In this case, they said "maverick" but they meant "derrick".

Just for the sake of argument, a "maverick" is - for lack of a better term - a loose cow.

I wonder how she feels about being "branded" a loose cow?  I know my wife doesn't care for it... 

YOU ! I thought I was rid of you!

Oh, you succeeded in your despicable mission.  But though I am no longer alive, I remain...

♫ Dump dump DUUUUUUUM ♫

 

..."undead".

 

Now, if you would kindly point me to the brain buffet... 

What's really nutty is how many people have been referring to her today as a "moderate."

So....

Words, ideas, logic, reason, facts---admit it to young people: they really don't mean anything, do they? 

Yeah, is there ANY far-right idea she does NOT support?

She almost makes Pat Buchanan seem center mainstream. 

At least we won't be hearing her talk about her days as a POW

"She's pro-drilling... lifetime NRA, pro-life, anti-waste..."

Nevermind that I don't know what "anti-waste" is, how is being pro-drilling, lifetime NRA and pro-life a maverick trait in the Republican party?

She's boldly going for all men who thinks she's a whore.

Hmmm, somehow doesn't sound like James T. Kirk, does it?

She's a VPILF!

You really are a reprobate... I'd bet that Thrusday night, you couldn't have told anyone who asked you who she was by name, or even who the Governor of Alaska was. suddenly, within 24 hours you're calling her vile names.  You and your ilk are so ossified in your ideology that you simply can't be objective or eve respectful until you actually learn something about a person.

I've learned a lot about her the last 24 hours. I can only hope the American people does too, because if they do there is no way in hell she'll ever get close to being VP much less President.

That's the point, ms. daisy. No one knows who she is. She's got less experience than a cockroach. But I notice your admonishments are never self inflicted. We have plenty of posts by you making the exact same kinds of statements about Obama and Hillary. So take your sanctimonious admonishments and stick em where the sun don't shine - that is, if you can get that tight hole unpuckered long enough...

Well, we know  she did not get 5....5 deferments from vietnam, and then excused for having asthma like Biden did....asthma....after being a highschool football star. 

The difference is pretty obvious.  Biden isn't gung-ho about sending people to war in the first place unlike some other deferees much more responsible for the recent frivolous campaign in Iraq.

Stop the maverick express!

 

Yikes, AnneS, this is from your link;

"...traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it."

I'm picturing Karl Rove by an open campfire in Alaska, bursts of steam coming out of Palin's flared nostrils as she struggles against the ropes around her haunches...

Well, Col., your "Mephostopheles has a branding iron and knows how to use it" Rovian image is certainly implied in the definition ... Bushco was able to get the GOOP brand on McTorture last winter too.

Anti-waste means anti-people.  She's against all government spending, not going to corporate America.

If I hear one more liberal pundit or politician refer to her as "wonderful" or a 'Nice person" or an "interesting choice" or "a clever pick" then I'm voting for Nader.

How much do we really know Sarah Palin? Is she good friends with unrepentant terrorists who don't regret setting bombs back when she was 8 years old? Does her preacher make anti-American remarks? Does she have a feisty husband who has never been proud of his country?

 

Also, she doesn't look like all those Vice Presidents in those history books. Did I mention she's a woman?

 

 

(Did I get all of Hannity's talking points about Obama down, or did I miss one?)

Borrowing some from my guru (Tannenbaum) at electoral-vote.com, she is a 'biker-chick' Dick Cheney.

I know nothing about Sarah Palin at this moment in time. I will do my homework. All I DO know for sure is that she is one sexy looking lady. She also seems to be an overachiever.

Really? I know it's off-topic, but do you guys really find her "sexy", or are you cracking wise? She reminds me of the annoying soccer moms in my neighborhood. I like their daughters a lot better.

Besides, five kids puts you out of the sexy zone.It's a vagina, not a clown car.

Ok, I know what it is. I watched too many of those MILF videos in college. I might have to go where David Duchovney is headed :(

You are reminding me of how Laura Ingraham was so vocal in her attraction to Donald Rumsfeld a few years ago. Shudder and heave ...

She's the only member in this exclusive club who wasn't vetted in and by the primary election process that brought to their knees some pretty impressive candidates. Phew. She is a total unknown, with no process in place (except the blogosphere, maybe the MSM might like to take a bite) to get to know her. The rightie-radio pundints have embraced her  ... (duh!) already a bad sign. She's in for a rocky ride.

What surprises await McCain and the Goop?

I for one don't begrudge her a day in the sun, but ... just a single day.

Seeing it real, I think she is no maverick.  She is nothing but a self-loathing auntie Tom!  A republican hack!  A female sellout!

How dare she call herself a 'woman' when she is a hunter of furry creatures, refuses to have a feminizing abortion and is proud of her faith, which by the way, isn't wiccen nor islam, the only two acceptable religions of a true 21st century american woman!

All the pro-female talk radio women are of course allowed to call her the most vile names because she claims to speak for women.  Why rather than destroy the girls who are attacking her man, she actually stands up for an abused woman and removes her perpetrator from the state police!  What kind of a supposed woman would actually protect a victim from the tormentor without regard to her own political gain?

And most disgusting of all, she has done this without growing cankles!

Let's us all move forward to attack her on being a weak representative of her gender, without regard for the quality of her character, shall we?

Seeing it for real,

Juan Williams

"All the pro-female talk radio women are of course allowed to call her the most vile names"

Do you have any quotes? 

Proudcon, could you do everybody a favor, and put a warning at the top of your posts? Just a quick heads-up that a wingnut is going to attempt sarcasm or satire. It's pretty tough to make heads or tails out of it without that.

Thanks, Col. S.

Now kernal,

Please don't think so little of your playmates here at Media Matters (for very little).  I would rather think of Pete as fully understanding the hint of satire found within my post.  Certainly, any one knows that liberal female (or male, or franken-steinlike air amerika for that matter) talk radio has long been ignored by the public and would have no hope of influencing political thought since no one cared about their beliefs from the get-go. 

So let's just believe that Pete totally got it and was adding to the gah-faws!

But thank you for acknowledging the sarcasm, even without me having pressed the 'satire ahead' button.

X's & O's

Proudconservative

I think I should have asked, "do you have any quotes YET?"

Regardless, it was intended to be conveyed in the same snarky tone. 

I think it's noteworthy to point out that one of your "pro-female talk radio women," Rachel Maddow, was on Countdown and said, and I am paraphrasing, "if everything Palin says about her brother-in-law is true, I'd like to go to Alaska and taser him myself."

Kernal,

Any thoughts?

I thought I heard "barracuda" rather than "maverick"

Maverick is a label that the media glom onto and toss around but they can't define it.  The reality is who cares? It's meaningless.

I can't imagine what McBush was thinking when he picked her but I'm quite happy with his choice.

PS - does anyone on planet Earth really believe she is, as McBush said, "ready to be president."  I mean seriously. (Here's a challenge.  Try to answer the question without reference to McBush's POW experience.  Thanks and good luck)

She's as ready to be president as Barack Obama, IMO.

 

Of course, Obama currently has a chance to make that happen sooner, and for all of us to find out.

I respectfully suggest that Obama's JD provides a better foundation for the job of POTUS than Palins BA in communications and journalism. But that's just me, thinking we're supposed to be in a nation founded on laws, not talk. I'm sure there are radio pundints and weather-girls all across the country who would agree with you.

Unfortunately my parents and teachers were right.

If we've learned anything these last 8 years it's the terrifying fact that anyone can become president or vice president.

She's as ready to be President as Harriet Myers was to be a Supreme Court judge. And probably picked for just about the same reasons.

The Gospel according to Rush: "The angry, bitter clingers; the people who cling to their guns and their religion when things aren't going well and people who don't look like them are moving in?"

 Every time a media personality like Hannity or Limbaugh praises this woman, they're basically highlighting the misrepresented view expressed in the quote they vehomently mock.

 Guns, Religion, Economy... As if there's no truth to what Obama initially said. 

 As I heard a "bitter-clinger" say on The Sean Hannity Show after the announcement of Palin as McCain's VP: "I am pumped!"

 But of course, that has alot to do with her lifetime membership in the NRA. (I also wonder if this also qualifies Michael Moore for VP?) And the fact that she didn't abort her Downs Syndrome baby... Huh? Downs Syndrome babies are lambs for slaughter now? Wow! Let's kill some babies!