WTF: Sarah Palin resigns as Governor of Alaska
Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, says she won't run for her seat again and not only that, she's stepping down at the end of July. Her press conference isn't yet over, but it's all over CNN and MSNBC. Here is what MSNBC has.
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July 3, 2009 |
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Posted by: Mike Grigsby | Jul 3, 2009 12:57:57 PM
Methinks the woman has some skeletons in the closet that are about to pop out. Maybe footage of Todd calling for Alaskan secession.
Posted by: Murphy | Jul 3, 2009 1:08:50 PM
She probably has some fancy pageant walkin' to practice -- and playing Governor was taking up too much time.
Posted by: Mike Grigsby | Jul 3, 2009 1:09:23 PM
Maybe a tryst with Ann Coultergeist?
Posted by: Scott Jorgensen | Jul 3, 2009 1:16:33 PM
Gee, perhaps spending a year being demonized in the mainstream press would make someone want to run away from the spotlight screaming. After all, she and her family have been treated with so much dignity this whole time...
Posted by: delosangeles | Jul 3, 2009 1:18:16 PM
Maybe she's going on conservative radio with her own Sarah Palin show. I honestly don't think she's intelligent enough to be president someday...no, seriously.
Posted by: mp97303 | Jul 3, 2009 1:26:59 PM
@scott
It really is amazing at how distorted your view of things get when you live your life looking at the world through partisan glasses.
Take them off and see the world as it really is. Oh yeah, turn off Fox News. It's rotting your brain.
Posted by: Nick Wirth | Jul 3, 2009 1:30:31 PM
She's running for President. Now she can write her book and go on the speaking circuit like Newt is doing.
Posted by: Boats | Jul 3, 2009 1:44:46 PM
If Biden was put in place to become CINC following an unfortunate arugula choking tragedy, Bubbles the chimp must also be smart enough to be president.
If the bar was low for Junior, it was slammed to the floor with Biden's nomination as VP.
Posted by: carly | Jul 3, 2009 2:02:38 PM
Another nail in the GOP coffin if she is the 2012 nominee. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?p=2048
Posted by: Joe | Jul 3, 2009 2:02:56 PM
NEW YORK — Jack Nicholson said Wednesday that he "warned" Gov. Sarah Palin.
The 72-year-old Oscar winner was dining at the Wolseley restaurant in London when a photographer told him about Palin's resignation.
After saying, "That's awful," Jack added “I warned her," but refused to elaborate.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 3, 2009 2:02:56 PM
NEW YORK — Jack Nicholson said Wednesday that he "warned" Gov. Sarah Palin.
The 72-year-old Oscar winner was dining at the Wolseley restaurant in London when a photographer told him about Palin's resignation.
After saying, "That's awful," Jack added “I warned her," but refused to elaborate.
Posted by: Lee Coleman | Jul 3, 2009 2:21:04 PM
This is pest control at its finest. Palin is a conniving, self-centered, empty-headed, know-nothing, selfish, self-destructing, corrupt politician. One can only hope that the rumored "iceberg scandal" will drive a nail through the heart of her incipient campaign for any other position -- although the spectacle of her running for president would certainly be fun to watch.
Posted by: Kristin | Jul 3, 2009 2:21:11 PM
"Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History."
-John McCain
Posted by: Roy McAvoy | Jul 3, 2009 2:21:18 PM
I hope to heck she is not preparing her bid for the Presidency. It's not that I wouldn't mind a woman leading the country. but I definitely don't want one who has a belief in God, strong family values, and a strong desire to see the U.S. prosper.
Especially disturbing is that she seems to not hate men.
Posted by: rick g | Jul 3, 2009 2:22:36 PM
It is remarkable that one of the biggest aspects to the 2008 election was the discussion of the qualification of Sarah Palin to be VP. Yet at the end of the day we ended up with the biggest buffoon on the planet as VP. Go figure.
“Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the No. 1 job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S.” - Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States.
Posted by: coolhandluke2 | Jul 3, 2009 2:24:39 PM
You know she is working something on the side. Everyone has a side gig for more cash. I teach during the day and make money on my site www.slickbudget.com and teach others to do the same there. Check it out...she probably did LOL!
Posted by: Admiral Naismith | Jul 3, 2009 2:28:10 PM
I'm assuming someone in the press has found out about her Argentine lover.
Too bad. As a partisan Democrat, I believe the Disasta from Alaska has been one of the best gifts to my political party since J. Danforth Quayle.
"If Biden was put in place to become CINC following an unfortunate arugula choking tragedy, Bubbles the chimp must also be smart enough to be president.
If the bar was low for Junior, it was slammed to the floor with Biden's nomination as VP."
OK Boats, I'll bite. How does a 35-year US Senator with experience chairing three committees lower the experience bar for serving as VP? I've heard people complain that OBAMA didn't have enough experience for the job, but not Biden. He's one of the most seasoned politicians in DC.
Posted by: trock | Jul 3, 2009 2:28:39 PM
@mp97303
You are a hypocrite, and it is amazing how distorted your view of things get when you live your life looking at the world through partisan glasses. How could you honestly say she was treated fairly by the media?...and the sad part, there are people like you all over the country.
Posted by: sl7892 | Jul 3, 2009 2:47:44 PM
"It is remarkable that one of the biggest aspects to the 2008 election was the discussion of the qualification of Sarah Palin to be VP. Yet at the end of the day we ended up with the biggest buffoon on the planet as VP. Go figure."
Are you freakin' serious? Palin is probably the reason Obama is president right now.
"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads.
"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." --Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional.
"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council.
Posted by: Jeff Alworth | Jul 3, 2009 2:52:19 PM
What the hell??
I'll confess that my first emotional reaction was disappointment--there has rarely been an easier target in the GOP than Sarah Palin, and losing her as a governor will take some of the punch out of that.
But I'd be willing to bet my last two bucks that there's a bomshell--corruption, scandal, something--already aloft and ready to explode. Stay tuned...
Posted by: Bill McDonald | Jul 3, 2009 2:54:32 PM
When the Republican Party made Sarah Palin the VP nominee, I was deeply concerned. Could this really be the difference? Was there enough time to see through her before this swung the election to McCain?
It's easy to forget now, but those were some scary days. If the Republicans retained the White House after the 8 years Bush and Cheney gave us, America seemed doomed.
I do not brag about my colleagues in the comedy community often, but I thought we came through big for America during this critical stretch.
Tina Fey deserves a statue for what she did, but there were dozens of joke writers out there fighting through the spin to reveal how ridiculous
and cynical this choice was.
I, myself, contributed with Sarah Palin jokes on national TV during the campaign, and I'm proud of that. Very proud. I saw Sarah as a disaster in the making, especially if anything happened to McCain. I saw her as mean, ambitious, and idiotic. I also saw her as unreliable.
Today feels like vindication on the unreliable part.
I've got to go watch FOX news now. I love watching FOX news on days like this.
Happy 4th of July, everyone!
Posted by: Union Rebel Girl | Jul 3, 2009 2:54:33 PM
In my best SNL David Spade impersonation let me be the first to say, "Buh-Bye!"
Posted by: genop | Jul 3, 2009 2:57:22 PM
She's just thinking of others, that's why she abandoned her leadership role in Alaska to focus on her book, fundraising on the lecture circuit, and building bona fides for a 2012 run. Oh yeah and it's for the family.
Posted by: mamabigdog | Jul 3, 2009 2:58:21 PM
Two things:
1) There's going to be a release of emails between Palin and RW radio blowhard Eddie Burke coming out soon. That might serve up a healthy portion of "OMG, she did WHAT?", but if she thinks no one will care now, she's wrong.
2) Sarah has always wanted to be rich and famous. She's gotten the famous part down pat, but staying in office restricts her ability to milk this cow for all it's worth. I predict a TV gig on Fox, plus heavy circulation on the speech and fundraising circuits. She'll "write" a few books, and it will all be worth a fortune. No one will be able to complain about her travel, her shopping or her partisan stance since she won't be in public office ever again. She wants to be free of all that, and now she will. Sarah will never run for public office again, but that doesn't mean she's no longer a player.
Posted by: FactBot4000 | Jul 3, 2009 3:01:13 PM
Roy... To paraphrase your comments:
I definitely don't want one who has a belief in God,
I just don't want someone whose belief in God overshadows their God-given capacity for understanding and critically analyzing their world. I want someone with a belief in God that endows them with sufficient faith to use the brain God gave them.
strong family values,
So do family values now include using "marriage" as a political token, to pressure young people into getting married against their wishes when it's politically necessary, but then to be brushed aside when it's not?
I agree; my ideal candidate actually has family values that don't cheapen the institution of marriage, like reserving it for two committed, consenting adults and free of political pressures.
and a strong desire to see the U.S. prosper.
We agree again! I sure don't want someone in office who has a record of increasing government expenditures by 33% (and taxes by 38%) and leaving office going from $0 to $22 million dollars in debt as Mayor of Wasilla... but as Governor can't even really take credit for state financing either way because she never gave the Legislature any budget direction.
I really do hope that she enters the Presidential race.
Posted by: Boats | Jul 3, 2009 3:13:53 PM
OK Boats, I'll bite. How does a 35-year US Senator with experience chairing three committees lower the experience bar for serving as VP? I've heard people complain that OBAMA didn't have enough experience for the job, but not Biden. He's one of the most seasoned politicians in DC.
You're conflating experience and intelligence. We were chattering about the latter. It is easily conceded that Joe has considerable experience, namely in the fields of being wrong on every foreign policy issue of his lifetime and of being a reliable asshat both in public and in his Senatorial duties.
But so far as concerns intelligence, Joe hasn't much on the ball. I have never called Obama an idiot, despite his obvious speech impediment of teleprompter overreliance, but Joe is another case entirely. Resume padder. Resume fabulist. Academic fraud. Plagiarist. A total goofball in the running for worst VP of the modern era, challenging Danny Quayle while channeling him, but without the self deprecation that made Quayle somewhat sympathetic.
Ergo, if Palin is too stupid to be president, Joe is disqualified to an even greater degree that brooks no argument.
Posted by: Carla Axtman | Jul 3, 2009 3:25:24 PM
Gee, perhaps spending a year being demonized in the mainstream press would make someone want to run away from the spotlight screaming. After all, she and her family have been treated with so much dignity this whole time...
Waaaaaaa...puh-leeze. Politics ain't beanbag. And you can't expect to trot yourself and your family out in front as a campaign prop and not have them become part of the conversation. Especially when you've got an unwed, teenage daughter that you've stuck out front of the cameras to talk about abstinence. Seriously.
If this is Palin running for President, she just shot herself in the foot.TV sports reporter. 6 years mayor of a town of 6000, this isn't politics as usual, but not the way she thinks: Less than 1 term as governor....Huckabee, Pawlenty and Romney are salivating.
I'm wondering if some of these embezzlement rumors about her are about to hit the reality fan...
Posted by: paul g | Jul 3, 2009 3:26:52 PM
Has anyone viewed the "press" conference?
I mean, I try to be fair and balanced, I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, regardless of their partisan or ideological leanings.
But this is just ... just ... HILARIOUS!!
It is high comedy! Make sure you see these highlights:
- It's not comfortable and not conventional, by golly.
- It's about creating change in government by not being
in government! Yeah! And not big government either!
= The "poll" that Sarah conducted among here children
- The slam against David Letterman
= its about Trig and the Troops. And lessons learned.
From Trig and the Troops
- WAIT! IT's all about playing point guard!!
AND FINALLY!! THE FiVE people in the front yard actually watching!!!!
Posted by: mp97303 | Jul 3, 2009 3:47:52 PM
@track
Please list some SPECIFIC examples of her 'mistreatment' and I will gladly show you why it was fair.
Posted by: Scott Jorgensen | Jul 3, 2009 3:55:05 PM
mp97303-
I don't watch Fox News. But I do give you credit for being able to type with your head up your ass. That must be hard.
Posted by: Kari Chisholm | Jul 3, 2009 3:59:51 PM
It is high comedy! Make sure you see these highlights:
Paul, you missed the best part. She goes on and on about how the best point guards keep their eye on the basket... and then closes by saying, "that's what I'm doing here, keeping my eye on the ball."
Basketball: eye on the basket.
Baseball: eye on the ball.
This former HS sports star and sports reporter couldn't even keep her sports metaphors straight.
Posted by: Nick C. | Jul 3, 2009 4:05:41 PM
Is she serious? I've never seen her so unhinged. That was bordering speaking in tongues. Gotta be something weird to come... otherwise why resign before you term ends?
By the way, one more Palinism: one of my serviceman buddies saw Palin in Pristina, Kosovo last week at the airport. His friend said hello and asked her if she would be in Pristina long. Sarah's response, "Not long. I'm on my way to Kosovo."
Posted by: Bill McDonald | Jul 3, 2009 4:16:08 PM
Who quits a job in this economy?
Posted by: Bill McDonald | Jul 3, 2009 4:23:47 PM
Watching Charles Krauthammer try to analyze this on FOX news, was some of the great political comedy ever. His take: Sarah has hurt her chances to be president in 2012, but she could still be president in 2016!
Careful, you'll pull a spin muscle.
Posted by: LT | Jul 3, 2009 4:34:47 PM
"How could you honestly say she was treated fairly by the media?."
Grow up! Many many people in the public eye were never treated fairly in the media.
What first leaps to your mind when you hear the name George McGovern? That he was a famous WWII pilot, or that he lost the presidential race in 1972?
The rules are the same for everyone.
Posted by: LiberalStuckInTheSouth | Jul 3, 2009 4:38:35 PM
As soon as I heard the news, I thought, this woman is jumping ship in front of a coming storm - the sh*t is going to hit the fan and I can't wait. First Sanford's crazy trip and now her?!?! It's like Christmas in July! With this many GOP "Stars" dropping like flies in the strangest ways, the Republican Party is racing to join the Whigs.
Posted by: John Calhoun | Jul 3, 2009 4:40:48 PM
Once they've seen the big city lights, it's hard to keep em down on the farm.
Posted by: Old Ducker | Jul 3, 2009 5:00:49 PM
Say what you will but her quip "only a dead fish goes with the flow" was brilliant. It will be quoted for years...In fact its the first quotable utterance I've heard from her.
Posted by: paul g | Jul 3, 2009 5:13:26 PM
Um, she stole that one, like most of her political philosophy. Far as I can tell, it's a Norwegian hunting/fishing quip.
Posted by: Bill McDonald | Jul 3, 2009 5:23:14 PM
"Paging Tina Fey, Paging Tina Fey...Please pick up the white courtesy phone..."
I just watched more of Sarah Palin's ridiculous resignation speech and I want to take a bow once again for the comedy writers of America.
They tried to serve up a rush order of Sarah right before the election, and for a while there it worked. After her pick, McCain even went ahead in the polls. The Alaskan Maverick was going to save the GOP.
But that's when the comedy writers of this country stepped up and tagged her. It was downright patriotic: One if by premise, two if by punchline.
With mere weeks to go, we unleashed a bountiful feast of comedic truth and America was saved from this ridiculous, phony, divisive, bizarre loser.
Thank you, don't forget to tip your waiter, and God Bless America.
Posted by: Buckman Res | Jul 3, 2009 5:44:05 PM
Yes, it’s a good day to be misogynist!
What is it about an attractive, accomplished, intelligent, forceful woman that makes so many people fearful?
Something tells me this is one strong woman we haven’t heard the last of.
Posted by: Portland Roots | Jul 3, 2009 5:46:26 PM
I dont think she would ever make it to the White House. It was a long shot in the beginning, a desperate move that backfired. If she cannot even manage to handle finishing her first term as governor, then why are we supposed to believe she could handle the whole country. I think she just has the starriest daydreams of being president, and the reality of her lack of experience does not seem to come into play.
Posted by: Smitty | Jul 3, 2009 6:10:59 PM
Not the only person to leave i think there will be more this will be so good and juicy when all over.
Two top Alaska health officials leave posts
by The Associated Press
Thursday, July 2, 2009
JUNEAU, Alaska -- A second state health official has left her job.
Public Health Division Director Bev Wooley's last day was Wednesday. Alaska's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jay Butler, left the Department of Health and Social Services June 22.
The Juneau Empire reports Wooley's departure may be linked to Gov. Sarah Palin's anti-abortion views.
Wooley declined to comment but told division staff in an e-mail her departure was "per Governor Palin's request."
Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow denied the governor was involved in Wooley's departure and deferred further comment to Commissioner Bill Hogan of the Department of Health and Social Services, who declined to comment through a department spokeswoman.
Posted by: Bill McDonald | Jul 3, 2009 6:20:41 PM
Buckman Res,
Oh, I see... Turn this into a hatred of women thing. Come on, you can spin better than that.
I'm going to do you a favor. I'm going to recycle some of your own right-wing bullshit for you so you can explain why Sarah didn't just quit on the people of Alaska. Here's what you say:
The end of the governor's term was an artificial timetable and if Sarah had agreed to it her enemies would know when she was going to leave. That would be like cutting and running and Republicans don't cut and run. And they don't agree to artificial timetables like the end of a term.
What if you have to field dress a moose or shoot a wolf from a helicopter? What then?
No, what Sarah did today was a sign of true leadership. She wasn't stepping down. She was stepping up... to be one step closer to the Lord.
Run with that, Buc, and Happy 4th to you.
Posted by: Joe M | Jul 3, 2009 6:28:37 PM
According to the online blog The Daily Beast, Sarah Palin may have resigned today to avoid being in the limelight of a potential embezzlement scandal.
Posted by: Carla Axtman | Jul 3, 2009 6:35:25 PM
What is it about an attractive, accomplished, intelligent, forceful woman that makes so many people fearful?
"Attractive" is in the eye of the beholder...but the rest of those adjectives have little to do with Sarah Palin.
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Posted by: Wordsmith | Jul 3, 2009 12:47:15 PM
Yeah - why? Is something MORE going on than that cute article in Vanity Fair?
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