Bruddah IZ
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It always makes me laugh when you people tell us how smart you are.
Remembering John McCain
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Sheriff Joe
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To paraphrase, she's got big balls and isn't afraid to use them.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Oh? Where was she raised?
Since I didn't actually say that it is nice of you to admit you noticed.
Bruddah IZ
DA
And thanks for answering. Lol! Where was Palin raised?
Sheriff Joe
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Why Was Sarah Palin Not Invited to John McCain’s Funeral?
Posted at 1:41 pm on August 30, 2018 by streiff
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, joined by Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, left, and wife Cindy, pauses as he speaks to a rally with supporters on election night in Phoenix, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
In what is perhaps a fitting denouement to the whole saga of flags-at-half-staff and condolences-not-given and invitations-not-forthcoming in the wake of John McCain’s death, we have this item.
President Donald Trump and former John McCain presidential running mate Sarah Palin are not invited to memorial services for the iconic Arizona senator, multiple sources tell PEOPLE.
“Two names you won’t see on the guest list: Trump and Palin,” says a Capitol Hill source with knowledge of funeral plans for McCain, who died of brain cancer Saturday at age 81.
“Invitations were not extended” to the two political figures, confirms Carla Eudy, a fundraiser who has worked with and been friends with the McCain family for decades.
A source with knowledge of the funeral arrangements adds that several longtime McCain staffers were also removed from the invite list in recent days by Eudy.
Who McCain and/or his family wanted at his funeral is entirely his/their business. The refusal to give President Trump an invitation is not unexpected. They simply didn’t like each other…perhaps because they had too many of the same personality traits. The decision to snub Sarah Palin is petty and vindictive.
The only reason John McCain had even an outside chance of being competitive in 2008 was because of the addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket. And the way McCain’s campaign staff sabotage and undercut her was an atrocity. She may not have been ready for the limelight at the time, but by deliberately making her into the punchline of a joke, people like Nicolle Wallace robbed the GOP of a politician with charisma and talent.
Since 2008, Palin has been relentlessly loyal to John McCain, despite the treatment she received from his minions. And that continues even after this cheap snub.
This is how HotAir colleague Allahpundit sees it:
…But her Twitter tribute was strong and it’s not as though Maverick was unfailingly respectful of Palin through the years. How many times had he let it be known since 2008, whether through surrogates or ultimately from his own lips, that he wished he’d chosen Joe Lieberman instead of her as VP? As much as that stung, even then Palin tried to deflect blame from McCain himself by attributing the sentiment to his “ghostwriters.” She had every political incentive over the past 10 years to join in the merry trashing of Maverick by the GOP base. She declined.
Bear in mind too that McCain will be eulogized on Saturday by one guy who defeated him for the GOP nomination thanks to a scorched-earth smear campaign in South Carolina and by another guy who defeated him for the presidency by sporadically implying he was a racist. McCain had an enormous capacity to forgive his political rivals for their slights, even to the point of letting them speak at his memorial service. But … not Palin, I guess.
The amazing thing about the snub is that refusing to offer an invitation costs more than extending one would. It would have been the easiest thing to say “let bygones be bygones,” have Palin quietly attend, and thus avoid any headlines about her not being asked to show up. To absorb coverage like this the McCains really must have wanted her to stay away, a dishonor otherwise seemingly reserved for their least favorite people. That’s a shame
Posted at 1:41 pm on August 30, 2018 by streiff
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, joined by Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, left, and wife Cindy, pauses as he speaks to a rally with supporters on election night in Phoenix, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
In what is perhaps a fitting denouement to the whole saga of flags-at-half-staff and condolences-not-given and invitations-not-forthcoming in the wake of John McCain’s death, we have this item.
President Donald Trump and former John McCain presidential running mate Sarah Palin are not invited to memorial services for the iconic Arizona senator, multiple sources tell PEOPLE.
“Two names you won’t see on the guest list: Trump and Palin,” says a Capitol Hill source with knowledge of funeral plans for McCain, who died of brain cancer Saturday at age 81.
“Invitations were not extended” to the two political figures, confirms Carla Eudy, a fundraiser who has worked with and been friends with the McCain family for decades.
A source with knowledge of the funeral arrangements adds that several longtime McCain staffers were also removed from the invite list in recent days by Eudy.
Who McCain and/or his family wanted at his funeral is entirely his/their business. The refusal to give President Trump an invitation is not unexpected. They simply didn’t like each other…perhaps because they had too many of the same personality traits. The decision to snub Sarah Palin is petty and vindictive.
The only reason John McCain had even an outside chance of being competitive in 2008 was because of the addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket. And the way McCain’s campaign staff sabotage and undercut her was an atrocity. She may not have been ready for the limelight at the time, but by deliberately making her into the punchline of a joke, people like Nicolle Wallace robbed the GOP of a politician with charisma and talent.
Since 2008, Palin has been relentlessly loyal to John McCain, despite the treatment she received from his minions. And that continues even after this cheap snub.
This is how HotAir colleague Allahpundit sees it:
…But her Twitter tribute was strong and it’s not as though Maverick was unfailingly respectful of Palin through the years. How many times had he let it be known since 2008, whether through surrogates or ultimately from his own lips, that he wished he’d chosen Joe Lieberman instead of her as VP? As much as that stung, even then Palin tried to deflect blame from McCain himself by attributing the sentiment to his “ghostwriters.” She had every political incentive over the past 10 years to join in the merry trashing of Maverick by the GOP base. She declined.
Bear in mind too that McCain will be eulogized on Saturday by one guy who defeated him for the GOP nomination thanks to a scorched-earth smear campaign in South Carolina and by another guy who defeated him for the presidency by sporadically implying he was a racist. McCain had an enormous capacity to forgive his political rivals for their slights, even to the point of letting them speak at his memorial service. But … not Palin, I guess.
The amazing thing about the snub is that refusing to offer an invitation costs more than extending one would. It would have been the easiest thing to say “let bygones be bygones,” have Palin quietly attend, and thus avoid any headlines about her not being asked to show up. To absorb coverage like this the McCains really must have wanted her to stay away, a dishonor otherwise seemingly reserved for their least favorite people. That’s a shame
Sorry about that error - she wasn't born there.
Nonononono
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I rarely would preface an opinion by attempting to claim it is something reasonably indisputable. But Palin is an exception.
She is an undereducated ne’er-do-well that parlayed a short stint as mayor of a small Alaskan city with a population of around 6,000, and the reputed crystal meth capitol of the world, into a short stint as a governor of a state with a population less than 700,000 when elected, which is on the very low end of the population requirement for a single House of Representative district.
She is morbidly defensive when questioned on even the most basic and innocent of inquiries, convinced her stupidity will reveal itself, and often unwittingly does. Examples are too many to give. Starting with the Bush Doctrine, to the newspapers she doesn’t read, to her talking points penned on her palm, to her classic “refudiate”.
Quits as Governor, after doing zero in that position, is the reason McCain stood no chance against Obama, only to run to the safe zone of Fox News only long enough before even they had enough of her diva/dumb/defensive drivel.
Even the nincompoops here seem to rest their strongest support for her are based on her looks.
A very wise yet self-deprecating mathematics professor from Columbia once said, “to be truly effective, you must be ugly. Look at all the great thinkers of our time. Especially the women. They are, to a tee, extremely unpleasant to look at.”
Bruddah IZ
DA
Where was she raised?
Plant the seed and Magoo starts to waffle....
Nonononono
PREMIER
Wow that was fast. But you only have at best 5 conservative political voices in the Republican group. The rest are just famous, once well known for something unrelated to political or social causes, or Leggy Fox Blondes that Roger Ailes tried to hump.
As for the evil ugly democrats, you’re missing so many political and social icons. Golda Meir. Bella Abzug. And you’ve included celebrities from the entertainment industry, whose views are as irrelevant as many of your Republican beauties (Prejean, Hasselbeck, Turner and Harmon). Didn’t Hasselbeck strip nude on Survivor to “earn” a measely morsel of food? Interesting jumpstart to fame, I suppose.
But overall, you’ve done well with your fellow nincompoops in the category of measuring a woman’s worth by their physical appearance.
Sheriff Joe
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Don't worry, we are used to your blunders.
Sheriff Joe
DA
There is the elitist we all know how to make fun of.
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Beauty and brains...they are not exclusive of one another...
Nincompoops? Sounds misogynistic or perhaps you're gynophobic.....
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Maybe those "campaign aides" were the ones who cost him the election by suggesting Palin.
Sheriff Joe
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Those campaign aids, like Palin, probably told him to stand up and pee.
Bruddah IZ
DA
It was Bushʻs fault. Remember?