Maybe this picture of the author can partially explain the piece, if you get my drift (I say that as a 360lb man, btw).
Posted on 07/06/2009 2:28:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You might have heard: Alaska governor Sarah Palin has quit her job.
In the sort of eye-rollingly silly spin that we've come to expect from the good governor, she attributed her first-term resignation to her unwavering dedication to the people of Alaska and her inability to accept political convention: "I'm not gonna put Alaskans through [a lame-duck second-term]. I promised efficiencies and effectiveness. That's not how I'm wired. I'm not wired to operate under the same old politics as usual."
She announced she was transferring the governorship to her lieutenant governor so that her administration "with its positive agenda and its accomplishments and its successful road to an incredible future for Alaska" can continue "without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success." And with a final promise to "effect positive change … for Alaskans and for Americans," she was done.
Despite Palin's best attempt to frame her decision as a noble sacrifice to her home state, that this departure is a self-serving move is manifestly obvious. She wants national office – or national influence, at least – and languishing immersed in the day-to-day of running Alaska leaves her too far from the spotlight she came to enjoy as a vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election. (Not to mention far from the political operatives, bankrolling GOP moneymen, and political infrastructure required by any national candidate.) Palin needs to make herself easily available to give crappy speeches to anti-choicers in the heartland, and taking her leave from Alaska is a necessary step to do so.
The conventional wisdom is that this is a terrible idea and she is crazy.
Palin, however, is not crazy. She's calculating.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Maybe this picture of the author can partially explain the piece, if you get my drift (I say that as a 360lb man, btw).
You don’t need to give a Barf Alert to any source from “London”.
She needs to read this thread - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286738/posts
Holy crap, McEwan, could you be any fatter?
Have to AGREE with you.. some of the mostbalanced .. or rather some of the ONLY Information about der Fuhrer/Messiah has come from the UK GUARDIAN and the CANADA FREE PRESS!!
Bush was rejected by Republican leaders???? I have no idea where she got that idea from. Republicans leaders embraced his compassionate conservatism rhetoric. Palin is much more fiscally conservative than Bush and probably even a bit more socially conservative, although Bush was solid on social conservative issues.
He’s talking about Reagan I guess. :o)
I see bigger women every day in Wal-Mart, Kroger, the mall, etc.. She would be a skinny waif at my local Dollar Tree!
The statement would make since if he was talking about Reagan, but it was about Bush.
Give the writer credit, at least she doesn’t say Palin is crazy, just implies she is not as smart as elites like Obama.
How’s that working out for you, babe? Obama, the smartest man in the world, and his vice president (the other smartest man in the world) have just pushed the world into a depression. They are so smart they think they can spend us into prosperity.
From the article: “At some point – if all goes as planned and Palin finds herself a hot commodity on the rightwing small-time talk circuit ... “
What a complete friggin idiot ... small time talk circuit??? Sarah Palin can draw 20,000 people to hear her read recipes. If she wants to talk about the issues of the day, then the numbers go higher.
You know you’re not to swift as an author when you have to steal a quote from Bill Kristol as your headline.
I expect Sarah is smarter then all of them, how I love the name Sarah.
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Maybe she is smarter than the pundits...Maybys ass.
Mike Savage is right, liberalism is a mental disorder.
I didn’t have to see her to know what she looked like....I read her words and knew she couldn’t be very attractive...
I didn’t have to see her to know what she looked like....I read her words and knew she couldn’t be very attractive...
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