How Dumb is Sarah Palin?
Okay, it’s the liberal blogging equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel, but Gov. Palin just extended Christmas a wee bit. Special thanks to the folks at The Mudflats for finding this gem. The interview with Gov. Pain took place over at Human Events.
GIZZI: You made it clear in our interviews earlier this year that you were not close to fellow Republicans Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young from your state, both of whom you said had a different vision of Alaska’s dealings with the federal government than you did. Were you pleased with the election of Democrat Mark Begich who defeated Stevens and with the re-election of Rep. Young?
PALIN: I met yesterday with Sen.-elect Begich to see that we are on the same page as we move forward as he starts his new job representing Alaska.
I thought that Sen. Stevens was going to be re-elected, and it was so close, and that if he were to step aside because he was convicted [on corruption charges], then I would get to appoint a Republican. So I was kind of surprised at the outcome there.
It is what it is, and I wish Sen. Begich well. We’ll work well together. He’s going to be in the majority party and that’s all the more reason for Mark Begich and me to work closely together. We will.
Um, Gov. Palin, no, you wouldn’t have had the opportunity to pick Stevens’ successor. I’ll let the folks from The Mudflats explain.
If you didn’t get it, I’ll remind you of the background. And keep in mind while I recount, that Sarah Palin was Frank Murkowski’s immediate successor. She ran for Lt. Governor in 2002 when all this started. She was not living in the woods, subsistence hunting, and cut off from civilization.
Once upon a time Alaska had a Senator named Frank Murkowski. He and Ted Stevens were Alaska’s senators for a long, long time. Then, Murkowski decided that he was going to run for governor. So he ran, and he won. Now came the question of who would succeed Frank in his Senate seat. All the Republicans in the state who felt they were qualified, puffed up their chests, and preened their feathers, and paraded themselves in front of the Senator-now-Governor hoping to be “the chosen one.” This was one of the big power seats in the state, and they don’t come open that often.
And finally, after reviewing the candidates, he made his decision. Frank chose his daughter, Lisa Murkowski to fill his seat. She was a state representative at the time, and Frank decided to hand the crown to the next generation. Everyone who wasn’t Lisa Murkowski went ballistic. There was hand-wringing, gnashing of teeth, kicking of dogs, and Republicans and Democrats alike across the state were seeing red. It was a huge, big, fat, major deal.
Great stuff. Maybe it was in one of those newspapers that is put in front of Sarah Palin that she read every morning.
Or should voters hold a special election, foregoing the continuity, in favor of keeping control over who actually gets the seat.
The special election won hands down. The governor was stripped of the power of appointment. And during the same election that this ballot measure passed, Lisa Murkowski was re-elected to the seat. Go figure. But nonetheless, the law was writ, and everybody who wasn’t living in a cave knew it.
Apparently Sarah Palin was living in a cave, because she just told the planet how bummed she was that Ted Stevens didn’t win, and then get convicted, so she could appoint a Republican to his seat.
Ah, I love it that Gov. Palin is considered the only hope for the Radical Right.
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Even I knew that Alaska would have a special election if Stevens had won and then resigned and I’m not even governor of Alaska.
I doubt she really said that since she made it clear that there would be a special election other times. If she did then she misspoke. It happens.
At least she did not say 10,000 people died in Tornados when around a dozen did like President elect Obama. At least she did not say the executive powers were in article 1 when the founders put the legislative branch as article 1 as a statement of legislative supremacy like Vice President elect Biden. At least she knows she did not visit 57 states and have a couple more to go like Pres. elect. At least she knows President Obama is not an immigrant unlike Governor Richardson–Nominee for Sec. of Commerce. At least she is not looking for the vast right wing conspiracy to swallow her up unlike Senator Clinton and doesn’t get confused which sports team is her favorite.
None of these people are dumb. They misspoke because they are human so is Governor Palin.
Conservatives are so adorable when they defend Sarah Palin.
David, you don’t get it. If Sarah Palin (or George Bush, or Denny Hastert or TomDeLay or Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter, etc., etc.) misspeak, it’s just an example of how stupid they are. If Democrats say stupid things, they are simply human. Get it?
Misspoke? Seriously?
Oh, what she meant to say was then the people of Alaska would get to appoint a Republican or maybe this then I would get to vote for a Republican.
LOL, I agree with UI on this one.
If it is just misspeaking, then Palin (and the rest of Sharon’s pantheon) are serial offenders.
But then when Republicans say stupid things repeatedly we are supposed to grade them on a curve. When Democrats say stupid things they get graded not only n what they said but on what every wingnut with a radio program (plus Drudge) has created out of whole cloth as also being said by that Democrat.
http://www.elections.alaska.gov/2004oep/bm/measure_4.pdf
Did she use the term successor? She would get to appoint a Senator until the election.
I’m beginning to think that liberals see what they want to see in Sarah Palin. Take the following for example: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/prank-blog-takes-credit-for-palins-africa-faux-pas/2008/11/14/1226318898086.html
Palin JUST SEZ STUFF. If she says 2 things in a row she will contradict herself. She is an airhead, things just come tumbling out of her mouth…and that is WHY we are always curious. Just when you think a trainwreck can´t get any worse Palni sends a plane to crash down on it. It never ends. NOW THAT´S ENTERTAINMENT!
Who gives a flying fuck about this retard? Please, for the love of all that is good, let her fade into obscurity!
Perhaps that is why Sen Biden plagiarizes so much so he won’t have to use his own words.
Maybe things like 100,000 cops which never ever happened. Or maybe Violence Against Women act which was so grand the Supreme Court struck down major provisions of the law because it violated the ICC.
Gee, Mike P., you make up all kinds of stuff and then don’t respond when confronted with actual facts, so your constant criticisms of Biden and Obama for silly trivial stuff is just hypocritical and petty. Oh, that’s right, your a repub so you live for the petty and trivial. By the way, when did you start thinking that protecting women against violence is wrong?
How smart is Palin? Smarter than you, apparently, since she was actually elected to an office in her state.
Zing!
And she will be the 45th President of the United States.
Yeah, and I can do no-handed push-ups!
Palin’s a joke. Or worse, a sick delusion of a leaderless Klan.
I see Mike Protack is still around..
The knee-jerk defense from the right is the only thing more predictable than Palin-bashing from the left.
By the way, Tom S., you’re still wrong about this. The fake was the guy claiming to be the one who leaked the information about her Africa knowledge. He’s not saying he’s really the one who leaked it; he just pretended to be to get some TV face time.
When a person can’t even read the news stories accurately, it tends to undermine his so-called “judgment” of those stories.
The knee-jerk defense from the right is the only thing more predictable than Palin-bashing from the left.
Didn’t I admit this in the beginning of my post?
Yes, you did. But you didn’t point out that the Brainless Brigade would rise to the bait like….wait for it…fish in a barrel.
Protack — PLEASE do all of us a favor (and New Year’s Wish) and just go the hell away in 2009 — I mean really, things are bad enough — Michael K. Mooney will you PLEASE GO NOW!