Wonder why?? Hmmmm....
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Posted on July 3, 2009 - 11:38 AM
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Well, there was this, but that alone doesn't explain it.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=7992927
"The National Society of Newspaper Columnists chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the winner of its annual Sitting Duck Award, a tongue-in-cheek honor that pokes fun at the most ridiculed newsmakers in the United States."
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 11:46 AM # -
Goodbye, Wasilla. Hello, New York with a rental in Iowa.
My guess is she’s moving to the lower 48 and will host a talk show (either a syndicated radio program or a television program on FOX News) and then run for president. On her night's and weekends, I'm sure she'll be doing a good deal of speaking on the GOP rubber chicken circuit as well as campaigning for GOP candidates during the 2010 congressional campaign. She's a very big draw with conservatives. If she really wants to be the GOP Presidential nominee in 2012, that’s what she’ll have to do.
She's got $500,000 in legal fees to pay off. It'll be easier for her to pay those debts if she's unshackled from the confines of the Alaska governorship.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 11:52 AM # -
I'm wondering if there isn't something we aren't being told. Maybe it's something that hasn't hit the news but will. She's already had to deal with abuse of power accusations. I just read in the Washington Post yesterday how many republicans still consider her their best hope for 2012.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 11:56 AM # -
Maybe she is carrying SC Gov. Mark Sandford's baby?
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 12:29 PM # -
I thought that bun was in someone else's oven.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 01:05 PM # -
Well, if Palin is it, then Obama will be in the White House through 2016.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 01:40 PM # -
The only thing that I heard so far is Palin herself saying that she believes she can do "a lot more" outside of the governorship than in it. This left me with a suspicion that perhaps she was pressured to resign because I cannot imagine how resigning a governorship could advance one's career as an elected official.
Although I don't agree with Palin's views, I feel some sympathy for her because her brief time in the national spotlight hit close to home with my own political "adventures" within the Libertarian Party. Let me explain my position: I believe that Palin was put forth by the Republican party because of who she is--relatively young and female--for the specific purpose of delivering scripted rhetorical talking points. Likewise, I learned that the Libertarian party is full of "Sarah Palins"--people who are recruited or who volunteer for the express purpose of being messengers of the party rhetoric and people who are recruited, volunteer, or are used (depending on how you look at it) for specific purposes, such as diffusing internal factional conflicts. In short: I learned that the world of politics often lures people with promises that "you can change the world" or "you can be a leader" and then uses said people for its own purposes.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 01:45 PM # -
Palin can never win the Republican nomination. The GOP voters are way smarter than their parties leadership. Assuming they even show up to vote in '12. Personally, I don't think Pawlenty or Jindall will win the nomination either. It will be battle royale between Romney and Huckleberee. A battle, that is, between the conservative right wing morally whacked loonies wanting Huckleberry and the fiscal conservatives wanting Romney.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 02:03 PM # -
Palin didn't want to be a lame duck preferring to be dead duck instead. She is toast, any thoughts of her reprsenting the Republican party for President have been dashed today. I'll bet Mitt Romney is celebrating now.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 02:10 PM # -
Just depends on whether Romney can convince (buy) the hard core fiscal conservatives that he's one of them. After all, his track record as a conservative is far from perfect.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 02:21 PM # -
God works in mysterious ways!
THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!
America's prayers have been answered!
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 02:44 PM # -
The Republican strategist on CNN just said that he thinks this decision is stupid. I don't quite understand it either. She's a quitter if you ask me.
I'm also of the camp that maybe there is something else out there that we don't know.
Anyways, Go Sarah 2012!!
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 03:01 PM # -
I'm with Andy in that I don't think that Palin was or could be a viable candidate for the Vice-Presidency or the Presidency. She was just put there to challenge the notion that the Republican party is exclusively the party of older White guys.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 03:05 PM # -
What Palin is doing is not so different from what Bob Dole did in 1996. He resigned from the US Senate to run for President full time. Plus she’s got money issues. Raising money for her legal defense fund (and an eventual Presidential bid) will be much easier as a private citizen and not as a governor of a state with laws that makes filing ethics complaints against her very easy (and spendy for her and her family). And too, if you’ve traveled to and from Alaska, you know it can be a very tiring (and expensive) process. This will give her and her family a good deal more flexibility to travel in the continental US and raise money. That's what this is all about -- MONEY, the mother’s milk of politics!!! Too, she wants to make herself available to campaign for congressional Republicans next year. And as governor of Alaska, that would be nearly impossible.
That being said, I don’t think she has a snowballs chance in hell of being elected President of the United States.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 03:11 PM # -
I dont think Palin ever had the national level backbone to be a player on the Presidential ticket. She was attractive in places and at times for many Conservatives and a few independents. You remember that last summer/fall she didn't exactly endear massive blocks of voters to flock her way for exactly that reason. She was always vulverable in so many aspects. I just think that the McCain camp was desperate for some kind of qualified Republican female to be on the ticket, a second bannana typical VP candidate who would not out shine McCain , that they just chose wrong, plain and simple.
This abdication by Palin just proves the point. She doesnt have the endurance for National Politics at all. She might have graduated into it, but now she hasnt a chance. Some analysts are saying that perhaps a *decision* was made to finally put her out of the Rumor mill and out of the media highlight and speculation to " Help " the Republican party to move on to a Romney etal foundation for 2012.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 03:23 PM # -
NBC is reporting this evening that she is "fed up with politics" (whatever that means)...she could be back for sure.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 03:23 PM # -
I don’t think Romney has a chance in hell of winning the GOP nomination. Perhaps the Veep spot someday. He spent millions of dollars during the last election cycle campaigning against a group a weak GOP Presidential candidates and ended up with squat. If he couldn't win the nomination in 2008, I cannot see how he could win it in 2012. Plus he’s flip flopped on nearly every major issue of the day.
The one name I heard recently was that of Mitch Daniels – Governor of Indiana. He’s got a strong business pedigree and has found success as Governor of Indiana. Plus he’s done the unthinkable in GOP politics; he raised taxes. Which in today’s climate gives him more credibility in that he was willing to take an unpopular stand (that of raising taxes) in the eyes of his party but still came out on top. He did though serve as George W. Bush's first OMB Director. He’s not terribly charismatic, but I think if he were to run, he might stand a decent chance of getting the nomination.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 03:54 PM # -
She's been outed in Alaska. After all the media attention, way too many Alaskans have started asking tough questions.
Small crowd = bad news for her there. (And that's not intended to be offensive to Alaskans --it's just a bit different in that way, compared to the lower 48)
Palin is a manipulator, and she's attractive. Time to play in a bigger pool, that's all this is.
I would be surprised if she ever held office again. Manipulation is so much easier without the accountability that comes with office.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 04:18 PM # -
"I just read in the Washington Post yesterday how many republicans still consider her their best hope for 2012."
If the GOP considers her their best shot in 2012, they have huge issues.
Romney and Huckabee are not electable either - Romney reminds me somewhat of a conservative Al Gore, kind of a dullard (and his religion hinders him), and Huckabee is just too extreme. All three are examples of what is wrong with the GOP today and what the Republicans have morphed into.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 09:20 PM # -
I will never understand the fascination you people have with her.
Sometimes Liberals are distracted by the bright and shiny objects the Republicans throw out at you.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 10:54 PM # -
No Pahlin is just a quitter. She gets appointed to a board in Alaska after being the Mayor. Doesn't get her way on the board so she resigns.
Now only if Bush would have done the same in 2007.
I think we should ask Tina Fey what Sarah will do. In a skit near the end of the election in2008 Tina as Sarah Pahlin said "After the election, there's no way I'm going back to Alaska." What a great prediction.
Besides that, what was she doing at the Yankee Game for? She could have seen them play the Marniers next month and saved a lot on airfare.
That's unless she was in New York to bargain for her next occupation.
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 11:29 PM # -
Mc, everybody loves to watch a train wreck.
Given her style, it's going to be spectacular!
Posted on July 3, 2009 - 11:47 PM # -
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Posted on July 4, 2009 - 12:05 AM # -
Wow, can you imagine this woman trying to cope with being vice president? She couldn't handle the pressure and got "tired of politics" while being the governor of a state with a tiny state government. How could she have handled the stress of being vice president??? Would she have resigned the first month?
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 12:05 AM # -
You may be right missing, people do love a train wreck but as long as its on the other side of the tracks.....
I just hope it goes both ways for you.
As for Palin, I could care less. She couldnt win anything at this point. To keep talking about her is only doing her a favor.
Didnt Oscar Wilde once say that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about?
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 12:49 AM # -
What she can do is raise money. And in the world of politics, that’s everything. She’s a major draw for a party and a movement that sorely needs a star. She plays well to the 23 percenters who still donate money to the GOP and other conservative groups who might ask her to speak. These folks will pay to hear her bloviate for half an hour.
In a very weird way, it makes perfect sense. She’s under the delusion she can be president. What better way to raise her profile than resign as Governor of Alaska and spend the next three years speaking to conservatives around the country. In her case, it doesn't have much to do with governance. It's about star quality. If it had ever been about governance with Sarah Palin, she would have never been chosen to run with John McCain.
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 04:33 AM # -
Well, it's worse when that train wreck is getting in the way of what any of us think is the right policy.
That's not currently the case with Palin, and that is a great thing! If she were a more solid person, she would totally be a problem.
I give her train wreck double bonus points for that!! Why hide it?
The worst is when somebody is out there working on the right things, and then enters into train wreck mode. People still love it, but it's bitter sweet for the lack of what would otherwise be positive impact.
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 08:37 AM # -
In an "exclusive", The Brad Blog is reporting that Alaskan reporter, Shannyn Moore, is now saying that federal indictments in the "iceberg scandal" may soon break "concerning use of Wasilla Sport Complex building material for Palin's home..."
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 09:08 AM # -
The feds royally screwed up the Ted Stevens case (very sloppy legal work). Then there is talk about federal indictments against Sarah Palin regarding this sports complex in Wasilla. If this is all true, I hope the feds do a much better job making a case in court that is not mired by sloppy investigative and legal work. And remember, this case would be tried in Alaska, not Washington DC. She’d have a much greater chance of finding a sympathetic jury in Alaska than Stevens did in DC. And why would Eric Holder green light such a project after the Stevens fiasco? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
In no way am I a fan of Sarah Palin. But if the feds were conducting a though review of this situation, wouldn’t a federal grand jury be reviewing this matter for possible indictment? I’m sure the media would be widely reporting the comings and goings of those being interviewed by a grand jury – or even FBI agents?
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 09:44 AM # -
So MC, what should we be talking about?
Just curious? It's news....
FAUXNews even made it a HUGE issue last night.... So they shouldn't be talking about PAINlin? She is there God! Isn't PAINlin your great white hope? YOUR savior?
If PAINlin does run in 2012 she could make it closer than anyone else the GOP has!Posted on July 4, 2009 - 09:52 AM # -
You can talk about her all you want. Steve McNair was shot and killed today. Thats news but sports never gets talked about here and unless its politics nobody will care.
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 07:00 PM # -
Gee, MC, it's too bad you couldn't start your own thread about the Steve McNair killing, huh?
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 07:24 PM # -
I could start it but unless Bush or some other stand in Republican was to blame the topic would starve to death.
Ill save you all the work with the Cheney jokes...
Posted on July 4, 2009 - 07:42 PM #
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