Who is Sarah Palin?

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[quote=“Mother Theresa”]Top story this morning.

[quote]
Palin to Resign as Governor of Alaska

Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Friday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, fueling speculation that she is seriously weighing whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012. . . . [/quote]
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Bizarre and completely unexpected decision. But what does it mean? Is she more likely or less to make a serious attempt at the presidency?[/quote]

Or she’s got another corruption and bribery scandal to deal with, one that might finally end the one-party status of Alaska. Republican corruption has been endemic for years.

What, another “one in the oven” in her family?

Nieces and nephews should not be older than their aunts and uncles.

“Caribou Barbie” meets David Caruso of “NYPD Blue”.

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She’d probably get moist if it did.

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She will run for Pres in 2012. I cant stand that woman, Cant wait to hear no more about her. :astonished: :smiley:

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I’ve always assumed she would run for the nomination, and fail miserably. I mean, come on–the vice presidency was already enough of a stretch. She’s basically Mike Huckabee with tits…and with much less of a record. People laugh at her, like they did Dan Quayle.

Yes, running for president probably distracts candidates from their current jobs as senator or governor or whatever. But they’re generally willing to make that sacrifice! It seems that having a high-profile office now is better than having had one recently, for purpose of running for higher office. I dunno, makes you look more successful I guess. They’re like actors in that respect.

This time around, there’s little chance of her being nominated to the veep slot again. I mean, what candidate in their right mind would do that? So it’s the presidency or nothing.

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Can’t people just leave her alone? First the Letterman stuff, then the Vanity Fair article, and now this. She passed the ball off like a good point guard. She is advancing in a different direction. She loves Alaska too much to put it through two more years of this.

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It’s pretty understandable on quitting on her part since she was dealing with the following:

  1. Legal harassment, she’s gone 15 for 15 winning against complaints put against her, but has been bled dry from the legal fees from having to defend herself.
  2. No more late night jokes about her children being raped at a baseball game.
  3. McCain campaign staffers who royally screwed up his campaign, and that includes McCain btw, will no longer have any currency.
  4. No more attacks on her kids. This would have been big for me. Slander me all you want but leave my child alone.
  5. She’s young, 45, for a politician. Compare this with the antediluvians running Congress and she seems like a kid.
  6. No matter what, she is news, this woman sells and I can see a very rich future for her.

I liked this from campaignspot.nationalreview.com/

I have no doubt that the misogyny will continue however. I do think the R’s in the fever swamps that think Romney has a chance in 2012 are sorely uninformed.

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Does this surprise anybody? She’s the only hope the Republicans have.

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[quote]Does this surprise anybody? She’s the only hope the Republicans have.[/quote] Your lack of understanding and depth of knowledge is showing. I’m sure that someone somewhere is happy that you can regurgitate DailyKos and Huffpo talking points. I think you should of gone with the Joos, they do everything anyhow. :unamused:

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Thanks for putting me in my place.

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I thought you voted for McCain/Palin?

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Liberals don’t have “talking points”. :aiyo:

Anyway, if Palin is the GOP’s only hope, then the GOP are truly doomed.

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[quote=“Chewycorns”]

[quote]
That man is Thomas Clement Douglas, “Father of Canadian Medicare,” the leader of the first socialist government elected in North America and founding leader of the socialist New Democratic Party. … Douglas’s thesis for a master’s degree in sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, published in 1933, the year of his 30th birthday, reads like something out of “Mein Kampf.”

Applying good eugenics doctrine to his chosen land, the Scottish-born Douglas described at length and in painful detail his solution for Canada’s economic problems. Canadians must be bred scientifically, he said. People of lesser intelligence or deficient morality – natives, criminals, adulterers are specifically designated – should be sterilized. Homosexuals who persist in their perverse conduct should be incarcerated in insane asylums.
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And this was about the time that the Klan was running wild in the south, the after effects of slavery were still very closely dogging the USA, black soldiers and white soldiers fought in different regiments and travelled at home in different trains and busses, and overseas, the same things were being tried as the instutionalised racism of apartheid and the White Australia policies were being given their ground work, and so on. All this despite fighting a war to stop the Hitler monster, arguably the greatest eugenecist out there. You have to judge the man by the morality of his time, and by the reactions of his peers, even those of political persuasions that you feel represent you now. And there is no doubt that he was supported, as Hitler was, by many across all strands of politics, Witness Chamberlain.

There is also more than a slight moral difference between positive and negative eugenics, and in this mad world of overpopulation, perhaps it is better to restrict the number of children being born. One way to do that is with the one-child policy of China, another is by granting licenses to have more than a single child. Not that I am agreeing with forced sterilisation, etc.

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[quote=“urodacus”]
There is also more than a slight moral difference between positive and negative eugenics, and in this mad world of overpopulation, perhaps it is better to restrict the number of children being born. One way to do that is with the one-child policy of China, another is by granting licenses to have more than a single child. Not that I am agreeing with forced sterilisation, etc.[/quote]

It’s something the US should be looking into also. I present the 2009 American “Father” of the year (bolding mine).

[quote=“Fox News”]
Father Who Ditched Nine Kids Via Safe Haven Law Has Twins on the Way

The Nebraska man who abandoned his nine children under the state’s Safe Haven law last year is expecting to become the father of twins, FOXNews.com has learned.

Gary Staton, 37, became a single father in February 2007 when his wife, RebelJane, died of a cerebral aneurysm shortly after giving birth to the couple’s ninth child. Unable to handle the burden alone, Staton made national news more than a year later on Sept. 24 when he dropped off his children — ages 1 to 17 — at a hospital in Omaha. According to the law at the time, parents could hand children up to age 18 over to state custody without prosecution. Legislators would later amend the law to limit its reach to infants up to 30 days old. [/quote]

He gets rid of 9 kids by dropping them off at a hospital and now has impregnated his new girlfriend. This is the poster boy for sterilization. I’m sure you could get him to agree to it in return for a few tins of Copenhagen.

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While there maybe another shoe to drop (Sanford really wasn’t in Argentina, but another place that starts and ends with an"A"), I think the main reason is that she found out that governing is something you have to work at, and she found that too boring.

She was elected as somebody who was running against the Establishment, and it must have been a wild ride, coming up out of nowhere.

Then she gets to be governor through the oil boom, when all she basically had to do was handout welfare checks to everybody, then the VP campaign with all the wild adulation.

And after that, back to Alaska to face a crashing economy and difficult decisions. She gets into a series of bizarre fights, a lot of them personal, and has to look forward to another year and a half of humdrum governing.

Plus she can’t cash in while she’s still governor- I suspect a huge book contract, and possibly a Fox News Show- she’ll be able to fly around and stay in the spotlight, but she’s basically killed her chance for the next election.

Not even the Republicans will choose someone who found it too tough to keep on in her job as governor of a state with less than a million people.

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I see “chewycorns” is still talking out of his chewycornhole and is regurgitating lies. I previously demonstrated that Tommy Douglas did a 180 on eugenics and opposed it soon after he wrote the thesis when he saw the dangers of it with his own eyes. But to the revisionist and the liar, admitting Douglas corrected his mistake “isn’t necessary” if it’s ideologically inconvenient. cc is very much like the creationist clowns who claim evolutionary scientists still accept Piltdown Man.

If the NDP are “anti-semites”, the revisionist should name some. He can’t and won’t, but he makes the accusation because it’s easier to accuse than to refute. No doubt he won’t name any, or if the revisionist tries to slander some, they won’t be anti-semites he names. They’ll be critics of Israel’s illegal policies.

In recent unrelated news, tapes from the Nixon years White House were released showing how Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham felt about jews (1, 2).
. Given cc’s admitted political positions, he’s closer to Graham and Nixon’s views than what he accuses others of being.

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Fugg. Thank Christ we don’t have to listen any more to that nasal whining from the Guvnor. Now we get to look forward to another 3 years of presidentially hopeful gibberish and flat-out hyperbole.
If she’s the great white hope of the right, then they will surely get what they deserve! Have they none other than this gaping liar?

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Or maybe there’s more…

[quote]CNN and other major news outlets have reported that Sarah Palin has abruptly resigned as governor of Alaska. The suddenness of her announcement raises the question about whether Palin resigned to avert a major scandal. One logical place to start looking is the affair that has Alaska political circles buzzing: an alleged scandal centered around a building contractor, Spenard Building Supplies, with close ties to Palin and her husband, Todd.

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 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.

Prior to her sudden announcement, Palin gave every indication that she intended to complete her tenure as governor.[/quote]

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Though you would think it would be easier to fight off a scandal as a sitting governor.

And off course 4:00 in the afternoon on the eve of the Fourth of July long weekend is the perfect time to announce.

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There go her presidential hopes. Another Republican goes down in flames!

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She went down in fact free platitudes.

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She went down in fact free platitudes.[/quote]
just you lot wait! Till they turn it around!

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I see “chewycorns” is still talking out of his chewycornhole and is regurgitating lies. I previously demonstrated that Tommy Douglas did a 180 on eugenics and opposed it soon after he wrote the thesis when he saw the dangers of it with his own eyes. But to the revisionist and the liar, admitting Douglas corrected his mistake “isn’t necessary” if it’s ideologically inconvenient. cc is very much like the creationist clowns who claim evolutionary scientists still accept Piltdown Man.

If the NDP are “anti-semites”, the revisionist should name some. He can’t and won’t, but he makes the accusation because it’s easier to accuse than to refute. No doubt he won’t name any, or if the revisionist tries to slander some, they won’t be anti-semites he names. They’ll be critics of Israel’s illegal policies.

In recent unrelated news, tapes from the Nixon years White House were released showing how Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham felt about jews (1, 2).
. Given cc’s admitted political positions, he’s closer to Graham and Nixon’s views than what he accuses others of being.[/quote]

Honestly, I can’t get too excited about this. After all, these are the guys who linked Pepsi Cola to the Weather Underground because both of them us a round blue logo. There are drugs that deal with this, but I understand they make you very sleepy.