Video: Matalin thinks Palin is “brilliant” for resigning
posted at 6:30 pm on July 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
And now, just to be fair, the other side of the argument. Posted without editorial comment; you already know my opinion as someone who had never written a post critical of Palin before yesterday, and if you don’t, feel free to click on the links in the Top Picks column. Mary Matalin offers this analysis, transcript via Crooks & Liars:
MATALIN: Well, I think it’s really brilliant, with two caveats, one being that there’s nothing else, ala the Sanford fiasco. There’s nothing else that we don’t know. If all that’s there is what we see right now, it’s brilliant.
And, secondly, that she has a plan and people have a plan to put up with the conventional wisdom, chatterati and the political class saying how stupid it is, because it’s brilliant.
On the substance, there’s the key economic issue — I know everyone says — thinks it’s health care, but it’s really energy. And she’s the queen of energy.
And the second big issue for 2012 will be the role of government. And she has a record of reform and ethics reform and making government smaller and reigning in spending — all those issues that are getting increasingly important as Barack Obama expands on his agenda.
So — and her delivery was incredible — a charis — a less charismatic person probably couldn’t pull it off. But as — as already referenced, she will be freed up and liberated in the way Mitt Romney is here to run around and raise money and get political chips by spending it and get political capital. And she is still raising the kinds of crowds and money that she always did.
Follow the link to C&L if you want to hear a rebuttal from David Gergen and Ed Rollins, the latter of whom has been around Republican campaigns for a very long time.
Update: My caveat in the opening paragraph wasn’t about getting “beat up”; I’m a big boy, and I can take honest criticism. It’s correcting the falsehood in the comment strings that I’ve been a Palin-hater. If people actually read what I’ve written about Palin over the past year, nothing could be further from the truth. I’m going to give people my honest opinion, no matter what.
As for using the clip from C&L, er, so what? This segment is from CNN. I couldn’t find it on YouTube or on CNN’s site when I had a few minutes to post. Someone asked me if I would be fair and post Matalin’s defense after our criticism of Palin, and I posted what I could find of it.
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A bad one. English is the language that all residents should speak, unless they want to be ignorant and on the fringes of the greatest country on earth – what a waste of an opportunity!
Although….it’s tempting to imagine her saying, “And for those of you who don’t speak English [spanish translation of "you're cheating yourself out of the opportunity to access the bounty of the United States of America."]
disa on July 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Yeah, Ed lies (no point calling it otherwise, it’s a lie in spirit, if not in body) by telling us there’s no editorial comment and outsourcing it to a bunch of hacks instead.
Darth Executor on July 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM
It is brilliant, unless it is stupid. It is stupid, unless it is brilliant. Jibber jabber. None of us know anything besides what she has told us, and all this wild speculation is not doing anyone any good. I’m surprised at Ed, as in all the years I have read him I have never known him to engauge in this National Enquirer type of tripe. It is what it is Ed, and it will be what it will be. Your “view” and mine are irrelevant to those facts. Pop some corn. Wait and see.
MikeA on July 4, 2009 at 8:34 PM
JE Dyer who wrote Mad Resignation asks this:
This is his answer (my emphasis):
INC on July 4, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I’m sorry to hear this, INC. We lost my dad in June 2000, and there was nothing he loved more than arguing about politics. He missed out on a lot in the new millenium, not the least of which was the political internet.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM
From the post:
Ed made no editorial comment as to “the other side of the argument. Because they expressed an opinion as to Palin’s resignation, are AP and Ed never again allowed to link to something supporting that opinion? Would it have been okay if it had been a post of its own?
Dead Hand Control on July 4, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Thank you, disa.
INC on July 4, 2009 at 8:39 PM
While I’m waiting for the fireworks to start (not the political ones), I thought I’d ask if Hot Air is going to put Palin’s attorney’s statement up or are Ed and Allah going to continue with this “other shoe” nonsense? The fact that they got sucked into it is bad enough but I’d hope they would both be man enough to admit it…..
Redneck Woman on July 4, 2009 at 8:39 PM
I’d love to see it posted.
Maybe QOTD?
;-)
INC on July 4, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I’d nominate that last paragraph for QOTD:
INC on July 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Mmmm, I join you in that dream!
disa on July 4, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Whoever wins the Republican nomination will win POTUS in 2012. With a predicted 20% minimum unemployment rate, there is no way Obama will get reelected.
Obama is what Hoover was to the Republicans. It is a good move by her part I think. However there are risks but I doubt this will show up more then a day in the 2012 election.
jdun on July 4, 2009 at 8:44 PM
That’s right.
Darth Executor on July 4, 2009 at 8:44 PM
I think it’s a testament to how much of an impact Palin made last year that the entire friggin country is obsessed with what Sarah will do next. She has been the lead story for 2 days.
Mord on July 4, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Dead Hand Control on July 4, 2009 at 8:29 PM:
In your opinion. We know Morrissey thinks Palin’s explanation was anything other than brilliant. In view of the context I referenced earlier, to use the scare quote here was not to validate/emphasize Matalin’s opinion but to mock it.
Did you just decide to gloss over parts of my entire comment? I explained my beef with the link. The point is the length Morrissey is going to rebut a rebuttal when his presumed intent was to balance his own previous critique of Palin. In actuality he didn’t. He introduced novel actors to support his previous argument. So, unbalanced in its entirety.
AnonymousDrivel on July 4, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Crazy like a fox.
the_nile on July 4, 2009 at 8:46 PM
ROTFLMAO!
disa on July 4, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Actually, she IS a fox, but that is a different thread.
MikeA on July 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Just read the thread and I am sorry to hear about your father. My condolences.
Good to “see” you and as always, you do fantastic web research. Thanks for the link.
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Thank you, sherry, for your kind words.
INC on July 4, 2009 at 8:49 PM
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So true. I like how she can take control now and work the media the way she wants to, not the other way around. The ironic part is they handed her that opportunity on a silver platter.
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM
I haven’t seen that figure before. Source?
disa on July 4, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Well, I’ve said this before. She’s going to have a tough couple of weeks starting Monday when folks are back to work and paying attention. Lib media will have already set the talking points on her resignation and the Olbermans and Matthews will be unleashed on her full force to try and turn her into a joke. She had to know this was coming, for certain. Just hope everyone else is ready for it too.
Thunderstorm129 on July 4, 2009 at 8:52 PM
She’s right. It was brilliant. This was instantly clear, I thought. That Gergen and Rollins think otherwise is confirmation — superfluous but still nice.
rrpjr on July 4, 2009 at 8:53 PM
You’re kidding, right. Gergen and Rollins? I think you’ve lost it on this one, Ed.
horatio on July 4, 2009 at 8:53 PM
stenwin77 makes good point
Obama is a hypocrite on this issue and he doesn’t speak spanish yet he has something like 70% of the hispanic vote and he’s gunning for more.
If she just throws in a few spanish remarks without making a big deal of it when she’s in CA or TX and if she gives an occasional speech to a hispanic group, it can only help.
gh on July 4, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Ed, since you put this on the front page under the photo of Sarah,
Unless another shoe drops.
I really think you ought to link to her attorney’s statement in an update.
INC on July 4, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Sic the most street fighting lawyers on them to pick their bones clean and move on to other matters.
MB4 on July 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM
So these here are scare quotes, but every other time Ed does the exact same thing, it’s not? I’m sorry, that’s silly. You are stretching too far to find fault.
The length he is going to? By merely giving a link? Furthermore, the post does not state that he’s attempting to be “fair” but the provide “the other side of the argument”, which he does in video and transcript.
Dead Hand Control on July 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM
I think you nailed it weight. I also think this gives her the leeway to really go out and stir it up in the lower 48 without negatively impacting Alaska and the citizens or the pipeline project.
Assuming there is no scandal lurking in the background (which I doubt because of her and what she is about and the fact that with all the scrutiny that has already been directed her way, I don’t see anything new coming out) this may very well be judged in a year or two as a political masterstroke.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Gotta be honest, some of you are being way too optimistic. While she may have thought she was coming across as noble and self-sacrificing, the impression a lot of people got was that she’s a quitter and a flaky one, to boot. That’s going to be tough to overcome.
JA on July 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Maybe O & M will have the brakes put on their motor mouths after Sarah’s attorney makes the round.’
See this in the quote I had above at 8:41:
INC on July 4, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Joe Biden or Glenn Beck
Sweet_Thang on July 4, 2009 at 8:57 PM
The only problem I have with this is it assumes Latin Americans are gullible blocks of jello, swayed at anyone who can speak a few words in Spanish. I think that’s a condescending position to put yourself in.
Thunderstorm129 on July 4, 2009 at 8:58 PM
In case you missed it, here’s the entire statement:
Statement from Gov. Palin’s Legal Counsel on Defamatory Allegations
INC on July 4, 2009 at 8:59 PM
It won’t work. It’ll just look condescending. It works for democrats because they feed minorities with benefits and welfare. Unless Palin changes her conservative platform and panders to them with promises of race-driven programs, money and benefits they have no reason to just sit there and swallow it.
Darth Executor on July 4, 2009 at 9:00 PM
It can also be seen as a sign of respect if it’s done right. If Sarah already speaks some spanish then boning up is probably a good move. If she’s horrible with languages then not.
gh on July 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Your aim, then Sarah, should be to whip them, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread you. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- “William Tecumseh Sherman”
MB4 on July 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM
I think so to , thereby a waste of time.
the_nile on July 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Furthermore to all you Palinistas, what would Ed’s motivation be to criticize her so heavily unless he actually thought she made a huge misstep?
sluhser589 on July 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Thanks! Yeah, I don’t think there is a scandal lurking in the background. I simply can’t imagine the Press would’ve missed one given the attention and efforts. Time will tell, but in this world, no one is ever “out of it” in terms of politics. And her move to resign by itself isn’t enough to finish her.
Weight of Glory on July 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Sorry if this has already been corrected, but Governor Palin DID NOT state she was resigning to run for higher office.
Loxodonta on July 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Conservatives cannot pander to identity politics.
Sounds like something that M. Jean Kerry would do. Don’t bother to learn toss-off phrases, it’s pretentious.
BTW, you neglected to quote the one Spanish sentence that I would like to hear her use. Why?
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Ed and Allah the news from the Palin lawyer should send you guys a wake up call and your mitt friends. Palin will not take baseless rumors anymore. the game changed on July 3rd Palin’s independence day. you might want to check your marching orders from Mitt before you continue to “talk” about another shoe dropping.
Speculation is one thing. smearing a private citizen with baseless, factless groundless iunnuedo is another and it is called libel and is actionable in a court of law.
In law, defamation (also called calumny, libel (for written words), slander (for spoken words), and vilification) is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image. It is usually, but not always,[1] a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed (the claimant).
In common law jurisdictions, slander refers to a malicious, false and defamatory spoken statement or report, while libel refers to any other form of communication such as written words or images. Most jurisdictions allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal, to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism. Related to defamation is public disclosure of private facts, which arises where one person reveals information that is not of public concern, and the release of which would offend a reasonable person. “Unlike [with] libel, truth is not a defence for invasion of privacy.”[2]
False light laws are “intended primarily to protect the plaintiff’s mental or emotional well-being.”[3] If a publication of information is false, then a tort of defamation might have occurred. If that communication is not technically false but is still misleading, then a tort of false light might have occurred.[3]
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM
So all your young, intelligent, educated professional friends who you say prefer small government opted not to vote for the only true small government candidate on the ballot and instead voted for the mega-government, massive deficit Chicago take-over artist instead.
Doesn’t sound to me likek they’re so intelligent.
ProfessorMiao on July 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Didn’t you just say she’s not a democrat??
In Canada, anyone who wants to lead a national party must make an effort to speak French (and English). It doesn’t matter how bad their accent is but they had better try. The last person who lost this way was a French professor with horrible English (and an enviro-nut to boot).
gh on July 4, 2009 at 9:04 PM
There’s always a tendency to judge Palin for the worst.
the_nile on July 4, 2009 at 9:04 PM
No one ever successfully defended anything Sarah, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
- Best regards, “George S. Patton, General U.S. Army, retired”
MB4 on July 4, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Thank you, I wish Ed would post that!
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 9:04 PM
This reminds me of something that always bothered me. The Ivies require a foreign language for admission. How is it that he doesn’t speak any? Remnants of Arabic don’t count.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM
I don’t speak spanish and I’m not a politician. Which sentence?
gh on July 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM
It almost sounds like some conservatives want there to be another shoe to drop, doesn’t it. Wonder why that would be.
ProfessorMiao on July 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM
If it’s her delivering a platform which they care about in Spanish, then yes. But a word here or there just comes off bad. Bush did this in 2004 and I thought it slipped by because he had a working relationship with Mexico being Guv of Texas. But that was the only reason.
Her delivering a platform in English meant specifically for Latin Americans carries more weight. Least that’s my 2 cents.
Thunderstorm129 on July 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM
You’re welcome–so do I!!!!!
INC on July 4, 2009 at 9:06 PM
It’s true that many people will be as clueless as you are, but regardless, her decision was the best one “for the team.”
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I’ve heard that both he and Michelle are beneficiaries of affirmative action. It’s as good a reason as any to explain the absence of his school records.
gh on July 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM
I think Enoxo posted the link on the first page of this thread, but I know people miss things that are in the early stages of a thread.
INC on July 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM
He does. And he has made that abundantly clear.
I happen to think he is wrong. I am not calling for him to be stoned or working up a lynch mob. I am just arguing the point.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM
I did. Hence, it won’t work without alienating her base by pandering the democrat way.
And a moron. But anyway, it’s not a requirement in the states. Spanish is not an official language, nor does Ogabe or any other democrat candidate speak it (as far as I know, it just hasn’t come up).
Darth Executor on July 4, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Off to watch some fireworks in celebration of America’s birthday! Don’t you guys and gals sit here all night talking Palin! She’ll be here in the morning! :)
Thunderstorm129 on July 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM
applause!
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Michael who?
faol on July 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Ed,
David Gergen? Ed Rollins? Advisors for Clinton and Perot. LOL!
ncjetsfan on July 4, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I like it.
ProfessorMiao on July 4, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Sarah, from this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. You must, therefore know Sarah, that there are two means of fighting: one according to the laws, the other with force; the first way is proper to man, the second to beasts; but because the first, in many cases, is not sufficient, it may become necessary to have recourse to the second. Sarah, your enemies ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to your enemies ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Special regards, “Niccolo”
MB4 on July 4, 2009 at 9:11 PM
It almost sounds like some conservatives want there to be another shoe to drop, doesn’t it. Wonder why that would be.
ProfessorMiao on July 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Becauce those people know that if there is no shoe then her move is a brilliant unconventional political move that will place her has the head of the conservative movement. atrract liberatrians and Reagan democrats. give her chops for fiscal conservatism which is bascilly intertwined with small government thought and She will be untouchable unless she screws up or is proven a lightweight.
Her actions on July 3rd regardless of what Ed and Allah and Ace says was a masterstroke of political theater and the day in which she did it was a symbolism lost on all of them.
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:12 PM
gh on July 4, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Tres bien pour Canada. This is the United States.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Dead Hand Control on July 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM:
Did I say or even suggest “every other time?” Did you not see where I explicitly stated context and went to some length to explain that? As to the latter, (again) in your opinion. I find you to be stretching too hard to be an apologist. So checkmate, I guess.
Yes. The length he is going to. He’s using source material he found via C&L, a site he rarely references (as I noted), that is known to be a committed anti-conservative voice, honest or not. Plus, and now this is getting to be an annoyingly redundant exercise, the “other side” of this particular argument was to be a voice from a pro-Palin partisan. Period. Had he prefaced this by just saying, “Here’s some more perspective so check it out,” then that’d been editorially proper. He didn’t. IMO this wasn’t editorially proper even if the critique came from sources I respected. Morrissey added new content to reestablish an anti-Palin point which is to say to repeat Morrissey’s original points – yet from two more anti-Palin voices. Quit being obtuse.
AnonymousDrivel on July 4, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Gotta be honest, some of you are being way too optimistic. While she may have thought she was coming across as noble and self-sacrificing, the impression a lot of people got was that she’s a quitter and a flaky one, to boot. That’s going to be tough to overcome.
JA on July 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM
you have got to be kidding me. The only way that people will continue to think that is if in fact she does quit and retires from national life. If on the other hand has the mounting evidence suggest she is coming out with both guns blazzing her move will be seen for what IMO it was a flanking operation to hit her enemies from the side and destroy the machine they had arrayed against her to box her into an untenable postion and threat to make her next 16 months a living hell if she so much has stuck her head above ground.
Palin cried “nuts” on july 3rd and she is now on the attack
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:16 PM
The one I typed up there somewhere – the Spanish translation of “if you can’t speak English you’re cheating yourself out of the best America has to offer.”
That’s something all Spanish-speaking immigrants have got to be made aware of. Anyone who thinks they can just use the multiculti social services as a translator has totally missed the point of living here.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Geez, you sound like an unhappy person. Sorry about whatever it is in your life that’s making you that way.
I didn’t give any indication one way or the other of what I thought…simply stated a fact about the impression that many people came away with from Palin’s speech yesterday.
JA on July 4, 2009 at 9:16 PM
You’re well-informed. Yes, a moron with the press behind him … just like Obama.
Exactly why, if it is done well, it could be a plus. However, her rhetoric in English could do with some polish so that’s more important. I just thought it was possible she’d done some spanish in school and she has been pointedly neutral on the immigration question, iirc.
It would be much better if she could pull off some Disraeli-like ripostes in the inevitable debates … that also requires preparation.
gh on July 4, 2009 at 9:17 PM
My first thought yesterday was along the line of :
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything”~Fight Club
Now she’s free to go, do and say whatever she wants.
…..
If that turns out to be the case (her thinking) then I am ticked off. Not at her; but at the so-called men in this party who are eyeballing a run in 2012.
Is she the only prominent Republican man enough to risk falling on her sword in order to be able to step up, speak out and try to stop this train wreck that is the Obama agenda?
tehd on July 4, 2009 at 9:18 PM
- Special regards, “Niccolo”
MB4 on July 4, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Yes it appears that part of Palin’s reading list included “THE Prince” doesn’t it. and “the art of War”
fear this woman she will make empires tremble
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Yes, dear!
Loxodonta on July 4, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Between that, his birth certificate (not to mention his mommy’s passport), and the absence of any medical records, he’s the most paperless POTUS evah.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:19 PM
True, and her adversaries on the left and the right are waking up to that fact now. Now they will unleash the whole arsenal. Rommneys shock troops will be in full war mode.
The genius of this is that the more they hit her the more popular she will get. And she will hit back I assure you.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I was reading a thread today and I thought to myself…did I miss part of her announcement??? This woman knows how to work the media because the speculation should continue for at least a year. You gotta love her.
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Sexist! Just like Greta! :-)
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I was truly sick when I first heard that she was resigning. I thought something HORRIBLE had happened. Now after a day or so to think about it I think it could be a VERY good decision.
ousoonerfan15 on July 4, 2009 at 9:22 PM
To recap; The Arctic Bimbo quits her job being the mayor of 500K people (yes, and the National Guard) 2 years into her first term. This woman, who took 6 years to cobble together a crummy BA is now supposed to parlay her ‘experience’ into higher office?
You guys are kidding, right???
simplesimon on July 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Follow the link to C&L if you want to hear a rebuttal from David Gergen and Ed Rollins, the latter of whom has been around Republican campaigns for a very long time.
One of which is not really a conservative and the other one, Rollins, hasn’t been right in 20 years, and they are both insiders and what this party and our nation needs are not insiders, but people who really care what happens outside of DC
ConservativePartyNow on July 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM
No need to pull that old line out about how I must be bitter. I simply stated, factually, that it doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference what impression it makes on anyone.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM
The genius of this is that the more they hit her the more popular she will get. And she will hit back I assure you.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 9:20 PM
No doubt in my mind. she aims to be the kingmaker in 2010. that is her goal. A goal that was not doable as gov and/or running for relection.
I’ve posted this before. but what happens if P{alin goes to Florida and campaigns for rabio against Crist in the primary and crist losses. Does that not send fear thru the Gop elites spines? Of if sh goes and invests time in Pa senate race? Or North carolina race for burr. would not Burr love to have this woman on his side in the upcoming battle of this battleground state?
People like Allah,Ace and Ed who said she was done are thinking like the British in 1776 and Palin is thinking like Washington. When outnumbers and faced with a bigger force against you you attack form the flanks, from the woods. you do not stand and fight a set piece battle until you have the needed force to win
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM
She’s one of the few with balls, yes.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:26 PM
IMHO, that’s the scenario. This is what leaders do–they lead. Remember when she said if this means I die politically, then I die? She really understands Country First! It’s not just a campaign slogan to her.
INC on July 4, 2009 at 9:28 PM
She wasn’t born to walk on water
She wasn’t born to sack and slaughter
But on her soul, she wasn’t born
To stoop and knuckle under
She will learn to use some thunder
She will learn to work some wonder
And when the gauntlet’s down,
She will rise and climb the sky
And when the final duel is near
She’ll lift her spear and fly
Piercing into the sky and higher
And the strong will thrive
Yes, the weak will cower while the fittest will survive
If she waits for the darkest hour
Till she springs alive
Then with claws of fire, she will devour like a falcon in the dive
PercyB on July 4, 2009 at 9:29 PM
I think this may be one of those moments where the punditocracy are marching lockstep in the wrong direction and can’t get out of the ruts, to mix a metaphor.
I don’t know for sure what Palin’s doing, but she seems to. Waiting and seeing,
Merovign on July 4, 2009 at 9:29 PM
C’mon, Ed. You think Ed Rollins still has any cred? He’s become David Gergen in the past few years.
rivlax on July 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM
DINGDINGDING!
You won the prize – the first person on Hot Air to use the K word instead of grinding on about 2012.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 4, 2009
On July 3rd, 2009, Governor Sarah Palin announced her intent to resign her gubernatorial duties and transfer the powers of Governor to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell.
Almost immediately afterwards, several unscrupulous people have asserted false and defamatory allegations that the “real” reasons for Governor Palin’s resignation stem from an alleged criminal investigation pertaining to the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex. This canard was first floated by Democrat operatives in September 2008 during the national campaign and followed up by sympathetic Democratic writers.1. It was easily rebutted then as one of many fabrications about Sarah Palin. Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are repeated as fact.
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM
How telling that Ed posted his “Is Palin’s national political career over? Yes.” commentary at warp speed yesterday (at 5:45 pm, to be exact, just two hours after the news broke), yet neither Palin’s 4th of July statement nor the statement from her legal counsel, both of which further elucidate Palin’s decision yesterday, were worthy of the “warp speed breaking news” treatment.
Hot Air is now just another source of political pundit hacks who pontificate with their knee-jerk rash commentary. What a shame.
diditagain on July 4, 2009 at 9:31 PM
read the rest of this smackdown at
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:31 PM
And that is just what most of the republican establishment, the media, AP and Ed just can’t seem to wrap their heads around.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 9:31 PM
That lawyer statement is over the top. People can speculate all they want, it is free speech. I can’t believe people think Ed and Allah and Alaskan bloggers need to “watch out.” If they “think” that another shoe is going to drop, or that there may be a relationship between the Palins and a construction company that is problematic, they are entitled to think that and say what they are thinking. Gergen and Rollins are right that this raises questions more than answers them, and that the complete answer (which may be very innocuous) isn’t know, which leads to…speculation. This really speaks to what Jonah Goldberg wrote about yesterday with Palin taking the bait on these little attacks and accusations. It’s small time stuff that she should ignore and have a spokesperson swat down. And Gergen is right: she quit. 2012 talk is a pipe dream.
That said I think she has a wildly successful future ahead of her, one that will make sure very happy and rich and one that will let her pick and choose her venues and subjects, so it may all be for the best as far as she is concerned.
okonkolo on July 4, 2009 at 9:31 PM
“simplesimon on July 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM”
firstly, she served 2 1/2 years. secondly, the pop. of AK is around 640k, meaning she had almost as many constituents as joe “mensa” biden. lastly, when your douche in chief has been elected to the SAME NUMBER of offices as her, carping about “experience” is a massive hoot.
Buckaroo on July 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
This is an excellent article about how to beat a superior force.
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:35 PM
disa on July 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM
It is the only thing that makes sense. that of course and now she is free to travel on her book tour which will add to her warchest and to her clout. the book deal I think was the first clue to her thinking. with AK laws she would have been unable to do a book tour so why was she planning a book before the 2010 election. It didn’t add up now it does.
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:35 PM
diditagain on July 4, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Very teliing. If fact if you read the posts of ED Allah and ACe they were almost giddy with the news.
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 9:36 PM
“okonkolo on July 4, 2009 at 9:31 PM”
jmo, but the law-yuh was merely pointing out that the past 9+ month free-for-all libel of Saracuda, Gov. of AK, will NOT be the same for Saracuda, private citizen after 7/26.
Buckaroo on July 4, 2009 at 9:37 PM
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