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Sweet Fucking Jeebus

by John Cole|  January 19, 20167:29 pm| 130 Comments

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That Palin shit was surreal.

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    January 19, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    Did you watch and listen? I could only watch in batches, had the sound off the whole time.

  2. 2.

    Nate Dawg

    January 19, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    Apparently in addition to being a real estate mogul, Donald J. Trump is an expert on pickles!

    At least that’s what I gathered from hearing Sarah Palin tout his great book–“The Art of The Dill”.

  3. 3.

    lamh36

    January 19, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    When Trump praised the Palin family, I was literally just reading bout her son Track arrested for DMV against his girlfriend…I mean..wow…

  4. 4.

    Docg

    January 19, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    Palin’s desperation to be relevant again was palpable. Tried WAY too hard and was not well received.

  5. 5.

    Helen

    January 19, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    Community organizer jokes. There were community organizer jokes.

  6. 6.

    Iowa Old Lady

    January 19, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    @Helen: Maybe she doesn’t know Obama can’t run again.

  7. 7.

    lamh36

    January 19, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    From what I’m reading online, Trump seemed to start looking like maybe this was a bad idea.

  8. 8.

    tom

    January 19, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    Any time a Palin is involved it’s inherently surreal, and not in a good way. Did Trump make any creepy sexist remarks yet? I give him 24 hours if he hasn’t already.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    January 19, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Maybe she knows how racist her followers are.

  10. 10.

    geg6

    January 19, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    LOLOLOLOLOL!

    McCain must be so proud.

  11. 11.

    Davebo

    January 19, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    Amazingly you can post your kids bail over the phone!

    If only she’d been at the refuge in Oregon it would have been perfect!

  12. 12.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 19, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    Imagine how this country looks from Berlin or Beijing or any place, really, that has sentient beings in charge.

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 19, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    Tweety: when she gets duded up, she looks pretty good, she struts out on the stage…

    My god, dude, did your wife not get mad enough when you virtually molested Erin Burnett?

  14. 14.

    Ken

    January 19, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    @Docg: Are we talking “I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. DeVille” territory?

  15. 15.

    Baud

    January 19, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Chinese sweatshops are already printing “Chinese Century” signs.

  16. 16.

    JPL

    January 19, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    The newsy are trying to be polite. From what I heard, is that she is a strong conservative voice I’m still trying to figure out the main thing having squirmishes. Obviously MSM is better at bull shitting that I am.

  17. 17.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    January 19, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Mrs. Tweety is too busy running for Congress.

  18. 18.

    Davebo

    January 19, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    @Ken: 2 point penalty. It was DeMille.

  19. 19.

    JPL

    January 19, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    I actually want to watch the entire thing again. It was entertaining.

  20. 20.

    Corner Stone

    January 19, 2016 at 7:46 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: If she didn’t much mind when he drooled over GWB’s codpiece I find it … hard to see why she would care about a decrepituded out Palin.
    She looked bad. There’s no other way to say it when all she had was her starbursty cachet.

  21. 21.

    Mnemosyne

    January 19, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Hell, imagine what it looks like from Tehran. The mullahs are laughing their asses off right now, and rightly so.

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    January 19, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @JPL: I fear the stress of dress shopping has taken its toll on you. Please. Call someone who can talk you down from this self-inflicted trauma.
    Don’t do it to yourself!

  23. 23.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 19, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @Corner Stone: Meth is a harsh mistress.

  24. 24.

    feedusafetus

    January 19, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    Somewhere a clinic is missing a meth addict. There is no explanation for this sort of thing other than hardcore substance abuse.

  25. 25.

    Corner Stone

    January 19, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    They stomp on our neck and then they just tell us to chill.

    God. She is unbelievable.

  26. 26.

    bemused

    January 19, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I read that as starbursty crust.

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 19, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    “We’re not gonna chill, it’s time to drill, baby, drill”

    My god.

    Tweety thought that was a powerhouse performance. Reminds me of the sad old comedian croaking out his big punchline from thirty plus years ago.

  28. 28.

    hilts

    January 19, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Chris Matthews is a raving, drooling ignoramus. His comments regarding Palin show that he’s thinking with his dick and not with his brain. Palin makes Matthews horny, but she’s a has been. Once the Iowa Caucuses are concluded, she’ll be a non factor for the remainder of the race.

  29. 29.

    JPL

    January 19, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    @hilts: He has no brain.

  30. 30.

    Ken

    January 19, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    @Davebo: Ooh, quite right. Would you believe me if I said I’d pre-Palinized it?

  31. 31.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 19, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    @hilts: I’m not surprised Trump took her endorsement to goad the GOP, I’m a little surprised he pimped it up the way he did. He must have not talked to her in a long while.
    ETA: and, yeah, it’s all about the tingling in his naughty bits for Tweety. He and Maureen Dowd always make me wonder that no one in this world loves them enough to reel them in.

  32. 32.

    Betty Cracker

    January 19, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    @JPL: If you find a link, let me know. I missed it, damn it all!

  33. 33.

    p.a.

    January 19, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: As a No Liberals Labels candidate?

  34. 34.

    gf120581

    January 19, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    I hope McCain is watching this and being eaten alive with guilt at what he risked back in 2008.

  35. 35.

    lamh36

    January 19, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    what I wouldn’t give for someone to directly ask Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace and all of em…what da hell?

  36. 36.

    Nate Dawg

    January 19, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    If this had been held in Scranton, Matthews would have had an orgasm on set.

  37. 37.

    Ken

    January 19, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: She did “drill baby drill” again? Seriously? I realize she’s been out of Alaska politics for some time so hasn’t had to deal with the decline of the oil revenues that feed their little experiment in socialist redistribution, but surely she’s at least noticed the price of gas?

  38. 38.

    Mandalay

    January 19, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    @hilts:

    she’s a has been

    That’s not what Tweety’s cock is telling him. He should man up, break protocol, and state what is blindingly obvious to his viewers: “I want to fuck Sarah Palin with every fiber of my being”.

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 19, 2016 at 7:56 pm

    @gf120581: I suspect Cindy and servants went to the movies tonight to avoid flying objects and f-bombs.

    @Betty Cracker: Tweety keeps showing clips. Hayes and Maddow may show a bit of restraint. O’Donnell will wallow in it.

  40. 40.

    Curt

    January 19, 2016 at 7:56 pm

    Reading reaction comments at Redstate, Hotair, Breitbart, etc. right now is like dumping one of those inch-diameter Pixie Stix straight down my throat. So sweet it’s too much!

  41. 41.

    amk

    January 19, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    @hilts:
    Yup. Watch him kick her to the curbs after Iowa, especially if rafael wins.

  42. 42.

    p.a.

    January 19, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    @Ken:

    drill baby drill

    It’s code for Bristol to have another baby so the family name stays in the news. ‘Doesn’t matter what is said, just spell the name right.’

  43. 43.

    Trentrunner

    January 19, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    @tom: To his credit, no, Trump didn’t make any sexist remarks about Palin.

    But I’m pretty sure he still wants to bang his daughter Ivanka.

  44. 44.

    Curt

    January 19, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    For many of my friends, this election cycle is turning into the fun trip where you hook up then wake up a bathtub with a missing kidney.— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 19, 2016

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer lot!

  45. 45.

    Betty Cracker

    January 19, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    @Curt: LMAO!

  46. 46.

    lamh36

    January 19, 2016 at 8:00 pm

    Mahn…I’m ready for Finding Your Roots…needs to cleanse my pallet from that Palin/Trump crapfest…

    See ya on the flip side BJ

  47. 47.

    Josie

    January 19, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    I am listening to snippets from cnn and msnbc, and I honestly can’t understand how they could watch the same spectacle that I did and react so differently. I saw a screechy woman, past her prime, possibly hopped up on something, who made absolutely no sense. They saw a politically viable speech that gives Trump a leg up in Iowa.

  48. 48.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 19, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that Track Palin was arrested for domestic violence yesterday. Hate to say it but that entire family is trashy. Can you imagine what would be said about them if they weren’t White? This country did a great thing when we rejected McCain/Palin in 2008.

  49. 49.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    January 19, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    @p.a.: Nope, as a Dem

  50. 50.

    debbie

    January 19, 2016 at 8:04 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Here’s an hour’s plus version.

    ETA: Apparently the good stuff starts at 27:57.

  51. 51.

    JPL

    January 19, 2016 at 8:05 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I think Corner Stone is right.. it’s really not worth it.

  52. 52.

    bemused

    January 19, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    @Josie:

    They’re flat out lying. Their paychecks depend on it.

  53. 53.

    Roger Moore

    January 19, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    @gf120581:

    I hope McCain is watching this and being eaten alive with guilt

    I’m not sure he’s capable of feeling guilt.

  54. 54.

    Mike J

    January 19, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    As much as I dislike Ben Carson, sorry about the wreck. One of the volunteers died.

  55. 55.

    muddy

    January 19, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    @bemused: My niece refers to women with too much makeup and fake hair as “crusty”.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    January 19, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    @JPL: Betty.. Scan over until there is only thirty minutes left..
    link
    It starts with Trump speaking about her wonderful family. I don’t know if he knew about the arrest. She brought a binder with her, that I assumed included notes.

    Please let us know what you think Betty.

  57. 57.

    p.a.

    January 19, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    @Josie: You have to keep in mind 1) the deep cynicism and/or stupidity of the MSM, 2) the mental and emotional immaturity of Trump supporters. To Trumpists, a SnowSnooky endorsment will be taken as a double-plus good.

  58. 58.

    Josie

    January 19, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    @bemused: That has to be it. I refuse to believe that I am operating in that much of a bubble.

  59. 59.

    muddy

    January 19, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    @efgoldman: I have an item that I think Tweety would really enjoy. I think if I hit him in the feels he will pay way more than it would fetch on eBay. I have several categories to spark him with, but I don’t know how to write a decent business letter. Of course I wouldn’t want to come off as crass and grasping. Mostly because that would not work well.

    I think he would genuinely enjoy having it, but I don’t see why he shouldn’t overpay. I would be willing to cut someone in to the profit if I put it over on him.

  60. 60.

    bemused

    January 19, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    @p.a.:

    MSM has to keep the Trumpmentum going, good for bizness. They really are looking spectacularly ridiculous and phony pretending Palin was relevant and didn’t look pathetic.

  61. 61.

    catclub

    January 19, 2016 at 8:14 pm

    @Josie: The most recent success of Palin was pushing for Ted Cruz in his senate run. She was early and right. Trump decided to take smack at Cruz, and apparently thought no further than that.

  62. 62.

    Chris Wolf

    January 19, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    Wow. I can’t believe how much that reminded me of House Bunny.

  63. 63.

    ArchPundit

    January 19, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Looking around at all of you, you hard working Iowa families, you farm families and teachers and Teamsters and cops and cooks you rock n rollers and Holy Rollers. All of you who work so hard. You full time moms. You with the hands that rock the cradle.You all make the world go round. And now our cause is one.

    Does this make any sense if you are drunk?

  64. 64.

    hilts

    January 19, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    @ JPL, Jim, Foolish Literalist, Mandalay,

    In addition to getting rid of their worthless prison documentaries, it would be nice if MSNBC could finally send Chris Matthews into retirement where he belongs. He’s one of the most nauseating and repulsive human beings to ever host a news program. Hardball is a putrid, steaming pile of excrement and Matthews should rot in Hell for polluting the airwaves with his stupidity and his obnoxious persona. The same goes for Joe, Mika, O’Reilly, Hannity, FNC’s The Five, and Megyn Kelly.

  65. 65.

    Capri

    January 19, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    Wow – the Republican spokesperson on Chris Hayes just said on the air that the folks who follow Trump are “childless” men who “masturbate to anime” and are totally irrelevant to the GOP. No explanation how, if this is the case, Trump is lapping the field. That’s a lot of childless anime masturbators.

    Also heard Palin’s comments – no way she’s not tanked to the gills.

  66. 66.

    Matt McIrvin

    January 19, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Can you imagine what would be said about them if they weren’t White?

    I still see people insisting that Michelle Obama has tarnished the dignity of the White House. Michelle Obama.

  67. 67.

    Matt McIrvin

    January 19, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    @Capri: He must have seen the guy with the Pikachu hat.

  68. 68.

    ThresherK

    January 19, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: And it’s too overexposed to become a cult.

  69. 69.

    ArchPundit

    January 19, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    Are you ready for a commander in chief who will let our troops do their jobs and Kick ISIS ASS!

    Jesus fucking Christ this is depressing. And hysterical. And depressing.

  70. 70.

    Betty Cracker

    January 19, 2016 at 8:25 pm

    @debbie: Sweet babby jeebus! Y’all were not exaggerating.

  71. 71.

    Mike J

    January 19, 2016 at 8:26 pm

    @ArchPundit: Lawrence Ferlinghetti is having the type set as we speak. It’s not the best example of the Beats, but not everyone can be Allen Ginsberg.

  72. 72.

    Iowa Old Lady

    January 19, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    @Capri: As you say, how can Trump’s supporters be irrelevant to the GOP? They ARE the GOP.

    Maybe some Platonic GOP with “true conservatives” exists somewhere but not in this world.

  73. 73.

    Darkrose

    January 19, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    @Matt McIrvin: Bet he got it from Loot Crate.

  74. 74.

    ArchPundit

    January 19, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    His candidacy, which is a movement, it’s a force, it’s a strategy. It proves, as long as the politicos, they get to keep their titles and their perks and their media ratings. They don’t really who cares who wins elections. Believe me on this. And the proof of this. Look what’s happening today. Our own GOP machine, the establishment, They who would assemble the political landscape. They are attacking their own frontrunner.

    Wasilla is the meth capital of Alaska right?

  75. 75.

    Roger Moore

    January 19, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    @Josie:

    I am listening to snippets from cnn and msnbc, and I honestly can’t understand how they could watch the same spectacle that I did and react so differently.

    They understand the Republican mindset well enough to be able to see the speech as a Palinista would see it. It should scare everyone that they’re so deeply connected to Republican thought.

  76. 76.

    SFAW

    January 19, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    @ArchPundit:

    Does this make any sense if you are drunk?

    No.

    Lobotomized, on the other hand, is an even bet.

  77. 77.

    hilts

    January 19, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    @ArchPundit:

    It’s time for William Shatner to go back on the Conan O’Brien show and recite Palin’s speech accompanied by bongo drums like he did once before

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_t1A8LGzg

  78. 78.

    RandomMonster

    January 19, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    NYT reports it as, “Palin Endorses Donald Trump, Rallying Conservatives”. Huh? If that’s rallying, I’d like to see what dividing looks like. This should be filed under, “Same Planet, Different World”.

  79. 79.

    ArchPundit

    January 19, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    @Mike J: Damn that’s one esoteric reference.

  80. 80.

    SFAW

    January 19, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Y’all were not exaggerating.

    And this is a surprise to you? I was tempted – for approximately a femtosecond – to watch. But, after reading the various comments here, I figured “Why put myself through that?” For once, I made the right choice.

  81. 81.

    Mandalay

    January 19, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    And now Chris Hayes is interviewing Michael Moore, the ultimate limousine liberal.

    Another person who should stay gone.

  82. 82.

    SFAW

    January 19, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    @ArchPundit:

    Damn that’s one esoteric reference.

    Only to you young whippersnappers.

  83. 83.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 19, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    @ArchPundit: Not that esoteric for here. In an earlier thread someone referenced brainfuck. That’s esoteric, and I think one of the reasons some of us like this place.

  84. 84.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 19, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    @Capri:

    “Childless Anime Masturbaters” would be a great name for a band!

  85. 85.

    mclaren

    January 19, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    Dadaist performance art.

    “We must force the ISIS octopus to sing its swan song, because that’s just the way the ball crumbles.” Or whatever. When dogs fly overhead in a diamond…

    Tristan Tzara would beam with pride.

  86. 86.

    JPL

    January 19, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    @SFAW: Betty was the person, that I had hopes for. If anyone could translate Sarah speak, it would be Ms. Cracker.

  87. 87.

    Citizen_X

    January 19, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    @Curt:

    this election cycle is turning into the fun trip where you hook up then wake up a bathtub with a missing kidney.— Erick Erickson

    Shit. One less place I can punch him.

  88. 88.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    January 19, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    Borowitz, too true:

    But even as the Trump campaign staffers celebrate the Palin endorsement, they recognize that they still have their work cut out for them to secure victory in Iowa. “Getting the idiots to support Trump is only half the battle,” the aide said. “Now we have to make sure that they make it to the caucuses without getting lost on the way.”

    The man has a gift for satire that nears national treasure levels.

  89. 89.

    Mike J

    January 19, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    @SFAW: I’m way too young to remember the beats, but I’m pretty widely read.

  90. 90.

    Aleta

    January 19, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    @ArchPundit: @Mike J: “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time.”

  91. 91.

    Mike J

    January 19, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    @Aleta: It’s now cool to say Kerouac was a bad writer, but if you read that when you were 16 and didn’t seriously consider heading across the country, you were dead inside.

  92. 92.

    seaboogie

    January 19, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    @JPL:

    @JPL: I fear the stress of dress shopping has taken its toll on you.

    Hey JPL, go back to your linky and check out Palin’s snazzy and classy outfit – I think your search has ended – the ombre spangles are only from between 5 (ombre) and 25 (spangles) years ago – so basically timeless – you’ll be able to wear it again and again! You can thank me later.

  93. 93.

    J R in WV

    January 19, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    Well, we don’t have access to CNN, or MSNBC or any of those cable channels.

    This makes me glad we can’t see those cable channels !!!

  94. 94.

    JPL

    January 19, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    @seaboogie: NOOOOO

  95. 95.

    Iowa Old Lady

    January 19, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    I know there are serious things going on and I should be reading about them, but holy crap, Palin’s performance made my day. The look on Trump alone made me giddy.

  96. 96.

    boatboy_srq

    January 19, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    @Josie: I think that actually says more about Iowa Republicans than it does either them or you.

  97. 97.

    boatboy_srq

    January 19, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    @ArchPundit:

    You with the hands that rock the cradle.

    How very Rebecca De Mornay of her.

  98. 98.

    seaboogie

    January 19, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    I liked the Phyllis Schlafly mention as a righteous rightie Trump supporter – we just don’t hear her name often enough these days.

    We know the Palins like them selves some potent potables, I’m thinking she did Jaeger Bombs when she wrote this speech – you just know she was manic, drunk and thought that this speech was genius.

    I really loved how “thoughtful” Trump looked when she mention bankruptcies.

    Also, new term: “Squirmishes”. It’s like watching an hysterical idiot savant.

  99. 99.

    seaboogie

    January 19, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    The look on Trump alone made me giddy.

    Go back and watch again (with JPL?) – Trump’s expressions are TOTALLY Andy Kaufman.

  100. 100.

    Mandalay

    January 19, 2016 at 9:23 pm

    @Mike J:

    It’s now cool to say Kerouac was a bad writer, but if you read that when you were 16 and didn’t seriously consider heading across the country, you were dead inside.

    This.

    And the actual criticism of his writing is really lame.

  101. 101.

    boatboy_srq

    January 19, 2016 at 9:23 pm

    @Curt: Couldn’t he let the poor bathtub even have one peaceful night’s sleep in recovery? Geez…

  102. 102.

    seaboogie

    January 19, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    @JPL: Heh. Seriously though, on your search try Nordy’s, under “Mother of the Bride” category in dresses and read the reviews to guide you for fit and comfort – I found a great dress to attend a wedding there. It was so wonderful and also so me that I just wanted to wear it vacuuming around the house – and I hate to vacuum.

  103. 103.

    boatboy_srq

    January 19, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    @seaboogie: Squirmish: n. A minor altercation that causes more embarrassment than injury.

  104. 104.

    chopper

    January 19, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    @Capri:

    wait, seriously? he said that?

  105. 105.

    chopper

    January 19, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    @boatboy_srq:

    man, English has changed dramastically in the last few years.

  106. 106.

    cmorenc

    January 19, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    @John Cole:

    That Palin shit was surreal

    The really weird aspect was that over some the parts where she was raking over the GOP establishment, what she was saying about the wealthy special-interest elites shucking and jiving the commoners could easily have been said by Bernie Sanders, at least until Palin lapsed back into sparkly Tea-Party mode. Not that Palin really understands the implications the way Bernie does – I’m not suddenly giving her credit for insight and intelligence she clearly lacks, except I do recognize her grifter-animal cunning in tacking her sparkly stars onto Trump’s rump.

  107. 107.

    Curt

    January 19, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    After watching as much as I could stand, I’m inclined to agree with Digby that Cruz dodged a bullet. It was just sad and nasty and horrible. Only Trump could survive an endorsement like that. Cruz, weasel that he is, would have been diminished by it. It was that bad.

  108. 108.

    Mandalay

    January 19, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @chopper:

    wait, seriously? he said that?

    Apparently so…:

    Wilson talked to Chris Hayes about a very specific section of Trump’s fans; not his mainstream supporters, his “alt-right” fans. The ones, he explained, that have lots of “Hitler iconography in their Twitter icons.”

    He went on to say, “Most of them are childless single men who masturbate to anime. They’re not real political players. These are not people who matter in the overall course of humanity.”

    It’s so distressing to see Republicans attacking each other.

  109. 109.

    boatboy_srq

    January 19, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @chopper: You’re confusing English (a language spoken in England and, to a lesser extent, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) with Ahmurrrcan (a language spoken in the United States and common in Wingnutistan and Teatopia). Stop it.

  110. 110.

    boatboy_srq

    January 19, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    @Mandalay: Time to buy stock in ConAgra.

  111. 111.

    Regnad Kcin

    January 19, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    She stands on the shoulders of giants:

    MY SECRET

    When I’m driving

    To Yankee Stadium and back,

    I do it so often.

    I don’t remember passing lights.

    I don’t remember paying tolls

    Coming over the bridge.

    Going back over the bridge,

    I remember…

    Aug. 19, 1992
    Oakland at NY
    Mike Moore pitching to Mel Hall

    http://blog.syracuse.com/newstracker/2007/08/the_poetry_of_phil_rizzuto.html

  112. 112.

    sukabi

    January 19, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    @gf120581: you must have a conscience to be eaten with guilt, pretty sure McCain surrendered his a long time ago.

  113. 113.

    cmorenc

    January 19, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    @Josie:

    I saw a screechy woman, past her prime, possibly hopped up on something, who made absolutely no sense. They saw a politically viable speech that gives Trump a leg up in Iowa.

    In Iowa with the rural GOP base there, it probably does help. But outside that kind of setting, she again becomes an Albatross.

  114. 114.

    Ruckus

    January 19, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @Josie:
    Well if you are looking for an actual political speech, one with substance and some level of reality you wouldn’t look at the conservative side in the first place. They don’t do reality and substance. If however you were looking for the best jr high school class president speech from someone in a mental health institution then the one you heard makes perfect sense and will probably help tDump win the nomination.

  115. 115.

    Eric U.

    January 19, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: when he was 16, my son had ambitions to implement brainfuck in minecraft. He and his friends moved on to other games first.

  116. 116.

    Feathers

    January 19, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    My fave reaction to Palin & Trump was on twitter, where novelist Richard Kadrey noted that this is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday and speculated as to which of them would brick the other up in a wall. (Ya know it will come to that, doncha?)

  117. 117.

    hilts

    January 19, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Palin should donate her brain to science so that scientists could figure out its unique wiring.

  118. 118.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    January 19, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    White trash America sticks together.

  119. 119.

    Peale

    January 19, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @Ken: and in other news, the ethanol lobby of Iowa is looking for a new candidate.

  120. 120.

    danielx

    January 19, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @Davebo:

    If only she’d been at the refuge in Oregon it would have been perfect!

    I shouldn’t be surprised if she shows up there, rifle in hand. Sarah Palin is all that shitshow lacks to make it complete, and she’d be treated like a visiting celebrity. They wouldn’t mind if she is hard pressed to get out a coherent sentence, and it might even get them back to page two status.

    On the other hand, given the Palin clan’s rep with law enforcement, it might not be the smartest thing she could do. Oh, wait….

  121. 121.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 19, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @JPL: Entertaining in a train wreck way? Just waiting for Palin’s 15 minutes to be over. Her babbling has become tedious.

  122. 122.

    Mnemosyne

    January 19, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @Curt:

    The blind squirrel that is Erick Erickson finally found a nut, I see.

  123. 123.

    muddy

    January 19, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: Like watching NASCAR for the crashes.

  124. 124.

    hilts

    January 19, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    Glenn Beck: Maybe the press was right about Palin but for all of the wrong reasons.

    h/t http://www.mediaite.com/online/beck-palin-abandoning-principles-maybe-the-media-was-right-about-her-after-all

  125. 125.

    Ruckus

    January 19, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @hilts:
    The only real thing that they could look for is how someone with that level of brain process still has autonomic function.

  126. 126.

    Mandalay

    January 19, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    @hilts: From your link, Beck tossed up his own version of a Palin word salad when he found out she was backing Trump:

    Sad excuse to abandon principles.

    Just because things don’t go my way, I don’t abandon God.

    Saul Alinsky is wrong. The ends do not justify the means.

    These fuckers have all been spewing nonsense and living in criticism-free bubbles for years, and now finally they are turning on each other. Attacks from your enemies might make you stronger, but I’m not so sure about attacks from your allies.

  127. 127.

    Zinsky

    January 19, 2016 at 11:42 pm

    Sarah Palin is a skank. She has the flat ass, no boobs and skinny legs of a crack whore. Yuck. Not to mention she is clearly brain damaged and has a low-life degenerate family. Chris Matthews must be mentally retarded.

  128. 128.

    Seanly

    January 20, 2016 at 3:30 am

    @Ken:

    No companies want to drill with oil at only $30 a barrel.

    Also, too, Sarah appeared to be either drunk or high as a kite. I could only take so much of her 2008 shtick.

    She did say that Iran violated international law by detaining our sailors. Weren’t we the ones in Iranian territory? Meaning we were the violators?

  129. 129.

    kalamatea

    January 20, 2016 at 8:05 am

    I know it’s small potatoes compared to the rest of that shitshow, but did she say that she and Todd were in IA “thawing out?” It’s been considerably warmer in Wasilla than in IA for the past week-ish….

  130. 130.

    Paul in KY

    January 20, 2016 at 10:56 am

    @ArchPundit: You could probably put those as lyrics in some sort of song.

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