Posted on 07/03/2009 10:57:15 PM PDT by pissant
With respect to many of the Palinologists below, I think they're getting way too hepatomantic over the entrails.
As a political move for anything other than the 2010 Senate race, today's announcement is a disaster. And I'm not sure it's a plus for the Senate - and, even if it were, the manner and timing suggest it was not a professionally planned event and therefore is unlikely to have any grand strategy behind it.
So Occam's Razor leaves us with: Who needs this?
In states far from the national spotlight, politics still attracts normal people. You're a mayor or a state senator or even the governor, but you lead a normal life. The local media are tough on you, but they know you, they live where you live, they're tough on the real you, not on some caricature cooked up by a malign alliance of late-night comics who'd never heard of you a week earlier and media grandees supposedly on your own side who pronounce you a "cancer".
Then suddenly you get the call from Washington. You know it'll mean Secret Service, and speechwriters, and minders vetting your wardrobe. But nobody said it would mean a mainstream network comedy host doing statutory rape gags about your 14-year old daughter. You've got a special-needs kid and a son in Iraq and a daughter who's given you your first grandchild in less than ideal circumstances. That would be enough for most of us. But the special-needs kid and the daughter and most everyone else you love are a national joke, and the PC enforcers are entirely cool with it.
Most of those who sneer at Sarah Palin have no desire to live her life. But why not try to - what's the word? - "empathize"? If you like Wasilla and hunting and snowmachining and moose stew and politics, is the last worth giving up everything else in the hopes that one day David Letterman and Maureen Dowd might decide Trig and Bristol and the rest are sufficiently non-risible to enable you to prosper in their world? And, putting aside the odds, would you really like to be the person you'd have to turn into under that scenario?
National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush). Our loss.
So you think that he really got 57 million votes, and that there were 13 million fraudulent votes?
I’m not quite as convinced that he’s a big public bomb as others seem to be. I know the media panned his response speech, but I liked it.
Look, the guy is Governor. He evidently had some sort of appeal. If he’s been a good one, he’s got plenty of experience to point to.
We’ll see.
“When you strike out, you’re out of the game, and someone else on the bench gets picked by the team to take a swing next time around.” ???????
Not true. You are NOT out of the game. Your baseball analogy has completely fallen apart. Nice try though. BTW, what grade are you in?
Well there you go ;-)
I agree. I wish I didn’t, but here we are. Thanks Vendome.
BTW, I still like Sarah and the rest of the Palins. I do not agree with some of the negative things being said about her here on this thread. There’s one person in particular who hasn’t liked her since before the election. I don’t agree with them.
You say that like it's a bad thing. It's never a bad thing to climb out of the cesspool.
Was it Greenspan that said anyone who is willing to do what needs to be done to become president should automatically be disqualified?
Sadly - thay may apply to Palin.
You’re totally missing the point.
I’m illustrating the difference between not winning the nomination (not getting a turn this time around to bat for your team) and losing an election (going up to bat and striking out). I’m not here to belabor the rules of baseball.
I’m not saying either is a bad thing. Moving on is part of life.
It’s time we moved on from Sarah Palin, just as she’s moved on from political life.
Thank you Diotima. It’s nice to see you on the forum.
She’s gotten the Tom Delay treatment. I wish some judge would have figured that one out. Frankly, this ethics game has been criminal in nature. It’s frivolous and should be addressed at some point with some serious measures.
I don’t like the game Letterman and the media were playing. She defended her family and I appreciate that. I thought she was right to do so.
Still, if you’re going to want to point back to your executive experience at some point, you just can’t quit.
I agree with you. Wish I didn’t have to on this, because I was in her corner. Oh well.
All is well with us. Thank you. Hope you’re doing great where you’re at too.
Wow, you really are a mitten kitten.
Keep propagandizing, but Mitt has zero chance to win the GOP nomination.
He can’t survive the Primary lmao...and you know this.
What do I care?
As long as the next GOP nominee isn’t Palin or Huckabee, I’m happy.
“What do I care?”
You care a great deal, you’ve been typing about Palin’s political death since the announcement at 4 est yesterday.
“As long as the next GOP nominee isn’t Palin or Huckabee, I’m happy”
Her influence is well beyond your ability to type futile messages to her core supporters.
Palin told them the same thing....which is why they've been out to get her from day one. In her first speech...
"But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people. Sarah Palin
Apparently “hepatomancy” means the practice of divining the future by reading the entrails of sacrificial animals....
“Interesting,” I take it, in the ancient-Chinese-curse sense of the word.
Hepatomantic, “Gettin’ yer bile all riled up” ain’t good enough?
Some of these folks think Sarah Palin is George Washington, Ronald Reagan, Moses, and Jesus Christ all rolled into one.
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