Posted on 07/03/2009 8:02:42 PM PDT by tobyhill
She survived Katie Couric and Tina Fey, searing scrutiny, rumors about her baby, anonymous taunts of "whack job" from those who once touted her credentials to be a heartbeat away.
Yesterday Sarah Palin completed a remarkable media flameout that made her one of the most famous women in the world, the exotic Alaska caribou hunter, one of the most revered and reviled politicians in modern history. The governor announced she is calling it quits, just eight months after she and John McCain went down to defeat.
She has nursed a grudge against mainstream journalists, accusing them of peddling "gossip and lies" about her family, and at her Wasilla home Palin wouldn't give the press corps the satisfaction of a clear reason for leaving in the middle of her first term and refused to take questions. "Your enemies won't believe you anyway," she said during a rambling discourse that touched on her baby, her prayers, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, her visit to Kosovo and her life as a high-school point guard.
Perhaps it was fitting that Palin bailed days after a hard-edged Vanity Fair piece in which former McCain campaign strategists questioned her mental state and even wondered whether she was suffering from postpartum depression. Still, the red-suited Republican was upbeat yesterday alongside her snowmobiler husband and kids, a contrast to the grim-faced Mark Sanford and John Ensign, who in recent weeks have begged forgiveness for their sexual transgressions.
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“And many of them were from her own party. You expect denigrating comments from those in the liberal media and the political left, but you don’t expect scathing and abusive words from those who are supposed to be your political allies. They all make me sick.”
Welcome to the GOP. They eat their own.
They have hated her and tried to destroy her since McCain first mentioned her name. Personally, I believe that she did this to get out of the media so that they would have a harder time bashing her for the next 3 years.
No, the Vichy wing of the party stabs conservatives in the back whenever they get a chance.
They filed complaints on just about everything she did. Now I understand her reluctance to accept invitations to speak at or attend political events. She probably didn't want to have to deal with it anymore, and I can totally understand that. Watch the a-holes file a complaint against her for resigning.
Well, they are still one party, no? So, in that sense, they do eat their own.
The Dems, on the other hand, seem to do most of their back-biting in private.
The State run media and their cohorts the Socialist liberal neo-progressives are in for a real big surprise very soon, the American people will not put up with this theft of our great Country much longer!
Pray for the 82nd ABN 1/508th BN who has made a combat jump behind enemy lines in Afghanistan to cut off the fleeing Taliban ladies and put the squeeze play on the Taliban girls!
Thanks America, and remember this “independence day” because it will be your last! History is about to repeat its self with a second American revolution to regain our God given freedoms, inalienable rights and our pursuit of happiness!
Keep your powder dry!
Speaking of fish...Notice my new tag line....We need t-shirt, bumper stickers....GOP Hear our message!
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Does that include the drive-by posters, trolls, doom & gloomers, Romneybots, plants, agents-provocateurs, and assorted navel gazers here?
Sometimes I think I need to start collecting their names, so that I can post the list of suspects as a public service announcement to the general community.
Yes they do, but I've never seen it as bad as it was with Palin. They were as rabid as the left in their attacks and venomous comments. I hope they all rot in hell for the way they behaved.
Loved it when she said that! But then, again, the whole speech was great.
I hear that Sarah just quit her day job. She's probably available.
Well, I can’t say I’d like to see anyone rot in hell, but I understand your sentiment.
I don’t believe the GOP was quite as bad as the MSM, but all those little ‘leaks’ from unidentified McCain campaign people was getting old.
GFY Howard
Palin’s perfect treatment of Letterman is only the beginning.
This a**hat must have listened to a different speech then I did. Where does he get the “rambling” BS from? She gave a great speech and was crystal clear about why she was resigning, it isn’t her fault people don’t want to believe her. She has totally flabbergasted the dimwits and the beltway RINOs who are probably shaking in their boots right now.
This afternoon, right after reading the Huffpo thread, I called the RNC and told them they had been do nothings for several years, that their not taking up for Sarah, indeed, giving her grief, that the VF lies by that Repub. 'hore Steve Schmidt and all the media attacks was IT!
They are to take my name off calling and mailing, because I am donating only to SarahPAC and our own AL Senator Jeff Sessions, who along with our Shelby and Jim DeMint have about the only pairs left in the Senate.
I told the nice lady I am reverting back to my totally conservative independent roots, and that Repub leaders do not seem to have a clue as Obama daily shreds the Constitution.
Then I contributed $50.00 to SarahPAC.
RNC # is 1-800-445-5768 if a few thousand people want to join me. The worker said she would give my comments to michael Steele. No way are they ever going to win nationally without their hated right wing conservative Christians.They need to hear from all of us, and so does Sarah.
vaudine
That was a great line from Sarah's statement today. It's pure Sarah.
If that remark doesn't tell people what this lady's all about, then I'm afraid they'll never understand her.
Damn, I love this woman!
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