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.
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