How Palin's Resignation Makes Her the True Frontrunner

The Daily Beast ^ | Jul 4, 2009 | John Batchelor

[skimbell]

Rather than a blow to a career, Sarah Palin's decision to resign underlines her self-awareness, writes The Daily Beast's John Batchelor. She is now unmatched for the 2012 primary. The early excuse for the Republican circular firing squad of the holiday weekend is that Weekly Standard editor and party brainiac Bill Kristol claims that pugnacious McCain campaign enforcer Steve Schmidt has been caught gossiping to Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum about Sarah Palin’s rambling and incoherent vice-presidential campaign last September and October...

[basil]

The contrast between Hillary and Sarah is enough to almost make one laugh. Hillary is old and dirty and so yesterday—Sarah is bright and clean and today!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Who is paying these character assassins?

Pay no attention to the Mormon behind the curtain...

[Niteflyr]

The Mark Levin show from yesterday is worth listening to. She’s running. Oh yea, she’s running.

I listened live....yep he sees this the same way I do....

[fortunate sun]

the comments by the lib/dem posters are extremely rich. they are clueless walking through bear country. they won’t get it until the claws hit and the fangs sink in.

[databoss]

Schmidt = Gossip Queen meow...

[Jeff Head]

He nails it. Palin is on a crusade and it is a crusade to save this nation. The establishment RINOS, the left, the media, the DNC ALL fear her and that tells me she is smack dab over the target.

GO SARAH!

[Niteflyr]

Lets celebrate “INDEPENDENCE DAY” not the Obummer “DEPENDENCE DAY” !

Or Obummer's Depends Day?!

[Guenevere]

Spot on!

[Bryan24]

I think almost everyone in Washington is using the “round peg” analysis on a “square hole” politician.

Palin is so far out of the paradigm of Washington politics and commentary, that they can’t even begin to do an accurate assessment.

[Guenevere]

A great word picture!

[Niteflyr]

Palin is so far out of the paradigm of Washington politics and commentary, that they can’t even begin to do an accurate assessment.

Yeah they just go into total freak-out mode.....BWAHAHAHA!

[Diogenesis]

"In fact, the governor does not need much more than a ballot line from the aimless,
tongue-tied, villain-rich GOP. She certainly does not need the GOP to do well
in the congressional mid-terms in 2010; she does not need the party
to improve its flabby polling on health care or trust;
she does not even need the Republican Party to raise a voice
to explain her positions on the burning controversies on Capitol Hill.
Palin does not need to prove anything at all about wise government,
because she appeals directly to the anti-authoritarian crowd that has
been with us since Shay’s Rebellion in 1787."

[exit82]

Palin is so far out of the paradigm of Washington politics and commentary, that they can’t even begin to do an accurate assessment.

Bryan24, I think you "pegged" it perfectly.

[Guenevere]

If they try to shut her out...(like they did Keyes, Hunter and others) we know what we have to do.

[Niteflyr]

Palin does not need to prove anything at all about wise government, because she appeals directly to the anti-authoritarian crowd that has been with us since Shay’s Rebellion in 1787."

Nailed it!!

[Doc Savage]

That’s one Grizzly I’d like to see take a bite out of that fag Obama’s ass!

[magritte]

Mark Steyn totally disagrees with his analysis and thinks this is the end of the trail for Palin...we’ll have to see who is right...my bet’s on Steyn...magritte

[syriacus]

Palin is a true stateswoman.

In 2008 she warned us that Obama is a socialist even though some people thought she was being bizarre when she did that.

And she is THE ANTI-OBAMA. She doesn’t need to be an officeholder or candidate in order to direct attention to Obama’s poorly crafted crazy quilt of mandates.

After all, Colin Powell doesn’t need to be a candidate in order to get media attention when he criticizes Obama.

Unlike Powell, Palin doesn’t need to eat crow.

[Dustbunny]

Run Sarah, Run. We are with you!