Sarah Palin's emails underscore polarizing effect

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 11, 2011 | By Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger, Washington Bureau

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Taken together, the email correspondence underscores Palin's polarizing effect long before she was a ubiquitous figure on the national political stage.

Palin's disgust with the media was apparent as soon as she was tapped to be Sen. John McCain's running mate — a decision that happened with a suddenness that seemed to take her and her aides by surprise as much as it did much of the country.

"Can you believe it!" Palin wrote to one aide who had sent her a congratulatory email. "He told me yesterday — it moved fast! Pray! I love you."

She was much less in love with the media swarm that came with the nomination. She and aides objected when a blizzard of questions from reporters included queries about her favorite poem and the tanning bed in the governor's mansion. "Arghhhh!" Palin responded, noting she had paid for the tanning bed and was "dismayed at the media."

The darker side of her newfound fame was evident too, as the governor fielded several vicious threats against her life — all of which she forwarded to her aides without comment.

At the other end of the spectrum, the messages include many adoring missives from supporters around the country who, even before she joined the 2008 presidential ticket, saw her as a rising star.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's a Resume Enhancer!

SO is this one:

Sarah Palin quotes: what she said in the emails

And this one:

Thousands of Sarah Palin's private emails released

"Can you flippinbelieveit?!"

There are other polarizing (more accurate placement of the term) news outlets, like the Washington Post that label Palin as a "polarizing figure."

The msm believes it will push us to choose Anyone-But-Sarah-Palin. The Left recognizes her as the Number One Obama rival needed to be taken out -- to be ruined and ridiculed, so no one will listen to her. And in the end, abandon a conservative candidate for the presidential ticket in 2012.

Rush Limbaugh: "Liberals always tells you which conservatives they fear most."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rush Limbaugh: “Liberals always tell you which conservatives they fear most.”

[abb]

Doncha see? Sarah MADE the State-Run Media dig up all those emails and make complete fools of themselves.

[Diogenesis]

WHERE ARE MITT ROMNEY’s emails
directing attacks on Gov. Palin and her children for Obama?

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

“the email correspondence underscores Palin’s polarizing effect”

So the media thinks the emails say what they think they say even if they don’t specifically say it.

No the intellectual tail chasing is even worse than that. Palin complains about the press in the emails and, to the media, this means that she is as polarizing as they say she is.

The media’s complaint about Palin is that the media complains about Palin.

[4rcane]

What an outrage. She bought a tanning bed

[4rcane]

Doesn’t Palin know, you’re suppose to send the bill to the taxpayers? Palin’s such a dunce that she actually paid for it herself

[screaminsunshine]

I am done. Palin in 2012. Our best chance. Rush is right. MSM fear is our best indicator of a good POTUS.

[abb]

I am done. Palin in 2012. Our best chance.

I agree. No need to fool with any of the rest of them anymore. The quicker we all get behind her and focus on removing the Marxist from office, the better.

[drierice]

Same here - I believe Palin is the best candidate, and Cain or West would be a great VP. The liberals’ use of the word polarizing is intended to polarize, but there is no politician more polarizing than Obama.

[Libloather]

Palin's disgust with the media was apparent

That's the big scoop after reading 24,000 emails? I could've given all that info in just one.

[pnh102]

Palin's disgust with the media was apparent as soon as she was tapped to be Sen. John McCain's running mate ...

Uh no, Palin's disgust with the media became apparent as soon as the MSM decided to run her family through a shredder.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Pathetic, isn’t it?

“....Around the same time aide Ivy Frye wrote to Mrs Palin and her husband Todd that she liked a television commercial they were in.

Mrs Palin responded that she and her daughter Piper had just watched it. She said: “Piper said I looked like I had a mullet!”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/8569719/Sarah-Palin-fury-at-Vogue-shoot-leak.html

OMG!

[spokeshave]

"“the email correspondence underscores Palin’s polarizing effect”

Ha...polarizing indeed....

The lefties got well and truly ELECTROPLATED.

[newfreep]

The leftwing liberals/socialists are so far left that anyone who embraces America, the Constution and our Judeo-Christian values/morals will always be polarizing to them.

[Venturer]

I must be stupid. I do not see how sending death threats she received on to her staff without comment is polarising.

What the hell are these people talking about.

Emailing that she is disgusted by the media because they ask stupid questions. The questions were stupid. Just about any Conservative is disgusted with the way Conservatives are treated by the press.That makes her Polarising? Only to the Press that is biased in the first place.

There is nothing damaging in the emails so the press is making stuff up.

Polarising my as_, They want to speak of Polarising , take a peek at the White House and Nancy the freak Pelosi. Now there are two polarising crapheads.

[leprechaun9]

Here's a snippet from the New York Times:

Not two days earlier, Ms Palin had been dealing with the sometimes mundane matters of one of the nation's least populous states: a ballot initiative on mining, thorny personnel issues involving her ex-brother-in-law, and her personal request for "Alaska pins and governor pencils (or pens) to drop off at gladys wood elem school today after my afl cio speech."

1. Comment of an elitist turd from the Jayson Blair Gazette.
2. It may be the least populous state, but it is more than 10,000 square miles larger then all the land in the Eastern Time Zone of our country (where >50% of the population live). This is much larger than the territory of a neighborhood organizer!
3. These mundane tasks were probably more important than Senator Joe Biden hanging out at Home Depot on his weekends at home in Delaware!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

~~~~And Newt offered her PR advice (I don't think she took it though).~~~~

[excerpt] Source • In February 2007, an adviser told Palin she should meet with another Alaska native, Pete Rouse, who was then Obama's Senate chief of staff. "I'm game to meet him," Palin replied. (Wall Street Journal)

• Palin wasn't on exactly the best terms with Alaska's congressional delegation. (Los Angeles Times)

• There were rumors about whether Palin was the mother of her son, Trig, from the start. In April 2008—just days before she gave birth to Trig—Palin emailed her husband and senior staff to alert them that a political rival was spreading rumors that it was her daughter, Bristol, who was actually pregnant. "I wish I could shame people into ceasing such gossip about a teen, but can't figure out how to do that," Palin said. (Washington Post)

• The Palins once hung out with an Elvis impersonator. (Atlantic Wire)

•In September 2008, a Palin aide suggested the governor should appear opposite Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live—which Palin later did. (Politico)

• It was reported long ago that Palin installed a tanning bed in the governor's mansion, but here'e the email proof. (Atlantic Wire)

• Palin was really into the Iditerod. (Wall Street Journal)

• Palin wasn't on exactly the best terms with Alaska's congressional delegation. (Los Angeles Times)

• The governor and her aides once emailed around a poem entitled, "An Indian with One Testicle." (The Atlantic)

• Newt Gingrich once advised the governor on her PR. (Politico) [end excerpt]

[lquist1]

“I am done. Palin in 2012. Our best chance.”

Agreed. I have to admit, I was wavering on her and looking at alternatives, but this email thing proves to me that the left is absolutely terrified of her. I don’t know anyone that’s more vetted than she is.What other dirty laundry could they possibly air?

I say we get behind her and run with our best. There really is no one else that’s right on all the issues with the guts to take it to Obama and call him what he really is.

I really pray that she’ll run, and if so, I’ll support her 110%.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the quote.

Last night Fox News reported that “tweeting” on Capital Hill (I guess that means on federally paid for electronic devices) was down about 30%.

I’ll call it the Weiner Factor.