Sarah Palin

**barbaro** · 04-07-2009, 04:59 AM

This is a national poll (and hopefully done right) but I just saw the Alaska polling numbers in May, '09 for Palin and she has slipped.

This could be a strategy for Palin to resign before the next election, where she may have a tight race or be defeated.

It's possible.

The numbers below show that she's popular among many Republicans (those who claim to be a Republican) but her unfavorable (negative) ratings are in the 40s in the general public.

To a national candidate, you have to get the independents. And also, those that claim to be "Republican" is a small base than before.

Pew poll: Palin popular among Republicans but polarizing
Posted by Alaska_Politics

Posted: June 24, 2009

Gov. Sarah Palin “continues to be a divisive figure among the general public” but is hugely popular among Republicans, according to a new national survey by the Pew Research Center.

The survey, conducted June 10-14 among 1,502 adults reached on landlines and cell phones “finds that impressions of Sarah Palin have not changed much since the presidential campaign.”

....Nearly as many of the people surveyed said they have an unfavorable impression of Palin (44 percent) as have a favorable view of her (45 percent).

Unlike Romney, Palin’s ratings continue to be much better among conservative Republicans (80%) than among moderates and liberals in the party (62%). And while positive views of Palin have slipped among non-evangelical Republicans (from 77% to 67%), they remain overwhelmingly positive among white evangelical Republicans (84% now, 85% last October).

Palin receives a more favorable rating from those with a high school degree or less (48% favorable, 36% unfavorable) than she does from college graduates (41% favorable, 52% unfavorable). Regionally, she is somewhat better regarded in the South (49% favorable) than she is in the Northeast (39% favorable).

Link & Entire: Alaska Politics Blog : Pew poll: Palin popular among Republicans but polarizing | adn.com

**S Landreth** · 04-07-2009, 05:16 AM

Originally Posted by Milkman

This could be a strategy for Palin to resign before the next election, where she may have a tight race or be defeated.

It's possible.

Here is what some on the Right are saying about her, today. She can't finish the job.......................
Why would anyone vote for someone who did not finish their job?

If it’s her duty to always “protect” Alaska, then that strongly implies not walking away from the responsibility of governing it — a responsibility she sought, and with which her constituents trusted her to execute. No one leads by quitting. No one leads by quitting. Palin’s abandoning her post, and at least from her own description, doing it because she doesn’t want to deal with the issues of being a “lame duck,” a status all politicians have to handle at some point.

I’ve seen a myriad of excuses on Twitter and e-mail for this bizarre resignation: her legal bills are too high, she’s putting her family first, she doesn’t want to distract Alaskans because of cheap-shot ethics complaints that are distracting everyone. None of those make any sense. If the spotlight was too much, then she shouldn’t have run for office in the first place. If she’s quitting because people are taking potshots at her, then she’s not the kind of political fighter we thought she was. The legal bills might be a rational reason, but thoroughly insufficient for betraying the people who put her in charge of Alaska — and her memoirs would have paid for her legal bills many times over, had she completed her term.

There’s really no excuse, and what Rich Lowry also calls her “terrible,” “rambling,” and “not at all persuasive” statement showed that. Unless there was a serious illness or a serious scandal, the resignation on the grounds Palin gave is simply incomprehensible. She has destroyed her own credibiity in a single day.

From a (very) Right-wing web site

**Jet Gorgon** · 04-07-2009, 05:37 AM

^ Nope. I heard her speech today. She said she did not want to be a lame duck in her final year in office and is handing the reins over to the Lt Gov. Pretty good speech. I posted a thread in the Lounge, seeing as how so many folks hate her for being a real chick.

**barbaro** · 04-07-2009, 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ Nope. I heard her speech today. She said she did not want to be a lame duck in her final year in office and is handing the reins over to the Lt Gov. Pretty good speech. I posted a thread in the Lounge, seeing as how so many folks hate her for being a real chick.

And she's getting called on that. Link same as above.

Palin's Speech:
The lame-duck explanation was the most incoherent part of the entire statement:

“Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional ‘Lame Duck’ status in this particular climate would just be another dose of ‘politics as usual,’ something I campaigned against and will always oppose. It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success.”

Ed Morrissey, writer:

Bear in mind that the election isn’t next month but about 16 months from now, in November 2010. Using this logic, Palin should never have run for the first term unless she was willing to run for the second, and not run for either if she wasn’t willing (or legally able) to run for a third. Politicians don’t enter lame-duck status until their successor has already been elected and they’re running out the rest of the term. And all politicians become lame ducks at some point — and none of them quit just to avoid it.

**Jet Gorgon** · 04-07-2009, 06:12 AM

Dunno. Reckon she's building bunkers and caching food and weapons. Laugh now, libbies.

**raycarey** · 04-07-2009, 09:45 AM

feb 19th, 2009

Originally Posted by raycarey

i'd be willing to wager that palin doesn't serve another term as governor. she'll either be beaten or won't run at all because she'll know she can't win.

https://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...tml#post963795

**sabang** · 04-07-2009, 09:50 AM

How bizarre. She's shot now as far as national politics go, surely she would know that. Then again she never really had a chance anyway.

Maybe she's made a decision to chase media money with her memoirs and being a talk show host or something- she wants to be as rich as Rush.

DaffyDuck · 04-07-2009, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Ah, but she is a leading contender for the Republican Party in the next elections.

**WAS**

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Dunno. Reckon she's building bunkers and caching food and weapons. Laugh now, libbies.

You sure love cementing your position of being an idiot, don't you?

Originally Posted by sabang

Maybe she's made a decision to chase media money with her memoirs and being a talk show host or something- she wants to be as rich as Rush.

Bingo!

**raycarey** · 04-07-2009, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Originally Posted by sabang

Maybe she's made a decision to chase media money with her memoirs and being a talk show host or something- she wants to be as rich as Rush.

Bingo!

perhaps.

but another tawdry scandal seems just as likely.

**Butterfly** · 04-07-2009, 10:06 AM

or maybe she has bigger ambitions

**Norton** · 04-07-2009, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

She said she did not want to be a lame duck in her final year in office

Lame duck? What she can't run again in next election. A wise man once told me. To find the truth, follow the money!

**panama hat** · 04-07-2009, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

A wise man once told me. To find the truth, follow the money!

I said 'honey', not 'money' . . . Geez, Norton, do get it right and your earpiece fixed.

Honey!

Originally Posted by raycarey

feb 19th, 2009

Legendary . . . did you really search out your old posts for that?

Pretty good, though

Originally Posted by Norton

Lame duck?

She doesn't even know what that means in the political arena . . . fuck-a-duck, she is thick as . . . .

**Norton** · 04-07-2009, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Geez, Norton, do get it right and your earpiece fixed.

Say again!

**panama hat** · 04-07-2009, 01:05 PM

HONEY

**sabang** · 04-07-2009, 01:10 PM

Follow the Honey, follow the money. Whats the difference?

**foreigner** · 04-07-2009, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by sabang

Follow the Honey, follow the money. Whats the difference?

**panama hat** · 05-07-2009, 10:02 AM

Will she see the inside of a jail?

Odds are?

**raycarey** · 05-07-2009, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Will she see the inside of a jail? Odds are?

extremely slim, i would think. her hillbilly husband on the other hand....
or maybe she's resigning because her pothead daughter got knocked-up again while she was out on her abstinence tour.

but let's not lose sight of the fact that this woman is a quitter.

she couldn't muster the wherewithal to finish her first term as governor of alaska....and she wants people to seriously consider her for the presidency of the entire nation?

is she kidding herself? "youbetcha!"

**panama hat** · 05-07-2009, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by raycarey

is she kidding herself? "youbetcha!"

Very clever . . . and to think this was the best the GOP could come up with . . . is there a barrel so deep? Yet, to think how many voted for the octogenarian and the airhead is frightening.

**Norton** · 05-07-2009, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by raycarey

this woman is a quitter

Easy to be a "good leader" espousing the virtues of her policies on fiscal responsibility whilst riding the revenue rewards of high oil prices.

Seems things have changed for Sarah. Alaska is in trouble. When the going gets tough the tough just say, No mas!!

"With oil revenues accounting for nearly 90 percent of state general revenue, the new oil price forecast translates to a significant drop in money expected to flow into the treasury.

The budget deficit that was expected in December to amass to $450 million by the end of the fiscal year is now expected to be $1.2 billion more than that, Department of Revenue officials said.

In a statement, Gov. Sarah Palin said she plans $286.6 million in spending reductions in response to the drop in the price of oil but that legislators will probably have to authorize the spending of well over $1 billion in savings to make the current year's budget balance."

Alaska lowers oil price forecast, expects deficit | Reuters

**Storekeeper** · 05-07-2009, 01:29 PM

What happened to my post yesterday in this thread?

**sabang** · 05-07-2009, 02:14 PM

^ Nothing. There was no post.

**panama hat** · 05-07-2009, 03:34 PM

**foreigner** · 06-07-2009, 01:53 AM

Sarah Palin's political ambition combined with her intellect is like putting a jet engine on a skate board .. lots of horse power and no steering capabilities.

if appealing to idiots is a criteria for political office:

Britteny / Simon '12

**Cujo** · 06-07-2009, 10:33 AM

her pothead daughter got knocked-up again while she was out on her abstinence tour.

If true, that's too funny.

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