Andrea Mitchell: Sarah Palin is Out of Politics Period and Does Not Want to Run for Higher Office
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MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell reports that according to her sources, not only is Sarah Palin stepping down as Governor of Alaska, she is also getting out of politics, period. Time will tell if Mitchell's reporting is accurate, and whether this is a result of her legal problems that are potentially mounting in Alaska or her thinking that this move somehow would help her in a Presidential run. I would bet on the former if forced to take odds.
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Palin quit. She could not finish the job she started. She lied to Alaskans. She told them when she ran for governor that she was a leader. She isn't. She is a quitter. It's a shame she won't run for President in 2012. It would have made things so much easier for us.
You need to listen to her poignant speech. She is saving Alaskans a lot of money by quitting early. She was also so efficient, she got the job done in half the time it takes most governors.
“I think Sarah Palin is on the verge of becoming the Miami Vice of American politics: Something a lot of people once thought was cool and then 20 years later look back, shake their heads and just kind of laugh,” quipped Republican media consultant Todd Harris.
And yet we fall for it all over again today with CSI Miami.
And the ONLY way I can interpret that is that rather than fight the inevitable impeachment process (the only thing I can think that would COST Alaskans millions of dollars) she's quitting.
Which is a self-serving way of saying she doesn't want to face the consequences of her own behavior.
"She showed her ass." Crude but true. There was no "swarm of media" on her when she put Wasilla in debt or ran for governor. It took getting on national TV and coming off like the hick fundemenalist rube that she is. She is totally facing the consequences of her own behavior.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z75QSExE0jU
That was sarcasm, I hope.
http://drudgereport.com/flashmdp.htm
for those who refuse to click on shitpiles...
How could she run for the highest office with this crap in her closet? I mean, that's like Edwards, and Sanford for that matter. The majority of these people (our representatives on both sides) are demented and they want to lead us where?
She's a narcissist, at least, and possibly a psychopath.
grifter.
Snowbilly grifter
What do you mean POSSIBLY?
If I got to interview Ms. Palin I would have one question to ask her...how old is the Earth?
6,001 years
her closet?" She was chosen to run for the second highest office with that crap in her closet, but a few trips to Niemans and Saks fixed that.
DEA?
DOA.
FSM
FNC. That's where all the others went.
to either leave or have something not good go public, that's my thinking any ways. I can't think of any other reason why she would just suddenly up and go.
it's hard to fathom that people thought this flighty dimwit was qualified to be the president of the united states..
I think "something will go public" anyway, whatever it is. I can't see how she'd be more damaged if she doesn't resign than if she does. It will all come out anyway.
I guess I'll just stop speculating for the time being, since there are so many suppositions about her reasons. Interesting that the MSM is reporting only on what she said in that news conference and the reaction of Republican and Democratic leaders. They'll take her at her word until they're kicked in the face with whatever the truth is.
"First of all, the $12mil+ project ended up in the hands of contractors who were friends of friends of Palin. Secondly, at around the same time the sports complex was being built, so was Palin’s new house. What’s interesting about that is the house is constructed from the exact same materials the sports complex was built with. The windows in both structures are the same, the wood is the same, pretty well everything."
http://www.inquisitr.com/28190/sarah-palin-em...
Miss Sarah is going to lay low for a while. After all, Teddy Stevens was her 'mentor' - so embezzling by means of house construction/renovation was likely lesson # 101 - doncha/ know.?
Google "Sarah Palin Federal Indictment"
Sarah Palin Federal Indictment: Embezzlement Reason For Resignation?
Max Blumenthal has a piece up @ Daily Beast also.
Like we kicked around here yesterday, Nixon also said, "I am not a crook," and "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Then, like a bad case of diarrhea, he got the runs (apologies to George Carlin). You can never count out a narcissist.
As for Andrea Mitchell, when did she ever know *anything*? I'm not sure she has any sources besides the work of other "journalists" she reads and listens to. Her work is an echo chamber.
It's pretty obvious she's hastily stepping down because of a looming scandal. The statement she made yesterday was bizarre, and seemed to come out of nowhere.
Until it comes out, these media types are stuck repeating Palin's own incoherent story. It's absurd.
Perhaps, she knows that she would never be elected to president and is simply choosing to make the most money she can make.... starting now. The American Way.
Maybe she's going to be a spotter for NORAD with that great view of the commies from her place.
I would have loved to see Barack destroy her in 2012, like a reverse Reagan/Mondale. Oh well, I guess he'll have to trounce Newt instead.
Happy 4th, everyone. Here's me mocking a crazy, gun-totting weirdo for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkM-Ke3qVJg&fe...
It's down to three.
Mittens.
Hackabee. Can you imagine? He does have the religious vote.
Or Crist.
Nice to see you again Joe.
What about, "Hey...hey...hey Freddie Boy!"
Notta chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpSxP18fJA&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C85kTwFEymo
I didn't even know John Kerry could sing.
He'd charm the bats right out of the trees.
I have a new found respect for Huckabee when I saw him playing bass on Fox the other day. I'm a bass player. He almost has my vote. Almost.
I'm sure she's a *cough* lovely woman,listening to that grating voice is somewhat akin to stuffing one's ears with ground glass.
Happy 4th all you shiny people.
Are you telling me my astringent's not working?
We could have had her for VP...hmmmm. Wow, think of the Palin watch and all the fun the Smothers Brothers could have had.
You'd have to turn up their hearing aids.
Hey, this bird ain't ever told the truth. Her kids are a mess! She created socialist Alaska. She's under investigation for political crimes....And she's getting out of politics? For good? Only if she's convicted.....This "turkey" is a liar....Wait and see!
Pinnochio9!
This guys photoshops are priceless (as is his blog).
By Driftglass
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0wRJjXvyZ1I/SkrIzJM...
that's great.
yeah Driftglass is quite the wry wordsmith as well.
(funny as fuck)
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She gets nailed alot too?
by her count.
Unless you equate poking with nailing.
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you wonderful bunch of Obama electing Yanks. With wacko Sarah quitting you've got one more reason to celibrate this fine day. I can see Alaska from my window so I'll be celibrating with you all.
"I can see Alaska from my window"
word has it you can see Russia from Alaska....
thus making Palin a National Security expert.
I already plan on the same ol' same ol...
About 18 laps in a pool
Then rereading the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
Followed by a bath of Radox, Pears and Pinaud, a dinner of fish and chips washed down with Guiness, followed by more Gauloises with Yellow Submarine.
Do I lead an exciting life or what?
Phillipines.
Even Mitchell can't believe that carp she is throwing down. I hear bottles being thrown at tv sets in the beltway.
They actually do throw "carp" down in Alaska as it turns out.
*rimshot*
or she has just proven she just makes shit up. Name your sources, Andrea, because just about everyone known to be close to her has said they did not even know in advance this was coming. And we know the First Dude has eyes for a younger spokesbot than you.
Hey I have a Roman Candle with her name on it that I`m firing off tonight-in celebration of her departure.
(insert crowds of people ooh-ing and aah-ing as the fireworks explode in joy)
Nothing is ever her fault, and all of the personality conflicts she has with others...well it would just go away if they would just recognized her fabulousness. AHHH poor Sarah always the victim.*sniff
Sarah good luck on your new job in Wassila at that McMoose Burger. Next time, serve me my Big Moose Burger a little quicker. And tuck your shirt in.
Repeat after me, “Would you like fries with that?”
Signed,
Your New McMoose Burger Boss
We all can only be so lucky to never see her hateful smirks or hear her sqeaky, degrading voice again.
Palin is leaving too. Or did you not mean Andrea Mitchell?
Not only was she grating, she seemed nervous and phony--like she was lying and trying too hard to cover it. How can anyone take her seriously?
..."honestly" and "truthfully" in an extemporaneous speech (which this clearly was), they're lying.
Great show and the techniques used in it are very real. So, watch some Lie to me and then go watch her speech again. She's leaking tells like a Swiss cheese water tower. She was angry, and suppressing it. She was lying about the reasons she was spouting. She was talking very quickly and repeating herself, which is a clear sign of heightened stress. Her body language showed that she really wanted to be somewhere else (if not someone else). Etc., etc., etc.
She's done. She's not happy, but the rest of the world is! I don't think you had to be a psychic to figure out that something terrible that she was trying to hide has caught up with her (maybe her complete ignorance of the world around her, or her own rampant corruption and ambition). I really don't think she'll surface as a political candidate again. She may become a "conservative personality" (a contradiction in terms, if you ask me) like RushBo or BillO and make her fortune, but she's done as far as running for office. She'll get torpedoed by whatever is hiding in that black swiftboat-of-skeletons she's got in tow.
Andrea Mitchell, darlin', you stuck your neck out if you didn't have a source, and you may very well be right, but you certainly weren't the only one to see it.
Oh sure, she asked her kids if they thought she could do more good by working outside of politics (or whatever). She got four or five "Yeah"s, one "Hell Heah!," and one abstention. Of course, the "Hell Yeah" was the clincher. Bull F'n Shit! Like she asked for a vote before making her call. She is a pathological liar and I think the real reason she is cutting and running is because she is dirty.
She's absolutely dishonest...factually, intellectually, emotionally (winking at/seducing the camera).
She tosses out these bullshit stories about her kids, for example. The sad part is that good little Jesus-huggers *want* to believe that stuff. She knows it, so she sells it, and they buy it. Those of us who can clearly see through it--and that it's a ruse to cover up her true reasoning, lack of knowledge, motivations, etc.--can't prove it because it's personal. Her kids aren't going to rat her out. Her husband is as dirty as she is, so he won't rat her out. And she has much of the Alaskan conservative political establishment in her back pocket, so they won't either.
And yet there she is, lying, and using her kids for cover. That's fuckin' scary, because if she'd do that, she'd do almost anything. No morals.
Let me see if I've got this straight.
She wanted this job.
Alaskans elected her to do it.
She accepted.
Now that the job got hard she decided she didn't want to do it any more.
And she let her kids make the actual decision of whether or not she was going to do the job she willingly signed up for and was elected to do.
Poor Sarah. She stepped outside of her bubble and not everyone tells her how wonderful she is and she can't take it any more.
I don't miss her already.
Good luck with that one, Sarah.
http://www.stinque.com/2009/07/04/talibunny-f...
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Of course!
What do you think the chances are of a Repuglicun administration allowing a Federal investigation of "Talibunny and her trained mute"?
You can say, "pussy" but you can't say, "****"?
I wonder if she's into playing ****ry music?
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Gets more Ju Ju Beans
for act 9000000 of
As Wasilla Turns
Thanks.
Thanks for the laugh!
I don't think it applies as much now but the parts about the right wing corporatists still applies.
http://myfightfordemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/...
I'm having a tough time with the stenographers--cnn, cbs, in particular--who are reporting this as though it were the weather: that is, here's what she said, so it must be taken as fact.
I want to know who (in the mainstream, anyway) is listening to her more critically and saying, "This doesn't pass the smell test."
She can't run her Presidential campaign from her federal prison cell?
Funny how taking bribes for handing out 13 million dollar contracts can get you into trouble isn't it?
It's all Romney's doing.
Let's get the biggest uncivil war going in the GOP.
i said it before and i'll keep saying it. governor sarah palin is a fraud. i listened to gov. palin speak yesterday. wow nothing has changed. she's a poorly programed robot. i suspect she will have a fox career. they will attempt to use her to rally evangelicals for romney. i really don't mean to be this offensive but sarah palin has no depth and doesn't convey confidence/intellect. i will say this sanford and palin are taking the heat off senator ENsign(the born again that needs to be born.... yet again).
Are you tellin' me Ensign - a born again xtian, is like a cat with 9 lives?
Interesting thing was that the cat was sacred in Egypt to the goddess Bast. She helped Ra in his Barque of a Million Years in his nightly battle against the serpent Apep, according to the Shat Am Tuat.
As for the nine lives, Egyptians believed we all have nine souls: Ab, Ba, Ka, Khat, Khu, Sahu, Khaibit, Sekhem, and Ren (no Stimpy though).
Silly khaibit, Twix is for kids.
palin has much in common with Gov Sanford. They both speak in terms of,
-What they want.
-What is best for them.
-Where they want to go.
-How tired they are in their job(s) for not getting their complete
way.
-How others were mean spirited to them.
-Doing whats best for themselves and not the peoples work.
Etc, Etc.....................
All about themselves.
Being a Governor or holding public office with the Ideology of Small Government and no Government help. Means Corporations can take over and these ideological public office holders have virtually no work to perform in their job(s) but suck up the pay and prestiege.
Way to ramble on and on Sarah. That basketball metaphor was especially excruciating to listen to. Palin/Gump in 2012!
a better one wouldve been the kid who cant really play, gets flamed by the other players on the court, but its his ball so he takes it and runs home
http://breepalin.blogspot.com/
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/03/palin-hoc...
i want her to go down because of her over the top hypocrisy. i am tired of these people judging others that are NOT like them. sarah palin is a fraud. this is the type of politics that has to come to an end. this
will be a serious blow to the (r). when you try to listen to palin you can hear her try to lay the blame on others. this is the (r) favorite strategy get others to explain themselves. those that have to explain are considered losing. palin has always been a loser in my mind. if guilty i want her caught.
I see this move by Palin as a way to get into some cushy higher paying job where she doesn't have to strain that small brain of hers as much. If one thinks about it, she has gained all kinds of national notoriety and is going to cash in on it before her 15 minutes is actually up. I see her as nothing more than some greedy b@#$% who looks to cash in at the best possible moment.
that's it. this is for $. what's interesting she really doesn't have any loyality to "we the people". palin will be a cheerleader for the weak (r) party. the (r) has suffered a couple of blows to the midsection sanford and let's not forget enSIGN. palin will rally the far right/ evangelicals for ROMney. this is a strategy. when the far right/evangelicals get revealed in their own hypocrisy they come back even harder. the financial elites are afraid of reform regarding safety nets. i believe the financial elites don't want this country to have much if any safety nets. palin will provide that over the top anti-gov. rhetoric that capitalists love. they don't want to waste the enthusiasm/propaganda that palin provides. once again the evangelicals will get used.
raise her children?
sick of politics?
just a few weeks ago, this woman was flying around the country and then bashing letterman
when has she really ever raised her kids?
and that speech was far from being planned
nope...something else is going on
...the entire world will benefit. On the other hand, I've got to feel sorry for her kids if this means she'll be around full time.
Creepy. Creepy. Creepy.
I think she's too much of a narcissist to disappear altogether. It looks to me like she may want the attention (of the media) and adoration (of mindless Wingers), without having the scrutiny that an extreme Wingnut is likely to attract.
If Todd Purdum's article had anything to do with convincing Palin to quit, then we all owe him a huge "Thank You."
One think that struck me yesterday was that she understandably doesn't want her children made fun of in the media, but she can't keep herself from using them and making bizarre statements about them. Poor Trig, I wish him well, but the world certainly is not in need of more handicapped or disabled children. Her statement that the world needs more, not fewer Trigs is one of the nuttiest things a major politician has ever uttered.
Why on Earth would anyone hope for more handicapped children? What, does Palin see giving birth to such a child as some kind of accomplishment? I've always found it weird the way parents act as though having a child is the most creative act anyone could ever perform. Yeah, there are only about 6.8 billion (BILLION!!!) people in the world. What a remarkable feat of creativity to add to that total!
No one should make fun of Trig, but if people make jokes about him they are probably just countering Palin's exploitation of her son by using him to ridicule her. And she certainly deserves ridicule.
... "out of politics"?
I'd fall on my knees and beg that Palin is telling the truth.
Good riddance to this sociopathic circus freak and her soap operatic politics. The MSM must be brokenhearted that the political malignant tumor they helped to prop up with their relentless lying and willful ignorance of her shortcomings went down. These Beltway Buffoons sure know how to pick 'em.
Everything about this is lame and absurd.
Her own excuse for quitting is a joke. Too much criticism? Too much scritiny?
???????
What the fuck does she think she would face as president on a daily basis? Every job, every business transaction, everything on her pathetic academic transcripts, every political association including her and Todd's affiliation with Alaska separatists - absolutely everything - would be open to public scrutiny. Just like Clinton, just like the Bushes, just like Kerry and Gore and McCain.
That's politics, honey. You don't like it, go hunt moose and bake bread. And read a fucking book or two while you're at it.
Sarah Palin is a political pussy and an opportunist. She's quitting so she can flog her book (like anyone will buy it now), make a fortune on the paid-speech circuit and cultivate her far-right, wannabe Obama-killing fans. If she doesn't get anywhere in 2012, she'll run for
""take the words of General MacArthur, he said, 'We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.'"
Actually, Sarah, that was not McArthur, it was Oliver. I'm hoping the direction you're moving is towards a prison cell, one with a view of Russia.
Mission Accomplished
Perhaps Palin found a copy of the Peter Principle and realized that she was in WAAAAY over her head.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain expressed support for his former presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, on Saturday as Washington speculated about why the Alaska governor abruptly announced her resignation.
Her decision, announced in a rambling, disjointed statement in her home town of Wasilla, Alaska, fueled speculation that she might be seeking to position herself for a run.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTR...
Stranger and stranger...
...she's got the runs.
Seriously, we can dream, but there's no way she's going away. She's quitting her job, she'll be investigated by the feds--maybe even indicted and discredited.
But look at Oliver North--and Adm. John Poindexter. They were indicted and discredited. And back they came. Karl Rove is all over faux, so is Billie Kristol, and even Gordon Liddy.
It doesn't mean she'll actually *become* president, but she'll never go away. And she may still try to run (Mrs. Greenspan's "sources" notwithstanding). The spotlight shines too brightly.
Now, this doesn't preclude one of her kids writing that "Mommy Dearest"-type book in the future. If they're not totally messed up, there's got to be a little anger there, family dynamics being what they often are.
It's amazing how Republicans have a way of making getting indicted look good on a resume.
The Elite Trailer Trash had their shot and blew it. Now *#^& off.
Remember Palin? When someone says 'Republican' just remember her.
She will become a talking head on the TV which is what she's wanted all along since not being hired by ESPN back in the eighties.
especially cops say and do stooopid shit (remember the Lee Co Fl sheriff?), I'd suspect that she'd have a bright future reestablishing the Wasilla Chapter of the AMMA (Alaskan Methamphetamine Manufacturing Association) as the industry flagship it had been, before all those pesky news people, Secret Service, etc, scared all the local "businessmen" farther out of town.
there could be a new spokesperson for the rnc. the (r) is very concerned because many (r) are in need of affordable healthCare. this could have a lasting impact on their party if passed.
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