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Am I the only one who puts all that together and reads it to mean that Bristol was blackmailing her? It works with (1) above, plus it gives texture to the "four yeah's and one HELL yeah" comment. They've never gotten along, and Bristol might be just about fed-up with playing the loose slut to Palin's cross-ridin' downs-baby-raisin' act.
Edit to add :
maybe a criminal investigation :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFdcSu4UyxI&feat...
She's either about to be indicted or on the verge of a mental breakdown. Indeed, the quacking geese in the background gave the perfect loony-bin highlight to Miss Piggy's exit from the political stage.
You don't make this kind of move for strategic reasons, if you're making it in the late afternoon of a Friday before a holiday weekend. She's runnin'.
How can anyone object to the brilliant lady who delivered the following line? "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." Hai-yaaah!
"When I go to the dentist, I don't ask him to tell me what he knows about the Edict of Aunts or why Charlemagne Boneparte lost the Battle of Honeydew to the Melons."
"I plan to write more books whenever I can find the appropriate writing attire and color-coordinated pen."
"What if you were in Florida without your furs and there is a very quick little ice age?"
"You have to be going to a pretty awful place if getting there is half the fun."
"Express your feelings all the time unless you're trying to hide something."
But this one is most suitable for Palin: "I hereby issue a writ of hocus-pocus."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/03/pali...
"Then on Wednesday, Beverly Wooley, who has worked more than 20 years in public health in Alaska, most of it with the municipality of Anchorage, ended her stint as state public health director.
She's the second top health official to leave in recent days. The state's chief medical officer, Jay Butler, left in late June after declining to take on Wooley's job along with his own"
I suppose it gives credit to your story.
Maybe linked with this story about criminal investigation :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFdcSu4UyxI&feat...
I believe she will do anything for attention, no matter how bizarre.
It's time for her to either admit or release medical records showing that she wasn't pregnant the winter before last, before whom ever it is releases the truth that
Bristol is Trig's mom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQdYdCfl60
Ok. But, this is quite a conspiracy theory, and this is not something I usually go for. Especially because it needs so many people involved that it would come out. Otherwise I should suspect Palin to be... intelligent ?? I can't, sorry.
I feel unease, so I agree with you, please S.Palin, all other candidates showed their medical records, show yours, and I'll be feeling better beeing sure that you're dumb, but not a monster.
Those videos are good also. First one explains doubts, second one kinda debunks the story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBjwZ93n6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxGh6ywVrE&feat...
Untill then, she cannot complain that there are suspicions, her behaviour has been so heratic, and she's so dumb... But still she'll never be compelled to prove her story, it would just be far more comfortable for us, and for her...
"You think it'll rain today?"
"It might."
"Does that have anything to do with our belief in UFOs?"
"Not particularly."
Come on everybody, join the team, we'll be a conglomerate, let's name ourselves...Woodward and Bernstein !!
Need I say it?: "Maybe." Not that I have any suspicions of anything like that, but ...
Who has the movie rights to "The Republicans: 2009"? It's been quite a show this year on many fronts.
Yeah, nearly, still 36763 is just fine with it......
Basically the explanations are:
1. There's a scandal. I'd think she'd want to have as much status and power when under charges so I don't think so.
2. She wants to quit politics. I don't think so.
3. She wants to make as much money while she is a POTENTIAL 2012 candidate. Yes!
4. She is taking custody of "Blanket" Jackson and will manage a boy band with her sons and grandson. ........Maybe
Hey, if you can turn a profit being delusional, why not grab for the plastic ring?
5. She was jealous of all the publicity that Michael Jackson was getting, so decided to one up him on an otherwise slow news weekend.
1) She knows she'll flame out spectacularly in the Primaries
2) She has the most potency if there is a chance that she'll run for President, therefore she must run just as a career enhancing publicity stunt
3) So she'll make a ton of money in the next 18 months, then spend 15 months in a campaign she knows is going nowhere, and then will finish her career as a talk show host and speaker
This move further devastate the standing of the 2012 GOP field and valdidates the thinking that she was marginally qualified in the first place. Believe me, Democrats wanted her to be the nominee but her involvement will not changed the dynamics of the choice facing the public at that time. She has to be nuts if she think this exit from the stage will help her entrance back on the stage in 2012. She will lose more voters than she could possibly pickup due to the turn off factor and the lack of trust. Someone should have advised her that no one is greater that the system they participate in. The country will prosper with or without her. Her actions remind me of the course of action McCain/Plain took in the campaign when confronted by negative polling data. The campaign tried this cockeyed response, we know, but we have them just where we want them. And we know how that ended, the prize slipped away. Sarah just might have let her political reputation and word slip away with the American people.
I hate to say it, but it's happened before. Woodrow Wilson was about halfway through his first term as New Jersey's Governor when he won the Presidency in 1912. Of course, there were mitigating circumstances: a) he was already one of America's most famous public intellectuals; b) Teddy Roosevelt helpfully split the Republican vote (though pulling some of Mr. Wilson's supporters, admittedly). So, I suspect that, although Mrs. Palin can claim being one of America's most famous public figures, she would need more help than that to get elected.
Today, I'm saying his odds are 55-45. If he increases the tax burden, his odds diminish. If we get hit, he's toast. Everyone knows this also.
So what is confusing? Months ago Palin decided on one term. (Clue book deal. A gaudy embarrassment of riches for the average AK voter. She'd have waited if local politics were her primary motivators.)
She will not know exactly what she would be doing after 2010 because she would have to see how beatable Obama could be. She does not really care about being President as much as one would think. She'll make up her mind next year depending on what the economy looks like. So it's timing. There is only two factors. No wonder NYT is going out of business.
I was a proponent of her running for reelection until I watched how weird Alaska politics can be. In Pennsylvania, she's never have these problems. She's and her family have been laboring under an onslaught of personal economic assaults because her state's new ethic laws are flawed. They invite abuses that cannot legally be rectified. The process had degenerated into suing her for having political opinions. Good tactic? If you want to drive people of limited means out office, then Alaska has the model Code for you. (Don't waste time trying to persuade me otherwise. I'm an attorney. I know how to read legal findings all by myself, thank you.)
She's not that wealthy. She and her husband had a net worth of $1.2 million before the crash and before her book deal. She has legal bills of $600,000. Had she stayed in office those bills would only mount. What sense would it make to have a pac and a book deal that you can use to advance what you believe in only to have to pay legal bills?
So she cuts her losses sooner rather than later. This gives her more time to improve herself as a national politician in an infinite number of ways. She can hump the book and grow Sarahpac.
It also helps to give her successor badly needed time as an incumbent. Big Oil still controls a lot, including those Republican politicians who oppose her in Alaska. Apparently the NYT and AP overlook the obvious. Parnell is the best bet for her policies to continue. Otherwise, Big Oil undoes the pipeline, etc.
The down side is that she gets labeled a quitter. You saw her response already. Mitt Romney can be accused of running for president the last couple of years he held office. She has calculated that she'll run the risk of being called a quitter. Big deal she gets clobbered for whatever she does anyway.
Her decision to try to be the first female President is still based on the same equation.