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Re: Palin Asks People to Join Her -- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire

pbrower2a — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:50:08 -0000

Her resignation makes about as much sense as... the sound of a toilet flushing.

She has just shown herself as the "Lena Lamont" (Singin' in the Rain) of American politics. I just hope that the sequel isn't Sunset Boulevard!

Ex-politicians going to partisan media? You betcha! But as a rule it is after one's term ends! She's a gaffe machine, and I can just imagine her idea of the "Real America" as a signature graphic: a map of America with all the big cities somehow extricated.

I'd suggest "Northern Overexposure" except that some comedy program already used that in a parody of her.

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jag0581 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:35:15 -0000

Sounds to me she started running for President and is trying to get donations for that run but instead of saying she is running she wants people to join her in her move.

I mean first she created a PAC where she could easily change it to the Sarah Palin President 2012 inc. quickly, then she resigns as Governor because she doesn't want to be a lame duck Governor, gee does that mean she will quit being President after 2and half years because she doesn't want to be a lame duck President. I mean she would basically assume she will win reelection and then resigns because if she ran and won she would automatically become a lame duck. I am so confused. Sarah Palin ruly is stupid. Ge and I thought GWB was an idiot.

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Chredon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:09:00 -0000

They don't snivel, they bombast. Palin is the one who is sniveling.

But I don't totally discount Palin. She has the ability to make the truly dissociative members of the GOP sit up and listen - but she's not smart enough to craft an effective message on her own. She frightens me only when I compare her to our former idiot-in-chief Mr. Bush. Palin and Bush have a lot of the same qualities - a folksy and appealing manner, an interesting personal background, a message that resonates with some of the far-right members of the party. Surround Palin with a team of take-no-prisoners savvy political operatives, and she could cause a lot of trouble as long as she can stay on script. All she needs to change about herself is to put aside her conviction that she knows best. If she could take direction, follow instructions, trust her political handlers, and not insert her foot every time she opens her mouth, she might go far.

Fortunately for the rest of us, Palin thinks that she knows best. Her husband is the only adviser she will listen to, and he's as out of touch as she is.

So I hope she's on her way to Fox News to anchor her own show. In terms of gaffe-production, she'll make Michael Steele look like Daniel Webster. She'll make Joe Biden look like Calvin Coolidge. And she'll quit after six months, thus reinforcing the image that she created on Friday.

BTW: She also resigned from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission before she ran for Governor. She attended five different colleges. She apparently doesn't have the ability to stick anything out, to see anything through to the end.

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Meffy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:20:07 -0000

Yay! I'll play "Come Into the Garden Maude" on the ophicleide!

http://www.serpentwebsite.c... <--mp3 link near bottom of page

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Delphine — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:13:41 -0000

Well thanks to both of you, I'll be singing about the seventy-six trombones
and double-belled euphoniums in my head for the rest of the evening...

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Meffy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:54:01 -0000

Agreed, things don't add up. If this were a Ken Ken puzzle, it would be broken. Since it's not... well, it's still broken. Guess we'll have to wait to see what revelations the future will bring.

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Meffy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:44:54 -0000

@euphgeek: That's what I was thinking / hoping it meant. :-}

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CarlCampos — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:30:47 -0000

Quitter? You betcha!

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uknowme — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:28:32 -0000

I'll send her 10 million in Monopoly money, I know it's fake, but so is she, and she probably wont even notice the money is fake either.

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mgm — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:43:40 -0000

She's so pathetic.

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DrTrocar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:14:13 -0000

Amen, and well stated, Chredon. How bout sniveling whacko's?

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Canadian4Obama — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:13:50 -0000

What exactly does she want people to join her in doing? Quitting their jobs? She is so full of shit I can smell it from Toronto.

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DrTrocar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:08:59 -0000

" I hope you will join me. Now is the time to rebuild and help our nation achieve greatness!"

Hey brightbrains, we are currently making an effort to dig out of the mess that the repugnicans got us into, and YOU were apart of team that would have continued digging. You lost, go away. In other words shut the (rhymes with "duck") up. You are a ZERO.

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Meffy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:17:18 -0000

Sounds good to me. Even the Real America isn't great until she makes it great, y'know.

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Chredon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:05:44 -0000

It puts me in mind of Michelle Obama's "proud for the first time in my life" quote, and I think the left-wing pundits should be running with it.

Sarah Palin thinks America is not a great nation!

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Chredon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:03:32 -0000

I guess my biggest question is, what does Sarah have to do between now and Jan 2011 that's so important that she has to quit her job?

Wouldn't she be much better served, politically, to finish her term, take maybe one trip to the 'lower 48' each month to gather support, and just not run for re-election? She would be out of office by January 2011, which would give her 22 months to run for President, which is certainly more than enough time to get her message across.

Something here is not right. Something here stinks.

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Meffy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:03:28 -0000

Don't we all?

... Well, I suppose we don't. But she might, and if so it could be we'll see her in the finals of Fox's next big thing program, American Celebrity Idol.

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Laguna_b — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:00:37 -0000

In the end we must replace our dependance on foreign oil with domestic renewables. In the meantime, we should heavliy tax domestic production (yes that means we grow short term MORE dependent on foreign oil) and tax gasoline at the pump ~2$/gallon like Europe to heavily discourage usage. Use the tax revenues to suppliment and subsidize electrification of transportation to eliminate fossil fuels.

10 years down the road will will have most of our remaining reserves of oil, the prices will be skyhigh but then we still have supply now worth $300/bbl. It will be used mainly for high value usage (plastics, manufacturing etc) And most vehicles will be electrified usng renewable sources.

Palin plan: 10 years down the road: Continued usage of fossil fuels, ONLY foreign sources at $300/bbl, domestic sources depleted at bargain basement prices sub $150 and lower. We are totally screwed....

Unfortunately 10 years is way beyond any real election cycle and we know how short term that makes thinking....

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Meffy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:58:06 -0000

Exactly. Nor does she recognize that Obama is already handling exactly that chore quite well without her dubious input.

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Chredon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:57:31 -0000

Palin doesn't scare me that much because she actually wields very little political power (and in a few weeks, she will wield even less). People like John Boehner and Eric Cantor scare me more - because they're whack jobs AND powerful members of Congress.

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Meffy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:51:51 -0000

Is that the bit about giving people an enemy and they'll accept any lie? Or if you tell it often enough?

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Chredon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:51:37 -0000

Her plan for energy independence is to cut off all supplies of foreign oil, thus hyper-inflating the price of domestic oil, the majority of which is in Alaska. Her plan for fiscal restraint is to stop spending money in so many other states, while Alaska continues to attract more federal dollars per capita than any other state AND take a percentage of the value of their natural resources as state income (which no other state is allowed to do). Her plan for less government intervention is to limit it to only telling people how they should be educating their kids about sex.

But I find this one the best quote:

"Now is the time to rebuild and help our nation achieve greatness!"

Which would imply that she DOESN'T think our nation is great now. Sarah Palin thinks America is not a great nation.

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Chredon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:44:40 -0000

Palin channels Manilow?

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36763 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:30:26 -0000

At your service, kind sir.

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36763 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:29:42 -0000

Dave:

You are not being your kind generous self. You are usually so tolerant of your fellow man. Bad day. I'm here for you. Let's talk this problem of yours out.

Yours,
36763