By now, I'm sure everyone on TAP knows that Sarah Palin has announced that she is resigning her post as Govenor of Alaska.  This is really unbelievable...to be honest.  What was her true reason?  What precipitated her decision? 

CNN and others from the left are saying this is a prelude to a run for president in 2012.  I'm not buying that....not for a minute.  There's something going on I think will come out later....after the knee-jerk reaction by the left-leaning media. 

I'm not sure she'll EVER be in public life again.  I think there are other considerations here.  Could be dead wrong.  But, there's something here we're not hearing about or seeing.  The left has all of its pundits all over this...but, my feeling is they're dead wrong.  Again, I could be wrong here.

Great assessment Dap! I don't buy for a moment what her stated "reasons" are. There is something luring in the air.

Any one know what it is?

My first guess about Michael Jackson was that he died accidentally as a result of his many pastic surgeries... turns out it was medical malpractice, so I was kinda close on that.

My assumption with Palin, is that there's some other family "thing" waiting in the wings to be aired, and she's just had enough of it all, is tired of the negative publicity, can sense she's not getting much useful done as governor. (Kind of the opposite of Sanford, who is refusing to go away.)

So I am less inclined to think it has to do with preparing for a 2012 run or a TV show.

Anonymous said :

My first guess about Michael Jackson was that he died accidentally as a result of his many pastic surgeries... turns out it was medical malpractice, so I was kinda close on that.

My assumption with Palin, is that there's some other family "thing" waiting in the wings to be aired, and she's just had enough of it all, is tired of the negative publicity, can sense she's not getting much useful done as governor. (Kind of the opposite of Sanford, who is refusing to go away.)

So I am less inclined to think it has to do with preparing for a 2012 run or a TV show.

Yeah, I think there's some kind of family issue going on.  It might be that she's just sick and tired of her family being the "pissing post" for the left-talk press and for the late night TV shows and such.  But, something inside me says there's more to this than meets the eye. 
 

She's all about family (and yeah, her family has had incidents of not showing "family values"....let's not go there, y'all).  I admire her a great deal but to be honest, she'd have little-to-no chance in any kind of national campaign now due to the negative press she's had to endure...just my opinion.

Political calculation, she's running in 12 and I hope she gets the nomination.  Better her than the governor of Indiana or Romney.  She figures she can't spend enough time out of state campaigning as she needs to while governor and oil revenue is decreasing so her popularity in Alaska will go down even more as time passes.  Now she is a national candidate with no responsibilities to be critisized for and time to work the money circuit. She will be the darling of Fox News and get plenty of coverage on all the other cable channels as well, especially when her book comes next year.  She is sly like a fox.  And if things don't work out and she sees she isn't going to be able to be one of the top contenders for the nomination I predict she gets her own talk show on cable.

Punditry is about the best she could hope for.

"President Palin"

Yeah, good luck with that....

I really don't think Palin is out to run for prez in '12.  The TV or perhaps radio thingy sounds more like how she'll continue her conservative efforts.  It won't be long before we'll know, me thinks.  This just didn't happen all of a sudden.  Something's definately behind the decision.  Just don't think she's going to subject herself and her family to the ridicule and scrutiny a run at prez would bring about.

If I was a betting man...Romney would be my bet on getting the repub nod in '12.....but hey, that's a long way off.

There really aren't that many options left with any credibility. Yes, I would agree that Romney is probably one of them, although I don't see him being able to win it.

Anonymous said :

There really aren't that many options left with any credibility. Yes, I would agree that Romney is probably one of them, although I don't see him being able to win it.

Agreed.  A lot will have to change...for the worse, if that's possible....for anyone to be able to challenge the demo/media machine.  Then, of course, the big issue of Romney's "Mormonism" would dominate the efforts against him so that anything he says or does or has done will be overshadowed by this religious association he has.  And, of course, any republican worth a crap would HAVE to fight against the demos telling the electorate that if they voted republican, they're gonna take away some "entitlements" so as to help balance the horribly negative revenue vs. expenditure ratio in government.  The demos will then be able to say..."see?  Republicans want to take away your "rights" and stop helping poor people and let our children go hungry and let sick people suffer......".  They're in a pretty good position and the more the demos create entitlements, the stronger position they'll be in politically.

I never thought Mormonism was Romeny's problem. His problem was talking out of both sides of his mouth, being the point man for mandatory health insurance, and that he raised "fees" (not "taxes" as he liked to re-iterate, as if it made much difference). Plus just a bit of the inexplicable (remember the dog-on-the-roof-of-his-van stuff. I'm sure he lost some dog-lovers votes on that one!)

For Romney to be the presumed nominee for 2012 just shows how weak the field really is. If he won, it'd be kind of like 1996 when Dole won.... he was the "least unusual" of the bunch, while the serious contenders continue to wait out a sitting president.

Anonymous said :

I never thought Mormonism was Romeny's problem. His problem was talking out of both sides of his mouth, being the point man for mandatory health insurance, and that he raised "fees" (not "taxes" as he liked to re-iterate, as if it made much difference). Plus just a bit of the inexplicable (remember the dog-on-the-roof-of-his-van stuff. I'm sure he lost some dog-lovers votes on that one!)

For Romney to be the presumed nominee for 2012 just shows how weak the field really is. If he won, it'd be kind of like 1996 when Dole won.... he was the "least unusual" of the bunch, while the serious contenders continue to wait out a sitting president.

 

Good points, no doubt.  "Waiting out" Obama as a sitting prez might very well what it will take for the conserv/repubs to regain some semblance of political strength again.  Guess we'll see.  I'm kinda with you on your thoughts with regard to the republican field of choices, actually.  I do like Romney, so am kinda partial in that respect.  Of course, in 8 years....Lord knows what our country will look like !!
 

dap916 said :

Anonymous said :

I never thought Mormonism was Romeny's problem. His problem was talking out of both sides of his mouth, being the point man for mandatory health insurance, and that he raised "fees" (not "taxes" as he liked to re-iterate, as if it made much difference). Plus just a bit of the inexplicable (remember the dog-on-the-roof-of-his-van stuff. I'm sure he lost some dog-lovers votes on that one!)

For Romney to be the presumed nominee for 2012 just shows how weak the field really is. If he won, it'd be kind of like 1996 when Dole won.... he was the "least unusual" of the bunch, while the serious contenders continue to wait out a sitting president.

 

Good points, no doubt.  "Waiting out" Obama as a sitting prez might very well what it will take for the conserv/repubs to regain some semblance of political strength again.  Guess we'll see.  I'm kinda with you on your thoughts with regard to the republican field of choices, actually.  I do like Romney, so am kinda partial in that respect.  Of course, in 8 years....Lord knows what our country will look like !!
 

Romney is easily the best the Republicans have to offer right now.  He can appeal to the inde's.  Of course the dawg on the roof thing kind of speaks to a lack of common sense issue.  How can you be that smart and that stupid at the same time?  The Morman issue will not hurt him until the media starts exposing some of their beliefs to the public.  Then it might get kind of sticky for him.  I doubt it  would be enough to effect him that much after all Obama survived the Wright mess.  The Indiana governor seems to be another strong possibility.  We will have to learn more about him as time passes should he decide to jump in.  As far as Republicans deciding to sit it out until Obama leaves office, remember when all the major Democrats last did that?  It would be in 92 when an unknown from Ark. descided he wasn't afraid of the big bad wolf!
 

Huh?

Anonymous said :

Romney is easily the best the Republicans have to offer right now.  He can appeal to the inde's.  Of course the dawg on the roof thing kind of speaks to a lack of common sense issue.  How can you be that smart and that stupid at the same time?  The Morman issue will not hurt him until the media starts exposing some of their beliefs to the public.  Then it might get kind of sticky for him.  I doubt it  would be enough to effect him that much after all Obama survived the Wright mess.  The Indiana governor seems to be another strong possibility.  We will have to learn more about him as time passes should he decide to jump in.  As far as Republicans deciding to sit it out until Obama leaves office, remember when all the major Democrats last did that?  It would be in 92 when an unknown from Ark. descided he wasn't afraid of the big bad wolf!
 

Huh?

Well, today's political scene is very much different than it was when Clinton jumped in.  One thing I believe is similar is in the speaking abilities of both Clinton and Obama and their ability to "draw a crowd" and influence people.  But, like I said earlier...things may change a great deal in coming years.  We're just seeing the very beginning of an Obama presidency...so who knows.
 

Oh, and Huh?  You and your family have a happy 4th of July.

I've got to stop coming back to the 'puter....the bride is making those sounds :-)  Got the family coming over at 5:30pm so much to do. 

dap

Just watched Karl Rove and Mike Huckabee being interviewed on Fox News about the Sarah Palin's decision.  That should have been seen by all the Fox News naysayers and criticizers.  Neither Rove or Huckabee commented favorably about her resignation mid-term and even THEY raised questions about her unwillingness to put up with the rigors of being govenor and her ability to take criticism.  Huckabee made the point that over 85% of the legislature in Arkansas while he was guv there was democratic working against everything he was trying to accomplish and that the press there continued to come up with all kinds of negative issues about him personally......yet he continued in office and eventually was seen as an excellent govenor by the majority there.  Rove, being the republican's preeminent political strategist, said that if Palin's plans are to begin a campaign for "higher office", then she has shot herself in the foot with this move.  Both of these guys, however, said they liked her and believed she is a solid conservative republican that mirrors what most conservatives in our country believe....but, that she's just not making the right moves to accomplish what she is alluding to in her reasons for her decision to resign as govenor of Alaska. 

I'm still thinking that there is more to this story than meets the eye. 

Can't say that I am sorry to see her go.  But, I am surprised.  Her resignation and her all-over-the-place press conference demonstrated a naivete and a lack of political savvy.  Whomever is giving her advice, needs to quit with the quickness.  Watching CNN today and listening to several pundits speak, the gentlemen who was the campaign manager for Reagan-Bush (can't think of his name) criticized her for this move.  Bennett, however, (as misguided as usual) seems to think that she's got a chance in 2012.  That may be so if no one has an independent thought and is impressed with rhetoric.  For someone who maintained that she had enough experience to be VP, she seems to weaken in the areas of hard work and tenacity.  Staying on as governor of Alaska would have garnered her the political experience, at least, of working with legislators to get an agenda passed.  Politics is a dirty business.  And while she seems to be able to dish it out, she cowers when the tables are turned.  However, it seemed that she was either enamoured from the national scene and celebrity of a national campaign and then back on the home front got bored OR there are more opportunities outside of government to make more money.  (I would hate to think that she's going to be a grandmother again or some other "family values" dilemma/debacle). She and her ghost writer can begin work on her new book.  As far as her success on TV, not so much.  Her success would be better on radio.  She lacks the skills or knowledge or credibility for that matter for TV, even for FOX.

That's my take, dap.  Otherwise, how are you doing, sweetie?

Smoochers,

MB

Mary Beth said :

Can't say that I am sorry to see her go.  But, I am surprised.  Her resignation and her all-over-the-place press conference demonstrated a naivete and a lack of political savvy.  Whomever is giving her advice, needs to quit with the quickness.  Watching CNN today and listening to several pundits speak, the gentlemen who was the campaign manager for Reagan-Bush (can't think of his name) criticized her for this move.  Bennett, however, (as misguided as usual) seems to think that she's got a chance in 2012.  That may be so if no one has an independent thought and is impressed with rhetoric.  For someone who maintained that she had enough experience to be VP, she seems to weaken in the areas of hard work and tenacity.  Staying on as governor of Alaska would have garnered her the political experience, at least, of working with legislators to get an agenda passed.  Politics is a dirty business.  And while she seems to be able to dish it out, she cowers when the tables are turned.  However, it seemed that she was either enamoured from the national scene and celebrity of a national campaign and then back on the home front got bored OR there are more opportunities outside of government to make more money.  (I would hate to think that she's going to be a grandmother again or some other "family values" dilemma/debacle). She and her ghost writer can begin work on her new book.  As far as her success on TV, not so much.  Her success would be better on radio.  She lacks the skills or knowledge or credibility for that matter for TV, even for FOX.

That's my take, dap.  Otherwise, how are you doing, sweetie?

Smoochers,

MB

But she showed so much promise as a point guard at her high school!  I wonder if she would have quit the team if the local weekly had criticized her play too much? 

Mary Beth said :

Can't say that I am sorry to see her go.  But, I am surprised.  Her resignation and her all-over-the-place press conference demonstrated a naivete and a lack of political savvy.  Whomever is giving her advice, needs to quit with the quickness.  Watching CNN today and listening to several pundits speak, the gentlemen who was the campaign manager for Reagan-Bush (can't think of his name) criticized her for this move.  Bennett, however, (as misguided as usual) seems to think that she's got a chance in 2012.  That may be so if no one has an independent thought and is impressed with rhetoric.  For someone who maintained that she had enough experience to be VP, she seems to weaken in the areas of hard work and tenacity.  Staying on as governor of Alaska would have garnered her the political experience, at least, of working with legislators to get an agenda passed.  Politics is a dirty business.  And while she seems to be able to dish it out, she cowers when the tables are turned.  However, it seemed that she was either enamoured from the national scene and celebrity of a national campaign and then back on the home front got bored OR there are more opportunities outside of government to make more money.  (I would hate to think that she's going to be a grandmother again or some other "family values" dilemma/debacle). She and her ghost writer can begin work on her new book.  As far as her success on TV, not so much.  Her success would be better on radio.  She lacks the skills or knowledge or credibility for that matter for TV, even for FOX.

That's my take, dap.  Otherwise, how are you doing, sweetie?

Smoochers,

MB

Pretty good take on it there Mary Beth.  I doubt very seriously if we'll see her being successful in politics from this point forward unless there's a HUGE change in public sentiment about the direction of our country and what the demos are doing (which could VERY well happen since, in my opinion, Obama & Co. is doing everything they can to damage our capitalist system and that's why our country has been so strong and great for over 200 years).  I'm thinkin' she's gonna be on the "speaker's circuit" for huge buck-a-roos, possibly be a commentator for Fox News or something like that...maybe have her own show like Huck has...maybe a radio gig.  Hey, think about a Rush/Sarah team-up.  I mean, Rush already is the most successful radio talk show host of all time and makes zillions of dollars and has a HUGE audience (something the left/demos just absolutely HATE)...just a thought.
 

It'll be interesting, to say the least.

Here is an interesting take from Politics Daily:

www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/08/sarah-barracuda-palin-and-the-piranhas-of-the-press/

Interesting revelations....

http://www.rr.com/news/news/article/9008/8324292/Palin_says_shes_not_leaving_politics