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Palin to make announcement from Wasilla at 3 [will not seek re-election]
Politico ^ | July 3, 2009 | Ben Smith

Posted on 07/03/2009 11:40:27 AM PDT by Al B.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will make what her office is only calling an "announcement" at 11 AM local (3 Eastern) from her home in Wasilla.

Speculation is raging both in Alaska and in the Lower 48 that she'll reveal her plans regarding next year's gubernatorial race.

So much for today being a slow news day.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: palin
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To: dfwgator

I think she’ll take Krauthammer’s advice and get educated on foreign policy, do a lot of traveling, make speeches, etc...just like RWR did after his term as gov of California.


41 posted on 07/03/2009 12:14:55 PM PDT by clintonh8r (General James Mattoon Scott: Where are you now that we need you?!)
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To: Liberty Valance
Time to get the POTUS primary shoes on for running!


42 posted on 07/03/2009 12:15:40 PM PDT by lewisglad
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To: dfwgator

There is no senate seat she can run for. Begich isn’t up until 2014.

I don’t see how she can win the presidency absent a huge shift in public perceptions about her.


43 posted on 07/03/2009 12:15:43 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: newfreep

You do know that Chris Wallace is Mike Wallace’s son, right?


44 posted on 07/03/2009 12:15:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Al B.

I bet she is getting out of politics altogether. The left has smeared her and her family for so long and so hard that I think she has had it. I hope I am wrong, but I bet that is it.


45 posted on 07/03/2009 12:16:01 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

Unfortunately, the timing indicates you could be right.


46 posted on 07/03/2009 12:17:01 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: calex59

It would be very discouraging if she caved in the the bullies.


47 posted on 07/03/2009 12:17:11 PM PDT by clintonh8r (General James Mattoon Scott: Where are you now that we need you?!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, of course. No surprise the elitist attitude doesn’t fall far from the tree.


48 posted on 07/03/2009 12:17:28 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: calex59

Nonsense. Why would she bother with a PAC then? She is aspiring for the highest office.


49 posted on 07/03/2009 12:17:28 PM PDT by SolidWood (Down with the islamic regime! Freedom for Iran!)
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To: newfreep
Another RINO elitist!

I would be very happily surprised if Chris Wallace was a RINO!

50 posted on 07/03/2009 12:18:16 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: clintonh8r; Kathy in Alaska
I think she’ll take Krauthammer’s advice and get educated on foreign policy, do a lot of traveling, make speeches, etc...just like RWR did after his term as gov of California.

I hope so. I'm not sure this is good news or bad news we're hearing from Alaska. I would love to see her in the White House someday soon.

51 posted on 07/03/2009 12:18:49 PM PDT by nutmeg (Sarah and Todd Palin and the Deadliest Catch captains should run this country)
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To: calex59

I wouldn’t blame her a bit if that was the case.


52 posted on 07/03/2009 12:19:01 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: dfwgator
based on just being the governor of Alaska.

Clinton managed it. And he was from Arkansas.

53 posted on 07/03/2009 12:19:01 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: SolidWood

She will need to spend the time learning a lot of things, so we don’t see any more repeats of the Couric interview. While I’m open to Palin, I am not yet a convert, we shall see.


54 posted on 07/03/2009 12:19:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lewisglad

During the election, my father had that “McCain/Palin” sticker on his golf cart. The day after the election, he took an Xacto knife and sliced off the top half. Now he drives around with just “Palin” on his cart!


55 posted on 07/03/2009 12:19:21 PM PDT by ponygirl ("Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.")
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To: clintonh8r
It would be very discouraging if she caved in the the bullies.

If her children were all grown I don't think she would cave. She doesn't want Piper and Trig infested with the BS, she is a mother first. I would bet she continues to fight the lefties but not from an(political)office of any kind.

56 posted on 07/03/2009 12:19:32 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Chet 99

That’s why she starts now. She can turn it around but she’s going to be given a harder time than any one else, as we saw during the last few months. It’s not fair, but it’s a fact. I say, get to it and more power to her.


57 posted on 07/03/2009 12:19:32 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: calex59
I bet she is getting out of politics altogether. The left has smeared her and her family for so long and so hard that I think she has had it. I hope I am wrong, but I bet that is it.

Oh man... I hope you're wrong...

58 posted on 07/03/2009 12:19:49 PM PDT by nutmeg (Sarah and Todd Palin and the Deadliest Catch captains should run this country)
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To: calex59

You mean the smears from the left AND the right!
I think she has had enough too.


59 posted on 07/03/2009 12:20:36 PM PDT by pugmama
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60 posted on 07/03/2009 12:20:59 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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