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Palin is a criminal. ". . . . possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin’s house and the Wasilla Sports Complex built during her tenure as Mayor." A very unethical governor, she was about to be indicted, according to RS.
Can scandal be far behind
Film at eleven
(With apologies to KMLR)
If you are making this kind of announcement in order to begin a run for the presidency, you time it for maximum impact. You announce it on a Monday or late on a Sunday to dominate the news cycles for a week. Then, it will be the topic of the next Sunday's talking head shows.
In other words, you want to milk it for all you can and get the most bang for your buck.
When you dump something late on Friday afternoon of a long holiday weekend, you want the story to die a quick death. You want it to be old news by Monday and old and tired by the following Sunday talking head shows.
And this weekend is more of a story killer than most others, since it's the beginning of summer vacation for so many people. Also, more people celebrate this holiday more intensely than anything with the exception of Thanksgiving.
So, no, this doesn't seem like something you'd do to launch your presidential bid. This has all the earmarks of trying to stuff the story.
BTW, I mean real sheep. Not like sheeple, although they were there too. :-)
We have a winner!
A new Libertarian-type, anti-government, 3rd political party is brewing and she will be their 2012 candidate.
Yes, the Republicans will be dead if this happens, but I fear a very large segment of our population would vote for her and this anti-gov't Libertarian party.
If there's no scandal breaking through, then her quitting a governorship means she already has the groundwork in place.
Good thinkin.
Keep an eye out for statements about her announcement from Ron Paul and his bots.
She needs fundraising, not one SarahPAC. Why Obama went from a one term Senator to President was how he and his team knew how to fundraise..
If there's no scandal breaking through, then her quitting a governorship means she already has the groundwork in place.
True that Friday news dumps are to minimize something, and in this case it could be to limit her "quitter" taint.
If there were a scandal looming, I think she would have alluded to it in some way, made some attempt to lessen its impact.
I'm betting she is our next Perot and her appeal will be much wider than his.
If she wanted to make a mark, run for governor in 2010 wait for 2016. Actually have bona fide press conference, and go on the Sunday News shows.
The big rumor, that is going around viral on the "internets" is IRS problems..
But if you take their wingnut base from the Republicans, what the hell will they have left?
And who cares.
Her presser is especially incoherent and breathless. Some real bad shit is comin' down, folks.
This isn't about one article pushing her over the edge. Or Steve Schmidt's carping. This reeks of PANIC.
Any chance this will displace Michael Jackson as the lead story on any of the cable channels? Nah, I doubt it. They're locked in to Michael Jackson coverage 24/7 until after the pay-per-view funeral.
No, I don't think you get elected to anything after what she did and how she did it. No speech to the legislature? A backyard impromptu announcment. Nice!
And what animals were in the background? The Wasilla goats?
Your other comment here was deleted only because it was a duplicate.
She was constantly complaining that she was too restricted by the McCain people the last time out. I can't wait to see what she will be like all on her own.
I was just going to email about this.
Good Riddance to bad rubbish.
Oh, the self-pity, the drama!
She would, of course, pick the Friday News Dump Day Before Independence Day.
Oh I forgot, this is America and we elected humpty dumpty Bush, twice. Welll, sort of, anyway.
Why President George W. Bush ran for President in 2000, not because he was qualified or he was competent, but he had a very good organization and fundraising, much of it taken from his father's operations.
Palin doesn't have any of that, it sounds like she is trying to cash in on her notoriety
Indictments coming down?
Levi spilling the beans about Trig?
Todd filing for D-I-V-O-R-C-E?
Ignorance is Strength!
(Two additional years for her followers to scream "Kill Him!")
i'll take schadenfreude for $1000, alex!
Roe v. Wade's foundation is a Right to Privacy!, so she adamantly against abortion but for something that is the cornerstone of Roe v. Wade.
She is too ignorant and stupid even for Conservatives. She may know Alaska issues well, but that is different than transmitting that to the lower 48 during Fox News Sunday.
Then again, Fox News is a form of pornography: political porn.
So I guess we are both in agreement here: she's headed for the pornography industry, most likely the political pornography industry of Fox News.
"Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can't handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down," DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.
"Either way, her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today."
Really? What alternate universe are they in? Most of the country thinks, nay, KNOWS that she's a narcissistic loonybird. Wow.
And, while it's hard to believe, there are people who are still heartbroken she didn't get elected. I am related to some of those people.
Oh, and nicho, I work with some of those same people too. They just believe she is the best thing that could happen to the country. I'm sure they are apoplectic over the thought that she's going to be out there now 24/7 'running' for 2012.
God I hope there is some huge scandal....I can't wait to watch this unfold.
I guess the presidency thing is kaput. If she can't handle 4 years of running Alaska, with its 300,000, how can she handle running the U.S, with 300,000,000 people?
The question is why?
Is Alaska about to go into default? Are the Palin's connected to Neo-Nazis in the Alaskan separatist cause? Does Palin have a latin lover? Was she tapped to give Sanford an example to follow?
I suppose I'm risking David Letterman waters here, but, I've heard people use her name and 'porn star' in the same paragraph, if not the same sentence. Maybe she found out just how much money is in that industry.
Alternatively she could be headed to Fox news, which is a form of pornography itself, that is, political pornography (in my mind - btw, I get my political porn from MSNBC).
Can't wait to find out about this skeleton.
This woman may be the worst liar I have ever seen.
Josh Marshall at TPM has her Twitter msg from earlier this afternoon: she says she will not seek a second term, but nothing about actually quitting/resigning.
It is 2009. If she runs for prez next time, the campaign generally doesn't start strongly until 2 years out -- 2011, when she gets out of office anyway.
No, there is another reason ..... I can't wait to find out WHAT.
We'll all learn that Fridays, especially before holidays, are SPECTACULAR news days in this day and age.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/07/03/whats-on-toni...
http://www.openjesus.org/2008/10-reasons-sarah-...
There's more to this story. Count on it.
Edit: Why not both? She is the type of person who would be stupid enough to fly around sleeping with people for money/air time on the Alaskan dollar.
Self meet immolation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsF2X3GZ1zU
Instead she not only said she wouldn't seek a second term, she is leaving in a matter of days. What could make her want to give up the remainder of her term?
No, it's not 2012, I think there is something much bigger coming...
She sounded like an epileptic on meth!
(with apologies to the epileptic community)
Waiting for the other shoe to drop? It did already but the press gave her a pass-- Her daughter's out of wedlock presidency and the oxymoronic Far Right defending her and seekings sympathy and understanding. Pardon me while I laugh and then puke.
''She does not have the intelligence to be a host on Fox."
Neither intelligence nor common sense have ever been prerequisites for being a host (or speaking) on Fox.
Happy 4th to you!
All you need to do are memorize RNC talking points. But a good teleprompter can help.
Palin is going to embark on the world's longest run for President and thanks to this, she will land on the front page every time she says something because she has all but announced that she will be on the ballot in three years.
I wrote an article about what I think the deal with Palin is at http://www.polwonk.com/2009/07/what-sarah-palin...
Did a Scandal Sink the U.S.S. Palin?
by Max Blumenthal
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin's snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few "buddies," according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.