An excellent speech. Sarah clearly gave him time to prepare it, and he kept her secret, which he must have known about for at least several days, judging from this.
No leaks from their speech writers, either.
One of the leaders of the Rep Gov’s association knew for a few days too, and kept it under his hat.
That British guy on Fox News was astounded that he knew of Palin's plans for the future and that she was going to make her announcement today that she wouldn't seek another term.
Speaking of him and the rest of the media, they showed their true colors today.
The aforementioned Fox guy was constantly trying to get all his guests to turn this into a big negative for Palin, as was Carl Cameron (who slammed Sarah big time when McCain gave the election to Obama) and Fox News itself made lame excuses for not showing the Press conference live.
Chris Wallace went on and on about how Palin should have prepared better so that all the networks and cable news outfits could get their satellite trucks set up, etc.
That was his excuse for not showing it live, but MSNBC had the feed, and treated it differently.
He made his point qutie well, that Palin isn't presidential material.
Wallace is anti Palin, like Cameron.
MSNBC cut to the feed just as Palin was walking away from the podium, saying "Well, that's how it is with live announcements, sometimes you miss them" or something along those lines.
The must have been watching it because they had on the screen a banner saying that Palin wouldn't seek another term.
They ran that a good 5 minutes before Fox news "broke" the news.
[Just as an aside, whenever anything is really breaking, CNN and MSNBC are always a little ahead of Fox]
I think Fox, because they want to appear conservative, probably discuss in depth how they will decieve the audience so they are sometimes a little late with "breaking" news.
Virtually every guest on Fox painted Palin's announcement as negative except the Gov's Association guy and Huckabee.
Huckabee was positive about what Sarah was doing, perhaps he wants to to grab her skirt tails for a ride to the White House.
The thought was put out there that this was the start of the 2012 race for President.
That cracked me up.
The campaign for 2012 started when Romney dropped out of the 2008 race. The next day he started running for 2012.
Newt has been running for years.
And Huckabee who will not commit, but of course is running.
That's what his show on Fox is all about, his hat is firmly in the ring.
Of course all of the republicans hate Palin because she is the only one of them that has any pizazz and can draw many times the crowds any of them can.
That sleeze snail trail of a man Lannie Davis was on Fox saying Palin did this to avoid answering all the ethics violations she has been accused of.
And went on with the standard lying dem talking points.
He went on and on about how she needs to deal with all of those horrible things she did and is being sued for.
Of course he knew that she has been exonerated of ALL of them as was pointed out to him by the Fox guy.
IMO this was a brilliant one-two punch from Palin.
She has been spending 80% of her time fighting the bogus ethic complaints, and it has cost Alaska 2 million and her 1/2 million in legal fees.
She loves Alaska and knows stepping down will be helpful to the state because of the negative reactions from enemies of conservatism because of her popularity.
She will be able to be more on the national scene and be better able to deal with all that comes her way unencumbered by elective office.
She knows that with so many out to destroy her (dems, leftists, republicans, media, Soros, Rahm, Obama [Michelle and Barry], Romney, Newt et al) that it is best for Alaska if she steps down and lets her very competent Lt. Gov take over the remainder of her term as Gov.
There was some talk about her trying to "hide" this by announcing it in the news "dead" period of Fri night, but I think she has pumped life into that spot!
I didn't see a speech. I saw a woman speaking from her heart, with a total command of the moment! Sarah Palin deserves our prayers, and my dollars are already helping to further OUR FUTURE, by helping retire her legal debts and contributing to SarahPac.
I hope we can help her become our nation's REAL hope and change!