Without reason Governor Palin's office has announced that she will step down on July 26. She says she is returning to private life.
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If her idea in quitting is that it's going to advance her political career, I just plain think she's nuts.
I guess they'll have to try again with Mitt Romney or something.
Dare we hope?
His prognosis for the future -- last paragraph if you go to the link -- rather depressing.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N2ZiOTA5MmU0MjQ0ODJmNWI3OGQ4ZTg2ZGE1Nzg5NmE=
Cutting bait [Mark Steyn]
As a political move for anything other than the 2010 Senate race, today's announcement is a disaster. And I'm not sure it's a plus for the Senate - and, even if it were, the manner and timing suggest it was not a professionally planned event and therefore is unlikely to have any grand strategy behind it.
McCain, that true blue patriot, unleashed her on us. God help us all now.
Still, the treatment of Palin has been nauseating, especially the David Letterman stuff. I have nothing but contempt for the professional liberals who let him get away with that, who not-so-secretly think it was funny as hell. And that includes most professional liberals. They just make me sick, more than ever.
Actually, I consider Palin and Obama to have a lot in common -- narcissistic, incredibly conceited about their very modest abilities, arrogant in thinking they are up to the job of being President. Extremely devious, self-centered, probably clinically sociopathic. Obama is proving worse than my worst fears. I can't believe all the supposedly intelligent people who have fallen for his fakery. I see them as a kind of mirror image of the Republicans who fell for Palin. Hopefully he will crash in the polls soon, before he does too much more damage.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1909386/is_a_federal_indictment_the_reason.html?cat=62
The Post-Chronicle today reports, however, that Sarah Palin is facing an imminent federal indictment connected to embezzlement and fraud. If true, a federal indictment for Sarah Palin would seriously impede her ability to effectively manage the governorship and would destroy her presidential hopes.
The pending federal indictment stems back to Sarah Palin's term as Wasilla's mayor. Federal investigators are looking into the construction of a $12.5 million sports and recreation complex approved by Palin in her last term. Investigators are focusing on claims that the cost of the complex was inflated in order to provide free materials and construction labor to Sarah and Todd Palin for their home. The issue has been investigated since last October and reports say that a federal indictment will be levied on Sarah Palin soon.
As for her presidential prospects, if Obama crashes and burns, any Republican will be able to win in 2012. If not, then pretty much any Republican will lose. I'm hoping she is out of politics just in case Obama does crash and burn. I'd much rather have a Romney or even Huckabee if it comes to that.
Like the saying goes : You can indict a ham sandwiche.
While Eagle Eye seems to be drooling over the chance that more is heaped on Palin's plate, he doesn't speak for most Americans. As a liberal he is a typical cruel minded, child like, sorry excuse for a human being who relishes the misery of others. A truly pathetic human being who deserves our pity not our scorn. He can't help the way he is, it was bred into him during a life of unhappiness and depression. Now as he looks back he's figured out that he has accomplished nothing of any importance in his life and is left to attack anybody that has taken the time out of their lives to try and make a difference.
Now we are supposed to believe Palin is a wimp if she couldn't take it and resigns.
Seems to me a bunch of cry babies now being all butch about someone not being able to take it is a little ludicrous.
She decided to resign, after the kind of BS she has been put through it would seem absolutely classless not have some measure of understanding for why.
I was at a July fourth party last night. It was populated entirely by left wing wackos who were all on about Palin. Now, its a given that when you are in a left wing crowd, you are among the most intolerant people in the world. I mean if you are even the wrong religion they will think they have carte blanche to mock you. It's really just astonishing. I usually don't participate beyond just asking what policy issues they have disagreement with, in thids case with Palin. I never got any. They didn't like her voice, or her preachy tone, or the "you betcha's". Real deep stuff to be sure, but one I am thankful is more often identified as associated with the left, than the right.
I would have trouble with that question as well. What national policies is Palin for or against? Don't just repeat her generalities, like she is against "big government" (which, being from Alaska, the biggest government state in the union, does not mean much anyway). What is it about big government she wants to end or cut back? What wars does she want us to fight? What exactly is her energy policy beyond opening up the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling?
"Now we are supposed to believe Palin is a wimp if she couldn't take it and resigns."
Put it this way. She was not dealt out any more crap than Hillary was over the years, and Hillary got up off the floor and stayed in the fight. If you want in on national politics, you had darn well be prepared for what is coming your way. I don't think she was. It is no shame on her if she decided this wasn't for her. But if she wants to lead then she can't be a quitter.
But the larger point is, a lot of crap is going to get thrown at anyone who seeks high office. If she is in the game, she has to be able deal with it. If she can't or doesn't want to, then a more private life is best for her. But I don;t think that is what this is about. I think she is going to cash in on her 15 minutes and then maybe run for president. Alaska got too small for her ambitions. I'd wish her luck, but I don't want her in the white house.
1 - Gee, I don't know why I hate her, I just do, so, rather than deal with the question what policies of hers do you hate I think I will ask you what policies of hers you support.
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2 - Well, Hillary suffered just as much.
Both are pure Dean hogwash because he is trying to divert from the fact that we are talking about Palin, not Hillary, and to my knowledge the only criticism Chelsea suffered from conservatives was once, when Rush had his TV show, and that was a big too do that was apologized for incessantly by Rush at the time.
Lets face it, for whatever slings and arrows Hillary got, she got a million passes. "gee, I just found these in the map room was a standard comedy joke for six months running.
The fact of the matter is, if you are going to run around saying you can't stand Sarah Palin, you had better have a reason other than "well, why do you like her?".
That's not a reason, that's simply a Dean Weasel.
I merely recounted my situation at a party, I wasn't saying a thing about Palin one way or the other, thus I have nothing to defend. If all you can do is come up with a Dean Weasel - "gee, Ill try and deflect from my stupid comment by asking why you like her" expect me to start making you look like Dean at a party real quick.
You are the one who said you asked people what policies of hers they don't like. Now you can't or won't even name a single policy that she even holds.
I'll give you 3 policies of hers that I agree with:
1: Raising taxes on the oil companies who pump and transport American oil in Alaska
2: "Sharing the wealth" generated by this tax raise by sending every Alaskan a $3000 check.
3: Cleaning up Republican political corruption in Alaska
Beyond those policies, which she ran on and implemented with more Democratic than Republican support in her state legislature, I have no idea what her policy positions are. Do you?
However I don't believe that was Sarah's real reason for bugging out. Some really big-time scandal is going to break in a matter or days, or weeks. She has been abusing her office for personal gain ever since she became governor.
The left would come unhinged and their hate would reach a crescendo about the same time the AGW movement collapses leaving her as the only leader who took on the fraud for what it was.
Someone here mentioned a column by Mark Steyn (and National Review). That is a good starting point. Charles Krauthammer made similar comments.
A response I saw to Krauthammer (Steyn for that matter) began "I admire Charles Krauthammer and usually agree with his take on the issues of the day, but". Couldn’t you just see that BUT coming?
The writer at Free Republic captured the essence with this. "Charles Krauthammer is a brilliant writer, and a very perceptive analyst. He’s also a denizen of the Beltway, which inevitably alters his perceptions. He lives and works at the very heart of the machinery of the superstate. If you’ve never been to Washington D.C., I highly recommend making the trip someday. Besides the wonderful sightseeing opportunities and museums, you’ll also gain a sense of how much pure power hums in the air, radiating from the massive government buildings, and refined by the monuments to great moments in our nation’s history. Washington has a sense of both age and modernity. You can see both the past and the future from the Mall."
By the way the other end of the power teeter totter is Times Square. Every bit the same bubble that separates its denizens from the real world that people inhabit.
One thing is clear Sarah Palin is not from inside the beltway or any of the various State capitol versions of the same. "The Beltway romance with the Wilsonian ideal of the professor President, acting as an elected philosopher-king to solve all of the nation’s problems from his Washington palace, is increasingly divorced from reality."
A second factor is the progressive tactic of "Future Destruction". Probably no better example exists than Miguel Estrada. An outstanding scholar and example of personal success Estrada was an excellent nomination. Progressive Senator Edward Kennedy never questioned Estradas qualifications agreeing they were excellent. Senator Kennedy's campaign rally was destroy the man and stop the Supreme Court nomination.
I hasten here to defend liberals JFK and RFK who would not have condoned these kinds of actions.
On November 5th, 2008 Palin was old news. Yet just weeks ago an aging comic giggles about the rape of Palin's 14 year old daughter on national TV. Palin's daughter is a free fire zone as a national joke for the same dirty old comic who's claws would come out insisting that Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls are off limits. Note, this dirty old comic is firmly inside the Times Square bubble.
Finally consider this application of the Cloward-Piven Strategy at an individual level. Developed in the 1960s as a method to destroy free governments and capitol markets by overloading the government and the social fabric with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into constant crisis and collapse.
Noting about the last 8 months of full throated hysteria suggests anything less than the need to stop any voice outside the beltway. I don’t know what Palin has in mind, but the beltway is the last place I would look for direction.