The reality is this:
Posted on 07/04/2009 1:10:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's abrupt and unscripted holiday resignation is an odd way to launch a potential presidential bid and certainly no help for a party battered by scandal and fighting for relevancy.
From a folksy figure who catapulted from obscure governor to conservative darling and vice presidential nominee, it's merely the latest move in a political drama that has left Republican elders scratching their heads.
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"If this is her launching pad for 2012, it's a curious move," said John Weaver, a former senior strategist for McCain's presidential bids. "Policy is politics, and she has no real accomplishments as governor."(continued)
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i like palin and dislike john mccain, but i still think if you’re elected to a term you owe your constituents who elected you to serve out that full term, baring some unforseen major life issue.
McCain's flying monkey squadron is hard at work.
The reality is this:
I am perfectly happy that she IS NOT playing their game by their rules. She just needs to take it to the people, the voters. Thats ALL she needs to do.
There, fixed it.
Sarah got elected by fighting corruption in her own party. She defeated an incumbent governor of her own party to be elected governor in the first place. Sarah does not shy away from a battle.
Why does her not holding an elective office somehow disqualify her from serious contention in 2012? Last time, Romney, Giuliani, and Huckabee were all former office holders. Ronald Reagan had been out of elective office for six years at the time he was elected president. George H.W. Bush was similarly years removed from high office when he ran in the 1980 Republican primaries. Nixon was eight years out of elective office when he was elected president in ‘68.
Even a good Democrat like Jimmy Carter was a private citizen when elected president.
yET ANOTHER reason why we stopped taking the San Diego UT!!!!!
I wonder if Mr. Weaver is one of those "unnamed sources" from the McCain camp that trashed Palin during the election. If so, he should be outed as a leaker to the enemy (read:media) and marginalized as a traitor and faux Repub, so hopefully he will shrivel up and blow away.
Also, I wonder how much time the media spent looking for a "Repub" to say something bad about Palin?
And no successful were those?
Maybe you could learn from her curious moves.
These turds just can’t get used to McNut lost the Presidental run, not Palin. She held his a@@ up and might have made it if he really let her loose. It was obvious he did not like Sara because she was more liked than dimwit McNut. He had no idea she would outshine him at the time he put her on the ticket. McNut is just that, an old dried up stupid politician.
exactly !
John Weaver, a top adviser to Utah Governor John Huntsman, said this week that the Republican party is headed for an electoral "blowout" if it continues to be defined by "Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney."
Yeah, this guy is some Republican . . . .
How nice of the MSM to give Palin “helpful” advice. They must be worried.
Was John Weaver one of the bone-heads who advised McCain to quit his campaign in October ‘08 to rush to Washington D.C. to bail out Goldman Sachs and the foreign banks by laundering taxpayer money through AIG? There wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference (a bow to Ross Perot) between Obama and McCain on that issue. That was a debacle that some of us who are not brain-dead will never forget.
This reminds me of a One Hit Wonder song from the 1980s..."The King of Wishful Thinking".
For those of you who are into one-hit wonders, here's a link to the video...
Sarah Palin has a much better future than the Associated Press.
FAILED presidential bids. There. Fixed it.
But, talk about curious moves, I find it curious that McCain hired him for a second presidential bid after a failed first bid.
John Weaver must be brain dead. I would challenge him to support his spurious assertion that Sarah Palin has no "real" accomplishments. What a moronic statement!
Some people will say anything to get their name in the paper. Please elaborate, Mr. Weaver. What are your accomplishments, John? Do you have a clue on what it takes to govern a State with borders on two foreign countries? Crawl back under your rock, please.
Opinions are like @ssholes - everybody’s got one, and it seems that every self-styled “pundit” in America is weighing in on this Sarah Palin thing. Nevertheless, there’s only One who can truly see the future, and He isn’t writing any articles.
Yep, does Sarah Palin or any Republican really need to take advice from the MSM?
Sarah is probably best off ignoring the advice of the alleged MSM and liberal experts. That’s all liberal clap trap and inside the Beltway stuff. Sarah is not of Washington, and that’s one of her appeals to people. She’s not your ordinary politician.
It is not difficult to find republicans who do not think Palin was ever a viable candidate. I have spoken to people affiliated with the Texas Republican Party. Not one viewed her as credible as a candidate in 2012. Nor do I. Though I do like her and would have loved to have seen her finish her term and run for re election as Gov of Alaska.
Analysis: MSM continues to try to hurt Palin’s future.
Her future would be very secure if not for the sick, twisted, perverted, vile and degenerate writings and talkings of the Parrot Press and their Hollywood minions.
I say go for it Sarah! We stand with you 100%
The press was never your friend so you should ignore them.
bring it on!!
I expect we’ll see Sarah Palin judiciously speaking at campaign rallies for pro-growth small-government conservatives in upcoming months: people like Toomey, Rubio, and others. People will start to note the huge, enthusiastic audiences of Republicans and independents, and campaign coffers will start filling. When the GOP retakes the house and only narrowly misses retaking the Senate in 2010, Sarah will be able to claim much of the credit, and her energy expertise and enthusiasm for developing American energy sources will be mightily attractive as we soar past $5.00 gallon gasoline prices in the age of the Obama depression, a plunging dollar, and soaring cap-and-tax prices. Look for primary blowouts by Palin in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina and a 40 to 45 state sweep against Zero in November, as the One’s popularity rating continues to converge with the nation’s unemployment rate.
“i like palin and dislike john mccain, but i still think if you’re elected to a term you owe your constituents who elected you to serve out that full term, baring some unforseen major life issue.”
Yeah! Me too! Whether it makes any sense or not, by gosh! She can just sit and spend all of her time and Alaska’s bucks defending herself against helldogs attacks. Darn right! Alaska doesn’t need a hassle-free working goveroner in office, they need the woman they elected to stay come hell (which has arrived for her) or high water!
Or, maybe some folks could decry the treatment the press and dems have given her instead of beating her up for doing a logical, if unusual, somewhat gutsy move.
.....because McCain and Powell and Giuliani have worked out so well for us, so far.
Y'see.
Here’s my take on this...if Gov. Palin finished her term, after the elections of 2010 and then the installment of her sucsessor it would be early 2011. Until then any work she did towards making a run at president would just bring more heat down on her for not spending her time seeing to the business of Alaska. By then it would be too late for her. I have long felt that if a candidate was serious about making a run either as an independant or building an alternative party to the present two party dictatorship...er...system we now have that they should begin two or three years before the election. With the growing resentment in the electorate with the staus quo this very well could be the time for such a candidate. Perhaps a “Patriot Party” that would try to connect with not just conservative repubs, but also those dems who can’t stomach Soros, Gore, Pelosi, etc. and the independents. Mrs. Palin reaches people in a way that no pol has done since mayby JFK. I remember the hysteria of his election and it wasn’t manufactured by the press like the recent one. I attended the rally in Fairfax Va. for Palin and McCain and without a doubt the loudest and longest cheers were for her. The people get excited for her, and that is what scares the bejeezus out the political establishment.
Do you think there might be anything out there that could stop her success? Some hidden problem, like money issues or family problems? A scandal - perhaps something from her youth or from her days as mayor, or with her husband’s business? Is there anything at all that might be revealed about Sarah that you can imagine would cause her believers to doubt her?
Because if there is, it will be a terrible blow.
Well, Obama DOES make speeches. Do THEY count?
LOL
None of them had resigned from office.
On the other hand, none of them had been driven to the point of bankruptcy defending themselves against baseless ethics charges maliciously pressed by political opponents.
Nor did any of them have to conclude that outside opponents, encouraged if not directed by the incumbent President, were punishing their constituents by forcing them to divert their attention from public duties.
None of them had their children so viciously attacked in the press, day after day. Even when they were grown adults and fair game for their own actions.
The Obama Administration has taken the politics of personal destruction to a new level. Sarah Palin rightly concluded that she could not let the people of Alaska be caught in the crosshairs in the battle to come.
Imagine what punitive legislation and executive orders could have been taken against Alaska for the ulterior purpose of destroying her personally and politically.
Imagine what further trumped-up ethics charges or indictments could have drained her financially. How could she seek higher office if she had been forced into personal bankruptcy?
Whether or not she runs for reelection in 2012, she has decided that Alaska needs a governor who can actually govern. Would that more politicians would resign rather than remain liabilities to their constituency.
RINO’S are a dime a dozen. Not a serious candidate? Tell that to the 20,000 people that turned out to see/hear her in a very small town in upstate NY. The RINO’S aren’t keeping up with their ‘not serious’ candidate. The people are and they are the voters.
I think the constant, merciless, unrelenting attacks on her, her office, her family and even her CHURCH (they set it on FIRE forcryinoutloud) warrants a "major life issue."
Governor Palin is not a masochist. I would not respect her in the least if I thought she were.
I have always liked Sarah Palin, and would vote for her any time, any day for any office. I respect her 10x more now than I did last week.
Get off her back.
“Do you think there might be anything out there that could stop her success?”
No
20,000 people does not a president make. And in my opinion she is not a credible or viable candidate. Even before her resignation. Now, impossible for her to run with any credibility. There has to be more to the story. I will wait and see what her reasons are, and no matter, will respect them. She does not have to justify her decision to anyone. Unless she ever runs for office again. And with the resignation, I do not think she can run for office again. And the people to whom I spoke are not “rinos” ...I really hate that expression btw.
Nobody seemed to care much that Obama, McCain and Clinton all abandoned their senate duties to run for president. I think it much more honorable to say "I can't fulfill my duties as I would like to and therefore am handing off the duties to another" rather than the cynical "I don't have time to fulfill my duties but I want to keep the title so I will just let the duties go undone".
The Country elected someone who knew he couldn't perform the duties he was elected to perform but didn't have the cajones to resign while he spent two years running for the presidency.
Sarah doesn't play in their swamp of power before integrity. I admire that and I think a lot of other Americans will too.
whoever thinks her future is hurt is an idiot. She will score a book deal and make millions..... her book becomes a bestseller on the first day out and will be reviewed in every paper on earth. She will end up being the most talked about politician in modern American history. It may not be all that nice but all that negative press is what generated interest in the first place. In effect she will turn a negative into a positive and cash up big time.
Reagan’s second term as Governor ended on Jan 7, 1975, his first term as President started on Jan 20, 1981 (over 6 years later). He spent most of the time in between supporting many other Republicans, who supported his bid to become President.
another poster that is here to trash Palin . wow,
what a shocker ! what is the real agenda here ?
Perhaps the game is bigger than elections as usual, perhaps revolution is in the air. With Sarah we have a chance for a peaceful bloodless one. Without I am not so sure.
Do we know who is running against McCain?
Thanks for pointing that out - great point!
Here’s my summation of this and how badly the fascist press has missed the point.
She will head to DC where she will pick up a show on FOX that hits the Obamunist Socialists and their agenda at every turn of the page. Remember that she has a natural expertise and will garner great ratings.
While this is going on she will then go on speaking engagements and make lots of $ and pay off the debts caused by the frivolous lawsuits that were only initiated to bring her down. Makes LOTS of money and can spot targets of opportunity to front a Tea Party or some political movement where idiots (IDK - like in California?) are running the country in the ground with their incompetent form of political leadership.
Emerges as the front runner for President from the GOP.
Ya notice how the MSM attacks Palin personally, when the only issue they really have with her is her politics and her popularity.
To say that, they would first have to know what her future is.
HERE’S A THOUGHT...what if she isn’t planning on running for President but maybe instead is getting positioned to take leadership of the RNC?
That is a position where her charisma and ability to energize the base could be serious strengths, without the “experience” issue being a barrier like it might be in running for president. What do you guys think? I really hope that it is something like that!
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