According to Katha Pollitt:
Sure, Palin is cool — she’s pretty and vivacious and athletic, a former beauty queen who runs marathons, hunts , fishes and eats mooseburgers, plus she’s got five kids with unusual names like Willow and Track, including a newborn with Down’s syndrome.
Clearly, McCain’s choice of Palin appears to be an attempt to appeal to the 3B vote. No doubt the first time in history anyone has done this.
It may, however, be slightly worrying to one of our more extensively hybridized authors.
Though come to think of it, “hunts” and “fishes” may be sources of concern for some here too.
There is no word of whether the RNC has made a deal with the makers of Snag brand 10W40 Moosteak Sauce.
It remains to be seen whether the ambiguous nature of Palin’s wildlife related program activities will actually attract any 3B votes, but it should probably be kept in mind how easily swayed we are.
This was a blatantly cynical attempt to snag Snag and intimidate fish, plover etc. I’d like to hear annie a’s take on these løøse møøse morals being exhibited.
I WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED!!!!!
Oooohhh, what is that irresistible shiny thing over there?…
HERE I AM!!!!!!!!!! WILL YOU SEND ME AN ANGEL?? HERE I AM IN THE LAND OF THE MORNING STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!
Hmmm, morals, well, as long as she takes a shower the fish smell should go away.
A lot of people think Palin was a cynical selection just designed to go after women, but Plover has it right, it is a 3B play. I want to hear how this will impact voting decisions of individual 3Bs….
I can definitively report that Random Randroid is still voting for Bob Barr. Putting Ron Paul on the ticket may have put my vote in play – a severe miscalculation by McCain.
Nutter, who had previously expressed his intent to vote for Barr instead of that “no good backstabbin’ closet liberal McCain”, is now about 25-50% probable to be moved back into the GOP fold due to the Palin pick. Since he rarely posts here, I doubt we shall ever know the true probability.
Pinko had been thinking about following his heart and voting Nader, but Palin’s right-wing crazytude probably pushes him closer to the more practical Obama vote.
Let us hear from the rest of 3B nation!
I dunno about fish, but I understand there’s a bit of a contraversy around fishpickin.
Now, I’m not here to cast aspersions on fishpickers, hey, how you make your livin just ain’t any o’my bizness, but this whole “fish” thing just kinda makes me wonder.
What fish are you pickin? And are you doin it in alaska?
‘Cause pickin fish in, say, texas, is nothing short of foul, or fowl, or some kind of bird, and simply cannot be tolerated. Ated. Ated. Ated…
mikey
I have an issue with the mooseburger that Sarah Palin ate. You see, I know the moose, and her tale is a sad one. Having a poor education based on biblical theology and not science, the poor moose ended up being given away to her moose uncle, who sadly repeatedly raped her. When the moose became pregnant, she was forced to keep the mooselet, despite the resultant inbreeding causing mid-gestational complications. The moose’s life became tenuous, but not having access to late-term abortion, she died in moosebirth. Her body, along with that of her also dead fetus, was minced to create burgers for the Republicans in Alaska. I’m told that she was very tasty with ketchup and french fried walrus. Sarah Palin repeatedly thanked god for her good fortunes and tasty mooseburger.
now that’s as f**Ed up as the thought of a Palin presidency.
I have to say the latebreaking information from UC has been a game changer. I cannot in the rules of backchannel 3B discuss my vote in the presence of RR. I can chide him for disparaging me with Nader.
We must get the Nutter’s take- he’s an extremely malleable mark, and one that is very predictive of the Free Republic mentality. Empty pronouncements followed by toeing the line.
all I know is, Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on the police behavior in Minneapolis has me very depressed. I don’t think even a mooseburger could cheer me up.
Yeah, and somehow nobody seems to bat an eyelash.
“Conspiracy to riot” WTF is that? You have got to be kidding me. I just hope the ACLU takes this as far as it can go. I also hope they find a way to suit for harassment. Just totally insane. Of course hippies is always asking for it.
“May Gustav bless and keep the Republicans . . . far away from us.”
Look, I’m all about the moose in the hand worth two in the Bush. But a moose in the White House? Are we as a country ready for that?
A mooseburger ate my sister once….
Good to see Snag hasn’t been thrown in the hoosegow yet. Moosegow. Moosecow. Whatev.
Although now that Gustav has turned out to be not the rich disaster photo op they had hoped, when the Repubs return to the Land Of The Vikings, I fully expect to see close quarter moose formations in protest, spelling out naughty words, led by Mistah Snag.
“M-O-O-S-E IN THE U-S-A.”
The cops here are cops. Some good, some bad, like everywhere. The sheriff of the county in which the convention is being held, he’s a blemange. Still (he said, assuming his old guy persona) I could do without people breaking windows.
I wonder if the Alaskan Independece Party is really about sequestering the møøses, and possibly joining OMEC? Smells like a cartel to me.
The real question is: is the Alaskan Independence Party a front for the Canadian Curling Association?
The sheriff of the county in which the convention is being held, he’s a blemange.
He turns people into Scots and plays tennis?
If the AIP is a front for the CCA then maybe we should move the moosile defense shield from Poland to Alaska?
I went to Moosecow once! I have pleasant memories of Patriarch’s Pond (Mooster and Margarita!), Pushkin Square (moosebuger and the McMoosnald), the Kremlin (The Cathedral of the Archangel Mooschael), the Bolshoi (dancing moose!), the Puskin Mosseum of Fine Art…
typity-type-type!
…Pushkin Square (moosebuRger AT the McMoosnald),…
If the above allegations are true, it is fortuitous indeed that the Prime Minister is about to call an election.
The Møøse Liberation Front shall be mobilized.
I hope she likes her mooseburgers well-done but her steaks rare, or she’s not getting my vote.
Wait, we’re talking about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, right? I can’t tell these people apart anymore.
Are curling moose anything like curly fries?
It was a blatant effort to secure the schwing vote.
I need to know what alcoholic beverage one drinks with a mooseburger. I wouldn’t want to get it wrong and expose myself as an elitist.
Given that this is still McCain’s campaign to lose, I’d recommend a case of Arrogant Bastard Ale as an appetizer.
Going off of what ??? said, I’d recommend warm, thick apricot juice with your mooseburger.
In that case, perhaps a St-Ambroise Apricot Wheat Ale?
And an Alaskan salt lick for dessert. The ’76, I think, was a fine year.
YUMMEH!
Salt lick!
Apricot Wheat Ale? Everybody knows you shotgun a PBR after a mooseburger. And then the oral sex.
I didn’t know you were a Palin, Brando.
Watching some digitally encoded entertainment tonight it just struck me that Sarah Palin might be Shelly Tambo without Holling Vincouer’s wisdom to hold her back.
Wow. I need to unpack some of those.