Posted on 07/03/2009 12:16:28 PM PDT by STARWISE
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is expected to announce Friday that she will not seek a second term, a Republican source close to Palin tells CNN.
Palin has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET news conference at her home in Wasilla. The governor’s office offered no further details about the subject of the news conference, but the sources tells CNN that Palin will announce her decision to forgo another run.
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You are a grown man, right? I ask because you really do sound like an eleven year old girl.
Whatsa matter troll does the truth get to you that much,now go back under your bridge and leave the adults alone.
I fail to see how it’s elitist to question why a sitting governor would resign mid-term, 3 year before the next Presidential election, if she intends to run for President. Is it wrong to expect her to serve out the rest of the term for which she was elected by the people of Alaska if she expects to be entrusted with an even higher office later?
Disgusting leech, he is.
I bet Soros and company are masterminding
and funding a huge dirt operation 24/7 on
pubbies who threaten them. I bet there’s a
whole division devoted just to her for
opposition research and skullduggery.
After all, who the h*ll is paying, managing
and supporting this twirp, Levi ?
In fact, it strikes me that this tawdry
group must be like the old Clinton war
room ... only bigger.. ready to launch
and dispatch their filthmongers to the
site to dig up, fuel and perpetuate the
next pubbie scandal .. wherever the germ
of one exists .. or maybe they even encourage
them.
They’re also loaded with cash to buy
vulnerable and spineless tipsters, family,
courthouse/police personnel, locals, etc.
... like the Enquirer.
Imagine how , influential, compelling and
successful she is .. and how much they fear
her .. that they have to expend this much
time, capital and effort to decimate and
eliminate Sarah, who was handed this mess
just for being invited to be the vp candidate.
Who *would* want to go into public service.
Only those protected by this rat filth machine.
There’s a special stadium in Hell reserved
for these cretins.
Where’s our well-funded defensive operation,
counteracting what they’re doing ?
#344
Well said!
AGREED!
That fat chunk of scum’s story deserves posting .. thanks, maggie. Levi Johnston ... tool of Tank.
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If you suspect your lover of infidelity, Tank will roll into action
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/770331.html
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Editor’s note: This story was published Dec. 2, 2007
The instant you lay eyes on the guy, you know exactly how Sherman “Tank” Jones got the nickname. The resemblance is remarkable.
With the body of a bulldozer and head like a wrecking ball — let’s just say you’d be ill advised to diss his mama.
Yet a big part of his job requires being invisible. Him and his size-15 alligator shoes.
As a private investigator, Tank Jones sees what isn’t meant to be seen, hears what isn’t meant to be heard, knows what is supposed to be secret. He’s pretty sure, for example, that a client’s boyfriend who ducked out the door at 5:30 for an early-morning run didn’t mean to be videotaped indulging in a little side-dish activity on top of a picnic table in Elderberry Park.
“In the beginning, I used to say, ‘I can’t believe they did that, ‘ “ Jones said. “I don’t say that anymore.”
After 47 years on this planet, and more than 20 years as a “private eye, “ there’s one thing Jones is absolutely certain of: Love can make people really, really stupid.
With a degree in criminal justice from the University of Alaska, Jones has a day job doing criminal and civil investigations, mostly for defense attorney Rex Butler. The fooling-around stuff, he does on the side.
“Is YOUR partner, husband or wife CHEATING?” hollers the ad he runs in the Anchorage Press. “Having an AFFAIR or FLING? Let us uncover the truth. Tank Jones Investigations: Discreet, confidential.”
Suspicious boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands and wives keep this man busy.
“Right now, “ he says, “I can’t hardly keep up with the demand.”
Jones charges $65 to $175 an hour, with those higher rates kicking in once he has to travel outside the Anchorage area, stay in motels and rack up other expenses.
Before taking a case, he says, he asks potential clients why they’re suspicious, why they don’t just come out and ask. Sometimes he’ll give suggestions on how to gather evidence on their own.
If they decide to hire him anyway, he’ll make an appointment for a consultation. More often than he likes, once they sit down and start talking there’s no shutting them up.
“People go into their sex lives deeper than ... it’s more than I want to know, “ Jones said.
Judging strictly from his caseload, women cheat more than men, and they’re harder to catch.
“I’m gonna tell you something, doing this for over 20 years, women are very, very good. Oh, yeah. Men, we don’t have a clue. We’re too busy beating our chest like King Kong.”
Men cook up the dumbest excuses too. Like the guy who claimed his affair with an old girlfriend was for charitable purposes, to keep her from committing suicide.
And the lamest lies: That man seen with another woman? “Wasn’t me, just someone who looks exactly like me.”
CHEATS AND LIARS
In a shared office at Butler’s Fourth Avenue law firm, dressed in a sleek gold suit, a diamond pinkie ring the size of a postage stamp and a gold watch so big it would take him straight to the bottom should he fall in the Inlet, Jones ran through a few of his more memorable cases:
The suspicious bride-to-be who learned her fiance had a boyfriend.
The traveling husband who found out his wife didn’t have a boyfriend after all. She had three.
The woman who fainted when Jones discovered two weeks before the wedding that her fiance was doing, let’s just say, The Funky Chicken without clothes, with one of her best girlfriends.
That wasn’t even the memorable part, Jones said. The memorable part was they got married anyway. He saw their wedding announcement in the newspaper.
I’m like, ‘Oh my good? ness, ‘ “ he said.
When it comes to men who cheat, it’s typically their lack of organizational skill that nails them, Jones said. Like the guy who faithfully got both his wife and his secret lover spendy “undergarments” every Christmas, until one year when he mixed them up.
When the wife opened her present, she found undies not only in the wrong size but the wrong gender. The boyfriend was equally dissatisfied with his Christmas gift, and showed up at a family dinner to return the bra and panties.
All this exposure to the tawdry side of love takes a toll on one’s personal life. Jones is single, and he thinks that’s for the best.
“You know, if I got into a relationship I probably would investigate that person, “ he said. “I probably have. Now, I won’t admit whether I have or not. But I probably would, and that’s not good.”
When doing infidelity work, Jones may pull the old hidden-camera-in-the-baseball-cap trick. Or the situation may require a stakeout, sitting with cameras ready in a parked car for hour after mind-numbing hour. Jones says he never gets bored.
“I love surveillance. I could be sitting there for six hours and nothing happens. But that seventh hour ...”
The way he describes it, it’s like getting hungrier and hungrier the longer you sit there, then suddenly a steak dinner appears on the dashboard.
His best score?
It wasn’t an infidelity case but involved the same fundamentals — lying, deceiving and performance art.
Jones was hired by an insurance firm to follow a guy who’d won a large settlement after being injured on the job and claiming to be disabled by chronic back pain.
“So they hired me to watch this guy, “ Jones said. “I watched him for maybe a month and he was not moving a hair. He would come out, get the mail and go back in the house.
“And this one particular day I’m watching him, he comes out with luggage and I follow him to the airport. He’s catching a flight. So I find out what flight he’s on and I book that flight too.”
Somehow Jones ended up sitting right next to him and struck up a friendly conversation.
“I said, ‘Hey, where you going?’ He’s going to California. I was like, ‘Hey, I’m going to California too.’
“Then he said, ‘I’m going to a volleyball tournament at the beach.’ I said, ‘Really? You going to participate?’ He said, ‘Yeah, we’re going for the championship.’ I was like, ‘I would loooove to see something like that. I’ve only seen it on TV. If you want me to, I’ll take pictures.’
“So I went to the tournament and this guy was the center. I mean he was spiking and falling on the sand. ...
“So I got all these pictures and I gave him copies.
“I gave him copies and came back and gave copies to the insurance company.
“Oh yeah, that was some luck.”
Thanks Star! Happy Fourth to you and your family.
Makes a person wonder why he’s hanging around Levi....Trying to help or hurt him?
I should clarify that I don’t think that what Palin is doing is wrong, but rather simply inconsistent with a future Presidential run. I think she’s become exhausted with what her family is going through, and wanted to make an honorable exit from public life. I think she’s doing the right thing in that regard.
I don’t think she’ll disappear from the national scene. I what she’ll be doing will be more like what Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich are doing now, rather than running for President. Perhaps she will run for President at some point in the future, but it will not be in 2012.
RUN SARAH RUN!!!!
Ditto that for me,that’s my take as well.
Hurt him? When he’s marketing a book deal and reality TV show ?
http://www.celebuzz.com/levi-johnston-going-hollywood-s113441/
He’s going to be a model and a movie star. In other words, his manager and bodyguard (as Tank describes himself) will market him like a piece of meat, watch as he gets chewed up and then spat out.
Excellent points. Very well stated.
Both are/were unabashed conservatives. the media has portrayed Palin as ‘stupid” as they do EVERY Conservative they fear. Reagan was laughed at by the press his entire political career.
Palin can and should fight these lies and smears by going right at them, by speaking out loudly and often for what she (and I) believe America needs AND wants at this time. It is one of the greatest failings of the Right to believe simply because the liberal media condemns, denigrates and discredit someone/something the American people will automatically agree with them.
To my knowledge Palin has done nothing in her life to bring discredit or condemnation upon her. Each of the silly claims made about and against her have been dealt with and those that required legal defense have all been successful. It is the media which can be made to look bad (worse then they look now) by Palen letting people experience for themselves what she is about and has to say about in which direction she would take this Nation.
and here
BTW, just checking to see how often you post. You have some good posts on July 15 ~ and it looks like you are involved in some manner in evaluating the Sotomayor hearings.
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