All You Need To Know About Sarah Palin Today

Forget the pundits with varying opinions today, from Ross Douthat and Fred Barnes to Andrew Sullivan, People Magazine, along with countless blogs.

Mark Sanford could be back in Argentina dating twins while North Korea launches more missiles and people are still dying in the streets of Iran - and all anyone is talking about is Sarah Palin.

And that's about all we actually know about her, or need to know about her future possibilities. For better or worse, Barack Obama won the presidency in large part due to the politics of celebrity we have today. And there is no greater celebrity in politics right now than Sarah Palin, not even Obama himself. Don't fool yourself into thinking that's a bad thing for any future Palin ambition.

Comments

[gary gulrud]

Bingo!

[WBestPresidentEver]

Sarah is a rising star and is going to be heard from for years to come.
Anyone who does nto like her is a fool. What has she done to anyone except for just being Sarah ?
They bash and trash her for no good reason. They are afraid of her and her because she is real.
I wish her all the luck in the world in whatever role she plays in the future. I am sure it will be a hit !
Hope she sues all they continue to spread lies and rumors about her and her family and wins them all.

[Patrick Bateman]

Wow, what does delusion like this feel like, for the record?

All I need to know about Bailin' Palin is contained in the gem of a press conference that effectively ended her political career. Being governor is hard. The tv spots write themselves with Failin' Palin. I also hope she sues every blogger who writes something that hurts her delicate feelings. Such will only drag out her trashy history and further ensure that she remains a laughing stock.

[terri]

To Bateman! Showing your evil hateful self. How would you like to be called trashy? The left again with such pure hatred. Ask your self WHY??
The answer is scared of a real person.

[Patrick Bateman]

"To Bateman! Showing your evil hateful self."

Oh no; are you going to sue me 'cause I hurt the Quitter's feelings?

"How would you like to be called trashy?"

I'd laugh it off.

"The left again with such pure hatred."

Have you seen the Nuremberg Rallies held by the Quitter last fall?

"Ask your self WHY??"

Why?

"The answer is scared of a real person."

Oh. That makes sense. Quitter / Terri 2012!

[Dan Riehl]

Depending on what Palin chooses to do, nothing wuld be a bigger blast than watching all the lib heads explode the night she gave her presidential victory speech some night in November one year.

Carry on as they might, one fact is not in dispute - she's just living her life and all their eyes are on her, not the reverse.

They are the stubby tail and she's the big dog and it would absolutely kill them to admit it. But it's flat out true.

[North Dallas Thirty]

Whenever I watch libbies like "Patrick", I am reminded of a scene from my student teaching days, in which a child who was a known cheat managed to singlehandedly depopulate an entire playing field with his blatant misbehavior.

The final frame was him, all alone, red-faced, screaming at the kids on the other field who had picked up their own game and were having a blast.

And do you know what he was screaming?

“QUIIITTTEEERRRRS!!!!!”

It's really hilarious. Patrick and his fellow paid Obama Party puppets have filed fifteen frivolous ethics claims against Palin, all of which have been shot down -- but not a one of them filed or has filed similar suits against Charles Rangel for cheating on his taxes, for William Jefferson for accepting bribes, for Maxine Waters and Barney Frank for deliberately manipulating bailout money to banks in which their family members held stock, to Murtha for his kickback connections to the PMA Group, to Chris Dodd for lying on financial disclosure forms and accepting bribes from Countrywide Mortgage, to Obama himself for his deals with Rezko...the list goes on and on.

In short, they're cheating. It's obvious they're cheating. I don't know a single person who would call someone a quitter for choosing to leave a game in which it's obvious the rules are not being observed. Only a child would say that someone should continue playing in a game where it's obvious everyone is passing cards and enforcing the rules only to their benefit.

Then again, liberals like Patrick are nothing more than children.

[bandit]

Have you seen the Nuremberg Rallies held by the Quitter last fall?

And you're calling other people delusional. Thanks for proving Godwin's Law.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

I suspect there's no better measure of how threatened the lefties feel than the flood of them saying "ended her political career." In the mean time, check out the ADN list of the ethics complaints against her, including several for the ethical breach of campaigning while governor. It's pretty clear that she could *not* have any other political ambitions when it was costing her on average $35,000 to repond to each of these things.

From the preview it looks like my link is being filtered, here's the raw URL: http://www.adn.com/palin/story/838912.html

[Eric Florack]

The smell of desperation from the left about this woman has long since become overpowering. Notice, please... The ones gleefully predictng her demise are the ones who most desperately need it for their own political futures to prosper.

[Bob C]

What the Barnes' and Douthats, Sullivans and Noonans just simply don't get is that Sarah Palin's political future doesn't rest with them, much as they believe it does. It rests with the untold millions of ordinary people, who came to her rallies and fell in love with her simple, utterly understandable message. She is one of them...us....lives in a home like ours, has kids like we do, deals with the same problems we have.

Does she have a future in elective office? 2012 is a long way away. If she does run, you can be sure that the elites on both sides of the spectrum, who have resented her beauty and charismatic presence on the stump, will do everything they can to destroy her once again. And the more they do that, the more those millions will rally round. You betcha.

[Gary Ogletree]

Sarah spoke at length about her intentions and the reasons behind her actions, so I don't buy the bewilderment in the media and pundit world. She frees herself to come and go as she pleases. Alaska, Disneyland, Dollywood, Jellystone Park, Wyoming, or Montana. Mama bear at large. Obambi in the headlights. Small town mayor... machine politician... historic election.

[syn]

She managed to keep her state in the black (Alaska, Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota are thus far the only states in the union which are not operating in the red); economics wizard Mitt Romney with his Harvard MBA cannot come close to Palin's leadership.

I suppose it takes a Harvard degree and a whole lot of Kingdom Hollywood to bankrupt America.

[xerocky]

With all of Obama's miss steps, and there are many, it's small wonder that they're spending all of their time talking about the failed VP candidate.

They gave us this obviously failed president, and they trashed Palin while they were doing it. Once it was obvious the Obama just wasn't up to the job, they went back to the first thing that they could think of, only they couldn't really think of anything outside of her.

Pathetic.

[North Dallas Thirty]

Again, it's typical. Obama is such an incompetent that he can't succeed unless he gets rid of the competition. Witness what he did with Joe the Plumber; instead of answering the question, he screamed and cried and sent his campaign workers illegally looking through government files to try to destroy Joe.

[anon]

Apples and oranges.

Obama's incompetence doesn't have anything to do with Sarah Palin's incompetance, and most of the Palin bashing has come DIRECTLY from the media, not from Obama or even his surrogates.

Sarah Palin has shown that while she may be charismatic and may have some talent as a politician, overall, her judgement is mediocre at best.

Resigning as governor makes no sense unless she really is getting out of elected politics or she believes she can make a successful run for the presidency in 2012. If it is the later, then she is seriously deluded in thinking she has a better chance as an ex-governor who resigned mid-term, if its the former, then more power to her.

[Luke Taylor]

To all of you leftists, radicals and Marxist: Was there a telepromptor at Sarah Palin's speech on 3 July? B. Hussein Obama could not have pulled this off like she did. Go back to the campaign in Northern Virginia in 2008 and listen to this bumbling idiot. Uh Uh, and uh and uh and uh and uh and....... Finally, he said, "bear with me." He did not know what he was talking about. Check it out lefists, radicals, and Saul Alinsky followers.

[jann]

I think it's so funny that everyone is so concerned about protocol now for Sarah but is anybody calling out Obama? Where are these people? He's trashing the constitution and steeling our money and I don't hear a uproar about that, why? Oh she can't be effective now she quit, are you kidding. Rome is burning people, you better back anybody that speaks out about even Sarah!

[anon]

Rome is burning, of that I have no doubt.

However, that doesn't change the fact that Sarah Palin has shown that she is NOT ready for the national stage that exists in the lower 48 states, maybe she will be one day, maybe not. Just because liberals have an irrational hatred of her, does not mean that she would be good for the GOP or the country, it only means that the liberals have an irrational hatred of her, nothing more.

Again, Obama not being a good speaker w/out a teleprompter doesn't change the fact that Sarah Palin is not a very good speaker without a teleprompter either.

[David]

Sarah Palin is preciseley what this country and the Republican party needs -- a bright, energetic person who so plainly sees just how screwed up the left is making the country. The problem is, with a little help from Sarah, the press gleefully made her out to look a bit stupid. The more Sarah threatens Obama, the more the press will look to make Sarah out to be a caricature.

Sarah will need another big turning point like her acceptance speech and Obama will need to stumble badly before Sarah has a chance even in 2016. I find it difficult to see both of the above happening.

[unseen]

You know I would vote for anybody that has the follwing qualifications:

Does not live within 150 miles of washington.

Has never been within 500 miles of Havard/yale/brown

Has never beeen a CEO of a multinational company

Has read and understand and agrees with the consitution

has read and understand the declaration of independence

Knows how a bill becomes a law

Knows how to balance a checkbook

[gary gulrud]

"Then again, liberals like Patrick are nothing more than children."

I'll bet children grow up paying taxes on acheiving 120% of minimum wage?

[Darury]

"... most of the Palin bashing has come DIRECTLY from the media, not from Obama or even his surrogates."

Given the coverage of Obama since the primaries, I'm having difficulty finding the line between the media and Obama surrogates.