Love the last sentence:
The obsession is sure to intensify. Be prepared. Hurricane Sarah is about to descend on the Lower 48.
Posted on 07/11/2009 1:06:16 PM PDT by SolidWood
In early July, while most Americans were preparing for a long weekend of celebratory parades, charred meats, and noisy fireworks, Sarah Palin made some plans of her own. The Alaska governor had been the object of endless media attention and assorted calumnies since she became John McCain's vice presidential nominee last August. Now she wanted to try something new. So, on July 3, in a speech delivered from her home on Lake Lucille in Wasilla, Palin told her constituents that not only would she not seek a second term, but she would also be transferring authority to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell on July 26, abdicating her office with about 18 months left to go. The announcement, as one might expect, received global press coverage, dominated the weekend headlines, and gave stories about the late Michael Jackson a run for their money. Meantime, the political world went into sustained convulsions.
The fierce reaction surprised Palin. She is acutely aware of what the media and her opponents say about her. She heard some people say that the timing of her speech was odd. Not so. "Independence Day is so significant to me--it's sort of a way for me to illustrate that I want freedom for Alaskans to progress, and for me personally," she told me during a telephone interview on July 9. Others said the motivation for her resignation was not clear. "I'm like, 'Holy Jeez, I spoke for 20 minutes' " giving reasons, she said. Bloggers conjectured that a horrible scandal was looming over her. Nope. Palin says she even heard a rumor that she resigned because pornographic pictures of her were about to hit the Internet. This left her bemused. "Between which pregnancies did I get to pose for those?" she said sarcastically.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Love the last sentence:
The obsession is sure to intensify. Be prepared. Hurricane Sarah is about to descend on the Lower 48.
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
the most-attacked public person in my life time.
Ping me please.
Absolutely...she is scaring the crap out of the left...and the center...RINOs will be more dangerous to her, I think...we need to let them know we are watching their worthless hides and if they want to jump ship like Shincter did, now is the time...they won’t be feeding at the trough anymore...
Now, Sarah has initiated a brilliant flanking manuever and counter attack against the left, the DNC, and the MSM (and throw the RINOs in there for good measure) that has them all in a frenzy wondering what her next move will be and how it will be perceived...and has them frothing at the mouth in their efforts to discredit her.
But, their efforts will come to naught as Sarah gets her book out, go on tour, give speeches and promote conservatie principles all over this country in the midst of the Obama administration disaster and gain great political capital in the process. Then she will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that and make an awesome, stunning run for the Presidency in 2012.
Some of us tend to forget - SHE was (and is) our REAL Maverick!
I hope Peggy Noonan reads this column. It might wise her up.
The weak Standard wrote a positive Palin article?? Will wonders ever cease?
Pray for America and Gov Palin
BTTT
The Weekly Standard (except for Fred Barnes) is very pro-Palin. Bill Kristol was a Palin supporter from day one (he met her on a cruise before she was picked) and has consistently spoken out in defense of her.
“Between which pregnancies did I get to pose for these?”
Ya gotta admit, our Sarah is priceless.
The more they attack her , the more powerful and popular
she gets——they must know this, or are they SOOOOOO dumb
they think they STILL have a chance of destroying her?
Don’t they know that WE will come out and destroy THEM?
I just hope that in Sarah’s slow and uncertain climb over the next year or so, the cards are played right, and Sarah comes out on top. It will depend to an important degree on how much Obama and his crew generally disgrace themselves in the next year, which will come down to a contest between Reality and the Truth, up against White House and MSM propaganda, but Sarah can come out on top and be the next nominee and WINNER of the Presidency. I HAVE NO DOUBT!
Palin says she even heard a rumor that she resigned because pornographic pictures of her were about to hit the Internet.
This left her bemused. "Between which pregnancies did I get to pose for those?" she said sarcastically.
VOTE HER IN 2012
Jeff, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Best article i’ve seen on the subject, well written, still sort of disagree with her on this one tho, but at least this article offers some context.
Man. THAT is what my President SHOULD LOOK LIKE!!
Too late. Peggy’s out of touch.
Palin's unconventionality and authenticity is the key to her appeal. She may move contrariwise to elite opinion in Washington and New York, but doing so strengthens her bond with conservative Republicans across the country. The things that make liberals flip-out at the first mention of Palin are exactly the ones that rally conservatives to her side.
Yep.
Oh Hell YEAH.
Palin-hatred is visceral and unrelenting. "Our state was inundated with opposition researchers trying to dig up dirt, the Democratic blogosphere up here making stuff up," Palin told me.I truly wish she had publicly blamed all this on Obama... where the blame surely lies.
I truly wish she had said before (and it's not too late, as the 18th "ethics violation" accusation has just been raised), publicly, loudly, in front of an assembly of cameras and global media:
President Obama, call off your attack dogs!
Targets are in the open.
I doubt it, Noonan seems hellbent on being the new Maureen Dowd, minus the low-rent trollop part.
They attack her so terribly, because their fear of her is directly proportional to their attacks.
But I guess folks figured it out.
Sarah Palin will do what the established party "leaders?" have failed to do. It's not going to be too difficult to unseat those cowards. GO SARAH!!
Yes she has. Free-fire zones abound.
If Sarah is ever in my area, I will encourage all of my friends to attend. And they will encourage their friends . . .
When Rush Limbaugh dropped into the area, we had 40,000.
Free-fire zones abound.
Democrats are used to walking right up the berm and
smacking their opponents in the face.
That isn’t going to happen with Sarah, she’s already
BTDT.
As she said, “It’s not going to be politics as usual.”
Dems in the wire, lock and rock.
Yeah. Peggy is the wizened old high-rent trollop.
Dems, lefties, the MSM, RINOs...all getting hung up in the wire around the perimeter...just asking to be claymored!
Meanwhile...it dominated the News the entire weekend and beyond.
Congressman Billybob
Bill Kristol is co-editor of the Weekly Standard, and has been a Palin-booster, or at least, a heavy-leaner, since the beginning.
I’m done with Palin. Can’t stand her voice for another minute.
As if you were a supporter in the first place.
That is such a great picture of Governor Palin.
Yeah, she is beyond help. Bless her little pea picking heart, she does not know any better.
I doubt is you ever supported her.
She is a lifetime NRA member and a hunter, I could support her as a candidate and vote for her.
I already emailed Glen Beck when he was gone he had some dork taking crap about her - filling in for his show.
you reading this Mr. Beck?! Are ya?
I also turn off any other radio show that says anything bad about this women.
I don’t have tv so I only can turn off the radio.
LOL. I won't respond to the obvious - that you either want to get flamed or you forgot the sarc tag. I will say that Sarah's voice is very endearing to me (as a Midwesterner) because it has an upper Midwest sort of pitch to it. I'm glad she 'aint from Joisey.
I loved the article.
Good stuff. No. GREAT STUFF!!
That's OK, noob. Most Americans can't stand the New Jersey whine for ten seconds...
LOL! Eat your heart out!
Hurricane Sarah
click on image
“If you stand with America, I will stand with you.”
Great bumper sticker.
We’ll see some amazing things from Sarahcuda in a few months.
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