Suggestions include:

1. Trig’s unborn twin

2. Alien implant

3. It’s just about the size of… an ACORN OMG!!!

4. The device they use to control her mouth when she can’t be trusted to use it safely for their purposes.

5. Compartment for storing extra evil

6. Bump-it slippage

The  billboard above Wolf Automotive asks the question

PRESIDENT or JIHAD?

with grotesque caricatures  and then screams

BIRTH CERTIFICATE PROVE IT! WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD!

The billboard is owned by Wolf Automotive in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and owner Phil Wold told local 9News:

I put up the billboard because I had questions. They haven’t been answered. No one wants to ask them. My employees have [been] swamped with calls. They have been threatened, called names. I didn’t expect that. We live in a free country. We have the right express our opinions. It’s my sign, my business and my property.

And he has pointed, based on the 1994 Supreme Court decision, Ladue v Gillio which protected political signage on private property.

Meanwhile in San Carlos, CA a commercial billboard company has filed suit, claiming the new commercial sign they want to erect, nearly double the size permitted, is protected political speech because they plan to slap up a Sarah Palin 2012 poster on the almost 50 foot high structure–which is almost as large as regular billboard.  San Carlos has banned new billboards since 1991, and City Attorney Gregory Rubens told Sphere that the Hersons are:

using Palin’s name was a “ploy” to draw attention to the case and provide a pretext for the lawsuit. “We don’t know of any connection between him and Gov. Palin,” Rubens said. “We think he used the cachet of her name to get all the publicity.”

Herson’s father Alan is an attorney who files lawsuits on the company’s behalf, and it seems pretty clear they are using the political angle to skirt the law–and line their pockets. The Hersons filed suit in federal court when the oversize billboard permit was denied. In response to the federal suit, the San Carlos City Council  approved

an emergency ordinance reaffirming a city ban on new billboards and removing restrictions on political signs that the court had found offensive.

The Henson’s free speech advocacy comes with a price: Despite the new ordinance, they are pressing onward with their suit, seeking

damages of $15,000 a month for each side of the billboard. The case is similar to one the Hersons filed against the city of Richmond on the opposite side of San Francisco Bay earlier this year. In fact, the suits are so alike that in one place, the Hersons’ San Carlos filing says “Richmond” instead of “San Carlos,” suggesting that the lawyer simply switched the city’s names in the suit but missed one.

Richmond’s city council also passed a new ordinance to remove its restrictions on political signs but Herson says he is continuing to press for damages in that case.

Attorney/daddy Herson says:

It’s a crusade. We fight for truth, justice and the American way…We were successful with the Oregon billboard law. We are extending freedom throughout the West…

The pair won a landmark billboard case in Oregon in 2006. After spending 12 years fighting that state’s billboard law Alan Herson persuaded the Oregon’s Supreme Court to throw it out. Herson claims San Carlos’’s ban is politically motivated:

The Bay Area is a liberal place, and liberals tend not to like free speech put up by other people. I have a hunch if that sign said ‘Support Nancy Pelosi,’ it would be up by now. They hate Palin. They hate her more than anything.

But it feels more like the Hersons are pimping Palin’s picture to get rich both from suing the city and then turning their political billboard  into a profit-making venture.  If the Hersons win their suit against the city, Sarah’s huge smiling visage could legally be replaced by commercial advertising. Said Alan Herson:

You will see that sign up there someday.

Frivolous lawsuits sucking money from small towns, launched by someone using Sarah Palin’s image in vain to connive a way around a city ordinance prohibiting new billboards! Where’s tort reform when you need it?

Aunt Betsy, hurry up! Uncle Roy, finish up the carving, the computer machine is about to start! And turn off that damn football! It’s time for Tea Party The Documentary!

Oh Lord, pass the Pepto-Bismol, because yes, Tea Party The Documentary Film, now available for pre-order on DVD debuts

a 30 minute “Cinematic Sneak Peek” Live Webcast with Movie Producer Luke Livingston, FreedomWorks’ Hon. Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe

You’ll have to register and join their mailing list to watch

the struggles of five grassroots individuals and their transformation from home town rally goers and rally organizers to national activists in the 9/12 March on Washington. In the process, the film reveals what is at the heart of this nationwide surge of civic engagement – a return to and respect for a constitutionally-limited government, personal responsibility and fiscal restraint at the Federal level.

but that’s why there are socks puppets.

Honestly, I thought the trailer was parody. The soundtrack and narration? Damn, it’s satire. Only its not. I feel a surging in my bosom…and it’s not from the undercooked turkey either.

[h/t Wonkette ]

Best-selling ghost-written celebrity author Sarah Palin is making a stop in that hot bed of alien activity, Roswell, New Mexico on December 1. So far none of the Republican candidates for governor have made plans to drop by and welcome her, but maybe the famous kingmaking Alien will!

During the 2008 presidential election, the Alien, in a stunning reversal, shifted his endorsement  at the last moment from Obama to McCain. In past elections, the Alien’s endorsement was a valid indicator of who would win–in 2008, not so much. However, as the Weekly World News reports, the Alien still continues to be a player in the political realm, so it’s likely he might want to anoint Sarah Palin, though he may just invite Todd to share a hot tub like he did with GOP spouses Laura Bush and Cindy McCain. Gods know Palin needs the help, since her Fox loyalists seem to be turning their back on her–except Bil O’Reilly who asked last night why the left are afraid of Palin and railed against those who dared to compare her to Eva Peron.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports:

A spokesman for GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner — a self-described moderate Republican — when asked Tuesday about whether Turner would attend the Roswell book signing said, “We’ve not been invited to participate in the Sarah Palin book tour, so Doug won’t be on hand. I haven’t looked at his schedule for early December, but he will probably be out shaking hands across the state on a tour of his own.” Asked if he’d be seeking Palin’s support in the primary, spokesman Zack Ireland said, “Probably not — with no disrespect to Sarah or her fans.”

A campaign spokesman for Susana Martinez also said his candidate won’t be in Roswell on Dec. 1. “Susana is going to be working in Cruces that entire week.” As far as seeking Palin’s support in the governor’s race, Jamie Estrada said Tuesday, “Susana is focused on earning the support of New Mexicans as demonstrated by the endorsements she has recently received from people like (Bernalillo Country Sheriff) Darren White and other elected officials.”

A spokesman for the Janice Arnold-Jones campaign said Tuesday that Arnold-Jones was campaigning in Grant County, and he hadn’t been able to reach her.

A spokesman for candidate Allen Weh did not respond by press time to a request for comment.

You know, maybe Trig is actually the Alien’s baby…

[h/t Roundhouse Roundup]

Wow, arty and tasteful!

Wow, and di she ever! Wallace went on The Rachel Maddow Show last night, and Palin came out looking pretty bad. Of course Palin;s stock response has been heard in the Barbara Walters interviewm basically that these are professional campaigners and if their candidate looses, then they have ot make themselves look good to get the next gig.

So who would you trust? Wallace who helped orchestrate the John Kerry flip-flop smear or Sarah Palin who says she’d rather write books than have a talk show?

goofball

on his Fox News radio show Brian and the Judge. He also said Palin

reinforced the notion that John McCain chose her for reasons having nothing to do with her compentency to replace him should he become president and unfortunately not be able to serve full term.

Well then, Judge, for what reasons do you think McCain chose her? Judge Napolitano said that while he agrees with her foreign policy, Palin

does not posses the mental capacity to be President of the United States.

Ouch.

Then, co-host Brian Kilmeade and Judge Napolitano go on to discuss Palin’s “rehabiliation” appearances on Oprah and Barbara Walters, remarking on her explanation of the grand Katie Couric fail, and calling the former governor

sexist

for thinking the CBS anchor would do a lighthearted piece about motherhood with a vice presidential candidate.

What is up, Fox? Is the glow off the neo-con Queen Esther? Has the conservative media gotten tired of her snubbing gatherings of Republican lawmakers? (Gosh, has Fox gone elitist?)

Or have they realized she’s nuts as bunny, crazy as two acres of snakes, insanely ambitious? Or just a royal pain in the ass?

[HT Media Matters ]

Barbara Walters has been teasing her 20/20 interview with Sarah Palin. The former Alaska governor seems more folksy with Babawawa than she did with Oprah, and conversely less comfortable. Guess the homespum affect is her default mode for hedging. Speaking of hedging, she relies on

That’s a good question!

a phrase she used on Oprah when confronted with a surprise query. This time it popped out when Walters asked if Palin felt she and Todd had failed as parents when Bristol turned up pregnant. Oh and she didn’t know Bristol was sexually active and says Levi had only been in their living room once before he helped Bristol announce the impending blessed event–a direct contradiction to his claims that he stayed at the Palins’ quite a bit.

BTW, Palin says she’s not against birth control!  Wait, wut? And had she known that a photo form her Runners’ World photo shoot would end up on the cover of Newsweek, she would have never agreed to doing an interview with them. Uh, Sarah, there are these things called “releases” you sign…

Heres’ the high-larity: Walters asks her about having a talk show and Palin responds:

I’d probably rather write than talk!

Which is pretty funny because she had a ghost writer on Going Rogue!

She rates Barack Obama as 4 on his performance, citing economic and national security issues, and hopes one day he might do something that warrants a Nobel prize. And she doesn’t discount running for President, but like she said on Oprah–and you’ll hear some of the same exact phrases with Walters that she used on Oprah

It’s not on her radar

Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz is sure trying to make a name for himself–mainly by being a moran. In September he caused a ruckus at the Salt Lake City airport by refusing to go through the body scanning security device. And yes he asked

Don’t you know who I am?

along with swearing at a TSA worker and grabbing a supervisor’s badge.

And now he thinks Carrie Prejean would make a great politician! He told TMZ

[Carrie] has the ability to draw crowds and if she has a strong message to go with that, who knows what she can do? She has star power which can open doors. We’ve all made mistakes when we were 17. [The sex tape] is going to be an impediment, but people are excited about her convictions and her beliefs.

From this comment it’s pretty clear the Republican congressman hasn’t had a chance to catch up on the news–or maybe he only watches Fox!–since it’s been widely reported (except on Fox) that Carrie Prejean made the tapes when she was 20! And lied to reporters, saying she was underage. But Chaffetz is right–no doubt she could stimulate attention and get a rise out of some constituents as she excites them about her beliefs.