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Sarah Palin (in her own words)

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Gwen Ifill on Palin at the Debates: “She Blew Me Off.”

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For Your Information

Sarah Palin’s resume:
Business

Television sports reporter, 1987-1989
Co-owner of a commercial fishing operation, 1988-2007
Owner, sport vehicle rental business, 1994-1997
Chairwoman, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 2003-2004

Politics

Governor of Alaska, elected 2006
Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, 1996-2002
Wasilla City Council, 1992-1996

Aaaaaand…that’s it.

(And Sarah? It’s pronounced NU-CLE-ER)
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Main Street Maverick

I’d like to quote from Cipher Theory before I begin this post:
Maverick, maverick and the maverick. Maverick mavericky maverickton. Tom Cruise is Maverick maverick maverick Goose.
Friggin’ Maverick.
Mave to the rick.
Maverick.
As Maureen Dowd pointed out on October 5th, “Palin…uses a heck of a lot of language to praise herself as a fresh face with new ideas [...]

McCain/ Palin

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Sexism and the Presidential Campaign

It was only a matter of time until Tina Fey played Sarah Palin.
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Gina Gershon as Sarah Palin

From Funny or Die.
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Blogrollstravaganza!

How does it feel to have the ol’ Idea of Progress back? Come on, you can be honest– I can take it.
Since I’ve been gone for so long, and I switched over to Wordpress, I don’t even have the blog updated. I can’t figure out how to change the strange pictures of Italy [...]

Frank Rich Is as Angry as The Idea of Progress

I wanted to quote a line or two from Frank Rich in his editorial at the New York Times yesterday about our good friend from the north, Ms. Palin, but his piece was so angry and so full of information that I’m going to give you acouple of paragraphs of it:
We still [...]

Even CBS is Dubious About Sarah Palin

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