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Sarah Palin took to Facebook last night to express shock that fellow Republicans are using dirty tricks on one another in the campaign:

We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.

We will look back on this week and realize that something changed… I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself. But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.

Well, she might want to ask her former running mate about that. But of course she knows about it — McCain hired the same damn people to train Palin to serve as his lip-sticked pit bull in 2008. She goes on:

I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted.

Hahaha! Yeah, no one encouraged hordes of deluded, racist nitwits to claim Barack Obama was the Kenyan-born, communist, granny-unplugging love child of Bernadette Dorn and Malcolm X, Mrs. Death Panels Lady. Jeebus, these people are beyond shameless.

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  1. 1.

    sweaver

    I vote a moratorium on posts anywhere talking about how stupid Sarah Palin is. If she’s marginalized enough she’ll merely be the crazy aunt down in the basement.

  2. 2.

    Samara Morgan

    well you see, betty, cher….Palin refused the pygmalion treatment from Team McCain.
    its the tradition handed down from Kylon and Pythagoras….chu kno, when Kylon got a mob of Noble Yeoman Farmers to burn down the temple and put the aukosmathekoi and mathekoi to the pitchfork and scythe?

  4. 4.

    MattF

    Problem is that Romney’s just not any good at it. The MittBot can’t get anyone’s blood boiling. Can you even imagine what Karl Rove would be doing in Mitt’s place? Noot’s a huge target, and Mitt ought to be able to get the knife in and cut his heart out, get the job done– like Karl would do without batting an eye. But no– it’s a mess and there’s blood and gore all over the place. Bad for morale.

  5. 5.

    Schlemizel

    Sadly, I think she actually believes this. That she and the rest of the nutbag army did not play dirty enough and thats because Republicans never play dirty they only tell the truth (as vetted by politifacts).

    Its the lizard brain at work.

  7. 7.

    Linda Featheringill

    I gather some people think that the Republican primary is hurting the Republican party.

    Ain’t that a shame?

    I realize that the Republicans embraced the Tea Party because they wanted to exploit the energy and enthusiasm. I guess they thought they could harness the good stuff and control the bad. Nope. Didn’t happen.

    A lot of people think that the Roman Empire fell mainly because the Romans no longer supplied their own foot soldiers. Instead, they incorporated other groups and used them as their military.

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    With Sarah Palin, one can never know whether she’s stupid enough to actually believe what she’s spouting or whether she’s just a liar.

    Or both, I suppose.

  9. 9.

    c u n d gulag

    I see that “The Whore of Babblin’ On” has a new ghostwriter.

    We should all be able to tell.

    What was written actually resembled English as we know it – an da spelin wuz 2 gud.

  11. 11.

    Betty Cracker

    @MattF: I think you’re right that Mitt can’t get the base’s blood up, but I thought his attacks on Gingrich were fairly effective in the last debate. Problem was, Mitt came off looking like a snooty prick himself, which was not helpful.

  13. 13.

    Elizabelle

    Hers got a sad. Hers not in the spotlight any more. And four years older, too.

    But agree with sweaver. Ignore the Tundra Twitterer. Ignore her Facebook page. Ignore her grifting children.

    (Otherwise, Betty, you rock.)

  16. 16.

    Schlemizel

    BTW – in case anyone feels my last comment had a sexist intent I will gladly make a joke about odd Todd’s prostate at his age if someone feeds me the right straight line.

  17. 17.

    FlipYrWhig

    Whoever taught Sarah Palin the word “vetted” must really regret it.

    Also, too, didn’t Palin rise to prominence herself by claiming that Frank Murkowski was an unethical Republican?

  19. 19.

    Hal

    Is the background in that photo Palin’s secret evil lair somewhere in the Alaskan tundra?

    I’m assuming this is another one of her non-endorsements of Gingrich, no doubt based on the hope she will get yet another chance to be VP? Also, I love her little “vetted” comment. If only the press had looked more closely at Obama, then they would have discovered he ain’t even American! Idiot.

  20. 20.

    Applejinx

    Gosh. Sarah Palin is siding with Gingrich? Lookin’ like no holds barred civil war between the Tea Party and the money Republicans.

  23. 23.

    maya

    @Linda Featheringill:

    A lot of people think that the Roman Empire fell mainly because the Romans no longer supplied their own foot soldiers. Instead, they incorporated other groups and used them as their military.

    I thought it was due to the lead in their water pipes. Made them all crazy. Say…..

  26. 26.

    geg6

    Schlemizel, there’s nothing sexist about what you said. If she’s not menopausal yet, she’s at least perimenopausal, which would also make her “hot” in the only way could possibly be. No man who is in any way attractive finds someone so objectively stupid, greedy, and idiotic to be hot.

    That said, and this is way OT, today really IS our Henry’s Rainbow Bridge day. We can’t justify keeping him this way any longer. Because he can’t stand, he is getting bedsores on his belly and you can see how miserable he is. Though he is eating and drinking (mostly), he just looks at us with sad eyes and sleeps most of the day away.

    I’m trying to be tough and strong about this, but I knew, even after his most recent rally, that this day would come quickly. We love him, he’s been a valiant fighter, and he is the bestest of doggies. Now I’m gonna go cry some more and wait for the vet to get here.

  29. 29.

    capt

    @geg6: Man, it is a very sad day indeed. I’m sending all the best to you and yours. It is very hard to be tough and strong but you will be just enough to do what you must. *hugs*

  30. 30.

    Violet

    @geg6:
    Oh, I’m so sorry. Even though you know you’re doing the right thing by Henry, it’s not easy. Hugs.

    The Palinistas think Sarah is just holding out to make a run at the nomination at the convention. It’s very entertaining to read a Palin site these days. Totally delusional.

    She’s really lost her looks. I caught a clip of her on Fox and was shocked at how she’s aged since the last election. She was definitely attractive four years ago. Now she looks like a crazy lady who’s had a bit too much work done on her face and wears a bad wig. It’s astonishing to do a comparison.

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    Sarah Palin is a Gingrich partisan, fair enough. But for a former candidate for vice-president, she is surprisingly ignorant of what was going on in national politics just when she was most involved in it, let alone now.

    There are really no questions to be raised about Mitt’s or any other candidate’s “conservative bona fides“, because the Republican party has given up conservatism as an ideology for a nihilistic opposition to Obama and the Democratic party. The candidates are competing now only to be the most nihilistic in that opposition. (Except for Ron Paul, of course, who is off on his own libertarian tangent.)

    The attacks on Noot are hardly false. What is widely known about him raises pertinent questions about his honesty and decency, and thus his fitness to be president. Come on, Sarah, surely you don’t believe that Ronald Reagan meant his 11th commandment to say the party should forgo thoroughly assessing a presidential candidate?

    (Yes, I know I’m shooting fish in a barrel here. But I’m feeling good ’cause Liverpool just knocked Manchester United out of the FA Cup, 2-1 at Anfield.)

  41. 41.

    Amir Khalid

    @geg6:
    Don’t hold your tears in. Let them be a tribute to Henry. He’s earned every last one. Sending virtual hugs and good thoughts your way.

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @beltane:

    If someone could translate what she said there I’d be most obliged.

    “Bargle argle. Send me money. Ack! Pssstht. Pitooiee!” That’s as close as I can get this early in the morning.

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    A hug to you and your John, and loving white light to Henry. It always, always hurts but you are doing Henry a great kindness. Thinking of you all.

  45. 45.

    Woodrowfan

    I am so sorry geg6. Many of us have been through the same thing. (I miss my little buddy to this day) and we’re with you in spirit and you’re in our thoughts and prayers.

  47. 47.

    Amir Khalid

    @beltane:

    “They maybe subscribe such characterization of Newt via words like that, but they don’t subscribe those to say Mitt Romney when he or his surrogates do the same thing. That’s that typical hypocrisy stuff in the media you know I’ve lived with over a couple of decades in the political arena,” she said. “It is hypocritical of the media to subscribe to one candidate and not another, that kind of ‘angry attack muffin’ verbiage to one and not the other.”

    I refuse to believe that a native English speaker of normal intelligence, let alone a schoolteacher’s daughter like Sarah Palin, could be this inarticulate. It must have been some kind of impostor.

  50. 50.

    beltane

    @Amir Khalid: Everything this woman says sounds like it’s been run through Google Translate. I wonder what her native language is. Also, I am not ready to accept that Sarah Palin is of normal intelligence.

  51. 51.

    Richard Fox

    One of the great joys of the past few months has been NOT hearing that woman’s voice / persona scratching at my brain and rendering me senseless. The gabbling class on the tube has been ignoring her as ‘so yesterday’. I hope that proud tradition continues. Hint…..
    Also, too, note the phrase ‘has been’ inserted in my rant for maximum dog whistle/ subconscious effect. So proud of that, so proud.

  52. 52.

    Kirbster

    @geg6: I am so sorry. I know how hard a decision it is to make and how much it hurts to say goodbye to your beloved Henry.

  53. 53.

    RedKitten

    But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.

    Yes, because the GOP is known for being civil and dignified during races.

    Right, Max Cleland?

    Right?

    …(crickets)…

  60. 60.

    Chris

    @MattF:

    Noot’s a huge target

    Pun intended?

    @Schlemizel:

    Sadly, I think she actually believes this. That she and the rest of the nutbag army did not play dirty enough and thats because Republicans never play dirty they only tell the truth (as vetted by politifacts).

    Well for one thing, I’ll bet she was furious and sad when she saw John McCain do his “no ma’am, he’s not an Arab, he’s a good family man” routine. When her audience were screaming things like “kill him!” all she ever did was sit around and wave with that idiotic grin on her face.

  61. 61.

    Suffern ACE

    But Newt IS an angry attack muffin,Sarah. (actually, he looks like a muffin. More of a scone, actually)

  63. 63.

    Chris

    @Linda Featheringill:

    I realize that the Republicans embraced the Tea Party because they wanted to exploit the energy and enthusiasm. I guess they thought they could harness the good stuff and control the bad. Nope. Didn’t happen.
    …
    A lot of people think that the Roman Empire fell mainly because the Romans no longer supplied their own foot soldiers. Instead, they incorporated other groups and used them as their military.

    Re that last part… well, thank God that couldn’t happen here. The odds of us contracting so much out to the PMCs in the next few decades that they’re basically the ones in charge of our wars are vanishingly small, aren’t they?

    Re that general point, and with apologies to my good friend Mr. Godwin… One of Paxton’s points in “An Anatomy Of Fascism” is that fascist parties often come to power through collaboration with traditional conservative elites, usually when those elites no longer feel strong enough to govern by themselves but are still unwilling to cut deals with the Left, and instead call on the fascists for reinforcement against it. I read that book a year or two ago and couldn’t help but think about the Republican/Tea Party Movement relationship.

  64. 64.

    patrick II

    Shorter Sarah.

    The use of the politics of personal destruction is very disturbing. Why don’t they use it more against Obama?

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    @patrick II: Exactly! When I read the quote from Palin, my first thought is that she is pretending to call out the republicans for using these techniques, but her real purpose is to tell them not to forget to use these techniques on President Obama.

  66. 66.

    Chris

    @RedKitten:

    But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.

    Even if you keep it in-house and forget Max Cleland, you run into Bush The Lesser prancing around South Carolina with a picture of McCain’s daughter back in 2000 calling her an “illegitimate black child.”

    For all the talk about the Newt/Mitt civil war, I have yet to see either of them do anything as nauseating as a Bush/Rove campaign. Mostly, all they’ve had to do is tell the truth about each other.

  67. 67.

    Betty Cracker

    RE: Just shut up about Palin already, etc., I think she’s self-marginalized as far as having any influence on anyone other than the wingnut base. But I’m not sure I’d like to see her drop out of public consciousness altogether. One of our two major parties tried to foist that fraudulent kook off on us as VP. We shouldn’t ever forget that.

  68. 68.

    cmorenc

    A huge part of the GOP/Tea Party’s problem is that they have the likes of Sarah Palin as one of its key leaders. Mirror, meet Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, meet mirror.

  69. 69.

    xian

    I love how she thinks the word ascribe is subscribe and how she strings half understood phrases together like nothing so much as a human markov chain generator.

  73. 73.

    Schlemizel

    @Chris:
    Yup, but thats not dirty because he must be a mooselimb and should die according to them so thats just honest not underhanded.

  75. 75.

    Svensker

    Tbogg has awesome sauce from La Palin plus extra crunchy goodness from La Nooners:

    Palin then called conservative writer Peggy Noonan “hypocritical” for recently calling Gingrich an “angry little attack muffin.”
    “They maybe subscribe such characterization of Newt via words like that, but they don’t subscribe those to say Mitt Romney when he or his surrogates do the same thing,” she said. “That’s that typical hypocrisy stuff in the media that I’ve lived with over a couple of decades in the political arena. So I’m used to it.”
    “But in order to help educate the rest of the American public, I’ll articulate that it is hypocritical of the media to subscribe to one candidate and not another, that kind of angry attack muffin verbiage to one and not the other.”

    From now on, it’s attack muffin verbiage all the time, for me.

  77. 77.

    dogwood

    Sarah Palin is pimping herself out for Newt because she knows full-well that the only thing that will keep the cash flowing for another 5 years is Barack Obama in the White House. The day the President leaves Washington is the day Sarah is relegated to speaking at TeaParty reunions and pro-life jamborees.

  78. 78.

    Gust Avrakotos

    Oh for fucks sakes can we please talking about Scarah Fucking Failin and Donald Fucking Chump and move the fuck on. Seriously. She is finally mercifully out of the headlines. Let’s keep it that way.

  79. 79.

    Boots Day

    The Republican establishment fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s because he ran against an incumbent Republican president. I would be somewhat interested to know what Sarah Palin thinks the Republican establishment should have done in that case… I guess Ford was supposed to resign or something.

  80. 80.

    Tony J

    @Amir Khalid:

    (Yes, I know I’m shooting fish in a barrel here. But I’m feeling good ‘cause Liverpool just knocked Manchester United out of the FA Cup, 2-1 at Anfield.)

    I love you, man. 8-)

    @geg6:

    You’re doing the right thing. Hugs.

  83. 83.

    Chris

    @dogwood:

    You’re attributing 11-dimensional chess thinking (or just 3 or 2 dimensional) to her that I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have. If it were anyone else, I might say you’re onto something, but I can’t sit through more than thirty seconds of her and think she’s capable of even that much thinking.

    IMO she’s just pandering to the crowd, nothing more.

  84. 84.

    SRW1

    I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted.

    I suspect the label for the GOP establishment Sarah is looking for here is Schlappschwanz’. She probably doesn’t speak any German, but you gotta admit, it has a bit more thrust (hi, hi) than ‘flaccid dick’.

  87. 87.

    g

    Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted.

    She seems to misunderstand the meaning of the word “vetted.”

  88. 88.

    mlrjr

    @Gust Avrakotos: So agree. But then I can’t resist saying Sarah try ascribe rather than subscribe and if Sarah knows the derivation of “beyond the pale” I will hang my head in shame for doubting her!

  90. 90.

    Savage Henry

    I couldn’t help but notice that “Sarah Palin”s posts were written in complete sentences with no spelling or punctuation errors. Obviously she didn’t write that. Do we know who did? Maybe Calista?

  91. 91.

    alex milstein

    “Yeah, no one encouraged hordes of deluded, racist nitwits to claim Barack Obama was the Kenyan-born, communist, granny-unplugging love child of Bernadette Dorn and Malcolm X, Mrs. Death Panels Lady.”

    Yes, but that’s ok. Palin’s just pissed when repubs do it to each other. Get with the program!

  92. 92.

    Another face in the crowd

    Instead of hollering from upstairs, why doesn’t she come down and show the boys how its done. Then, when she steals the nomination, gets shredded in the presidential debates, loses in the November election (claiming it was a “gotcha” vote), she can head back north one more time to a final hale and hearty “F. U.” from the rest of us. Make it happen, Snow Queen. We need closure.

  93. 93.

    Bartleby

    Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted.

    I hate to puff, but you sit on your hands, or twiddle your thumbs. When I think about it, what she wrote seems kind of vulgar.

    #meanssomethingelse

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