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Palin resigns due to scandle and shame - will not run again
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 4:09PM #1
MasterOfSparks
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It was obviously more than she could handle. And her ethics have always been in question. Will her arrest follow?


www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/03/pali...


Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shocked the political word Friday by announcing that she will step down at the end of the month and transfer power to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell.


Palin made the announcement from her home in Wasilla, flanked by her       husband, Todd, and family and state commissioners.


Palin's decision now allows her to avoid the difficult task of running       for president while serving as governor.[????????????]


Palin gained national prominence when GOP presidential candidate John McCain       picked her as his running mate last year. But her approval ratings in the state have skidded in recent months.


Palin  has been dogged in recent months by ethics inquiries. Her office last month announced the 15th dismissal of an ethics complaint against her or one of her staff.



I can't think of any other candidate who ever resigned an office in shame with 15 ethics complaints as a means of preparing for a run for President. But leave it to the GOP to explore new tactics.


ROFLMAO

For those who would deny that insurance companies ROUTINELY STEAL from their customers let me remind you that there is an entire INDUSTRY of lawyers who work on a CONTINGENCY BASIS who only get paid if a JUDGE determines that their clients got ripped off by their insurance companies.

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There's nothing at all new about the venomous anti-Obama sentiment coming from the right. Its just what happens when an effective and popular Democrat leads the country in a positive direction. Kennedy and Johnson had the John Birch Society. Carter and Clinton had their lunatic detractors. What has changed, however, is that the Birchers and Clinton Death List crowd used to be the extreme fringe and the GOP saw them as an embarrassment. Now the crazies are the top GOP leadership and only a few Republicans are calling for sanity. Why? Because Republicans have no ideas and nothing else to sell.
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 4:34PM #2
mecdukebec
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Well, doggone it.  I just hope that there's no connection between Ms Palin and a certain SC Governor who has been seen in Argentina and Wasilla.
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"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

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"If you read the Bible and it does not challenge you, then you are reading yourself and not the Bible."

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I continue to think that many of the Faux News/Conservative commentators fall into simplistic, gut-level analyses because they don't have more background in political science, and that, again, means history, economics, political theory, philosophy and critical thinking. That is all I was arguing, and how much money they are making is irrelevant—they are misinforming the public.  Given that, I believe the most popular conservative/Republican pundits are not qualified to discuss something so complex and have no ability to look at things objectively. It's just all “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”  --  And, few of them would know the origins of that last sentence.
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 4:45PM #3
davelaw40
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No, it sounds like someone predicts we will be in double digit inflation and unemployment during the primary and is trying raise funds for a primary run.
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 4:48PM #4
CityZen_X
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Palin  has been dogged in recent months by ethics inquiries. Her office last month announced the 15th dismissal of an ethics complaint against her or one of her staff.


Wait a minute, correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't the above statement a prerequisite for being a member of the republican party?

To "choose" dogma and faith over doubt and experiment is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."

Christopher Hitchens

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 4:51PM #5
MasterOfSparks
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Jul 3, 2009 -- 4:45PM, davelaw40 wrote:


No, it sounds like someone predicts we will be in double digit inflation and unemployment during the primary and is trying raise funds for a primary run.




ROFLMAO

No doubt resigning mid-FIRST-term after 15 ethics complaints will play well with her base. They seem to seek out the most disgusting freaks they can find to run. But I really don't think that's going to fly with the swing voters.


Dave do you REALLY think her resignation mid=FIRST-term as Governor makes Palin more bankable as a Presidential candidate? I know the country is better off with her out of office.

For those who would deny that insurance companies ROUTINELY STEAL from their customers let me remind you that there is an entire INDUSTRY of lawyers who work on a CONTINGENCY BASIS who only get paid if a JUDGE determines that their clients got ripped off by their insurance companies.

---------------------------------------------------------

There's nothing at all new about the venomous anti-Obama sentiment coming from the right. Its just what happens when an effective and popular Democrat leads the country in a positive direction. Kennedy and Johnson had the John Birch Society. Carter and Clinton had their lunatic detractors. What has changed, however, is that the Birchers and Clinton Death List crowd used to be the extreme fringe and the GOP saw them as an embarrassment. Now the crazies are the top GOP leadership and only a few Republicans are calling for sanity. Why? Because Republicans have no ideas and nothing else to sell.
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 4:52PM #6
catboxer
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There's video of her resignation speech, fellow politicaholics.


www.eschatonblog.com/2009/07/watch-it-ov...


She says she knows "when to pass the ball for victory."


Victory over whom, or what, was not specified. The speech is mostly totally incoherent, and has very little of anything that might be identified as content or subject matter. It's a bunch of meaningless platitude-type cliches strung together end to end.


"Curiouser" and "curiouser" said Alice.


 
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 4:59PM #7
mecdukebec
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I heard Ms Palin, during her sterling peroration on universal human rights and how all that pertains to the Alaskan governorship just a few minutes ago, and she said something incoherent about "fish being alive only if they're moving," or somesuch drivel.

Now, THAT's genius, doggone it!"
*****************
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

*********************

"If you read the Bible and it does not challenge you, then you are reading yourself and not the Bible."

***********

I continue to think that many of the Faux News/Conservative commentators fall into simplistic, gut-level analyses because they don't have more background in political science, and that, again, means history, economics, political theory, philosophy and critical thinking. That is all I was arguing, and how much money they are making is irrelevant—they are misinforming the public.  Given that, I believe the most popular conservative/Republican pundits are not qualified to discuss something so complex and have no ability to look at things objectively. It's just all “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”  --  And, few of them would know the origins of that last sentence.
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 5:16PM #8
Ebon
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Jul 3, 2009 -- 4:45PM, davelaw40 wrote:

No, it sounds like someone predicts we will be in double digit inflation and unemployment during the primary and is trying raise funds for a primary run.



That sounds about right to me. Assuming the Palins aren't wealthy (and they don't seem to be), she's going to have to raise considerable wodge to fund a primary (let alone a general campaign).
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 5:19PM #9
whirlinggal
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Jul 3, 2009 -- 5:16PM, Ebon wrote:


Jul 3, 2009 -- 4:45PM, davelaw40 wrote:

No, it sounds like someone predicts we will be in double digit inflation and unemployment during the primary and is trying raise funds for a primary run.



That sounds about right to me. Assuming the Palins aren't wealthy (and they don't seem to be), she's going to have to raise considerable wodge to fund a primary (let alone a general campaign).





Ebon--hi.


The Palins live in a MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE in a teeny tiny working class village in Alaska--does that tell you anything?


 
5 months ago  ::  Jul 03, 2009 - 5:23PM #10
davelaw40
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Jul 3, 2009 -- 5:19PM, whirlinggal wrote:


Jul 3, 2009 -- 5:16PM, Ebon wrote:


Jul 3, 2009 -- 4:45PM, davelaw40 wrote:

No, it sounds like someone predicts we will be in double digit inflation and unemployment during the primary and is trying raise funds for a primary run.



That sounds about right to me. Assuming the Palins aren't wealthy (and they don't seem to be), she's going to have to raise considerable wodge to fund a primary (let alone a general campaign).





Ebon--hi.


The Palins live in a MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE in a teeny tiny working class village in Alaska--does that tell you anything?


 




 


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