STUNNER: A Palin announcement: Resigning in weeks; “It hurts to make this choice. But I’m doing what’s best for Alaska”
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Lots of heavy media anticipation over a Sarah Palin announcement expected any minute from Wasilla.
Here’s CBS:
There was no indication as to the topic of the announcement.
CBSNews.com producer Scott Conroy, who covered Palin’s vice presidential campaign last year, said it is rare that Palin sends a press release out nationally.
Feel free to speculate.
Allahpundit has a developing round-up; multiple sources reporting that Palin will say she’s not going to run for governor again in 2010.
Here comes 2012?
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A contrary take: FNC’s Chris Wallace take the announcement as a sign that Palin is not interested in pursuing national politics.
Palin supporters take cable news anchors to task for puzzling over announcement on “slow holiday news day” and missing Independence Day timing.
Latest from BNO on Twitter: Palin resigning in weeks????
From KTUU TV in Alaska:
Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor’s Picnic at the end of the month, Palin said.
There was no immediate word as to why she will resign, though speculation has been rampant that the former vice presidential candidate is gearing up for a run at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Palin made the announcement flanked by Parnell and most, if not all, of her cabinet.
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CNN showing the press conference video:
Palin: “I love my job. I love Alaska. It hurts to make this choice. But I’m doing what’s best for Alaska.” Tears in her eyes.
Says she will be able “to effect change from the outside.” America needs protectors of individual rights now more than ever. Promises to always be there for Alaska. Wants to work not just for Alaska, for the rest of the country. Taking a fight for Alaska in a new direction. Quotes MacArthur: “We are not retreating, just advancing in a different direction.”
Lt Gov. Sean Parnell says he receives announcement with a “heavy heart.” Thanks Sarah for inspiring so many.
More from press conference: After touting Alaska’s accomplishments, Palin laments “politics of personal destruction.” Notes attacks. $500,000 in legal bills. “Life is about choices. I choose a path of fruitfulness and productivity. Life is too short to compromise time and resources…I will work very hard for others…I will support others…”
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Chuck Heath, Palin’s brother, on FNC talking about incessant attacks. Very emotional. “It’s weighed on her a long time.” Couldn’t effectively govern when having to defend herself against attacks.
The Anchoress is wondering what’s really going on:
Either she or someone in her family is ill, and she wants to keep it private and not subject it to the vulgarity of the Palin-hating beasts in the press, who savaged her last year, or…she and Todd are on the rocks, and she doesn’t want to subject her children and her marriage to the same vulgarity.
Can’t say I blame her in either case. And I hope I’m wrong on both counts.
But nothing else makes sense, does it?
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Just look at the number of comments about this lady! Close to 500 now (maybe more once this posts). Says a lot about her.
501 YYYAAAYYY
all I have to say is…over 500 posts about SARAH PALIN! and no comment from undreseige…
The number of comments over at Hot Air in multiple Palin threads is really stratospheric. One thread is over 3300. I have no idea what all the threads added together are.
With the kind of attention this lady can generate, the only way her political career is over is if she wants it to be.
Yup, we’ll have to wait and see. But either in public office or out of it, I suspect she’ll be a force to reckon with!
I’ve never seen anyone so excited about Levi’s jeans!
Hopin’.
Meanwhile, isn’t Statism a wonderful thing?
I wonder how long the pundits can talk about how she blew it. This is a classic case of “fear of the unknown”. The GOP exposed her to the world and then found that they could not control the response to her. They can’t control the public at large. I’m tired of the lies,the snow jobs and the we know what’s best for you candidates. Why even have elections when we have such pathetic choices? The NYT said her speech was rambling and unfocused. And their column wasn’t? If she had been the gov of a democratic state, the GOP might not have attacked her for fear of losing the state, but since the reps hold the state, the gloves came off. The Dems have exposed themselves as being the “drain the wallet of the workers to give to the lazy” party and the GOP is the “we eat our own” party. Is it any wonder that they both are the “we fail to govern in best interest of the country” parties. Sarah, please give them a reality check.
Yeah, they’re pretty predictable. Foolish also comes to mind.
Sorry, but I never understood the infatuation with Palin. She was ok, but she is not the savior of the conservative movement (granted compared to mcamnesty, she is a conservative god). I would take Sessions, Hunter, or Tancredo over her anyday of the week.
Can you imagine all this speculation if the governor of California resigned? (Relief, yes! Speculation, no!) What about the governor of South Carolina? New York?
I don’t know what this means and I don’t know if it helps or hurts any future political ambitions. I will wait and see what the good lady says in the next couple of days.
But, in a couple of years even lunatic lefties will probably have to admit that she was way more qualified than “The One.”
It wouldn’t make sense if I didn’t bring up that kapo lgm is a Jew. He’s a traitor (hence the kapo term) to his own people.
He, like many other liberal Jews, voted for a man who has an antipathy towards Jews and Israel – a man who sat for 20 years in a “church” spewing anti Semitism (among other bigotries).
What kind of person does that make lgm? A traitor. And one can’t call him that without calling attention to the fact that he’s a Jew, and he betrayed Israel and his own people.
That makes him a contemptible POS in my book, and no better than those kapo Jews who collaborated with the Nazis against their own people.
It’s harsh, but it’s TRUE.
It starts with “C” and ends with “A”.
Ross Douthat has an opinion piece in todays NYT.
That might make sense if you were to call all white folks who voted for Obama “POS Cracker Lapdogs” or made other note of their skin color, since “Rev” Wright is rabidly anti-white . Or if you had looked for reasons why Presbyterians, for example, should not have voted for Obama and then called one out by denomination, (“POS Presby Lapdog”)
I think you’d still be wrong to do that, but it would show an across-the- board consistency.
Again, you and others are obviously free to see it differently, but it’s my opinion is was wrong.
I didn’t know that the term, “Jew” equates to “cracker”.
I think you’re comparing apples to oranges, here.
Not very logical.
I don’t get it.
CamerA.
CanolA.
CrayolA.
CanadA?
The trouble is that the word “jew” is an accurate destription of what LGM is. But using it brings up the memories of a certian austrian painter even if you don’t mean to. Perhaps hebrew??
Anyway if it tweaks off LGM just a little more, I am for it
Only if you fail to address the entirely, atheling. I wrote:
“That might make sense if you were to call all white folks who voted for Obama “POS Cracker Lapdogs” or made other note of their skin color, since “Rev” Wright is rabidly anti-white . Or if you had looked for reasons why Presbyterians, for example, should not have voted for Obama and then called one out by denomination, (”POS Presby Lapdog”)
I think you’d still be wrong to do that, but it would show an across-the- board consistency.”
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Note that I wrote “or made other note of their skin color”. Now if can show where it’s the norm for you to cite other commeneter’s race or religion and tie it to their vote for Obama, I’d stand corrected.
(Corrected in the sense that you had shown it’s just your usual habit – I’d still believe it’s a wrong habit.)
purplepeep,
Your comparison might be more valid if Wright were running a country pursuing nuclear research towards making a bomb and had called for all white people to be wiped off the map.
s’ok, John. I have these moments, too.
CharismA.
Hi John -
I disagree. I think part of the problem is that most folks are not familiar with terminology and distinctions. For many – if not most folks – “Jew”, “Judaism”, “Israeli”, for example, are interchangle terms – all meaning the same thing.
In fact, to be considered a “Jew” a person only has be born of a Jewish mother. Political, social, religious views of the person vary from person to person. Those views are not dependent on what others – especially non-Jews – expect or demand of them.
But what gives “pause” here to me is in using religious terms as a preface. I expect there may be a thing or two that Michelle doesn’t see eye to eye on with the Catholic Church, but that wouldn’t drive me to address her – if I sided with the Church on a point -as “Catholic Michelle”, much less “Lapdog Catholic”.
Just territory that I don’t get into.
And just a sidenote – as far as I know, Wright isn’t running any country and he doesn’t have any nukes. Thankfully, he’s a just a total jerk.
I am pretty sure he was joking around.
Y’think…?!?!?
Yeah, that’s it, I was joking.
Seriously, I actually didn’t think of it. Forgive me.
Hey, John…
Remember the card Paladin used in the old TV Western…
Have Gun
Will Travel
Wire Palidin
I was well into adulthood before I realized that Wire was NOT the guy’s first name. I mean, what a great name for a gunfighter. Wire…
LOL. There were some great westerns back in the day.
Just be glad you didn’t suggest chlamydia, or Palin would have sicced her attorney on you for libel.
Let me tell you a story about my childhood trip to the Capital Gains Farm. Or was that the Catskill Game Farm?
An ostrich took my dad’s high school ring off his finger and swallowed it on our one and only trip there.
You know I have to ask.
Did he get it back?
As I recall, we did not even report it, since I am pretty sure my dad was doing something he shouldn’t have been doing.
A formative…traumatic…childhood experience….???
Not nearly as formative as living on the commune of drug using satanists.
So law school was just the natural next step, eh?
So, you spent part of your childhood in Hollywood, too? Maybe we were neighbors…
yeah, chap. cuz palin clearly has the corner of the market on frivolous lawsuits. /sarc
Paladin? LOL! Now see? I’m not the oldest one in here.
Ah yes, Richard Boone. Great actor.
Did you see Michelle Obama’s picture from Russia on Drudge? You could see her butt from Alaska!
It was ~amazing.~ (And I want to see how many late-night comics and other media hipsters will put ~that~ in their patter.)
An interesting, and, I believe, cogent observation.
Please ignore the above. It was inadvertently posted in the wrong thread.