Sarah Palin Echoes Roberto Duran: NO MAS!
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Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave her final speech as Alaska’s governor Sunday before stepping down from her post, telling a Fairbanks crowd that she is resigning ‘to chart a new course to advance the state.’
‘Now people who know me, they know how much I love this state … I feel it is my duty to avoid the unproductive, typical, politics-as-usual, lame-duck session in one’s last year in office,’ Palin said, just moments before Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell was sworn in as governor.
‘With this decision, now I will be able to fight even harder for you, for what is right and for the truth,’ Palin continued. ‘And I have never felt you need a title to do that.’
Bless her whackjob heart, she remains incomprehensible to the end. She somehow made quitting her job mid-term into doing her “duty” by quitting so she wouldn’t be involved in the last year of governing. Or something. We knew all about conservatives and their disdain for actual governing (they prefer to run for office, cut taxes for the wealthy, deregulate big business then sit back and reap the profits as infrastructure crumbles) but this is a new low watermark. The Palin mark.
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Yabba Dabba Do Nothing!
You know, I never thought I’d get tired of making fun of the Alaskah Disastah, but jeesh! Enough already! Sayonarah Sarah, don’t let the ethics law hit you on the way out!
If Sean Parnell isn’t up to the job, can we expect Putin’s rearing head to seize power in America?
Conservative work ethic in action
I’m anxious to hear someone try and justify why this (her quitting) is a good way for her to support her state.
Truth is, she always knew she was a fuck up and a distraction, but it was low-profile until the vp run. Now the whole world knows and she can’t hack that kind of visibility.
Can you imagine if her and mccain were in the whitehouse now?…….yikes!!
I suspect we are in for more entertainment, since now there will be just as much pressure on her to choose some sort of direction, i.e. justify all the attention.
Okay Sarah, you got everything you wanted. A bully pulpit and none of that complicated governing stuff people want you to do all day that interrupts your stream of consciousness word salad. With Twitter your inanity can reach instantly reach 100,000 people, many of whom are paying attention for the sheer entertainment value.
Is anyone else reminded of Professor Harold Hill?
To paraphrase James Wolcott, she’s going to set the future of Alaska by not being the motherfucking governor of Alaska.
Good luck running for higher office, ever, with your opponent asking you “Why are you a quitter?”
If I came across her resume while hiring, it’d be one of the quickest to find its way to the shredder. Jesus…I mean, come on…how much can one person quit? And what a sad way to spin it. She needs to just go the fuck away.
You realize she will now be “paid” to go all over Fox and other cable shows and spout this stuff.
Just as the GOP is in permanent campaign mode, Palin is still drooling at the prospect of getting back into attack the democrats mode, and needs to clear her desk of any embarrassing encumberances like a paper trail of bad decisions, while she invents straw men and shoots them in the back from a snowmobile (while playing the flute in a designer dress).
Dang – that sentence stretched !
The resignation ceremony itself was dignified yet highly emotional.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/sarah-palin-abdicates-hands-over-regalia/
Enjoy the yuks while you can, Oliver. She’s going to take a bunch of your people out.
How’s Corzine doing?
Gov Palin – the Quitter!
In her position as Governor, she was a sitting duck for every left wing clown with a crayon and a piece of paper.
Now she has a book deal going — legal bills paid!
Speaking calendar filled for 12 months – cha – ching!
What an idiot!
She’s just dumb enough to be the next President!
Seems like “Mr Brain Trust” is looking kinds bad lately, and it sure isn’t gonna get better — he is a “driven man” and he is taking us with him…
It’s going to be awesome watching how much money and time Republicans are going to waste pretending she could be president.
Thompson 2008, I mean Palin 2012! Mwah ha ha ha.
I mean
Carter IIThe Republicans now have Twitter and FaceBook
Yes, we know. Bask in the nightmarish threat to Democrats in the form of “Chr Rangel wealthy 1pc make 27pc of total income pay 40pc of income tax U hv 5pc health care surTax How hi taxes go to satisfy u?Let’s talk.”
“She’s going to take a bunch of your people out.”
That’s a remote possibility -given Palin’s inability to stay in one place and ferret-like attention span.
Keep hitching your wagon to that Potatoe, we’ll just keep laughing.
She’s just dumb enough to be the next President!
Certainly dumb enough to be the next republican presidential candidate, a position for which intelligence is apparently a liability.
Seems like “Mr Brain Trust” is looking kinds bad lately, and it sure isn’t gonna get better
Somehow, this statement, coming from Frank, fills me with giddy optimism.
“The Republicans now have Twitter and FaceBook”
A giant leap from the deep thinkers who still reside in the steam power & homeing pigeon era. Can’t wait until they get their hands on Prodigy.
‘She’s just dumb enough to be the next President!’
Take a deep breath and just think that through.
‘The Republicans now have Twitter and FaceBook’
Which clearly makes up for the lack of a viable candidate or a platform.
In her position as Governor, she was a sitting duck for every left wing clown with a crayon and a piece of paper.
How is that different from every other elected official in the country?
Sure wish the Gubernator of Gullivornia was that vulnerable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZhT5ZNyHlM
How many anti-Palin protestors were at her speech? UM Maybe a grand total of EIGHT. That says it all for sure indeed. The turnout was better there than in Suffolk County, New York where FOUR ACORN hustlers encountered and were outmaneuvered by Tea Party members. Tea Party members went toe to toe with ACORN hooligans in St.Louis outside Senator Claire McCaskill’s office last week. Moveon.org member had to retreat when Tea Party members showed at a protest outside Senator John Cornyn’s office in Texas last week. Whenever leftwingers are stood up to in public they retreat like school yard punks in grade school.
Whenever leftwingers are stood up to in public they retreat like school yard punks in grade school.
I guess that explains why Obama is president and the Congress is in the hands of Democrats.
“ACORN hooligans?” As in, “If you don’t register to vote, I’m gonna beat the crap out of ya?”
O-dub, you gotta check the pressure seals. Fr**Repu**** seems to be leaking in over here. But Kevin, you won’t be banned, like I would if I expressed a contrary opinion over there. Your entertainment value far outweighs your stupidity.
…How many anti-Palin protestors were at her speech? UM Maybe a grand total of EIGHT. That says it all for sure indeed.
…in other words, about as many people as still give a flying freep.
Frank DiSalle: Gov Palin – the Quitter!
In her position as Governor, she was a sitting duck for every left wing clown with a crayon and a piece of paper.
Now she has a book deal going — legal bills paid!
Speaking calendar filled for 12 months – cha – ching!
What an idiot!
So your admiration is reserved for those who stay in office just long enough to get to the point where they can make a lot of money for themselves.
Thanks for clarifying what you look for in a political leader, Frank.
For someone you guys consider a joke and irrelevant, you sure spend a lot of time talking about her.
joaquin: <I.For someone you guys consider a joke and irrelevant, you sure spend a lot of time talking about her.
What can we say? A good joke bears lots of repeating.
BTW, did you hear the one about the birth certificate and the secret Muslim Manchurian candidate?
“BTW, did you hear the one about the birth certificate and the secret Muslim Manchurian candidate?”
No. Please preach on.
joaquin: No. Please preach on.
Well, let me just cut to the punch line: Some folks actually believe it!
Gods, that’s funny!
For someone you guys consider a joke and irrelevant, you sure spend a lot of time talking about her.
Well, she does keep on bringin’ teh funny. And we’re, like, totally a-scared of her. Also.
I wish I could wish for Palin to be nominated by the rump republicans in 2012. I think it would be very good for Obama’s election chances as well as for Tina Fey’s career.
But no matter how hard I try I just can’t do it. I just want the stupid to stop.
Does anyone ever mention that she keeps calling herself a “lame duck” when in fact she is only that because of HER OWN CHOICE not to run again?
I don’t consider her a joke or irrelevant. I think she SHOULD BE a joke and irrelevant, but I and a lot of people thought that about Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s. The “wiser” folks among us said that if we just ignored him instead of calling him on his bullshit, he’d dry up and blow away. Now, many of those same people are telling us that they have to treat him like a respectable, intelligent part of the national conversation because look how many listeners he has and how long he’s been at it!
So your admiration is reserved for those who stay in office just long enough to get to the point where they can make a lot of money for themselves.
Is that any worse than selecting as your candidate a man who attended what, 175 Senator Sessions, stole his Locution technique from Martin Luther King, Jr, while claiming to emulate Pres Lincoln.
He got elected by lying to huge sections of the electorate.
And I was not saying that she was quitting to make money. She left office because she was losing money every day, due to suits bought by the “morally superior” , “ethically superior” left.
She left office to give her successor a better shot at winning when his time came.
Sen Obama just jumped ship and ran for President, and he is a multimillionaire.
Apparently, that Community Organizing provides great rewards.
SDM: So your admiration is reserved for those who stay in office just long enough to get to the point where they can make a lot of money for themselves.
Frank DiSalle: Is that any worse than selecting as your candidate a man who attended what, 175 Senator Sessions, stole his Locution technique from Martin Luther King, Jr, while claiming to emulate Pres Lincoln.
See, here’s the thing, Frank. I’m not comfortable with taking a “well it’s no worst than your candidate” approach to justifying my candidate. I don’t want my side to be no worse that yours. I want mine to be BETTER. (Which, despite the debatable irrelevancies you claim as noteworthy, I believe he is.)
I think it’s very telling that you’re immediate response is both “Look, over there!” and “Well yours is bad, too!” Neither of which says much positive about your candidate or, frankly, you.
Support continues to grow for Sarah Palin For President in 2012 from conservatives across the nation who do not trust the GOP establishment. http://www.palin4pres2012.com
Frank DiSalle: She left office to give her successor a better shot at winning when his time came.
I don’t believe that’s a reason she gave for resigning when she announced her reasons for resigning. Closest would be “so that this administration [minus her, of course] … can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success.” That isn’t “so he’s got a better short at winning”.
Support continues to grow for Sarah Palin For President in 2012 from conservatives across the nation who do not trust the GOP establishment.
Oh, Pleasepleaseplease!
The reason libruls are so obsessed with her is we want to make sure she sticks around long enough to run in 2012.
I hope you get your wish. On another thread I posed a nutwing comment from another blog about how they couldn’t wait for her to debate Obama.
Me neither. This woman is not the type who can think on her feet. Or sitting down.
She left office to give her successor a better shot at winning when his time came.
Actually, it was “for the good of Alaska.” Anytime you can improve a situation by leaving it, you are not contributing much to it.
No amount of training or tutoring will make her competent. She’s a figurehead, not unlike Reagan, but at least he understood that he was an actor, that his job was to read the lines and stand in the right place. He knew that he didn’t write the script and wasn’t actually in charge. She thinks she is.
If she runs, she’s 2012′s Ron Paul, give or take a handful of electoral votes. Gets a lot of people excited, goes nowhere.
If she runs, she’s 2012’s Ron Paul,
What do you have against Ron Paul? He’s loony, but at least his looniness has internal consistency.
You realize she will now be “paid” to go all over Fox and other cable shows and spout this stuff.
Of course, wingnut welfare is one of the biggest industries in the country.
She’s just dumb enough to be the next President!
You said the exact same thing about Condi.
The Republicans now have Twitter and FaceBook
Welcome to 2007.
And I was not saying that she was quitting to make money. She left office because she was losing money every day, due to suits bought by the “morally superior” , “ethically superior” left.
What’s with the quotes? We ARE ethically and morally superior to you.
You realize she will now be “paid” to go all over Fox and other cable shows and spout this stuff.
I thought part of the reason she was leaving office was because of the “unfair” scrutiny her family faced as the first family of Alaska. She’s going to leave the spotlight by appearing on all the talking head shows and doing paid speaking engagements?
‘Whenever leftwingers are stood up to in public they retreat like school yard punks in grade school.’
Unlike Congressional GOP members who proudly ran away from a simple question; do they believe President Obama is a citizen of the US?
‘He got elected by lying to huge sections of the electorate.’
Checked the calendar lately?
BUSH IS GONE HOMEBOY.
‘Sen Obama just jumped ship and ran for President, and he is a multimillionaire…’
Didn’t bother you that Senator McCain did the same damn thing?
I’m so afraid of her.
/shiver
It’s gonna be awesome seeing her destroyed in 2012.
Sarah Palin armed with Twitter and Facebook. Looks like we’re doomed.
JR Sen Cain was a Senator for years – he has been a candidate before. He didn’t come into the Senate, and say (as Sen Obama effectively did) “No need to take my coat off – I’m not staying that long.”
And it bothers that so many Senators and Congressman are rich, whatever party they are in.
I have suggested several times in the past, in this Blog and elsewhere that all Senators and Congressman be paid the Median wage for their family size. When they have done what is necessary to raise it for everyone, then they can have a raise
I have suggested several times in the past, in this Blog and elsewhere that all Senators and Congressman be paid the Median wage for their family size.
Good luck with “how many houses” McCain on that.
Of course, McCain didn’t make that money himself. His mistress had it, and he cheated on his wife to get close to it, so I guess normal rules don’t apply.
JR Sen Cain was a Senator for years – he has been a candidate before. He didn’t come into the Senate, and say (as Sen Obama effectively did) “No need to take my coat off – I’m not staying that long.”
…and now Obama is the president, where he can do more for us than he could as a senator.
What a country!
‘JR Sen Cain was a Senator for years – he has been a candidate before. He didn’t come into the Senate, and say (as Sen Obama effectively did) “No need to take my coat off – I’m not staying that long.’
Being a Senator for years and running for President multiple times, meaning that he spent years in pursuit of the WH, entitles McCain to respect, but Obama as a first term Senator winning the Presidency deserves your contempt?
President Obama is an intelligent, well educated individual who is globally sophisticated and understands the changing role of the US both domestically and internationally, and who embodied an entirely different set of values from the Bush administration, which captured the imagination of the nation and the world, and swept him into office with a convincing majority.
NONE of which entitles him to any level of respect in your opinion?
JR Sen Cain was a Senator for years – he has been a candidate before. He didn’t come into the Senate, and say (as Sen Obama effectively did) “No need to take my coat off – I’m not staying that long.”
So what you’re saying is that people who don’t spend 50+ years in congress have nothing to offer as President? That Obama should’ve “known his place”. How elitist of you.