Palin fed up? (8)
Sarah Palin, the failed 2008 vice-presidential candidate tipped to run for the White House in 2012, has told close friends she is “out of politics, period” after astounding the Republican party with a theatrical resignation as governor of Alaska.
Palin, 45, has found political life demanding with national attention on her family and a steady stream of speculation and allegation compounded by reports that she feared a possible criminal investigation into her relationship with a construction company.
She burst onto the national political scene less than a year ago as the “thriller from Wasilla” — a moose-hunting ice-hockey mom with five children including Trig, a Down’s syndrome baby — and electrified the party’s Christian conservative base as Senator John McCain’s running mate.
In a bizarre, erratic news conference outside her lakeside home on Friday, Palin held out the promise of a national role in politics when she said she hoped to “fight for all our children’s future from outside the governor’s office”.
Yesterday it emerged that she had told “very close friends” she had no intention of running for president. “She is fed up with politics. She doesn’t like her life. She feels that she needs to raise her family,” said Andrea Mitchell, an NBC News reporter who is married to Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
“She really does not want to run for higher office,” Mitchell added. “This is not a case where she is stepping down in order to clear the way for a presidential run.”
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Updates:
6:39 am EDT, July 6th, 2009 — Maybe She Doesn’t Want To Be President
6:47 am EDT, July 6th, 2009 — New York Times Barbie strikes again
7:28 am EDT, July 6th, 2009 — Kimball: Sarah Palin, a modern Cincinnatus?
9:01 am EDT, July 6th, 2009 — Ann Coulter Explains Palin’s Exit
9:06 am EDT, July 6th, 2009 — Hanson: Writing Sarah Off
4:59 pm EDT, July 6th, 2009 — Kristol: The Establishment’s Palin Panic
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UV Says:
Whats that old saying “If you cant take the heat then get out of the kitchen” and that sounds exactly what she has done.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Jack Says:
The main entry is misleading. The others are all guesswork.
Until Sarah comes out and tells us what she is going to do people would be well advised to keep their powder dry. I also found it interesting to hear Al Sharpton yesterday bitch long and hard about the media treatment of Michael Jackson.
Isn’t that what Sarah is screaming about?
In truth the media are a repulsive lot.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 9:17 am
John Luft Says:
“If you cant take the heat then get out of the kitchen”….indeed. And the so-called MSM is about to be taken to task for the out and out fabrications that they seem to think they can distribute with little regard to the consequences. It’s time to take the MSM on and expose them for the scum they are.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 10:00 am
UV Says:
I’m not a big fan of Palin but fair is fair and here is another (positive) opinion on her from Howard Galganov entitled “Palin - a very public mugging”
http://www.galganov.com/editorials.asp?id=1143
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Philanthropist Says:
All the speculation has been fantastic, some of it ridiculous, a lot of it hilarious. I hope she runs in 2012, she would be a far better President than the current One.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am
nomdeblog Says:
She is not ready. She has potential, if she bones up on some prerequisites. But we do not want another President who is not ready.
If we are lucky we will scrape through the disaster of Obama, but we can’t do 2 trainees in a row.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Brian S Says:
We can only hope that Sarah Palin will no longer provide much of a distraction for the left to deflect from the real problem they elected, so whatever her intentions are, at this point in time we should only wish her well and move on to criticize those who do have the immediate relevance of actually being in power. Of course, by every measure so far, Obama should follow Palin’s lead and quit the Presidency. He could then pick up a book or two about foreign policy himself, and perhaps even find a way to push past the kindergarten level economics wall that so confounds the left. Alas, like all lefties, Obama will never be able to trust his own judgment, as Sarah Palin is now doing, and therefore will remain dependent on the left wing collective to do all of his thinking for him.
Being dependent on the left wing collective for his every move, Obama will continue to leave the USA’s foreign and economic policy to the Clinton era hacks in his administration who previously, through both the Clinton and Bush administrations, failed to bring in the market regulations required to police the new investment vehicles demanded by the same vacuous Democrats in Congress and the Senate who pushed so foolhardily for the failed housing policies that eventually helped to bring down the global economy. Add to the collective mix, the starry-eyed left wing of the MSM, the UN with all of its dictators, despots, and shady bureaucrats, and the nutroots who helped to get Obama elected, and the left wing collective’s policies will no doubt remain as clear as mud to anyone with any common sense at all.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 11:28 am
UV Says:
Well, you can thank Bush for Obama being in power as many Americans ‘had it up to here’ as the saying goes with his administration.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
beentheredonethat Says:
No……you can thank the MSM for Obama being in power.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Cynapse Says:
No way the successor to Bush was getting elected, regardless.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
beentheredonethat Says:
Nobody can ever say that for sure seeing as how the Republicans didn’t have a contender to run against Obama and yes, the MSM unquestionably played a huge part in the O’s success. Pitting lame duck John McCain against Obama coupled with an adoring MSM guaranteed Obama the win. The doddering old guard in the GOP didn’t know what hit them, but now they sure do and they still don’t know what to do about it. They had better get their act together, and soon.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Cynapse Says:
If a polarizing SoCon is their best bet, then the GOP still has a problem.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Cunctator Says:
It is probably a good thing that a political party loses an election after a number of years in office. It allows the party to reconnect with voters, to clean its house of any corruption, and to select new leaders. So, Bush’s presidency probably did bring Obama in its wake but that it is not, on one level, a bad development for the Republican Party. A breathing space for renewal can now begin.
However, what is sad is that the Republicans’ setbacks led to the election of a president like Obama. It is difficult to describe just how terrible a leader that guy is, and how much has been sewpt under the carpet in order to make him acceptable to the people who voted for him. “Hope and change” should be every thinking person’s motto now — let’s hope that Americans change their mind about Obama by the mid-term Congressional elections in 2010, and elect a Congress that will put an end to the Obama agenda before tossing him out in 2012.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
beentheredonethat Says:
It’s not just getting their act together for a leader, other than perhaps a few exceptions the whole lot of them need to be put out to pasture. Then again, the same can be said about the Dems, heck even the Canadian Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, BLOC…….heck the whole darn swamp needs draining. Frankly I’ve had it ‘up to here’ with politics and politicians. I’m going out to my garage and crack a cold one. Come’on over Cynapse.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Mac Says:
The only problem with draining the swamp is… where do you put ‘em?
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
UV Says:
Where do you put them, Mac. I could name a few places like Iran, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Sibera
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Cynapse Says:
Careful now, I might make good on that.
Regardless, in summation – Palin is a niche market candidate with far too many enemies to be viable on the national stage. She’ll have to undergo a major image overhaul to become a mainstream candidate as opposed to a reality tv curiosity. Even that wouldn’t win me over.
That said, the press ignored her many obvious flaws in favour of making a mockery of her family. Having grown up in a middle class town, I know you can find all kinds of dirt on nearly any family. That wasn’t news, that was a hit. There, I said it. May this not come back to haunt …
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Mac Says:
I don’t normally have beer at the house, Cynapse, but if you end up in the nation’s capital, I’ll buy you a mug of java and bend your ear…
Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Cyanpse Says:
Ottawa is a more frequent destination for us (on the way to Mtl) so again … may have to oblige. Actually Ms.Cynapse is pushing for a more permanent visit and I’ve been holding her off … but Toronto is really losing appeal quickly so who knows.
Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Mac Says:
One of the cardinal rules of peaceful existence: happy wife, happy life.
I travel a fair amount for work but shoot me an email if you’re headed this way.
Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 4:29 pm