You forgot to add: “On someone else’s dime.”
I find this the most offensive thing you’ve posted in this thread, with all due respect.
I really hope that the Democrats do well for the sake of the country. But alas they will kiss the loony Left’s ass just like the Republicans did with the right wing fundies. Most of the country wants to be governed by rational people, people who understand what a balanced budget actually means.
I’m so tired of both political parties. Stop lying.
I barely make my mortgage payment each month so the last thing I want to hear about is a 700 billion bailout for the banking industry. How stupid can you be?
Whew. I feel better now.
That is NOT the same as declaring that God WILL open the door for her. She specifically said that she was waiting to see what God would do. You are twisting her words beyond recognition.
And even if she did believe that God wanted her to run, that’s not the same as declaring that she was going to win. It’s perfectly possible to believe that God wants her to run, but not necessarily to win. Why? As a learning experience, perhaps, or for reasons that may never become known to her. Christian theology is rife with examples of God using defeat, hardship, and suffering for some ultimate and unknown purpose (e.g. Job, Daniel, and the OT Joseph, to name just a few).
I suppose one could insist that waiting for God’s leading is equivalent to declaring one’s self to be God’s chosen leader of the free world. It’s not a logical inference, but one could insist on it anyway.
No, I don’t respect it. I find this to be the silliest thing you’ve posted in this entire thread.
just for the record, “with all due respect” isn’t a request that you respect the attached statement. It’s a characterization of the statement, despite its seeming tone, that claims the author is trying to be respectful of you. You can buy that or not, but it is not a yes-or-no question for you to answer.
You are getting sillier and sillier by the post, mswas. Now you’ve reduced yourself to simply stamping your foot and pouting “no.” Please tell us why you find sinjin’s post so silly.
What I want is for the McCain/Palin camp to act competent and truthful. All I see at the current moment is that they were criticized for overspending on her clothes, and they came up with a bullshit statement to the effect that it was “always the plan” to auction them off for charity. If it was always the plan, why is there no plan? It all seems to be an afterthought. IMHO, if we didn’t ask about it all the time, there would be no auction.
I’m also really tired of you telling me how busy poor Ms. Palin is. She’s busy because she wants to be busy. The state was running without her during the entire campaign, it can run another day while she gets her shit together. She spent most of the campaign refusing interviews, she can refuse interviews for another day. Or… she could just take care of both things, like an “experienced” executive.
I want to know when that fucking auction is, and who it benefits. They spent the entire campaign throwing lies and innuendo about their opponent, I’m not about to sit back and ignore yet another convenient lie, just because they lost.
Something occurred to me last night watching the Matt Lauer interview
Gov. Palin shows up in St. Paul. She discovers the GOP has provided her with a stylist.
Yet apparently, the GOP did not provide her with a good campaign attorney - someone who might say “between tax law and campaign finance law these clothes really aren’t a good idea.”
Or if they did, they let the stylist have a bigger voice than their counsel.
In some ways, she really sounded like someone who’d been simply pulled into a storm. I doubt she really knows election law (and it seems like she hasn’t gotten great tax advice in the past), and had I been in her shoes (either the ones from Wasilla or the ones from Neiman’s) I would have ASSUMED that advisors knew best. I’m no fan of Gov. Palin, and I tend to think this is another example of how unqualified she was for the job, but it seems McCain’s whole campaign was run by yahoos and idiots. Of course, the buck needs to stop with McCain and Palin themselves.
Well yeah it’s possible but not very likely. Did you see the video of her church praying for her to win the Governorship? My guess is that the mindset would be God wants her to win to institute their concept of a moral America which would include outlawing abortion and some kind of national ban on gay marriage. Then they’d start with book banning and making sure there was some Christian display on almost every public building.
It’s the type of Christianity that worries me. They are so sure they’re right and God likes them best that it justifies all the crap they pull and want to impose on others.
ftr, in the Fox interview she did say, “*If *it’s God’s will” but I wouldn’t be surprised a bit if a group encouraging her and raising money for her candidacy would be seen as an open door that she’d plow through.
Of course they did; the stylist was being paid more. :smack:
I doubt she knew campaign finance laws either. The question for me is did she personally insist on more clothes and high end very expensive clothes for her and her whole family. Reading about how she used Alaska’s funds to pay for family trips and a bonus while she was at home I get the idea that she feels she deserves those perks or she just grabs what she can.
The RNC tells her they’ll buy some clothes for the campaign. Did she then insist on much more than was originally planned? Did she pack up a bunch to take back to Alaska or was that a mistake? It only takes one set of clothes for the flight back right?
She denies that she has ever set foot in Nieman Marcus.
About 4:40 in.
Let me be a little bit clearer on why I find this offensive, mswas.
Most “main street women of the people” don’t binge on shopping at Saks or Neiman because they can’t afford it. Unless you are talking about them doing it on someone else’s dime which you seemed to imply by the “gleam in your eye” phrase. There are two ways to interpret this;
The most charitable is: You think “most main street women” would, if given the chance, act like kids in a candy shop. So you see “most main street women” as childishly immature with no impulse control. Or you believe most “main street women” are adults who would willingly trade (whore) their personal and professional integrity for a bunch of pretty clothes and fancy shoes. Neither is a very flattering.
Given your subsequent post, it’s clear you’re thinking whores.
Offensive? You betcha.
Say what? Look, either she’s an independent “bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan” kinda Republican gal that y’all like to go on about or she’s a weak, can’t make an independent decision without a man kinda Republican gal that y’all tend to romanticize. What does McCain have to do with Sarah’s undies or suits? Why is HE being blamed for her being on the take?
Yes, it is evidence of poor planning–as is taking such ridiculous advantage of Rep donors. It looks really bad to be so greedy–it’d look bad on anyone.
Who’s lighting torches? I just want her held to the standards that anyone else would be–and she needs to provide some answers and some clothes, pronto. The clothes don’t ever need to go into her closets in the first place, if she had no idea of keeping them.
Hate is a strong word and one I don’t use for someone I don’t know. Interesting how it must be personal for you, instead of a politician making very poor choices and being held accountable for it.
One would think that Palin and the whole RNC would be anxious to get this whole wardrobe-gate thing past them. During the foxnews interview, Palin clearly stated that they clothes have “all been boxed up and shipped back”, done deal.
So…all they need to do is hold a press conference, announcing that all the clothes and expenses have been accounted for and that Palin has returned every stitch of clothing and accessories bought for her.
So…why no press conference?
No what ‘With all due respect’ means is, “without any respect whatsoever”. It’s incredibly condescending, like your post assuming that I don’t know what it means.
She is a Governor of a state. You realize that right? She isn’t busy ‘because she wants to be busy’. She is doing her damn job. You act like there is some reason she should have made this her first and higher priority. Only because of your own prurient RO.
The earliest remark about the charity thing I saw was from an article dated Oct 22.
Are you really that incapable of understanding that the Vice President doesn’t hire and fire anybody? Is the organizational structure of a Presidential campaign really that baffling to you? She was a part of John McCain’s organization. You are pissed off that she didn’t go rogue enough and second guess every decision the McCain campaign made as it regards it’s own internal structure. To put it quite simply, she was not the boss.
More silly recreational outrage. As if Sex and the City isn’t one of the most popular shows for Main Street American women.
Because kowtowing to the whims of hateful liberals who are ungracious in victory isn’t her highest priority?
If I were her I would focus on the Governor’s conference in Miami too.
This is a fluff story that is totally irrelevant.