Friday September 19, 2008, 5:44 pm
I can't think of anyone who deserves this award more!! Palin is one SCARY woman!! Thanks Tom!!!

Friday September 19, 2008, 6:45 pm
She deserves the honors. Thanks Tom.

Friday September 19, 2008, 8:01 pm
oh that poor sweet trusting bird. i think palin should be awarded the rubber d***o ~

Friday September 19, 2008, 8:03 pm
message directly above intended for different forum. what's happening? ~

Saturday September 20, 2008, 12:42 pm
What are we doing about it? Americans still eat too much meat, drive too much, population, growth and development are still out of control.

I eat meat sparingly, and have no children - I plan on one child and adoption.

When I can afford it I will buy an electric vehicle. I spent fifteen hundred dollars installing solar reflective panels on my windows.

I applaud Care2 for eating vegetarian/flexitarian, and using public transportation including Amtrak. I thank the American public for not buying SUVs. Remember, not using oil hurts the Republican Party.

Saturday September 20, 2008, 1:14 pm

The entire Republican Party should be given the award............

Saturday September 20, 2008, 1:18 pm
a well deserved award but one should go to her running mate also

Saturday September 20, 2008, 2:30 pm
Perfect award! Thanks, Tom.

Saturday September 20, 2008, 2:52 pm
well deserved award but one should go to her running mate also Thanks, Tom

Saturday September 20, 2008, 3:40 pm
I think it's a insult to the rubber dodo. I think they should put her on a iceberg with a polar bear and lets see who become endangered then.

Saturday September 20, 2008, 3:48 pm
Bravo Cynthia, Bravo !!

Saturday September 20, 2008, 4:13 pm
So here we are in British Columbia bordered on the North by Alaska and on the South by Wash. State, so that whatever is decided on Election 2008 by you folks we are stuck in the Middle. HELPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday September 20, 2008, 6:39 pm
I truly despise her and he's my Governor and I hate him, too. They write me back the stupidest letters saying we can't tell Alaska how to treat their animals and we can't tell Montana not to bait and kill their 2 and 3 year old Mustangs and they decided last night to begin because the wild horses are TRESPASSERS on BLM land. NO. We human beings are TRESSPASSERS. Tomorrow I am going to a party with my cell phone calling swing states begging them to vote Obama. I also helped pay for ad running this week in Ohio about Palin offering $150. for each wolf forearm. She is a lousy excuse for a wooman.

Saturday September 20, 2008, 7:08 pm
I wish Palin and others like her were extinct.

Saturday September 20, 2008, 7:09 pm
There is something about Sarah ...

Going For The Gut

by digby

I can't honestly say that I'm prescient about much of anything, but
I have said from the day she was nominated that her attitude toward animals was a serious weak point for Palin. It wasn't about regular All American hunting. This was about her not caring if the polar bears drown and supporting aerial wolf hunting, which takes her way into the outer boundaries of the anti-environmental and gun culture. She
is far from being mainstream on a whole host of issues, but this is one that creates a visceral, emotional reaction and shows just how extreme she really is.

It looks like that disturbing wolf hunting ad moves voters:

A new national focus group among 312 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents, revealed that after viewing a new ad by the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund regarding "Palin's Wildlife Record", there was moderate movement among all parties toward Barack Obama.

The study was conducted by HCD Research and the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion (MCIPO) on September 15, to obtain Americans' perceptions of a new ad which questions Governor Sarah Palin's record in regard to wildlife in Alaska.

"The ad which focuses on Governor Palin's record regarding the treatment of wildlife in Alaska seemed to strike a chord with voters," commented Glenn Kessler, president and CEO, HCD Research. "The recent ads from both parties have had little impact among voters. This is the first ad in over a month that seems to have broken through," he added.

Among the study findings:

The ad earned Barack Obama a Political Communications Impact Score (PCI of 29.4 and John McCain received a score of 5.9, resulting in a net score of 23.5 for Barack Obama. The scores can be compared to a mean score of 9.3 for previously tested Obama ads and 7.5 for previously tested McCain ads. To date, the total mean score for all previously tested ads is 8.3

The most prevalent emotional responses reported from voters were "angry" and "disturbed" after viewing the ad. Click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQobIUE1zTU

It's one thing to be a frontier gal who hunts moose in Alaska for food. But most people instinctively get that there's something fundamentally wrong with this:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/going-for-gut-by-digby-i-cant-honestly.html

Saturday September 20, 2008, 7:27 pm
Blue Bunting, thank you for the feedback. I helped to pay for the ad about the wolves. As a lover of all animals, she has insulted me from her first comparison of hockey mothers to pitbulls with lipstick. I adore my rescued pitbull and she is cuddled up to me as I write this. Ick to Sarah Palin.

Sunday September 21, 2008, 3:25 am
S Palin brain is certainly smolller than a dodo's brain was

Sunday September 21, 2008, 5:05 am
Sarah Palin is not ready to run a country! We do not need another 4 years of "KILLING". Nor do we need another 4 years of"Oil getting richer and our beautiful America being killed off by guns and big oil making more money. Palin killed to Polar Bear by taking them OFF the endangered list, to save big oil..We can not let her Kill off our animals! and US

Sunday September 21, 2008, 8:10 am
Where is McCain's dodo award? After all he is the one behind this horrid VP choice.

Sunday September 21, 2008, 10:43 am
I have noted this story a couple of times now. Just saw it on the front page
and just for the heck of it, clicked on the note again and it changed. Now I
am wondering how many I've noted that haven't shown up at all.

Thanks Tom.

Sunday September 21, 2008, 9:27 pm
McCain is a real Vietnam War hero and for that he should be honored but finding someone in Alaska, Palin to side with him on DRILLING in America just makes me laugh. At first it made me grossed out but he's just grasping for straws to win this election. I did't know there were such awards but it deservingly goes to Palin!

Monday September 22, 2008, 12:25 am
Thnaks Tom and noted! Would have submitted this story if you had not! I agree, what an insult to the Dodo, lol!

Monday September 22, 2008, 10:11 am
I could say some things but I would get my self in trouble so I will be quiet but boy the thoughts going around in my head right now. She's a dodo herself I will quit at that.

Tuesday September 23, 2008, 7:27 pm
McCain put her there just to make an appeasement to the female voter and the evangelical voter. He doesn't have confidence in Palin, he spoke to her for the first time (properly) when he offered her the position. He only wants to use her to win the election, notice he won't let the press speak to her in any meaningful way....

Wednesday September 24, 2008, 5:12 am
She banned the press from coming into the room!!! What does she have to hide? what is she telling the other world leaders?.. This is spossed to be getting her the knowledge of world politics?? NO.. again NO. She can not learn it this way.. not in 10 years. She needs to stay in Alaska!