Slog - Comments on News from Wingnut Land http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land The folks at One News Now have already conceded, and are making lemons out of lemonade. Their spin: At least now Sarah Palin (who's lately been resorting to strongly implying that Democrats love terrorists) can say what she really thinks about immigration! According to [Mark] Krikorian [head of the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies], once Sarah Palin is free from the McCain campaign, she will be able to speak freely about the immigration issue. "There's a real possibility, once Senator McCain is history, that she will likely take a much more hawkish position on immigration," he adds. "Now maybe that's... Copyright 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:18:20 -0800 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:04:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf Malkin not making sense? Wow, the world is turning upside down today.

I heartily concur with Mark Krikorian, and fervently hope that Palin takes the rest of the GOP down the "Subhuman Mexicans are destroying America" path, as an increasingly tolerate and multiracial America quickly reduces them to sideshow status.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193531 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193531 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:27:06 -0800 Comment by PC Dear right wingers:

Yes we are all secret Muslims in leage with OBL. After we take the white house we will put pyramids on the white house lawn, then bomb the white house, while we are in it!

Then we will send you all off to re-education camps the way our communist fellow regimes in France, England, Denmark and Japan have done, you know the places where they have communistic national health coverage?

bwahahahahahahhaha

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193540 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:32:03 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave theres actually only been one time she made sense. that was when she said something was fishy bout backwards B lady.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193550 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193550 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:37:51 -0800 Comment by Ziggity You know, for two fucking years I've been threading through the crowdsourced insinuations of punditry of all stripes.

And today, I took back control of my opinion by voting.

So Michelle Malkin can swallow a dozen dicks lengthwise, and anyone else who wants to disagree with my vote is welcome to do the same.

I'm not clicking on any of those links today.

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193559 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:41:30 -0800 Comment by kk Perhaps the greatest crime the Blethen family will have to answer for is launching the career of the odious Michelle Malkin.

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193560 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193560 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:41:52 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity Thank you for that roundup of wingnuttery.

I'm not going to click on any of those links, because reading that shit makes my blood boil.

Just that little taste was enough for me. Thanks.

]]> Reverse Polarity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193573 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193573 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:46:57 -0800 Comment by Mike in Renton Ok, seriously now. They want someone to speak out against illegal immigration from Mexico and the person they're gonna pick is from Alaska?

]]> Mike in Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193576 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193576 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:47:44 -0800 Comment by jewritto The comments kill me...
"One final note, there will be riots regardless of whether obama wins or loses. If he wins, the celebrations will be similar to the riot when a sports team wins a championship. If he loses, stay away from the big cities, particularly the black neighborhoods."

]]> jewritto http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193577 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:47:52 -0800 Comment by Toe Tag Palin unhinged? Wonderful. She won't have to worry about being marginalized by the media--she's self-marginalizing.

]]> Toe Tag http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193583 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193583 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:50:27 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Maddow on Friday had an guest on who completely dismissed the idea of Palin being a contender in 2012, making the case that a losing VP has never managed to get the party's nomination in the next election -- think Lieberman/Edwards.

I'm not sure whether to feel relieved or disappointed.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193584 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193584 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:50:48 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Boy, are we all going to look stupid tomorrow when President-elect Obama announces Rev. Wright as his new Secretary of State and Al Sharpton as Chief of Staff, just like the kooks have been telling us all along!

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193607 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193607 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:59:55 -0800 Comment by spencer @7, my thoughts exactly. I bet Palin, what with her extensive experience fighting the menace of Mexicans swarming into Alaska, has been chomping at the bit to voice hersecure borders, anti-immigration positions.

]]> spencer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193609 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:00:32 -0800 Comment by inkweary That's right, Sarah! A strong anti-immigration stance worked so well for Tom Tancredo's presidential aspirations so you run with that.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193695 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:34:24 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Forty years in the wilderness.

This is their fate.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193696 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193696 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:34:29 -0800 Comment by Carl BIG PROBLEMS TO SOLVE

WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT PALIN - THIS HAS REACHED FIXATION LEVEL

SHE IS NO NO NO NO BODY

ONLY MEDIA FODDER - OH, FORGOT THE STRANGER THRIVES ON THIS SHIT

]]> Carl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193699 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193699 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:34:56 -0800 Comment by Fnarf @10 - the only losing VP candidate I can find who ever won election to the Presidency later is FDR, who was on James Cox's losing 1920 ticket (to Harding/Coolidge). And even he didn't succeed in the next election, but twelve years later. Palin in 2020? Somehow I think not.

It is, however, not unheard-of for the losing VP candidate to later be the LOSING Presidential candidate: Walter Mondale and Bob Dole both hold that great honor. But it's not exactly a crowded room; there are not to many calls for Dan Quayle, Henry Miller, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Bricker, Charles McNary, Frank Knox, Charles Curtis, Charles Fairbanks, Nicholas Butler, nor for John Edwards these days, or Joe Lieberman, Lloyd Bentsen, Geraldine Ferraro, Sargent Shriver, Ed Muskie, Estes Kefauver, John Sparkman, Joseph Robinson, Charles Bryan, John Kern, Henry Davis, or Adlai Stevenson I. Honorable mention should go, though, to Earl Warren, who was the Republican loser with Dewey in 1948, who went on to become one of our greatest Supreme Court justices.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193836 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1193836 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:31:10 -0800 Comment by Peter Principle Dole was Ford's VP candidate in '76, and later got the GOP nomination -- but it took him 20 years to do it. By that time, Palin will be (given her family's reproductive habits) a Hockey Great-Great-Grandma.

Which could help her get elected president of the independent Republic of Alaska, maybe. But not of the USA.

]]> Peter Principle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1194057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1194057 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:07:49 -0800 Comment by Enorme Nuez Damn, everyone is so angry, yet good to see so much interest in this election. However saying that, being honest and realistic, Sarah Palin is not qualified nor educated enough in politics (domestic or world) to be anywhere near the White House.

Being Mayor of a town population 6k and of a state who's population is 24% of the City of Chicago doesn't deem her "qualified". Her greatest achievement being the natural gas pipeline probably won't see light due to the land it will cross not being secured. The state may generate $38 billion from oil, but that was in place long before she took office. The same with every Alaskan citizen getting $1k each year from oil revenue. Not hard to govern when the population is low and everyone is getting paid!

The closest she should ever come to the White House is doing the tour with her family.

]]> Enorme Nuez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1194301 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/news_from_wingnut_land#c1194301 2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:04:44 -0800