I’m sick of all the animal references from her. Baracuda, moose, wolf, pig, caribou, now grizzly bears. What’s next, a short-tailed ermine?

Wylie foresaw the rise of Palin, Inc. fo-shizzle, Strange. I think Levi Johnston became acquainted with this aspect of the mom-ster recently:

Mom is a middle-aged puffin with an eye like a hawk that has just seen a rabbit twitch far below.

And, yes, it’s almost impossible to cite Wylie without courting charges of being an accomplice to misogyny. However, the primary thesis of “Momism” is that while the manufacture and manipulation of feminine mythology by self-serving asshole males has been socially catastrophic, things get even more fucked-up when opportunistic women like Palin cynically “catapult the propaganda” without regard to its corrosive, cheapening effect on the very virtues it claims to ennoble.

Yes, the GOP seems to be trying to cast itself as the party for women.  If those women are hypcritical PTA moms.  The right sort of women.  The ones who look down on… the wrong sort of women.

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Damn it, sometimes my own nation scares the shit out of me.

What’s the point of showing a dog that’s clearly not a pit bull when she makes the pit bull reference?

What’s the point of this whole video?  Is she really trying to position herself now as some kind of leader of a Mama Grizzly/Pink Elephant *feminist* movement?  And does she have any idea how grating and annoying her voice is?

Not sure I agree with Sully that “the nomination is hers to lose” but she certainly is trying to put herself in the running.

Remember—Sully is very prone to believe bullshit, AND has a solid contempt for most of humanity.  So he assumes ‘Palin for President’ is inevitable.

I think her chances are far less sanguine.  That said—the people who insist that she’s a grifter with no interest in the Presidency are wrong.  She’s a grifter who thinks that she can get the Presidency, because she has no realistic ideas what having the job—or even getting it—would entail.  Palin is the end result of an eternal sneer at public service and politicians, of the constant insistence that it’s all a big con—a con artist who believes just that.

I’m not sure that she wants the nomination as much as the “kingmaker” (sorry, NAG, “person-of-royalty-maker”) role in selecting the eventual nominee. Being the actual nominee would put a crimp in her grifting, it seems to me, as well as being just a lot of hard work to which, we have seen, she is averse.

I tend to agree, Dave S. I can see her jockeying for the GOP VP slot, though. She probably figures she wouldn’t have to actually do anything.

Uh, huh-huh-huh. You said “slot.”

Isn’t that Phyllis Schlafley at about 0:43 and lingers a couple seconds alone?  Scary.

The hypocrisy of her using the line that “Moms’ just know instinctively when something is wrong” is overwhelming.  $arah was so busy pretending to be Governor that she didn’t realize her oldest son was drinking and abusing Oxycontin to the point where he and his friends cut the brake lines on school buses in the MatSu district.  She also never bothered to speak to her oldest about birth control, she “didn’t think it was necessary as they knew my feelings about premarital sex”.  LOL, they sure did, Sarah.  They can also add & subtract and know Track was born less than 8 months after you were married and he was not a premature baby.  Even with these problems presenting themselves due in part to their absentee parenting, they neglected to oversee Willow so she & her friends partied in a vacant home and ended up doing $20k worth of damage.  Of course, $arah had the charges dropped on her daughter, but the other parents had a fit.  The charges were then dropped for all the girls involved, but not the young boys.  It should be interesting if it goes to court and surprisingly enough, the boys’ parents want it to go to court so they can speak out about this behind the scenes dealing.  I thought $arah didn’t approve of backroom “dills”??

Last but not least, stampede of “pink elephants”?!?  Another stupid remark from this half-term quitter.  This woman is as phony as can be and needs to shut up so she can go back to Alaska and take care of that special needs child she used as a prop during the campaign and book tour.

Palin knows she has no chance at the nomination (and I doubt she’d want it anyway - too hard), but she’ll keep that gravy train running by making mainstream republicans nervous about the prospect.

She thinks about the momma grizzly bears right before she shoots them from an airplane.

Moms also instinctively know that it’s OK to board a lengthy flight to Alaska when you’re minutes away from crowning.

See, I think you’re all making one mistake as regards Palin’s presidential run—you’re assuming she’s aware that she hasn’t got a chance, and all her actions can be explained by giving her reasonable, albeit cynical motives.

Let’s just say I assume no such amount of self-knowledge on her part.

Chris Matthews, far savvier than he lets on, points out that Palin could well take Iowa, maybe New Hampshire, definitely South Carolina, and she’s off and running and probably unstoppable.