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Palin Announces No Second Term (Official release has been extended and updated)
Office of Governor Palin ^ | Sarah Palin

Posted on 07/03/2009 1:59:10 PM PDT by SolidWood

So to serve the state is a humbling responsibility, because I know in my soul that Alaska is of such import, for America’s security, in our very volatile world. And you know me by now, I promised even four years ago to show MY independence… no more conventional “politics as usual”.

And we are doing well! My administration's accomplishments speak for themselves. We work tirelessly for Alaskans.

We aggressively and responsibly develop our resources because they were created to be used to better our world... to HELP people... and we protect the environment and Alaskans (the resource owners) foremost with our policies.

Here’s some of the things we’ve done:

We created a petroleum integrity office to oversee safe development. We held the line FOR Alaskans on Point Thomson – and finally for the first time in decades – they’re drilling for oil and gas.

We have AGIA, the gasline project – a massive bi-partisan victory (the vote was 58 to 1!) – also succeeding as intended - protecting Alaskans as our clean natural gas will flow to energize us, and America, through a competitive, pro-private sector project. This is the largest private sector energy project, ever. THIS is energy independence.

And ACES – another bipartisan effort – is working as intended and industry is publicly acknowledging its success. Our new oil and gas “clear and equitable formula” is so Alaskans will no longer be taken advantage of. ACES incentivizes NEW exploration and development and JOBS that were previously not going to happen with a monopolized North Slope oil basin.

(Excerpt) Read more at gov.state.ak.us ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: extended; gopimplosion; palin; quitter; sarahbarraquitta; sarahpalin
More at the link!


1 posted on 07/03/2009 1:59:10 PM PDT by SolidWood
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To: Abbeville Conservative; sleepwalker; Roses0508; feedback doctor; LibLieSlayer; ...

Palin PING!

Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.

2 posted on 07/03/2009 1:59:33 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin isn't retreating, but taking the fight in another direction.)
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To: SolidWood

She gave a great speech!


3 posted on 07/03/2009 2:00:53 PM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (Who can take tomorrow, Spend it all today? Obama Man! ---- SARAH PALIN 2012)
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To: SolidWood

Dude, am I not on the ping list??


4 posted on 07/03/2009 2:00:57 PM PDT by Antoninus (I'm with Palin -- let's take the political fight in another direction!)
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To: Antoninus

You have been added now. Quite funny... Palin resigns, and the number of Palin Ping sign-ups explodes.


5 posted on 07/03/2009 2:02:29 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin isn't retreating, but taking the fight in another direction.)
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To: SolidWood

Just thinking....how is her son that’s in the Army? Is he deployed?


6 posted on 07/03/2009 2:04:34 PM PDT by madison10 (Ronald Reagan for President...even dead he's better than the one we have.)
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To: SolidWood
I listened to her entire announcement. It was honorable, it was direct, and it punctuated the insane politics of our day...it also punctuated her personal commitment to fight, and to do so when it would not distract further from her job as Governor and the foundation she has built there.

I am proud of her and support her. She is a great American.

I think Sarhah has just turned, like a fed-up mama Bear, on her detractors. She has put things in order, she has left them in the hands of capable people, and she has now turned to face her enemies directly.

...and I think they are going to be sorry. We have smelled the fear in them for a long time. Good on her!

I believe she will assist others greatly in 2010, and will run herself in 2012...and she has my full support.

GO SARAH GO!

HOW SARAH PALIN TRUMPS LIBERALISM



MANY MORE STICKER DESIGNS HERE

7 posted on 07/03/2009 2:04:53 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Jeff Head

Perhaps she is going to take on the Obermessiah.


8 posted on 07/03/2009 2:07:28 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan
She gave a great speech!

AGREE! From the heart, as usual. Loved the way she slammed the media. Being right is better than being popular! Totally opposite of BO! and all the RINO's.
9 posted on 07/03/2009 2:07:54 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: SolidWood
From the article:

In the words of General MacArthur ..., “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”

10 posted on 07/03/2009 2:09:12 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Jeff Head

You put that better than I could..

God speed Sarah..you will be missed and you are a great Amercian..


11 posted on 07/03/2009 2:11:09 PM PDT by alaskamomma
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To: presently no screen name

Also loved the subtle dig at current Congressional travel expenses swelling by saying most lame ducks “travel” but she wanted to do something that would both help Alaska and not cost Alaska. *LOL*

She is a much better speaker than 0. TOTUS has been slacking of late.


12 posted on 07/03/2009 2:11:09 PM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (Who can take tomorrow, Spend it all today? Obama Man! ---- SARAH PALIN 2012)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
Perhaps she is going to take on the Obermessiah.

Of all the nationally known Republicans she's the only one with the stones to do it.

McPain would have been much better off if he'd turned her loose and let her follow her instincts.

13 posted on 07/03/2009 2:13:34 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
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To: Jeff Head

Dittos that. Also, the left may think they wore her down but I have a gut feeling they ain’t seen nothin’ yet.


14 posted on 07/03/2009 2:13:53 PM PDT by Ladysmith (The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money - M. Thatcher)
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To: SolidWood

Sarah Palin’s Accomplishments as Governor of Alaska (done in 2 years):

• Created a petroleum integrity office to oversee safe development.
o Finally drilling for oil and gas at Port Thomson
• AGIA—gasoline project-—succeeded ($40 billion Natural gas pipeline)
o Largest private sector project ever
• ACES-—breaks monopoly of North Slope oil production
• Cleaned up previously accepted unethical actions
• Ushered in bipartisan ethics reform
• Slowed the rate of government growth
• Worked with the legislature to save billions of dollars for the future
• Made no lobbyist friends
• Took government out of the dairy business and put it back into the private sector
• Did education initiatives
• Filled long-vacant public safety positions
• Created a sub-cabinet on Climate Change
• Broke ground on a new prison
• Eliminate personal luxuries like the jet, the chef, and the junkets
• Governor & Lt. Governor both said “No” to pay raises
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She has done so much! She is gonna make a great POTUS!!!!


15 posted on 07/03/2009 2:15:27 PM PDT by wk4bush2004 (SA-RAH! 20-12! SA-RAH! 20-12! SA-RAH! 20-12!!)
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To: alaskamomma

I don’t think Sarah’s going anywhere, other than into the thick of the fray.


16 posted on 07/03/2009 2:16:55 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: SolidWood
And it came to pass in the year 2009 that the President of the United State Barack Hussein Obama was exposed as having been born in Kenya. As he tried to fight the constitution he planned to run again but found out that was not eligible to run because lawmakers had tightened up the reigns in regards to qualifying to run for President. With Obama's Marxist plan to be President for life thwarted, (a plan in cahoots with Castro, Chavez and the other Marxist leaders), Sarah Palin runs for office and becomes the next President of the United States.
17 posted on 07/03/2009 2:21:39 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan ("Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.")
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To: IMissPresidentReagan
She is a much better speaker than 0. TOTUS has been slacking of late.

Absolutely, She speaks from the heart - it comes easy. IF zero spoke from the heart and exposed what is in it, he would still be a community organizer. He needing a teleprompter is so telling!
18 posted on 07/03/2009 2:25:19 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: SolidWood

While I have not made a secret around here of my political opposition to Governor Palin based on several fundamental constitutional disagreements I have with her, I find her conduct today to be admirable. She seems to have put the good of her state and of her family ahead of any other consideration. That’s a rare thing these days in American politics.

Contrasted with Mark Sanford, who seems to care little about the good of South Carolina or of his family, her actions look particularly good.


19 posted on 07/03/2009 2:26:39 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some folks never get tired of arguing with the things the Founders called "self-evident.")
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To: FreeManWhoCan

Your words will come to pass!


20 posted on 07/03/2009 2:27:08 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: AZ .44 MAG

My gut tells me she is about to go to war on the Obermessiah. Could be wrong, though.


21 posted on 07/03/2009 2:27:44 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

I’m guessing TV deal.


22 posted on 07/03/2009 2:31:07 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: EternalVigilance
That’s a rare thing these days in American politics.

Sarah is RARE - that's why conservatives want her as their candidate. NO MORE politics as usual!
23 posted on 07/03/2009 2:31:57 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: SolidWood

Sarah is the real deal. Our entire family is at your side Sarah. PALIN in 2012!


24 posted on 07/03/2009 2:32:21 PM PDT by afnamvet (I see stupid people.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
My gut tells me she is about to go to war on the Obermessiah. Could be wrong, though.

I hope you're right. We need somebody to. John Boehner is about the only one standing up right now that I've noticed. And he mostly attacks legislation, not Obama. I'm so sick of politics and politicians right now I haven't really been paying attention except for listening to Rush.

If Sarah goes on attack I'll sit up and start taking notice again.

Go Sarah!

25 posted on 07/03/2009 2:33:35 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
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To: SolidWood
Obamas worst nightmare: A straight, honest, honorable person who will stand up and call it like it is. Now she will be free to dog Obama like they've been trying to do to her.

And this is a great way to bypass that bumbling, corruption-ridden process we call a Republican Primary (the one that gave us McLame). I'm sure that's going to score her big points with the old boy network at the RNC. As far as I'm concerned, the Republican party has it's presidential candidate right now. Now we'll see whether the RNC is interested in winning 2012, or whether they just want to spend money and play with themselves.

26 posted on 07/03/2009 2:34:53 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (Sarah Palin: Americas last, best hope for survival.)
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To: Jeff Head
"She has put things in order, she has left them in the hands of capable people, and she has now turned to face her enemies directly."

In other words, "Hold muh beer, and watch this...".

Look out commiebama, there's a mean mama coming after you. Isn't it pathetic that in today's America it would take someone without any balls to have the balls to take on the left? The rest are just "metrosexuals".
27 posted on 07/03/2009 2:36:29 PM PDT by FrankR (We are only enslaved to the extent of charity we receive....INCUMBENTS OUT!!!)
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To: FrankR

absolutely


28 posted on 07/03/2009 2:39:04 PM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: SolidWood

ping me too, if you please.


29 posted on 07/03/2009 2:41:32 PM PDT by Jacob Kell (Steam the CLAMs! (Communist Liberal American Media))
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To: SolidWood

Png list, please.


30 posted on 07/03/2009 2:42:21 PM PDT by Ladysmith (The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money - M. Thatcher)
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...the tradition continues on


31 posted on 07/03/2009 2:52:00 PM PDT by jla
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To: wk4bush2004
Sarah Palin’s Accomplishments as Governor of Alaska (done in 2 years)...

Great list! Thanks for posting it.

By comparison, Obama's Accomplishments as President (done in 6 months): ...nationalized the banking industry.
...nationalized the auto industry.
...burdened the U.S. under a crushing debt of additional trillions of dollars with no end in sight.
...sat back and watched as North Korea and Iran continue to expand their nuclear weapons programs and threaten us.
...attempted to nationalize the health care system and create a huge and wasteful government bureaucracy to control it.
...allegedly "saved" some jobs as the nation's unemployment rate skyrocketed.
32 posted on 07/03/2009 2:54:50 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: EternalVigilance

You maligned and slandered her without shame. Away with you! Go back to your sham party and see how many people you can bilk out of their money.


33 posted on 07/03/2009 3:03:45 PM PDT by jla
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To: jla

I did not, you liar. Get a link to where I ever did any such thing. Otherwise, go jump in a lake.


34 posted on 07/03/2009 3:19:54 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some folks never get tired of arguing with the things the Founders called "self-evident.")
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To: Ladysmith

Letterman got her ire up, too. She’s a fighter and is going to kick Hussein 0bamas rear end.


35 posted on 07/03/2009 3:20:35 PM PDT by unkus
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To: EternalVigilance
How's that 'growing a pair' thing working out JimRob suggested?
Run along, huckster. You're irrelevant as the AIP.
36 posted on 07/03/2009 3:24:51 PM PDT by jla
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To: jla

If you can’t find a link, that means you’re lying.


37 posted on 07/03/2009 3:26:02 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some folks never get tired of arguing with the things the Founders called "self-evident.")
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To: jla

Don’t try and hide behind Jim, RINO. Put up or shut up.


38 posted on 07/03/2009 3:26:47 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some folks never get tired of arguing with the things the Founders called "self-evident.")
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To: SolidWood

SARAH!


39 posted on 07/03/2009 3:30:37 PM PDT by onedoug (SARAH!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Waaa! She supports the (common-sense) federalist view of abortion instead of chucking a hail-mary for a constitutional amendment that’ll never see the light of day and more babies will die during that span. Waaa!


40 posted on 07/03/2009 3:34:16 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

No. That’s not an accurate depiction of my disagreement with her.

But again, I find her putting her state and her family ahead of her ambition admirable.


41 posted on 07/03/2009 3:44:46 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some folks never get tired of arguing with the things the Founders called "self-evident.")
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To: Jeff Head
!!! SarahCuda SarahCuda SarahCuda !!!
42 posted on 07/03/2009 4:43:34 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
I don’t think Sarah’s going anywhere, other than into the thick of the fray.

Hell hath no fury like a pi$$ed off Mama!

43 posted on 07/03/2009 5:56:09 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: FreeMe2

ping


44 posted on 07/03/2009 7:01:48 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012!)
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To: EternalVigilance

for my part, and knowing you thoughts all these years, regardless of any impuned motive, I appreciate your sentiments in regards to Gov. Palin.


45 posted on 07/03/2009 7:27:16 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012!)
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To: free me

Thank you, and may you have a great Independence Day!


46 posted on 07/03/2009 7:51:45 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some folks never get tired of arguing with the things the Founders called "self-evident.")
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To: EternalVigilance

You betcha!


47 posted on 07/03/2009 8:07:52 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012!)
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To: EternalVigilance
nice guys finish last......notice the rats?......not a nice guy among them.....they're going for the juglular....

so hang in there Mark Sanford.....your sins pale in comparison to Dodd, Barney,bama,Kennedy, etc.....

48 posted on 07/04/2009 1:16:22 AM PDT by cherry
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