Missteps, ignored advice on Palin’s route to exit (NYT Hit Piece)

MSLSD ^ | 7-13-09 | Jim Rutenberg and Serge F. Kovaleski

[AmericanSphinx71]

Missteps, ignored advice on Palin’s route to exit Seemingly relentless string of professional, personal woes led to decision

ANCHORAGE - In late March, a senior official from the Republican Governors Association headed for Alaska on a secret mission. Sarah Palin was beset by such political and personal turmoil that some powerful supporters determined an intervention was needed to pull her governorship, and her national future, back from the brink.

The official, the association’s executive director, Nick Ayers, arrived with a memorandum containing firm counsel, according to several people who know its details: Make a long-term schedule and stick to it, have staff members set aside ample and inviolable family time to replenish your spirits, and build a coherent home-state agenda that creates jobs and ensures re-election.

Like so much of the advice sent Ms. Palin’s way by influential supporters, it appeared to be happily received and then largely discarded, barely slowing what was, in retrospect, an inexorable march toward the resignation she announced 10 days ago.

[AmericanSphinx71]

They just won't leave this poor woman and her family alone.

I hate these sons of bitches.

[goodnesswins]

They’re very skkeeeeerrred, those liberals....arent’ they!!!!

[Jeff Head]

Hehehe...let them keep it up. It is backfiring on them and they fail to even see it. Just more and more evidence of how much they fear her.

She initiated a brilliant flanking manuever against the left, the DNC, and the MSM (and throw the RINOs in there for good measure) that has them all in a frenzy wondering what her next move will be and how it will be perceived...and has them frothing at the mouth in their efforts to discredit her.

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 disaster 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.

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[McGruff]

They keep poking this pit-bull in the eye and it’s gonna bite them in the *** one day.

[Tublecane]

“Seemingly relentless string of...”

...unfounded professional and uncalled for personal attacks from news outlets such as ourselves.

[Darkwolf377]

It is remarkable how the MSM are so concerned with Palin. I’ve never seen this close examination of a politician’s exit without being associated with a scandal. Of course, that’s the reason for the examination—to create the aura that she is resigning under a “cloud” of some kind. Never mind that there isn’t a scandal, the MSM will add the effects that come with one and hope it just creates “questions.”

[LiberConservative]

"Make a long-term schedule and stick to it, have staff members set aside ample and inviolable family time to replenish your spirits, and build a coherent home-state agenda that creates jobs and ensures re-election."

This says nothing about how to respond to the endless, frivolous ethics "charges". Clueless. Utterly clueless.

[muawiyah]

I noted on another thread this morning that the NYT appeared to have had reporters on the ground (from New York, Anchorage and Wasilla) since last Fall, and continually right on through to recent weeks.

They were there, in Wasilla, the night arsonists tried to burn down a church Governor Palin had attended.

Now when you get right down to it and you find a Pentecostal type church getting burned, you look for people who hate Holy Rollers, and there's no group in America more down on Holy Rollers than the people at the New York Times ~ or if you insist ~ or the Washington Post.

I think a smart ATF agent could easily connect 2 and 2 to find some possible "witnesses" to interrogate.

[Congressman Billybob]

The people at the NY Times are dumb as a hoe handle on real subjects in the real world, beyond the Hudson River. The do not understand the reality of Sarah Palin, or of the people who understand and like her. It seems like the "advice" they say she rejected must have come from people like them.

Schmucks on board a sinking, journalistic ship.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "A Map-Based Answer to the Palin Question"

[Nachoman]

For being a future non-entity, the left sure is giving her a lot of attention.

[toddausauras]

Man, how long is this attack going to keep up? If she lays low for awhile will it even help? Part of me is positive it that has to backfire but there’s that other part of me that says they’re going to destroy her. Makes me want to punch out the nearest reporter.

[Brystel]

That’s not a very flattering picture of your beloved Sarah.

[Lazamataz]

That's not a very flattering comment for a n00b.

Heads up, AM.

[Sarah Barracuda]

They will NEVER leave her alone, they are TERRIFIED she will run for President and WIN, if they were not afraid of that, they would have left her alone a long time ago. Either they are afraid she will run for President or they are afraid she will advance Conservatism giving the Republicans a chance to take back the House or Senate in 2010. They see how strong Sarah is, they see that she has a huge following. If Conservatism is advanced, well guess what, the libs LOSE. Tell me, how many vice presidential candidates, who didn’t win, get THIS much coverage 8 freakin months after an election. She can’t burp without the media asking how big it was. The media is STILL asking “How come she resigned?” Good Lord, what the hell has happened to the education system in this country, these so called geniuses in the press and in politics don’t understand how come she resigned..my 8 year old cousin understood perfectly.

[supremedoctrine]

The great thing about all these snarky hit-pieces, which come from so many different sources, yet are so predictable, it that WITHOUT EXCEPTION they just make Sarah Palin that much more popular with growing numbers of people. If she wants it, she WILL be the Republican nominee, and I for one hope the Left continues the attacks because that will be their (self-induced ) undoing.
I would LOVE to see them at their tipping point, somewhere in the near future, and watch them as they realize they have brought about their own nervous breakdown and the dissolution of the Democratic Party for the rest of the 21st Century.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The official, the association’s executive director, Nick Ayers, arrived with a memorandum containing firm counsel, according to several people who know its details: Make a long-term schedule and stick to it, have staff members set aside ample and inviolable family time to replenish your spirits, and build a coherent home-state agenda that creates jobs and ensures re-election.

Translation: "Allow the hard left to continue bankrupting you, one bogus ethics charge at a time; and don't even think about trying to keep the GOP out of Mitt's diseased RINO paws in 2012, you... you... you filthy conservative, you!"

KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle's memorandum to the GOP: "Eat it. Raw."

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[truthandlife]

They are scared to death of Palin...

[King Moonracer]

Nothing better to do but shill for the NY Times. You probably plagiarized that too.

[Jeff Head]

It's not of Sarah...hehehe...it's of a Kodiak Bear.

But, to be fair, and to give you insight into my meaning...the quality of turning and very strongly defending her young and her territory against usurpers is a quality that they share.

Thanks for the opportunity to clarify.