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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Love may explain the affair, it does not explain the behavior once revealed. That said, I am long past the stage in my life where I think romantic notions justify horrendous behavior. It’s not logical.
Cindy Munford on July 4, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Are we drinking tonight Ladies and Germs?
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Hey, Obama should support her, I mean, if he can support a guy that got kicked out of his own country, then surely he can support someone that willingly stepped down as gov…
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 10:58 PM
I’ll use any term I want and if people with depraved minds can’t control themselves, so be it.
Palin needs to lay the foundation of for a new party, not help the GOP which is the same as the DNC.
No more greasy traitors.
joshlbetts on July 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I double dare the slanderous rumor-mongers to keep at it.
There is no ‘rank and file’ in the Party. There are some who are intensely mad about Palin, and some who aren’t. I loved Palin initially and voted for her, but I’m less, not more, impressed by her abilities as time goes by. I seriously doubt I’m the only one who has been disappointed. Yes, she has been unfairly savaged by the press and Democrat operatives, but how difficult is it to, say, agree to be the keynote speaker at an RNC dinner? Why all the indecisiveness? Why was her resignation speech so vague? If she has clear reasons to resign, why not communicate those reasons…clearly?
Buy Danish on July 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I think Sarah just became the first to pass the Kobayashi Maru test.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 4, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I am sorry. My line goes up to but does not include Ron Paul. If you cannot forgive me for my dismissal of him, I shall keep silent about him in your presence other than the occasional “NO.”
Loxodonta on July 4, 2009 at 11:01 PM
NO
My 4th got rained out and the stupid town still shot off their fireworks… :(
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:01 PM
OK ;)
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:02 PM
geraldine ferraro and these guys. Says it all. ed’s out of the closet and admits that he’s not a conservative. Nooowww, Michelle, can we get Brian back?
And another smarmy post, by the way.
peacenprosperity on July 4, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Reading this thread, it’s no wonder we have Obama. It’s time to sheath the knives.
eaglesdontflock on July 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
That’s not why. He got very emotional and freeky. It was not normal of what we are accustomed.
We are used to Ed being the adult at HA, and AP the child. Their combo works very well. But when Ed trys to be AP (going medieval or snarky on Sarah), it doesn’t come out right.
What I concluded about it was that deep down Ed really likes Sarah and it hurt him quite a bit when the news came in. If he didn’t care about her, he would not have reacted so.
Ed, welcome to the team. Get ready for the rollercoaster ride of your life that we know as SarahCuda.
I have no idea how long it will last or where it will end up, but the payoff could be huge.
Sapwolf on July 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
I am not sexist. Just acknowledging facts.
Loxodonta on July 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Gawd, I wish ours was. We are in the mist of a hell of a drought. Witch is unusual for us. But it is hotttttt! I just went outside for a smoke (I know, I’m a heathen) and it is like a steambath out there.
I would kill for a few rainy days.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Ed might try to be the adult, but he’s had some childish posts (as we all have – I was pouting about my fireworks).
His “Democracy” posts would have your average neo-con wetting themselves.
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:08 PM
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My guess is that he’s the one that voted ‘hell yeah’ (though maybe not in exactly those words).
RalphyBoy on July 4, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Sound like my wife!
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Hey, first, nothing like a good smoke. Heck, I might respect Barry if he manned up.
Second, I hope you get some of our rain. I’m in the midwest right now and we’ve been getting a lot of rain… I’m not complaining (except when the city is stupid enough to shoot off their fireworks in a downpour). It’s also been pertee cool ;)
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Actually it was typical. He slips up on a regular basis and shows that at the core he isn’t a conservative. He had the audacity to actually post the video of the ambush of Michelle Bachmann and then throw her under the bus and attack her with the leftist and msm spin and with a smarmy holier then thou, smarter then you post. The ambush of Michelle Bachmann, by the way, that was earily similar to the ambush of Michelle Malkin by matthews.
peacenprosperity on July 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Another sexist I might add. (boy, I hope she don’t read this)
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:11 PM
And why couldn’t she have showed some taste and delivered it all as unrhymed iambic pentameter? Jeez! LOL ;)
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I may not understand what you are saying but I did the google thing. In order for a public official to sue for libel they have to prove malice. As far as harassment and bad publicity, I don’t think that those making the charges get much publicity so they can throw stuff out there all day long with no consequences and media will just push the story as allegations so they are home free also.
Cindy Munford on July 4, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Me too! We are just north of Houston, usually a sub tropical zone. But I have not had a drop at my house since early May.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Paralysis of analysis.
Buy Danish on July 4, 2009 at 11:14 PM
I see we’ve moved onto the part of the night where we go from calling staunch Republicans RINOs to conservative bloggers “not conservative.”
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:15 PM
No problemo there. LOL
The point is, let the Palins do a little of the harassing this time around.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 11:15 PM
We’ll send Cindy Sheehan down to Texas. She can cry you guys a river — the only thing she is/was good at…
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Thanks anyway, we got plenty of horse$hit. Need water not fertilizer.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM
We have so many people setting off fireworks around our neighborhood that you can’t watch them all. Folks behind me must have spent a fortune because they were so lovely. I sat on my patio and watch them explode around the full moon. I wish I knew who it was, I feel I should donate to the show.
Cindy Munford on July 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Thanks. The description cheers me up :)
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Another data point. Shall I rest my case, or would you like your wife to proceed with some very cross examination?
Loxodonta on July 4, 2009 at 11:19 PM
By the way, she sure owes the RNC a hell of a lot, doesn’t she? (Aside from that wardrobe that the Politico still apparently can’t forget.)
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Here’s the problem with Ed and AP and all the other opinionistas who jumped on Sarah’s back to drag her down yesterday. “Final Straw!!!11!1″ they all basically screamed as if they had finally had enough of her __________. Whatever.
It was a form of political mass hysteria and patently ridiculous for anyone to pretend that it was possible to come to a serious informed conclusion about what her resignation meant, because everyone knew there wasn’t enough information yet to make that kind of call. That’s what made it so offensive.
It’s not quite as bad of an unforced error as Perez Hilton’s reaction to Michael Jackson’s hospitalization, but it’s damn close. I think everyone expects a bit more intellectual maturity from conservatives when gossiping about Sarah Palin’s political condition. Rumors of her demise were greatly exaggerated.
Nuff said.
econavenger on July 4, 2009 at 11:20 PM
You are absolutely correct and now they won’t be tagged as whiners for telling people “Prove it”.
Cindy Munford on July 4, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Do you think her resignation speech was articulate? Fine! Then perhaps you can explain to us exactly why she resigned for the sake of the millions of us who don’t get it.
Buy Danish on July 4, 2009 at 11:20 PM
We have quite a few as well which is funny cuz I think we have a ban on them right now due to the dry conditions.
Glad I ain’t fighting fires anymore.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Pass! Better part of valor and all…
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:22 PM
I’m an Ivy League graduate and you WILL rethpect my gravi-tah!
RD on July 4, 2009 at 11:25 PM
The real reason why Palin quit.
TimeTraveler on July 4, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Is the McCain campaign the RNC? I certainly hope not. In any case, all it takes is a “yes, thank you, I’d be honored to speak” or a “no thanks, I’m not interested”.
Buy Danish on July 4, 2009 at 11:27 PM
The only theory that explains to me why she backed out the way she did, in such a brisk, and uncharacteristically fumbling manner of speech was that she really wanted to stay in, but was struggling hard to make the appearance of her wanting to leave.
And considering who’s in charge in DC…I’m guessing Mafia.
There, I’ve said it. I can’t unsay it.
;)
DrAllecon on July 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Authoritah!!!
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM
They have tents that pop up all over the place selling them here but then on the news they say that it’s illegal. My guess is that those on sale are the relatively tame type. Where I live they have kept the public lighting down to the minimum and you can see tons of stars. I live on a retention pond and there were so many fireworks that it look like there was smoke on the water. Seriously I would have to be that girl in The Exorcist to see them all. I am pretty sure a lot of folks made a trip to one of the Carolinas.
Cindy Munford on July 4, 2009 at 11:29 PM
There are transcripts of it all over the place. Point out some of the more problematic passages. I think it’s pretty clear that it was because of the unending harassment.
Seems pretty clear to me.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Fixed!
RD on July 4, 2009 at 11:31 PM
More so than not. Neither exactly swarmed to her defense over the past several months, now did they?
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 11:32 PM
I attended the tea party today at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. My guess… about 1000 or so, and with the coming and going of passers by perhaps a 1000 more heard at least parts of the message (there were many folks on the mall because of the location and holiday).
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The keynote speaker was Herb Denenberg… Long time consumer advocate with a long list of creds. He really took it to Obama, on everything he could. Here’s a link to the transcript of his speech, as well as 2 of my fav parts put here to entice you.
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http://www.thedenenbergreport.org/article.php?index=1529
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Oh yeah… it was a slap fest.
RalphyBoy on July 4, 2009 at 11:33 PM
She quit because of her children?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/04/AR2009070402761_pf.html
TimeTraveler on July 4, 2009 at 11:37 PM
It’s funny reading the reactions to Palin’s decision (from both the left and right). Seems like a no brainer to me: The left has effectively hamstrung her if she stayed as governor. Anytime she ventured to the lower 48th she would be lambasted and met with ridculous ethics complaints.
I think she sees the righting (pun intended) on the wall.
It can’t be just me that is starting to think the next 3 years will be looked back on in the politics as “the Beck Years”. She will ride the populist wave up and over Obama in 2012 without breaking a sweat. Would anyone argue that at this point, she is the frontrunner knowing how bad a shape the US economy, US dollar and debt will be in 2012?
What a novel concept: Actually resigning from a position before pursuing another…
can_con on July 4, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Do liberals celebrate Independence Day or do they consider this a day of mourning?
Thunderstorm129 on July 4, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Sarah resigned from office before being Govenor and did a leap frog over her nay-sayers. If it worked once, why not again? Plus it could keep another half-million in her checking account not having to fight liberal lawsuits.
This lady has twice the common sense of the organizer in chief sitting in the White House. When this all shakes out, my money’s on Sarah.
MalindaH on July 4, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Sounds great! Our retention ponds have dried up!
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Thanks Upstater85! :-)
You know, it’s interesting – this is a point that Larry Auster has apparently been claiming all along, namely that today’s conservatives are really (fill-in-the-blanks – liberals? – I’ll leave the labeling to him ;-). I know not everyone believes him, let alone agrees with him, but at least he’s consistent about making the point…consistent to the point of broken-record status perhaps.
Always thought of myself as a private property-supporting, free enterprise-supporting, classical liberal, but lately that’s coming more and more to be labeled ‘conservative’ by the modern left as they subvert & cannibalize any principled liberalist establishment, substitute their twisted utopia for it, and squeeze out anyone and anything that dares to challenge it. Not a healthy thing for our republic. The backlash is coming, the only question in my mind is if & how big gov’t and their cheerleaders choose to fight back.
RD on July 4, 2009 at 11:43 PM
No matter what the reason, I think in hindsight we can all agree she deserved a hell of a lot more respect than she was given.
Even if she were to be indicted by Obama’s Feds tomorrow, that still isn’t enough information to declare her finished based on what we know about Alaska’s nutroot witnesses, Obama, Holder and how the Clintons even used the IRS to attack political enemies. She would have to be found guilty by a jury of her peers for it to be over for her. The history of baseless attacks and the fear the left has of her power have made her a unique politician.
econavenger on July 4, 2009 at 11:44 PM
I think she quit so her and Todd can do some huntin… There’s weasels in Dem hills, and somebody’s gotta drag ‘em out in to the daylight.
RalphyBoy on July 4, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Honestly Ed, you and Allah have become overly defensive lately. Like chill out, both of you. It comes off as really whining, y’all are too old for that. Thanks.
youngO on July 4, 2009 at 11:48 PM
I have been through two droughts and after that I never whined about rain again. How long has it been since it rained?
Cindy Munford on July 4, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Nothing since early May. Real unusual for us.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:49 PM
All the blather about abandoning her post, etc. is hilarious. I don’t recall all this nonsense being raised when she accepted McCain’s offer to run with him. Had she been elected as VP, she would have resigned her office and no one would have dared to suggest it was an abandonment of Alaska. To anyone who has ever resigned a job, did your family and friends disown you or were you barred from work in your chosen career forever after for having “abandoned” your post? Her explanations were clear, unambiguous, and articulate — they sounded perfectly reasonable to me and I, for one, see no reason not to continue to support Palin in the future.
littleguy on July 4, 2009 at 11:50 PM
By the way, I grew up in west Texas, constant state of drought. I never whine about the rain either…I love it!
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM
give me a break
some readers here need a check up from the neck up
blatantblue on July 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
From the Twitter of San Bernardino County Federation of Republican Women:
iePolitics reports it’s going to be held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum.
Now how’s that for some interesting news?
I remember Reagan’s 1984 campaign slogan was
President Reagan Bringing America Back.
Well, I hope Sarah’s watchword for the next few years is
Leading the Charge to Take America Back.
INC on July 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Well, maybe during Ike. 14 inches and no power. It sucked.
conservnut on July 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
That part was clear and concise, and if she had limited it to that theme it would have made a lot more sense.
Did you, say, get her ‘lame duck’ reasoning? If (hypothetically) she was elected to the White House would she resign before her term was over because she didn’t want to be a ‘lame duck’?
Buy Danish on July 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Sorry – just realized what I wrote wasn’t clear.
RD on July 4, 2009 at 11:54 PM
They mourn. But they do like those sparkly thangies in the sky at night.
They have a real axe to grind with our Founding Fathers for including this in the Declaration of Independence:
BuckeyeSam on July 4, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Good post. BTW, I although I come from SoCon roots (I can respect), I’ve shifted to classical liberal. It’s so sad that the modern American liberals have taken that name and tarnished it.
People forget what words such as liberal, democracy, liberty, and republic mean.
Upstater85 on July 4, 2009 at 11:57 PM
I’m in Florida and we normally have dry springs but not this year, I hope you get some relief soon.
Cindy Munford on July 5, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Obama’s Double-Talk
While the president talks sobriety, his policies take America on an economic bender.
Barack Obama’s revelatory moment may have come in his first week as president. On his first day of work, he signed an executive order prohibiting lobbyists from holding highranking administration jobs, thereby fulfilling a campaign promise to “close the revolving door” between K Street and government via “the most sweeping ethics reform in history.” Two days later, the president granted a “waiver” from the new rules to install Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn as the No. 2 man in the Pentagon.
As offenses go, the move was [relatively] trivial. But as a signal of a governing pathology, it established a pattern that Obama has repeated serially since being sworn into office: reiterate a high-sounding promise from the campaign, undermine said promise with a concrete act of governance to the contrary, then claim with a straight face that the campaign promise has been and will continue to be fulfilled.
Once you identify the president’s tic of celebrating the very campaign promises that he breaks, you’ll see it everywhere.
MB4 on July 5, 2009 at 12:01 AM
McCain’s campaign helped destroy her. But they are not the RNC. Michael Steele defended her and Palin has been supportive of Steele.
Buy Danish on July 5, 2009 at 12:01 AM
After the symbolic Ensign train wreck and Sanford plane crash all we needed was an ill-timed ship wreck. Whenever somebody exits early suspicions are aroused. Let us hope that my nightmares only remain dreams.
MaiDee on July 5, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Here in Manhattan, we had drinks at The White House Tavern. There was a photo of Palin taped inside the urinal. Who are these people?
alliebobbitt on July 5, 2009 at 12:05 AM
What infernal serpent
Has lent Obama his forked tongue?
From what pit of foul deceit
Are all his whoppers sprung?
PercyB on July 5, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Imagine the great insight and expert analysis required for the beltway boys to declare Sanford to be Presidential material. Now, imagine the quality of their opinions regarding Palin’s future.
littleguy on July 5, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Thank you–that was a terrific speech.
INC on July 5, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Buy Danish et all:
Did you watch her speech? I did today on C-SPAN. She is obviously revved up and rarin’ to go. What did we have a whole bunch of today, besides fireworks? Tea Parties. What will be forthcoming from the Alaska legislature in a few days, that is also being enacted around the lower 48? A state sovereignty bill. Who is the perceived leader of those interrelated constituencies? Nobody, yet. Who better to assume the mantle of leadership than the person who can draw 20,000 people to Auburn, NY’s Founders Day?
I used this analogy on another blog today, but since its so darn good, I’ll just have to use it again. Most everyone has a fixed idea about the political world – Washington DC centric, Washington DC elites, pundits out the wazoo. Analogous to WWI trench warfare. That’s how it’s done, after all. Sarah Palin just did a Patton, WWII style, breaking out of the bocage and tearing up the enemy rear. She’s refusing to fight on the terms offered by the enemy – and make no mistake, the enemy is Imperial Washington, regardless of party.
JackOkie on July 5, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Ed,
Chiming in late (work) but as much as I disagree with you writing Sarah’s epitaph yesterday all I can say is stick to your guns. What is missing in the GOP is…
1. Conviction
2. The guts to listen
You have all the guts any conservative could ask for. You played your cards, placed your bet, no explanation is necessary. Now if we win your chips they are earned. If you just push them across the table they have no value. Same in reverse. I’ll look you in the eye. If I blink it is because you bested me. You’ve made me blink more times then I’ve won your chips.
Limerick on July 5, 2009 at 12:12 AM
just read an AP report, Palin has expounded on her resignation announcement that she has a “higher calling” and in a nutshell is looking to fire up and organize the conservative movement. Would have been nice if that was in the resignation announcement.
So she’s not packing up and going away.
Hog Wild on July 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM
If you listened to what she said she told you that in her announcement. many times over and over and over again. she did not come right out and say it in plain english but she did everything short of saying “I will try to be the kingmaker in 2010 house and senate races”
unseen on July 5, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Parnell could presumably get more accomplished than she could under the circumstances.
The RNC isn’t just Steele. Face it: the upper echelons of the party would rather Palin just disappear. Everyone knows it.
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Thank you, that was an in depth, brilliant analysis. The letter he wrote to Jonah Goldberg was SPOT ON.
Maybe Ed Morissey and AP should take note to use reason instead of shallow reaction.
atheling on July 5, 2009 at 12:21 AM
O-bots?
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 12:21 AM
Alarm bells just reported at RNC. Some of us have been peeking behind the curtain.
Limerick on July 5, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 4, 2009 at 11:00 PM:
Outstanding!
JackOkie on July 5, 2009 at 12:23 AM
She quit because Two million dollars of the Alaskan State budget was spent on ethics complaints? Two million?
A sum of two million dollars?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJtHL3NV1o
What is the state budget of Alaska? It’s got to be several billion, at least.
That is a lame excuse for someone to quit the job they were elected to do. Sarahcuda indeed.
Sorry Ms. Palin, maybe there’s some method in your madness. I sincerely hope so. But for now you lost me.
Dreadnought on July 5, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Did you, say, get her ‘lame duck’ reasoning? If (hypothetically) she was elected to the White House would she resign before her term was over because she didn’t want to be a ‘lame duck’?
Buy Danish on July 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
No. I got her lame duck reasoning perfectly clear. The moment she says she is not running for relection the world knows or thinks they know she will run for POTUS in 2012. at point in time the dems and GOP elite will do a FULL COURT PRESS on her in AK. they would BOX HER IN. file ethics complaints from now until the last day of her term. Anytime she left the state another ethics complaint. Any time she made a speech another ethics complaint. anytime she left the house with a branded piece of clothing on another ethics complaint. the dems and GOP elited played their hand over the last 6months. They threaten her with more and more if she did not sit down and shut up. when she left the state last month and went to albany, the dinner, and did those interviews the GOP elite and dems fired som many salvos at her it was funny. So her lame duck term would have been more like a goose is cooked term. 16 months of snipping, and fighting to get her POV out from AK noless.
thus she choose the only way out. Inchon, a flanking opperation that NO one saw coming except those that she leaked it too. and one of those people leaked it to Mitt’s people and thus the full court press this week with the VF artcile etc to try to paint her as unstable so that when she did annouce the VF artcile was suppose to tie the ends together and make the Americian people go “oh yeah she is nuts” Needless to say I don’t think it worked. Mitt failed again
unseen on July 5, 2009 at 12:24 AM
So, I don’t click on links that take me to disgusting despicable blogs, that’s what? I wonder if it was on any other subject whether you would have linked to it? I say you wouldn’t.
I’m not sure where people got the idea that they can take a dump on Palin so long as they preface it with some crap that they are not a Palin hater.
And to claim that you were being fair by linking this story is utter bull$hit, Ed. You wanted to link Gergen and Rollins. The approx. 100 $hitty comments slamming Palin was the ice cream on your $hit cake.
Blake on July 5, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Because he’s an amateur, like AP.
atheling on July 5, 2009 at 12:26 AM
There’s no way am I going to stipulate that Republicans and Democrats are equally bad. However, if she wants to fight on her own terms, that’s fine, but if she wants to succeed it would help is she had a better command of the language and cut to the chase when she speaks.
I loved her early speeches. I wish she could get back to that.
Buy Danish on July 5, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Sorry Ms. Palin, maybe there’s some method in your madness. I sincerely hope so. But for now you lost me.
Dreadnought on July 5, 2009 at 12:23 AM
you are not a very deep thinker are you?
unseen on July 5, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Is this the latest Quitter Twitter, or is there a more recent update?
benny shakar on July 5, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Damn, I’ve been right all these years. Everyone does pee in the host’s swimming pool.
Limerick on July 5, 2009 at 12:31 AM
LOL…so, she’s supposed to dry up the state budget in such shenanigans if necessary? Then she’d be condemned for THAT.
So, she’s lost you. You can find another potential candidate or candidates.
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 12:32 AM
There’s no way am I going to stipulate that Republicans and Democrats are equally bad. However, if she wants to fight on her own terms, that’s fine, but if she wants to succeed it would help is she had a better command of the language and cut to the chase when she speaks.
I loved her early speeches. I wish she could get back to that.
Buy Danish on July 5, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Yeah Obama is easy to listen too. Trouble his his smooth voice covers over what he is saying. Palin is easy to understand if you listen. Can she say somethings better? sure but she like most deep thinkers she tends to ramble on. It is the smooth talkers that are the uneducated. they have a scrpit and stick too it because no extra thoughts eneter their head. The people that ramble from point to point see the connections within connections of points and try to explain too much. think of Palin as she is trying to bring you UP to her level of thinking.
unseen on July 5, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Ok, time to give it up,
Good night all. Happy 4th
conservnut on July 5, 2009 at 12:33 AM
LOL…so, she’s supposed to dry up the state budget in such shenanigans if necessary? Then she’d be condemned for THAT.
So, she’s lost you. You can find another potential candidate or candidates.
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 12:32 AM
From her speech it seemed to me it was not so much a matter of money but time. Her brother said she and her admin was using 80% of her day to defend her. that leaves only 20% for state business and no time to further any national business. they had her boxed in. time and money.
unseen on July 5, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Oh, dude. Come on.
Jaibones on July 5, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Perhaps, but I don’t think they felt that way in the beginning. The vultures have picked away at her, but she (and her family) have done things which aren’t helpful.
Nice theory. Any facts to back that up, or are you going to rumor-monger like the Palin haters?
Buy Danish on July 5, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Amazing, isn’t it?
Jaibones on July 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM
I watched it and read the transcript. I didn’t detect glaring grammatical errors. And she spoke without a teleprompter. Not bad for an uneducated dummy.
Come on. The standard for Palin has always been just a notch or two above Lincoln, and constantly shifting at that.
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 12:36 AM
I sure don’t agree with Ed and Allah on Sarab but I said it before and will stick by it…deeds. That is all that matters to me for 2012. I don’t have a fav, a pick, a ‘bot’ syndrome. Sarah, Romney, Huck, Dick the gawd Cheney. Deeds….after 41 years of pretty words I’m done. This act by Palin is a mystery, at least to me, but it is a deed. One I’m willing to watch with an open mind. I can’t tell if she is Caesar or Pompey, Buster Keaton or Borat. It’ll be fun to find out.
Limerick on July 5, 2009 at 12:40 AM
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