Palin challenges rejection of state Senate pick Grussendorf

Gov. Sarah Palin said late Thursday she is refusing to accept the Alaska Senate Democrats' rejection of Tim Grussendorf as her appointee to the state Senate.Palin said the rejection isn't legally valid because it happened behind closed doors, and only among Democrats.

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Who's Afraid of Sarah Palin? The GOP

Palin's Political Problems Persist

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continues to suffer growing pains as she attempts to build a national political operation in hopes of positioning herself as a viable presidential candidate in 2012.

The latest bump in the road comes in the form of a Politico article -- headlined "Staff Infection: Allies Rip Palin Team" -- that features any number of juicy quotes that all point to one fundamental problem: there appears to be a significant disconnect between Palin's official governor's staff and the group of advisers that have grown up around her new leadership PAC.

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Alaska Democrats aim to block Palin's state Senate pick

Palin Now Owes Taxeson Payments for Nights at Home, State Rules

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) owes income taxes on nearly $17,000 paid to her as travel reimbursements when she spent nights in her Wasilla residence, according to a state legal opinion that the payments were not legitimate business expenses, a state official said yesterday.

Palin Under A Microscope Back Home

Washington Post: Alaska's Governor, Former GOP VP Candidate, Has Been Forced To Deal With Campaign Trail Fallout 

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WTF PALIN????

(CNN) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Thursday she believes voters deserve another chance to consider electing Ted Stevens to the U.S. Senate now that federal prosecutors have decided to drop their case against him, and supports a re-match between the former senator and Democrat Mark Begich.

McCain won't commit to Palin in 2012

TOP TEN NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT SARAH PALIN

10. Thinks Fox News may still declare her and John McCain the winner

9. At her wedding instead of "I do," said, "You betcha!" 8. She and Governor Schwarzenegger once exchanged swimsuit-competition posing tips 

7.Prepared for campaign by watching "Legally Blonde 2" 

6. Thinks "NAFTA" stands for "Need Another Fifty Thousand foR Accessories" 

5. Begins every day by reading a passage from the hilarious Late Show Fun Facts book available everywhere 

4. She's a person of interest in five unsolved snow machine hit-and-runs 

3. Abused position as Governor to get free appetizers at Ancorage Applebee's 

2. Already has a new job as Briefcase Babe #12 on "Deal Or No Deal" 

1. Her Secret Service code name was "Huh?"

PALIN PRANKED!

Takes Prank Call From Fake French President

Alaska Gov. Palin dismisses political road bumps

By ANNE SUTTON

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — It would seem like a bad week for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, but she said she's looking past snubs from a major Republican fundraising event and her former running mate to focus on Alaska.

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Republicans Disinvite Palin to Major Fundraiser

Congressional Republicans Tuesday decided to ditch Sarah Palin in favor of Newt Gingrich for the critical House-Senate fundraising dinner in Washington June 8.

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Sarah Palin Picks Homophobe as Alaska Attorney General Nominee

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has made her choice for Alaska's new Attorney General in Anchorage attorney Wayne Anthony Ross.

The nominee comes with an ugly record which includes some choice words about gays, according to Pam Spaulding: comes with an anti-gay record: "During a fight several years ago over gay rights, [Allison] Mendel helped organize Anchorage lawyers in support of an anti-discrimination ordinance. Ross wrote a nasty letter to the Bar Association newsletter, using words like "immoral", "perversion" and "degenerates." The language went way beyond reasonable disagreement, Mendel and others said."

 
WHAT THE PUCK?
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Video - anything showing Palin at her intellectual best with a sprinkling of homemade gems;

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"I'm not anti-Native and Wayne Anthony Ross is not anti-Native. I would never hire anybody who is" -- Sarah Palin, April 2, 2009, Associated Press              

PALINISMS

"This would be hilarious if it weren't so expensive for the state to process these accusations and for me to defend against these bogus harassments"  -- Sarah Palin, March 25, 2009 in regard to new Ethics charges

"I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is.     Sarah Palin, Nov. 10, 2008 - Fox News                                                                                                                 

"I'm comfortable with Barack Obama as our commander in chief, assuming that he has those around him who recognize .... that terrorists have not changed their minds ... Those who recognize what the threat is and how to deal with the threat."  Sarah Pain, AP, Nov, 12, 2008 "A little advice to Tina Fey, I want to make sure she's holding on to that Sarah outfit. Because she's gonna need it in the next four years."
Sarah Palin, Nov. 2, 2008 - at an Ohio Rally

Those clothes -- they are not my property, just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased. I am not taking them with me."
Sarah Palin, Oct. 24, 2008
Explaining her clothes..guess she too is just a "prop"

"It's kind of painful to be criticized for something when all the facts are not out there and are not reported"
Sarah Palin, her response to the $150,000
spent on her clothes - Oct. 23, 2008
FACTS??? Receipts, RNC admitting they purchased clothes, Palin admitting she wore them (see below Palinism)

"Those clothes are not my property. We had three days of using clothes that the RNC purchased,"
Sarah Palin, denying and then justifying the $150,000
spent on her clothes, Oct. 23, 2008

"But also, they're in charge of the United States Senate, so if they want to, they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes "
Sarah Palin, Oct. 20, 2008 - responding to a third grader about what a VP does

PALIN IS NOT SMARTER THAN A THIRD GRADER!


Article I of the Constitution states that "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided."

"Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth. Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic.  But Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairyman, I believe they think it sounds more like socialism.
Sarah Palin, Oct. 19, 2008 - at a rally in Roswell, NM

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe" -- here the audience interrupted Palin with applause and cheers -- "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."
Sarah Palin, Oct. 16, 2008, North Carolina Rally

"I've been warned that Flyers fans, they get so enthused, that they boo everybody at the drop of the puck," 
"But what I thought I'd do is I'd put Piper in a Flyers jersey, bring her out with me. How dare they boo Piper!"
Sarah Palin, using her daughter as a shield and prop at Saturday nights hockey game, Oct. 11,2008

"I’m very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of of any kind of unethical activity."
Sarah Palin, Oct 10, 2008 - Troopergate Report.

"There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women."
Sarah Palin, misquoting former Clinton Secretary of Stat Madeleine Albright,  Sat. Oct. 5, 2008

"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan."
--Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

"I may not answer the question that you or the moderator want..."
Sarah Palin, October 2, 2008, Vice Presidential Debate

"It's time that normal Joe Six-Pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's
kind of taken some people off guard...but it's motivation for John McCain and I to work that much harder to...put government back on the side of the people of Joe Six Pack like me."
Sarah Palin, October 1, 2008

"You know there are - there are man’s activities that can be contributed to the issues that we’re dealing with now, these impacts. I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate."
Sarah Palin, September 29, 2008

“It’s very important, when, when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and, and, uh, comes into the airspace of the United States America, where, where do they go? It’s Alaska! It’s just right over the border.”
Sarah Palin, September 25, 2008 explaining again why living in Alaska gives her foreign policy experience

“It is, somebody was saying this morning, a toxic waste there on Wall Street, affecting Main Street. And we’ve got to cure this.”
Sarah Palin, September 17, 2008
Bristol Palin Admits Mom's an Idiot
People have been trying for years to tell moose-fed snow loon Sarah Palin that her abstinence-only sex ed. policy is total bullshit. Maybe now that her 18-year-old new mother of a daughter is saying as much, she'll finally listen.
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Bristol Palin's future in-law arrested
Sherry L. Johnston, the mother of Bristol Palin’s fiancé, was arrested Thursday night on drug charges
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Sarah Palin’s To-Do List if She Wants to Run for President in 2012

Political strategists says she needs a plan now if she wants to stay a "hot property" in the GOP

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THE DAILY SHOWS

Palin talks turkey while workers slaughter one in the background

‘Warm Regards, Sarah’

A letter with Gov. Sarah Palin’s image is part of a direct mail campaign by the Alaska Travel Industry Association