That's great. Fine. She should run for president. Or not. Terrific. Whatever. Sounds good. Either way - don't care. What I _do_ care about it is that the media should stop wasting our frickin' time and bandwidth and airtime with her passive campaign advertising. Okay? Just stop. Nobody cares. We're not interested in this unbelievable foolishness. Changing the campaign "rulebook"? Sure, whatever. Y eesh, you guys are so transparent and afraid of missing out on your little slice of that Palin pie. Come on.
I hope she runs just to put a final blow to her political wannabee career.
she could not take the heat in Alaska and quit! She may energize the base but is way wrong for the leadership position. If she attempts to run and eventually looses as she will then perhaps she will DodSled back to Alaska and fade away.
Those who think she has something relevant to offer only kling to a glimmer of what might have been Had McCain been able to shake her pitiful performance off last cycle.
McCain still does not realize that it was his poor judgement in choosing her and the lackluster run he made and decision process which cost him. To bad for him.
I think she'll run and she'll do much better than you think! She said long ago that if she decides to run she'll be in the race to win. She won't run a half-hearted race. She'll go after Obama and won't be shy. She won't hold back. He'll know he's in a race when she joins!
I agree jcrobinsonjr......she definitely lost the election for McCain...that is crystal clear. Hopefully she will run, and will certainly lose, then will perhaps finally get the message that she should stick to selling books and reality shows.
Okey-dokey. We'll start digging out our "Where's Sarah?" buttons. I can't wait! The seat of national government will be in Wasilla, Alaska - whoo hoo! I'm stoked! If she was cranky about having to be in Juneau for the Legislative Session, how do you think she'll feel about commuting to D.C.? You really think if she couldn't deal with Juneau, she's gonna wanna hang in D.C. for Senate meetings? During the school year? She still has three to graduate out of Wasilla High, you know. It would hardly be fair to expect them to change schools. And she is the backbone of the PTA for her kids, as well as all the sports teams they play on, you know. Wasilla's gettin' a new airport, woot woot! Big enough for Air Force One. You don't expect her to do that office in Anchorage thing again, do you? Now that would be a shameless unnecessary misuse of government money when she has a perfectly good studio right at home, from which she can broadcast to the American people She really _will_ get to do REAL presidential stuff like pardon turkeys and do meet-and-greets and wear ball gowns and tiaras for state dinners and have Pentagon Prayer Breakfasts. Yay! Her kids will participate in every foreign policy meeting with everybody and travel at taxpayer expense everywhere she goes, but that's okay, because just like in Alaska, we all knew before we voted that _she's a mom_ and if we ask her to do this job, then her kids come first. Todd will have a desk in the Oval Office and pre-screen everything, meet with the Cabinet to direct which thing they can talk to her about. Chuck and Sally will move into the West Wing to help out with the kids and offer advice and support to Sarah. And we will be _grateful_ for that family team spirit between them that allows the American people to have the benefit of Todd Palin and Chuck Heath's expertise and wisdom. And we all know that it's much cheaper and shorter to fly to Europe over the poles. So it's win-win. And isn't it time for that Vice President placeholder to earn his keep?! What exactly has he been doing for the past 250 years, anyway? He can handle all that messy stuff back in Washington and Todd will text him orders at least once a day. Okay! Let's do this!
CBS - Why are you bothering this clown? She is unelectable, unqualified and basically an opportunist out to make money. Please try to focus on actual candidates.
Palin and Bachmann are good friends, it is also possible that Palin will run one the same ticket as Bachmann as her VP.
Noow their's something to think about!
All you socialist and racist progressives who have nothing to do but bash conservative women should get a clue, they are not going away. Sarah proved smarter, and more savy than you could have ever dreamed in spite of you.
I would LOVE to see a female president; HOWEVER, neither Bachmann or Palin would be good for the majority of this country. Why would I want to vote for just ANY female when they do not hold the qualifications? Both of these women have proven over and over again that they are much too radical and polarizing, are too uninformed on issues so important to this nation, and are quite frankly whackadoodles.
1VADude is absolutely right! I think in the coming months both Palin and Bachmann are going to prove to the world just how WRONG people have been about them! People consider them, especially Palin, to be idiots, but that's NOT the case! I think in the next few days Palin will announce her candidacy and she will go against Obama and people are going to very surprised. She will do much better than most people think! I think the same thing about Michele Bachmann. I think either one of them will do very well in the debates against Obama even though he is known to be a great speaker.
Zenia: I too would love to see a female President. If either party could field a candidate as smart and capable as Nellie Tayloe Ross was, she'd have my vote in a heartbeat. Palin and Bachmann are an embarassment to women with their stupidity and self serving agendas.
@JV1970....now, please tell us, how could we be WRONG about these two bimbos when they have both shown the entire world how incompetent and irrational they are? These aren't just "rumors" JV, they have actually proven it beyond any doubt....you are just too blindly obsessed to see it.
@Lindag.....I know...I've read a lot about Nellie Tayloe Ross. She was one smart cookie. I'm still amazed at her accomplishments in the early 1920's as a woman. Remarkable.
I agree that Bachmann and Palin are such an embarrassment to women everywhere. They would set us back about 100 years if in power.
Maybe she will run as an independent. That might be a lot of fun. She is so funny about Rove's comments. I guess the problem is she wants to fun to continue and he is basically calling her bluff. She has to declare or decline Sept 3. But she wants to keep the bluff going and now he is spoiling her fun. Personally, I don't see how she can run. She is just having fun at America's expense and to her great financial benefit.
Palin left school at 24 years old she fell pregnant and eloped she ran for city councillor when she was 27 Interestingly Palin was, er, 27 before she applied for her first sport hunting and fishing permit. So if she did engage in either of these activities prior to her council run, she was doing so illegally or, as I suspect, she had ZERO interest or involvement before the political ambition.
Why do I suspect this? Because she did get commercial fishing permits. Ah but wait! Of the mere ten permits she's pulled over 22 years, without exception they have been BB30s, required for those going aboard who are not commercial fishing entry permit holders. IE this is Todd's business not hers. Todd's business, purchased as a going concern from his grandfather, has always had an accountant. What's Palin doing exactly?
Funny how her friends at the time remember Palin as being an average young mom in their circle of friends taking her babies to the park for picnic lunches with the other moms all afternoon Funny how it was, in fact, her step aerobic class that she campaigned to sign her petition to run for councillor.
I called it when she was explaining her resignation on that fishing boat and when she was hunting caribou on her reality show. She does not regularly commercial fish or hunt. It's blinking OBVIOUS
Sorry to burst your bubble guys. She's exactly what she looks like a prissy madam obsessed with her looks.But more pertinently Palin has no private sector career stellar or otherwise. Nada. None. Her career has been entirely on the public sector gravy train. public sector pension public sector healthcare public sector benefits, shoot, she was even a union member.
Nice information. I've never been all that interested in Sarah once I saw through her. I have seen a number of comments by hunters who actually watched some of her Alaska series about how INEPT and obviously inexperienced she was with guns and finding her way in the wilderness. I'm sure her supporters will come rushing to her defense. It's the same act she put on in Iowa where she crashed the real candidates party and then claimed she was going to enjoy "fried butter". I'm sure she NEVER ate any of the stuff (can't say as I blame her as I can't think of anything more nasty) but once again it was just "show".
Nope, you're right. Her credential is 'Mom'. She's never had a real job. They had to INVENT and HIRE a deputy to do the mayor's job in Wasilla. She served a figurehead spokesperson role. Kind of similar to Miss Wasilla for the city, really. By the way, she's never had a commercial fishing permit. Just crewmember licenses.
Explain to me why is it that some posters raison d'etre is to say "Nah nah nee nah nah!! My team won. I see very few treatises on Palin's policy history and why she possesses the necessary qualities for POTUS under these particular economic circumstances. What she uniquely brings to the table in in terms of creating jobs based on her directly stated policy.
It's going to be absolutely WONDERFUL when you Palin hating liberals see that all of your hateful remarks and lies and stupid jokes were a waste of time and all for nothing! I AM GOING TO LOVE IT! And I'm NOT going to let you live it down or hear the last of it either!
JV, please tell us what you are going to do when:
1) She doesn't even run.
2) She runs and doesn't even get the nomination.
3) She gets the nomination (tee-hee) and loses by a landslide.
USA_is_back I meant what I said! I'm going to be just as nasty to you as you are to me! You show me no mercy and beginning on election night next year I'm going to return the favor!
zenia5 First what are you going to do when she DOES run? Then what are you going to do if she gets the nomination? After that what are you going to do when she WINS by a landslide? I know what I'm going to do after I get over my laughing fit and pick myself up from the floor where I've fallen because I fell off my chair from laughing so hard at you! I'm going to be typing I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO! I - TOLD - YOU - SO!!!!!!
Sarah Palin is, or is not, many things. It really does not matter where she stands relative to your views, as everyone has a subjective opinion.
What she does not appear to have, is dignity. She has not shown the capacity to cast the nation in a dignified light in the view of the rest of the world, and that is fatal in my view.
Good observation. She's society's nightmare, poor white trash with money. Having money doesn't automatically endow a person with class and the social graces needed to acquit themselves well in a public position.
I can hardly wait until election night next year! These comment boards are going to be absolutely jammed with tantrum throwing two year olds crying about the fact that Republicans will be back in control. They'll be having absolute fits because they didn't get their way! I'll be having a fit too but it will be a laughing fit!
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What I _do_ care about it is that the media should stop wasting our frickin' time and bandwidth and airtime with her passive campaign advertising. Okay?
Just stop. Nobody cares. We're not interested in this unbelievable foolishness.
Changing the campaign "rulebook"? Sure, whatever. Y
eesh, you guys are so transparent and afraid of missing out on your little slice of that Palin pie. Come on.
she could not take the heat in Alaska and quit! She may energize the base but is way wrong for the leadership position. If she attempts to run and eventually looses as she will then perhaps she will DodSled back to Alaska and fade away.
Those who think she has something relevant to offer only kling to a glimmer of what might have been Had McCain been able to shake her pitiful performance off last cycle.
McCain still does not realize that it was his poor judgement in choosing her and the lackluster run he made and decision process which cost him. To bad for him.
I can't wait! The seat of national government will be in Wasilla, Alaska - whoo hoo! I'm stoked! If she was cranky about having to be in Juneau for the Legislative Session, how do you think she'll feel about commuting to D.C.? You really think if she couldn't deal with Juneau, she's gonna wanna hang in D.C. for Senate meetings? During the school year? She still has three to graduate out of Wasilla High, you know. It would hardly be fair to expect them to change schools. And she is the backbone of the PTA for her kids, as well as all the sports teams they play on, you know.
Wasilla's gettin' a new airport, woot woot! Big enough for Air Force One. You don't expect her to do that office in Anchorage thing again, do you? Now that would be a shameless unnecessary misuse of government money when she has a perfectly good studio right at home, from which she can broadcast to the American people
She really _will_ get to do REAL presidential stuff like pardon turkeys and do meet-and-greets and wear ball gowns and tiaras for state dinners and have Pentagon Prayer Breakfasts. Yay!
Her kids will participate in every foreign policy meeting with everybody and travel at taxpayer expense everywhere she goes, but that's okay, because just like in Alaska, we all knew before we voted that _she's a mom_ and if we ask her to do this job, then her kids come first. Todd will have a desk in the Oval Office and pre-screen everything, meet with the Cabinet to direct which thing they can talk to her about. Chuck and Sally will move into the West Wing to help out with the kids and offer advice and support to Sarah. And we will be _grateful_ for that family team spirit between them that allows the American people to have the benefit of Todd Palin and Chuck Heath's expertise and wisdom.
And we all know that it's much cheaper and shorter to fly to Europe over the poles. So it's win-win.
And isn't it time for that Vice President placeholder to earn his keep?! What exactly has he been doing for the past 250 years, anyway? He can handle all that messy stuff back in Washington and Todd will text him orders at least once a day.
Okay! Let's do this!
Noow their's something to think about!
All you socialist and racist progressives who have nothing to do but bash conservative women should get a clue, they are not going away. Sarah proved smarter, and more savy than you could have ever dreamed in spite of you.
I agree that Bachmann and Palin are such an embarrassment to women everywhere. They would set us back about 100 years if in power.
Interestingly Palin was, er, 27 before she applied for her first sport hunting and fishing permit. So if she did engage in either of these activities prior to her council run, she was doing so illegally or, as I suspect, she had ZERO interest or involvement before the political ambition.
Why do I suspect this? Because she did get commercial fishing permits. Ah but wait! Of the mere ten permits she's pulled over 22 years, without exception they have been BB30s, required for those going aboard who are not commercial fishing entry permit holders. IE this is Todd's business not hers. Todd's business, purchased as a going concern from his grandfather, has always had an accountant. What's Palin doing exactly?
Funny how her friends at the time remember Palin as being an average young mom in their circle of friends taking her babies to the park for picnic lunches with the other moms all afternoon Funny how it was, in fact, her step aerobic class that she campaigned to sign her petition to run for councillor.
I called it when she was explaining her resignation on that fishing boat and when she was hunting caribou on her reality show. She does not regularly commercial fish or hunt. It's blinking OBVIOUS
Sorry to burst your bubble guys. She's exactly what she looks like a prissy madam obsessed with her looks.But more pertinently Palin has no private sector career stellar or otherwise. Nada. None. Her career has been entirely on the public sector gravy train. public sector pension public sector healthcare public sector benefits, shoot, she was even a union member.
By the way, she's never had a commercial fishing permit. Just crewmember licenses.
1) She doesn't even run.
2) She runs and doesn't even get the nomination.
3) She gets the nomination (tee-hee) and loses by a landslide.
What she does not appear to have, is dignity. She has not shown the capacity to cast the nation in a dignified light in the view of the rest of the world, and that is fatal in my view.