Sarah Palin Quit!

[Poker]

starting new thread

[Gerry]

This is all conjecture at this point. I doubt four years ago that many people seriously thought Obama would be president.

Sure its conjecture - some of it. The fact that many noted and respected GOP talking heads have stated points I related as coming from them is not conjecture. It is their opinions (conjecture) based on their inside and in the loop connections. And, yes...they have been wrong before. But yesterday was a busy day on all the conjecture.

Hard to figure out some points brought up, like:

making a big newsworthy event like this and in the manner that she did

informal setting
at her Wasilla home
on a friday
on a weekend
during a major holiday
knowing all the media attention on MJ

raises concerns (suspicions) as to why she made the announcement when she made it.

So much, in fact, that the FBI has come out to state that she is not under investigation to silence and quell all the rumors. This was a very unusual step for the FBI to comment on anything it is doing - the simple fact that they made a statement.

But, even the person who is replacing Palin has suggested that the reason she is quitting is most likely due to all the ethics complaints against her and how much she is costing the state of Alaska.

At the news conference, Ms. Palin cited numerous reasons for quitting, including more than $500,000 in legal fees that she and her husband, Todd, have incurred because of 15 ethics complaints filed against her during her two and a half years as governor. She said all of the complaints had been dismissed, but she still had to pay lawyers to defend her.

“I think what I heard from the governor,” Mr. Parnell said on “Fox News Sunday,” “really had to do with the weight on her, the concern she had for the cost of all the ethics investigations and the like — the way that that weighed on her with respect to her inability to just move forward Alaska’s agenda on behalf of Alaskans in the current context of the environment. So that’s what I saw.”

Mr. Parnell, who is scheduled to take over for Ms. Palin on July 26, said it was costing the State of Alaska about $2 million just to pay for the staff to deal with the records requests from the ethics complaints.

Conjecture?

[Poker]

Your dreaming if you think she can still run for president...

she just effectively went AWOL and she proved she can't be trusted or take the heat of high office. Even if right wing cuckoos still wanted her she would be effectively bludgeoned and shot down by her opponents for this one move alone.

Judging from her character I bet she is just going to cash in by riding the wave of her hyped up fame without having to take the pressure of a high level Govt job. She has been a marketing machine since she came out of the gate, always seeking the spotlight etc...ad nauseam...

Parting message to Palin: later freak

[Focus]

yeah...what he said. And please make sure you spread em' real wide in playboy/hustler when you do the eventual centerfold and move on to a new and more fitting career for an airhead...thx

[Gerry]

yeah...what he said. And please make sure you spread em' real wide in playboy/hustler when you do the eventual centerfold and move on to a new and more fitting career for an airhead...thx

EEK! IS that your "parting" message to Palin?

[Area52]

Actually I don't worry to much about Palin or any other prospective candiate right now. What concerns me in her case is the bias from the media.
We've got enough to worry about with the kooks in the White House and Congress.

[Poker]

translation: I'm a Fox news Zombie...blah blah blah

[Focus]

I would bang Palin though..I bet she is great in bed..

[jberryhill]

The more you bash the more popular she becomes with the most powerful voting block in this country-woman.

...and with aliens living on the other side of the moon.

BD, do you actually not know that the plural of "woman" is "women"?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS...n.resignation/

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) -- No legal "bombshell" or personal scandal lies behind Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation, but off-color jokes by talk-show host David Letterman contributed to her decision to step down, Palin's attorney said Monday.

My Lord... this woman stares down Vladimir Putin rearing his head with nuclear weapons from her backyard, and she can't handle David Letterman?

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/.../5/00548.shtml

But only a few news outlets, like the Phoenix New Times in Arizona and the National Journal, that ran an Associated Press story reporting McCain's 1998 joke suggesting that Chelsea Clinton was ugly and Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton were lesbians.

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" McCain said at a GOP fund-raiser in Washington. "Because Janet Reno is her father."

[Acro]

You're not allowed to quote such liberal news sources, John. Fox or bust!

[Donald Aquilano]

...and with aliens living on the other side of the moon.

BD, do you actually not know that the plural of "woman" is "women"?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS...n.resignation/

You love to point out my mistakes don't you??? You act like this is a grammar forum. Why don't you just admit that Sara Palin gets under your skin because she is a conservative. She doesn't toe the wacko feminist line that you liberals believe in so it sets you off.

John answer me a question.....

Why even respond to this thread if Palin is nothing but a two bit politician and not a threat to the anointed one?

My Lord... this woman stares down Vladimir Putin rearing his head with nuclear weapons from her backyard, and she can't handle David Letterman?

Why should she go on Letterman's show after the nasty shit he said about her daughter? After all David Letterman is like Al franken, a second rate comedian who isn't even funny. He got his ass handed to him every night by Jay Leno.

translation: I'm a Fox news Zombie...blah blah blah

Fox gets under your skin doesn't it???

Let me guess what new station that you listen to....MSNBC

After all no one is allowed to criticize Barack Obama or his policies? The chosen one makes no mistakes.

[randomo]

You love to point out my mistakes don't you??? You act like this is a grammar forum. Why don't you just admit that Sara Palin gets under your skin because she is a conservative. She doesn't tow the wacko feminist line that you liberals believe in so it sets you off.

Sarah Palin gets under many people's skin because she is so obviously unprepared for national office. If a V.P. candidate holding opposite political views fell apart when asked simple interview questions the way she did, that person would get under my skin too.

BTW: just FYI (not as a criticism), the expression is "toe the line", not "tow the line".

[Donald Aquilano]

You're not allowed to quote such liberal news sources, John. Fox or bust!

Don't deny it you watch Fox News Acro. Hell I even watch those liberal networks like NBC,CBS,ABC and Obama headquarters(MSNBC). If for no other reason that I need to Know what the enemy is up to.

[DomainsInc]

You love to point out my mistakes don't you??? You act like this is a grammar forum. Why don't you just admit that Sara Palin gets under your skin because she is a conservative. She doesn't toe the wacko feminist line that you liberals believe in so it sets you off.

John answer me a question.....

Why even respond to this thread if Palin is nothing but a two bit politician and not a threat to the anointed one?



Why should she go on Letterman's show after the nasty shit he said about her daughter? After all David Letterman is like Al franken, a second rate comedian who isn't even funny. He got his ass handed to him every night by Jay Leno.



Fox gets under your skin doesn't it???

Let me guess what new station that you listen to....MSNBC

After all no one is allowed to criticize Barack Obama or his policies? The chosen one makes no mistakes.

If anyone is a chosen one and "tows a wacko line", it must be Palin. After all she was blessed to be protected from demons and witchcraft.

[Donald Aquilano]

Sarah Palin gets under many people's skin because she is so obviously unprepared for national office. If a V.P. candidate holding opposite political views fell apart when asked simple interview questions the way she did, that person would get under my skin too.

BTW: just FYI (not as a criticism), the expression is "toe the line", not "tow the line".

Correction made thanks. You may be right Palin might not be ready for higher office now but come 2012 it will be a different story. I would blame much of her performance as McCain's V.P. candidate on John McCain himself.

I personally think that Barack Obama was and still is unprepared for the job he currently holds.

[PRED]

well, she's not going abroad, she's gotta get a passport first

i heard she interviewed for hooters, but failed, she's working in taco bell instead

let the dirt roll

[randomo]

I personally think that Barack Obama was and still is unprepared for the job he currently holds.

I would have liked to see him get some more Senate experience before running for the top job. But he probably figured that if he didn't run this time, we'd have two terms of Hillary ... not something you would have preferred, I guess?

[Gerry]

I hardly think anyone was prepared to tackle the mess Bush left us. Including McCain.

Just imagine the mountains of intel and information not made public. Sure, the two front runners were getting daily briefings just like the president. Yet even in the days of the run up to the election, no one knew how deep some problems were.

I think saying any one person is prepared to handle this job is laughable at best. In no time in American History has anyone been faced with so many collapsing industries.

[jberryhill]

Why don't you just admit that Sara Palin gets under your skin because she is a conservative.

Are you kidding? I love that woman. I even bought the Sarah Palin calendar:

http://www.amazon.com/JudyPatrick-Ph.../dp/B001HWKAVE

Raising the sales tax in Wasilla to build a sports complex that caused years of litigation and loses money every year is not "conservative", but feel free to define words how you'd like (or spell them, including "Sarah").

There have been plenty of Republican politicians who have been women, and with whom I disagree but can certainly respect as having actual subtance - e.g. Liddy Dole, Nancy Kassebaum, Olympia Snowe, and quite a few others.

I'm devastated that by saying "Thanks, but no thanks" to her oath of office, and spitting on everyone who supported her and worked to put her into that office, Ms. Palin has diminished her chances of a repeat performance of her hilarious national candidacy.

BD, you and every other Republican you can find in your mother's basement or wherever, needs to do everything humanly possible to make sure she is the top of the ticket candidate next time around.

[Seraphim]

Sarah Palin is less equipped for the limelight than Susan Boyle. My hands actually sweat every time she's interviewed, it's like watching a blind man play basketball. As far as her resignation is concerned, I'm inclined to think she's either had a nervous breakdown, or is right on the verge of having one. God have mercy on her and her family if she somehow limps into a presidential run.