BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: SharonA
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 11:08 PM

Here's Stapleton's full statement that was posted on Palin's Facebook page, according to Ben Smith at Politico.com:

"As repeatedly stated to several in the media over the last week, former Governor Sarah Palin is not committed to attend the Simi Valley Republican Women's event at the Reagan Library and in fact is not attending the event. Neither the Governor's state staff nor SarahPAC has ever committed to attending this event or speaking at this event, and even requested that the Governor's name be removed from the invitation several weeks ago. The Governor has other work and commitments to take care of at that time. She looks forward to visiting her friends in California soon.

All event requests must be confirmed with Meghan Stapleton of SarahPAC. Additionally, all invitations bearing the Governor's name must be approved by her attorney before proceeding.

Thank you.
Meghan Stapleton"


..."several weeks ago" she tried to have her name removed from an invitation to an event she supposedly never committed to (so why was her name on the invitation in the first place?), and yet, as late as July 29th (the day before Stapleton's post), all indications in the media were that Palin would attend and speak. It's positively Orwellian!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: SharonA
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 11:34 PM

According to various etiquette sites, it is not proper for Stapleton to have referred to Palin as "the Governor" in her statement yesterday. Palin is, of course, the former Governor. The proper form of address would be "The Honorable Sarah Palin" but perhaps that stuck in Stapleton's craw.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 11:47 AM

Bumper sticker seen: "Sarah Palin for President 2012- 2014 1/2"

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: SharonA
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 05:08 PM

What's next for Sarah Palin might be a divorce from Todd Palin. This from an Examiner.com article by Ryan Witt of the St. Louis Political Buzz Examiner: Is media "makin' stuff up" with rumors of Sarah Palin divorce?

"The website Alaska Report has released a story that Todd and Sarah Palin are set to divorce. If the website is correct it will be another big break for the organization that claims to have also first reported Sarah Palin's Governor candidacy and her Vice Presidential candidacy. Alaska Report claims to have confirmed the story with multiple sources in Wasilla and Anchorage.

At this point I am holding out for more confirmation from other sources before trusting this report. The story run by Alaska Report does not name its confirmation sources which gives me reason to doubt. In addition, just in browsing the Alaska Report website it appears to be slanted toward the anti-Palin side of the media. Finally, the one source the report does cite is The National Enquirer which does not always maintain a great deal of credibility. However, The National Enquirer was the first to release the story of former Senator John Edward's affair so they have been known to break a big story every now and then.

Having said all this, if the Alaska Report is correct they will get tremendous credit for being the first to report what could be a huge story. I for one hope the story turns out to be false. I may disagree with nearly all of Palin's views but I would hate for a family with that many children to be split with divorce."



This begins to sound like a ripoff of "Jon & Kate Plus Eight"! (How 'bout "Todd & Sarah Plus Two-Pair-ah Plus a Spare-ah"?)

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Alice
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 05:21 PM

Along with that rumor are the rumors that she threw her wedding ring into the lake and has purchased land in Montana. I HOPE SHE HASN'T bought land in Montana!! We don't want her here!

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Alice
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 05:23 PM

Huffington Post article, Palins Divorce???

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 06:56 PM

SO... there is hope?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: SharonA
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 07:23 PM

Apparently so, gnu. If you wanna go after a woman who names her kid after a branch of mathematics, hey, who am I to judge? Follow that rainbow.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Alice
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 07:52 PM

oh.... I thought Trig was named after Trigger, you know, as in gun, or maybe the horse.

LOL

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 08:03 PM

Chongo's been talking about what he would name his kids if he had some.

The boys...

"Pocket"
"Gat"
and
"Roscoe"

The girls...

"Limpid"
"Dish"
and
"Mairsey"

I see more and more in common between him and Sarah Palin, and I think they'd be an amazing presidential team.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Amos
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 08:23 PM

Hard to say which is the cartoon, and which the imaginary playmate...



A

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 08:28 PM

Hey... I don't wanna marry her... I just

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 10:02 PM

Gnu-

You have your mission.

Make an honest women of Sister Palin.

Now I really need some sleep!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 11:48 AM

Gnu, I have decided to step aside and give you free rein to make your play for the ravishing Mrs Palin. After all, I'm busy enough courting the delightful and irresistible Winona Ryder that I can't really handle the conflict of interest. So good luck! If you do succeed in your objective, pass on a message from Chongo. It is: "We need YOU, Sarah Palin, for the Primate Party of America in 2012!"

Subject: RE: BS: View of Governor Parnell
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 12:03 PM

Governor Parnell is known to be as conservative as former Governor Palin but he has a very different style. When he lived in Juneau's Starr Hill neighborhood he made good friends here.

"Gov. Sean Parnell's first week in office was spent mending fences and rebuilding bridges between the governor's office and Juneau, just as local residents had hoped he would when he assumed the role.
Parnell appeared genuine and sincere this week when he made a commitment to work with local lawmakers and residents for the betterment of our city and state as a whole. That much was apparent at Thursday's Chamber of Commerce luncheon when residents packed the Moose Lodge to standing-room-only capacity to greet their new governor.

"Parnell knew exactly what the city's residents wanted - and needed - to hear: He's committed to working and living in Juneau. Family obligations (his eldest daughter is a high school senior) will keep Parnell from living in Juneau full-time in the immediate future, though he has pledged "to spend a majority of his time here.."

So Far, So Good

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 12:09 PM

Local Cartoonist's View

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 10:04 PM

Ebbie - Do you think Parnell will try to distance himself from Sarah Palin? And do you suspect he will try to cover her tail for some of the allegations that have been made against her?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 11:07 PM

I doubt very much, Rig, that he will bad-mouth her; for one thing, it wouldn't be good politics.

On the other hand, just by changing some things that she did he is already acknowledging that he doesn't agree with her.

Parnell lived for at least 8 years in Juneau and is good friends with a number of people I know. Even though he himself is a Republican, his father was an influential Democratic
Parnell has the reputation of being a pragmatist, he works toward the goal. He also does not have the reputation of being vindictive.

So, yes, we have hopes that a new day has dawned.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Amos
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 11:31 PM

The good people of Alaska may be proud.

How many of them, BTW, voted for the Palin ticket vs. the Obama one?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 03:08 AM

I just checked, Amos-

192,631 McCain/Palin
122,485 Obama/Biden

59.8% vs. 38%

Alaska is a conservative state. Weird, even. Take a look at some of the people she has elected over the years.

By the way, I bobbled the previous post, and lost some of it in addition. I had said that Governor Parnell's father was an influential Democratic legislator.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 12:50 PM

It's that rural White-guy thing, Ebbie. Ya find a lotta conservatives in them frontier kinda states where there is a lotta country and not much city. They grow up thinkin' they are all Daniel Boone or Clint Eastwood or somethin' and they just naturally vote fer the guys like McCain or Reagan or Bush...you know, White-guy cowboy cement-head stereotypes. They distrust anybody who don't fit their Dodge City mentality that they got from the old TV shows.

You know how many votes the Primate Party pulled in Alaska when I ran fer president in 2008?

Twelve!

That tells ya what's goin' on right there. I happen to know fer a fact that there are thirteen chimps of voting age in the whole friggin' state of Alaska. Not one human Alaskan voted for REAL change in Washington in 2008!!!!!

Furthermore, when I find the one damn chimp who voted against us there, I am gonna kick his ass!

You don't need to "see Russia" to know that somethin' is way off the beam in Alaska. If I was president, I'd sell the state to Canada at a bargain basement price they couldn't refuse and be done with it. It don't make no sense havin' that place in the Union nohow anyway if ya ask me. It's too far north. You look at it on a map and you can see it was a stupid idea.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Amos
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 12:54 PM

LOL!! Chongo demonstrates his profound political sensibility.

WHile we're at it could we give back Louisiana, Mister Chongo?? Why do we need a bunch of French land in the good ole Yew Ess of Ay, I ask you???


A

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 01:13 PM

Yeah, he's "profound", all right... ;-) The trouble with Chongo is, he's way too honest to get elected. I have to teach him more about saying what the people want to hear than what he really thinks for gosh sakes!, and then get him some good speech writers. It'll be a really tough makeover to get Chongo to a place where he can appeal to Middle America and break out of the narrow species-defined image that's holding him back. Really tough. We're talkin' Olympic-level tough here. We're talking putting an 18-wheeler through the eye of a needle. Making Madonna acceptable to the Ayatollah. Getting Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden to sit down and have a beer together. Convincing Bearded Bruce and Doug R that a massive input of socialism is what America really needs.

TOUGH!!!

Maybe I should call up Karl Rove and see if he has some ideas on what could be done?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 01:28 PM

Well, the way I see it with Louisiana, I don't see no problem there. Fer one thing, it's directly attached to the rest of the USA and it's between Texas and Mississippi. If we was to sell it back (not GIVE it back!) to the French, that could be a dangerous situation further down the road and it could lead to some future war with them beret-wearin' Pepe Le Pewers and they might temporarily block traffic on the Mississippi if that was to happen.

Now, while I am 100% confident we could decisively win such a war with the Quiche-eaters and take Louisiana back from the French, I can't see the point in gettin' into such a sticky situation in the first place. No sir. I have been to Louisiana. They got a great club scene down there. It's warm in Louisiana. That's another big plus. I also got quite a few votes from Louisiana last time so I think there are some progressive elements there that oughta be encouraged to flourish. One day soon you may see a chimp governor of that state. That's my prediction. Possibly even a gorilla in the governor's chair...but I'm hopin' for a chimp.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 01:59 PM

Why do you want a chump in the Governor's chair? Thought it was already tried.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 02:02 PM

That was a champ!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 02:12 PM

OH. A chomp? It ain't a dining room.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 04:53 PM

When it comes to Alaska, the Chump is onto something there.

A great many - a GREAT many - people came to Alaska in search of the freedom they thought that Alaska typified. A good many of them had trouble fitting in in their own towns and states and they headed north with a dream of building a cabin in the woods someplace and living off the land with no regulations and therefore no more run-ins with the law.

Things have changed, but they tend to vote for those politicians who still talk the good fight.

I've met a few of them and that's how I see it.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 07:15 AM

"...people came to Alaska in search of the freedom they thought that Alaska typified. A good many of them had trouble fitting in in their own towns and states and they headed north with a dream of building a cabin in the woods someplace and living off the land with no regulations and therefore no more run-ins with the law."


                      Like Tom Bodett, for instance!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 11:08 AM

Tom Bodett? I don't know of any trouble he has in fitting in. Amplify?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 01:22 PM

I didn't mean to imply he had trouble fitting in. He says in his bio, something to the effect, he was trying to escape, started driving north, and ended up at the "end of the road."

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 05:15 PM

He has accomplished more at the end of the road than most of us do.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 06:25 PM

That's very true, Ebbie.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: mg
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 10:33 PM

isn't he the motel 6 guy? mg

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Alice
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 10:37 PM

Yup....
they'll keep the light on for ya.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:07 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:11 PM

Shine the light.

But, her raw fémme is just so intoxicating that my head swims when I see her. She is just so... librarian. My knees go weak and my... nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: robomatic
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:29 PM

Well, given the shape of Alaska and the position of Alaska, not long after moving up here I started describing Alaska as the great continental lobster trap, a lot of folks who don't fit in down south knock about and by various circumstances find their way up here, and maybe they don't fit in up here but it takes a modicum of competence to get together the werewithal to get yourself out again, which is the problem that lobsters have in the two-chambered traps they use back east.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 08:19 AM

Well, there seems to be a lot of speculation that Sarah Palin resigned for the purpose of "getting out."

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 08:49 AM

drill baby drill
quit baby quit


she has 980 speaking engagment requests.

She is getting over $100K for her talk in Hong Kong, or is it Taiwan.

The formula of cashing in as a celebrity who is famous for being famous, as well as being exceptionally dumb, is working for Sarah even better than it worked for Brittany.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 10:28 AM

My guess is that Palin will stress this question:

"3. Foreign policy vs. national security. National security is the main issue for some Republicans. America's world standing and relationships with other countries, to them, is almost the same thing as its national security. Palin could satisfy a chunk of her base by talking more about terrorism than anything else."

And run into a spot of trouble with this:

"4. How will she deal with China? Being in China, one almost has to say something about it. Hillary Clinton has taken some heat for not speaking out against Chinese human rights abuses; will Palin touch it? In a Democratic debate last year, candidates agreed that China is neither friend nor foe, but a strategic competitor. Will Palin lay out a vision of how the U.S. and China should interact?"

If she shows up.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/08/palin_goes_to_hong_kongwhat_will_she_say.php

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 10:32 AM

Dumb? Probably not. She was smart enough to be elected governor. Palin was certainly not presidential material and may never be but calling her dumb is very short-sighted. As with most politicians,Palin's handlers will have their hands full if they expect her to run in 2012 but don't be foolish enough to dismiss her chances.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 11:15 AM

Being famous for being famous is an interesting phenomenon that we've been seeing more of lately. Or at least it seems that way. I think the best example of it ever is Paris Hilton, but Sarah Palin is quite accomplished in that respect as well.

I agree, gnu, that she is just sooooooo librarian that, well, it takes my breath away!

Nevertheless, I am going to restrain myself and keep focusing on Winona Ryder.

Only a long life of intense spiritual discipline has given me the strength to avoid being utterly swept away and overwhelmed by the devastating charms of Sarah Palin.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 12:21 PM

"Hillary Clinton has taken some heat for not speaking out against Chinese human rights abuses; will Palin touch it?"

             When Condoleeza(sp?) Rice was in China she insisted on going to church. I thought that was pretty stupid.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 12:31 PM

Perhaps her religion requires her to attend mass once a week?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Jamming With Ollie Beak (inactive)
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 12:41 PM

I see no problem with Ms Rice attending church, no matter where she maybe. The Christian church, in China, is very much an underground thing, very much the way Christianity was in the beginning.

Charlotte Olivia Robertson (Ms)
yes I have visited China myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 01:21 PM

So which church did she to to?

Maybe she did it just to bug you, Riginslinger. ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 01:22 PM

Word does get around, you know, Rig. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 01:46 PM

OK SINSULL maybe she should not be called dumb in the same way that you can't cure stupid, but rather she is globally ill-informed and completely immersed in the evangelical culture war seccesionist fear mongering kind of dumb.

The difference is subtle though. Its like the difference of your leg being numb or simply feeling it has "fallen asleep".

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 01:59 PM

"So which church did she to to?"

       I don't recall, but the whole thing was just too, too!