OMG! Escandalo! Sarah Palin had the State pay for her Wasilla-Juneau trips?!

DailyKos provides the hilarity.

But the Washington Post provides the meat tofu.

WaPo:

"The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show."

First of all -- does anyone understand that Juneau, AK is not accessable by car or train? She's not able to hop the Amtrak like Saint Joe Biden.

What's more fun is that they attack the Palin family for writing off their childrens' travels as State expenses:

"In separate filings, the state was billed about $25,000 for Palin's daughters' expenses and $19,000 for her husband's.

Flights topped the list for the most expensive items, and the daughter whose bill was the highest was Piper, 7, whose flights cost nearly $11,000, while Willow, 14, claimed about $6,000 and Bristol, 17, accounted for about $3,400."

So let's see.

Youngest daughter has the highest expense. Second youngest, second highest. Eldest? Lowest expense.

Do we see a correlation? You elect a mother to office with young children you bet your eye that those kids will travel with her. And if Sarah Palin flies somewhere on State business (in Alaska, where air-transport is basically the only way to get around the State, no less) her children fly with her.

So what is this? Sexist double-standard. You want mom to be with the kids, but cry foul when the State -- whose population elected her knowing she's a mother -- pays to have the kids tag along.

Give me something real. "Sarah Palin uses taxpayer money to send Piper Palin to boarding school," or something real. Then we talk.

"Piper Palin flies around with mom," is a non-starter. That line is sexist, anti-woman, and anti-working mother.

In a world where "progressives" think that the private sector should afford day-care services to mothers (on their own dime) it's now suddenly fair game that a mother elected to office dare bring her children with her for the same reason.

But, it's okay to attack on this angle. After all: Sarah Palin is a Republican! And as the Obama-Left warrants: the wrong kind of woman.

Give me a break. You elect a family, you pay for a family. You elect a working mom? Working mom brings the kids. What's the "progressive" alternative? A glass ceiling for working-mom politician? "Working moms must PAY THEIR OWN WAY?"

I don't see that double-standard for working dad politicians, or the media scrutinizing their wives' travels, or his children's travels.

But then again: in the "real world" of politics, mom stays home, smiles, bakes cookies, and doesn't need to travel. Well, unless it's travelling from the kitchen to the restroom for a "short break."

Get bent.

But the Kos diary puts it best:

"This isn't the magic bullet, but it's yet another in the line of drip-drip mini-scandals that, framed correctly by the Democrats, should completely destroy Palin's claims of being a different kind of Republican.

Me? I think it's more in the line of the "drip-drip-drip" of sweatbeads running off the noses of O-Bots nationwide that are terrified of Palin-mania.

You choose.

Chris Matthews: Sarah Palin is a VP/First Lady Hybrid

Oh, dear. Chris Matthews wins again with the denigration of women.

And remember: John Aravosis is throwing a little temper-tantrum over the loss of folks like Tweety here, and Keith Olbermann.

Newsbusters has the story and the video.

Fun for the whole family. You run for VP, ladies of America? You're really just a first lady.

Mrowr.

DailyKos on Sexism. It's rich, but so TL;DR.

Again: TL;DR is internet shorthand for "too long; didn't read."

Meteor Blades over at DailyKos (who is quite a supplier of Palin Derangement Syndrome himself) carries on:

"The party that defeated the Equal Rights Amendment, that has whittled away women’s reproductive choices for 35 years, that obstructs gender pay equity, despises sports equity, worked to sabotage affirmative action, objects to guaranteed family leave, panders to right-wing religionists’ views of women, wants to invade women's privacy, thinks violence against women isn’t worthy of legislation, and embraces at almost every opportunity to maintain the "traditional" role for women in society, now dares present itself as the party of feminist enlightenment."

And you know what? They're also the party that put a woman on their ticket, defended her against sexist smears (and it's funny to watch this guy spin that they aren't really sexist smears -- just smears), and selected a woman with conservative values but has never used her platform to dictate those beliefs as policy.

It bears repeating:
Sarah Palin has never used her elective office to enact any policy on abortion, same-sex rights (except, you know, vetoing a measure that would ban them in State employment), evolution in schools, or any other social platform that the Obama-Left wants to scream is "RELIGIOUS"!

Not. One.

More, no one -- lest of all Republicans -- are saying that Sarah Palin is "feminist enlightenment." By the same token, me saying Sarah Palin is not a gay hater does not mean I think she's some Republican gay-rights pariah.

But when you go into tirades such as this:

"They chose a creationist-backing, choice-denying, gay-rejecting, middle-class-wrecking, environment-ignoring, secession-promoting, right-wing religionist and second-string rookie who is so gravely unprepared for the job for which she has been selected out of the blue that she must be kept under wraps except when delivering a script."

Sarah Palin has "backed creationism" (subtext: CREATIONISM OR DEATH!) when?

Sarah Palin has "denied choice" (subtext: YOU MUST ALL HAVE YOUR BABIES OR DEATH!) when?

Sarah Palin was "gay rejecting" (subtext: INTO THE INCENERATOR WITH ALL HOMOS!) when?

Sarah Palin was "wrecking the middle class" (subtext: SHE IS ONLY FOR BIG OIL... but she wasn't?) when?

Sarah Palin was "environment ignoring" (subtext: SARAH PALIN WANTS TO TURN ALL OF ALASKA INTO A STRIP MINE) when?

Sarah Palin was "succession promoting" (subtext: SHE DOES NOT WANT TO BE A PART OF THE UNITED STATES, WHICH IS WHY SHE RAN FOR GOVERNOR ON THE TICKET OF ONE OF AMERICA'S TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES!) when?

Sarah Palin was "a right-wing religionist" (subtext: SHE BELIEVES ONLY IN THE BIBLE BUT NOT THE RULE OF LAW! Except, er, when she, er, said her State Supreme Court was right and signed same-sex State worker partner benefits into law...) when?

Sarah Palin is a "second-string rookie" (subtext: KILL HER! AAAHHH!! INEXPERIENCED!!!) compared to who again? Barack Obama? Is that right?

Check please.

They smear and smear, and then say the Republicans are full of it because they defend a woman of their own party. For me? Supporting a strong woman -- especially into the White House -- is a support of feminism. And I'm so glad that "Meteor Blades" acknowledges some surrogates are sexist. But that acknowledgement means little when you go on and on, defaming Sarah Palin and warping her into something she isn't.

He twists and turns, saying "Sarah Palin would never have been considered" if she were "Sam Palin." And? Geraldine Ferraro already beat you on that score years ago.

To wit: Would Barack Obama be where he is right now if his name were "Bernard O'Malley?"

I think not. You say that "some" people were sexist. Yeah, and by some, I hope you mean all of the Obama-Left. You pounced, and stroked your egos (amongst other things) salivating that "Women could NEVER identify with a Republican!"

It bears repeating:

I'm gay, and I identify with Sarah Palin. And your framing of her as some crazy-right, abortion-hating, religious fundie is because you fear her.

Just as you and your ilk feared Hillary Clinton, and smeared her by saying she was some war-mongering, secretly Republican, racist insider prone to cronyism.

The smears are still smears. Even if against that woman and Republican Sarah Palin.

Read this entire thing if you want, but it is hella TL;DR.

Bill Maher: Keeping it Classy.

Here's an mock "campaign ad" for Sarah Palin from Real Time with Bill Maher.

And, yes. It's one big sexist, classist smear:



Let's see:

Showing the image of moose having sex and then shifting to the Palins? Check.

Mock southern accent, trying to warrant the Palins are "hicks from the sticks?" Check.

"Even a fundamentalist Christian can do it!" while showing an image of a pregnancy test laying in the snow, getting urinated on? Check.

Available at "Wasilla Bait & Tackle" again warranting the Palins are no more than redneck hicks? Check.


Keep it classy, Bill Maher. I find it sexist, classist, and completely reprehensible.

Obama-Left bloggers can't help themselves.

Here's a fun, vapid ditty by A. Brooks over at The Land of Smears known as Huffington Post:

"Do we want a president who cannot communicate to their own child that possibly having a baby a year after you get your driver's license is not the smartest thing to do? Is this the new way for women to break the glass ceiling? To have their daughters throw their babies at it? I want my president to control their children, then they can tell the Navy what to do."

More misogyny. Because Sarah Palin is the wrong kind of woman! She's using her daughter's baby to shatter that ceiling!

Sound familiar? Does this mean Sarah Palin is pimping her daughter, like someone else was accused of doing?

Or maybe Michelle Obama will come out, like this Obama-Left blogger has done, and say that Sarah Palin can't run her own house, so how could she run the White House?

This isn't one wackjob in the wind putting up vapid diaries on the HuffPo. This is indicative of the Obama-Left's desire to go to any depths to smear a strong woman and her family.

What I do think of Andrew Sullivan.

Oh, Andy!

He's always a treasure trove of smears. And while I despise linking to him, I'd prefer to showcase his own special brand of mommy-hating insanity to the universe.

First up:

What do the Brits think of Sarah Palin?

Not only is he so audacious that he would outright state that this thought-provoking global reflection is happening "somewhere" in Britain (SMRT!), but quotes the topic question:

"Why is being a soccer mom a qualification for being the second in command of the so-called global superpower?"

Calm down. Breathe, senor. "THE SOCCER MOM!"

But the fun doesn't stop there. Suffering from chronic Palin Derangement Syndrome, Sullivan continues with:

"The Softer Side of a F'ing Redneck
(Because men, you know, owning up to his responsibility as an integral component of a pregnancy is so reprehensible.)

Or

Sarah Palin DRINKS A MOCHA! STOP THE PRESSES!
(Because, you know, small-town hicks shouldn't be hanging out with the likes of us at Starbucks. Oh, and nevermind his cracks on post-pregnancy women dealing with fitness.)

Or

Sarah Palin's CHURCH! Aiieee! Blow the whistle and klang the klaxons, as Andy is so masochistic he really wants to bring Reverand Wright back up!

And, most fun:

Even though Michael Moore says that smearing Sarah is a losing strategy, I will continue to do so because I am entitled to my vatic opinion!


Andrew Sullivan is the gift that keeps on giving, because his deep-seeded mommy hate unveils the absolute worst of the Obama-Left. He was no friend of Hillary Clinton, and he sure does despise Governor Palin. And as he makes it abundantly clear:

He hates women. Period.

Andrew Sullivan will go anywhere and do anything to shore up the worst of muck on Governor Palin. He'll fling it at his Obama-Left readers -- ready and willing to feed from the gossip trough -- and sit back and cry that he's just investigating the questions on everyone's mind.

You know, Andy -- those questions are not on my mind.

And I didn't call for Gov. Palin to essentially show us the videotape of her birthing Trig Palin to prove he is actually her son. That's not on my mind.

So, he wants to pose the question: What do the Brits think of Sarah Palin?

I reply with: What I do think of Andrew Sullivan.

And the answer is: Andrew Sullivan is another faux-gressive gay man with a lot of deep-seeded mother issues, willing to latch on to any smear to fling at that redneck woman.

What do you think of Andrew Sullivan?

Is she?

Is Sarah Palin "racist, sexist, vindictive, and mean?"



Or are you, Obama-Left?

The delicious irony of photos continue. "Is she sexist? Well, let's put up a 1980's photo of her, to essentially warrant this Governor is really no more than beauty-queen Miss Congeniality!"

Irony.

On Smears: "What the VP Does."

One of the reasons I started this blog and became such an ardent defender of Governor Sarah Palin is because I knew -- immediately -- that if she were to be selected that this quote would be used against her:



Naturally, the Obama-Left delivered. Naturally, they've clipped this quote to make Sarah Palin sound dumb.

Watch the embedded video and understand. Sarah Palin is an executive. She directs policy for an entire State. She is used to working for her constituents, and would not want to be in a ceremonial position.

Obama-Left, you can't do this. This is probably the primary source of my hatred of the smears, and opened my eyes to the "do anything to win" mentality of the Obama campaign. I saw this interview well before Sarah Palin was selected as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate.

And I saw it coming from a million miles away.

Let the woman speak. Framing her as an idiot, a fool, or as one of those ig'nant wimmin! betrays your so-called "progressive" values.

I admire a woman who does not want to be ceremonial window dressing. I expected you to do the same.

But, I guess my expectations are too high. After all, you were in the tank for someone like Barack Obama.

Contrast.

This is pretty much all you need to know about the Obama-Left's Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome.



Delicious irony.
OR
Objectivity, indeed.


But I mean, how arrogant it is for Sarah Palin to run per John McCain's request! That Republican woman needs to take off her shoes, have another baby, and get back in the kitchen!

Her arrogance is hurting America.

... Or, rather, it's hurting the Obama-Left.

Besides, we of more sensible minds can pinpoint the true personification of arrogance in this election.

Make no mistake: the Netroots are no friend to Progressivism.

I read this filth so that you don't have to. But here's the link if you have the stomach."

For those that don't, here're highlights:

"John McCain: Climbing the Ladder One Woman at a Time"

"Does anyone besides me think that Cindy McCain's eyes are weird?"
"Oh yes. If you stare at them too long your soul will liquify."

"You ever pull a cat's ears back? They get a weird staring look like a Martian. That's the Cindy McCain look."

Or you can have fun with this:

"You can put lipstick on a pitbull... but it's still a nasty, brutish, and cruel beast."
"Pitbulls really don't deserve that bad rap nearly as much as Palin does."

"isn't lipstick usually reserved for the pig?"

Yeah. Markos Moulitsas allows this type of attack, unquestioned. It's a good way to "energize the base."

The Netroots are no friend to progressives, and in allowing and courting their support, neither are the candidates they seek to hold office.

DailyKos Needs a Babysitter

Latest smear:



HOLY CRAP! THAT WOMAN!

She needs some support. Because, after all, how could a woman run for office...

... or... something...

... yeah.

And McCain in PEARLS?! Why, let's not just be sexist -- let's be homophobic, too! Because we know those evil republicans eat up sexism and homophobia!

Lick it, netroots. I've gotten enough pro-gay commentary from Republicans for me speaking out -- and that's more than I would ever get for cow-towing a line for manipulating us as a base. Americans stick by American principles, and not sabre-rattling.

Anyway:
The Obama-Left -- and I call it the OBAMA-Left, so my conservative bretheren understand we gays amongst you, we women amongst you (even if I'm not a woman), and we Hillary supporters on the left amongst you aren't quite the same as the Obama-Left -- don't get it and won't get it.

Sarah Palin hit it out of the park. And so -- they (the Obama-Left) spin. Ultimately: to smear Sarah Palin as a "babysitter" only proves that the Obama-Left hate women, hate strong women, and definitely hate strong conservative women.

Prove 'em wrong Palin. Fight for America.

"Shrill."

Via my favorite Mommy-Hating Gay, John Aravosis:

Harry Reid (via Johnny!):

"Shrill and sarcastic political attacks may fire up the Republican base, but they don't change the fact that a McCain-Palin administration would mean four more years of failed Bush-Cheney policies."

Party of women? I think not.

Women are "shrill."

The Democrats said it first.

Stop smearing Governor Palin.

Bias and Smars. Obama = Good Father. Palin = SCANDAL!

OK Magazine gives its readers their own choice in following the Presidential Race:

Anti-Sarah Palin?


Or Pro-Barack Obama?


Michelle Malkin has already covered the double-standard from Us Magazine regarding coverage of "The One" and Gov. Palin.

But OK Magazine does it in one week, same issue.

You can either read how the Obama Left is so great, or how the Obama Left is so great compared to that sinister woman's baby scandal!

You can read a ton of fluff about how great of a Father Barack Obama is -- all the fun they have together and the bed-time stories!

Or you can learn the "real truth" about Sarah Palin's infant son. And, naturally, the SCANDAL! about her family (read: "What a HORRIBLE mother and person!")

Obama-Left Media at their finest.

Smears on Class and Gender

Again, Anglachel gets it. Anglachel discusses the Netroots' desire to slander Palin not just because she's a woman. Not just because she's Republican. But because she's working class.

I have more to write today as we gear up for Palin's speech this evening. Hopefully I'll get around to it!

Andrew Sullivan: Another Palin-Smearing Shame to Gays

Oh, Andrew:

"As far as I can tell, her response to this central issue of national security was three-fold: I don't know enough to have an opinion apart from what I hear on the news, I agree with the Democratic party's focus on the welfare and safety of the troops, I'm a loyal Republican and patriot, and [selectively quoting Sarah Palin herself] 'I want to know that we have an exit plan in place.'"

I swear. Am I the only gay around that doesn't have some deep-rooted mommy-hate? Make no mistake, my Conservative bretheren: some of us gays have family values and maternal respect, too.

Andrew Sullivan again highlights and smears Sarah Palin on "experience." But never forget he's a deranged Obama cheerleader; and Obama, I might add, raised his "discussion" on the Iraq war based nothing more on the news and his own, limited, Chicago South Side liberal constituency.

Obama panders; Palin delivered. Palin saying...

"I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."

... is now some sort of demerit? Way to artificially prop up the "dumb bimbo meme," Andy. She's focused on her elective office. Her job. And in my job, I must say I was focused on my day to day tasks as an employee rather than waxing poetic on the Iraq War.

Or, in your case, sitting behind a laptop -- fueled with PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) -- waxing poetic on what Sarah Palin should have said as a Governor when she had no capability to effect any policy on the War. But, oh. Wait. That's exactly what you're doing. Talking the talk, but not walking the walk. Whoops!

But, then again, you're the same guy that's warranting that Obama simply talking about the war in 2002 -- when he, like Palin, had no ability to influence the policy -- is a sign of superior judgement.

Andrew: get a comfort blankie, and get some girlfriends. Maybe then you won't demand that the McCain campaign essentialy show a photo of Sarah Palin breast-feeding her kid to put your fragile mind at ease over the ridiculous Trig Palin smears. But, you know. Women. Ick.

PDS abound.

Women's Work.

Oh, David Axelrod. You're so adorable that it hurts!

"Palin may add some gender diversity to their ticket, but she doesn’t add any philosophical diversity. Hillary is a huge asset for us, and we want her out there, though we would have wanted her out there regardless of Palin."

Trust. David Axelrod believes in Harvey Dent. Two-Face much?

At any rate. It's fun to watch how the Obama campaign is now so terrified of Sarah Palin's "insulting" emergence as a female contender.

You're "insulted," Obama-Left? Should have picked Clinton as your running mate.

So stop smearing Sarah Palin as some sort of CRAZY WRONG WOMAN!

She isn't. And she's not. It's not McCain's/Palin's fault you're having buyer's remorse. I mean, after all, Joe Biden is so experienced.

But kudos on the same O-Fanatics and smear-extraordinaires like David Axelrod -- mastermind behind "Geraldine Ferraro is RACIST!" -- to now say that Hillary Clinton has to carry their weight, and not post-partisan "new kind of politics!" everyman Barack Obama.

Why don't you have Claire McCaskill go shill on Barack's behalf toward the women? Oh. That's right. She has no credibility left.

What is so terrifying about Sarah Palin? That she's a strong, capable woman of a different party? And now that evil Hillary is the only person who can stop her? And I'll believe Hillary's "bitter" when I hear it from her own mouth.

Now who's engaging in those crass "pandering" politics?

Oh, women's work.

Huffington Post -- Staying Classy

I love saying "classy." Simply because I find the word "classy" to be antithetical to the meaning of the term "classy." So when I call you classy, it's an insult. Check it.

Anyway, via the front page of the Huffington Post (I won't link for your sanity; Google it yourselves you sad, sick voyeurs!):



OH! What a coincidence!

Some "Conservatives" air "Concerns" over Governor Sarah Palin!

And the advertisement right below? Why, it's a Sarah Palin mock-up, rocking (well, I guess I shouldn't say "rocking," really) a shirt that says:

"Assistant Regional Manager."

What a lovely, subtle dig at Governor Palin's "experience." Because we all know Barack Obama is the most prophetic, experienced man in the land.

Want me to advertise a shirt saying "Walgreens Assistant Manager" with an African American who looks suspiciously like Barack Obama? Oh, is that racist?

Then stop your sexism on Palin.

Troll elsewhere, Huff-Po.

Attack Palin on policy. Not on her identity or resume. This is beyond ridiculous.

"She's Good Looking!" x2.

Thanks, HotAir!

Not only does Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden ham it up dismissing Sarah Palin as "good looking," but Barack Obama did the same about one of his own Party Members.

I hate to bring beauty queen, former aspiring actress MI-Gov Jennifer Granholm into the mix again, because I think she's great, but it begs repeating considering the Obama surrogates want to trash Palin over this. After all, I support Granholm. She's a great politician, does well for Michigan, and was a Clinton supporter. But this video of Obama is damning.

Here is Barack Obama with Jennifer Granholm and Debbie Stabenow, stumping for their '06 re-election campaigns. And what did Obama have to say about Jennifer Granholm?

Obama: "And then you got this Governor [Granholm]. Some people think I'm biased because she went to Harvard Law School like me. But that's not the reason I'm here. Some people think -- and I gotta be careful cuz her husband's here -- but that I'm here just because she's one of the finer lookin' politicians. But everybody knows it, I mean! [To First Gentleman Dan Mulhern] There's no point in denying it! There's a reason why you married her! You're no dummy! But that's not why I'm here!"

Random Crowd Member: "You Sure?"

Laugher interspliced. Classy all around. For sure.

Watch it here, and skip to 6:40 for the goods.

Democrats: stop attacking Sarah Palin on this line. Stop berating her based on her looks, on her former career, and based on her personal life. It's a non-starter, and counter productive.

Respect Sarah Palin as a politician and person and disagree with her on policy. I can't say it enough.

But it you want to watch the whole Obama-Granholm-Stabenow video, I'm sure you'll be thrilled at how much he talks about himself rather than the candidates he's supposedly assisting.

Because with Obama, it's all about "ME!" Even in 2006.

With Palin, it's all about assassinating her character. Based on one speech.