The Force is With Sarah Palin
by Kurt Schlichter
Not to go an analogy too far, but Sarah Palin seems to be taking a page from the Hollywood playbook of George Lucas. She has just completed her own introductory trilogy, and it was an astonishing success.
First, she was a fantastically successful conservative governor lurking beneath the mainstream media’s radar. Next, she was a vice-presidential candidate who, even though she lost, still did more to electrify the base than the headliner. Third, she has now drawn the curtain on her post-election career as a sitting governor, a period that saw her deftly turn the tables on mainstream haters like David Letterman. Like “Star Wars,” she’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but her fans are rabid and chomping at the bit for the next installments. And as to these future installments, the question is whether the next step is going to be “The Phantom Menace” or something that doesn’t suck.
I’m betting on “A New Hope.” Sarah Palin has taken every hit the left and its smug media lackies can dish out – from bogus ethics claims designed to bankrupt her to attacks on her kids. Some of the haters seem to think they drove her from office, and are congratulating themselves that they have somehow driven her off the stage forever. Not quite.
Again, a “Star Wars” analogy: Remember when Darth Vader faced off with Obi-Wan Kenobi? “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine?” She’s now immune from bogus legal claims and her book will not only raise her profile but set up her family financially for life. Now Sarah is unbound, freed from the need to be up in Juneau and able to network, fundraise and even (maybe) campaign without limitation. And the modern media environment will let her do these things without even a nod to the mainstream media (Do you think Katie Couric will ever get to ask Sarah another question? Ha!)
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Lefties, if you were responsible for her doing this, you just unleashed your strongest opponent and made her immune from your strongest attacks all at once. Ouch. It must hurt to know a woman you pride yourself on seeing as a drooling Neanderthal nitwit so thoroughly out-maneuvered you. You do see it, right?
There’s plenty of talk out there about her somehow being a “quitter” for only serving as governor for three years, as if resigning as the Chief Executive of Alaska was like cutting to the head of the women and children’s lifeboat line on the Titanic. Personally, I was unaware of the urgent moral imperative of serving out one’s full term as governor but, if it makes the lefties feel better, when she’s elected president I’m pretty confident she’ll serve a full term. Maybe even two.
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Her resignation was unexpected to say the least. I have applauded everything that she has done and now I must admit I am wanting more…. I respect her decision however I am almost afraid that something is going to come out of the woodwork with her name on it……
How would this ticket sound her and Newt Gingrich? 2012…..
The first comment I heard yesterday was from a lefty co-worker," I wonder what skeleton is coming out of her closet", my reply was , one that will scare the hell out of you. Like a typical lib, they always comment before the story is complete and look like fools in the process. On another blog I post a Comrade Chaos "Bonehead play of the day". Lately, the lefties quit defending the policy of Comrade Chaos and have become pleasantly quiet. BUYERS REMORSE! I think so.
The left should be afraid, very afraid! Bring it Sarah!
i gleefully await the next step. i think the lefties are pooping themselves today.
Personally, I prefer Palin/Thompson 2012(Fred as VP, Jeri as the new head of the RNC). Having said that, there's nothing tying her to 2012 yet, and the Left can't shape the argument any more, that she's tied to the traditional 4-year election cycle. She can do whatever she wants. I'm pretty sure her next ideas will be what a lot of people want to hear.
What she really needs is a solid, savvy team to help her get her message out. I think she'll relocate to the lower 48 in anticipation of that, and as long as she doesn't have the millstone of a McCain campaign dragging her down, the sky is the limit.
If she wants to retire from public life or perhaps run for the Senate seat, then maybe this was a good decision.
If she's planning a national run in 2012, her career is over. Done. Everybody is going to think that there is a scandal, regardless of whether there really is one. The fact that she announced her retirement immediately before a holiday weekend, when it would be buried in the news cycle, only furthers the concerns about a scandal. I'm still stunned about what an awful decision this was, unless she honestly wanted to protect her family from vicious attacks.
Mike Huckabee is breathing a huge sigh of relief this morning. The social conservatives are now his for the taking. Palin's national ambitions are as dead as John Edwards' ambitions. Let's stop pretending otherwise.
Exactly right. We've become used to politicians not sticking to their principles, that when one does we begin to make excuses and look for scandals in the shadows. Great move by Sarah! As someone whom obviously saw the tremendous lack of leadership on the right she chose to help her country as well as her state over herself. Now her state can have a full time executor without the cumbersome and baseless legal issues, and she can concentrate on bringing conservatism back to DC.
Wow. I always thought Palin fans were delusional, but this leaps right off that cliff into self-parody. Why would any sane person ever vote for her for any office? How can she ever run again when the first question she will be asked is "Why should we believe you won't just quit this job when it gets hard?"
And Pattiann, possibly it's true that Palin has some great master plan, although I can't imagine what it is. But let me assure you that no lefties are "pooping themselves" today, unless it's because they're laughing so hard they've lost control.
I agree. How can you seek relevance when you quit the only job that made you relevant? If Bill Clinton had resigned as governor of Arkansas would we have ever heard from him again? Nobody quits a governorship and wins higher office. Maybe she'll remain active but only as a speaker or conservative opinion maker. Her political career is finished. I think the strain of fending off these frivolous complaints was what buried her. It's a shame really. Now the liberal MSNBC crowd knows that their petty harassment and attacks on her and her children succeeded. This is the first successful political lynching by Democrats since Robert Bork.
Wrong metaphor, Kurt. The original trilogy was good, but the second one sucked.
"Wow. I always thought Palin fans were delusional, but this leaps right off that cliff into self-parody. Why would any sane person ever vote for her for any office?"
Those "delusional" Palin fans did more for McCain's campaign than McCain ever did. If Palin versus the libbies is a Star Wars analogy, Palin and McCain were the political equivalent of "A Star is Born," because toward the end of the campaign far more people were going to listen to her speak than McCain.
As for being delusional, the ill-informed idiots who voted for ol' Big Ears Obama are delusional if they still think he is going to do anything to really help them.
the theme from Rocky has been filling my head since I heard she was freeing herself. its time for some road work and hitting the bag.
Hmmmm. Are you deluded as to what Sarah Palin did, or what you want her to do?
The ethics junk is over. The need for Sarah to stay in Alaska is over. She is needed elsewhere. Now as to a future?
She is going to be campaigning for fellow candidates. Kinda interesting that she will be owed a lot by the time the Campaign for president in 2012 comes around.
As it is, she is a draw. They interrupt important broadcasts because she is talking. Speculation is through the roof now.
If I was a liberal, I would be planning new ways of trying to undo her popularity. As a conservative, I am laughing at how the left gets all in a twitter when she even quietly goes to the ballpark with her daughter.
She scares the bejesus out of liberals because of who she is.
the theme from Rocky has been filling my head since I heard she was freeing herself. its time for some Roadwork and hitting the bag.
The people who adore her are in the minority. The people who see through her baloney are in the majority. She does not have the intellectual ability to lead this nation, let alone to be the commander-in-chief of our military. It will never happen. This article is crap. And you people accuse liberals of living in never never land ! ! !
She probably quit because serving the people of Alaska was interfering with her avenue to the big bucks, like spending time on her book deal, and being paid for speaking engagements.
sarah palin is my voice.
those who attack her, professionally and personally, must have a miserable life.
Odd they didn't ask her that when she ran for governor. IIRC, she did quit a job in the Alaska State Government at that point.
Ah yes, found it. She chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and resigned in protest in January 2004.
Oops. Someone's a wee bit too caught up in the caricature to remember these things. Just ignore it and continue preaching teh Narrative.
If you read every day as I do THE go-to Sarah Palin web site for detailed insight into her every move as Alaska's governor – Conservatives 4 Palin- you pretty much know that Sarah had already accomplished what she and her administration promised they would do – the AGIA pipeline project. That was all Sarah. Her Lt Gov is more than ready to go from day one because Sarah has made sure to mentor him. Alaska'a "good government" under Sarah will continue under Parnell. The only difference is that the DNC hit men with their paid bloggers in Juneau and Anchorage will no longer be able to bilk the Alaska taxpayer for their frivilous,off-the-wall "ethics" violations.
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And Obama has the abilities you mention?! HAR DE HAR.
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I am not at all surprised with Sarah's move. Sarah could not fart in Alaska w/out some official Alaska Democratic blogger filing some sort of complaint. Bloggers followed her to local events and photographed her clothes just to go back and say "OMG, she wore those red open-toed shoes again and a skirt that was much too short!". She was told she could not leave the state to attend "partisan" events in the lower 48; then from the other side she had the "pundits" and RNC insiders who bitched her out constantly when she could not attend events in DC.
It's not like she ever had to worry about small villages being flooded or volcanoes errupting with downtown Anchorage in its sights. Something Bambi never had to worry about while campaigning 24/7 from his Senate seat. Governors are full-time jobs. She's been inundated with invitations to raise money for groups near and dear to heart but she's lucky if she can make two a year. It wouldn't surprise me if she wants to work with the Kennedy family for a year or so with the Special Olympics projects/fundraising. It wouldn't surprise me if she wants to use her SarahPac funds to campaign the lights out for the 2010 candidates she truly believes in. She has the ability to turn both the DNC AND RNC upside down. No one else has that raw power she has right now to do that. Whatever she decides to do next, you can guarantee that Rahm Emmauel/Axelrod will be the first to be concerned about it. And Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan will just bitch about it.
Why are you jealous? All she stated was that she quit and will now devote some of her time to people who in her mind count.
If she is as stupid and worthless as you say, why would the MSM devote a whole day to her?
Take off the GOP blinders. Sarah Palin was/is never going to win a national election. Taking away the job that gave her the only experience a very inexperience candidate had, isn't going to do her any favors either. Unless she's planning on studying History or Geography at Wasilla Community College, this is a bad move.
SARAH "The LIE-berals' TERROR" Leads by EXAMPLE…….OBAMA YOUR MOVE, RESIGN.
Next Sarah will show her Birth Certificate and that she is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN and Obanana will be CHECKMATED.
When I first heard of her resigning I was like NOOOOOOO but now that I think about it she is crazy like a hedge hog. First off I should preface this with the story, the Fox knows many things, the Hedge Hog knows one BIG THING. Sara has something up her sleeve and its a big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. I believe the post is correct in saying that now she is unbound from the bs that the leftist scum suckers have put her and Alaska through so she can go after the gold her way. And also, she will be what amounts to a private person so who unto any idiot who decides to libel her or her family. This is just a good way for her to concentrate on several fronts. Her book will be a total smash hit to be sure and she can raise money for her campaign and others as well. This could be a really smart, gutsy move.
Palin's problem is that she has lost the support of many conservatives by this point. Bush and Reagan appealed to the entire party. Jindal does the same. Have you been reading the National Review's response to Palin's resignation? They're a lot more troubled by it than some of the posters here are. That speaks volumes.
I'm reluctant to call this a lynching; sadly, no politician can escape the petty nonsense from the press. Bork at least left his SCOTUS hearings with his reputation intact. I have trouble seeing the same for Palin.
To every liberal who has posted a comment:
With unemployment at its worst point since Carter was in office (and inching ever closer to 10 percent after Obama said it would go higher than 8.4), and people like Colin Powell, a Republican who voted for Obama, saying they have concerns about his agenda, I wouldn't be as confident as you all are trying to sound. If the Misery Index shows up again before 2012, change is indeed going to happen whether Palin is a candidate or not. Personally, I hope she is.
I have a dumb question. Are you the President of the United States?
The reason why I ask, is that there have been only a handful to occupy that office and it seems to me that only someone who has been elected to that office can talk to her about moves to become POTUS.
BREAKING NEWS….BREAKINGS NEWS…this just played on CNN and MSNBC and all the BEDMATE MEDIA. They just announced why Sarah resigned. She wants to get more qualified to run for President. She is becoming a community organizers, joinning ACORN, Joiing the Chicago Communist Party, Joining Jeremiah Wright's Church, Traveling to Indonesia, Pakistan and finally to Kenya to become a Kenyan Citizen.
She is excited about thid next endeavor in her life and hopes it will pay off in 2012. Also with this trainning she knows the Media will LOVE HER.
LIBS FEAR TO HEAR SARAH the TERROR. They pee themselves like rabbid puppy dogs.
I tend to agree with you that Obama will be a one-termer. But it won't be Palin that dethrones him. She's finished as a presidential candidate.
Leading the Revolution!
Interesting, like in the posted clip, Sarah Palin chose the moment to end the fight. We have many striking at her empty cloak. Will she rise to guide others to victory?
Burry the story on a holiday weekend? What is the top post in the blogosphere? The story is in the top 10 of CNNs most popular. Pundits are taking away from their Saturday, Fourth of July celebrations to not be left out of this moment.
I suspect that Palin has ideas to start a movement. I expect it will intersect with the Tea Parties (eventually). Her popularity gives her a bully pulpit. Her history gives her the ability to inspire hockey moms, soccer moms and dance recital dads to do a little community organizing themselves.
Presidents who didn't go to college:
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Zachery Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Abraham Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Harry S. Truman
I am sorry but the people who voted for the least qualified person ever to be President (aka Obama) have forever forfieted their right to dismiss any politician as unworthy, least of all Palin.
Hmm…Palin: standing down as Governor so that she doesn't milk the alaskan people for 2 years "lame duck" salary VS. Obama: getting elected as a Senator and then immediately campaigning for President all the while voting "abstain" or not even attending votes all the while getting paid to be Senator.
Which one sounds more ethical to you?
Won't the governor's salary just get paid to the replacement? I'm having a tough time following you here. This doesn't seem like it will save the state a dime.
It is doubtful that she is down and out. This is the age of the internet and people are now speculating.
It doesn't matter if it is a smart move now, if she gets elected to POTUS, it is a smart move. If she doesn't, she has shaken up the establishment any way, which is a good thing.
Notice also, that she had to have been thinking on this for months, and yet there were NO LEAKS. I repeat NO LEAKS. It came as a surprise.
What other surprises does she have up her sleeve?
Then color me a proud minority.
Jake, on that happy note…. ;-(
You need a bar-b-que and a brewski pronto! and hang up your flag!!
1964 all over again…only worse.
If only she would become a community organizer and start hanging around with some communists, terrorists and Islamists — *then* she'd be qualified.
Great minds think alike; this is my post published at July 3, 2009 at 10:51 pm.
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/if-yo...
It is my contention that it is the newly-energized Tea Party activists that will pick up the “light saber of liberty” and fight the “dark side” of oppressive government control. In other words,the concept of citizen politician (rather in keeping with the vision of our founders), will be carried on by regular people who have become involved with the process only recently. In that sense, the left’s triumph is Phyrric at best. Will we win in 2010? You bettcha!
What intellectual ability is she lacking?
Take your lies and insults elsewhere. We will not stand for them here.
Finally! A conservative leader that the voters can rally around. Let the rest of them (Huckabee, Romney,etc.) shy away from the national spotlight. Sarah has the guts to stand up to the left wing haters and put them in their places.
At least she didn't say: "Think of all the fun you'll be missing. You won't have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore."
Barbarism has its virtues: “Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.” — Teddy Roosevelt.
Barbarism would be preferable to the smiley-face fascism of the American left, or the hard fascism of South America under Chavez. But even if it would be an exercise in futility, I won't give up on our Republic. I'd never be able to look at a portrait of any of the founders or of any of Western Civilisation's great scrappers and champions, without hanging my head in shame.
Sarah is going to LEAD the COnservative Recovery and help Conservatives take over a Majority in CONgress. This will solidify her as a money raiser and a power to reckon with. She will back candidates and orgnaize the party like a REAGAN MOVEMENT.
I am with her and bring many with me to her Conservatiev Alliance.
We are with you and your family Sarah the Lie-berals' Terror….she speaks and they pees themselves like rabbid puppies.
+1 cloudbuster ( sorry I can't quite "smiley face" about it)
The US is only 233 years old. We have the potential for many, many more years as a great country. Take a look at the history of any great nation–there are always peaks and valleys. If you study history, you will also see that it is at those times–when the valley is lowest–that the conviction of the people matter the most: we either give up or we refuse and fight to see that our country does not fail.
In the immortal words of Margaret Thatcher: Failure is not an option.
There are, however, people who have spent a lifetime trying to convince us that our best days are behind us. It is up to you to decide what motivates that thought process.
"Personally, I was unaware of the urgent moral imperative of serving out one’s full term as governor…"
Priceless. Really.
How on God's green earth is lady going to do as president? She can't even take care of her own daughter!
To borrow another show business analogy…when it comes to Sarah Palin, I am like Agent Scully on "The X-Files": I want to believe.
I am impressed with her charisma, determination, and personal honesty, and I want to believe she has the judgement and knowledge to back that charisma. (I couldn't care less that she does not come from the GOP Beltway elite that produced fools like the Obama-endorsing Christopher Buckley.)
As of July 2, though, I was still not convinved she was ready to be POTUS. Her resignation announcement does nothing to make my mind up one way or the other. I believe she plans to run for POTUS in 2012; if so I will see how she does in the heat of the GOP nomination campaign before I commit to her.
If her resignation does in fact mark the end of her political career, then I don't need to worry about her ability to be president.
It never ceases to amaze that the Smooth Thugs on the left drive their daughter to PP for the abortion and heap shame on life.
Nix that. You only get to be suprised 1000 times.
Right. Let me ask you something…how much of a chance do you think a politician who doesn't want to get re-elected have at accomplishing any of his or her agenda? It's called being a "lame duck" for a reason.
Here's a question for you: Do you think Obama wasted the tax payers money by taking a salary to do the work of a Senator and then spending the whole time planning his presidential campaign? Be honest.
You've got it right, Kurt. It was a well-timed move, with all the leftie talking horses hienies out to Chappaquiddick for the weekend, leaving only a few wienies here to snivel and snipe and lick their chops over imagined juicy scandals.
As for the notion that she had to stay in the governor's mansion like Clinton to stay relevant, there's are big differences between her and Billy-Bob: she is already known and respected, and a good 50 million of us can't wait to vote for her again. This time without a loser ii the lead role. By the way that doesn't preclude Mitt in either slot. It does preclude the jerk Huckaby who helped give us the loser last time.
Dream on you lefties.
Free Kool-Aid here. If Sarah Palin truly wanted to prove she was presidential, she would have stayed on as governor, not only finished that job, but won re-election and served out a second term. She needs experience — the experience of multiple budgets, multiple fights, multiple election cycles. She needs seasoning. She chose to fold up her tent because she knew she couldn't even win re-election to the governor's mansion. She is an overly ambitious quitter, looking for the easy way out. Her best attributes — her looks — will fade soon, so she has to strike now. But she just comes across as goofy. It has been a great four weeks for someone on the other side of the fence from Palin, Sanford, and Ensign. I'd say Romney is looking pretty good.
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Oh, hey wr1, happy dependence day. What are you doing to celebrate dependence, spending the day on your knees praying to your Barry, and your love of government. Well happy dependence day, slave!
Count me as one of those people who thinks this is a terrible move if she aspires to be President. If she aspires to a lot of other things, such as privacy and punditry, it's a fine move, but not if she aspires to be President.
For the record, I adore Sarah Palin and hoped she would be President someday, although I feared that the bastards had damaged her reputation to the point where that was impossible. I've probably said this before and I'll certainly say it again: ask anyone you know who dislikes her what they know about her. You will get a mountain of false information (creationism, abstinence-only education, book banning, &c.), but they won't know a thing about her accomplishments. Sadly, the lefties and the media did their job well in this instance.
LEFTIES and the Bedmate Media NEVER VoTE or SUPPORT a CONSERVATIVE…them hating her makes us love her even more.
I don't own a flag. If I had one, I think I'd much prefer the Gadsden "DON'T TREAD ON ME" banner.
I'd never be able to look at a portrait of any of the founders or of any of Western Civilisation's great scrappers and champions, without hanging my head in shame.
I can't even look at them now.
Personally, I think she could be most valuable as a pit bull aggitator. Shining the light on what the fabian socalists in the executive and legislative branches are doing to our country and galvanizing the efforts of conservatives. Untied to personal ambition or a campaign she would be freed to really drive liberals insane.
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Found it anyway, and I have to say your gift for flattery is somewhat wanting…
Scott, it's Barack Obama who needs to study history and georgraphy. That bozo doesn't even know how many states we have, believes Austrians speak Austrian and has no problem bowing and scraping to a wack job Muslim (the king of Saudi Arabia) while his wife paws the Queen of England. Give me a break!
If my life has taught me anything at all, it's that failure is not only an option, but that it is inevitable.
Tolkien called it the Long Defeat. Good must needs summon up all the strength it can in order to prevail for even a little while, whilst evil recuperates almost at will.
I think everyone forgets to actually listen anymore. Sarah Palin gave us the clue as to what the future will bring for her and the rest of the nation. She's a fighter. She's hunted elk and moose and dressed them out for the meat. She fishes and isn't afraid of slicing them up for a nice fillet and she can actuall cook it for dinner. This scares the hell out of the metrosexual types in the main stream media. They don't understand her because they live in a very protective environment where they sit in front of a computer and write op-eds trying to figure her out and when all else fails, they attack her "inability to grasp the complexity of the world and the national political stage"…..I for one find it very refreshing that she isn't the typical narcissistic politician who will do anything at all cost to win an election and accumulate power. Sarah Palin is the real deal.
When I heard Palin had resigned, like the trolls and useful idiots, my first thought was that there must be a scandal out there. And there still may well be. But it also is possible she or someone in her family has received a serious medical diagnosis that would preclude her from doing her job as governor. Or maybe it's just that she can't afford the frivolous ethics complaints launched against her. Or maybe it's just a mother who can't justify watching her children attacked by political ideologues like Letterman, Couric, Gibson and the DNC. From what she said in her conference, these vipers are now even attacking a Down's Syndrome child. What parent would want to subject his or her 14 year old daughter to the likes of David Letterman? His excuse that he was talking about her 18 year old daughter was even worse — as though four years justifies such vile comments. A comedian? That ridiculous old gap-toothed reprobate hasn't been a comedian for two decades. He's a political operative, just like Couric and Gibson and the rest of the propagandists.
Sarah Palin is the part of the iceberg that is above the water. Lurking below the waterline is what happened to Ted Stevens — ethics complaints filed against him in an effort to deprive him of his Senate seat. Interesting, isn't it, how the case was dropped once he lost. Then there's Al Franken who just stole a Senate seat in MN. Congrats Minnesota, you deserve him. I hope you've seen the picture of him in a diaper — what's in the diaper is what you did to your state. Then there's four years ago when Gregoire (Washington) had the vote recounted until she won – then, miraculously, no more recounts.
What the media did to Sarah Palin is similar to what the Russian Bolsehviks did to the Tsar, his wife, children and servants. Only they used words and character assassination instead of bullets. Perhaps if the Russian Bolsheviks had had a media as compliant as American Lefites have, it wouldn't have been necessary to kill the children.
And then I had an awful sinking feeling.
Find one on line! So cool!
Have a great one!
Sadly, for you, your analysis is dead wrong. Mark my words………this lady is super crafty. She has something up her sleeve, and all you naysayers and lefties will change your tune. I "betcha" Obama's flunkies are shaking in their booties.
Interesting. it appears we have lived very different lives…
Maybe this sounds naive, but I really cannot think of a time when I have failed. On the other hand, I have had many, many, many "learning experiences"…without which my life would have been vastly less interesting.
JKB………………you hit the nail on the head!!
Jake…………….you need some help with that pessimistic attitude.
You've got it right, Kurt. It was a well-timed move, with all the leftie talking horses hienies out to Chappaquiddick for the weekend, leaving only a few wienies here to snivel and snipe and lick their chops over imagined juicy scandals.
The governor's mansion has become a distraction for her, and unlike Clinton she does not need it for a platform. She is already known, and by the way she is known as a person of integrity, not a sleazy sex-crazed demagogue. There are a good 50 million of us out here already who can't wait to vote for her again. And this time she won't get stuck playing second fiddle to a loser. She can run with Romney, in either slot and it will be fine with me.
Someone suggested Huckaby in 012. I say no way, and Palin will not get stuck with him. That likable fool cost us the chance to have a real candidate last time, and his abuse of Romney was unconscionable.
Palin is DONE and Letterman has the last laugh; sad but true…
The admin is at it again.
Love your comments!! You are so dead-on!! And yep, Sarah is the real deal!!
This doesn't seem like it will save the state a dime.
With Sarah gone, the left have lost their motivation for harassing the Alaska state government in court with time-consuming and money-wasting ethics complaints.
Of course, lacking a motivation doesn't decrease a Lefty's enthusiasm for anything, so I'll probably have to concede that one.
Believe me, I know.
I know, believe me.
You mean just like Obama and Biden, Right?
It would be easy to think the Left underestimates Palin, but I think the rabid anti-Palin response happens because they know on some level that Palin galvanizes the Conservative base. She can go off-the-reservation and still do very well. She has always shaped her career around what's best for her family and the people she's representing- not around what has become politics-as-usual. The fact is, our political system has become nothing more than a machine full of insiders who play the game of partisanship, but really spend most of their time trying to get re-elected. Palin doesn't play the game by the old rules and that freaks people out. But the voting public knows she's the real deal.
"Why would any sane person ever vote for her for any office?"
I ask the same question about Obama every day………….And yes, the "her" in your statement also works for Obama!
"A New Hope" (which is what he said he was betting this was) was the title of the very first "Star Wars" movie. The second trilogy was "The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith."
Okay. Taking me geek hat off now.
I'm sorry, but this column is delusional. Her quitting says one of two things…If she's quitting because it's too hard, then she's not tough enough for the high office. If she's quitting because being Governor of Alaska isn't really that important, then she's undercutting her own limited experience. Of course the third option (that she's quitting halfway through her first term in a serious office because she thinks she can get a better job) isn't going to play well with a lot of people either.
I think she should do something like RNC Chairman. No offense to Steele, but she'd be great at fund raising and helping to shape the party message. I think this decision kills any chance she had to win in 2012 (and probably 2016 as well). The only way Obama loses is if he runs our economy into the ground (pretty likely), in which case the last thing the voters will be looking for is someone with even less experience to take his place.
I'll remind Sarah to get your o-k the next time she has a big move to make.
Stop me if I'm wrong, but hasn't she run into strong opposition from her own legislature, who among other things rejected her a.g. choice unanimously? The Republican legislature that's poised to veto her rejection of stimulus funds? That, itself, put forward the ethics complaints against her? It seems to me she was pretty embattled by the hometown crowd. For her Alaska supporters, it seems like a kick in the teeth for her to quit with a year and a half to go on her term. ("I'm quitting early so I won't be a lame duck." Huh??) Her book will sell, but it's not out for nearly a year, and given the general economy, I doubt the mega-speaking fees are still out there for her to collect to offset her rising personal debt. After the last election I'm frightened at how much the next one's going to cost. I'm not convinced Palin can swing it, especially if she's not the darling of the mainstream Republican party. (I know, I know, it's on its last legs, etc. etc, but they still have the fat cat donors) In any case, it makes for good theater! It still feels abrupt to me, and smells like there's a bombshell coming down the pipe, if I can completely mix my metaphors.
Obama in particular should be celebrating this Independence Day with zeal. What other country, but America, would this guy be anything other than a janitor?
I'll buy a copy of Palin's book. I wouldn't be caught dead with Pelosi's.
No, what I mean is that if that's the GOP ticket, Johnson v. Goldwater will look like a close one by comparison.
Newt's a wonk. He's got (mostly) well-thought out policy positions on you-name-it. Sarah, not so much.
Sarah's got all the charisma in the world. On the other hand, Newt rings in on the likeability scale somewhere near Howard Cosell.
The good news is that Sarah's problem is fixable, or at least it was until: "Ya know, I just don't want to be governor anymore."
Bato, and how do you know she is finished? Are you also clairvoyant? We don't know what the next step will be. Personally I believe Sara will run against Murkowski. She needs to concentrate on being more well spoken, and polishing her image. She already is a great beauty..yeah sorry to K-Parker etc. but you really couldn't carry Sara's make up case. I know sucks to be you to, don't it?
Yeah sqt, I am definitely buying Palin's book too. Pelosi has the personality of a dead fish and her book reflects that.
Glenn, I dig your website but sometimes you can be a bit of a bore.
Really.
Scott proves once again that the issues of self loathing and snobbishness are alive and well on the left. Thanks Scott. Tell us do you eat oysters everyday for breakfast and have long irrelevant conversations with the same like minded twits in the leftist echo chamber you live in?
Hear, hear, Dave!! That sounds like a total winner to me!!
If Sarah Palin is on a national ticket for 2012, unlike the last election, I will get out there and campaign for her. It'll probably cause my mother to have a stroke since she is stricken with BDS and PDS, but at this point, I refuse to just sit back and do nothing any longer. National TEA Party in D.C. on Sept. 12! Who's with me??
Sarah get's my vote for one reason! Drilling and Nuclear Power! She's for both. Without either one of these this country is doomed………..
Newt's an acquired taste, much like me, but he is brilliant.
The ticket most likely to be seen in 2012 is Romney/Palin or Romney/Jindal. After the finacial fiasco our current leader has created we will need someone who actually know's something about the economy and Romney's that someone………..Not a big fan of Mitt but he know's number's and that's what we will need by 2012. Actually we need that now…..
I still prefer Nugent and Palin though.:)
newt's a good guy, but we definitely need new, young (yet true to our core values) conservatives running for office. definitely sarah for president, and then maybe someone like Ben Shapiro for VP (is there an age minimum for that office)? I heard him speak yesterday at the Glendale Tea Party and he's awesome. "We have not yet begun to fight."
Sarah, Sarah, thank you for the early fireworks! Always ahead of the game. You gave them a holiday weekend to stew, I love it! What ever you do I am all for it. She accomplished four yrs of work in two, she put a stop to the frivolous lawsuits, quitter ha, not a chance. And if there was some kind of scandal don't you think they would of found it by now? I don't know what those troops told her when she went overseas, but I'm thinking they want her to fight the war for them here and soon! She's got the world's attention and I can't wait to see what she's going to do next!
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In an age of manufactered, lying, telepromter addicted phonies it is refreshing to see someone real and genuine. It was a gutsy move. I find it way more interesting to see the old liberal lioness Helen Thomas call President Zero "worse than Nixon". Interesting to say the least.
Jake,
SHAKE OUT OF IT, MAN!!!
If we all had YOUR attitude, we ARE lost. I refuse to just sit back and be "Eyore" about this! Get off your duff, man! Get active! Get the hence to a TEA Party! BE ACTIVE!!!
If we aren't active and come out swinging and fight the impending tyranny, we'll be just like the lefty sheeple: apathetic, morose, angry and deserving of every bad thing we get.
LET'S GO PEOPLE!!! Jake, don't make me show up at your place for a personal one-on-one "motivation" talk. I can be formidable: just ask my husband.
Are you forgetting 'The Audacity of Hype'?
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