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What you probably think happened: They tossed Tod and Sarah a wad of cash or credit card – then they sped off to Neiman Marcus to shop like crazy.  This is your greedy imagination running wild.  Not plausible.  Where were the reports from Neiman Marcus showing Palin trying on cloths?  Is it possible she could have gotten in and out without being seen? Unlikely

What probably happened:  Palin time would have been incredibly precious.  Given that ~ 2.4 billion was spent and she was on the campaign for 12 ish weeks that would place her time value at about 5,000 dollars per minute.  ( 2.4 Billion / num minutes in 12 weeks / 4 persons-McCain&Palin&Obama&Biden ).   Staff personel was sent out to buy  the clothing

What you probably think happened:  When the Campaign ended Palin grabbed all the cloths and ran home to Alaska.

What probably happened:  Clothing is dense.  If you pack a suit case solid with cloths it is very heavy.  Without some sort of help like a truck and personel you do not move this quantity of stuff.   She described it in a recent report as "residing in the belly of the plane".   Sounds more plausible.

What you think happened:  She is a temperamental Diva that did not want to prepare for interviews.  She is stupid.

What really happened:  If the way McCain performed is any indication the staffers are not the best.  McCain was singularly wooden.  He never really fought for the presidency.  In his heart this man is a senator.  Senator’s aids are not likely to be the same as presidential ones.  These are limited people that Palin would have innately sensed were very limited in their talent.  I am sure she felt she was being restrained and a competitor like Palin would have chaffed at this.  You do not hitch a fine race horse to a shabby wooden cart and expect them to be totally happy.  Take away?  Any one on the McCain campaign should never be hired again.  Not only are they limited and incompetent they try to shift the blame for their short comings.

Whether you like or dislike McCain / Palin is not the issue here.   A little critical thinking makes it clear that the Palin rumor campaign is false.  It dismays me that the populace lacks the critical thinking skills to see through this sort of story.  They are used all the time.  Its dangerous for democracy.

All these stories bubbling up about Sarah Palin are very unlikely sounding.  First of all….wouldn’t staffers be running out to buy the clothes?  From various accounts I take this to be the case.   The bubblehead theory does not wash with what I saw of her.  And where do the divas you know all want to live? Right. New York City.  I am going to guess all the divas in Wasilla moved away shortly after 18 years of age.    If she’s so dumb, incapable and such a political joke, why do all the rabid lefties get into such a lather at the thought of her.   Their derangement was obvious.   Even old horse Peggy Noonan joined in on a premature rant.  This was before any of these confected stories.   They kept Palin on a short leash the entire campaign but we are to believe they could not reason with her. Too many conflicts occur in this depiction of her for it to be credible.  

What about wearing a towel when the staffers came by?  Highlighted as some sort of issue this particular point really puts the lie to this smear campaign.  So much so I feel I must bullet point the arguments.

1. Who cares?  The campaign was long hard boring work.  Why worry about a such an incident?
2. How uptight do you have to be to think this is some sort of issue? — Clearly its not about being uptight.  It was thrown in for effect.
3. The kitchen sink is being tossed in.   Why add this point unless you are trying to directly accomplish some sort of goal ?
4. Did the staffers not get to know her very well?  Were they not there to help her manage time?  A towel would not be the worry. ( unless she looked like Madelaine Albright …but only for the staffers stomach )
5. Who would even ask or be interested about this other than teenage boys with masturbatory fantasies of her?  The nudity angle makes the story stick more.   Obvious attempt to make people remember the story.  Why would it be important people remember?  Its only important if you want it to be remembered for a reason.
6. Obviously snarky attack

It is always amazing to me what portrayals people will swallow.  Obama spent 700,000 on a Greek temple set for a single speech.  Who asks about this?   Talk about a jackass idea.  SHAZAM.

 So I am left asking "Who benefits? What is the motivation for leaking these stories? McCains already lost.  However staffers have to find jobs and McCain probably presumes to be the titular leader of the republican party.  I rule out the idea he will run again.  His candidacy and speaking abilities were senatorial to a fault.  That is to say bad.  Thus we must ask who wants her hobbled so they can be the republican nominee in 2012?   Or is some sort of  Democrat party influence  being use to pay for her smear campaign?   If she runs in 2012 she will dismantle Obama like a frog being dissected in biology class.  Hear me now believe me later.   Obama clearly would not want to run against such a natural talent as her.   She is a definite front runner and outshines even Obama in her speaking because she actually connects with people.  Obama clearly does not connect while still being a good speaker.  He is quite a cold fish. 

I saw the point somewhere that Washington D.C. is an insiders club.  They do not want any person disrupting the place.  Sounds paranoid until you factor in this story because even if every word of these stories about Palin were true they still do not add up to a fake Greek temple.

Do not let this discourage you Sarah. If you want to run in 2012 then do it.  I can tell you with certainty you will be the nominee.  I can also tell you with certainty you will beat Obama.   Your authenticity will be felt even if most people are unequipped to detect the presence of the lie being told about you.

?So what am I not being shown?  I found the following:

Republican strategist Tony Fabrizio said Palin is not the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2012.   This is telling.  She is very obviously the front runner for 2012.  He noted in particular some revelations uncovered by the news media during what amounted to a public vetting of her record once she was picked by McCain.   This makes me think that one of the republicans who want to run in 2012 and the McCain staff members are putting this out.  They must really see her as a threat.   One of Fabrizio’s quotes is: "All the intensity of conservatives does not matter if you lose 15% of independents.  Yet one Ronald Reagan is worth 20 of the moderate republicans.  And since when is a moderate republican ever been inspiring?  NEVER.  One of the bullet points on Fabrizios resume is as follows:

             Advised over a dozen US senators, more than twenty members of Congress, and served as a pollster for the Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, and National Republican Congressional Committee.
 

This one makes more sense than the Obama theory.  The other republican contenders know they will not be able to beat her head on.  Thus they are trying to sabotage her.   So now the question is:  Who is behind this well orchestrated smear campaign?

Watch the staffers from the McCain campaign and who they work for in 2012.  That’s probably who is behind it.  His likely confederate is the "wealthy donor".   He probably is a supporter cohort of the 2012 candidate.  This plot was probably a rapidly hatched effort after McCain selected her for the vice president position.  Some sort of smear may have been on the cards regardless of who was chosen.  Candidate X wants to run in 2012 and does not want the bother of a strong candidate to slow him down.  These people are telling their stories from the shadows and thus are in a convenient position to portray what happened from any point of view true or not. 

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Initial list:

1. Nichole Wallace
2. Steve Schmidt
3. Mark McKinnon

While watching this video I realized upon mental review of my past that I have more in common with the bushman in this video than I do the cranks that are in charge of the congress and soon the presidency.  Watch the video and see if you feel the same way. 

Dancing with the Huli Wigmen from Matthew Harding on Vimeo

One gets the feeling they are more fun to be around also. 

You are at your utmost coolness when you are doing something others tell you is wrong but in reality you are right. 

attention all knuckleheads that means you have to be damned careful figuring out what is right.   It does not mean just because you are a dissident that you are correct.

Soldier Electric (A Nephilem’s Last Entry )
 

Part of the 10% that has sense.

Telling it like it is. Pelosi-Nation is a nation where we are so elite that while even pussy socialist nations like Norway drill big time for OCS oil we do not.

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CNBC’s controversial stock market commentator, Jim Cramer, appeared Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to present his own take on high oil prices. Cramer believes that the solution to energy shortages lies in a combination of offshore oil drilling and nuclear power and that the only thing holding us back is that “we’ve become an elitist nation.”

We have two coasts that could produce a huge amount of oil,” Cramer asserted. “We’ve figured out how to drill without messing up the coast. … There’s no way that we can’t produce clean energy on both coasts except for the fact that there’s a big crowd led by Nancy Pelosi that does not want this to happen. … The leadership has stymied any opportunity to be like every other country on earth and find oil.”

Many people who are weak or lack discipline are quick to want to associate with the phenomenon that is B.O.   Being and engineer pretty much puts me in the lowest 10% of the population in regards emotional responses.   I am a symphony of emotions.  I just do not listen to them with out very long periods of time averaging and repeated application of logic.  Some say sleep on it.  Some things I sleep on for monthes, years or even decades.

Thus it pains me to see the B.O. phenomenon.   What is obvious after a lifetime of intellectual and spiritual discipline is he will be a disaster for the country.

The last thing any individual or country needs is a cult figure to tell you how to live.  Isn’t it time you grow up and determine your own future?  

The signs are abundant B.O. is planning on dealing with political life as some sort of twist between politics and cult of personality.   Personally I prefer all cases to be put forward logically and I decide how I will vote logically.  The emotional route is one chosen simply to railroad weak ideas.  

You people just seem to crave someone to tell you what to do.  Someone you can look up to like a parental figure.  I’m not sure whether its because you lacked or had overly attentive parents.

Every time I see this I thank my lucky stars I was shot out of the womb wanting to be my own person.

That light at the endo of the tunnel might just might be a huge human sized bugzapper so watch out. 

All the is shiny is not necessarily good and that which appears sullen might not all be bad. 

A friend name Beau Izdebski once said "Those who are hardest to get to know are often the best to get to know"

My experience since then suggests that is true.  It also suggests even so it might not last. However I always have loved a wild ride. 

John Edwards and B.O. had a genital holding contest with photo below:

As you can see this is from when John was riding high The made for TV movie will star Jack from the TV show Will and Grace.  Obama will be played by Erkel. I have spared you the shots from the "hold the other guys stare-down" competition.  Why is it black guys always hold their package?

I have to admit to being tickled silly by Rush Limbaughs Operation Chaos.   I’m on the verge of peeing myself. You see OpChaos may be having some effect.  However I tend to believe that its quite possible it is having absolutely NO effect and Rush may share my opinion on the probabilities here.  There is actually no way of knowing. The really rich part is watching the candidates, pundits and main stream media squirm trying to either ignore it or address it or both! ( its possible!)  He’s definitely starting to get some of them very very psyche’d out.  If indeed he shares this opinion you can imagine he is about on the verge of wizzing in his britches too.  What entertainer or practical joker would not?  I use the term practical joker in the highest form of complement possible.  This is because the best practical jokes are done with a warm heart and by the highly intelligent.  Rush has the family lawyer genes in the verbal department.  He just didn’t waste them on being a lawyer. At its core whether it has effect or not in reality this is a high form of theatre that teaches better than any dry lecture ever could.  I envie Rusty.  This joke is beyond stellar.  He does all his machinations in public so you really can accuse him of much.  Yet it demonstrates by example alot of the machinations that do not see the light of day. Every day he is on the air he celebrates our constitution and thus I celebrate him.  Too bad our politicians so eager to get ahead don’t do the same.  In a world where politicians do indeed advocate even the dumbest ideas when it appears they can gain from it its truly amazing the talent Rush must have as he never really changes his core principles much if at all.  Yet he has more intellectual influence that most if not all politicians.  A couple of followup questions Rush…. 1- do you have one of those shoe phones?  Or was that Control ?  I can never keep that straight. 2- what is your chaos agent number?