The hillbilly from Wasilla

While there have been a few fleeting references to Palin being vetted by the Council for National Policy in the MSM, a few mentions about McCain meeting with Franklin Graham and Palin meeting with Franklin Graham in other periodicals, no one has put the pieces together quite as well as Alan Boraas did at the Anchorage Daily News in his editorial “Kopp Hiring Proved Palin's Fundamentalist Street Cred” and Naomi Wolf at Alternet in her essay “Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State?” A simple google of “Palin picked by CNP” brings up an amazing amount of information about her connections to this secretive organization and the neo-cons, I find it odd that more wasn’t written even in alternative news sites such as CHB about McCain allowing the CNP to make the VP choice in exchange for their support and the promise of mobilizing the fundie foot soldiers. The CNP connection between the mega fundie churches and the neo-cons and their power within the GOP needs to be investigated in depth to prevent a stealth candidate like Palin from gracing the national political stage in the future.

*On re-reading, that should have said DISgracing the national political stage.

Sarah Palin is a very beautiful woman. It is said that beauty is only skin deep. Unfortunately, in Ms. Palin's case, so is her intellect (or lack thereof.)

Charlie Couser

Nice post Jane. I listen to a lot of radio driving around Phoenix and discovered my new state of Arizona is filled with hillbillies who like Governor Palin as they understand her very well. The other side of Phoenix has the students from Arizona State University who look at the Governor and then think about our own Governor. Arizona has a thinking Governor who is not a beauty queen but a quiet woman who actually care about the state. She's a Liberal but a lot better at government than the Conservative Palin.

Welcome to the team Jane and now I have to read the above link from Hal Brown......

Malcolm

Okay, I took the link down selfishly because I thought I'd save it for a column, but here it is again: Histrionic Personality Disorder. Read it and see what you think.

I find it interesting that all this bad information about Palin is being released from the flood gates of the McCain campaign after they lost. Not, mind you that I like the woman, but it would seem to me that these campaign strategists need someone other than themselves to blame for McCain's loss and they've decided Sarah Palin is the easiest target. You can't tell me that someone who hasn't watched the news in the last four years, and who has a son in the military doesn't at least know where Iraq is located on a map of the middle east. I suspect a great deal of this info is manufactured to soothe the egos of campaign morons who pushed for her selection and now have no one to blame but themselves, but prefer to blame her instead.

Not all the information, Siannan. Much of the information comes from Newsweek's reporting from their people who were allowed to be inside the campaigns with the promise that what they learned wouldn't be published until after the election.

Read "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign".

Hal, I read the article and note the following at the beginning of each item reported, which does not note a reporter who specifically witnessed an incident:

"McCain top advisors privately fumes..."

"...one senior aide said."

"Two knowledgeable sources..."

"...one aide estimated."

"...an angry aide."

Those are five or six anonymous sources quoted by a reporter. No where in the article did the reporter say "I personally witnessed the following." When you can give me something other than an anonymous source griping about something, then I'll believe it.

Speaking as a liberal Democrat I'd dearly love to see Sarah Palin on the GOP ticket again in four years. Even if she did manage to acquire some natural curiosity and a passable education, she'll still be one of the best reasons for thoughtful women to stay with the Democrats.

OTOH, there are two people that I wouldn't want to be today: Todd and her pregnant daughter. Hell hath no fury and all of that...

ADB

2012: Sarah the Empty & Plunger Joe. Bring 'em on! I can't wait for the next bloodbath.

I think that she needs to do a stint as a daytime talk show host, THEN run for office in 2012.
That way the press can air the clips of her hobnobbing with fellow psychopaths and strippers.

Jeff H in TX

I don't want her back anywhere on a national ticket. If she is, then there is at least a chance she could win. I've seen way too much stupidity in the last eight years to presume she would lose again.

BTW, my favorite name for her came from an article I read that attributed this to Alec Baldwin.

Supposedly after the SNL taping, he referred to her as "Bible Spice".

It's been a few weeks and I'm still LMAO about that one.

Baldwin said it on Letterman, HERE'S the video.

If even half of the comments and accusations now being attributed to Ms. Palin are true, they are simply more indicators that the ignorant mystic from Wasilla wasn't properly vetted.

Vetting her was John McCain's responsibility, not that of his staff. So he, alone, must bear the ultimate responsibility (spelled: "blame") for putting her on the ticket.

My hunch is that members of his staff were probably overruled by the candidate who, at the time, very well knew he was up against a formidable opponent in Mr. Obama. When it came time to pick a running mate, Mr. McCain was most likely grasping at anything that might excite his Republican "base", most of whom (still) largely hail from Outer Wingnuttia.

But, as we now know, none of it worked with the larger electorate.

To the contrary, when Mr. McCain's decision to choose Ms. Palin was combined with his clearly out of touch "Our economy is fundamentally sound" comments, Mr. McCain's choice of an inexperienced, largely unknown and horrifically naive governor from Alaska simply undermined his own lack of judgment (and, by extension, his fitness to be President) in the eyes of the voters.

Beginning with the election of George W. Bush and his fundamentalist Cabal in 2000, the Republicans willingly allowed their party to be captured by the far right wing evangelicals. These are people who remain hell-bent on starting "holy wars" of preemption against other religious cultures and countries for the sole purpose of advancing "God's work".

Clearly, the results of Tuesday's election are showing just how steep a price they have paid (and will continue to pay in the years ahead) for that fateful decision.

Sara Palin - publik edukasion at its finest? Too bad I can't do the backwards b.
And folks like this want to home school their kids?
YOU, out of the gene pool! [I wish, but they are the ones having the most kids! Further proof that abstinence education doesn't work.]
Of course, with Creationism there isn't a gene pool!

Boy, I am almost as much of a curmudgeon as Doug today.

Wow! all you folks ~ great comments. It is unimaginable to me that anyone could be considering, even as a joke, Sara Palin as being part of any government or future campaign.

During the campaign, Palin was periodically referred to as McCain's "attack dog," but going around attacking in general did not do the McCain campaign any favors. Nor, ultimately, did it do the campaign any good. Attack Dog --I wouldn't even want her in the Humane Society, and more especially, I'd never promote her to position of Dog Catcher. For that you have to have basic empathy, compassion and a basic understanding of dogs in general. If they bark at you or act threatening, you don't bark back. That only makes it all worse. Didn't she watch "Gorillas in the Mist"?

It is a frightening thought that the Republican Party at any level would seriously consider her for any position. On the other hand, maybe she should run in 2012. That would ensure Obama a second term. Oh! Argh! Ack! Sorry for mixing my metaphors.
Linda in Lowell

Palin isn't going away. She's tasted the blood of power at a much higher level..a sense of power that is far more alluring and euphoric than her experiences as Supreme Ruler over the Alaskan government. Her Alaskan throne will now feel cold and useless to her.

Palin will undoubtedly take over the Senate seat now held by Ted Stevens. She knows that Stevens will soon be removed from his long-standing post in the Senate by his colleagues. Palin will very simply resign her post as governor, then have the lieutenant governor, who will automatically become governor, to appoint her as the new Senator.

That Senate seat will be Palin's new gateway to the White House race in 2012. By 2012, she'll have learned all of the sleazy, corrupt, and power grasping tricks in America politics...and she'll use that knowledge in a way that will negate all of her blunders that she exhibited during the 2008 bid.

Thanks for the nice welcome Malcolm. I have been a longtime reader of CHB, just haven't commented before.

No, Palin isn't going away. I've heard through a friend of several other friends, who think she's "just the NEATEST woman they've ever seen and gosh they can't WAIT until 2012 when she can run again, this time maybe for president".

Ugh. Ick. Ptbbb.

Even when I type it, I get a bad taste in my mouth. I think she's George W. Bush in a skirt. And what scares me, is people will vote for her. After all, people made her mayor of Wasilla and governor of Alaska.

Just like people voted for George Bush twice. I mean, I saw through him the first time, but I'm still trying to figure out how in good conscience anyone could have voted for him twice.

There is no way anyone can critique the lightweight Palin without also diminishing John McCain's judgement. Whether Palin was a hasty decision or a well-thought-out one, it doesn't eliminate the fact that it was a bad choice.

Granted, if you narrowly focus on the extreme right-wing of the GOP, she was a knock-out. But, that is not where the country is at (thankfully). She may resonate with the Buchanans of the world, but she was anything but mainstream.

The country needs solutions, not more red meat, divisive attacks, or mob-inciting rhetoric.

Ms Palin's new moniker bestowed by Doug Thompson: I guess it takes a hillbilly to know a hilbilly! Mr Thompson's demonstrates his standard of journalism by echoing anonymous or unattributed slurs and smears.

Hill Country Weisenheimer

I think the Reps went looking for a half baked nut (palin) to put along side the fully cooked one (mccain) to make him look like a moderate and sane persona.
Let her do the slime work as he rises above the filth of the Rep attack machine.

What a surprise when they found her to be a full blown Filbert with even greater delusions of grandeur than little old McCadamia.

If she takes Stevens seat as Austin alluded to it will be a HOOT to see her try and control the vast resources of Alaska by flashing the cheesecake and stomping her feet on the Senate floor.

Maybe, just maybe, she will report for her first session as the junior Senator clad in but a sopping wet towel and give half the old fu*ks a heart attack so we may be rid of them once and for all. HACK!