I notice I’ve been getting a lot of comments on IMAO by conservatives who have reservations about John McCain’s running mate, Governor Sarah Palin. I thought I might post some here and respond to them.
I am a conservative who is voting for McCain, but I am now concerned that he will lose because of he nominated the inexperienced Palin. We need to write letters to him to urge him to pick someone else.
Once again, I am a conservative.
I hear your concerns, but all the polling shows McCain having a huge boost since picking Palin. Also, Palin does quite well experience wise when compared to Obama which only highlights his lack of accomplishments when compared to how much Palin had done in a relatively short time.
I am a conservative who enjoys tax cuts and the shooting of the gun, but I can no longer support McCain now that he has taken the scandal ridden Palin as his running mate. The National Enquirer is going to expose her affair and sink her. This is of great concern to me since I am a conservative like you.
While it’s nice to hear from a tax-cutting, NRA-supporting conservative like myself, I think you may be blowing things out of proportion. Palin has had some minor issues which don’t count as scandals, and the National Enquirer has no evidence of an affair and has based its findings on pure speculation (unlike when they exposed John Edwards). This is nothing any conservative should worry about.
I am a conservative who likes NASCAR and racism and being a stoopid hillbilly. I love Palin because she’s a religious extremist like me who wants to destroy science and teach creationism. She also hates condoms! She is greatest! Me conservative!
Palin only ever said she would support talking about creationism if a student brought it up in class, and I don’t even know where the hates condoms idea comes from. You must be getting your information from places like the Daily Kos, which is an odd place for a conservative to go. You should be careful about place that deal in false information, as you could end up with some crazy views if you believe it.
I am a liberal who likes to pee on himself and loves Obama. I’m too stupid to notice he’s never accomplished anything in his entire life and am going to vote for him because I’m an easily led cult follower. I like to eat my own poo. Once again, I am liberal and retarded.
We don’t get many comments from liberals, but I appreciate your honesty and candor.
Hahahaha stupi d republicans! that Palin [expletive deleted] is going to sink you all! you right wing nut job are finally getting what’s coming to you! [expletive deleted] you all, you [expletive deleted] religious nut jobs. your going to lose, you redneck [expletive deleted]. hahahahahahah!!
By the way, I am a real conservative.
I thought I told you to stay away from my blog, Sullivan.

Actually, I read that Palin supports teaching students about condoms, which is sort of a problem since McCain and the Republican platform specifically support abstinence-only education. The whole issue just kind of bores me though. Are there really people having sex who don’t know about the existence of condoms?
Also, I’ve been curious about something. Do you personally believe in evolution, Frank?
I’m a lifelong conservative Republican who voted for Reagan and Bush six times, but I’m leaning toward Obama because of Katrina, the Iraq “War”, and all the lynching and bombings at abortion clinics that have happened over the last eight years. I don’t think lynching is a family value, which is the true conservative way to look at things.
I am a conservative who likes Gerald Ford. This post concerns me because it demonizes conservatives like me.
As mentioned previously, I am a true conservative.
Thank you.
I am also one of those conservatives people talk about.
I am going to vote for Obama because of the whole ‘Change you can believe in’ thingy. I have to assume this means we will finally be getting rid of the stupid one and two dollar bills, and replacing them with one and two dollar coins, and that they will really be those foil coins with chocolate inside so you can eat them or spend them. Either that, or it means He is going to lower the cost of everything so I get more change back. Which ever one of those two it is, that’s good change! Stupid McCain and Palin have been completely silent on the issue. I just can’t support that.
I am a livelong Conservative Republican who works at a corporation, drives a pickup truck, and loves America. However, my party loyalty has recently shifted because Palin wants to drill for oil in the most pristine and beautiful stretch of land on earth.
By drilling in ANWR, which is like the crown jewel of panoramic vistas on this or any other planet, we would completely destroy all life as we know it and there would no longer be any point to survival – we would just be living to live. If Palin has her way, she’ll pave ANWR and probably 2 or 3 other postcard-worthy vistas on her way up there just because she has some extra asphalt. This has to stop somewhere.
Again, I am a lifelong conservative who has been betrayed by McCain/Palin and will now vote Obama/Change and Biden/Hope.
Sunshine Campbell
Dang – that is really hard to do – I just can’t speak Troll that well.
I’m a hopeful man who’s willing to change for more hope. But if I have to change, I don’t want to give up the hope I already have! So tell me, Mr. Obama, how I can change to be more hopeful without losing hope? Or can you just give me more hope? Am I supposed to change for more hope? I hope for change but I can’t change just for the sake of changing unless it gives me more hope. What happens to change when it becomes hope? Is it lost? Or can more hope lead to more change?
I am a life long conservative who believes in the power of prayer to turn hair purple. I also enjoy standing in water and bashing two bricks together. I therefore regret that I must vote for Obama/Biden…bash…bash…bash…bash.
I read on some blog that Palin is going to ban all of the pr0n as president. She will take it all off the Internet – even celebrity upskirts. You have no idea how angry that makes me. Like, what gives her the right, you know? So I won’t vote for her. I’m now with our enemies at DailyKos going around the Internet trying to spread the message about how she doesn’t know economics and explaining how she boarded a plane even after her water had broke and endangered the life of a child. I’m only telling the true stuff though that happened because I refuse to make stuff up. I’m pretty mad at her for trying to take away all the pr0n though. Like, we want our taxes lowered but we actually don’t want a fanatical loser like this woman is anywhere near military. She also is for some Alaskan splinter group that backed terrorists. She’s crazy!!!!!
Faceitloserspalinispatheticandshewilllosehahaeatshit.
#10 that was a good one but we were looking for more dKos troll then DU troll. Now try again, this time with FEELING.
I am liberal troll but I don’t care you knows it. Techno is what changes things. Guns, the pill, ru486, rocket ships, theNEt impact our society. Sometimes techno can make society change. peeps like seanmyhair may not like it cause of wacked out god stuff but you can’t go back. people won’t let you take the techno away once its out of the box. like the wii – just tri to take it away
from someone who has it. If seanmyhair says to them jesus says wii is wrong they will just say fux off. Future things like techno wombs will also bring change. Cloning help two men to have baby won’t even need to have butt sex!
People not agree with me or you is not mean they are retarded frankj. You know this.
Hey, you are so funny! You have a great blog. Yesterday someone tell me you get ads if I visit. I was like so what this is frankj city. If you don’t like that then read somethin different.
I’m a committed Christian conservative who has spent the last 15 years in the same church and I cannot vote for McCain/ Palin. She’s part of a crazy Christian sect that talks in tongues and stuff. I cannot be associated with someone who hangs out with such a nutty group of Christians.
A real woman should stay at home and figure out ways to make her man’s life better! All real conservatives know this! Oh…and Sarah, call me!
I am a true conservative.
Palin doesn’t wear socks and likes to wear open toed highheels. That is the slippery slope on way to be barefoot in the kitchen which all those pentecostal crazy church going people believe. As a member of NOW, can’t support her. She is married to an eskimo, and Eskimos beat baby seals to make furry boots. As a member of PETA, can’t support that.
I will sadly hold my nose, and vote Obama
That may be the most offensive post I’ve ever read on any blog anywhere. The overt characterizations of your quotes of both conservatives and liberals is offensive to me as an American.
Regardless of your views, this election is critical to the future of our society; a fact duly acknowledged by those on both sides.
I am so sorry that you don’t take our political process seriously and am disgusted that I stumbled upon your site so easily in the search engine results…they really should do a better job with their spam filtering.
I agree with Josh. This blog is the shit as in it is poop – not as in it is good. I’m offended. The regular readers of this blog must be the biggest aholes on Planet Earth!!!!
I’m concerned about how Sara Palin is affecting the first Black President! No, not the pretend one, the real one: William J. Clinton.
Imagine this:
Evening in the Clinton house. Bill and Hill are relaxing on the sofa watching the news when, suddenly, the screen is filled with a picture of Sara. If you’re Bill, what do you do?
a. Take a quick look at Hill to see if she’s watching you, waiting for you to ogle Sara so that she can bust you?
2. Avert your eyes and pretend to read the paper, knowing that it won’t fool Hillary and she’ll bust you?
iii. Say, the heck with it and get as much eye candy as you can before the lamp busts against your head?
Sarah Palin is the dumbest bitch I have ever seen in my life. She doesn’t understand economics. She had never even heard of the surge. Just how deep in the Alaskan snow was this ostrich’s head buried? I’ve been a lifelong GOP supporter but now I’m a liberal thanks to John McCain’s choice.
#17
I resent the a$$hole characterization. I am the biggest a$$hole in the universe and I am NOT a regular reader of this blog.
I saw elsewhere on this site people like seanmahere and trisha and others think gays who marry and adopt children should not be given the same tax breaks as married people. I’m sorry but that just isn’t right. Any straight person who believes they have more rights to tax breaks than a gay person is a total bigot. If you think that you are just using the Jesus excuse so you can keep money out of the hands of gay people and hoard it all for yourselves. I’m really tired of biogtry against gays. It is wrong, evil and offensive. It certainly isn’t at all the kind of thing you think about when you consider Jesus and Christianity. It sounds a lot more like a Muslim kind of thing to me so maybe you ought to change your church!!!
Well let me tell you something. Us gay parents are going to get our money. We are going to get our marriage rights too. You aren’t going to be able to stop us. We deserve what’s fair. You bigots don’t get to hoard all the cash and fun! Gays are good parents too you stupid ignorant f***ers!
I am a conservative from New Pennsylvania who voted for Roland Regan and both George Bushes. But I am concerned about Sarah Palen. She comes off as nasty and mean spirited. The way she swift boats Barack is a mark against us GOP conservatives.
I think McCain should keep her from giving any more speeches or taking to reporters until after the election so that she can’t spread any more lies about Obama. That will just hurt us conservatives in the election.
I think MachineGunnerGus confused Palin with Nancy Pelosi.
And the idea that they fly off the handle like a bunch of drama queens is a myth!
Let’s try an experiment. Have two white males go to a student union on any large university campus.
Have one stand up and state: “I’m conservative and I’m proud!” to everyone who passes by. Have the other state: “I’m gay and I’m proud!”
I wonder who the campus police are going to escort out?
As a bigot and a stupid ignorant f***er, I resent the insinuation that I don’t think gays make good parents.
Methinks we need that loldemcrt! post, pronto!
I’m a long, long, longtime conservative IMAO reader but now I want change really bad. I can fill it inside me. I do want gays to marry and get tons of cash for their adopted kids. I do want global warming stopped. Suddenly, I feel like Trish, seanmahairs, ussjimmycarter, wal, etc. are not my friends anymore and I need to go and jack my brain straight into dailykos and the huffpo. Suddenly I find wonkette is hysterical! I do think Sarah Palin is a brainless twit with her not knowing about the surge, Freddie Mac and the other zillions of things she is too stupid to know. I’m tremendously embarrassed it took her forever to get a piece-of-cake degree. I’m f***** pissed at yell she lied about ebay. Damn lady!!! What the hell was that? You don’t ever lie about eBay! I find it’s weird she was so stupid she got on a long plane ride after her water broke and could have killed the baby or herself. I think her husband is a huge dork and he I do think he stole some fish. I do want that earmark happy bitch to lose. I do want her to have to spend the rest of her miserable life on the bridge to nowhere. I do not like Sarah Palin my friends. I do want to leave and join Daily Kos. So it seems this is goodbye…
I am a life-long conservative evangelical, but I really want a pony. I pray and pray to Jeebus, but all I get are sore knees. I’m voting for Obama, because he will give me a pony.
I do not like them in a box! I do not like them with a fox! I do not like Green eggs and ham — wait… what were we talking about again?
#18 FormerHostage…
Heh!
#8, I suffer from Barachnephobia. Please don’t bash those bricks together in here!
I’m a life-long community organizing liberal, but I can no longer support Obama. His continued support for low prices at Walmart is appalling. How are these people going to qualify for handouts if they are gainfully employed and saving money? As I said, I am a life-long liberal…
No war for ponies!!1!!1
Everyone knows there was only one REAL conservative in the race. Ron Paul was forced out of the race by rampant election fraud, THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION. EVERY SINGLE ONLINE POLL HAD HIM WINNING WITH 98% OF THE VOTE, EVERY #$%#^%$^ ONE.
So, if you REALLY believe in conservative values like smaller government, the fair tax, avoiding all foreign entanglements, returing to the Gold Standard and Preventing the North American Union*, you will dump McPalin and write in a REAL conservative.
*and buggery, how could I forget the sweet sweet buggery from my conservative platform.
Sarah Palin she hates cats!
Sarah Palin she eats rats!
Sarah Palin came in third!
Sarah Palin is a turd!
Sarah Palin is a fool!
Sarah Palin is not cool!
Sarah Palin we don’t like you
Hey Sarah Palin f*** you
//and all the lynching and bombings at abortion clinics// Who wrote this really? No one, even a troll is this stupid. If I believed a real person wrote this for real, I think I’d resign from the human race.
Hah! Nice to see I’ve made the trolls’ enemies list.
I’m still laughing about the “conservative” who voted for “Roland Regan.”
I’m with Josh and I am really disappointed in the rest of you who have corrupted one such as me whom I must confess was as pure as the driven snow…but then I stumbled upon IMAO and now I am a sexual and moral deviant! There is no hope for me anymore unless I repent and take this election seriously and vote for Obama who will bring change and hope back to our country which has been without change and hope because George Bush and Dick Cheney have let Halliburten run out government so that they could get huge oil contracts in Iraq and makes lots and lots of filthy money! Barack Obama will change this because this is not hope that I can believe in and Barack believes in the type of hope that we can all hope for. A kind of hope that brings change for a more hopeful future in the United States of America!
Barrack Obama will give us change. This is good. Since he has been so short on specifics I have decided to fill in the blanks. I have decided it is time for a change of underwear and I know that Barrack will change them for me.
Barrack 0bama, “Words have meaning.”
Kind of like Waterloo.
As a lifelong Republican since the days of Lincoln, I object to Sara Palin because she is a big lying phony. And I’ll tell you why. She doesn’t even need glasses– she just wears them for the “hot librarian” look. Her eyes are just fine! Faker!
I need attention! I live in my mom’s basement and my only friend is a poster of Sarah Michelle Geller. I hate Palin, and I no lots about politics, so their!
GIVE ME ATTENTION! PLEEEEEAAAASSSEEEE?!
Who wants attention?
I WANT A PONY!
And Sarah Palin won’t give me one!
And if she did, she’d probably shoot it!
Obama/some old, white guy ’08
I am a lifelong conservative, evangelical, veteran and I cannot vote for McPalin.
I used to believe there were terrorists trying to kill Americans but now I see they’re just people in need of community organization and unconditional outreach programs
Do you realize our unemployment rate has jumped to historic averages? Historic averages, people. I can’t tell you how angry that makes me.
I can’t be a Republican anymore. I don’t think I can be an evangelical Christian/veteran anymore.
From now on, I’m not a conservative. I’m a pro-servative.
Huh? Huh? Catchy. I’m kind of a big deal.
i am a conservative and i hate condoms.
seriously… i’m so glad i waited to have sex ’til i was married and didn’t need them.
I’m sitting here laughing really hard, you guys.
I’m thinking of trying the troll thing but I just can’t speak libtard. I need lessons. LOL
Everybody’s fighting now
To get every last vote,
Some are building monuments,
Others jotting down notes.
Everybody’s in despair,
Every girl and boy,
But when Palin the Eskimo (by marriage) gets here
Everybody’s gonna jump for joy!
Come all without, Come all within,
You’ll not see nothing like the Mighty Palin!
Now I like to do just like the rest,
I like my sugar sweet,
But voting for a moderate,
it ain’t my cup of meat.
Everybody was just waiting for
a crumb like a conservative cur,
But when Palin the Eskimo got here,
All the conservatives ran to her!
Come all without, come all within,
You’ll not see nothing like the Mighty Palin!
A pitbull growls and a pig goes oink,
But lipstick stays the same.
Obama should learn to tell the difference
Before he eats his foot again.
Nobody can get any sleep,
Theres trolls on everybody’s posts.
But when Palin the Eskimo gets here,
Everybody’s gonna wanna vote!
Come all without, come all within,
You’ll not see nothing like the Mighty Palin!
Come all without, come all within,
You’ll not see nothing like the Mighty Palin!
#49
Bob Dylan wrote and recorded Mighty Quinn. The Dead just covered it. I’m not criticizing, just clarifying. I applaud the effort.
#50 – Herpules,
Thanks. I wasn’t sure. The Dead’s version was the first I could find on google that included the lyrics so I credited them.