For the sake of the party, Sarah Palin can visit me wearing nothing but a bathrobe anytime Tom Smith

Let me get this straight.  McCain aides are all flabbergasted and grossed out that Sarah Palin walked into a room wearing nothing but a bathrobe and told them to talk to her husband while she got dressed, then walked out.  Well excuse me while I play the grand piano.  Life in Alaska is very casual.  The sainted LBJ used to receive aides and reporters while he sat on the toilet.  Give me Governor Palin in her bathrobe any day.  Imagine one and then the other and see what you think.

And spending all that money on clothes.  I continue to think it's funny.  You're with your whole family in the big city, and somebody hands you a "rich donor's" credit card and tells you to buy clothes for you and your family.  What's a mom to do?  I think it just proves she knows a good deal when she sees one.  And this is strictly nickle and dime compared to the billions that are going to be flying out of the U.S. Mint to the friends and family in Chicago.

I don't believe she did not know Africa was a continent.  If she didn't, it just shows the deplorable state of our public schools.

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[Sam]

"I don't believe she did not know Africa was a continent. If she didn't, it just shows the deplorable state of our public schools."

Or possibly the deplorable state of the Republican Party that adding such a person to the ticket was seen as the best hope for victory.

[Nate]

Yes, Palin in a bathrobe sounds hot, but not as hot as Palin in a one piece in her beauty pageant days.

The shopping spree is shameful. "What's a mom to do?" "She knows a good deal when she sees one." I'm embarassed for you.

Her lack of geographic knowledge is not suprising. Add geography to the list of things she should have learned about before running for Vice President: foreign affairs, executive powers, Supreme Court opinions, news sources, television interviews, history, basic science.

Oh well, disaster averted.

[Mark]

We might add "learning to spell 'embarrassed' and 'surprising'" to the list of things kids should be taught in public school.

[usdgrad]

"If she didn't [know Africa was a continent], it just shows the deplorable state of our public schools." Really? Our public schools may be bad (though they did okay by me) but that's no excuse for a prospective VP. If you don't know Africa is a continent, you are just plain ignorant. I would expect an 8 year old to know that.

[x]

nate: Disaster averted? WTF? Joe Biden is the VP-elect. I have four letters for you to describe Joe, IDIOT!

[Tom Smith]

Maybe it's just me, but Sarah Palin with family in tow buying out Sax and NM on the dime of some rich Republican donor just fills me with glee. An absolute hoot. It's hilarious. And you know she will make those threads last for a long time. And when she's done with them they will go in some church rummage sale to a whole new life. There's also nothing dishonest about it. She was authorized to charge up some stuff apparently, and she did. Next time the fat cat won't say, go buy some clothes on me. And even $1 million is not an atom of hydrogen compared to the geyser of billions that O is going to shower on his pals in unions, alt energy etc. etc. And it wasn't taxpayer's money SP spent on her new duds anyway. There is no clothes issue. Money well spent compared to another stupid McCain ad.

If she really did not know Africa was a continent as opposed to, what, a country? A type of coffee? I concede that would be pretty, uh, disturbing. And incredible, which is why I suspect it is made up.

My advice to SP is still to get her own show on Fox, make millions, and live the American dream. Buy Todd the baddest-ass pickup in the history of vehicles. A much better gig than VP anyway. They can always summer in Alaska and snowmobile at Aspen.

[teqjack]

Sheesh. Bathrobe - politesse, rather than making the eedjuts wait in the hall for anything from ten to forty minutes. [South] Africa - I call male-bovine excrement, or the staffers lost the plot about SA being a country and "just a part" of the continent, and I know which I find more credible. US "exceptionalism?" Heck, I would not have known what the heck they were talking about while I doubt these clowns could have defined the Hanseatic League: it is the same as her "fluff" asking for clarification about the "Bush Principle" when there have been at least four policy statements defined by the MSM as such. NAFTA, well, maybe, maybe not.

This is what we call sour grapes, too sour to even make decent vinegar.

[Nate]

Ugh. Humbled again by the spelling police.

Yeah, when you put it like that, the shopping spree is funny, like an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies.

[Todd]

She's such a slut

[Jonathan]

I remember when Sarah Palin was an attractive, highly regarded libertarian governor who negotiated with oil companies and recognized Jury Rights Day. Now people who never heard of her before two months ago, and whose only knowledge about her comes from her political enemies, insist that she is a backwater idiot or intolerant religious fanatic, and I am supposed to accept such character assassination at face value?