A Final Bon Voyage from Cordova…
28 07 2009It’s been a day of farewells. Kiss-offs and parties, reflections and celebrations…
Palin fatigue yet? Don’t worry. This is our final send-off to the governor… er… ex-governor. Where will she land? We’re not sure. There’s a rumor circulating that she and Todd have been looking at real estate in the Hamptons. I heard about this several weeks ago and laughed it off. But, apparently the rumor persists. I am somewhat familiar with that area of Long Island, and may I say that if the rumor is true, and the Palin’s join the Hamptons crowd in a multi-million dollar beachfront home, hobnobbing with the east coast elite…. I think every poor old lady in Kansas, or Idaho, or anywhere else, who sent in a $5 check to the Alaska Fund Trust to pay off Palin’s legal bills needs to demand their money back.
While we wait to see when the next Tweet will pop up from the new private citizen style Twitter account, or if she’s sailing into the sunset on Rupert Murdoch’s yacht that was spotted in Juneau last week, or relocating to Texas to campaign for Rick Perry… join us in a virtual send-off from The Reluctant Fisherman Inn in Cordova. Looks like these folks have a creative streak, and know how to party.
“Bedeviled by the Press” Deviled Eggs…
The highly scientific Jell-O shot poll!
Roasted, skewered lame duck kabobs!
Another lame duck!
A commemorative candle…
And what Buh-bye Palin even would be complete without Word Salad?!
Is that Brian the Moose hiding behind the Sayonara Sarah Salmon with relish?
Penny and Katy belt out “Twisted!”
Sarah’s Wasilla High English teacher had some explaining to do! Also.
Ever so humble…
Don’t cry for me, Alaska. The truth is, I never left you. (I’m only moving to the Hamptons so I can better serve the cause to further this great state that I love SO much…)
[Thanks to the folks at The Reluctant Fisherman Inn in Cordova for sharing your awesome celebration with us. I think we all know where we'll be staying if our travels bring us in your direction!]
July 29th, 2009 at 9:39 AM
I like the radio rumor because it’s REALLY easy to turn the radio OFF!
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Also, shooting your radio is much cheaper than shooting your tv!
July 29th, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Lori… I heard that Todd had picked them up and brought them to an ‘Independant Party’
July 29th, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Maureen Dowd interview. She thinks SP has a chance to win Rep. nomination (!?). Says SP is the first to combine reality tv with politics.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26852192/vp/32202475#32202475
July 29th, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Too funny, the photos!! And the Hamptons? LOL – I just do not see it!! What a reality show that would be. The Wasillas move east! Those aren’t “REAL” Americans out there! What could Sarah be thinking. And radio with that shrill voice! It is a good thing I only listen to NPR!!
Maureen Dowd’s article is crazy scary. I just find it hard to believe that there are that many dumb Republicans. But then again, they were duped by Bush. If she gets the right handlers and LISTENS to them it is possible. I hope not though. Won’t we all be horrified ? I will definitely move to Canada or Costa Rica or somewhere….. I thought Maureen was not a fan of Sarahs? Well off to read her article.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Okay, the lame duck kabobs come in right after “Hey, frosted treat…”
July 29th, 2009 at 10:05 AM
CRFlats,
This post made me miss Cordova and Cordovans more than anything I’ve read in years. Please tell Katy “Hi!!!” from Phil. I miss her.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Polly –
Thanks for the link. I think people are forgetting that Romney spent 40 mil. of his own money in the last Republican primaries. sarah cannot raise that kind of money. Romney stepped aside for McCain. He won’t do it for sarah. He will dismantle her quickly. Plus , sigh , she will have to release real medical records. One page from a MIA Dr. on election eve ain’t gonna get it.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Polly… great link!
She has the same chance as any of the other 14-20 Repubs that will throw the proverbial hat into the ring come the candidates run up for the post. Dems have the same problem… anyone can join the race with the proper conditions being met. That’s why we all see some people who have no chance in winning the nomination run anyway. That process of elimination is expensive and wasteful. They may all be within their right to try, that doesn’t mean thay are in their right mind! Besides, she shows more of a tendancy to keep the money and NOT run!
July 29th, 2009 at 10:15 AM
If Palin did move to the Hamptons (don’t believe it), I would envision a future version of “Edie” of Grey Gardens. $arah, surrounded by flaking old bags of tattered RNC clothes, mugging for the camera…
July 29th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
OH MY GOD! I knew I recognized that mountain in one of your photos. I’ve lived in Cordova in the early 80’s, briefly. My Mom lived there longer when she worked for the Forest Circus (Service). The Swans, the air eggs and milk versus the boat eggs and milk…the waterfalls, which I’ve painted when I used to work in watercolor….Wow.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:30 AM
I was at the party and it was a hoot. Used to live in Cordova and visited for the party. Should have done some press releases. Might have a line on the candles if anyone is interested.
Chris
July 29th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Mae Lewis, thanks for your thoughts on the wedding ring. I have noticed this in her last few appearances and during the campaign she did wear one. Maybe it was just the thought of hand shaking, but usually if someone wears one, it’s just a part of them and it’s on all the time. It just seemed odd to me. I was raised in a mining area where no men wore them(they were a safety hazard at work) so I do understand that some people don’t.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
lol Lori @100!
July 29th, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Heres a Maureen Dowd opinion piece that hits the mark.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/opinion/29dowd.html?_r=1
July 29, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Sarah Grabs the Grievance Grab Bag From Hillary
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
The woman who was prematurely counted in is out. And the woman who was prematurely counted out is in.
Goodbye, Sarah. Hello, Hillary.
In their vivid twin performances Sunday — Hillary on “Meet the Press” in Washington and Sarah at her farewell picnic in Fairbanks — two of the most celebrated and polarizing women in American political history offered a fascinating contrast.
Hillary, who so often in the past came across as aggrieved, paranoid and press-loathing, was confident and comfortable in her role as top diplomat, discussing the world with mastery and shrugging off suggestions that she has been disappeared by her former rival, the president.
Sarah, who was once a blazingly confident media darling, came across as aggrieved, paranoid and press-loathing in her new role as bizarre babe-at-large, a Nixon with hair extensions ranting about “American apologetics,” which sounds like a cross between apologists and Dianetics.
Sarah once criticized Hillary for being a whiny presidential contender, arguing that women who want “to progress this country” should not complain about being under a “sharper microscope,” but instead should just work harder to prove themselves capable. Now Sarah is a whiny presidential contender, complaining about the sharper microscope that women wanting to progress this country are under and rejecting advice to work harder to prove herself capable.
The Alaskan who shot to stardom a year ago as the tough embodiment of Diana the Huntress has now stepped down as governor and morphed into what the Republicans always caricatured Hillary as — preachy, screechy and angry.
And Hillary, who is at long last in a job that she earned on her own merits, has lost that irritating question mark she used to carry around above her head like a thunder cloud: What is Hillary owed because of what she gave up, and went through, for Bill?
During the campaign, Hillary got in trouble for pretending to be more than she was, for bragging about dodging bullets in Bosnia and making peace in Northern Ireland. Just so, Sarah got in trouble for pretending to be knowledgeable about foreign affairs just because she lived across the Bering Strait from Russia.
But now Hillary does not have to tell stretchers. She’s fully qualified for her job and doesn’t sound defensive. Now Sarah has taken up Hillary’s old habit of keeping grudges and playing the victim and blaming the press for her own mistakes in judgment and gaffes.
If Sarah’s problem on the trail was that she knew too little, Hillary’s was that she knew too much. Before her misty turn in New Hampshire, Hillary’s wonkiness got in the way of her ability to make people comfortable.
Sarah, lacking Hillary’s cerebral side, has decided to wing it, Quayle-style, and go only for the visceral. That’s why she now sounds like a demagogue, embodying grievances and playing to people’s worst impulses.
Hillary’s radiant robustness, on the other hand, even with a sore elbow, makes the dictators in Iran and North Korea we’re so worried about seem like frail, little creatures.
Obama advisers say privately that the president truly respects the woman he ran against, and that they have a good relationship, so good it has even surprised Hillary. Certainly, she doesn’t have to worry that this president’s gaze is going to drift over her shoulder to some pretty thing behind her. In this White House, Barack Obama is the pretty thing who is taken with Hillary’s serious, smartest-girl-at-Wellesley aura. In a funny way, he’s the man of her dreams.
His support of her has allowed her to keep her paranoia in check — even with Richard Holbrooke and Joe Biden biting off parts of her portfolio.
Just to make sure it stays that way, Obama advisers told Hillary that she could not bring on board Sidney Blumenthal, her former aide de camp nicknamed G.K., “Grassy Knoll,” for his tendency to stoke her grievances.
In her cuckoo speech in Fairbanks, Sarah warned Alaskans to “be wary of accepting government largess. It doesn’t come free.” Funny coming from a woman who charged the Alaskan taxpayers every time she worked from Wasilla.
She also went after that old conservative villain Hollywood, saying, “They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets” for “their anti-Second Amendment causes.”
Sarah seems happily oblivious that she benefited from Hollywood casting techniques. Just as movie directors have beautiful young actresses playing nuclear physicists and Harvard professors, knowing the fusion of sex appeal and a heavyweight profession will excite, the novelty of a beautiful former beauty queen and TV reporter cast in a powerful role that has featured dour, gray old men like Dick Cheney was thrilling. At first.
As McCain pal and Republican strategist Mike Murphy so sagely observed recently: “If Sarah Palin looked like Golda Meir, would we even be talking about her today?”
Sarah should follow her own advice to Hillary and work harder to be capable. Until then, she’s all cage, no bird.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Lori #100—funny stuff. The yellow (AIP) jello shots had seceded from the party. Very witty.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:34 AM
@ mommom (113):
Thanks for the column by Maureen Dowd, another savvy, smart woman who eloquently calls it as she sees it- and sees Sarah Palin for what she is.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I love all the food…very creative.
Anyone notice Palin’s teeth. It looks like she just had her teeth reshaped and whitened (veneers?) so I think she is getting ready for her Hollywood close up. But, after the recent slaming of “Hollywood starlets”….good luck with that one.
BTW, wasn’t that very junior-high of Palin to slam petite Hollywood starlets. Jealous much, Palin?
July 29th, 2009 at 11:52 AM
MY God–msnbc is spending LOTS of time right now discussing the Palin Cronicles. She will make a great talk host ala Pat Buchanon and build a base that will push her to the White House. Rush Blimpy will be sorry he ever supported her if she goes to radio. Hope he can fit under the bus. They are all sooooo Sarah fans…can’t they see? can’t they hear? can’t they research? msnbc owned by rich repugs too. I gotta go heave now.
July 29th, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Tune in next week for, “From Sitting Duck to (B)lame Duck to Daffy Duck,” or “The Twittin’ Quittin’ is Flittin,’ Splittin’ and Gittin.’”
July 29th, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Fox new poll: behind the numbers: But can she cook? “Homemaker” seems to be the best suited job for Pain, according to the public. Yes, that’s right. Only 12% of Republicans think President’s her best next job, and only 4% of independents (6% of the public overall thinks that President should be her next job.)
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July 29th, 2009 at 12:57 PM
I attended the party and it was as fun as it looked. If anyone ever gets a chance to visit Cordova, do it. It is an enchanted place.
By the way I made the candle and can be reached at cnerison(at) yahoo (dot) com More are available if anyone wants one for a small price.
July 29th, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Polly–and we’re having beautiful (though too hot for my comfort) sunshine here in Juneau, which I think is our version of cleansing (and bringing sunshine in to disinfect the government?)!!
July 29th, 2009 at 12:59 PM
The Hampton thing was started with this satirical article. Folks out east can rest assured Palin would be in way over her head in the Hamptons.
That’s not real america anyway is it?
http://www.danshamptons.com/content/danspapers/issue17_2009/01.html
July 29th, 2009 at 1:33 PM
who resigned from Palin’s inner circle?
July 29th, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Palin is living in her own private Idaho.
July 29th, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Two of Palins ablest enablers, Kris Perry and Frank Bailey are both stepping down – both previously implicated in ethics debris. Kris Perry was in her Anchorage office and Frank Bailey was director of bds. and commissions.
July 29th, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Frank Bailey was involved with Troopergate and Kris Perry accompanied Palin on her failed VP run and was questioned about the inappropriate use of state resources for partisan purposes when she stayed on the state payroll and accompanied Palin. Money was tight for Palin at the time and rather than turn her seat over to her Lt. Gov., she kept herself and Kris on the state dime. Kris has been deemed the babysitter but I don’t know if it’s for the children or Palin herself.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Well, I realize that many here have pointed out the absurdity, if not outright satire, re: the Palins in Hamptons.
Having lived for 30 years on Long Island (Levittown, Lindenhurst – yes, Pat Benatar’s hometown) and worked many summers in the Hamptons, I can say this for a fact.
No way in heck will they live there! They are uncouth, unmonied and uneducated, and if there’s one thing that Hamptonites pride themselves on it’s the appearance of manners/acceptance, money up the yazzoo and educated at least in the ability to be famous and gracious. Mansions, even with the property disaster that is ongoing, even with the full $10 million (purported advance of the book deal), wouldn’t be able to buy a house/maintain it other than a 3 room cottage!
Talk about fishies out of water.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:11 PM
PS: I’m talking about the celebrity/I’m famous crowd…not the every day folks who live there. They battle to survive the high prices and egotistical nuts that run around & literally control their lives…
For the American version of the East Enders of the normal, everyday persuasion…stand tall. You have enough to deal with (even if the summer is a gorgeous time of the year….
JMO
July 29th, 2009 at 2:12 PM
I think Palin has the possibilities of becoming President……President of Arkansas. Yes, Arkansas, cede from the union and take one for the team.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Alaskan Sisu–Although Kris Perry may have been named as the babysitter, Ivey Frye was ALSO nicknamed the babysitter, and rumor was that she (Ivey) was the one for the kids.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Alaskan Sisu: Are we to assume that Perry and Bailey are leaving Sarah on good terms. She mentioned that Perry was her “right hand man” in her speech.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:25 PM
also, why is there no news on the Sherry Johnston matter?
what is going on with the email hacker case?
July 29th, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Looselips–somewhere someone posted that the Knoxville (?) paper would be posting an update on the e-mail case on Friday. Don’t know about the Johnston case.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Radio!?! Would Eddie Burke allow an Alternate Court in His Queendom?
I think he only promist her a guest spot now & then, not a slot!!
July 29th, 2009 at 2:43 PM
thanks InJuneau
July 29th, 2009 at 2:46 PM
I don’t specifically see an Open Thread for today… yet.
I was doing a goggle search to find a name for the new ‘ politically incorrect ‘ Twits account name. Google found nothing so I tried SarahPac.
Under the ‘ About Sarah ‘ section all of the info there says ” Governor Palin “…?
Is Meg so busy with SarahPac that she can’t get her IT guy to correct the webpage…. since she is NOT GOVERNOR.
Someone in Alaska should call GOVERNOR PARNELL’s Office that SarahPac is collecting money using his name/title. Does His Office have a problem with that. Maybe they could ‘ scrub ‘ that SarahPac page as well.
And SarahPac ( still ) directs people to go to the Official ‘ legal defense fund ‘… the AFT.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Looselips–there’s info on the e-mail case at blog entry 244 on this thread: http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/28/open-thread-quitter/?cp=5
July 29th, 2009 at 3:32 PM
OK, of all the things here, this is my favorite:
Roasted, skewered lame duck kabobs!
She allowed herself to be roasted and skewered! “When she opened her mouth, a whole lot of stupid fell out” to quote M&H…
July 29th, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Anyone up for chat?
July 29th, 2009 at 5:18 PM
You must be kidding me right? Long Island ? You mean!!!! That is too close to me. Twit need to stay away from the east coast.
You mean for real???????????? I need to take a glass of wine to swallow the sad news. Really
July 29th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Oh I forgot to share this one.
At my work place today, I walked in an office where a group of the quitter where talking politics,and ofcourse, the topic was about President Obama ’s B/certificate.
I could not believe the question that came from the mouth of one of the stupid followers of Juno.
Loudly she came to me to ask this question. “what is the difference between Africa and Kenya?”. Instead of answering I just bust out in a laughter, because SP asked the same dummy question on the compaign trail.
She did not know Africa was a continent.
and people want her to be president? unbelievable stupidity.
July 30th, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Cool party!