Posted on 07/18/2011 4:05:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There was a time when arriving at work with an eye the color of an overripe tomato would have been because I had a really good time the night before.
This one is all Sarah Palin's fault.
My very competent and nice eye doctor, Dr. Baxter, told me that a blood vessel burst in my left eye. It is something that can happen from a sudden increase in blood pressure, like what happens when you have a coughing fit.
Or when Sarah Palin makes the cover of Newsweek magazine.
"Ready to run," the cover reads.
Oh, spare me.
It is no coincidence that my vessel popped within hours after the issue arrived in my mailbox.
The former Governor of Alaska, who quit two years into her first term wouldn't win her home state in a Presidential election. I'm not making that up, it's from Policy Polling and their survey showed that only one of the Republican candidates could take their home state, and that's Gary Johnson in New Mexico. Palin, who isn't even an official candidate, rates just slightly above Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in the unpopular rankings. Both women have a favorability ranking of 33 percent. Yet a national magazine puts Palin on the cover. (I wasn't real happy about Newsweeks cover last week either, the one that showed a computer-aged Princess Diana walking along with Princess Kate. That was just sleazy.)
Putting Palin on the cover may be good for newsstand sales, but it plays havoc with my health.
And yes, before you ask, I DID read the article in the magazine.
Here's what frosts my pumpkin about the recent Sarah Palin cover. She is a private citizen, not a candidate for president. My profession, the "lamestream media," as she calls us, who provide fuel to whatever fire is in Sarah Palin's gut for fame and fortune are who should be held accountable for my bloody eye.
A co-worker and I have an informal wager going, because he insists Palin will run for President. I say no she won't. Why would she take the pay cut? She could win some primaries, where typically only the faithful bother to show up to vote. In 2008, during the Nebraska primary election on May 13, only 20 percent of registered voters went to the polls. And that's the Republicans. The next time you are at the local grocery store, take a minute to look at the first 10 people you see browsing in the potato chip aisle. Ask yourself if you would trust any two of them to decide who will be in charge of the country for four years, and see if you don't have an immediate impulse to build a bunker in your backyard or ask Canada if we can sleep on their couch. (Thank you, Stephen Colbert.)
I would be happy to loan you my copy of Newsweek, except that I used it under a bug bomb to prevent toxic drips landing on my carpet. I have to stay ahead of the ants.
I need to calm down here before I burst anything else. So I'm going to try and forget about Sarah Palin and politics and relax because it's my birthday.
By the time this appears in the newspaper, it will have come and gone, so let me thank all of you in advance for the lavish gifts and fuss you made. (Belated fussing will be tolerated.)
Now I am going to retreat to my ant-free abode and put an icepack on my eye.
Denial is not a river in Africa.
Bwahahahahaha! Just wait until she announces and watch (liberal) heads explode!
Here's what frosts my pumpkin about the recent Sarah Palin cover. She is a private citizen, not a candidate for president. My profession, the "lamestream media," as she calls us, who provide fuel to whatever fire is in Sarah Palin's gut for fame and fortune are who should be held accountable for my bloody eye.
As the writer said, she is a private citizen...and y'all have spent more vitriolic airtime and column inches on her than any other private citizen in history.
Y'all better go light on the salt, mebbe that'll bring your collective blood pressure down a tick...(8^D)
If she can she direct and repeat the blood vessel ruptures she is the one.
Obama is our Gadafi.
Let’s roll.
The comments (as one put it) are far better than the article.
To bad a major blood vessel in his brain didn’t break instead.
These Public Policy Polls are simply garbage. Isn’t Barry quoting one that says 80% of his underlings want tax increases? Another says Rick Perry wouldn’t beat Barry in Texas, which is laughable.
Sure. I’m supposed to believe that Sarah Palin can’t beat Barry in Alaska, and that Rick Perry can’t beat him in Texas.
However now we know that PDS has a physical symptom of bursting the blood vessels of the eye of those so afflicted. This is very good news indeed. They will not be able to see to fill in their ballot forms, and will vote Tea Party as likely as not.
I was guessing fag. That kind of cattiness is typical, however, of both the sissy dips and the harpie shrews. While the "gender challenged" she-men trend more towards mindless animus (they even like the sound of that word), the "hormone imbalanced" shrew evinces a more laser-focused and toxic venom-slash-irrational rage.
Not that it matters. I'm certain that Palin lives so far above this pus, deviant reprobates like this and the "Bill Mahers" of the media "Vitriolic-Freak-Parade" pretty much exist outside the cleverly crafted sphere of daily tasks and topics which demand her full attention.
Among the easiest ways to deal with this level of vitriol would be to not even peek at it. Ignore it, and never dignify it with your acknowlegement. It's not easy, but it's doable.
And if it can be done, Sarah can do it.
;-\
Those comments are gold! If she hates Palin, and she “wouldn’t win” ONE state, shouldn’t a good liberal be pushing hard for Palin to be the nominee?
I think that she is in love with Palin. Sorry Madcow, you’re yesterday’s news.
My eyes are bursting for another reason.
What a child. I suppose HBP is the temper tantrum of the adult-baby.
Lol!
I love it when the libs go ballistic over Sarah. hehehe
Barack Obama is a former US Senator who quit 4 years into his first term.
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