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Sarah Palin Just Announced That She Will Be Stepping Down As Governor of Alaska
Say what? Edit: Here's a link: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31726640/ns/politics-more_po litics/ Re-edit: added a Youtube video.
185 comments from 31 users
posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:26 AM
How much more delicious if Palin quit just on the *RUMORS* that she's being investigated. Proverbs 28:1 comes to mind... posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:28 AM
I wonder if they're gonna make her sell the house her spouse said he built? Have you seen the house? It's 9,000 square feet. It has a float plane parked in the driveway that looks like a kid's model airplane the house is so big. There's no way in hell Todd and a "few of my buddies" built that thing. I hope they kept all their receipts, otherwise things are going to get ugly for the Palins.
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:31 AM
How much more delicious if Palin quit just on the *RUMORS* that she's being investigated The rumor in Alaska about Bristol being pregnant were true. The rumor was going around for several months before Palin went public with it. Alaska bloggers, on both sides, have been front and center in following up on the different rumors about Palin and most have panned out. Even the conservative Alaska Standard believes there's something behind the rumors of an investigation.
posted by
VirgilAnderson
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:32 AM
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:34 AM
and she wanted to be president ... she shoulda said no! As a couple of Alaska bloggers pointed out, she likes running for office but doesn't want the job. She quit while on the Wasilla city council, she quit as Wasilla mayor, she quit a state commission and now she's quit the governorship. Conservatives sure know how to pick 'em, don't they? Even Republicans in the Alaska legislature complained how she was persona non gratis during the last session and they were unable to pass any meaningful legislation because Palin waited until the last minute before presenting any direction for them.
posted by
AudreyB
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:45 AM
Erik Sean Nelson Posted: July 3, 2009 06:00 PM A Post ApologyI wrote a piece making fun of the fact that a Trig Palin joke was given as the reason that Sarah Palin left office. I wrote jokes that were offensive but my intent was for them to be ironic and therefore not offensive. I was wrong. Within ten minutes of my post I received some emails from the loved ones of the retarded and I saw that my piece was hurtful. Therefore, I removed the post right after receiving the first 2 emails.I removed it immediately because I saw that it did not come across as I intended. I apologize to all of those who were offended.
posted by
NancyII
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:45 AM
You guys are salivating like a bunch of jackels. Do you have ANY idea how blood thirsty and silly you sound? The FBI has already SAID it's not investigating her. But then, I suppose bloggers know better. posted by
jfrancais
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:47 AM
posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:55 AM
You guys are salivating like a bunch of jackels. That's just from the smell of popcorn in the microwave. This should be entertaining. Personally, I think the Postal Service will be the one to get her. Their investigators are *VICIOUS.* posted by
tuttsted
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:57 AM
"You guys are salivating like a bunch of jackels. you have ANY idea how blood thirsty and silly you sound? " I agree. Quite the fascinating phenomenon unfolding here.... posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:12 AM
You guys are salivating like a bunch of jackels. Do you have ANY idea how blood thirsty and silly you sound Nothing like the tea baggers and the venom they spout about Obama, that's for sure. And once again, since you just don't seem to get it Nancy, it's the hypocrisy. Palin came to office promising an open administration and has been nothing of the sort. Even Alaska Republicans have complained about it. She promised to be truthful, and even the McCain people saw through her lies. How she lied about her husband's membership in a secessionist party is one recent example revealed from emails between her and McCain's campaign manager.
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:14 AM
FBI is not the only investigating body of the Department of Justice. Shhh... It's a secret.
Future names for Palin: Saraquitta, Barracouldn't, Iquitarod.
posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:18 AM
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:19 AM
Long time Republican strategist Ed Rollins: Palin effectively dissed nine sitting Republican Governors who because of term limits could not run again and who were midway through their last terms. He said that in her rambling discourse she was implying that anyone not running for re-election was an ineffectual lame duck who took junkets and wasted the people's money. Most Republican strategists who the GOP rely on are all writing Palin's political epithat.
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Follow the fun here: Other good Alaska blogs: http://www.divasblueoasis.c... http://theimmoralminority.b... http://progressivealaska.bl... http://shannynmoore.wordpre... http://www.thealaskastandar... (a conservative blog that is a good read for Alaska issues)
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:29 AM
From the conservative Alaska Standard: Palin must have convinced herself early on the way to be a successful governor is to please all the people all the time. Or maybe she thought she could fool all the people all the time. She certainly showed a propensity to pull one over on you. Some of the bull she tried selling was so ridiculous it made you think she was either a sociopathic liar or a delusion nut job able to convince herself what was not true was. The more controversy she found herself in, the more critics attacked her, the more deceptive she became. The more delusional she appeared.
posted by
AudreyB
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:39 AM
The truth is, Sarah Palin's decision to leave office before her term is up may hurt her chances in a presidential bid. There's NO reason not to finish something you signed up for. It makes her appear flaky, presumptive and overly ambitious. posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:45 AM
posted by
VirgilAnderson
on Jul 6, 2009 at 09:58 AM
posted by
wndrwoman27
on Jul 6, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Nancy, You guys are salivating like a bunch of jackels. Do you have ANY idea how blood thirsty and silly you sound? The FBI has already SAID it's not investigating her. But then, I suppose bloggers know better. But but....there has to be something going on! I mean, someone has to be investigating her because politically biased/motivated bloggers say so! I never ceased to be amazed at how willing people are to take the word of a blogger as fact. I admire everything you've said on this board today. What gets me is, if liberals hate Palin so much, and they think she is such a mistake, shouldn't they want her to run so she can "destroy" the party? I mean, if she's such an idiot and so inept, what are they worried about? I mean, if they think Republicans are digging their own hole with Palin, shouldn't they get out of the way and let them? If she isn't a valid threat, who cares? Me thinks the left doth protest too much... posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 10:13 AM
I never once salivated over Sarah Palin. She's an aquired taste. One in which makes it mandatory that you first shut down all higher brain functions in order to appreciate.
Me thinks the left doth protest too much I for one am sad to see her go. She was a staple for late night comedy and she would have ensured an Obama re-election if she became the GOP nominee. And if you followed Alaska blogs on both the right and left, you would know there was a lot more to Palin's drama than what you think you know. Like how Palin is taking credit for Exxon coming into the gas pipeline negotiations when she had absolutely nothing to do with it. Or like how Palin is lying about the villages along the lower Yukon getting enough salmon to make it through the winter.
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I never ceased to be amazed at how willing people are to take the word of a blogger as fact. It was a blogger who broke the story on Monica Lewinski. It was a blogger who broke the story on Bristol Palin's pregnancy. It was a blogger who broke the Abu Ghraib scandal. It was bloggers who broke many of the big stories in the last few years. It would be folly to ignore bloggers. They have sources the MSM doesn't have and people are more willing to talk to them.
posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 6, 2009 at 10:33 AM
TalkingPointsMemo got a major journalism award recently for its reporting on the US Attorney scandal. Any investigation of Palin, after the Shrub Justice Department fiasco on Ted Stevens, will be played very close to the vest. . One in which makes it mandatory that you first shut down all higher brain functions in order to appreciate. I've seldom found that to be a problem for males. posted by
VirgilAnderson
on Jul 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Palin is an attractive woman. The only problem is that once she opens her mouth you see all kinds of ugly.
posted by
jfrancais
on Jul 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM
posted by
NancyII
on Jul 6, 2009 at 03:34 PM
Ho Hum, more of the same rhetoric. It's...all...speculation..at...this...point.  ; But rave on RF, TSM, virgil. It gives you something to do to satisfy you blood lust for Palin. The one you can't forgive for stepping outside the "politics as usual" box. The one you've ragged on since November even though she was running for NOTHING. Tell me, how many of the candidates for VP who've lost do you still go on and on about? Until this latest development she was very low key and yet you guys just couldn't let her go. I really have to wonder why. (not really, it's painfully obvious to everyone except yourselves.) Another thing that just occurred to me. Of all the people trashing Palin on THIS blog, almost all of them are men. Does she threaten your masculinity? posted by
jfrancais
on Jul 6, 2009 at 03:38 PM
posted by
TSM
on Jul 6, 2009 at 03:51 PM
Does she threaten your masculinity? She threatens everything but that. And as a former member of the Alaska Independence Party, she threatens the Constitution.
posted by
VirgilAnderson
on Jul 6, 2009 at 03:59 PM
Nancy, She said she wanted to be president , but she was nothing more than a red lipstick wearing cash cow governor from Alaska. --virgil posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 6, 2009 at 04:03 PM
But rave on RF Hey, I'm just popping popcorn over here. The show hasn't even started yet--we're still in Coming Attractions. . Speaking of political sideshows, remember that NY Repubwhigan who dissed Michael Jackson? MJ fans are raising money for his opponent: posted by
VirgilAnderson
on Jul 6, 2009 at 04:03 PM
"Does she threaten your masculinity?"
Besides, that is between me and my physician and is none of your business ! --virgil posted by
NancyII
on Jul 6, 2009 at 04:09 PM
virgil, where did she say she wanted to be president? Got a link? Or a quote with a source? See, YOU said she wanted to be president and that's your opinion..no link needed. But then you said she said...now you need a link. A blogger said your doctor said so we all know your secrets...bloggers know all posted by
VirgilAnderson
on Jul 6, 2009 at 04:34 PM
"See, YOU said she wanted to be president and that's your opinion ... "
Well, She wanted to be a heartbeat away ... But we all know there's no possibility of that now ( i bet somebody talked about the cash-cow thing ). --virgil posted by
vanityfair
on Jul 6, 2009 at 08:34 PM
Guess you don't count the Californian as a "legitimate site." The right-wing does it here all the time, only with Obama as a target. Hey Random, here's a little newsflash for you: Obama is the POTUS and will obviously be a target of his opponents, just as GBII was, and still is. And always will be. I can acknowledge that, can't you? After all, you're the one who constantly calls for trials and hangings. This outrageous "comedy" piece was over the top, beyond any boundary of decency. It was an attack on a child, and a family who surely will struggle to meet his needs. The only obscene blast on Obama on these blogs that even comes close was from a now suspended user (Katatak) who suggested that Obama molested his daughters. HuffPo is full of biased crap. Advertisement |