Wow. Quitting is the brave determined thing to do, but staying the course is the cop out? Wow.

If it were to be medical, the issue would have to be her personally. I believe with all my heart that if someone else in her family (no matter how close) were suffering from a major-league illness, she'd just use it somehow to elicit sympathy and advance her own future.

I'm probably completely wrong about this, but if she were thinking of running for President, what does she gain by staying in office as Alaska governor? Perhaps a better claim to minimal competence, but she was never going to win that vote anyway.

I suspect that the issue is her own mental health. It's been staring us in the face for some time: she is one sick woman.

This smells more like Ensign than Sanford-- maybe Brad Hanson's ex-wife threatened to go public.

And for the Republican Dead Pool I vote for Rick Perry. No, I don't know why.

Rumor from Alaska (Dennis Zaki -- you can find the link, I'm sure) is that there is an indictment coming that would force her out of office.

I trust that Mark Sanford has sent the not-quite-former governor of Alaska a very large box of chocolates.

Somebody should set up a pool...

For my part, I'm betting on a stint with faux news and the talk show circuit building up to 2012.

well, you don't do a surprise announcement of your resignation on a Friday afternoon before the start of the July Fourth weekend unless you're trying to get out of Dodge as fast as possible.

So that when the other show drops -- indictment, scandal, etc. -- she'll be long gone and in position to claim total innocence while blaming her successor and/or political enemies.

This is beginning to feel like lemmings diving off the cliff. Mass political suicide.

Wasn't MacArthur who said that. It was a Marine General whose name that I cannot recall.

Rumor in Alaska is BIG IRS Problems.

It's no mystery -- she just couldn't stand the heat. "Governing" was too hard, and she didn't feel like doing it anymore. Why operate with the anchor of a job around your neck, with people expecting things of you and all, when you can just drop everything and get the attention you seek anyway? Now she can just blather on with her platitudes without having anything (like an administration) on which to be evaluated or judged. She's simply a full-time talking mouthpiece.

Strange, Palin equating *staying* Governor with being a "quitter." Well, I heard there's an interesting claim made at Firedoglake, check this:

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/6105

"Here's a quote I got from law enforcement here in Alaska yesterday afternoon regarding Palin "a criminal indictment is pending authorization."

is trig w's boy?
mittens'?

does todd go both ways?

inquiring minds, uh, would just as soon sarah go off stage right, quietly... and forever...

My first instinct is to think an uber-wealthy ultra-conservative will bankroll a talk show for her -- and that she needs some other transition reason and time before launching that to avoid looking like a quitter. But it also seems quite possible that she is about to be caught in some very serious legal problem. At some point it almost sounded like she was announcing that she is joining the military. Can't wait to see what enfolds...she is nothing if not entertaining (like a train wreck).

Pure fantasy:

She's going to run for President
of Honduras
and then, invited in by Limbaugh,
invade the US:

http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/672198221/m/3310015722001

Legal troubles. Wonder why they would end though, with a resignation?

Someone wants her to step down, and will not pursue indictments if she does. So look at who benefits.

Can the lieutenant governor pardon her once he is governor?

Nothing I know about Sarah Palin leads me to believe that she would give up power voluntarily, let alone for something that is such a long shot, and in such a transparently self-destructive way.

Yes, but, you see, she doesn't know it's self-destructive. She thinks it's a clever and high-minded way out of being the lightning rod for everything going on in Alaska.

That's a damn good link demoraptor...

It doesn't jibe with gorging on power (as evinced by the many mini-scandals associated with her Governorship, "Troopergate" being only the most prominent), and it also doesn't jibe with the speculations about setting herself up even better for 2012 by freeing herself of her day job, getting herself into the headlines, etc. It's too loopy, too sudden: it says "unstable," which is not what anyone -- even the renowned Base -- wants in a president.

Also, as observed, even though she DID knock Michael Jackson out of the headlines for the better part of a day so far, it's still take-out-the-trash day in the news business. This wasn't planned as a PR coup. Even many of the normally well-informed people I've talked with today hadn't heard of it.

So I'm with the "other shoe" crowd. My bets:

1. She had an abortion sometime back, and the records finally have leaked, either because of some other medical issue emerging or just because they have.

2. There's some abuse of state power even bigger than "Troopergate," in which she played either one or the only major part, and it's about to break.

But even if those are both way off, I'll stand by the underlying bet, which is that she's toast. A year from now, people will recall her name only as that slightly nutty ex-Gov of Alaska who ran with old what's-his-name against Obama.

I'm also taking bets on who the next imploding Republican Presidential hopeful will be. -- Hilzoy

Doesn't matter; Obama -- or rather his African family -- will destroy them all, via a voodoo curse. Consider:

First, there was Jindal, a skillful exorcist himself and what happened? He went up to rebut Obama's inaugural address like a supernova... and came down sputtering like a spent firecracker. Has anyone heard anything about Jindal recently? He's as good as dead, politically.

Then, there was Ensign. He's so dead, I cannot even remember what his sin was.

Then, Sanford. He put up a good fight, inserting himself in the news daily for the past couple of weeks, with ever fresh revelations... and what happens? Obama's voodoo kills Michael Jackson and all Sanford's cake is dough again; nobody's paying him any attention anymore.

And now, Palin... She had her own Kenyan voodoo master lay hands on her to protect her but, obviously, his voodoo wasn't strong enough; another flame-out is all we can expect from her now.

Don't tell me that all of those events are the natural outcome of personal character flaws, a la Greek tragedy. Don't tell me, 'cause I'll never believe it.

Wait - I get it now. "Sarah Barracuda" is really a man. They finally found out. It would be OK with Democrats, but the hard religious right can't handle and accept this. How do I know? Well, a certain tom-boy toughness, something about the garish dark eye shadow, the square jaw. Look, I went out as Sarah for Halloween, like lots of smartass guys. I didn't look all that bad - if I can do it, then so can "she"? Remember that smirky look on McCain's face when he presented "her" to the nation? He knew. You see, Republicans are really very weird. We've had the gay cruisers, the trysters, the ones with bizarre conspiracy beliefs etc. This latest is just par for the course.

Come on "Sarah", come to our side where you can be accepted at least for what you are, even if your opinions need some work.

I really like where the Republican party is right now. They seem to have passed through the "all-out screeching hate" stage of grief, and moved on to the "ecstatically flinging aside all of your public responsibilities before the media" stage. Next they'll be holding press conferences beatifically in the nude, serenely discussing the transience of existence, and their decision to retire Taos so as to experience their beadwork more fully.

That link from demoraptor above,

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/6105

includes this gem,

Wednesday, the state began releasing figures that indicated the majority of expenses borne by the state, involving so-called "ethics complaints' involving Palin, have resulted from a complaint Palin had filed against herself. . .

Huh?

Like I said, she thinks she's clever!

Chuck Todd on NBC said that now Palin is free to make a bundle - from book sales, talk shows, radio shows, etc. I think the family was seriously in debt, so voila! quit as guv and grab the bucks.

Ugh. It's insane and disgusting that people like Limpballs are paid millions for spewing crap. And Palin will, too, presumably.

I'm thinking "governing" is hard work now that she's held accountable.

I think - book deal and her own show on Fox. She can make a lot more and have more power than as president - look at Rush ($400 mil), O'Reilly ($millions/year), Beck ($millions/year) - ALL CRAZY and are quoted about every day in the political realm. Gingrich, Romney, Guiliani, Huckabee - all wanting a piece of their fame for having no governing responsibility.

Also, I'm sure the family will move to LA or East Coast and could possibly have reality show.

Up to his neck in Palin rumors...

You got to wonder what Sully is up to right now. He has been mum for hours now with that esoteric German quote up there about being mum...

Meanwhile it looks like Marshall's gang is working hardest on this. The Palin thing has actually knocked him into Huffington Post-look-a-like-land. I took a snap to preserve Josh's jump-the-shark moment.

Hey, but who can blame him? This is the:
Best. Fourth of July Present. Ever.

These are rare times my friends. You can live a lifetime and not see a party of malevolent fools self-destruct like this. Celebrate!

So will Mark Sanford buy into the Palin rationale and quit the governorship of South Carolina, and maybe his marriage, because it's the brave, determined thing to do?

How about it, guv? Senator Ensign?? Care to "advance in another direction?" Remember, only dead fish go with the flow!

Watch the video with the sound down and carefully observe her facial expressions. This is not the speech of someone going on to national politics. This is the speech of someone poorly trying to mask their terror at what's coming down the pike.

After seeing Palin's news conference today and trying to figure out several of her talking points, I can only hope this puts an end to all the criticism Obama is getting from the right wingnuts for his use of teleprompters. There really is an obvious reason that Reagan, Papa Bush, etc., used them. The irony is that Dubya also used teleprompters and STILL couldn't string together a coherent sentence.

From "The Brad Blog":

"Okay, I’ve now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be 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. Both structures, it is said, feature the 'same windows, same wood, same products.' Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources."

(Emphasis added.)

tick, tick, tick...

I love the "I can't figure out what she said" mantra being parroted by so many. Humans understood what she said; try being one.

The attacks upon Palin's family has been the effective weapon of the politically connected left which will now be used against every politician from this day forward. It doesn't matter who gets destroyed just win baby, win!

Justify it however you want but if your family is not in the correct circles of the left this same kind of treatment will be used against them as well.

You better make sure you have a seat when the music stops because they need a new target.

I was already going to say that Neil B's comment on the real reason for Palin's latest act (all of them, really: a Grand Unified Theory of Palin) wins not just the thread, but the day.
But then I noticed the time-stamp!
It's not a blog comment... It is the new revelation!
All hail Neil B

Attacks against her family? There would never have been any 'attacks' if she didn't use them first as props and then as shields. If she hadn't dragged them into the spotlight, then nobody would be talking about them now.

Palin likes to play the victim, the poor little girl from Wasilla who the big jealous bullies are picking on. Now, she's blaming the media for all her self-inflicted troubles, and that will fly until the real reason comes out, and it will, and probably sooner than later.

tehee - I heard what she said loud and clear. She alluded to needing to step down, pass the ball, whatever several times in order to avoid wasting time and taxpayer money, in one case adding "just so I can continue being called the governor." (Paraphrase - it's impossible to transcribe anything Palin says verbatim.) She made multiple references to "this political climate" or "political bloodsport" and similar "people have been so unfair to me" comments, which are the equivalent of the "and I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for you meddling kids!" moment at the end of every episode of Scooby Doo. She made a point, several times, to portray herself as a martyr, doing what she was doing for the good of Alaska, and even at one point trying to play the "if you criticize me you must hate the troops" card with that rambling discourse about how the troops are the most important thing and how could anyone waste time on paying attention to/commenting on anything Sarah Palin may have been doing?

There is something huge about to come down on her. We've all seen enough to Palin to recognize how she talks when she's being evasive or trying to avoid telling the whole story. That vibe was the strongest thing running through that whole statement.

But sure, tehee, she's stepping down because photoshops of Trigg as BatBoy are so materially damaging to Alaska and Alaskans and would waste everyone's time and money. Also.

The Curious Lies of Palin #1001

That "stepping down" will stop the ethics investigations and somehow save the state of Alaska money.

WTF?

The law doesn't work that way.
You'd think even her logically-lobotomized supporters would see through that one...

Obviously Trig is Mark Sanford's love child.

"Three minutes left on the clock...

"...the Barracuda driving for the basket!

"She's only got Barry to beat!

"Ohhh! he strips her of the ball goes the length of the court! Shazzammm!

"Back at the other end of the court Palin has pulled up lame! and is headed to the locker room...

...

The report on Palin... the team physician says it'a a torn Achilles..

"Season and maybe career over for Palin!

"I don't know about you, Marv, but I think she'll make a great Second Grade soccer coach."

But really, if she were focusing her attention on running for president (a notion that still makes my head spin and stomach turn) wouldn't she say so? Wouldn't she make herself look as good as possible? She's a shameless self promoter, and her incoherent blather just doesn't add up.

I think her kids are going bonkers and she is in deep family damage control mode. I also think the Fox idea is good because their standards of integrity are even lower than the party's.

Ezra has some good Palin posts.
Love this insight:

The main thing I'd point out about Sarah Palin's dazzlingly incoherent farewell is that it's pretty clear she wrote it herself. The proof is in the punctuation. The transcript was posted to her official Web site earlier today. The style is closer to a high schooler's angry diary entry than to an official speech. I've read a lot of speech transcripts. They tend to have fewer words in all capital letters. And fewer things in quotation marks that aren't actually, you know, quotes. And I've never seen an official speech transcript, written by an actual speechwriter, that contains this:

*((Gotta put First Things First))*

And that's not even getting into the self-pitying shots at the press...

Link:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/

Thanks re "revelation", and BTW I really did enjoy doing "Sarah" last Halloween (but don't ask me if I "got off on it", pls ....)

I find the reports of indictments etc. interesting, but the motivation for thus quitting is fuzzy. Others said, it doesn't help her to quit in advance of such pressures - but maybe someone told her she had to? If you get any scoops make sure to needle Drudge's input box as much as possible.

Teehee, apparently serious and not a paratroll: Are you aware of the ragging on Chelsea, in fact Democrats/liberals in general for years. We and even Obama himself have been called not real Americans, mentally ill, fifth columnists, terrorist sympathizers, socialists, enemies of God, etc. by people who are considered "leaders" of the conservative movement - not just comedians and the like.

And Sarah and her kids brought that upon themselves, it's not like some ACORN agent drugged Bristol with GHB and got her pregnant. Palin herself had real issues, really worth looking into. Now you're going to follow that idiotic Rush (the king of poop)/savage wiener line, that we made them do it! Them, the "party of responsibility" and true followers of the true God?

OK so Sully has a wire up his ass and keeps talking about her, but he did about Hillary too and he's not even really one of us - he's a neo-neo-quasi-paleo conservative that few can figure out anymore.

Fuck off, jerk.

Yeah, you, tehee - sorry I didn't get your handle right ;-0

Shoot.

I was really hoping that she was gonna be the Republican nominee in 2012.

advancing in another direction ... either Smith or Puller spinning the 1950 Chosin reservoir retreat.

She's routed, in full retreat. It's over.

Actually, she did give her reason for resigning. She said that because she'd decided not to run for a second term, she had to resign right now. She explained her reasoning thus: having said she wouldn't run, she'd henceforth be a lame duck. And many lame-duck governors just goof off and collect a paycheck even though you're not getting any serious work done. So in order to avoid spending her time goofing off and not getting any serious work done she had to resign right now.

It's a perfectly good explanation. If you're insane.

To Calling All Toasters:

"And for the Republican Dead Pool I vote for Rick Perry."

From your mouth to God's ears!

First of all I do not want my star point guard passing the ball in the middle of the third quarter and then taking themself out of the rest of the game.

Next, would a criminal indictment establish enough bona fides with fox news to make Sarah a commentator or does she need to be convicted first?

Have you checked out Mudflats?

Here on the far left coast, I finally got to watch the video after work. All her talk was about how the political environment in Alaska changed after her nomination for VP, because meanies from outside started saying bad things about her and other bad people filed ethics complaints against her. Sounds like she's preparing her base for bad news.

I sure hope that everyone has watched the complete unexpurgated version of Palin's press conference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1tnUvtjaaY

I had seen several minute long clips but they are from the second half. It's the first several minutes where she really builds up a head of steam on her way to nutville.

Srsly, if you haven't seen the first minutes, go watch it. Make the people you know who think Palin's perfectly fine watch it too.

Palin is one disturbed person.

Oh, well, she just believes she is "Marianne" in Delacriox's Liberty Leading the People.

Just a note on the "MacArthur" quote. Looks like it is actually from General Oliver P. Smith: ""We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!" Apparently he was being attacked by a few thousand Koreans and he had only 70 men.

Or maybe the Koreans were making fun of his kids. Also.

(h/t to Balloon Juice/comments/Cad)

Nothing I know about Sarah Palin leads me to believe that she would give up power voluntarily, let alone for something that is such a long shot, and in such a transparently self-destructive way.

From the Vanity Fair article: "her appointment as chair (and ethics supervisor) of the state’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which oversees drilling and production; and her resignation from that post, charging that a fellow commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, the chair of the Alaska Republican Party, was conducting political business on state time."

There were rumors that the real reason she stepped down from the Commission is because she was tired of doing the work and wanted to move on. Which she did, up the ladder to being Governor. She's pulled this shit before, successfully. And I really do think she's narcissistic enough to pull it again, especially since there is alot of money available to her from public speaking fees in the next year that she wouldn't have time for as Governor of Alaska.

> This smells more like Ensign than
> Sanford-- maybe Brad Hanson's ex-wife
> threatened to go public.

More along the lines of Spiro T. Agnew methinks.

Cranky

I agree with Hilzoy completely that Palin would not give up power easily and also with Flubber at 9:07p. By quitting, she comitted political suicide. You have to listen to her spokesperson's interview with Anderson Cooper on his 360 show. She sounds as delusional as Palin and used an incoherent basketball analogy that has to be heard to believe. You got the gov in love who won't resign and a gov who quits without notice. Interesting to see what happens next.

Don't kid yourselves. She's running for President. Starting today. She's resigning the governorship because Alaska is a shitty place to run a national campaign from. At this point her ambitions require that she move to the lower 48. The closer to Washington, the better.

Good old Republican Up-Is-Downism at its absolute finest. Persevering is for quitters! Quitting is persevering!

Da wha?

I'm going with impending indictments. It's the safe bet.

She took one look at the full court press, threw the ball in the stands and stomped off the court.

E L,

"Oh, well, she just believes she is 'Marianne' in Delacriox's Liberty Leading the People."

She's more like Marianne from Gilligan's Island.

Last year when oil was $150/barrel her Republican legislature sent her billions in new projects to blow it all on. She approved most of them but instead of using the windfall that didn't really materialize as much as they all thought it would she issued bonds and gave Alaskans their $1500 tax rebate instead. Now Alaska is up to it's ass in debt, can't count on federal pork dollars with Ted Stevens gone and there's no guarantee they're ever gonna be able to pay off all those boondoggles. No wonder the Lt. Gov. was crying today. She left him holding the bag.

Ezra Klein hit the nail on the head when he said this about the speech:

"All of which suggests that today's speech wasn't the carefully vetted product of the team quietly masterminding her presidential run."

Reminds me of the day when McCain suspended his campaign. There were folks then who called that a brilliant plan. I'd bet Bill Kristol was one of them.

This is some serious implosion we are witnessing.

Blink...

Just to think outside of the box, I would like to register a bet on First Dude Todd Palin. It has been known that he has been quite involved (unofficially) in official state dealings.

What if he had arranged things to make money (kickbacks, embezzlement, or something) unbeknownst to the office of the Governor.

So which celebrity do the republicans kill this week to try to kick this off the front page?

Ricky Perry for the republican dead pool. I would rather have Ahnuld. I think we could also see the maybe gay Charlie Crist but then Crist isn't scared of the scarey black muslim man. There's also the Vermont and Connecticut governators. Now that Hayley Barbour's been going around tooting his horn for 2012, it'll probably end up being Hayley.

There is this very suggestive still captured from her press conferenc footage, but I sure right wing science experts may try to explain it as an effect of climate.

You and the rest of the GOP white wing can kiss my liberal ass, teehee. And if you don't like it, take your pity party someplace else.

She's not a point guard passing ball, she's the head coach; and she just walked off the court in the middle of the 4th quarter, leaving a bewildered team standing with mouths agape.

You forgot the best part of her quote: "Only dead fish go with the flow."

Todd needs an intervention.

There was no sadness or grief in her countenance during that press conference. Just pure, visceral panic. It's not a health issue, with her or any member of her family.She's about to get a federal indictment, I'm a sure of it.

I'm betting that Sarah & Gov. Whats-his-name Sanford from S.C. were boinking each other at National Governors Meetings, and someone's about to spill their guts in a public forum.

And for those talking about the money she may be pursuing outside: there is the book deal that was barking in the night. That little bit of puffery was designed to let her live comfortably on the work of a "co-writer" and the mysterious pre-pulping-sales of the right wing. No, she is about to be consumed by scandal. That house they built on Lake Louise is far more expensive than she should have been able to afford as a minor mayor. I am rooting for a video tape with her deriding her base as she snorted coke and quoted Castro, but she isn't that interesting. No--it is probably money or more unprotected sex. I hope to God she remains only the stuff of obscure PhDs 30-years hence.

koreyel: These are rare times my friends. You can live a lifetime and not see a party of malevolent fools self-destruct like this. Celebrate!

I prefer two strong parties, but it looks like we have two weak parties. I can't say I "Celebrate", but I certainly watch in fascination, almost like watching one of those "Friday the 13th" or "Halloween" movies where somebody gets slashed every 15 minutes or so. Or as the producer said in "Wag the Dog": "What can [they] do to top this?"

Maybe the Republicans could all be quiet for a full week?

Despite her having played basketball, my analogy was to a rookie baseball player brought up to the major leagues to a contending team near the end of the season. Sure, the record is OK so far, with a couple of real successes, but can she hit major league pitching? Well, the answer is: No, she can not. Then, when the umpire calls a curve ball a strike when it is just low and outside, she complains -- so that's the only pitch she ever sees again (kind of like the Lee Marvin character in "Ship of Fools", but I base it on a story told by Tom Seaver about Rusty Staub.) OK, so it's "unfair", but there's always some unfairness: once The Press knows your weakness, they never let up. Surmounting that is part of the challenge.

Her political career is over.

Indictments? If I may quote MatthewRQuarreler again: Let's see what develops. All we have now are rumors, and the Friday pm date and time. It's not looking good.

Or, it's looking delicious!

Who quits a job while claiming that it would be "apathetic" to stay and do the job that they were elected to do?!?! Even by Palin standards her presser was incomprehensible and incoherent.

She really is a bizarre one. She was either forced out or was offered some kind of big money deal on Fox or talk radio that she just couldn't pass up or wait for.

The whole thing is fishier than all of the fish in Alaska. I think she has decided that she can probably make a heckuva lot more money in the right-wing hate machine than being governor. She might have presidential aspirations, however, I think she probably thinks that job doesn't pay enough either and she'd have to work too damn hard. I think she realizes she's much more powerful as a player, not as POTUS.

I'm sure she figures if Rush can make $50 mil a year then she can too. Any pending indictments will only be used to further her career as a victim of the evil leftwing media/governemnt.

Maybe she's been hiking on the Appalachian Trail?

Monkey Boy: is that for real? Which daughter is that? How does this woman allow her children to be placed in such obviously compromising positions?

Palin's remarks are a text-book example of what happens when someone can't explain themselves.

She has a secret she cannot tell, so instead of telling, she babbles on about the *effects* of that secret. Since we don't know what the secret is, the babbling about its effects makes no sense.

This is the problem with lying, and worse, believing your own lies. You end up sounding like a blithering idiot when nailed down to explaining what you're doing, and why.

She's a clown...a dangerous clown with some basic political cunning--and enormous ambitions--who got lucky in a backlash-election. But she's still a clown.

and now it appears that she probably got caught with her hand in some kind of cookie jar. Be interesting how she deals with it. We'll see a full-tilt-boogie "I'm a victim" hissy fit, most likely, once the shit hits the fan.

Whoa, now we don't have to discuss health care or the climate at our Independence party.

I'm going for the federal indictment over construction contracts, but my wife really likes Monkeyboy's photo of another pregnant daughter.

(I'm writing with one hand because I broke my arm laughing at the barracuda's speech. What a great Fourth!)

Good god, I hope for that little girls sake that she is not pregnant. That picture is of the youngest daughter, the one that is eight or nine at the most. In that picture she has no secondary sex characteristics such as breast development. If she is pregnant, it is because a family member has molested her...like that nine-year-old girl in Brazil last spring.

I detest Sarah Palin with every fiber of my being and I want her to suffer humiliation and scorn. But not like this, not fucking up the life of a child forevermore. Not even one that swam out of that shallow gene pool.

I also liked the quote from General MacArthur: "We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction."

That's not from General MacArthur. It was said by Cololnel "Chesty" Puller, USMC, during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, and it accurately described how they were getting out of the worst disaster in American military history (since they were completely surrounded, any movement was an "advance").

She's more like Marianne from Gilligan's Island.
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Mary Ann was smart, though, and polite, and kind, and cute.

My unfounded speculation? She's gotten an offer from Fox to host a show...

Blue Girl, I agree with you. Why has this possibility gone unnoticed by almost everyone here? I have mentioned it several times with no comment. The chatters on this thread seem unwilling to even address this. She never came clean on Trig and now we have this child showing some signs that are very disturbing. Why is she even on the platform with mom and dad? She is not involved in the decision to step down; why is she at the announcement? These people have no shame or common decency. Leave the children at home and let the adults act as such.

Blessings on the 4th of July.

I am committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation
peace,
st john

I suspect there's a simple reason for Palin's resignation. She took 5 years, and 6 colleges, to get an undergraduate degree -- finally! -- in sports journalism. She is filled with anger, makes enemies easily, and is thoroughly accustomed to moving on as the tensions mount. It would be more surprising if she were able to finish a four-year governorship. As she gets older, it may not be so easy for her doctors to keep those meds adjusted.

That "MacArthur" quote was actually made by Marine Gen O.P. Smith, one of the great unsung heroes in US History. It was an accurate portrayal of what the Marines were going through as they broke out of an encirclement of about 8:1 Chinese:American troops. They didn't retreat but "fought in a different direction" as they began their fighting withdrawal top the sea, 70 miles away

I posted the picture of the 'pregnant' 8 year old piper as a joke. Thus my 'climate' aside.

If you watch the video you can see that the wind is blowing her dress around and some wise-ass screen-captured a frame when the front was ballooning out.

It was a bad analogy about the 'point' guard. She said " A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... " Actuallyl, a good POINT guard keeps his/her eye on the rest of his/her teammates, in order to see who is open in order to make a pass. A SHOOTING guard would keep his/her eye on the basket, as would a poor POIINT guard. Maybe she wasn't such a hot basketball player.

For Sarah Palin so loves Alaska that she's sacrificing her valuable TITLE.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/sarahs-sacrifice/

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