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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #1 on: July 3, 2009, 11:01:38 pm »
Maybe she had a glimpsing moment of clarity.
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #2 on: July 3, 2009, 11:10:18 pm »
Good riddence to bad trash.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #3 on: July 4, 2009, 12:01:04 am »
please, please, please let her run for the GOP presidential nominee!!!

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #4 on: July 4, 2009, 12:22:18 am »
Maybe she's going to try a new career path?
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #5 on: July 4, 2009, 12:32:09 am »
Maybe she's going to try a new career path?

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #6 on: July 4, 2009, 12:41:37 am »

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #7 on: July 4, 2009, 12:48:45 am »
Maybe she's going to try a new career path?

Hopefully chasing Wiley coyote over a cliff

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #8 on: July 4, 2009, 12:49:41 am »
Scarey woman - at that level of US politics.  Doubt she's simply fucking off.  She's after bigger fish.

Nutcase - keep her right out of politics/power.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #9 on: July 4, 2009, 01:12:37 am »
This stinks this, somebody has something on her.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #10 on: July 4, 2009, 02:06:43 am »
She wants to take charge of the GOP, probably can't stand to see Michael Steele in charge.
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #11 on: July 4, 2009, 03:07:42 am »
i'm watching the press conference now. rambling crap.

would be nice to bed her though.
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #12 on: July 4, 2009, 03:21:30 am »
Multiple sources here reporting that a criminal investigation into her is forthcoming...most likely embezzlement charges regarding construction of a ridiculously expensive sports complex in her tiny home-town.

Her speech, like always, was meaningless and full of mixed metaphors and crappy sports references. I was confused by the whole thing since this is a disastrous move for anyone politically - but she released some statements saying things to the effect of "Just wait til you see my next move" which means either a Senatorial run or a Presidential run. But that seems highly unlikely seeing that she just abandoned her post after 30 months.

I was looking forward to more humor and drama from her camp, I just hope it doesn't end soon.
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #13 on: July 4, 2009, 07:59:57 am »
Her speech was really weird today. Came from nowhere. If you're going to run for president, just don't run for reelection. Resigning is unnecessary. It will be interesting to see where this goes over the next few weeks.

God I hope she's not our nominee in 2012.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #14 on: July 4, 2009, 08:39:54 am »
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #15 on: July 4, 2009, 08:51:36 am »
God, I hope so!

Hasn't someone already done that? I'm sure it was mentioned on F365 a while ago...some look-a-like obviously.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #16 on: July 4, 2009, 09:03:56 am »
Hasn't someone already done that? I'm sure it was mentioned on F365 a while ago...some look-a-like obviously.

They've done a look-a-like (Nailin' Palin) which is alright. You can't beat the real thing though.
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #17 on: July 4, 2009, 09:07:46 am »
They've done a look-a-like (Nailin' Palin) which is alright. You can't beat the real thing though.

;D  Great title!

I think the world would be a better place if she did porn....If only to keep her the hell away from government.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #18 on: July 4, 2009, 05:46:46 pm »
Have a listen of this speech. Have you ever heard such a jumbled, incompetent effort at this level of politics?

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/07/03/multimedia/1194841338826/palin-announces-resignation.html

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #19 on: July 4, 2009, 05:59:00 pm »
Wow, could her "speech" be any more of a vague, incoherent, rambling mess? I can't even decide whether she's insulting our intelligence or displaying a huge lack of her own when she talks about not being a quitter in the the very same "speech" announcing that she's quitting.

It's pretty funny though that the function of the press conference was to announce her resignation, yet that's what she talked about the very least. Instead we get stories about her children, a report updating us on her family's financial position, strategic theory concerning the functions of point-guards in basketball, random useless trivia about the [rather uninteresting] history of Alaska, and her pledge not to torture her fellow Alaskans as all other reckless lame-duck governors apparantly do as they just "have fun" by "maybe traveling around their state, traveling to other states, or maybe taking their overseas international trade missions..." Whatever the fuck that last one meant is beyond me.

After all that nonsense, she's still unable to even give a straightforward reason for her resignation. It's like watching a comedy film unfold in real life.
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #21 on: July 4, 2009, 09:02:52 pm »
Embezzelment by the sounds of it http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/3/749722/-Brad-Blog:-Federal-Indictments-for-Palin-in-Embezzlement-Scandal-May-Be-on-the-Way

watch this turn into an "ethos/pathos picking on poor chistian outsider not from washington lady" argument from fox. worse from the idiots who buy into that. :butt
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #22 on: July 4, 2009, 10:35:09 pm »
please, please, please let her run for the GOP presidential nominee!!!

Hope so! Take that entire gang of trash down with her in the next election!

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #23 on: July 5, 2009, 01:33:42 am »
No matter how much of a thick jibbering twat she is, I'd turn her into a shambling incoherent mess if she let me embezzle my cock straight up her governers chair for ten minutes.   :hump
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #24 on: July 5, 2009, 01:47:05 am »
No matter how much of a thick jibbering twat she is, I'd turn her into a shambling incoherent mess if she let me embezzle my cock straight up her governers chair for ten minutes.   :hump

Go watch some porn and crack one off Macca, you've posted two posts like it already. :P
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #25 on: July 5, 2009, 10:39:04 am »
Good riddance
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #26 on: July 5, 2009, 12:51:11 pm »
Hope so! Take that entire gang of trash down with her in the next election!

i didnt mean it so much that she'd destroy the GOP, but more how entertaining her campaign would be (and how entertaining fox would be trying to paint her as some sort of saviour for the USA)

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #27 on: July 5, 2009, 09:45:19 pm »
Go watch some porn and crack one off Macca, you've posted two posts like it already. :P

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #28 on: July 5, 2009, 11:17:53 pm »
I think she's had a great time running and achieving the Governorship,  maybe an even better one running for Veep, but doesn't really relish the day to day nuts and bolts of being a Governor who needs to spend lots of time in the State capital.

With an autistic newborn and a daughter perhaps unwilling to devote any more time or responsibility, our Beauty-Pageant-in-Chief may have found lucrative part-time employment in a field she represents well that will enable her to spend more time at home.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #29 on: July 6, 2009, 02:00:20 pm »
"Have a listen of this speech. Have you ever heard such a jumbled, incompetent effort at this level of politics?"

So true! May main problem is that i have trouble actually following what she says, Its like some times she is speaking in a foriegn language. She reminds me of the popular girl at school who stands up to give a presentation, and has no feeling or real understanding of what she is saying. Thats her in a nut shell really, kinda like millie Clode at SSN, although she is much better now than she was when she started, cause she really didnt know anything about sport at the time. Would shag both mind.

In short her delivery is just awful, i mean really not even good enough for a sith form presentation. And when you actually break through to the substance of what she is saying its scarily unintelligent contradictory and at times complete goblbedigook

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #30 on: July 6, 2009, 02:02:15 pm »
"goblbedigook"

You know what i mean, also!

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #31 on: July 7, 2009, 02:28:58 pm »
The case of Sarah Palin, the pundits and the specter of what might have been
Tuesday, July 7th 2009, 4:00 AM

My brothers and sisters in punditry spent a jolly Fourth of July weekend having a swell time with Sarah Palin and her decision to quit as governor of Alaska. Her words were parsed for their meaning and her plans were deduced while political operatives of both parties analyzed her move to see if she is really very clever or as dumb as a mud wall.

A good time was had by all.

It would behoove us, though, to consider how close we all came to utter disaster. A recent Vanity Fair article provides further evidence of just how awful a vice president (or President) Palin would have made. During the campaign, she proved allergic to briefings and remained determined to stay uncorrupted by knowledge. More recently, she explained her decision to - permit me some GOP talk - cut and run as Alaska governor by lapsing into no known language, explaining herself afterward in a burst of tweets that only raised more questions. One question, though, has been settled: She is unfit for office.

What is most pertinent about Palin is that she was named to the GOP ticket - a top-down choice by John McCain. This was the most reckless decision any national politician has made in the longest time, and while it certainly says something about McCain, it says even more about his party. It's lost its mind.

Recall, after all, that Palin was not McCain's first choice. That was either Joseph Lieberman or Tom Ridge. They were both rejected by the party itself because of their appalling moderation on social issues over which the President has little direct authority anyway - abortion, above all - and in Lieberman's case because he had been a Democrat. In desperation, McCain turned to Palin.

Was there a scream of protest? No. Did the Republican Party demand to know of McCain what the hell he had done? Again, no. Was it okay with the GOP if the person a heartbeat away from the presidency was - pardon me, but it's true - a ditz with no national experience whatsoever? You betcha.

Almost as interesting as Palin is South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Never mind his affair. These things happen. Concentrate instead on how he hid his affair - by disappearing and calling attention to himself. Note also that even before he somehow took the Appalachian Trail to Buenos Aires, he was renowned for rejecting federal stimulus money. Before that, as a congressman, he claimed to have forsaken a housing allowance - and a cot - and said, "I sleep on the floor of my office." Most of us would consider this weird behavior. In the GOP, it was seen as presidential timber.

Shall I go on? Newt Gingrich, another possible candidate, is the Old Faithful of the Grand Old Party, erupting on a regular basis. He recently suggested that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a racist because of her comment about the innate astuteness of a "wise Latina."

He later apologized, but his hair trigger is well established. This is the same Gingrich, you may recall, who threw a tantrum in 1995 when President Bill Clinton seated him in the rear of Air Force One and then, with ingenious malice aforethought, failed to come back to chat. As for the rest of the GOP candidates, all of them must be vetted by the party's grand inquisitor, Rush Limbaugh, a belch from the gutter.

For Tina Fey, Sarah Palin was comedic material. For the rest of us, she's been a summer weekend's diversion.

But when the chuckling is over, you have to ask yourself what in the world was she doing on the GOP ticket and what would have happened if McCain had won? Only part of this is alternate history. The rest is frightening reality.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #32 on: July 7, 2009, 02:51:54 pm »
But when the chuckling is over, you have to ask yourself what in the world was she doing on the GOP ticket and what would have happened if McCain had won? Only part of this is alternate history. The rest is frightening reality.

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Nothing new there, even us Yurpeens were telling anyone who'd listen about the impending train wreck that a McCain win would be, for the sole and simple reason of Palin. She is without doubt the least qualified person to get within an asses roar of the White House since...well, Dubya, actually.

Nonetheless, if events conspire against Obama over the next four years, there's a good chance that (as Yorkykopite put it) there will be a presidential win for the delberately stupid next time out. In fact, the scariest outcome (because it's more plausible) is that Palin will find someone who convinces her to accept advice and education. Then you're all fucked...

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #33 on: July 8, 2009, 01:10:20 am »
Then you're all fucked...

Proper fucked?

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #34 on: July 8, 2009, 09:55:05 am »
What a MILF!! I definitely would, but as to whether she would with me is another thing altogether.
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #35 on: July 8, 2009, 10:04:56 am »
Palin: 'Politically speaking, if I die, I die'

• Alaska governor vows to save her state and America
• Palin makes clear she is still in the political game
• Resignation perplexes and divides Republicans


Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 July 2009


Sarah Palin has offered the tantalising prospect that she may have destroyed her own political career with her shock resignation as Alaska's governor.

"You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,'" she told American television when pressed about the wisdom of her resignation on Friday which has baffled and divided her own party.

But those Americans hoping they had seen the last of the former Republican vice presidential candidate who stormed the political stage last year will have been disappointed by her reappearance, in fishing waders, in a series of television interviews today promising to save Alaska and the country.

The point of the interviews wasn't clear other than to keep Palin in the news alongside Michael Jackson. But they were evidently staged to look as if the camera crews had stumbled on the Alaska governor hard at work as a fisherwoman in a remote village 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle. ABC news even took her out in her husband's boat and noted the fish guts on her overalls.

Palin did, however, make clear that she's still in the political game. "I don't need a title to be the one to usher in what it is that needs to be done in our state and our country," she told ABC news.

What that is remains a mystery other than vague assertions that she intends to focus on "energy independence, national security, small smarter government".

CNN pressed her on whether she is planning a run for president as has been widely assumed. "Don't know what the future holds. I'm not going to shut any doors. Who knows what door's open. Can't predict what the next fish run's going to look like... so I certainly can't predict what's going to happen in a couple of years," said Palin.

Asked why she quit, the Alaska governor fell back on her earlier explanation that she has resigned because her opponents unleashed a "political blood sport" of a barrage of ethics investigations that are costing the state millions of dollars. She also accused her opponents of trying to bankrupt her.

But resigning as governor will not necessarily kill off the investigations as the state would still be obliged to probe allegations of past transgressions. Today it was revealed that the Alaska attorney general is considering a fresh allegation, this time from a conservative watchdog, that Palin wrongly claimed a per diem to live in her own home.

If the pressure of the political blood sport is the real reason Palin resigned, it will suggest to some that she doesn't have staying power in the bigger coliseum of American politics.

There has also been widespread speculation that one of the ethics investigations against Palin has turned up evidence of wrongdoing. Her lawyer has denied it.

Palin dismissed the general scepticism and confusion over her motives for resigning. "You know why they are confused? I guess they can't take something nowadays at face value," she told ABC news.

The move has even perplexed and divided Republicans, drawing stinging criticism from some big names such as George Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove, and Ed Rollins, who ran Ronald Reagan's election campaign, and who described Palin as crashing and burning.

Even the highly partisan Fox News, which championed Sarah Palin at John McCain's expense during the presidential election, is turning on Palin with one contributor caller her inarticulate and undereducated with "no credentials for any job".

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #36 on: July 8, 2009, 10:41:38 am »
They've done a look-a-like (Nailin' PaYlin) which is alright. You can't beat the real thing though.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #37 on: July 8, 2009, 02:36:49 pm »
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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #38 on: July 10, 2009, 01:56:45 pm »
Palin's lawyer has said that one of the reasons she's resigned is that she didn't like David Letterman joking about her.

FFS. If there's one reason why she's not fit for public office, it's that, right there.

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Re: Sarah Palin resigns
« Reply #39 on: July 10, 2009, 05:44:57 pm »
Sarah Palin Turns Pro

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/sarah-palin-turns-pro_b_225633.html


I wish Hunter S. Thompson had lived to see this.

As Hunter said, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Sarah Palin makes Mark Foley, the congressman who sent filthy emails to pages look almost normal. She makes David Vitter, the senator who was hanging out with hookers, look almost boring. She makes Larry Craig, caught hitting on a cop in a men's room, look almost stable. She makes John Ensign, the senator who was having an affair with a staffer, look almost humdrum (and compared to the rest of the GOP whack-jobs, he is). And she makes Mark Sanford, the governor with the Latin lover, look positively predictable.

It was an almost impossible mission, but in resigning from office with 17 months to go in her first term, Sarah Palin has made herself the bull goose loony of the GOP.

Let's stipulate that if there is some heretofore unknown personal, medical or family crisis, this was the right move. But Gov. Palin didn't say anything like that. Her statement was incoherent, bizarre and juvenile. The text, as posted on Gov. Palin's official website (here), uses 2,549 words and 18 exclamation points. Lincoln freed the slaves with 719 words and nary an exclamation; Mr. Jefferson declared our independence in 1,322 words and, again, no exclamation points. Nixon resigned the presidency in 1,796 words -- still no exclamation points. Gov. Palin capitalized words at random - whole words, like "TO," "HELP," and "AND," and the first letter of "Troops."

Gov. Palin's official announcement that she is resigning as chief executive of the great state of Alaska had all the depth and gravitas of a 13-year-old's review of the Jonas Brothers' album on Facebook. She even quoted her parents' refrigerator magnet. (Note to self: if one of my kids becomes governor, throw away the refrigerator magnet that says: "Murray's Oyster Bar: We Shuck Em, You Suck Em!") She put her son's name in quotations marks. Why? Who knows. She writes, "I promised efficiencies and effectiveness!?" Was she exclaiming or questioning? I get it: both! And I don't even know what to make of a sentence that reads:

*((Gotta put First Things First))*

Ponder the fact that Rupert Murdoch's Harper Collins publishing house is paying this, umm, writer millions for a book. * Ponder that and say a prayer for Ms. Palin's editor.

I'm no latter-day Strunk & White, just a guy who was struck by Palin's spectacularly rambling and infantile prose. It bespeaks a rambling and infantile mind. But perhaps not. Perhaps this is all a ruse. Perhaps Gov. Palin wants us to believe she's an intellectual featherweight who is slightly shallower than an actor on High School Musical. Maybe she's trying to throw us off the trail.

Naah. A lot of people thought that about George W. Bush. He couldn't be so block-headed, they said. He couldn't be as childish and churlish as he came off. Oh yes he could. And so, too, might Ms. Palin be as vapid and puerile as her inane statement suggests.

We will know. In the fullness of time (and I predict, not much time) we will know. Again and again in her statement, Gov. Palin returned to the nettlesome ethics inquiries that have been visited upon her since she signed on to be John McCain's running mate. No doubt they are annoying. But does anyone believe that's why she's resigning? No, there's more to this story. And Ms. Palin's resignation only increases the chances that we will all know the rest of the story soon. Or, as she might put it:

We will all KNOW the "rest of the Story" *((SOON!))*