Sarah Palin’s last visit to Ohio for a book signing turned out to be a great video opportunity for Tim and Eric in front of the Dublin Border’s book store.
According to the website for the event: “Purchasing a ticket (for $40) guarantees you a comfortable seat and a great view of Sarah Palin as she shares her experiences related to the Pro Life Movement. Refreshments will be available for purchase prior to the event.”
Mmmm…. refreshments for purchase. And a comfortable seat.
That really beats sleeping in a tent all night.
And it gets better: If you’re willing to cough up the extra cash for the Private Reception – the cost of which isn’t advertised but is assumed to be at least $5000 – then you also get a picture with the former Governor and access to the “open bar’”!
And who doesn’t love an open bar?
Pretty awesome deal, really.
But there is one thing that might be better.
That’s right.
If you are really lucky… I mean really, REALLY lucky… then you’ll also be captured on video and will have your lovely face displayed on Plunderbund (and Tim’s YouTube channel) forever and ever.
Again, apparently completely unaware of the concept of irony, Sarah Palin gives a speech in which she criticizes President Obama for using a teleprompter and reads crib notes off her hand! LOL
So.
Great.
Sarah Palin is a blogging gift that keeps on giving. I can’t wait to get to interview more supporters. My guess is the next craze will be to get Sarah to sign the palms of supporter’s hands. They, like her, are completely and totally unaware in general.
PS: My other choice for headline was “Sarah Palin gives Nashville a handjob”
At some point, the dollar signs which Lee incessantly throws in everyone’s face will start to dwindle. Lee came out with a bang, and in the next quarter, his numbers dropped. Next quarter, they’ll drop some more. And then the next. By the end of 2009, Lee will be on a precipitous glide path. The proverbial wad has been shot.
Brunner, however, because of her performance in 2008, has a message that has already taken hold in the national blogosphere. She is a hero for national progressives. They’ve already got her back. My guess is that by December, national progressives online will take a long hard look at what a Fisher loss to Portman in 2010 will mean for Barack Obama in 2012, and Brunner’s online haul will ignite. There is no worse story line for Barack out of Ohio in 2010 than that a BUSH ADMINISTRATION TRADE OFFICIAL won the Ohio Senate seat. Once national progressives take their look, they will start pushing Brunner. Hard.
That December “long hard look” happened, and now, it’s taking hold. The problem with a campaign relying on viral online mojo is that this viral nature is unpredictable. At the risk of patting myself on the back too hard, you can’t predict it any better than I did in July. But it wasn’t that hard to predict – Brunner’s campaign is on the launch pad in February precisely as anyone with a brain would expect it to be, and precisely as it needs to be for Brunner to win.
In the meantime, Lee Fisher has spent about $1 million, and has gone nowhere. This is how Lee Fisher always campaigns – he raises a lot of money, then proceeds to flush it down the toilet. Lee hasn’t even filed yet – a lot of his money is being spent on paid staff to collect those signatures. Where the rest of the money has gone, who knows, but it hasn’t led to any traction on the ground, or movement in the polls. Lee is either treading water or going backward.
So here’s another prediction. If this momentum online continues for Brunner, and there’s no reason to think it won’t, by the end of March, she will be at fundraising parity with Fisher. To continue the momentum, Jennifer needs to keep pushing online, and start taking visible shots at Republicans.
Sarah Palin is teed up for Jennifer – I can imagine Jennifer on MSNBC saying that Palin is putting the cause of women in politics back a generation by embodying every stereotype imaginable by using a cheat sheet written on her hand like she’s a cheerleader needing to be reminded of the word “spirit”, cue the school cheer. It’s laughable, and perfect for Jennifer to punch.
Thank God Jennifer Brunner filed for this US Senate seat.
I plan to blog throughout my run for Cuyahoga County Council District 7. Of course, the regularity will be spotty, but I find that blogging clears a lot of cobwebs out of my head, and that value increases as I get further into being an actual candidate. I also plan to be totally transparent during this campaign, and blogging will be a part of that. [click to continue…]
Rahm Emanuel calls liberal groups “fucking retards” and Sarah Palin wants him fired. Rush Limbaugh calls same groups “retards” (he can’t say fuck on the radio like Howard can) and Sarah at first calls it “crude and demeaning” only to later defend Rush by agreeing with him and calling it “satire” and claiming the source of the crude and demeaning quote got it wrong.
This is, of course, not really news. We’ve long known Sarah is a vapid, hypocritical, fake ass bitch. Now we know she’s also a fucking retard who employs double standard like Rush does hyperbole.
Sounds like some supporters want him to do just that:
If John Kasich succeeds in abolishing the state income tax, maybe we could just shut down the whole Ohio state government. That way the Democrats wouldn’t have anything to take over, and they’d be out of our lives forever.
No word from the Kasich camp whether such a “burn it down so you can’t have it” plan exists.
Andrew Sullivan is on quite a tear over Sarah Palin’s Tea Party appearance last night. I didn’t get to see the whole thing – I channel flipped between Palin and the Cavs, who were in the process of blowing a massive lead at home to the Knicks – Lebron, of course, pulled it out. What I did see of Palin last night convinces me of my Grand Theory of All Things Palin, which is the following.
Sarah Palin is nothing but an attention whore, and yes, I use that word on purpose. Palin has gotten where she is by being an empty, lazy, ignorant, vapid, and moderately attractive siren, because that’s what today’s media environment craves. Alas, she didn’t get her attention fix by becoming a broadcaster on ESPN, but she damn well was going to get it somehow. That’s the process we witness today.
Palin is eating it up, because it’s easy, and now, lucrative. This is her guiding principal in life. Apply that approach to Palin’s political future, and there really is only one path that makes sense for Palin – a doomed independent run for the presidency in 2012 which will destroy the Republican Party.
For as long as she can, Palin will do everything possible (which is to say, not lift a finger) to gin up speculation of a GOP presidential primary run in 2012, right up to the point she has to file in Iowa, NH, or any other primary state. Of course, she will not file, for several reasons. First, running for president actually requires work. Second, Palin knows she will never become the GOP nominee – the scrutiny of a major party primary process would destroy her image utterly. Third, it’s easier to play the victim if you don’t actually lose.
But more importantly, if she files for any presidential primary, she won’t be able to run as an independent, third party, perhaps Tea Party candidate for president. Palin cannot win as a third party nominee, but remember, Palin is not about governing, or actually being an elected official, she is about attention which earns her cash.
Nothing is more attention grabbing and scrutiny avoiding than a third party candidacy for president – a “Draft Sarah” movement is already teed up, and when that begins in earnest, after she plays a victim complex about being “forced out” of the 2012 GOP primary, it will be like raw cocaine into her vein. She may go through with an independent run, may not (see “this requires work” thing), but in the end, this is the path which leads to the most money and attention.
If she does get on the ballot in all 50 states, Barack Obama may carry all 50 states. If she doesn’t get on the ballot, her teabagger base will stay home in a fit of victimhood, and Barack Obama will carry perhaps 40 states. Either way, Palin’s pursuit of attention and money will never yield a Palin presidency, but will yield the total destruction of the right wing, Christianist fanatic Republicanism that Sullivan wants to see destroyed.
After Sarah Palin’s 2012 folly, it will be impossible for anyone in a leadership position within the GOP to survey the wreckage and conclude anything other than change must happen. It will be a spectacle to behold for the next several years, it will be ugly, you may have to turn away in horror, but in the end, Sarah Palin will change the Republican Party for the better, but not in the way her supporters think.
I just came across this classic Ken Blackwell interview with Michelangelo Signorile back from the Republican convention. It really makes me nostalgic for the good old days of the 2006 Ohio Gubernatorial race…
MS: Well, here’s what you said, “Homosexuality is a lifestyle. It’s a choice. And that lifestyle can be changed. It’s a transgression against God’s law.” And you compared it to arsonists and kleptomaniacs, that those things were criminal activities…a compulsion, right?
KB: No. What I said is that, in that regard, you can choose, people choose to be who they are, as they choose to break civil law and God’s law…I think you can choose not to be homosexual…
MS: Did you choose to be heterosexual? Did you wake up one day and say I want to be heterosexual?
KB: The answer is that I’ve never had to make the choice because I’ve never had the urge to be other than a heterosexual, but if in fact I had the urge to be something else I could have in fact suppressed that urge.
Ken Blackwell carries around jarfuls of utterly insane ideas in his head. The belief that he possesses super anti-gay powers is just one of many that occupy his extremely large homophobic idea jar.
But I have to give him credit for one thing: at least he has ideas. Moreover, he’s willing to discuss them in public and defend them when questioned. Which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for John Kasich.
Some readers have asked for an update on the incessant blowing fan saga regarding my relatively new MacBook Pro. Last week, I took it to the Apple store. The fan was totally freaking out, the laptop was overheating as a result, and I was close to panic. So I did a week’s worth of work ahead of time so I could be without the laptop while it was repaired.
And boy, did it need repair. The problem? It had taken in so much dust in the 15 or so months I’ve had it, the fans gunked up to the point of shorting out a circuit in the logic board. This blew out the heat sensor, blew out the backlighting on the keyboard (which frankly, I hadn’t noticed was gone), blew out the fan mechanism, and if I hadn’t taken it in when I did, who knows what else would have gotten blown out. The repairs? New logic board, new keyboard, new fans, new top casing, new circuitry….almost a total rehab.
Before you start making cracks about how I need to clean my apartment more often, I’m pretty sure this is a design flaw in the MacBook Pro. I’ve never had this problem with any other laptop, including a previous Powerbook G4. I think the fan intake may be too large, which leads to sucking in way too much dust over time. The back of the MacBook Pro has a pretty wide intake, almost the width of the laptop, probably to address previous documented histories of Apple laptops running very hot. The fix may have created another problem – heavy air intake, which leads to heavy dust gunking, which leads to near catastrophe.
The Apple store guy said to prevent this, I should get a can of compressed air and blast it into the back of the laptop every month or so. Believe me, I’m gonna do just that. But I’m also emailing this post to Apple folks as a heads up about this problem, and if any of my readers have this model MacBook Pro, go out right now, get Apple Care long term coverage for repairs, because if my laptop wasn’t covered, this would have been about a $1,000 or more fix. Thanks to Apple Care, I now have a largely brand new laptop, at no cost.
John Kasich acquired 10 acres of land in one of Ohio’s fastest growing counties in April 1996 for less than courthouse property tax records show the land was worth. Delaware County appraised the property at an average of $17,250 per acre, but after Kasich bought it the land value dropped to $10,500 per acre. In other words, the tax value of the 10 acres fell from $172,500 to $105,000.
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Other records in the courthouse seem to indicate that Kasich purchased the property out of an estate. The estate may have been controlled or administered by a campaign aide or partner. That suggests the land transaction may not have been an arm’s length deal. Or it may be that Kasich heard about a good buy on the real estate market and pounced. Either way, there is a possibility of insider trading.
I ask Bill for some clarification on the part about the estate sale may have involved close associates of Kasich. This could play out to be innocuous, then again it could not.
Still it’s weird to see the assessed value of property that was supposed to be in one of the hottest property markets in the County, during one of the hottest real estate markets ever, suddenly dip in value just when Kasich purchased it.
It’s actually called FCINO (Fiscal Conservative in Name Only), but it’s been dubbed “Demon Sheep”. The funniest thing is, they promise more of this! Joy!
