With Palin’s sudden departure from politics caught us all by surprise, a lot of people are looking for an explanation. Why would she leave us like this? Did we do something wrong?
Well, I didn’t do anything wrong – I’m sure of it! – but it’s true we need to find a culprit. And after my analysis, I know exactly who to blame for Palin departing: IMAO commenter MarkoMancuso.
The morning Palin left, I wrote a post about Palin, and MarkoMancuso commented:
I am afraid that we will have no choice but to burn you at the stake now.
This flippant comment directed at me contained no praise for Palin in a time she desperately needed it. It’s like he took Palin for granted. I bet it was the final blow that sent her fleeing from politics. In fact, I’m certain of it. This is all because of MarkoMancuso!
MarkoMancuso is now persona non grata at IMAO. For causing Palin to leave us, we should all shun him in the comments. No one ever say anything to him again except to tell him he’s shunned. We supported Palin approriately, MarkoMancuso, but you made her leave! Why did you do this! Why?! We’re all stunned and confused and it’s all your fault!
The quitter talk is off-base — Palin’s statement wasn’t the political equivalent of “this bar fight is too rough” it was “hold my drink.” She’s about to wade into the fray.
I have no idea what she plans or if she’ll actually be able to pull it off, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be fun to watch.
— Erik
MarkoMancuso, the gloves have come off. Now you must hide from the Dick Cheney Assassination Squad. Good luck.
You use “Twitter”.
‘Nuff said.
[Shun! -Ed.]
MarkoMancuso
now that’s funny! This is pick on ” MarkoMancuso day! maybe Fred and Jerry will make it official.
To elaborate; it is a well documented fact that users of “Twitter” are homosexuals. It is also a well documented fact (thanks to the excellent reporting of the esteemed Andrew Sullivan) that Governor Sarah Palin is deathly afraid of homosexuals. I therefore accuse you, Frank J., of scaring away Governor Palin from our party.
[Palin is on Twitter, and I know one person who isn’t showing his support to Palin by following her on Twitter: MarkoMancuso. -Ed.]
Things to keep in mind;
Whacko-jacko up and dies, giving no excuses.
Centeral American country kicks out it’s Marxist leaning president.
Super hot Uber-conservative state governer (who opposition says is inexperienced) suddenly “goes Galt”.
MarkoMancuso attains persona-non-grata status for flippant comment.
The mono-rail train crashes at Disney World.
I’m sorry to those of you who were raised with the new math, but these things can only add up to one thing.
My God are we in for some serious shit now.
I think MarkoMancuso was behind 9/11 and got John McCain selected as Republican nominee in ’08, two of the greatest disasters in our time.
Not only does MarkoMancuso not support Palin, I hear he owns a Prius. A powder blue one. And he has already bought tickets to that Bruno movie.
Shun Shun Shun.
I think we could make July 6th an annual Talk Behind MarkoMancuso’s Back federal holiday. There would be ritz crackers and string cheese and everything.
This is not the MarkoMancuso I knew.
You know who else was on Twitter? Hitler.
If you say something like that again, well… I’m not saying I’ll reach through the internet and strangle you, but I’m not saying I won’t.
So that evil doer brings the heat with the Twitter argument! To which I respond that even a blind squirrel is correct twice a day…so…take that and under the bus with you you shunned one of IMAO!
Whenever I posted something it either followed a comment by MarkoMancuso or he posted something after me, I always felt nervous. I could never figure out why I did, but now I know. Palin is to be adored. We should elevate her to the same level that the left has elevated The One and ruthlessly bully and persecute anyone on our side that does not follow suite (if you really have been on our side MarkoMancuso, which I am beginning to wonder.) In fact all awesomeness will be measured in Palins i.e. Shooting wolves from helicopters measures 7 Palins on the Awesome Scale.
BTW what is Palins twitter so I can immediately begin following Her?
http://www.hitler.com/notreallysarahpalin/twitter
See now I am nervous again.
I hear MarkoMancuso once claimed Andrew Sullivan was a better blogger than Frank
SHUN!
That shunworthy guy we’re shunning right now shunned me in an old rifftrax/mst3k thread a while back. It was hurtful, traumatic, and my soul was deeply scarred.
Payback’s a beach!
Hey, man. I never shun someone who likes my comments.
I have been thinking Shunning is the way to get stuff done in the Republican Party. Besides MarkoMancuso who else is on the “Shun List” and how do we nominate people for it. Can we also shun the people who didn’t hold their nose when they voted for McCain. A prius owner, how sad.
MarkoMancuso has tickets to the Michael Jackson funeral extravaganza celebrity ball and gala. SHUN!
I’ve also heard MarcoMancuso is making his own version of “Two Girls and a Cup” with Meghan McVain and calling it “Two RINO’s and a Vintage Tall Wine Glass”
What if Palin’s Grand Strategy works out great and she stomps O into the snow? Would the shun still be in effect?
MarkoMancuso has proved himself a force to be reckoned with. Is shunning adequate enough? What about stoning?
MarcoMancuso, now that SARAH! is unemployed you’ll have to look nervously skyward every time you hear a helicopter, and wonder if it’s her coming for a little payback for all your heretical words. Shunshunshun!
I really believe that SP bailed quite simply because she was sick and tired of all the bull shit she was having to deal with. Every time she turned around she was getting hit with a new ethics violation all of which were designed to do nothing more then dog her, all but one had no validity what so ever. Our local newspaper The Anchorage Daily News (which is nothing more then a house organ for the Democratic Party and is good only for wrapping fish) was constantly on her back. On the other hand it is much easier to blame every thing on MarkoMancuso, a name that sounds Italian to me and aren’t all Italians members of the Mafia, and isn’t the Mafia always up to no good? Well….what more evidence do we need?
Classic!
By the way, will I be made Hero of The People when it turns out that Palin is taking a vacation to build her robot army?
No stoning number 22 after we’re not Muslims here.
While also shunning Markomancuso he should also be stripped of his (Sean Connery) Captain Ramius commenter avatar, as he has not lived up to its awesomeness. Also how do I get rid of mine it looks like something Sarah Palin (peace be upon her) would shoot from a helicopter.
loomdog, check out gravatar to get rid of that smiley octomoonbat thing that keeps showing up by your posts.
But I’m starting to get a Stockholm Syndrome sympathy thing going for the Shunned One. He has really good taste in cars and sports. I’m so confused…
No one takes my Captain Ramius avatar. NO ONE.
(If you do, I’ll just replace with an awesome picture of a sprint car doing a wheelstand.)
Well since markmancuso has never done anything to me I won’t shun him. Beside it’s all the Obots fault with all the name calling, insults, and bad jokes about Palin. That’s why she quit, she can’t take revenge againts liberals while she was still in office it would make her look bad. Now the stupid moonbat obots think there safe because Palins gone. Little do they know she up to something and it’s going to be good.
I’d like join you guys against the Heathen MarkoMancuso for the great sacralige of thinking objectively about conservative political personalities. I didn’t see any one here point out Fred Thompson voted for the McCain-Fingold act. But I can’t raise arms against him. He’s too damn good looking.
MarkoMancuso just needs to ask forgiveness of the great Hockey Mother (peace be upon her). I must admit I prefer when FrankJ was calling Peregrine John “bitch” for correcting his (hover)train car knowledge.
It was all part of Fred(!)’s plan to make us think that he’s not perfect. Afterall, no perfect man has ever been elected President. Why do you think He Who Came From Behind The Moon To Give Us Bread and Honey was elected?
Did you know that my comments sound better if you read them in Sean Connery’s Russian accent?
The fleet ish not the worry, Vashilly. The worry ish the Americansh.
As a policy, I always support the side that doesn’t Twitter…
…as a reminder, Perez Hilton twitters. A lot.
Perez Hilton is why twitter is so gay.
or in other words, Sean Connery’s scottish accent. Most of the Russian in that movie was terrible. Probably had to be. You had Sean Connery and Fred Thompson in the same movie. No movie could have that much Awsome with out offsetting with terrible Russian translation and Alec Baldwin (Though I must admit, Baldwin was pretty good in that movie.)
No, MarkoMancuso should not get stoned? Why should he have all the fun?
MARKOMANCUSO IS A PUPPY BLENDER!! SHUN!
My favorite, BigRichard, was when Captain Ramius greeted Ryan. I don’t remember what he said, but, in actuality, it translates to something like, “WOW!!! In Russian!” Gotta love it.
The big mistake in that part I remember was Captain Ramius attempted to ask if Ryan spoke Russian. But he used the the familiar case which is only used if he was speaking about himself. The Russian word Ramius used “To Speek” was (Gava-roo). What he ment to say was (Gava-reesh). Funny since a lot of the extras in that movie were actual Russian imigrants living in California. They must have used the same tranlator Hilliary Clinton uses for gifts to high ranking Russian officials.
Not only is the Prius owned by the Shunned One powder blue, i hear it has an “Al Gore is my president” bumper sticker on it.
MarkoMancuso, your children will only be able to bury about a tablespoon full of red goo that used to be you because when Sarah Palin grows tired of hunting you for sport, she’ll just sic her timberwolves on you and that’s all that will be left.
Shun shun shun.
Cults and the Amish practice shunning, and I’m pretty sure the Amish don’t use the Internet, computers, and electricity. If Frank J. offers you Kool-Aid, it might be wise to decline. Frank J. and the Cult of Obey-me-without-question.
Thanks a lot MarkoMancuso.
Now I’ll never see Sarah Palin in the 2012 election edition swimsuit calender.
Shun!
( and I mean that in the Amish way, no shoo fly pie for you)
I bow before your knowledge of Russian, BigRichard. You are also incredibly good looking.
MarkoMancuso, I bow to your superior ability to be shunned by one flippant comment.
Now I must obey the elusive ed and shun you!
Okay, I got it.
We shun Marko. We key the Prius. Then we get stoned.
Er, wait, that’s not right.
Then we stone the hippies.
Sounds like a plan.
Besides enjoying people being shunned I do fear this site turning into LittleGreenFootballs so I do not wish to anger the great and powerful FrankJ. So MarkoMancuso you are shunned, but you may still enjoy the Steven Crowder links. He may Twitter but I don’t think he’s the gay even though I’ve heard the Nancy Pelosi outfit he wears comes out of the closet more than we’ve been led to believe. But at least he doesn’t drive a Prius so he would be a butch then.
In the post “Gobsmacked Updates with Updates” our own ussjimmycarter wrote:
//I seriously believe that Sarah has had enough of the GOP/RNC! And I blame the GOP/RNC “bigs” along with the Mitt Romney campaign for this! I believe they were all out to destroy her to make Mitt’s road to the GOP nomination smoother! He is the choice of the GOP/RNC! He will be the next candidate of the RNC and us rubes have nothing to say about it! Leaks by McCain “staffers” were being orchestrated by this group! What other reason could there be?
I hate all these guys… a lot!!! I will never EVER vote for Mitt Romney!!!//
If you looking for a patsy there it is, laid out for you.
Of course I countered with:
//Wow it’s Mitt Romneys fault Sarah Palin resigned as governor? He’s the RNC’s fair haired boy? When did this happen exactly? I must have missed the memo. Sometime after the party threw him under the bus, may-haps. I wonder is it because the only scandalous thing he’s done lately is be the governor of MA.
No I realize what Romneys major failing is…………………I’m so glad I live in a country where we are “allowed to worship according to the dictates of our own conscience”. Of course one won’t be elected but one won’t be arrested either. Kind’a a lose-win situation.
So Frank, my sweet, as much as you’d like to pin this all on Marky I have a funny feeling the fact that we can’t seem to play well with the people who are supposed to be on our side might have something to do with Ms. Palins decision.
“We have met the enemy and he is us” – Pogo
I too am a shunner but I have to admit he made points with the Twitter shot! Big time! I feel teh gay just typing the word…how bout them Bears?
That’s Da Bears boyo!
Frank just doesn’t want to be burned at the stake.
How will we know when the miscreant has been shunned enough? I mean I wouldnt want to be accused of excessive shunning… that kinda a thing on your record could follow you around for awhile. What is the proper degree of shunning to be exerted? One cant just run around shunning all willy nilly. Imagine the chaos if people ran around wantonly shunning?
Also Im pretty sure this Mancuso (may he be forever shunned) has been shunned many a time in the past. He may be shun resistant.
#1 Erik nailed it, and very well I might add:
Palin’s statement wasn’t the political equivalent of “this bar fight is too rough” it was “hold my drink.” She’s about to wade into the fray.
Now that Sarah is no longer bound by political party or position, I predict that Sarah Palin The Private Citizen and her pro-bono team of lawyers are gonna file slander suits on anyone who ever looked sideways at her or said that she is anything other than freaking awesome. Then she’ll go fishing, write her book, jog, catch up with the family, bankrupt her enemies (karma’s a b*tch), lead the revolution (paid for by her winning all the slander suits she filed against her enemies), run for Prez in 2012 as a new Conservative TEA Party candidate, totally embarrass Obama & Company and every RINO, then landslide her red heels into the Oval Office.
Hey, when I dream, I dream big!
#54 – Nunyab,
Bravo! That’s a Waay better dream than the one I had!
Sa-Lute!
You people should save some of this for when the ronulons come back.