BWAHAAHAH .....MY GOD, GOVERNOR SARAH ...SAY IT ISN'T SOOOO!
Posted on 05/23/2011 11:29:29 AM PDT by Mr. K
1 JUNEAU, Alaska – A former member of Sarah Palin's inner circle has written a scathing tell-all, saying Palin was ready to quit as governor months before she actually resigned and was eager to leave office when more lucrative opportunities came around.
2 "In 2009 I had the sense if she made it to the White House and I had stayed silent, I could never forgive myself," Frank Bailey told The Associated Press.
3 Palin's attorney did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story. \
4 "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years" is due out Tuesday and based on tens of thousands of emails that Bailey said he kept during his time with Palin. It began with working on her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and continued through her failed run for vice president;.......
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We all know that disgruntled ex-employees always tell the honest truth about their former employers, don’t we?
Point...if her fans can not get a consensus about her here, on one of the most popular, if not the most popular, conservative forums, how on earth do they expect to get 65-70 million Americans to vote her into the toughest job on the planet?
The unfortunate alternative is to allow the puppet fuhrer to ruin the country to the extent that his enemedia enablers are as completely discredited as was Julius Streicher
1. Under the circumstances, I would probably have been ready to pull the pin faster than she did. Because I would have had far less patience with the crap she was putting up with than she did.
2. Considering that the publishing industry has been willing to run with pretty much anything with Sarah Palin’s name on it, no matter how nebulous the connection, as long as it wasn’t libelous under American law (which on that particular subject is broader than a porn starlet), how big of a chunk of excrement do you think this book had to be not to get a deal until now?
Yep, just me and wtc911. We’re the only Freepers in the world who might question Sarah Palin’s qualifications for office.
given the money requirements, I don’t see her as the last person standing.
The only way for her to be the only one is if everyone else implodes and pulls out and romney stops spending his money.
kookpaul is going to stay until after the convention but his is statistically a nobody.
Romney has the money again but this time he does now have a huckster being paid to stay in or a fred thompson vote splitter.
I consciously avoid designer labels and do most of my clothes shopping in military surplus or overstock stores like Gabriel Brothers.
Get real, you know he is going to be OK, after all he isn't going after the one.
What never ceases to amaze me is the number of freepers who post insult after insult but never any substance. It's always the same ten or twelve though, which out of thousands of freepers is not very many.
Dig a little deeper into some of these posters and you will find them associated with organizations that have yet to recognize women as full partners in society and culture. They will find excuses for not supporting a female candidate, but there reasons are based on deeper biases.
To each his own. Not everybody is going to agree with any of us coming out of the gates. That’s why we have primaries.
Your post deserves a response. This is mine.
Do "they" (Obama's handlers) fear Sarah Palin as a potential opponent for Obama? No -- they're drooling for that. If Obama is going to get re-elected, they need an opponent like Sarah Palin, about whom they can make endless unflattering strawmen.
That is absurd and neatly conforms to the left's meme that Sarah Palin is so weak/tarnished/unsophisticated/disliked, etc that Obama would roll right over her in an election. The left's attacks don't begin and end with Sarah Palin. The reality is that the left will demonize, mock and disparage any Republican candidate, not only Sarah Palin. Today, the left finds little to criticize about Mitt Romney but should Mitt become the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, the left will quickly portray him as a greedy, evil, ruthless businessman that hates the poor. This is practically guaranteed.
Do "they" (the media) fear Sarah Palin as a potential opponent for Obama? No -- not only are they complicit in supporting Obama, they live for the opportunity to destroy people, and where Sarah Palin is concerned they've been working on it already..
See above.
Do "they" (people like me) fear Sarah Palin as a Republican candidate? Yes -- the country literally cannot afford for the GOP candidate to be destroyed Goldwater-style, and that's what would happen if she were the nominee.
I fear another RINO such as Romney playing the part of sacrificial lamb to Obama. To assume that Sarah Palin and only Sarah Palin will be unmercifully attacked on every front by the left is simply naive.
Do "they" (the political middle) fear Sarah Palin as a GOP candidate? Yes -- because they've been convinced that she's a nitwit and a harridan, and they don't want one of those as president. (It doesn't matter if she actually is those things: she's already been tarred with that brush).
Again, this mindset fits perfectly with the left's theme. They bash Sarah Palin for two+ years and then claim that she is seen as a loser by the almighty 'independents' and so, Republicans had better abandon her because she's 'damaged goods'. You are mimicking the lefts anti-Palin alking points a bit too well.
There are plenty of other "theys" and plenty of other "fears."
Indeed. Some of us fear that the only unequivocal conservative who might run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination and that has a decent chance to defeat Obama is going to be derided and summarily dismissed by Republicans that all too quickly buy into the lefts strategy to make Sarah Palin appear toxic to voters - a lie. Yet these same Republicans will happily back someone with little-to-no chance to win the general election and whine when another establishment RINO secures the nomination and, more likely than not, loses to the Marxist agitator in the White House. Sorry, but I'm not on board with that.
Sarah Palin has withstood some of the most vicious, relentless attacks in political history yet she continues to energize Americans who fear - not this gutsy lady - but the rapid erosion of our nation's economy and, ultimately, our freedom. Sarah Palin sees it the same way and will fight to defeat Obama with a passion the other lukewarm Republicans can't begin to emulate. She has more fortitude and charisma than all of the current GOP presidential wannabes. She can defeat Obama. That some on the political right are eager to accept the leftmedias assertion that Palin 'can't win' and that the left is 'drooling' for her to be Obama's opposition in 2012 because she is sooooo easy to beat is both puzzling as well as sad.
For someone who the left supposedly wants to run against Obama they sure have worked awfully hard to smear the lady. For someone who the left supposedly thinks is a big joke, they've (collectively) spent a lot of time and money demonizing her. Why? If Sarah Palin is supposedly so inconsequential, why bash her 24/7 for over two years? That makes no sense. I haven't seen much bashing of Romney. Ever since he threw Paul Ryan's budget/Medicare proposal under the old metaphorical bus the left loves Newt Gingrich. Yet Palin 'can't win'? I find your argument against Sarah Palin unconvincing. Unless Palin chooses not to run, I will support and vote for her. I believe millions of Americans will do the same.
Sounds like the only news is that her most inside ‘enforcer’ who is selling all the dirt on her he can find—can’t find any.
Actually pretty amazing.
Obama vs Palin.....pick one. Boy hard choice I am so undecided, maybe it is "Better Red, Than Dead."
OK, but for one, there is in law a valid legal defense known generally as “impossibility”. I agree to lease your building. Tornado blows down building. Our deal is dead.
Now I admit that would not fully apply to SP’s situation. (Nor am I an attorney) but she did not campaign to be the brunt of over a dozen lawsuits...and she has at least a plausible claim that she could no longer perform her duties due to the time and documentary demands of having to respond to all those lawsuits. Nor could she afford her legal defense given her income vs the lawyers’ bills.
Secondly, she replaced herself with someone (and I don’t know the exact DNA policy match between her and her replacement) but this is a valid thing, that a sitting governor replaces him/herself with their Lt. Governor. And it happens/happened at no extra cost to the taxpayers. It’s simply not unprecedented.
I agree, it’s at least somewhat of a valid argument. I just don’t regard it as a be-all end-all deal killer.
"Ex-aide speaks out in a scathing Palin tell-all"
"Frank Bailey says he could never forgive himself if he stayed silent on what he witnessed in Alaska."
HEAR HEAR...EDT..!
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