Is Sarah Palin Nipping at Ted Stevens' Heels?

The Washington Post ^ | November 5, 2008 | Mary Ann Akres

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Smart aleck, huh? ;)

On occasion. ;)

It’s not the words I am not familiar with, it is the sentence structure that causes some confusion.

Ah. [::shrugs::] Can't help you there, I'm afraid. It's both straightforward and grammatical.

My advice: let it go, then. Neither one of us will be losing a wink of sleep over the matter, five years from now. ;)

[Buffalo Head]

"....but I don’t understand why Palin should want to give up being a governor to be a senator."

Full salary retirement for life after serving one term.

[CaribouCrossing]

How nice that I can be part of your occasion. :)

Sorry to hear you are trapped in liberal Seattle. Must be a curse of some sort. At least on occasion, right? :)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Who are the “pests in the room”?

Ah. Then it's not "sentence structure," after all, but rather (as I'd initially surmised) a simple matter of nomenclature. ;)

RINOs, patently, would be "the pests in the room," given the context of the line to which I was responding. ("I don’t think Governor Palin would tell “rinos” they don’t matter.")

No, no... put away your wallet, please, I beg you. The unalloyed joy I experience in aiding others is more than ample enough reward. ;)

[CaribouCrossing]

Impressive. You know big words.

“No, no... put away your wallet, please, I beg you.”

And here I was ready to give you my two cents. You really shouldn’t beg, it negates the impression you give of being proud and vain. ;)

[Allegra]

Yes, I hope that was just a onesie.

All we need is that crap starting back up again.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Impressive. You know big words.

Oh, now. Don't sulk, for pity's sake. How could I possibly know, beforehand, which words you might find dauntingly "big" or otherwise? (Nothing I've used here, thus far, seems terribly "big" to me... but: mileage varies, doubtless.)

it negates the impression you give of being proud and vain. ;)

Your impressions, whatever they might be, are (blessedly) your own load to struggle under, and not my own. And the obverse applies as well, of course. ;)

[CaribouCrossing]

My dear boy, I never sulk. Not even for “pity’s sake”. LOL

Your words weren’t too big for me, but I just had that feeling that they seemed impressive to you.

My impressions of you hardly classify as a “load” that I must “struggle under”. I’ve carried loads far heavier than the load of crap you’re spewing so eloquently.

This has been fun, KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle. I needed a laugh break and you fulfilled that need. :)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I just had that feeling that they seemed impressive to you.

Again: neither my problem, nor my concern, tra-la, tra-la. ;)

I’ve carried loads far heavier than the load of crap you’re spewing so eloquently.

Oh, no. No "sulking" here, I daresay. ;) And now we've both managed to make the other point and giggle. Some evening, huh...?

[Red Steel]

"The reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate," Reid said.

The 'reality' should extend to you too. Reid, you're an un-convicted felon.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"The reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate," Reid said.

Now, the House of Representatives, on the other hand...

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I like how Reid said that a convicted felon would not serve in the Senate,

RATS are safe there because they make sure none of their crooks are ever prosecuted. They protect them.

[gusopol3]

as Beck explained, it was about the seat, not about the individual. The timing of the conviction was such that there could be no R sub, so what are you going to do as a voter, let the Democrats inch one vote closer to 60?

[MaggieCarta]

You're expendable to us. SHE isn't.

Thanks for the heads up. I remain unimpressed by her.

[09Patriot]

leave it to beck to spin leaving a convicted felon in office as a good thing.

[gusopol3]

he won’t be left in office, he’ll be replaced by a Republican. Didn’t bother with the article , did you?

[RatsDawg]

“The reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate,” Reid said. “And as precedent shows us, Senator Stevens will face an ethics committee investigation and expulsion, regardless of his appeals process.”

NEWS FLASH REID! THE SENATE IS FULL OF FELONS, INCLUDING YOURSELF MR. SHADY LAND-DEAL! MOST OF THEM INCLUDING YOURSELF HAVE JUST NOT BEEN CONVICTED YET!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Friendly little word of warning to any/all RINOs out there reading this

Thanks for the heads up.

This is like watching one of those old Perry Mason episodes, where the witness on the stand suddenly breaks down and confesses to being the actual murderer. ;)

[Impy]

The question is whether she would help her self more for a 2012 bid by staying Governor or being in the Senate.

Probably the Senate to gain exp. on national issues. She’d have the exactly same exp. as OBAMA.

[writmeister]

Governor Palin would be wise to avoid the Washington swamp. With Obama in the White House and Dems controlling the Congress, there will be a lot of ugly votes out there and (it seems that) even the most stalwart conservatives get pressed into voting for crap that they probably otherwise would not support.

Governor Palin should stay in Alaska, tend to its business, and work with other GOP Governors to re-introduce conservative ideas at the state-level.

Governor Palin needs to remain an outsider from the up-coming Washington messes.