Waiting for the size 50 shoe to drop on Palin
July 5th, 2009 9:09 pm · 15 comments
Agree entirely:
This was obviously an incredibly hasty decision, with no prepared speech, delivered almost to minimize its publicity impact on the Friday of a federal holiday before the Fourth of July. If she were really re-launching her career in a new media-driven, Fox-News, Huckabee-Limbaugh vehicle, she would surely have set up the launch a little better. She can do speeches. She could have done a great one - a rallying cry, a “You won’t have Palin to kick around any more” piece of bravado - and launched a big fundraising drive to get her on her way. But no: we get this desperate, unrehearsed, “I’m-not-a-quitter-because-I’m-quitting” stream-of-consciousness. Again, anything is possible, since she’s ga-ga, but this really felt to me like a very swift withdrawal to avoid what might be an almighty shoe about to fall to earth. …
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But the abruptness of the withdrawal is so weird one has to wonder. I mean: she managed to face down a pregnant unwed daughter, an arrested relative, a delinquent son, a secessionist husband, 32 absurd lies (and counting), a completely loopy pregnancy story and carried on regardless, winking and posing away. I mean: those Runners World photos don’t look like a a politician in clinical depression, ground down by exposure. So what possible scandal could be big enough to force her to quit this suddenly, without a prepared statement, and shocking her entire staff? What could be so big that this extremely ambitious woman would do something that all but ends her potential credibility as a national politician? No one can elect a president who couldn’t even finish one term of office as governor because of press pressure. Right?
All I know is that if a shoe drops, we probably won’t hear about it first from the mainstream media. So stay tuned.
It’s coming. As soon as tomorrow, I’d bet.
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There are currently 15 comments on this blog postView Topic | Comment on this blogcitizen-too
7/6/09
2:50 AM | Maybe she didn't resign because of press pressure.
I'm waiting for the size 50 shoe to drop on Obama. He STILL hasn't provided proof of where he was born. |
doghead
7/6/09
5:39 AM |
"The FBI has been active in mounting corruption investigations in Alaska, some to see whether local, state and federal lawmakers illegally received favors, money or free construction work from businesses or people seeking favors."
Isn't it funny , they are investigating everyone up there but the Palins. |
davepidgeon
7/6/09
7:35 AM | Every moment that passes diminishes the chance that Palin's choice is about some unknown scandal that would wreck her career. By now, it would have leaked. Besides, had something so damaging been out there, she would have resigned effective immediately, not given one whole month for her swan dive.
My guess is this: You have a state whose GDP while still rising has gone stagnant , a budget deficit approaching $2 billion and rising unemployment. As we've seen here in Pennsylvania, that means a knock-em-out-drag-em-out fight between the executive and legislative branches over how to deal with smaller tax revenues and could very well mean a tax increase for Pennsylvanians if not this year than next year. Alaska appears to have similar trouble. I bet she escaped to avoid having to raise taxes or make devastating budget cuts in FY 2010-11 just as she would have been starting to run for president. |
Shirley U Geste
7/6/09
8:38 AM | Posted this before.... a large majority of Alaska's revenue comes from oil taxes. When oil prices drop, so does Alaska's revenue. They recognize this and keep a large reserve fund to cover shortfalls. They have $1 billion deficit with an $8 billion reserve fund. No need to raise taxes. No financial crisis.
There are problems and money is still a big factor. Since she took the national stage, the bi-partisanship in Alaska has been non-existent. Politics over people, from both sides of the isle.
QUOTE "The drumbeat of adverse news coverage from Alaska would likely have continued and intensified had she remained governor," said Juneau economist and longtime Alaska political watcher Gregg Erickson. "It would have become an increasing liability to her national campaign."
QUOTE "Politically, I see it as a smart move. With the complete breakdown of her alliance with Democrats that marked her first two years as governor, she has no ability to move her policies forward in legislation. Indeed, her Alaska agenda, the gas pipeline in particular, is likely to fare much better with her out of the picture," Erickson said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31756939/ns/po...-more_politics/
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Kate
7/6/09
8:44 AM | Every moment that passes diminishes the chance that Palin's choice is about some unknown scandal that would wreck her career. By now, it would have leaked. Besides, had something so damaging been out there, she would have resigned effective immediately, not given one whole month for her swan dive.
My guess is this: You have a state whose GDP while still rising has gone stagnant , a budget deficit approaching $2 billion and rising unemployment. As we've seen here in Pennsylvania, that means a knock-em-out-drag-em-out fight between the executive and legislative branches over how to deal with smaller tax revenues and could very well mean a tax increase for Pennsylvanians if not this year than next year. Alaska appears to have similar trouble. I bet she escaped to avoid having to raise taxes or make devastating budget cuts in FY 2010-11 just as she would have been starting to run for president. Hi Dave - your comments are very interesting since I read the following:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-natio...alin.Struggles/
QUOTE But with all the thorny issues enveloping her in Alaska, Palin's quitting may be more about something simpler: cutting her losses.
Things weren't likely to improve, if she stayed in office. She faces a potential veto override of nearly $29 million in federal stimulus funds for energy efficiency programs, money she had rejected in fear that it could bind the state to federal building mandates.
"The drumbeat of adverse news coverage from Alaska would likely have continued and intensified had she remained governor," said Juneau economist and longtime Alaska political watcher Gregg Erickson. "It would have become an increasing liability to her national campaign."
It's easier to govern in Alaska when oil prices are high, but they are down from last year's historic highs and the budget is much tighter. And this year, Palin's signature project, getting a natural gas pipeline, moves into a critical phase: whether North Slope leaseholders will commit to shipping gas in the pipeline, which is still at least a decade away. It appears she was already becoming a lame duck governor.
This is a shame. I truly admire her for what she has accomplished with her life and the way she stands for what she believes in.
Had she been more prepared for last year's VP nomination she may have avoided the pitfalls of being thrust onto the national scene.
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mam0412
7/6/09
12:35 PM | I think the real reason is that she couldn't stand Michael Jackson upstaging her in the news cycle. |
Goldilocks
7/7/09
8:12 AM | I just watched a video clip of the interview between Keith Olbermann and Shannyn Moore from the Huffington Post. She made this comment…..”People are making up their own reasons why she is quitting”.
So if you don’t know a reason, just make something up. What kind of journalist (sic, if you can call one who does that a journalist) does that? This is just another intellectually inept example of the frenzy some people will go to just to attack Palin.
And thanks Shannyn for revealing that a lot of the stuff being purported is made up.
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StrobeSML
7/7/09
9:00 AM | I just watched a video clip of the interview between Keith Olbermann and Shannyn Moore from the Huffington Post. She made this comment….."People are making up their own reasons why she is quitting".
So if you don't know a reason, just make something up. What kind of journalist (sic, if you can call one who does that a journalist) does that? This is just another intellectually inept example of the frenzy some people will go to just to attack Palin.
And thanks Shannyn for revealing that a lot of the stuff being purported is made up.
Actually, she didn't specify journalists. She said people. Journalists have mostly spent their time on the bizarre resignation for seemingly no reason. Throw in wonderful comments like "I'm a fighter, not a quitter." and you have this screwy scenario that makes absolutely no sense.
Of course, now that the news media has run the story into the ground, perhaps we can move on to more important topics and people who are actually doing somethng. |
Goldilocks
7/7/09
9:45 AM | Actually, she didn't specify journalists. She said people. Journalists have mostly spent their time on the bizarre resignation for seemingly no reason. Throw in wonderful comments like "I'm a fighter, not a quitter." and you have this screwy scenario that makes absolutely no sense.
Of course, now that the news media has run the story into the ground, perhaps we can move on to more important topics and people who are actually doing somethng.
I agree Stobe.
As for the media moving on, LOL, not a chance the liberal media will do such a thing. They will continue milking this for a long time, Gil Smart included. Anything about Palin has them frothing out of both sides of their mouths for weeks on end. They are like vultures looking for dead meat, where there is none.
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Bustina di tè
7/7/09
11:54 AM | Alaska is sixth in the list of the 10 states with the highest percentage of budget short falls. They are that high because their budget is so small.
Oh and BTW Alaska is below Obunko's home state, Illinois. 
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/Sto...6634&page=3
Scraping the bottom of the barrel with the bottom feeder Andrew Sullivan, professional Hillary hater.
You cheapen yourself, Gil. |
Bustina di tè
7/7/09
12:26 PM | http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/07...rosenhan-study/
QUOTE There it is, but the pundits still don’t get it. They can’t imagine that Sarah Palin might be just telling the unvarnished truth: she can see that the rest of her term as governor is going to be devoted to fighting false allegations of scandal and seeing her children attacked by comedians, talk show hosts, and bloggers. Then she’ll have to deal with all the pundits on TV spending endless hours discussing the insults to her family and analyzing her reactions. She’s sick and tired of the media circus, she feels she can’t do her job, and she wants out. |
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