http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/07/04/things-come-in-threes Comments On: Things Come In Threes by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss this:

"[W]hen I asked Palin if she ever decided to pursue national office again, as she did less than a year ago when she joined Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the race for the White House, wouldn't she encounter the same political blood sport? Can such ugliness ever be avoided?

Palin said there is a difference between the White House and what she has experienced in Alaska. If she were in the White House the "department of law" would protect her from baseless ethical allegations.

"I think on a national level your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out," she said."

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I hope there is some kinda scandal & she blows away, because the sheer stupidity of almost everything she has ever, ever said, coupled with her admittedly great legs + weird levels of charisma = she's like Dubya, but better story & better looking. A Palin Administration would make everything we hated about the 2nd Bush Administration (those of us that did) look like child's play...you betchya.


Posted by Eva Hopkins]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:43:23 -0700 The Stranger
But I really, really hope there is a sex scandal here!!
Posted by i'm pro-science and i vote]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:18:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:32:24 -0700 The Stranger
If you're posting a plea to leave people's children out of it, no matter how much we might disagree with them, you might want to try not ending with a veiled threat to someone's child, you hateful prick.
Posted by Tim Stalin in Accounting]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:06:43 -0700 The Stranger Attention has been merciless and cruel, and mostly not pertinent to any public issue.
Slog feels that anything goes when the target is someone who disagrees with us and whose views we find unsupportable but that is a double-edged sword.
Considering the attention Dan has shown to Palin's children one wonders what will happen when America's most provocative homosexual sex columnist/spokesmodel/parent's child runs into the difficulties all teenagers inevitably experience.
It will be unfortunate if DJ pays a price for Dan's snark.
Posted by Bread Cast on Water]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:29:35 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Rob in Baltimore]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:22:23 -0700 The Stranger
Either way, the final implosion may be in sight. (Minus any twitching and smouldering, which could drag on a decade or so.)
Posted by quarkster]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:18:36 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Womyn2me]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:26:44 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Just Say No]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:43:43 -0700 The Stranger
Palin in jail is a wonderful thought. She can run a cult/campaign from there, like La Douche.


Posted by meowmeowkitty]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:10:34 -0700 The Stranger Posted by sadini]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:36:20 -0700 The Stranger
So, not only is this a metaphor so tortured as to make Dick Cheney ejaculate with glee, but we seem to be dealing with a basketball court with one hoop. Basketball games must be very confusing at Palin HQ.

What I love is that this person is supposedly a professional spokesperson, someone whose job it is to have expertise in talking to the media so her boss herself doesn't have to answer questions. Given that, what does it say about the Palin team that her spokeswoman doesn't have any kind of answer whatsoever, not even a convincing bluff, to simple questions like "so what is she planning to do?", won't stop wittering on about hoops when Cooper clearly isn't running with the analogy and isn't even in the same timezone when Palin is at the centre of a huge media storm? The whole operation is so amateurish, it's be hilarious if she hadn't come as close as she did to running the free world.

Still, really hope she does get the 2012 nomination, because I can't wait to see the epic trainwreck a full-scale Palin capmaign could turn into. I mean, she was good enough value when she was on the national scene for three months last year, and that was as the second person on the ticket, heavily protected against the media and the real world in general. Just imagine 18+ months of Palin at the eye of the storm. Looking at the clips they played from the big GOP rallies, it struck me that maybe she really has allowed herself to become deluded that all these party faithful holding IOWA<3SARAH banners and wildly cheerign her every inanity actually represent the mass of the American public. If she believes that, then she probably thinks she can get away with anything, with the presidency hers for the taking.
Posted by Tim Stalin in Accounting]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:15:25 -0700 The Stranger
Sarah resigned so she could concentrate on her 50 state sweep in '12.
Posted by Lord Basil]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:28:53 -0700 The Stranger Posted by I'm Cool]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:01:28 -0700 The Stranger
I wanted to kiss AC when he said, "Honestly, I know nothing about basketball, all I know about is politics." And the look on his face as she continued to push the retarded analogy. <3
Posted by Violet_DaGrinder]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:39:47 -0700 The Stranger
I wish I could see Andy Cooper's face when she says "You know her by now" in that sugary way. You know he got all Vanderbilty, and looked down his pointy gay nose as if to say "As if!"


Posted by meowmeowkitty]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:42:34 -0700 The Stranger Posted by JudT]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:37:50 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Lily Fluffbottom]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:04:59 -0700 The Stranger http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7…
Posted by Heather]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:19:43 -0700 The Stranger Alaska, which may as well be Governor of Timbuktu. She's got bigger fish to fry, and her current job isn't helping her. All she gets out of it is occasional bad press, if anyone notices her at all.

If GW Bush taught me anything, it's to take seemingly imbecilic politicians who have a cult-like following seriously. The jokes about her are funny, but don't help. Speculating about a non-existent sex scandal doesn't help.
Posted by Mahtli69]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:59:53 -0700 The Stranger
http://politux.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/…
Posted by dollface]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:12:03 -0700 The Stranger Palin is actually human, whereas her delvings into ethics violations and greed so far have demonstrated, rather, a lack of humanity, or at least a lack of an ability to relate on a human level (in contrast to human foibles).

So, in that regard, for her sake, I hope it's a sex scandal rather than either a) an act of tactical whimsy or b) a scandal of just about any other sort.

That said, a recorded lesbian encounter, or a tryst with Levi would be fappably tasty, as opposed to, say, some whitebread neighbor or a civics negotiation gone juicy.

I keep hoping (while sure to be disappointed) that Trig is short for Trigonometry. Poor kid.
Posted by Uriel-238]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:57:31 -0700 The Stranger
That said, though, I agree with @12 et al. who say an ethics scandal is much more likely.
Posted by this guy I know in Spokane]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:19:10 -0700 The Stranger
She created a political-action committee—Sarahpac—with the help of John Coale, a prominent Democratic trial lawyer. But just months into its existence the pac’s chief fund-raiser, Becki Donatelli, a veteran of Republican campaigns, suddenly quit. One person familiar with the situation told me that Donatelli could not stand dealing with Palin’s political spokeswoman in Alaska, Meghan Stapleton, who has drawn withering fire from Palin friends and critics alike for being an ineffective adviser. Also with Coale’s help, Palin formed the grandiosely named Alaska Fund Trust, to defray a reported half million dollars in legal expenses arising from a slew of formal ethics complaints against her in her home state—prompting yet another formal complaint, that the fund itself constitutes an ethical breach. Onetime supporters have become harsh critics. Walter Hickel, 89, a former two-term governor and interior secretary, and the grand old man of Alaska politics, who was co-chair of Palin’s winning gubernatorial campaign, in 2006, now washes his hands of her. He told me simply, “I don’t give a damn what she does.”
Posted by Irena]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:05:57 -0700 The Stranger
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu…


Posted by Irena]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:57:38 -0700 The Stranger