Palin resigns. Pundits ask, what did she mean by that?

Steve.W

Never understood the fuss about Sarah Palin, I've always preferred Tina Fey.

Tiberius

My money says she's simply quitting.

She has seen the history of the British Conservative party from 1997 to 2005, and has in consequence decided that it's the hockey-mom life for her.

paul holdstock

she certainly put the alas into alaska.
i suspect putting the virgin into virginia, may prove beyond her.

Verity

"And whatever one thinks of Palin,". Why aren't you writing for The New Statesman? She was a dynamite candidate, and if it hadn't been that McCain, a guaranteed loser, was running for President, she would be in office right now. The problem was McCain, not Palin, no matter what Andrew Sullivan, with his vast, encyclopaedic knowledge of women, thinks.

"John McCain’s selection of Palin as his VP came out of the blue;". No it didn't. Friends and I had had been betting on her for months.

"it will never deliver the White House."

Oh, really? If a scumbag and terrorist-regime sympathiserlike Obama, whose sound political experience consisted of being in the Illinois Senate for 12 years and boldly voting "present" for all those years, my cat could get into the White House.

You need to get mentally outside the Beltway, James, although we know you love it in there.

Gordon

Are there any seats in the House of Representatives or Senate likely to be up for grabs in the near future?

Suki

Again and again Obama is lampooned for his political views, political connections and political history.

Yet the opposite is true of this woman. All most people know of her is a handful of personal details because of spite like this:

'At 6pm EDT on Friday, July 3, a Huffington Post writer named Erik Sean Nelson posted an essay with the following title:

"Palin Will Run in 2012 on More Retardation Platform"

In the article Nelson says that Palin "will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people." In an obvious reference to Palin's son Trig, who has Downs Syndrome, Nelson further speculated on what Palin could achieve as president:

"Her policies will increase jobs because Wal-Mart is building new stores each day and someone has to be the greeter."

Nelson continues:

"She will then encourage women to hold off on pregnancies until their 40's just to mix up some chromosomes."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/huffpo_writer_palin_to_run_on.html

All politicians are open to some personal lampooning, but during the last campaign and now still, I have never seen anything like this. Can you imagine people making jokes like this about the family of David Cameron?

Greg Noonan

James--
I wouldn't be surprised to see her ultimately abandon her aspirations for higher office in exchange for a disastrously influential role as a conservative media star (a la Glen Beck, Limbaugh, etc.)

That said, if the GOP can't keep her down and out in 2012, then there's nothing to say other than the party has lost any serious desire to win.

Annette

Sarah Palin, a devout Christian, has been subjected to vile and sustained abuse by many in the main stream media on both sides of the Atlantic and by liberal commentators worldwide. It is no wonder that she may have decided that the game is not worth the candle, not least because of the harm to her own family. This is the woman who, in the words of the 'Investor's Business Daily' had already 'effectively beaten back the ambitious petro-tyrants 10 years early', by establishing a 1715- mile gas pipeline across Canada. For 30 years there had been disarray in the Alaska Statehouse about this question; along came Sarah and clinched the deal. Nothing in Mr. Obama's political record is comparable to this achievement and it is not Palin's only success.If she is indeed abandoning politics it is America's loss, and ours too.

Julianlzb87

"It was only under more in-depth questioning that everything began to fall apart."

LOL

Verity

paul holdstock - You are a woman hater who got a little thrill out of writing your post. Get one back on women, eh? Are you gay (I doubt it; gays usually like women), or do you feel that women have too much power over you?

Greg asks, with depressing ignorance, whether there are any seats in the House or Senate coming up. Duh. So she's suddenly going to stand as a senator from S Carolina or Kansas? This beggars belief.

I am in utter accord with Annette. I endorse every word she has written.

And how very illuminating how many gynaephobics are posting here.

strapworld

This shows that the politics that Brown and Balls (helped geatly by Whelan and McBride) play can work!

Obama let the dogs on her. McCain and his friends tried to blame her for his hopeless campaign. Goodness me she was the only good thing the Republicans had going for them!.

Obama is America's Blair. All sounbites, no substance and extremely brave with other peoples (soldiers) lives! In fact quite a coward.

As people will discover with Cameron. Same mould!!

We will learn. Obama will not come to our aid should we need it whilst he is in charge.

Cameron will prove a total disaster and last, if elected, three years!
What a disaster!

Mrs Palin. I wish you every success in whatever you decide to do.

dearieme

With five children, one handicapped, perhaps she felt that she had to choose between being in politics and having nannies raise the children, or bowing out.

JONNY

'She was a dynamite candidate, and if it hadn't been that McCain, a guaranteed loser,'...

Thought you were telling us last October McCain was a shoo-in.
Consistency, Verity.
Consistency

Ross Warren

I think it’s down to legal costs getting out of control. She appears to be something of a failed vice presidential candidate with enemies gunning to bankrupt her.

TGF UKIP

Well said indeed, Verity. Fair to say, I think James, that you have, to put it very mildly, not been an admirer of S Palin since McCain appointed her back last year. (My God, though doesn't it seem more like years ago!) And you are, as Verity points out, simply wrong to say she came "out of the blue" when Bill Kristol at least had been promoting her cause every week on FNS, and no doubt in the Weekly Standard, for months prior.

Your contention too that "under more in-depth questioning everything began to fall apart" is also to say the least arguable. It might be far more accurate to say that everthing was represented by the transatlantic MSM as falling apart.

As far as what may happen now, well I must say that I generally have more respect for Bill Kristol's judgment than that of some of the Obama cheerleaders you present on here from time to time as "conservatives", James.

TGF UKIP

Tiberius, perhaps, on the other hand, having seen what's happened to the British "Conservative" Party post December 2005, she is determined to prevent the same thing happening to the GOP.

Which is probably the real reason why James would be so delighted to see the back of Ms Palin.

Josh

I hope she does run. I like Palin. Unlike Bush, she is a fiscal conservative who actually balanced the budget in Alaska. I agree with her on the issues of abortion, not gay issues. At least she is her own woman, not some homogenised career politician with no experience of the real world. I'd prefer Ron Paul as President, but the GOP isn't going to choose him because he is far too coherent and intelligent for them.

Go Palin!!!

P.S And what is better than a gorgeous woman who shoots and hunts? That is the best combination for me... babe + guns = fantastic brilliance

Searcher

Verity - normally I'm with you on most issues, but on this one: a "dynamite candidate"? - only insofar as she blew up McCain's campaign. Granted, McCain was a weak candidate. And at first, the surprise impact of Palin gave him a boost. But pretty soon it dawned on US voters that "I can see Russia from my house" was a little too close to the reality of Palin's worldview for comfort.

And just so you know, I'm not too happy that America now has it's first socialist president. But don't blame it on McCain being a loser. Except for his loser pick of Palin.

Never mind the electoral college. On the popular vote, a better VP candidate might have made the difference, even for "loser" McCain.

Verity

Well said, Suki! And Strapworld, I endorse every point you have made above.

Dearieme: "...having nannies raise the children,". Governor Palin has family, as well as herself, raising the children.

Jonny - No. I never thought McCain was a shoo-in. I always thought he was a loser, too old and had spent too much time "reaching across the aisle". In other words, I thought that McCain was what Mark Steyn now styles an "emir of Incumbistan".

Josh - just to make your day complete, she also rides a Harley. I felt you should know this. And pilots her own seaplane, alone, over the vast, vast icy expanses of Alaska, to visit remote areas, and lands it herself on water.

Kennybhoy

Sincerest thanks to whoever let paul holdstock's witty wee post through. A genuine insight into the left-liberal soul.

Kennybhoy

"Why aren't you writing for The New Statesman?"

Gie the deil his due Verity. Unlike his colleague over by he did actually mention, and even condemn, the treatment meted out to Governor Palin.

Tiberius. I do hear you. At the present time, perhaps even for the foreseeable future,nobody stands a chance against Obama. The Republican nomination for 2012 may very well be a poison chalice....

"This shows that the politics that Brown and Balls (helped geatly by Whelan and McBride) play can work!"

Balls!(No pun intended!) Say whatever you like about the present state of our poor country, and believe me I frequently do say it, the sort of attacks mounted on Governor Palin by the US mainstream media would potentially land you behind bars in Britain! Can you seriously imagine jokes about the gang rape of political candidates (Sandra Bernhard) or the violation of her fourteen year old (David Letterman) over here? Thank God our public discourse isnae yet THAT depraved!

THX1138

I see that Verity & Suki are playing the victim card it's all the fault of the misogynist left wing media....Pathetic!

Palin had this to say on woman in politics went it suited her:

“Nobody should have hurt feelings! My goodness, this is politics! Politics is rough and tumble, and people need to get thick skin, just like I’ve got,”

or

You've got to know what you're getting into....any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism...I think, man, that doesn't do us any good, women in politics, women in general, wanting to progress this country."

Why did she go? She has shrugged of scandal in the past and national embarrassment. She kept the governorship when she had her Down's Syndrome child Trig, and when she was asked to be VP. She didn't put her family first when she ran at McCain's side even though she knew what that would entail for her children especially for her unmarried pregnant daughter Bristol.

She is supposed to be hard as nails "what's the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom? Lipstick. ...

Something is coming down the pipe I can smell it, The Beast reporting issues with the first dude and kick backs from building contractors.

I so hope it's scandal sex & money would be my preferred option but I'll take what ever is going.

Craig Strachan

Verity: "So she's suddenly going to stand as a senator from S Carolina or Kansas? This beggars belief."

Or maybe she could carpet-bag to New York, like Hillary?

Verity

Kennybhoy - "Say whatever you like about the present state of our poor country, and believe me I frequently do say it, the sort of attacks mounted on Governor Palin by the US mainstream media would potentially land you behind bars in Britain!"

Oh, really?

Elected representatives can steal out of wage-earners pockets to improve their homes and enrich themselves without even a reprimand, never mind legal action, and you really believe that some of the vicious lefty garbage hurled at Governor Palin would earn someone a prison sentence in Britain???

Think again.

If fat, ugly, unfunny, ambulatory sceptic tank Jo Brand had made those remarks, are you seriously suggesting that she would have been arrested? Never mind convicted? Seriously?

Kennybhoy

THX1138.

Do you have any bairns...?

Kennybhoy

PS To Speccie Techie in the basement.

What happened to my post saying that I would remember poor paul holdstock in my prayers? Is the expression of Christian charity forbidden hereabouts? Do you find it offensive or embarassing or maybe both...?

Verity

Craig Strachan - I never understood how Hillary did that. Assumed it was something to do with Bill having some favours to call in.

In fact, I've never understood anything about Hillary and her "vast right wing conspiracy" and her amazement that Bill might have been misbehaving in the Oval Office given that she had been talking about "bimbo eruptions" since Arkansas.

Don't know how Hillary carpet-bagged NY.

Fortunata

Do some reading, James. Since the end of the 'o8 campaign she's been subjected to 15 "ethics violation" lawsuits, because of an Alaskan law that says public officials can be sued by members of public on the taxpayers' money. She's won all of them so far, 15-0, but how can she effectively govern when Obama's people are out to destroy her? Now, they'll have to sue on their own dime and are liable to a countersuit. I'm not even going to repeat the vile "jokes" about her 1-year old or her daughters.
She's changing the game to one she can win, in an elected capacity or not.
Here's her 4th July speech, difficult for beltway insiders to understand, but not for the rest of us: http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/07/gov-palin-happy-4th-of-july-from-alaska.html

Nick

Verity....Hazel Blears rides a Harley. Surely you don't think that suggests she is suitable for high political office ?

Susan Hill

Well I belong to the Sarah Palin supporters group and there was a desperate appeal for money from us last week... it read like a last ditch attempt to keep her show on the road. Whether or not you are a Palin supporter, you cannot disagree that 1. she was hugely popular with ordinary people who wanted some truths spoken out during the last campaign.. a popularity which many of my US friends pointed out to me a the time, but which, as someone said above, was never acknowledged in the MSM on either side of the Pond, and 2. she was vilified , with Obama's tacit support, more than was fair, reasonable or moral, even in the dirty gloves off world of politics. It is true, if anyone had said any of the thing about David Cameron's son - anyone's disabled child - that were publicly said about Sarah Palin and hers, they would and should have been prosecuted. Just change the words used to 'black' and use them against Obama and see what they sound like. It was appalling to see and Sarah P acted with dignity and grace in the face of it all. Maybe that was the problem.
But I doubt she will simply leave the stage.. one way or another, she'll be back. If I were you I would watch that space.

Kennybhoy

Verity,

Do you “really”, “seriously” even, believe that financial corruption is comparable to the filth spewed out by the likes of Bernhard and Letterman? That cheating on one’s expenses is on a par with criminally obscene and defamatory “jokes” about gang rape or “knocking up” a fourteen year old or mocking a handicapped bairn?

Think again!

Did any British politician or media commentator so mock David Cameron’s wee boy, God keep him? If the likes of say, for example, the odious Jonathan Ross or his vile pal Brand had made any such comments in Britain the polis and the courts would be the least of their worries! They would be lynched!

PS “..ambulatory septic tank..” Hee, hee, hee! Nice one!

Kennybhoy

Susan wrote

"It was appalling to see and Sarah P acted with dignity and grace in the face of it all. Maybe that was the problem.”

Indeed. Further to what I just wrote above. Even in the US she could have gone after the worst offenders such as Letterman and CBS and done a Dan Rather on them. But such a course would of necessity have led to even more prolonged and unbearable pressure on her children. In my opinion she has done the right thing.

I pray that she does come back at some time in the future. She is young enough. Even an eight year break would only see her into her early 50s.

JONNY

Have to admit though, if I may be so bold, and against my better judgement, that seeing her again confirms my original feeling. That she vibrates with what I can only call ' a certain sexual electricity'.
Bit different from Harriet Harman or our old friend, Jackboot Jacqui.

THX1138

Kennybhoy

Do you have any bairns...?

Yes - So what I'm not in Politics .

Palin pushed her kids front and centre when if suited her, remember the convention, with the whole dysfunctional brood paraded before the nation.

Palin must have known what was coming after all she witnessed the unrelenting and frenzied attack on the Clintons including Chelsea from her side, Rush Called Chelsea "The Whitehouse dog" and McCain said this of Chelsea at a GOP fundraiser "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."

Palin signed on to a campaign that included Tucker Eskew who had previously spread rumours for the Bush Campaign in the 2000 South Carolina GOP Primary ironically against McCain, that Cindy was a drug-addict and that his daughter Bridget McCain was the illegitimate daughter of McCain and a South Asian prostitute.

All this faux pearl clutching is all rather nauseating.. Politics is a full contact sport always has been always will be.

Kildar

Verity,

Kudos to you for standing up to the sleazy anti-women commenters here.

Sarah Palin was a superb candidate who galvanized the Republican base. Once she began to assert herself within the McCain campaign she turned it into a success, hundreds of thousands of Americans were inspired to attend her rallies, which is an achievement no political analyst seems willing to look at. Republicans lost because McCain thought he could win by being nice to Democrats and presenting himself as a centre-ground candidate, in the face of a US media that was determined to lick Obama’s arse.

Like Reagan, Palin has shown herself to be of sound moral principles and to share the values of ordinary people. The Democrats and the US media (same thing really) hate and fear her and are running an ongoing campaign to destroy her. English journalists cannot seem to get beyond Obama worship to look at Sarah Palin’s real achievements and her very real charisma. To understand her would require them to do some research and look at the reality of the last US election and that is too much work. The snotty snobbery of lefty middle-class commenters here is transposed into the English journalist’s inability to understand a conviction politician who is not a member of “their” class.

I hope that Sarah Palin does run for President in 2012, if only because, in her forthright way, she might repair some of the terrible damage done by the vile Obama. More importantly she is currently the only politician in the Western Hemisphere who has the ability to restore ordinary people’s faith in democratic politics.

Verity

Fortuna (I assume a woman because of the final 'a'), Susan Hill, Kildar (I assume from her post, a woman) and many other women here have seen Sarah Palin for what she is: charismatic, unbudgeable in her principles - which include family values - and brave. I cannot think of a male polician on either side of the Atlantic who could have withstood that level of unrelenting personal abuse, and abuse of her nearest and dearest, for so long without cracking. But she didn't crack. Great big adult "comedians" were making fun of her little Downs Syndrome baby, for God's sake! They were making fun of her daughter for her illegitimate pregnancy - and holding it against Palin as though she had authorised it instead of it being one more thing she had to worry about while she was running for the Vice Presidency of the United States. The strength of this individual is phenomenal. She didn't crack. She is exactly what America (and the rest of us) needs in a chief executive. If she'd been running for President with Mr Reach-across-The Aisle McCain as VP, she might have pulled it off, even against the might of the MSM Obama arse-lickers. She was getting 60,000 people at a time turning up at her rallies, when McCain was getting a couple of thousand max.

That's partly what scared the MSM. They were frightened that the electorate was going to disobey them.

Whatever it is she is going to do next, she will excel in it and she definitely has my good wishes. (I hope she's intending to run against Obama. If she does, she'll win.)

Nick - Hazel Blears may ride a Harley, but she can't stop a charging moose at 20 paces with a single shot through the forehead. Next time you're in the vicinity of a charging moose, Palin is the one to be standing next to.

Conservative Cabbie

THX

"Politics is a full contact sport always has been always will be."

So it wasn't you that got upset when Obama was accused of hanging around with terrorists. You won't mid it when people call Obama a muslim or focus on the colour of his skin as a judgement of him. oh but wait, there's a difference. That would be going after Obama, not his children. How would you react to a full fronted racial attack on Obama's children. According to you, all's fair in politics.

Has everyone noticed that the left can't bring themselves to criticise calls to gang-rape Palin, statutorily rape her 14 year old or calling her the "c" word. The left are a moral-free zone when it suits. Strange though that during the campaign, they were so moral that even accusing Obama of socialism was a racist code word. The left are pathetic with their double standards.

TGF UKIP

Susan Hill, while I'm coming to the view that Romney will probably be the best GOP candidate to beat Obama in 2012, I will very happily contribute to the Palin cause.

If you would post the details I'll send my cheque.

THX1138

Conservative Cabbie- Calm down (in a scouse accent) I didn't say I agreed with it.

Your rant is the usual faux wingnut crap where was righteous indignation when from you when Palin supporters were carrying monkey dolls and she was throwing poison darts, as she did when she accused Barack Obama of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

To Quote Omar from the Wire

"The Game is the game"

And we won the game and your side is going down faster than a sinking soufle- Move on we had to in 2000

THX1138

The Racist code word was ACORN!

Conservative Cabbie

THX

But he does associate with terrorists who targeted this country. How does the truth compare to gang-rape?

THX1138

TGF I don't want to be too picky but I don't think you're allowed to make donations to US politicians or political campaigns unless you're a citizen. I remember the declaration on the Obama website I thought WTF but it picked up that I didn't have a US credit card.

I had to give my $50 Obama 08 donation via my American sister-in-law. Money well spent...:)

Kildar

Verity,

Thanks for you observation, I am actually a chap, but it is easy for me to see how important Sarah Palin is to the world, unlike some of the failed polytechnic lecturers who post here.

THX1138 (btw your handle just screams out pompous lefty baby-boomer) quoting the Wire may look clever but the problem with the quote is that the game is no longer the game.

The Democrats won in the Senate and Obama won the presidency because the entire US media bar Fox, openly supported them. Democracy requires a free press in order to flourish and the fact that we do not have one is a real worry for those of us living in the real world.

Obama played corrupt Chicago politics (including covering up his associations with known terrorists) and the US (and UK) media knowingly covered that up
on his behalf. At his instigation Sarah Palin and her family have been persecuted. The fact that the American media do this willingly makes no difference.

Socialism has been called “the politics of the spoilt child”. The lefty sense of entitlement says that they may break all the rules, spit on democracy, because they are “better” than ordinary decent people. The end result of this is that democracy will fail (some US think-tanks are already predicting this, starting in Europe) as decent people see themselves enslaved by the socialist state, their rights lost in bureaucracy and political correctness.

Sarah Palin is principled and tells the truth, that’s all it takes for weak men to hate her.

Kennybhoy

THX1138,

Cabbie has beaten me to the punch to large extent here, but anyways..

If you cannot or will not see any differrence in the quantity and, more especially, quality of abuse endured by the Palin family by comparison with previous such....?

You really need to take a look in the mirror man...

Incidentally, what ages are the weans? Boys? Girls?

There is something about the left-liberal fundamentalist mind set, the sense of self-worth, of ironclad self-righteousness that, like religous extremists past and present, seems to license extreme excess in this regard.

Are you by any chance a fan of that great liberal TV drama "The West Wing"? If you are, do you recall the Ainsley Hayes character's story arc?

Hysteria

THX - you mention - she accused Barack Obama of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

This is verifiable fact - or are you saying that Ayers was not involved with Obama, and/or Ayers was not involved in terrorism?

Kennybhoy

THX1138,

Cabbie has beaten me to the punch to large extent here, but anyways..

If you cannot or will not see any differrence in the quantity and, more especially, quality of abuse endured by the Palin family in comparison with previous such....?

You really need to take a look in the mirror man...

Incidentally, what ages are the weans? Boys? Girls?

There is something about the left-liberal fundamentalist mind set, the sense of self-worth, of ironclad self-righteousness that, like religous extremists past and present, seems to license extreme excess in this regard.

Are you by any chance a fan of that great liberal TV drama "The West Wing"? If you are, do you recall the Ainsley Hayes character's story arc?

Kennybhoy

Speccie Techie in the basement.

What are you doing to my posts?

Frank P

Dick Morris on Sarahg Palin:

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/dick_morris_sarah_palin/2009/07/03/231817.html?s=al&promo_code=82BC-1

Everybody's guessing!

jo joe jim jim III

VERITY - So what, a female made it into the spotlight. That doesn't mean you have to support her into the night typing like crazy on your laptop. Or are you posting all this because you work for her?

She is a moron. She is celebrity politics at its worst. She has no interest in the nuts and bolts of world politics and economics, she just likes to make a noise and pander to women voters such as yourself. Good grief, it is pathetic that she could get so far on such thin air policies and rhetoric, and even more pathetic that you would fall for her clap trap!

Just google "stupid sarah palin quotes", there are dozens of websites mocking her and her supporters like YOU with FACTUAL quotes she actually said. It is truly unbelievable a person so sheltered from the world could even think of taking a role in its management. Just read the verified quotes she said on national TV that are everywhere online and then tell me you want her leading the free world.

THX1138

Kildar- Blames the media cry me a river how predictably wingnut of you, the real reason Obama won and the Dems have both houses is far more obvious.

Americans voted in massive favour of Democrats in the last two elections and against Republicans is because they want Democratic policies and not Republican policies. Simple! The people" drove Republicans out of office in massive numbers because they don’t want Republicans and their policies governing the country.

You keep blaming the mean old media instead at looking at the real reason your side LOSE elections time after time and my side can keep on wining.

THX1138

Cabbie as you very well know half of the Chicago GOP establishment were on that education board with Ayres.

Including the GOP Grandee Leonore Annenberg, who went on to endorse John McCain.

jo joe jim jim III

VERITY

Here I did the search on your hero for you:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/11/03/sarah-palin-s-top-10-dumbest-quotes-115875-20866888/

Conservative Cabbie

THX

Ayers said after the election that he and Obama were friends. As for donations, you are right. You have to be an American citizen or resident to donate. I'm surprised you had a problem donating to Obama though. It was shown that unlike other political websites, it was quite possible to donate from abroad to Obama's campaign. All the security was switched off. I wonder why he did that?

Frank P

Verity

You must read this one; three-line-whip!

http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2009/07/04/feminists-and-the-mystery-of-sarah-palin/

h/t Gerard Vanderleun (American Digest blog)

Craig

Go to the story on the 'nailed it' link and look at the comments from Oscar, Verity, TGUKIP and others. Hilarious, especially when you know what came next.

Sarah

THX, you're better off sticking to taking crummy photos because you haven't produced a single fact to back up what you say.

Nobody has denied politicians are open to lampooning. What they have never seen before is someone's children put at the forefront of that lampooning. You might expect a handful of soft jokes about politicians’ children but not the spite we have seen directed at Palin’s.

You whine: “Palin pushed her kids front and centre when if suited her, remember the convention, with the whole dysfunctional brood paraded before the nation.”

So what? That is what happens at American political conventions.

How does that justify spiteful jokes about Down’s Syndrome?

You've been asked once and I'll ask you again - where are the examples of mainstream comedians and commentators making jokes about David Cameron's children?

Please furnish us with them and then we’ll believe there isn’t a disgraceful level of bias against Palin.

You think there is some gaping hypocrisy in this quote from Palin, where she said: “Nobody should have hurt feelings! My goodness, this is politics! Politics is rough and tumble, and people need to get thick skin, just like I’ve got” – There is nothing political in the attacks on her baby. They amount to nothing more than pure personal spite.

You go on: ‘She is supposed to be hard as nails "what's the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom? Lipstick.’ Again, what does it have to do with her baby? And how is her baby supposed to answer back?

As well as failing to give us any examples of any other politician who has a child with a disability who has been subjected to spiteful abuse about it by mainstream commentators or ‘comedians’, and failing to tell us why her baby should be vilified instead of her, you’re banging on about this:

“Something is coming down the pipe I can smell it, The Beast reporting issues with the first dude and kick backs from building contractors.
“I so hope it's scandal sex & money would be my preferred option but I'll take what ever is going.”

Well, where is this stink you promised us all? Sounds like it’s more like your own flatulence you’ve inhaled: FBI shoots down liberal bloggers on Palin 'investigation'.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/fbi_shoots_down_liberal_blogge.html

Craig

Do Palin's cheerleaders really think her ignorance would be an advantage if she was in power? And yes, she is ignoratn and has done nothing to educate herself since the election, as far as I can tell. The world is still divided into goodies (people like her) and baddies (everyone else)

Conservative Cabbie

Craig

"Do Palin's cheerleaders really think her ignorance would be an advantage if she was in power?"

I won't acknowledge the premise of your question, Palin is far from ignorant. But lets take your question on further. Is intellectual genius an advantage for those in power?

Barack Obama is regarded as an intellectual. So far this administration we have a failed (so far) stimulus to which Joe Biden admits the administration got their numbers wrong and we've had Obama himself changing his position on a daily basis over Iran.

How about Gordon Brown, someone else considered intellectual? How many restarts have we seen to his prime ministership? How many changes of direction, and u-turns have their been? And more to the point, how many bad decisions have their been?

What about Vietnam, the first war to be fought by technocratic politicians rather than generals. The political nature of the war was a disaster extending it by any number of years.

Good political leadership has very little to do with intellectualism, it is about the ability to make good decisions, to demonstrate competence and to have integrity. Whether Palin has those things is another debate, but as proof of what I'm saying I'd like to offer who I think have been the best two post-war Presidents: Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan, neither of whom could be considered intellectual but have those other qualities in spades.

Kennybhoy

Sarah,

That post was magnificent!

Respect.