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What other explanation is there that Sarah Palin quoted heavily during her GOP acceptance speech from notorious right-wing nut job and certified Jew hater, Westbrook Pegler. 

Yeah, I never heard of him either. But in her rousing speech to the party faithful at the Republican convention Pailn quoted a “writer” when she said, “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” Nice enough.

Turns out Westbrook, “the writer” in question, was also Westbrook the notorious Jew Hater. In the first part of the twentieth century Westbrook was a wildly popular ultra-right wing commentator (think Rush Limbaugh without out the fat and the drug habit). 

According to the Wall Street Journal (which could hardly be described as a liberal rag), Westbrook “once lamented that a would be assassin ‘hit the wrong’ man when gunning for Franklin Roosevelt.”

Even on his worst day, a whore chaser like Bill O’Reilly wouldn’t even openly root for the assassination of the President of the United States— regardless of party. Doesn’t bug Sarah, though. (In all fairness, I don’t expect a woman who doesn’t even know what the Bush Doctrine is, knows who the fuck Westbrook Pegler is. She was just doing what any beauty pageant contestant would do— read the script and smile.)

Anyhow, among some of Westbrook’s golden oldies were “Jews are instinctively sympathetic to Communism”. Additionally, it would seems Westbrook was such a nut-job that he was even banned from the far right-wing, anti-Semitic, John Birch society. In today’s dollars that’s like Sean Hannity being thrown out of the Small Penis of the Month Club. Geesh, we like ‘em small, but not that small!

Anyhow, who knows why Sarah decided to go with the anti-Jew angle in her speech at the RNC rally, but she did. Of all the writers in all the world, Sarah decided to quote the Jew hater.

From ABC News by way of the Huff Post: 

Asked by ABC News’ Charlie Gibson whether she supported the Bush Doctrine, Palin stared blankly for a moment before turning the question back on Gibson. “In what respect?”

The ABC anchor responded, “Well, what do you interpret it to be?” clearly testing her knowledge of the policy that has been in place since September 2002, before the Iraq war.

Palin couldn’t say, offering an answer that didn’t even mention preemption. 

I can’t fucking believe it. This woman believes herself to be qualified to run the world and she is unaware of the guiding principle of this nation’s foreign policy for the past seven years?!

Moreover, that principle was design and instigated by the head of her own party, G.W. Bush

Gimme a fucking break.

Gibson let her off way too easy.

After snowmobiling, walking some picturesque trails, and maybe visiting the school where she grew up, Charlie Gibson might actually ask Sarah Palin some questions. Maureen Dowd has a pretty nice list:

What kind of budget-cutter makes a show of getting rid of the state plane, then turns around and bills taxpayers for the travel of her husband and kids between Juneau and Wasilla and sticks the state with a per-diem tab to stay in her own home?

Why was Sarah for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against the Bridge to Nowhere, and why was she for earmarks before she was against them? And doesn’t all this make her just as big a flip-flopper as John Kerry?

What kind of fiscal conservative raises taxes and increases budgets in both her jobs — as mayor and as governor?

When the phone rings at 3 a.m., will she call the Wasilla Assembly of God congregation and ask them to pray on a response, as she asked them to pray for a natural gas pipeline?

Does she really think Adam, Eve, Satan and the dinosaurs mingled on the earth 5,000 years ago?

Why put out a press release about her teenage daughter’s pregnancy and then spend the next few days attacking the press for covering that press release?

As Troopergate unfolds here — an inquiry into whether Palin inappropriately fired the commissioner of public safety for refusing to fire her ex-brother-in-law — it raises this question: Who else is on her enemies list and what might she do with the F.B.I.?

Does she want a federal ban on trans fat in restaurants and a ban on abortion and Harry Potter? And which books exactly would have landed on the literature bonfire if she had had her way with that Wasilla librarian?

The national paper of record seems to have jumped on the Prom Queen express to Alaska and is using their front page to “report” on things such as white mochas, hockey moms, and get this: how “hockey in Alaska keeps kids on the straight and narrow”.

Did Jason Blair write this thing? Do they know anything about who the fuck Sarah Palin is and what kind of results her mothering skills have garnished?

Other totally sickening pieces of crap include this nugget:

To understand hockey in Alaska is to understand something about the Palin family dynamic: Athletic drive seems to be as much a family trait as church-going and salmon fishing.

If this is the “liberal” New York Times, it kinda makes you wonder what sort of sugar coated crap we’re gonna hear out of ABC and Charlie Gibson later this week.

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The Politico is reporting that Democrats are getting pretty fucking freaked out about the election and heavy-duty dudes inside the party are saying shit like, “I’m so depressed. It’s happening again. It’s a nightmare.”

Well, that can’t be good.

Most folks seem to believe that the Paln pick has thrown the Obama team off balance (no shit) and that Team Bambi was simply not set up to run this sort of campaign:

“They were set up to run ‘experience versus change,’ what they had run [against Hillary] Clinton,” Trippi said. “And I think Palin clearly moved that to be change [and] reform, versus change. ”

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“A few years ago I was head of the PTA, now I’m the frickin’ governor of Alaska. I didn’t get there by just eating moose burgers and poppin’ out kids.”

McCain: “My left nut has more experience than you.”