Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska
So, Sarah Palin, as planned, is no longer a public official. She went out with a few fireworks yesterday:
And first, some straight talk for some, just some in the media because another right protected for all of us is freedom of the press, and you all have such important jobs reporting facts and informing the electorate, and exerting power to influence. You represent what could and should be a respected honest profession that could and should be the cornerstone of our democracy. Democracy depends on you, and that is why, that's why our troops are willing to die for you. So, how 'bout in honor of the American soldier, ya quite makin' things up. And don't underestimate the wisdom of the people, and one other thing for the media, our new governor has a very nice family too, so leave his kids alone.
I went on ABC's “Top Line” this afternoon to discuss Palin's departure. She may be leaving office, but she's certainly not ceding the microphone. I'd bet a pretty penny that we'll be seeing a lot of Palin in the months to come as she tours the lower 48.
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I can't watch video (which is a shame) so I can't comment on it. But I don't think I've been shy in expressing that I don't think that being the 'go-to' person on the subject of Sarah Palin is much of a badge of honor.
Not to say that it can't be career enhancing...( a fact I also find unfortunate). As you say, this is not a topic that's going away any time soon.
Good luck in any event!
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"Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
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“…I don't think that being the 'go-to' person on the subject of Sarah Palin is much of a badge of honor.”
Jay, I just realized that Paul is right. If YOU become the media's Sarah Expert, Greta VS will be really, royally ticked off. This could ultimately lead to a TIME vs. FOX media war even worse than Olbermann vs. O'Reilly… if AMC doesn't first bring you two together for some wine, antipasto, and peacemaking. Call Ana now, please.
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The gamma flash would burn anyone exposed for 900 miles around. The fireball would probably light the sky over half the planet...
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So, how 'bout in honor of the American soldier, ya quite makin' things up.
I doubt S. Palin meant don't ever become a parrot for an Administation's rush to war (again).
But that would be a better message for the media.
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Jay, I had posted interview kudos on your Biden thread just before this one popped up, oops. Thanks for pointing out Sarah's split personality over personal / media stuff. And good to read that suspicious pkg. thingy is over with. Now you can eat lunch. Do you know what is her new twitter profile?
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JNS: Thank you for another story on Palin. I'm not one of the people who think that she has garnered too much attention. As long as Sarah is still involved in politics and keeps herself in the public eye she is a threat. She's dangerously uninformed and crazy as batsh!t to boot.
Please keep us up to date of what she's up to. Now that she's quit the governor's job she can be herself. I'm hoping she cuts loose and let's fly with all the good ideas she's kept bottled up.
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"She's dangerously uninformed and crazy as batsh!t to boot."
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Not troll. Truth.
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Since Ms. Palin's vice presidential campaign consisted almost exclusively of telling easily-verifiable whopper lies again and again even after they were long debunked, methinks Ms. Palin doth protest too much about the media "making things up."
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…but where will Sarah live next? Is this scenario possible?
From: Sarah Palin
To: Michele Bachmann
Subject: re: hey sarah, come and live with me!Hey Michelegirl,
Thanks for your sweet housesitting offer and have our families hang it out mingling while you're in DC defending real Americans, rain in government spending, and use our census to keep our population under control by such as! Those blog hers are trying to drive me out of Wasilla, well I'll show them all, I'll flee the country and go live in Minnesota where they can't get me, ha!!!!!!!! Todd and your husband and our kids will have a blast hunting fishing hockeying and riding snow machines, how neat!!! I've got recipes you'll adore and OF COURSE we'll be roomies when I'm in DC for TV talking head shows, photo oops, writing the Washington Post and fun raising for SarahPac[tm] I give you my word salad and wine at a café after work will be just the thing for you or you can grab a House colleague, I'll fetch Greta and we'll play uecker over margaretitas then put on milfy cougar outfits, hit the clubs and have a slumber party watching Chuck Norris over popcorn, have pillow fights, and brush each others hair. How sweet!!! Meg will get a hold of your staff and work out the moving and living arraignments now that I'm outta here, no one can stop us, this is so neat, love you!Sarah
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Imagine the reality show possibilities - with Palin and Bachman as roommates. Simply add Newt Gingrich as the "wacky neighbor" and you have ratings gold!
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You said, "Meg will get a hold of your staff..."
Really. Does anybody care about the vice presidential MILF anymore?
The only thing to be learned is by watching which of the gov't/corp revolving doors she goes through.
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You would think the media would get so fed up with her constant slamming of them that they would quit reporting on her. Which I am sure would really drive her b@tsh!t crazy. I remain amazed that so many still doggedly support her. Simply amazed.
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queencersei, I share your amazement that Sarah still has such a large following and political support. I'd like to think that the media is just providing her with enough rope to hang herself, but Sarah is so cunning (in a white trash hillbilly sort of way) that she'll just use all that rope to attract the B&D voters.
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But you see, cersei, the media love ratings even more than their self-esteem, and so will continue to follow the money, even if it means selling themselves to Palin.
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Jay - I usually like most of your reporting and I think you add a lot to this blog, but I don't understand why you continue with this non-story. Until she decides to run I don't care what she's doing.
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Sarah Palin has a lot of support because people genuinely like her and trust her instincts on things. I like her, and of the four people on the Dem/GOP 2008 presidential tickets, I would have rather had her as Prez. And it's not even close.
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I can understand your attraction to her. Like minds and all that.
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Not polite, but some red basers simply like her milfy looks. Others love her TP's. For all of her word salad, her points really stand out: God / Guns / salmon / red peep-toed pumps = good, Govt. / Liberal Media[tm] = bad. (I thought there was only corporate media, but I digress.) And then there's her looks.
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spob, the woman is a serial liar. Reasonable people may reasonably disagree about whether or not *all* politicians are serial liars. But it is an indisputable fact that most of them stop telling lies that are debunked, usually by declaring that they never said such a thing in the first place.
But Sarah keeps telling the same lies, even after they have been publicly disproven. That isn't just lying, that is pathological lying.
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I totally understand your support of Sarah Palin. And I don't expect you to resent her ignorance when on a daily basis you display so much of your own. You have yet to acknowledge the lies you told about the Gates charity, that your own source said was not true. If you can't read you own sources, why should you be any better at reading instincts. Palin is out for one thing and one thing only. She's about to get rich the old fashion way, con rubes out of it.
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I see what you mean spob.
Our country needs a dominatrix...
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OK I bit the bullet and watched.
I think the key phrase out of the whole thing was "all the rally's" The problem with Palin is that she's now addicted to attention. And within the confines of Republican rallies, she's going to get everything she wants and absolutely none of the feedback that suggests that the people who attend those rallies are not representative of the country at large. If she does well within the Republican primary system then she is only going to accelerate the splintering that squeezes the moderate business-friendly non-hateful wing of the party into insignificance.
Count me as one Democrat who takes no pleasure in watching that happen.
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Maybe she runs in 2012 and splinters the Huckabee vote . . . .
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Huckabee is probably the most execrable guy we have on our side. I don't think I would have voted for Obama over Huckabee, but I at least would have thought about it. -
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If you just look at her record and how she conducts herself what is there that makes anyone seriously think she could be President? Seriously. And please don't give me the tired "she's at least as experienced as Obama" line. On her own points, what makes her Commander In Chief material?
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She likely wouldn't bow to the Saudi King, for starters.
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Second, she seems to have done a pretty good job running Alaska.
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Third, she probably wouldn't have sided with a despot wannabe in Honduras.
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Fourth, she probably can throw a baseball better than Obama.
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If you just look at her record and how she conducts herself what is there that makes anyone seriously think she could be President?
I hate to put it like this, but part of her appeal is the same as Obama's appeal. She helps people with a particular ideology feel good about themselves. The fact that she does so by reinforcing their resentments is the sad part but if you think that being smart means your an 'elite' and that life would be better if everyone just thought with their 'gut' then Sarah Palin is just what the doctor ordered.
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Three of your four points were comparisons to someone else. I want to know what it is about her on HER OWN MERITS that would make a reasonable person think she could handle the Presidency of the United States. As for point two, she quit on Alaska. She can spin it however she likes, but she quit with over a year to go.
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You and I are using reason. Thanks, Aristotle. But I'm guessing Sarah simply doesn't think that way. She believes. She believes in her own vision thingy and believes she can proselytize the solemnly amused masses. Period. We can debate her and pour facts over her fancy clothes and it doesn't matter. She doesn't play by our rules; we don't play by hers. Intuition over Facts. Kinda like a religion…from which comes her base. Such as.
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@queen
I wouldn't bother. He's apparently set his priorities for leadership in Jr. High School Gym class and hasn't changed a whit since..... -
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No more MILF and cookies for spob.
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What a thoroughly obnoxious and misogynistic comment, sacred. I'm not surprised, given the source. Whatever one may think of Sarah Palin, she has accomplished a great deal. Dismissing her as a "MILF" is disgusting.
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She is a MILF.
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She did?
Oh, I forgot. She re-introduced the world to American racial hatred in the Republican party.
I don't really need to provide videos, do I. Do I? There are plenty around, spob...
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Queen, it was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. My point, of course, is that having someone who wouldn't bow to the Saudi king is pretty good, as is someone who doesn;t side with a Chavez wannabe in Honduras.
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Her own merits. Well, like I said, she seems to have done a pretty good job in Alaska. And she's tough and principled.
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Would she have been my first choice in 2008 for prez. No. But she's miles ahead of all the others, and that includes McCain.-
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You would be happier if Obama held hands with him?
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How is she tough and principled? I'm not trying to pick a fight. I just can't understand the support for her. Most of the time when I hear people trying to defend her they end up insulting this person or that. But can only define their support of her in terms of her being "real", "honest", "pretty". Intangible terms. I'm interested in knowing why someone would think she is capable of being President based on her own, tangible, merits alone.
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The fact is, queen, that she's an enthusiastic and unabashed supporter of many things that we conservatives like--that's principled That, coupled with the fact that she's been fine as an Alaska governor is enough for us. And she's tough--she fought entrenched party interests in Alaska.
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Like I said, would she have been my first choice. No. But out of Biden, Obama or McCain, I'd much rather have her. And it's not even close.
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And she wouldn't have bowed to the Saudi King. Nor would she have yukked it up with scum like Chavez. -
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IOW, she hates all the right people.
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Spob, we will just have to agree to disagree with each other. There have been too many issues with her to make me fervently believe the opposite of what you believe. It's all been written about, ad nauseam, so I won't re-hash it here.
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Oh, I didn;t expect to change your mind, queen. You wanted to know--so I tried to be honest with you about it.
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We like her, and we think she passes the threshhold for "qualified". That's really about it.
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To me, Obama's lack of qualifications were a bigger issue. I see him as a lot more arrogant, and arrogant people tend not to know what they don't know. But, in my view, a minor issue. -
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Sarah Palin is qualified, but Obama lacks qualifications? Are we talking about the Presidency or a sales clerk position at a bait and tackle shop?
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So I guess this is her first stump speech for 2012...
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gives new meaning to the term: "stump speech"
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Well I find Palin to be staggeringly arrogant. But I appreciate your honesty.
We need another Gary Busey topic. Who doesn't love Gary Busey? -
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Now that she's not an elected official anymore, why should the media cover her as she "tours the lower 48?" Why give her opinions any more coverage than say, mine?
I don't object to the coverage today. Her stepping down and what she said about it is a legitimate story. But, JNS says we're going to be hearing more from her in the weeks and months to come? Why? Lots of people have opinions that JNS doesn't write about. Palin no longer represents anyone, she hasn't announced a candidacy for public office, it's debatable whether or not she'd be a credible candidate if she did...
You're right, we'll be hearing from her. But should we be?
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Because she has crossed over from being a public official into an out right celebrity. Maybe not your or my ideal version of one, but she is a celebrity none the less. And for some reason the MSM really cares what celebrities think and report on it like it is actual news.
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