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Tea Party 2012 candidate: black kids were better off under slavery

Following in the footsteps of Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell, the latest in the so-right-wing-they-must-be-joking Tea Party figureheads is Michele Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican nomination to face Barack Obama next year.

Required for endorsement by a fundamentalist Christian group, the Minnesota lawmaker put her signature to a document called “The Marriage Vow”, describing homosexuality as a choice and calling for the abolition of pornography. So far, so Fox News.

In a frenzied effort to hoover up nominations from her core of nutjobs, however, Bachmann may have fatally alienated herself from swing voters by suggesting there are some benefits to, erm, slavery:

“a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”

The violent abduction and forced labour of millions of Black Africans — it wasn’t all bad y’know!

Sarah Palin loves the “smell of the emissions” in the morning

To the chagrin of some organisers, Sarah Palin decided to launch a bus tour of the American east coast by gatecrashing an event designed to raise awareness for military veterans. The move is seen as another sign Palin is testing the water for a presidential run.

Asked by a reporter if all the photo calls on her trip “would be this loud”, the former governor said:

“It would be a blast if they were this loud if they smelled this good. I love that smell of the emissions.”

Her phrase, appropriately enough, appeared to paraphrase Apocalypse Now’s deluded and hawkish Colonel Kilgore, who loved “the smell of napalm in the morning”:

Trust Palin to declare she “loves emissions” on the same day the fastest rise in greenhouse gasses is announced.

Fox News sees sense: Sarah Palin captioned as “universal nightmare”

It seems Fox News have come round to the same viewpoint as the rest of the planet when it comes to Sarah Palin with captioning on Sean Hannity’s show describing her as a ”universal nightmare”.

The former Vice Presidential sideshow has now even lost her place as the Republican party’s favourite candidate to Donald Trump, who topped the latest latest poll for CNN. Only 53% of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents say they want Palin to run for the GOP Nomination in 2012.

Fairly unbalanced.

Sarah Palin asks whether Libya action is a “squirmish”

Speaking on Fox News, naturally, Sarah Palin has again displayed the effects of an apparent dictionary famine in Wasilla. Commenting on President Obama’s rhetoric on the Libya crisis she asks:

“Another big question is … are we at war?”

“Do we use the term ‘intervention’, do we use ‘war’, do we use ‘squirmish’?”

Errr, probably not the last one, Sarah.

Scrapbook can’t help but wonder: is Sarah Palin an idiotic?

Charlie Sheen is beating Sarah Palin in presidential polling

While British parties struggle to rub two dimes together, it appears there’s enough money flowing round the American body politic to waste cash on comedy polling. Actor Charlie Sheen — in the middle of a highly public personal and professional crisis – is beating Sarah Palin amongst crucial independent voters in a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling.

Winning!

Fox News: Will Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol run for president?

With Sarah Palin’s chances at the Republican nomination seeming to take a knock in the wake of the shooting of Danielle Giffords, her cheerleaders at Fox News have apparently identified their second preference:

Yes, you read that correctly: the 9 February edition of Fox & Friends mused openly at Bristol Palin’s POTUS prospects. Well, it’s not as though dynastic succession has, erm, gone wrong before! As Tanner Ringerud remarked:

Hang it up, America. You had a good run.

Quotes of the day: Sarah Palin crosshairs edition

The shooting of Democratic lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords has left Sarah Palin’s spinners scrambling to scrub the graphic above from her websites. At the time of writing, however, the image — which targets Giffords personally — is still visible on her Facebook group.

What better time to turn her rhetoric back around:

“How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?” – Sarah Palin, February 2010

“Hey, Sarah Palin, hows that hatey, killy, reloady, chrosshairsy thing working out for ya?” – Frank Conniff, January 2011

The UK right are doing their best to dilute the backlash against Palin by highlighting gun metaphors used in British politics.

A state where anyone can get hold of a gun is a rather different context.

Sarah Palin: "We've got to stand with our North Korean allies"

Sarah Palin has added to her long list of foreign policy gaffes in some style. Speaking on cry baby Glenn Beck’s radio programme the former governor managed to confuse North Korea (bad) with South Korea (good).

CO-HOST: How would you handle a situation like the one that just developed in North Korea?
PALIN: The White House aren’t gonna come up with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea are gonna do … But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.
CO-HOST: South Korean.
PALIN: Ah, Yeah.

Those unfamiliar with the worldview of the Queen Grizzly could do worse than watch her car crash spot with Katie Couric in 2008. Laying claim to foreign policy experience in relation to Russia, the interview is now seen as a major unforced error of the McCain/Palin ticket.

Naturally, Scrapbook is supporting Sarah for the Republican nomination.*

*Because she is bonkers.

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