Nov-04-2009Obama, Palin and the off-off-year election
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CONTENTS:SOURCESFIND OUT MORE ON THIS SUBJECTThis so-called commentary is just silly. Jackson shows us nothing but the most superficial interpretation of history and it's lessons for today's political events. It is absurd to conflate Sarah Palin with people like Nixon, Reagan or even Joe Biden. All of them thought and worked long and hard to develop their ideas about America and the world, and learned how government and politics worked (or didn't) so they could play effective roles that advanced their philosophies. Sarah Palin is simply a celebrity who is famous for being thrust into the limelight by a desperate John McCain, who was willing to throw the country under his campaign bus in a long-shot bid to shake things up and win the election. Sarah Palin couldn't even finish a term as governor of Alaska - as soon as the thrill of novelty wore off, and as soon as the state budget couldn't rely on royalties from skyrocketing oil prices, she "cut and run." Now she's trying to cash in with her ghost-written book and speaking fees. Even Britney Spears seems to have done more to work through her problems and stage a legitimate comeback. If this is the Washington Post's idea of a "great pundit," I might as well read the National Enquirer for "news."
[1] Despite her image as a polarizing figure and her penchant to provoke fervent support or intense hatred, the real Sarah Palin is a "complicated person" who isn't as dumb as her opponents say or as transcendent as her supporters believe, according to a new book. "Sarah From Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar" was authored by CBS News reporter Scott Conroy and former Fox News producer Shushannah Walshe, who covered Palin on the vice presidential campaign trail last year. The book was released Tuesday -- almost one year after Barack Obama and Joe Biden defeated John McCain and Palin, and weeks before the former Alaska governor releases her autobiography, "Going Rouge: An American Nightmare." "It's the good, the bad and the ugly," Walshe told FoxNews.com.
[2] "Can I call you Joe?'' Sarah Palin asked Joe Biden during their vice presidential candidates' debate last year. Biden was calling her "Sarah" this week on the campaign trail in upstate New York, where the Republican former governor of Alaska and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate has interjected herself into a congressional race on behalf of the Conservative Party's candidate.
[3] Speaking at a campaign rally for Democratic candidate Bill Owens, Biden took a jab at Sarah Palin's position on U.S. energy reserves. As reported by ABC news'
Rick Klein : Notwithstanding my former opponent, and by the way I like her, I really do--not a joke, this is not a cheap shot--the fact of the matter is Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy was 'Drill, baby, Drill.' No, it's a lot more complicated, Sarah, than 'Drill, baby drill. Why was Biden using the platform to attack Palin, who isn't even in the race? Two-weeks ago the former Alaska governor made
headlines when she publicly endorsed Conservative third-party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican candidate Dede Soczzafava, who has since dropped out of the race. On Monday afternoon, Palin responded to Biden's comments via her Facebook : As the vice president knows, I have always advocated an all-of-the-above approach to American energy independence.
[4] "The fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy was drill baby drill," Biden said Monday at a fundraiser here for Hoffman's Democratic opponent, Bill Owens, referring to Palin's own campaign slogan last year. "No, it's a lot more complicated, Sarah, than drill baby drill." The former vice presidential candidate did not sit back quietly, responding to Biden on her Facebook page. "There's one way to tell Vice President Biden that we're tired of folks in Washington distorting our message and hampering our nation's progress: Hoffman, baby, Hoffman!" she wrote. For Palin, the endorsement comes as she tries to position herself politically, while, some experts say, a win for Hoffman today could signal that she's bringing back elections for the GOP. "Sarah Palin is gaining a lot from this because she is maintaining a sense that there is still a political race going on between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden," said David Gergen, former presidential adviser and a professor of public service at Harvard University. "And, by the way, she has a big book coming out. I think Sarah Palin gives one of the faces to this movement we've seen, the tea party folks and the town hall folks and this sort of populist resentment that is bubbling up in one place after another."
[5] "Everything is there." Though Palin failed to make history as the first female vice president, the election turned her into a favorite among conservatives, an object of tabloid gossip and a national celebrity -- one who refuses to leave the spotlight despite resigning as governor earlier this year. In the book released Tuesday, Conroy and Walshe cover Palin's rise to stardom and how it poisoned her alliance with state Democrats when she returned to Alaska, effectively leading to her resignation. The book also reveals behind-the-scene stories of the presidential campaign, including the war between camps of McCain and Palin -- culminating with Palin's failed attempt to deliver the concession speech on Election Day -- and new details about her much-reported shopping spree for clothes. To tell their story, Conroy and Walshe drew on their experiences as campaign reporters and conducted interviews with key sources, including Palin's parents, Republican aides and strategists and former McCain campaign staff. The authors said they faced intimidation tactics from Palin aimed as driving them out of the state as they worked on the book. Walshe said she and Conroy decided to author the book on Election Day when they learned how strained the relations between the McCain and Palin camps were. Another factor, Walshe said, was a desire to write a "fair book" that portrays her as a "three-dimensional figure." Palin isn't an "idiot" as some of her opponents labeled her and she's not a saint as some of her supporters believe, Walshe said. "She's a complicated person like we all are. This book illuminates that."
[2] DAYTONA BEACH -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be the featured speaker for the Daytona Beach Area Chamber of Commerce's 90th annual meeting Feb. 15, executive committee chairman Ted Doran said Monday. Palin was thrust into the national spotlight in 2008 when Sen. John McCain selected her as the Republican party's first female vice presidential candidate. They lost and Palin resigned as Alaska's governor July 26 with a year still to serve. She is still in the news and rumored to be a 2012 presidential candidate. She has a 400-page memoir coming out Nov. 17 titled "Going Rogue: An American Life," published by Harpers.
[6] The Salina Chamber'''s Annual Banquet is known for attracting big names from former presidents to foreign dignitaries and sports legends. This year, they'''re bringing in someone at the center of America '''s current political landscape. With her recent resignation as Alaska '''s governor and a highly anticipated book coming out next month, the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce says Palin is perfect for its Annual Banquet. '''Still, what Sarah Palin seems to be doing is news throughout the country, we think it will be an evening where people show up and they maybe don't quite understand what's going to be talked about and that should be interesting,''' said Daran Neuschafer, chairman for the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce. The February banquet, and specifically who the speaker will be, is something residents like Dennis Collier say they look forward to.
[7] I've been working in Alaska for 30 years and Sarah Palin is the least educated and least interested in being educated governor yet. How can radical republicans such as Mr. Jackson defend this choice between ignorance and interest? By comparing her to the daring of the radical right, Ronald Reagan Mr. Jackson tries to align her with a winner of elections. Just look at the election polls: 25% of people will never change their mind from radical republican and 25% likewise for liberal democrat. 45% of Americans voted for McCain/Palin.
[1] The infamous Alaska "Bridges to Nowhere" - championed by Republicans in the 49th State's congressional delegation - became a big applause line for Palin on the stump in 2008. The governor claimed, repeatedly, that she said "Thanks but no thanks" to the Gravina Island bridge, which would have linked Ketchikan to its island airport (a six-minute ferry ride away). Notes "Sarah from Alaska," she supported the boondoggle before the New York Times blew the whistle on it and, after it was killed, used federal money to construct what Conroy and Walshe characterize as "A Road to Nowhere" that leads to where the bridge would have taken off. Palin is much in the news these days. The ex-governor's voice was heard on robo-calls in the Virginia election campaign, and she endorsed a Conservative Party nominee in the New York 23rd district special election. She will kick off a book tour for "Going Rogue" by appearing on "Oprah."
[8] The first book hits stores Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the 2008 presidential election that transformed Palin from an obscure first-term governor to a sketch on "Saturday Night Live." "Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar," was written by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, television reporters who followed Palin on the presidential campaign trail last fall.
[9] Link: The Daily Beast It's been widely reported before that the McCain presidential campaign rejected Sarah Palin's plan to deliver a concession speech on election night. "McCain's aides literally turned the lights out on Palin when she retook the stage later that night to take pictures with her family, fearing that she would give the concession speech after all," says
"Sarah From Alaska," a new book out today by journalists Shushannah Walshe, formerly of Fox News, and Scott Conroy of CBS News. They've given The Daily Beast copies of the speeches Palin wasn't allowed to deliver -- both victory and concession.
[10] WASHINGTON (CNN) Tensions within John McCain's presidential campaign boiled over on Election Night last November when Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, repeatedly ignored directions from senior staffers who told her she would not be delivering her own concession speech. Those fresh details on the conflict between Palin and members of the McCain team come in a new book - "Sarah from Alaska" - by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, two members of the press corps that traveled with Palin during the 2008 presidential race.
[11] A new Palin book hits shelves today, with lots of juicy details on the Alaska governor's accelerated ride to the top of the GOP. In Sarah From Alaska, Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, reporters from CBS and Fox, respectively, who covered her campaign, document Palin's roller-coaster rise and uncover more than a few interesting nuggets along the way. Perhaps their best score was getting their hands on a copy of the speech that Palin would have given on election night had McCain's campaign managers
not barred her from doing so. Her desire to introduce McCain at the nationally televised event rankled the McCain campaign, who worried that she was trying to steal his moment or, worse, that she would go off script as she had done before and undermine the gracious tone they hoped to set. The speech that was written for her was actually quite respectful and complaisant.
[12] For those who don't want to read the whole speeches, the article provides "best line" samples from each, including this from Palin's victory speech: "And I said to my husband Todd that it's not a step down when he's no longer Alaska's 'First Dude.' He will now be the first guy ever to become the 'Second Dude.'" CBS News has published an
excerpt of the book, headlined "Sarah Palin's Brutal Education," covering the candidate's "cram sessions" before the vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden and how her performance in the debate turned out better than some in the campaign had expected -- though it wasn't the knockout winner others had dreamed of. Katie Connolly of
Newsweek also focuses on Palin's "anticlimactic" election night: "Not only was she denied the opportunity to speak, but there was no real post-campaign celebration with the McCains. Palin and her entourage accidentally ran into McCain in the parking lot as they were making a quiet exit.
[10] The Daily Beast was given copies of the speeches Palin could not deliver, concession as well as victory. The victory speech included this line: "And I said to my husband Todd that it's not a step down when he's no longer Alaska's 'First Dude.' He will now be the first guy ever to become the 'Second Dude.'" The second book, "The Persecution of Sarah Palin," is written by Matthew Continetti, a writer with the right-wing Weekly Standard." It depicts the then-governor as victim of a vast left-wing conspiracy. Politicians of all stripes commit malaprops - Vice President Joe Biden has more than his share - but Continetti paints with a broad brush of class and educational prejudice at every turn.
[8] Julie Sigwart and Micheal Stinson's version of "Going Rouge," which will be sold at bookstores, is unrelated to the book of the same name by The Nation editors. It also will be available on Amazon.com. In the pipeline, but not this year: a close look at Palin by journalist Joe McGinniss, who chronicled Alaska's oil boom years in 1980s, "Going to Extremes." "It would seem to me that the book that's going to sell the best is the real Sarah Palin, not all the knockoff Sarah Palin," said Mary Matalin, a former adviser to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and the editor-in-chief of Threshold Editions, whose authors include high-profile conservatives such as Mary Cheney, a daughter of the former vice president. "I'm predicting it's going to be a whopping publishing success, a whopping publishing success," Matalin said. For the first book out, "Sarah from Alaska," the timing of its release was coincidental, said Lisa Kaufman, marketing director and senior editor of PublicAffairs, the books' publisher. The publisher had already established a release date when Palin's publishers announced her book would be coming out this fall, and not in the spring. Initially, they worried about it, Kaufman said. "There was some, 'Is this a good thing or a bad thing?' " Kaufman said.
[9] In his first column Mr. Jackson echoed Krauthammer from just the previous day by suggesting that that President Obama should stop making excuses. In his second column Mr. Jackson has stolen a page (actually several pages) from Kristol by offering nothing but excuses for Sarah Palin. Mr. Jackson needs to have more respect for the intelligence of the American public and the discernment of both the public and the press when it rightly ridiculed -- laughed at really -- the idea of Sarah Palin as President. It was a Conservative Movement, to which Mr. Jackson is quite obviously a card-carrying member, that destroyed John McCain's chances when they insinuated this neophyte on the campaign and then forced John McCain to dishonor himself by seriously suggesting that Palin belonged a heart-beat away from the presidency.
[1] I for one feel that the status of "victim" is impossible for a politician to obtain. except in cases of rape or incest. Mrs. Palin is an unabashed publicity hog, and just when the publicity begins to wane, she morphs into a cash chaser. When the scrutinizing eyes of the media and the political opposition question her intentions or the wisdom of the group paying her speaking fee, suddenly there is a schedule conflict for which a staffer takes blame. Blaming the McCain campaign or he GOP for Palin's failings is just absurd. tell me Mr. Jackson, just how should the McCain campaing have spun Palin's inability to name a national newspaper. like the one you hope to write for? I guess you are in the camp that bemoans that mean Katie Couric for asking such a probing and loaded question. You also mention Palin's ability to deliver a great speech. take a moment and review the written transcripts of some of her speeches. I challenge you to return to this forum and defend her quotes and your assessment of them. If you need a place to begin, try her resignation speech. Lately, Sarah Palin is adding to her baggage. now she is in an all too public spat with the father (he's going to strip naked for Playgirl) of her grandson. McCain again??? GOP again??? Abandonment by political machinery again??? Her phalanx of so-called supporters must be so proud. Spare me your wistful thinking Mr. Jackson. it's as annoying as Sarah Palin. Or perhaps you are just as smitten with Sarah Palin as was John McCain.
[1] America badly needs some new leadership in our administration and congress and on the state levels too. If we do not find and elect better people than Clintons, Pelosi's, and Palin'''s, this country will definitely go down the toilet. Umm doesn't Bill Kristol already serve as the WaPo's resident Sarah Palin cheerleader? If Mr. Jackson was looking to distinguish himself with this column (which seriously reads like a compilation of Kristol's "insightful" writings), he failed. Is this a contest for who writes the best puff piece for Ms. Palin? If so, I'd say Mr. Jackson has excelled at the task, and has inadvertently brought attention to our current dilemma in the media: there need not be any attention to the facts.
[1] There was a time when conservatives concerned themselves with questions of social peace and harmony, domestic tranquility and unity. It was the evils of "class war" and the "chaos" in the streets in the 1960s, after all, that first gave conservatism a second lease on life. As Jackson's column today makes plain, conservatism now embraces figures like Sarah Palin whose sense of geography is no better for this country than it is for the rest of the world, since she thinks there actually is place called "Real America." For a party with such a view, group loyalty and solidarity outweigh everything else.
[1] RR is not a good example. He was one of our most destructive and divisive presidents. Only myopic conservatives think he was a great president. RR, in bed with mega-corporate interests, presided over the opening of the floodgates to American corporations relocating overseas so they could take advantage of slave-like labor in "third world" countries. This was being done at the same time conservatives were touting the "buy American" campaign. Billions in government largesse were granted these corporations to facilitate relocations. This is only one of the lasting destructive legacies of RR. His ostensible heir apparent George W. Bush to this to extremes where today most American consumer goods are made in China and other overseas locations. Anyone old enough to remember knows that RR was asleep at the switch, leaving the real governing to his advisors. Similarily Sarah Palin is asleep at the switch in her own mind. She is only competent to gain media attention and thrive in the "media makes stars" environment like Kate Gosselin or Jerry Springer show guests.
[1] "The fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy was 'drill, baby, drill,'" Vice President Biden said Monday at a fundraiser for Conservative Doug Hoffman's Democratic opponent, Bill Owens in Watertown, N.Y. "No,'' Biden chimed, "it's a lot more complicated, Sarah, than drill, baby, drill." "Say it ain't so, Joe,'' Palin had exclaimed in their faceoff during the 2008 campaign 11 months ago.
[3] Stumping for Democrat Bill Owens, Biden said Palin's "Drill, Baby, Drill" energy policy was simplistic. (
Watch Joe Biden slam Sarah Palin.) Hoffman and Owens are pawns: The contestants in this "rural outpost" are just "proxies for bigger forces," says
Charles Cooper in CBSNews.com. Sarah Palin and Tea Party conservatives think this is their moment to seize control of the GOP's future.
[13] As a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, I am continuously frustrated by the GOP's inability to find a candidate that not only believes in the party's platform, but can actually articulate conservative ideas in an intelligible manner. Sarah Palin was the wrong choice, not because of her ardent support of the company line, but because she comes off as a high school dropout. Of course, Obama had about as much real world experience as a high school dropout - I don't think the position of "community activist" requires a degree, of any kind - and, now we get to live with his bumbling/fumbling every important issue since he took office.
[1] Reagen overrated. Palin has a long way to go before she proves she has the gravitas to be president. I know her grovelling supporters want desperately to validate her, but so far, she has failed to impress. Please don't blame the Obama camp, the media, et. al for Palin's image problem -- she has no one to blame but herself. Putting aside Sarah Palin's qualifications as GOP standard bearer, I find this article by Jackson to be flacid, uninspiring, an unimaginative. It does not walk a new path, and reads like "tabloid" fiction.
[1] Chris Matthews then launched a filibuster that quickly melted down into what would probably be called elitism and unprofessionalism if it ever tagged coherence. "States like North Carolina, where I went to school, and Virginia, because of their incredible commitment to their university systems--in Richmond and Charlottesville and around this state, with all the levels of the higher education system in both those states--had taken themselves from the Old South and made themselves enlightened enough to be able to vote for an African-American for president and to have a choice in who they vote for." It continued and, of course, for Matthews, as most liberals, all roads lead to Sarah Palin, so while Cantor is trying to make sense of Matthew's last nonsensical answer, the host skips further afield. "I have a theory that Virginia may not be a liberal state. but it's certainly not a wacko right-wing state, either, and I don't think it would ever go for a Sarah Palin over a Barack Obama, but I may be wrong.
[14] There is nothing like the smiling, successful--gloating even, image of SARAH PALIN to drive the left into a feeding frenzy of hateful rhethoric. Now if Darryl can add incisive analysis on her third party bid to become president; then I want him as America's next pundit. Maybe his next column will compare Biden's supposed expertise on Foreign affairs with the Obama White House's distancing from him, and contrasted with Palin's current views.
[1] The Biden's and the Obama's of the world prey on people. More specifically they prey on peoples weaknesses. They don't preach personal responsibility or individual growth and they surely do not promote freedom. Its about submission, its about in their own twisted way how they want to control the masses. Its not about one party. Both parties are corrupt and both parties were responsible for the collapse of the American economy. This is not about politics, its about lost principals and values that where traded instead for greed and corruption. Its not about religion, abortion or being gay. Its about preserving freedom no matter what you believe in. This is about keeping America free and if that means Sarah Palin gets involved in that process to keep it free than more power to her.
[3] Sarah Palin is a confused, delusional woman out for power to control the world, or at least the U.S.! She can NEVER be elected as president or Governor or anything else of the like EVER again. Her Religious beliefs confuse her and her ultimate goal is to sew confusion and delusion into the minds of americans, especially women. Her theory is "Whosoever does not "believe in" what she believes in, religiously, should die, by murder." She spoke about this openly and I am shocked that people have followed her way of thinking in that respect.
[11] Regular Palin endorsements ''' like for Doug Hoffman in New York'''s congressional race ''' could be a good way to build the Sarah Palin brand and help the Republican party.
[15] Sarah Palin caused the McCain campaign alot of trouble, confusion and embarrassment and is still causing the same to the Republican Party which is currently in turmoil. As long as Palin becomes the face of the Republican Party with her frequent public appearances and representation of the party, The Republicans will remain mired in trouble and confusion and their credibility will remain in the gutter.
[11] Palin was sworn in as Alaska's first female governor on Dec. 4, 2006. In August 2008, Sen. John McCain asked her to be his vice presidential running mate in his bid for president, making her the first woman to run on the Republican Party's presidential ticket.
[16] ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is promising to visit more cities than a conventional book tour when her memoir "Going Rogue" is published later this month. Palin says the locations of her book tour will be announced later this week by her publisher, HarperCollins. In a Facebook posting Tuesday, the former Alaska governor says she's decided to travel to cities outside of the typical book tour venues. Her book hits stores Nov. 17.
[17] ANCHORAGE (WKOW) -- Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says she will visit more cities than a conventional book tour. She is currently scheduled to make a stop in Milwaukee on Friday for her memoirs "Going Rogue," which will be published November 17. Palin says the location of her book tours will be announced later this week by publisher HarperCollins. In a Facebook post Tuesday, the former Republican candidate says she decided to travel to a city outside the typical book tour venues. She will also appear on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" the day before the book hits shelves. Her line up of interviews also includes Bill O'Reilly, Barbara Walters, and Rush Limbaugh.
[18] Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin passes in front of Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. after the vice presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008.
[10] Considering the thrashing Joe Biden received at the hands of Sarah Palin during last year's campaign, Joe Biden might have been well advised to have avoided mentioning the former Alaska Governor. It was sort of like Joxer the Mighty going up against Xena Warrior Princess.
[19] Attention:
Saturday Night Live, time to hit the Tina Fey speed-dial because Sarah Palin and Joe Biden are at it again. Commentators were quick to recall the heavily parodied 2008 vice-presidential candidate debate as they reported on the latest volley of insults exchanged by the VP and the former governor of Alaska.
[4] The Vice Presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, shed little light and little heat, as veteran Senator Joseph Biden and Annie Oakley upstart Governor Sarah Palin tried to shake the label "The Disastah' from Alaska."
[19] "Sarah From Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar" was authored by CBS News reporter Scott Conroy and former Fox News producer Shushannah Walshe, who covered Sarah Palin on the vice presidential campaign trail last year.
[2] According to
CBS News, a new book is out about Sarah Palin's erstwhile run for vice president, titled "Sarah from Alaska."
[20] Sarah Palin and Vice President Joe Biden traded barbs in the last days of campaigning before Tuesday's
congressional election in upstate New York.
[13] At the front of a full-scale sparring match leading up to today's voting: Vice President Joe Biden and his former opponent,
Sarah Palin.
[5] Palin is a reprehensible political shark and nothing more. Like the Bush boys and Cheney, she's out for herself regardless of how much she blathers on about the moronic GOP platitudes. Joe Biden with his plagerism and misquotes and mistakes was never subjected to the scrutiny that Sarah Palin was.
[1] Mr. Jackson props up a ludicrous proposition -- that Sarah Palin's political trajectory parallels that of the anointed Ronald Reagan -- using the stale, trite Neocon tool of the Straw Man argument, i.e., some criticized Ronald Reagan and were wrong, so critics of Sarah Palin are wrong too. This presents very weak thinking and mediocre writing. I'm surprised this candidate made it to the finals. I could barely read this drivel. What do we need another political hack columnist when we have plenty like George Will, whose column I at least can finish! Will has already insulted his intelligence and writing ability by defending Sarah Palin--Mr. Jackson has no such intellgence or writing ability to insult.
[1] Mr. Jackson: Thank you for a clear and circumspect analysis of Sarah Palin's political past and future. It seems like many comments to your post were made by people whose opinions were more like fans at hockey game.
[1] Sarah Palin relied on one liners rather than substantive dialogue. She and her handlers(handlers make her out to be a circus act) mismanaged the obvious truth on many statement like "death panels" when all even her people know the real story. She becomes an easy target when truth becomes lost in the goal of a political prize. Being next door to Russia is not foreign policy experience and to hint at such is to belittle the intelligence of the voter.
[1] Sarah Palin is not interested in political office. She's interested in being a talking head, in having a gig like Rush Limbaugh. A gig where she can blather on about topics she doesn't really understand but FEELS she has an actual opinion on. (Notice I didn't say "thinks" there's not much of that going on in the Palin household or SarahPac offices). She's a weathergirl with anchor aspirations. She and those rabid followers have yet to realize that she is nothing but a punchline and will never BE anything but a punchline.
[11] Sorry, CMAE ''' Sarah Palin is an empty piece of fluff who didn'''t know what she or her office was doing ''' or she'''s worse. I could understand wanting to help the GOP and not having the humility to tell the McCain campaign that she was not the right person for the job. I get that she merely exaggerated her role and left out some details in getting rid of the plane she '''sold on EBay''' ''' not a huge deal. I started to see exactly what we were dealing with when the facts on the bridge to nowhere came out and when she demonstrated bravado ''' rather than risk showing her immense lack of knowledge and understanding during interviews. The moment she took credit for divesting the Alaskan fund - when it was her office that fought divestiture ''' was the defining moment for me. She is either really stupid or she'''s devious.
[21] Reading the victory speech is chilling in a
Man in the High Castle sort of way--what if McCain/Palin really did win the election, and we're all just characters in a blog or something? Trippy. The speeches were never delivered because a) Palin lost, and b) vice presidential candidates don't deliver election night concession speeches in America, a tradition with which Palin was unfamiliar because she's from Alaska. McCain had to personally intervene to tell her she couldn't have the podium, and his staffers brought the house lights down when Palin stayed on the stage to take photos with her family for fear she'd grab the mic. Anyway, they're both horrible speeches with the maverick-y touches we've come to know and love from Palin, like a reference to an immigrant from a South American nation called "Columbia" (maybe it's spelled phonetically) and a lack of clarity as to whether it had been 68 or 69 days since she joined the campaign (both speeches mention both figures). If he governs America with the skill and grace we have often seen in him, and the greatness of which he is capable, we're gonna be just fine.
[22] The pair spent much of the following year reporting on the campaign turmoil and the vice presidential nominee's difficult return to Alaska after the election. According to a copy of the book obtained by CNN, Palin's speechwriter Matthew Scully had prepared a brief speech for the then-Alaska governor to deliver while introducing McCain, before he gave his concession speech at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix. After conferring in his suite with senior advisers Mark Salter, Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt, McCain nixed the idea of having Palin speak before him.
[11] "You're not speaking," the longtime McCain adviser told Palin. "John has decided it's unprecedented." Palin's spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton declined to respond to the new claims, but said Palin will address the campaign drama in her forthcoming memoir. "The Governor's version of events will be in her book, Going Rogue, which will be available on November 17th," Stapleton wrote in an e-mail to CNN. In the days after her selection as the vice presidential nominee, the McCain team was so unsure of Palin's policy acumen that they drew up hundreds of flash cards to get the candidate "up to speed on foreign affairs and major national issues."
[11] Palin was thrust from the governorship of Alaska onto the national stage as the first female Republican vice presidential candidate. She energized the McCain campaign, creating a surge in the polls for her ticket. The ever-astute Obama campaign, sensing that Palin's charisma rivaled that of its candidate, quickly attacked her qualifications. Her "hockey mom" credentials were also challenged when it became public that the GOP purchased a campaign wardrobe for her costing about $150,000. She was portrayed as vapid by commentators and comedians, who pounced upon her lackluster performances in interviews.
[1] "Sarah from Alaska" depicts how Sen. John McCain's handlers made absolutely sure that Alaska Gov. Palin did not give a concession speech on election night a year ago. "McCain's aides literally turned the lights out on Palin when she retook the stage later that night to take pictures with her family, fearing that she would give the concession speech after all." The Republicans' 2008 ticket could not seem to connect even after election night speeches were done, according to authors Scott Conroy of CBS News and Shushannah Walshe, formerly of Fox News.
[8] The upcoming biography
Sarah From Alaska uncovers new details from within the campaign, including the two speeches, written by Palin speechwriter Matthew Scully. Neither speech was delivered, and according to the Daily Beast, "senior McCain aides had to tell Palin several times that she would not be allowed to speak before the Alaska governor finally relented."
[23] Now you can read the addresses -- both concession and victory -- she would've given. The Daily Beast
has an excerpt from Sarah from Alaska, a new Palin bio, with the speeches writer Matt Scully wrote for her on election night: A concession speech in which she lauded "black citizen" Barack Obama for winning, and a victory speech in which she announces that her husband will thenceforth be known as "the First Dude."
[22] Sarah Palin had a great speech writer. Her training as a beauty queen provided the poise necessary to deliver whatever message was put in front of her, but it did not give her the depth of knowledge necessary for the job of VP, let alone POTUS (if her fans are delusional enough to think she can run). Her disdain for Washington makes her an entertaining distraction, but the shine would wear thin in a real crisis. She is a laughing stock in the international community, especially given her views on evolution and global climate change. Her loyalists, including this pundit, have conveniently forgotten this fact. Darryl Jackson writes of ex-Gov. Palin, "There are signs that her viability remains strong." He then offers only one piece of evidence to substantiate that dubious claim: "her new book is ranked among Amazon's bestsellers, even before its publication later this month".
[1] I think we have a winner in the Next Great Idiot contest. Seriously, Sarah Palin makes Bush look smart; she is that ignorant. The fact that her book is a bestseller just proves that conservative groups will buy anything en masse to present the illusion of popularity. Quitting her only high profile job does not exactly help against those attacks that she lacks experience. Wasn't Reagan really just an empty suit who cowtowed to moneyed interests? The fact that he's popular doesn't disprove that hypothesis.
[1] Sarah Palin may fit that bill. Palin's activities indicate that she intends to remain in public life. There are signs that her viability remains strong. That her new book is ranked among Amazon's bestsellers, even before its publication later this month, reflects that Palin still commands interest. To strengthen her viability, Palin must seize this momentum and mobilize her supporters. Developing and espousing a small set of conservative values that become her "brand" -- as did Reagan -- will be critical. She has time.
[1] Coincidently, John McCain will be on Dr. Oz getting a colonoscopy. Sarah Palin is promoting her new book Going Rogue. Because she really was out there.
[24] "Sarah Palin - the scourge to all democrats!". oh contraire mon frere davherpe, Palin is the second best thing to happen to democrats, Americans, the intelligent thinker, and anybody who cares about this country. Her ETHICS VIOLATIONS (which she later found herself innocent of, her and OJ), her QUITTING ON HER STATE for book deals. HA! who ever thought the voice of reason would be Levi, but he nailed it. Word is she resigned to as part of a Plea Bargain with Alaska's Attorney Gen, see after she illegally used PUBLIC FUNDS to defend herself, she admitted it. IT WAS ANOTHER BREACH OF PUBLIC TRUST. DOH! she took the plea and got a book deal. YAY! for Sarah "ya betcha it's nukular" Palin.the second best thing to ever happen to America, and the #2 catalyst in the defeat of John McCain.
[12] The Book Sarah from Alaska sounds like this is the book that is telling is telling the truth, this should sell much better that her own book which will all be lies. I never seen any one so dumb to think she was going to give a speech. Thank god the Mccain people would not let her give it, it would of been a speech of hate. She is responsible for getting the country in an uproar with her rallys she held and people were shouting kill him and she did nothing to stop it. Then her death panel deal got all the seniors in an uproar and had people carrying guns to presidential events. She still is out their bashing the president every day by having someone writing the articles for her face book and putting her name on it. She goes over to a foreign country and reads a speech that puts down the us and our president. I hope all her followers will see this article and hope they and the 20 percent wake up and realize what she is like. They all think they will get her in the white house and the fox gang will be her cabinet members. She will need to order a lot of flash cards so she will know what to say. This is who you want in the white house.
[11] Do not make that ignorant comment. I don't like Palin,and believe she is cashing in on the VP run she did. She is using it as she did everything else. If she thinks she is a victum that is nuts the woman knows what she is doing and her husband is helping her. Now he isn't working and yes he used her office and staff, while she was Gov.She fought the big oil companys for money not work to be done on the Alaska Pipe line go to their sight and see the damage because of no repairs in years.She got money gave some to some people up there and kept some. She wants to drill for more oil up there, that is plane silly.But the thing that made me the angryist was her going to china and saying she was representing the American women, and told what we think. Wrong, she didn't say one thing I agreed with.Right here now what I would like to say what to do with her or to her but can't.I looked her up in Alaska, in the Alaska papers, family extended where some told some pritty bad thing she had done. also the Alaska Pipe line. Then gave up her job as Govenor, she hadn't done anything for Alaska so guess even though it cost them money for her to do it they were better off. Now she is staying in the news because of the media printing everything for her or what she is doing.She needs to be dropped., and fast this lady is dangerous.She for sure doesn't speak for me or a lot of women in this country, but now going around and telling other countries she does. also how bad things are with our government, and what she thinks should be done. She isn't a good Christian as they don't lie.
[1] The last thing we need is a coo coo for President. This definition would fit the Palin ticket the best. It would also show just how stupid Harvard and the American people have become. I will never understand how anyone could support the independents of Alaska from the union of states and then be nominated by the republican party to run for Vice President of the U.S. Unless of course they are part of the commie party I suspect them to be.
[1] As I remember it, Alaska was purchased by the union of states from the Russians. That would make it owned by the U.S. of America. This would make independents of Alaska the biggest heist in history. I hope the republican party uses Palin for their nominee.
[1] The Republican Party shouldn't allow the other two distorted ladies to speak. For when they do speak, it appears they all are on some strong disconnected medicine apart from the normal America. They know best in the McCain camp Sarrah Palin didn't care for Alaska, she doesn't care for America. She shiouldn't speak for the Republican Party, she only cares for herself.
[11] Mainly, it shows how much Palin and McCain were like oil and water last year, and McCain's worry that the Republican party is fast-tracking down a high-risk strategy to regain a voting majority or the White House.
[25] Palin was decent team player during the campaign and I doubt she would have gone public with any disagreements if, by some freakish accident, she & McCain had been elected. I think Palin feels she has nothing to lose by running with her core values since McCain's toadies have dumped on her for over a year and national Republican types have done so poorly (2006, 2008). The Republican strategy of being Democrat Lite / "Compassionate Conservative" has run its course and run aground. It will take others with a different vision to float the Republican boat.
[25] The most telling point that these revelations concern is the absolute lack of any judgement on McCain's part. That his argument against Obama as being 'green' and inexperienced was self destructed by his choice of Palin, who had to be reminded that Gordon Brown was PM of Great Britain??? Every drop of info from that time about her being void of any policies and knowledge even the Exxon-Valdez SCOTUS case concerning her own state is another shot at McCain's desperation for a game changer and putting his ambition before country. Everything about her is anti-intellectual; a poor attribute in these times when critical thinking is needed. Her proclivity for knee-jerk reactions is ill suited for today's crises and needs. Again, it points to McCain's need to take risks and react incoherently at times. This is not the two people to even be in the same city as the "football" in that briefcase!!! Nuclear weapons and McCain-Palin are just too scary to even think about.
[11] Likewise Sarah Palin. The label under dog applied to Sarah Palin, to me, seems macabre in that if the liberal half of this country were as smart as they think they are, they would know that it was people of her caliber, and mind set, who settled this country and made it the success it was up until the last year. Under dog? I feel, with regard to any canine connotation, she is more of a Super Friends Wonder Dog than any kind of dog at all.
[1] One chain, Books-a-Million, is offering a coupon for a combo purchase of "Sarah from Alaska" and "Going Rogue," Kaufman said. PublicAffairs thinks it will benefit their authors, who get two weeks to promote their own book, and then will likely be sought on cable television to comment and interpret Palin's own book - a chance to plug their own work, too. Continetti's editor has a similar hope for his book, "The Persecution of Sarah Palin." He'll be one of the few right-wing voices out there when people are looking for people to talk about Palin's book, said Will Weisser, associate publisher of Sentinel books.
[9] The envy of nearly every other first-time author, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's good fortune includes an advance upward of $1.25 million, an appearance on Oprah Winfrey's talk show the day before publication, and a print run of 1.5 million books for a memoir that already sits on bestseller lists. It's no surprise that in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 17 release date of "Going Rogue: An American Life," there are plenty of other authors hoping that they, too, can sell a few books in Palin's slipstream.
[9] WASHINGTON The envy of nearly every other first-time author, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's good fortune includes an advance upward of $1.25 million, an appearance on Oprah Winfrey's talk show the day before publication, and a print run of 1.5 million books for a memoir that already sits on bestseller lists. The book, with its parody title and strikingly similar cover art, was put together by two senior editors at The Nation magazine and will be available only on the Web site of its publisher, OR Books.
[9] The nation had the good fortune of losing Sarah Palin as VP & I hope would have the good fortune of NOT having you as a regular columnist in WP. We have enough crap from Kristol, Krauthammer & Gerson. Sarah Palin unabashedly exhibited her ignorance during the campaign. I don't know what ever possessed Mr. McCain to select her as running mate.
[1] Tit for tat: 17-Year-Old Bristol Palin, daughter of VP nominee Sarah Palin, is 5 months pregnant. John McCain announced that he has chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate for the 2008 Presidential election.
[19] Just goes to show how ignorant a.k.a clueless Sarah Palin is, only the Presidential Candidate makes a concession speech and that is John McCain.
[11] Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will visit Kansas in February to address the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce annual banquet.
[26] Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the featured speaker at the Salina Chamber of Commerce annual banquet on Feb. 5.
[16] "Going Rogue: An American Life" doesn't hit bookstores for another two weeks, but two other books of revelation are picking apart the 2008 vice presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin.
[8] Continetti'' is an associate editor at The Weekly Standard magazine. The book's subtitle probably tells you all you need to know about the book's political orientation but in case you're interested, Karl Rove calls it "a tough, revealing look at how the bias or habits of liberals in the media led them to assault a political figure who shared neither their values nor background." Rove also suggests that, "Whether you like Sarah Palin or not, this well-researched and meticulous volume strips the bark off influential players in journalism."
[27] When I see a ignorant comment like the one Pat Obama Beaux made its makes me want to support Sarah Palin even more! We may not know if Pat is a woman or a man but we certainly know what political party he belongs to.
[27] Sure know how to push buttons. Sarah Palin - God help us!!! Never mind all of the other inanity that this woman represents - she's simply downright dangerous. Lost in the shuffle here is the report regarding how she - and her doofus husband who apparently didn't realize who was Governor and who didn't care, in any case, occupying her office and acting like some vindictive enforcer - used the office of Governor, despite all the warning from her staffers, to pursue a personal vendetta. God, please spare us from this and what it portends. Please, please, read the report; then tell me that you agree that this woman shoudn't be dog-catcher - especially that - the dogs can't defend themselves. Look at her record - read the report, for cryin' out loud.
[1] I have to fail the so called Pundit. Like so many others he failed to grasp the simple fact that Sarah Palin is not interested in higher office, she is interested in higher income. For her it is just a game to stay in the news.
[1] Decoder can see one now: "Hi, I'm Sarah Palin, Brander of Mavericks TM. I've taken time from my busy schedule here in Alaska because it's important you know that is a maverick, just like me and Ronald Reagan.
[15] Moron being the operative syllable. I hope all the crazy netroots realize that by taking the time to point out how much you hate Mr. Jackson (and Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin and whatever else it is that you hate today), you are actually helping him in this contest.
[1] The only saving grace is that if Mr. Jackson's comparison with the trajectory Ronald Reagan traced to the presidency holds for Palin, we won't have to worry about having Sarah Palin to kick around for another 30 years.
[1] All you do is remind everyone of your true colors, which we all know are not pleasant to behold. I have no idea how Darryl Jackson advanced to finalist in this contest. In this piece on Sarah Palin, Jackson's writing is weak and his argument about Palin's viability is even weaker. His comparison of her and Ronald Reagan is hollow and superficial.
[1] There have already been several articles challenging the theory that I was taught as immutable fact in the miltiary, that Reagan single-handedly brought down the Berlin Wall. Sarah Palin can be whomever she choses to be. As a voter, I can only judge her by what comes out of her mouth and so far, I am horrified. It seems to me Mrs. Palin is joining the far, radical, angry right. In that case, I have to root for her abject failure. We do not need extremists in this country.
[1] Sarah Palin and her followers as well as Reagans are quite possibly why our country is on the brink of bankruptcy and has barbarians at the gate. It is the dark ages mentality of Palin(witch doctor exorcism) Reagan(astrological advisors) and those who chose a fantsy world of wealthy elite white people and everyome else behind a great wall of subservience. We deserve tobe overun by Huns if we follow their lead. "She was portrayed as vapid by commentators and comedians, who pounced upon her lackluster performances in interviews." You forget to mention all they had to do was use her own words.
[1] I'm not one of those people who worships Ronald Reagan, but to compare his political experience to Sarah Palin's is an exercise in futility.
[1] Sarah Palin may be the best chance to begin to get America back. She has actual work experience in her background and not from the eletist lawyer gene pool. That in itself is refreshing. Look at BO and his wife,John Kerry and his wife, Nancy Pelosi,Harry Reid, Bill and Hillary Clinton, all of them are lawyers. One of the main problems with health care is lawyers, but the lawyers are running the show, so do you think we'll get meaningful tort reform in health care? That is what has gone so wrong with this country's direction. More power to her, and I hope we see her again in the political arena.
[27] I am not sure why Joe Biden's fight with Sarah Palin any way? My god. she is the joke of our country. They will put America backwards.
[13] Palin is the left's favorite target: Joe Biden is just "working off a script" by attacking Sarah Palin, says
Allahpundit in Hot Air. Palin's early, "high-profile backing of Hoffman was key to pushing out GOP moderate Dede Scozzafava, but she stayed off the campaign trail.
[13] The election campaign introduced us to Sarah Palin and Joe Biden and started the final days of George W Bush's presidency.
[28] Sarah Palin went on to mention Joe Biden's opposition to the Alaska Pipeline in the 1970s, which today delivers twenty percent of the nation's oil from the North Slope of Alaska.
[19] Then
Sarah Palin thrashed Joe Biden on the subject of oil drilling, which the administration opposes--at least in the United States.
[19] Sarah Palin walked out on the stage, smiling, self confident and shook hands with Joe Biden.
[19] Sarah Palin confused. Who would have guessed?!?!? Again, it was all about her being in the spotlight. They should have just re aired the Katie Couric interview so we could all feel even better about our vote for President Obama in that election.
[11] I would very safe if Sarah Palin were the Republican candidate in the next election for president.
[1] I used to be a republican and now use my head and vote for who I feel can best do the job. She makes me sick. using her disabled child to try to get parents of other disabled children to vote for her. Sarah Palin is exactly the kind of leader this country needs. I hope for all our sakes that she runs for President in 2012.
[29] The recordings make no mention of Republican candidate Bob McDonnell, who has embraced Huckabee but distanced himself from Palin during the governor's race. "Virginia, hello, this is Sarah Palin calling to urge you to go to the polls Tuesday and vote to share our principles," Palin said.
[30] '''Sarah Palin has the ability to excite people at large whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or Independent and you don't know what Sarah Palin is going to do next,''' said Collier. '''She was Governor and then she resigned and now she's here in Salina.'''
[7] Any point of view from Palin is a rear end one full of dung and confusion. For the sake of some more fun, let's reverse roles to imagine how the Republican Campaign Machine would rip Sarah Palin to shreds if she were a Democrat running for high national office.
[1] Sarah Palin is not as dumb as some people think. She is lazy, and opportunistic. She will milk her fame for easy dollars, and never run for another public office.
[1] Sarah Palin is an ambitious woman who will let nothing get in the way of what she wants. Some people may think that is an admirable quality but if everyone will stop at nothing on the road to get to what they want it just stands to reason there will be a lot of injured bodies and destruction along the highway.
[11] "I bet if you go home and check with your voters, Congressman, a lot of your most trusted voters, who like you personally, are scared the bejesus of Sarah Palin. She's a theocrat. She's so far out in terms of basic American notions of pluralism that your voters would think she was frightening."
[14] How does any sane human give any creedence to Palin as a viable candidate to be President. She is a true dim wit. The fact that she has so many supporters is a scary testament to how large is the brain dead portion of the American electorate. She is an embarracement to our politcal system. The fact that puppet masters like Bill Kristol and the Wall Street Journal give her any encouragement is very dangerous to our political system. The next thing these conservatives will want is having the local little league coach who is a gas station attendent run for President because he is a Tea Bagger, a birther, who hates and fears the federal government, and who is able to be led by the nose by hard right leaders like Kristol. These are the new conservative credentials to qualify for major office.
[11] The first act was bad enough so the second act should be horrifying. The GOP let Palin divide their Party in New York? Wow! Well I guess that just shows how bright the GOP really is these days. Here is the agenda for them: as if we did not notice? They are going for the local and state races. They decided to chop at the root since they cannot get the whole tree. Ya know how it is: "knibble and bits much like their hanging chads". They are sending out vibes of if the Democrats lose in Va; NJ and NY it is a sign of rejection for President Obama-bull crap! So, hopefully it is a sign people are just damn sick of the GOP and hopefully they will get some common sense people if they do win-but, hopefully they won't.
[1] Updated 1:42 p.m ET. Palin's help comes despite the fact that McDonnell's campaign earlier said it didn't want it, according to a Palin spokeswoman
speaking to the Washington Post last month. McDonnell had repeatedly asked Palin to get involved, according to the item, but then later backed away as he sought to appeal to independent voters. Palin, on the other hand, was one of the first national Republicans to weigh into New York's 23rd Congressional District race, where she used her Facebook page last month to endorse Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava, who left the race over the weekend.
[31] Matching words into a stupid claim equals an argument. The repukes like empty suits for their candidates so Palin is perfect. The Post likes republican operatives for its columnists, so Mister Jackson is perfect. If the WaPo readers are looking for more platitudes from the likes of Gerson and Kristol they're in luck. Palin once energized the McCain campaign, but she eventually brought it down by revealing McCain as a desperate fool for choosing her. Is winning really so important that we'll ignore the fact that this is a "leader" who can't name a newspaper or a Supreme Court decision? Is Palin's weakness really her lack of training to avoid gaffes? No, her weakness is that she doesn't tell the truth.
[1] Namely,that Reagan was a great President. Without listing all the hideous things he did, remember this Repubs. He unraveled all the consumer protections put in place to protect Americans after the stock market crash of 1929. The result was the rathole we're in now that started last fall.He loved the rich and despised the poor and middle class! Thanks Ronnie. Parkbench, that episode about Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent did not come from her sad Couric interviews. It was leaked from the McCain campaign itself - it came up during their frantic attempts to coach her into someone worldly knowledgeable for the debates. Your attempt to make my pointing this out into a "racial insult" to Mr. Jackson also underscores the right's pathetic failure to understand what racism is (a mere century or so into the public's discussion of the word - incredible).
[1] I agree Mr. Jackson that Palin's journey, towards whatever destination, needs to be carved out by her. Women politicians have always been packaged using a male model, often with other women dragging her back and carping about her along the way. I hope Palin, whether she runs for president or not, will trust her instincts and choose as models the people who inspire her. She needs to pick up the skills to deal with snakes-in-the-grass with humor, much as Reagan did. She already has her own point of view. I'm looking forward to her next act, whatever that is.
[1] Ronald Reagan was a two-term governor of California - a state far more complicated and populated than Alaska. Mrs. Palin didn't even complete one term as Alaska's governor, and with public sentiment running against her, I doubt she'll hold any high Alaskan office anytime soon. Before Reagan's terms as governor, he was president of the SAG - while not, perhaps the same as federal level politics, that is a position of rather hefty managerial authority and public presence. She was on the city council and the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska - a city with a population anywhere between 5,000 - 10,000 people.
[1] Reagan was governor of the most populous state in the country for two terms. He had a record of working with Democrats in Sacramento to enact bipartisan legislation. He had a strong television presence, probably as a result of his days in Hollywood. Palin did not complete her term as governor and does not come across well on television. She will not be able to overcome the negative impressions most people developed of her during the vice-presidential campaign.
[1] Reagan was basically a moderate to moderate conservative. He was not a partisan as most politicians, especially Republicans, have been since the 1990's. He was especially moderate on social issues and only paid rhetorical lip service to those who opposed abortion. Palin seems to be a right-winger in a party dominated by people who are very conservative and out of touch with most independents, as well as moderates, in this country.
[1] Sarah Palin is proving that an effective leader never has to apologize for being conservative, or stoop to empty aisle-crossing rhetoric when it comes to a winning election strategy. The clear, uncompromising delineation of bedrock party values allows conservative citizens to identify leaders that genuinely share their principles.
[32] Sarah Palin has started endorsing candidates, by boosting conservative Doug Hoffman for an upstate New York congressional seat in tomorrow's elections. Maybe she should make that a regular practice.
[15] If Sarah Palin is the new heart and soul of the GOP, the Democratic Party will be on top for years to come.
[11] This website, the Bloggers for Sarah Palin blogroll and its other member blogs are not officially connected with, nor do they act as agents for, Governor Sarah Palin, SarahPAC or any political party or registered PAC.
[32] Tickets to hear former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are going, going, but not yet gone, Salina Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dennis Lauver said Tuesday.
[33] Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has jumped into the Virginia gubernatorial race today with a robocall that asks voters to "vote for Sarah's principles."
[31] Virginians began reporting on Sunday that they were receiving robocalls from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin urging them to '''vote your values."
[34] We
told you yesterday that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin recorded a phone message encouraging Virginians to get out and vote on Tuesday. Now, we have learned that a conservative group affiliated with former Christian Coalition founder Ralph Reed asked both Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to make calls to nearly 700,000 voters in Virginia.
[30] Anyone who believes Ronald Reagan to be among our greatest presidents will also believe Sarah Palin is the voice of conservatives. It is obvious in politics, as it is in every religion, that the end justifies the means.
[1] Sarah Palin remarked before the election words to the effect that God would see that the right team would be elected. How does she justify trashing the president? does she beleive that God made a mistake? I have never heard her address this statement.
[11] Sarah Palin lacks substance. She doesn't work. She's bad for the country. Fine, let her whip up the far right extremists, but to suggest she's in any way presidential material, give it a rest.
[1] There is no place within the conservative movement, in short, for empathy of any kind that might weaken or detract from the group cohesion and solidarity of the right wing community of true-believers that Palin and her supporters are trying to build. All who buried Sarah Palin hope that she remains so.
[1] Cantor, on McDonnell not using ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) more: "Virginia has always been a commonsense conservative state.
[35] Sarah Palin is dangerous. Not because she is a smart, sexy (since when is "sexy" a qualification for office?), and will "shake things up", as the lunatic wing of the GOP likes to claim, but because her ambition matches her stupidity.
[11] John McCain owes us an apology for unleashing the likes of Sarah Palin on us.
[11] Chris Matth-spews has a new feeling in his leg. It happens when Sarah Palin does something like change a congressional race with one Facebook post. He wets himself. Feels something new DOWN his leg. As do all liberals when Sarahcuda exerts her power.
[14] The larger problem is why our political system isn't developing better leaders than the resume builders we've had for the last generation or so. I am more and more disappointed in the Washington Post, especially with their opinion content. Sarah Palin is not news unless you and other media outlets make her so. Sarah Palin is not dog-catcher material, but she is Penthouse appealing. Get a grip on this newspaper before it floats into the Potomac.
[1] I meant to post this piece weeks ago, but with Sarah Palin dipping into political races around the country, this article remains relevant.
[25] Get a grip Darryl, Sarah Palin is an airhead. The frenzied moon bats regurgitating their hate filled commentary at someone who dares to seriously discuss the amazing political success of SARAH PALIN is a delightful affirmation of Pavlof's theories. She's now 'after the money', 'neglecting her family', blah, blah, pure supermarket tabloid impressions; revealing how shallow and coarse these comments are. Mr.Jackson, could blunt these attacks with facts and probably should. Smearing her as a 'publicity hound' is easily met with the facts that several dozen 'agents' are competing to represent her; or that she's received over a 1,000 invitations to speak at events with honorariums that lib/Dems would die for. they sought her, not the other way around.
[1] Listen up Joe! Sarah Palin is spot on, the fact that America has so many natural resources that are not being taken advantage of, borders on the criminal and malfeasance. Please stop with this global warming theme, its totally bogus. The planet has been around for millions of years, and it runs its cycles.
[3] A former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, a fellow at the CFR, the CEO of Teach For America, and a Nobel Prize winner. This is clearly not an "everyman's" contest, as advertised. I'm sure it's mere coincidence that those with the heavy CVs just happened to make it through as finalists. Looking for those arrogant in their ignorance? Look no further than Mr. Jackson, and Sarah Palin. Who needs thought-provoking when you can have mindnumbing? They're both marching lockstep.
[1] When liberals cannot debate or make a statement with substance,they only ATTACK. Why are they so determined to trash everyone they disagree with? I didn't vote for Obama,but I was willing to see where he was taking our country.And now Sarah Palin will enlighten us with the real hope and change we need.
[27] Perhaps many legislators and administration offficials don't need the flashcards that Sarah Palin's handlers thought she needed. Sarah Palin does not need flashcards those officals do need when it comes to character and integrity.
[11] WEll. at least it isn't all venom and lies. That having been said, this piece casts a a radiant warm light, someimes in almost sepia tones, on a figure, whom under the harsh light of reality IS as vapid as she came off in those interviews. She has a litany of documented statements that point to the intellectual vacume, and superficial analysis that Sarah Palin bases those statements on. She was abandoned by Republicans whom intially were radiant in there appreciation of her, after she was given second and third chances to change their minds on how deficient, and devoid of national leadership ablity she really was.
[1] "I was really surprised and actually a little disappointed,''' said Rebekah Gaston. '''I know in the past few years they've had Bob Costas and Cal Ripken, who are kind of the All-American. Everybody loves them types and Sarah Palin is a lot more polarizing -- doesn't really speak to the average person.''' The Chamber believes residents will want to hear what she has to say and they expect the banquet'''s 1,500 seats to sell out quickly.
[7] Never mind. How did this entry even accepted by the pundit contest? It has 752 words, when the rules of the competition clearly specified a max of 400 words. Did he plagiarize this column from Bill Kristol? This is the kind of knee-jerk GOP spin we expect from him. I know Sarah Palin is gorgeous, but I can't understand how anyone thinks she is qualified to lead anything. Her interviews (and VP debate) were gut-wrenchingly painful to watch. She is viscerally ignorant about nearly anything of substance; worst of all, including her own ignorance.
[1] Decoder thinks Sarah Palin should become a serial endorser, branding candidates for everything from Congress to city council.
[15] One could raise the same questions about Obama as were raised about Sarah Palin -- as one should raise about any candidate.
[1] Wow, the sense of elitism against Sarah Palin is overwhelming. She is a real person who understands the everyday American unlike Obama who only cares about polls and labor unions.
[11] For the sake of argument, let's accept your premise that Sarah Palin was treated unfairly by the Obama campaign and the media during the 2008 campaign.
[1] FIlE- This July 26, 2009, file photos shows former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waiving goodbye to supporters after giving her resignation speech during a ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska.
[17] Photo by Matt Slocum / Pool / Getty Images) Former Gov. Sarah Palin is pictured at her farewell speech in Fairbanks stepping down as governor in July.
[3] "We are so pleased that Governor Sarah Palin has accepted our invitation to come to Salina as our keynote speaker for the Chamber'''s annual meeting,''' sDaran Neuschafer, Chairman of the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, said.
[36] John McCain made a fatal error in choosing Sarah Palin. He was a strong contender until he made that choice.
[25] I will NEVER forgive John McCain for making such an ill-conceived choice with Sarah Palin, the walking disaster.
[25] Normal 0 I have obtained a few unauthorized and totally unauthenticated excerpts from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin'''s upcoming autobiography, Going Rogue, which will be published later this month.
[37] Just tell us who you truly are and, if you meet the standards of conservative character and integrity, we'll be there. Sarah Palin's whip-cracking efforts in the past several weeks have underscored this simple but spectacular approach. One hesitates to even call it a "strategy" because, in some respects, that word implies back-room dealings and capitulation these days. Palin has no use for the smoke and mirrors favored by so many fence-sitters in the GOP--sitters now scrambling to avoid the fallout of their own identity crises.
[32] A round table political discussion with a guest list of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bauchmann, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan, Liz Cheney and Condi Rice would be most interesting. Sarah would have an opportunity to show off her debate and leadership skills on a variety of subjects.
[11] Perhaps the best service Conroy and Walshe have done is to provide American history with a moniker for this political beauty queen: Flash Card Palin. Sarah continues to have a surprising number of supporters that still believe she is a genuine candidate for the Oval Office. These loyal fans might benefit from a palm-sized tutoring aid.
[11] If this was the best the GOP could pick for a VP in the last presidential election, then the GOP should just pack up and leave because they're no longer viable as a political party. They're laughing stocks, and Palin is one of the lead people the American public gets to laugh at because she's so ridiculous.
[11] Ultimately, Ronald Reagan knew how to work a room. Not just his base support, but everyone in the room. He also had a sense of humor and enough social skill that he became that "Teflon" president. Mrs. Palin can claim no such skills - she is happy to be adored by her fanatical core. If you criticize her, she simply becomes shrill and defensive. There really is no comparing these two politicians, based on their political background and cults of personality. They are actually different people and came to their Presidential ambitions from completely different points of the compass.
[1] The whole point for discussions is for the electorate at the margins; I know it, pollsters know it, and elected politicians know it. I truly marvel at the tone of the comments directed at Darryl Jackson on his piece. His thesis -- Palin may exeed expectations and don't count her out for 2012 -- is quite benign, yet the mean-spirited response to even this mere suggestion seems to have warranted some insults congruent with the tone of the entire presidential campaign. Why the visceral reaction to Palin? The answer is simple: people could not have come to such conclusions about her without the help of the mainstream media, who were running a campaign of their own in 2008. If I were competing in this contest, I would have pointed out that the media actually won the 2008 election. Their anointed one was brought into office with the most one-sided coverage we have seen in at least several generations. I sure hope this column isn't indicative of the quality of the other top 10 pundit candidates; there's no point in reading them if it is.
[1] Palin's SECOND act was to resign her job as governor, then write and publish a book. Hard to argue with those who see this as quitting, since she only had 18 months left to serve. That would have left her 2 years to campaign for 2012, if indeed that is her desire. I don't think she's interested in the Presidency. I think she wanted to take advantage the publicity generated in 2008 and do the book. Perhaps (to be more generous) she wanted to focus more on her family. Maybe she needed a break after the grind of a Presidential campaign. Perhaps it was a bit of all these things. As for her THIRD act, I see her as a broadcast pundit. Speaking of punditry, this piece is well written, though I disagree with many of it's points.
[1] Palin drew enormous, enthusiastic crowds in Virginia while campaigning as Sen. John McCain's runningmate during the presidential election last year. She is a polarizing figure that could turn off independent voters. In the summer, she drew criticism for abruptly resigning as governor and later insisting that the healthcare bill being considered by Congress would cause the creation of "death panels."
[30] Figure it out." Palin's deputy chief of staff Chris Edwards, meanwhile, was also unaware that Palin had been told she was not to speak. Edwards, ready to load the speech into teleprompter, bumped into Schmidt, who told him McCain would be speaking alone. Edwards relayed Schmidt's order to Palin, but she once again did not let on that Schmidt had already spoken to her. The governor could not understand why she was not being allowed to speak. "This speech is great," she said, according to the authors. "It's all about how John McCain's an American hero." The confusion continued until the final minutes before the concession speech, when Palin - still shuffling through her speech notes - gathered with McCain, family members and senior staff outside McCain's villa at the resort. Sensing uncertainty, Salter finally put his foot down.
[11] Palin has shown grit by refusing to fade away. Her resignation as governor now looks more like a maverick's move than a quitter's. Her earlier anticorruption efforts in Alaska, and more recently her fierce protection of her children, also show toughness. In the latter, she was like a lioness protecting her cubs, and rightly so. Palin has done better at this flying solo than when kept under wraps by McCain's campaign staff, which helped land her in a ditch by not rebutting the attacks she suffered.
[1] "Didn't it demonstrate that Palin was, indeed, a "hockey mom" because the campaign had to clothe her? Moreover, merely contrasting that attack with Obama's double-cross on an issue at the heart of our electoral system -- campaign financing -- would have won the day." "Indeed, her resignation as governor now looks more like a maverick's move than a quitter's."
[1] The attempts at ridiculing Palin could have been used with more accuracy in describing Obama before the election and even more obviously since. Her enemies sound like scared schoolyard rivals shouting names at the objects of their envy, elevating their opposition in the process. Darryl Jackson would be a refreshing addition to these pages. I can't believe that an editorial board would seriously cosider either of these as candidates for a nationally read column! Mara Gay is longwinded and makes some absurd statements.
[1] Another account that is in synch with others. staffers, reporters, people in the middle of the action all say the same thing. Sadly, the ultra right wing nut jobs will swallow every bit of tripe that palin's book will throw their way. After all these same people can't accept that more people voted for Obama and haven't conceded the election themselves.
[11] Palin has no ablitiy to attract followers other the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. She turned of moderates in the last election that helped lead to McCain's defeat.
[1] What ever the results are today in the elections in NY, Virginia, and NJ it doesn't prove anything for the GOP. when it comes down to the election of this country when we can all vote the GOP will still lose big time.the far right conservatives are not the majority of the republican party any more, and the rest of the country that supports this President and administration will keep the Birthers, Tea Baggers, and the radicals from getting into office or anyone that they support.this will only give the rest of the fence sitting republicans in Congress and the House more fuel to oppose this president and that is what is taking them down in the first place.Their constant and only answer to everything is NO NO NO.the party of NO, not the party for this country.
[11] I for one would find it uncomfortable knowing I was smarter than the person chosen to lead my country. God help us if she ever gets in office. I've posted here many times that while I do not share her political leanings, and would never vote for her or her party, that she is a compelling figure and there are a lot of people who feel energized by her. It would be easy to dismiss her for the winking, the gaffes, and a host of other mistakes. She really does capture the enthusiasm of a broad segment of conservatives who have had a hard time reconciling themselves with the previous administration. She can, and does, serve as a galvanizing force for these people, and that capability should not be underestimated. I have no doubt that her book and facebook page are ghost-written or at least heavily edited, but it really doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that she probably can't accomplish what she talks about. What does matter is that she seems to be able to inspire people to vote in a way that lets them feel they can accomplish some kind of conservative resurgence.
[1] Now i am a Republican but just in name only i vote for the person that i hope that will stand for the American people that is trying to do right and there is not a Democrat in office that i put my life on the line In Vietnam even tho i did not have to fight like a lot of other American that died for there country and went threw battle. but any time in a war zone you put your self on the line.
[1] Of course, I won't be holding my breath. I'd like to know who's behind her and her Facebook entries, redirecting the Republican Party to the hard right, in a "dominionist" like direction. This is not good for us, especially right now when times are tough and people are easily influenced towards anger. Personally she never indicated the level of intelligence it takes to direct this kind of attack on the party. CNN, dig into this please and find out who's pulling her strings.
[11] During this robocall, Palin's nasal voice encouraged voters to "vote values" and "vote to share our principles." I don't want to put words in Palin's mouth but I'm going to go ahead and assume that she's alluding to the moral principles upon which Republicans have campaigned recently. This campaign strategy highlights the irrelevancy of the Republican party to the group that I affectionately refer to as the "New Conservatives."
[38] The small town "Joe Sixpack" has broadband internet and an iPhone now, Palin. He gets his news from the internet and reads a few political blogs. Even if he watches the rabid Tasmanian devil that is Glenn Beck, he still hears about the real issues that Republicans should be addressing - the economy, taxes, and the increasing size of the government. These are the issues that the Republican party can address, but doesn't.
[38] One of the flash cards noted that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was Gordon Brown, the book says. Before her now famous speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Palin's handlers began to rip the price tags off items in the candidate's lavish new wardrobe, paid for by the Republican National Commitee, after Palin expressed concerns about the cost of the clothing.
[11] "Palin gives a great speech. (Her) Achilles' heel lies in the give-and-take of news interviews." Great; that's a wonderful reason to make her president. Hilary Clinton is twice the woman Palin will ever be, and your party Darryl, cheated us out of her leadership as it has Gore and Carters. They are also responsible for the deaths of millions of men woman and children across the world.
[1] Liberals may have missed Palin's Op-ed NYT Jan. 08 on polar bears and Alaska's protection efforts. Liberals may have missed her July 14/09 Op-Ed "Cap and Tax Dead End" where she argues for creating jobs and developing ALL energy sources in America (including Green tech). A handful likely missed her debut speech to 70 million Americans where she lambasted Obama's politics and background despite two hecklers at the beginning, and despite a brief Teleprompter failure that would have paralyzed President Obama. Liberals probably missed the huge enthusiastic and well-behaved crowds she attracted across America.
[1] On the 17th, just as Palin's own book hits bookstores, readers will also be able to pick up "
Going Rouge: An American Nightmare," a collection of essays pulled together by two senior editors at Nation magazine. Again, the subtitle probably tells you all you need to know about the book's angle on Palin, but if you need another clue, consider the fact that its publisher, OR Books, has a self-described '''distinctive progressive edge.''' To make this all more confusing, however, is the fact that another "Going Rouge" is being published on the same day. That "Going Rouge" is a satirical coloring book by Julie Sigwart and Micheal Stinson who identify themselves as "longtime liberal activists." Longer range, journalist Joe McGinniss ("The Selling of the President," "Fatal Vision") is currently researching his own unauthorized Palin biography.
[27] I think Palin was a very poor choice as the VP on McCains ticket and for a number of reasons. Just listen to her in only one interview and you can understand why. There were a number of great VP choices out there and the fact that McCain chose her is mind boggling. The frightening thing is that she could have been just a heart beat away from being our President.
[11] In an interview on CBS "The Early Show," the authors said that campaign leaders were "terrified" that Palin would embarrass McCain -- even after the race had officially ended. The authors also claim that Palin didn't decide to run for vice president after her family voted on it. They say she said 'yes' and shook his hand immediately, and then had the vote. They also claim that Palin didn't personally tell her daughters that she was running.
[20] During a celebration among staffers after the vice presidential debate in St. Louis, Palin began pushing hard to start bringing up the topic of Barack Obama's controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright on the campaign trail. She wanted badly to win the election, the authors note.
[11] Written by two reporters for CBS News who were attached to Palin's group during the 2008 election, the book contains previously unknown details about the "conflicts" between Palin and other members of the campaign.
[20] The authors are reporters (Conroy is a digital journalist for CBS News and Walshe was a reporter and producer at Fox News) who were "embedded" on the Palin vice-presidential campaign trail. They cover Palin up through her resignation from Alaska's governorship and claim that their book portrays her as neither "a heroic everywoman or ridiculous dolt."
[27] Palin was concerned about the cost of the wardrobe that was purchased for her during the campaign, according to the new book.
[11] First of all, Decoder is aware that in that New York congressional race, Palin picked a third-party conservative, not the official GOP candidate.
[15] Interestingly enough, McDonnell's campaign had opted last year to stop seeking Sarah's approval and instead pursue a McCain-style "let's aim for the swing voter" stance. With all due respect to Bob McDonnell, the landslide victory upon which he's currently poised is not going to be triggered by wishy-washy RINOs. The base had been galvanized, and is about to make its presence known. Much the same can be said for the New Jersey race, where Sarah proves that she does indeed have the GOPs rejuvenation firmly in her cross hairs. She's taken third-party candidate Chris Daggett to task on her Facebook page, wagging a finger at him for "playing loose with the facts" as Republican Chris Christie begins to edge his Democrat rival in the polls.
[32] Tucker Martin, a spokesman for McDonnell, said the calls were not being made at the request of the campaign or the Republican Party of Virginia. He said the campaign had no firsthand knowledge of the calls. Almost all of the Republicans considered top candidates for a 2012 presidential run have made stops in Virginia this year to help McDonnell.
[30] I remember the night well and wondered if she would give a concession speech. When she didn't, I thought that it was completely appropriate, which had nothing at all to do with my disdain for her. McCain was the focus of the night in regards to the Republican party and it was his speech to give. He fully owned that night and I thought at the time that Sarah was being a real lady by deferring the time to him alone.
[11] In McCain's case, that means backing conservative pragmatists and moderates. "I think he's endorsed people with center-right politics because he has an understanding that the party is in trouble with certain demographics and wants to have a tone that would allow us to grow," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who is McCain's closest friend and ally in the Senate. It would be tempting to dismiss McCain as part of the Republican Party's old guard and label his efforts to recruit moderates as a way to remain relevant as the conservative wing of the party exerts pressure to reshape the GOP away from the middle.
[25] I think that moralism is still in the Republican party, only sort of disguised. Like, the way they are painting the "bailouts" like it is immoral for democrats or whoever to spend money (in their line of thinking). I don't think I have ever seen such heated rhetoric regarding the government. and I think it has a lot to do with what is considered morally right and wrong, and it is the Republicans who have shaped this argument.
[38] I for one think that Mrs. Palin needs to go back and shoot some more elk. Her voice is like fingernails on a chalk board and the only reason many of in Kansas would vote for her is because of her party affiliation.
[29] Is Jackson serious? What can he possibly mean when he says that "Sarah can't play the victim." What else is this column about other than the many ways that Palin (and Jackson's hero, Ronald Reagan) was victimized by what Jackson thinks is a vengeful, hateful liberal establishment. Jackson certainly knows his audience and their voracious appetite for resentment and self-pity.
[1] Sarah Palin v Ronald Reagan? I am no Reagan fan but the man was conversant; educated; poised.
[1] Sarah Palin will once again, be the laughing stock of American politics. and refurbished red meat for Saturday Night Live.
[1] Sarah Palin is an insult to Americans. She is an insult to me. She is not only duplicitous, she is dumb. She has no idea that she knows nothing.
[1] In reality basketball was Palin's true love, but it is to ghettoized in the America she lives in that she had to use a white bread sport to appeal to the base. If WaPo judges a contestant on how many responses the writer will get regardless of how many of them are negative this is your guy. Otherwise he's just a clone of Gerson and Krauthammer. If Hoffman wins in Upstate NY, Sarah Palin the Quitter will use her poison darts even more and the elephant will die from a 1000 puffs from her tiny little blow gun.
[1] This is about keeping America free and if that means Sarah Palin gets involved in that process to keep it free than more power to her.
[3] Calling Sarah Palin ignorant is itself demonstrably ignorant. Those who are saying this ignore her accomplishments (and the fact they themselves have done nothing outstanding) and condemn her for having an illegitimate grandchild and an unwed mother daughter? Is this for real, when half of America's minority urban population fits that description? And, that baby is not illegitimate--no child ever is.
[1] Palin has recorded a robocall message to encourage Virginians to vote on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. "Virginia, hello, this is Sarah Palin calling to urge you to go to the polls Tuesday and vote to share our principles.
[32] Sarah Palin is set to speak in the state and some might be surprised at who landed the big get.
[7] You can tell whom liberals fear by considering whom they pay attention to, and whom they try to belittle. Sarah Palin is their greatest fear, for good reason.
[27] I'd be happy to see Darryl Jackson as the next pundit. He clearly knows more about Sarah Palin than all the critics who are still confusing her with a comedian's portrayal.
[1] Sad that almost nobody seems to understand that simple fact. This columnist-to-be missed the opportunity to be the first to note how much Sarah Palin resembles Barbie.
[1] I've never understood the degree of venom directed at Sarah Palin. David Letterman did a scathing bit on her ( one of many, of course) referencing what 'Vanity Fair' was reporting. He conveiniently didn't let on that it was Levi Johnston doing the reporting.
[23] Seriously, I find it difficult to attach any credibility to someone who believes Sarah Palin has anything relevant to say.
[1] Personally, though, I have an aversion to associating the word dog with any lady who is as beautiful, outside, and inside, as Sarah Palin is.
[1] Sarah Palin will speak at the Salina Chamber of Commerce annual meeting in February.
[36] Sarah Palin is ignorant. That was not just a media portrayal. She demonstrated ridiculous stupidity in her interviews.
[1] Hopium Dopium chumps. Sarah Palin will be the gift that will keep on giving if she persists. All she wants is money for nothing.
[1] Participating in mock interview sessions will help her. All who buried Sarah Palin hope that she remains so. The ranks of her supporters could swell. Second acts have happened in both parties.
[1] What if it never was? Today, The Daily Beast has the exclusive text of Sarah Palin's prepared speeches -- win or lose -- on that fateful night last November. They're as entertaining as one could've hoped.
[23] The lady's approval ratings have gone south in national polls, but we are likely to see and hear a lot of Sarah Palin in the "lower 48."
[8] Sarah Palin gives speeches full of non sequiturs and run-on sentences. Her thoughts wander 'round and 'round never landing on the point she is trying to make. Maybe inside her head she knows what she means.
[1] The Palin endorsement of Hoffman was a clarion call that put Reagan-era conservatism front-and-center in the duty to save the party by remonstrance, if necessary. Now, Sarah's lending her inimitable voice to the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.
[32] This is what Alaska had to say about Palin if the republicans had one hald a mind they would look at her history of party divisiveness, polorization and destruction and take hee. Take her at her world she is a self proclaimed rogue, dishonest, knavish person a scoundrel. I have yet to see what Palin was so upset about that she could not speak; it was a McCain ticket that brought her to the stage.
[11] Good thing this woman never set foot in the White House or the Vice-President's compound. To have elected her would have been a tragedy for this country. I hate to say this, but I feel bad for McCain. I'm sure he's kicking himself for letting the bim. eh, Palin out of Alaska.
[11] Ms. Palin had very little to offer the country. Sadly, while Alaska is well shed of her, it would seem that we will have to put up with her childish grandstanding for a while longer. Mr. McCain, there were so many better choices for a running mate; you really should not have let yourself be railroaded into strapping this anchor to your neck.
[11] This story, although giving the liberals a platform to spew their venom and hate, is over a year old. Let's have one about how this administration has been such a failure, the promises it has broken and the dangerous path it has put this country on or how McCain and Palin were right about the failed policies and personalities of this administration.
[11] The party faces near collapse as the right views the previous election as a seizure of power as many voices were legitimized when Mccain chose Palin as a running mate.
[25] Palin's biggest opponent isn't the dems, it is the Cheney wing of the repub party. Palin proved that she has no base to draw on for the next election, she was paired with and carries the stain of a failed Presidential ticket loss, is viewed as a quitter by most of the nation for jumping ship on Alaska, skips out on appearances that she committed to without explanation or notice.
[1] Palin is nothing more than a side show. She will remain in public life but I don't see her seeking elected office again. She is of great value to the party as a fund raiser and she can make a lot of money on the speaking circuit. Biden's sarcastic, demeaning remarks about her are exactly what is firing up the republicans. Her reply that conservatives are tired of the left mischaracterizing their positions hits the nail square on the head.
[1] Multiple Palin stamps of approval could be good for the recipients, the Republican Party, and ex-Governor Palin herself.
[15] You obviously don't understand that Mrs. Palin is not authentic. She is attempting to ally herself with the most volatile, angry, and easily riled shard of the Republican party.
[1] Between Palin, Bachmann, Foxx a responsible party of Republicans should have done what Senator McCain did on concession evening, by never allowing Palin to speak.
[11] 'In the days after her selection as the vice presidential nominee, the McCain team was so unsure of Palin's policy acumen that they drew up hundreds of flash cards to get the candidate "up to speed on foreign affairs and major national issues."
[11] Another Caribou Barbie faux pas. Who else except Palin would want to give a concession speech as the Vice Presidential candidate? She does not get it or will she ever get it.
[11] Why any self respecting conservative would continue to tout Ms. Palin as a viable presidential candidate, or candidate for anything, is completely beyond me. She's the equivalent of a charismatic snake oil salesman.
[1] Flashcards to remember the name of the Prime Minister of UK? Dear Lord. Well, to her credit, Painfully Stupid Bigot Palin was practicing what she preaches. Much like her supporters whom she described as 'Real Americans', she was also describing herself; that is one of those 'Real Americans' who will never travel beyond a 10 mile radius of their place of birth, use their Conservative American bastardization of European Christianity to justify their racial and religious bigotry, believe the United States is the center of the world and that Jesus was an American.
[11] The empty feeling of finding out your always wrong makes you want to destroy someone like Palin, True intelligence is when you can make a really complicated problem sound simple, let me see, oh like energy is equal to mass squared by the speed of light. Simple right? True genius in simple! She just scares the pants off the left with simple conservative solutions to problems the left over intellectualizes to make themselves look smart. Larry the Cable guy would do a better job than their leader and that's not to insult Larry's intelligence. The world is getting smaller and getting soft on our problems is not the answer to them.
[1] A self-made politician - unlike wealthy Pelosi or First Lady by marriage Clinton, a PTA Mom, a former small-town Mayor, a former popular Governor etc. Palin was treated unfairly? Perhaps we should have pretended she was not woefully uninformed and wholly unqualified to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Her interview performances were appalling, even when served softball questions like "what newspapers do you read?" Now she quits her job as governor so she can make big bucks from a book deal.
[1] No wonder security sucks. He is so proud-did you get CIA Intelligence wrong too? Wow? Palin? He is actually pushing Palin-now I guess that is security in the raw since she sees Russia and can write a book in 50 seconds and turn a dollar or two. Takes an idiot like Fred Hiatt and Don Graham to think this guy is Pundit material. Katherine Graham must be turning in her grave.
[1] Reagan was an actor playing at being president. He had no clue what in hell was going on and no intellectual curiosity (ditto Palin). They share one other trait (along with Bush): they like to stand in front of the bright lights and hear themselves talk.
[1] Gotta love Mrs. Palin's business sense though: giving up a cheap governorship in order to cash in. I'm sure there's no one upset she wants to charge the Iowa Republicans $100,000. to come there and speak. Certainly doesn't sound like she's going to be running for President, at least not in Iowa.
[27] Palin is so full of herself. I hope she runs for President. She probably will considering when Republicans say no thanks to her campaigning and she does it anyway.
[11] Back on topic, the VA and NJ elections weren't about Palin. In NY-23, you might have a case if Hoffman's support had plummeted after her endorsement. It did the opposite it surged. That may have been due to other factors as well, including other Republicans who also endorsed Hoffman, such as Fred Thompson, Tim Pawlenty, and George Pataki. Hey, Pataki actively campaigned for Hoffman, so it would make more sense to suggest that the race was a referendum on him. In reality, if Hoffman loses, it will simply be because his surge fell short. Perhaps he would have won were it not for Scozzafava's endorsement of Owens. Palin likely helped Hoffman's surge, but it would be a mistake to ignore the efforts of other conservatives such as Thompson. This election wasn't about Palin either.
[39] Schmidt then broke the news to Palin. She told no one on her staff, the authors write, setting off a series of staff miscommunications that went unresolved until moments before McCain took the stage to concede the election. Palin did not inform her adviser Jason Recher, who was planning out Palin's movements that night, about Schmidt's directive.
[11] The authors also write that Palin's determination to deliver a concession speech on Election Night in Arizona turned into a heated clash between the Palin and McCain camps. They write that McCain aides "literally turned the lights out on Palin when she retook the stage later that night to take pictures with her family, fearing that she would give the concession speech after all."
[40] The authors portray election night as deeply unsatisfying for Palin'''not only was she denied the opportunity to speak, but there was also no real postcampaign celebration with the McCains. Palin and her entourage accidentally ran into McCain in the parking lot as they were making a quiet exit.
[12] Gee. what a suprise, Palin creates Chaos while Stabbing McCain in the back. Well, she had things to do, like screw the taxpayers of Alaska by quitting so she could go cash in on that "Special interest" money she claimed to hate so much.
[11] Reagan was the two-term governor of America's most-populous state; Palin was the less-than-one-term governor of backwater Alaska.
[1] Reagan had a successful acting career and was head of the Screen Actors Guild; Palin had no career and was mayor of the Crystal Meth capital of Alaska (pop: 7,000).
[1] Fresh new ideas? Palin and Nixon? Yikes. In any event, it is hardly possible for Palin to make a comeback since she never actually did anyone the favor of leaving the political arena. She simply pulled out of her real job and real responsibilities in Alaska to go galivanting in Iowa.
[1] Whoever can make a buck or two writing abotu the dysfunctional McCain-Palin campaign is welcome to do so. Palin is an opportunist and it is proved proven when she saw the money and abandoned the Alaska governorship. Her values are quite simple: crush anyone in your path to make money. This is well documented in her political career thus far.
[11] You already have enough of the same type in your newspaper already. This is nothing more than a campaign document. Palin is a talented demagogue, but her petulant and impulsive resignation from the governorship will doom her chances of winning the presidency. She might get the GOP nomination, since the right wing is now in complete control of that party.
[1] America.has been so dumbed down that we can not see what is right in front of us.Remember,Facebook is constitutionally required to provide forums for bullies and bigots. Still Loving this Country. Palin was a celebrity because she was a unique oddity. She spoke very poorly, was seemingly dimwitted, frighteningly militant, but good-looking. Because of the first three qualities I mentioned (not the fourth, obviously), the thought of her as any sort of national representative of the United States is funny at best, immensely terrifying at worst.
[1] You definitely have to "step out in faith". I'm praying that Obama doesn't completely destroy our country before someone that loves our country and it's constitution is back in power. From what I know already about Mrs. Palin I think she does. God bless America and keep her from Tyranny.
[29] Does anyone in Americe think that Obama can read a simple profit/loss statement? LOL Palin can. I'm not sure what I think about Palin except for my admiration for her grit. Her sheer stamina and courage in the face of cruelty and abuse. She doesn't blame others for what she "inherited." This is a woman who steps up to the plate, and I admire that.
[1] Look at the polls again if you need to. He was losing prior to bringing her on, Obama was well in the lead. It was his choice of Palin that put him back in the running. However it was a political move on his part, that he still fails to admit to. However once the choice was made, they wanted her to be a good little girl and sit there and look pretty. He made the mess not her, he allowed it to continue past the point of no return, and he has paid for it, he lost.
[11] Whether the amount of attention being focused on Palin is a good thing for the American political process is, of course, a matter for debate. What seems unarguable, however, is that it's going to be very good for a handful of publishers.
[27] Keep it up, dimwits. I'm not a huge Palin fan, but she is a political force and this is a fair commentary. I don't find it exceptional in that it doesn't really advance a unique opinion (most of us already know that Palin is well into her second act, and she's being fairly successful at it (as we'll probably see in tomorrow's elections), but it is well written and seems perfectly designed to set off the Pavlovian response mechanisms that characterize liberals today (do you all even realize how ridiculously easy it is to get you started with your yammering?).
[1] CNN still pounding Palin. What is your obsession with this woman? They only thing I see is the left love jumping in and pounding her into the ground. Although I did not like her she is starting to really gain my sympathy. There must be something about her if the left wing media and the left wing bloggers hate her so much. CNN don't you have someone else to pick on? Try Pelosi for a changethere is alot more there and she has an effect on all of our lives.
[11] Palin only survives here because the American people have bought into the idea that follow-up questions are form of "gottcha" journalism. Fluff like this is "commentary". I hate reading these "winning" essays.
[1] Next please. It is utterly unbelievable that people like B2O2 still believe the totally discredited story that Palin "thought that Africa was a county" (and that he used it as a sly racial insult at you) but that people were willing to believe that she was dumb. Don't they understand that video is EDITED and that the likes of Couric et al, can make anyone seem brilliant or dumb at will with the push of a few buttons.
[1] Hopefully during Palin's upcoming media tour for her book, some people take her to task for the fraud and hypocrite she is. Enough of the nice-talk already, call this woman out and expose her.
[34] Some were, 'Uh oh.' But our biggest accounts stayed steady." He'll be one of the few right-wing voices out there when people are looking for people to talk about Palin's book, said Will Weisser, associate publisher of Sentinel books.
[9] The other books written about Palin are clearly trying to both take advantage of the interest in her and to diminish her own book. I will only be buying Ms. Palin's book and will be trying to see if she has any good ideas on where she would guide the country if she were given the opportunity. For me she represents hope for the future.
[27] Rogue is also a good name for her. She is a pathetic example of what is wrong with our country. Although I find these reports on Palin humorous and I get a good laugh everytime she opens her mouth, the media has to stop induldging her stupidity. She is not a role model and should not be representing women in politics. Stop covering her in the media and she will go away. Her departure into the Alaskan wilderness is well overdue.
[11] Mr. Jackson's argument that Palin compares to Reagan is in fact very good. He falis to take his argument far enough. Both are popular amoung a certain population and both were without substance. Reagan never practiced what he preached. The Democrat controlled Congress had to cut his spending requests in six of eight budgets. Palin soes not practice what she preaches either. Her big empahsis is on anti corruption but she managed to build a million dollar plus house on less than $100,000 income.
[1] Reagan sold arms to mideast oil producers for more production (oil went to $10/bbl), with trade barriers, dinking the bear's economy further. It's quite obvious to me that this column, with the combination buzzwords of "Reagan" and "Palin" are merely Mr. Jackson's weak and transparant attempt to highlight his conservative bonafides in hopes of landing a permanent job at WaPo as it's token black conservative, and the vapidity of this column is meaningful only as a employment application.
[1] Mr. Jackson is a lawyer. Perhaps out of deference to Mrs. Palin's ambitions he could draft a constitutional amendment limiting presidential terms to two years.
[1] Just paint the picture as you wish others to believe it, and that becomes the reality. For instance, Ms. Palin protecting her children as a "lioness protects her cubs" -aside from being a cheesy phrase to begin with - it does not accurately represent what occurred when she thrust her children on the national stage knowing full well (or at least a thinking person would)that her daughter Bristol would be eaten alive, and now to continue the saga by lambasting the 18 year old father of her grandchild in the national press. This obviously does not sound like a "lioness protecting her cubs", but if that's what you want us to believe, uh, okay. Just for the record - the Post shouldn't waste their money on hiring a columnist to write this kind of tripe - they can simply take a few of the Beck or Limbaugh rifts and put them to print. They press hot buttons too.
[1] Palin has turned a man who was seen as an esteemed Senator, war hero and fair non-prejudiced person to being called names like McShame.
[11] McCain builds bridges; neo-cons like Palin, Beck, O'Reilly, Bush, Limbaugh, PERRY, etc. build walls.
[25] The now former running mates exchanged final pat-on-the-back hugs and a muffled thank-you or two. There was no discussion about the shared experience they had just completed and no photograph to memorialize the gloomy occasion, as there had been on that buoyant day in Arizona nine weeks earlier when he had asked her to be his running mate. As some of Palin's staffers gazed at the scene, they marveled at its awkwardness. McCain was never one for overwrought sappiness, but this was a strikingly anticlimactic way to end his partnership with Palin. Later back in their hotel suite, Todd cracked open the champagne, while Palin wondered aloud to the group that had gathered, "What just happened?" Soon she was off on her second renegade mission that evening'''gathering her staff and family for an unapproved photo shoot onstage.
[12] The move infuriated McCain's senior advisers, who thought that, with all the television cameras still set up, it was Palin's last-ditch attempt to steal the spotlight from the senator. The authors imply that Palin simply viewed it as closure, a way to mark the end of a memorable experience for her, her family, and her staff.
[12] 
Palin was the village idiot in the campaign, but McCain was truly the "rogue". He chose someone who couldn't pass a SAT, if you gave her the clues.
[11] Huckabee attended several rallies with McDonnell in the spring in Bristol, Tazwell, Roanoke and Virginia Beach. He returned last week to host a fundraiser for McDonnell in Newsport News. McDonnell has made it pretty clear in recent months that he did not want Palin's help. McDonnell repeatedly and personally asked Palin for help this summer, but by late August Palin learned that the McDonnell campaign no longer wanted her assistance, Palin aide Meg Stapleton
told us a few weeks ago.
[30] The election, between Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds, is being viewed by some as a referendum on President Obama -- the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Virginia since 1964.
[31] As we approach the anniversary of the 2008 presidential election, many are looking back on President Obama's
first year in office ]]
first year in office.
[23] Republicans have said that this year's elections are a referendum on President Obama.
[39] Obama's outsized spending turned battleground states Democratic and Republican states into battlegrounds. Palin will hit such slow-pitches much better.
[1] Anything is possible on Hardball, never mind Virginia. Why's Matthews even have to ask this? Doesn't Virginia have all sorts of fancy book-learning now to prevent the rise of Palin-like figures? For his part, Cantor simply offers that Virginia is a commonsense state where "millions" of Republicans find Palin and McDonnell--who the segment is supposedly about--intriguing figures, to no avail.
[14] The two Republican gubernatorial campaigns rebuffed Palin's offers to stump. They won, and largely on independent voters.
[39] Palin's support comes despite the fact that McDonnell's campaign said it did not want the failed vice-presidential candidate'''s involvement. McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin told CNN on Monday that McDonnell'''s campaign had nothing to do with the phone blitz and was not aware of the robocalls until a reporter informed him about them. McDonnell previously made headlines during the campaign for claiming he would not renew an executive order that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation for state job applicants, and for his controversial 1989 graduate thesis, circulated to the press in September, criticizing working women, contraception, and homosexuality.
[34] Doug Hoffman, the third party candidate in the NY-23 election who Palin endorsed, is by all appearances losing.
[39] Palin's Mavericks could even hold periodic conventions. Palin herself? Running a stable of self-approved mavericks would boost her own power and status within the party ''' not to mention lead to more paid speeches and possibly a second book contract.
[15] Then just when we thought we saw bottom along comes Sara (sitting on my porch padding my foreign policy experience) Palin. To be fair to Palin she seems to be a very nice person. She has a family no more or less dysfunctional then most and it's obviously important to her. I don't believe she beats her kids. She might have gone after a State Trooper, but that was in trying to protect a family member. That's no real sin. It might have not been the smartest thing to do, but it's understandable. On the national stage or even a middle of the road size State this woman hasn't been ready for prime and never will be. Sorry, but she's simply not bright enough or polished enough. With a lot of work she can probably be polished up, but she'll never be any brighter then she is today. Coming from the party that loved Bush it's obvious that intelligence isn't high on the list of qaulifications.
[1] Once more we learn about the dysfunction in Palin's camp, which is evident from all the miscues, errors, blunders since McCain choose her as his running mate. I do not hate, nor am I scared of this woman.
[11] Pretty scary when McCain's handlers were more afraid of Palin's unpredictability than that of their own candidate. Fie upon them both.
[11] Technically it wasn't McCain's choice as much as it was the GOP higher-ups who chose Palin (Great job Krystol, Dick Morris,etc.)
[11] You framed it nicely. I was not looking forward to reading a Palin piece, but I enjoyed it It would have been great to add in something about her current "rogue" relevance such as stirring up the pot with Hoffman and getting the GOP candidate to withdrawal.
[1] "Sarah
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Palin thinks the answer to energy is 'Drill, baby, drill. It's a lot more complicated, Sarah, than drill baby drill."
[19] I think we need a National Holiday from Palin. A whole day where no news story about her is reported, she makes no public appearances, and no one talks about her.
[21] Darryl, as a Black man you need to think twice. You better hope that Palin, whose husband, was a 7 year member of the AIP, with her support. By support, attending their conferences as recently as mid year in 2008.
[1] What's really scary is that there are people out there that think Palin is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
[11] History is littered with people who made it good but shouldn't have. I prefer to stop Mrs. Palin now before she has a chance to prove her critcs right.
[1] You're so right that we just need more magic market dust to fix it now. Hey Anonymous, you touch on some very good points! It's good to hear from you and the majority of Americans who are opposed to this so called health care reform bill. Too bad Obama, Pelosi, and Reid just won'''t tell everyone the truth and are going through the unbelievable antics to conceal the facts, mislead Americans and ram this thing through congress without the representation of the people by the congressmen and women who were elected to represent us. They are counting on Americans complacency and for us to just sit back and let them do this. I have not spoke to or heard of one single person who knows anything about this bill and thinks it is a good thing. I'''m finding the only people who even remotely think it is good don'''t have a clue as to what is in it and when explained to them they are against it completely. We all know health care needs some attention but this is not it.
[36] The last thing our country needs is more polarization. It's fine to go extreme right in an attempt to gain the backing of the extremist minority religious far right (although it may sometimes seem like a majority down here; it most assuredly is not) - but it is not going to get any Republican elected. I have a great respect for John McCain, and I think he was pressured into making a horrible decision by his team's attempt at wooing the extremist right. It didn't work. Had he picked someone else, almost anyone else, it would've been a very close call.
[25] I told you long time ago. she is a stupid lady. no education, no experience. Ha!!! for experience, foreign, she even went to Hong Kong. Ha. this is how she thinks. idiots like Mitt Romney, big fat Rush Limbauh, and old idiot like Mitch Mcconnol. crazy idiot like John Bohner thinks she is great. even North carolina Rep. verginia foxx is so idiot. I told you after 60 years, of age, brain would not function. so they need to bar from being elected. prima facie. ok.
[11] We need to get tough and make hard choices with solid leaders who wont waffle on tough issues. Being soft hasn't worked over the last fifty years so its time for someone to stand up for principals that worked to form this country.
[1] Hordes of blood sucking liberal reporters decended on Alaska. Could it be that Sarah strikes a cord of honesty that is so absent from Washington DC. She energizes her constituents with basics. Look at wat is in DC now.voters do not trust congress. they cannot manage a budget. they cannot run a business. they can only spend and bloviate. It is time for someone to think of what is best for this country and not themselves.
[1] You now compare a lightweight to a President that, no matter how many times I and others disagreed with him, did coordinate with a game changing Soviet leader (I've always suspected that Gorbie was a deeply hidden CIA mole!) to end the cold war. We have new and complicated conflicts however. it's almost Orwellian, isn't it? So the big question is. do you want this wacky woman to hold the modern version of the red phone? I hope you do. I'll contribute to her campaign, because I could think of no scenario that could give a better guarantee of thoughtful Democratic leadership for some time to come.
[1] I thank God every day that John McCain lost the election and shudder to think that this woman could be next in line to the presidency. She doesn't scare me but the 20% of Americans who think she is smart enough to be president sure do.
[11] I think that McCain has become a Rush Limbaugh diddle head. That lost all his credibility and integrity with the American people and is just to out of touch and vindictive to voice a meaningful response.
[25] On the same day Palin's own book publishes, comes a book of left-leaning essays, "Going Rouge: An American Nightmare." The book, with its parody title and strikingly similar cover art, was put together by two senior editors at The Nation magazine and will be available only on the Web site of its publisher, OR Books. There's also a satirical coloring book of the same name, from a husband-and-wife team hoping they're funny enough for an appearance on Comedy Central's "Colbert Report."
[9] Particularly, Palin's willingness to hate on gay Americans for cheap political gain means I as a moderate American will never support her.
[1] I am a conservative but I'm waiting a bit before I make a decision on Mrs. Palin. I agree with her whole heartedly about the values she has but I need to hear more from her. I'm at the point I don't take politicians at their word anymore so it's difficult to make an intelligent decision about them.
[29] Palin has a dangerous personality disorder. Talk radio pounces on and promotes her ideas ( or lack thereof ), she is commented on by the Washington Post, and she is now a wealthy woman. Millions of gullible fools accept her demagoguery as truth. This kind of ' underdog ' needs no help from anybody, except maybe a psychiatrist. I read all 10 original Pundit columns and I was amazed that none of them had a punch or an improvement in the WaPo columnists who are so bland causing them to lose a good portion of their readers.
[1] The authors answered questions today from
Washington Post online readers about Palin and her involvement in today's elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York.
[10] This is nothing but Palin envy. Palin hasn't even given an interview since leaving office and she is in the news anout every day.
[11] Anyway, you will never sell Palin to the general public as presidential material. She'll implode. Having said all that I sincerely hope the R's do run her in 2012. This act will keep the D's from spending a lot of money to keep the Oval Office.
[1] As a woman I have a vested interest in seeing the best women move forward in politics. Mrs. Palin was not torpedoed, she simply was not competent to compete on the level of Presidential politics.
[1] Palin's power as a candidate is clearly demonstrated aby the fear of Palin demonstrated by the libloons. They just can't stop talking about this woman.
[1] Obama delivered probity, thoughtfulness, insight. Palin delivered an empty head, a tendency to make proclamations marked by a lack of knowledge, and empty appeals to authority based on her demonstrably trivial (and even then, badly mismanaged) experience in governance in Alaska.
[1] Now I'm really confused. Palin said with Obama leading we're gonna be just fine? But SHE said he was a Muslim terrorist. Oh wait. she said "IF" he governs. whew. all is right again in my world. She used a qualifier to give him a compliment.
[21] Palin was the kind of Christian who felt comfortable expressing her face in public, which the speech reflected: I will remember all the people who said they were praying for me. She squeezed another handwritten line in the margin: You prayer warriors have been my strength and my shield.
[12] For more information on the banquet and Governor Palin, people can go to the Chamber'''s website at www.salinakansas.org.
[36] One of her accomplishments was to abruptly and unexpectedly quit as governor of Alaska. She offered no viable explanation to the people who elected her as well as the citizens of the state of Alaska who she swore to serve, why she did so. We all do know there is alot in her closet. Beside being ignorant, hypocritical, and irresponsible, maybe the job just got too demanding for her to handle. Let us know what sort of read her book is.
[3] The get-out-the-vote calls are being paid for by the Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition, the state chapter of a national conservative group with the same name that was founded by Reed. Steve Martin, a spokesman for the Virginia chapter, said the group formed last fall under the name Virginians of Faith, but signed onto to Reed's group in the spring and changed its name. They have been registering people to vote through churches, e-mails and 650,000 pieces of mail.
[30] Fiscal conservatives are the core of the Republican party and when the party returns to fiscal conservatism which means reigning in spending as much as keeping taxes low, they'll get their groove back. There will always be social conservatism as well, but honestly the thing that affects most people is their pocketbook.
[25] The only conservatives that mainstream America wants are fiscal conservatives, and that is not who the Republican Party is any more. Instead they want to go hard-line conservatism. The Republican Party needs to decide if they want to appease their base or if they want to win elections.
[11] The relationship between McCain/Palin is symbolic of the divide between the conservative party and the republican party. I was hoping that the Republican Party would push social conservatives to the side opening the party for a larger base, while actually pushing for the fiscal responsibility they always preach but have not practiced for over a decade. Unfortunately it seems like hard-line Conservatives are trying to steal the party back, as they feel that the current Republican hierarchy is not conservative enough. This will just serve to continue the flight from the Republican Party.
[11] Rush, Bill Orielly, Hanity, and numerous other conservatives gained a larger audience as the wings of the party merged together for a breif time strengthening themselves. The future of the Republican party is a sure collapse, until they can reallign and adopt a new platform they will surely continue to lose power.
[25] The Republican Party has split between the traditional conservative and the religious right.
[25] Abraham Lincoln himself was actually the first Republican president and was - thankfully - able to see that human rights surpass political ideologies like states' rights.
[38] When history speaks, it will not be the likes of fanatical or religious opportunists who will become the great ideologues, but the slogging muddied, and unbowed who led by human error and human potential, and succeeded in rousing the masses to great achievements, not to political victories. Your greatest Republican president was mistrusted and feared throughout a divided nation, The greatest Democratic president was maligned throughout his four terms in office. Both failed because their leadership was cut short when the wars were won, by the peace lost to lesser men.
[1] This woman is like a virus that has infected our cultural and our political process. A grotesquely ambitious and totally inadequate politician who succeeds with her empty-headed charm and obvious instinct for mud-slinging. The GOP has inflicted this creature on us and now, for the next decade, we're going to have to listen to her self-aggrandizing, divisive chirping, whether she's in office or not.
[11] Sarah once again takes the most powerful and ahead-of-the-curve leadership role for conservatives in the nation. It was the work of Americans like Sarah and Fred Thompson who did us all the great service of forcing someone like Dede Scozzafava into the light of scrutiny, exposing her for what she truly is: poster-girl for the GOP's harrowing decline.
[32] The result? Conservative feet that stayed away in previous elections are now ready to storm the polls. If the past several weeks have taught us anything about the past few years, it's that the GOP leadership's watered-down attempt to lodge itself in some sort of political "blind-spot" has unquestionably betrayed us.
[32] Now that the only pro-marriage equality candidate in New York's 23rd Congressional district, Republican Dede Scozzafava, has dropped out of the race, Tuesday's election holds any number of political lessons for both the GOP and the LGBT community.
[34] Political A-listers are hitting the campaign trail today to fire up crowds as Democratic and Republican candidates run neck and neck in
three hotly contested elections.
[5] Sarah's not worried. Her battle is being fought for true conservatism, and whether you're a Republican or third party candidate, you'd better know who's buttering your bread by now. Clue: it's us.
[32] The call, in which the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate says"the eyes of America will be on Virginia," is paid for by the Faith & Freedom Coalition, part of a national conservative group founded by Ralph Reed.
[31] '''Sales continue to be exceptionally brisk,''' Lauver said. He said anyone who wants to attend the Chamber'''s annual banquet Feb. 5 to hear the former Republican vice presidential candidate should call the Chamber at 827-9301, click on the Web site at www.salinakansas.org, or visit the Chamber office at 120 W. Ash. He said by today the 1,408 seats on the main floor will likely be sold out to Chamber members, and gallery seating opportunities will be made available.
[33] Apparently she pays no attention to anyone, just doing her own thing. She should never be considered for president or vice-president. Just think how she might handle security intelligence. pay no attention to it, or go beyond security adivors and just do her own thing. I might vote republican in the future but not if she is the candidate.
[11] Frankly, the woman appears emotionally unstable. She makes not a lick of sense to me. What is her deal? I know that highly conservative Republican voters think she is awesome. All I can think is they must be really desperate if she is the best they can come up with to rally around.
[11] I agree with Wiltondiary - Reagan was a Keynesian - government spending increased out of all bounds under him, including all of that buildup of the presumably peacetime (well, Cold War, I suppose, actually. ) military. A fiscal conservative, despite all of the rhetoric, he absolutely was not. I still wanna know where he was going, in some of the final debates presdiential debates, on that highway when his recollection faded out - I don't think the man was ever all there, in the first place. Some think he was never the same after he had been shot - I don't know about that, for sure. I do absolutely believe that he was a puppet for his right-wing puppetmasters. Reagan WAS an idiot, despite any nostalgia on the part of the Republic Party or any revisionist history - an amiable idiot, apparently - he did seem to get along with - and try to - Tip O'Neill and others with whom his 'philosophy' would not seen to indicate that he was on the same wavelength, at all, with those folks.
[1] "Today, many rank that man -- Ronald Reagan -- among our greatest presidents." Oh really? I believe your "many" must actually refer to "many conservatives", those who insist on canonizing a guy who was actually a mediocre president at best, at least according to "many" presidential historians. The problem with conservatives is they've become both intellectually lazy and dishonest. They have no capacity for introspection. They insist on touting the same old garbage even when confronted with the facts, that is, their ideas have not worked out well for the majority of Americans.
[1] Last time I checked, the U.S. president's term is 4 years. can't resign half way through the term giving some cock-and-bull story. She can stay home, raise the children in a good conservative way, like date--marry--& have chidren--in that order. The last one may require her undivided attention & extra care.
[1] Nothing like a handy-dandy good ole' Palin article to get the libs foaming at the mouth and get their minds off of the anticipated dismal showings for the dems at the polls today.
[11] The Reagan analogy was provocative enough. The arm chair generaling of Palin on how to reform her campaign is tiresome.
[1] Reagan oversaw the deregulation, looting and $150+ billion tax-payer bailout of America's Savings & Loan institutions. The Palin = Reagan comparison has many downfalls, Darryl -- as anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size would know.
[1] The left is terrified of Palin and most seem to suffer from PDS. What I wouldn't give to see this lady as our first female president.
[1] We didn't need all these details to know that Palin is arrogant, under-educated and inexperienced, but the confirmation is nice. Can't wait for her to sink what's left of the dirty GOP.
[11] As Sarah purges more and more moderates from the GOP, her new party will be made up mainly of birthers, deathers, teabaggers and secessionists. There is always room for these displaced moderates in the Democratic Party.
[11] Biden is trying to save Democrats from a GOP sweep: With gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey looking bleak for Democrats, says
Johanna Neuman in the Los Angeles Times, Biden's "last-minute rescue mission" to upstate New York has a more immediate goal -- keeping the party from losing "the trifecta on Tuesday."
[13] Neither were delivered. Shushannah Walshe, a Fox News producer during the campaign,''and Scott Conroy, a CBS news campaign reporter,''write about their book today in The Daily Beast, saying the undelivered speeches were penned by speech writer Matthew Scully. This is a moment when principles and political independence matter a lot more than the party line.
[40] The cover of "Sarah From Alaska," which reveals new details about the campaign, including the speeches.
[21] The former Alaska governor is supporting conservative candidate Douglas Hoffman, running for the congressional seat representing
New York's conservative, upstate 23rd District.
[5] The object of funny mental lust, yet again receives unmerited WaPo (maker of news) attention. Her resignation from the Governor's office is mavericky instead of quitting? In whose universe? Joe Biden may make gaffs, Nixon was a swine, Reagan a haircut but at least they all have or had a grasp of history, current events, worldwide diplomacy and policy. She can stay in Alaska and protect her cubs, we'll all be better off.
[1] We have seen the grace and skill of Barack Obama, and the grit and determination of Joe Biden. By his nomination and extraordinary campaign, Barack Obama has achieved a great thing, for himself and for our country, and for that America will always honor him.
[22] Ronald Reagan ARRIVED with a campaign of hate toward poor black women, and starving the federal government. He partied hearty, left huge debts, and a legacy republicans have used since then more or less successfully - the politics of personal destruction, campaigns against other Americans, gays, lesbians, women, blacks, Hispanics, veterans, the poor, blue collor workers, liberals, democrats and now - even republicans. Its never about what they can do for the country, or even how they can and will enact the policies in which they pretend to believe.
[1] No substance at all. I do want her to run in 2012 and I want her to win the Republican nomination. Obama will crush her in a debate and be assured an easy re-election. Good for all the non-trash, educated people in this country.
[11] Who should be the next CEO? The person with a strong career history and the charisma to match, or that guy in the corner whom nobody notices but is nurturing some groundbreaking ideas that could change the world (at least for that company and sometimes for the whole industry)? Read leadership guru, Jim Collins,' book: 'Good to Great' and then read Darryl again. Sadly, people only form judgments on what a person has done in the past and what they are today. Rarely do these folk stop to consider what a person's potential is. It might be unknowable but it can't be ruled out - people do grow into the job. The jury is (rightfully) out on Obama's presidency - will he grow into the job or will the complexity of it drown him.
[1] That is what happens when you saddle someone eager to win and provide leadership with an old status quo workhorse that has no desire to give it their all. McCain lost before he ever started, had he addressed the errors of the Bush Administration, gone after Obama on his ideologies and political associations, we may be living a different life in America right now.
[11] This time last year the world was focused on Barack Obama and John McCain as they competed to become the 44th president of the United States.
[28] Just unfreakingbelievable. I know some folks are complaining about Obama, but really, with judgement like he showed in his VP pick, everybody should be feeling greatly relieved that McCain's not in office.
[11] The unkindest cut came from the Republicans who abandoned her. Many cited her as the reason they crossed over to Obama. Even McCain's campaign staff leaked its displeasure with her.
[1] McCain should have picked Colin Powell. He had the respect of moderate Republicans and Democrats, plus he would have been able to take a large portion of the black vote. Republicans chose to dis-own him after he endorsed Obama.
[11] Republicans are so blinded by just party affiliation. Do they not realize that she cost McCain the election.
[29] For that reason alone, the Republican Party deserves a collective 'time-out' for the next two national elections.
[11] "Congressman Eric Cantor'''one of the real rising stars of the Republican Party I think he'''s going to be one of the real leaders of the country someday.
[14] Not every recent college grad subscribes to John Stewart's school of economic liberalism. Unfortunately, however, the Republican party seems largely disconnected from this growing group, continuously barking out stupid, uneducated and uniformed crap like this.
[38] One thing is for sure, the republican better not run another RINO like McCain who is just Democrat light. I loved how the so called moderates who claimed to love him, dissed him and voted for the far leftist extremist instead of him. That should be a lesson for all Republicans to learn. There is no compromising or working with the left, they are pure evil.
[11] I would like to see Sarah, but Tickets for the public are not on sale until December and I'm sure tickets will be gone by then. She is one of the biggest flakes out there. Go give her your money, buy her book. All she is out for is MONEY! Once she found out she could make more money doing this, than be Governor, she quit. She couldn't find Kansas on a map, without some help.
[29] Hey Sarah, people like Hillary worked so hard for years and was not able to secure her dreams.
[11] Sarah is no Barack, in any way. She is like the handsome jock in school that you think is terrific until you learn he can't read.
[1] Great job once again, Mark! Biden is such a knuckle head; he is the perfect example of a school yard bully: try to kick your enemy when you think they are down. He isn't too swoof in the brain department (and they said Sarah was lacking?)--she just kicked his dumb butt good and she did it on facebook. no interview necessary.
[19] I think Sarah LOVES the limelight, but doesn't really want the responsibility of governing.
[1] I really wish the American people would stay awake long enough to think for themselves.
[11] Tip seemed to return the favor. Those were different days - perhaps a more civil time - the Democrats under Tip O'Neill in 1980 decided that the American people had spoken - that the Republic hadn't come to an end (and wasn't sliding into fascism) despite the fact that the other side had lost - and Tip made the Democrats work with "The Great Communicator." Now the Democrats have just got to get up some gumption and find their spines to stick the Republic Party - The Party of No - in its place - 'bout time, too, says I.
[1] The increasingly urban population either doesn't or can't afford to care about the hot button moral issues of yester-year. Gay marriage? That seems pretty unimportant when you're unemployed and wondering where your rent is coming from. Abortion? That's sad, but without health insurance a lot of young people (a fat chunk of the nation's uninsured) are wondering if they themselves will survive amidst life's daily hazards and the media's "OMG" epidemic of H1N1. It's time for Republicans to stop trying to campaign upon an irrelevant platform in an attempt to appeal to a dying generation.
[38] The leader of the campaign to keep same-sex marriage legal in Maine believes the people of his state will vote on the side of fairness.
[34] The event, at the Salina Bicentennial Center, is expected to draw people from across the state. "She is interesting and in high demand," said Salina Chamber president Dennis Lauver. "Whether you love her or disagree with her, we think the response will be great."
[16] Drum Roll. This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Sarah Failin' did not even know what a Vice President does when she was McLame's running play-mate. She was a and still is a clueless person, who might have a pretty face and a nice ass, but she has zero intelligence on anything related to the Executive branch of government. She should pose in Playboy that what she would get a lot more votes.
[11] Sarah, you're only hurting your party when YOU tell voters to vote their "values" and vote in favor of "Sarah's principles".
[34] Don't take anything for granted, vote your values on Tuesday, and urge your friends and family to vote, too." Money for this call is coming from the Virginia
Faith and Freedom Coalition, marking perhaps the strongest example yet of Sarah's public commitment to "values-voting" and its crucial role in the conservative destiny.
[32] Sarah, who is always gracious, never mean-spirited. Sarah, who has more brains in her little finger than Obama has in his head. Sarah, who understands what America is all about, who has more knowledge of the U.S., its Constitution, and its Declaration of Indpendence, the two documents Obama despises. He despises those two sacred documents as much as he hates the United States.
[27] If only Sarah could have cared about the people who elected her as much as the people in New York.
[3] How sad that in the first election in a long while that featured honest and constructive discourse between the two fine and formidable Presidential candidates, we were forced to deal with a future Fox News commentator who dwelled on abortion, guns and Joe the Plummer. "She was portrayed as vapid by commentators and comedians, who pounced upon her lackluster performances in interviews."
[1] Clinton is only a step up, with a bigger mouth and no political future either. She, like Obama, is probably a one-term loser and hopefully, after the next election, we will hear no more about her, except from the gossip rags.
[1] Obama breathed some hope back into the air, but for a huge part of the disillusioned conservative base and the fence riding independents that hope has been silenced like laughter during the Wanda Sykes Show.
[38] I hoped that the debacle that was the Bush years would teach conservatives that the president has to know things. Then before Bush was even out of office, the Right went weak-kneed for someone even more uninformed than him.
[1] They say President Barack Obama is playing a lot of golf. He's played more golf in his few months in office than George Bush played in his eight years.
[24] President Obama is in the news. He's been criticized for only playing sports with other men. He's been taking some slack for that lately, so yesterday, he played golf with one of his top female advisers or as Fox News reported it, "Obama plays a round with another woman." President George W. Bush made his debut as a motivational speaker. Afterward, Bush said the crowd was so motivated many of them left halfway through.
[24] Leave it go good old Sarah to want to be center stage. This woman was and still is a disaster waiting to happen.
[11] All these liberal Sarah books are typical of liberals trying to cash in on someone else. The lawyers,unions and dim politicians are the reason this country is so screwed up today.Of course thw welfare crowd in breaking the country at every level.
[27] Sarah, how many clues do you need before you understand that your day in the political sun is over.
[11] The rewriting of history in regards to Reagan must end. He tripled the deficit, sold weapons to Iran, propped up murderous, extremist South American regimes, legitimized the Christian Right, ignored AIDS, propagated racist political rhetoric through the use of "code words, and looked the other way while drugs flooded in to American cities. Oh, and he didn't win the cold war - the Soviets shot themselves in the foot by invading Afghanistan.
[1] The upcoming book by her highness is nothing more than a carefully worded propaganda filled manuscript intended to persuade those salivating want to be fascist Americans. '''Little Miss Sunshine''' will achieve her goal as the next Conservative icon, reeling in more cash than she could ever dream of while directing vile and ugly criticism of the failing American way of life.
[11] Domestic drilling should remain a top priority in order to meet America's consumption and security needs. As Ann Coulter pointed out, "Biden cast one of only five votes against the pipeline that has produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20 percent of this nation's oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers to the nation's enemies by about the same amount." "This nonsensical opposition to American domestic energy development continues to this day.
[3] Sarah Pali, apparently opting for the instant response for any attack, unleashed the deadliest Facebook page on the Internet and let Joe Biden have it.
[19] Doug Hoffman now leading in the New York 23rd special congressional election, if a poll done by the Club for Growth is to be believed, it is now Doug Hoffman 31.3 percent, Democrat Bill Owen 27 percent, and Republican Dede Scozzafava at 19.7 percent. [19] Stick with the facts and surprise turnaround as you did with the Reagan analogy. I think you have potential, particularly if the Post wants to cultivate the opinion they have Republican pundits as well, and if they want you to act as a gadfly to stir the pot and drum up contraversy.
[1] One would think that a Lawyer and Former Federal Prosecutor would be a little less naive. While I did not necessarily agree with Ronald Reagan's policies, I do feel he was a unifier with regards to basic political discourse in this country. He understood the importance of "We" when it comes to our government.
[1] Today, many rank that man -- Ronald Reagan -- among our greatest presidents. That he was not the derogatory things he had been called was a matter of record. Well before running for the presidency he had wedded himself to the core ideas he espoused in that office -- anticommunism, smaller government and lower taxes. For years, he had spoken and written about them. Even some who served in Reagan's administration were surprised when, in his twilight years, the treasure trove of documents in his own hand emerged, demonstrating his long involvement with these issues.
[1] Any notion that Reagan was a great President is sorely missplaced and the republican claim to fiscal responsibility is nonsense.
[1] Many rank reagan as a great president? Really? On what planet? reagan was mediocre at best while president - and was roundly reviled by the very portion of the republicon party that now remains.
[1] If McCain picked a prochoice fiscal conservative we would have a true leader as president not that clown Obozo.
[11] The little McCain girl is writing a book too, I wonder what she will talk about in hers, besides Todd McCain being a hottie.
[12] That could have been a good speech if she had meant any of that. Just as with McCain, I'm sure she would have been on Fox the next day bashing Obama's dog choice.
[21] '''I want to make all of America look like the pro-American parts of America I campaigned in. You know, with fewer of those non-American looking people around.
[37] If you love your country you might want someone trained in policy and the nuances of international diplomacy. If you respect your candidates you'd expect them to answer questions in a legitimate debate setting without "speaking directly to the American people" and ignoring questions put them.
[1] Presidential candidates who have lost earlier races, including Reagan, have returned victorious. Americans love an underdog -- especially one they suspect was treated unfairly.
[1] Like many things we have heard from Republicans over the years, it has a certain "truthiness" to it. [1] I also thought the Post was looking for new and different viewpoints. This is like reading GOP talking points and, as other have suggested, could have easily been written by Kristol or Krauthammer.
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