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1 garhighway  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:27:51am

She’s playing to her base and picking up coin.

For her, that’s win-win.

2 Ghost of a Dopefish  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:28:25am

re: #1 garhighway

She’s playing to her base and picking up coin.

For her, that’s win-win.

Win-win for her. Lose-lose for those of us with more than a shred of sanity left.

3 Ming  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:28:55am

Well, why not? Other than shootin’, what does Sarah Palin have to talk about?

4 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:30:02am

She needs an Opera singer in a tuxedo to follow her and sing “MISTAKE!”

5 Lidane  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:30:33am

Because really, it’s the height of Presidential gravitas and seriousness to go to speak at a gun show while a member of Congress is in the hospital after being shot in the head.

I understand that this was likely booked in advance of the shooting, but still. Would it kill this woman to show even the slightest bit of empathy or class?

6 Talking Point Detective  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:31:18am

Well - she does need to stock up before Obama comes to take her guns away.

7 Ghost of a Dopefish  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:32:09am

re: #5 Lidane

I understand that this was likely booked in advance of the shooting, but still. Would it kill this woman to show even the slightest bit of empathy or class?

You know, politicians and others often cancel appearances at events after a major tragedy, out of respect for the victims. But then, nobody ever credited Palin with an abundance of respect for anyone or anything.

8 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:32:19am

re: #5 Lidane

Because really, it’s the height of Presidential gravitas and seriousness to go to speak at a gun show while a member of Congress is in the hospital after being shot in the head.

I understand that this was likely booked in advance of the shooting, but still. Would it kill this woman to show even the slightest bit of empathy or class?

They just announced it. Apparently Palin was booked after the shooting.

9 garhighway  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:32:37am

re: #2 thedopefishlives

Win-win for her. Lose-lose for those of us with more than a shred of sanity left.

Agree, but she could care less about us.

2012 is going to be interesting. If she wants the GOP nomination, I think she probably gets it. In a crowded early field, she’ll have her stalwart 40% or so of the primary voters that will go with her no matter what, and the 4 - 6 others will fragment the rest. When the others start to drop out and the field narrows, she’ll be able to focus on the one or two serious competitors and go negative on them (especially if they are moderates).

I think she’s a non-starter in the general, but I think she gets there.

10 albusteve  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:33:30am

I wonder if she fires her Glock sideways?

[Link: www.everydaynodaysoff.com…]

11 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:33:50am

maybe she’ll learn how to shoot

//

12 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:34:00am

re: #10 albusteve

I wonder if she fires her Glock sideways?

[Link: www.everydaynodaysoff.com…]

Kill shot!

13 Lidane  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:34:00am

re: #8 Charles

They just announced it. Apparently Palin was booked after the shooting.

She booked this AFTER the shooting? Wow. That’s just pathetic, and completely tone deaf.

I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt since most of these things are booked in advance. Booking a gun show after this tragedy is just wrong.

14 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:34:15am

re: #8 Charles

They just announced it. Apparently Palin was booked after the shooting.

Talk about tone deaf.

15 Skeetghazi  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:34:40am

Don’t retreat, reload bitches!

16 Ghost of a Dopefish  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:35:08am

re: #8 Charles

They just announced it. Apparently Palin was booked after the shooting.

And you just _know_ she’s going to make some completely insensitive wisecrack about the shooting. While she’s at it, she could make an ironic joke about shooting herself in the foot - that’s about all she’s going to accomplish.

17 albusteve  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:35:37am

re: #11 Dreggas

maybe she’ll learn how to shoot

//

spray and pray

18 Jeff In Ohio  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:38:24am

I read in our community weekly that Sarah will be MC at the Taste of Colerain next summer with musical acts The Real Turtles, Grinderswitch and Foghat.

19 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:39:42am

re: #11 Dreggas

maybe she’ll learn how to shoot

//

Nah, they can just edit the target to the ground.

20 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:40:08am

Rock around the Glock?

21 jamesfirecat  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:41:20am

re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

She needs an Opera singer in a tuxedo to follow her and sing “MISTAKE!”

Poor guy would get a sore throat in no time.

(I also love Scrubs)

22 albusteve  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:41:24am

re: #19 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Nah, they can just edit the target to the ground.

first round, center mass….next nine straight through without even touching the paper!

23 jamesfirecat  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:42:04am

re: #8 Charles

They just announced it. Apparently Palin was booked after the shooting.

*DING* Bottom floor…. going down. *DING*

24 MarkAM  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:42:29am

Her ego is so limitless that I can imagine her mounting an independent run, if she falters in the early primaries.

She certainly seems tone-deaf to the sane among us, but she has perfect pitch for a certain constituency. Don’t know if it’s been referenced here, but this take is very interesting:

[Link: www.nationaljournal.com…]

25 elizajane  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:42:57am

re: #5 Lidane

I understand that this was likely booked in advance of the shooting, but still. Would it kill this woman to show even the slightest bit of empathy or class?

That sounds like a threat to me, you crazy violent liberal.
///

26 drool  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:44:16am

She could use some firearms safety instruction. Maybe it’s inlcuded in her compensation.

27 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:44:24am

re: #5 Lidane

Would it kill this woman to show even the slightest bit of empathy or class?

and an advocate of “class warfare”.

28 Interesting Times  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:44:32am

re: #25 elizajane

“Sarah Palin knows angry speech isn’t a call to violence. Unless it’s angry speech directed at Sarah Palin in which case it is a call to violence.” – Stephen Colbert

29 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:45:23am

re: #21 jamesfirecat

Poor guy would get a sore throat in no time.

(I also love Scrubs)

Originally a Dana Gould joke.

30 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:45:52am

I guess she realizes at this point that her only invitations are going to come from gun fans, so she cannot afford to say no.

31 albusteve  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:46:24am

re: #30 ralphieboy

I guess she realizes at this point that her only invitations are going to come from gun fans, so she cannot afford to say no.

that’s a lot of fans

32 Kronocide  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:48:08am

re: #8 Charles

They just announced it. Apparently Palin was booked after the shooting.

Is she teaching any shooting methods or marksmanship classes?

33 garhighway  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:50:00am

re: #24 MarkAM

Her ego is so limitless that I can imagine her mounting an independent run, if she falters in the early primaries.

She certainly seems tone-deaf to the sane among us, but she has perfect pitch for a certain constituency. Don’t know if it’s been referenced here, but this take is very interesting:

[Link: www.nationaljournal.com…]

I agree.

We have to remember the audience she is playing to: one that devoutly believes that the 2nd amendment confers an unlimited right to own and carry weapons, one that believes that such right ought to be vigorously exercised at all times, and one that believes there was zero connection between violent political rhetoric and the Tuscon tragedy. To dial back on these sorts of appearances would be completely inconsistent with the positions she has taken and the persona she has so carefully crafted. She’s “all in”, and there’s no turning back for her.

Many of us think she is a lightweight, and many of us have really fundamental disagreements with her positions. But you underestimate this woman at your peril.

34 elizajane  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:51:26am

A commentator on Frum who attends this convention yearly points out that this is the SAFARI CLUB, not gun-toting rednecks. The Safari Club is, apparently, a bunch of wildly wealthy Republicans. They are not buying Glocks, they are buying expensive “wildlife art” and $200,000 elephant guns (I kid you not) while brandishing their conservation credentials. They hunt with guides in Africa, not with shotguns in Appalachia.

Possibly, of course, she is planning to have them all join hands and sing “Kumbaya,” before they donate their money to African orphanages.

35 albusteve  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:52:18am

re: #33 garhighway

I agree.

We have to remember the audience she is playing to: one that devoutly believes that the 2nd amendment confers an unlimited right to own and carry weapons, one that believes that such right ought to be vigorously exercised at all times, and one that believes there was zero connection between violent political rhetoric and the Tuscon tragedy. To dial back on these sorts of appearances would be completely inconsistent with the positions she has taken and the persona she has so carefully crafted. She’s “all in”, and there’s no turning back for her.

Many of us think she is a lightweight, and many of us have really fundamental disagreements with her positions. But you underestimate this woman at your peril.

to say she cannot win the GOP nomination is naive

36 Lidane  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:54:48am

re: #35 albusteve

to say she cannot win the GOP nomination is naive

Winning the nomination is one thing. Winning the general election is another.

There’s no doubt she can win the GOP nomination. Can she beat Obama? Not likely.

37 garhighway  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:54:55am

re: #35 albusteve

to say she cannot win the GOP nomination is naive

Agreed. I think she has a really good shot at it. (No pun intended.)

38 MarkAM  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:55:43am

re: #37 garhighway

Agreed. I think she has a really good shot at it. (No pun intended.)

Same here, and my comment about an independent run was not intended to suggest otherwise.

39 Big Steve  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:56:59am

To: Staff
From: Sarah Palin
Subject: Memo - Need Great Quote

To all my staff members, please, please, think of a “from my cold dead hands” signature line for my upcoming speech at the gun convention. Needs to be snappy and sound bite worthy.

40 elizajane  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 10:58:47am

re: #37 garhighway

Agreed. I think she has a really good shot at it. (No pun intended.)

There you go, accusing Saint Sarah of violence again, you liberal coward!

41 Ghost of Sionainn  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:00:35am

re: #8 Charles

They just announced it. Apparently Palin was booked after the shooting.

If you look at their registration form, there is an option to buy single event tickets for Palin which makes me think that she has been booked for longer than just a week ago.

It probably hasn’t even crossed her mind that she should cancel.

42 CuriousLurker  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:00:55am

OT - The Guardian’s Paris correspondent is on the ground in Tunisia if anyone’s interested in following her: @achrisafis

43 mr.fusion  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:01:23am

re: #24 MarkAM

She certainly seems tone-deaf to the sane among us, but she has perfect pitch for a certain constituency.

Her support is becoming an inch wide and a mile deep

44 albusteve  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:01:37am

re: #36 Lidane

Winning the nomination is one thing. Winning the general election is another.

There’s no doubt she can win the GOP nomination. Can she beat Obama? Not likely.

she probably wouldn’t want to win the general…but to be elevated to the Queen Of The GOP would be priceless to her….cha ching!

45 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:01:47am

re: #16 thedopefishlives

And you just _know_ she’s going to make some completely insensitive wisecrack about the shooting. While she’s at it, she could make an ironic joke about shooting herself in the foot - that’s about all she’s going to accomplish.

What she’s going to do is tell the gun con attendees that the Evil Forces of Darkness are trying to pin all sorts of bad stuff on them, but they are the Real Americans. TM.

46 Ghost of Sionainn  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:03:07am

re: #42 CuriousLurker

OT - The Guardian’s Paris correspondent is on the ground in Tunisia if anyone’s interested in following her: @achrisafis

Any word on what’s happening in Algeria? My stupid sister is there right now apparently marrying some dude she just met a little over a month ago on the internet. It’s been four days and she hasn’t posted updates like she said she would.

47 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:03:30am

re: #36 Lidane

Winning the nomination is one thing. Winning the general election is another.

There’s no doubt she can win the GOP nomination. Can she beat Obama? Not likely.

I doubt she can win the GOP nomination.

48 kilroy  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:03:41am

What happens with Donald Trump added for gravitas?

49 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:04:04am

re: #30 ralphieboy

I guess she realizes at this point that her only invitations are going to come from gun fans, so she cannot afford to say no.

Not from all gun fans though. Feh.

50 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:04:56am

re: #46 Sionainn

Any word on what’s happening in Algeria? My stupid sister is there right now apparently marrying some dude she just met a little over a month ago on the internet. It’s been four days and she hasn’t posted updates like she said she would.

Um. Generally I do not advise marrying people one met a month ago on the Internet.

If they’re from Algeria, that goes quintuple.

But you probably didn’t need me to tell you that.

51 Skeetghazi  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:06:08am

re: #46 Sionainn

Any word on what’s happening in Algeria? My stupid sister is there right now apparently marrying some dude she just met a little over a month ago on the internet. It’s been four days and she hasn’t posted updates like she said she would.

I could not help myself. I laughed.

52 makeitstop  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:09:29am

Careful with the criticism, guys. It could incite violence. ////

53 Ghost of Sionainn  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:09:30am

re: #50 SanFranciscoZionist

Um. Generally I do not advise marrying people one met a month ago on the Internet.

If they’re from Algeria, that goes quintuple.

But you probably didn’t need me to tell you that.

She’s pulled some bone-headed moves, but this takes the cake. Her husband divorced her earlier this year. She’s got 4 kids, one just graduated, one in elementary school and two in junior high. Three of the kids have problems. They are Mormon, this dude is Muslim. My sister has apparently converted…not sure how that’s going to work with the kids being Mormon. Oh, and he’s 11 years younger than she is. I let her have it, pulling no punches, but it didn’t do any good.

The only consolation is that it’ll likely be a long time before they can get him a visa to come over here. Maybe she’ll wise up in the meantime…that is, if nothing has happened to her while she’s over there.

54 Ghost of Sionainn  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:10:03am

re: #51 Stanley Sea

I could not help myself. I laughed.

I’m so pissed that I can’t laugh, but I can see how it sounds funny from the outside. :-)

55 Tigger2  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:13:43am

Damn if she doesn’t keep hitting the same tone, the trouble with that is she is tone deft to how the majority of the country feels.

56 Tigger2  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:16:38am

re: #55 Tigger2

Damn if she doesn’t keep hitting the same tone, the trouble with that is she is tone deft to how the majority of the country feels.


deaf not deft.

57 Skeetghazi  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:16:56am

re: #54 Sionainn

I’m so pissed that I can’t laugh, but I can see how it sounds funny from the outside. :-)

Well now that I read more of the story, holy hell. Not laughing anymore. Hope she’s OK and gets her head back. Algeria????

58 jaunte  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:19:08am

re: #34 elizajane

A commentator on Frum who attends this convention yearly points out that this is the SAFARI CLUB, not gun-toting rednecks. The Safari Club is, apparently, a bunch of wildly wealthy Republicans. They are not buying Glocks, they are buying expensive “wildlife art” and $200,000 elephant guns (I kid you not) while brandishing their conservation credentials. They hunt with guides in Africa, not with shotguns in Appalachia.


She’s taking the Willie Sutton approach.

59 Yashmak  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:19:51am

She was booked AFTER the shooting? Jeez. Unbelieveable.

She might as well wrap up her speech with “And folks, I’d rather take a bullet to the head than give up my right to carry guns.” That’d be about the only way she could make this appearance any worse, publicity-wise.

60 Ghost of Sionainn  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:19:57am

re: #57 Stanley Sea

Well now that I read more of the story, holy hell. Not laughing anymore. Hope she’s OK and gets her head back. Algeria???

If there’s a choice between a bad decision and a good decision, she’ll pick the bad decision every single time. At this point, I really don’t give a crap what she personally does, but I do care about my niece and nephews who already have had their lives disrupted this year and have their own problems to deal with without this added to the mix. She should wait until they are grown and on their own before she does stupid things like this.

61 CuriousLurker  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:21:36am

re: #46 Sionainn

Any word on what’s happening in Algeria? My stupid sister is there right now apparently marrying some dude she just met a little over a month ago on the internet. It’s been four days and she hasn’t posted updates like she said she would.

Oh gosh, you must be worried sick. No, I haven’t heard anything about Algeria. I’ll post it if I do though. Prayers for you sis.

62 Ghost of Sionainn  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:22:25am

re: #61 CuriousLurker

Oh gosh, you must be worried sick. No, I haven’t heard anything about Algeria. I’ll post it if I do though. Prayers for you sis.

Thanks. I appreciate it.

63 CuriousLurker  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:24:20am

re: #62 Sionainn

Thanks. I appreciate it.

And her kids too—especially them.

64 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:39:30am

re: #34 elizajane

A commentator on Frum who attends this convention yearly points out that this is the SAFARI CLUB, not gun-toting rednecks. The Safari Club is, apparently, a bunch of wildly wealthy Republicans. They are not buying Glocks, they are buying expensive “wildlife art” and $200,000 elephant guns (I kid you not) while brandishing their conservation credentials. They hunt with guides in Africa, not with shotguns in Appalachia.

Possibly, of course, she is planning to have them all join hands and sing “Kumbaya,” before they donate their money to African orphanages.

True, it’s not like a gun show at the Iowa County Fair.

But guns are the reason why this show exists, and they’re a huge part of it.

65 CarleeCork  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:40:35am

re: #5 Lidane

Because really, it’s the height of Presidential gravitas and seriousness to go to speak at a gun show while a member of Congress is in the hospital after being shot in the head.

I understand that this was likely booked in advance of the shooting, but still. Would it kill this woman to show even the slightest bit of empathy or class?


You can’t show what you don’t have.

66 William of Orange  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 11:53:27am

This is worse than driving to an AA-meeting white intoxicated….

67 efuseakay  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 12:34:40pm

She probably had this set up before the shooting… just a gut feeling… but she won’t cancel…

A) She probably doesn’t realize just how plain ignorant this is.
B) All she wants is $ and fame. Screw everyone else in this world.
C) All of the above.

68 Yashmak  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 1:21:46pm

re: #67 efuseakay

She probably had this set up before the shooting… just a gut feeling… but she won’t cancel…

I think someone already pointed out that she was indeed booked AFTER the shooting.

69 Ming  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 4:07:51pm

Sarah Palin is in love with a soundbite: Barack Obama’s comment about people who cling to guns and religion. Actually, I think Obama listed quite a few more things in that sentence that people cling to, but Palin pulled out guns and religion. She loves that soundbite; it’s so mean! Guns are pretty much part of the “Palin brand”. But let’s not say she’s shallow; she can also do a great “you betcha”.

70 im_gumby_damnit  Fri, Jan 14, 2011 9:28:41pm

Sarah Palin. I hate it when people exhaust their 15 minutes of fame and don’t have the common decency and good judgment to just go away.

71 samgak  Sat, Jan 15, 2011 6:12:11am

Wow. Palin has moved past “insensitive”, then onto and beyond “obnoxious” and “offsensive” and is now rapidly bearing down on “trolling IRL”.


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