what the hell!??! pg , full court press, then call an audible? that's 2 different sports.......no politics as usual, real climate change, guess this what happens when that mccain team training wears off......does anyone in alaska understand any of this? it'd be sad if they did.
I guess the first thing that comes to mind is that she was originally a newscaster; so I could see her starting a radio talk show or something. How can someone who couldn't run the second least populous state in the country for a full term possibly expect to be seriously considered as President; or anything else, for that matter? How do you even screw up your approval rating in a state that tiny? Maybe she saw the writing on the wall, and is cashing out before it all comes crashing down.
Along those potential scandal lines, Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast, rehashes today what was reported last year:
The worst part for me, as a basketball fan, was that she said you keep your eye on the goal (um, no), and then later, you keep your eye on the ball (with apologies to Clyde, um, no again.) Kojirou, I am with you. I want a real and vibrant and logic-based return of the party. A democrat-only America is no good, and I say that as a (weird maybe) democrat.
Oh well; now that the four-time state-school dropout has quit, I guess the Harvard JD/MBA with the multi-billion dollar private equity firm, full term governorship in a politically hostile state and successfull Winter Olympics coordination under his belt will have to do.
Me, too. It was great while it lasted for the Democrats. TJ and Basso and her defender the libertarian guy who was so happy about her as a "reformer"has disappeared from the bbs lately, ha.ve egg on their faces I kept thinking that she was having a manic break as Batman says or perhaps high on diet pills. She has lost a lot of weight. Maybe the first dude, Tod,has tired ofher insanity and abandoned her for a dog sledding bimbo.
Was this before or after her brief but memorable stint in the former female supergroup, Bananarama? <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M00T3Mqw62s&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M00T3Mqw62s&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
I'll never find another girl like you, for happy endings it takestwo we're fire and ice, the dream won't come true Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time oh Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyes
No joke, lmao. Wow that video was painful to watch. It's not people were just so tired of Bush that they didn't give Republicans a chance again, but it's the fact that Christ... you picked Palin? I have to contend that McCain was in fact senile at the time of his VP nomination process.
It's hard for me to follow this thread as I am now, more than ever, looking North to the future, which will be good.
I'm kind of worried about this development T_J; how do you think this will affect the McCain, sorry, the Romney campaign? This can't be good news for McCain.
I'm not familiar with the source, but it does explain things... [rquoter] EXCLUSIVE: PALIN RESIGNATION 'DAMAGE CONTROL' FOR COMING 'ICEBERG SCANDAL' ... MORE: EMBEZZLEMENT INDICTMENTS COMING? UPDATED: Alaskan reporter Shannyn Moore offers The BRAD BLOG hints about reasons for Alaska Gov's resignation FURTHER UPDATE: Sources say embezzlement scandal, federal indictments may soon break concerning use of Wasilla Sport Complex building materials for Palin's home... Palin resigns. She was to have been in office until 2010. Something else is going on here above and beyond what she's saying, though I don't know what yet. Josh Marshall seems to agree, noting in his "first signs of what happened" coverage: <blockquote> [T]his clearly happened so quickly that Palin hasn't even had a chance to come up with a coherent cover story for her resignation. ... Remember that based on the public record, Palin is a wildly unethical public official, guilty at a minimum of numerous instances of abusing her authority as governor. And a lot of very damaging information has come out about her in the last few days --- though mainly embarrassing information about her character rather than new evidence of bad acts. I would not be surprised if this latest round of revelations shook something else loose that we haven't heard about yet." </blockquote> I'd expect another shoe to drop very soon here...Looking into it...More shortly... UPDATE: Alaskan Sarah Palin authority (and occasional BRAD BLOG guest blogger) Shannyn Moore, who broke the news at HuffPo today, tells me she believes, with good reason, that there is an "iceberg scandal that's about to break. She's doing damage control." She says Palin is "resigning as part of damage control" due to a scandal that is "not of a family nature." ... "The governor would not be able to continue her job when it comes out," she told me on the phone just now, before adding: "Why would Mark Sanford not resign, but Sarah Palin did? Her family didn't even know about the resignation until they were standing with her by the lake" when she made her announcement. Yes. It seems another shoe, apparently a big one, may indeed be ready to drop, perhaps within the next week or so. Perhaps earlier now that everyone will be poking around up there, according to the folks I'm hearing from in AK. FURTHER UPDATE: Okay, I've now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin's house and the Wasilla Sports Complex, built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the "same windows, same wood, same products." Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources. The BRAD BLOG has not been able to receive confirm from any federal sources on this. Our information comes from local Alaskans who follow Palin, and who have been keeping an eye on this for some time, while keeping it quiet at the request of federal investigators. A bit more now follows the video below... [video not embeded] LATE UPDATE: It appears that the questions about Palin's house and the sports complex made their way through the media and blogosphere during the campaign last October. "Glic" over at DailyKos has collected some of the notable coverage from back then, including these details from the Village Voice on 10/8/08... <blockquote> THE $12.5 MILLION sports complex and hockey rink that is the lasting monument to Palin's two terms as Wasilla mayor is also a monument to the kind of insider politics that dismays Americans of both parties. Six months before Palin stepped down as mayor in October 2002, the city awarded nearly a half-million-dollar contract to design the biggest project in Wasilla history to Kumin Associates. Blase Burkhart was the Kumin architect on the job-the son of Roy Burkhart, who is frequently described as a "mentor" of Palin and was head of the local Republican Party (his wife, June, who also advised Palin, is the national committeewoman). Asked if the contract was a favor, Roy Burkhart, who contributed to her campaign in the same time frame that his son got the contract, said: "I really don't know." Palin then named Blase Burkhart to a seven-member builder-selection committee that picked Howdie Inc., a mostly residential contractor owned at the time by Howard Nugent. Formally awarded the contract a couple of weeks after Palin left office, Nugent has donated $4,000 to Palin campaigns. Two competitors protested the process that led to Nugent's contract. ... A list of subcontractors on the job, obtained by the Voice, includes many with Palin ties. One was Spenard Builders Supply, the state's leading supplier of wood, floor, roof, and other "pre-engineered components." In addition to being a sponsor of Todd Palin's snow-machine team that has earned tens of thousands for the Palin family, Spenard hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004. When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office. ... Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as "buddies." As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the "buddies" were. </blockquote> Also...Max Blumenthal at Daily Beast asks "Did a Scandal Sink the U.S.S. Palin?": <blockquote> One logical place to start looking is the affair that has Alaska political circles buzzing: an alleged scandal centered around a building contractor, Spenard Building Supplies, with close ties to Palin and her husband, Todd. Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. </blockquote> Anderson Cooper on CNN just had Palin's top spokesperson, Meg Stapelton, on by phone. She was in New York tonight, while Palin was resigning in Alaska. We report, you decide... [/rquoter]
