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Oh yeah, well you remind me of the common cold.

 

Palin's "plusses" or "minuses" - depending on how you view her are understandable. She went from anonymity to bashing a political figure (Obama) many came to admire in the four years prior. First impressions make a big impact. She didn't have a chance to gradually improve working her way up to bigger stages. She was who she was - heck, I admired her "realness," but became turned off when it became apparent all of those "briefing books" the talking heads were saying she was boning up on just gathered dust. She didn't respect the public enough to find out what she didn't know and figured her charisma was enough. It wasn't.

 

You two would seem to have a lot in common. Although I doubt she has a Kermit Gosnell tattoo.

 

YankeeFan: Hillary doesn’t look well. Her campaign schedule has been light, she’s had numerous coughing fits, and she’s been needing help climbing stairs and getting into her van.

SJ.com: How dare you spread such rumors!

9/11: Hillary collapses

Yeah, I guess I was eventually right. I mean, everyone passes out once in a while. It was a safe claim to make, as I knew I would claim victory at some point.

 

Tired of this bullshit. You're a liar.

Here is the story from Politco.

Paul Ryan Sees His Wild Washington Journey Coming to An End

Here is the nut graph.

In recent interviews with three dozen people who know the speaker—fellow lawmakers, congressional and administration aides, conservative intellectuals and Republican lobbyists—not a single person believed Ryan will stay in Congress past 2018.

Doesn't say anything about resigning. Says he won't stay in congress when his term is up.

You wrote something incorrect, likely on purpose, got called on it, and now can't admit it because it would reveal your slight of hand bullshit that was an excuse to take another shot at the media. I've defended you plenty here, which you know, but go peddle this blatant lie somewhere else.

 

Merry Christmas, guys.

 

CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM

 

People close to the White House...

WTF does this even mean? The media keep relying on anonymous sources for their stories, who, even by their own definition, are not in a position to possess the knowledge they claim to have.

 

No! We're doing so well.

 

Great fucking story.

They don’t believe. We don’t have a single source who says he told them he may not stay beyond 2018.

And, they present no evidence that the conservative intellectuals or Republican lobbyists are people who Ryan would confide in, or who would be in a position to know his thinking.

And, let’s also not pretend that others didn’t run with this narrative and begin to predict that he would resign after the tax bill passed.

It was going to be his “Boehner meets the Pope moment”. Boehner resigned midterm.

 

Jonthan Chait in New York Magazine.

In September 2015, House Speaker John Boehner, a devout Catholic, hosted a reception where he met the pope. The next morning, Boehner announced his retirement, having attained the spiritual pinnacle of his life.

Some Republicans in Congress have begun to speculate that Paul Ryan might do the same. Only, the spiritual culmination of Ryan’s career is not a meeting with the leader of his religious faith but … passing a huge regressive tax cut. “When the House Freedom Caucus gathered Monday night, members spent part of their meeting discussing a theory circulating on Capitol Hill and among the downtown Christmas parties that Ryan may believe he’s harpooned his personal white whale of tax reform and decide he’s finished,” reports Matt Fuller, “‘Is it a Boehner-meeting-the-pope moment?’ one Freedom Caucus member rhetorically asked.”

The tax cut is probably the closest Ryan equivalent to Boehner meeting the pope, since Ayn Rand is dead.

Republicans Say Tax Cuts Are Paul Ryan’s Pope

 

But Donald Trump's investigators are definitely finding interesting things in Hawaii.