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1. Mrs. Jackson:

Mr. Brooks must have been delighted to learn his beloved Republican party is now cancer-free.

Jul 5, 2009 - 8:58 am 2. MarkJ:

How does one define The Fourth Estate? I’ll provide one definition:

A Fourth Estater is one who, when approaching by a man pointing a pistol at them and screaming, “I’m going to kill you!”, responds with, “Yes, yes, but what do you REALLY mean?”

Jul 5, 2009 - 9:01 am 3. John O'Neill:

The fact that Sarah Palin and her family especially her daughters have been subjected to the worse filth that the Americanized mind set can conceive seems to have eluded the so called pundits who rule over their little world of politics and corruption. Hopefully Sarah has chosen the right path and decided to leave the world of American politics behind so that she can live and breathe in a world where decency and ethical behaviour is not laughed at by sick old men on TV shows It is a vital lesson to all of us to disengage from this hell called the American political scene and seek for our happiness in a world devoid of horrbile talking heads and political pundits. St. Augustine said that we have a choice between the city of God and the city of man and that the city of man will always be the realm of Satan.

Jul 5, 2009 - 9:26 am 4. BlueRidgeForum » Steyn: Sarah Palin and the “Emirs of Incumbistan”:

[...] JULY 5! Roger Kimball asks in his “Sarah Palin, a modern Cincinnatus?” here. “Is there life ‘outside government’? Is it possible that anyone in his right mind [...]

Jul 5, 2009 - 9:49 am 5. David W. Lincoln:

I remember this, it wasn’t Sarah Palin who said the economy is strong, but John McCain, and the lead the GOP had in the presidential race started to evaporate.

Let Palin decide, and maybe the culturally jaded
will not look for spin when a straight answer is
given. Because there is a universe of difference between a straight answer, and an answer that seems to be straight.

Jul 5, 2009 - 1:11 pm 6. bibio44:

‘She said that she was sick of the “political bloodsport” that targeted her family….”

She said it, no doubt, while cradling her granddaughter.

Jul 5, 2009 - 1:34 pm 7. bibio44:

“Like the Denmark of Hamlet’s time, the whole kingdom of the fourth estate contracted in one brow of woe ….”

Ooooh, Roger’s at his Bartlett’s again.

Jul 5, 2009 - 1:37 pm 8. Lynn B.:

Snarky and catty are not political positions. I quit the Democratic Party on July 4th, 2009. Sent an email to the DNC. Liberal newswomen are very much like sorority girls, but old enough to know better. Both Clinton and Palin have taken a lot of heat in their campaign runs. The only female Dem who didn’t castigate Palin was Ferraro. I’ve read a lot and listened a lot to the arguments on the issues and about groups within the Dem umbrella (ACORN for one) and find myself disagreeing with the Dems on a lot of the important issues. I actually liked Palin when I heard her speak. I hope she doesn’t leave politics altogether. She’s one smart person.

Jul 5, 2009 - 6:09 pm 9. VoteTheDay:

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Jul 6, 2009 - 12:29 am 10. VoteTheDay:

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Jul 6, 2009 - 12:44 am 11. Pajamas Media » Sarah Palin, A Modern Cincinnatus?:

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Jul 6, 2009 - 1:24 am 12. David Thomson:

Sarah Palin may not be the greatest intellectual who ever lived—but she has her act far more together than either Barack Obama or Joe Biden. If she is a lightweight—what in hell are they? I also find it interesting that a number of people, including Roger Kimball seem to be ignoring Alaska’s downright weird ethics laws. It has been reported that Palin only collected a mere $100,000 in donations of the total $500,000 owed to her lawyers. This woman and her family are not independently wealthy! Alaska is one of the very few states that allows frivolous ethics charges to run rampant. They are the quintessential example of the principle of unintended consequences. The naive legislators originally thought that by short circuiting the normal process they would assist relatively powerless Alaskans to hold misbehaving politicians’ feet to the fire. Never did they expect the abusive behavior of Palin’s vicious enemies. Responding to these never ending charges severely damaged her effectiveness as the state’s top elected leader. Not only were they financially expensive, but also very time consuming.

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:36 am 13. firefirefire:

“Outside Govenment” is the key to what Mrs.Palin’s plans are all about if she does indeed plan to run for the Presidency in 2012.
By the time the next Presidential election comes around,Americans will be ready for a true reformer like Sarah Palin to take the oval office.
We’ll need someone not tainted by the nastiness and theback room deals and corruption and skirting of the constitution that seems to be the hallmark of the current crop of democrat politicians that fail to truly represent the people of the United States and instead line thier own pockets as well as those of the special interests groups at the expense of the taxpayers.
Mrs. Palin came to prominence in Alaska State politics by exposing the corruption of the previous administration and that may be how she intends to attack the 0bama administration.
OR..she may be tired of all the crap and is quitting politics altogether.
Only time and Mrs. Palin,will tell.
Whichever it is…I wish her well.

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:49 am 14. john from cinncinatti:

she’s just keeping it real.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:25 am 15. Oh Sarah:

Sarah Palin knows the rules and now, without any warning she just up and pooped on them.

The MSM and PRESS have a god given right to know exactly what people are up to when they’re sneaking around doing things that none of them understand.

I’m serious.
It’s in the Constitution.
Look it up for yourself.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:35 am 16. Conservative1:

The libs won. They destroyed her. May God have mercy on us all.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:46 am 17. "progressive"watch:

Palin gave no advanced notice to the former msm which had done everyhing it could to destroy her personally and politically. She didn’t consult with the Republican elite which has has stabbed her n the back. How foolish can she be!

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:53 am 18. sodacrackers2:

I do believe Sarah spoke on Facebook about why she has resigned and what she plans to do. She is an honorable woman who loves her country. Nuff said.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:56 am 19. answers:

Screw what the media thinks.

More important to me are the reactions of members of the GOP, their pundits, talk show hosts and all around annoying clan members.

They had no correct answers about what to do during Bush’s 8 years, no idea how to win the 2008 General Election and they are all totally clueless about how to stop Obama now.

But all of a sudden this past weekend they are experts on how Sarah Palin should run her public and private life, as well as comply with the rules of order set forth by the losers in the above paragraph. Herein lies more fear and apprehension about Sarah Palin than the MSM has of her combined. She might just sink their little rubber duckies before they realize what hit them.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:56 am 20. sodacrackers2:

Nos. 9 and 10 Vote the Day
Oh please, spare us the nonsense of “voting” on why we “think” Sarah Palin resigned. What does it matter what every Tom, Dick, and Harry thinks about why she resigned?

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:59 am 21. cedarhill:

The Democrats and Obama are all for themselves (the elites) and the loafers and moochers. The GOP is something but whatever they are they’re elites which are just a different flavor.

Palin is the only hope for middle America. If there is any chance of regaining America as it was founded, Palin is it. For example, I asked my wife if she had the tickets would she go to a free:
1. Michael Jackson’s memorial service
2. A Mitt Romney event
3. A John McCain event
4. A Michael Steele event
5. A Newt Gingrich event
(the list continued but you get the drift). The answer was simply “no”. However, she would PAY to attend a Sarah Palin event AND is planning on contributing to Palin’s legal defense fund. Sarah Palin will be the founder of the Pit Bull Party.
Go Mitt and John that!

Jul 6, 2009 - 4:39 am 22. Dave:

Truth is, she resigned because of the Alinsky/ACORN/Obama attack method, translated in this instance into constant filings of ethics complaints to hamstring her in office with constant legal expenses and constant consumption of time and energy dealing with FAKE CHARGES and fraudulent filings. Do you all know that one of the 18 ethics complaints she defeated was filed by a lawyer on behalf of a NONEXISTENT PERSON??!?!? Sarah’s attorney responded to the suit with one sheet, saying “no such person lives in Alaska” and it was dropped. But she has to pay him for this stuff! IMHO any lawyer making such a filing should be instantly and permanently disbarred.

Whatever she will or won’t do, it is true that Piven/Cloward attack methods that are designed to overwhelm govt cannot work when the victim is no longer IN govt. So in that sense she has defanged their primary attack method. Whether she is personally too disgusted with the harm done to her family to even continue in politics, nobody knows, but it’s a good bet. People say ‘politics ain’t beanbag’, meaning it’s a hardball, serious game. But it’s worse than that… it’s more like Jesse Jackson said of Obama into the microphone Jackson thought was off.. “gonna cut his nuts out.. mmph”.

Jul 6, 2009 - 4:48 am 23. rosem:

The “power of the press”, what is it? The ability to trash and destroy. Smug,sneering and threatening and proud of it.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:03 am 24. gary:

After eight years of George W. Bush and last year’s nomination of Sarah Palin, the question must now be asked whether the Republican Party in its current form has become a clear and present danger to the security of the United States and to the future of the American Republic.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:15 am 25. Kat in Indiana:

I have a word of advice to anyone that thinks Mrs. Palin is finished-read David McCullough’s “John Adams”. He was “finished” as a politician many times. At least in the minds of those who never liked him in the first place. He was a small-town lawyer and farmer, for heaven’s sake. A rube. A bumpkin. Not educated at the “proper” schools.

It also sheds light on the fact that the press has been full of itself for 233 years, and is never above slander and liable to advance its agenda.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:40 am 26. ate mely:

‘we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint.’ Sarah Palin, 7/04/09
I don’t need reasons why she quit as governor of Alaska. She is for America, her ‘higher calling’. Jeeeeeeez.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:42 am 27. T Stewart:

Let’s see. She’s made a move that the political pundits and MSM analists don’t understand. She is not politically correct( loves God, carries downs-syndrome fetus to birth, doesn’t rely on savvy political consultants,etc,etc). She doesn’t have an Ivy League diploma. She defends her children like a mother bear(probably polar). Stuck her neck out because she loves her state and nation. Wow. Todd’s a lucky man! To heck with rather she runs for POTUS! Let’s draft her! Sarah! Sarah! Sarah! Palin 2012! Under any political banner. Hope the Repubs don’t screw up and lose her. It could be the end of the GOP.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:43 am 28. antaine:

“The fact that Sarah Palin and her family especially her daughters have been subjected to the worse filth that the Americanized mind set can conceive seems to have eluded the so called pundits who rule over their little world of politics and corruption.”

No, they just hold her to a different standard. Sarah Palin should be able to take all the ad hominem trashing the media wants to throw at her or else she’s a “lightweight” who “can’t take it.”

Yet raise a legitimate question about Obama’s background, compentence, performance or overall vision and you’re either a racist, an extremist or a dolt. Oh, that’s right, there *are* no legitimate questions to be raised by any “reasonable” person on those issues, I forgot…

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:02 am 29. Joe C.:

If I was a Palin-hater from the Media and McCain campaign, I’d be worried. This sounds more like a Charles Bronson “Deathwish” move than skulking into anonymity. Now she can do some damage of her own, and take over a weakened RNC. I think she’s going after Michael Steele’s job.

She righted the State of Alaska in only a couple of years, and turned it over to her hand-picked successor. The Palin camp is now freed from the bonds of political office and its required niceties to go on a truth telling spree, which will gain her cash and conservative cred. with options for the future. Target #1 should be John McCain — the candidate she saved from historic embarassment by signing on to his dysfunctional pathology of a campaign, only to have him turn on her.

Palin knows the truth: She brought this politically-decrepit gadfly to within weeks of a double-digit win, only to have him and his Keystone Kops of a campaign staff blow it with classically gutless “GOP moderate” aplomb, then try and hang it on her.

The Media already hates her, so that’s a wash; and making enemies of the GOP has-beens can only be a plus with Independents and Conservatives. It is about time that there is a Republican that is willing to play the “bloodsport” without conscience as the leftists do. It’s ironic that it may be a Conservative woman in the Thatcher mold that will revive the party of Lincoln and Reagan.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:06 am 30. Jack’s Newswatch » Blog Archive » Palin fed up? (5):

[...] 7:28 am EDT, July 6th, 2009 — Kimball: Sarah Palin, a modern Cincinnatus? [...]

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:08 am 31. Brownie Matlack:

Excellent, perceptive article. It ain’t over ’til it’s over.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:11 am 32. Charles Maxwell, CDR, USN(ret):

I studied classical art (years ago!) and I recall trying to understand the works of Picasso. Judging from the child like lines in his paintings it seemed to me that he could not draw very well! In fact, as I later learned, he could draw as well as any notable Italian High Renaissance artist. So, what was it that the modern Picasso was trying to say in his paintings. You can/will draw your own conclusions but, I thought the child like lines were his attempt to tear down the layers of stifling organization that adult experience plasters on top of a child’s free thinking, unfettered creativity. Picasso teaches us that once we become adults in our thinking, it becomes nearly impossible to regain that child like, unencumbered creative thought. Picasso seems to have achieved the impossible! In a word, we conform to new standards of behavior as we age. Conformity, sometimes without rational objection, is what Picasso saw. The chattering classes, that would be Chuckie Schumer and Co. speaking, might learn a bit from studying Picasso for a day or two. In fact, those who harbor extreme points of view on both sides of the GREAT political divide would do society well to make a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and study Picasso’s works. Perhaps the extreme would be pundits could learn to reacquire their childhood creativity and work outside of the bonds imposed by ignorance and arrogance. All the chatter just makes me sick!

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:13 am 33. JKB:

I love the speculation. I love the people declaring her done. The same people who had to leave their mountain vacation to be sure and get timely blog post up about how Sarah Palin is and always was nothing.

So my question is, what if she doesn’t run for president? So what? Does anyone really think if Sarah Palin just decided to start blogging on politics she wouldn’t be someone whose opinions the candidates had to consider? She had name recognition, she has the ability to draw a crowd, she just may become a king maker.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:15 am 34. Charles Maxwell, CDR, USN(ret):

PS: #22 Dave is spot on!

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:16 am 35. Kelly:

I see what Palin just did as shrewd, confident and utterly brilliant for her. Not only will she now have free rein to do as she pleases without advance notice to ANY media or government – she gets her freedom back, she gets her time back, she saves Alaska a lot of money on those frivolous lawsuits – AND she hasn’t done anything shameful such as ignoring Senatorial duties for two years while you work on your Presidential campaign – something Owebambi not only did but now continues to do with most of his Presidential duties it seems.

I’ve gained more respect for her.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:57 am 36. acj:

I think she is moving out of Alaska because North Korea has long range missiles aimed at her house. Remember the comment “I can see Russia from my house?” Well, Kim Yon Ping Pong got really mad because he was left out “again” for being a small and non-descript country; small enough to not even mention.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:58 am 37. sheesh:

She’s just keeping it surreal.

The last thing she wants is to be left alone. She winked her way into the hearts of conservatives without so much as a single cogent policy statement. Now she thinks her folksy Alaska charm and “I’m for clean water” intellect is going to draw people to her self-serving agenda. We learned everything we need to know about Palin last year, when a small minority of frustrated and bitter Americans with low standards swarmed to her empty celebrity. She’ll remain the darling of the undiscerning conservatives, but she won’t gain a single new acolyte.

Somebody mentioned that she quit four different colleges, quit her mayor’s post before her term was up, quit the Oil Commission, and now quit as governor. I’m no psychologist, but I see a pattern of behavior. She’s a quitter. So she’s got that going for her with the right.

Speaking of psychology, here’s my favorite line of her resignation speech . . . “I promised efficiencies and effectiveness! That’s not how I am wired.”

In the famous words of your other Republican savior Michael Steele, “Dr. Freud in the hizzle!”

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:17 am 38. Adam:

She’ll spend some time as a Wasilla community organizer. That should give her all experience and gravitas she needs to be the next President.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:20 am 39. Jack Okie:

I’m surprised that more people don’t see it, but maybe it’s because we are so Washington DC-centric: The Tea Parties show there is a large group of people unhappy with the status quo and generally in favor of the positions Sarah Palin advocates. The state sovereignty movement is a related group. These folks currently have no one person to take point for them. I saw on another blog yesterday the idea that for the old revolutionaries, (approximate quotation) “Revolution is made by picking up power that is just laying on the ground”. I think Sarah is making herself available as THE leader around whom the Tea Partiers will coalesce. I predict a true bottom-up effort that gives the Tea Partiers direction and focus, an “Army of Davids”. I doubt Sarah will become head of the RNC herself, but certainly she will put her own person in that position when the GOP is scourged and shriven. I can hardly wait.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:24 am 40. geokstr:

“bibio44:
‘She said that she was sick of the “political bloodsport” that targeted her family….”

She said it, no doubt, while cradling her granddaughter.”

And you’re a disgusting slimeball. Go back to Kos please.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:28 am 41. Meryl:

I hope she never gives a single word of explanation and, furthermore, never does a single thing to shed any light on her decision.

We need about 10,000 politicians just like her who can’t be controlled, predicted or programmed.

I’m so sick of the elites, the 4th estate, the libs and the lefties who spend 80% of their waking hours making fun of normal people.

I hope she just goes out and shoots a record-breaking number of moose, bear, deer, raccoon, wolf and mongoose this fall and publishes a 4-color coffee table book of same.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:41 am 42. Mike:

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 BC – 430 BC?) was an ancient Roman political figure,and Roman dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC.[1]
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So Mr. Kimball does a hit piece on Gov Palin saying that as Gov and possibly as President in 2012 that she was/would be a dictator.

I think PJM has sunk to a new low

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:41 am 43. blotto:

Dave 22: Great comments. I think the Piven/Cloward attack machine got its first taste of blood during the Bork nomination hearings. And since the media was sympatico with them they knew they now had a method of destroying any adversary.

Beck, while a little goofy, has been all over this Oak tree that spawned Acorn and its roots are in Piven/Cloward.

What bothers me is the spineless Republicans in Congress and the Senate that blithly go along with what is happening. Nobody came to Ms. Palin’s aid in either body. Sure they don’t want to be caught in the cross hairs of this machine and the sycophanitic media. But at some point you have to stand up and say enough.

Is this the United States that we want? Is a one-party system what we want? When will real Americans stand up and say “enough is enough?”

Gary 24: You are in way over your head.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:45 am 44. Gaffe Prices:

I don’t think anything has so set the blogosphere so a’tittering than this: threads aboound in the hundreds, and even the thousands over this, but I think Palin has got the media beating themselves with their own dead horse.

I for one don’t think we kneed to turn this into another Michael Jackson saga.

someone on a thread said that we need a standard bearer, and I replied that we won’t need a standard bearer for at least two years. we need to write senators and urge a NO vote to the Cap & Trade Bill for the moment, and don’t wait til the last minute to try and jam the phone lines.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:50 am 45. mph:

Sarah Palin is simply following in the so-called “culture warrior” path laid out by the Bill O’Reilly’s of the world. She seeks to profit from resentment. e.g. Instead of ignoring the idiot David Letterman, she sought to stoke the fire and exploit the situation for political gain, exhibiting a pattern of fostering resentment.

Palin traffics in the victimization politics previously confined to Left wing sub-groups. Even the keywords — “culture” “children” “empowerment.”

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:57 am 46. Seamus:

I hope she points for the presidency in 2016…sure no Obama (should the economy turn around by 2012 and he gets a second term), but also 70 members of Congress will be over 80 by then and supposedly some of them will be back benchers in Hell. Most tv newsies, liberal pundits and publications will have been replaced or retired, except of course Helen Thomas. And after 4 or 8 years of Obamania, America will be more than ready for someone like Sarah. Think Reagan replacing Carter…ah, the sound of it.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:03 am 47. Glass:

Thank God Sarah Palin isn’t an intellectual, what will be desperately needed in the near future is somebody with some common sense that can act and preform in a reasonable and logical manner. Obama is nothing but a street corer hustler that hit it big, Palin could be the voice of reason and practicality. All I know for sure is the more the left and their comrades in press screech, jump up and down like an organ grinders moneky and call her stupid and names the more I am convinced she is the right person.
When this reality hick Obama is shown up for what he really is watch for the fireworks.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:03 am 48. Phoenix48:

How many times did the effete liberal British media bury Margaret Thatcher? All she did was ignore them and transform her country. Palin has made a decision that is consistent with both her values and the current lay of the political landscape.

First, I take her at her word that this was a family decision first. And why not. Her OWN PARTY was just as bent on chasing her from office as Democrats. Did any of them come to her aid or defense now that she gone half a million in hock to fend off Bull*&^% charges? No they did not.

She can make a lot of money out of office – and its doubtful she could make nearly as much had she chose to stiff out her final year. Anyone who claims this is ’selfish’ or some kind of criminal drive-by bail-out is either a moron or a hater to begin with.

She’s effectively cleared her good name AND STILL the Alaskan powers that be wanted to keep her alive as pinota to feed off of – and poof! She quits. I think its a brilliant move & totally agree with #22 Dave.

Liberals absolutely hate Palin for one simple reason – she’s beautiful, shrewd and charismatic. We have all gotten a taste of Obama’s ‘a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.’ Had McCain NOT taken her – conservatives would have gotten their heads handed to them – rather than a respectable loss. Imagine just what Obama and his henchmen would have done with a 58% pop vote and say another 60 electorial votes.

In that regard she’s already done the country an immense service. I believe she will be back in a huge way yet again.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:04 am 49. eman:

42, mike, “dictator” in ancient Rome meant something very different.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:06 am 50. Tom Perkins:

“Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 BC – 430 BC?) was an ancient Roman political figure,and Roman dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC.[1]”

Mike, I think you must know little of history. The Founders held up as an example, admired him, and sought to emulate Cincinnatus because when his term of office as dictator was up, he simply left office and went back to being a farmer. There are no negative connotations to the term dictator in the context of Cincinnatus.

Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:08 am 51. Tony R:

Roger said it correctly when he called the treatment of Palin “repulsive”.

The vultures in the MSM have circled and destroyed the political career of a decent person simply because they could. They have lost the run of themselves. They didn’t waste time arguing with her, they didn’t bother to voice any disagreements…no, they just went flat out and destroyed her and humiliated her family.

You folks need to wipe the sleepy-dust from your eyes and start putting manners on these vindictive bastards before it’s too late.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:11 am 52. Billy Koepsel:

Cincinnatus??? I get it that you think the press is Left leaning (really?!) and even gibbers with glee whenever a big name on the Right does something stupid (and she did, has and will continue to) but Cincinnatus? What great power is she handing down and for WHAT reason? Did you hear her reasoning? She said that a lame duck Governor spends too much money. What does that even mean. Implied that it had something to do with “family” but if she cant be a Governor without this problem why would she ever have thought of VP? We dodged a weird, creepy bullet with this one. This person was almost one blocked artery from running the free world. Some of you have to admit that at least. (((Or did you mean that she would fight against equal rights for all citizens as Cincinnatus did against Terentilius?)))

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:24 am 53. David W. Lincoln:

In Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan, who is a direct descendant of World War One British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George, we find some interesting things said about David Lloyd-George by Lord Balfour.

Why not apply the same template to Sarah Palin.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:24 am 54. Thomas L......:

Only lawyers from Yale and Harvard may apply? Who will run for these offices besides gofers and grifters?

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:26 am 55. Strawman:

Piven/Cloward is to law what the DDOS is to the internet. She just changed her IP address and secured her site.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:31 am 56. Michael:

Thanks Sheesh. I always enjoy your 180 off views. They always make me feel better about conservatives.

Gov. Pailin had to resign or go bankrupt. If by some miracle she was able to keep up with the attorney’s bills she would still be saddled by “Urgent Updates!” from the MSM when she ran for President bringing up all those bogus lawsuits. Of course they would not be scrutinized to closely to see how frivolous they where.

Gov. Pailin took a good look at how the liberals work, character assasination, using courts to harrass or destroy opponents and decided to make it all just a little harder on her opponents, the most ethically challanged party in American history.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:32 am 57. Conservative Mom:

I think she would make an extremely powerful comentator like Hannity or O’Reilly. I think her audience would explode beyond anything to date. She would make a ton on money, hurt the democrats daily/weekly and deal with the hatred as Hannity and O’Reilly do. I know I would watch every show! Love hearing the truth.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:33 am 58. Penny:

I ask myself, “What decent, happy, centered human being would want to be another turd in the cess pool that is today’s politics.”

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:40 am 59. NCBob:

She is free from the restraints that being governor creates.
She can force the captive media to do what they were supposed to do in the first place. How? When one of her children is attacked, she can ask who fathered Michelle’s daughters; it wasn’t the Kenyan, his medical records are sealed and that can only mean he’s impotent. With all the secrecy and mendacity surrounding the Kenyan, she could keep it up for years.
The crimes of democrats in Congress? Can you imagine her daily blog listing Rangel, Dodd, Conyers, all the tax avoiders, all the related lobbyists?
She may never win (or even, run for) national office be she can make lots of money and become a valuable counter to scum like Pelosi and Reid.
Go get ‘em. Sarah!

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:43 am 60. Susie!:

Now that Palin is no longer going to be governor…I hope she sues the freakin pants off the “honeypots” that have tried to destroy her and her family with speculation and flat out lies.

WHY??? did the Republican party allow what she went through?…oh , yes, they’re a bunch of old guys thinking women are not their equals..not part of the “good ole boys” network…She’s honest, doesn’t run around on hubby,doesn’t have children with other men,doesn’t leave her morals and ethics at home..you know…like the typical Washington insider seems to do..

I agree with the fact that stepping down is a good move. She can accomplish more without the millstone of “politically correct” around her neck. She can’t sue them for slander if she’s the governor, the state has to pay her legal bills.

And I agree..NOW should be renamed..
NOSW.the National Organization of SOME Women. they’re so jealous they need to be “disbanned”.

GO SARAH!! someone said she needs to create a third party. I would vote for that!!!

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:43 am 61. Michael:

The office of Dictator in the early Roman Republic was an office with a term of 6 months. The office was invoked during a national emergency. This was done because the normal leadership of Rome has split between 2 Counsels and the military was split between them, normally a very workable system but not too good for dire emergencies.

So no, the dictator that Cincinnatus was is nothing like dictators we are familiar with today.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:44 am 62. Blarty Blarckleblart:

“Modern Cininnatus”- yeah, that must be it.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:47 am 63. Fen:

acj: Remember the comment “I can see Russia from my house?”

No. That was Tina Fey. What Palin said was: “you can actually see Russia, from land here in Alaska”.

You must enjoy being fed with a shovel.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:50 am 64. Joef:

I think what it is about Sarah Palin that twists pundits and lefties into such a vibrating knot all the time is that her very existence exposes them. Exposure is really uncomfortable. She practices a real religion (how COULD she?!) rather than genuflecting to Father Gore; she is a genuinely liberated woman whose cornerstone of liberation is not abortion, but rather individual freedom and the value of all human life; she embodies Alaska, the pre-eminent symbol of wilderness, the American frontier we ache for, and profound values; she married a guy who is the polar opposite of a metrosexual and is a devoted family woman facing down a degenerate level of media attacks on her and her family; she is strong enough when response to these attacks take up too much time and resources in the Governor’s Office to pass the ball.

I could go on and on, but you get the idea. I agree with Tony R above about the MSM, but right now would only add the word “attempted”. The MSM and other vultures ATTEMPTED to destroy the Palins. I may be wrong, but suspect SP may not be done exposing the mad drooling fiends who try to lay waste to everything good in our world. I don’t think we’ve heard the last of her by any means.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:56 am 65. Mongoose:

bibio04. Complete hogwaah.

All politicians bring their family on stage, and people expect it, they want to see their families. They wany to know where people come from. You would understand this if you were an adult, and had a family of your own.

This is one of the most ridiculous talking points of the left, and it is completely bogus.

Because Palin showed the world her family Does not justify the indecent and immoral behavior of the Left, The Democrats and the MSM toward that family.

To hold otherwise is to share in that incentive and immorality. But then that is what Democrat are in the first place.

Jul 6, 2009 - 9:24 am 66. Jose:

The answer is within each of us. Look to yourself for leadership, 2012 is a long way away. Concentrate on the targets which are within an arms reach.

Jul 6, 2009 - 9:45 am 67. Professor Guvinoff:

I’m with Jack Okie (#39), Glass (#47), and probably others whom I failed to recognize by name

The big debate about whether she is good enough for politics is barking the wrong tree. She is too good for the kind of politics so many of us are presently revulsed by.

So the lady promoted herself to the rank of private citizen, and as such can give wings to the tea partiers and other people with a yearning for common sense, including democrats.

One of tasks is to expose the vacuity of the pompous wind bags, including the POTUS and his cohort, a job for which she qualifies by just being herself. When she leads an energized following, attacking her won’t be possible without attacking her followers as well, which is a lot riskier than trying to demolish a sitting governor.

Methinks the lady has been underestimated by the big mouths. Today’s politico-journalistic scene is like some crazy auction where idiocy is elevated to incredible heights, using the decibel as a currency (sneaking up on the dollar in the exchange markets, by the way).

The folks concerned about where we are going are more quiet, but also more determined. Sarah Palin can become their voice. As far as executive talents go, she has already demonstrated that she knows how to hire people of competence for key jobs.

About her move, today’s confusion shows how hard it is for cynics to relate to decisions made by a person of faith. They can only project, and are almost garanteed to miss the mark in doing so.

Jul 6, 2009 - 9:48 am 68. Attila:

Pity the poor pundit class that now has to endure Sarah Palin being free to not play by their rules.

When they question her readiness, she can question their competence, ethics, fairness, and attack the Obama administration freely. This has to be their worst Nightmare.

Pundits may soon WISH she was a quitter.

Jul 6, 2009 - 10:33 am 69. Edward A:

Just what the Republican Party needs today…a loser…a quitter…a whiner.

Jul 6, 2009 - 10:37 am 70. Войска ПВО:

63. Fen writes re acj:

“You must enjoy being fed with a shovel.”

..another shovel-ready liberal Obama-bot?

Jul 6, 2009 - 10:39 am 71. robchapman:

The reason that Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska is that Sarah Palin is a flake.

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:03 am 72. acj:

“You can actually see Russia, from land here in Alaska”.
Is that what she said?
Oh geepers! I think Tina Fey’s account sounds better.
Not another person that can’t speak with intelligence…..but that is the Republican give away ain’t it, golly gee, “another regular person” that sounds like an honest 6th grader-think we can trust em?

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:15 am 73. Stevemmn:

I can only think of one move by Sarah Palin which might make a difference. If she became a talk radio host she could instantly have an audience larger than Rush Limbaugh. She would still have time for her family also. She could go toe to toe with anyone making personal attacks on her and win, as well as expose Obama for the incompetent fool that he is. It would be ironic, after being destroyed politically with a vicious coordinated campaign of lies and smear attacks if she could destroy Obama and his liberal media worshippers at their own game.

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:19 am 74. 2Cents:

Palin can do much better job than Oprah. She can make herself very rich. God will help her with her talent. She can use her show to help GOP.

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:24 am 75. David Thomson:

How crazy are Alaska’s ethics laws? It is my understanding that only 18 charges against Sarah Palin were allowed to get to the next level. All the countless others were rejected. Nonetheless, apparently each and every complaint must be dealt with by a Palin attorney. My guess is that the lawyer charged the minimum of a hour—at maybe $500 (this is admittedly a total guess on my part)? Also, the state of Alaska has already spent $2,000,000 investigating this nonsense. It had to add staff and hours to handle the flood of ethics charges. We are probably going to be stunned when Sarah Palin is able to go more into detail after her resignation. Nothing like this can occur in Texas, my home state. Most of us have never witnessed this sort of madness in our respective home states. This may be unique to Alaska.

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:27 am 76. Pee Wee Herman, Community Organizer:

another shovel-ready liberal Obama-bot

Telephone call for George Lucas. Paging George Lucas.

I even see video game possibilities. The Killer Tomatoes v.s. the Shovel-ready Obamabots. Gross.

Or maybe a shovel-readiness contest with Mr. Slave.

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:35 am 77. Whitey:

If she were planning to leave politics forever, why doesn’t she just say so? It would be really easy to do. But she hasn’t done that so I have to assume she does plan to run for higher office, probably President in 2012.

How does this help her achieve that goal? By proving she can’t handle media scrutiny? By proving that she’s a quitter?

So far the only explicit reason she’s given for her resignation is that she doesn’t plan to run for re-election and doesn’t want to be a lame-duck governor. That’s so WEAK….

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:37 am 78. Meryl:

63.Fen…thanks for taking care of cleanup on aisle 5.

I saw the stupid comment about “seeing Russia from her house” and just didn’t have the patience to explain, one more time, to some fool who can apparently neither read nor think…what the actual genesis of that comment was.

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:40 am 79. AThinkingPerson:

Re: “”38. Adam:

She’ll spend some time as a Wasilla community organizer. That should give her all experience and gravitas she needs to be the next President.”"

My thoughts exactly.

Funny how comedians like the new Senator diaper-boy from Michigan find it the perfect time to get into politics while people with moral convictions and experience find it the perfect time to drop out of politics to protect their families.

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:40 am 80. AThinkingPerson:

er, make that Minnesota…sorry Michigan for demeaning your voting integrity

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:42 am 81. sjc-tx:

To all you whiny, testicularly impaired, ignorants…

You better start running now, cause this itelligent, brillant, competent woman with more intrgrity than all of you put together, is going to make history – real history; not the media fabricated bullsh*t nonsense of obambiland.

Jul 6, 2009 - 12:02 pm 82. Kipling:

You hit the nail on the head with your obesrvation that the media and the political pundit class cannot imagine anyone who would willingly give up political power or pursue her ambitions outside of government. The government is all there is to them, which is sad because it even applies to some conservatives who should know better. The media and talking political heads will vilify her because she has committed sacrilege by leaving and because that makes her obviously less qualified – not presidential, inexperienced, or can’t take the heat – than they because they are consumed all things political.

Jul 6, 2009 - 12:04 pm 83. Judes:

Sarah Palin has started a conservative swell. All true conservatives should form a NEW party called The Emancipation Alliance Party…T.E.A. Party! The time is now or never to serve for freedom and throw off the inside the beltway politics!

Jul 6, 2009 - 12:15 pm 84. Strawman:

Meryl (78)

The problem isn’t that libel by itself. What’s unprecedented is the 100+ others. It’s like whack-a-mole. They took Goebbels’ “big lie” concept, and atomized it into 100 “little lies”. That gets to be impossible to directly refute.

What you need to do is say “prove it”. And them smack ‘em hard every time they don’t.

Jul 6, 2009 - 12:22 pm 85. Marc Malone:

In boxing, when you get in to a corner, you have to cover up. The other guy swings away at you, an dyou absorb the blows with your arms. It does wear on you, however, and, time to time, some blows will get through. Eventually, you must duck and slip out of the corner in order to free yourself to fight again.

Now, Mrs. P is free to fight.

Jul 6, 2009 - 12:35 pm 86. inspectorudy:

bibio44, if you had a f**king brain you would have seen her give the speach WITHOUT her grandbaby in her arms. As for asswipe AJC, it was tina fey who said she could see Russia from her house. But that would require intelligence which is something in short supply. Look at who you ellected for president! Sarah will do what she needs to do for herself, family and country. God bless Sarah Palin!

Jul 6, 2009 - 12:36 pm 87. Marc Malone:

As for that “rambling, incoherent speech”, I found it perfectly clear. It wouldn’t be if I hadn’t seen what was being done to her. Since I know the truth, I had the reference points to understand her.

Jul 6, 2009 - 12:41 pm 88. Moogie:

#64 Joef: “I think what it is about Sarah Palin that twists pundits and lefties into such a vibrating knot all the time is that her very existence exposes them. Exposure is really uncomfortable.”

Exactly so. Exposure of the truth in darkness is dangerous business, as we’ve seen with the unprecendented attacks levied against a miraculously normal person.

The left cannot acknowledge her accomplishments without causing that light to reflect on their own failures. They don’t dare admit that she’s smart and savvy, without that light exposing their own lack of true intelligence.

She makes them uncomfortable because she’s so very ordinary. Most Americans can actually relate to her family: a teen pregnancy, a disabled child, a son in the military. A husband with a blue collar job.

Can any of us really relate to Obama? Born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia by a muslim until his early teens, then finishing out his impressionable years at the knee of a known communist/pornographer? Add to that the fact that his father was a black African and his mother was a white communist (neither of them lovers of America), that both of his white grandparents who raised him were admitted communists, and that he was never actually raised by a black relative who could impart on him the meaning of being a Black American, and what do you have? There is nothing genuine or authentic about him. He has spent his entire life creating himself.

So of course Sarah Palin is a threat. She doesn’t speak in nonsensical florishes of Double Speak; she has a very down to earth Alaskan accent and she’s not ashamed of it. She’s blunt and direct. Heaven forbid we should have someone who actually just says it like it is!

One of the most important rules of the left, via Political Correctness and Alinksy: Attack and insult. It doesn’t matter if the attacks have any credence. Just keep on attacking. Insult, even if it’s repulsive. And then make sure you lie, lie, lie. Every anti-Sarah sentiment expressed in these threads follows this rule.

Jul 6, 2009 - 1:09 pm 89. Moogie:

#87 Marc Malone: Ditto. What I heard was a rather excellent resume. None of it was rambling. This isn’t a case of someone quitting – it’s a case of someone picking up the gauntlet and getting ready to do a smack-down. IMHO.

Jul 6, 2009 - 1:11 pm 90. michiganruth:

face it, Sarah Palin is the Israel of political figures. NOTHING SHE DOES WILL EVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR SOME PEOPLE.

(and btw acj, speaking of 6-th graders, “jeepers” is spelled with a j, not a g. maybe you spilled your koolaid on the j key and can’t use it?)

if she hadn’t resigned, the Maureen Dowds of the world would be castigating her for not doing her job.

it doesn’t matter: Sarah should hold her head up high and keep on trucking. there are a lot of us out here who love you, girl!

Jul 6, 2009 - 1:15 pm 91. jharp:

Just read through the comments.

And even for wingnuttia, the ignorance is astounding.

Jul 6, 2009 - 1:23 pm 92. Mike W.:

Please. She quit. There’s no way to gloss it over or put a bow on it. She had a responsiblity to the people of Alaska and she betrayed them. Regardless of why she quit – to be a better attack dog for the GOP, or to capitalize on her current stardom – she still quit, and there’s absolutely nothing honorable about quitting.

You quit your job at McDonald’s. You don’t quit your job as a United States Governor.

Jul 6, 2009 - 1:44 pm 93. Gaffe Prices:

#64 Joef: “I think what it is about Sarah Palin that twists pundits and lefties into such a vibrating knot all the time is that her very existence exposes them. Exposure is really uncomfortable.”

#88 Moogie: “Can any of us really relate to Obama?”

Excellent points both: the answer is no, none of us can relate to that freak show organised crime syndicate with massive PR support jubileee! that is the left. There, I said it, so of course Sarah Palin makes them run out of Depends.

Also, if you’ve ever read the Fictional Novel- “The Invisible Man”, by Ralph Ellison, the theme revealed is the same: Always, Always, Lie, Lie, Lie.

Jul 6, 2009 - 1:49 pm 94. Dave K.:

Sarah Palin, on Hillary Clinton:

“Fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it…When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn’t do us any good. Women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. I don’t think it’s, it bodes well for her — a statement like that…It bothers me a little bit hearing her bring that attention to herself on that level.”

Jul 6, 2009 - 1:50 pm 95. acj:

Backing down from an ever present and unfavorable ideology, tired of the negative press, can’t handle the complex problems that face the country. Doh!
We will never know?
When Africa is a country, and not a continent, we must question the lack of knowlege and inexperience of this person to become a president.

Jul 6, 2009 - 1:59 pm 96. Strawman:

She had a responsiblity [sic] to the people of Alaska and she betrayed them.

Please divulge the source of your talking points. Is this from Media Matters? Who’s ur daddy?

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:03 pm 97. jharp:

94. Dave K.:

Here is the youtube link of Palin ripping Hillary for bringing attention to her treatment by the media.

The hypocrisy is stunning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA15XU23kEc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eperrspectives%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F001303%2Ehtm&feature=player_embedded

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:04 pm 98. Michael:

One must laugh at some of the comments here. Especially when their heros are “I can’t make a coherent statement without a teleprompter” Obama and “Bite myself in the butt” Biden.

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:11 pm 99. greg:

On another blog someone said, A caged tiger (palin in AK) is far less dangerous than a tiger roaming lose (Palin free of AK.) I’m hoping to see a lot of people walking around with claw marks in the coming months, starting with many of those in the media.

Palin is taking a risky move, but so far her political instincts have been very good, and this was not a spur of the moment decision.

I’ve seen so many blogs and even regular media type refer to Palin’s resignation speech as rambling, incoherant, etc., it’s because they feed off each other. It’s a good thing that her speech is available on the net, so people can judge for themselves, guess they must have forgot about that. To me, her statement (delivered without teleprompter BTW) was very clear, and her 4th of July statement made it even clearer.

All these people can’t figure out what Palin is up to, because she lives and thinks outside the box, they on the other hand, live, work, and think within the box, and think that is the only normal way to be.

Palin 2012

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:20 pm 100. AThinkingPerson:

Re #97 jharp: No, what’s “stunning” is that you condone the media’s treatment of her CHILDREN. Did they ever treat Hillary’s daughter like that? NO. Did they ever mention Obama’s two daughter’s except in glowing terms? NO. Not once did Sarah say she was leaving because of the treatment of HERSELF. It was the treatment of her FAMILY.

Did you also show such fury over Letterman’s comments about her? Were they “stunning” also jharp? Why don’t you take a minute and tone down your hypocrisy before commenting with such stupidity again.

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:23 pm 101. Dave K.:

97. jharp:

Stunning or delicious?
Great youtube link, either way.

Imagine if she were in charge of our military.
She’d quit in the middle of a war because Saddam Hussein made a mean picture in MSPaint and put it on his blog.

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:24 pm 102. AThinkingPerson:

jharp:

I’m sure this will just “stun” you when I point out the differing treatment of the Palin kids compared to Democratic children…

First Palin’s treatment (please note the author questions who’s looking after her kids):
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-11/what-sarah-palin-didnt-say/

Now on to the lovely Obama cherubs:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-20/a-father-and-his-first-daughters/

Now, since you’re such an open-minded person and definitely not a hypocrite (right?), you’ll agree that this is indeed……..stunning (and obvious).

Now, imagine if the GOP were to do the same to the Obama girls? Not a hypocrite right jharp? Now, please tell us why you expect Sarah Palin to idly stand by and let the likes of you take pot shots at her family?

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:50 pm 103. AThinkingPerson:

Dave K: Imagine if Obama were in charge of our military? That’s even scarier to contemplate right? Although he has proven he has organizing skills when he got Chicago all safe and ship-shape right? Not. Seems to be working on N. Korea right? Not. Seems to be working on Iran right? Not. Seems to be working in Afghanistan right? Not. The only place his “skills” are working is in Russia today where he agreed to give up some of our nuclear arms (just in time when N. Korea and Iran are ramping their’s up). Great decision making skills wouldn’t you agree Dave K.?

Boy, you liberals sure are sharp as tacks aren’t you?

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:54 pm 104. Conservative Mom:

Re: ACJ
“When Africa is a country, and not a continent, we must question the lack of knowlege and inexperience of this person to become a president.”

Kind of like your President who said the US has 57 States??

Jul 6, 2009 - 2:54 pm 105. AThinkingPerson:

jharp and Dave K:

Would you two enjoy seeing Obama talking about visiting the 57 States again? It’s really quite “stunning”……

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

Ahhh….I am comforted knowing we have such a brainiac in charge of the country.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:02 pm 106. Caffeinated Thoughts:

Palin’s Dereliction of Politics Over Principle…

I’ve been amazed at the reaction to Governor Sarah Palin’s decision to not only not run for re-election, but also to resign.  Good, bad, some indifferent and some has been just completely shrill.  The left I expected as much, but I’ve …

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:03 pm 107. Caprice:

If this was a risky move, it’s going to take someone with courage, stamina and love of America to go up against the 0bama machine in 2012. I don’t see any of the flaccid men of the Republican Party manning up to the job.
Sarah will have millions of decent Americans at her back.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:05 pm 108. HRPKathy:

Looking back at a bit of Sarah Palin history (for those who think the governorship is the be all end all) when she was on the Ethics Committee – she quit. And she did more with that resignation to end corruption than she would have had she stayed and cowtowed with the good ole boys with their hands in the government till. Heads fell after her resignation.

Heads may fall this time too. Maybe media heads (it would explain her att’y’s shot across the bow)?

After the Faker in Chief turns in his teleprompter performance as president with the worst economy in our nation’s history, authenticity will be in high demand in 2012. The GOP country clubbers think a wonk will be in demand. They’d be wrong – again. The country will be yearning for someone who is real.

And after all the talking heads told us Obama was a genius, who’ll ever believe them again? Stupid is as stupid does. It’s why the media doesn’t talk about Obama’s stand with the dictator of Honduras. Stoopid – but true to democrat form – never met a tyrant they didn’t aspire to be.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:06 pm 109. Dave K.:

102. AThinkingPerson:

John McCain:

“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno.”

Rush Limbaugh: “But did you know they also have a White House dog?”,
at which point what came up on the screen was a picture of thirteen-year-old Chelsea Clinton.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:07 pm 110. Moogie:

AThinkingPerson: Thank you for taking care of those pesky trolls. Not that it will do much good – they are confounded by logic and reason. Oh, and truth – that’s the one that REALLY sends their brains into “tilt” mode.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:17 pm 111. HRPKathy:

DaveK
Rush has a Radio show. What screen?

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:20 pm 112. Moogie:

#107 Caprice: “…flaccid men of the Republican Party…”

LOLOLOL!!! Thank you.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:20 pm 113. Delia:

I LOVE that the FBI came out and said they weren’t investing Palin for diddly squat.

Take THAT, leftards!

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:20 pm 114. Delia:

‘investing’ = ‘investigating”

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:21 pm 115. shau-jan:

109.not that it matters…source?

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:22 pm 116. Delia:

109. Dave K.,

LOL! Actually, I think Chelsea Clinton outgrew her gawky stage a long time ago. I think she’s a lovely young woman with curse of having unfortunate parentage.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:22 pm 117. Strawman:

111, he sees things on his radio. If the picture on your TV doesn’t work, brown acid will fix it.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:32 pm 118. Gaffe Prices:

#113 Delia,

Those democrat party perverts just want to investigate in her vest.

Ditto Chelsea Clinton, she’s done nothing worthy of negative criticism.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:44 pm 119. M. Report:

Living well is the best revenge.

Charity begins at home; Family first, then
finances, then maybe politics again, if only to
save her children from growing up in post-Obama
America.

Jul 6, 2009 - 3:55 pm 120. Whitey:

96 Strawman.

Great debate strategy, challenge the source, not the argument.

She made a promise to the voters of Alaska to serve and now she’s backing out. Spin it which ever way you want, it is what it is.

Jul 6, 2009 - 4:15 pm 121. David Thomson:

“Rush Limbaugh: “But did you know they also have a White House dog?”,
at which point what came up on the screen was a picture of thirteen-year-old Chelsea Clinton.”

Rush Limbaugh was slandered by the new Minnesota U.S. Senator, Al Franken . It was only a blunder—and the famous radio talk show host immediately apologized. Take a look at this link:

http://lyingliar.com/?p=17

Jul 6, 2009 - 4:16 pm 122. Dave K.:

111. HRPKathy:
Limbaugh had a syndicated half-hour television show from 1992 through 1996, produced by Roger Ailes. The show discussed many of the topics on his radio show, and was taped in front of a live audience.

Jul 6, 2009 - 4:16 pm 123. Whitey:

63. Fen:
78. Meryl:

You don’t even understand why this was funny, do you?

Her statement “that you can see russia from land here” was her response to questions about her foreign policy experience. See, by her logic, being close to another country gave her expertise in foreign policy. She didn’t say this just once, she repeated this logic when Katie Couric asked her if she wanted to clarify what she meant. “When you consider even national security issues with Russia, as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where, where do they go? It’s Alaska”

Jul 6, 2009 - 4:24 pm 124. Dave K.:

115. shau-jan:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_McCain

Jul 6, 2009 - 4:34 pm 125. jharp:

How was the teabagging over the weekend?

I haven’t seem much on it other than a few mentions of lukewarm turnout from the leftists.

The right wingers seem to be ignoring it.

Anyone?

disclaimer: I think the teabagging is absurd.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:11 pm 126. Dave K.:

121. David Thomson:

Rush Limbaugh’s television show was taped before a live audience, but it was not aired live.

Rush Limbaugh could have just edited that dog/Chelsea switch out before it was broadcast, if it had been a “mistake.”

But he didn’t and it wasn’t.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:41 pm 127. ThumperNM:

Palin quit because she is a “quitter”, it’s always been about Sarah and not about the citizens of Alaska or America. She has been whining since she came on to the national political scene and now is simply balin Palin.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:43 pm 128. shau-jan:

124.dave k.thanks.

125.”I haven’t seem much on it other than a few mentions of lukewarm turnout from the leftists.

The right wingers seem to be ignoring it”

here are some:

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103126

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2009/07/reporting-from-lansing-mi-tea-party.html

from the MSM:

http://www.wptv.com/content/news/topstories/story/Tea-party-republicans-Palm-Beach/PSZL6YsMdE-nF09jHE_mvw.cspx

oh and jack….jharp….whatever,it’s called a search engine.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:45 pm 129. JeanetteLangone:

Even if I didnt think Mrs Palin was a wonderful breath of fresh air for the political system..I’d be loyal to Sarah Palin and her family.The liberal media has worked so hard to hurt her and her husband and children. I dont think the liberal media can take enough showers to wash the dirt of the hate for Sarah Palin which they expressed in every way they could imagine , they had fun with it ..they hurt her and her family as if it were sport. God DOES NOT LIKE UGLY and heads up Katie Couric and your crew..NEITHER DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. This will come back to bite you big time and I cant wait to laugh at you. You deserve to be ridiculed for your lack of compassion and also for your lack of professionalism…you’ve abused your privileges and its time to hold all of you to account.

Jul 6, 2009 - 5:54 pm 130. DavidD:

She’s proven that she marches to the beat of her own drummer. She doesn’t need validation from any of us.

I’m behind her whatever she has decided to do.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:00 pm 131. Sapwolf:

Enjoy that iPod and those DVD’s chaps.

Just remember you’ll get a better gift next round if the Cuda is POTUS.

Hmmmmmmmm…..maybe……gold-plated/engraved Lee-Enfield?

Oh, and believe me, Putin would be much more afraid of Gov. Palin than Obama. No reaching on that one.

By the way, does anybody know how to get the English version of Pravda delivered? I need a respectable, pro-capitalist newspaper.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:07 pm 132. jharp:

The right wingers seem to be ignoring it”

here are some:

oh and jack….jharp….whatever,it’s called a search engine.
Jul 6, 2009 – 5:45 pm

So I guess it was dismal failure, the sequel.

Thought so. Do you not have the guts to opine yourself? I am well aware of The Google.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:15 pm 133. Sapwolf:

News release:

Gov. Sarah Palin in Honduras commanding the Artic Fox Regiment made up of American volunteers to assist the Honduran government and protect the Constitution.

!Viva zorra ártica!

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:16 pm 134. Commuter:

“I haven’t seem much on it other than a few mentions of lukewarm turnout from the leftists.”

It isn’t like the puppet head protests from the left that bus ne’er-do-wells into a handle of cities. The numbers were distributed across quite a number of venues. I haven’t seen an estimate of total numbers but my search comes up with at least 150000 and I didn’t touch on them all. Certainly very respectable numbers for a holiday weekend. Try searching yourself and come up with your own estimate of total numbers.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:18 pm 135. acj:

Karl Rove the master of your universe isn’t happy with Palin. She covers the red necks, but not the elite capitolistic Republicans. She becomes some what of a hopeful of the ignorant majority.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:28 pm 136. acj:

Capitalistic Republicans? They are worried.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:30 pm 137. David Thomson:

“Rush Limbaugh could have just edited that dog/Chelsea switch out before it was broadcast, if it had been a “mistake.”

But he didn’t and it wasn’t.”

There was no reason to edit it. The apology and explanation during the show was sufficient.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:46 pm 138. Banned by Huffpo:

#88 Moogie: Spot on! Great summary. Do you think after The One resigns in disgrace, his true country of birth will be acknowledged?

Why the left hates Sarah Palin . . .

1. She comes from humble origins and worked for what she has;
2. She married a real man, who makes The One look like the wimp he is . . . can you imagine Todd and Barry going mano-a-mano? “Hey Barry, how about a sled dog race for a couple hundred miles, what do you say?” Barry: “Oh my, I uh, oh, that sounds so cold . . . and cruel to the doggies.”
3. She is the epitome of what a “woman” is: Wife, mother, hard working, smart . . . and nice on the eyes.

#125. jharp:

You may think the “teabagging” is absurd, but I assure you Maureen Dowd finds it to be one of her favorite pastimes . . . sometimes on an hourly basis.

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:52 pm 139. David Thomson:

“Rush Limbaugh could have just edited that dog/Chelsea switch out before it was broadcast, if it had been a “mistake.”

But he didn’t and it wasn’t.”

It also dawns on me that Rush Limbaugh has been placed in a no-win situation. If he had edited out the mistake—the leftists would contend that he had something to hide. They would definitely be saying: “Why did he edit it out? He obviously doesn’t want his audience to know about it.”

Jul 6, 2009 - 6:59 pm 140. Cheese-eating surrender monkey:

Egad. Why is whiteys so stupid?

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:11 pm 141. Pat J:

So let’s take a hypothetical situation? The Republicans actually won. McCain dies? Palin is president. And say during the Iranian uprising Ahmadinejad calls her a doo doo head. Then Korea’s Kim calls her some sort of capitalist stooge and threatens to rain destruction on the United States. So she decides to resign?

I think you see where I’m going here. If Palin’s going to resign as governer over rumors, what about when other pesky leaders start picking on her. Oh poor Sarah.

Further, Blago = impeached. Sanford = might as well should have quit. Palin = Not accused of anything and quits? Something is rotten in Juneau.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:16 pm 142. Glass:

Get it straight you lefty dullards, Limbaugh and Letterman are talk show hosts that say outlandish and stupid things for ratings, exposure and shock value. News broadcasters are supposed to be neutral, attacking Palin in the manner they did is anything but neutral, or professional. Linking Palin to Limbaugh’s ranting as if that was Palin’s position is simply low class slandering by false association. A cheap form of slander used extensively in the old Soviet Union and in it’s modern form extensively by the MSM as well as Gore and his little green shirts.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:24 pm 143. Dave K.:

137. David Thomson:

“There was no reason to edit it. The apology and explanation during the show was sufficient.”

It’s also a way to have your cake and eat it.
It’s how one can insult people viciously and then claim that it was a mistake after the insult.

For instance, if David Letterman were to show a picture of a pig with lipstick on when talking about Sarah Palin and then claiming it was a mix up and a “technical mistake”, would you have been as forgiving as you are of Rush Limbaugh?

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:34 pm 144. Delia:

Now that Bush Lite isn’t to blame any longer, I guess Palin is a welcome target, if for nothing but vitriol.

Strange.

I wonder what the Left are going to do when everyone but the elites are the rich bitches, sipping champagne, eating Wagyū beef and laughing their asses off at the idiots who voted for them.

Not gon’ be purdy.

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:36 pm 145. jharp:

Maybe it’s time for Palin to condemn the Iranians and, in case no one noticed, the Chinese for not allowing peaceful protests.

How about it? Where is the fake outrage over protesters getting killed in China o wingnutosphere?

Can’t you somehow blame Obama for that?

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:47 pm 146. kabud:

An interesting explanation found:

There are two aspects of Governor Palin’s decision to resign now, which have not been competently discussed, or discussed at all, in the main stream media. One is based on the map, the other is based in American political history.

Regarding the map: I have two, immediate sources to know how long it takes, with what sort of wearing down from the journey itself, to travel to and from Alaska. One is my cousin who is a leading labor lawyer, and who went from Atlanta to Alaska frequently when the Aleska Pipeline was under construction.

The other is my son-in-law’s brother who was until recently the Agent In Charge for the FBI in Alaska. His trips home were often to North Carolina. The bottom line is this. In going to Alaska, or coming from that state to the “lower 48″ for any purpose, two days are lost in travel for each trip, and there is recovery time to be sharp and on your toes in addition.

Throw in the fact that at least two of the phony, and dismissed, ethics charges made against Governor Palin were based on the fact that she was “out of the state” in order to appear or speak at events in the lower 48. It is well known that Governors and Senators who habitually run for President are often absent from their states and their constituents (unless they come from Iowa or New Hampshire to begin with).

The travel restraints are far worse for Alaskans and Hawaiians than residents of any other states. The result is that no one can function in a full time government position in Alaska or Hawaii, while playing a significant, permanent role in politics in the rest of the nation.

The political history aspect refers to Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Both built their national base which gave them their respective party nominations for President by traveling the US for years on the rubber chicken circuit. They supported and raised money for hundreds of state and local candidates. They had good results doing that, much better than similar efforts by Bill Clinton, to choose a name not entirely at random.

Bottom line: I think Sarah Palin is planning a similar, grassroots effort to those of Nixon and Humprey. I think she knows that she needs to show immediate results in the 2010 elections for the House and Senate, with candidates she supports usually winning. She has to start now, rather than just wait to run for President or Vice President in 2012.

I think she recognized that it was impossible for her to be a Governor, a mother and a wife, and an active speaker in the lower 48, all at once. So, she left the least important of those three tasks in the hands of her selected Lt. Governor.

The proof of what I posit will come on 12 September, 2009, if Palin is the most important speaker at the Rally on the Mall in Washington. My analysis is correct, if she begins her speech then and there with words like these: “My fellow Americans, I come before you today not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an American who is deeply, deeply concerned about the wrong directions this nation is taking because of failures by politicians in both of those ancient political parties….”

Jul 6, 2009 - 7:55 pm 147. Uriel:

Quitting on the Alaskan people? And if She had stayed it would have been putting her own interests above those of the people of Alaska. Isn’t this a fun game it is call “Heads we win tails you lose”. Actually that was more to the point of her resignation. She has accomplished much of what she set out to do. Continuing does not serve the people of Alaska because she can no longer be effective as a governor because of Partisan political attacks and rampant speculation over her future plans. The problem is the left believes in thoroughly destroying its opponents so there isn’t much hope that this move will buy peace for the Palins. I hope that this is the opening gambit in an offensive by her and not a concession only time will tell of course. Why anyone with any decency at all would want to be a Republican politician is beyond me. It is so much easier to be a pure statist – you can be as corrupt, immoral, and decadent as you want and never be held to account by the “WatchDog” media.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:13 pm 148. eburchelli:

She’ll still get my vote in 2012 whether she runs or not. She is the only Republican left with conservative values. All these good old boys of the GOP elite are RINOs, openly or in disguise. They don’t have me fooled.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:23 pm 149. Fafnir:

Palin is what we dragons love.

Jul 6, 2009 - 8:49 pm 150. Commuter:

“I am well aware of The Google.”

Then you would be aware that considering that it was a holiday weekend a lukewarm turnout is probably not descriptive of the numbers. Lukewarm is a subjective term though, so I guess it’s your interpretation. Palin is not directly connected with it at this point and it’s purely speculative that she will be in the future, so I don’t see how it’s on topic anyway.

Jul 6, 2009 - 9:02 pm 151. Not Republican or Democrat:

Inflicting doubt ( The primary liberal agenda )
Notice the patterns of a liberal scandal. Watch and listen closely. You’ll understand there is no basis. Only an implant of doubt in the public mind. You can watch the implant grow and fester like a cancer cell. It doesn’t warrant fact, but only an implication that -it could happen or it might be true or we can create an illusion that it’s true- and as the liberal works hard to create this black, dense air around the public, they are shaking the right hand as a decoy while the left hand is implanting the cancer they have generated.

It doesn’t matter that this cancer lives forever or even for a week, as long as it grows long enough to cause doubt in the public mind. In the meantime, the liberal is honing in on and yet another of many scandals to come (cancer cells). It’s one right after the other in an attempt to keep the public off balance, destabilizing our goal as moral and proud, true Americans.
I am not a political science major, nor am I in the middle or the political ring, but I am a citizen of the United States and an average person seeing the deterioration of our rights as Americans. It doesn’t take a political science junkie to see the damage caused, not to just a few, but hundreds of thousands of Americans. Consider me as “another Joe the plumber”.
I’m tired of watching and/or experiencing chastise of my own right while the liberal media and friends take not only a healthy part of their own rights, but mine as well. When will we as equal citizens stand up and scream to the top of our lungs that we matter as much. I understand that our moral standards are most important. That we not stoop to the lows of our adversary but, I believe the times have change so abruptly, we have no choice but to fight with the will and power equal to or greater than our adversary.

Keep in mind, the liberal has little if any remorse when destroying another human being if it benefits their means or intentions, what ever those means or intentions may be. ( See cancer cells again).

When a liberal (knowingly and deliberately) inflicts a scandalous accusation, consider it a restraint that keeps us busy on the defense while their political party builds a strong offense even though usually based on half truths and false utopia. The liberal media ,knowingly or not, to get the $tory, will continue to convey the myth and stir the scandal. The media philosophically sticks a cigarette in a lung cancer patients mouth or even more, will blow the cigarette smoke to our gasping breath as we inhale. We breath it in because we need the air.

We must change how we breath in the garbage fed to us. Just as we are in search of the cure for many strains of cancer, our need to breath in clean moral air is essential to our survival as conservatives.

Jul 6, 2009 - 9:29 pm 152. Whitey:

140. stupid long monkey name:

Yes I’m stupid. Because I recognize that claiming foreign policy expertise because of my geography is ridiculous.

It’s an attempt to fluff her resume. A wild attempt. Hey, we’ve all done that, and I don’t necessarily hold that against a person. It’s natural to want to build up your credentials. But this logic takes a huge leap and nobody bought it. That’s why she was publicly mocked for saying it. If it wasn’t such a ridiculous thing to say, it wouldn’t have been mentioned. OK, a gaffe. Everyone has them, Obama and Biden too. But then she had a second chance to clear it up and instead saying something rational, she goes on about how she has to be the one there when Russians start invading our airspace. Who she fooling? you apparently.

so yeah, I’m the stupid one. I’m sure you’ll tell me how stupid I am again, and please, whatever you do, don’t argue any points made. Always attack the person saying it, perhaps you could come up with some colorful names to call me.

Jul 6, 2009 - 9:34 pm 153. Dero:

If you can’t get Fred freakin Barnes to agree with your political move, then you have to hang it up as a GOP politician. I mean let’s get serious, this article could have went on for 100 pages filled with more quotes on the idiocy of Palin’s move. When you cause EVERYONE to stop and say “huh?” you’re not being unconventional, you’re being crazy.

Jul 6, 2009 - 9:39 pm 154. Aeschines:

It might help if you spelled out exactly what Palin did that can compare to kicking the crap out of the Aequi.

Jul 6, 2009 - 9:56 pm 155. BigDana:

Mr. Kimball, you may have hit the nail on the head. Or not.

One way or another, Sarah is doing what she thinks is best — for herself and her family, and for the state of Alaska. I find her arguments for shunning lame-duckhood convincing. I (and my wife) like her very much and support her decisions. She’s smarter than anybody who makes his or her living reporting the news (and thinks he or she is thereby qualified to comment on it). And I think she’s at least one step ahead of most, if not all, of the pundits.

She will be very interesting to watch, even if she “goes underground” for a time. Anybody who counts her out at this point is foolish, in my estimation.

Jul 6, 2009 - 10:08 pm 156. Nine-of-Diamonds:

So…Let’s take a hypothetical situation, mkay?

Let’s say Pat J is lyin’ through his teeth and apologizin’ for his beloved Negro-Jeebus’s incompetence.

Oh, wait..

Jul 6, 2009 - 10:10 pm 157. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:

Wow. The perfume salesmen are out in full force.

Zero sales as usual.

“Eco-communislam” is a tough sell around here.

You could try selling Zizzer-Zoof Seeds.

But, alas, nobody wants them, because nobody needs them.

Kinda like your perfume.

Jul 6, 2009 - 10:24 pm 158. tommyd:

The posters from the left are hysterically funny.
I do not usually watch any of the TV pundits but did tonight out of curiosity and the left is going absolutely ballistic over Palin.
If she is who the left claim she is then why in the hell are they so concerned about her? Face the facts they are totally freaking out over her. They have lost it.

Their own messiah is selling them down the river and they know it so now they are in the early stages of denial and hysterically grabbing at any straw in a attempt to maintain that warm fuzzy feeling of yesteryear when the Messiah could wave his hand and young virgins in the crown would faint on cue..
The Obama administration is piling up the debt at record pace and working folks are beginning to see the makings of the train wreck ahead. His policies are going to fail and his lemmings are beginning to see the writing on the wall. They just don’t know what to do about it yet so they are just sitting there sucking their thumbs bobbing their heads up & down making faint whimpering sounds..

You can bet that there are discussions taking place among some political staff’s of the left on how to minimize the fallout should things really turn bad.

I really hate to break the bad news to them but Palin does not play by their little blue blood rule book. The pundit’s from both side of the table are missing that very important fact. (not all but many)
Go ahead let the names fly, call her whatever makes you feel secure in your small mind.. we are coming for you sooner than you think…
Just Ask one of the estimated 35,000 people that attended the Dallas Tea Party….

Jul 6, 2009 - 10:43 pm 159. stuart Williamson:

Palin thought process 101

I am not doing the job I’m being paid to do because I’m being mercilessly targeted by false ethical charges, and they aren’t going to let up. My Lieutenant is honest, trustworthy,and fully capable. Anybody who knows me, knows that I’ve never tun away from anything in my entire life.Au contraire.

I am totally disgusted and fed p with the GOP. They stabbed me in the back in Alaska, they stabbed me in the back during the ‘o8 campaign, they continue to malign me. Moreover, the RNC are completely elistist, clueless, disfunctional and will blow their chances every time.

I had enough time seeing the dirty underside of “high level” power politics during my campaign, and have absolutely no desire for national political office What a lousy life, and shat a lousy place!

I’ve seen with my own eyes that there are millions of good Americans, believing in the same high principles that I hold, who are completely fed up with party politics and big city politics, who respond enthusiasticaly to my speeches. The Tea Party is a nascent force. They are looking for a leader to rally around.

I know, and have been approached by, powerful people on the conservative side, who believe in me and whom I can count on to build a dependable cadre. I’ve got a good eye for phonies: I’ve had to deal with so many of them.

I am not given to self-deception. I know I have the courage and determination. I am not called Baracuda for nothing.I know I can keep cool under pressure and can debate against the best of them, or their MSM lackeys. They have proven that they are afraid of me.

I am redy to lead the huge segment of the electorate that loves America, and prepared to defeat any efforts to turn or nation into a Socialist banana Republic.

And when we’ve deprived them of control of the Congress, and shaken up the RNC from top to bottom, then I can just write books, give lectures, be a TV analyst, like Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich and Mark Steyn. I can live very comfortably here in Wasilla, and go on an occasional moose hunt, or help somebody else get elected.

Go, Barackuda!

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:40 pm 160. Linda Mae:

Just spent an hour on the Alaska state web site downloading news articles about Palin’s ethics challenges. In each one, some one mentions the cost of money and time stolen from the citizens of Alaska and the personal cost to Palin. She is not as rich as other governors. She gave up her raise this year. The challenges are just plain ridiculous. She – and the state of Alaska – are being harasses by Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals #4: make someone walk their talk. Palin has made her name from the ethics reforms she brought forth in the state so she is being harassed with phony ethics violations. Once filed, they are supposed to be private until resolved. The bloggers who file them – paid for by DNC – then make them public contrary to the law. I can see the concern of Palin and those who have to deal with the charges – 15 silly ones so far – with more on the horizon. If only the State could sue those bloggers who file them but they can’t. Ironically, Palin runs a transparent government. Unlike someone we know.

Jul 6, 2009 - 11:45 pm 161. Moogie:

#138 Banned by Huffblo (hehe) – Thanks!

You liberals are so short sighted it’s a miracle you can even see to tie your own shoes.

1. Sarah quit to save the Alaskans wasteful spending on a “lame duck” governor. If you don’t know what that means, look it up.

2. Sarah quit to save Alaskans the outrageous cost of the libtarded ethics allegations (ALL dismissed and unfounded – gee… can you say “ACORN?”).

3. Sarah quit because those very same libtarded ethics allegations were consuming all of her time, making it impossible for her to do the work as governor.

4. Mostly, Sarah quit to protect her family – not herself. Any “whining” she did was justified, given the extreme prejudice shown against her by the MSM. How many of you liberals would like to see a picture of YOUR developmentally disabled son graphically and grossly photoshopped? No? Then shut up.

5. The next time the flunkies in the MSM go after someone, I hope it’s one of you guys.

Jul 7, 2009 - 12:01 am 162. Caestal:

Hey, Pat J, way to set the straw man up and knock it back down again…

Jul 7, 2009 - 12:58 am 163. william:

It’s time for a war against the media and it’s insidious onslaught on American families and common workers that make the country work. Sarah represents this. Thank you for a sensible piece!

Jul 7, 2009 - 6:54 am 164. acj:

Hey, I remember when democrats were scrutinized, crucified and never heard the end of scandal, dragged, burned, boiled, hung by the neck, beaten to a pulp….and for what.. a private life blunder. It has nothing to do with the performance of public service.
Both sides, both parties must face public bon fires every time they fart. It is totally unfair.
America must get off of its puritanical, too high of a standard for public servants. We are scaring potentially great leaders because of this moral standard.

Jul 7, 2009 - 7:20 am 165. sheesh:

I am not a crook . . . uh, quitter. I am not a quitter.

Jul 7, 2009 - 7:42 am 166. John:

Er….I’m not baffled. She’s clueless as a fifteen year old can discern. The commentariat indulges in the fiction that she’s anything else for three reasons 1) they don’t want to appear sexist/elitist. 2) she has a large but distinctly minority following rather like Judge Judy. 3) Maintaining the charade sells newspapers/airtime……. The fact that it’s all fatal to the electoral prospects of the GOP is purely peripheral. Until we disconnect the Republican party from the media industry which is commercially mining it, were sunk.

Jul 7, 2009 - 8:46 am 167. tompain:

Yes, what you see is what you get. And what we see is a ditzy, incoherent, moron.

Jul 7, 2009 - 8:54 am 168. Drew:

I remember when Bill Clinton quit because of Whitewater allegations, theories on how he or Hillary killed Vince Foster, how his wife was a lesbian, troopergate, travelgate, His young daughter getting insulted by the likes of Rush and John McCain, etc., etc.
Oh wait.
Sarah Palin was a political lightweight and a pretty face. She can’t articulate whatever political beliefs she may have. She was popular early on as Governor because she increased the amount that each Alaskan receives from their Oil Royalties (yet she decries “Socialism”) by increasing taxes on oil companies (she doesn’t like taxes either, right?). Her state receives more federal money than it brings in (you know like those welfare states she doesn’t like). She gave her “famous” speech at the RNC using a teleprompter (you guys forget that little fact when accusing the President of using one)and got you losers all giddy cause all she did was attack, attack, attack. Of course, her negatives began to skyrocket and she ended up less popular than the 3 men on the two tickets. The supposedly biased MSM says of her she represents the “real America”. Meanwhile here on Earth, 80% of the US lives in or near an urban area and is increasingly made up of a diverse and heterogeneous population.
So please, keep elevating the now unemployed quitter Sarah Palin onto a pedestal. The more America sees of her, the less they like.
But you guys are here at Pajamas Media, the media of the FUTURE so I don’t expect you to agree with me. Good luck with that going Galt thing. It of course is just another form of quitting you know.

Jul 7, 2009 - 8:57 am 169. tompain:

So if lame ducks should resign, then at what point should George W have turned the reins over to Cheney?

So much more gets done by unelected inheritors of the executive office than by lame ducks, right? Gerald Ford and David Patterson were wildly successful, weren’t they?

Jul 7, 2009 - 8:59 am 170. PJ:

Ethics schmethicks.

Let’s face it, this woman is simply NOT INTELLIGENT and cannot communicate coherently. She will never hold public office again. She is a farce and she is now washed up.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:02 am 171. Gaffe Prices:

#125 jharpie:

How do you feel about the president teabagging the saudi slaver who enslaves 0’s east african ancestors? That’s quite a video as obama obediently grovels into position.

Now he’s off teabagging the russian despot who won’t even look him in the eye as he deigns to shake his hand.

I didn’t know what such an exprssion referred to until David Schuster brought it into the political discourse; but I’m sure he’s proud because no one does it like a democrat.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:05 am 172. Laertes:

Cincinnatus retired to private life, but first he finished the job he sought.

The lady is a flake. As soon as the AK job got tough, she did a runner. Why should I take this person seriously?

At 161, Moogie argues that she quit because she was a “lame duck.” Were she to become president and win re-election, she’d be a lame duck immediately after election day. Shall we expect her to resign the Presidency in November of 2016 should she win in 2012 and 2016?

Moogie also argues that she quit because of ethics investigations. Every administration is eventually beset by these. Should we expect President Palin to resign the instant some congressional committee drops a subpoena on one of her staffers?

Moogie doesn’t do Ms. Palin any favours by pointing out that she was so inept at managing her time that she was unable to carry out her duties as a governor.

And finally, Moogie suggests that she quit to protect her family. Presumably a President Palin will also have a family. Shall we expect her to resign to “protect” them? Whatever slings and arrows she’s suffering now, they’re as nothing to what any president has to endure.

Nice lady. I wish her a long and successful career as a pundit and Republican fundraiser. She’s not well-suited to any kind of public office, but that doesn’t mean she’s got nothing to contribute. Here’s hoping she’s done reaching for jobs for which she isn’t intellectually or temperamentally qualified.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:28 am 173. Mike in Wisconsin:

Kat in Indiana admonishes detractors of Sarah Palin to read
David McCullough’s
“John Adams” claiming that “was a small-town lawyer and farmer, for heaven’s sake. A rube. A bumpkin. Not educated at the “proper” schools.” Apparently Kat failed to read the book herself. Adams went to Harvard and became a well-respected lawyer in Boston. Unlike Ms. Palin, Adams had a masterful command of the English language. Sarah Palin is no John Adams.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:34 am 174. Pat J:

161. Moogie:
—————

So you’re saying Palin quit in order “to spend more time with her family.” I’ve heard that one before.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:35 am 175. swok:

The reason Sarah quit was she realized the secret that Trig is not her baby cannot be kept forever if she is a public official.

People are allowed to keep these secrets as private citizens, but to lie like that on the public stage is not acceptable.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:40 am 176. ShortsandPants - If You Are Going to Write a Pseudo-Intellectual Selt-Important Rant— You Must Use Spell Check:

[...] genius Roger Kimball wrote something fancy today for our Pajamas Media friends. He says that Sarah Palin is JUST LIKE [...]

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:41 am 177. Gaffe Prices:

as a matter of fact, I had no awareness that the noun tea bag had been converted to a verb, nor heard it used in political banter until David Schuster and Anderson Cooper expanded the lexicon.

But hey, when the president is teabagging the saudi slaver of his african ancestors, you must be accurate in your government run *news* agency reporting.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:47 am 178. sarah:

“How many times did the effete liberal British media bury Margaret Thatcher? All she did was ignore them and transform her country.”

Oh good Lord. I was there for that “transformation.” Unfortunately, I was in the vast swathe of the country that Thatcher destroyed in order to create a carbon copy of Reagan’s America in London. I got out as soon as I could and moved to Canada. Now the Brits are paying the price for Maggie’s ‘transformation’ with a crashed economy – just as here – that’s a direct result of her deregulation and the glorification of greed. But what I will say for Thatcher is that she was smart and knew the issues. The only similarities between her and Palin are vaginas and a right-wing ideology.

Why are you people putting Palin on a pedestal? It seems that the less educated she is, the dumber her comments, the more some people love her. She literally can never lose your support because there’s nothing that you can’t justify.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:51 am 179. Whitey:

177.Gaffe Prices:

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123063/2111846/2116263/050426_BUSH-ABDULLAH_ex.jpg

Oh, how sweet, they’re holding hands.

Jul 7, 2009 - 10:29 am 180. Another Chuck:

Cincinnatus? Or Coriolanus?

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o’ the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you…. ” (Act III, scene 3)

Jul 7, 2009 - 10:52 am 181. Michael:

The more I hear the squealing from the left about Palin (and the weakness of it) the more I believe she is the one to lead conservatives back.

I realize now why the left fears her so much. They are the purveyors of personality politics. They see in Sarah Palin one who has the potential to stomp any figure from the left at their own game.

This fear requires the deployment of their primary weapon, personal assassination. They claim she is stupid. They ignore the fact that for any miscues she makes 5 can be pulled out about Obama and Biden.

They call her frightened but none of them would come out from under their own beds if they and their families were treated in the same manner.

They say she is faithless to her duties yet Obama spent his two years in Congress campaigning and not doing the job he was elected to. Who is faithless, the one who leaves the office to a competent replacement or the one who ignores his duties and leaves that office vacant for all practical purposes for personal gain?

Jul 7, 2009 - 11:11 am 182. Loewe:

I’m sorry that she stepped down. She was such wonderful POISON for my enemy, the GOP of our days.

But some posters here believe she will come back. So I can have hope? I crave for more Couric-interview performances. And Africa IS one single nation indeed, and, by the way, people speak Africanese there.

Palin has made it clear that in office she is not willing to work and learn and govern — but RULE and give a show and be the STAR.

Wonderful. THAT is what the USA needs nowadays. A KING or a QUEEN.

So, all together now: “Palin, come back!”

Jul 7, 2009 - 11:12 am 183. stuart Williamson:

Strange. The people of Alaska didn’t notice how astoundingly stupid she is, and totally incompetent at governing. until the disciples of an affirmative action Harvard graduate community organizer, who won’t let anybody see his great college scores and Annenberg Challenge management results, pointed it out to them.

This whole thread has been a good demonstration of how the great alinskyite thinkers pile on when any pro-Palin posting gets traction, mindless true believers roboticly following the “Rules”: Ridicule. pile it on, endlessly. Pay no attention to truth. Always hit below the belt.

Brave Brown Shirts in the service of the Supreme Socialist Brown-noser.

Jul 7, 2009 - 12:25 pm 184. Lee D:

Are you seriously suggesting that Palin’s countrymen will come to her in their hour of crisis as she’s tending the fields with her plow and ask her to be their praetorian?

I didn’t even need to pick up my copy of Livy to play along. But come on, as previously pointed out, Cincinnatus was already a decorated leader.

Jul 7, 2009 - 12:37 pm 185. The Rabbit Hutch:

#24 gary-”After eight years of George W. Bush and last year’s nomination of Sarah Palin, the question must now be asked whether the Republican Party in its current form has become a clear and present danger to the security of the United States and to the future of the American Republic.”

Gary,on the contrary, the clear and present danger to US security is most definitely the gangster, low life tactics of the Democratic party. It is no longer the party of my father or grandfather. The Dems no longer look out for the “little people”. Now they look for ways to use the little people to stay in power. Two key words in politics: Power and Money.

I am not giving the Republicans a pass though. I do not like their elitist attitudes largely derived from the fact that Republican politicians live in their own little world and rarely mix with we common people. The same could be said for the Dems. I would like to see a complete turnover in our “career” politicians…make them live under the same laws they pass.

Unless more people begin to let their politicians know their concerns, we are going to be in a sorry state of affairs and may not be able to turn things around.

Jul 7, 2009 - 12:58 pm 186. The Rabbit Hutch:

#60 Susie!

Way to go, Susie!!!! I agree, I agree, I agree!

Jul 7, 2009 - 1:15 pm 187. shau-jan:

jharp.”So I guess it was dismal failure, the sequel.”

no,and what’s with the second rate trolling,moychick?you should try to have at least one of the following characteristics when attempting to represent the oppositional point of view at PJM:

1)know what your talking about

2)cleverness

3)be completely insane

it is necessary to keep things interesting….1 is possibe,but it would take along time…2 is never going to happen,in your particular case.3 would be the one to aim for,if i were you.

179. i would attempt to explain to you the differences between bowing and holding hands in that culture,but i am just going to assume at this point that facts do not matter to you.

PS palin is going to take a wrecking ball to your party,or the GOP.either way it will be hilarious.

Jul 7, 2009 - 1:17 pm 188. acj:

I am under the impression that she is done.

Jul 7, 2009 - 1:26 pm 189. The Rabbit Hutch:

#178 So you were in Britain for the “transformation”. Are you speaking from a liberal or a conservative standpoint? I ask because it makes a difference in how you view Margaret Thatcher’s efforts. I don’t claim to be a Thatcher expert…just trying to understand your viewpoint.

Jul 7, 2009 - 1:27 pm 190. pup137:

1) thank you for the remembrance of Cincinnatus. I grew up in the vicinity and have many good memories of the place.

2) Thank you for the intelligent commentary.

3) SarahP remanins the most dangerous woman in America. A woman who uses choice to cut through the detritus of life to find core. A woman who believes in both family and career is able to see the value of both. A woman who is intelligent and conservative. A woman with a white collar background who wears boots, fishes and is married to a blue collar worker who is a union member. A number of factions are uneasy because they dont know what she is about and can’t understand how she could do such a – in their view – stupid irrational thing. I read her statement. I wouldn’t change a word in it. It certainly seemed organized and logical to me – just not conventual wisdom. And that is real change from what has gone on in this country for far too long.

Jul 7, 2009 - 2:09 pm 191. pup137:

The message says “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” Is moderation allowed on the Internet? What kind of subversive site is this?

Jul 7, 2009 - 2:11 pm 192. Skeptic:

I don’t disagree Palin was digustingly attacked, but I doubt that’s the reason she quit. Anybody running for president should be ready for THAT.

Jul 7, 2009 - 2:21 pm 193. Skeptic:

>>>>>>>No, they just hold her to a different standard. Sarah Palin should be able to take all the ad hominem trashing the media wants to throw at her or else she’s a “lightweight” who “can’t take it.”

Why, yes, actually.

It’s unfair and disgusting on the media’s part, and you and I wouldn’t have to do it. But someone who wants to be president of the USA should. If you can’t handle that, how can you handle the Russians, or Chinese, or Islamists?

Remember Reagan? He didn’t let the media get to him, despite, for a long time, being just about the most hated politician in the USA — whether before or during his time in office. Yet despite that, indeed partially because of that, he became one of the toughest, and best, presidents the USA ever had.

Jul 7, 2009 - 2:28 pm 194. Skeptic:

To clarify — I meant Reagan was “the most hated politician” by the media, not by the people.

Jul 7, 2009 - 2:29 pm 195. Whitey:

187. shau-jan:

Perhaps GW should have informed the saudi king what two grown men holding hands means in our culture.

Jul 7, 2009 - 3:10 pm 196. ThumperNM:

stuart Williamson: Says

Strange. The people of Alaska didn’t notice how astoundingly stupid she is, and totally incompetent at governing. until the disciples of an affirmative action Harvard graduate community organizer, who won’t let anybody see his great college scores and Annenberg Challenge management results, pointed it out to them.

This whole thread has been a good demonstration of how the great alinskyite thinkers pile on when any pro-Palin posting gets traction, mindless true believers roboticly following the “Rules”: Ridicule. pile it on, endlessly. Pay no attention to truth. Always hit below the belt.

Brave Brown Shirts in the service of the Supreme Socialist Brown-noser.

What a repugnant post vieled in racism. The Presidents undergraduate grades are indeed unknown, however:

Law school was another story for Obama. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (the second highest honor available) in 1991. He also was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, a very prestigious honor.

In the end you are merely a sad racist.

Jul 7, 2009 - 3:14 pm 197. sheesh:

Sarah Palin, a modern Cincinnatus? As chance would have it, I had the chance to have it answered, the question that is. Yep, I was up there today while she was countin’ all those dead fish out on the lake with the first dude.

So I says to her, “Sarah, first things first, you got a helluva an ass on you.” She was nice enough about it, even gave me a little wink when Toddster wasn’t looking.

Then I says to her I say, “No Sarah, are you a modern Cincinnatus?” and she starts to laugh and says to me, “Oh, sheesh, that’s a good one. If you know anything about me, you know that I love Ohio. Real people, real AMERICAN people, with good small town values there, even in the big cities like Cincinnatus. So if you want to call me that, well I’ll take that proudly, as I’m sure all the soldiers do too who are from there.”

What’s not to love?

Jul 7, 2009 - 7:15 pm 198. jharp:

171. Gaffe Prices:

#125 jharpie:

“How do you feel about the president teabagging the saudi slaver who enslaves 0’s east african ancestors? That’s quite a video as obama obediently grovels into position.”

I think you don’t understand teabagging.

And if what you are getting at is Obama’s greeting of the “saudi slaver” as you call it. Not a big deal at all.

As a matter of fact you could easily call George Bush’s hand holding and kissing of the “saudi slaver” worse.

But no big deal either way.

Jul 7, 2009 - 8:25 pm 199. pup137:

#192 are you saying that being a public figure, either in or aspiring to elected office, must be assumed to be a “bloodsport”? a kind of Iroquois validation ceremony?

how disgusting, how horrible if that be true! if we have sunk that low, we have lost an understanding of civilization.

if we continue to image war as the model of how we are a people, we will lose the sense of democracy as an organizing principle.

Jul 7, 2009 - 9:00 pm 200. Linda Mae:

From the Wall Street Journal:
“Since the 2008 campaign, some 150 FOIA requests have been filed & her office has been targeted for investigation by everyone from the FBI to the Alaska legislature. Most have centered on her use of government resources, & to date have turned up little save for a few state trips that she agreed to reimburse the state for because her children had accompanied her. In the process, she accumulated $500,000 in legal fees in just the last nine months, & knew the bill would grow larger in the future.”

Add to this the 15 idiotic ethics violation charges – costing Alaska @ $2 million in time and effort to answer these charges. Visit the Alaska state web site to review the articles about the charges. My favorite was that she left the state to attend a fund raiser for children with special needs. Or that she wore a jacket with a logo on it. The bloggers who make these charges then break the law by making them public on their sites. They are part of the DNC. The cost to the state has risen – and another charge was just filed. #16. Palin is being smeared by Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals #4: make them walk their talk. She came out as a champion for ethics reform and so that is how they attack her. Rule #5: Ridicule the person in order to neutralize the message is also a tool used to discredit her. She just terrifies the left. George Soros spent millions of his own money – his claim – to discredit Bush because Bush was too proud to be an American and Soros wants us to go to a One World Order with one government and one money system – not the dollar – and led by the UN and IMF. I was amazed today to hear the Pope ask for the same thing. We thought we were just sliding into Socialism here in the states but it seems we are being erased as a nation. I feel as if I am in a sci fi movie with crazies who want to take over the world – or a James Bond movie – and then realize – it’s really happening. How do we stop it? Will Islam become the one world religion? The Pope calls for distribution of wealth. Where did we hear that before?

Jul 7, 2009 - 10:26 pm 201. Oldguy:

” You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” Does anyone remember this statement and what happened afterwords?

Jul 8, 2009 - 8:31 am 202. acj:

She is the Miss America beauty contestant that thinks Africa is a country. Most men want to sleep with her, but not let her run the country.

Jul 8, 2009 - 8:42 am 203. Cybergeezer:

Just because she has the ability to run the U.S.A. doesn’t mean she would make a good bed mate! You need to get a life, bro!

Jul 8, 2009 - 3:50 pm 204. Caestal:

Hey, sheesh, good troll. It’s great we have you here to uphold those great feminist values…

“What a repugnant post vieled in racism” I guess you are talking about the “brown shirt” thing? Erm, that isn’t a description of his skin, it is a historical reference. Thanks for playing, though.
“It’s unfair and disgusting on the media’s part, and you and I wouldn’t have to do it. But someone who wants to be president of the USA should.” I am thinking that she would have stood up to that, but the continuous legal harrassment by folks who have nothing to do but file frivolous lawsuits prevented her from doing her job. While I am sure some folks feel that it would have been the right thing to do to just keep her head down and collect her paycheck until she was bankrupt and the State of Alaska was out a few million dollars, I don’t see it that way. What the media and various commentators (read as folks who would rather comment on someone else’s job than doing it themselves) did was reprehensible; what the folks — real and imaginary — that filed those lawsuits did was literally criminal, and they ought to be prosecuted.

Jul 9, 2009 - 3:12 am 205. sheesh:

204 Caestal . . . Toughen up you cheeseball. You’re winmpier than Palin.

Jul 9, 2009 - 7:24 pm 206. Marc Malone:

Cincinnatus stepped down after only 18 days of his six months and went back to his farm. What a quitter!

Stepping down was the best thing Palin could do for AK, because she had done what she had primarily come to do, and her Lt. Gov. could take it from here. What’s the problem? She now has bigger fish to fry.

Jul 10, 2009 - 2:24 am 207. Caestal:

“204 Caestal . . . Toughen up you cheeseball. You’re winmpier than Palin.”
I am being consistent in expressing my values. Can you say the same? Oh, I guess if your values include things like “feminism only applies to Democrats” or “anything is okay, as long as it puts down someone I don’t like, then I guess it is.
Of course, your obvious purpose here is to troll, though I still can’t decide whether you are a legitimate troll (if there is such a thing) or a sock puppet of some conservative who wants to make all liberals look like their preconceived notion of one.

Jul 11, 2009 - 12:58 am 208. The White Peril 白禍 » Blog Archive » Over and over:

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Jul 11, 2009 - 11:52 am 209. acj:

Palin makes a really poor feminist. Freedom of choice marks one of the first empowerments that a woman has and can make about her own body. Sarah Palin is against freedom of choice. Unwanted children (not as lucky as her own or he daughter) and unwed mothers are destined to go on welfare. Republicans detest welfare-DOH!

Jul 17, 2009 - 8:39 am 210. pup137:

#206 I work in IT and have for 48 yrs. If they give me 6 mos to kick butt and I do it in 18 da, I might get a medal or maybe just more work. (btw I did get an award for a project sized at 6 mos – no specs – just do reverse engineering. take terabytes of data off obsolete optical disks and put to magnetic media. took me 18 mos and then they gave me an award – but no money – for just doing it when noone else would touch it in the first place.)

Ms P reminds me of a guy I worked w/in Pgh. looked a lot like gabby hayes. says he took part of his pay and put it in an FU fund in case he wanted just go away for awhile. everyone I kno wants to have the freedom to tell the world to take a flying leap. few have the ability (read cash) and the guts (huevos) to do so.

wish i had married a woman like Ms P – i might not have lived to tell about it but it would have been worth the ride. no dealing w/self-image problems and whining. but if i can’t deal w/whining, why am i on the i-net?

Jul 29, 2009 - 7:45 pm

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