And he’s funny as ever!

Unless The Onion has bought The Washington Post, this is actually a real quote:

Palin said if she and husband Todd had had a sixth child, they had already picked a name for a boy joining siblings Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.

“I always wanted a son named Zamboni,” she said.

She also calls herself an intellectual in the article. No word yet if she knows the definition of the word.

(h/t tmrly)

Remember $400 haircuts? Let’s start doing some multiplication. First, Politico reports:

The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

Despite the obvious hypocrisy of an average hockey mom spending $150 grand on clothing in the midst of an economic crisis, Huffington Post points out some harder numbers:

Palin’s fashion budget for several weeks was more than four times the median salary of an American plumber ($37,514). To put it another way: Palin received more valuable clothes in one month than the average American household spends on clothes in 80 years. A Democrat put it in even blunter terms: her clothes were the cost of health care for 15 or so people.

And even those few Republicans who still have principles aren’t happy about this as Ambinder points out that $150,000 is “one good week of television time in Colorado.” Off the record Republicans are supposedly “utter[ly] disgusted.”

Yet somehow, we still live in a Conservative America. November 5th is going to be an interesting day.

I’m sure little Sarah McCain won’t ever be mad at her father for this one…

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — A new father has secretly named his baby girl Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican ticket for president and vice president.

Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl’s birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier.

“I don’t think she believes me yet,” he told the Kingsport Times-News for a story to be published Tuesday. “It’s going to take some more convincing.”

Added Ciptak, “I took one for the cause.”

From FOXNews via Ambinder.

A rough night for Gov. Sarah Palin in my hometown of Philadelphia!

What happened here?

Over the past 72 hours, we’ve seen Sarah Palin travel across the country talking up Barack Obama’s past associations and saying the he is “palling around with terrorists…”

I know this is total BS - most smart people in America know this is total BS, but yet she continues to regurgitate the line with ease no real concern for the truth. Not only is she recycling the line over and over, but the press has now picked up on these smears and are reporting them as real news.

Why then isn’t the press covering the fact that Sarah Palin and her husband have close ties to the Alaska Independence Party - a political party in Alaska that wants to succeed from America? Talk about shady associations…

Jed from The Jed Report compiled this video - it’s good and should be spread around. Jed asks:

If Sarah Palin wasn’t a secessionist, then why was she palling around with them?