Posted on 07/07/2009 3:49:29 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
ANCHORAGE -- In November 2006, as Sarah Palin celebrated her gubernatorial victory at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, she told the crowd she would bring a "new energy" to the governor's office, stand up to "Big Oil" and usher in a new era of ethical reforms.
But less than three years later, Palin is calling it quits, and Alaskans offer mixed assessments of her legacy as she steps down with 18 months left in her term.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Shattering the chattering class ceiling
Nothing better demonstrates the fact that Gov. Sarah Palin's on a roll than harrumphing experts declaring that she's finished. (They also once explained why movie actor Ronald Reagan didn't have a chance.) The poor dears have worked themselves into a frenzy because Palin's not taking lovey-dovey advice from her enemies, which is to stay on defense, remain a pinata, fight with both hands tied behind her back, run up another half a million in legal bills over phony ethics charges, announce that she plans to be a lame-duck guv until 2011, etc. She's soooooo out of touch with Maureen Dowd! And that other harpy, Katie Couric.
The gun-toting, moose-hunting-'n-dressing hocky mom governor with smoking-hot looks and stadium-sized crowds and charisma can't seem to connect with the editors of the Wall Street Journal. Even worse, she's alienated elitist snobs by making a "career-ending" move they hadn't thought of.
Besides, you can't just simply resign from your official duties mid-term to seek higher office by running on charisma and rock-star status . . . who does she think she is, Obama???
If resigning the Alaska governorship to fire-up and re-build the conservative movement into a 50-state constituency by laying into Obama and campaigning heavily for GOP candidates up and down the rungs of government is such a career-ender, why are libbies running in circles, shouting and yelling in panic?
Liberals claim Palin's decision to unshackle herself is 'puzzling,' 'bewildering,' 'confounding,' dumbfounding' 'befuddling,' 'mystifying,' 'perplexing,' 'mind-boggling,' etc., then they immediately proceed to explain what her motives were. Two seconds later, they're back to being 'bewildered,' 'puzzled,' 'befuddled,' 'confounded' -- in other words, their normal state of mind.
Always striving to be consistent, liberals mocked Alaska as some underpopulated hicksville dump, so liberals now denounce Palin for 'abandoning' the all-important state of Alaska.
The New York Times, in its typically unbiased/evenhanded way, sniffed that Palin appeared to be "often rambling" in her announcement speech -- also known as speaking extemporaneously without a Teleprompter. Demonstrating the rich diversity of newsroom opinion, U.S. News & World Report attacked Palin for making a . . . "rambling announcement." The media smart set are so captivated by the Teleprompter Jesus's ping-pong shtick that they apparently forgot what it actually sounds like to speak unscripted.
Liberals are so insanely afraid of Palin, that just 24 hours after her announcement they were dancing in the streets like their heroes the crazed Palestinians on 9/11 simply because, as the AP put it, "the controversial hocky mom was no where to be found." The girliemen at Politico.com joined in the celebration with the headline: "The lady vanishes!"
But! Later in the day, libbies were back to panicking when Palin posted on her Facebook account that she's "now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint."
Palin's biggest offense is that she knocked the experts for a loop last week. But if there's a core reason Palin is giving up quality Moose-hunting time, it's to do the job the GOP girliemen won't do -- taking it to Obama. Free from the stultifying lame-duckery in Alaska, she'll be driving libbies even crazier by campaigning for real conservative candidates across the 57 states and helping Republicans sweep the 2010 midterms. With that party-rebranding game-changer under her belt, Sarah Barracuda will be calling the shots for 2012 and making the fussy little McCain staffers who went crying to Vanity Fair eat their words.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Oh how they hate her!!!!!
I have tentatively concluded that Palin does have an Achilles’ heel, and that is to trust her fellow Americans a bit too much. After all, she did midwife the Alaskan ethics system which was then so wickedly abused against her. Hopefully the School of Hard Knocks will have taught Sarah a few more street smarts by the time it counts, which is 2012.
What did Oboomba promise (and accomplish) while he was in his Senate seat???? We cannot let these cows control the narrative.
She was bipartisanly very popular until the day she was McCains Veep pick. She couldn't have anticipated the ghoulish hate that was coming from the left.
LLS
She didnt leave Alaske. Alaska left her.
They had a great Governor but they allowd the Media and the Democrats strong arm people lead them astray, Screw em.
If that lot is against her, it's a good enough reason right there for me to be for her.
Thank you, John. I love your writing.
“they allowd the Media and the Democrats strong arm people lead them astray, Screw em.”
Yep. The ADN in particular. That paper will suffer now. Without Sarah to generate interest, the rag will wither and die.
I love your two cents. It’s exactly what I was thinking.
From the ground here I see -
A politician,that when things got hard - quit. She has left a mess for the adults to clean up. What mess?
The State has a billion dollar deficit - thanks in part to Sara increasing the size of state gov’t by 38% her first year, her push for and approval of increased welfare spending and the idiotic AGIA contract - a 1/2 billion to a foreign corporation for - what?
She made Trooper Wooten the poster boy of abusive cops - but then did nothing (I mean absolutely nothing) to change the rules the bad cops hide behind.
She was ‘fiscally responsible’ and started a hiring freeze - and than approved ALL but 2 hiring requests.
She lived in her own home and charged the State per diem - maybe it was ‘legal’ but is was WRONG.
I guess your location makes the view different.
That’s sort of like saying Reagan trusted his fellow Americans too much.
I mean, I don’t think she foresaw the trap she set for herself through her ethics system, probably because she assumed “well, nobody would be evil enough to tax the daylights out of Alaska just to get at little old me.”
What were you expecting her to do, call an emergency session of the legislature to plug the ethics complaint loophole? That would have just gotten her ridiculed as self serving in the already testy legislature while the bogosity would pile on at an even faster pace.
One can “blame” her for setting that trap in the first place, but how could she know that John McCain was going to tap her and she was going to become wildly popular in the lower 48 and that, though McCain would lose to Obama, she would be considered so dangerous by liberals in the lower 48 that they would camp out in Alaska and bite her ankles like this?
I’m pretty sure she saw the benefits as outweighing the potential pitfalls, nor was she thinking of herself when she passed it.
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