The Palins had a messy, drunken, tacky brawl at a Alaskan snowmobile party

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I grew up in the South, not quite the backwoods. I’ve been to, like, farm parties where people are basically doing keg stands in a field and then rolling around in hay. I’ve also been to some rachet parties where there’s hair-pullin’, drug dealin’, bottle-smashin’ and cops a’ callin’. But none of that would prepare me for a party in Wasilla, Alaska. Our Alaskan fairytale begins with all of Sarah Palin’s family arriving at someone’s birthday party, which was a “snowmobile party.” Palin and her clan have ancient enemies in Wasilla, so obviously they ran into someone they didn’t like. What happened next was… classy! The whole Palin clan got into a messy, drunken, crazy brawl at a snowmobile party. The basics:

The details are a little sketchy, but there’s enough of them, from enough different sources, that a story emerges, a story that according to the gossip Gods, looks kind of like this: There’s some sort of unofficial birthday/Iron Dog-type/snowmachine party in Anchorage.

A nice, mellow party, until the Palins show up. There’s beer, of course, and maybe other things. Which is all fine, but just about the time when some people might have had one too many, a Track Palin stumbles out of a stretch Hummer, and immediately spots an ex-boyfriend of Willow’s. Track isn’t happy with this guy, the story goes. There’s words, and more. The owner of the house gets involved, and he probably wished he hadn’t. At this point, he’s up against nearly the whole Palin tribe: Palin women screaming. Palin men thumping their chests. Word is that Bristol has a particularly strong right hook, which she employed repeatedly, and it’s something to hear when Sarah screams, “Don’t you know who I am!” And it was particularly wonderful when someone in the crowd screamed back, “This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!” No, it’s what happens when the former First Family of Alaska comes knocking.

As people were leaving in a cab, Track was seen on the street, shirtless, flipping people off, with Sarah right behind him, and Todd somewhere in the foreground, tending to his bloody nose.

[From Amanda Coyne’s blog]

Bless their hearts. So trashy. You think this is just a one-off story? Nope. All of Alaska is buzzing about what went down and the Anchorage Police Department had to issue a statement about the Palins’ involvement:

On Saturday, September 6, 2014 just before midnight Anchorage police responded to a report of a verbal and physical altercation taking place between multiple subjects outside of a residence located on the 900 block of Harbor Circle. A preliminary investigation by police revealed that a party had been taking place at a nearby residence and a fight had broken out between multiple subjects outside of the residence. At the time of the incident, none of the involved parties wanted to press charges and no arrests were made. However, the case is still an active investigation and is being reviewed by APD and the Municipal Prosecutors Office. Alcohol was believed to have been a factor in the incident. Some of the Palin family members were in attendance at the party.

[Statement via WaPo]

Yeah, so this happened. Maybe you can question some of the minor details (Willow’s ex-boyfriend? Drunkenly falling out of a Hummer?) but this happened. For some reason, the part I find most believable and Palin-esque is the part where Sarah screamed “Don’t you know who I am!” Lady Grifts-A-Lot, at your service.

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  1. Frida_K says:

    The orange shade of her legs in the first picture is certainly fetching, as are both her outfits in the photographs here.

    What a classy woman! She would have done us proud had she become the Vice President of the United States of America.

    *NOT. OH MY GOD THIS WITCH IS CRAZY*

    • Jen2 says:

      I will never forgive John McCain for putting this woman on the national map and making it possible that she was a heart beat away from the US Presidency. We now are seeing her in her full and real insane glory. Good lord!!

      • Tracy says:

        Add to it that he doubled down after the election and insisted she was a great choice.

      • Bridget says:

        I feel the exact same way. Especially since she was essentially an “F U” pick because McCain wasn’t allowed to have his first choice.

      • Laowai says:

        I really don’t know what he was thinking. He wanted a female running mate, but his campaign CLEARLY did not vet her enough! I would love to have been a fly on the wall in his campaign office the day they all realized that she is this big of a moron, and not faking it at all.

      • joan says:

        And not only has SHE lost her looks, now Todd’s lost his looks too.

        They both went from attractive to hideous, real fast.

      • FLORC says:

        But the pure hatred and ice cold encounters between McCain’s daughter and wife to the Palins were classic! I think it was worth it.
        She’s what I always associate the phrase “flash in the pan/slow burn” with. Thankfully she stayed true to a flash in the pan and faded fast.
        Sure she’s still around, but she’s a joke in the industry. Even Fox behind the scenes laughs at her, but she’s good for ratings to a percentage of their viewers.

        P.S. She looks really frail.

      • holly hobby says:

        I read Meaghan McCain’s book and she said she really thought he would pick Lieberman. They all went to bed thinking that. Only someone convinced him not to and the next morning we got this wart.

        Yeah that pretty much screwed up McCain’s chances of the presidency. I wasn’t going to vote for him if that yahoo was on his ticket.

      • Bob Loblaw says:

        McCain decided he didn’t want to win, he made more than one questionable choice that tanked his candidacy. Palin was just the most obvious and egregious of them.

      • Skye says:

        Amen. GOP leadership tipped its hand and told us all we ever need to know about their real opinion of women: “just give’em something with tits to vote for and we’ll get the skirt vote.” Say it with me, Grandpa…FEMALE DOES NOT EQUAL FEMINIST.

      • wolfpup says:

        Skye +1

      • Sabrine says:

        What annoys me is that this airhead and her hillbilly mob still manage to grab headlines. They keep coming back and it’s always something unsavory. With the upcoming election she’ll probably be campaigning for the GOP. That will ruin their chances of getting elected once she opens her mouth.

    • Esmom says:

      My personal favorite is the old jeans shot, where you can see her ass cheeks from the FRONT.

      Seems like OP, her true colors just can’t remain hidden indefinitely.

    • Candy Love says:

      She looks like an 80 year old Umpa Lumpa in cheap polyester clothes and stripper shoes.

    • Petrichor says:

      I know! Every time it read so etching about her I cannot get over the fact that this is the woman who could have been *Vice President*. How did that even happen?

    • Janet says:

      And to think the Russians were watching the whole embarrassing spectacle from their front porches! We will NEVER live this down!

      *weeps in shame*

    • giggles says:

      Say what you want about Obama but hey, we dodged a much larger bullet with this one. Imagine if McCain died? Things could be so much worse and that was a chance a majority of the Americans did not want to take. A lot of people rooted for him until she came on the scene and showed her true colors. It was a very brief period, if at all, where people were like “ok, we can vote for these two in office”. Then it was like BAM! FAIL.

      • Pager90 says:

        Also Remember That candidate from the South who Obama met with as a possible VP choice…..John Edwards , I think his name is.
        Thank goodness Obama didn’t choose him, with all the later baby mamma scandal that emerged!!! Yikes!

      • Amy says:

        OMG if he died and she got to be president we would have been in all kinds of wars. Remember how she flipped out and made a huge scene if anyone insulted or criticized her or her family? If she used her explosive temper, like she did if she was slighted, she’d declare war on any country that ever said anything negative about her…and would probably have anyone in this country locked up for 50 years if they dared say anything that hurt her widdle feewings.

  2. Lilacflowers says:

    Words fail.

  3. Londerland says:

    This woman was a nominee for Vice-President, wasn’t she? That’s something to treasure for the ages.

    • Bob Loblaw says:

      Eh, it’s an important office but it’s also kind of a joke politically. We’ve had more than one VP that should never have been “voted” into office.

  4. Kate says:

    6 years on and it still blows my mind that this woman was a candidate for VP.

    • Tracy says:

      Same here. Unreal.

    • Belle Epoch says:

      Personally I believe she did irreparable harm to the country. Before her, the bar for political behavior was not lying in the ground. A bloodthirsty, ignorant, divisive, lazy, vengeful grifter – she turned the USA into Wasilla and the country never recovered.

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        I took offense to the fact that she was the first Republican FEMALE to run for VP. Just goes to show you what the Republican party thinks of women.

      • Esmom says:

        I agree 100%. I was utterly shocked and appalled at her audacious, shameless divisiveness and distinctly remember feeling like she personally opened the floodgates of this current insanely partisan political environment, and where ignorance somehow has become acceptable.

      • Ag says:

        belle epoch – excellent points. that is exactly what she did. after turning wasilla into the meth capitol of the US. haha. my mind is blown every time people express admiration for her and her ignorance, stupidity, lack of work ethic, pettiness and vengefulness, and shameless anti-american divisiveness.

      • doofus says:

        TOK: I think that choosing her as their VP had the exact opposite result that they wanted.

        they wanted to woo the Hilary voters who were disappointed with Obama as the pick, and it became “Get us a woman…ANY woman. If she’s pretty, even better.”

        but by picking her, they did exactly what you said. That is, they showed female voters that they think all women are interchangeable and “as long as it’s got boobs, women will vote for it”.

        Esmom: I agree. here you have this (somewhat) attractive, folksy woman saying all of these ugly things that so many of the GOP base believes. it made the bigots and the dumb come out of the woodwork…”she’s just like me!”

      • Bridget says:

        Oh, that bar for bad political behavior has always been low, but Karl Rove deserves way more blame than Sarah Palin for helping pushUS elections in the mud. Remember what blew the 2000 election for McCain? Those calls all over the South implying that his adopted daughter from Bangladesh was actually the mixed race illegitimate daughter of a mistress.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        @Original Kitten, and they shoved perfectly competent, intelligent women like Olympia Snowe aside for Palin.

      • Chris2 says:

        TOK
        I thought at the time that it also showed a depressing assessment of male voters. (You know I’m UK and not at all expert re USA of course)
        I (unfortunately) knew many, many English guys who said they’d vote for her without a second thought, as a ‘MILF’, and to hell with politics. The Republicans knew damn well how she’d play to that kind of voter.
        (I’ll say one thing for Palin. I do try not to truly despise anyone, but never managed it with Margaret Thatcher. Palin made me reassess the Iron Lady and downgrade my old animus to ‘dislike’.)

      • Ag says:

        @Chris2 – my husband worked with several guys who were like “hells yeah, i’ll vote for her, she’s hot!” they knew ZERO about her, not even her name before the announcement, but somehow she physically appealed to their middle-aged white male tastes.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        I do think she lowered the bar for political discourse in our country. She was not only out right lying about a lot of things, her disrespectful tone set the bar at a new low.

        In the following presidential primary season, we had GOP candidates remaining silent as their audiences booed gay troops while they were overseas in combat zones, they booed a Hispanic man for simply being chosen to ask a question from the audience. The primary process now has a reality show air to it, and I think she contributed greatly to that change.

      • FLORC says:

        It was a political blogger in idaho(?). For some reason I think it was Idaho. Anyways, he blogged about her and how McCain needed a unknown female republican to be the ideal republican family. Thing was McCains people did this in such haste little was researched. They sent out feelers, Fox caught this and blew in favor of her and there was no going back. It was Palin all the way or start from scratch with damage from association of a female canidate that they dumped.

        Had she not been completely inept at being a compitent mother, wife, and politician this could have gone the other way. The cheating scandals, failed reality tv, backlash from using their youngest son as a prop, etc… Her fate was sealed.

      • Chris2 says:

        Esmom
        Yes. The emphasis on divisiveness, of always rooting out whatever separates ‘us’ from ‘them’ is, imo, the most dangerous pandering to shameful instincts, and Palin revelled in this.
        Over here there’s much discussion about Rev Ian Paisley’s death. He was, for much of my own life, the embodiment of the politics of rigid separatism/sectarianism and bigotry ( in Northen Ireland)…..but he came to reject this, and became a great inspiration in a society tired of such bellicose division, and he showed that previously mortal enemies can find common ground and work for peace.
        This isn’t a Paisley eulogy……it’s a reflection on Sarah Palin’s neolithic political schtick….she always gave the impression that she’d see any such rapprochement as morally weak, and that the righteous will keep bellowing ‘No’ until death.

    • Christin says:

      If blows my mind that there are people who still defend her. It scares me, actually.

      • Addison says:

        That is weird. Even with proof right in front of their faces. Glad McCain lost or this might have happened in DC.

      • Esmom says:

        It’s the legacy she left behind…the mentality that if you’re with her than you are against Obama, etc, and that’s all that matters.

        We have a few people right here in my town, who I have to work with on local gov’t matters, who are highly educated and presumably bright individuals but because her POV aligns with their conservative agenda, she is OK in their books. It seriously makes me crazy.

      • Christin says:

        Though not as outspoken as they once were, I know a few people (both male and female) who still think she’s great. Some think the media unfairly portrayed her (ignoring all else).

        Women think she’s a great juggler of career and motherhood, and the men seem to like her looks and party line talk. It’s strange, yet it helped me confirm the reasoning abilities of the individuals who still think she’s great.

      • JustChristy says:

        I think I might be related to most of her leftover supporters. My own mother, a sworn democrat (which I know she doesn’t have the greatest understanding of, a whole ‘nother can of worms) loves Sarah Palin. They all claim “She’s folksy.” No. You’re all just plain stupid and not very observant to what she really is. Jed Clampett was folksy; SP is canned tan/stripper shoes + a Kardashian-esque gift for self-promotion + an international platform to spout off her insanity. Everyone responsible for unleashing this plague unto us should be forced to live the rest of their lives on an island with her, her family, and no way out alive.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        “They all claim “She’s folksy.””

        That is what really upsets me the most about her. That she tries to pit cities against small towns, coastal states against the inner states, people that eat healthy against people that don’t, Americans against “real Americans”. In addition to being uninformed, she’s eager in her divisiveness.

      • homegrrrl says:

        I live near people who couldn’t personally vet her record or political qualifications, and we -all- have access to computers. Some say the internet won Obama’s elections, and really, it was so easy to research SP history. However, voters of a certain political bent where simply mesmerized by her talking points and never investigated the facts. Our nation dodged this bullet by a hair’s breadth, and that’ s because most Americans don’t have the ability to decipher and discern- that’s what is truly frightening.

      • giggles says:

        My brother in law is all about her. Then again he has 2 braincells and feels that God will bless them with another baby even after he and his wife have been fixed. “God will find a way”.

  5. HH says:

    This is hilarious. And is Bristol back in Alaska? Did she sell the place in Arizona? Also, Sarah and those platform shoes…. not a good look.

  6. mia girl says:

    Still freaks me out that Sarah Palin could have been our VP. One heartbeat away and all that.
    *shudders*

    • Mata says:

      Agreed. It’s still a very surreal and scary thought. The worst part is even after she lost, they haven’t gone away. They Kardashianed themselves into the national consciousness.

    • Lucky Charm says:

      Unless she quit halfway through the term. Because she does that, you know.

    • anne_000 says:

      One heartbeat away from being POTUS and we would have had the first (and only) White House reality show series because she’s not above doing that.

  7. YummyMummy says:

    Seriously, she looks so trashy. Her style reminds me of Britney Spears

  8. Socalgal says:

    This reads like the trashiest Jerry Springer episode ever! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

  9. Ag says:

    Trash. Not at all surprising.

    • annaloo. says:

      Amen! I thought, “This isn’t news. This is the sort of behavior I expect from the Palins. “

      • Ag says:

        seriously. i’d be surprised if any of them did something productive that actually contributes to society (the adult ones, i exempt the kids, of course). THAT would be news.

  10. Lucy2 says:

    Wow. And here I thought Sarah was just trying to LOOK like Gemma from Sons of Anarchy. Now massive fights too? But I guess they use snowmobiles instead of motorcycles!
    In all seriousness, it is terrifying to think that she and her family were so close to a position of real power. I hope everyone who encouraged the choice for her to be the nominee regret it every day.

  11. Kiddo says:

    So many clichés, my head is about to explode. What is that necklace medallion? I know it just has to have an Amurican flag on it. Kudos to everyone at the brawl for not having any shooting victims.

    • TheOriginalKitten says:

      It looks more like the Yugoslavian flag.
      Her neighbors in Russia would be quite offended.

    • Esmom says:

      Lol, sigh. What a sad state we’re living in when it seems appropriate to commend people for managing to not shoot each other.

    • mimif says:

      Of course you love the necklace, Kiddo! It’s just your style.

      I saw this tool speak back when she was governer of at the blessing of the fleet in southwest Alaska. All the boys came from the (boat) yard too, because she was “pretty”, even tho she was pro-development that would directly harm the salmon runs. Fast forward a few years later and she was quietly booed upon entering an Alaska Airlines flight outta ANC. I almost died, it was so embarrassing, yet so rewarding at the same time. 😀

      • Kiddo says:

        I don’t understand how women can admire her, this confounds me more than the appreciation made by empty horndogs. Her BEE-u-tiful necklace, notwithstanding.

  12. Jen says:

    In that top pic, she looks like she dressed up as Gemma from Sons of Anarchy for Halloween.

  13. Coco says:

    Ah, this just makes my heart swell with pride, especially since my Conservative grandmother and mom just love her.

    • MsMercury says:

      lmao!

    • Lilacflowers says:

      And my cousin’s wife who thinks we should all strive to be like Sarah as she herself demands an end to all entitlement programs, despite the fact that Medicaid is paying for the care that keeps her severely disabled granddaughter alive.

      • Mayamae says:

        Tell her the Palins are the recipients of Alaskan entitlements due to Todd’s native heritage.

      • Bob Loblaw says:

        Like my mother in law, on a fixed income, on social security and a state pension from her dead husbands state career and all she does is complain about how the government is evil, welfare is destroying us, immigrants are spoiling the country, Obama is the worst ever, all the off-base stuff fed to her by the fiction writers at Fox. Has no clue at all where her best interest lies, votes like she’s a 1%’er. It’s so silly.

  14. PHD Gossip says:

    MCCain had very poor judgment choosing her. He could not be president with a poor choice like that. Sad.

    • Kiddo says:

      This is basically hawk-policy played out in real life, only with less tanks.

    • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

      Yeah, I always marveled at the fact that he and his team could spend five minutes with her and not see that she was an idiot.

      • PunkyMomma says:

        @GoodNames – and that they (he and his team) must have thought we were idiots who would turn a blind eye simply because she had a uterus. 👀

      • Ag says:

        i think it was a combo of not truly investigating her (god knows why), turning a blind eye to some of it (as punky momma said), and sensing that the country was on the verge of something huge – possibly electing the first black president. palin is not only a woman, but also proudly offers what is so sadly so acceptable and lauded in conservative politics these days – ignorance. especially when contrasted with a black constitutional lawyer, an intellectual. it appears that being an anti-intellectual who is just plain stupid and ignorant (as palin is) was a badge of honor that was supposed to attract “the regular folk,” and esp women, to their ticket.

      • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

        Exactly.

      • doofus says:

        PunkyMomma, yup, made this point when she was picked and made it up above.

        they figured they’d get all the disgruntled Hilary voters from the primaries just because they had a woman on the ticket. not realizing that women who voted for Hilary did so because she was a smart, accomplished woman, not just because she’s a woman.

        ETA: Ag, it makes me SICK that ignorance is celebrated by the GOP, and that (Obama’s) intelligence is considered “elitist”. WTF?!

      • Esmom says:

        doofus, that whole “elitist” narrative just killed me, still does. WTF is right. Remember Rick Santorum calling Obama a snob, in a tone just dripping with vitriol, for wanting all kids to have a chance at college? I felt like I was living in some bizarro alternate universe at one point when these talking points were being spewed like crazy.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        I agree, Ag, Doofus and Esmom. It greatly saddens me that learning , intelligence and healthy eating have become punch lines to the GOP as an organization, and that ignorance is celebrated. I am just surprised that they chose those points as the fault line for dividing the country into “us” and “them”.

      • Pepsi Presents...Coke says:

        Really. It’s perfectly reasonable for Rick Santorum to have an advanced degree from an Ivy League school, but when the biracial man says other minorities should be able to earn that sort of thing, too, it upsets the balance. In order to preserve the balance, people shouldn’t even be aware that the desire for that is by right their own. His distaste is rooted in automatic contrarian and emotional reaction to the party and the man and more significantly in his ‘There goes the neighbourhood’ arch mentality. Only he is allowed to prosper, anything else is sinister.

        Toss in a helping of, ‘How dare HE, think that HE should have any influence over MY child, when people like HIM shouldn’t even be allowed to set foot into MY White House’ and you have another classic example of people deliberately limiting themselves out of spite towards the guy with darker skin.

        Alright, you’ll show him when you’ve saddled yourself with a gaggle of illiterates who need to catch their breath from the physical exertion of breathing because no true patriot could ever conceive of the notion that some things are truly apolitical.

      • Danskins says:

        @ Pepsi Presents Coke your argument is on point, as usual.

    • FingerBinger says:

      John McCain and his camp thought having a woman as a vice presidential candidate was a major coup and it totally backfired.

      • Kiddo says:

        There is zero comprehension about what drives female voters in the GOP. That’s why they have less support from women.

      • Other Kitty says:

        I loved John McCain. I totally would have voted for him…BUT then he chose this woman to be his VP candidate. She’s so obviously clueless and dumb. I think he picked her because she’s easy on the eyes. But REALLY??!!! Anyone can see she’s an attention-seeking moron.

      • FingerBinger says:

        Palin turned a lot of voters against McCain. Even super conservative columnists like Peggy Noonan and George Will were opposed to her.

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        @Other Kitty-I wouldn’t have voted for McCain, based on his age alone.

        That being said, I had so much affection for that guy before he ran for president. He was a true moderate who always spoke out against the Bush administration when his GOP cohorts were too scared to.

        He changed so much when he ran for president…became a very hardline proponent for the GOP and never seemed to stray from the party line. Then came Palin and well, it was all over. I lost so much respect for him after that.

      • AntiSocialButterfly says:

        @FingerBinger-
        Hell, even Steve Schmidt, his own campaign manager, spoke in favor of $hit-canning her.

      • Kiddo says:

        @TheOriginalKitten, He spoke out for campaign finance reform, as it stood and stands, campaign financing and lobbying and patronage jobs are big drivers of all the corruption and the basis for the current and future oligarchy and destruction of democracy.
        Unfortunately, with the addition of Palin, the message changed (partially because of Obama too, because he was for reform, until he got some of the sweet sweet cash for his campaign) to the ultra-right.

        But after the loss, McCain has turned into a very very bitter man, at the country’s expense.

      • Ag says:

        i too used to like mccain before he changed (and i am as liberal as they come). he had balls and stood up for some things that truly matter, like campaign reform. then it all changed, and he started going back and forth and disavowing his former stances. it all became too gross too quickly.

      • Esmom says:

        Ag, I liked McCain too but towards the end of the campaign he seemed like a shell of his former self, with his frozen grin. His heart clearly wasn’t in it and I felt like he didn’t even want to win anymore. Thank goodness.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        I wouldn’t have voted for McCain, but before the election I did respect him. However, during the primary season he shifted so far right in order to win, he lost some of his independence in the process.

        Don’t even get me started about his current views about being “right” about Iraq withdrawal. (Oh wait….I’m already started) No, sir, the existence of ISIS doesn’t support McCain’s suggestion that staying longer in Iraq was a good idea. The development of ISIS shows why it was such a HORRIBLE idea to go into Iraq in the first place (for which McCain was a loud supporter). The sectarian divisions between Sunnis/Shiites/Kurds was always there, and we created a power vacuum by taking out Saddam. We had no plan, still don’t, for how to resolve this centuries old rival among these 3 religious factions. The fact is, the US can’t resolve that rivalry.

      • Bob Loblaw says:

        I would never have voted for him but I did respect him before his presidential campaign. It was not just the Palin fiasco, as others have mentioned, he changed his tone and direction from moderate to more hard line to court GOP voters. Huge mistake, as it alienated most of us that were on the fence about him. This is a failure of the GOP, they think courting the extremes will save them but it will tear their party to shreds with the in fighting.

      • wolfpup says:

        Kiddo – I think that nearly the entire GOP became bitter with Obama’s victory, and we have had gridlock to this effect ever since. I hate bringing the race thing up, but it is *still real*, and I thought all those white guys felt degraded in their huffy, arrogant fashion. (Sarah sports that look well). During Obama’s first State of the Union address, the republicans were barely able to even look at Barack, and their antics appeared extremely rude to me as I watched Congress six years ago. It can’t have been easy being the first black American president. After six years of grid-lock Obama gets the fallout. I wish people shaded the GOP rather than him. Obama has never called the race card, to his great credit, but I think there was a lot fallout from this fact, and there will be discussion about this in hindsight. Obama’s victory upset the white man’s apple cart of power. Here’s to diversity!

    • The Other Katherine says:

      I know, I really respected McCain until he got the nomination and turned into a total sell-out. Just like what Obama’s done since taking office. The 2008 election turned into the mother of shattered political dreams for me.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        There are things that Obama has done that I disagree with, but my biggest disappointment is congress. I realize that nothing productive can get done as long as Congress is financially dependent on special interests. Even with 80% of the country in agreement on certain issues, Congress still won’t vote in line with their constituents. There are so many important issues to handle, and they just kick them down the road and go to another fundraiser.

      • Bob Loblaw says:

        We’re all disappointed with Obama, those of us that believed in him anyway, but I agree with Tiffany 🙂 Congress is the major problem. We have to fix our political system. It’s been hijacked by greedy corporate interests and most politicians are bought and paid for lobbyists for those groups.

      • fairyvexed says:

        Boy, some of y’all have really bought into McCain’s myth. He was a shithead as a pilot, a scumbag as a husband, and a total failure as a service member. He did the bare minimum as a POW. He cheated on the wife who stood by him for 7 years after she was disfigured in a horrible car accident. And then there’s the Keating Five scandal. He blatantly took bribes.

        He’s always been sexist, telling foul rape jokes and cheating on his wives.

        Don’t mistake being contrary for being independent. He’s never been the latter. He’s always been a rich boy, trying to manipulate people. Palin wasn’t a deviation in the way he views women.

      • Pepsi Presents...Coke says:

        Hm. I have read that things with Cindy, at least before and during the campaign have been very, very bad. Can’t say for now.

      • wolfpup says:

        Bob Ludlow; I am not one bit disappointed in Obama. We’ve made real social gains; e.g., he is the first American (anywhere?) president who has publicly supported gay marriage, and has hands-down stopped the republican assault into our social security and other programs they promised to fix by dismantling them. He has kept us out of war, and even under pressure makes international decisions that he sees as being in the best interests of the American people. I shudder to think of where the “hawkish” McCain and Palin folks would have done with the guns they like to showcase, with spoken threats of their desire to deliver them onto other countries, and then bashes Obama for not doing so. I trust Obama here; he seems to understand we’re talking about killing and being killed, with all the consequences that reverberate around the world! Congress has not worked with him even one year: I call them them spoiled sports. He stopped them cold in their tracks when it comes to their social Ann Rand theories, that they wish to make policy, and that alone has saved our country, by things that “didn’t get done.”

    • Pager90 says:

      The GOP just thought they could get the very disgruntled Hillary voters at the time. They didn’t think it through at all. 🙂

      Sarah Pallin was a terrible choice. How could they not see that? It boggles the mind.

  15. PunkyMomma says:

    I can only pray Saturday Night Live begs Tina Fey to reenact this brawl on an upcoming show.

  16. L says:

    Anytime anyone says, do you know who I am? My tolerance for what they are saying goes to zero.

    Also my kingdom for video of this fight with the palins!

    • AmyR says:

      I need more coffee. Somehow I read this as you wanted a video game based on the Palin brawl. But hey, that would be hilarious too! (Downside: money in their pockets.)

  17. Nick says:

    Sarah probably thought the Russians had invaded Alaska since she can see them from her backyard. Remember, to catch up on her world news she reads all of them.

    • PunkyMomma says:

      Perhaps because she lives so close to Russia, Putin may have caught this all on a spycam? Maybe?

  18. NewWester says:

    They actually named a child Track?

  19. ToodySezHey says:

    Im.just here for the snark and comments.

    *sips Perrier*

  20. neelyo says:

    Wow, as her fame, power and influence wane she’s just going to get tackier and more pathetic.

    And hell yes, it would make my Friday to have footage of this. But I’m sure this won’t be the last of these type of incidents with the Palin clan.

    Wasillans, keep your camera phones handy, TMZ needs you!

    • Kiddo says:

      I think this was always who she was; petty and vindictive. Didn’t she have a state police officer fired, during her tenure as governor, because of something to do with her sister? I just think that a lot of her behavior was kept under wraps. It’s still being muddled with a statement that the Palins were there and nothing more. It leaves it ambiguous enough, where one could decide they had nothing to do with the brawl but were only in attendance.

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        Exactly. She hasn’t changed at all.

        She’s always been incredibly abrasive and defensive, not intelligent, no sense of humor and just generally unlikable.

      • AntiSocialButterfly says:

        You are correct, this is who she always has been. An underachieving dullard, but a vindictive and petty one, to be sure.

        Got a few hours to days to fritter away? Peruse the archives of this(or start currently; both are good options!):
        http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/

        This guy lives in Wasilla and has long been invested in showing everyone who she is, since the early days of her sad councilwoman term, to her half-term governorship ( and wildly rambling& mostly incoherent resignation speech), and beyond. She is the mess to end all messes. There have also been several damaging books written about her, and one about her pimp (allegedly) husband Todd by his mistress called (IIRC) Boys Will Be Boys.

      • Other Kitty says:

        I thought that the fact that she chose not to finish her term as governor showed who she really is. NOT GOOD for SOOO many reasons…

      • lucy2 says:

        I agree. I think the political machine worked overtime to remake her image for the national run, but this is who she and her family really are.

      • Esmom says:

        I also agree, it didn’t take much to see under the respectable facade McCain’s team tried so hard to create. Ironically, wasn’t she the one who said something about lipstick on a pig?

      • Ag says:

        @kiddo – yes, it was her sister’s ex-husband. here is the entire story (it’s long, but oh-so-great). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Public_Safety_Commissioner_dismissal

      • Pepsi Presents...Coke says:

        So interesting that you should bring up Troopergate, as one of the witnesses who went to the press about the story was mysteriously jobless the next morning.

  21. Rhiley says:

    If I had one wish that I could wish, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. If I had two wishes that I could wish for, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace.. and the second would be to witness this moment in person with my homegirls, Tina and Amy, on my left and my right.

  22. Tara says:

    Orange cokey stripper!

  23. alexc says:

    100% pure white trash. I know, I have relatives like this…

  24. Size Does Matter says:

    Geez, Palin, haven’t you heard, Kmart sucks.

  25. Blarg Smith says:

    Holy sh!t. I just realized that Sarah Palin = Gemma Teller Morrow. I mean, look at the pic where she’s holding her phone and grocery bags. Gemma!

  26. INeedANap says:

    I want to hear more about Bristol’s right hook. Someone get that girl an amateur wrestling contract! God knows that’s what the Palin family deserves.

  27. Jennylee says:

    So they’re no different from the Kennedy’s now, huh?

    • justme says:

      Touche! Good old Ted and Chappaquiddick – and loads of other stuff too.

      Also remember that John Edwards was also almost our Vice-President.

      • Kiddo says:

        Meh, I’m not a fan of the Kennedys. But lack of education was not one of their liabilities.

      • justme says:

        It’s not lack of education that leads to unclassy behavior. Nor does lack of education mean that you will be a bad leader. Harry Truman did not graduate from college, but he was a better president than many who have.

        I’m not defending Palin, but unclassy behavior shows up in politicians of all educational and socioeconomic backgrounds (and all political parties).

      • TheOriginalKitten says:

        Absolutely NO excuses for Chappaquiddick. None.
        But at least Ted Kennedy did something positive with the rest of his life—46 years in the senate and plenty of landmark legislations.
        I’m STILL trying to figure out what Palin has contributed to society.

        But I do agree with Justme that politicians in general aren’t known for their class.

      • Kiddo says:

        @justme, I wasn’t referring to formal education. Education, in general, meaning you have your pulse on the world, you read news and watch what’s going on. You educate yourself. Palin is the queen of ignorance. Willful ignorance.
        .

      • Kiddo says:

        Have the pulse on the world, or something or other. This very thread is making me stupid.

    • anne_000 says:

      I think the difference between most politicians including the Kennedys and the Palins is that the former knew how to act normal in public because they were worried about public perception while the Palins don’t seem to have that same standard. The former, when acting terribly, would do so in private while the latter seek to gain attention, any kind, bad or good, in front of anybody, the more the better.

      • Kiddo says:

        The decision on how to act also has to do with a level of intelligence and self-awareness. For which, Palin lacks both.

  28. funny bone says:

    I stood in line forever to vote for McCain while stinky sweaty people stood all around me. Knowing that if McCain’s had not vp’d Palin he might’ve had a chance. No perspective from McCain, Palin. Lord, did Palin wave to Russia to join the trailer trash bar room brawl.

  29. BeckyR says:

    I had no idea Sarah Palin was so tiny.

    • tracking says:

      She was a new mom when VP candidate, was carrying a few extra pounds (for her). She is a runner whose normal frame is tiny. Though her OTT big hair and platform shoes do accentuate even more.

      • Bella bella says:

        I think she also had lipo to thin her legs even more. That space between her legs is unnatural.

  30. BendyWindy says:

    What is that pink and black skirt combo? And those shoes! C’mon Sarah! Get it together.

  31. Jessica says:

    Stripper for Prez! Class up that White House, girl.

  32. Marisa says:

    Not just a hummer, Kaiser, a strettttttch hummer. Stay classy Palins.

    • lucy2 says:

      Sadly funny, when you think of how badly she criticized her opponent for being “elitist” and a “celebrity”. Ever since the campaign she and her family have been trying to chase that fame, and trying to live like they’re rock stars. Stretch Hummer indeed.

  33. Thaisajs says:

    They have cabs in Alaska? Who knew?

  34. Marlene says:

    I loved John McCain until he created this monster. I will never forgive him for exposing us to this mess and her family.

    • Kiddo says:

      Someone else in the GOP brought Palin to McCain. It was his ultimate decision, but none of these people do anything without advisers. THIS Is how little the GOP considered and considers women voters. They think throwing a bone or token is what makes a difference, instead of understanding and accepting what the issues are and the policies that would make a difference in garnering support.

      • Bridget says:

        Sarah Palin wasn’t on the list of VP candidates given by McCain’s team – they wanted someone like Mitt Romney. McCain was mad that his personal choice of Joe Lieberman was nixed, and basically decided to go ‘outside the box’. By accounts his team had just days to try to vet Palin. McCain definitely deserves the blame on this one.

      • Tracy says:

        I always thought McCain wanted Lieberman as VP. Clearly McCain had crap advisors.

      • Bridget says:

        Republican brass freaked out at the prospect of Lieberman, who would have run as an Independent. The powers that be in the Republican Party are the ones that are ruining things right now – with wastes of space like Rove and Limbaugh considering themselves to be the ‘real’ k ingmakers (the nominal head of the party doesn’t actually matter any more) there’s such a huge emphasis on candidates having proper conservative credentials and talking points. And any candidate willing to throw their hat in the ring for president has to have an incredibly high tolerance for B.S. to be will in to put up with them. GOP leadership is one of the biggest reasons why they’re having such a hard time fielding viable candidates.

        Sarah Palin was such an FU choice by McCain. He finally gets the nomination and those a sshats pressured him to go against the very things that people liked about him, so he chooses a hillbilly that he’s barely met, from Alaska – a state that’s barely even going to deliver any electoral votes.

      • Bella bella says:

        @Bridget, I always thought he wanted someone else but went with Palin because he was told to. And that his hands were tied. I’ll never forget how relieved he was when he lost and went on David Letterman. He seemed like a whole new person! He knew he’d blown it by going with the top brass and running with her as the VP candidate. I never understood why he suddenly switched his independent stance (which many people liked about him) and swallowed the right-wing BS whole. He did a total 180! He could have won that year were it not for this major fail.

      • Bridget says:

        Here’s the thing: Palin was an out of nowhere choice. They had nothing on her. No research, no vetting, no info. The McCain team famously had to do an internet search to research her, and she really only came into the picture about a week before she was announced. If she had really been the GOP brass pick, you better believe they would have known more about her. She looked good-ish at a superficial glance, it makes sense that they would have at least found her to be an acceptable candidate – son that served in the army, just gave birth to a special needs child, says all the right conservative stuff, and of course she was a woman and they figured she’d capture voters disenchanted with Hillary’s loss. But EVERYONE hated Palin once they got to know her. There’s no way she would have been anyone’s choice if they’d have actually known her.

      • Bella bella says:

        @Bridget, There was an excellent New Yorker article all about how Palin was selected, who in the Republican party became enamored with her, etc. I’m not sure when it was published but it was exhaustive in its research. It’s true she wasn’t vetted carefully, but there *were* people high up who wanted her in that VP spot for the election.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      McCain wanted Joe Lieberman as his running mate but the party advisers said absolutely not and dug up Palin, at Rush Limbaugh’s suggestion, no less, thinking they would cash in with women who were disenfranchised when the Democrats chose Obama over Hillary Clinton. Because one woman is interchangeable with another, especially when comparing Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. *rolls eyes.*

      • OhMyMy says:

        @LilacFlowers:

        That’s exactly what they thought they were doing.

        I still remember my blood turning to ice and the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when they first mentioned her. And that was before anyone knew anything about her. Women will get totally distracted by a hairdo, skirt and shoes. She doesn’t have to know what she’s talking about.

        McCain lost control after that.

      • Bella bella says:

        Yes, exactly. Poor McCain actually lost the race right then and there with going with the top brass’s decision. He could have won had it stuck to his own instincts.

  35. roz says:

    The Palins? Tacky? Drunken? Entitled? I am SO SO SHOCKED.

  36. Mitch Buchanan Rocks! says:

    Finally Tina Fey does something Tabloid worthy!

  37. Coconut says:

    They have cabs in wasilla??

  38. lisa says:

    i always pictured alaska to be sort of like this all the time (hides from alaskans)

  39. KelT says:

    It seems like once you have a reality show on TV, this is what happens to your life. Future reality wannabes, beware!

  40. Sayrah says:

    She has really aged since she first became a thing.

  41. OriginalTessa says:

    I’m pretty conservative…a registered republican. I’m pretty sure I hate Sara Palin more than any democrat ever could. She’s THE WORST.

    • Steph says:

      I was a Democrat in college and then switched to Republican and now after GWBUSH,I am more Libertarian,so I am pretty open to different views,but this woman and her screechy whiny voice drives me nuts. She intentionally says inflammatory verbal bombs to get her name in the headlines,so she can remain relevant and perhaps parlay it into a reality show. She does not discuss issues,she just hurls insults. The conservatives are nuts if they think this woman should be their leader!

      She to me is the Debbie Wasserman Schultz of the GOP. They are very much alike in their communication style. They throw out lots of red meat to their base with no intentions of being persuasive.

  42. kri says:

    Oh my god. LOLOLOLOL!! TRACK ??! Track and Trip??! These are names she gave her kids. No wonder they are always drunk. Track, go find your brother, he Tripped over the edge of an iceberg again”. Oh god, I’m hysterical with these fools! And what the F*CK is she wearing? Is she dressing up as the Erin Brockovich of Alaska? LMAO.

    • gooner says:

      @kri
      She probably has delusions that she really IS the Erin Brockovich of Alaska. Quitting all the way to inflated and undeserved glory…

    • jc126 says:

      Track – son. Trig – son (some people think she didn’t give birth to Trig – don’t know, just mentioning it.) Tripp – grandson. RIDICULOUS names.

  43. neelyo says:

    I love that they’re tooling around in a Stretch Hummer, forever classy. Though to their credit, if they’re going to be wasted (and bring along Bristol’s child, according to some local blogs), at least they’re weren’t driving.

  44. Mike says:

    Why the hell did nobody film this? It would have been gold. I love how one of the partuers called them hillbillies. Very accurate

  45. Honeybee Blues says:

    I have two words for everyone here: “Game Change.” I was housesitting for a friend with a home theater, so seeing it on a bigger screen was magical. When it was over, and I finished applauding, I watched it again, just to feel that same thrill and relief at the bullet we dodged. Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson are brilliant at Sarah and Steve Schmidt. It’s the feel good movie of the decade! I so love a happy ending. Seriously, anyone who’s not seen it really hasn’t a clue as to how bad she really is. My jaw dropped many times during the course of the film. And the real Steve Schmidt and few other staffers reported that the movie is “eerily accurate.”

    • Tracy says:

      Yep, that movie is a must watch.

      How telling is it that Nicole Wallace (top campaign adviser ) ended up not voting in that election. She knew first hand how dangerous it would be to have this woman one heart beat away from the Presidency.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      Fantastic performance by Julianne Moore, who actually made Palin look sympathetic. Stupid, nasty, and way out of her depth, but sympathetic.

  46. may23 says:

    She looks terrific though! I wish she’d kept the stylist she had when running for VP but otherwise she looks amazing!

  47. Steph says:

    This woman really bugs me. The conservatives lose instant credibility by using her as a spokesperson.

    • Josephine says:

      To be fair to the conservatives (of which I am not), I don’t think they claim her anymore. She’s tea party fodder. I guess the party thought they could control her, but she has constantly shown that she’s only out for her own publicity and wealth. She had no loyalty at all.

  48. Pixelated says:

    Cleansing my hillbilly palate with Dolly Parton. Now SHE’S a redneck I would vote for.

    • The Other Katherine says:

      Oh, come now, let’s not even compare Palin and Dolly Parton. Dolly is a gifted, thoughtful, beloved icon of country music who demonstrates clearly that brilliance is not the preserve of the privileged elite born into money. Palin is…. none of these things.

  49. Cel says:

    I don’t doubt something happened but having lived a significant part of my adulthood in the Anchorage area, it seems odd that APD would respond to a call in Wasilla. They are a significant distance away (like 45 minutes to an hour and there are other closer towns if all of Wasilla’s police department was busy or something) .Also, no one is riding snowmobiles there yet because there isn’t snow on the ground out in the Valley yet. The whole thing sounds off.

    • MissTrial says:

      @Cel:

      The APD responded to the bloggers Amanda Coyne and Gryphen at IM and confirmed an investigation .

  50. justme says:

    I just wanted to repeat something I mentioned above. Lots of people are down on McCain for picking her for VP and I agree that she was not a good pick. However we should also be down on John Kerry, who picked . . . John Edwards! Maybe we could just agree that the Vice Presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit as John Garner (one of FDR’s VPs) put it! (Actually it was not “spit” but another word beginning with “P”)

    Or that the first decade of the 21st century was not a golden era for VP picks!

    • MissTrial says:

      @justme:
      Palin and Edwards are not the same. They exist independent of each other and are ‘awful’ in their own independent ways .

      However: This thread is about Palin and her family not Kerry or Edwards or POTUS or the Kennedys ( as someone posted above) , etc etc .

      I never understand why people go from the topic at hand to ‘but what about this guy or that guy’ mode. Silly deflections rather than stay on point.

      • Justme says:

        Not an attempt to deflect, but there have been numerous large sections of this thread which go on about how McCain almost foisted this awful VP on us. I just wanted to remind people that we’ve had a plethora of awful VP candidates – all chosen for reasons that have nothing to do with any qualifications for the job.

        We dodged the bullet from both Republican and Democrat in that regard.

      • MissTrial says:

        OK.

        We are pretty much on the same page except Edwards was qualified in the sense that he could do the job, could articulate thoughts, had a business mind, was a successful trial lawyer, had intelligence and other more than sufficient qualifications but he should not have been an option due to his personal and other dealings.

        Palin is not qualified in any way, shape or form, governor or not. She is ignorant.

        If only Kerry and McCain had come together on that rumored ticket…

      • Bridget says:

        I agree, its a Palin thread, not an Edwards thread. And its not exactly like anyone would have anything particularly nice to say about John Edwards, its just that he’s not the topic of conversation.

    • Brionne says:

      John Kerry was a poor pick for presidential candidate in the first place. As soon as I heard he was the candidate I knew the Democrats would lose. He seems an able Secretary of state though.

  51. elo says:

    She is seriously one of the main reasons I voted for Obama. I disliked both of them but my disgust for her yearning to be a celebrity outweighed my disgust for his yearning to be celebrity.

  52. roxy750 says:

    She really F***ed up her image. She started as being conservative smart normal–then it went down hill, shame on her and her obnoxious self serving absorbed ways.

  53. Syko says:

    I knew she was trashy when she shimmied during the debates. But one thing about this article bothers me. “The Palins have ancient enemies in Wasilla”…how is Wasilla big enough that you can have ancient enemies in it?

  54. bettyrose says:

    Not just a southern thing.. us fancified west coast city folk head to the outlands in droves on the weekend for drunken debauchery in natural surroundings. We call it “camping.”

  55. Zwella Ingrid says:

    I am not very interested in politics. However, I definitely have opinions about what I believe. I try to follow my moral foundations in the decisions that I make about any candidates. I do vote, but I probably vote based more on an eeny meeny miney moe system than anything else. I believe there is extreme corruption in both the Democrat and Republican parties. Even the candidates who look good on the outside are corrupt and manipulative for the most part, imo.

    I have a much happier life ignoring all politics and political discussions. It’s very rare I ever comment on any thread with political overtones. You may condemn me for not taking part in the political process (not taking much time to find out about them or learn about issues), but my opinion is that no matter how much you know or participate in the process, its all going to hell in a hand basket anyway.

    The only point I have to make is that this is the prize you get for getting drunk and stupid. You reveal yourself to be an ass. Easier to cover up assholery with sobriety.

    • bettyrose says:

      Yeah alcohol can reveal a lot, but some major stress cases transform into fun people with a little distilled lubrication, so it goes both ways.

  56. Anon says:

    Wonder if Sarah and Kate Gosselin wear the same shoe brands? Hideous.

  57. Ag says:

    This is good, haha. I wonder if this is, again, Palin being a vindictive a$$.

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/eric-thompson-palin-brawl-witness-fired

  58. Jaded says:

    I think the Palins should start making guest appearances on Trailer Park Boys (anybody watch it? It’s a Canadian show, wickedly funny). They’d fit right in and probably boost ratings!

  59. Ruckhappy says:

    I used to spend summers in Wasilla as a kid. In fact, I may have played with little Sarah Palin many moons ago–it was a very, very small town back in the 70’s–although I have no memory of her. What y’all chichacos don’t know is that the Matinuska Valley gets a little nuts in the summer. It’s not the “Alaska” you folks think of. It’s more like Idaho with perpetual sunlight. The heat gets well up into the 90’s, it can get pretty muggy, the mosquitos are almost man-killing, the sun is up 20 hours out of 24 and folks drink a whoooooole lot.

    Fight? Hey, if no one got shot or stabbed that ain’t a real fight, not by Wasilla standards.

  60. Bella bella says:

    The irony is a brawl like this probably makes her even more attractive to her fan base. Sigh!

  61. zut alors! says:

    I think this post begs for a little Countess Luann musical interlude.

    ♪ ♫ Money can’t buy you class
    Elegance is learned
    My friend ♪♫

  62. Trillion says:

    I think this was all a staged for a reality show she wants to pitch.

  63. Janet says:

    I’m waiting for the whole ratchet family to appear on the Jerry Springer show

  64. Foxy news says:

    Why aren’t these thugs in jail ? Do we need a video of the fight, in order to get her off our screen.

  65. Hautie says:

    How did this fight happen… and NO ONE has footage of it?!?

    How has TMZ not hunted down the shaky camera phone video?!?

  66. tarheel says:

    I loathe Palin’s wingnut politics, but even putting that aside, my blood runs cold when I think this trashy, thick as a brick sociopath was almost one McCain heart attack away from being President.

    I love Meghan McCain’s story of how ticked she got on the campaign trail when she was told to wear a higher neckline shirt. She was like, you have an unwed teenaged mom on stage with her dropout baby daddy, and you are complaining about ME?!

    Meghan is a an Ivy-league grad and even though I disagree with her on several things, is intelligent and most non-trashy.

  67. aquarius64 says:

    This hot mess of a clan almost became the Second Family. America, we dodged a bullet.

    In light of the mid-term elections coming up in the US this year, to every US citizen of voting age and who plans to vote, PLEASE take a good hard look at the person that’s on the ballot this November. Know their positions on issues, and also KNOW THEIR CHARACTER. These candidates will bring their true natures to the job, and unfortunately you won’t be able to change it until the next election cycle.

  68. whateveryouwantittobe says:

    I actually had to ask myself: “What the hell is a Track Palin???”.

    • MissTrial says:

      @whateveryouwantittobe

      I think the answer to your question is: the shirtless guy standing in the street flipping off people

  69. Vava says:

    The fact that she and her family are even in the news anymore is so funny to me.

  70. r2d2 says:

    Who is that methed-up walmart hooker with the inflatable tatas in those pics?

  71. Steph says:

    PLEASE let there be video of this…

  72. Just Lurking says:

    Does she have a mullet in the ass-cheek photo? Truck stop gash.

  73. Tig says:

    After reading Dolly Parton’s comments, this throws in high relief that she is not trashy. Trashy is not related to income, but behavoir. The Palins are trashy. Guess the baby daddy is glad he wasn’t at this party!

  74. MissTrial says:

    That top photo! I wish that were a gag outfit ( to borrow from Designing WomenJulia Sugarbaker- ” it certainly made me gag”) –like she was pranking people.

    “and also too though”:

    Proper styling and handlers can only go so far. It is like night and day once she was no longer under the control of the RNC.

    It is embarrassing and pathetic how she styles and conducts herself. What a joke they have become.

  75. Jayna says:

    This story is hysterical. John McCain must be so proud.

    She’s looking like one of those middle-aged women on Adderall, to me, super skinny when never was that thin before. Her outfit looks like it came from Forever 21 and that hair color looks like se did it at home under bad lighting. LOL

    How she is dressing is very odd. She looks like a different person these days. Money can’t buy you class.

  76. Eileen says:

    I’M pretty sure there is enough trash, hairy armpits, and liberal women who look like men on here to fill up a room on this thread. THAT picture is old and it was when Bristol participated in Dancing With The Stars as you low information voters can’t even get your years straight.

    • Jaded says:

      Wow, were you at that party too?!?!?!?

    • Esmom says:

      Mmm, ok. If not being clear on the timeline of Palin’s fashion evolution makes someone a low-information voter then I guess I’m guilty as charged.

      • Bridget says:

        Whew. In that case, if these pictures are truly old (by a couple of years!) Then we must all bewrong about what a horrible person Sarah Palin is. Now I’m off to groom my armpit hair and my mullet.

    • allheavens says:

      Dear Eileen,

      If you consider Palin part of the GOP intelligentsia and people hate her because she is just too deep and real; then by all means keep drinking the kool-aid from her glass stripper heels while following them into social and political oblivion.

    • Olenna says:

      Ha! Eileen, it’s apparent from your angry comments that you just wanted an excuse to snipe at someone, anyone, but, sorry, that LIV phrase is out of context and doesn’t work here.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      @Eileen, the extreme right-wing view that liberal women have hairy armpits and look like men is not only ridiculous but it harms conservatives as well.

    • Janet says:

      For the record, “Low information” = you don’t watch Fox News.

      But it’s interesting that the ten states with the lowest level of education and the highest level of poverty are all red states.

      • Lucky Charm says:

        It’s no coincidence, either. By keeping those voters uneducated and ill-informed, they will continue to vote against themselves, thereby ensuring that they remain uneducated and ill-informed and the corporate “sponsors” of the GOP will continue to make more $$$ at their expense.

  77. Jh says:

    She looks like she hit up the Adderal/crack-head train pretty seriously. She’s stupid and gross. Sorry. Not many people I have such vitriol for.

  78. Jessius Maxiumus says:

    Ha! My husband’s family is from Wasilla. They were never impressed with that clan, and they’re dyed in the wool conservatives.

  79. funny bone says:

    Anybody see the blue-black toe nails

  80. Tessy says:

    They are calling it the “Thrilla from Wasilla”. Hilarious.

  81. Danskins says:

    Still can’t believe some people considered voting this trashy woman into office to actually lead our country…WTH.

  82. Jayna says:

    It took me a while to read this whole thread, but thanks, everbody. This was so entertaining and took me back. I have watched Game Change twice when it was on HBO. Brilliant acting by everybody. This has made me want to go back and pull it up on Amazon Prime and watch it again. It was riveting. I was a Hillary fan also and bitter for a while. I had always admired McCain and never ruled out voting for him until two major decisions by him shook my confidence in him. He came out and said our economy was sound the week of the biggest financial crisis this country has seen in our lifetime, and also that he chose Sarah Palin. In reality, he had little to do with picking her, but went along with it.

    But that was the nail in the coffin for me. The more I watched the election evolve, the more horrified I was by the thought of this woman a heartbeat away from the presidency. And John McCain the age he was and with a war and the financial crisis we were in, it was a big deal who was running the country. If he died in office, we would have this idiot in office. John sold his soul to try and win and ruined a lot of his legacy.

    John MCain was running against Obama on the platform Obama wasn’t experienced enough, and at such a crucial period for America, that helped McCain, that argument, and then he went and chose Palin as his VP running mate. He in one split second nullified the very thing that had some leaning his way that were on the fence. I was supposed to believe in him because he was so experienced and could make the right decisions and then he picks someone like her to be our POTUS if he should die or be assassinated while in office.

    True his chances of winning were probably not there, so they needed a game changer. They sure got one.

    If you have never seen Game Change, you have to watch it. And it doesn’t eviscerate Palin or make her evil. And there are places in it, I truly felt for Palin because she was so in over her head and the pressure she was under was enormous. Then she became frightening once she realized her power and McCain and camp couldn’t contain her, and at the end where she was determined to go out and give a speech, making it all about her, said everything about her.