Palin 2.0 Hits The Market
(AP)
Alaska's departing governor continues to hog the political spotlight, this time with an op-ed in the Washington Post, slamming President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan.
In the Tuesday piece, titled "The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End," Palin described the administration's proposal as "an enormous threat to our economy" which "would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage."
Palin also used the Post's bully pulpit to take a dig at what she called "many in the national media" who she said "would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges."
When she announced on July 3 plans to resign her office, Palin said she intended to speak out on political issues and to campaign for Republican candidates around the nation. Indeed, a USA Today/Gallup poll released last week found that approximately 7 in 10 Republicans would be likely to vote for Palin if she ran for president. (Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post reported on Monday that Palin's political action committee has so far raised $733,000 - and that Palin's resignation had generated "a flood of donations to the PAC," according to a knowledgeable source.
However, Palin may need to publish a few more op-eds to boost her standing with the broader American electorate. A CBS News poll published late Monday found that just 23 percent of Americans held a favorable view of the former Republican vice presidential nominee. Thirty-seven percent hold an unfavorable view while another 39 percent said they were undecided about Palin.
Last week Republican ad expert, Mike Murphy, published a column in the New York Daily News in which he called Palin a "political train wreck," "an awful choice" for vice president, and her resignation an "astonishing self-immolation." Murphy said, "She's a stone-cold loser in a general election."
If so, that message hasn't got through to Palin headquarters. Her Washington Post column was the kind of hard-hitting polemic big think piece that candidates for higher office are wont to publish. To wit:
"We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama's plan will result in the latter."
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
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See all 60 CommentsYeah, that our female candidates are hot, and liberal ladies are typically a bit long in the tooth....sorry your party is fugly...don't blame us
Wow. I hope there aren't many more like you.
10. She needs time to read a few newspapers and magazines so she has an answer for Kattie C.
9. It is much more fun killing Moose and Salmon than being held accountable as Governor.
8. She wants to keep a better eye on her youngest daughter so that she does get knocked up like Bristol.
7. She has been depressed since Tina Fey canceled the SNL sketch about her
6. So she can spend more time with her hero, Rush Limbaugh, who has a blow-up doll of her.
5. For her book, she needs a little more drama in her life to substitute for the lack of intelligence, experience, or much of anything important to say.
4. She needed to resign to keep a better eye on Russia when Putin rears his head and sends those planes over Alaska.
3. She thought it would be more fun being an Ice Road Trucker.
2. She wants to have more time doing interviews with the phony fawners at Faux News.
1.It is ALL the fault of Dave Letterman and that darn ?Liberal Media Elite?, of course, for turning her into a quitter.
LOL!
If Palin went to visit Turkey, she would try to shoot it.
If she and McCain had used a teleprompter and had a better speech writer, they might have been the Prez and VP. Just because a guy can read and speak doesn't make him the right person.
There was no lesser of two evils to vote for in the last election.
WoW the new improved Sarah Palin. I hope they upgraded her RAM because Sarah Palin 1.0 was not running on all thrusters.
GM does have the "Volt" coming out soon, but I'm afraid it's too little too late and that people are wary of US brand names. Especially with new models.
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So, just out of curiosity, if you needed an operation, would your go to some "Ivy League" educated fancy shmancy "doctor", or just get Clem from the next farm to remove your appendix with a grapefruit spoon?
This remark shows how little she understands about the energy and the world today. The US has been dependent on Saudi Arabia for oils for many decades. Corporate US has outsourced jobs and manufacturing every chance it gets to save a nickle.
She's smart enough to know how ignorant she is, but she's not as smart as she thinks she is trying to hide it.
Keep the cash comin'. We need it to pay for our "free" health care system.
cs4466-Obama: compatible with Marxism.
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The more you exagerate ridiculous claims like this, the more your party is marginalized.
"He's a terrorist!" "He's going to be sworn in on a Koran!" "He hangs around with terrorists!" "He's a Communist!"
Do you really thing the AVERAGE American is buying any of this nonsense?
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YEAH, they are now.....now that they've seen him bumping fists with communist dictators, promoting socialism and marxism and doing everything to counter the foundations of this country....so yeah, they DO believe it now that they have witnessed the utter damage un-checked liberalism can have on this country
How many "Communist Dictators" are there left in the world, anyways?
I mean, besides in Korea.
Eagerly awaiting your reply!
if the spins and lies from her downward spiraling personal life dont sink her, the inescapable reality of her true intellectual limitations- combined with the inability of her inflated ego to grasp the concept that she is widely viewed as a national joke soon enough will.
actually almost starting to feel bad for the woman, ego or not, seems like shes starting to lose it and could end up in the nuthouse.
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Yes, but she won't be as attactive by then, and lets face it... that's the only reason this lady with no experience and very limited intelligence got ANY attention whatsoever.
Reagan was bad enough. In a way he started it all. Now, the public is conditioned to read a persons delivery, accent, and backbone instead of the persons words. Which in the case of Palin are vacuous. The party of smart businessmen should be ashamed of itself, and what its done to democracy, through promoting such people over actual statesmen.
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The more you exagerate ridiculous claims like this, the more your party is marginalized.
"He's a terrorist!" "He's going to be sworn in on a Koran!" "He hangs around with terrorists!" "He's a Communist!"
Do you really thing the AVERAGE American is buying any of this nonsense?
You disagree with some of his policies. Fine. Intelligently point out what they are. But keep your silly accusations to yourself or risk losing what LITTLE mainstream support the Republican party still has.
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