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Is Palin's national political career over? (Sadly, the answer is YES)
Hotair ^ | 7/3/2009 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 07/03/2009 5:24:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: jokyfo
She did not inspire confidence with her speech today.

And you are a spiritual person to, I wonder why you didn't understand her statement?

201 posted on 07/03/2009 7:27:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This piece of rot is not an analyses but a moaning babble-wish from a media degenerate.....


202 posted on 07/03/2009 7:29:03 PM PDT by mtntop3
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To: redgolum

The sad thing is that, now, Obama owns all the big money in this country. I’m pretty sure he is on track to be our “first, historical”, permanent el presidente.


203 posted on 07/03/2009 7:30:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out?)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Thinking she is done, and hoping she is done, are two different things. The more she was attacked, the more people wanted her to succeed, to fight back.

We went through 8 years of Bush, sometimes fighting back, but mostly giving in, not answering critics, letting the attacks piled up, but at least never quitting.

Ed Morrisey has certainly been wrong, but he’s not an idiot, and he’s right a lot more often than he’s wrong.

Pitchforks and torches won’t work on everybody who has a contrary opinion.


204 posted on 07/03/2009 7:33:59 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: papasmurf
Look! The RINOS are coming out in droves!

Thanks, Gov. Palin, you flushed ‘em out for us. :)

BINGO! Liberals all.

I've heard from at least two people today on hearing the news and her speech in particular exclaim they'll be working directly for her campaign, if it's simply knocking on doors.

205 posted on 07/03/2009 7:35:56 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: Piers-the-Ploughman

We don’t do well as a party when we start with the “enemies list”.


206 posted on 07/03/2009 7:36:01 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Carl Vehse; FlingWingFlyer
IMO, in some way the choice was presented to her by someone (I have no idea who or what the way was) - "Either your political career or your family will be destroyed; you choose!" Sarah rightly chose to protect her family.

I agree. Palin and politics on the national stage is over. I just hope it isn't a scandal, but I fear that might also be an issue.

207 posted on 07/03/2009 7:36:36 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Admin Moderator

Enforce the rules against personal attacks against me then a nd we have a deal.


208 posted on 07/03/2009 7:36:52 PM PDT by jokyfo (JESUS CHRIST: The Light of the world... AMERICA: The light of freedom.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The inside-the-beltway lounge lizards of all stripes have been blindsided by Sarah’s speech today.

I’ve listened to it four times. She’s not going anywhere but on a vibrant campaign to set things right with this country.


209 posted on 07/03/2009 7:37:46 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama to Iranian despots: "No hot dogs for you!")
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To: FlingWingFlyer; Carl Vehse; Eye of Unk

The fact that each of us, and undoubtedly others, have come to a similar conclusion would logically lead one to wonder WTH our country has come to.

But then, some of us know the answer to such a question.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/1st-amendment-petition.html


210 posted on 07/03/2009 7:38:17 PM PDT by frog in a pot (It's a myth, folks. The frog will jump out and he will be pi$$ed. Ever had big warts?)
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To: jokyfo
Maybe it will work, I don’t know, but I am not betting on it.

Sure you are, but your posts belie you tagline.

211 posted on 07/03/2009 7:40:18 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: jokyfo

She wants out.
But, no one can blame her.


212 posted on 07/03/2009 7:40:36 PM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: SeekAndFind
Quin Hillyer, senior editor at the Spectator, calls the resignation an “appalling dereliction of duty.” No--what Mark Sanford did is an appalling dereliction of duty. What Sarah Palin did today is a smart and savvy move, and it's having the desired effect. All you old slouches inside the beltway are in a tizzy!
213 posted on 07/03/2009 7:41:06 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama to Iranian despots: "No hot dogs for you!")
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To: SeekAndFind

To see whether this was really a savvy political move, just take the names of every freeper who is saying it was, and look at all their posts over the last 6 months.

If you find a SINGLE FREEPER who supporter Sarah who ever said the smart thing for her to do was resign, post it. I haven’t found one person yet who said Sarah should resign to help her political career.

On the contrary, there has been LOTS of posts about how she wasn’t a quitter, and how great it was that she wouldn’t back down while being attacked. About how much better she’d be in 2012 having served an entire term as Governor, and how she’d show how to get a state through the Obama depression.

Now of course, many Freepers are blindly screaming that this was a great idea, and that anybody who thinks otherwise is a RINO traitor.

But none of them called for her to resign on Thursday.

If we didn’t know she had already resigned, and someone posted a thread saying “If Sarah is serious, she would Resign”, I’m sure these same people would be out in force trying to get the freeper banned for his absurd suggestion.


214 posted on 07/03/2009 7:41:36 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: realcleanguy

Yay for Sarah.

Who the hell is Ed Morrissey?


215 posted on 07/03/2009 7:42:48 PM PDT by Palladin (Let's help Sarah take back America!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Hopefully, if she gets to be President, and the left attacks her mercilessly, she won’t take a poll of her family to decide whether to finish out her term.


216 posted on 07/03/2009 7:42:55 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Good point.

But the drowning will grasp at anything.

217 posted on 07/03/2009 7:43:34 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Jeff Head

But it is so easy now. Any opponent will just put out a bumper sticker: “Quitting is not a traditional American value”.


218 posted on 07/03/2009 7:44:29 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Well, you are showing your true colors on this thread.

Now we know.


219 posted on 07/03/2009 7:45:28 PM PDT by Palladin (Let's help Sarah take back America!)
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To: old curmudgeon
I must say however, that I wish your political knowledge was as well developed as is your familiarity with the dictionary.

Enlighten me as to my political idiocy. Governor Mark Sanford was not in a position to be blackmailed by the government of Argentina (and several other foreign interests)? Look, I would love for the GOP to deliver a winning platform and candidate. They have not delivered on either count. Ergot, I am a troll, DU'er, and all around cad. This does not engender kind reciprocity on my behalf. It actually pisses me off and leads me to call thread harpies "whore".

220 posted on 07/03/2009 7:45:32 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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