This photo was circulated by Getty after Palin was tabbed for Veep by McCain and appeared, at least, in a cheeseball LAT election slideshow on Palin's fashion sense.
If you haven't seen it before, however, it's because the image, like Palin herself, is radioactive.
Although taken back in '04 (see caption below), the statement is significant today for revealing an attitude (along with the adorable love 'ya/just shot 'ya) that, upon her resignation from elected office, now morphs into a full-blown strategy. Palin has created a scenario, at least in her mind, in which she's defeated the press and can freely Facebook and speak obliquely with and to her equally angry and alienated true constituency.
Simply, she's positioned herself to reconnect, with the same invective, to the haters and fanatics she was inciting during the campaign.
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(image: Robert A. Baker/Getty Images. Sarah Palin models purchased 'Proud to be Valley Trash' t-shirt as the result of State Senator Ben Stevens (son of Ted Stevens) comments that people living in the Mat-Su Borough are 'just Valley trash' July 21, 2004 in Wasilla, Alaska. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate at a campaign rally August 29, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio.)
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To use the words of Barbara Bush Sr. " I am done with you. "
I hope we don't get another stimulus, at this rate it may drive unemployment up to 18% ... the left may think Palin's incompetent, but they must not be paying attention to the facts of their own President's reign.
This is what I remember from that debate: Wink, wink, wink, Joe six packs, you betcha, let me give a shout out, energy expert, no answers to questions, incoherent babbling, wink, wink,
Sarah...just go away. You make my teeth hurt and my @ss itch.
To "ghost": better read some factual history about the Church and ignorance, especially what they did to women who had knowledge and to the Knights Templar. Believe it may still be church doctrine that good Catholics do not read the Bible for themselves. Can you find out what they did to Galileo?
Last I heard, it is still on the books in the Vatican that the solar system revolves around the earth.
There weren't any Christians then!
Ceasar scorched the outer walls as a politcal stunt
later in time xtians and radical jews both burned most of it and tortured the librarians as pagans. Many of the tortured scholars were themselves Jews who were open to learning outside of thier more narrow minded brothers who helped the xtians to torch the "pagan" scrolls.
The final burning was done by the muslims but there really wasn't much left for them to burn. The muslims though did 1 up the other 2 monotheist crazy groups by tearing down many pagan buildings (including the outer limestone casing of the pyramids) to build their mosques.
This is why the GOP is imploding. They can't fake it anymore.
She is and remains a walking, talking cartoon of ineptitude and political stupidity.
" Sarah Palin models purchased 'Proud to be Valley Trash' t-shirt as the result of State Senator Ben Stevens (son of Ted Stevens) comments that people living in the Mat-Su Borough are 'just Valley trash' July 21, 2004 in Wasilla, Alaska. "
Palin, to me, is like fingernails on a blackboard, but in this instance I applaud her for defending the people of her area.
A more interesting tee-shirt pic was the one of her wearing a "Bridge To Nowhwere" shirt, back when she supported it before the earmark was diverted by Congress and she then said "Thanks but no thanks" to nothing.
Yeah, "Hero of the Stupid."