Posted on 07/07/2009 3:50:05 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Forget the pundits and prognosticators. If you really want to find out what’s around the corner, just turn to the bookies. After all, there's real money on the line.
And, because luck is the Irish way, who better to turn to for political predictions than Irish bookmaking outfit Paddy Power?
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Shattering the chattering class ceiling
Nothing better demonstrates the fact that Gov. Sarah Palin's on a roll than harrumphing experts declaring that she's finished. (They also once explained why movie actor Ronald Reagan didn't have a chance.) The poor dears have worked themselves into a frenzy because Palin's not taking lovey-dovey advice from her enemies, which is to stay on defense, remain a pinata, fight with both hands tied behind her back, run up another half a million in legal bills over phony ethics charges, announce that she plans to be a lame-duck guv until 2011, etc. She's soooooo out of touch with Maureen Dowd! And that other harpy, Katie Couric.
The gun-toting, moose-hunting-'n-dressing hocky mom governor with smoking-hot looks and stadium-sized crowds and charisma can't seem to connect with the editors of the Wall Street Journal. Even worse, she's alienated elitist snobs by making a "career-ending" move they hadn't thought of.
Besides, you can't just simply resign from your official duties mid-term to seek higher office by running on charisma and rock-star status . . . who does she think she is, Obama???
If resigning the Alaska governorship to fire-up and re-build the conservative movement into a 50-state constituency by laying into Obama and campaigning heavily for GOP candidates up and down the rungs of government is such a career-ender, why are libbies running in circles, shouting and yelling in panic?
Liberals claim Palin's decision to unshackle herself is 'puzzling,' 'bewildering,' 'confounding,' dumbfounding' 'befuddling,' 'mystifying,' 'perplexing,' 'mind-boggling,' etc., then they immediately proceed to explain what her motives were. Two seconds later, they're back to being 'bewildered,' 'puzzled,' 'befuddled,' 'confounded' -- in other words, their normal state of mind.
Always striving to be consistent, liberals mocked Alaska as some underpopulated hicksville dump, so liberals now denounce Palin for 'abandoning' the all-important state of Alaska.
The New York Times, in its typically unbiased/evenhanded way, sniffed that Palin appeared to be "often rambling" in her announcement speech -- also known as speaking extemporaneously without a Teleprompter. Demonstrating the rich diversity of newsroom opinion, U.S. News & World Report attacked Palin for making a . . . "rambling announcement." The media smart set are so captivated by the Teleprompter Jesus's ping-pong shtick that they apparently forgot what it actually sounds like to speak unscripted.
Liberals are so insanely afraid of Palin, that just 24 hours after her announcement they were dancing in the streets like their heroes the crazed Palestinians on 9/11 simply because, as the AP put it, "the controversial hocky mom was no where to be found." The girliemen at Politico.com joined in the celebration with the headline: "The lady vanishes!"
But! Later in the day, libbies were back to panicking when Palin posted on her Facebook account that she's "now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint."
Palin's biggest offense is that she knocked the experts for a loop last week. But if there's a core reason Palin is giving up quality Moose-hunting time, it's to do the job the GOP girliemen won't do -- taking it to Obama. Free from the stultifying lame-duckery in Alaska, she'll be driving libbies even crazier by campaigning for real conservative candidates across the 57 states and helping Republicans sweep the 2010 midterms. With that party-rebranding game-changer under her belt, Sarah Barracuda will be calling the shots for 2012 and making the fussy little McCain staffers who went crying to Vanity Fair eat their words.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Awesome as usual, John.
Nailed it!
Bravo, Johnny!
A very satisfying prediction.
Heck Yeah!!!!
Crystal clear. Great job.
The rules of the game changed with Obama’s four-year run and unlimited funding. The old system of calculating odds no longer applies.
Bring out the knife and butter. She is toast politically.
You don’t go resigning without a really good reason..
The talk here in Wasilla is that she will do whatever it takes at any risk to bring the Obama machine to a sputtering halt. First off though is that here locally its still not sure if she will clean house in the GOP or abandon it as a condemned structure. A popular discussion is that she could do no harm by being an independent. There still is no leadership in the GOP and probably won’t be while it has rinos working on the inside drilling holes in the boat.
I would say she isn’t revenge driven but has the calling from upper sources to perform a duty that nobody else has done or stepped forward to do. I keep seeing these snarling bear images of her on the net and yes she is just like an attacking mama grizzly, here in Alaska they will ambush you in a heartbeat.
I suggest liberals start wearing bells, we track bear by looking for scat with little bells in it.
Thanks for the first laugh of the day.
I learn something new every day on Free Republic.
bttt
I hope that is true. She is in a better position to do that then any white man, if there were any willing to speak up. If she were to do that a governor, BO would be quite vindictive against Alaska.
They also said Hillary was inevitable as Dem-nominee and likely President.
Didn’t work out that way.
She was clear in her reasoning. Are you like Andrea Mitchell and not listening?
Would the fact that she found it more and more difficult to do her job effectively while at the same time fend off a constant barrage of politically motivated attacks such as media slams and bogus ethics violations (which, by the way have both cost Alaska over $2 million, and her own family about half a million) be a good reason?
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