Sarah Palin is resigning as governor of Alaska, effective near the end of the month.
As of this time, she is keeping her plans under wraps. But that didn’t stop the mainstream media’s punditsphere from spending the entire day running around in circles and speculating like an 1849 California gold miner on speed.
The main question that they threw around was is Sarah Palin gearing up to run for President in 2012?
My guess is that she will, regardless of whether she’s qualified, or how many people try to convince her otherwise, or how much damage she could do to her Republican party before it’s all said and done.
Even still, it’s a little bit early to start campaigning for President, so there’s certainly more to her decision than just looking forward to her next big thing. I think that Palin is tired of dealing with the mounting legal pressures on her, her family issues, as well as the media scrutiny that she’s faced since last summer.
Quite frankly I don’t think she can handle the pressure of being a national figure. But that’s not going to stop her from running for the most intense and stressful job in the entire world! Atta girl, Sarah! Show those media fatcats and liberal whitewashers that you don’t need to know all the countries in North America to be President.
Seriously, it will be very intriguing to see how the GOP reacts when the day comes that Palin announces her candidacy for the highest office in the land.
Some will be enthusiastic, even orgiastic, in response.
I’m sure that there will be others who will hang their heads and wonder how the once mighty Grand Old Republican party could sink so low.
And there will be others still who become registered Democrats and Independents for the first times in their political lives.
I really don’t know all that much about the internal workings of the Republican Party or of the people who bear their colors with pride. I don’t know exactly how many Evangelicals there are in the party or if they constitute a majority. Perhaps there aren’t enough of them to nominate Palin; perhaps there are more than enough. Time will tell on that.
While I don’t know what will happen in the 2012 Republican primaries, I do know what will happen if Sarah Palin faces off with an incumbent President Obama during the general election debates.
Here’s a hint: it rhymes with landslide.
July 3, 2009 at 10:42 pm
While there is always the chance she could run, I tend to think that given the recent GOP follies, coupled with the other politicians in Alaska getting caught for random shit, that this may be more an issue of skeletons in the closet making more noise than anything else.
That, and the fact that she clearly (a) is insane, and (b) doesn’t give a shit about Alaska
July 4, 2009 at 11:32 am
Shes just a moron. Grade A. Not saying that makes her an evil person or anything like that, but it does mean no one in their right mind should ever nominate her to elected office again.
I honestly think W is smarter than her. Best show on TV would be special guest Sarah Palin on “Are you Smarter than 5th grader”.
July 4, 2009 at 11:32 am
And genuinely, i don’t think shes incapable of being intelligent, I just think she lacks any and all intellectual curioisity
July 4, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Don’t know if you read this already, but the 6-page Vanity Fair article nails Sarah Palin square in her hockey mom lipstick:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908
Fantastically written and a veritable maelstrom of fresh air.
July 5, 2009 at 7:46 am
Sarah WHO?
Why doesn’t this self rightous bee-atch just go away?
What a blame-the-evil-liberals control freak!
Okay, so human life is precious, and her kid is RETARTDED.
NOT SPECIAL, RETARDED!
Would any sane person try to use that as a political asset?
If she doesn’t want comedians and weirdos ‘going after’ her friggin kids, she should keep them off the damned TV instead of using them for her own gain!
RANT/off.
July 6, 2009 at 11:52 am
She’s quitting to become my full-time slutty flight attendant!
Unless she’s preemptively quitting to avoid a career ending bit of info being released, rest assured she’s either taking a job at FOX NOISE or is organizing a run at the Presidency or, at the very least, Congress. Even if she has a terminal illness, that wouldn’t stop this newly minted media whore from grabbing for more spotlight.
July 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm
“Oh yeah, Oh yeah. The world needs more Trigs (retarded son) not fewer. You betcha fer sher!” -Sarah Palin during announcement.
The world needs “more Trigs”…so that these fucking retards will fall for her bullshit and vote for her.
How incredibly cruel to saddle your retarded spawn with the name “Trig”, a nickname for an advanced math subject. Like the kid doesn’t have enough problems already.