Couldn’t tell you, as I don’t think I ever saw it. There used to be a blond woman by the name of Alison. She did real estate part time and was a news anchor also, but gave up the latter. She sold our condo for us and was a really great person. Otherwise, no clue.
Newt, (if that’s who you’re referring to) was Speaker of the House, not a Senator. /Nitpick
He was a turd in any capacity.
Oops. I seem to be making these errors more and more as my age advances.
If they had made the moon the 51st state like Newt wanted, you could have called him Governor Gingrich.
I suspect she is as crazy as the situation requires her to be to stand out. MTG has raised the bar and Palin will probably be happy to lift her game to get over it.
Even Paul Jenkins, the right-wing op-ed columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, had nothing good to say about her, saying in part:
“Alaskans should be cringing at the thought of her representing Alaska in Congress.”
and
“The grim prospect of Palin loose in the U.S. House of Representatives with the likes of Greene, Boebert and Gaetz should scare the bejeebers out of us all. As governor, she was a magnet for ethics complaints and showed herself to be uninterested, uninvolved, vindictive and the unabashed master of facile generalizations.”
Geez, it’s like she wrote the book for Trumpism (which makes her the ideal 2022 GOP candidate).
Everyone who interviews her should ask what percentage of her term she plans to serve.
She’d probably serve all of it. She’s no longer viable reality show material.
Do they ever have former politicians on your Dancing With The Stars, or something similar? The equivalent is an established thing over here and contributes much to the gaiety of nations.
Yeah, we have that kind of drek, also. In fact, Leaky Giuliani caused a stir recently when he was revealed as a masked singer. But Palin wouldn’t quit a cushy Congress gig for something like that.
True. If she could get a job, she wouldn’t be running.
Seems she lost to a Dem
The tally now stands at once a quitter and twice a loser.
Hopefully Mary will be able to do this again in November.
So today crist resigned, lose one; and peltola wins, gain one.
During the campaign Palin reportedly trashed Begich, the moderate Republican who finished third in the first round of voting. Consequently, 29% of Begich voters elected not to make a second choice. If about a quarter of those exhausted ballots had named Palin, she would be heading for Washington right now.
Dumb move, Sarah. But how could we expect anything else?
You can’t really draw a conclusion from one election but it is evidence that RCV helps moderate candidates and hurts the most extreme.
Yes, absolutely.
And to a lesser extent it should moderate attack-based politics. You can’t trash your opponents too hard (or in petty ways) if you need their voters to put you as a second choice.
The irony is that if Begich had come second in round one he certainly would have won this race since it’s very unlikely a large number of Palin voters put the Democrat second choice.
So to some extent what it does is make popular (within their party) but extreme candidates harm their own parties. Which, of course, is why the GOP hates it right now. They are stuck in this spot where their most extreme candidates have a majority of the party, but the minority of the party is so turned off by them that they would rather have the other party win than the extremists.
Because the template has been set, some fascinating questions now arise for the November election.
Will Palin voters vote the same way and hope that a higher turnout puts her over the top? Or will some of them switch their first choices to Begich, reasoning that she’s a lost cause and that having a moderate Republican win is better than a Dem victory? Or will those Begich voters who declined making a second choice throw their votes to Palin this time?
How Palin approaches the campaign will give us a clue to the final results.
Very happy for her, for Alaska Natives, and for Alaska in general. I think there is a certain amount of burnout there with the same old names being recycled in politics year after year. The Begich name is totally shopped. His heirs have run for office many times, trying to cash in on the original Nick Begich, with varying degrees of success. His son Mark Begich was a real opportunist and even managed to get into Ted Stevens’ seat for one term. Peltola is a new face and name and she seems to be sincere as well as personable. I wish her luck.