As an independent voter that voted for the first time last election, i would vote communist before voting for her.
It appears that this move might be in response to a potential federal indictment. There is speculation that the Palin home was build as a favor for awarding a contract to build a sports complex in Wasilla. It appears that the person she gave the no-bid contract to built her house for free...honesty, integrity, and good old conservative values at work. Here is part of the blog report I read. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7280
Who was making fun of Trig? Can't be David Letterman, he made fun of the 14 year old. btw, that was a pretty odd speech.. It was like listening to an 8 year old tell a story.
I just thank god every day that we have such glorious leadership coming out of both parties Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, DUBYA, Obama and Palin. No wonder people love Obama he hasn't had the time, or in Palin's case the talent, to horrify people as much as those other guys did. I'm sorry but that list reads like a who's who of overspending, constitution shredding, corrupt, crony appointing, dissent suppressing megalomaniacs. It's just sad really. I love this country so much and I meet talented and bright people all the time but our system is far in the hands of the few (various elite in this country and outside it) that we will never see decent representation of what most Americans want: A government that stays out of our business and personal lives, provides a few critical services, a strong but not insane spending defense department, low taxes, some corporate regulation to prevent ecological disaster or human rights violations but not ridiculous over the top regulation either, and of course a strong adherence to our civil rights. Instead we get virtually the opposite across the board. Most people just want to live their lives and not be taxed and fee'd to death while having their privacy invaded. Government must protect citizens from encroachment on civil and human rights of the individual, whether that encroachment is by corporations, other domestic groups or foreign powers. Other then that Government should be small and virtually unnoticeable. If the government just took care of a few modest services and the protection of our rights the free market could take care of the rest. The problem today is that regulation of business is not primarily used to prevent abuse of civil rights, human rights or environmental destruction but rather regulation is used to help maintain the status quo of a few dominant big business in a sector crushing small and mid sized business with regulation by their politically connected allies. So more regulation isn't good necessarily, on the other hand no regulation would turn this country into a toxic wasteland nigh immediately with virtual or real slavery (see Kellog Brow and Root contracting illegal immigrants to rebuild after Katrina then not paying them and sicking INS on them). So what regulation needs to do is to make sure products are safe, and civil and human rights are met and the environment is protected enough that we can breathe the air, drink the water and not see salmon etc. Wiped out. It is perfectly possible to change our economy to one that is still incredibly productive but also reasonable towards people and the environment. Some regulation is necessary but not much. Some government is necessary but not much. "The government that governs least, governs best." A truism but one you can only take so far. No government of course leads to Anarchy which starts out ok but usually turns into a warlord situation quickly. Safety, Civil and human rights and reasonable environmental protection. The free market should take care of the rest. The last thing is we at some point will have to figure out how to make a contracting economy work. We cannot expand forever and have infinite offspring. At some point we need to figure out some way of getting people to have less children. I plan on stopping at 2. We need more incentives for people, especially poor people, to have less children. Our current system rewards additional children (more food stamps, health care and tax breaks) which made sense 50 years ago when we wanted someone to pay for Social Security and soak up the inflation. The reality is we're pretty much over carrying capacity for humans on this planet. This is the 8,000lb elephant in the corner no one wants to talk about. We must talk about it honestly in society or else the extremists will take over the dialogue and that way Eugenics lies... (Commence partisan posturing "But Clinton wasn't nearly as bad as Bush...or Reagan was an amazing president blah blah blah") P.S. lets use the oil we have to make wind, tidal, geo-thermal and solar power generators. If we also redo our electric infrastructure with a more efficient one we can look at quite a bit of energy savings.
She was having a hard time as gov. I have serious doubts she will run for presient. No offense to her, but she's worse than Dan Quayle.
This was an interesting article written about her in the past week or two, in Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908
I'm surprised no one has realized the true meaning of this announcement: Sarah Palin is now a free agent. A pass-first point guard - isn't that what we've been waiting for? And she's available, and she's certainly cheap. I know some will question her basketball IQ, but come on KP, get 'er done! Lineup: Palin Roy Batum Aldridge Oden barfo
Good stuff, thanks. One of my great regrets in life - I drove through Wasilla about two weeks before Palin was selected as VP candidate. Had I imagined what was coming, I would have taken a much more careful look around. barfo
You are right that you are wrong (how cool is that?). Palin did not put the Lt. Gov. in charge during the campaign. barfo
It is an interesting article, but overall I think Palin's best atribute to her party is to simply keep the staunch republicans enthused. IMHO, she is nowhere near presidential timber.
Are people buying down jackets in hell? This is the second time in two days I have agreed with Shooter. It does make her look flaky. In a normal job we are supposed to give 2 weeks notice, some require 4 weeks. Her lieutenant governor learned of her resignation 2 days in advance. The election is 3 1/2 years away. Had she resigned in January 2012 saying the people of Alaska deserve a full time governor instead of a full time campaigner that would be one thing but what does she plan to do for 3 1/2 years? Fire up her base? How long can they stay fired up? Moreover, that alienates the rest of the country - do people remember the rallies last fall, where, when Palin mentioned Obama, there were cries of "terrorist!", "Traitor!" and even "Kill him!"? I thought of Nixon. He lost he presidency and got trounced in the governor's race. He stayed out of the limelight, quietly doing favors for whatever Republican needed one and built up enough IOU's to be nominated for President in 1968. But I can hardly see Palin working quietly in the background. That is not her metier at all. She could use the time to try to broaden her appeal, but I find it hard to see her doing that, she's been all about whipping up the troops. Unfortunately, women are still less likely to be taken seriously. A woman is sex object, servant, joke or invisible. A woman with a thin resume who walked away from a job on 2 days notice is not making it easy on herself if she wants to run for president. Obama was able to overcome relative youth and inexperience due to an academic record that convinced many his learning curve would be short, a cosmopolitan background that gave him wide appeal - I think he won about every demograhic except white Southerners - and a feeling of deep dissatisfaction that made a new face more appealing than greater age and experience. And yes, he is male and yes, that still gives an advantage - what a man does is taken seriously because he's a man. In 2012 Palin will no longer be a new face, and as for background, she's basically a popular small town "girl" with neither a distinguished academic nor career record. I'm not trying to debate the current president, just point out the difference between Obama and Palin's appeal.
A pass-first point guard - isn't that what we've been waiting for? And she's available, and she's certainly cheap. I know some will question her basketball IQ, but come on KP, get 'er done![/quote] A pass-first PG who tries to drive through a full-court press? Something is wrong here.
She can't complete anything. Jumped around from school to school, job to job, couldn't get through one term as governor. Even at that she spent half her time as gov chasing the vice presidency.
The fact that anyone would consider her qualified to lead this country makes me sick. I doubt she could handle running a Pizza Hut. I read comments by people on this website and others that are vastly superior to anything that flake said while on the campaign trail. One day I hope to be able to turn on the television and wonder what ever happened to that Sarah Palin broad. I am scared she will still be around when the country realizes what Obama has done to us, I would hate for her to be the one to try and fix this mess. If we are going to pick our leaders by looks, we should find a woman who looks like Jacqueline Bisset did in the Steve McQueen movie Bullitt.
You almost described my girlfriend in college. An invisible sex servant. Sorry, go about your posting.
That is what we want women to be and until they can force us to stop being that way they are SOL. Did Hitler stop killing Jews because he figured out that it was wrong? NOPE, somebody had to stop him. Way of the world. (I bet this one doesn't go over well) haha
