DougR: "I have never read in one space personal attacks on any single individual (and that takes in a lot of very bad folks) that holds a candle to the vicious attacks in this thread on Sarah Palin."

Since this is a lazy Sunday afternoon I had the time - and interest - to check out DougR's perception of our "vicious" attacks on Sarah Palin. Here, except for the segues which defend her, are the MOST negative of our comments, Doug. I suspect you wouldn't have any difficulty in measuring them against Palin's character assassination (unAmerican, palling around with terrorists, just for starters) It is not a case of winning by a nose. Sarah and her ilk win by a landslide.

1.She senses blood in the water.
2.she rambles on and on and on with incomplete sentences (it's like fingernails on a chalk board)
3.In other words, she's getting out while the getting's good. Guess she finally realized that the R's are out of infatuation with her.
4.She writes stories for them by just opening her mouth. The latest revelations about her disastrous part in the campaign and Todd's awkward past may have told her "it's time"
5.The woman is an idiot.
Segue: "like fingernails on a chalk board>" Strange. That's exactly what happens when I hear Obama. DougR
6.But even her supporters are saying that this is "just bizarre" to do this now.
7.She is, indeed, an idiot.
Segue: Doug, Obama is well spoken, well educated, graduated from Harvard school of law and he taught constitutional law, and you would rather listen to that clueless airhead.
8.Maybe she just wants to be a mom.
9 ya know... clueless... airhead... poorly educated... poor debater... poor speaker... I'll stop there… Of course, I wouldn't want to have to talk to her.
10.most Alaskans see this as a petulant move
11.alaska's loss is alaska's gain.
12.She sounded really emotional at the press conference.
13.Maybe someone found some nude photos of her and is going to release them to the press. .
14.He suspects that she has done something horrendous enough that she doesn't want to be governor when it comes out.
15.She ain't going nowhere's... p.s. BTW, I'm sure Hugh Heffner is on the phone tonight...
16. those who have been follwing the Alaska blogosphere closely are aware of the rumors bubbling up that there's something big
17.I think she's changing jobs.
18.Maybe Rush Limbaugh has decided to retire and needed a replacement.
19.Until then she'll rake in the big bucks doing speeches before her adoring fans..
20.She's numb enough without making up stupid remarks to lay on her.
21.I suspect there are family problems...
22.Or maybe Sarah was enticed by the bright lights of big-time politics, and took up with a Congressman from...
23.Word on the street is that Ms. Sarah is carryin' Michael Jackson's baby...
24."...lay on her...", Capt'n??? Little Freudian slip showin' there???
25.Rumor has it the truth about their home that was built using materials from the hockey center (that she put Wasilla in debt with) will be coming to light.
26.An undisclosed source reported on MSNBC that she is scheduled into Bartlett Regional Hospital under her former name of Mittsy Jagov for a rectal resizing surgery.
27.I will not stand idly by and hear my beloved Sarah Palin maligned in that fashion. I'm callin' you out, man...
28.I heard her burbling on about how she will "pass the ball and get the victory" or some strained analogy of that sort and I could think of nothing but "Governor Barbie".
29.However, it's hard to avoid underestimating her
30.How much do you want to bet that the party told her the time was up?
31.some are speculating that she wants to step down to devote more time gearing up to run for the White House in 2012,
32.Maybe she's gonna write books and be the next Ann Coulter or go on the rubber-chicken circuit as a public speaker or become a rich lobbyist for the oil or turkey industries?
33.She's resigning before the real s*** hits the fan: "Here's a quote I got from law enforcement here in Alaska yesterday afternoon regarding Palin "a criminal indictment is pending authorization."
34."The sun is going down on her home town, just like they say a good thing never lasts"
35.Sarah Palin is a beautiful woman, and makes great eye contact and speaks clearly. People shouldn't confuse that outward communication with intellect or ability, yet her core group of admirers apparently do just that.
36.I disagree that she's beautiful. Calculation in her eyes--they speak volumes. And her remarks make her close to ugly, imo
37.she's a wonderful source of entertainment to us on the right-hand side of the Atlantic!
38.if this is the thread everyone wants I'll join ya. Ya betcha.)
39.Sarah still believes that drivel about those who don't support her being un-American, and the drivel about Armageddon, and the drivel about abstinence as the solution to teenage pregnancy and... And the Neanderthals who supported her in 2008 are ready to do so again. ..
40.Palin was, is now, and ever shall be an idiot.
41.A criminal indictment of Palin is pending authorization in Alaska - Palin actually looked anxious and worried in her statement, and soon we will know why.
42.If even a forth of this stuff is true, she's gonna get her ass reamed but good!   
43.Somehow, it seems that it's pointless for amateurs to attempt to demean Ms. Palin--she does a thoroughly professional job of it herself.
44.One gets the feeling that this is a troubled woman.
45.I've found her painful to listen to for some time. She colors her phrasing with religious imagery as if she's addressing a Sunday school service with lots of kids in the congregation. And the logic of her statements is fleeting. The worst part about it is that it is hard to dismiss the notion that she believes what she says.
She's sorta reminiscent of Ronald Reagon only without the intellectualism.
46.I don't see Palin as "Reaganesque" at all.
47.The kind of woman who gives bedbugs a run for their money.
48.I think of her as Bush in drag.
Segue: This from the AP:
   "...Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein:
"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."

Segue: Fighting these BS charges has cost her and her family 1/2 million dollars. She does not have that kind of money to spend. If she needs a contribution I will send what I can.
Segue: For better or worse, public figures, including politicians and political candidates, are generally exempt from the libel and scandal laws that apply to ordinary citizens. Just think of the allegations that were (and continue to be) hurled at the Clintons, the Obamas, etc. -- allegations ranging from corruption in office to insider trading to rape to murder.   

49.Glad she's gone. Hope she stays home!
Segue: The latest from the Los Angeles Times is this...Sarah Palin not under FBI investigation, agency spokesman says
50.Palin: "How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country. And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

Huh? Who are these "countless others" who have resigned mid-term "for a higher calling" and not been criticized for that? I can't think of any.

51.that last quote from Palin above almost sounds like the sort of thing Nixon might have said.

52.the greater share of the costs that the State has incurred in investigating the ethics complaints resulted from her own lawsuit against herself in order to have the board that she herself appointed investigate the ethics; this was after the State had found her at fault. Her own board cleared her.

53.The main stream media gave Palin a pass on her husband Todd's 7 year membership in a secessionist party. It would not have even been exposed so much as it is now in the CBS report, except that her emails showed that she tried to get the McCain campaign to lie about it.

54.Sarah is her own worst enemy. She keeps stirring the pot and the results are negative for her. She tries to get people to label Letterman as a pedophile because he made a bad joke. She complains about bloggers who have the right of freedom of speech to express their point of view. Now she looks like a kid pouting on the playground, picking up her jacks and going home.

55.it's been nearly a year since the first-term governor has acted like she actually wanted the job.

56.Maureen agrees with me (3 July 2009 10:43 PM) that Sarah, at her last "press conference" was "burbling".

57.And, if she (Dorothy Parker) wrote an article about the illustrious Sarah, would likely have been delighted to savage Palin far worse than the current article in question has done.   Particularly since Palin is such a fat juicy target.