Palintology
November 5th, 2008, 3:55 PM EST
Newsweek is reporting that things weren’t quite so rosy at Camp McCain once Sarah Palin became his ticketmate.
- Palin’s shopping spree was larger than originally thought at McCain’s team fumed at her “outrageous profligacy.”
- She was told to buy three suits and get a stylist, but she went way beyond that with purchases of clothes and accessories for her family at high-end stores. The bill was “tens of thousands” more than the $150,000 previously reported, with $20,000 to $40,000 spent on Todd Palin.
- A wealthy donor was shocked when he saw the bill.
- Low-level staffers were asked to charge items to their credit cards.
- McCain rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and his aides didn’t want him to know about her spending.
- Palin wanted to speak Tuesday night but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed that idea.
- In St. Paul at the convention, McCain advisers Mark Salter and Steve Schmidt went to Palin’s room to brief her and she met them wearing only a towel.
Spending issues are moot at this stage I think.
Palin wanting to speak could have been good for closure, but I think her caustic nature could have soured the event. Besides, McCain had grace and dignity up there, and I salute him for remembering his honor and not letting this drag out with courts and whatnot. Probably a wise decision overall from Schmidt.
Towel? Who cares. My own mother has done that. I do not have a problem with the human body and it’s a non-issue for me. Should be a non-issue with the overly religious crowd too – didn’t God create it in his image? Why cover it up.
I might be a bit of a nudist.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I have said from Day 1 that the pick of Palin wasn’t McCain’s choice.
But really I don’t care about any of this; I’m just glad she’s gone. With hopes of her never returning!
November 5th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Palin appears to have always have been a user. Seems to use people to get where she feels she needs to be. She appears clad only in a towel. Who would be surprised, she never seemed to have any social graces. $20000.00 or so on Todd Palin. Who would be surprised, he’s another user. The Palin’s are for the Palin’s, PERIOD.If the Rep. party feels that she is the future of their party they are in real trouble. It’s obvious that interest in the radical conservative right is waning.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Goodbye Sarah!!!!! Have a nice life in Wasilla!!!!
November 5th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
This woman is going nowhere. She is the R version of Hillary.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
The most mismanaged campaign ever, and an administration that would only have built on the stumblebummery of Bush.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Can you stop the trash talking of Sarah Palin now? We just won a historic election and the day after instead of celebrating you bring up Sarah Palin
November 5th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Everyone is celebrating; however, we must never never forget Sarah Palin. We have not seen the last of her, and as women we should be very concerned with her radical right wing ideology.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Ummm…this report is from Newsweek…the very unfriendly rag that hung Palin out to dry several times?
Put down the Koolaid…you won…get a life now
November 5th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Palintolgy…very catchy, Alan! Perhaps our scientists will regard this as worthy of further analysis/research in the wild pursuit of attempting to understand deviant human behavior. I forsee lengthy journal articles, theses, etc. ad nauseaum.
Babies born this week will read about it in their junior high psych. books. Truly, if Carl Jung were alive today he could give us an explanation…but since it isn’t so, all I can say is…are you absolutely sure she was wearing a towel? & was it still on when the guys left.
P.S. You know Sarah’s going to give those clothes to charity…but surely she will sell the towel on EBAY! (( she’ll need some cash for 2012)).
November 5th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
LBJ was known to ask visitors/staff to follow him into the bathroom, continuing their business while LBJ … did his business.
Male/female, no gender was left behind as LBJ traveled to the facilities.
Palin in a towel is better for me than LBJ taking a … well, you know.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I am not surprised that in the wake of an historic election, and a big win for liberals, you are still taking cheap shots at Governor Palin. I notice that no names were attached to the sources of these statements. If I were one of those handing out these mean-spirited (and probably false) tidbits, I wouldn’t want my name attached to them either.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
You make me sick I did three tours in Iraq for you Liberal bastards to take control you think the left gets
pissed you have not seen anything you George Washington
said when the Goverment fails the people should over throw to bring control back to the Country I believe we
need to go round up all of you Left Wing bastards and Cut you heads off like the Radical Iraqies did to us and their own people we should start with your sorry ass.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Sgt Raley,
Thanks for your service to our country ~ and I truly do mean that.
But it appears that you have some anger management issues and a possible diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I don’t hold you responsible for that; you were unfortunately placed in that horrible situation by George W Bush.
I’m being sincere by suggesting that you consider therapy.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Dear Sgt. Raley:
Thank you for your service to our country and fighting for my children’s future. Sorry you can’t respect my political viewpoints. Never the less, you are one of those that make it possible for me to express them. So for that, I am grateful.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I will never forget Sarah’s interview with the press when she cast her ballot and told them and the American Public” that she was glad that “Alaska is far away from Washington.” Hey Sarah, I agree with you…Not everyone was too thrilled by your fake image. You should have been more honest and forthright. The way that you won the election in Alaska is not the way you can win the hearts and minds of the rest of the United States. Figure out who you “really are” then maybe next time, we’ll take you more seriously!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
And maybe, Just maybe, you’ll be less of an “American” or “International” joke!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Danielle,
If you think that Sgt. Raley was put in his situation by President Bush, what would you say when Obama sends more of our troops to Afganistan?
November 5th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
“I believe we need to go round up all of you Left Wing bastards and Cut you heads off…”
If that’s what you think, you’re a disgrace to the uniform, and you don’t have a clue what it means to be an American.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I think Alan still needs to talk about Palin because he still doesn’t know anything about Obama. It is easier to to twist and pick apart someone who has a record. Lets just hope Obama doesn’t turn out to be the kind of guy it seems he is trying to hide from us. But he won, the election is over, get over the McCain/Palin bashing. There are alot of people in this country that get rich making people pissed off at each other. That’s how you end up with people like Sgt Raley. But those people are on both sides. Lets not forget the radio DJ who was heard on the air saying he wanted to see Joe the plumber dead and the people hanging a Palin dummy by the neck in the front yard.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Dennis, You got a problem? I’m willing to engage in an honest discussion with you. What are your core beliefs?
November 6th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Jeff -
Sending more troops into Afghanistan is something that should have happened from the beginning. Nobody likes war – nobody likes the innocent death of civilians, the death of our troops or the psychological effects of war on our troops.
The “real war” that needed fought was in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Sure – of course we’d have the same effects of war no matter where we fought it, but we certainly have a moral obligation to only fight a war that needs fought. We had absolutely no business fighting the Iraq war. The Bush Administration’s lies and manipulations are why we are in Iraq; therefore the concequences of this war lies in his hands.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:51 am
I personally don’t know how the man sleeps at night.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Fix the financial Crisist? Easy…sell Alaska back to Russia. Palin is a mirror image of Bush: a village idiot. Her husband would like leaving the USA (America-hater!).
November 6th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Yeah…Palin could keep a closer eye on Putin that way too!
November 6th, 2008 at 1:22 am
How Petty, Alan.
And how much did Obama spend on this campaign? Untraceable donations that he promised not to take? Give me a break.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Oh please Leonard, get real. Obama had to campaign through his color for a lot of places. Taken into account all the rural places that still refer to blacks as second class citizens and the exchange rate for campaign dollars is probably something like 5 to 1.
Given the still racist nature of most of our citizens, the campaign did what it had to. The good thing is that America made the right choice.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:53 am
The election was not enough, you fear the future. Sarah is great and we have millions more just like her. Your transparent efforts to smear her simply will not work.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Transparent my ass, she smeared herself by being typical of a beauty queen – damned stupid.
It took her 6 different schools to get a BA in Communications.
She thinks the founding fathers wrote the pledge of allegiance.
She thinks the planet is 6000 years old.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Sarah Palin is the past. She represents rule by fear, intimidation and superstition.
HER transparent efforts to smear Obama simply did not work this time.
Actually, it’s interesting that McCain lost the 2000 primary because, coming off of Clinton’s peace and prosperity, people were comfortable enough to be prey to the Bush/Rove tactics of fear and smear…..while Bush caused so much damage, that people were NOT buying the same tactics when McCain/Palin used them against Obama.
Sadly for McCain, Bush put the screws to him twice.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Sadly for McCain, he was mismanaged from the start. Palin was just a nail in the coffin. I hope Obama considers him for an advisory position, he would help keep things near center. No Palin though, please god no Palin. I cannot be comfortable with someone in that much power who my 6 year old daughter outclasses in intelligence.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:58 am
I haved told friends from the jump that McCAIN made a mistake for going to the when his base was in the center. YES! he was mismanged 24/7. Running a smear and fear tatics. He stayed in the mud like a pig. Personal attacks on OBAMA. The people handling OBAMA didn,t let THE KEATING 5, CINDY,S past drug use, MAC,s pastor edorsments,LIDDY,SL and other shady McCAIN,s bludders be the main issues and OBAMA people stayed on message. PALIN was mismanged as well and should haved never been picked. His based was the center and he reached out to the very people that craved him up like meat in the local store. Even right wing talk radio craved McCAIN up in the past. I strongly feel if he ran from the middle he would be the 44th man in charge. FEEDBACK PLEASE.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Steve,
I think that Obama just had a better vision.
McCain seemed to have nothing, but, “I know how to fix Wall St, I know how to get Osama bin Ladin..” No details, no REAL plans.
They had eight years.
AND his choice of Sarah Palin, showed, that he was NOT in charge, AND that it was NOT country first.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I think the comment about knowing how to get Osama bin Ladin might have damned him more than help him. I mean, if he knows how, why doesn’t he TELL SOMEONE and get the bastard? I’d vote for him if he was responsible for nabbing our #1 enemy. But, he was blowing smoke out his butt.
I respected McCain before this campaign, and the dignity and grace he showed election night will go a long way towards restoring my respect for him.
However, I do not think that after the damage done by the Republicans economically, that McCain had more than a slim chance overall when going against Obama’s advertising onslaught.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Hey! Alan, It’s a good thing to study Palin(PALINTOLOGY).But most importantly, we have to prevent a PALINDROMIA(the recurrence of a ——–).
November 6th, 2008 at 9:45 am
The GOP and the opinion-carrier(sean hannity) need to return to a PALIN-esthetic state.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am
palin in a towel. that is no story. now if she dressed in front of them as they talked, that would be a story….and perhaps a movie.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Palin in a towel. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. ;)
November 6th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
In Sarah’s case….the towel was not important….for that matter…there isn’t much about her that is important any more.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Pray that the Annoited one doesn’t drive the country down the pooper
Sarah is in AK now. It’s over
November 6th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
No, she is not just in AK. She has been taged and put back into the wilderness.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Sgt Raley,
You make some important points in this post. Please share them with your superiors.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Thanks ALAN for remembering Miriam Makeba and the video. Africa will be gratefull to u for the rest of your life
November 10th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
yo…
great…
January 4th, 2009 at 7:04 pm