Sarah Palin-WTF?
The word most used to describe Palin’s press conference yesterday was “breathless”. She sped through her little speech like a student with too much Adderal in her system. Last night at a dinner party the theories ranged between two poles. On one side was the thought that the emails about to come out in one of the corruption lawsuits would be truly embarrassing. On the other pole is the theory that her speakers agent has told her how much money she could earn in the next 18 months if she wasn’t tied to the Alaska Governor’s mansion, and the thought of making a killing while she was still in her Andy Warhol “15 minutes” was too much for her and Todd to pass up.
Either way, despite the hopes of Bill Kristol, the whole resignation speech didn’t do her a bit of good. She just seems like one more nutty, impulsive Republican governor. Mitt Romney is enjoying his breakfast this morning.
One would hope that she won’t be running for major office again — the gov’rs office is the 2nd state post she’s resigned from.
Withregard to those 3am phone calls brought up again and again and again during the Democratic primaries, it seems like you’d at least want candidate to finish what he or she starts.
Personally, I think she’d be at home whether she takes up an hour slot at Fox or becomes a fundraiser for the GOP that takes a % cut. Either way, just preaching to the choir where she can hold on to that warm and vitriolic right wing love, while raking in the big bucks.
Whether she’s trying to outrun a scandal, cash in on her fleeting celebrity or just misses shopping at Neiman’s, it’s hard to believe “Sarah Barracuda” will land on top of the Republican ticket. But, before we completely dismiss her, we should remember how a B actor from California turned years of stump speeches for GE into a winning campaign plank. Maybe a couple of years on the GOP circuit will give her the polish and honed message she needs. That’s a troubling thought for the 4th.
For Palin to emulate Reagan while Obama’s example is so close to mind would seem a waste of time in this age of the internet. Creakey, even. But all’s fair apparently so I agree we can look forward (hah) to even more not less of the Palinhead trying to extend its influence among the choir. Still, Alaska has to be breathing a great sigh of relief.
This is her shot at a payday on the rubber chicken circuit with a TV show as one end game. This is about the pursuit both of cash and her ceaseless desire for the spotlight. She can get a tv slot right after Huckabee and they can re-brand He Haw.
A supposed presidential “contender” doesn’t do an unscheduled rushed speed-talking gasping discombobulated rambling resignation on a late-Friday news dump holiday weekend unless she has to. And none of the reasons she would have to do so are good. So much for the possible talk show, brilliant political move, etc. theories.
I couldn’t get a handle on it at first and then I realized she sounded panicked. I suspect it’s sorta like the other presidential contender from S.C. “How could it have all gone so bad so quick? Why just yesterday they were kissing my butt.”
I smell indictments.
We do too. She’s due for some serious legal whup ass. On a lighter note:
As the Ak muckraker had posted on her blog as a wonderful comment:
Top 10 reasons Sarah Palin might be resigning.
10: Wants to move to a larger state.
9: Unexplainable urge to have one more child and name it Qwerty.
8: Lost directions to state capital. Too embarrassed to ask for new map.
7: Supplied toxic make-up to Michael Jackson.
6: Dancing with the Stars called.
5: Ordered to return to home planet to give report.
4: Can see mountain of neglected paperwork from window.
3: Secret identity job too time consuming. Blunder Woman costume gathering dust.
2: Needs time to prep for 2012 Couric interview.
1: “Been there. Done that. Nailed it!”
Maybe she’s just tired of the crap.
…when we finally caught ol’ Stagger Lee we were all glad to see him die.
“Maybe she’s just tired of the crap”
Any President, or viable candidate, will have lots more crap up with which to put. Maybe she realized she just doesn’t have what it takes. Not much news there for most of us.
I certainly am.
After today, it no longer matters. Palin is now defunct.
I suspect that we’ll hear tomorrow that she has a gig on Fox News.
…hey Alaska – you get, and deserve first shot. Lead the way. Now’s your chance…
This is fun! Mr Taplin – sir, forgive me if I get – i dunno, kinda loose and ruff around the edges sometimes, or maybe speak out of turn – blessings and most respect to you sir…
…My favorite road sign ever in this good ol USA is on the E side of I-35 between here and Des Moines ( wherin exists a private museum with Matisse’s that’ll roll yer socks). It proudly proclaims from an Iowa cornfield, “Politicians take note – Pigs don’t vote.”
I do vote – always – I love it even though I often loose and get jury duty for my efforts.
I took the stickers for Obama/Biden off my ’95 Quest just last week and saluted most reverently to the future – God knows the last eight years were awful, oppressive and chickenshit harmful to our children.
Ah yes.. but never underestimate the independent mind of the common American citizen – I left Catholic church this morning and as I walked to my vehicle I had a great conversation with an 80 yr old female who moved under her own steam just fine thank you.
She says separation of church and state is the way the baby Jesus intends.
No sweat brothers and sisters.
Give “em hell Alaska.
With regard to some of the previous comments, I doubt that someone who made a career out exposing corruption in her own party is trying to dodge her own scandal, but I can’t rule it out.
I think my feelings about Palin are analogous to the typical Obama supporter’s. I don’t really know too much about her policies and I’m willing to overlook her faults because I just like the idea of someone like her running for office. I really enjoy the way the news media falls over itself in a rush to outdo its hypocrisy in every story about her. I hope she stays a public figure for that reason alone.
Don’t you think two and a half years as governor of Alaska is a little short of a career?
You “just like the idea of someone like her running for office.”
An inarticulate moron? A corrupt narcissist? A pro-life bible-thumping secessionist? An ignorant prima-donna?
Which part appeals to you, exactly?
“outdo its hypocrisy in every story about her”
If you just listen to what she has to say, and then quote it verbatim, you got your hypocrisy right there. On the other hand, what could possibly be hypocritical about slaughtering wildlife and being “pro life”, or preaching against socialism while using oil profits to subsidize her constituency/supporters, or using her daughters as pawns in her political game, or simply quitting the job she promised to finish while saying she’s in it for the long haul?
Oh wait, she didn’t say that last one, her actions did.
I can’t remember another time when so many national politicians were knee capped, bagged and/or bowed out almost simultaneously. Too many for simple coincidence. Why all of the blood letting? What’s over the horizon?
Huckabee made a cogent comment along the lines of it is very difficult to run a campaign when members of your own party are spending millions to redefine you.
The assaults on her look too much like the coverage of MJ. The media is eating the subjects of its stories instead of reporting. As I’ve said before, advocacy reporting is just yellow journalism justified by the profit center motive. It doesn’t say a lot about us as viewers if we accept it.
What I do is listen long enough to get the facts of the event and then turn off the commentary generated to fill the time available in a 24 x 7 cycle that obsesses over the tawdry but cannot stay focused on events of importance such as what is going on in Iran.
Len,
“What I do is listen long enough to get the facts of the event and then turn off the commentary generated to fill the time available in a 24 x 7 cycle that obsesses over the tawdry…”
I’ve done the same for years. Initial reporting typically isn’t spun to meet MSM general consumption standards.
Distraction, thy name is distraction that for any other name fame takes and gathers like snowballs for Santas and we gather like children distracted again from the Goldman Sachs, the end runs by Cheney and Bush, the growing numbers of unnevertobeemployed again.
And the Palinheads rejoice because this is their metier, their forte, the land of the non sequitur where sense is what you make of it.
rhbee,
“And the Palinheads rejoice because this is their metier, their forte, the land of the non sequitur where sense is what you make of it.”
Such is the contemporary polical arena. A champion and foil for everyone.
“I really enjoy the way the news media falls over itself in a rush to outdo its hypocrisy in every story about her.”
There’s no need to drag FOX News into this.
I don’t know if she already does it, but this blogger should be sending in copy to comedians all across the land. “Been there, …” , the whole list is perfect in its ramifications.
I am amazed by the one issue politics of the left. If drop out rates are high, it is racism at work. If drop out rates are low, it skewered test results and emphasizing the arts over the sciences. If Palin says she is reducing the distractions in her state given a witch hunt, they call her a witch.
Meanwhile, President Obama goes to Ghana, visits the slave castles and while remarking on the horrific tragedy of trafficking in human beings, reduced it to a lament of past wrongs while emphasizing that the problems of the African continent are corruption, education and the failure of governments to provide the one critical feature for successful democracy: peaceful stable transitions of parties in power. Obama noted the past but refused to rise to the bait that these injustices are the root causes of current problems in Africa and looked instead to the responsibilities of the present to change the future.
Smart guy. That was a well-prepared and thought through junket. Kudos to Obama and his staff.
We really must get past the witch hunts that empower the forces of anti-intellectualism by giving them rightful claims, we must drop the one trick pony politics of the past, and we must engage our responsibilities to determine current facts, means that work and means to support the means that work. Our rampant emotionalism may very well rob us of the historical opportunity to affect real change by pittering away a chance to build a consensus for that change based on allocation and consumption of the scarce resources not only of time and money, but willingness.
The most fatal logical flaw in politics is the ‘false consensus’, to assume brilliant minds in the majority agree by affiliation on issues to which rightful and well-meaning thinking people may object.