rssPalin Wrap, Because MSNBC Didn’t Care
Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 8:52 pm
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said goodbye to her constituents Sunday afternoon and handed off the baton to Lieutenant Gov. Sean Parnell. Explaining her puzzling move, Palin cited her inability to get anything done as a lame duck — though her term would have ended in about a year and a half.
After a few jabs at the press, Palin ran through a laundry list of her accomplishments in office, including an ethics reform package (which, ironically, she now names as one reason for leaving office early, as “frivolous” complaints dog her) and kick-starting a public-private natural gas pipeline project — a longtime dream for the state. Palin, with a near unanimous vote in the legislature last year, has the state on the hook for $500 million for a completed proposal. The building portion will take years and billions of dollars, if it actually happens at all.
Certainly she was trying to end on good terms with Alaskans, but she didn’t forget about the CNN crew either. Since announcing her decision to leave office earlier this month, Palin’s been positioning herself as an “energy expert,” quickly penning on op-ed for The Washington Post that blasted President Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plans. She spent a good portion of her address today talking about “renewables,” her gas pipeline project and the need to tap into Alaska’s natural resources (but she did not invoke her 2008 campaign mantra, “Drill Baby, Drill”). She also claimed Alaska could wean itself off earmarks if it were allowed to more fully tap its energy sources. (Palin has taken credit for being an earmark reformer, despite many, many examples to the contrary.)
Arguably, her farewell speech’s best moment came when she tossed the crowd some red-meat on gun control. Blasting wildlife groups that recruit “Hollywood starlets” to run campaigns against her record on hunting rights — presumably referring to the Defenders of Wildlife attack ad describing Palin’s wolf bounty proposal (cash for every severed left foreleg turned in by hunters) — Palin yelled to the crowd, “We eat, therefore we hunt.”
Surprisingly, she steered clear of one of her signature issues, abortion. During her 2006 gubernatorial bid, she tended to avoid talking about her abortion views (its not a rallying point among Alaskans). On the 2008 trail the issue became part of her national persona and she had an arsenal of euphemisms and suggestive anecdotes, like “culture of life,” and her continued talk of her son Trig, born with Downs syndrome, that made her point (none of which came up today). As TWI’s David Weigel recently reported, anti-abortion rights activists are eager to welcome her aboard. With her sights apparently set on cementing herself as a national figure and legions of devoted fans supporting her, today’s goodbye is almost certainly not the end.
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Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 1:12 am
The resignation ceremony itself was dignified yet highly emotional.
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Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 2:04 am
“Palin yelled to the crowd, 'We eat, therefore we hunt.'”
http://washingtonindependent.com/52639/palin-wr…
You have got to be kidding me.
At some point, Sarah Palin became more surreal than the Sarah Palin Tina Fey played. That point, for me, was the bailout answer that ended up talking about trade sector jobs.
But, until I read the above, I would not have thought you could sneak a surprising Palinism by me. That has to be the wildest video footage. Makes me wish I'd seen it.
HEY! I now figured out what's behind the birther nonsense! This was all something Sarah Palin arranged with her followers via Twitter. She told them to stir up this birth certificate thing to distract the press from writing her obituary for the 20 days between I Quit and I'm Leaving.
It makes more sense than anything the birthers say!
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 3:35 am
Palin's exit speech was filled with platitudes and misdirection – for the initial, biggets lie, she claimed to be leaving so as not to be a lame duck! – even though the Alaska constitution allows two terms, as does the US Constitution.
Suhe took credit for a lot of things she hasn't done, and claimed to be able to be leaving so as to help Alaska more as her ex-Governor, than as her present Governor.
One has to wonder what is yet to come – indictments, more ethics charges? She likely knows more than the admits, and seems to be getting out while the going is still good.
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 7:29 am
Think t was H.S: Thompson who coined the phrase: “We kill the ones who eat us, and eat the ones we kill”…
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 10:21 am
Read “being there” by Jersy Kosinski!!! This stupid bitch Palin is like Chance the Garderner… And it proves that Americans are equally stupid giving this woman the time of day…. We are in the Bread and Circuses phase of our Empire…. In China and Russia they just gotta be laughing out loud… “We took these ignorant bastards over without firing a shot.” But look on the bright side America… It's not everyday you get to witness the demise of an Empire…. Jail Bush and Impeach Obama!!! I'm gonna organize a Revolution as soon as I finish watching Entertainment Tonight and reading the latest issue of People magazine…. Adios losers!!
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
Sarah Palin is a total airhead who should be an embarrassment to the Republican party. Her popularity with the lost party is evidence how much they are in trouble. The only thing I like about her is the entertainment value she provides with her blovating. Stupid dumb bitch is a good description of this woman. She is a quitter and does not deserve the attention she is getting>>the only reason she gets the attention is for fodder!
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 1:03 am
Oh! Patrick you are so bitter? I guess you have met Palin and know her so well to use the B word. She is a very strong woman ,who instead of aborting her baby that she knew was retarded, opted instead to have her child. The media has not only attacked Palin for being illiterate and not elitest enough for many on the East Coast, they have went down to the sewer in talking about her daughters in derogatory terms on national T.V. Some really terrible writings about the Palins' baby on the Huffington Report. WHY? I wrote and told them to not send me anything else on my e-mail. ? Do I really care anymore then Palin cares about how the media has reacted to her stepping down as Governor and why? She cared enough for her beautiful state to step down and try to stop the idiocy and to try to protect her husband, children, family and many many friends of Alaska. Palin will return not as a candidate for 2012, but someday she will be back stronger than ever.
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 6:50 am
It is a mystery why some Americans still have a propensity to take a person at their word and accept it as gospel without question. One would think after 8 years of Bush and Cheney's obfuscation, drama, mistruths, fabrication, propaganda people would have learned not to take anyone on face value alone, but always verify instead. Unfortunately that lesson went unheeded.
I would imagine Sarah is capable of discerning between frivolous and credible, but apparently her supporters take Sarah at face value, the facts be damned.
If Sarah says the ethics charges filed against her were frivolous, even though two investigations — that we know about — concluded the governor had abused her power, Sarah's supporters without question believe her.
If Sarah says she was cleared of all ethics charges, even though she had to reimburse the state for her children's travel expenses and per diem expenses — which her supporters — probably do not know or even if they did — will unquestionably believe her. And little if anything will convince them otherwise.
Would someone please ask Sarah to define frivolous because using the ethics process to protect herself and spending public resources to obstruct investigations are hardly frivolous matters; they are by definition an abuse of power.
Perhaps someone ought to explain that to Palin's supporters, but then again it would probably be a waste of time … because … for them, Sarah can do no wrong, despite facts to the contrary.
A motto to learn to live by: Verify first; then, if warranted, trust.
Because in a nutshell: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
So basically she's leaving because she doesn't want to be a “lame duck.” Her argument is that since she decided not to run for a second term, her first term is therefore her “lame duck” term, which means she's been a lame duck all this time.
This is probably the dumbest excuse to quit that I've ever heard. Why run for governor in the first place? No matter how you do it, you'll always have a final term.
Comment posted July 29, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
She is a quitter! Her family was put out there by her and used to create her image. If she did not want the attention, she should have left them out of the media exposure. If I had voted for her, I would be angry for her quitting, but the anti-abortion conservative movement loves her because she is the only woman they have in the public eye. I hope she sticks around. I have never seen anyone who creates such great comedy.
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Comment posted September 30, 2010 @ 8:28 am
This is probably the dumbest excuse to quit that I've ever heard. Why run for governor in the first place? No matter how you do it, you'll always have a final term.
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