Blackmail?
I thought it was the plan of the wussy leftists to nominate a woman and then go all, “Waah! You’re beating up on a girl!” when typical political nastiness came around?
For being a bunch of tough talkers, the Righties sure are a bunch of pussies.
-Joe
I’m pretty sure there’s a criminal investigation of her role in Michael Jackson’s death.
No, thats not fine.
Has to be something horrendous like this. I’ll bet someone’s got proof that she was embezzling from the state or something along those lines. Something bad. I doubt it’s got to with any sex scandal or that she’s being greedy. As of this point, she’s not particularly marketable for FoxNews either. She just quit her only political job.
She’s trying to avoid jail time here, folks.
You’re right. That’s the least.
Minor hijack: Assuming there is a big ol’ honking gob of juicy scandal a’coming down the interpipes…who will break it first? Not likely Drudge. Daily Beast?
Any bets?
More evidence that a quirky purposeful intelligence has been built into my Ipod’s shuffle mode - a sequence featuring songs with the following lyrics, obviously designed to comment on motivations behind the Palin announcement:
Been there, done that
Been there, don’t wanna go back
Eno/John Cale “Been There, Done That”
*Delusions of grandeur, delusions of grandeur
I’m a dedicated follower of my own success
I can handle the glamour, I can cope with the stress
Deal with the doughnuts and please all the rest
I’m polite to the punters and sweet to the press…
I’ve got megalomania I’ve got megalomania
To be a twinkle in the show-biz dream
To which effect I could connive and scheme
I dive into the dairy and I lap up all the cream
I’m up to the armpits in self-esteem*
Ian Dury and the Blockheads “Delusions of Grandeur”
She’d be fine so long as she was on a show where they only had guests who she agreed with. I suspect everyone would listen to see how she misused the language. After all, Gracie Allen was very popular. And talk show host is something she is actually more or less qualified for, with her TV experience and Communications degree.
Perhaps, but blackmailers are typically in it for their own profit, not to restore justice to the world. Usually when you’ve got the goods on the Gov., you ask for a cushy state job that you keep while she’s in office. So unless it is the Lt.Gov. who is forcing her to resign, I don’t know why an extortionist would insist on her stepping down.
The text of her speech is genuinely amazing in its incoherence. Our local conservative paper refers to it as “vacuous” and “gibberish.”
It amazes me anyone, even an arch conservative, would vote for someone so utterly empty of reflection, thought, and substance and so totally driven by her own ego, prejudice and ambition. She might actually be the most repugnant, despicable politician I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and when you’ve lived through Brian Mulroney that is saying one hell of a lot.
Gracie Allen was a smart, seasoned professional who knew exactly how to get the big laughs. Sarah Palin would be entertaining for about a minute and a half, and then, like a bad “American Idol” audition, you’d either want to see something better or you’d change the channel.
Eh, in what respect, Charlie?
That was painful to watch. And I’m no fan of hers.
So it must be someone already wealthy. How long till its blamed on an unholy alliance of Soros and ACORN?
-Joe
Highly doubtful. Quitting a job doesn’t relieve you of criminal malfeasance. My bet is on the money. Her book is coming out and she can get some appearance and promotional mileage out of that to boost sales. Appearances at RTL and wacko christian rallies will pay big also. Appearances on Fox will happen, of course, and she’ll be well paid for those.
A future Prez bid? Highly unlikely. She just quit the only job that would give her any experience for the position. The complaint against her last time (other than she’s dumber than asphalt) is her lack of governance experience. How’s that going to play in three more years? Or in seven more years?
Alaska now faces the spectre of Ted Stevens running for governor next time up. Sean Parnell is a lightweight who can be taken down by D-Hollis French (who has declared already). The only person who has the clout and approval to beat him is Stevens. Watch for it, unless he dies first.
What will be interesting is how Alaskans will react to her abandoning them for filthy lucre.
That’s a good point, although that’s one motivation. Could be whomever has the goods just wants her to vanish from politics quietly and without a ton of embarrassment. I honestly don’t know (or does anyone at this point really) and was more or less asserting that this isn’t because she got a sweet offer from FoxNews or that there’s a sex scandal.
I’ll bet there are a lot of GOP’ers out there who would be scared to death if she won the nomination in 2012 and actually represented their party. And I’ll bet there are lots liberals who wouldn’t want to chance Obama having to go against her. I think she wears a big target on her back as it became pretty apparent during the campaign that she was more polarizing than McCain and obviously very ambitious.
Mostly want to subscribe, but I’ll add that I think Kimmy is right in post #77. Whether she did it because she thought it was a smart move or because there’s a scandal coming, she’s toast. As others have said, if someone who didn’t have the experience last time, how is resigning from their only significant position early going to help?
I get the feeling that she’s doing this because she thinks its best for 2012, though. If Troopergate, her expenses as VP candidate, the clothing issue, or her refusal of stimulus funds weren’t big enough to sink her, what could be? Unless she’s in a sex scandal weirder than Mark Sanford’s, I don’t see something that she’d resign over.
According to the lefty site Think Progress, Bill Kristol phoned in an opinion to Fox News to the effect that “If I had to guess, we just saw the opening statement of the 2012 campaign.”.
Given Mr. Kristol Kleer’s proven record of prescience and probity, we can scratch that one off.
And I equally find this as doubtful as you see my theory. I can’t see her maintaining a positive image after her resignation, if there isn’t a genuine and understandable reason for resigning. The bottom line is that Americans don’t like quitters. We don’t mind cheaters and liars, but quitters aren’t accepted. Without the aforementioned reason, this would be a bullet that couldn’t be dodged if she ever engaged in any sort of debate.
My guess is that the long knives within the Republican Party came out…or worse…and told her to “cool it” or there would be dire consequences. What kind of consequences, I don’t know…
…but she is/was the only “real” threat to anyone in the Republican Party with presidential aspirations at this time, and her brand of conservativism doesn’t fit with the “moderate” mold the Party has been trying to take.
(For what it’s worth, this “moderate” stuff will keep the Republicans losing elections - it will take someone who can articulate a conservative position that is light on social issues and heavy on civics to win again. As it is, it just comes across as a lack of conviction and wishy-washy political maneuvering. The public would rather have a solid lefty than a ‘soft’ middle.)
So she might have resigned even if the American people had elected her VP last november?
She said some sort of crap about disliking lameduckdom:
But then dumped her lameduckedness onto an inexperienced Lt. gov. How is that going to be good for Alaska?
She got hers. Why should she care about the rest of them?
-Joe