Former GOP senator calls Palin a 'cocky wacko'

Source: CNN

(CNN) – Former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee was known for keeping a low-key profile on Capitol Hill, but the Republican -turned -Independent is making waves with his exceedingly blunt comments on newly-minted Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin:

She's a "cocky wacko," he told a Washington think tank earlier this week.

Chafee, the lone Senate Republican to vote against the Iraq war who endorsed Obama's White House bid earlier this year, told an audience at the New America Foundation in Washington Tuesday that Palin's selection has energized Obama backers.

"People were coming into my office, phone calls were flooding in, e-mails were coming in, 'I just sent money to Obama, I couldn't sleep last night' — from the left. To see this cocky wacko up there," he said.


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Kind of figured it was Chafee

:shrug:

:woohoo: :applause:

But cocky Whacko works for me!

...it's what makes them so cocky.

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Mike Gravel on Palin
Submitted by lambert on Wed, 2008-09-03 18:31.

Mike Gravel:

In my mind, that Sarah comes to the national scene as a novice with a clean slate is her main asset. Having a long history of political experience also means a long history of exposure to the political corruption endemic to the process of human governance, with the phony public and private compromises that accompany political experience.

Foreign policy experience? Thank god she has none beyond that of a normal citizen subject to the militarization of our culture over the past 50 years, particularly so in Alaska with its strong military presence. The three other would-be leaders have tons of experience among them. But whether liberal or conservative all three are committed to a policy of American imperialism with the self-appointed role of world policeman. This role of trying to influence the world with our military might sustains bloated defense budgets that profit the few and impoverish the social and economic needs of the many.

The United States spends more on defense than all the rest of the world combined. By comparison, Russia and China—our supposed competitors on the world scene—each spend less that 10% of our budget, preferring to strengthen their economic sectors. Are we not as concerned about the wellbeing of our citizens as Russia’s and China’s leaders are? Do they—or do we—have our budget priorities wrong?

Sarah has literally come to the national scene without owing anything to any party or corporate interest––not even McCain––he needs her more than she needs him. Imagine a person a heart beat away not owned by the military-industrial complex, Wall Street, corporate America or AIPAC. WOW! Can this last? Probably not. But she does have an uncanny sense of political direction and the ability to capitalize on change like putting the public interest above Republican Party interests.

<see comments at the link> http://correntewire.com/mike_gravel_on_palin

I think Gravel missed the whole aspect of her extreme fundie orientation and the fact that she is owned by the wacko religious right wingers. Far more dangerous in my book!

Gravel isn't exactly mainstream.

Is that anything like "arrogant"? Or is it more like "elitist"?

"Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill."

To this day, the notion of "Oops. I goofed" or even "If I had known then what I know now" is pretty obscene to me.

The neocons have a scary plan, yes...
but those flat earth theocrats have a more direct plan for human extinction.

:evilgrin:

The comments have introduced another nickname. I'm torn between Trojan Moose and Caribou Barbie.



I mean, I liked Barbie when I was a little kid...

Good one.

SOB's steal another election.

Sarah Palin is officially Mooselini 2008