OMFG!!!!

I saw a woman puke into a paper bag on my way to school today and she sounded a far more pleasant and comprehensible than Palin. This story has jokes written all over it, and million them.

See below for a few. Ha!

Once Sarah has stated her idiotic comments, her non-thinking followers will never realize that she was wrong. Even Fox is secondary to her one-celled fans.

This is just a Faux News ruse to get their viewers to believe the are in fair and balanced. And they will need all the viewers they can get their hands on because times are changing. Fox Noise is about to be Gooooogled.

The only real question here is why is James K. Polk on a coin? And why do we have to use his middle initial?

I can't decide what the appeal is: car wreck rubbernecking?

No, I've decided that people perk up when Palin speaks, just like I always perked up at the circus when the clowns came in.

I think it's Faux's way of standing by their candidate of choice, Mike Huckabee.

"Chicken or egg? If those of us on the left ignore Sarah will she go away? I keep thinking the reason why the tea bagger wing-nuts love her is because she drives us crazy. What if we stopped talking, thinking and writing about her? Maybe she'd go away. Could that work?"

First -- the chicken is just the egg's way of having another egg
Second -- let's keep Sarah around! The point is to not respond TO her, but do pay attention. Same goes for all the ditto-haters.

If the shark bites, don't bleed. But don't ignore the shark.

Sarah Palin doesn't need to be fact checked just remember if she said it it's not true.

I think this proves she gets her info from chain e-mails. I've seen this one on snopes. Maybe someone should forward her a link. Of course snopes is liberal biased ya know.

Check out the snopes link dated Mar 17 2009

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp

Although I worry about the violent lunatic fringe of the wacko rump fringe being constantly stirred up by Palin and Bachmann, I admit to the guilty pleasure of watching their race for the crown of undisputed batshit crazy champion. Still pretty hard to call that race. SP is going for the sociopathic obliviousness about whatever she's talking about, while MB falls more into the more deranged tinfoil paranoid column.
That said, I think the dizzy ditzies are doing more to further progressive legislation and D election victories than a lot of the current crop of DINOs

That has GOT to be right up there with the GOP proposal to replace Hamilton on the $20 with Reagan, because "ALL the other bills have presidents!!1!".

Yeah, they really proposed that. On TV. And got the response "I'll bet you $100 that you're wrong".

And suddenly, the idea vanished. Funny, that.

But I bet Palin could be goaded into resurrecting the idea.

9 things that Palin must do to be elected President in 2012:

1) Read a dozen good books on U.S. history and international relations.

2) Stop using Twitter until she knows of what she tweets. (Likewise for her Facebook drivel)

3) Cast off her trademark smug, smarmy, self-righteous demeanor. (No, Sarah, some parts of the country are NOT more pro-America than are other parts.)

4) Drop the faux folksy drawl and the contrived winking during speeches. (It didn't work for Jindal either)

5) Show more concern about her children's schooling and the value of a good education.

6) Stop evading the question during debates, lest viewers think she is evading the question during debates.

7) Stop blaming others for her own failures and shortcomings.

8) Quit quitting. Whether it be her governorship or her commitments to appear at a speaking engagement, she has a reputation for bailing on her responsibilities when the going gets tough.

9) Get even closer to God, cause it's gonna take divine intervention for her to be elected to POTUS.

Um.... what? That's like a shit is saying farts smell bad...

I was friends with Brett in college. He was even tied naked to a tree in front of my neighbors house one night. I know he doesn't believe everything he reads to the camera. He's told us as much in lighter moments.

It's nice to see them questioning her. As much as I can't stand Fox News I did cringe when Jon Stewart called him "No Neck Johnson." Sure, accurate. But I do grapple with the dissonance between the decent dude I knew in college and the tool everyone would make him out to be.

That's what happens when you depend on chain email for your news.

Fox must be backing Huckabee.

I forget, when was Franklin president?

Perhaps Betty thinks that Palin was calling out the America-hating secularists in the Bush administration.

What is wrong with what she said? She made an observation about a coin and questioned who made these decisions. If you will check facts you will find that she took on wrong in both political parties while Governor of Alaska. I expect she will continue to do the same.

"In God We Trust" first appeared on a Union two cent piece during the middle of the Civil War. I guess the good folks north of the Mason Dixon line figured God was only on their side and it went well with the words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. We got under God added to our pledge of allegiance thanks to the 1950s Red Scare and Joe McCarthy. The main problem a lot of folks in our Country have is their belief that we are the only nation under God which is nicely mirrored by some of the other fundamentalist beliefs found in other parts of the world among other varieties of religious extremists.

Let me see if I get this right: Palin notices that the words on the coin have been moved and asks who authorizes this.

Based on this, the author speculates that she is referring to the Obama administration (without any facts that she is) and speculates that Fox News does not fact check her (when it was FOX that presented the most damning information against her last fall, with Carl Cameron's reports from inside the McCain Camp, and Fox that did fact checking on McCain and Palin throughout the campaign).

Based on this brief comment and a lot of speculation, an article is written and commentators leap to conclusions. Wow. TPM people really are bright.

To nepa and dusty’s comments above...

Sure, bright enough to base conclusions on the proven inability of the former governor to make comments that are based in fact! Her contribution over the last year to meaningful political discourse in this country can be classified as "immature" at best.

She’s certainly well aware of the effect her comments can have on a certain segment of the American populace. Since the result of many of her comments both “on the stump” with McCain and after her exodus as governor have been to incite/rile up her supporters, I would give the benefit of the doubt to the Politico writer – her intentions can be accurately inferred. Do the Palin apologists truly believe the coin reference was “unintentional” and "off the cuff" -- that it was somehow a probing insight into “right vs. wrong”? Given her history, that conclusion would require a massive leap of faith in the face of heavy evidence to the contrary! My take is that she was simply offering up another potshot at the current administration, whether it had any factual or intellectual relevance at all.