Washingon Post article. On a holiday Friday when everyone is on vacation and not around to discuss it.
I had to check the calendar to make sure it's not April 1st.
"We've seen a lot of nutty behavior from governors and Republican leaders in the last three months, but this one is at the top of that," said John Weaver, a longtime friend and confidant of Sen. John McCain.
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Here's a video clip. I have no idea what she's babbling about. Something about how it's bad for the state to have a lame duck as governor. Huh?
There must be some hidden reason here--does she know of some dirt that's going to come out about her soon? The truth about Trig perhaps?
I knew you'd be excited. Good riddance to that milf. Now maybe we'll hear about her fake pregnancy.
Posted by: bedheadcomics | July 03, 2009 at 04:41 PM
Yeah, a white woman with five kids. I mean what if all white women had five kids. Imagine where our country would be. Imagine the shape we would be in.
Posted by: not too late | July 03, 2009 at 04:55 PM
This is suprising to me, if she really is stepping down to focus on running for president.
It would seem that she is taking a large financial risk here, unless she has got a lot of money that we dont know about.
I can tell Romney wants to run again, he's popping up in too many places. The GOP establishment and neocons hate Palin, so you can be sure that they will get somebody to run against her. I dont know what her plan would be. Perhaps she plans to criss-cross American with a populist message, telling the voters what they want to hear (end outsourcing, end illegal immigrtaion, end H1B visas, no free rides for Wall Street, English only, fiscal responsibility, morals and values for our kids, mind our own business---except as it pertains to Israel's security which is very popular with evangelicals), while planning to do whatever is really feasible giving who will fund her and has to be paid back in the event of her election just like all politicians do.
Its a suprise indeed. She really is a pretty hot milf to have 5 kiddies though.
Posted by: miles | July 03, 2009 at 05:12 PM
"I dont know what her plan would be. Perhaps she plans to criss-cross American with a populist message, telling the voters what they want to hear (end outsourcing, end illegal immigrtaion, end H1B visas,"
She supported amnesty when she was running with McCain.
I don't understand why Republicans think she is so much more rightwing than other GOP candidates. She is no more conservative than Romney on fiscal, immigration, and foreign policy issues.
The only are where she seems to be more conservative is on religious questions, which most people in the HBD sphere - including myself - don't really care about.
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | July 03, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Nice quote - '"We know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference for our priorities," Palin said in a news conference alongside a lake in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.'
Why does she talk like that? Why are you quitting? Who's 'we'? What does 'make a difference for our priorities' mean?
She certainly sounds like a beauty queen, specifically Miss South Carolina.
Posted by: Duke Of Earl. | July 03, 2009 at 05:32 PM
Does she drink?
Posted by: dearieme | July 03, 2009 at 05:37 PM
My guess is that Palin isn't planning on running for the Presidency. Being a sitting governor would have been the best launching pad for that. My guess is that she's either about to cash in with a media deal (book? TV show?) or she is looking to play more of an organizing political role, using her prominence to start a conservative organization more geared toward hockey moms than, say, the Heritage Foundation or the Club for Growth is. She could leverage that sort of role into a way to take control of the GOP from the Chamber of Commerce/Club for Growth types.
Posted by: DaveinHackensack | July 03, 2009 at 05:39 PM
Either the president thing or a scandal. I can't see any other alternative.
Posted by: KingM | July 03, 2009 at 05:44 PM
My guess is it's a scandal. Why else resign late on a friday afternoon?
Posted by: sabril | July 03, 2009 at 06:04 PM
"The truth about Trig perhaps?"
That ship has sailed- dont make yourself look anymore foolish.
Maybe Trig is sick.
Posted by: Turambar | July 03, 2009 at 06:11 PM
Right before the fourth of July, is this meant to be ironic? The majority of presidents have been either a senator or governor and suddenly resigning isn't going to improve either her reputation or her 'experience'. Anyway, good riddance.
Posted by: asdf | July 03, 2009 at 06:11 PM
"Her kids, she said, encouraged her to step down." What great leadership... I seriously expect something deeper than this to surface.
Posted by: asdf | July 03, 2009 at 06:12 PM
The eventual and inevitable GOP nominee in 2012 is emptying his dirt closet on born loser rivals who would have sucked up needed campaign cash.
Giuliani, Pawlenty or Romney will be next.
Some Republicans have secrets so awful they are known only to their fellow Republicans . . .
Posted by: Chris | July 03, 2009 at 06:30 PM
She's likely exhausted with the hostile media attention, bogus ethics charges and nuisance lawsuits.
Posted by: PA | July 03, 2009 at 07:02 PM
Breaking News
Palin has just been accepted by Harvard Law, and is on her way to being made president of HLR.
Meanwhile she's getting a Brazilian wax and James Frey is ghosting her inspirational story of problems with NAMs and the liberal media.
All in all, presidential timber all the way.
Posted by: Petey | July 03, 2009 at 07:07 PM
I'm thinking she or Todd is about to have a sex scandal exposed.
That announcement was weird. She's speaking too fast. Her ideas aren't organized.
How many Obama opponents (and potential opponents) have fallen by the wayside due to circumstances?
Alice Palmer
Blair Hull
Jack Ryan
Jon Huntsman
John Ensign
Mark Sanford
Sarah Palin
Posted by: The Griffyn | July 03, 2009 at 07:08 PM
Are you all on media hype or what?
1. Palin IS a neocon. She's a strong supporter of Israel who has an Israeli flag in her office.
Necons LOVE HER. As does the base which is solidly pro-Israel unlike the Party elite which is anti-Israel and mirrors the Dems.
2. Palin can't run from Alaska as Governor. Honestly I wonder about the stupidity here ... look at a map. It's exhausting flights that take up too much time. Palin can either be Governor or Senator, or run for President. She can't do both.
3. The anti-Palin stuff coming out these past few weeks from Romney and McCainiacs, makes sense. They don't like her and fear her -- she's the populist personified and will clean them out if she wins it all. If she was just resigning to go away, why bother firing at her, with stuff that's old news any way ("Diva-ism", Todd Palin's membership in the Alaskan Independence Party, etc)
4. If there was a "scandal" it would have already surfaced by now, the media and women HATE HATE HATE Palin, and enjoy making her look bad.
5. Building a competitive grass-roots organization in Iowa and New Hampshire takes time. About four years. Meanwhile avoiding responsibility for ugly budget cuts in the Obama era of Cap and Trade in Alaska is a winner. It allows her to be all offense and no defense.
She leaves popular without having to say, cut Alaskan's oil revenues under Obama's Cap and Trade. And devotes herself full time to running for President, which requires relocating to the lower 48. Expect a book, book tour, some sort of national PAC, etc. This was Reagan's strategy after 1976 and losing to Ford, but Reagan was not stuck out in Alaska 2,000 miles away from the Lower 48.
Geez, is everyone here that dumb? Look at the map, look at the upcoming state budgets. This ain't rocket science.
Posted by: whiskey | July 03, 2009 at 07:28 PM
2012 GOP Nominee Wipe Out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8__EwAT8VM
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | July 03, 2009 at 07:37 PM
Hey UJ:
OT, but did you check out the preliminary reports out of Arizona regarding births for 2008? I know we've discussed this elsewhere, but I can't remember if the reports breaking down the numbers for 2008 had come out yet at that point.
In case not:
2007
Latinos: 45,731
Whites: 42,216
2008
Latinos: 42,639
Whites: 41,925
Seems like Latino fertility is falling faster than white fertility (3,000 fewer Latino births vs. 300 fewer white births) in Arizona.
http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/report/avs/index.htm
Posted by: Mark | July 03, 2009 at 08:10 PM
Mark, I've actually been following the 2009 numbers. I didn't know the demographic breakdown for 2008 births had been released already.
Arizona births (no ethnic breakdown yet) in 2009 are down by 7.4% so far compared to 2008:
http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/mu/births/births2008.xls
http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/mu/births/births2009.xls
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | July 03, 2009 at 08:15 PM
Also see this for national 2008 birth data:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_17.htm
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | July 03, 2009 at 08:19 PM
@The Griffyn
Someone is wiping the slate clean of GOP born losers before they sop up resources when the 2012 campaign begins in earnest. It's not Obama. It's the inevitable nominee. The 2012 GOP frontrunners are not commonly discussed among the know-nothing media, with the possible exception of Pawlenty.
This is a deadly earnest fight that we are observing right now because the GOP elite smell victory in 2010 and 2012.
GOP diehards should roll with these Sandford and Palin punches, because it's for the good of the party. We're all going to be amazed how good the field looks for us in a few months.
Wait and see.
Posted by: Chris | July 03, 2009 at 10:04 PM
seems like she probably didn't want people to spend much time thinking about this since she announced it the Friday before July 4th
Posted by: Bowler | July 04, 2009 at 01:47 PM
"seems like she probably didn't want people to spend much time thinking about this since she announced it the Friday before July 4th"
Yeah, none of those white folks at their backyard barbeque parties would touch this one.
Posted by: silly girl | July 04, 2009 at 03:29 PM