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McCain campaigners tell Vanity Fair that Palin's nickname was: 'Little Shop of Horrors'

by: Pam Spaulding

Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 14:00:00 PM EDT


Now you'll remember all of the BS boasting about the brilliance of Sarah Palin that went on in the McCain camp and by conservatives when she was selected as the failed presidential candidate's running mate. Don't you think it's professional malfeasance, hell, unpatriotic,  to try to 1) foist her onto the American public as a strong, credible candidate, and 2) propel someone so wholly unqualified into the White House? We all called it back then, but now the McCainiacs are falling all over one another to say how brain-dead and incorrigible Palin was to Vanity Fair. (Raw Story):
According to the article, former McCain campaign staffers suffer from a collective "survivor's guilt" over the problem-plagued choice of Palin as vice-presidential candidate. The friction between McCain and Palin was so intense that it carried over into election night, when Palin wanted to address the Arizona crowd to whom McCain was to give his concession speech. After much back-and-forth wrangling, Palin didn't speak that night.

But trouble had been brewing long before that. Over the course of the campaign, one close adviser to McCain "was heard to refer to Palin as "little shop of horrors'" during the campaign.

...Palin's lack of aptitude in her new starring role as V-P candidate became obvious quickly. At times, it seemed as if she was more concerned with her popularity back home in Alaska than with the national presidential campaign that she was now a central part of.

"By all accounts, Palin was either unwilling, or simply unable, to prepare," the piece says. "In the run-up to the Couric interview, Palin had become preoccupied with a far more parochial concern: answering a humdrum written questionnaire from her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman ... At the same time, she grew concerned that her approval ratings back home in Alaska were sagging as she embraced the role of McCain's bad cop."

And the Vanity Fair piece asks some really obvious pointed questions that I'd love to hear the answers to from the McCain/Palin supporters who knew what was up.
What does it say about the nature of modern American politics that a public official who often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but applauded? What does her prominence say about the importance of having (or lacking) a record of achievement in public life? Why did so many skilled veterans of the Republican Party - long regarded as the more adroit team in presidential politics - keep loyally working for her election even after they privately realized she was casual about the truth and totally unfit for the vice-presidency? Perhaps most painful, how could John McCain, one of the cagiest survivors in contemporary politics - with a fine appreciation of life's injustices and absurdities, a love for the sweep of history, and an overdeveloped sense of his own integrity and honor-ever have picked a person whose utter shortage of qualification for her proposed job all but disqualified him for his?
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Horrors??...I think that's a mispell


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


yup
extra apos (extended in the entry box so I didn't see it).

[ Parent ]
you misunderstood
Red Light HORROR House...lol

I'm acclimating to the South

War becomes WAR-AH
More becomes MOR-AH
Store becomes Stor-AH

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
It's a title of a movie/play
Unless you fixed it already the above is correct, a title of a movie/play would have the quotations or apostrophes around it.

And it was my FAVORITE movie when it came out.  Nobody but nobody beats Ellen Greene.  And Levi Stubbs was just out of this world...  

The trollish sounding blogger formerly known as BURNSEY


[ Parent ]
This is Just Good Fun
At a time when we are so disappointed by our choice for President, this article brings a smile to my face (and a sense of relief to my brain).

I hope Letterman sees this
He'll bust a gut laughing.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


"Little Shop" of Horrors?
Surely that should be "Multinational* Department Store Chain".

(she can see Russia from her house, and did once get political support from Alaskan separatists; I think that counts as multinational)

____________________________________
Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.


And yet....

upwards of 27% of self-acknowledged gays in exit polling voted for her and McShame...more than voted for either of the elections of Bush fils. ["overdeveloped sense of his own integrity and honor"-sing out, Louise!].

One wants to believe that it wasn't more than voted for Bush but that it's just more are willing to self-identify but...

And as long as the subject includes Vanity Fair how many minutes will it be until they print another slobbering Valentine to Ronnie & Nancy Let the Fags With AIDS Die Reagan?  10...9...8...7...6....


I voted for her.
I voted for her.

I think this article is nothing but innuendo, hearsay, sexism, and hysteria. Sarah Palin, about as much as Hillary Clinton, produces this effect on people.

It's a shame that so many Democrats will completely eat it up without caring to question the motivations and anonymity lurking in such a piece.


[ Parent ]
Not Sexism
I dislike Sarah Palin as much as I do Michael Steele, for allowing themselves to be USED.  In a last-minute attempt to "prove" republicans aren't all about white males, they pull out these 2 puppets.

And possibly even 3 - don't be surprised if Lindsey Graham will be urged to come out of the closet, so the republicans have have their token gay, too.


[ Parent ]
Charlie Crist
i thought that was Charlie Crist's job.

[ Parent ]
It used to be Jim Kolbe
until he retired.

[ Parent ]
Sweetie exit polling LGBTs is INSANE
Exit polling African Americans who are clearly visible has a plus or minus 10 points because of the small population.
80% of LGBTs could walk right in front of a pollster, and they'd never SEE them.
The error must be beyond any made number they throw out.
I know LGBTs in Minneapolis voted 85% Democrat EVERY election, presidential or not, and we voted in percentages only rivaled by seniors. Obama drew in LGBT Republicans and Independants...so that 27% seems INSANE. I'd wager less than 5% of LGBTs voted for Palin...we are higher educated, and she is just dumb as a box of rocks.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
That's why I did this!
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/...

If that 27% is accurate, there's a lot of gay people in the South!


[ Parent ]
Between now and 2010
Polling for the GLBT community is something that really needs to be worked on.

Evenin those survey, I mean simply because it's in a gayborhood doesn't mean that the voter is GLB (not sure about the T here).


[ Parent ]
"I consider that an insult!"


When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


Fritz, that
is UGLY! And probably your intent too.

How goes it, today?


[ Parent ]
It is Audrey II from Little Shop
I'm okay. Gotta go to the DMV, though!

Thanks for asking.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


[ Parent ]
No shit sherlock...we're talkin' about world conquest...



When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


[ Parent ]
feed me!!!!!!!


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Just imagine
That Seymore is a McCain campaign staffer!

One of the comedy shows has to run this clip.

This brings up another point, too. Little Shop of Horrors was a popular play and movie, but it has a lot of appeal to the gay community.

I just find it odd that the McCain crew would choose this as a nickname. Sounds like something a queen would come up with -- I'm just saying...

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


[ Parent ]
LOL!
OMG I haven't watched either version of that film in YEARS!

Now I'm in the mood to see the original w/Jack Nicholson.  The musical movie was good, but I thought the black & white version was more hilarious.


[ Parent ]
Does it have to be human? Does it have to be mine?
Something I ask every time the GOP asks me to give up something (rights, future, identity) to benefit the white/straight/Christian/male paradigm.  

[ Parent ]
The Little Shop of Horrors nickname analyzed...
Audrey II started out as a cute and interesting little plant.

The more she was fed, the more she turned into a hidious monster who wanted to TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

These are smart people who came up with the nickname. I'm sure that all fit into it.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


Oh, I forgot
Audrey II was used to bring new customers into a failing flower store.

The more I think about this, the better the nickname fits.

I hope Jon Stewart runs with this.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


[ Parent ]
So who's "plant food" ?
"If you want a rationale,
it isn't very hard to see,
Stop and think it over, pal,
The guy sure looks like plant food to me..."

Heh - this could be fun...


[ Parent ]
Everyone she verbally attacked was plant food
And, in the end she attacked John McCain! The guy who created her!

This is too rich. It is the PERFECT nickname. Everything fits.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


[ Parent ]
So who's "plant food" ?
"If you want a rationale,
it isn't very hard to see,
Stop and think it over, pal,
The guy sure looks like plant food to me..."

Heh - this could be fun...


[ Parent ]
Mark Buse
Was the close McCain adviser overheard calling Palin "little shop of horrors" Mark Buse?

'Cuz he's gay and if he was calling her that, it had to be for all of the reasons I listed above.

- Started out cute and interesting
- Brought in new customers
- Turned into monster when fed
- Wanted to take over the world

I want to know!

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


[ Parent ]
See, all that cattiness
with "The Wasilla Hillbillies" had "gay" written all over it. I will always think that it was Buse that leaked that juicy data.

[ Parent ]
I heard the Little Shop of Horrors was a female staffer's line
There are two other nicknames just as catty, and Steve and Mark probably are those authors.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
thanks for the phrase
"Casual about the truth"; that's going to be one of my new phrases.  Palin is the antithesis of integrity as far as I'm concerned.

Andrew Sullivan comments on the VF article...
"As the months have gone by since John McCain revealed his total cynicism and contempt for America's national security by selecting one Sarah Palin to be a potential vice-president of the United States, we have learned that every single ghastly attribute we discovered in the campaign is worse than we thought at the time.

The narcissism, the pathological and incessant lying, the viciousness, the delusions of grandeur, the vindictiveness, the fathomless and proud ignorance, the opportunism, the vanity, the white trash concupiscence and fraudulence in almost every respect: these are now indisputable. How an advanced democracy came that close to having this farce of a candidate running the most powerful country on earth reveals how deep the corruption of our politics and especially our media are."


McCain never wanted her
The wingnuts did.
McCain's choices were known at the time to be either Leiberman or Ridge, both hugely unacceptable to the Right.

McCain was leveraged into taking the Right's choice...

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


[ Parent ]
Which just shows you
what kind of president he would have been.

Sarah Palin is the reason my dad voted Democratic for the first time in his life. And, he loves McCain (lives in Arizona).

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


[ Parent ]
yes well
Her saying Obama was "paling around with terrorists" offends everything in me. She deserves nothing more. Sorry if YOU were offended.  

[ Parent ]
A Palinism on Jogging
"When I run, I'm totally incognito because I'm not wearing a trough full of makeup. I can go running through a mob of tourists and they don't recognize me,"  

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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