Saying Goodbye to Palin
Peggy Noonan on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin:

"She went on the trail a sensation but demonstrated in the ensuing months that she was not ready to go national and in fact never would be. She was hungry, loved politics, had charm and energy, loved walking onto the stage, waving and doing the stump speech. All good. But she was not thoughtful. She was a gifted retail politician who displayed the disadvantages of being born into a point of view (in her case a form of conservatism; elsewhere and in other circumstances, it could have been a form of liberalism) and swallowing it whole: She never learned how the other sides think, or why."

"In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough."

*** It should be noted that Peggy Noonan is a well known CONSERVATIVE columnist. ***

The full column is here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124716984620819351.html

Not all of us on the right are tremendously fond of her, and out of the group of us that aren't, there are a number of different reasons. My hope is that this resignation stunt will put to rest any idea of her running for higher office. I did try to give her the benefit of the doubt for quite a while, and although I agree with the principles of the ideology she espouses, she has made it increasingly difficult over the course of the last ten months for me (and several other conservatives I know personally) to like or support her.

McCain isn't endorsing her for President.


Palin says she's not leaving politics

AP Sun Jul 12, 3:26 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she's not only staying involved in national politics, but she plans to jump back into the national scrum when she leaves office at the end of the month.

The former Republican vice presidential nominee said she plans to write a book, campaign for political candidates from coast to coast — even Democrats who share her views on limited government, national defense and energy independence — and build a right-of-center coalition.

"I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation," she said during an interview published Sunday in The Washington Times.

Palin shocked critics and allies alike when she announced on July 3 that she would leave the governor's office while in the middle of her first term. The governor chose not to seek re-election and suggested it was unfair to hold onto the office as a lame duck. Instead, she will step down July 26 and pursue a national profile. She has not said whether she is building toward a presidential campaign for 2012.

Republican Women Federated of Simi Valley announced Palin was scheduled to speak to the group's private gala on Aug. 8 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. The event — reporters will not be allowed to attend — will take place in an airplane hangar that houses a retired presidential aircraft Air Force One and will stir more questions about he curious resignation.

Palin defended the decision because "pragmatically, Alaska would be better off" if her state weren't spending time on ethical complaints against her. She also said the plan to resign had been in the works for months.

Her 2008 running mate disputed suggestions the telegenic and plainspoken soon-to-be-former-official was a quitter.

"Oh, I don't think she quit," said Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 who plucked Palin out of near-obscurity and made her a household name. "I think she changed her priorities."

For now, though, Palin isn't detailing those priorities.

"I'm not ruling out anything. It is the way I have lived my life from the youngest age," she said in the Washington Times interview. "Let me peek out there and see if there's an open door somewhere. And if there's even a little crack of light, I'll hope to plow through it."

The self-described hockey mom plans to write a memoir but declined to discuss any potential deal for her to become a television commentator.

"I can't talk about any of those things while I'm still governor," she said.

Yet she's already reminding audiences of her bipartisan and family-oriented appeal.

"People are so tired of the partisan stuff even my own son is not a Republican," Palin said.

Like his father, 20-year-old Track Palin is registered as "nonpartisan" in Alaska, she said.

McCain said he believes Palin will play a major role in politics, telling NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that "she has the ability to ignite our party and to galvanize us and get us going again and give us a strong positive message."

That said, McCain declined to endorse a Palin for President campaign.

"We've got a lot of good, strong, young, attractive, articulate spokespersons for our party and our principles," McCain said, citing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Personally I think its time for a woman to take command! Us men have done nothing butt f.....things up for to long!!

BUTT!!!!!!!!!!! Not Sara or Hillary!!!!!!

The extra T is for Sara has a nice azzz but no brains!!!!

nanana hey hey good bye.

Don't go away mad, just go away already...

She's never going to go away.

she's like static cling

an interview with Samantha Bee, the "Daily Show"'s senior Alaska correspondent, Jon Stewart got repeatedly shot down in his attempts to qualify what Sarah Palin did last week as "quitting." "That is such an in the box elitist way of framing it...leave her family alone they're off limits! What is wrong with you," Bee shouted. When Stewart tried another route, things really got heated...

BEE: She's a point guard dishing the ball for an open shot.
STEWART: That's one play, a point guard then has to defend and play the rest of the game. It's like leaving half way through the third quarter!

BEE: Yeah, maybe in Harvard main stream basketball.

STEWART: No, that's the rules of basketball.

BEE: Not maverick basketball.

STEWART: There's no such thing as maverick basketball. You're either playing basketball or you're not playing basketball.


Bee then went on to explain that she's not only stepping down as governor of Alaska, but as mother to her five children, handing the reins over to "some other lady."

watch at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/half-baked-alaska-samanth_n_231330.html

I highly doubt that would happen. Plus, she should have never stepped down is she was heading for the white house!

MoveOn.org has a new television ad featuring the now former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin that focuses on the Republican Party's opposition to green jobs. The 30-second spot, entitled "New Face," comes not long after Palin attacked Obama's energy bill in an Op-ed in the Washington Post.

Watch it here. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/moveonorg-releases-ad-abo_n_245784.html

You are asking the wrong questions... Or expecting the wrong answers.

Why are 'conservative' columnists dissin her.

Cause she won't play ball by Conservative rules... (one example... She FIRMLY believes in life... Yet AGREES that people have choice...)

Why else do you think they were fightin throught the campaign... Because SHE would not back away from her values...

Perhaps there is more to this 'ditzy' woman than you think.

Sarah Palin needs to retire and maybe raise her kids. How she ever became a candidate for vice president is beyond me. She has become and embrassment to the U.S., her state, the Republican party and maybe her own family.....very sad.

Palin 2012

There's nothing intelligent about being stubborn

There is something quite intelligent bout sticking to your values... Even when all around you want you to.

Oh yeah...

Before anyone does the see russia thing.

I can see Russia from my front porch... I have a mind. I know where russia is and my mind is the actuall guide for my eyes.

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Share Print CommentsSarah Palin crowed Friday over news that the Senate Finance Committee will leave end-of-life care out of its health care legislation.

"I join millions of Americans in expressing appreciation for the Senate Finance Committee's decision to remove the provision in the pending health care bill that authorizes end-of-life consultations (Section 1233 of HR 3200)," she wrote on her Facebook page. "It's gratifying that the voice of the people is getting through to Congress."

But the former governor of Alaska isn't satisfied. "That provision was not the only disturbing detail in this legislation; it was just one of the more obvious ones," she wrote. Palin went on to claim that health care reform will inevitably lead to single-payer, which will mean rationing. nationalized health care inevitably leads to rationing. There is simply no way to cover everyone and hold down the costs at the same time.

Of course, health care is already rationed. Even the head of Medicare under President Bush said: "Just because there isn't some government agency specifically telling you which treatments you can have based on cost-effectiveness, that doesn't mean you aren't getting some treatments."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/sarah-palin-claims-victor_n_259792.html

Palin is an idiot. If she were to ever be our president, I will know for sure that our educational system has failed us.

The removed the provision to shut down the Grassley lies, because he made a huge fool of himself, and he is a Key republican in the health care reform. Though I am not sure about that today.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As for Sahra...

As Alaska governor, she signed a proclamation making April 16, 2008, Healthcare Decision Day with the goal to have health care professionals and others participate in a statewide effort to provide clear and consistent information about advance directives.

The proclamation noted that only about 20 percent of Alaskans, and 50 percent of severely or terminally ill patients, have an advance directive. "It is likely that a significant reason for these low percentages is that there is both a lack of knowledge and considerable confusion in the public about advance directives," it said.

Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Republican who co-sponsored a similar measure in the Senate, said it was "nuts" to claim the bill encourages euthanasia.

And Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., who authored the provision on end-of-life counseling, said he is astounded that Palin has not tempered her bleak descriptions of the health care bill.

"It's deliberate at this point," Blumenauer said. "If she wasn't deliberately lying at the beginning, she is deliberately allowing a terrible falsehood to be spread with her name."

He said the measure would block funds for counseling that presents suicide or assisted suicide as an option, calling references to death panels or euthanasia "mind-numbing."