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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That’s the ticket, but if I were writing the speech, there would never be an overt personal allusion.
It would be about everyone BUT me (or Sarah). The country is getting sick of Obama’s I, I, I. Make it about other victims.
Sometimes in jury argument, you NEVER say directly the thing you know everyone will think of when you talk about a theme. To do so would be to beat them over the head with the concept, and they get it. You give them credit for understanding what you mean without having to show them the guts.
Such a speech, given the right way, would take it to the press…not the bloggers, because they are hopeless…but the MSM.
“Here are standards of journalistic practice that Americans should be able to expect from the people they trust (cough, choke) to bring them both news and comment. In the Twenty-First century, this is a call to an ethical standard that all people entrusted with this sacred function in our society should, we hope, accept and adhere to…”
That is how it could be done.
Got mine, too, l2r.
The little Ranch Rifle in .223, stainless, with a folding stock…
hard to beat for knock-around work.
Long live the 2nd Amendment!!
P.S. I noticed S&W has a certain superiority, as well. I’m not an expert on these things, but in a shooting range, I can hit a bulls-eye consistently w/S&W. I like the way the Ruger feels in my hands, too.
Glad to have the God-given freedom to own an equalizer.
I expect it won’t be about you, Rags
But, yeah, and bring in other news-media transgressions like the 24/7 Paris Hilton legal problem-type coverage orgy. Silly, stupid stuff that ticks off the average Jane&Joe Does.
Use jokes like “Obama is guest-hosting for Letterman again this week” or funny barbs of that genre.
During the last election when the McCain campaign did the “Obama as just another big egomaniacal celebrity” ads McCain’s poll numbers started matching/topping Obama’s. I wouldn’t have gone with that as the sole line of attack, but I would have kept it in the mix. Instead, they dropped it altogether.
Peep, IIRC, they did this b/c they “offended” Paris Hilton, and that, I thought, would be hard to do.
Remember when PH did the counter-ad calling him basically an old fuddy-duddy. I think she had at first contributed to his campaign, so it was kind of odd that they chose a pic of her for the vid, but….
He comes up with a catchy strategy and drops it like a hot potato b/c some one was tangentially offended. This and other ridiculous stunts meant I REALLY had to hold my nose to vote R, and like so many others, I was voting for Sarahcuda.
I trust her judgment. She is now unfettered and needs to surround herself with only those she can trust, not those appointed by the wolves in sheeps’ clothing.
Personally, I think that if one looked microscopically at the McAnus campaign for any evidence that they actually wanted to win…
BESIDES Palin…
there would be nothing on which to convict.
LOL. He was the “spoiler” for Obama.
LOL. He was the “spoiler” for Obama.
sorry 4 dbl post
Yup, I think she can handle herself pretty well, MtsEdge. She’ll keep on driving the MSM and hardcore leftwing nuts, ala Reagan being a thorn in their sides even long before he achieved the Presidency. All things considered, she really has nothing to lose no matter what she chooses to do. Know that Rick Nelson song “Garden Party”?
“It’s alright now,
I learned my lesson well;
You can’t please everyone,
So you’ve got to please yourself.”
Yeah! Let’s abandon the GOP and go third party. Then we can have the same kind of success we had in ‘92 and ‘08. Starting from scratch would be a lot easier than using an existing infrastructure. Recreate ‘08 can be the new third party motto!
As far as whacko, lgm has set the bar way too high for either one of you.
I just don’t like the way you’ve taken to ad hominem attacks lately. I’ve seen too much infighting here lately. Rags has valid points and he’s doing what he can to put them in motion and the best you can do is mock him.
Yep, all she has to do is show up and speak from the heart. No tit-for-tat w/the media is necessary, IMHO. People can already see through “Big Media”, and her conservative principles and record of achievements will resonate with Americans.
I haven’t read any of the previous posts but can tell there is momemtum and excitement here.
Her decision was brillant and totally appropriate for her charisma and star power.
It’s obvious she got under the skin of Obama and his forces.
It’s obvious she is under the skin of liberals.
She’s even under the skin of constipated, old school Republicans.
If there is an antidote threat to Obama,
it has to be someone who can match his charisma and media infatuation.
P.S. I sorta remember Rick(y?) Nelson…but my earliest memories of records I listened to were Donny Osmond and Shaun Cassidy. I think he was a little before them???
I’d demand you ban yourself – if it were possible – just based on that alone, MtsEdge.
i’m ashamed to admit it myself – i promise you it was youthful indiscretion
Well, that’s different, then. Ego te absolvo.
Now, the record I remember as a wee lad was an old 78RPM we had around the house:
The Freckle Song – Youtube
Still makes me giggle.
Yeesh, what a puppy…
You missed The Ventures, The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean…
Strange…that all sounds so gay now…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmvDUrzxQ4
Tel-Star, by the Ventures
I checked the link – sorta like a racy Lawrence Welk???
Made me giggle, too.
By the time I was a teenybopper, we had stuff like Aerosmith in the house. None of the cutesy, except for my Mom’s stuff.
Now that I’m so much older and wiser (LOL), I think I’d have rather had more Beach Boys and less Beastie Boys.
Depends on how you define it…
G’night all. *yawn*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLLcvWeiKw&feature=related
Runaway, by Del Shannon
Yeah, lol – you sing it with a slight pause after “she has freckles on her but”.
On the flipside of the 78 was “Roll Me Over In The Clover”, where the recurring lyrics were “Roll me over in the clover – roll me over, lay me down and do it again”. The original versions were very bawdy, but the 78 had a cleaned-up version.
That was a step in the right direction, especially if you “Walk This Way”. heh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8__EwAT8VM&feature=related
Wipe out, the Ventures
Rock on…!!!
Naw, when it comes to “Wipeout” there’s nobody but The Safaris. Anything else is heresy.
Just had a flashback of my then gf dancing to this way back then….er, gotta go and start that cold shower now.
Del Shannon’s music was punky and ahead of its time, especially for 1961…”Runaway” is one of my all time favorites for timeless pop music (it still sounds great after all these years and not ‘dated’)…
Judging from your link, Rags. I’d bet this was filmed/recorded about 1964-66 (judging from the women’s hair-styles) and probably from American Bandstand (as oposed to “Shindig”)…am I right?
The live “Wipeout” cover, L2R? I’d guess it was neither – I’m not 100% sure sure about Shindig, but Bandstand was always lipsynched.
Maybe it’s from Ed Sullivan or other taped-live show?
Couldn’t say from wince it came.
I was looking at all that young pulchritude…
and thinking those are somebody’s grandma now. Maybe great-grandma.
Time…cruel, cruel time… sigh.
atheling said (#423):
When I was a kid, the bullies who beat up Jews were conservative Christians. Those bullies are all growed up, and just as dumb. When conservative Christians claim to support Israel, I just remember them as stupid bullies.
You conservatives here are welcome to prove me wrong. Stand up to atheling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8&feature=related
Dick Dale and the Del Tones, Misirlou
Funny, Fender hasn’t changed much of anything. Those axes are pushing 50 years old…
Sorry, I just don’t believe you knew the politics of those little girls….
it strains credulity.
ROFL!!!
I severely doubt she would’ve willfully resigned were she governor of New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio or Mass. She made it seem like she was bailing out of a 2nd class hillbilly state to find a “better ladder” for her ambitions. It’s not my judgment of the woman. That’s a perception, not opinion.
James Geenidge
Queens NY
I hope Gov Palin’s resignation is the start of true opposition to the supreme idiocy in DC. It starts with some 2010 RINO hunting and coalition building. If we want any American future, we cannot afford to do stuff like cap and trade. I guess if Gov Palin wanted out of politics I wouldn’t blame her, I just see her as a potentially great movement conservative.
It would be great to see her replace Steele, be a true leader of the GOP and headhunt some real conservatives for key races.
I actualy kind of agree with atheling. Your tin gods policy will probably get lots of israelis killed. Thus the ka[o label.
Sorry.
Yeah, that was a had-to-wipe-the-coffee-off-the-monitor, 3-pointer comeback, atheling.
However, the resident idiot is right (first time for everything) if his complaint is about being called a “Jew Lapdog”. His idiocy is up for ridicule and disdain, but his religion is irrelevant. i.e. the appellation “Idiot Laptop” (”Moronic Lapdog”, “Dipstick Lapdog”, etc – too many too list) would be right, but not the one you used.
LGM is a jew, and openly admits it. I admit that using that word gives me pause, but it is what he is.
Rags, for your shameless YouTube pulchritudic retro-ogling pleasure of “somebody’s grandma now” I give you, from British TV’s “Top Of The Pops” circa 1969, “TOTP sexi dancer outtake 60s”.
I think the kapo bit is what really upsets him.
http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/GlennFoden/2009/07/3
A pointed Palin cartoon. Sometimes they move the link, but it is worth looking for it.
I have to second Peep’s opinion as to religious references. Even “Jewish lapdog” would be preferable to “Jew lapdog”. Why? Dunno, except it registered on my over-the-top-o-meter. Not high, but a trimbler still.
While I suspect the thoughtless left were successful in burying Sarah’s political aspirations in Alaska through lawsuits, I hope her family’s okay otherwise. It is really frightening to think that the left will impose their will on the country using unethical and immoral strategies such as these. Wish the media had the ethical spine required to report this stuff.
SilverPuss:
The people of Arkansas were PROMISED by the man running for governor of that state that he would NOT quit and run for President. Bill Clinton then did exactly that. The people of Illinois elected BHO to a six-year term in the Senate. Two years into his term he started campaigning for President.
At least Gov Palin has left office and can freely pursue her goals without shorting the Alaskan voters like Slick Willie and BHO have done.
“I did not have sex with that woman…”
“I will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250K/year…”
Want some more? There are PLENTY to choose from!
Excellent self-diagnosis.
I think that might be a good point, SonO’DY, if he had prefeaced a remark with “As a Jew, I…” or something of that nature which made it germane. I don’t believe he did, so I would’ve gone with a noun or adjective that was both germane and applicable along the lines of my suggestions, e.g. “Doofus” Lapdog. (the possibilties are endless)
I’m one of the least politically correct folks you’ll ever meet and I enjoy funny religion-based jokes. I knew a priest who told the best “St.Peter at the Pearly Gates” jokes I’ve ever heard.
But there are the times when references to a person’s religion does, as you put it, give me “pause”.
Others folks are free to disagree, of course, but that’s my 2-cent take.
Good grief!!! That poor girl must have gone home with lens rash on her chestal regions!!!
Funny, isn’t it, how the female of the species is so much more interesting to observe than the plane, drab male.
“SilverPuss:
They elected her [Palin] to serve a 4 year term”
Also there’s this guy named Obama who didn’t fill out even his one – and only – term as US Senator.
I’m surprised that anyone thinks they can be taken seriously for feigning horror when a politician leaves one job to move on to something else. It’s a shocker along the lines of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.
Old movies are sometimes a great time machine. I often am struck by how little really changes, and how fresh or topical some of the themes are.
I watched Mr. Smith Goes To Washington over the weekend. Virtually every element that we see today…cronyism, graft, over-weening government, media manipulation…are dealt with in that movie. Oh, I think they are quantitatively VASTLY worse now, but there they were.
How did Jeff Smith fight back? Well, he stood on his principles, he used the rules to his advantage, he wired around the media, and good people supported him. In the end, his opposition’s conscience got the better of him, which is the part where we would be diving off into delusion if we expect that today.
Still, lessons to be learned, and prospective to be gained.
Well, you know on multiple camera shoots like this the director has “roving cameras” and once they find an -ahem- interesting shot they have the camera operator stick with it and they switch to it from time to time in the control room. I’d seen the full, aired clip of this with this girl-now-granny and she was just another dancer. I’d link to it, but I think YouTube pulled it for either being “inappropriate” or some copyright issue or other.
I suspect outtakes from the old American Bandstand show would be similiar.
There was a male in the clip?
Yeah, we guys are more built for function and the ladies for
aesthetics. “Viva la difference!” to coin a phrase.
Also, this is not what I call a “monkey-bar” move…the next rung on the linear ladder, one hand holding tight the preceding bar while grasping with the other. She could have held office and run for the Senate.
This was a lateral move, if anything. It takes her off the bars. We still don’t know for certain…it may take her out of politics altogether, or elective office. Awaiting further development.
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.”
***
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.)