Alaskan Independence Day!
Welcome to the Year One A.P.
One year ago today, on July 3rd, our then governor, now ex-half-governor stood on the shore of Lake Lucille before her family, her state and a raft of honking grebes, and shook the dust of Alaska off her naughty monkeys. She quit to become a brand, a celebrity, a political pin up girl/icon.
It was all for the good of our state – a selfless move to save us money, while simultaneously depositing large amounts of it in her own coffers. It was a win-win situation for the half-gov. She still goes by “Governor Palin” but I think she should go by “Governe…”
But, in any case, this is it Alaska. One year Palin-free. Her administration still lives on, but she at the helm has jumped overboard and swam for the golden shores. We have a new crop of candidates vying for the job and we wobble along wondering what things will look like in year 2 A.P.
But, let us pause in a bipartisan moment to gather round, and raise our glasses. Here’s to lessons learned, battles fought, and a Palin-free future.
Here is the quitspeech in all its glory, full of tortured metaphors, circular whackjobbery, and one big fat bowl of word salad. And remember, staying and finishing the job is ” a quitter’s way out.”
You can choose to engage in things that tear down or that build up, and I choose to work very hard on a path of fruitfulness and for productivity. I choose not to tear down and waste precious time, but to build up this state and our great country and her industrious, and generous, and patriotic and free people. Life is too short to compromise time and resources, and though it may be tempting and more comfortable to just kinda keep your head down and plod along and appease those who are demanding hey just sit down and shut up, but that’s a worthless easy path out – that’s a quitter’s way out. And I think a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just kind of hunker down and go with the flow. We’re fishermen. We know that only dead fish go with the flow.
I’m actually afraid to click on the video and listen to the “rill dill”! I figure if I heard Shatner do his parody of it on late-night, I’ve probably heard all I can stand. Should I have a couple of adult beverages, “buck up”, and give it a listen?
Just have the adult beverages and forget the video. Far better day all around!
I won’t listen again either. Once was MORE than enough for me!
I can’t watch the videos either, but this is sure fun to read…
Vanity Fair’s edited version of her speech:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907
Awesome. I can’t imagine the patience it took to edit that monstrosity.
{{{heidi1}}}.and please get me one those beverages so can “buck up” also. too.
Nix on the beverages–something stronger that is of the legal medicinal non-beverage order would suffice…now, THAT is -I mean- WOULD- be entertaining…….
Happy Quitter’s Day Mud Puppies! Ain’t it GREAT?!
quitters day! good riddance…..
But you’ve got to say one thing for her, she’s got a great memory to be impressed at the age of 3 months in seeing her father set up bowling pins….
I think I have listened to this too many times already but I may have to in celebration. As always, my favorite part of this speech are the honking grebes.
At least you got the species of waterfowl right AKM, almost everyone who has written about this speech thought they were geese.
I thought “loon”.
Oh, you meant the bird.
Red necked Grebes, to be exact . . . strangely enough.
OK, I did it… I listened. My ears are bleeding. My soul is weeping as I realize this ‘speech’ represented the door blasting open for $arah (in her mind) …the door to ill-gotten gains, and the wanton slashing and burning of the Lower 48. Her very being is in rapture at the thought – the freedom – to dupe the dupable, bank that ‘book’ advance check, ridicule our President, incite the haters, and sour the very core mood of our country.
Oh $arah, you naughty monkey-shod & red power-jacketed one…. your disingenuous words, countenance, and body language during your Quitter Speech were shockingly transparent. You are as gleeful as a kid let out for summer vacation, two years early. You need to watch the polls closely, and kindly observe that 350,000,000 other ‘rill ummericans’ don’t believe your falsehoods, or agree with your evil, patently un-Christian ways. Also, too – you are now an international laughingstock.
Rant over. Thank God I have my mudpup friends to help me through each day of this Palin tyranny. I sense that the shining beam of Truth will soon vaporize this American blight. I, for one, plan on enjoying a great Independence Day weekend remembering what this Country is all about, and hope everyone does the same.
VERY well said…thanx….
i listened too and realized that maybe it wasn’t so much nervousness that made her breathless during the speech, but rather, the thought of counting all that milked money, daily disparaging our president (foiled by an african american yet again, poor, poor sarah!), and controlling the national dialogue with her outbursts in twitty land. alaska might be free of her governorship, but she is now a blight from sea to shining sea. and she is so looking forward to it in this speech. yuck. i can’t wait till truth prevails.
Neither can I. Can’t. Wait. I guess we should have known something terrible was up when Murdoch’s yacht was offshore for several weeks. Well, he got his tabloid grifter, and she got her fortune. Yuck, indeed. And we’re all paying for it in some way…
great rant.
See how she gets all puffed-up and she rocks up on her heels, the more excited she gets….self-aggrandizing and quite full of herself…..I thought I was done with her also..but I have to say, there is a certain wisdom in seeing these clips often…it’s a pure HOOT…!
Palin’s rise to prominence frightens me for several reasons but let me simply focus on one: She has achieved her stardom by controlling her message and that has been by controlling the media. Whatever she says on FB (whether written by her or not) is broadcast without fact checking or balance. She appears only on the FOX propaganda network where her quackery blends with theirs. FOX controls their message and as the number one cable news network, millions are buying what they’re selling. Fair and Balanced it is not.
It seems that there are other examples of this type of media control in history. Corrupt governments, by controlling the media (so much for the virtues of a free press) have used this type of propaganda to inspire entire populations to bend to their will. Hmmm let’s just think of a few. And that, to me, is probably the most frightening thing about the Palin machine.
I share your concerns. While she claims to be victimized, she is largely given a free pass by the media as she hides behind Facebook and her media-forbidden events. And it’s frightening that so many people are on her side regardless of how the media covers her. Can they not simply listen to what she says and recognize the issues?
And it really puzzles me how so many people can tune into the faux network when they hear the Australian/British/American citizen who owns it admit that it’s a ratings game. Why would they trust the spin coming from a man with is an American citizen as his third choice and only then because it was required by law if wanted to own Faux Snooze.
Let’s hope the woman listens to her own advice about not needing a title to make a difference.
I agree with you both but let’s realize that the 2 million who do watch faux is a very small percentage of everyone who watches evening news. Something like 40 to 50 million tune in to the broadcast networks, CNN and MSNBC. So one wingnut outlet is not very popular when you look at the big picture.
I actually think it may be useful because as they spew the crazy on a daily basis it exposes them. Let them rant and make up fantastical stories for all to hear. They are driving the sane and reasonable far, far away from the Republican Party. Plus it gives Jon Stewart and other comedians great material.
It’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out. What happens to all the reasonable GOP’ers? Here in CA for Senate crazy Carly beat Tom Campbell big time except in Silicon Valley where they know what an idiot she is. I don’t agree with Tom on much of anything but he is a “normal” person. He just didn’t have the money machine like Carly or emeg.
FWIW, Carly is so disliked by the Silicon Valley GOP the top tech executives like John Chambers of cisco and Larry Ellison of Oracle have formed a committee to support Boxer! Never thought I’d see the day these redder than red CEO’s back a Dem.
Re: your last paragraph – that’s excellent news.
I know the Republicans are bound to pick up a few new seats this fall, but I doubt it can be enough to ‘take back the House/Senate”.
We in Florida have the added excitement of Independent Charlie Christ running for Republican Mel Martinez’ Senate seat. So at best (if you are a Repub) electing Marco Rubio does not change the balance. At worst (if you are a Repub), the Dems will GAIN another seat, and Florida will have two Dem Senators.
I actually like the idea of having more Independents in the Senate. Maybe then the Senate could get more done.
I’m still not sure how I’m voting yet.
Speaking of its being the anniversary of Quitty Day, “Lame Duck” Crist is working like mad to do whatever he can for Florida re: the oil gusher (stupid to refer to it as a spill), make sure all emergency agencies are ready for hurricane season, signing or vetoing bills, and campaigning.
‘Cause that’s what REAL governors do. Heck, maybe I’lll send him a little e-mail that says “Thank you for not quitting”.
Heck, maybe I’ll even start a Facebook group that will unofficially make every July 3rd “Thank Your Governor for Not Quitting” Day, in Sarah Palin’s honor, of course.
“We in Florida have the added excitement of Independent Charlie Christ running for Republican Mel Martinez’ Senate seat”
I like him, but he’s really not quite all that. It is of course “Independent Charlie Crist”.
I need to make a correction. The network nightly news plus CNN and MSNBC are getting about 20 to 21 million viewers. So around 10% are watching faux.
I too share your concerns. Although Sarah supporters, who I believe truely worshop her and can find little wrong in what she says, concerns me the most. How can such a group, especially the many who profess their strong religious beliefs, actually find this woman credible. Is there some connection or psycological theory out there to explain why people with strong religious beliefs, seem to be more prone to believe what individuals like Sarah, dictators, or even propaganda state. What Sarah does is exactly what successful dictators do. They control the press, they strike down their opposition, and their message brings out a repressed feeling or fear in people.
I do think that many (not all, but many) people are attracted to right wing fundamentalist churches because they can’t think for themselves and they can’t figure out why they aren’t as successful as others or why their lives are a mess. They’re professional victims. These churches tell them they don’t have to think for themselves, all they need to do is pray and God will handle it all. Want a new house? Pray for it. Want more money? Pray for it. Don’t like gays? That’s ok, God will smite them and you can help Him. They call themselves Christians, yet take most of their beliefs from the Old Testament, which glorifies an angry God who kills everyone with whom He disagrees.
Anyone who wants to rise to power by using these deluded, powerless individuals just has to say what (s)he knows they want to hear, affirm their supposed victim status, then build on it to include more hatred, more intolerance and lots of fear of anything they don’t understand.
They believe God will provide….and they believe palin is sincere…
This isn’t as off topic as it seems:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4313978.stm
Snake bursts after gobbling gator
I believe something like this will happen, eventually.
MBaker…….. i wondered about the same thing. i saw a lot of this behavior in my stepmother and her friends who were evangelicals when i was growing up. i found this by Drs. Glayman and Hetherington of Vanderbilt University. i found it interesting but not surprising that people with Authoritarian Personality Syndrome would be attracted to people with NPD or psychopaths.
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/glayman/hetherington_weiler.pdf
Let’s examine her remarks to Bill O’Reilly when he didn’t SDSU and let her do her thing. . .she said that President Obama let the Oil Company control the message, report the situation from “their perspective” which is something she ‘wouldn’t allow them to do’ with her as the State’s CEO. (ha ha.)
She was given credit for that observation in the press right before she couldn’t offer any other solutions to the whole Gulf mess.
But it is obvious she’s wagged the dog from day one regarding her narrative. She sought out national groups that would agree with her self-styled brand and kept at it. She used the power of her offices to control the message and brand critics with dismissive, insulting names like Haters or Lamestream Media.
She doesn’t deserve her own narrative, but it’s one thing she has been consistent on throughout it all. She’s the heroic Frontier Woman with conservative, common sense Christian creds. She’s built that image and millions follow it, including the Murdoch Empire.
This, too shall pass! Step back, and what you find is the Twit doing to the press what has worked for her so far in all else she has striven for. She attacks, she humiliates, she blames…and viola! It’s what she did up here, it’s what she’s doing down there. Most of our press has been very poor quality for quite some time now. They have just turned into another (or many) big business and completely lost sight of their real work. Sarah always comes in swingin’ and wailin – “Poor me! Everyone else is so bad!” and since no one can really believe such a b1tch has been loosed into the political arena, they shrink to the wayside.
It’s a weird phenomenon, but one she picked up quickly and is using to its full extent. Sarah uses everything and everyone – this is no exception. However, time is on our side and not hers. It is time, overexposure of her shriveled soul and mindless, mean babbling which turns her into nothing more than a caricature of a stomping brat. She’s a wannabee Veronica – I’m sure you would find plenty of Archie comic books under her bed in high school (along with a dictionary – them thar are big words in those comic books).
She wears thin, and mean. The press, as bad as they are at their jobs, will figure it out like everyone else.
LOL Martha, many nights in the village did I read them Archie books to learn big words. It proved to be an invaluable learnin tool, progressin my verbiage. : )
I’ll wager she’s been doing that her whole life…..the same old schtick…!
yes. Conceivably she could be elected president without any mainstream media coverage, no interviews that is. Once she is nominated the republicans could refuse to have her debate, or set up a system where she answers via facebook after having received the correct response from Kristol et al.
Happy Anniversary, Mudpups! A poster on another site suggested the time period between Quitter Speech and Official Term Abortion Day be called Ju-Lie. A year ago, that Ju-Lie season provided some mighty fine summer evenings of hilarity on this website. Remember the night of the seven tweets, each more manic than the previous one? (Those were some of the ones Shatner used.)
Ah-h-h. Good times…
Ju-Lie ! LOVE IT !!!
And I like this:
Official Term Abortion Day
The Today Show just reran that Nora O’Donnell fluff piece about the anniversary of the Big Quit. I nearly kicked the tv when Nora said, in response to the “hopey changey” clip, ” She sure knows how to deliver a punch line ” argh!
Happy “Freedom from Palin” Day, Alaska! With any luck the rest of us will be celebrating the same thing this time next year. In the meantime, we will do our best to keep each other sane!
8am EST and so far, no twitter or facebook screech. Can’t be too long now ….
Ah . . . . Sarah’s one year anniversary from any kind of responsibility. And of course the lucky people of Alaska are free from her drooling incompetence–kinda. Sarah is what happens when you have a weak bunch of media shills bowing to their corporate bosses. Hi Rupert and friends. She keeps them employed with her slack jawed lunacy and insults them as they eat it up like a toddler scarfing french fries. Luckily her followers remain the same people who think George W did a rockin’ job as POTUS.
Of course none of us has been lucky enough to escape Sarah’s teeming idiocy, tortured ignorance and insane ideology. What a fun year it’s been since I sat wide eyed and horrified at her nutso quitter speech. Amazing . . . . Never has one so untalented meant so much to the complete dumbing down of discourse while they wore stupid clothes, clucked stupid phrases and generally reminded us all that the world can be upside down madhouse when someone as dumb as Sarah is given an outlet to say—well, anything.
Happy Quitters Day y’all!!!!
Holy crap! Did that second clip show her reading from her hand again?
I guess you’d never define Sarah as a one hit idiot.
I was surprised when I saw that, too. Not surprised she did it, but surprised I didn’t know that. I thought her first hand job was just a few months ago.
I watched it with the sound off. What was completely evident was Piper was bored beyond belief.
What did she have written on her hand—”we’re fishermen”?
it’ now part of the sarah schtick. she has been doing it every since the media commented on it.
one phrase captures it all…..”That woman is an idiot ” !!!!!!!!!
and to quote a Great American “and that’s all I’ve got to say about that”….Forrest Gump.
Maybe we should start calling her Govie?
I luv ya, Hon, but, AKM….
Listening, yet again, to Winky deliver her quitter’s speech was ONLY bearable because, THIS TIME, I was listening for the grebes…the birds helped me get through it…
Ugh. Now, I think I need to go bleach my ears….
I can’t listen to it again, every time I do I realize she doesn’t even know that some fish really do swim upstream. In fact, several species do. And they are not dead. I wonder if her husband rolls his eyes every time she says SHE is a fisherman.
You do mean downstream, right?
No upstream. Most famously salmon must swim upstream to spawn. Many kinds swim in the ocean but then go many miles upstream to spawn in the same place that they were born.
It’s pretty amazing to see them fighting strong current to get to the spawning grounds.
Most Alaskans are fairly familiar with that.
Heck, even tourists who have been here for a matter of hours get that.
Given that Palin said only dead fish go with the flow, ie downstream, I am thinking that johnny meant to say ‘downstream’.
Of course, trying to make sense of the Quitter’s word salad is never a good idea.
Ah, but juvenile salmon swim downstream (alive) to the ocean, where they mature before returning to their place of birth to spawn. Every rill fisherman/woman in Alaska knows that.
I am grateful that the former 1/2 term gov-quitter-grifter is gone from AK politics. You folks deserve better. But being down in the lower 48, now we are stuck with her on the MSM TV. (Thanks a lot – you guys owe us a slice of apple pie and a cup of coffee. AK needs to find another place to dump your trash.)
snarkly yours,
BT
She is still living in Wasilla….she’s not really Alaskan,so we can’t blame Alaska…. She was born in Idaho …we CAN blame THEM..!
I always wondered where the rest of the Palin kids were for this announcement… I’ve only seen footage of Piper and Trig. Where was the elusive Willow? Bristol? Parnell had his kids there….
“You can choose to engage in things that tear down or that build up, and I choose to work very hard on a path of fruitfulness and for productivity”…
I assumed the kiddos were inside, calculating all the opportunities for financial gain.
She uses the terms “patriotic and free people. Since she was let “out” of Alaska, let’s see, the country experienced and world experienced the Haiti earthquake, Chilean earthquake, northamerican spring flooding, tornadoes, the West Virginia mining accident, the Gulf oil spill, and what Sarah needs to know is that the disaster responders in these areas DIDN’t quit their jobs midway. They stuck it out, risking their lives looking for survivors.
What did she to with her freedom? She managed to accumulate disproportionate amounts of earnings to speak for less than an hour. And she said in her her speech, “And I think a problem in our country today is apathy”.
Well, today, I raise my glass to the workers who never quit. The cemetary groundskeepers, the garbage collectors, the custodians, the $8.00/hour stand on their feet all day busy workers who keep the infrastructure held up. The City workers who cut down limbs from power lines, the tired emergency hospital staff when an overflow of injured come in……the dedicated teachers, the bakers who are up at 5:00 am, ambulance, fire, police responders, the cleaning crew on the night shift, taxi drivers, volunteers at shelters, suicide line centers workers on the night shifts, pastors who are called in the middle of the night……I could go on and on, and to those I can’t think of at the moment…….and not to forget the young brave military.
Happy Independence Day, mudflatters!!
Thank you for that. I lift my coffee cup to all the hard-working, underpaid, overlooked non-quitters.
hear! hear!
Don’t forget the community organizers…
Amen! Amen! Well-said!
rebekkah! Brava!!!
The only ‘dead fish going with the flow’ in the past year are members of the mainstream media.
Even in the face of Palin’s mocking the ‘lamestream’ media, they prove her point by treating her like someone with valid opinions, a brain and worthy of respect, rather than point out her multitude of lies, juvenile behaviour and her poorly written, totally unprepared and horribly delivered speeches.
That people paid large sums of money to witness speeches that the media were largely barred from is a disgrace.
That part I can’t believe either, that “her” ideas are debated as though they are hers, and that she is treated as having a brain and worthy of professional or even personal respect. . Let her be exposed to a press conference with the set guidelines that only her facebook themes are addressed….watch the ensuing dressingless word salad until she stamps her foot, makes a face, and quits.
Unfortunately, $arah is largely correct re most of the the media, but not for the reason she thinks. Most of the media is a parrot chorus, a see-who-can-yell-loudest circus, not doing any kind of thorough analysis, research, questioning. Thank God for independent bloggers and reporters who are not beholden to corporate interests. Thanks here for AKM and Shannyn.
I have seen that picture several times. I think that is a look of “hell with you, I am cashing in now”.
I agree – my first thought was “nanny nanny boo boo – boy did I show you!”.
My sweetie says he is highly appreciative and quite thankful of the photo. It shows a true nature about her. And I am thankful he put it that way.
yep…my sweetie was quite rude. but i love him for it.
It reminds me of the scene in Seinfeld when Elaine grabs George’s toupee and throws it out the window – she walks away with a self-satisfied grin…
Now, she will annouce her run for 2012. She is the best candidate out there for the Repub party. She is a lobbyist dream!!! She has proven that she will quit to take a loan of money, so there is already a cloud in the air of (I can be bought!) Put your seat belts on gals, she is running and may just be the parties forced choice. They did not consider the fact that brains never matters. It is just how willing you are to sell out to corporations. Heavens help us.
Yup and her choice for a Supreme Court nominee would be Larry the Cable Guy…yabetcha!
I can just picture her running with Rand Paul. Their campaign slogan will be, “They’ve got electrolytes.”
I teach a public speaking course to undergraduates and have found $P’s resignation speech a gift from the mighty gods of the North. It is absolutely horrible and breaks –multiple times– every rule of a good public presentation Even the right-leaning students grimace in horror at the absurdity of it all.
The real issue with $P is her unbelievable laziness. She simply will not take the time to research a topic, write a cogent speech, practice delivering it. Look at the embarrassment of her gaffe about Ronald Reagan, who she cites as her great personal hero, when she didn’t even know what college he had attended and where it was located. I’d be forced to give her an F is she were a college student.
Yet given the torrent of mad love her fans unleash at her, I guess she does not need to get better. If she recited the Betty Crocker cookbook, those infatuated fools would clap and cheer. Alaskans, most of you have wised up to this cheap, snowbilly con artist, but significant numbers of dum-dums in the Lower 48 still think she’s the cat’s pajamas.
OH, happy day!!! Thanks for the reminder, but we’re still hearing too much about her. I just wish the press would stop covering so much, except for her gaffs, so that she might fade away sooner. This woman has no future in politics and I’m sure knows it, and is just trying to make as much money as she can. Why people even pay to hear her is totally bewildering to me. Can people actually be that blind and stupid like her, that they would actually believe what she says? Doesn’t speak well for our education system does it?
I believe you..but….our fellow idiot ‘elected’ W…..twice, or —-has Diebold fixed the prob/w their voting machines..????? Just curious….!
Hey, I just discovered a fun way to listen to the quitty speech again. Every time she says things like ‘build up’ or “proGRESS”, follow it with “my bank account”, out loud.
Much funnier than way.
And truer.
(whispering…)
I’ve never listened to IT’s quit speech.
Back when it went out on YouTube, we still had dial up.
Friends and neibors have advised my family that it isn’t necessary to watch and listen to her quit screech.
My oldest son has and says I can ask him anything I need to know about it. So I ask what he learned from it? He said “the ducks on Lake Lucille can spot bull when they here it.”
(I need more coffee… My grammer is horrible above. Sorry.)
It is going to be a wonderful day!
Thank you for the “1AP”….
LOL
Be safe ya’ll.
Enjoy
Parsing the snark – what Sarah Palin really meant:
“You can choose to engage in things that tear down or that build up, and I choose to work very hard on a path of fruitfulness for my bank account and for Todd not to have to be productive if he doesn’t want to. I choose not to tear down this house and waste precious time, but to build up a new house right over there and our great country mansions and our industrious, and generous, and patriotic and free people we get to do stuff for us without them charging us money.
That’s great….Thank you!
lol!!
Just look at her cocky smile at the top. She got us good. Even after that clumsy and hilarious performance.
As a celebration to her demise as the second most powerful leader in the land, let’s look back on some salient MSM articles that were more revealing than others in deconstructing the Sarah Brand myth. It makes me sleep at night to know these pieces are still out there.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html#ixzz0sdFL8kzS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama/
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908
There are many others, feel free to add on to the LSM’s limited edition of what Palin would dub Hater attack pieces.
On a related note, let’s keep on this Gubernatorial election in the Fall. Don’t let Parnell win just because he is not Sarah. A lot of people beg to differ. He’s just not as flashy. Or breathless. Or confusing. Or vituperative.
Thank you, thank you, Villages. It has taken me hours this evening, but I just finished reading each of the articles you linked. So much detailed background about Palin I ‘sensed’, but never knew the facts about. If I were to choose the best article, it would be the last one…Vanity Fair. I wonder if there has been any other in-depth Vanity Fair article since Palin resigned? Wow – like you, I’ll be sleeping a lot better tonight myself.
This still boggles the mind. How could she think that it was ok to quit the governorship and still be relevant? (even though she never was relevant to start with, I realize) The machine behind her likes to conveniently omit that she QUIT her sworn duty to her state. Why? Why the free pass? I just don’t get it.
This woman needs to go. She’s ruining my country.
Leave us not forget the slap to Alaska, whatzername delivered the very next day ( when we were celebrating our free-at-last, free-at-last quitty speech ) AKM.
Pre-phony fishing trip and F-U Alaska goodbye spin through the state, WHO was a no-show at the 50 year celebration of statehood at the base of the flagpole which first flew the flag of this state??
Echoing rebekkah @14-
Raising my glass to friends who won’t have time to celebrate today or tomorrow-
Alaskan Independence from whatzername and American Independence Day…
REAL fishermen who now have about 2 months to make most of their yearly income…
Here’s to filled nets, safe passage,and no on-limit days, neighbors! YOU are the real deal!
Well, I said it over a year ago and I will say it again, “take her back Alaska, she is destroying the lower 48.”
When she lost the run for VP, I thought, great, back to Alaska she will go and then WHAM!!!…8 months later she is back just like a bad rash, you itch and it gets worse.
Please make her go away…weeping….baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
We took her back… she didn’t want us anymore when we would not SDSU…
Has anyone ever thought what was likely to have happened with the original Troopergate investigation had she not been tapped for the VP run?
The political climate of shame over corruption upon which she rode into office would likely have been re-energized and her wings clipped HERE…
Even though the Leg couldn’t manage to get the will together to censure her, she quit because the Legislature wouldn’t lick her toes anymore
The meddling of the McCain campaign in state business hurt all of America and unleashed her inner mean girl on the country…
Yes, she has way too many opportunities to meddle and shoot her mouth off unquestioned but if we make her irrelevant by picking up and getting to work on solutions to the problems her obscurantic followers won’t…
Well, she’ll be irrelevant…
I too have wondered what would have happened if she hadn’t been tapped for VP and had had to face the music of Troopergate and all the rest. No doubt Evita would have been viewed much differently if she had not died young. Palin should take her money and run before her supporters find out who she really is.
I have this recurring fantasy. It’s a kind of “back to the future” thing, where Murkowski does not get elected Governor, but Ulmer is, and we end up with a rational, well-run state government, and nobody has ever heard of SP.
Then I wake up. Oh, the horror!
This article is fun to read just to get to the last sentence:
http://www.examiner.com/x-56656-DC-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d3-Sarah-Palin-to-replace-RNC-Chairman-Michael-Steele
This truly is the best written url on the Internet. Thank you.
In honor of the anniversary of the quitter quitting:
http://www.superlyrics.com/lyrics/kGRU0hxf9I@H@U/Thank_God_and_Greyhound_lyrics_by_Roy_Clark.html
OK, I did it, I watched this again. Congratulations, Alaska, on being free of the half-term half-wit as governor. Too bad Parnell is continuing in the same vein. (I can sympathize, of course, because our New York governor, Spitzer, resigned, leaving us with the incompetent Paterson, who has f*cked over our natives by forcing them to close down their online cigarette business and to collect taxes for the state, among other things.)
Now for the quittyspeech: I still think Sarah was tweaking. Not only because of the word salad and very heavy breathing (gasping, really), but because her hands were shaking. She’s like a very low rent Eva Peron. I wish the media would hold her to some standards (not high standards, but some standards), rather than reporting all her ghostwritten FB rants and tweets without contradiction (only Rachel & Keith on air, and Geoffrey Dunn, in print, seem to be on to her).
I, for one, am eager to read Dunn and McGinnis’s books. I just wish they were coming out before the midterm elections. I can dream, can’t I?
“She’s like a very low rent Eva Peron.”
Ouch, but accurate. I don’t think you can hold someone without standards to them, but I sure wish the media would adhere to solid journalistic standards when reporting on her. Sadly, the number of credible journalists and news reporting agencies seems to be at an all-time low. Kudos to those who still realize how important their jobs are to a free country and take pride in their profession.
She is nothing more than a puppet on a string. And I see the rag doll is getting to look haggard & worn. Seeing the picture of her a year ago,and more recent pictures, tell the story. She is going to need more than a new wig and boob job.
From the bowling erection guy video, it looks like she forgot the chicken cutlets to go with her black bra and white t-shirt while on the way to the Vegas Bowling gig. Or maybe they were turkey cutlets, since they were over sized.
Kinda like when she slapped her square pillow belly in the Elan video, also, too.
Let us all rejoice on the Open Thread: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/02/massey-energy-foremen-sla_n_634132.html
Massey’s chairman is the one who needs to be prosecuted. He has chosen to pay fines rather than fix problems; it’s cheaper. Blankenship cares nothing about lives, ecosystems, or anything but Massey’s bottom line. May he spend eternity in a coal-fired hell.
Whew. Dear me.
For any right wing who watched her speech, this was GOLD and hope. And for sure, it is happening.
The Repugs found their talking Parrot.
Do not under-estimate this parrot, she is Fox, oil industry, wall street, insurance companies and right wing viagra. There are serious scary statements in that speech if you listen carefully.
The Bitch was pissed for losing to President Obama, and the right wing found her as the best fit to give them rescue. With Fox News, in place, that is all she needed. Greta played a big part in this too.
The speech sounded like more of the revenge speech to me.
In my opinion,She promised the loser party that she will help them get back in power, as long as they drop $$$ in her pocket. She seemed to be excited about money she was promised , that is how I read in her speech, if she helped the losers.
That is what I am hearing in that speech. She was not nervous, but was excited about $$$$ prospects.
Looking back and today, her speech has become a reality.
She is making money by divinding the country, that is the sad part. I just hope the oppositions rise up like 2008, and shut this parrot for good.
That is why she is not fact checked by any media. It is a big scam from the right. Just check the big money guys who are backing her. They do not mind paying for crap meaningless speeches, as long as her viagra dosage continues. If you notice women who support her, they all look depressed and angry. Not happy people.
The problem of letting Sarah go unchecked, is that people will work up oneday just to find that votes have been ringed and she is president.
Those who keep dismissing her that she is a joke, and just making money, should wake up and take this parrot seriously.
I repeat. This woman is no joke at all. She has followers that have access to the system. So do not take her too lightly. Just check the security around her. Do’nt you you put that puzzle together?
The Obama Admnistration kept many of the Bush administration in their system, I suspect some of them are working with this Parrot. Just saying.
I have never seen a private citizen who is guarded the way Sarah Palin is . I am not scared of Palin, but the people behind her scares me, big time. The same people who drowned this country in a big deficit, are the ones hidding behind this Parrot. She is their spokes woman and they worship her, including John McCain. They have money to give her, and she has hatred for the president to deliver hateful and meaningless speeches to keep the momentum going with the haters and all the dead fish that is following her.
Hence all the book deals, and media darling.
Just my thought.
Agreed. Just look at her “national defense” crap that came out today, and think about who wrote it. Maybe she’ll give a press conference on the details. Oh yeah, probably not.
Did she have notes on her hand?
I don’t understand how quitting a job half way through is a good qualification when running for president. At some point, the question comes up, and the real answer is “I did it for the money.” That, and the lame victim excuse of being hounded from office by baseless ethics complaints. Some of them stuck. Happy Anniversary, Sarah, let’s hear that sports analogy again about sticking to the job even when the going is tough.
Remember, too, that she was never able show that the state incurred the extra costs she said it did as a result of those complaints, but did show us how expensive the one she filed against herself was. She took that last junket around the state at our expense (once again, so much for conservative), then walked out on her responsibilities, claiming she didn’t need a title to do good for her state.
Well, Sarah, I see you decided you needed that title after all, since you keep using it, and I haven’t seen you doing anything to help your fellow Alaskans or Americans. You could have used all that fame and fortune for good, and chose not to. Too bad.
Whenever that is said, the crap about baseless ethics complaints and how it is a “PUBLIC DEBT”, someone has to pull up the graphic that shows that most of that debt was er, spawned, from her own ethics complaint against herself. That has to be a sticky, and I can’t believe how that has been forgotten.
For those seeking to unravel the many mysteries, uncanny rise to prominence and wealth accumulation of Team Palin — see the hottest politician in the country dissected as a certified Mind Control Slave, under control of sadistic MK-Ultra PIMP Heinz (Henry) Kissinger & Todd Palin? Yes, Ms. Palms & Pumps, the Alaskan Grifter…Sarah L. Palin is a BETA Prog’md Sex Slave/Human Robot along w/her over sexualized daughters, especially “Piper’s here today!” — MUST SEE “Anatomy of Sarah L. Palin”
http://intheknow7.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/anatomy-of-sarah-l-palin-re-post/
see Palin fan get wood for Tea Party Mascot (VIDEO)
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2010/07/one-male-sarah-palin-fan-simply-cannot.html
Be Well & Stay Vigilant
LOL…I can hear Mae West now…
“Is that a bowling pin in your pocket or are you just happy ta see me?”
I ‘sort of’ can’t wait for her to run for POTUS. It should be hilarious, interesting, and embarrassing. If she navigates through her campaign ads like she did her VP attempt, slamming, and defacing other opponents would become our airwaves. America will see the real SP and will make the right choice.
Palin. Quitter. Master Baiter of the Ignorant Masses. Grifter Extraordinaire…… (dead fish stuff, basically)
Meanwhile, some of President Obama’s accomplishments in just 18 short months of NOT quitting:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
College Tuition Inflation Bill increasing the amount of federal Pell Grant awards and stripping banks privileges as intermediaries for student loan servicing
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Health Care Reform
SCHIP health-care program
Public Lands bill
Credit card industry reform
Jobs bill
Government Transparency especially on lobbyist’s access to the White House
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Extended benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees
Instructed HHS to allow hospital visitation rights to LGBT couples
Banning of job discrimination based on gender identity
Giving benefits for Same-Sex Domestic Partners of Foreign Service Employees
Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending
Appointment of first Latina to the Supreme Court
Beginning the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
No permanent bases in Iraq
Ended the previous stop-loss policy that kept soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than their enlistment date
No torture policy
Ended media blackout on war casualties; reporting full information covering the return of fallen soldiers to Dover AFB
Housing rescue plan
US Auto industry rescue plan
Federal support for stem-cell research
Cash for clunkers program offers vouchers to trade in fuel inefficient, polluting old cars for new cars stimulating auto sales
Making more loans available to small businesses
Increased funding for the Violence Against Women Act
Expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers
Increase minority access to capital
Establish a credit card bill of rights
Close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan
Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
Expand eligibility for Medicaid
Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs
Signed the nuclear reduction Treaty with Moscow to reducing warheads by 30%.
Securing $20,000,000,000 from BP to help those that have been affected by the oil spill and to clean up the mess around the gulf.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/2/880941/-As-Part-of-The-Democratic-Base,-I-Am-Not-Demoralized,-Angry-or-Fed-Up!
Great list…and as Yul Brynner once said…”etcetera etcetera etcetera”
Yul was playing the part of the “King of Siam” in the movie “The King and I” when he said that.
I nominate Palin for the part of “Queen of I Am.”
Oh, wait!! She’s already playing that part to the hilt.
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the above is Bubble’s poetry: canto 3.
Bubs, agree. Lee323 hasn’t been around as much, but I really appreciate his/her wisdom. When I see than logonID, I always know something wise is going to follow.
Thanks to you both. The feeling is mutual. No place like the Flats and the pups.
I’m so sick of the continual coverage of Palin. If the media would quit talking about her, hopefully she’d go away.
Did anyone see where Murkowski has come out opposed to our Supreme Court Nominee? Are we surprised? More and more Repubs are stating they are against her nomination. So far, it appears she’ll be approved IF the R’s don’t do something crazy…voting takes place on 7/15.
Enjoy the 4th with positive thoughts!
I agree, although I do enjoy a good piece about Palin’s obvious lack of intellectual integrity. My hope is that she’ll destroy herself politically…but I don’t expect that to come soon enough for me.
Today would be a GREAT day for Sean Parnell to quit! C’mon, Sean, it worked so well for Sarah! You can do it! Only dead fish go with the flow!
I’m not sure if this link is in one of the comments but I was over on Huffpo.
The story that AKM and Shannyn talked about as far as sand being dumped on the beaches is up on Huffpo.
It was posted by an Allison Kilkenny. ( Is she related to the Kilkenny Letter lady ??) daughter maybe?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/allegations-emerge-bp-is_b_632954.html
What a foul, disingenuous, toxic human being.
Pres Obama’s accomplishments/
Us 12 Trillion in debt
US oil regulators he appointed watching soft prn sites while neglecting to inspect blow out preventers resulting in the worst disaster in American History
Housing sales plunge once the subsidies are removed
Unemployment at 9.5% but really 18% counting those who stopped looking
construction down to near zero
appeasement of Iran allowing hundreds to be beaten while not uttering an opposition speech
Iran about to obtain a nuclear bomb and rockets to deliver them on Adak.
These are the flip side to Lea 323
http://www.politicususa.com/en/palin-quit-anniversary for a great satire of Quitty’s anniversary day.
Okay, obviously I must have missed, over the past year, dozens newspaper headlines and news reports about all those fabulous things she did to help Alassska after quitting.
I mean she PROMISED, didn’t she????
And I know I read the paper and watch the news every day but I MUST have somehow missed all those heartwarming stories about the wonderful, generous things she did to ‘progress’ Alassska.
Right????????
Can anyone please link me to those inspiring stories because I know they MUST be out there somewhere.
I mean, come on, she wouldn’t have LIED to everyone, would she?????????
yes I meant downstream, lots of live fish do swim downstream. Ask her about the life cycle of a red salmon. She’ll probably think it’s a joke about lipstick.
1) The freaking balls of her to stay staying in the job is a “quitters way out”
2) So she claims she quit to she could better help Alaska? Name ONE thing she has done to help the state? Just ONE
She showed the lower 48 the novel idea of building one fence ontop of another?
Someone is bandying the idea that she should be the RNC chairwoman. On the one hand, I am filled with horror. On the other, I suspect that some of my (beloved, albeit misguided) Republican friends may find themselves voting Democrat.