Behold, the McCain-Palin "Truth Squad!"

Why is it that Republicans love to have these little names? I've posted previously about Alaska Congressman Don Young and his "A-Team," and "Wolf Pack" of lobbyists. For those of you who haven't been keeping up with the infamous congressman's latest silliness, the A-Team and the Wolf Pack are all the lobbyists that gain immediate and unfettered access to the congressman in his office in DC. These guys are Don's big guns. The A-Team was referred to as a separate group, but is also a subset of the Wolf Pack. So if you're on the A-Team, you're also by default in the Wolf Pack, but if you're in the Wolf Pack, you're not necessarily the stuff of the A-Team.

We're not only corrupt, we're silly.

And now, on the national front, we have the McCain-Palin "Truth Squad," a group of spunky Republicans put together based completely upon party affiliation, and mostly on ovary ownership, to dispel the myths that are circulating about the new VP pick, Sarah Palin. A couple of these myths arose from confusion about budget line items and reallocations that looked, at first, like Palin had slashed funding for special ed, and for homeless teen mothers. She didn't.

But other things on the list that attempt to make us feel better include talking about the fact that Palin didn't actually attempt to force public schools to teach creationism, but simply that she "wouldn't oppose" teaching creationism in public school.

And she didn't actually fire the librarian who wouldn't agree to ban books. She only tried to fire her. After public outcry, she agreed to let the librarian stay, even though she wasn't being 'supportive.' And the list of banned books that's been circulating? Bogus! We don't know which books Palin wanted the public librarian to pull from the shelves for content Palin found offensive.

And most of all, she was NOT officially a member of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party, even though the Vice Chair said she was on video tape, (and called her out for infiltrating the Republican Party to get elected, while holding the AIP ideals). It was actually her husband that was a member of the secessionist group.

Don't you feel better now? Phew! I was worried for a minute, but after hearing from the Truth Squad, my mind is put at ease. It's fortunate that the Squad will be galloping across the land coming to the GOP's aid. "We're meeting it head on," said Brian Rogers, a campaign spokesperson. All right! (fist bump)

Oh, and they dared to accuse her pastor of being a Jew for Jesus. That guy was only invited to speak at her church by her pastor. And why should we care about her pastor, anyway. People shouldn't be condemned for the views of their pastors. We learned that from Obama and Rev. Wright. We need to focus on what Palin herself believes. She's just a normal sensible gal who thinks the world is 6000 years old, and that Jesus will come and rapture the faithful during her lifetime.
So knock it off, and quit with this fringe, liberal, left-wing nutty blogosphere over-reaction, will you? Sheesh.

So, now that you have the Truth, are you pumped, and ready to meet the 'Squad'?

National Members Of The Palin Truth Squad:

· Former Governor Jane Swift (R-MA)
· Governor Linda Lingle (R-HI)
· Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, (R-AK)
· Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
· Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
· Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
· Congresswoman Thelma Drake (R-VA)
· Congresswoman Mary Fallin (R-OK)
· Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
· Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX)
· Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
Congresswoman Candice Miller (R-MI)
· Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-FL)
· Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
· Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM)
· Jo Ann Davidson, RNC Co-Chair
· Rosario Marin, Former U.S. Treasurer
· Meg Stapleton, Former Aide To Governor Palin
· Kristan Cole, Lifelong Friend Of Governor Palin

State Members Of The Palin Truth Squad:

· Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton (CO)
· State Representative Amy Stephens (CO)
· State Board of Education Member Peggy Littleton (CO)
· State Representative Ellyn Bogdanoff (FL)
· County Commissioner Mildred Fernandez (FL)
· Former Iowa Senate President And Former U.S. Ambassador To The Eastern Caribbean, Mary Kramer (IA)
· State Representative Jackie Walorski (IN)
· State Representative Laura Brod (MN)
· Former GOP State Party Chairwoman And Former State Rep. Barb Sykora (MN)
· Jayne Millerick, Former NH GOP Chair (NH)
· State Senator Jennifer Beck, Honorary Co-Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, Honorary Vice Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· Bergen County Clerk Kathe Donovan, Honorary Co-Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· DA Dona Ana County Susana Martinez (NM)
· Former Lt. Gov. Lorraine Bono-Hunt (NV)
· State Senator Barbara Cegavske (NV)
· State Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert (NV)
· Sue Lowden, Nevada GOP Chair (NV)
Kay Ayres, OH GOP Vice Chair (OH)
· Betty Montgomery, Ohio Women For McCain-Palin Chair (OH)
· Mary Taylor, Ohio Auditor Of State (OH)
· Margie Hughes, Clackamas County Chair Of Women For McCain-Palin (OR)
· Linda Neace, West Linn Small Business Owner For McCain-Palin (OR)
· Deanna Smith, Women For McCain-Palin Chairwoman (OR)
· Renee Amoore, PA GOP Deputy Chair (PA)
· Joyce Haas, PA GOP Vice Chair (PA)
· State Senator Lisa Baker (PA)
· Diana Irey, Washington County Commissioner (PA)
· Christine Toretti, RNC National Committeewoman and McCain-Palin Pennsylvania Co-Chair (PA)
· Kim Ward, Westmoreland County Commissioner and McCain-Palin Pennsylvania Regional Chair (PA)
· Former First Lady Susan Allen (VA)
· Lori Ann Miller, Young Republican Federation Of VA Chairman (VA)
· Former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow (WI)
· Peggy Oban Boze, McCain-Palin Chairwomen For King County (WA)
· Susan McCaw, Former Ambassador To Austria (WA)
· Della Newman, Former Ambassador To New Zealand (WA)

Wow. They've got everybody, from Palin's own Alaska Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, to an RNC co-chair, from members of congress, to former ambassadors to nations in the southern hemisphere. Pretty impressive.

They'll really be able to handle all those other nasty things people have been saying, head on!

I bet they'll dispel all those horrible claims about her stand on global warming, reproductive rights, troopergate, promoting people who talk nice on Fox News, getting paid to stay at home, intimidating staff, raising taxes, not properly funding troopers, her actual executive experience, her real position on the bridge to nowhere, the state of the small town where she was mayor, and being called the Queen of Earmarks! They're really gonna clear the air. Right guys??

Right, Squad?

Squad?

hello?

(cricket)

 

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Comments

[nerdcoregirl]

01:25 AM on 09/13/2008

I got so fed up with this that I decided to start a new website: the REAL McCain/Pal­in Truth Squad available at http://pal­intruthsqu­ad.org.

[RealityBaseCamp]

10:04 PM on 09/10/2008

OH BABY!!! Rachel Maddow just reported that now Obama's got some friends calling themselves the ALASKA MYTHBUSTER­S!!

http://afp­.google.co­m/article/­ALeqM5iOxg­joYM2D7PHj­G3ZUj6ycOa­hTqQ

I'm dyin'! I hope they cleared it with Adam & Jamie!! And I see the SHOW just did an Alaska special last spring! Maybe they can do an Election special. This just gets better.

I just had another thought about the big membership list. The first time I looked at it, I thought, OK, some friends, associates­, who can speak up for her. Then I saw it was just all the high-ranki­ng Repub women they could find. So now I wonder how many of them have even actually met her, and if so, was it at the convention­, or when she was in DC lobbying for the bridge?

[toochie50]

04:57 PM on 09/10/2008

heevenstev­en and luigi:
did you guys see the youtube video of hannity being chased by the Ron Paul supporters now that was PRICELESS! I saved it my favs!

[mamae]

04:49 PM on 09/10/2008

TRUTH SQUAD what a joke John McCain must have forgotten his meds this morning. He is letting karl rove send his campaign straight to the gutter. The American people are sick of this. We want a President that will put the needs of the country above all this petty name calling.If this is the best that John McCain can give us he should never have ran for president. in the words of Barack Obama ENOUGH!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!

[demigod]

04:39 PM on 09/10/2008

All those pigs in lipstick ! SOOOOOOOOO­OEEEEEEEEE­E!!!!!!!! It's like the County Fair in Iowa !

[robinogle]

05:22 PM on 09/10/2008

LOLOL or arkansas :)

[Soundofthunder]

04:37 PM on 09/10/2008

Sorry, but I beat them to it. I've been truth squading the exaggerati­ons since I first heard them.

When it comes to the truth about Palin, there is no need to chase windmills, or should I say igloos?

SOT

[PumaAnn]

03:02 PM on 09/10/2008

I will continue to offer my perspectiv­e, although I'm fairly certain it's going up to the universe only. Many Democratic women are more like Pal than any other role models. We had kids, we had to juggle jobs, we may be married and thought it would be easy and learned otherwise. We have faced many, many times where the young MBA guy who was wet behind the ears got the promotion we THOUGHT we had earned. And then we were asked to train him. Why? Because he had a degree. We postponed our education to raise the kids, bring home the bacon, and then also cook it.

And then there was the obligatory divorce for 65% of us. And we didn't even have someone at the house to pretend to watch the kids while we ran the chores.

We are not impressed with his Harvard credential­. We're impressed by men who actually make choices that are tangibly honoring women, not those who offer promises of equal pay.

We know the personal disappoint­ment of going home after some jerk pulled just the same type of double entendre on us at the office....­.and they always get by with it. Today, if you speak out.....th­ey add a dollop of calling you a victim.

We know the Pelosi types. They are meaner than mean to any other woman. We know the academics. They live with 9 cats.

We have faith because she's learned what we know: Deliver. That's the only shot.

[iyamchazz]

03:09 PM on 09/10/2008

Are you really a woman?

[DrEight]

03:42 PM on 09/10/2008

So what you are saying is you support Palin as some odd method of revenge against women who have been and are currently oppressed? May I point out that this is a political race for the executive seat and we all should be voting based on the issues and which candidate will best solve them for us? Have you LOOKED at the record for who has done more to support women? While Palin MAY have a vagina, she has done less to support women's rights and equality than have Obama and Biden. McCain has done nothing. Nada. Zilch. Look it up. This is not a personalit­y contest and you are clearly treating it as one. Did you support Hillary ONLY because she was a woman? I can only have reassuranc­e in knowing that most women are far more mature and rational than you and will not become fodder for the insult McCain has hurled at them.

[ajax2]

02:40 PM on 09/10/2008

Palin/Mcai­n speaking on truth is similar to Bush lecturing on diction/sy­ntax.

[watchandwait]

01:53 PM on 09/10/2008

In their latest hubristic endeavor, Rove et al. assume they WILL cause the Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. By putting Palin on the ticket (the least qualified Republican governor with a ton of baggage), they would capitalize on three things: (1) protecting their base (because of her strong ideologica­l mindset), (2) taking advantage of the female supporters of Hillary Clinton, and (3) garnering support of people who can't seem to bring themselves to vote for Obama (translate­d: won't vote for a black man). Some say "Obama should have picked Hillary" - Rove and Co. probably thought that out as well, for any other Obama-VP scenario, they probably had someone lined up. Consequent­ly, Rove et al. sits back laughing at us because he's put a total dud within reach of the presidency­, and we Democrats (along with the media) are having to take the high road with regard to properly vetting this woman (by not doing it fully, lest it appear sexist or whatever BS excuse they come up with this time). Bottom line: Karl Rove and his boys are not omnipotent­, nor omniscient­. They are humans just like the rest of us. While I don't condone violence, they do bleed like the rest of us. It's up to the Obama supporters (and people who won't vote for Obama but will not support the Republican­s) to bring these guys down and show them that all the hubris in the world will never make them immortal.

[aFlyoverPerson]

01:49 PM on 09/10/2008

I can't understand why so many woman remain republican­s.

[drumz]

01:57 PM on 09/10/2008

Is it vapidness? Please explain.

[Mason]

01:35 PM on 09/10/2008

McCain-Pal­in Truth-Squa­d???????

OXYMORON

[libbygirl]

04:51 PM on 09/10/2008

No other word describes it better.

[djarvis]

01:24 PM on 09/10/2008

Is that "Truth Squad" or "Thought Police". It seems that the latter is more fitting for this bunch.

[TheBlackCat]

01:03 PM on 09/10/2008

It may be time to face the music, folks.

50% of Americans believe in creationis­m. 20% don't know the earth revolves around the sun.

Those Americans are having 4-10 babies each. Progressiv­es are having 0-2 babies each.

If so many Americans already are Bible fundamenta­lists and are having many times the children we are, what's the landscape of this country going to look like 20 years from now?

Those Americans vote for the politician­s that they think loves Jesus the most. That's ALL they care about. That was the Bush ticket and now it's the McCain/Pal­in ticket. Even if Obama somehow gets it, when all these little fundamenta­lists grow up into voting fundamenta­lists, we'll just be back where we started.

Unless we're all willing to start cranking out 15 kids each, which I doubt, what chance do we have?

This country will be the United States of Jesus Christ within our lifetime.

All us Buddhists, Catholics, Unitarians­, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, wiccans, and non fundamenta­list Christians need to get our butts to Canada!

[BookDesigner]

03:29 PM on 09/10/2008

Wouldn't it be simpler to elect someone like Obama now, while we still can, and help him fix the educationa­l system in this country? While I think it's immoral to contribute to the world's burden of overpopula­tion, I am hopeful that enough--an­d good enough--ed­ucation can reverse your doomsday scenario, at least in this country.

[Rfox]

05:26 PM on 09/10/2008

All we need to do is stick to the issues, stick to the issues stick to the issues. They should be running an add for factcheck.­org. There are a lot of idiots in the world. It is why there are so many people who still do not watch their kids around the pool, why so many still give out their personal informatio­n on the internet, it is why there are so many teen pregnancie­s in our schools and more to come if abstinence is the only thing taught in our schools. It is why I have to spend 45 minutes a day deleting e-mails trying to get my personal informatio­n, because there are a lot of idiots out there that answere these e-mails. I thought that women would be more inclined to vote issues, but I was wrong they are primarily voting gender. What a sad day this is.

[HeevenSteven]

12:15 PM on 09/10/2008

Palin's huband is a secessioni­st? Can you imagine how the right-wing pundits would react if Michele Obama was a member of a secessioni­st group. Sean Hannity's head would explode.

[Luigi53102]

02:56 PM on 09/10/2008

"Sean Hannity's head would explode."

I thought it already did. Isn't that thing resting on his shoulders a prosthesis­?

[Memere]

11:26 AM on 09/10/2008

Can anyone tell me why Sarah Palin hid her pregnancy from her family? If she is so pro-life, even if she knew the baby would have Down's Syndrome, 7 months' worth of secret keeping sounds excessive.­.......
there's more than meets the eye here!