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Originally posted by ArtMarsh:
Ahem!

With Liberals very much in the minority in the State of Alaska... a personal visit to that state's legislative website would lead you the realization that it was HER FELLOW REPUBLICANS that were leading the ethics charges and had the ethics questions... [QUOTE]Originally posted by WesLemmon:
The Liberals and Liberal-Backed groups have filed numerous "frivolous" ethics complaints against Governor Palin.

- The COST of continual defending herself, against these total frivolous charges, is ever increasing and that is the INTENTof those bringing the charges.

It is total arrogance on your part to spout off about OUR governor resigning as if you have been betrayed or have anything to do with it at all.

It is simple to understand. If you weren't so closed minded, you would comprehend the reasons for what she did. The ahole political crooks we have in office here, both rep and dems, hate her because she is an honest person who went into office to clean up Alaska government. She was doing a pretty good job at first until they decided to put up a united front to destroy her. She pizzed off more Republicans because she started with them first. Sure they hate her and sure they are doing everything they can to keep her from doing her job. She has realized that these vendetta's against her are hurting the State of Alaska in more ways than one. She also realized that Parnell can do the job FOR Alaska that she isn't allowed to do anymore. This is best for Alaska. Why not accept it, then get over it and move on?

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Originally posted by ArtMarsh:

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Originally posted by IHAWKER:
Palin Attorney Threatens Lawsuits

Outgoing Alaska Gov.'s Lawyer Warns of Legal Action Against News Outlets that Publish "Defamation"

(AP) The abruptness of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans has fed widespread speculation, but Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

full article at....

>>>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/04/politics/main5133592.shtml?tag=stack

False bravado and an usless endeavor by the Palin's

For those who still maintain that the media is not hopelessly biased consider the case of Joe Biden being less than honest about the death of his first wife. Until being called out by the family of the other driver involved in the tragic accident Biden would make the claim that his wife had been killed by a drunk driver, a claim that the facts fail to support. It does not take much to imagine the media frenzy that would have ensued had Sarah Palin prevaricated about such an event:

“http://stevemaloneygop.blogspot.com/2009/04/bidens-lies-about-wifes-death.html”

“http://www.politicalforum.com/elections-campaigns/47725-biden-lies-about-wifes-death.html”

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Palin is a nut. A delusional, self-absorbed nut.

Check this out:

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When Lyndon Johnson was president, some of his staff began to think of him as “a sick man,” as Bill Moyers told Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Moyers and his fellow Johnson aide Dick Goodwin even began reading up on mental illness — Bill on manic depression and Dick on paranoia.

And so it was, Todd Purdum learned, as he traveled Alaska reporting on Palin for Vanity Fair, that the governor’s erratic and egoistic behavior has been a source of concern for people there.

“Several told me, independently of one another,” Purdum writes, “that they had consulted the definition of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy’ — and thought it fit her perfectly.”

*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05dowd.html?em

Remember how much flack Obama got because he was 'only a first term senator'? Palin won't even be able to say she's a one term Governor!

Yep, this is great news.

The moron has just signed her own political death certificate.

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Originally posted by jdksfcret:

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Originally posted by IHAWKER:
Don’t worry folk’s the continuing soap opera saga of Sarah Palin will not be going away anytime soon. The real reason for her resignation will soon surface and all of this will stay on the front burner for some time to come. There is a lot more to this story than meets the eye. I’m just glad she quit as a governor, imagine what this would be if he had become vice president and decided to resign half a year into the job.

"Enquiring minds want to know"

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Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin's snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few "buddies," according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for lieutenant governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.

>>>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/did-a-scandal-sink-the-uss-palin/?cid=hp:mainpromo2

There is a lot more to this story than meets the eye.


No doubt!!

In a spirit of reconciliation; I've found an item from the LATIMES that says the FBI are NOT investigating any wrong doing with the building of their lake side home.


Sarah Palin not under FBI investigation, agency spokesman says The former GOP vice presidential candidate's surprise resignation as Alaska governor had set off speculation, including rumors of a pending federal corruption probe or charges.

SNIP...


"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday. "It's just not true." He added that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments for any kind of inquiry.

SNIP...


>>>>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-palin5-2009jul05,0,7018263.story


Just wanted to put that rumor to rest.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain expressed support for his former presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, on Saturday as Washington speculated about why the Alaska governor abruptly announced her resignation.

McCain made the comment a day after Palin stunned the political world by announcing she is stepping down with 18 months left in her term.

McCain had plucked Palin from obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate in last year's presidential campaign, won by Democrat Barack Obama.

"I have the greatest respect and affection for Sarah, Todd, and their family. I was deeply honored to have her as my running mate and believe she will continue to play an important leadership role in the Republican Party and our nation," McCain said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters.

But Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski issued a statement saying, "I am deeply disappointed that the Governor has decided to abandon the State and her constituents before her term has concluded."

Palin defeated Murkowski's father, then-Governor Frank Murkowski, in the 2006 Republican primary for governor.

A polarizing figure who is mainly popular among conservatives, Palin has often been considered a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

"http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5624MB20090705"

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Palin has often been considered a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Ha ha! Can you imagine the GOP nom race in '12? She'd be torn apart by her own kind, long before she got anywhere near Obama.

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Just look at the publicity shes getting, 8 pages
and just warming up. A nobody an virtually unknow prior to her VP run. Now she will be front page news if she sneezes fot the next 3 years. Do they really believe people are that dumb to elect this bimbo to the most powerful office in the world? God help us if that were true.

Get used to it Repubs you have Obama for another 7.5 years followed by another Democrat for another 8 years. Maybe by then youll come to realize how much damage the putz/Cheny circus caused the party. Only nobodys laughing.

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For me, the headline says it all:


QUITTERS NEVER WIN


Article goes on to show what a disasterous decision Flailin' Palin has made.

*http://www.slate.com/id/2222230/

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It amazes me how many here condemn her and yet have never served in any public office themselves.

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Originally posted by FollowMeInfantry:
It amazes me how many here condemn her and yet have never served in any public office themselves.

The vehemence of the condemnations speaks volumes. I can understand, and to a certain degree concur with, the attacks on Bush but the non-stop diatribes against Palin are mind boggling. Most of the attacks are, at best, irrational while others take absurdity to a new level. Her detractors deny that they fear her, yet the mere mention of her name sends most of them into a state of hysteria I do not recall ever seeing.

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Originally posted by A_Savage:
So in other words on top of her other flaws she does not have enough of a moral compass to complete a job she signed up for? And John McCain thought she was his best pick for vp?
Makes me even more glad I voted against McCain.
--Savage

One reason being given for her leaving (by her Lt. Governor I think) is that the legal expenses for some on going investigations have cost her a lot of money (I think half million) and the state a couple of million and have been a "distraction".

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Originally posted by usa_girl:
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I just told you Dave.

The issue is not that Palin folded under pressure or was not ready.

The issue is that as a journalist Couric should have been just as tough on the other side as should have all the media and they were not.

One side got a free pass with the exception of what Fox called them on.

usa_girl the REAL difference is that Ms Palin was an unknown and the media was trying to fill in where she stood and what she knew. After Ms Palin stumpled the Repubs fell back on their standard excuss of the big bad media is liberal and out to get us shich i think actually hurt her more than admitting she goofed would have. IMO Ms. Palin is a very intelligent person BUT she was NOT ready for politics at the national level, given a few more years experience and she might have hada good chance but IMO the way she stumbled and quiting early will follow her in the future.

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Originally posted by aggie_swife:
-snip-The younger daughter doesn't count? Wasn't this the child referenced in the Letterman attack?

Well you need to "stand and deliver", mmulder. Listen to Palin's resignation speech again. She mentions "Trig" in it -- "especially after the family recently had to see/listen to their little baby brother being mocked by some pretty mean spirited adults" (In the video right after she talks about polling the family for a vote.)

I've included a link for your convenience.

*http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31726640/ns/politics-more_politics

aggie_swife as much as I dislike what Letterman said he was commenting on a news story that Ms. Palin's DAUGHTER was with her and assummed it was the OLDER daughter, I don't think he is dumb enough to say that about someone as young as the younger daughter. Stupid for not checking but he does NOT do news and fact checking is NOT part of his show or what his writer do.

Clearly, Governor Palin is taking a Political Risk.

I hope it pays off!

- She needs to campaign in the lower 48 States. It's a two-day trip to attend an event here in the Lower 48 States for a Governor of Alaska.

- In the upcoming months she would have been out of her home state, quite frequently; thus, reducing her effectiveness as Governor.

- A Governor, who is not running for reelection and is often out of her Home state would attract more negative criticism - than resigning now.

- She had decided, some time ago, that she would not run for reelection as Governor.

- No; she is quitting. She has chosen to work for career advancement and to take the "battle" to her complaining opposition.

She has Made a GREAT POLITICAL Choice. We don't know what the outcome will be; but, I wish her all the best and continued succcess.

Of course, those who choose "name-calling" as their favorite reply will have a lot of fun with their disrespecting comments.

- That shows their level of intelligence.

Just my Thoughts!

From A Proud Vietnam Veteran

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Originally posted by john2x:
Just look at the publicity shes getting, 8 pages
and just warming up. A nobody an virtually unknow prior to her VP run. Now she will be front page news if she sneezes fot the next 3 years. Do they really believe people are that dumb to elect this bimbo to the most powerful office in the world? God help us if that were true.

Get used to it Repubs you have Obama for another 7.5 years followed by another Democrat for another 8 years. Maybe by then youll come to realize how much damage the putz/Cheny circus caused the party. Only nobodys laughing.

I believe people are dumb enough to elect her to office. They were dumb enough to elect Obama to office.

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Originally posted by ANZACbiscuit:

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Palin has often been considered a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Ha ha! Can you imagine the GOP nom race in '12? She'd be torn apart by her own kind, long before she got anywhere near Obama.

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why? the dems nominated a self confessed dope smoker and cocane user and cheered and cheered and cheered!

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Originally posted by rayld2:

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Originally posted by aggie_swife:
-snip-The younger daughter doesn't count? Wasn't this the child referenced in the Letterman attack?

Well you need to "stand and deliver", mmulder. Listen to Palin's resignation speech again. She mentions "Trig" in it -- "especially after the family recently had to see/listen to their little baby brother being mocked by some pretty mean spirited adults" (In the video right after she talks about polling the family for a vote.)

I've included a link for your convenience.

*http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31726640/ns/politics-more_politics

aggie_swife as much as I dislike what Letterman said he was commenting on a news story that Ms. Palin's DAUGHTER was with her and assummed it was the OLDER daughter, I don't think he is dumb enough to say that about someone as young as the younger daughter. Stupid for not checking but he does NOT do news and fact checking is NOT part of his show or what his writer do.

If you had said it, no problem. However, someone who influences millions of people's opinions should get a pass? There goes accountability again. Only "some" people have to be accountable. Perhaps he should just keep his big mouth shut and not make personal attacks on kids. Imus didn't mean anything either, right??????

And even better it is amazing that the press has not picked up the torch to defend a defenseless baby....

MMulder --- have you commented and I missed it?

Palin and Her Enemies
By ROSS DOUTHAT
'http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/opinion/06ross.html?_r=3&pagewanted=print'
She should have said no.

If Sarah Palin’s political career ended last Friday, 10 tumultuous months after she was introduced as the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, those five words will be its epitaph.

Had she refused John McCain, Palin would still be a popular female governor in a Republican Party starved for future stars. Her scandals would be the stuff of local politics, her daughter’s pregnancy a minor story in the Lower 48, her son Trig’s parentage a nonissue even for conspiracy theorists. There would still be plenty of time to ease into the national spotlight, to bone up on the issues, and to craft a persona more appealing than the Mrs. Spiro Agnew role the McCain campaign assigned to her.

Most important, nobody would have realized yet how much she looks like Tina Fey.

But she said yes. It wasn’t the right thing to do, in hindsight, but it was certainly the human thing. She was coming off a charmed rise through statewide politics. John McCain was offering her a spot on a national ticket. It was the chance of a lifetime.

And now, seemingly, it’s over. Oh, maybe not forever: she’s only 45, young enough (and, yes, talented enough) to have a second act. But last Friday’s bizarre, rambling resignation speech should take her off the political map for the duration of the Obama era.

One hopes that was intentional. A Sarah Palin who stepped down for the sake of her family and her media-swarmed state deserves sympathy even from the millions of Americans who despise her. A Sarah Palin who resigned in the delusional belief that it would give her a better shot at the presidency in 2012 warrants no such kindness.

Either way, though, her 10 months on the national stage have been a dispiriting period for American democracy.

If Palin were exactly what her critics believe she is — the distillation of every right-wing pathology, from anti-intellectualism to apocalyptic Christianity — then she wouldn’t be a terribly interesting figure. But this caricature has always missed the point of the Alaska governor’s appeal — one that extends well outside the Republican Party’s shrinking base.

In a recent Pew poll, 44 percent of Americans regarded Palin unfavorably. But slightly more had a favorable impression of her. That number included 46 percent of independents, and 48 percent of Americans without a college education.

That last statistic is a crucial one. Palin’s popularity has as much to do with class as it does with ideology. In this sense, she really is the perfect foil for Barack Obama. Our president represents the meritocratic ideal — that anyone, from any background, can grow up to attend Columbia and Harvard Law School and become a great American success story. But Sarah Palin represents the democratic ideal — that anyone can grow up to be a great success story without graduating from Columbia and Harvard.

This ideal has had a tough 10 months. It’s been tarnished by Palin herself, obviously. With her missteps, scandals, dreadful interviews and self-pitying monologues, she’s botched an essential democratic role — the ordinary citizen who takes on the elites, the up-by-your-bootstraps role embodied by politicians from Andrew Jackson down to Harry Truman.

But it’s also been tarnished by the elites themselves, in the way that the media and political establishments have treated her.

Here are lessons of the Sarah Palin experience, for any aspiring politician who shares her background and her sex. Your children will go through the tabloid wringer. Your religion will be mocked and misrepresented. Your political record will be distorted, to better parody your family and your faith. (And no, gentle reader, Palin did not insist on abstinence-only sex education, slash funds for special-needs children or inject creationism into public schools.)

Male commentators will attack you for parading your children. Female commentators will attack you for not staying home with them. You’ll be sneered at for how you talk and how many colleges you attended. You’ll endure gibes about your “****ty” looks and your “white trash concupiscence,” while a prominent female academic declares that your “greatest hypocrisy” is the “pretense” that you’re a woman. And eight months after the election, the professionals who pressed you into the service of a gimmicky, dreary, idea-free campaign will still be blaming you for their defeat.

All of this had something to do with ordinary partisan politics. But it had everything to do with Palin’s gender and her social class.

Sarah Palin is beloved by millions because her rise suggested, however temporarily, that the old American aphorism about how anyone can grow up to be president might actually be true.

But her unhappy sojourn on the national stage has had a different moral: Don’t even think about it.

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Originally posted by rayld2:

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Originally posted by aggie_swife:
-snip-The younger daughter doesn't count? Wasn't this the child referenced in the Letterman attack?

Well you need to "stand and deliver", mmulder. Listen to Palin's resignation speech again. She mentions "Trig" in it -- "especially after the family recently had to see/listen to their little baby brother being mocked by some pretty mean spirited adults" (In the video right after she talks about polling the family for a vote.)

I've included a link for your convenience.

*http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31726640/ns/politics-more_politics

aggie_swife as much as I dislike what Letterman said he was commenting on a news story that Ms. Palin's DAUGHTER was with her and assummed it was the OLDER daughter, I don't think he is dumb enough to say that about someone as young as the younger daughter. Stupid for not checking but he does NOT do news and fact checking is NOT part of his show or what his writer do.

So a mother and daughter attend a sporting event and are therefore subject to disgusting and repugnant comments by a second rate political hack? Whatever you may think, the fact of the matter is that Letterman did make the comment about the younger daughter. Any belief to the contrary is merely wishful thinking.

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Originally posted by adminnco1:

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Originally posted by rayld2:

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Originally posted by aggie_swife:
-snip-The younger daughter doesn't count? Wasn't this the child referenced in the Letterman attack?

Well you need to "stand and deliver", mmulder. Listen to Palin's resignation speech again. She mentions "Trig" in it -- "especially after the family recently had to see/listen to their little baby brother being mocked by some pretty mean spirited adults" (In the video right after she talks about polling the family for a vote.)

I've included a link for your convenience.

*http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31726640/ns/politics-more_politics

aggie_swife as much as I dislike what Letterman said he was commenting on a news story that Ms. Palin's DAUGHTER was with her and assummed it was the OLDER daughter, I don't think he is dumb enough to say that about someone as young as the younger daughter. Stupid for not checking but he does NOT do news and fact checking is NOT part of his show or what his writer do.

So a mother and daughter attend a sporting event and are therefore subject to disgusting and repugnant comments by a second rate political hack? Whatever you may think, the fact of the matter is that Letterman did make the comment about the younger daughter. Any belief to the contrary is merely wishful thinking.

I'm afraid your excelent comments will be ignored by the slithering left!