Posted on 07/10/2009 11:52:34 AM PDT by fiscon1
early July, while most Americans were preparing for a long weekend of celebratory parades, charred meats, and noisy fireworks, Sarah Palin made some plans of her own. The Alaska governor had been the object of endless media attention and assorted calumnies since she became John McCain's vice presidential nominee last August. Now she wanted to try something new. So, on July 3, in a speech delivered from her home on Lake Lucille in Wasilla, Palin told her constituents that not only would she not seek a second term, but she would also be transferring authority to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell on July 26, abdicating her office with about 18 months left to go. The announcement, as one might expect, received global press coverage, dominated the weekend headlines, and gave stories about the late Michael Jackson a run for their money. Meantime, the political world went into sustained convulsions.
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Sarah will now get her book out, go on tour, give speeches and promote conservatie principles all over this country in the midst of the Obama administration disater and gain great political capital in the process. Then she will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that and make an awesome, stunning run for the Presidency in 2012.
Go Sarah!!!!
we are well on the way to having a three-party system (with the RINO party being smallest of the three)
How much longer before we jettison the GOP Establishment and Beltway types? How much longer? These people make my skin crawl.
Would that that were true!! She's endorsing Governor Rick Perry (Gov. Good Hair) in Texas. In Texas, Perry is a notable RINO who is not well liked who may face an uphill battle from his likely RINO opponent - Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison!!!
Check out what she said about Obama and Iran..she really nails his ass good..Just wait til the Barracuda is released on July 26th,, she is gonna go OFF
alin has begun ramping up her criticism of President Obama. “Somebody’s got to start asking President Obama questions” about how he plans to pay for his agenda, Palin said. In her July 3 speech, she blasted “debt-ridden stimulus dollars,” said that “today’s Big Government spending” is “immoral and doesn’t even make economic sense,” and called the national debt “obscene.” In an interview last week with Time magazine, she called cap-and-trade “cap-and-tax,” and said the policy would “drive the cost of consumer goods and cost of energy so extremely high that our nation is going to start exporting even more jobs to China.” I asked Palin about President Obama’s response to the democratic upheaval in Iran. “Maybe they’re tougher behind closed doors,” she said. She noted that there were plenty of things “the most powerful man in the world” could do to help bring down Ahmadinejad, including a new round of international sanctions. She went after Obama’s rhetoric. “It’s not ‘meddling’ in another country’s business when you understand that what happens over there affects us over here,” she said. “I wish Obama was tougher in that area.”
I believe she is supporting Perry because he is a far better choice, despite some of his positions, than Hutchison. Perry does have a number of conservative positions that are far better than Hutchison.
Yea, except it’s their party, not ours.
Compared to Kay Baily Hutchison, Rick Perry is way to the right.
Perry did not bash Gov. Palin Kay Baily did.
In some situations, the more conservative choice may be a RINO. Is there someone you think she should be supporting in that race? KBH and Perry are the only two I know that are running, but I’m not in Texas. FWIW - my question is not meant to be sarcastic or defensive, I’m merely asking for information from your point of view.
And what of her Republican critics?
Mainline Republicans see 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street rabble-cum-Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) attacking a Party member who's not "one of them" and their response?
"Run away! Run away!"
Mainline Republicans don't have the guts to confront the Rat Party's tactics.. or is it something else?
Rockefeller still rules?
Nelson Rockefeller according to Stuart Spencer (Rockefeller's public relations head) said, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."
We have to destroy Sarah Palin as a member of the human race?
I respect your question. Unfortunately, in our case at the present time, there are NO other choices for Texas - at least, NOT from the so-called conservative side.
The problem for many of us in Texas is that by her endorsing Perry, we think she has hurt herself in this state. I dearly love Sarah, but this endorsement makes me question her judgement!!
Sarah could not afford to play the Guiliana catchup game with Romney and Huck already on the campaign trail.
Not me. If it is a choice between KBH and Gov. Goodhair, I will reluctantly take the Gov. Supporting him was a good strategic move.
Thanks for the answer, and I see your point. It’s unfortunate you are presented with the choices you are in Texas.
I wonder if she has an affinity for Gov. Perry, since they worked closely together on the Republican Governor blah blah blah group?
Palin ping
And still have time for family and church! What a gal!
She resigned because of the reasons she stated. Can we have enough about why she resigned and move on to what she is going to do now(like kick Bozo’s a** in 2012)?
Only because you aren't thinking straight. You admit there are no other choices. Should she just stand by and let a total RINO win? Do you guys want KBH in office? If you do then just write to Sarah and tell her,"Hey, we want a total RINO in office instead of a partial RINO!". The stupidity from the ranks just never seems to end.
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