“This undated photo provided by the Heath family shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her dorm room at the University of Idaho. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced Palin as his vice presidential running mate on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008.”

fred, there’s something the kids are calling TMI.  It stands for TOO MUCH INFORMATION.

I love how the camera cut from thompson after he made this strange comment and panned directly to mccain’s confused (and unhappy I assume) looking mother.  Did fred realize the rnc was not rated TV MA?  I can hear it all over the country in the 50-100 living rooms that for some reason had this boring ass convention on the TV – “Momma, what’s an exotic dancer?”

Like the laura bush posting from earlier tonight, I am not making this up and will definitely try to find a video of thompson’s awkward comment tomorrow.

The full quote verbatim from tonight’s rnc:

“In flight school in Pensacola he (mccain) did drive a corvette and date a girl who worked in a bar as an “exotic dancer” under the name of Marie – the flame of Florida.”

Yes, he put bunny ears up when he said exotic dancer.

Update 1: While I’ve never heard of mccain’s stripper whore girlfriend – what would jesus do? – here’s a NY Times article from 2000 where mccain states “‘She was pretty volatile. Har, har, har!”

Update 2: Video…

And I quote…

“And let’s not forget, president bush has kept Americans safe.”

Did she mean aside from September 11th? I can’t make something this ridiculous up. She actually said the above line. I will try to find a video tomorrow. Amazing.

P.S. Laura – random reminder – you let someone as idiotic as george bush go inside you. embarrassing!

Update: Video – Her crazy claim is seen 6:37 through 6:42…

Hey joe,

Heads up – make sure you CLEARLY realize one thing…you’re not a Democrat.  The dems definitely don’t want you back.  You better stay an Independent because you’re mocked by the gop as well.  It has to suck when EVERYONE outside of east coast despises you.

Lowlights of lieberman’s prepared remarks at the rnc:

“And that brings me directly to why I am here tonight.  What after all is a democrat like me doing at a republican convention like this?  Well, I’ll tell you what.  I’m here to support john mccain because country matters more than party.  I am here tonight for a simple reason – john mccain is the best choice to bring our country together and lead our country forward.  And dear friends, I’m here tonight because john mccain’s whole life testifies to a great truth.  Being a democrat or republican is important but it is nowhere as important as being an American.”

It’s a shame this wrinkly piece of shiat is so hell bent on protecting Israel while bombing the piss out of the Middle East.  Outside of this anomaly, I’m not sure what lieberman has in common with mccain except the senior discount at Denny’s. 

AWKWARD rnc moment!

Why is the gop and mccain camp purposely excluding Obama’s 8 years as a state legislator as political experience?

This is a “karl rove” move if I’ve ever seen one and shamefully I think most Americans are stupid enough to believe that palin and Obama have somewhere around the same amount of experience.

It’s not like Obama’s political experience includes merely being part of the PTA (palin), the mayor of a village with less than 8,000 people (palin), and/or 2 years governing a corrupt/worthless state while knee deep in scandals (palin).

Political experience aside, palin and Obama are on two different playing fields.  For example, he articulately outlines his vision of America in “Audacity of Hope.”  She asks a church to pray for a pipeline.  Assuming mccain dies from old age well within 4 years, who do you think is fit to be the next president?

Don’t worry – you probably won’t have to answer that as I assume she won’t be on the ticket in a few days.

In my younger years, I hoped relentlessly that my parents would win the lottery. Outside of the obvious of being straight up filthy rich, why did I hope they won the lottery? Specifically, I wanted my own arcade room, maybe a four wheeler or two, and some really expensive cars. Yeah, at 15/16 years old I was pretty shallow like every other teenager.

Post desiring a bunch of video games and expensive things that go fast, I hoped that I would fall into some huge sum of cash so that I could buy property and travel. Slightly more sophisticated but still materialistic.

As of recently, my only hope is that I somehow get the chance to ask sarah palin the following:

1) How thoroughly did the mccain camp vet you?

2) Why would you accept the vp offer if your daughter was 5 months pregnant? Not that her being pregnant at 17 is a problem in my book – but, does the whole world need to know about it? Is that really fair to your daughter?

3) You just had a baby with a disability, why are you even considering becoming the next president of the United States? Yes, sarah, I said president since mccain’s age/deteriorating state of health means he definitely isn’t living out the next 4 years.

4) Per the rumor that you recently applied for your first passport when visiting Iraq, have you seriously never traveled outside of North America? This is an unfounded rumor, correct?

5) Why are Alaskan politics so shady/weird? Also…

6) In your own words, can you describe TrooperGate? Can you describe what it means to be for – but then adamantly against – “The Bridge to Nowhere” once you were selected as vp? Lastly, how about all those earmarks for podunk Wasilla, Alaska?

7) Will you make it long enough on the ticket to give your speech Wednesday?

8 ) What and the hell were you thinking – if you’re actually the mother of trig – during your most recent labor? If you need help remembering the ridiculous culmination of events that lead up to the delivery of your premature baby with special needs, click the image below. Once the page loads, left click on the image once if it looks blurry.

One can only hope!