Posted on 07/03/2009 10:57:15 PM PDT by pissant
With respect to many of the Palinologists below, I think they're getting way too hepatomantic over the entrails.
As a political move for anything other than the 2010 Senate race, today's announcement is a disaster. And I'm not sure it's a plus for the Senate - and, even if it were, the manner and timing suggest it was not a professionally planned event and therefore is unlikely to have any grand strategy behind it.
So Occam's Razor leaves us with: Who needs this?
In states far from the national spotlight, politics still attracts normal people. You're a mayor or a state senator or even the governor, but you lead a normal life. The local media are tough on you, but they know you, they live where you live, they're tough on the real you, not on some caricature cooked up by a malign alliance of late-night comics who'd never heard of you a week earlier and media grandees supposedly on your own side who pronounce you a "cancer".
Then suddenly you get the call from Washington. You know it'll mean Secret Service, and speechwriters, and minders vetting your wardrobe. But nobody said it would mean a mainstream network comedy host doing statutory rape gags about your 14-year old daughter. You've got a special-needs kid and a son in Iraq and a daughter who's given you your first grandchild in less than ideal circumstances. That would be enough for most of us. But the special-needs kid and the daughter and most everyone else you love are a national joke, and the PC enforcers are entirely cool with it.
Most of those who sneer at Sarah Palin have no desire to live her life. But why not try to - what's the word? - "empathize"? If you like Wasilla and hunting and snowmachining and moose stew and politics, is the last worth giving up everything else in the hopes that one day David Letterman and Maureen Dowd might decide Trig and Bristol and the rest are sufficiently non-risible to enable you to prosper in their world? And, putting aside the odds, would you really like to be the person you'd have to turn into under that scenario?
National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush). Our loss.
Everyone thinks it was a mistake now. But that was his plan. I can even understand it. Huckabee won Iowa because the GOP is pretty fundamentalist there. So Iowa was not Rudy territory. Rudy probably considered NH to be Romney turf. So he probably figured there would be little shake out until FL. He was wrong.
Palin may be wrong here. She may be right. We may never know ala Rudy.
Oh, ye of little faith.
Stand back, and behold her mighty sword!
She's about to kick some RINO and 'Rat butt.
Seriously, she's the only pol in which I have any kind of faith.
The only one at all?
What about Mike Pence?
What about Jim DeMint?
Forget any wussie men.*
Sarah is about to punch back with defamation lawsuits.
If anyone deserves her day in court, it’s Sarah.
*Wussie men — Republican men.
Yes, we will see. Thanks for the posts.
Listened to KGO, San Fran last night with Christine Craft, who claims to be a lawyer.
She was slamming Palin like you can’t believe. Said Palin was unable to find France and Germany on a map and was dumber than a box of rocks, etc, etc. for 3 hours!
I tried to call in, couldn’t get the # to ring! I have emailed her today, hope you will too!
I can’t even find a rumor resembling Palin not identifying France & Germany on a map!
try this too
chsristinecraft@kgoradio.com
Here is rumor on Palin’s SAT scores...where’s Obama’s test scores?
http://conservablogs.com/publiusforum/2008/10/11/fake-palin-sat-scores-fool-left-o-sphere/
She has my support for whatever she wants to do. If she runs for office I will support that. If she wants to retire to the Alaskan boonies to raise kids and shoot moose I will support that. (and I wouldn't blame her)
And if people continue to attack her with vicious slander and libel ... well, karma happens. I gare-own-tee that. ;-)
Yup. As my wife likes to say, “interesting” is a very interesting word.
You and I are in complete and total agreement...
especially WRT karma. ;o)
Oh really? I never took you for a new age dixiechick. /s ;^)
LOL!
That was cute. ;o)
heh heh heh
Mark Steyn is both. Never ran for office with McCain either.
been a dumbass all your life ?
Steyn’s current column is much better. I think he ate some bad food last week.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/prince-years-time-2489363-old-wales
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