released the president's long form birth certificate (pdf) in an attempt to put "birther" questions to rest. "The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn't good for the country. It may have been good politics and good T.V., but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement.

Due out in the fall the book ‘Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs’ is promised to be a revealing expose of life at Chez Palin. “He’s ready to give an inside glimpse of his relationship with the Palins, share his trials and tribulations of being thrust into the spotlight and becoming a father at such a young age,” says  a well-trained source at the book house.

Of all the complaints Sarah Palin has made about the media, here's a new one: One of her advisers is apparently upset about a lack of press coverage.

As http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/04/19/pay-attention-to-sarah-palin.aspx">Slate's Dave Weigel noted this morning, Rebecca Mansour, a top Palin aide, posted http://twitter.com/RAMansour">several messages on Twitter Monday directed at news organizations including ABC News and CNN, implying the media had not adequately covered a speech Palin gave at a Wisconsin tea party rally on Saturday.

About 11 p.m. on April 8, 2011, shortly after a federal budget compromise averted a government shutdown, President Barack Obama addressed the nation from the august Blue Room of the White House.

The compromise measure, he declared, contained "the largest annual spending cut in our history."

News reports pegged the figure at $38 billion.

Eight days later, with sleet bearing down on her outside the Wisconsin Capitol, Sarah Palin took aim at the budget compromise while speaking to a tea party rally.

The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee asserted that because of "politics-as-usual and accounting gimmicks, we find out it's not $38 billion in cuts."

"I just say very simply, why doesn't he show his birth certificate? Why has he spent over $2 million in legal fees to keep this quiet and to keep this silent?"

— Donald Trump, April 10, 2011

"More power to him [Trump]. He's not just throwing stones from the sidelines, he's digging in, he's paying for researchers to find out why President Obama would have spent $2 million to not show his birth certificate."

— Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, April 9, 2011

Tax documents show unwed mother Bristol Palin earned more than $262,000 for her role in helping raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention in 2009.

The most recent data for The Candie's Foundation that's posted online by research firm GuideStar shows compensation at $262,500 for the now-20-year-old daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.

A poll earlier this month revealed that a quarter of Republicans believe a community rights organisation called Acorn will try to steal the election for Barack Obama next year, while 31% aren't sure whether it will or not. It won't. Because Acorn does not exist. It was defunded and disbanded after a successful sting operation by conservatives a couple of years ago.

Meanwhile, a poll last month showed that a majority of Republicans likely to vote in the primaries still believe Obama was not born in the United States. He was. But no number of verified birth certificates will convince them.

Thank god Sarah Palin ended her lengthy moratorium on complaining about liberal media bias, because someone had to make sure Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller didn't get away with this shoddy reporting job.

The Caller was writing up the story of how Sarah Palin's reality show received a generous tax credit thanks to legislation signed into law by Sarah Palin. (That was strike one!) After explaining where the story came from and quoting some critics (strike two!), the story goes on to quote -- for three full paragraphs -- Palin's responses to the criticism and her defense of the program that subsidizes filming in Alaska. I think, if I'm reading Sarah Palin's ferocious Facebook response to the story correctly, that was strike three.

Well. That was quick.

Sarah Palin, on March 23:

PALIN: Of course. Women are held to a different standard in all areas. My point is going to be, so what. Let's work harder, produce more and better, and get over it. I'm through whining about a liberal press that holds conservative women to a different standard because it doesn't do any good to whine about it.
Sarah Palin, on March 30:

Goodness, cleaning up the sloppiness of reporters could be a full time job. In response to The Daily Caller's online inquiry, I gave them a statement that the writer buried on his story's second page (which most people won't even notice - I didn't even notice it) after he spent the first page completely spinning a situation to give the impression that Alaska's film production tax credit legislation was somehow solely my idea hatched up to benefit the Palins years before I was ever involved in a documentary series on TLC/Discovery Channel. 

[...]

One final thought: having to set the record straight on my Facebook page yet again is further proof that the media can't be trusted even to print a statement in a manner that people can read.

Bill O'Reilly said Monday night that Sarah Palin only has herself to blame for dropping approval ratings.

The Fox News host who has butted heads recently with Palin said the former governor has avoided direct engagement with the media, hurting her image.

"Her favorability among Republicans and independents has dropped four [percentage] points in a month," O'Reilly said during a segment of his television show. "The reason I think it's dropping is because she is not engaging directly."

Sarah Palin insists she's done complaining about the liberal media.

Speaking to Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Wednesday night, the former Alaska governor shrugged off what she contends is a double standard in the way conservative women are treated.

"I'm through whining about a liberal press that holds conservative women to a different standard, because it doesn't do any good to whine about it," Palin said. "When a shot is taken at me, it is water off a duck's back because I know the important things we need to concentrate on in life — especially the national and international issues that are so important in our country."

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who has been one of Sarah Palin's most prominent boosters, said this week that he feels Palin is "unlikely to be the Republican nominee, and to be honest I think she probably shouldn't be the Republican nominee for president."

Kristol made the comments at a Vanderbilt University panel Monday moderated by Politico's Ben Smith, who reports that Kristol said that while he still believes Palin "has a very shrewd judgment about politics and policy and very good instincts," she has not educated herself sufficiently since emerging onto the national stage. (The hour-long panel can be seen at left.)

"When she quit as governor of Alaska, that was a questionable move from her point of view, but I thought at least then that she would come to the mainland and really participate in the national debate," he added, as Smith reports. "Instead, [it] turns out that she loves Alaska, which is to her credit -- but then I don't know why she quit as governor."

Sarah Palin apparently has a lot of work to do if she's serious about the presidency: More independents say they would vote for Charlie Sheen over her in a 2012 match-up, reports USA Today. Yes, that Charlie Sheen. Independents preferred Sheen to Palin 41%-36% in the survey by Public Policy Polling.

We've found a lot of brutal poll numbers for Sarah Palin so far in 2011: down in South Dakota, down in South Carolina, down in Arizona, only up by 1 point in Texas, only up by 1 point in Nebraska to name a few. But this has to be the worst- independent voters say they would support Charlie Sheen over Palin for President by a 41/36 margin. Seriously.

Despite her deficit with independents Palin does lead Sheen 49-29 overall. We also tested Barack Obama against Sheen and the President leads 57-24.

It is down to the final two. The primaries are almost done and it is time to pick the GOP nominee for the Presidential election. It is now a two horse race. Bachmann or Palin for the nomination. Who would you go with and why?

Sarah Palin video of her accomplishments.

Over the last few weeks, Washington conventional wisdom has begun to coalesce around the idea that Sarah Palin won't run for president. A number of news outlets and commentators have pointed out that she isn't doing the sorts of things that serious candidates usually do at this point in the calendar, hiring veteran staffers in the key early primary states, visiting those states regularly, and delivering speeches that begin to lay one's "vision" for the country. Roger Ailes of Fox News pointedly did not suspend her contract, as he did those of two other candidates, because, he said, she has given no sign that she is planning a campaign.

From fissures in the Palin marriage ("We don't talk") to giggles over a doctored nude photo and the governor in an open bathrobe, Shushannah Walshe unearths more gems from the ex-Sarah Palin aide's leaked manuscript. Plus, more tidbits about Bristol, Troopergate, and other Palin scoops.

The Wisconsin man who was so upset by Bristol Palin's success on "Dancing with the Stars" that he blasted his TV set with a shotgun yesterday pleaded not guilty to criminal charges and indicated that he will mount a defense based on the claim that he has a mental disease or defect.

Sarah Palin has attacked President Obama for having a lack of experience in the private sector or in politics, suggesting if his policies do not change the country could lose its 'exceptionalism'.
The former Governor of Alaska – herself in that position for just two years before she quit – also said his inexperience is causing untold woes to the economy and accused him of wanting to limit individual state powers.
In the interview for Fox Business she said: 'See because our president is so inexperienced in the private sector and in government and in actually running anything and making any kind of budget that inexperience has really made manifest in some of the statements he makes.'

Common sense has bloomed among right wingers — not once, but twice. And while these episodes are unlikely to become regular events, we should enjoy them while we can.
First case: Sarah Palin. Alaska's former half-term governor has been masquerading as a political figure, when in fact she's the nation's highest-profile reality-TV star. Even the generally clueless John McCain has woken up to this. His seemingly diplomatic decision not to endorse any candidate in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries has widely been seen by political observers as an abandonment of his former running mate.
He's not alone. On the eve of last year's national elections, GOP hit man Karl Rove questioned Palin's presidential viability. And conservative egghead Charles Krauthammer concluded in effect that Palin offered more promise than payoff.
Even William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard, has distanced himself from Palin's road show, saying on MSNBC that he's disappointed that Palin has failed at "framing the policy agenda."

10. Watching Parker Spitzer re-runs in a motel room full of Fleebaggers.

9. Reading all 500 pages of the Bailey manuscript: "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: Beyond Falafels"

8. Purchasing a DVD of HBO's By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama, sitting down with a box of Kleenex, a bag of Nutter Butters, and reliving the glory days.

7. "Boning up" on "Indian" words and curry tolerance to locate and interview Hindu Palin haters in New Dehli next month.

This is classic. Rush pointing out the unobjected-to lawlessness of Obama by the MSM, decided to use Sarah Palin as an example to expose their inherent biases. As he read it I could just feel the Left getting angry by every word he spoke. I just wish it would have gone longer.

Governor Palin will be traveling to India to deliver the dinner keynote address at the "India Today Conclave" on March 19 2011. The speech topic is titled "My Vision of America"

Rebecca Mansour confirmed it.

Sarah Palin says union members protesting Wisconsin Republicans' plan to help balance the state's budget by cutting collective bargaining rights are taking up "the wrong fight at the wrong time."

Palin weighed in on the debate in a Friday night posting on her Facebook page but didn't indicate whether she would join weekend conservative counter-protests organized by groups including the Tea Party Patriots and Americans for Prosperity.

In the posting addressed to "union brothers and sisters," Palin says Wisconsin taxpayers shouldn't be asked to pay for benefits "that are not sustainable." She says "real solidarity means everyone being willing to sacrifice."

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Let me begin with a paradox. The more Sarah Palin seems unelectable, the more electable she may actually be. The media blitzkrieg launched against Palin may be interpreted not as a sign of her unfitness for office but precisely as a measure of her eligibility. As I've written elsewhere, "Palin's electability can be reckoned as an inverse function of the virulent campaign intent on her delegitimation. … The greater the fury … she is met with, the greater the likelihood that she poses a genuine threat. One does not raise a mallet to crush an ant." Conversely, the beatification of Obama by the same leftist media is an infallible indication that they are arguing in partibus infidelium. Indeed, the media is almost always inversely reliable, providing an ironic touchstone for the facts of any matter. Just cross out and write in the opposite and we can be confident of a more accurate approximation to the truth.

Thus we are told that Palin's "national negatives" are too high for her to be regarded as a viable candidate. But this is to forget that such "negatives" are mainly the result of a coordinated media assault whose effect can be mitigated with time, intelligent pushback and increased exposure on the ground. Presence can counter image and word of mouth can triumph over print. Negatives can be neutralized and even turned into positives.

The nation's largest gay rights advocacy organization, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), has instituted its own "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy toward conservative firebrands Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle after they implicitly — but clearly — voiced support for the gay-oriented Republican group GOProud.
On Wednesday, Palin reiterated her support for CPAC's inclusion of "different, diverse groups … involved in political discourse." Palin will not be in attendance at the conservative-fest, but told the Huffington Post that she is "always in favor of freedom" and encourages "discussion."

Angle, unlike other high-profile political figures, did not boycott CPAC because of GOProud's involvement. In attendance herself, Angle echoed Palin's sentiment when she told the Huffington Post: "We need to be very careful when we get to talk about our opinions and be inclusive."

The HRC — whose stated goal is to "achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality" — appears to be holding a second Day of Silence.

"We have no comment on this matter," HRC Deputy Press Secretary Paul Guequierre told The Daily Caller when asked for a comment regarding Palin and Angle's recent support of GOProud.

As for the gay rights groups, Barron says they should at least have the decency to come out of the closet.

"If they want to be the gay Democratic wing, then they ought to be honest," he said.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/11/gay-rights-groups-willfully-ignore-positive-palin-angle-comments-at-cpac-goproud-hits-back/#ixzz1DvkkTcHu

One of the many memes the GOP establishment, the Left and the media try to stick to Governor Palin is that she is unqualified to be President if she chooses to run. With today being her 47th birthday, it's odd that so many people think she is younger than thirty-five years old! So, in honor of her birthday, I'd like to share 47 reasons Governor Palin is qualified to be President above and beyond constitutional requirements. In no particular order:

1) She won't perjure herself by taking the Presidential oath of office like many of her potential opponents.

2) She has 9 years of executive experience, more than 3 times as much as the current President. As Governor, she held the 2nd most powerful gubernatorial office in the country.

3)She knows how to budget. In her years as Governor, she reduced the state budget 9.5% over her predecessor and put $5 billion in state savings.

4) She reduced federal earmark requests 80% as Governor over her predecessor, recognizing the need for fiscal responsibility at both state and national levels.

5) She's a proven reformer. She strove to break the bonds between Alaskan politicians and oil companies and passed sweeping ethics reform.

6) She believes in true governmental transparency. As Governor, she put the state checkbook online to allow constituents to know how and where the state was spending revenue.

The narrative pushed by Palin's opponents is that her numbers cannot improve because too many people have formed an opinion about her. "Poll Insider" does an excellent job explaining why that narrative is wrong.

The most difficult polls to read into this early are those associated with Sarah Palin. While supporters will claim bias in polls, non-supporters will be overly-excited about the supposed dislike of Sarah Palin.

The key thing to remember about polling is information changes minds quickly. Reality is, of all potential candidates for 2012, Palin has the greatest opportunity to greatly improve her standings, especially given that expectations for her have been set so low.

Sarah Palin is what I like to call "An Unknown Known." While everyone knows who she is, opinions of her are mostly derived from media accounts of her, rather than by her own actions and words.
After each respective speech, both Palin and Obama shared very high positives, and Palin was actually seen even more favorably than Obama.

Needless to say, it's amazing to see what a friendly press can do for you and what a hostile press can do to destroy you, as each candidate was the recipient of one or the other (I'll let you guess which way that went).

In the few weeks between the conventions and the VP Debate between Palin and Joe Biden, Sarah Palin was heavily attacked by the media, and was constantly being questioned about her qualifications. Thus, when the debate actually happened, people were surprised she wasn't an idiot. A CNN Poll after the VP Debate found that 84% of people thought Sarah Palin did better than they expected.
Most people are way too busy with their families, paying bills, raising their kids, and generally living their lives to care about politics. It's only us political junkies who are paying attention to these sorts of things this far from en election.

You can click through for the image if you like, but Newsvine should display is below.

Some conservatives who are already upset that this week's Conservative Political Action Conference will include a right-leaning organization that promotes gay rights grew even more concerned this weekend when Sarah Palin suggested that she, too, supports the group.

"Should conservatives not reach out to others, not participate in events or forums that perhaps arising within those forums are issues that maybe we don't personally agree with? And I say no," Palin told the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody who asked the former Alaska governor to weigh in on the presence of GOProud, an organization that stands for conservative values and gay rights, at the CPAC conference.

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The final one came when Bill asked the president why he thinks some people hate him. The president noted that the people who hate him or any politician for that matter "don't know you, what they hate is what fun house mirror image of you that is out there". I happen to agree with the president on this one. Without realizing Obama just made the case why some people hate Governor Palin.

For two years now Governor Palin has been attacked and trashed by the left and the media, her record distorted and everything she says or does twisted and spun into the fun house mirror image the media want to portray her as.

The truth is that people don't even know Governor Palin and when you challenge them and ask them why they hate her, they can never answer the question.
As I have noted in my post The Polarization of Sarah Palin. The media created a character and named it "Sarah Palin". It is this Sarah Palin that people hate. If those people who supposedly hate her, would only take the time to learn and get to know the "Real Sarah Palin," the one who is on their side on most issues, the one whose approval numbers prior to being selected as John McCain's running mate were in the high eighties. When people begin judging her on her policies, her accomplishments and her true character and not on some misinformation presented to them by the media, perhaps then when they step out of the media created fun house they'll realize that not only do they not hate her, they'll see in Governor Palin a mirror image of themselves and will actually appreciate the reflection.

'It's a difficult situation, this is that 3am White House phone call and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the White House it it seems that that call went right to um the answering machine. And nobody yet has, no body yet has explained to the American public what they know, and surely they know more than the rest of us know who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak and I'm not real enthused about what it is that that's being done on a national level and from DC in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt. And in these areas that are so volatile right now because obviously it's not just Egypt but the other countries too where we are seeing uprisings, we know that now more than ever, we need strength and sound mind there in the White House. We need to know what it is that America stands for so we know who it is that America will stand with. And we do not have all that information yet."

Even the far-left extremists at PoliticusUSA concede that "Sarah Palin gave a pretty good…speech tonight." The rest of the post is just a hilarious rant but the concession is noted. In any event, here's the news:

-TIME: Palin's Populist Message

-Invoking Reagan, Palin says 'this is a time for choosing again'

-Yahoo News: "The speech, while certainly Reaganesque, was also vintage Palin"

Sarah Palin, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, said the U.S. is at a "crisis point" as the Obama administration pursues policies that will lead to "decline and defeat."

"If President Reagan were alive today" the hills in California "would echo with his outrage" over the enactment of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, she said Friday night at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California.
"Government created the problem, now government presents itself as the solution trying to convince us that we can win the future," Palin said, referring to a theme of Obama's Jan. 25 State of the Union address.

"We must look over the horizon like Reagan did," she said. "We must see where these unsound policies will ultimately end and that's in decline and defeat."

Kinship With Reagan

Read more on Newsmax.com: Palin: Reagan Would See Obamacare as 'Outrage'
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