for putting todays surprising news in context. Symbolic, don’t ya think, that she picks indendence day for her announcement.

That would really make the MSM’s head explode*.

* WARNING VERY GRAPHIC

a Palin announcement has had on the oldstream media the most but the left is going all glowy and then the Vichy Republicans all twisted in knots and of course those who WANT and NEED her to run because they are so invested in her will hear no one else….that last one is NOT GOOD STUFF!

I personally love the way she twists people in knots and I appreciate her giving her Lt. Governor an opportunity to show his stuff to keep the State R in the next election and I respect her integrity in “first things first”. If that is her family and I believe it is then good for her and does NOTHING to demean her value in my eyes. This is the beginning of hearing from Sarah and oh it should be quite a ride no matter what she does.

OBTW those who are so deranged to think that this woman who has been examined from stem to stern has some “other shoe” need check themselves into a hospital ward!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

but I’ll wait for the next FP Diary Response to the Rebuttal of the Reply to the Original that is bound to come lol …. demonstrates, IMO, the over-reactions that abound I mentioned elsewhere…. This is not 100% Roses some want to spin it nor is it 100% dung others insist… There is FAR TOO MUCH TIME between now and 2012.

Dear Sarah,
We heard the news of your pending resignation and decision not to run for governor in 2010. You are the reason I voted for McCain/Palin last year. I would not have voted for Obama nor McCain but probably the Libertarian.

May I offer a good piece of advice. Don’t remain a Republican (or as I like to say a Republicrat) since I don’t think there is much of a difference between the two parties. I guess you could say I’m ready to do more than attend a Tea Party.

Secondly, go out on the speaking circuit and earn some money and pay off your legal debts. Third; when you are debt free and have the personal funds, BUY your family a home in Wyoming or Idaho, etc. where you have former roots and keep your “summer home” in Alaska. Fourth; do the Newt Gingrich thing and start writing books, doing documentaries on American History, history of Alaska and how and why Seward bought Alaska, what were the agreements for statehood in 1959 and perhaps hook up with Bill Bennett and appear on his morning program as a guest, then work up to guest host, and get Dr. Bill Bennett to help you collaborate on true history being taught in our schools, etc. Fifth; call Rush Limbaugh after he is off next week and ask to go on his show and explain your viewpoint, reasons for stepping down, etc. (Rush only has 20 million listeners weekly in the US and around the whole world). If all goes well, maybe you could eventually guest host for Rush when he is out. Sean Hannity got his national start as Rush’s guest host as did Tony Snow. Lastly, be yourself and when someone does a “hatchet job on you and your family from this point forward” do one of two things: either hit them with a knock out punch to the gonads or lower extremities or do as Jesus said, “offer them the other cheek”. Or you could just ignore them and the story may go away.

You know, we conservatives, should not be so hung up on “abortion” and other such social issues! We should state our positions and then “openly pray that our Lord Jesus would hear our prayers and help those who sin against his WORD would be forgiven of their sins”. You know, hate the sin and yet love the sinner! Christ came to save the world from their sins and therefore had to go where the sinners were. But Christ was tempted in the world and did not succumb to the temptations of that worldly sin, did he? However, we truly conservative Christians and practicing Orthodox Jews and conservative people who have not found their faith, need a leader who can communicate our message, bring energy to our movement, who can speak without a “teleprompter” and is not afraid of a T.V. camera. Sarah, it is my view that you and Todd could be those people. You have the energy and following and abilities. I think Todd has the drive to support you. The question is do you wish to do it today or wait for the future? You don’t have to be the candidate for President, etc., just the leader who organizes the Tea Party folks of all political persuasions to save the U.S. from Socialism and restore our capitalist system. That will take many people who are not “blue blood Republicans and elitist Democrats or as they call themselves (Progressives). We will need money to combat George Soros and all his ilk and contemporaries; Acorn needs to be exposed and put of of service; and respect for our election process returned. Both sides seem to be “stealing the elections” and getting away with it!

Thanks for listening! May God richly bless you and your family today and forever.

Please sound the clarion call in our behalf and “give’m hell Sarah”.

I believe she will be our voice whether she decides to run or not… The gloves are off, she will give it to the left with a smile on her face. I Believe she will be the voice for all women regardless of party. Whatever she intends to do in her future, it is going to be great fun watching her destroy the leftists.

She isn’t going away, she just getting more influential.

is a little like watching Reefer Madness.

This speculation business is easy, but unfortunately, it’s accomplishes little. It will not stop until Sarah Palin makes it stop by telling us what she plans to do. I’m willing to give her time to do that.

So let’s turn off the heat on the tea kettle, take a trip down to the local parade and fireworks show tomorrow, and celebrate our nation’s founding.

Sarah and her future plans can wait…even for weeks. Let this instant gratification culture wet their diapers - I’m not going to change them when they start crying.

Andrea Mitchell can go suck wind. She would LOVE for Sarah to be out of the picture that I think she’s saying/reporting what she is in the hopes that she’s right. Sarah scares the crap out of a lot of people, and that means she’s doing something right.

I’d pay to see her if, nay when, she comes to Michigan. Its money no matter what she does and as with every other American she has the right to the pursuit of happiness whatever it may be.

SARAH PALIN!!!

This lady knows what she is doing - it is awesome ; )

to write, had I the knowledge and time to do so.

Every bit of your diary is right on point, but I want to highlight this sentence:

She’s been fighting for missile defense, fiscal restraint and energy security, among other things.

And there are other things.

That part of her totality of being is almost never mentioned when “analyzing” her and her work. She is too often tossed aside as if her only asset is a compelling personal story or a pretty face. She is a woman who is well-grounded in conservatism and the facts to support it. When given a chance, she usually expresses intelligent thoughts, well. To counter her during the campaign, the Libs had to create unbalanced tests–she, as Vice President, had to be “ready to step into the President’s shoes immediately” while Barack Obama, as President, was allowed to “grow into the job.”

For her, an interview answer about being about being on the front lines next to Russia was turned into the claim that she could “see Russia from my front porch,” yet Joe Biden was allowed figuratively to take daily walks atop his own dentures without encountering serious questioning of his credibility or common sense.

Finally, if you watched her announcement today, you must have noticed that she apparently spoke without notes or a TelePrompter. It was a long and detailed statement, and far from rambling (as someone claimed elsewhere, perhaps about another day) it was cogent, coherent, and easy to understand. Compare that, please, to any unscripted or scripted comments by our President. Without the TOTUS to cue him, Mr. Obama is unable to speak sensibly or to coherently answer the simplest question. Yet she is the implied airhead, and he is called a masterful reader speaker.

She may not be Madame Curie, but my Gawd, she has accomplished more on her own than has Hillary Clinton, without the benefit of an Ivy League education or a law degree. (OK, maybe a law degree isn’t really an advantage, but you get my drift. Both of those “shortcomings” were used snidely against her during the last campaign.)

Just kidding mbecker you may just disagree on my take…

I have had a chance to listen to the full speech given by Sarah today, and I believe from what I heard that the read of she is out of politics may be wrong. I along with many others only got relevant sound bites from the speech today which brought me to other conclusions.

That said, she did what I would do if my position as Governor was drawing undo press and liability to the people of Alaska. What I am saying is the left wing media, MSM, and the DNC made having Sarah Palin as Governor a costly and time consuming drain on the states matters and resources; therefore, in a bid to free the state of Alaska up from this garbage, she has chosen not to run as Governor for a second term and to resign as Governor rather than become a drain on the taxpayers as a lame duck Governor. This is a unique position in politics, not many would jump on a grenade like this especially with the narcisism we see in politicians these days.

What I believe now is that if her ambition is to run for President, being Governor of the state of Alaska in a second term would be unfair to her constituents; therefore, in giving her the benefit of the doubt, I believe, if her personality is as she portrays, this is exactly what she should do. Why? because I would have done the same thing. Then again, I know who I am, and that is what I am, honorable thing to do; however, I am not a politician and you always need to keep that in the back of your mind with polticos. Does that brighten up your day? For Palin supporters it will, for Palin skeptics (not detractors which can be found at DKos) I probably didn’t convince you of anything. I for one, like the woman, but she still has much to show me to convince me of her Presidential feasibility.

Check the link in the update at the bottom of the post.

- JP

He has been a reliable source for information about what is really going on with Governor Palin, ie with the people who want to remove her from public life. Glenn Beck was a supporter even before she was famous, maybe he’ll do something about her. But Rush knows the most. Andrea Mitchell’s report agrees with an earlier post on this site. Using George Soros’ patient plan, ie just keep putting time and money into nuisance lawsuits, keep pounding at public perception, no one with the right ideas can run for office or for that matter should ever leave the house. Of course, Soros travels with 2 armed guards himself. The rich are different.

While getting lunch today, I saw a black man wearing a Palin-Plumber 2012 shirt. Granted, this was in Cobb County, Georgia, but still.

It took me a couple of minutes, actually, to figure out who ‘Plumber’ referred to.

She has to understand it. She’s not going to be able to make a successful run for President with an incomplete term as Governor to show for a track record.

If you think voters held against Mitt Romney his failure even to run for re-election in Massachusetts, wait until voters get a hold of her and her failure to complete even the one term she was elected to.

The ability to govern and then get re-elected is important when we’re talking about a Presidential candidate. With this cut and run move, she’s foreclosed her one opportunity to show she can do that.

I expect she understands it. There’s no loss of respect here if she’s reassigning her priorities and putting her poor kids first. They’ve endured so much abuse from sickos like Andrew Sullivan, David Letterman, the locked ward at the Huffington Post, and the like.

But she can’t seriously think she can run for President now, not in 2012, not ever.

Well, ever is a long time. Depends on if she could serve two terms as Governor at some later date I suppose. I don’t know the Alaska Constitution.

McCain, in fact, did screw up in nominating her. We who supported her, and I was one, in fact were had.
I do not know just how low the Republican Party will go before we can start coming back but, apparently, it will be agonizingly low.
We are losing our base of leadership almost weekly. The Gov. of Utah sells out to work for Obama. Sanford is actually a middle age crisis posing as a leader. Palin has never, since her first wonderful speech, been without need of huge numbers of explainers to explain that she is really great, and not awkward and off-key.
All this talk about Palin as future Presidential candidate? Please.

I honestly think Sarah is just fed up and disgusted with the unprecedented smear campaign against her and her family by the left wing and Christian hating homosexuals. Who can blame her. These attacks have cost her a million dollars in legal fees and pain to her family. A wonderful lady who wished to serve the people of Alaska and the United States should never have to endure the onslaught of attacks that she has. I guess media needed to attack Palin to hide Obama’s pathetic record as a State and US Senator.

Nice job, Josh. Thanks for making it plain that in this case speculation, like resistance, is futile (please excuse the geeky Stark Trek reference).

I have often wondered how the people of Alaska felt about their governor in the news 24/7 and the ridiculous media. She made the right decision for them. Sarah will have a political future if she wants one. If not, she will be one hell of a voice.

Having slept on it and read as much as I could given that I’m a volunteer at the Lansing MI Tea Party today, I can’t help thinking that Sarah Palin has time on her side after all she is only , what 45 years old afer all. A 2020 run is most certenly not out of the bounds of possibility ( IMHO, after two terms as a VP ).

That said alot can change overnight in this old game of politics that we play.

Hear her full comments, not someone else’s interpretation or editing, at:

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/video_GovPalin-July3Announcement.php

Fla Mom

Palin’s move puts yet more pressure on Obama to finally get some results, as the soaring rhetoric isn’t hypnotizing the plebes like it used to. This week Helen Thomas, Colin Powell, and Warren Buffet all turned on him. Polls are looking droopy for The One lately.

Obama’s porkulus program is a train wreck, all it’s done is bump interest rates and tank the dollar. We are being laughed at by bad guys like Tehran, Pyongyang, and Al Qaida who amazingly turned-down Barack’s friend-requests.

Palin could trounce him in 2012, when Americans would vote for the Gipper-in-Heels in drones- while begging for lower taxes, free enterpise, and a defense posture with some backbone- and an end to the radical, anti-American nightmare we’ve got now.

Go get ‘em Sarah-

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com

The idea that he has her best interests at heart is a joke!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

Senate Conservatives Fund House Conservatives Fund Michael Williams for Senate

Marco 2010 Toomey US Senate SarahPAC

Palin-Schmidt flame war

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

Senate Conservatives Fund House Conservatives Fund Michael Williams for Senate

Marco 2010 Toomey US Senate SarahPAC

my lady
white house is poisoned
you will need tonnes of deodorant and
barrels of detoxing
and ten priests
to smoke unholy out of that cuckoo’s nest

It’s not that Sarah is perfect or the second Reagan or whatever. I’m from California and I remember Reagan facing off against the anti-war protestors during the Vietnam War while he was governor. I was only a kid but I was always impressed with Reagan.

Why? Because he was like my dad–the man had character and integrity. As I grew up the other quality that attracted me to Reagan was that he loved America and believed in this country. He didn’t apologize for America and in the bad old days of the seventies, he said that our best days were ahead of us.

In short, Reagan was patriotic when it wasn’t fashionable and in that way he was just like my dad. My dad was a decorated infantryman in WWII and Reagan and my dad shared their believe and love for their country.

Sarah Palin reminds me of Reagan and my dad–she has integrity and that deep seated belief in America. I don’t see this quality in any other politician today and certainly B Hussein “The One” is the antithesis of someone who loves this country.

Sarah and Reagan also are born leaders because they are just like you and me–and both Reagan and Sarah were/are savaged by the press and the elite for coming from the social strata of ordinary America.

I’m sick and tired of the triangulated and focus grouped politicians. Here in California the politicians have literally driven the state into bankruptcy and are in the process of destroying any hope of future prosperity. This is happening in Washington D.C. as well and our country could become another failed social democracy in the next decade.

Reagan was considered washed up after his two failed bids for the nomination for president. In the campaign for the 1980 election, he was attacked as being “too old”, over and over again.

To count Sarah Palin out less than one day after her stunning announcement yesterday is just plain stupid. She may not run again–she may not be the solution to our nation’s problems.

But unless we get a person who is real and has integrity and a leader, we’re presently headed for disaster. To those of you who think I’m wrong, I suggest that you look carefully at California.

So we need Sarah. America is great because the people call the shots. We get exactly the government that we deserve.

Apparently she may have announced her resignation due to pending federal corruption and embezzlement charges. I hope that is not the case but it certainly explains her erratic resignation and incoherent speech yesterday.

http://tinyurl.com/lkwtg8 and bradblog.com supposedly has the most up to date info on the “Iceberg” scandal. If it is true people just need to make sure that they check their reasons for following a candidate and not become fanatical. I’ve already gotten hate tweets from one fanatic that calls himself a Christian. I don’t want the scandal to be true but what we have seen lately from the GOP is pretty awful and so this wouldn’t be a great surprise.

are not sources. They are lying, fascist propaganda bureaus.

- JP

not because I don’t like her, but because she deserves better. She will never be given the respect or privacy or peace she deserves by the media or the left so long as she is in politics. It is so wrong but that’s the way it is.

Honestly, if I were her, I wouldn’t lift another finger to help this God damn country. I don’t think it’s worth her time.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmdp.htm

We knew it was coming. Dowd trashing Palin. I have only one thing to say about this; at least Palin has a man, and seems to keep him very happy. Yeah, I know, sounds chauvinistic but it is the big reason Dowd hates Palin. Heck, the reason most whiny, shrill, shallow, destined to be spinsters hate Palin. She has a very cool dude as a husband who obviously loves her, and she could get a million just like him with a bat of an eye. On the other hand, Dowd couldn’t attract a man if she had hundred dollar bills glued to her privates. (Boy, I’m watching my mouth, but it’s hard, trust me.)

Assuming Palin left for the reasons she did; to avoid future frivolous attacks, to make more money that Dowd could ever imagine (oh, that’ll kick start a whole new round of hate!), and to continue the fight from the sidelines like Newt and Huckabee, you simply can’t fault her logic. Whether she stayed for another eighteen months under constant attack or leaves now will make no difference to Dowd or any of her ilk. They hate her because she is a better person than they will ever be. And to add salt to the wound, Palin comes home every night to a man who dotes over her, unlike Dowd, who spends her nights boiling frog warts, eye of newt, and assorted other ingredients in her cauldron.

I’m telling you, if I ever met Dowd in person, I would be armed with a squirt gun rifle filled with holy water!! It would look I was trying to put out a three alarm fire! I’m just saying.

says something then I guess it’s from God’s lips? I could care less what Andrea Mitchell reports. What the heck has she ever done, ever! All she does is report what the TelePrompTer tells her to.. a lot like BO.

I’m sick of the MSM and their slobbering devotion to the ONE! I listened to Sarah and I’ll listen to her again. I don’t need these elitist reporters telling me what I heard!

http://community.adn.com/mini_apps/vmix/player.php?ID=4898938&GID=118

If so can you give me the lowdown on it, my speckers are not working at the moment, Thanks

and neither the media nor her opponents. We know where they stand and expect nothing better, but half the people in the GOP didn’t lift a finger to help her fight off the extreme bigotry, hatred and under-the-belt attacks all the time.

This is a very bad thing for the GOP. I for one, equate this to being left alone in a fight when your friends run away after they asked you for help. I will follow her example and pull out of public politics, monetary and all other support for Republicans, because I know how much support I would get if it came to push.

The GOp didn;t only throw her under the bus, they put her in front of themselves like a living shield and hid lke rabbits.

Treason and deceit is worse than genuine hostility from enemies one expect such from.

If this was such a “small clique”, then how come nobody else stood up forcefully?

You are right, it IS starting to change. Many people see this as pure desertion and breakdown under fire by people in the GOP.

If I ever am in dire need and need help, I know who it would be worthless to rely upon, that;s for sure. Better take care of one’s own.

She’s even had the gall to criticize us pharisees. We are the Media, the righteous of the land. She slandered us and blasphemed our gods. We could not let her stand.

The Beltway commanded her silence. How dare she disobey? A bribe she would not take; nor to Caesar would she bow. So we must be the ones to do what must be done.

We took her to the Couric and now she stands condemned; so let it be on our hands and heads. We will smear and accuse and cheat and lie until all the fools who sing her song will know that she is false and wrong. Her words we will disavow and her name we will blot out. We are the Media, the righteous of the land. To protect our place, we could not let her stand.

Some good things will come of this. The Alaskan democrat pols and their RINO buddies will now return to obscurity. I’m guessing the Beltway crowd has already stopped returning their calls. The local political class can peacefully resume their pig roasts and home improvement projects. Most people will no longer care what’s in the Anchorage Daily News and it will follow its McClatchy sisters into well deserved bankruptcy. Muumuu clad cellar dwellers pounding on second hand Dells will no longer be passed off as: “informed sources inside the Alaskan [fill in the blank] say that Gov. Palin’s decision to [fill in the blank] was ill-conceived, poorly timed, and may further erode her support among [fill in the blank].”

If she runs for elected office, I will support her. If she doesn’t, I will think about what might have been. But either way, I will cherish the memory of how she spoke truth to power. Didn’t you just love the way she made those ivy league elitist pukes scream and foam at the mouth?

She is our Cincinnatus. Her gracious return of the fasces can not diminish her victories.

If she did resign to run for president, She, at least, left Alaska with a full time governor. That is more honest and straightforward than a man who promises people he will be their senator and then ignores his duties to run for president. Illinois hasn’t had two senators since January, 2005.

“What is truth?” Pontius Pilate, quoted in John 18:38.

It’s very hard to imagine America showing any greatness of character after this outrageous desertion.

Can’t be many rangers amongst the GOP-leadership…

“The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the “politics of personal destruction”. How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country. And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it’s right for all, including your family.”

Nothing new here. I did view the resignation video and my impression is Sarah seemed uncomforable while explaining her decision, but as she commenced talking about the future and what she hoped to do, she regained her composure. This had to be a terrible decision for her and I am certain she reached it only after much turmoil.