and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
Posted on 07/06/2009 3:35:00 AM PDT by tobyhill
The FBI, in a rare response to rampant rumors on the Internet, said it is not investigating Alaska Gov. Sara Palin on public corruption charges.
"Normally, we don't confirm or deny those kind of allegations out there. But, by not doing so, it just casts her in a very bad light," said FBI Special Agent Eric Gonzalez, who confirmed for CNN the statement he made to the Anchorage Daily News. "There is just no truth to those rumors out there in the blogosphere."
Gonzalez told The Los Angeles Times that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments for any kind of inquiry.
The speculation began almost immediately after Palin's unexpected announcement on Friday that she would step down as Alaska's chief executive with 18 months left in her term.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The rumors are being pushed by the local Alaska Rats and blogging loons. Their day of reckoning is soon approaching.
It’s not clear to me what Palin is attempting to achieve here - commentary about the behavior of a public official in the performance of their official duties is constitutionally protected speech.
IMO, most voters have long since made up their minds about Palin, and almost nothing that could be discovered about her is much going to change them - either way.
If you believe the polls Palin is not - and is never likely to be - a viable presidential candidate, so the audience for this announcement pretty much has to be her existing supporters.
My take is that she is taking a clear, cold eyed look at her current earning potential compared to the same at the end of her term, and s decided that it makes a lot more sense to maximize her earning potential as a private citizen than to sit in the governor’s mansion and watch her popularity evaporate as a result of falling state tax revenues and political infighting.
Wow, I think we all just took a “clear, cold eyed look” at you.
Palin has handed over power in Alaska to a Conservative, in a deliberate attempt to ensure that a Conservative is voted in at the next Gubernatorial election.
And she is now free to appear anywhere in the lower 48, speaking to Conservative principles, without being sued for it through the ludicrously permissive Alaskan complaint system. She was spending 80% of her time fighting nuisance complaints, being ‘fixed’ in the Alinsky sense - and now she is free.
She is going to run in 2012, and she is going to win.
Gee, I wonder why she quit?
I would bet that this is what the libs wanted, for her to resign. However the old adage, be careful what you wish for, may be coming true. The Alaskan bear has now broken the chains and is on the loose. From listening to her speaking from the heart, she has my support.
Personal attacks,phony ethics charges,voter fraud,ballot
recounting-The Democrats are scum and should be dealt with-out mercy!
LLS
Did they ever find out who tried to burn down here Church? Or who put Trig on eBay for sale? Did anyone ever go to jail for stealing her emails? Did SNL ever apologize for suggesting her daughter was impregnated by her husband? I could go on and on but the issue is Sarah has to fight back.
Palin is an uncommon politician on today’s stage. She is genuine, truly empathetic, and staunchly conservative.
And, now, she has the freedom to support conservative causes and candidates across the country without shirking her duties to the fine folks of Alaska. At the same time, she has cultivated a conservative administration that will continue the programs and initiatives already in place, and likely assure a conservative administration in the near term elections, as well.
I’m looking forward to her taking on the Libs down here, in the lower 48. Should make for good theater...
It’s time to take back the country.
“It’s not clear to me what Palin is attempting to achieve here - commentary about the behavior of a public official in the performance of their official duties is constitutionally protected speech.”
It should be pretty obvious. She’s saying that she will fight in the gutter, and not sit back and take it (i.e., the new tone). It looks like the Republicans FINALLY have a candidate who understands the enemy and is not afraid of them (or the press).
“I would bet that this is what the libs wanted, for her to resign.”
No, no, no. The libs had it perfect with her in office. She couldn’t take a walk to the bathroom without being accused of “abandoning the voters of Alaska” and probably and ethics charge if she did not pay for the toilet paper.
This was their nightmare scenario. I think what happened was that they overplayed their hand and she called them on it. They should have tweaked her a bit, but not pummeled her this early (but they couldn’t help it) - and then turned up the heat later in the session.
Anyway, once people see her take on the media, any talk of her being a quitter will be quickly extinguished.
I’ll have to disagree with your statement.
It’s way to early to put any credence in the polls. Case in point: in the Fall of 2007, Obama was near the bottom of the polls for the democratic nomination, and everyone assumed that Hillary would be a shoe-in for the nomination. Look how that turned out.
On the republican side, McCain was polling either sixth or seventh in the field of republican hopefuls in the Fall of 2007, yet he managed to get the nomination.
I would never underestimate Sarah Palin.
The mistake Bush made was to not address the lies told by the Left about him and the country. He stayed silent in the face of terrible, hate producing slander.
Yes, the media has the right to slander politicians, but they have to be challenged and exposed by the target or they will run the country and select our leaders with the power of lies.
I am thankful to Palin for taking on their ability to lying about her and her family, even while knowing the truth.
I don’t agree that all minds are now made up about Palin. A lot of minds are filled with leftist lies about Palin and that will change when people realize the media is slandering her for political manipulation purposes. Amerians will never know that if Palin and her supporters don’t challenge the lies. We went through all this with Reagan.
“It’s not clear to me what Palin is attempting to achieve here - commentary about the behavior of a public official in the performance of their official duties is constitutionally protected speech.”
Maybe this will help you .....the clarification you seek is in your own statement.
Palin is preparing a theater for War.
Then you should have formed that into a question and stopped there. I really don't understand why no one seems to get it. She could not effectively run the state with so much controversy. She ended up spending most of the time she should have been governing fighting false accusations and it was costing the state for her to do so, so she is stepping down for the good of the state. She clearly stated that:
Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law I championed became their weapon of choice. Over the past nine months I've been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations - such as holding a fish in a photograph, wearing a jacket with a logo on it, and answering reporters' questions.Why is that reasoning so hard to understand? In this selfish world, there still are a few rare people like Sarah who think about more than just their own political aspirations.Every one - all 15 of the ethics complaints have been dismissed. We've won! But it hasn't been cheap - the State has wasted THOUSANDS of hours of YOUR time and shelled out some two million of YOUR dollars to respond to "opposition research" - that's money NOT going to fund teachers or troopers - or safer roads. And this political absurdity, the "politics of personal destruction" ... Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn't cost them a dime so they're not going to stop draining public resources - spending other peoples' money in their game.
It's pretty insane - my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more "politics as usual," but THIS isn't what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.
You forgot, “Tried to burn her church down while people were still inside.”
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