A Final Palin Post

"To me, one of the most interesting aspects of the story is how vehemently the Palin camp blames Barack Obama."
Interesting? That's the norm in the insane world of the far right these days - blame him for anything and everything. You don't specify what the Palinauts blame him for, but then you don't really need to.
In Palin's case, that's the norm too, but it applies to her life - it's always somebody else's fault.
Look; I know you guys are fixated on this silly, dangerous woman, but can we just drop her? I mean, you're so busy explaining how she thinks the liberals and the press and Barack Obama are trying to destroy the country in general and her in particular that you've even stopped going after your favorite targets, the Clintons. I bet they feel lonely and abandoned.

JNS: After the pile-on over your SP interview the other day, one would think it might be prudent to down play another Palinoscopy.

David Corn (link) posits that this is a blatant ploy by TIME to sell magazines (as if 2 weeks' worth of MJ 24/7 were not enough!).

If you're going to be "not entirely convinced" about the WH's non-involvement with this story, why not try for the double-reverse: Rahm, by turning Palin into a martyr, boosts her chances of defeating Romney in the GOP primaries, and insures that BHO faces the weaker candidate in 2012.

P.S. Did you get to keep the souvenir tin foil hat? Also.

I would be embarrassed to admit authorship of that piece of garbage.

WOLVERINES!!!!

"A lot of this comes from Washington, D.C. The trail is pretty direct and pretty obvious to us," says Meg Stapleton, a close Palin adviser in Alaska.

I am always curious when reporters find flacks saying things that are obviously false, whether the reporters ask the flacks if they have any proof. JNS, did you ask for substantiation for any of the statements that you dutifully quoted in the article? Did you ask them to prove that all the local ethics complaints were frivolous as they claim?

Also, I wonder if the WH wouldnt actually love to see Palin run in the primary, if for nothing else just to spend all the money of the Republican base on Neiman Marcus' clothes.

'To me, one of the most interesting aspects of the story is how vehemently the Palin camp blames Barack Obama.'

So what are YOU going to do about it? To me it sounds like the typical whining we hear over and over from the wingnuts -- playing the victim card while they're busy smearing their opponents. Are you going to pursue it or are you going to leave it as another 'He said, She said' accusation that just happens to smear the Dems and benefit Palin?

Are you following it up with investigation of your own? Are you going to commit some journalism and try to confirm or debunk the charges? Or are you just going to leave the accusation hanging out there (with a little bit of promotion from you)?

"I just hope to God Rahm Emanuel isn't using taxpayer money to come after Alaska."

Do you plan to check?

OT: but worth a read. Here's a discussion on how the government in spending money - $18 mil - to show us, the public, how it's spending money on the recovery:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1711238/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign

As Rush Limbaugh interrupted his vacation to declare, "She is going to continue to fire up people in the conservative Republican base as often as she speaks to them."
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Good thing that conservative base is small and growing smaller. Sarah Palin has already gotten far too close to the White House for comfort.

Résumés ain't what they used to be; they count only with people who trust credentials — a dwindling breed. The mathematics Ph.D.s who dreamed up economy-killing derivatives have pretty impressive résumés. The leaders of congressional committees and executive agencies have decades of experience — at wallowing in red ink, mismanaging economic bubbles and botching covert intelligence.

But would the same country that picked the lofty, cerebral liberal turn around four years later and embrace an earthy, instinctive conservative.

These are all your words, not hers. I'm a bit worried.

There's a difference between distrusting resume's (which speak much more about connections than abilities) and literally thinking that there's something noble about being stupid.

And conflating economic mismanagement with blowing the Iraq WMD question is just unaduterated hackdom.

In case your memory is short the 'botched intelligence' was almost exclusively that of the press. Anyone with even an iota of skeptecism could see that we were being sold a bill of goods and that the actual 'intelligence' was perfectly sound.

It was merely being lied about and duly misreported.

On the other hand, moderates a general election target group.

You left out the 'are' in this sentence, even though I don't believe that Palin appeals to moderates.

...it wasn't a hard leap for anyone in her orbit to connect local progressive wingnuts and the Administration.

Rouse and Elton are 'progressive wingnuts', why, exactly? Or are there some unmentioned Alaskan 'progressive wingnuts' agitating against Palin?

Anyhow, conspiracies appeal to Palin's base. Easier to think that "they're out to get our Sarah" than admit that Palin is, at best, politically inept and intellectually lacking.

I guess you guys have to feed your families like everyone else, right? Even so, it's hard to digest that this is your contribution to the greater good. I love the "fair and balanced" below:

"I'm not entirely convinced of Obama's Nixon-esque sabotage capabilities..."

Obama's policies may not always work and some will backfire, but at least our President is a dignified family man. I'm a Christian, and I know exactly which one of the two I admire.

On the other hand, moderates a general election target group.

What does this mean.

I do think Palin has felt under attack for the last eight months and it wasn't a hard leap for anyone in her orbit to connect local progressive wingnuts and the Administration.

What does this mean.

And did you think to ask Palin for an actual example of all these frivolous lawsuits being filed?

I mean, did you ask her for evidence of anything she says?

Jay, for cryin out loud. This is pathetic, worse than the interview. You think it's interesting?? that Palin blames Obama???? You think she was going to change her mind about Obama pallin around with terrorists?

The only thing interesting about it is that she's a born-again conspiracy theorist who thinks the demons are out to get her, but she's somehow conned a major news organization into taking her seriously. Facts. Where are the facts. You've disgraced yourself.

JNS, just ask "What would Cronkite and Brinkley do?" in their heyday. Palin would be gone and the political discourse would return from somewhere other than the land of the Queen of Hearts and the White Rabbit.

"Off with their heads" indeed...

Have you got an example of a "local progressive wingnut" for us? I'm afraid you're referring to the local reality based community, not to mention the vast majority of your commenters.

JNS, thanks for new story. When's her upcoming book due? What's going to happen with SarahPac? It's bemusing to notice the ONLY parallel with Obama: their fast-tracked careers. They both rose quickly and didn't “pay their dues” as per convention. But that's it, yes? He relied on intelligence, eloquent speech, and though out strategies. She relied on sheer will, word salad, and lots of sarahdipity. Unless she's really burned out, I'm still betting she's going for 2012. She has her base and still matters. But are her followers loyal to her or to the Repub.'s in the end? I hope it's to her – they'll split the R party and guarantee their loss.

Otherwise will TIME hire her as the sixth Swampland blogger? I still maintain that you, Karen, and Amy can form a lunch / euchre club or other “Sex in the City” coterie. (psst, my hint – team her with Amy for euchre and you take KT, then play for money. You'll win.) Think of the risible dialogue we'd have with her. She won't hide in a church basement; she'll engage us with a vengeance. It beats her being Commander in Chief.

"A graduate of Tufts University and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism"

ARE YOU REALLY? Wow, now I know the SATs and GREs are truly a disgraceful way to judge the ability of applicants.

JNS:
The Palin camp blames Obama?

Here, let me help you out with the getting from point A to point B on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKUovpF9LWU

If that's not enough, here's more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIxRKjcbbBY

Crunch all you want, I'll make more, JNS:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/mccainpalin-supporters-let-their-rac

Get the picture*, JNS?

*I wasn't trying to pun, but since it worked out, what the hecks, damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead!

dwilli14:
She's aiming for a plum dangling from Texas Tech tree, I think. They have pretty low hanging fruit these days, I hear...

I going to just say. The authors of that article can not be serious.

Sarah's major accomplishments since the election are that she was cleared of ethics violations by a board she has the power to fire and resigned her office while lying her way through her entire resignation speech.

Prior to that, her major accomplishment was that she read a speech off the telepromter well and crashed and burned in every of the aspect of the campaign, besides calling Obama a terrorist's best pal and almost sending her crowds into a crazed frenzy where some where filmed afterwards repeating her most wild charges about the Obama.

Meg Stapleton her most incompetent spokesperson, blames every thing on Rahm and Obama and you guys seem to just take her for her word. Was there a sentence or paragraph I missed in the story where you asked Meg for evidence of her charges?

Just for the record. A lot of people in the lower 48 had never heard of the AK bloggers until they tried their best to explain to us what

Now team Sarah Palin 7 months into the Obama administration is on par with the Obama administation because of some snap shot in time polls that show Obama losing support. While the numbers of people indentify as GOP voters are at and all time low.

Your conclusion. Obama better watch out.

Palin and her Alaska circle find evidence for their suspicions about the White House in the person of Pete Rouse, who lived in Juneau for a time before he became chief of staff to a young U.S. Senator named Barack Obama. Rouse, they note, is a friend of former Alaska state senator Kim Elton, who pushed the first ethics investigation of Palin, examining her controversial firing of the state's public-safety commissioner. Both Rouse and Elton have joined the Obama Administration.

Rouse was Senator Obama's chief of staff well before Palin was on the national scene. Rouse brought along his friend Elton to Obama's current staff. That equals a “pretty obvious” trail of “evidence” that "Obama operatives (are) wasting the Alaskan government's time and resources"?!

Can I have back my last 5 minutes please?

Jay,the following is some perspective badly missing from your piece. Courtesy of mudflats.com, hosted by one of those people Sarah Palin probably thinks of as a "progressive wingnut"

A number crunching Mudflatter sent the following:

On a hunch, I reviewed online lists of all the men and women who've been elected governor of their state since the year 1900. Pored over them for a few hours. Over 1200 politicians have taken that first-term oath of office. Some soon died in office. Many resigned to accept other positions in government, including Spiro Agnew who was “tapped” by Nixon after being the Governor of Maryland for about five minutes. On a handful of occasions, a first-termer was dragged off to the slammer or impeached. One was incapacitated by a nervous breakdown and one left just as impeachment came knocking on his door. So—how many out of over 1200 just up and quit before the end of their term?

Three: Jim McGreevy, Eliot Spitzer and Sarah Palin.

Before anyone jumps here to claim that all of us are looking for a hit piece on Sarah Palin just save your typing please.

What I am looking for is a piece that shows the country what it would be getting electing Sarah Palin to any type of national office. The evidence is there and its overwhelming.

In my view Sarah Palin does not have what it takes to buckle down and do the hard work that this country would need her to do if she were to lead it. She does have what it takes to smooze with, glad hand and if necessary discard people to get her way. But that's not leadership that is business. There is a difference.

The evidence so far suggests that Sarah is willing to bend the truth to the point of lying. And hiring and firing people based on friendship and personal slights.

A story like the one link to here gives people a false sense of who she really is.

Palin's surprise resignation has actually given her a bump amongst G.O.P. voters. She lost ground, though, with Dems and Independents
This is so stupid on so many levels. According to this vapid reading of Palin as a presidential contender, Rush Limbaugh, James Imhofe, and Michelle Bachmann are pretty solid candidates to be President simply because the deadest of the dead-enders like them.

Evidently JNS is not aware of all internet traditions. Wingnuts=conservative, Moonbats=liberal. C'mon at least get the name calling correct. But, no worries! I can see New Hampshire from my front porch.