Adams writes: "Over on her supporters' websites, there is much gnashing of teeth and a good deal of denial. No wonder, because only a week ago her supporters were being solicited for donations to help convince Sarah to run."
Sarah Palin: not running, just waving, 10/05/11. (photo: Gerald Herbert/AP)
Sarah Palin: The End of an Error
06 October 11
Sarah Palin finally admits she will not run for the White House in 2012, effectively ending her career as a political contender.
ong past the time many had ceased caring, Sarah Palin announced on Wednesday night that she was not running for the presidency in 2012. Fox News alone of America's cable networks thought her announcement was more significant than the death of Steve Jobs. Everyone else reacted with a quick shrug and moved on.
It had become obvious that Palin was not going to be a candidate. The reality is that Palin didn't stand a chance, so badly has she squandered her political capital within the Republican party over the past year with cheap stunts, such as an on-again, off-again grandiose national bus tour. Her career in national politics as a candidate is over.
The most straight-forward implication of Palin's decision - along with the announcement by New Jersey governor Chris Christie that he would not be running - is that the Republican field is set. There is now no prince across the water. That means Republican voters will either have to come to terms with Mitt Romney or the alternative, most likely Rick Perry.
But for Palin and her supporters, the announcement ends any serious opportunity Palin may have had. The weakness of the 2012 Republican field was such that had Palin chosen to make a serious effort, she could have done well. She could have won the nomination. Now she almost certainly never will.
Even if Republicans don't regain the White House in 2012, the GOP has a rich crop of potential candidates in 2016: Christie, Perry, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker. By 2020, Palin will be a distant memory, just as if Al Gore was running for the Democratic nomination in 2012.
In reality Palin's career was effectively killed off when she decided to quit midway through her term as governor of Alaska back in 2009. From that moment on her unfavourability ratings climbed to toxic levels. When the Tea Party movement arose she quickly embraced it, backing herself further into a shrill corner of the Republican party, speaking in the code of talk radio and appealing to an ever-shrinking fan base.
What beckons instead is a career as a political quasi-celebrity on the conservative right, alongside the Oliver Norths, Ann Coulters and J Gordon Liddys. But without the attraction of being a potential presidential candidate, Palin will find the spotlight and the crowds have moved on.
Over on her supporters' websites, there is much gnashing of teeth and a good deal of denial. No wonder, because only a week ago her supporters were being solicited for donations to help convince Sarah to run.
On Mark Levin's radio show, where she made her announcement, Palin was full of perky plans for helping elect conservatives in 2012. Like a Broadway show that lost an audience, she plans a tour of the provinces.
Many Republicans will be glad to see her go since she drives away the moderates and independents that the GOP needs to win over to hold the White House. In a memorable recent blog, RedState's Erick Erickson described Palin's cult-like supporters as "unhinged" and saying of Palin's prevarication: "Enough is enough".
Finally, it was.
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She's not nearly as scary as Perry or Bachmanmn; both of them are crazier, and more effective at selling their craziness.
If Sarah was able to bring out all the bad in America since she came down from Alaska then she really should be the next president. Anyone with that kind of power is definitely a person for the job of president.
The cretinous suckers who've made her rich these past 3 years, assuming she'd eventually step up and run for president, deserve the screwing they've just received by her foregone "announcement" that she's taking a pass.
I'd be less than honest as a red-blooded American male if I said I wouldn't welcome a summer night with her in a tent in the majestic Alaskan peaks overlooking Wasilla, assuming she was not packing and Todd was no longer in the picture (a fantasy is a fantasy), but her disappearance from the campaign is huge relief. Katie Couric had her pegged all along.
Stonecutter, she would probably charge you far more than she would be worth.
AKOldfart
Had she been a plain woman, with maybe a few extra pounds....nobod y would have paid any attention.
I certainly can appreciate a good looking woman, but...... she has to have BRAINS for me to consider her for any important position, and WAY above average for higher office.
Men are so easily distracted by good looks.
When you think of her as attractive, are you sure you're not confusing Palin with Tina Fey in character as Palin?
Now for Gawd's sake, let's try to get Perry out of the picture -he's a a damn sight more scary than herself ever was!
And let's give Obama strident permission to git some backbone.
Get Sanders and Kucinich a voice in the owner-media to give some truth to the national lie.
So far the rest of the GOP candidates are angels on a sort of non-sanitary pinhead (Is ol' Newt still running?).
Hands across the Bering Sea (where's that)?
Meantime let's get people their id's and out to vote!
Actually, herself can probably afford to winter in Hawaii, wink and all (She could see Japan from her Condo, what?), financed by the gains accruing from her self-aggrandizi ng tour as a "Brand" with fulcrums in the muddy reaches of tea-bugger centers of angst and knee-jerk racism.
Her brief flutter across the National stage may be best and most accurately summed up by Hamlet as:
"A POOR PLAYER
THAT STRUTS AND FRETS (HER) HOURS UPON A STAGE
AND THEN IS HEARD NO MORE: IT IS A TALE
TOLD BY AN IDIOT, FULL OF SOUND AND FURY,
SIGNIFYING NOTHING!".
William Shakespeare's words, not mine and written lo, all these centuries ago.
Come to think about it, applicable to quite a few but especially apt in this case.
Now let's git after the rest of the reactionary phony messiahs.
Villon, I believe THEY'LL ALL be damaged gooods by spring 2012, at the rate they're going!
Her quitting now prevents her from being targeted by fellow GOP's or creating controversy that requires a response from the other candidates Taking herself out now sets her up to be the savior of the Party at a deadlocked convention.
I truly hope I'm wrong because she brings out all the loud mouth fanatic, the lies, misrepresentati on of facts & historical revisions which waste scarce advertising money to re fruit. That is if gun toting, loud mouth,close minded followers will allow the truth to be heard. .
It would be another campaign where lies are not exposed as it was the case in the 2010 TeaParty campaign of using scare tactic, lies & misrepresentati on about healthcare.
What we got was the GOP conspiring with the privileged to destroy the social fabric of USA, eliminating the voice of the people and negotiated labor contracts. They passed legislation allowing the state to dissolve local government replacing them with an administrator whose job is to sell off all publically owned utilities, water rights, parks, and buildings. None of this was part of the campaign.
it would be stupid to trust them again.
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Am I the only person who feels that a too-intelligent -to-sign-a-pled ge, relatively moderate Republican candidate will emerge soon, once the wannabes are culled? I realize that over the last several decades the presidential campaign cycle has bloated to almost two years, and I also understand that any Republican acceptable to the extreme wing of the party stands virtually zero chance in the general election. But Obama is surely ripe for the picking and there must be a Republican smart enough to avoid the last almost year of "primary" idiocy, then suddenly appear to capture the hearts and minds of the voters. Not only would this imagined candidate have saved millions of dollars, but he-she would also seem fresh and, more importantly, not be Mitt Romney. Please don't misunderstand: I'm neither Left nor Right, but an Independent capable of critical thinking. I long for a candidate who's honest, socially liberal, and financially conservative (not impossible, if perhaps quixotic), but I find Obama borderline reprehensible. Honestly, if this is the best that the Republicans have to offer, then for the first time in my life I'm embarrassed to be an American.
There is no shortage of hypocrites among the Republican, Democrat or the Tea Party to sell their souls for money.
Joe McGinniss in his book ‘The rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin’, has claimed that she had a one-night stand with former NBA star Glen Rice nine months before her marriage to Todd. The book also details how Palin allegedly had a six-month affair with Todd’s friend and business partner Brad Hansan”.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/pat-robertson-%e2%80%98divorce-your-terminal-sick-wife%e2%80%99/
I was looking forward to the debate between her and Obama.
not enough mops in the world to mop up the Sarah Palin mess.
And then, those interviews.
She had to know in her heart of hearts that whatever small modicum of self-respect she's somehow managed to retain would be blown to smithereens by throwing her hat into the ring.
photographer, I would choose her as a model. She has a fetching smile and a nice
slender figure. Alas, as a politico, she is
great, until she opens her mouth and spews
the monotone TEA BAGGER GOP garbage.
the numbers that count: 51 million to 49 million. that was the final tally in the 2008 election. or to put it another way, after eight years of W. one percent. whew....palin brought in those votes for the gop, least we forget her impact.maybe it was those glasses......?
I will almost bet, I speak for most of the women here.... I thought, when she first burst on the scene, WOW, she is one good looking woman.......... ..and then she started to speak. BANG....The bubble burst. What she said was so viscious, and she took such delight in throwing out one nasty zinger after another. ----(I know...she didn't write the speech herself). But it was obvious that this was how she felt. When an attractive woman is mean and nasty it detracts enourmously from her looks.
Whereas a less atractive but charming woman will seem much prettier than she may be, because she is likable.
We women could see what a mean spirited bitch she really is. Thats is part of why we detest her. Also, we want a good looking woman to have a BRAIN, so we can feel proud of her standing up for all of us......... We are NOT jealous. We are digusted by her stupidity, because she is only in the spot light because of looks and because she is running after it.
She has no intention of being President unless she is the last step in Preventing Ron Paul from getting the Republican nomination.
Yes, those eyelashes are "To die for!"
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