July 4, 2009
There's Something About This I Just Don't Understand ...
Anderson Cooper interviewed Sarah Palin's spokesperson tonight. He asked what Sarah Palin would be doing next. Here's her answer:
"STAPLETON: OH, everything under the sun that you can possibly think of.
And what she has said and what she did say in her speech was, just alone, getting out there and working with candidates and for candidates to get the right people in office who have those same ideas and ideals, and energy independence and who will work for stronger national security and more support for..."
I see. Sarah Palin resigned as Governor so that she could help people who share her "ideas and ideals" get elected to political office. Maybe if she works really hard at it, she could even get one of them elected governor.
Oh, wait ...
—Hilzoy 2:29 AM
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A reasonable conclusion, therefore, is that Sarah Palin does not share Sarah Palin's ideas and ideals. QED.
Posted by: craigie on July 4, 2009 at 2:40 AM | PERMALINK
Sounds like something Palin herself might have said. Vague, unfocused, boring. Guess that's why she got her job as the Mouth of Palin.
Posted by: Curmudgeon on July 4, 2009 at 3:01 AM | PERMALINK
Mark my words. She is going to go on a national campaign about how the elites are trying to silence her. That is all she's got. And it will help with the legal defense fund.
Posted by: jayackroyd on July 4, 2009 at 3:07 AM | PERMALINK
"OH, everything under the sun that you can possibly think of."
Well, she reads "all of them," of course she'll do "everything."
Posted by: Jon on July 4, 2009 at 3:38 AM | PERMALINK
Ensign, Sanford, Palin: Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action!
But really, she's going to do everything you could think of? Once I had a girlfriend who was willing to try half the things we saw in "Last Tango in Paris", some of which were actually not that bad. But everything you can think of? It isn't physically possible.
Posted by: bad Jim on July 4, 2009 at 4:05 AM | PERMALINK
Curmudgeon nailed it. I thought I was reading a Palin quote. Is there something in the water up there which leads to people spouting rambling run-on sentences devoid of content? Remember Couric's questions about which magazines and newspapers she read and she replied "All of them......?"
Astounding that a woman so well read could be so clueless when it comes to actual facts, issues and policies.
Posted by: dweb on July 4, 2009 at 5:01 AM | PERMALINK
Get out there and spread that quitter philosophy, Sarah. The GOP needs your courage and insight.
Posted by: JPS on July 4, 2009 at 5:34 AM | PERMALINK
The woman is astonishingly stupid AND dumb.
American Idol writ large. . .
Posted by: DAY on July 4, 2009 at 5:49 AM | PERMALINK
Sarah's not reversing. She's de-forwarding in a counter direction.
Posted by: JPS on July 4, 2009 at 6:02 AM | PERMALINK
You want to see barracudas, watch all the serious female politicians and commentators start denouncing Sarah Palin, oh, around 6am Monday morning. They will distance themselves from her faster than you can say "Baked Alaska."
Posted by: pj in jesusland on July 4, 2009 at 6:36 AM | PERMALINK
You're gonna owe me a new keyboard if I can't get the coffee out of this one JPS. But thank you for what has to be the best laugh I'll have all day.
Now, I'm off to Politico to see how this is good for Republicans.
Posted by: azportsider on July 4, 2009 at 6:57 AM | PERMALINK
JPS - and a second thanks from me. It bears repeating:
Get out there and spread that quitter philosophy, Sarah. The GOP needs your courage and insight.
and there was a lot of competition for best line these last 16 hours.
Posted by: Danp on July 4, 2009 at 7:11 AM | PERMALINK
So we have one governor, Sarah Palin, who resigns without giving us a logical reason, and another, Mark Sanford, who refuses to resign while giving us, endlessly, a compelling reason for his resignation. Maybe Mr. Sanford should have gone to Alaska instead of Argentina.
homer www.altara.blogspot.com
Posted by: altara on July 4, 2009 at 7:27 AM | PERMALINK
What has happened to our beloved Sarah, the ferocious, moose-killing hockey mom, that she would fold up shop yet declare it a both victory of her leadership and the result of her victimization? And here I thought Republicans loathe when people, like say, minorities, claim victim status. How I miss the old Sarah of "Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie."
Posted by: Norwood Woman on July 4, 2009 at 7:38 AM | PERMALINK
Anyone heard from McCain lately?
Posted by: JS on July 4, 2009 at 7:44 AM | PERMALINK
I think she's accepted as job as co-host with Glenn Beck.
Posted by: mark on July 4, 2009 at 7:48 AM | PERMALINK
Such an easy target now has been removed. Who will we blame next? How will the comedians survive since all of the politicians are now left leaning and unable to be made fun of? I think comedians need a stimulus package.
I also think it is time to start attacking the families of everyone in politics. Somebody's gotta keep them on their toes and making them tougher.
Posted by: tehee on July 4, 2009 at 7:48 AM | PERMALINK
Her political model is Nixon. She gives the "you won't have me to kick around anymore" speech, then goes out and makes a lot of money, writes a book, works for the party faithful, and debuts a "new" version for candidacy at a later date.
Posted by: Tom on July 4, 2009 at 7:59 AM | PERMALINK
If the rumors of an embezzlement indictment are true, I wouldn't expect her to get rich. Like Madonna, she's all about image, and that image is angry populism. This indictment could turn her into Milli Vanilli.
Posted by: Danp on July 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM | PERMALINK
if only a famous celebrity would die unexpectedly and knock her off the radar!
Posted by: effluviantone on July 4, 2009 at 9:02 AM | PERMALINK
Leave Sarah ALONE!!!!!! :o
Posted by: MissMudd on July 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM | PERMALINK
What makes you so damn sure it wasn't the RNC that kidnapped her and stood up Tina Fay in her place? It was obvious her approval with the wing nuts was going to cause the party serious issues down the road. Maybe this gambit was to make her appear totally round the bend.
Posted by: Chopin on July 4, 2009 at 10:13 AM | PERMALINK
Its the Republican version of voluntary term limits - you resign before your term ends, and then devote your time to getting people just like you elected.
Before long you have so many people just like you quitting and working to get others just like them into office that in ten years it will be impossible for anyone who is not like these people elected anywhere in the country, from the sheer force of how many elect-helpers are out there working to elect candidates just like they had been.
Posted by: stvwlf on July 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM | PERMALINK
At least we now know who wrote the speech.
Posted by: Bob Johnson on July 4, 2009 at 10:53 AM | PERMALINK
Well, I was wrong. Female politicians aren't waiting until 6 am Monday to criticize Palin's decision. From Saturday's wires:
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — daughter of Frank Murkowski, who was defeated by Sarah Palin in the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary — released a statement Friday after the governor announced her decision to leave office by the end of the month. Full text:
“I am deeply disappointed that the Governor has decided to abandon the State and her constituents before her term has concluded.”
Posted by: pj in jesusland on July 4, 2009 at 11:46 AM | PERMALINK
What do you know? Birds of a feather do flock together! Amateur human being Sarah Trainwreck's spokesperson is as inarticulate and ignorant as she is.
Posted by: TCinLA on July 4, 2009 at 11:55 AM | PERMALINK
Remember that old song: "How You Gonna Keep'em Down On The Farm, After They've Seen Paree"? Nuff said!
Since being nominated as McCain's VP candidate, I'm sure her ego has taken over and she sees herself as being ABOVE the job of being a mere Governor now. Trouble is, in making this decision to quit 30 months in, she isn't helping herself shed the perception that she's a lightweight. It will probably hurt her in her future political quests.
Posted by: mrspeel on July 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM | PERMALINK
"OH, everything under the sun that you can possibly think of."
The first thing I thought of was fluffer in a Tijuana donkey show, but I'm afraid she'd get fired after all the donkey's dicks rotted off.
Posted by: Kevin Carson on July 5, 2009 at 2:38 AM | PERMALINK
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Posted by: Jrnmsjsw on July 13, 2009 at 6:50 PM | PERMALINK