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Boon Mee

Yeah, but she needs to do something about her hair.
Looks like a rats nest...

Panda

I think McCain had a good chance until Palin started opening her mouth. The Republicans were dead in the water from that point on.

Trying to get the womens vote with a female v/prez candidate was a gamble that looked pretty good in the beginning but turned to shit when Palin came under scrutiny. Palin was a godsend to the media carnivores. The best thing that could have happened for the Democrats. Until the Republicans can come up with a female candidate with half a brain, they better steer clear of trying to get the womens vote by just putting an xx chromosome on the ticket.

In the end it doesn't matter much to the rest of the world anyway because US foreign policy and the mismanagement of the worlds default trading currency is going to be pretty much the same under Obama as Bush. The era of the US world financial/ military empire is drawing to a close as all empires do.

S Landreth

Wed Jan 28, 2009 at 02: 40: 04 PM PST

Sarah Palin is hilarious.


From her new PAC website:
Dedicated to building America's future, supporting fresh ideas and candidates who share our vision for reform and innovation.


So what are those fresh ideas? Well, there's a "Donate Today!" button, and a "About Sarah" button, and a place to sign up for emails. Are those ideas? Because really, that's all the site has.


Yup, about as vapid as Sarah herself.


Link: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/28/31840/5577/672/689865

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S Landreth

Trivial news about Palins family and obstruction of justice,……..

Todd Palin held in contempt of Alaska state Senate
Mike Sheehan
Published: Friday February 6, 2009

The husband of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin has been found guilty of contempt by the Alaskan Senate.

Last summer, Todd Palin and others had refused to comply with subpoenas issued by Alaska lawmakers seeking testimony in the "Troopergate" investigation launched in July, triggered by the allegedly forced resignation of a state official.

The official, Walt Monegan, had been reluctant to fire an Alaska state trooper who was Gov. Palin's brother-in-law, embroiled in a bitter custody battle with Palin's sister.

According to the Anchorage Daily News issue of 8 October 2008, Todd Palin "talked with over a dozen state officials, many of them repeatedly, in his crusade to get a state trooper fired whom he considered to be a bad cop, a dishonest person and a threat to the Palin family," per a sworn statement given to a legislative investigator.

At the time the investigation began, Gov. Palin "welcomed the chance to clear the air and had directed her staff to cooperate with the investigations," writes blogger Shannyn Moore. But "everything chnaged" when just weeks later, GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose Palin as his running mate.

Despite Todd Palin's later refusal to comply with the subpoena, he was not subject to contempt charges until the full Alaska Senate reconvened in January 2009--weeks after Election Day.

This morning, the Alaska Senate resolution holding Palin et al. in contempt passed 16 to 1, per Moore's blog. The resolution "did not address the actions of [Palin appointee] Attorney General Talis Colberg," instead calling for "no penalties to the [seven] witnesses because they were being guided by the Attorney General" and did cooperate with lead "Troopergate" investigator Stephen Branchflower after Colberg's challenge to the subpoenas was thrown out of court.

With the election over and losing candidate Palin largely out of the spotlight she dominated during the runup to November, the attention to "Troopergate" has similarly dissipated, as evidenced by today's proceedings in the Alaska Senate. "There was very little discussion on the floor," Moore writes.

Gov. Palin probably prefers it that way, as she is often mentioned as a leading candidate for the GOP nomination in 2012.

Link: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Todd_Palin_held_in_contempt_of_0206.html

S Landreth

More trailer-trash news,…………….

Continuing with her stalker-like obsession with the Palin family, Greta Van Susteren wings her way to Alaska to interview high school dropout & teenaged babymama Bristol Palin But Not Johnston:


Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, told Fox News in her first interview since giving birth that she would like to be an advocate against teen pregnancy.


"Everyone should wait 10 years," Palin said. "I hope people learn from my story."


"It's so much easier if you're married, have a house and career. It's not a situation you want to strive for."
[...]


Bristol Palin described to Fox's Greta Van Susteren the moment when she, her boyfriend, Levi Johnston, and another friend told her parents that she was pregnant. She described that moment as "harder than labor."


But this was not the only surprise Bristol Palin said she had for her mother, Alaska's youngest governor. She told Van Susteren she had only told her mother she was doing this national television interview - in which Van Susteren and crew flew to Alaska - one day prior to the taping.


Wait! A camera crew? Guess what happens? Go on, guess.


Nevertheless, Governor Palin appeared at the interview, with baby Tripp in tow.


Sarah Palin jumping in front of cameras while hauling a baby around like a prop? Nobody could have seen that coming...


As for that "Bristol and Levi were already planning to get married" Republican convention storyline? Eh. Maybe later:


Bristol Palin said she is getting help from many members of her family with raising the infant while continuing her studies. She told Van Susteren she has no immediate plans to marry Levi Johnson, who she described as a 'hands on Dad."


Last year, there were reports that the couple would marry in the coming year.


"Eventually we'd like to get married," the young mother said. "We're focusing on getting through school though, getting a career going."


If I had to bet on what will happen first: the Palin/Johnston wedding or President Sarah Palin, I would put my money on something with slightly better odds. Maybe Jonah Goldberg's Olympic gold medal in pole vaulting.


Totally gonna happen...


Link: http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/02/17/nobody-puts-sarah-palins-baby-in-the-corner/

Lily

I am no fan of hers, but I dont think her daughters pregnancy should have been any kind of an issue.

Nor her physical attractiveness. Geez, if attractiveness, were a requirement for political office, most of the males in politics wouldn't get a look in.

S Landreth

^I did not want to bring any of Palins children into any type of discussion. Her children are not running for office,.it is their mother. However since the Republicans thrust Palin and her family upon us as some outstanding family to be admired (Christians doing the right thing) with their family values/beliefs, I find it a bit disturbing that Palins family does the things they do.
The story it’s so much about Palins child as it is about how the Republicans/Palin said that Bristol was going to marry the father of their baby. It was all show,.to try to get elected into office. Lies!

It is a bit hypocritical of the Republicans and some of their followers to hold this woman up as their future (the party of family values?).

I will continue to post these news snippets of Palin and her family in hopes that it might reach ONE person who is on an edge about voting for Palin ever again, for any public office she tries to take (as Governor of Alaska again in two years or to run for a senate seat in two years).

sabang

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) owes income taxes on nearly $17,000 paid to her as travel reimbursements when she spent nights in her Wasilla residence, according to a state legal opinion that the payments were not legitimate business expenses, a state official said yesterday.

During her first 19 months in office, Palin charged the state $16,951 in "per diem" allowances for spending 312 nights in her home. The allowances were intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while she was traveling on state business.
The state this week reversed a policy that had treated the payments as legitimate business expenses under the Internal Revenue Code, said state administrator Annette Kreitzer. Payments to employees charging "per diem" expenses to stay in their own homes will be treated as income subject to taxes, Kreitzer said, and the state will update the employees' W-2 forms.

Palin's expenses were reported by The Washington Post last year after the Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), named Palin as his running mate. The Post reviewed records from late 2006 through early August 2008, and the story prompted a review by state officials. The governor continued to seek the payments through the end of the year, according to the Anchorage Daily News, which first reported this week that she owed taxes on the payments.

Palin Now Owes Taxes on Reimbursement Payments for Nights at Home, State Rules - washingtonpost.com

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raycarey

^ when i've got some time i'll go back and dig up the posts by the usual suspects claiming that it wasn't taxable. .....btw, 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.

raycarey

OK, here are a couple...

good times.

anyway, let's get back to palin and how she tried to milk the system...this time by flying her kids on the taxpayers dime...

Palin to pay Alaska for 9 trips taken by children - Politics- msnbc.com

Milkman

^ this reason, among many others, I do not believe Palin has "staying power."

The $700 Niemen Marcus handbag for her 7 year-old daughter, the shopping trips, and having to reimburse the RNC, etc.

All made her look bad.

In addition to her not being to answer basic, straightforward questions from Couric and others.

Flash in the pan.

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raycarey

^ she was more of professional celebrity than a politician...and her 15 minutes were up quite a while ago.

and i think i may have posted this earlier, i doubt she'll be around for a second term as gov.

good riddance.

Milkman

I'd like to see the polling numbers on her favorability in AK.

When does she run for re-election? (I'm googling now.)

Edit in:

Palin will run again for her re-election as AK governor on November of 2010. About 21 months from now. An AK governor is limited to 2 terms.

Link: List of Governors of Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

raycarey

'will' run or 'is eligible to' run?

Milkman

She is "eligible." It will be her second and last term, if she wins.

I haven't read any reason to bar her at this time.

Of course, she may not choose to run, option for other forms of political office.

raycarey

i'm not saying she can't run, but that i believe she'll no longer be politically viable come 2010.

Norton

She may run as she might be able to get some financial support from the hard core supporters. She will never be more than an also ran though in the Republican primaries. No way will your average Republican ever vote for her.

IMO she is no more relevant than Paris Hilton. Nothing more than an attention seeking wannabe with the media having great fun reporting her every move.

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raycarey

but as we know, it's the hard core folks who vote in primaries. if i had to guess, i'd say she'll run in the initial republican primaries and then be forced to bow out do to poor results and less than flattering scrutiny....but in the end it will help her get that talk show she's probably angling for.

i don't think she'll run again for gov....and if she does, i think she'll lose.

it's a different political climate already...and economic realities are going to be significantly worse in AK come 2010.

Milkman

So much for family values.

Link: Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston Have Split Up: Tabloid

Dug

For fucks sake, who cares.