Palin in spotlight as Republicans turn on each other

[FarLeftRage]

Right tears itself apart in pinning blame for McCain's defeat

:popcorn:

As the implosion of the defeated Republican campaign continued yesterday, the landscape of American conservatism was dotted with signs that these were very strange times indeed.

Rush Limbaugh, behemoth of rightwing radio, took to the airwaves to declare war on two enemies: Barack Obama and the Republican party. Bloggers at FreeRepublic.com, an internet hub for conservatives, announced a boycott of Fox News and John McCain's aides fell over one another to leak embarrassing details about the campaign to the press.

Liberals, indulging in what the writer Andrew Sullivan termed "Palinfreude", were presented with a smorgasbord, ranging from the tale of how McCain's pro-Palin foreign policy adviser had his Blackberry confiscated in the closing days of the race, to how the party had paid for Todd Palin's silk boxer shorts.

The fighting consuming the McCain and Palin camps threatened to derail broader efforts to overhaul the Republican party after Tuesday's decisive defeat, for which some insiders blamed Sarah Palin. Veterans of the right gathered in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, on Thursday for a summit on the movement's future, but even as they did so, the blame went on.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is worse than I thought," Limbaugh told listeners. "What the Republican party, led by disgruntled and failed McCain staffers, is trying to do to Sarah Palin, is unconscionable ... There are country-club, blue-blood ... Republicans who want nothing to do with a firebrand conservative can fire up people." He added: "We're going to be taking on two things here the next four years: Obama, and our own party establishment."

John Fund, a Wall Street Journal columnist, said he had received multiple calls from campaign aides wanting "to use me as a conduit for their complaints".

Heh heh heh!!! :rofl:

More at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/08/sarahpalin-republicans-rushlimbaugh

[Jamastiene]

1. :-)

:popcorn:

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. A classic food fight the GOP cafeteria - a thing of beauty.

"Hey, who threw that custard!!!!!!!!!!"

Bwahahahahahaha.

[jpertello]

3. The Republican Party is splitting down it's seams

I can see a new Radical offshoot of the part led by the Palins who will represent the extreme RW agenda. They were frustrated with McCain, a candidate who tried to play both sides of the aisle and lost by appearing too weak and mamby pamby. They are planning to come back stronger in 2012 with their Queen leading the charge. Yes folks, It's a fight between the Smarts and the Stupids. We may have won 2008 but those Stupids are a determined (and scary) bunch of idiots!

[Delphinus]

9. I do agree with you:

a fight between the Smarts and the Stupids.

Never underestimate the power of the fundamentalist religion.

[thepurpose]

4. Keep listening to Rush and Hannity GOP. Please.

[MarianJack]

5. When your adversaries are going to beat each other's brains out,...

...stand back and let them swing away!

[gratuitous]

7. I say get the club concession

Might as well make some coin while the hilarious spectacle is going on. I can't tell whether this is more like a slap fight on the short bus or two buzzards going after the same scrap of desiccated roadkill.

[MarianJack]

12. GEE,...

...that can stimulate the economy too! :patriot:

[gratuitous]

6. Is this truly the time for finger-pointing?

Aren't we just looking backward to the past when we should be looking to the future? Nobody knows why the Republicans got walloped so thoroughly in the last two elections. They should be working on solutions, not playing the blame game.

Wow, Sarah Palin's bromides transcend situations, times and places! It's universally stupid. A very neat trick.

[Rivethead]

8. Limbag

Can't wait til this piece of shit dies, choking up Meth and Twizzlers.

Scum.

[chelsea0011]

10. I welcome all the RW gasbags to get on the Sarah Palin express.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. She's. A fucking. Moron.

Hey, the conservatives want her for their mascot, more power to them. Nitwits being led by a class A nitwit.

[MrScorpio]

13. It's exactly the kind of fight a bunch of hypocritcal dumb asses would have

Delusional dipshits that can't even tell their own bloated butts from a hole in the ground

I hope that they all fuck each other up

[malaise]

14. And I'm

LOVIN' IT!! :rofl:

[Democat]

15. Limbaugh, a florida multi-millionaire talking about "country club Republicans"?

Who exactly is "blue-blood" if it isn't Rush Limbaugh?

His uncle, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. is a Ronald Reagan appointed federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and his cousin, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., is Judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri. Rush Limbaugh, Sr., Limbaugh's grandfather, was a Missouri prosecutor, judge, special commissioner and served on Missouri's state House of Representatives from 1930 to 1932.<5> Limbaugh's grandfather was very well respected as one of the "patriarchs" of the Cape Girardeau community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Early_life

Rush is just a regular guy, a middle class average working man. :rofl:

[yellowcanine]

18. And a big golfer also - the sport of "Country Club Republicans." Irony is lost on Limpballs.

[yellowcanine]

19. How soon before the "greybeards" are called in to make peace among the warring factions?

Of course the chief "greybeard" is John McCain!
:rofl:

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Don't forget his lawyer brother David who does the research for his show.

The $400,000,000 man ($50 million a year contract for 8 years) is just like Joe the Plummer! You betcha! :sarcasm:

:rofl:

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. I fear the effects of talk radio on both sides of the aisle. Thom Hartmann

is already pushing an agenda, and has openly called for liberals to move Obama in a more leftward position. I mean, can't we even enjoy the afterglow of this historic victory before we begin to eat our own?

Rush and Hannity, who were not fans of McCain, used their national broadcasts to push Palin onto the ticket, and we've seen the effects of that.

[yellowcanine]

17. "Operation Chaos" chickens coming home to roost.

:rofl:

Limpballs was a paragon of smugness as he attempted to sow discord in the Democratic Party by sending out his supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton. It could be argued that this act prolonged the Democratic primary season, strengthened Obama, and helped convince McCain that he had a shot at snagging Hillary voters by puting Palin on the ticket. Not only did that fail, but Palin also drove away independent voters and proved to be such a maverick herself that she became a devisive force within the campaign.

[FarLeftRage]

20. Here is an email I recieved about this:

I think people are going potty now because they are trying to find blame for what went wrong with the campaign.

Really, McCain was not able to present himself as a person being different from Boosh for he never truly said that he is going to change his policies when in the office. That's a big problem.

As to Palin, a bad choice I must say so. Many things about her are wrong reasons for being picked to be a Vice-Presidential candidate.

If I were a Republican, I won't endorse her at all. But I do understand where McCain was coming from. I think he failed to "vet" her completely.

She does not have a strong understanding of how things are supposed to work out there--Alaska is somewhat a backwater state and it is not really heavy economic powerhouse--it is mostly logging, fishing and oil industries up there. State itself was largely supported by its oil which makes it unique from other states that has to rely on taxes and jobs to support the government.

She did not really make much changes in Alaska--she did not really help Eskimos and other Native Americans with their concerns about the changes in the environment which affects them nor to improve their living standards. She did not really save money in the State Budgets nor her former town where she was a mayor of.

I suspected that the investigation in her was heavily politicised and put on for the show to the public---the Republicans clearly wanted to show that she is innocent when in the fact she was not.
Only few days before the election she was questioned then cleared on the day before the election. Fishy!!

I am sure the Republicans were involved and were not impartial with their judgments. They were clearly under the pressure to "clear" her name.

So many things about her are wrong.

The bottom-line is: good riddance to them, that is what I am saying. As to Rush Limbaugh, he is an idiot and he has no regard for the people's well-being at all.

Being a leader is a person who care for the people's welfare and the future. All of this is rarely seen in the Republican Party or in the people who are Republicans. Naturally, they often make good war leaders that's what I have seen so far.

They do not care about anyone as long as they have hands on cash!! power, etc...