Kevin, you still watch the Sunday morning bobbleheads?  I gave up on them a few years ago, because I was able to count on one hand the number of accurate insights they’ve produced since W was first “elected”.  Usually they just make my blood boil with their inside-the-bubble Village Speak.

QOTD: The fact that she doesn’t even support the notion that climate change is manmade—she’s back there with the Flat Earth Caucus.

John Kerry on George Stephanopoulos (speaking of Sunday morning bobbleheads.)

Alaskan republicans react:

Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green (R): “She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”  (Green is from Palin’s home town of Wasilla.)

Alaska House Speaker John Harris (R): “She’s old enough. She’s a U.S. citizen.”

Alaska Democratic Party Chair Patti Higgins:  “In this very competitive election for them to go pick somebody who is … under a cloud of suspicion, who is under investigation for abuse of power. It just sounds like a pretty slow start to me.  We need a vice president who can step in if, God forbid, something happened to John McCain.  I don’t think she’s someone who is ready for that 3 a.m. phone call.”

Randy Ruedrich, Alaska Republican Party Chair:  Not giving interviews.

Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg: “a mixed set of emotions, kind of an odd sense of Alaska nationalism or pride. This is like watching a moon landing or something. It’s just something you don’t expect to see very often. It’s wonderful. It was an emotional thing to see the governor walk out with her family and I say, wow, I work for her.”

McHugh Pierre, Alaska Republican Party Spokesman: “She brings her voice of new energy and change. And she knows Alaska.”

Indicted Alaska Sr. Senator Ted Stevens (R):  “it’s a great day for the nation and Alaskans.”

Andrew Halcro, local blogger who ran against Palin for governor:  “This shocking choice says more about McCain’s desperation than it does about Palin’s qualifications”.

and my favorite…

Alaska State Representative Mike Doogan (D): “Either Sarah Palin has talents and skills we were not aware of”, or “John McCain fell down and hit his head”.  He also called the prospect of Palin potentially needing to take over as President”pretty scary.”

The Mudflats blog is great, that’s where I found this link where Palin’s Bridge flip-flop is outlined and she calls *herself* “Valley trash”.  Yikes.

Yeah, this announcement has to be a real boon to Alaska poliblogs in general.  Their traffic must have quadrupled (at the very least)after the announcement.

Well, I just posted this at TBogg’s spot, and goddamn it, I mean it!!!!

Well I hope you dirty fucking hippies are happy with yourselves. You’ve given us a polished, disciplined candidate who has the keen ability to use reason, rationality and sound judgment, who has built an unprecedented social and political network using the most modern tools to energize a sedate electorate, thanks for fucking it up again, Democrats.

Look what Bill posted at Christina’s:

The only way they could have made the show more pro-Palin was if they added a hundred cheering hockey moms (if that many actually exist) and a really angry aborted fetus.

Outstanding.

LOL I love that this woman could possibly lead the free world at any moment if McCain dies, with no foreign policy experience and governing a state that is only 3 or 4 versions of my highschool.

And everyone’s answer to this is, “Oh but she’s a compelling person!” Yep, that gives me great comfort.

Katrina, I don’t know.  This seems like just a lot of conjecture at this point.  Sullivan should have at least been able to back up a few of the “facts” made in the rumor before running with this. I think that was irresponsible on his part.

Daughter aside, I do think it was weird and irresponsible that Sarah gave a speech and then flew to Alaska for over eight hours after her water broke.  However, David Gregory, who currently has a massive boner about Palin, said he thought it was “cool!” this morning on MTP.

For those of you keeping track at home, that was urp number 19.

I agree, Kevin, it is conjecture, but I’ve found Sullivan to be on the ball in the past so the fact that *he* would ask these questions makes me very curious.

We’ll see.  I’m staying away from it unti someone comes up with some more concrete facts.  Plus that much-linked Kos diary gave me the creeps when the writer was focusing on the curvature of Bristol’s sixteen-year-old body in those photos.  I kept waiting for the ‘To Catch a Predator’ crew to rush in and publicly humiliate him, but alas they never showed up.

Also, remember the hole in the Pentagon looked like a plane couldn’t have created it.