NO! NO! NO!

Sarah Palin has said that she "would be willing" to challenge President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election:

"I would be willing to if I believe that it's right for the country…I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future."

That effing door better be shut and padlocked!

Since leaving her position as governor of Alaska, Palin has formed a political action committee, began endorsing candidates in Republican primaries, and as we know published a tome of BS book.

Sexy Sarah delivered the keynote address this past Saturday at the tea party convention which resulted in a question during the Q&A portion about a President Palin in the future. The crowd began to chant, "Run, Sarah, Run!"

Are these people insane?!

Apparently they are as voters in a Republican poll by 4-1 margin believe Sarah could run the country better than Obama. Sarah even still stands by that result saying:

"In the campaign, we tried to bring attention to the fact that Obama had really not a lot of experience. And I do say that my executive experience, as an administrator, as a team manager if you will was…and that hasn't changed.

"I think that President Obama with all due respect, his lack of experience is really made manifest in the way that decisions are made in the White House today. I sure wish that the present tool being used to reform health care would die…What they're working on today there in Congress and the White House, it needs to die."

Whatever, Sarah. She could never actually WIN the presidential election!

Right?

It's a terrifying thought!

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He's a little doughier than we'd prefer, but we do like his smoldering gaze.

Levi Johnston's Playgirl cover hit the newsstands today and we likey! But we're still disappointed at the lack of peen — what a tease!

Do you think Sexy Sarah is picking up an issue?

First Rahm Emanuel called a plan he didn't like 'fucking retarded.' Then Sarah Palin called for his resignation. Then he apologized and made nice. Now a Department of Justice job advertisement welcomes applicants with 'mental retardation'.

The posting, flagged up by Jack Shafer on Twitter, seeks attorneys in DC and has this equal opportunities section.

So is it a bad word, or is it kind of OK? The best informed thinking we've found on the issue is this truly fantastic article about why Huey Lewis is huge in the retard community (and why it's fine to say 'retard').

Alaska blog Mudflats, and now the Associated Press, have jumped on the story that Palin failed to pay property taxes on two cabins built on land she partially owns. Her attorney says it's not her fault.

He argues that it's not a property owners' responsibility to report structures so they can be taxed. The state say it is. Palin's spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, meanwhile, pulled out her well-worn victim card, telling the AP by email:"This is another blatant attempt to manufacture a story about the Palins following more defamatory swipes."

Here is Chris "much dumber son of Mike" Wallace on the Don Imus show hoping that Sarah Palin sits in his lap this Sunday. You know what? People who want to be taken seriously should really stop doing Imus!

It is not good for anyone. Not because he's "racist" or whatever (though he basically is!), it's just because he's an unpleasant and unamusing old asshole who appeals to no one besides, for some reason, Washington assholes. And when these uptight and humorless and frankly kind of dumb Washington assholes go on his show and try to get into the jocular spirit of things, they just say dumb and embarrassing things. (Also people from Connecticut who wear cowboy hats should basically be sent away to live on a prison island of some kind.)

Also we all know Chris Wallace won't get half as much joy from Sarah Palin sitting on his lap as he did the time Dick Cheney put him in a "stress position" for 15 hours.

Oh good. There are more controversial climate change emails for global warming deniers to salivate over. An investigation by the Guardian revealed that the scientist who tried to cover up contrary data before has other holes in his work. [Guardian]

Sarah Palin "wrote" an op-ed for The USA Today called "Why I'm speaking at Tea Party convention." Weirdly, she doesn't mention the fact that they are paying her $100,000.

Not to anyone's surprise, Sarah Palin is raising eyebrows again! The failed vice presidential candidate used $$$$ from her political action committee to buy thousands of copies of her own book, Going Rogue, and mail them to her donors.

clASSy!!!

"Due to supporters' demand for the national best-seller Going Rogue, Sarah's PAC purchased books and sent free, signed copies to those who donated $100 or more between November 16 and November 25 at noon," said Palin's spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton. "The fundraising tool was wildly successful."

$63,000 of her political fund was spent on her own books and another $8,000 was used to purchase colorful bookmarks that probably feature her self righteous face. Her committee also paid her publisher, Harper Collins, $20,000 to send a personal photographer and another aide along for the book tour.

Palin is not the first d-bag to use donated money to purchase their own product. The Federal Election Commission put up a fight when Joseph Lieberman, the standup gentleman who single-handedly halted the healthcare debate, gave away copies of his memoir, In Praise of Public Life, without taking the royalties off the books his campaign purchased.

So, these two "politicians" have used $$$$$$ that honest people have donated and put it back in their own pockets!

Are U surprised?!

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You can't keep a barracuda down. Palin, perhaps dimly conscious that she had not been in any headlines recently, decided to disdain the White House chief-of-staff (and massacre the English language) in a Facebook posting last night.

Back in August Emanuel described a plan by liberal groups to run advertisements against conservative Democrats as "fucking retarded." The Wall Street Journal reported the comment last week.

As we know from her campaign interview with Katie Couric, Sarah reads everything. What with getting through Asahi Shimbun, Die Welt, Le Monde, Foreign Affairs and such, it's no surprise she didn't discover the quote until someone told her about it. She then posted this Olbermann-esque comment as part of a long, barely literate rant on her Facebook page:

I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm's continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm's recent sick and offensive tactic.

The Obama Administration's Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, "F—-ing retarded," according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.

Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm's stature ever used the "N-word" or other such inappropriate language, Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities - and the people who love them - is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking.

A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm's "retarded" slam. I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm's degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?

As my friend in North Andover says, "This isn't about politics; it's about decency. I am not speaking as a political figure but as a parent and as an everyday American wanting my child to grow up in a country free from mindless prejudice and discrimination, free from gratuitous insults of people who are ostensibly smart enough to know better... Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

Mr. President, you can do better, and our country deserves better.

Which fact is more befuddling: (1.) Though Sarah Palin: The Untold Story ...In Her Own Words! is written in the first person, it was made with zero input from Palin. (2.) This magazine is expected to make money.

Since the former governor of Alaska is a demure wallflower who rarely speaks for herself, one of those companies that does Michael Jackson commemorations and glossy paeans to the stars of Twilight has created the Tiger Beat to Going Rogue's War and Peace. Sarah Palin: The Untold Story has a print run "in the hundreds of thousands" and is apparently selling well. Even as the rest of media falls to pieces, memorabilia magazines apparently continue to turn profits. Washington Post blog 44 reports:

"The genesis of it was really simple," said Steve LeGrice, the publisher and editor of Imagine That. "We're up here in New York, and there was clearly this huge enthusiasm for Sarah Palin, and at the same time all the people in the media world were sitting around scratching their heads" about how people could support her.

The Palin issue contains what LeGrice said are family pictures of Palin not previously published by a magazine — including her as a child with her siblings and a dead bear bleeding over a stump; picking through shot white birds; holding a cardboard box of fish freshly caught at an ice hole; and with moose antlers still attached to a fragment of bloody skull.

It also shows her as cute and chubby little girl with glasses, the lone brunette among three blond and sandy-haired siblings.

"I want people to know what I stand for and judge me on that ... read in my own words who I am. Don't believe the things that are made up," the magazine quotes Palin as saying.

There are officially two jobs left in journalism: Sarah Palin's pundit job on Fox, and the unnamed freelancer who mimics her voice for this. [44] [Pic via]