Bride of Rove

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Cnn, Twitter and Drudge are all speculating that Palin is about to announce that she will not seek a second term as Governor of Alaska. My first reaction to the not-quite-news is -

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!! Isn’t it Obama’s MO to drop the horrific news items on Fridays and holiday weekends? She p’owned you B’rak. She mocks you and farts in your general direction.

And then

WTH does that actually mean? When was the .. 2010? So. Is she running for Congress? Oh man that would be sweet. Is there a seat up for grabs?

And later

It says 3 pm for the formal official statement release. What is that? 6 PM Eastern?

and fear

Is she dropping from politics altogether?
HotAir.com has updates

Turned on the tv and - dammit - I said I was not going to watch news today -

Fox News broke from Michael Jackson coverage for a few minutes - well - more than a few minutes. They weren’t covering much before anyway so they probably had nothing written other than “Michael Jackson is STILL dead”. Stuart Varney is talking to her … brother? Should he be talking to the press? He’s saying that she had said she was spending up to 80% of her time to battle ethics attacks and that it wasn’t fair to her staff and family and draining her ability to be Governor. In other words he’s saying she cracked.

You gotta be kidding me.

Thank God Mark Levin is NOT on vacation tonight. His rant should be a thing of beauty on this one.

Update:

Watched the speech. Here’s what I heard.

1. Accomplished a hell of a lot as Governor and has met all her goals and promises.
2. Ethic complaints cost state 2 million dollars. Cost her half a million personally. Money Alaska need for teachers and infrastructure. Opponents will continue to use the state to further their campaign negatively as long as she is governor.

Summation. She fell on her sword to allow the state govt to move on with her agenda. She’s is going to hit the ground running as a private citizen to earn money for her legal bills and she will be free to do and say whateverthehell she pleases from here on out and no one can say Boo to her ass. She was restrained by McCain. She was restrained by the office of Governor. Now? She’s not.

Jesus.H.Christ - an ass whooping is coming for someone - a lot of someones. This is not so much a quitting as an unleashing of the demon.

I am smiling so hard right now, you would not even believe.
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She just stood there in front of god and everyone and told the god’s honest truth. That’s what real change looks like. That’s what transparency looks like. That’s what it looks like when a normal person is slam danced by the machine and decides to unchain the shackles and fight back. Those were not the words of a politician. Those were the words of an American - old school. It’s payback time. I.can.not.wait. What a gift on the fourth of July. I’m listening to the pundits and thinking - guys - you just don’t get it. You don’t have the slightest clue. Spin until your heads explode but you will never understand just how disgusted we all are with the BS and the crap called Washington and NY. That speech with the baby fussing and the ducks quacking in the back ground - Sarah’s nerves clearly strung tight as a piano wire - was historic. She’s coming for all of you. You’ve thrown down your best hits and she was held back by the candidacy and the office - but as a private citizen with her popularity and the clear support of middle America behind her - there are no limits.

The BIG surprise is going to be HOW MANY WOMEN LIKE ME SUPPORT HER. The talking head men are slamming her, even on FOX..they are in for a BIG BIG SHOCK.
labwrs on July 3, 2009 at 4:43 PM

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They won’t be able to keep her in a box now. This is BRILLIANT!!
genso on July 3, 2009 at 4:45 PM

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I think she just did a throwdown to Pelosi-Obama-Reid, and maybe some fat cat GOPers. Hell’s a’comin’. Now is not the time for her supporters to go wobbly,…this may be exactly the spark we need for some reform. Slash and burn, baby!
a capella on July 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM

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She is unchained from the Obama-supported albatross, the Governorship of Alaska. They can’t go after her over ethics complaints, they can’t demand her itinerary, they can’t demand to know if she paid for lunch, or if Alaksa paid for lunch.
Obama,Romney,Huckabee,& Axelrod just soiled their pants.
portlandon on July 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM

Palin has now basically set herself up to be the arbiter of conservatism. At this point, anyone who Palin opposes will get nowhere with conservatives. This is incredible power, and I for one believe she will do the right things with it.

Scott H on July 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM

I’m with you, brother. She will redefine the GOP or destroy it from the ground up.

genso on July 3, 2009 at 5:19 PM

Palin is for real. She is the genuine article. What you see is what you get. She is not speaking empty words from a teleprompter. She is speaking from the heart. She is a woman of honesty and integrity. Her conservative values are those of the majority of Americans. She has shown she can take all the libtard media can throw at her and come through just fine.

Today, I have hope for our country.

President Sarah Palin in 2012!

winfield on July 3, 2009 at 5:27 PM

I don’t know where the hell my day is going but it’s half way after two pm and I am nowhere near done with the ToDo list. Friends from Michigan stopped by earlier - completely out of the blue - and we ended up talking forever. The Keys are like that. People just up and decide - spontaneously - “We need to drive down to the Keys for a few days!” — and then they are at my door with my house all akilter looking to hang out for a few hours.

I’m taking a lunch break and reading the latest hilarity over at Jonah Goldberg’s place. The poor squid had the termerity to try to school Sarah Palin on how to behave from now until the election in 2012 — like anyone could. I didn’t bother reading his original article. I sincerely doubt Palin will read it either. She’s a force of nature, man. Stop trying.

The hate mail he got - that’s some funny, funny stuff. My personal favorite is:

You might just be talking out of your ass to your elitist colleagues at this point. I suggest you stop reading the biased media and watching the edited tv and get out in the real world and do actual research on Sarah Palin. Jesus Christ…what a lazy piece of s**t you are.

You can begin your research at conservatives4palin.com. You dumb f**ker!!

To his credit, Goldberg is taking it all in stride. He gets in one pointed\pointless shot, though, with this:

If Sarah Palin follows the advice of readers like them, she’s doomed on the national political stage. She’ll make a great Joan of Arc for a certain segment of the public, but she’ll never go beyond that. And I think that would be a shame.

Give it up Mr. Goldberg. She’s loved precisely BECAUSE she is deep down, politically incorrect just like us. You are not going to be able to package her like a Barbie Doll. You are not understanding her charisma - but that’s ok because - as the kids say: Keep talking Sh*t (asterisks are mine), you’re making her famous.

Thanks for sharing the emails. Hilarious stuff.

Quite possibly the funniest damned thing I’ve read all week.

The President of these United States recently expressed his love for “the Urdu poets,” a piece of inspired BS that nobody in their right minds believed for a second. But then the P was narrowcasting to Pakistan, he thought, and Americans weren’t supposed to be listening.

~Obama’s biggest character flaw By James Lewis

and further in

They’ve got his number, all the political con artists around the world. For a little balloon-pumping flattery Obama will sell out American national security interests — not to mention those of our allies. Obama’s “historic” Epistle to the Muslims, delivered last month at Cairo’s Al Azhar University (an international center for Islamist propaganda) was not really intended to make a billion Muslims fall down at his feet. No, the main goal of all those grand gestures is to make Obama feel better about himself. That’s the key to his character.

You could call it ego porn.

James Lewis? You are my new hero. That is some of the truest snark I’ve ever seen. Mock this man until he cries. You’ve reminded me why I write.

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached
workers, plus total employed part time for
economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian
labor force plus all marginally attached workers..

June of 2008 it was 10.3
June of 2009 it is now 16.5

The press hammered Bush with the Misery Index and U-6 data relentlessly and I see no reason not to apply the same real statistics to Obama now. His policies are a failure. His projections were complete crap and outright lies. Anyone who believes a word he says from here on out is an idiot.

I just … I still can’t get past the Republicans that voted FOR Cap and Trade. I guess I’m in mourning for simple common sense or even just a sense of right from wrong. WTH has happened to us and how do we ever explain this madness to the next generation? I did a little searching and listening, trying to understand the reasoning of these idiots who support this bill and the nationalized health care fiasco and there’s just no logical explanation for it. These people are completely insane.

So.

What does a girl do when the world goes crazy? She ponders pointless trifles like — well –

I bought Glenn Beck’s Common Sense on my Kindle and now I have guilt. No trees were killed in this transaction and it occurs to me that I’m probably not the most dedicated Beck fan on the planet. Regular listeners will remember his push on Earth Day to chainsaw down trees and here I am happy that I won’t have more book clutter in my house and by buying a Kindle I’m killing fewer trees for my reading addiction. It’s a short book basically making the case that we are on the edge, or more realistically far past the point where our government is eating us alive. Everything in it is true. Nothing is exaggerated. I understand the message, but I resist his call for passive revolt. They are hanging protesters in Iran and the propaganda machine is running rampant there trying to quell the unrest. We have a President who clearly has no problem with that kind of government behavior. Do you really think he’s going to be moved by a bunch of middle class, middle aged people standing around holding up signs? The contempt for us oozes from every pore in Obamas’ body and deep down, you know he’s just marking time to when he can stomp us into a dazed stupor. Most people really can’t adequately tell you why they are angry, but they.are.angry. This just isn’t a Ghandi kind of moment, Glenn.

It’s a short, depressing read. I highly recommend if only to get this party started and you know how parties go, man. They take on a life of their own.

A better book is Liberty And Tyranny by Mark Levin. You are going to want to read this one backwards and forward and then put some notes in the margin so - the Kindle version is ok - but you need to kill a tree or two and get the hardcover. I have been pondering this a great deal and I have come to the conclusion that many liberals CAN be swayed. The only way we can sway them is if we are hyper-informed and ready with solid facts and even more rock solid philosophy. Liberty And Tyranny is an excellent primer and launching pad for rationally convincing people that we are heading in the wrong direction.

Unlike Beck, Levin does not take it personally when politicians betray the public trust. He just insists that they be defeated at the ballot box in the next election. The only way to defeat them is to INFORM the public and remind people of their perfidious actions at election time. Don’t let people forget. Don’t let people take the lazy way out and just vote down the party line. Make them look at who they are voting for or against.

And then I bought Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss on my Kindle because it’s beautiful writing - my god that first chapter alone is a magnum opus - and they just don’t make romance writers like that anymore. I met her once - a long time ago. It’s a mempory I treasure.

Taking a break from reality is important - like a massage and a glass of Drambuie - if you don’t do it once in awhile you’ll stroke out. Seriously.

And that’s where I’ve been for the past few days - reading, working and pondering ways to sway as many liberals as I can to see the logic and the light - and then veg’ing out with a torrid romance novel.