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Home Front: Politix
Palin will not run for re-election?
2009-07-03
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is expected to announce Friday that she will not seek a second term, three sources tell CNN. Palin has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET news conference at her home in Wasilla. The governors office offered no further details about the subject of the news conference, but the sources tell CNN that Palin will announce her decision to forgo another run.

"She thinks she has accomplished goals she has set forward," one of the sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said. "She sees what a positive influence she has had on people's lives from traveling the country in the last year."

As the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, Palin is considered one of the frontrunners for the GOP nomination in 2012. Her decision not to seek another term as governor is sure to stoke speculation that Palin is seriously eyeing a run for the White House.
No, it means she's going to run for the Senate in 2010 ...
Posted by:Steve White

#24  No despair here, I just don't like either of the representative parties because they don't represent me. I think Sarah has an opportunity to take a fiscal conservative, strong defense, anti corruption, anti elite bullshit media theme and shake the two party system. Call the party what you will but I hope she does it just so I can vote for someone I want to rather than the lesser of two evils.
Posted by: bman   2009-07-03 23:08  

#23  Steve, some of what I feel is despair, and some of what I feel is being p1ssed off.

The remaining management of the republican party needs to do some soul-searching.

If they don't have a use for it, I think I'd like to borrow it, or barring that, start my own.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2009-07-03 22:55  

#22  Bitchslap! RB style.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2009-07-03 22:50  

#21  Oh criminy, people, the way everyone is wringing their hands I'd better buy the five-gallon size of lotion for y'all. I'll set it up on the bar at the O-Club.

Man up.

I like Sarah as a pol and a citizen. Not sure why she did this but we'll find out. If she runs for national office I'll look closely, but she'd better bring the real goods.

In the meantime the Republican party is NOT finished. It put up a lousy candidate (for whom I voted) who, running against a charismatic empty suit with the MSM blocking for him and the Dems stealing votes every way they could, STILL got 46% of the vote.

And a fair number of independents and moderates voted for Obama because they thought it would be cool to have a black prez (argue against that, why don't you). That won't happen again in '12.

The Pubs are not finished. The Pubs need to find a voice, a strategy, some candidates and some courage. They've done it before. They might do it again.

In early 2005 the Dems had no idea that Barack Obama would win the whole show. In 1997 George W Bush was on virtually no one's radar. And nobody thought Slick Willie would win in 92 because he talked too long and liked blondes too much.

So stop with the despair.
Posted by: Steve White   2009-07-03 22:29  

#20  As long as you ignore his health plans.

Also, when the sort of smear machine that was turned on Palin gets turned on Romney... it's gonna be bad.

The chain emails will be quoting everything non-progressive in the Book of Mormon and ending with "And Romney refuses to repudiate this."
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2009-07-03 21:33  

#19  McCain is gone. His empty-headed daughter lives, but won't be a GOP supporter. I'd expect Romney to be the frontrunner next run. People might be open to economic competence and bizniss expertise by then
Posted by: Frank G   2009-07-03 20:29  

#18  In case you hadn't noticed, the GOP is finished anyway. John McStain at the Presidential candidate who refused to engage Obama's lies head on? Idiot RINO Sentaros that voted for the Stimulus? Bush's "Big Government" medicare expansion? "Benedict" Arlen Specter with McStain screwing us on judges with the "Gang of 14" bullcrap? And most lately, the 8 Cap And Tax traitors in the house?

Is there really a GOP left that's worth doing anything to save?
Posted by: OldSpook   2009-07-03 20:19  

#17  Beoserker, y'know, it's as the first Republican president said to one of his generals, "Could I borrow your army as long as you're not using it?"

It's time for the Republican "leadership" to start acting like a party again. You know, try to line up candidates for 2010, etc., like the Democrats did in 2006 and 2008.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2009-07-03 20:16  

#16  I think the country would be better off if she became the anti-Oprah/Springer. A daytime TV show to deprogram the masses of women and stress family, community, country, responsibility.
Posted by: ed   2009-07-03 20:11  

#15  The way the repubs are acting, with their milqetoask manner and not going for the throat, shows that they are virtually finished.

Both parties have failed the country. They both need to go.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2009-07-03 20:07  

#14  #12 then if she runs third party the Republicans better wise up

If she runs third party Barry will be tap dancing down Pennsylvania Avenue and the Republican party will be finished.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-07-03 19:53  

#13  and what has the Republican party done for conservatives, this is not Perot. This candidate threw out bums from both parties in Alaska, drew enormous crowds as a vp candidate, is not afraid to attack the political elites and their lapdog media talking heads. This might be the begining of a third party and the restoration of middle American Values. or so I can wish.
Posted by: bman   2009-07-03 19:51  

#12  then if she runs third party the Republicans better wise up

I guess you can always dream.....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-07-03 19:47  

#11  You make an excellent point Snowy Mtn. I like Mike Steele but in spite of his best efforts, he has failed to show any signs of mustering the Republican party. Consider this:

a. Mike Steele resigns and Sarah Palin steps in to rally the Republican party.
b. Mitt Romney becomes Rep. front runner with Newt Gingrich as his running mate.
c. Palin becomes SECDEF under a Romney administrtion.
d. Palin becomes Secretary of State during a Romney second term.
e. Palin still in her mid-50's runs for President in 2020.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-07-03 19:33  

#10  Here is what she said.

Excerpt:

Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and “go with the flow”.

Nah, only dead fish "go with the flow".
Posted by: Willy   2009-07-03 18:19  

#9  Beoserker: then if she runs third party the Republicans better wise up and not run anyone.

I suspect if the national party had wanted to help defend her they could have. I think Steele has been a disaster in not being proactive enough to fight this sort of thing. They let office politics take precedence over winning while the democrats looked on politics as conquest-by-means-other-than-war.

If the Republicans won't be serious we need a serious patriotic party that is.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2009-07-03 18:04  

#8  The Dems love "third party candidates." Splitting the conservatives will only result in democratic victories.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-07-03 17:59  

#7  How many people would attend a TEA party if Sarah was the speaker? The Republicans don't like her, the democrats despise her, but she is very popular with middle America. Perhaps it is time for a legitimate third party candidate.
Posted by: bman   2009-07-03 17:45  

#6  the only way to make the moonbat complaints stop is to resign from the Governorship.

or arm and deputize Todd with a 00 number
Posted by: Frank G   2009-07-03 17:11  

#5  Running for the senate, or not, nobody is talking about the fact that the Palins have paid $500,000 in legal fees responding to frivolous ethics complaints over the past year and a half - the Palin's don't make the kind of money required to maintain that kind of legal spending and remain solvent. I'll bet she didn't have much choice, either she puts an end to the ethics probe legal spending, or the family goes bankrupt, and the only way to make the moonbat complaints stop is to resign from the Governorship.
Posted by: gb506   2009-07-03 16:44  

#4  Alaskans will lay pine boughs at her feet along the road to the Senate. I wish her and her lekker family well in all their endeavors.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-07-03 16:32  

#3  She is setting her self up for 2012. She learned some good lessons and I'm with Seve in that she will run for Senate. Her voting will show the nay sayers how she stands, get the respect and build her leadership for 2012. The girls got tenacity, watch Palen tear up DC. Bring popcorn.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2009-07-03 16:22  

#2  She is also resigning which to me is not a smart thing to do if you seek higher office. Personally I am dissapointed, she connected to us folks in fly over country better than any politician I can remember.
Posted by: bman   2009-07-03 16:06  

#1  He brother is saying she was spending %80 of her time legally defending herself from frivolous suits from the left.
Posted by: 3dc   2009-07-03 16:06  

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