Tina Fey may come to have deep financial regrets.
Posted on 07/26/2009 12:33:19 PM PDT by IbJensen
Edited on 07/26/2009 3:19:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin steps down Sunday giving few clues about her political future, which has been clouded by ethics probes, mounting legal bills and dwindling popularity.
A few things are known: She is scheduled to speak Aug. 8 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, and has said she plans to write a book, campaign for political candidates from coast to coast and build a right-of-center coalition.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I love Sarah Palin but I do wonder if this is the right thing. Somehow quitting never seems to be the best option.
A lot of court time, I'm thinking.
Never did get the Palin thing, myself.
I am sure writers at the Miami Herald are up nights worrying about Palin. I think they should worry about their dismal bottomline and further irrelevance as their Emperor Obama shows everyday he is less and less clothed.
A newspaper 4500 miles from Alaska writes a feature story on the governor’s last day in office. I thought the left wanted her to disappear from public view. These Palin haters may wake up four years from now to discover they’ve helped elect her to the presidency.
Goes to show you that harassment, threats and libel are O.K. as long as a liberal is doing it.
The most disgusting thing about it is that they have done it with impunity and are now jumping with joy, behind closed doors, at their success.
What a terrible shame.
The over-riding question is, why?
IMHO
IMHO
She has been picked at but not picked apart.
We can only hope and pray!
They see Obama at NEGATIVE 11 and are scared to death. Their time is running out and they know it. The media claims she has no future yet all they talk about is her future LOL. The media claim they hate her yet they fly to Alaska to see a picnic. The media is scared to death that she will rally conservatives and we will take back the house and senate
Tina Fey may come to have deep financial regrets.
Consider it a strategic redeployment instead of quitting.
When the enemy has your # , change tactics and the game.
Enough playing within the rules that everyone knows is unfair.
Time to take the fight to the other side.
:-)
have faith. God works in mysterious ways. Who would have thought Esther being taken would have turned out as it did?
I certainly hope that WE do!
These communist bozos running and ruining our lives can do a lot of damage over the next few months.
It may take a genius to unravel and reverse the mess they're making.
If a successful flushing out of the socialists takes place I would hope that the likes of RINO imbeciles like Snowe, Collins and a host of others get dumped!
You don't trust anyone, do you?
I trust my barber.
What's saddest about the Tina Fey thing is the number of people who attribute Fey's lines on SNL to Palin.
Sarah will now get 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.
If she completed her term the libs would just say she is only a one-term governor with numerous ethics probes. She will never get favorable treatment from the MSM.
We are about to find out if she has a message that resonates with America. I think she is an Obama killer. She is genuine, Obama is a phoney. She has reined in government, Obama expands it. She understands the life most Americans live, Obama does not. Obama speaks of compassion for the weak and helpless, Palin lives it.
The left is deathly afraid of her.
I think it was the only option available to her.
The democratic attacks had made the position of Governor untenable for her.
There were what, 18 ethics complaints filed against her. The legal bills were huge and she was obligated to pay them - not the State of Alaska.
They even filed a complaint about her forming a legal defense fund.
That was the most recent ‘ethics complaint’ that was leaked.
The democratic shill in charge of it decided it would be an ethics violation if she accepted any of that money to pay those legal bills ...
She had not yet accepted any of the money as she was waiting for this issue to be cleared.
Given their position, she was going to be continued to subject to vicious, unfounded attacks without the necessary funds to refute them.
Somebody recently put together a video showing the links of the people who were attacking her to the democrats.
She resigned to stop the useless expense to the taxpayers of Alaska from having to defend against the petty legal challenges. I don't call that "quitting." I call it "strategic," and I think she is going to be much more useful and effective once she is free of the constraints of the office of governor. Sometimes, an office can be more of a burden and hindrance than the title is worth.
I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. She's no qitter. Period.
Your keyboard to G-d’s ears, Jeff. The bottom line is that she has a bright career ahead of her, and is a rising star in the conservative movement. Run for senate? That would be awesome. We need a Newt Gingrich for 2010, and she just may be the new Newt.
“Sarah Palin initiated a brilliant flanking maneuver...” Jeff, I couldn’t agree with you more.
Maybe I’m giving her too much credit to, but I can seem to think that if traditional political warfare is delivering traditional results or no results at all — switch to unconventional political warfare, where one can defeat many, I’ll use this youtube video to illustrate my point for those that don’t understand; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COItXh04d0c&feature=related
So my point, as Governor, she was vulnerable to their attacks, now, she can take the attack to her enemy and be more effective and consistent in her attacks.
IMO!
"Wait. I'm getting something...a number....the number 1600..and a pen....no, a pencil......no, it's a state.....Pennsylvania....."
There!
I sent her an email last night wishing her the best and thanking her for giving us conservatives something to hope for during the 08 election, since there was no one in the party before her that had energized the base like she did. I hope we have not seen or heard the last of her.
If McCain had not picked her, he could have had all his campaign stops held in a phone booth!
pburgh01, pburgh01
But the story wasn’t written by by anyone on the Miami newspaper’s staff. Follow the link to the source and read where it says “Associated Press.” That’s a wire service. It sends its biased, anti-Palin stories to newspapers all over the world.
Hello, hello? Buehler? Is anyone paying any attention?
- JP
In a perfect world, justice would come and when it did, the traitors in the state- run-media would be the first to feel it’s overwhelming and unforgiving presence.
I am sure writers at the Miami Herald are up nights worrying about Palin.
Isn’t this an AP article just posted or carried by the Herald?
It actually would be more of a detriment to her. There is a reason that U.S. Senators make lousy Presidents, with the Mutt and Jeff Show currently occupying the White House as the latest example of why the Senate should be the place where Presidential aspirations go to die a well deserved death.
U.S. Senators do not have the skill set required of an effective President, which is that of a skilled administrator. They have the skill set of a trained negotiator, which is what we elect them to do in our stead. More about this later.
Suffice it to say that needs to keep herself free from the constraints of elective office so that she can become the power center that her popularity can make her. Write the book(s), fund raise, campaign for candidates who believe as she does, get herself up-to-date on all pertinent issues and watch as the Lib/Dem world explodes one talking head at a time.
I agree.
Sarah had had enough of being the punching bag.
Or as a pundit put it.....”Now Sarah becomes the hunter, not the hunted”..............
It all starts at the Reagan Library.....August 8th.......we begin to take our country back..........
Remember what Sarah said at Lake Lucille. “I am not retreating, I am advancing in a different direction.”
(she quoted General Douglas McArthur)
She also asked us to trust her........In “The Alamo” directed by John Wayne, Richard Boone (playing Sam Houston) says, “I would trust Jim Bowie with my family, my honor and the future of Texas.” I would say the same about Sarah.............. except just take out Texas and put United States in there.........
True but the Herald had to make an editorial decision to run it. The Herald nor any other daily runs every story the AP throws over the wire. Running it in Miami is a decision made in Miami.
“They are What's saddest about the Tina Fey thing is the number of people who attribute Fey's lines on SNL to Palin.
All the while their love for all things Obama ... how Smart he is etc. Makes me sick.
Palin is resigning because:
1) She was drunk, ran her car into a river with a live person in the passenger seat, and didn't tell the police until 9 hours later, when that person, now deceased, was crumpled up trying to get air from the tiny air pocket in the car?
OR
2) Was she or someone in her household running a brothel from her basement on Capitol Hill?
OR
Hmmmm 3)She's canoodling with Argentinian divorcee (oh, nevermind, you don't resign governorships over THAT);
OR
Am I getting closer?
Did she say we need to spread the wealth, she's visiting the 57 states, and that Iran-is-just-a-tiny-non-dangerous-little-country-why-be-worked-up?
Ok, ok, really, she must've called the police stupid for doing their jobs, not knowing the facts of the case...
I give up, I don't know why she resigned.
Sarc./off
Really liked your response......
Made me laugh.........Sarah, LIVE 5:45 PM Central from KTUU TV........live stream..........of the speech of the former Gov. of Alaska...........
TeamSarah is delivering 1,000 red roses to Sarah today, just to let her know how much American loves her....
I hope there are pictures...........I contributed to getting the roses, I am a TeamSarah member.....(I contribute to SarahPAC every month, and am maxed out at
The Alaska Fund Trust)
maybe she will move the Kali and set it straight?
Teh liberals remain scared to death of Sarah Palin. I haven’t seen them trash andtry to destroy anyone in politics like this since Reagan.
Has anyone put up a live thread?? I’ve been looking for one but haven’t found it yet. My DSL is jamming so I’m not going to host one.
Fox News has live streaming video now but no sound from the picnic. Instead you get to listen to audio of the space shuttle. (click on shuttle endeavor and then click Palin picnic).
I agree, the left is afraid of her. She can do a lot but her leaving early will be a killer if she plans on running for CiC.
See my #37. Fox is streaming now but with no sound.
Snowe and Collins would be replaced by RATs, but at least they'd have the proper letter after their name.
Yeah I have the Fox News feed up on my computer too, no sound. I guess cause there is nothing going on, there is really no reason to have sound. Can you believe that CNN has an actual countdown to her speech..I had no idea politically dead people have countdown clocks..I wish I had one LOL
Didn't read another word....
Anyone putting up a live thread?? My DSL is jamming. I don’t know whether its the modem going or if the local office server is overloaded. Behavior is it works for a few minutes then quits for 3-5 minutes.
‘Dwindling popularity’ is a definite tip off.
The Fox News stream just died on me, just see a bunch of different colored boxes now. Yeah would like to know if there will be a live thread on her speech
I am with you. It won’t be popular around here but this will be spun as a quitter. if she stayed and countersued the accusers she could prove some serious political mettle for 2012. Isn’t there a senate race coming up though?
We have explained to you succinctly why she stepped down, but apparently it's still not registering upstairs.
We don't know if she's going to run for President anyway, but even if she does, she has already accomplished more in 2.5 years than most Governors do in full terms. And Palin has 17 years of elective and appointed experience in office. If she was good enough to be picked for VP she's good enough for the top spot.
If she would have stayed the full term, she wouldn't have gotten nothing done and the media would've pointed that out.
Who cares what the Left thinks of her anyway? They're not going to support her even if she served 2 full terms.
It's registering fine upstairs. What you seem to have a hard time understanding is that no child of a politician will be safe from tawdry display now that the left has won. This is going to hurt in the long run. She will be taken as an easier target and now has a reputation for quitting.
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