Sarah Palin Resigns as Gov. of Alaska

[barfo]

I believe--although I'm probably wrong--that she put the Lt. Governor in charge of Alaska when she accepted the VP nomination.

You are right that you are wrong (how cool is that?). Palin did not put the Lt. Gov. in charge during the campaign.

barfo

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

This was an interesting article written about her in the past week or two, in Vanity Fair.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908

It is an interesting article, but overall I think Palin's best atribute to her party is to simply keep the staunch republicans enthused. IMHO, she is nowhere near presidential timber.

 

[crandc]

Are people buying down jackets in hell? This is the second time in two days I have agreed with Shooter.

It does make her look flaky. In a normal job we are supposed to give 2 weeks notice, some require 4 weeks. Her lieutenant governor learned of her resignation 2 days in advance. The election is 3 1/2 years away. Had she resigned in January 2012 saying the people of Alaska deserve a full time governor instead of a full time campaigner that would be one thing but what does she plan to do for 3 1/2 years? Fire up her base? How long can they stay fired up? Moreover, that alienates the rest of the country - do people remember the rallies last fall, where, when Palin mentioned Obama, there were cries of "terrorist!", "Traitor!" and even "Kill him!"?

I thought of Nixon. He lost he presidency and got trounced in the governor's race. He stayed out of the limelight, quietly doing favors for whatever Republican needed one and built up enough IOU's to be nominated for President in 1968. But I can hardly see Palin working quietly in the background. That is not her metier at all. She could use the time to try to broaden her appeal, but I find it hard to see her doing that, she's been all about whipping up the troops.

Unfortunately, women are still less likely to be taken seriously. A woman is sex object, servant, joke or invisible. A woman with a thin resume who walked away from a job on 2 days notice is not making it easy on herself if she wants to run for president. Obama was able to overcome relative youth and inexperience due to an academic record that convinced many his learning curve would be short, a cosmopolitan background that gave him wide appeal - I think he won about every demograhic except white Southerners - and a feeling of deep dissatisfaction that made a new face more appealing than greater age and experience. And yes, he is male and yes, that still gives an advantage - what a man does is taken seriously because he's a man. In 2012 Palin will no longer be a new face, and as for background, she's basically a popular small town "girl" with neither a distinguished academic nor career record. I'm not trying to debate the current president, just point out the difference between Obama and Palin's appeal.

 

[TripTango]

A pass-first point guard - isn't that what we've been waiting for? And she's available, and she's certainly cheap. I know some will question her basketball IQ, but come on KP, get 'er done![/quote]

A pass-first PG who tries to drive through a full-court press? Something is wrong here.

 

[ucatchtrout]

She can't complete anything.

Jumped around from school to school, job to job, couldn't get through one term as governor. Even at that she spent half her time as gov chasing the vice presidency.

 

[bodyman5001]

The fact that anyone would consider her qualified to lead this country makes me sick. I doubt she could handle running a Pizza Hut.

I read comments by people on this website and others that are vastly superior to anything that flake said while on the campaign trail.

One day I hope to be able to turn on the television and wonder what ever happened to that Sarah Palin broad. I am scared she will still be around when the country realizes what Obama has done to us, I would hate for her to be the one to try and fix this mess.

If we are going to pick our leaders by looks, we should find a woman who looks like Jacqueline Bisset did in the Steve McQueen movie Bullitt.

 

[bodyman5001]

http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsB/1572-2637.gif

I would vote for ^^^^^^^^

 

[julius]

A woman is sex object, servant, joke or invisible.

You almost described my girlfriend in college. An invisible sex servant.


Sorry, go about your posting.

 

[bodyman5001]

You almost described my girlfriend in college. An invisible sex servant.


Sorry, go about your posting.

That is what we want women to be and until they can force us to stop being that way they are SOL.

Did Hitler stop killing Jews because he figured out that it was wrong? NOPE, somebody had to stop him.

Way of the world.

(I bet this one doesn't go over well) haha

 

[julius]

That is what we want women to be and until they can force us to stop being that way they are SOL.

Did Hitler stop killing Jews because he figured out that it was wrong? NOPE, somebody had to stop him.

Way of the world.

(I bet this one doesn't go over well) haha

We want women to be non existent? Thats what I was getting at.

 

[ucatchtrout]

Photos of her and some visting Russians were about to hit the internet so she had to resign...

 

[julius]

Photos of her and some visting Russians were about to hit the internet so she had to resign...

When did the Russian military change their dress code, so levi jeans with holes at the knees were considered acceptable?

 

[ucatchtrout]

She has been working on some publicity photos for her planned entry into the 2012 campaign

 

[Sug]

She's not my cup of tea, but I understand her appeal to many.

Define "many" because she is going to have to win back a great deal of Obama voters to even put up a fight.

 

[ucatchtrout]

Sarah Palin is a tool. She is a more attractive version of George W Bush. A man who was probably smarter, and certainly better connected than her. Bush proved that a tool can run the country. If Palin has aligned herself with and cut a deal with a group of powerbrokers or kingmakers....no doubt they had to get her to quit being governor. The longer she was in office, the greater the danger she would do something so stupid that it would ruin everything.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090705/D9988SCG0.html

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif] The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans have fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

He also told the Anchorage Daily News that Palin wasn't in any criminal legal jeopardy.
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"I can say definitively I am aware of no criminal investigation whatsoever involving Sarah Palin. Zero," he said.

The FBI reiterated that claim Saturday, telling the Los Angeles Times for a story Sunday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not investigating Palin's activities as governor, a former mayor or in any other capacity.

"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez, the bureau's Alaska spokesman, said.

[/FONT]

 

[Sug]

Well she does pal around with a bunch of douche bags, so you know...

 

[ucatchtrout]

....and some of those douche bags were involved in the construction of a sports complex in Wasilla and in the construction of her home. That appears to be what most of the ruckus is about.

 

[Denny Crane]

I hope these hateful blogger types get their asses sued.

....and some of those douche bags were involved in the construction of a sports complex in Wasilla and in the construction of her home. That appears to be what most of the ruckus is about.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24521.html#ixzz0KPxIalXp&C

Scores of left-leaning blogs posted speculation in the wake of Palin’s surprise announcement Friday and among the most common theories was that she was on the verge of federal indictment over the 2002 construction of the sports arena.

Making the case for his client, Van Flein writes that Palin, then the mayor of Wasilla, did not oversee the Steering Committee tasked with running the project.

“While her public support of this project was deemed pivotal by many, the actual construction, bidding, financing and other day-to-day management of the project was not in her scope of authority as Mayor,” Van Flein writes.

Van Flein also notes that the project was publicly bid and therefore Palin had little control over construction.

The attorney also addressed another of the bloggers’ claims: that Palin purchased building materials to build her own home from the same supply store as was used by those who built the arena.

“Prior to the construction of Lowe’s and Home Depot within the last few years in Wasilla, Spenard Builders Supply was the primary building supply company in Wasilla,” Van Flein writes. “It can hardly come as a surprise that it would sell materials to small homeowners or that it would also bid to supply commercial contracts.”

As for how the Palins financed their home on Wasilla’s Lake Lucille, Van Flein says they “used a combination of personal savings, equity from the sale of their prior home and conventional bank financing to build the house — like millions of American families. The deeds of trust are recordable public records. Basic journalism and fact checking would confirm this.”

 

[ucatchtrout]

Sources are saying that Sarah Palin’s sudden resignation as Alaska Governor is actually damage control because a major embezzlement scandal is about to erupt involving construction projects in her home town of Wasilla, Alaska.

Multiple sources have been digging around in the wake of Sarah Palin’s cryptic resignation speech Friday and they’ve found that when Palin was Mayor of her home town of Wasilla, AK in 2002, she was influental in the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex and hockey arena. First of all, the $12mil+ project ended up in the hands of contractors who were friends of friends of Palin. Secondly, at around the same time the sports complex was being built, so was Palin’s new house. What’s interesting about that is the house is constructed from the exact same materials the sports complex was built with. The windows in both structures are the same, the wood is the same, pretty well everything.

When the house was being built, Palin, being Mayor at the time, influenced the bylaw requiring building permits in the town so that now there is no official list of the contractors who worked on her house.

The information is coming from local Alaskans who have been watching Palin and collecting information for some time. The reason it hasn’t been made public yet is because they have been told by federal investigators to keep their mouths shut so a subsequent media frenzy doesn’t impede the investigation.

It is plausable that the suddenness of Palin’s resignation, which even members of her family didn’t know was going to happen, could be the reason for her rather strange resignation speech - she simply didn’t have time to construct an elaborate speech because she already knew this mess was about to go public in a big way.

Other blogs have already dubbed this as the “Iceberg Scandal” and “Iceberg Gate” but it’s safe to say that we’ll be getting some extremely controversial Sarah Palin news in the near future.

Sources are saying that Sarah Palin’s sudden resignation as Alaska Governor is actually damage control because a major embezzlement scandal is about to erupt involving construction projects in her home town of Wasilla, Alaska.

Multiple sources have been digging around in the wake of Sarah Palin’s cryptic resignation speech Friday and they’ve found that when Palin was Mayor of her home town of Wasilla, AK in 2002, she was influental in the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex and hockey arena. First of all, the $12mil+ project ended up in the hands of contractors who were friends of friends of Palin. Secondly, at around the same time the sports complex was being built, so was Palin’s new house. What’s interesting about that is the house is constructed from the exact same materials the sports complex was built with. The windows in both structures are the same, the wood is the same, pretty well everything.

When the house was being built, Palin, being Mayor at the time, influenced the bylaw requiring building permits in the town so that now there is no official list of the contractors who worked on her house.

The information is coming from local Alaskans who have been watching Palin and collecting information for some time. The reason it hasn’t been made public yet is because they have been told by federal investigators to keep their mouths shut so a subsequent media frenzy doesn’t impede the investigation.

It is plausable that the suddenness of Palin’s resignation, which even members of her family didn’t know was going to happen, could be the reason for her rather strange resignation speech - she simply didn’t have time to construct an elaborate speech because she already knew this mess was about to go public in a big way.

Other blogs have already dubbed this as the “Iceberg Scandal” and “Iceberg Gate” but it’s safe to say that we’ll be getting some extremely controversial Sarah Palin news in the near future.

 

[Denny Crane]

Whom to believe... a pitiful person with a blog, or the FBI?

Sources are saying that Sarah Palin’s sudden resignation as Alaska Governor is actually damage control because a major embezzlement scandal is about to erupt involving construction projects in her home town of Wasilla, Alaska.

Multiple sources have been digging around in the wake of Sarah Palin’s cryptic resignation speech Friday and they’ve found that when Palin was Mayor of her home town of Wasilla, AK in 2002, she was influental in the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex and hockey arena. First of all, the $12mil+ project ended up in the hands of contractors who were friends of friends of Palin. Secondly, at around the same time the sports complex was being built, so was Palin’s new house. What’s interesting about that is the house is constructed from the exact same materials the sports complex was built with. The windows in both structures are the same, the wood is the same, pretty well everything.

When the house was being built, Palin, being Mayor at the time, influenced the bylaw requiring building permits in the town so that now there is no official list of the contractors who worked on her house.

The information is coming from local Alaskans who have been watching Palin and collecting information for some time. The reason it hasn’t been made public yet is because they have been told by federal investigators to keep their mouths shut so a subsequent media frenzy doesn’t impede the investigation.

It is plausable that the suddenness of Palin’s resignation, which even members of her family didn’t know was going to happen, could be the reason for her rather strange resignation speech - she simply didn’t have time to construct an elaborate speech because she already knew this mess was about to go public in a big way.

Other blogs have already dubbed this as the “Iceberg Scandal” and “Iceberg Gate” but it’s safe to say that we’ll be getting some extremely controversial Sarah Palin news in the near future.

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

He also told the Anchorage Daily News that Palin wasn't in any criminal legal jeopardy.
[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]
"I can say definitively I am aware of no criminal investigation whatsoever involving Sarah Palin. Zero," he said.

The FBI reiterated that claim Saturday, telling the Los Angeles Times for a story Sunday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not investigating Palin's activities as governor, a former mayor or in any other capacity.

"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez, the bureau's Alaska spokesman, said.[/FONT]

 

[ucatchtrout]

sure, the fbi is more credible Denny.

But she didn't resign for no reason at all.

Could be this. Could be something else. Could be 2012.

 

[Denny Crane]

sure, the fbi is more credible Denny.

But she didn't resign for no reason at all.

Could be this. Could be something else. Could be 2012.

My hunch is that she won't run in 2012. She's 45 years old, and would be in her low to mid 50s in 2016 and 2020.

For now, she thinks she's getting away from the ridicule type scrutiny she's been getting (most lately by Letterman).

 

[barfo]

When did the Russian military change their dress code, so levi jeans with holes at the knees were considered acceptable?

They are spies. The jeans are so that they can blend in with regular Americans like Palin.

barfo

 

[barfo]

For now, she thinks she's getting away from the ridicule type scrutiny she's been getting (most lately by Letterman).

If that's what she thinks, she's an idiot. [But then we already knew that.] This has made her only that much more ridiculous.

My guess is she's found a sponsor who will pay her more money for less work.

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

If that's what she thinks, she's an idiot. [But then we already knew that.] This has made her only that much more ridiculous.

My guess is she's found a sponsor who will pay her more money for less work.

barfo

People forgot 9/11 quick enough, they'll forget about Palin's screwups.

Time was actually good to Quayle, FWIW. He was ridiculed by Murphy Brown for saying that it's better for families to have two parents. A couple of years later, Al Gore said the same thing and there was no ridicule.

http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2002/05/10/quayle/index.html

Dan Quayle's strange victory

Ten years after taking on "Murphy Brown," he oddly praises Ozzy, Warren and Sarah Jessica -- and claims history proved him right.


Dan Quayle's sense of satisfaction appeared as sweet as the strawberry mousse cake that was served Thursday before his speech at the National Press Club.

The last time he lived in Washington, his words were parsed almost as closely as the current president's. He still lets off the occasional zinger; last month during an appearance on "Hardball," as he tried to "set aside the Middle East peace situation" from the war on terrorism, he asked the rhetorical riddle: "How many Palestinians were on those airplanes on Sept. 9? None."

And just Thursday morning, when he discussed the continuing problem of out-of-wedlock births with Katie Couric on "The Today Show," he warned of "young men that like to go out and try to impregnate as many children as possible." (In a similar statement to the press club later in the day, he did correct "children" to "women.")

But nothing was going to stop him from treating the day as a prolonged victory lap. In 1992, the former vice president came under merciless criticism in the media when he attacked the TV character "Murphy Brown" for deciding to have a child out of wedlock. At the time, during an ill-fated reelection campaign, it seemed like just another embarrassing blunder that was bringing the ticket down. But history, Quayle believes, has saved him.

He's not the only one who thinks so. Ten years later, most anyone involved in child development agrees that two parents are preferable. He beamed while pointing out a recent New York Times headline that read "The Controversial Truth: Two-Parent Families Are Better."

"I was right at the time, and I feel that way now," said Quayle.

He still can be hard to follow. Quayle said he still disapproves of the "cultural elite" for continuing to glamorize sex outside of marriage on the screen, but added that he's heartened by stars who embrace family off the screen, including (notorious Lothario) Warren Beatty and Sarah Jessica Parker -- whose character in "Sex and the City" seems to have an almost pathological fear of marriage. Later, he even said that Ozzy Osbourne, star of his own real-life sitcom on MTV, is a decent role model because as a father -- believe it or not -- he counsels his children on the importance "of not doing drugs, of not doing alcohol." The show reveals the "positive things you can get out of a crazy home," he said.

But the fact that Quayle seemed confident making today's speech demonstrates that the politics of family have changed significantly during the last decade. Bill Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president at the time of Quayle's "Murphy Brown" remarks, attacked the vice president for being out of line. Even President Bush's spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, suggested that Quayle was wrong, saying that Murphy Brown exhibited positive "pro-life values" by having her baby.

In 1992, discussing illegitimacy was taboo. Most politicians had steered clear of the subject since 1965, when a then-obscure assistant secretary of labor by the name of Daniel Patrick Moynihan released a report linking poverty among black children to the prevalence of out-of-wedlock births. The report was denounced, and Moynihan was labeled a racist.

During the 1990s, the climate changed.

Due to a push by conservatives -- and some liberals -- and to a growing body of research, the subject of illegitimacy became legitimate.

Press coverage of the topic grew. And, as welfare reform emerged as a major policy priority in Congress, Democrats and Republicans agreed that the government needed to take concrete steps to reduce out-of-wedlock births. A 1993 Atlantic magazine cover story was titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." And later that year, Clinton declared, "I believe the country would be a lot better off if children were born to married couples."

"We finally removed the gag," says Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Rector has helped draft many family-formation provisions of Republican welfare reform bills in Congress. In the 1996 federal welfare reform law, Congress approved federal funding for sexual-abstinence programs and a bonus to states that reduce their ratios of out-of-wedlock births.

Today, in the midst of the reauthorization of the federal welfare program, both parties are embracing a Bush plan that takes the notion of reducing out-of-wedlock births a full step further: a marriage promotion fund, which would provide $300 million to state initiatives that help couples get hitched.

Quayle gave the president's proposal a thumbs-up today, saying "most marriages create stability."

But is Quayle overplaying his hand? While happy that the tide has turned, some illegitimacy experts worry that politicians could take the issue too far.

"The widespread recognition that children don't do well when raised outside marriage is a positive development," says Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "At the same time, we need to move cautiously in getting government involved in the marriage promotion arena. It would be easy for the whole marriage movement to get out of hand and end up encouraging marriage in situations where it's not the best outcome for everyone."

 

[Sug]

People forgot 9/11 quick enough, they'll forget about Palin's screwups.

If 9/11 ran for president, do you think they might be reminded?

 

[Denny Crane]

If 9/11 ran for president, do you think they might be reminded?

9/11 did run in 2008 and lost.

 

[barfo]

People forgot 9/11 quick enough, they'll forget about Palin's screwups.

Time was actually good to Quayle, FWIW.

I don't think so. He's still considered a lightweight potatoe-head.

People might forget about Palin altogether, but if she goes away for 8 or 12 years and then reappears, so will all the youtube videos of her. The internet never forgets.

barfo

 

[Minstrel]

My guess is that she would prefer the more lucrative and infinitely easier life of giving talks to friendly audiences, rather than being in politics with plenty of people working against her.