Posted on 07/03/2009 6:57:35 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of GOP Strategist Ed Rollins giving his assessment of Gov. Sarah Palin's decision to resign as Governor of Alaska. Rollins calls the timing of her resignation announcement "suspicious," referring to it coming on a Friday afternoon of a holiday weekend, and because she is not finishing out her term. He does not believe this is any way to start a campaign for President. (Watch Video)
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Palin got all these jokers guessing...you gotta love it.
The “experts” are in a tizzy...
In other words...
“They didn’t put me on the payroll and ask for my opinion”
Rollins had his day, but it’s the next day after Morning in America.
Prediction, and if I’m wrong, I’m wrong: Somebody’s going to a Tea Party tomorrow, if she wasn’t already.
And for this he gets paid?
And ones wonders how the GOP got where it is...
Sheesh...
Ed Rollins is the most over rated political strategist in history.
Speculation hasn’t even started yet.
I’m so sick of that putz!
Seems pretty obvious to me — she needs to have the ankle biting about her tenure as governor behind her long enough for her to have put paid to all of them in court. Also as non governor she now has the free time to stump all over the country. She was a dangerous wild card before, now she has become Godzilla. 2012 we can’t wait.
...er, Ed. LOL!
I agree it’s pretty unusual. I think we will just have to wait and see. I don’t think it will help if she has pres. ambitions.
These Beltway and party types just don’t get it. Governor Palin transcends party lines. She drew a crowd of 29K in New York state. Blue as Hell, New York state. She made it clear in her statement, she will speak for any candidate with the right values.
We may be witnessing the birth of the new 3rd party.
I believe Sarah is quitting politics- at least in the sense of running for office.
There all pissed off that she became governor in November 2006 and finished everything she needed to do in less than 3 years. They are all in a tizzy. You would have thought she announced she was running for President the way they are going crazy over this. Most governors should buckle down and get things done in 2 years...our nation would be better!!!!! I like her more today than yesterday!!!!
Now that your agenda has been revealed, Rollins, how will you feel when it has no effect on anything, and nobody even notices?
Her petty detractors have been trying to get her in a recursive legal pickle, first by alleging improprieties, then by alleging the impropriety of fund raising while governor to defend herself from these allegations. And if she pushes said fund raising another step, so will said petty detractors, ad infinitum. Whatever the absolute legal truth of these attempts (and I wholeheartedly believe they are baloney) they constitute a powerful source of dirt for her detractors. Now she can shake that off.
She will do well to remind what’s left of the GOP of its meaning and roots. That “we are from the government and we are here to help” is the stuff of nightmares, not utopias. Whether she makes a personal bid or not will ultimately depend on circumstances.
She just told the Todd Purdums, Ed Rollins and Charles Krauthammers of the world to stick it where the sun don’t shine. Sadly they are too DC stupid to understand that.
My thoughts exactly, the only thing I can think of is she has a couple of skeletons in the closet she wants to get rid of. Perhaps she has decided to run under a different political party. Maybe start her own, since the Republicans really don’t want her involved in anything they’re dealing in.
Smaller government.
Lower taxes.
Strong military.
Energy independence.
Family values.
Personal responsibility.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No wonder the Democrats and Republican elites hate her so much!
The next President should not have characteristics that deviate too far from the ones that typify the current President, presuing the broad masses had something in mind when they voted for Obama..
Sarah moves closer to the "current model" by abandoning elective office now ~ (just an observation) ~ so you might ask how Obama can prepare himself to counter that in 2012?
When does he "resign".
One thing Rollins knows. He’ll never work for Ssrah Palin!
He’s a has been, a loser. A hack.
Serious questions have been raised by this and unfortunately she has provided slim answers. That leaves it for her ememies to fill in the gap with the worst speculation.
If she’s quiting politics, it does not matter. If she wants to stay, it really mattered a lot that she did this right.
That’s high minded of her, but she’d best keep in mind that “right values” doesn’t mean mouthing one line and then going and doing another thing. This covers not only the handful of GOP rogues like Sanford, but also any alleged blue dog Democrat who, like virtually all, is ready to say “yes massa” when the Word from Zero On High comes.
I believe she understands the sad arithmetic of spoilers and would much sooner buck up a repentant, refreshed GOP than to present it with a Perot like competitor.
...and Sarah is saying
"Let's Roll!"
to the grass root movement we call "tea parties"
WOO HOO!
She knocked the KING OF PEDOPHILES off the news for a few minutes. Michael - “I’m a druggie predator with 6 good songs and none in the last decade” - was getting really boring.
Of course that cuts both ways ;-)
People are forgetting Palin’s political history. She took on the Alaska GOP old boys network and beat it.
I think she intends to do the exact same thing to the national GOP old boys. To which I say: About damn time.
God be with her.
Basically, most people on this forum would have quit long before this. She has undergone huge, baseless attacks on her, attacks that would have brought most people to their knees long ago.
I think she is doing the right thing, whether she quits politics altogether or not. I personally don't think she is quitting, I think she is going to campaign for other people.
that was exactly what I was thinking, the current prez didn’t finish his first term and didn’t accomplish anything.
jokers, jesters,, same critters I reckun..
if eggs were brains poached is more like it..
Everything that is being said here, the speculation, Sarah already thought that out, people asking “How can she run, she quit before her term was up” no one knows what Sarah’s plans are. I support her 100 percent in whatever she decides to do, I think whatever made her decide to go this route, she was given advice by those around her. She could have finished her term and let others run, I just hope that she is Ok physically, she doesn’t look ill, and why is she waiting til July 26th to do it..
Another thing that has not been mentioned, Mark Levin was saying how Bush 43 did the same thing, got re-elected, and halfway through his term quit and ran for President, perhaps Sarah is going that route. We just have to wait and see. I trust Sarah completely, she is a remarkable woman who has endured more emotional hell then I have ever seen
I agree, I couldn’t have taken 5 percent of the hell she has gone through. I think she is gonna concentrate on writing her book, going to the lower 48 and campaigning for people, I hope she endorses Mark Rubio, cause I HATE HATE HATE Charlie Crist, I think that is EXACTLY what she is gonna do. This way she isn’t tied down to Alaska, she can go wherever she pleases now, and answer to NO ONE, she is now Private Citizen Palin, she can travel when she wants, go wherever she wants, and when the media asks why, she can tell them all to kiss her ass
Look, I’m as big a Palin fan as anyone but to suggest this doesn’t raise a ton of eyebrows is putting one’s head in the sand.
I hope like hell there is nothing to this, but I’m not going to pretend like it’s not possible either. The GOP has been in such disarray for so long now, these types of events only add to it. Pray that it’s nothing out of the ordinary because the leaders we have on the right side of the aisle have done everything in their power in the last few years to really screw things up.
So much so that we have someone like B.O. elected.
-Rollins is a Huckabee man, so naturally he is critical.
-She cannot run for President while being Gov. of Alaska (geographical challenges.)
-She cannot run for President if she must wait until Jan. ‘11 to start.
-She is not starting or joining any third party.
She is going to run off the radar. Travel;speak($); maybe get on a corporate board.
Didn’t he run Huckabee’s campaign? He is as dirty as they come.
She couldn’t afford to stay in office, she is not a wealthy politician, they are a working family and since last November she is $500K in debt thanks to the ankle biters up in Alaska who, BTW, are linked to Obama and keep bringing petty ethics charges against her... not to mention this was taking up a lot of state time and state money which, like every state, is tight these days. Add to that the relentlessness in going after her children and then people criticizing HER when she defended her cubs and no wonder she told them she was through... a man would never have been treated like her, especially if he was a democrat.
Ed Rollins is a turncoat. He jumped ship from the George H.W. Bush campaign in ‘92 to work for Ross Perot. His wife was still working for Bush and didn’t tell her until the last minute what he was doing, and she had to leave her job. I think they divorced a few years later.
Mark Levin was saying how Bush 43 did the same thing, got re-elected, and halfway through his term quit and ran for President,
Nope not accurate......... President Bush was elected governor of Texas, served one term and was elected for a 2nd term. He ran for President and was elected in Nov. 2000 and resigned his governorship on Dec. 21, 2000 and sworn in as President on Jan. 20, 2001.
He didn’t leave his governorship of Texas after 2 1/2 years as Palin is doing in AK.
Oh, man. I hope they are okay. They can come live with us if need be. :) She will make a lot of money giving speeches and on her book in the near future.
Sarah forgot to put a bankster in her back pocket - unlike “my friend” McCain.
It’s terrible what the Left and McCain backstabbers have done to her and her beautiful children. They never took on Todd, did they... Todd for President! Just kidding. Wouldn’t it be nice to look into those blue eyes on the teevee for four years. ;)
He didn’t leave his governorship of Texas after 2 1/2 years as Palin is doing in AK.
What's the difference?
Bush did not finish the second term as governor, as he was elected to do. He broke his apparently sacred bond to the people of Texas. The fact that he did one complete term is irrelevant. Each new election is a new pact, which Bush, like Obama, and Palin, did not see through to the end.
Now, I'm having some fun with this, but you see my point. She's not doing anything that other successful Presidents haven't.
He’s right.
Oh, the sleepless nights for all these drones.
Sarah is such a tease!
I didn’t say he didn’t resign. My comment to the poster was that her statement was inaccurate which it was. President Bush, then governor, didn’t resign to run for President as she stated that Levin said. He ran for President while he was governor, was elected and then resigned a month before he was sworn in as President.
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