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It's obviously more goofy than anything -- no laws broken, nobody was married so no big deal there, etc. However, I look forward to the hilariously defensive reactions of people who would normally be up in arms about this sort of behavior.
My biggest worry about all this is that the NCAA makes Michigan forfeit something because Glen Rice got impermissible benefits.
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Seattle Zen
ID: 10732616 Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 12:59
Glen Rice got impermissible benefits
Benefits? Bah, Rice was just helping some local gal in need. He very well may have had her sign a slip and turned it in for community service.
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Tree
ID: 41512710 Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 13:33
She's racist. Remember?
she's also Ronald Reagan in a skirt, remember?
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DWetzel
ID: 53326279 Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 14:38
There's also a number of "exit polling" jokes here. Someone help me out.
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DWetzel
ID: 53326279 Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 17:20
Via Twitter:
"I wonder if Sarah Palin could see Russia while on top of Glen Rice."
Sarah Palin is a politician with a special place in her heart for the real, pro-America part of America, cities such as Detroit, Atlanta and Compton. Palin would love nothing better than an afternoon spent taking in the sights at Rucker Park.
�Helping to prevent her from getting her hands on power was one of my guiding goals...�I lost vast tracts of time and not a few T-cells trying to understand and expose this farce" - Andrew Sullivan
Well I'll be...those gays who took over the APA and at first tried to rewrite the DSM to include heterophobia were right afterall.
Coulter said that might be a weakness in the Republican Party as a whole — that certain individuals become celebrities and are allowed to profit off that status and yet still interfere in GOP politics, which Democrats have been able to avoid.
"And just a more corporate problem is I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party," she said. "I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people — as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that."
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sarge33rd
ID: 4717718 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 00:25
Watched the HBO docudrama "Game Change" the other day. Not sure why Palin is all upset about it, unless it is the truth which bothers her so much.
Like many who have left comments on various sites/reviews for the show have said, I too came back to hold McCain in more respect after the show, than I did before the show. Palin,my view was unchanged.
AC getting this one right, and spot on to boot, just goes to show that the rest of her dribble is deliberately so, just so SHE can make a buck off the rabid right. IOW, she has yet to admit, she is one of the charlatans of which she speaks.
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Boldwin
ID: 12214143 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 09:25
I saw the consultant McCain picked to steer Palin...
...on the Rachel Maddow show giggling and basking in the warm glow of Maddow's praises and approval.
One stomach turning sight that should forever banish her from GOP employment if there is any justice.
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Perm Dude
ID: 3210201915 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 11:21
Don't worry: The fact that she picked Palin has already done that for you.
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sarge33rd
ID: 4717718 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 12:27
"She" didnt pick Palin. Steve Schmidt was the strategist who did that. Nicole Wallace, is who B is referring to. Both have said, the film is accurate enough to be frightening.
Your bias B, is clearly showing. Try watching the movie and seeing a glimpse of what Palin put this gal through.
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Perm Dude
ID: 3210201915 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 12:50
I believe she was charged with helping to vet Palin, sarge. Ultimately, of course, Schmidt is responsible for putting forth her name, but the problem was the lack of vetting.
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sarge33rd
ID: 4717718 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 13:11
Wallace was a press secretary essentially, charged with prepping Palin for her interviews. Prep, which Palin refused to participate in and thus she was repeatedly embarassed by those interviews.
The campaign hired an agency to vet Palin, but gave them only a week to conduct the vetting process vs the usual 6-7 weeks. That massively reduced timeline, is what ultimately doomed the campaign. McCain, had wanted to name Leiberman as his VP candidate. But the campaigns internal polls, showed him still losing the election. Thus, the introduction of Palin, something./someone raqdically unexpected and intended to close the gender gap their internal polls showed.
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Perm Dude
ID: 3210201915 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 13:15
As I said at the time, he was too smart by half. His strongest argument against Obama, by far, was Obama's inexperience at the national stage, and he cut his own legs out from under himself with that Palin pick.
Obviously he hoped to pick up votes from women (particularly, Clinton supporters). But he killed his own best argument and the fact that Palin turned out to be, well, Palin only put a dagger into a corpse already bleeding out.
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Boldwin
ID: 12214143 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 13:20
but the problem was the lack of vetting.
Funniest line coming from an Obama lover.
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Perm Dude
ID: 3210201915 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 13:26
Heh. That word means something different than what you think it does. Vetting means getting out facts.
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Mith
ID: 23217270 Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 14:45
For him it means different things depending on the subject.
Vetting Obama means espousing every last birther rumor without a shred of scrutiny and well beyond it's thorough debunking and attributing to him the full worldview (or at least it's most disagreeable aspects or that which can be contorted into such) of every person he has ever had a conversation with.
Vetting Palin means ensuring she is willing to sufficiently demonize the political left at every turn with sufficient disregard for the principles of honesty and integrity.
Saw that this morning and bar none, the best comment to follow that article: This "brave" op-ed was mistakenly printed by the Los Angeles Times. Charlotte Allen wrote this for The Onion...
I know people personally who are big fans of hers (still) and genuinely were disappointed she didn't run this past year. I have no doubt that there are still a lot of people who would support her.