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The_Fastest_Squirrel (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 2:49PM EST (link)Body blows!
Start with the Republican lawyers
warkarma Friday, November 7th at 3:00PM EST (link)Who are doing this:
http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/thefrockreport/2008/11/07/palin-must-cough-up-the-clothes-say-republican-lawyers/
This isn’t isolated to a few rogue people, IMHO. This is an orchestrated effort to take this woman out.
And – btw – if she really didn’t know that Africa was a continent, or which countries signed NAFTA, that’s pretty damn embarrasing.
I have my own problems with Palin. I don’t really like her. But I also don’t like this internal visceral picking of the bones. The GOP can do better.
I support a Mitt Romney / Tim Pawlenty ticket in 2012.
It is time
Lorraine Friday, November 7th at 3:02PM EST (link)we take our country back and this is a good beginning
Act now
lindab Friday, November 7th at 3:24PM EST (link)You are correct. Here in NJ there is a coordinated ‘mission’ happening. To rid our GOP of the RINO’s. We couldn’t get lawn signs or anything.
I am very disappointed by McCain . He had no problem defending Obama and protecting him yet he is silent on these horrible Palin attacks. I swear the NJ GOP is working for the Dems.
The only problem is these people will never admit anything
dskinner11 (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 3:25PM EST (link)I agree with your sentiment because the attacks are outrageous. The only problem is we will never know who these people are with 100% certainty.
Nichole Wallace is out there praising Palin in a second attempt at CYA (the first was attacking Palin instead of owning the fact that the campaign was the worst run in history).
Of course since the campaign sucked so bad we could just apply a blanket “Leper” label to any top level person in the campaign.
Petition Code?
BigGator5 (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 3:28PM EST (link)Hey Erick, can you email me the Petition HTML Code? I’ll put it on my site too.
Educated (About The Issues Facing Us Today), Dedicated (To Making A Difference), And Highly Motivated (To Getting Things Done)

Well, well Erick
Kate_Shanahan (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 3:31PM EST (link)A link fro Kurtz
Pick our battles. I have a feeling things will get rough for us.
GM needs $11 billion a month to stay in operation. We can’t meet our entitlements. Our youth are brainwashed.
Adelson is on the verge of Bankruptcy.
I think we need a centralized effort to combat the obvious.
Kate
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.” Henry Miller
Please, Pray.....
JamesonLewis3rd Friday, November 7th at 3:34PM EST (link)Please, Pray that we do not lose this wondrous Blessing from Almighty God: The United States of America. We cannot be apathetic. Our adrenaline should be pumping. This has been well-planned. The line has been drawn. The gauntlet is being thrown down. We must be what we say we are.
There is no alternative and the Holy Spirit will strengthen us.
Thank you.
Hebrews 11:8
Jeremiah 33:3
Same here
Kate_Shanahan (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 3:35PM EST (link)my state was out of lawn signs the entire campaign. It’s almost like they wanted to lose this one because the economy is in such dire shape. The D’s got us into this, they can get us out kind of attitude.
McCain/Palin was the sacrificial lamb, thus public financing and an expendable vp candidate.
Kate
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.” Henry Miller
Sarah interview today
mdc (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 3:39PM EST (link)on the Bob and Mark show, four parts.
She gets into some of these things with them.
Here is the link
Well planned, yes
Kate_Shanahan (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 3:46PM EST (link)Be careful of the official snarks here.
This has been the perfect storm and if the naive here think the demise of the Republican Party was somehow just ignorance or greed then I have an igloo in Arizona to sell you.
Where’s the “troofer” guy?
Kate
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.” Henry Miller
The spin out of the party was those would get donated post election...
Siberian Friday, November 7th at 4:07PM EST (link)Or auctioned and the proceeds donated.
She shouldn’t have any of those clothes in Alaska. So, there shouldn’t be any problem here.
Did they ever find any clothes?
finaljeopardy Friday, November 7th at 4:13PM EST (link)Nicolle Wallace said on MSNBC that all the clothes that were unaccounted for, and there were maybe two suitcases, were in the belly of the plane and remained there. Sarah Palin does not seem to have behaved like a diva, Wallace emphasized this, and I think the story about the lawyers was petty and deliberately offensive. It’s sexist and being led by someone who wants her far from the 2012 running.
I'm in
finaljeopardy Friday, November 7th at 4:17PM EST (link)Although I am living abroad now, when I get back t the US in late January, I will do whatever I can. I want to volunteer for any Congressional races, if I can be helpful. I will make sure any names that turn up in Operation Leper will be spammed on comment threads and made MUDD in politics.
I am frightened...
LisaDe (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 4:20PM EST (link)Sarah needs to be kept safe. Obviously she is a threat to Republican party who fear her popularity and that her crowds will wait for her in 2012. Obviously she is a threat to Obama worshippers who will do everything to change 4 or 8 term presidency to much longer terms…just like New York. We need to make sure that she remains safe. I worry so much for her.
This radical left wing agenda that is about to descend on us will most likely keep us silent, now is the time to do all we can for both ourselves and Sarah.
What A Great Interview
Davo (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 4:28PM EST (link)We screwed up so badly by not electing McCain/Palin. She really is the future of the Party.
Never Give In, Never, Never, Never
NJ GOP
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 4:34PM EST (link)could use more Republicans of any kind. Focus on ridding the leadership of people who can’t or won’t fight to clear out the Democrats and their hold on the state, but ideologically purging a state party that is on life support as it is won’t get us anywhere.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
Same here
scottbomb (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 4:46PM EST (link)It took almost a month from the date I ordered to get my t-shirt. When I called, the staff who answered the phone was rude and had a “don’t give a sh*t” attitude.
www.HowObamaGotElected.com
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Treatment for Lepers
kowalski (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 5:26PM EST (link)Treatment for Lepers is going to include permanent exile and separation from the rest of the body. We’re not going to do any advanced, humane kind of thing here.
The prescription is going to be medieval.
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Yes on Palin, no on McCain
Grump642 (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 6:39PM EST (link)If they had won, it would have been all but imposable to start rebuilding the conservative movement in the Rep party. His victory would have lent credence to those who say we need to move to the middle to win. These are, probably, the same people who are now trashing Gov Palin. Conservatism, backed up by deeds not words, is what will win. For that reason, they will try to destroy her. They will NOT succeed.
I'm in too
Husker (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 6:57PM EST (link)We need to flush these bottom feeders out. I recommend McCain’s name to be moved to the #1 leper spot, if he doesn’t tell these back-bench snipes to knock it off.
Change your bumper stickers and yard signs
ReaganConservative3 Friday, November 7th at 7:29PM EST (link)Try a little creativity to cut out the McCain part and add in SARAH to go with the Palin. She is a blessing to us, and maybe the only great thing to come out of this election season, along with the GOP grassroots like us finally ready to pay more than lip service to going back to Reagan Conservative roots and principles and DEMAND our party act to rid itself of corruption, laziness, Country Club Re-pubicans and RINOS/CINOS! BRAVO ERICK!
“What would Reagan do?”
Could we also add
MaryBeth Friday, November 7th at 8:21PM EST (link)in addition to staffers anyone else involved in the inner circle of the McCain campaign because I cannot shake the feeling about Graham.
Heck, I was voting for HER
JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 8:37PM EST (link)John McCain was only getting my vote to keep the libs from owning the Supremes.
But Sarah Palin was the reason I actually got in my car, drove to the polling place, and stood in line to mark my ballot.
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson
Do you really think...
dnewyork Friday, November 7th at 8:37PM EST (link)that Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP? If she is, then the GOP will be a four state party: Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Alaska. There is no way that this woman will ever be the nominee in 2012 or any subsequent year. If she is, the GOP will be signing on to an additional beat down by Dems, along with the ones they got in 2006 and this year.
Ignorance and stupidity should not be the two words people think of when they think GOP. She will get about 10-25 percent of the vote in each primary battle she faces in 2012 if she decides to run. Romney, maybe Huckabee is your next attempt at regaining the White House, not this idiotic woman.
Thank you so much for your comment
Thomas Crown (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 8:43PM EST (link)We’ll file it away with all of the other useful stuff we have, like belly button lint and sobriety lessons from Ted Kennedy.
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Addison (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 8:50PM EST (link)…and, in the true spirit of the 2nd amendment give every poster — Conservative or Liberal — a “Blam!” gun. You are lucky that day is not today.
it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses
Kowalski, You Are So Right
Wubbies World (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 8:51PM EST (link)The prescription is mid evil, and that is if they catch us on a generous day.
I am done with traitors in our midst. I am tired of “Republicans” who make Republicans the targets of their ire. It is time for us to finally purge traitors after we make them pay with our ire.
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Why is the left so afraid of heterosexual women?
Jack_Savage (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 8:56PM EST (link)Seriously – is it high estrogen levels among the leftist men? The fact that Sarah Palin actually gave birth to children? They hate the fact that they all still live with their mothers?
I swear that there is a great academic journal article here.
They hate babies (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 9:02PM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder
Looks like the Obamanista exterminator missed one.
Husker (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 9:05PM EST (link)n/t
But *Ignorance and stupidity*
mbecker908 (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 9:05PM EST (link)worked so well for the Dems this time out. Why shouldn’t we try it?
Of course that would entail nominating either Lindsey Graham or Chuck Hagel but what the heck.
I called McCain's Phoenix office today...
RichmondG30 Friday, November 7th at 9:19PM EST (link)Since I could not get a human being on the phone at his DC office. When I spoke to the woman in Phoenix, I told her I was one angry Republican. I told her I was furious about the character assassination campaign that was being conducted against Sarah Palin. I explained that I was a conservative Republican who planned to sit out the election until John McCain picked Sarah Palin. Instead I went door-to-door, made calls, and worked the polls (with my 10-year-old son!) in the rain on election day.
I said that it was not acceptable for Senator McCain to sit back and watch this happen. I demanded that he come out publicly and condemn this BS and put a stop to it immediately.
The woman seemed genuinely shocked at my call. She said she would pass the message on to the Senator.
Am I the only one who called? How ’bout the rest of y’all?
+1 to putting McCain on the Leper List if he stands on the sidelines for this disgrace.
The Republican Party needs an enema.
29Victor (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 9:24PM EST (link)The sooner the better.
I did.
phxg (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 9:25PM EST (link)Got the same result, but from a male staffer. I went on and told them that as a Sen. McCain constituent, now would be a good time to retire for his disgusting display of not supporting Palin.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle
Everyone fears the unknown.
Tbone (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 9:29PM EST (link)They have so few.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
I'm in
peg_c (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 10:08PM EST (link)I’m so pissed at the idiots in our party, the Noonan/Brooks/Frum crowd and McCain himself for being such a mediocre Senator and lousy Republican candidate, I am out for blood. The only time I donated to McCain was on 8/29 when he picked Palin. I’ll never vote Dem for dogcatcher much less anything else, but if we don’t get a decent candidate like Palin or Jindal, no soup for them.
I just got McCain-Palin stickers in the mail today, 3+ weeks after I ordered them. I’m going to cut McCain’s name off and put them on our cars. One of the stickers just says SarahCuda.
As for the character assassins, do we know for a fact that the McCain campaign wasn’t behind the depraved Trig rumors in early September? Just sayin’. Funny how the McCainiacs here have melted away, isn’t it?
Yep, I’m angry. At least Rush and Mark are bashing McCain again. The past few months were pretty nauseating.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
I contacted more than that and I think we all should
KarenIndiana (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 11:13PM EST (link)I contacted McCain, FOX CBS NBC and ABC, Jay Lenno, David Letterman, Katie Couric and next one on the list is Entertainment Tonight for that piece of junk they had on there tonight. I was angry before but that spot on Entertainment Tonight jumped up the anger point to 1000%. In case you didn’t see it , they did a segment on some XXX porn Bimbo that was supposed to be a Palin Look alike. It was absolutely disgusting and I am LIVID! The more people that complain the faster this will be resolved.
Is that fear I smell in the air?
Lwyrett (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 11:42PM EST (link)Thinkin’ maybe the RiNOs are fearin’ the 2010 Stampede of the Conservatives!
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I agree
Grump642 (Diary) Friday, November 7th at 11:46PM EST (link)I agree about Graham. Word was, that it was he that wanted Lieberman for VP. Maybe a little jealousy involved? Because the base loved her and would not give him the time of day.
But are there any?
chaney (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 9:10AM EST (link)Please excuse my ignorance here. I think I’ve missed a large part of the story. If I’m not mistaken, the concerns expressed here are a reaction to a Newsweek story citing “anonymous sources” right? Instead of asking who these people are and whether anything they said is true, I’m inclined to first ask whether these people really exist and is anything that Newsweek says true. No????
It wouldn’t be the first time we saw a completely fictional piece designed to hurt some republican.
Here is my issue with Operation Leper.
Chris Farris (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 10:40AM EST (link)Sarah Palin may in fact be the north slope valley girl that the media and elite right make her out to be. Or she could be an intelligent woman, who might not have had experience in certain national issues, and was totally miss-handled by the incompetent f—tards that came from the Bush Administration. It was the Bush Administration that managed to destroy this party and turn control of the government over to radical leftists and socialists.
Point is, we don’t know the real Sarah Palin. That is why I’m hoping she does come to Georgia to campaign for Saxby. Freed from the moronic ex-Bush staff, she will be more herself. Then we can judge.
If Erick were serious about cleaning up the GOP, he’d make any and everyone who every worked for George W. Bush in an appointed or political capacity a leper. Cheney, Rove, Ashcroft, Ridge, Meiers, Gates, Rice, Rumsfeld, etc. While there probably were a few good apples in the barrel of elephant dung, the loss of them is greatly over weighted by making sure the real lepers never again hold political power.
All of them need to be taken out and politically shot. Their political and government careers need to be over. In fact, the best thing President Obama can do for the GOP is to begin indicting these cretins, making it impossible for them ever to work in Government again.
Well . . .
Erick Erickson (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 10:51AM EST (link)I like Cheney, Ashcroft, and Rumsfeld.
Ridge, Meyers, Gates, and Rice though can jump off a cliff.
Bush listened to the latter group and ignored the former group.
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?Follow @EWErickson
Bush screwed up...
Putter (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 11:05AM EST (link)He trusted Dems to be consistent on little things like war and peace. Everyone that mattered believed Saddam had vast stockpiles of WMD. Even if they were not found, the war was justifiable on a humanitarian basis, right? Woodrow Wilson loved nation building, right? My base will stick with me and so will the left, right? If President Al Gore had started the war, it would have been the humanitarian gesture of the new century, right?
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies…
One word on Rusmfeld:
Chris Farris (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 11:12AM EST (link)Surge.
Rummy was wrong, McCain was right. Iraq didn’t start to turn around until after the 06 thumpin’ and Rumsfeld’s resignation.
If the Republican ticket in 2000 had been
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 11:12AM EST (link)either Cheney/Rumsfeld or Rumsfeld/Cheney we most likely wouldn’t have the problems we’ve got now. Neither of those gentlemen would have put up with the character assassination and policy assassination by the Democrats that GWB not only tolerated but encouraged.
Rocky!!!
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 11:14AM EST (link)Haven’t seen ya in ages. You been flying around or something? Good to see ya, hope ya hang out with us for a while.
So what?
jcheney Saturday, November 8th at 11:17AM EST (link)Who cares if the RNC bought her clothes? She was going to take a hit not matter she did. Would the haters be happier if she would have worn her parka and snow boots? Sheesh.
The woman needed clothes that were in line with her new position: the potential Vice President of the United States.
Did anyone complain about Hillary’s custom made pant suits? No, they just made fun of them, but not the cost of them.
Did the DNC buy Obama designer suits? Who has said squat about his clothes? No one. And who cares anyway.
This topic is getting weary. How about worrying about what a new Obama Presidency is going to do to our country on so many levels.
I wonder if in the longterm, (5-10 years from now) we'll say we won by losing?
nogyro35 (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 11:18AM EST (link)I am not saying I wanted Obama to teach this country a lesson, but as Grump is saying most of us wanted Sarah to win. Not necessarily McCain.
It’s too bad we couldn’t have had 2 Vice Presidential nominees and used this opportunity to introduce both Palin and Jindal to the national stage.
martian history
streiff (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 11:21AM EST (link)simply counterfactual.
First, there is no doubt that the surge worked. The surge worked because of how they were used, not because they were there. The first surge brigades didn’t arrive in Iraq until May/June 2007. The turnaround was widely reported on before the surge troops arrived.
Second, the Anbar Awakening movement started around March 2006. Eight months before the elections and nine before the surge was announced. The turnaround was going to happen. Our choice was to lead it or follow it.
It is pretty convenient to pretend that there are simple answers. Unfortunately, there really aren’t. Blaming Rumsfeld is just lazy.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
I agree....
jcheney Saturday, November 8th at 11:25AM EST (link)Get rid of the RINO’s. However, despite all the bashing Bush has taken during the election, he has remained quiet. During the financial mess, he remained quiet. He could have easily pointed out that the problems have been brewing for the past 20 years, but he remained quiet. Mr. Bush is a great man and history will prove that.
Yeah, I am a Cheney fan too. Also, Lynn has been a great inspiration to me.
Absolutely right
drmonroe Saturday, November 8th at 11:38AM EST (link)Bush is what killed us. On some issues he was our best friend (think taxes) but in other areas he was a die-hard liberal. Nation-building is Wilsonian, his plan for amnesty would have spelt the complete death of the Republican party and a massive transformation of our country, his spending was out of control and the massive deficits he has helped to run up certainly aren’t going to help us now. Also the bailout. That was a great idea, glad it worked so well for us.
All put together if a Democrat had carried on some of his policies we would’ve been howling about it and the Dems would be loving him. I think sometimes we need to take of our partisan-blinders and not support a guy just because he has an R next to his name. Instead we should support conservatives who champion conservative causes.
No, we won't
Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 11:38AM EST (link)As far as I know, nobody who was paying attention during the Carter years says America won in any fashion by enduring that misery. Especially since Carter’s weakness started a series of events that can be traced directly to the 9/11 attacks.
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jcheney Saturday, November 8th at 12:01PM EST (link)Bush did try to speak up but his voice was not heard….why is that?
Link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/09/20080919-15.html
Bush chose to be silent
Chris Farris (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 12:22PM EST (link)The President can command TV time by law to speak to the nation. With the economy falling around him, he didn’t do that. The President has the ability to route around the media filters that no campaign or congresscritter has.
Bush was silent because his administration chose to be silent.
I completely agree with you that the next 4 years will absolutely suck.
nogyro35 (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 12:25PM EST (link)I’m just thinking out loud that sometimes it appears a lot worse than it is.
Not that Obama will be good, but that this might be the catalyst we needed to stop picking barely conservative and losing leadership.
5-10 years from now, if a Reagan or better has emerged, the next 4 years might seem more palatable.
Of course there are a lot of ifs, and maybes to this which scares me and is why I went out of my way to vote McCain.
Oh wow, that is so spot on!
JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 4:10PM EST (link)Yes, the left does to appear to be afraid of het women, especially ones who make traditional choices AND manage to excel professionally. Totally agree that the reasons for this would make a fascinating study!
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson
Amen to that
JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 5:08PM EST (link)Given my druthers, I wouldn’t go through the Carter years again for anything. Ronald Reagan would have come along anyway, even without that disaster.
Double-digit unemployment, double-digit inflation, legislative gridlock, listening to the word “nuclear” mispronounced over and over, Walter Mondale a heartbeat away, anti-American Muslim sentiment blossoming from mere dislike to active violence, and our embassy in Tehran held hostage?
No, thanks.
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson
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2BlueStar Mom (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 6:49PM EST (link)“I am very disappointed by McCain . He had no problem defending Obama and protecting him yet he is silent on these horrible Palin attacks”
I have felt this way for a while now and have wondered if the campaign folks were just plain “stupid” or if this was a setup from the get go.
Something needs to be “shaken up” in the house!
http://havestethoscopewilltravel.blogspot.com
Well
2BlueStar Mom (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 6:59PM EST (link)many of us can walk, talk, chew gum and shoot a gun, while looking good doing it.
many of us are feminine, have integrity, pray, love men, teach our children to respect others and their property.
just to mention a few.
http://havestethoscopewilltravel.blogspot.com
Touch not
2BlueStar Mom (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 7:04PM EST (link)my anointed and do my prophets, no harm.
God is not to be mocked.
http://havestethoscopewilltravel.blogspot.com
Very True
Grump642 (Diary) Saturday, November 8th at 7:18PM EST (link)While I never was a fan of Sen McCain, politically, I shudder to think about what will happen next. Obomas people will come out swinging, in a no holds barred fight to get their socialist agenda into law from the very start. Meanwhile, Oboma will be talking “unity” and “we have to stand together”. The MSM will fawn and say “What a great unifier he is.” We will be portrayed as un-american for trying to stop his socialist plans. It will get ugly. But I truly believe that if we do not, the Carter years could be “The good old days.” So I say “Get in, sit down, and hang on! It’s going to be one helluva ride!”