Nope.
Posted on 04/26/2010 7:34:00 AM PDT by worst-case scenario
On the morning of July 3, 2009, a national holiday, Sarah Palin placed a call to her communications director and told her that she wanted to hold a press conference at her Wasilla, Alaska, home. She wouldn’t disclose the topic. For Palin, the months since Election Day had been a letdown even bigger than the loss to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Being governor was drudgery. “Her life was terrible,” one adviser says. “She was never home, her [Juneau] office was four hours from her house. You gotta drive an hour from Wasilla to Anchorage. And she was going broke.” Her sky-high approval ratings in Alaska—which had topped 80 percent before John McCain picked her—had withered to the low fifties. She faced a hostile legislature, a barrage of ethics complaints, and frothing local bloggers who reveled in her misfortune. All this for a salary of only $125,000? The worst was that she had racked up $500,000 in legal bills to fend off the trooper scandal and other investigations. She needed money and worried about it constantly. “You have to keep in mind,” Bill McAllister, her then–press secretary, told me, “she and Todd were middle class. They’re rich now, but not then.”
Nope.
She’s not rich. She’s comforable. She’s not on the Forbes 500 by any stretch of the imagination.
From the article:
“’There’s a big piece of the Republican Party that doesn’t want her to run,’ said one national Republican strategist. “
Oh, ya think??? They’re scared to death of her, because they know she runs circles around them. Either she takes over the GOP and kicks them all out, or she starts her own party.
Bravo, Sarah!
Awwww. Another NY leftard with his sphincter puckered over a strong conservative woman.
There’s got to be a new DSM IV category constructed for these forlorn individuals.
They get a lot wrong right from the getgo here.
Juneau is in Southeast Alaska and can only be accessed by boat or air. Ergo, she had to drive to Anchorage (Stevens) International Airport, and hour plus and then get on an airplane. The only jet service into Juneau is Alaska Airlines who operate nonstops to JNU just 4 or 5 times a day and even less in the winter. The flight takes about an hour and forty-five minutes. Couple that with a 2 hour checkin and a 30-45 minute ride from JNU to the capital (the airport is about 20 miles from town) and you're talking about a 5 and a half hour evolution from home to office. That's 11 hours per day if she tried to commute.
The article also fails to describe the nuisance nature of the lawsuits filed by the left-wing detractor who has protected herself from counter suit by virtue of her government position and that have cost Sarah Palin real personal dollars to fend off.
“On the morning of July 3, 2009, a national holiday”
??????????????????
What nation celebrates July 3rd?
France? Yugoslavia? Spain?
Bueller?.....
Bueller?...
Friday, July 3, was a national holiday, meaning that this was the day Independence Day was celebrated, since July 4 was a Saturday. Banks and all government offices were closed. There was no US Postal Service delivery. That is what is meant by “a national holiday” in this context.
TOTAL AMEN!!!
Yeah, they hate our women...those braided arm pit types on the left would cry if they had to do a real job, like Sarah Palin has done all her life...poor lefty eunuchs...almost feel sorry for them...nahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I know, dear. I was being snarky.
In that context, it would have been more accurate to say “on the eve of the national holiday”.
The careless shuffling of holidays to suit the govt. schedules is a peeve of mine. The author was just reinforcing that foolishness by stating that our July 4th was actually July 3rd!
That someone can write this--and believe it--shows in what kind of fix Palin found herself in July, 2009. The political Establishment had obviously decided to take her out, by the techniques they used. If they had left her alone, and she had had to do the hard work of dealing with a legislature that was no longer friendly, abandoned by the Democrats and not fully supported by the Republicans, she would be running hard for re-election this year. Even if she won, all she would have established was her competence. But they had set out to break her, because she had engendered raw hatred among the Feminists and liberals of the East and West Coast, and jealousy among the supporters of the Republican Establishment figures. So they tried overkill. After shooting her in the leg, they missed with the head shot. and she has returned fire. Not the usual, but a veritable fusillade.
What our enemies realizes-- and this chills their blood--is that she has pushed herself forward using many of the same skills that led Obama to the presidency. Except for the meltdown in September, 2008, Obama would not be president today. They are afraid that given the right situation, Palin will push herself to the forefront, just as Obama did. Of course, she will not have the backing of the Establishment. And she must somehow gain the support of the libertarians and others who still are turned off by her social conservatism. BUT suppose they are confronted by the NEED of a champion of small government, who makes the taming of Obama's leviathan government, the main standard.
If, as we fear, the governmental beast begins to tear at the fabric of society and enough voters begin to see, then they may turn to her as once they turned to Reagan. She is not going to get much help from the Republican Party until she reaches that point. A large section of the party did not like Reagan. But if 2012 is like 1980, especially if the voters this year will punish the Democrats in Congress enough, and if Obama does not manage to claim a moral victory by reducing losses, then even the SUITS might find her acceptable. In any case, Palin may find herself with a strong enough base to decide who the candidate will NOT be.
Anyone remember NY mag running a similar story on the Clintoons’ various rackets?
The libs posting comments after the story are all foaming-mouth crazy.
Bingo!!
The guy who writes the article has his words “drip with disdain for Palin” — but aside from that, with the facts that he provides, it does open up a window for what Palin has been doing. I understand some things much better and I feel better about Palin as a result of the article. And for that much, I do appreciate the article.
I can “read past” the disdain from the author and pick out the facts that are interesting...
So, I say to the author, thanks for writing about Sarah Palin, “you dodo!” LOL ...
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