Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Thursday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, allowing her to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

sorry, just.. I can't believe that ANYONE believes she has any business even running for president.

Oh god!! Give me cancer now lord!

LOL!!! I don't think she's in touch with reality much these days.  The fact she would do something like that shows just how gullible she really is (for every dog you see dead on the side of the road there's a cat in the bushes saying "Go ahead...you can make it") - No offense I love doggies and kitties. It would be a sad day in the US should a travesty like that occur.

The way that other possible candidates keep spontaneously combusting, she may be the best that the republicans have to offer in 2012.

Oh yeah, Sara, run on that family values platform again.  Who knows, maybe you can get John McCain to be your VP!

And while you are at it, see if David Letterman will return your phone calls...

-Sandy

So she's kicking off a 3 1/2 year run for the White House with a bonehead move.  Failing to finish out her term is not going to help her.

Joke: In a related story, Jenna Bush has announced that she is running for President in 2016, the first year she will be old enough to meet the Constitutional requirement that the President must be at least 35 years old.

Quote from: GinaDouglas on July 03, 2009, 03:37:22 PM
Failing to finish out her term is not going to help her.

she's finishing out her term, just not running for re-election.  I have to wonder what would happen if she ran for re-election and lost, that would be a death blow to her presidential aspirations* and is a reasonable scenario. her approval has plummeted from 80% favorable in alaska to below 60% ever since she decided that running for president 4 years in advance was more important than running her home state.


*_{who am kidding, those aspirations died long ago. she just doesn't realize it}

Quote"We know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference for our priorities," Palin said in a news conference alongside a lake in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.

I have tried and tried but I simply cannot understand what the hell she said.

I take that back, she'll be a fine candidate.  Just not an intelligent one.

-Sandy("Drill, baby, drill!")

"I can see Russia from my house!"

Seriously, she needs to just be locked away, she's insane in the membrane! 

Quoteshe's finishing out her term, just not running for re-election.

She said that she planned to hand over the reins of the state government to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who would be sworn in at the governor's picnic in Fairbanks later this month.

Quote from: beth~chella on July 03, 2009, 03:44:16 PM
she's finishing out her term, just not running for re-election.

No, her term will not have expired.  She will be running for president as a less-than one term governor of a state with a population smaller than the city of Indianapolis.

I think she has let Limbaugh's praise swell her head.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if she wants Limbaugh as a running mate.  Or maybe Nancy Grace.

Her term has NOT expired.  (Exactly where do government offices change in August, not even in Alaska?)   I thought when they picked her she was going to be the gift that keeps on giving, and she is surpassing my wildest expectations.

Dear Obama-

Please, PLEASE do not alienate enough swing voters to lose the next election.

I figure it this way, and give any option even odds.

One:  Someone has something very real (legally serious) on her.

Two:  She was upset that Michael Jackson dying was getting so much coverage and decided to upstage him.

Three:  As the old song says "the lure of easy money has a very strong appeal."  Books, speaking, gig on Faux News = million$$$$.

Four:  She really is that stupid/crazy.

Quote from: lisagurl on July 03, 2009, 05:23:22 PM
She said that she planned to hand over the reins of the state government to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who would be sworn in at the governor's picnic in Fairbanks later this month.

how weird, when I first heard of this it was just her not seeking reelection, but yea - she's stepping down. that's even weird by palin standards.

This is just mind boggling. she spent a year as the gov. the 6 months as a VP candidate the another 6 months just barely in touch with the rest of the state. then she dropped this bombshell. two years of executive experience? that's real presidential material.  The Alaska republican leadership is just flabbergasted, they had no waring this was coming, no floating of trial balloons.
jest boom. " I am going to throw every promise i ever made to my fellow alaskan in the honey bucket.. I have bigger fish to fry". Yaa Shurr, ya bet cha.
Its painfully obvious  that she is just going to start fundraising for a 2012 prez bid. something that was too troublesum to do as a working gov.

Hopefully the American public will see through this transparent brew ha ha
Wake up and smell the honey america.
The smell of that "honey" is not sweet.
(fyi a honey bucket is a bucket used as a toilet when you have no indoor plumbing)
Her term was up in 2010

This is not some brilliant political strategy.  Most likely its going to be the three Political Es - Embezzlement, Extortion and (tax) Evasion.  (If you have either of the first two, you got the third one.)  She has never been able to explain that house and how they got it built.  Or what kind of deals her 'First Dude" backroomed while she was the Gov

I smell scandal, with federal charges attached.  Especially given when the news was leaked, on the verge of a three day holiday when the news cycle is down, and everyone is worried about Michale Jackson.

Either that, or she really is Bats**t crazy.

And speaking of that, the Republicans still have Michele Bachmann to run.

She is bats**t crazy, I suspect - and one of those "righteously religious" characters too.  She suggests that schools should teach both theories (creationism & evolution), despite the huge difference in scientific qualification between the two.

Oh the stupid....it burns!

Quote from: lisagurl on July 03, 2009, 03:09:38 PM
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Thursday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, allowing her to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

Nothing that happened today except speculation states she is running in 2012.

It's nowhere in her announcement.

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Quote from: Fae on July 03, 2009, 04:06:10 PM
"I can see Russia from my house!"

Seriously, she needs to just be locked away, she's insane in the membrane! 

Why are you quoting Tina Fey to prove Sarah Palin is stupid?

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Quote from: finewine on July 04, 2009, 12:58:45 AM
She is bats**t crazy, I suspect - and one of those "righteously religious" characters too.  She suggests that schools should teach both theories (creationism & evolution), despite the huge difference in scientific qualification between the two.

And yet, while wielding the power as governor to act on all the "family value" stuff...she didn't.

I'm surprised so many people are so convinced right wing politicians will - or CAN - enact the policies they are worried about.

Usually it's just red meat for the base. both parties have there version of it and neither bunch means it.

I frankly agree that she won't be an impressive candidate in 2012 and she's getting a lot of bad advice, or ignoring it, if she runs so soon. But a LOT of people wrote of Ronald Reagan as a lovable goof for years before he was elected to. If she's smart enough to wait until say 2020, you'd be unwise to underestimate her chances.

I won't try to argue against anyone who disagrees with her social politics policies - I'd be stunned to find anything else on a community like this BUT...

those who argue that she's inexperienced or unready or unproven or even that not finishing out her first term is a black mark....ought to consider that it's highly likely the voted for an inexperienced and unready and unproven politician who hadn't finished even one term in state-wide office when he ran for - and was elected - president.

There are reasons to criticize Palin, but a lot of those same reasons indict a certain other politician you may have heard about.

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Quote from: Mister on July 03, 2009, 07:20:55 PM
Dear Obama-

Please, PLEASE do not alienate enough swing voters to lose the next election.

He's well on his way. But it's not really her time (if you assume it ever will be). The smart play for her is to stay out of 2012.

don't be surprised if she challenges the sitting GOP senator up for re-election in 2010. If you remember Palin took out Murkowski the elder to become governor and the only reason Lisa Murkowski is a senator is because daddy paved the way. Word is that the REAL dim-bulb female in Alaska politics is Lisa, not Sarah. (also potentially the corrupt one too)

If Palin grabs that Senate seat it will be a nice place to get onto the Washington stage and build credibility on national issues while biding her time until 2016 or 2020.

I'll say it again - those who write her off as an idiot are doing so through the lens of their political leanings, not based on what Palin has done (A few butchered interviews aside)

It may sound like I'm a Palin cheerleader. I'm not. Politically I'm a cynic and don't really support anyone who actually has a prayer.

But I can see how people on both sides misread the other side because of political bias and mythology.

Palin - like all politicians - is wrong on a lot of stuff - but Palin - like all politicians - is anything but an idiot. Idiots don't rise to that level.