Why Palin is Stepping Down from the Alaskan Governorship
Far be it from me to answer the question that all of the eggheads in D.C. have been pondering for the past week.
But it seems relatively obvious why Palin is stepping down from the Alaskan governorship mid-term: she needs to attend finishing school.
She’s not your average politician. She sounds mixed up sometimes. She needs time to learn the trade.
Right wingers like me love her because of her associations with the Buchanan Brigades in 1996, but it’s difficult to sell Palin to the country when she seems unable to put on the airs of a Mitt Romney or Mark Sanford.
Palin’s going to sit down and study and understand policy terms, scandals, heads of state, and all of the other things that Obama has read from his teleprompter the past few months.
And another thing: all of the so-called “Republican Strategists” that have been condemning Palin’s recent decision seem to be eerily similar to the people who condemned McCain for choosing Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee. Where were all of these people when Obama picked Joe Biden? If Biden goes the next week without saying something utterly assinine, I might just win the lottery.
Palin’s future in politics rests on an improvement of her delivery. Let’s hope she puts this time to good use.
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The Incredible Hoelker
July, 2009
Biden’s already sounded stupid this week: http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/07/biden-we-misread-the-economy-.html
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July, 2009
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Far be it from me to answer the question that all of the eggheads in D.C. have been pondering for the past week.
But it seems relatively obvious why Palin is stepping down from the Alaskan governorship mid-term: she needs to attend finishing school.
She’s not your average politician. She sounds mixed up sometimes. She needs time to learn the trade.
Right wingers like me love her because of her associations with the Buchanan Brigades in 1996, but it’s difficult to sell Palin to the country when she seems unable to put on the airs of a Mitt Romney or Mark Sanford.
>>> tough to sell her b/c she keeps shooting herself in the foot.
Palin’s going to sit down and study and understand policy terms, scandals, heads of state, and all of the other things that Obama has read from his teleprompter the past few months.
>>> yes, obama made it big b/c of his ability to READ better. its good to have a President that READS isn’t it?
And another thing: all of the so-called “Republican Strategists” that have been condemning Palin’s recent decision seem to be eerily similar to the people who condemned McCain for choosing Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee. Where were all of these people when Obama picked Joe Biden? If Biden goes the next week without saying something utterly assinine, I might just win the lottery.
>>> those people are still there - they are the people that dont just condemn anything, but the things that require condemning. in this case, palin as VP would be worth condemning, and picking Biden would not, regardless of your hyperbole.
Palin’s future in politics rests on an improvement of her delivery. Let’s hope she puts this time to good use.
>>> If Palin is your future… you have no future.
JFK
July, 2009
“>>> yes, obama made it big b/c of his ability to READ better. its good to have a President that READS isn’t it?”
The only thing Obama reads is Teleprompter. One should hope that the president can read, but public speaking does not consist solely of reading words from Teleprompter.
thomas
July, 2009
Palin is a total nut job, even she doesn’t know what she’s doing.
BetsyM
July, 2009
When are people going to understand that a teleprompter is used so you don’t “stick foot in mouth” like W did all the time, and showed his stupidity. And by the way, Palin had teleprompters when she ran for VP.
If she can study up on all the issues and sound intelligent (which so far she hasn’t), good for her. I’m a moderate so I personally couldn’t support her. But I do have to say that she and Bachmann certainly don’t help the feminist movement in politics.
herewegoagain
July, 2009
“And another thing: all of the so-called “Republican Strategists” that have been condemning Palin’s recent decision seem to be eerily similar to the people who condemned McCain for choosing Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee.”
So you should listen to them! Obviously, they turned out to be right the first time.
And about this teleprompter nonsense…Palin used one in her resignation speech, and she still sounded incoherent.
JFK
July, 2009
“When are people going to understand that a teleprompter is used so you don’t “stick foot in mouth” like W did all the time, and showed his stupidity.”
I don’t know about this. W certainly made a fool of himself on countless occasions, but at least he didn’t try to pretend as if he had a rhetorical command second to Cicero.
Face it: Obama’s not a good public speaker - no better than Palin. He’s got the media on his side, making him look good, and he’s got Teleprompter feeding him everything he needs to know.
Mo MoDo
July, 2009
Palin was using a teleprompter on her resignation sppech (and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise) and it still sounding like the ramblings of demented fifth-grader. It’s the speaker, not the technology that makes people sound eloquent.
Consumer Unit 5012
July, 2009
“And another thing: all of the so-called “Republican Strategists” that have been condemning Palin’s recent decision seem to be eerily similar to the people who condemned McCain for choosing Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee.”
Refresh my memory–who won that election?
JFK
July, 2009
“Refresh my memory–who won that election?”
McCain lost the election because he was a moderate pushover - that is a clear indication that being a moderate will not get you elected.
Palin attracted the big crowds.
The folks suggesting that the Republicans become more moderate are the same folks that said we should support McCain - they are also liberals. Look where that got us. McCain is the most moderate Republican in congress. He reaches across the aisle.
Let your enemy tell you how to win and you will lose every time.
mark
July, 2009
She poses well for the camera and loves it - very photogenic. But, she’s inarticulate and continued practice will not change that.
djw
July, 2009
McCain is the most moderate Republican in congress.
This is not true at all. Are you familiar with Olympia Snowe? Susan Collins? Sununu? Voinovich? Pre-switch Specter? If you look at McCain’s overall voting record, he’s a middle of the pack Repbulican in the Senate. The reason he has a reputation for being a moderate is that he’s broken with the party of a few very high-profile issues (he does love the attention). He’s basically the republican Joe Lieberman–he has a reputation for being more moderate than he is. His forays into going against his party are much more high-profile because he’s just loves the attention, and he’s good at getting it.
IndependentPatriot
July, 2009
Palin’s future in politics rests on an improvement of her delivery.
Read that again. Do you realize how vapid and shallow that claim is? Or, equally damning, how cynical?
It’s not simply the delivery that matters, it’s the substance of what is delivered. And when it comes to substance, Palin has none. None, at least, that speaks well of her qualifications to lead Alaska, much less the USA.
This is a person who, as mayor of Wasilla, had to bring on a city administrator, its first ever, to actually run the city; Wasilla’s population at the time was less than 6,000. Her inept and rash handling of the Wasilla Sports Complex project left the city with at least $1.3 million in legal fees (and counting) because she pushed ahead with the project without clear title to the land. This “fiscal conservative” raised sales taxes—including on food items—and left the city $24.8 million in debt (from $1.12 million when she started) without implementing the infrastructure projects she promised. (I’m not going to elaborate on her vindictive score-settling that began even back then, with firing police chiefs, museum directors, and librarians–aaack!)
This is a person who claims to be an expert on energy but in reality does not have a deep understanding of the oil and gas matters even in her own state, much less energy policy for our country. Please—you owe it to our country’s wellbeing to read this article about her grasp of energy issues; decide for yourself whether she is misinformed, un-teachable, and/or duplicitous.
http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/09/24/sarah_palin_energy/
(Please don’t discount it simply because it’s Salon; there are links to original sources, and the article is written by Joseph Romm, who holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and served as acting assistant secretary in 1997.)
C’mon now, this is a person who thinks Alaska’s proximity to Russia is relevant foreign-policy experience. Osmosis, maybe? (Yes, I know she didn’t actually say she could see Russia from her house, but she did claim the aforementioned.)
This is a person who knows little about, and seems disinterested in, the world outside Alaska, deemed the “Outside.” She obtained her first passport in 2007 in time for a trip to three US military bases in Kuwait to address Alaska National Guard troops. Her staff cited a visit to Ireland also, which turned out to be a refueling stop only.
I mention the last bit not in an “elitist” vein, that everybody should and can travel the world. However, it does behoove anyone who aspires to lead our country (the free world, some would say) to take an interest in and learn about the very diverse and complex world we live in today.
More importantly, though, I ask that any POTUS aspirant have a familiarity with and an understanding of US history and our Constitution—at college-level, please—and a temperament that cares to ruminate on their ramifications. Palin often speaks as though her high-school basketball experience (almost 30 years ago!) taught her all she needs to know about life.
…all of the other things that Obama has read from his teleprompter the past few months.
Wow, that almost dissuaded me from posting a response to you. Obama is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law; was elected president of the Harvard Law Review by his peers; taught Constitutional law at the University of Chicago for 12 years; served as an IL state senator and as an IL US senator. He also authored two books—yes, he wrote them all by himself—that are undeniably well written and substantive. Do you actually believe that his knowledge base is dependent on a teleprompter?
However much you disagree with Obama’s politics and positions, if you can’t give credit where credit is due, then you are doing a disservice to your conservative cause…and to your country. A healthy democracy requires healthy informed debate—a bringing to fruition of that much vaunted marketplace of ideas.
JFK
July, 2009
“He also authored two books—yes, he wrote them all by himself—that are undeniably well written and substantive.”
Obama’s autobiographies? Autobiographies are not significant literary accomplishments. Those were coffee table books.
Demagogues love to write about themselves. Hitler’s masterpiece was Mein Kampf, “My Struggle.”
Obama graduated with a Magna Cum Laude in Affirmative Action. And now he’s nominating an Affirmative Action graduate of Princeton to the Supreme Court. Not for one second do I buy this tripe about “Magna Cum Laude Harvard Law” while we have qualified students being denied admission because they are white.
Spare us your article and keep your comments brief.
Jakealoper
July, 2009
You mean she will actually start to read a newspaper or magazine and answer questions in a debate, instead of pandering to fellow morons with her dumbed downed populim and vapid responses?