Wow. I literally came here to see if there was a post on this, and threadjacked Amanda’s Friday Top Ten to post about it, and then bam! Nice timing, Jesse.

A few of my friends and I are discussing this on Facebook and wondering if there’s something else going on, because if she’s trying to make a run for the Presidency, doesn’t not finishing one term as governor make her look bad?

Either she has had a mental breakdown from the stress of being in national politics, or a scandal is about to break. You don’t just announce you’re resigning from high political office early over nothing, especially not on the Friday before the Fourth of July (you announce things you want to hide on Fridays and holidays).

When would her term have been up?

PALIN GOES FULL RETARD!!!!!!!1

You don’t just announce you’re resigning from high political office early over nothing, especially not on the Friday before the Fourth of July

unless you want to announce your presidential candidacy on july 4… three years early…

Really, Atheist? “Retard”?

It’s a breathless, rat-a-tat ejaculation of phrases and seemingly unrelated thoughts about something related to governing,

Sort of like her debate performance.

When would her term have been up?

It would have been up in 2010.

OK, sorry.

Ok, what i heard was Palin admitting her time in office is a waste of taxpayers dollars…BASKETBALL

Something about Trig being attacked - say what?  Has she read Ms Kate’s typo? Cause that’s the only one I’ve seen/heard/ read.  BASKETBALL
Then she called for there to be more Down syndrome kids (can someone please tell the March of Dimes that they should stop trying to prevent birth defects, Ms Sally Lou Who doesn’t like it.)BASKETBALL!

Either she’s had an offer from the WNBA, or she’s leaving Alaska to run for another office in the lower 48 as a platform or broadcasting, or a ReThuglican spokeperson (which would truly show their desperation/stupidity.

I have no clue what she is saying- none. I eagerly await the second half of this story.

I think she may actually have declared herself president of Honduras.

A William Walker for the 21st century. Seems reasonable to me.

My money is on scandal though. A juicy one. With tape recordings.

Oh, there’s got to be more to it than that.

She ran for the Vice Presidency while Governor, so she needs a nearly three-year head start to run for President?

No, I hoping for some sort of scandal here, of at least Sanford proportions. Not necessarily sexual, probably involving money or influence or fraud or gawd knows, but big enuf for Palin to hot foot it out of the Governor’s office.

I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, in fact, I’m looking forward to a hail storm of boots, shoes and sneakers.

Although it may just be wishful thinking on my part.

I wrote the above before watching the video, but I could only make it through a couple sentences: Palin word salad, tossed. It’s as though what she was reading a script mistranslated from another language. I couldn’t take it much longer.

There HAS to be a scandal. HAS to be.

Otherwise she has had a nervous breakdown. If it is the latter I feel a little sorry for her.

Hell yes: Trig’s first words.

Totally perplexing at the syntactic and strategic levels.
Also, is there not ONE PERSON on her staff who could write her a coherent script? This seems like the kind of event you’d want carefully managed. Maybe she’s too maverick to do things like plan her remarks.

Maybe she thinks that it makes her more like “one of the people” when she come up with word salad instead of a coherent speech. I was just disappointed that she didn’t go out with a wink. They could have declared her insane on the spot and had her committed.

I’m guessing TV show of some sort.  The possibilities are endless “Prays, Shoots, Runs,”  “Sarah, Moose Maverick,”  “Sarah Palin and Prayin,’”  “THe Adventures of Cariboo Barbie,” or, with the latest cheesecake shots: “Sarah Does Seatle.”

Perhaps she is resigning a few weeks in advance of the end of her term so her Lt. Gov can step in and appoint her to something.

Anybody remember this quote from Palin?

I say this with all due respect to Hillary Clinton…but when I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or you know maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think you know that doesn’t do us any good – women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country.

She found out she isn’t 1% of the kind of woman Hillary Clinton is.

judybrowni says: I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, in fact, I’m looking forward to a hail storm of boots, shoes and sneakers

LOL!!!  The poo is about the hit the fan and she’s trying to get outta Dodge before the crapfest.

Maybe Palin & Sanford switched bodies. Seems plausible.

Just checked ADN….something about emails and a guy named Eddie Burke.  Another suggestion: Palinwants Linda Murkowski’s senate/house?  seat “and wants to dog her between now and the election.”  That last sounds plausible, excpet that she said “outside of government.”  I’m still betting TV show.

Oh, I’m sure it’s something really important, you betcha! [wish they had one with glasses—if anyone deserves a custom emoticon, it’s Palin]

Since she’s mentioning Trig, perhaps we’re about to find out that she’s not his real mommy after all. There were also legal problems relating to that (super-duper, ya know) hockey rink she blew her Wasilla’s budget on, back when she was mayor.

Whatever it is, it’s definitely a scandal, for the reason of timing that Ben D. described @ 4:47. Whatever’s coming down the tracks for her could be a part of the general GOP housekeeping effort that’s been taking place lately—McCain’s people already have the knives out:

“We’ve seen a lot of nutty behavior from governors and Republican leaders in the last three months, but this one is at the top of that,” said John Weaver, a longtime friend and confidant of Sen. John McCain

Finally, this a propaganda classic from her incoherent statement:

“We are not retreating, we are advancing in a different direction”

No doubt as Party Leader <strike>Michael Steele</strike> Rush Limbaugh screams “Where is Wenck?! Where is Steiner?!”

I can’t believe she quoted someone as batshit insane as MacArthur in a positive manner. Oh wait, yes I can.

All I know is that Sarah Palin, who is the closest incarnation of the blessed Lord Reagan (His will be done!) to walk this correupted earth, resigning her position on the eve of the Fourth of July is making the Statue of Liberty sob uncontrollably right now.

Maybe Palin & Sanford switched bodies

Or did something with their bodies . . . together . . . at a Republican governors’ conference . . . that didn’t “cross that line.”

Hmmm Jesse, can we get a pool going here - you know, whover comes closest with reason time and date gets…. are there pandagon t-shirts or something?

Andrea Mitchell, according to MSNBC, says Palin is out of politics for good.

We won’t have Sarah to kick around anymore, I’m afraid.

I totally love that “point guard” shit! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

It sounds like she is saying that by resigning as Governer she’s gonna save Alaska a lot of money. And seriously, not that I have ever had any personal experience in this arena, I have heard that people on a cocaine or crystal meth binge exhibit exactly that kind of incoherent pressured speech after a few days.

I just watched the clip and dear god, she seems so desperate to get through this speech, she inhales so deeply between sentences you’d think she was running out of oxygen and at some points she sounds, and maybe I’m reading into this, like she’s about to cry. I’ve had my voice waiver when giving speeches and I know that in my head there’s a moment of panic of “oh shit, they can hear my voice cracking, get through, get through!”

Hmmm, this will be interesting.

I have heard that people on a cocaine or crystal meth binge exhibit exactly that kind of incoherent pressured speech after a few days.

So do people with bi-polar disorder when they’re in a manic phrase. I forget the technical term for it, though.

Personally, my favorite part of her speech was the touching puppet show interlude with Mr. Hat.

This sounds like an “oh shit I’d better get out of Dodge because the alternative is to deal with _______” speech.

I smell a “governor takedown”. Both Palin and Sanford are states-rights belligerents.  It’s only just
begun IMHO:  Not sure of the motive for it, but soon the states, starting with California, will be in receivership of some sort and that might have something to do with it. State governors enjoy a certain amount of sovereignty, and the ones who don’t go-along-to-get-along need to be removed?

Finding politicians’ Achilles Heels is easy enough; just stab at those heels and watch them babble their resignations.  If you think this is a stretch, meh, whatever, we have nothing to do but wait and see.  As in, see which states-rights governor goes next.

Tell me, does it involve the Fed or the coming North American Union, THP?

/snark

Andrea Mitchell, according to MSNBC, says Palin is out of politics for good.
We won’t have Sarah to kick around anymore, I’m afraid.

Honestly, if that’s true, I’m doing a happy dance. I don’t want that proudly willfully ignorant, bigoted, batshit right-wing religious extremist anywhere near any levers of power.  Begone, foul beast!

In a Wingnutshell:  “I thought I got to be queen and do whatever I wanted.  I have been spending too much time following rules or getting in trubble for not following rules and its no fair!  If I don’t get to be queen and have to do rules and listen to people I don’t want to listen to or get in trubble I quit!”

Holy shit.

oh please have a mistress in Argentina please have a mistress in Argentina please have a mistress in Argentina

One poster over at Americablog made the guesstimate that Palin was leaving to found a third-party, Libertarian style.

Interesting, and it would bleed a lot of wingnuts from the Repubs.

But I’m with poster at 4:47 above and nicho at Americablog, who explains the Friday news dump theory in more detail:

“If you are making this kind of announcement in order to begin a run for the presidency, you time it for maximum impact. You announce it on a Monday or late on a Sunday to dominate the news cycles for a week. Then, it will be the topic of the next Sunday’s talking head shows.

In other words, you want to milk it for all you can and get the most bang for your buck.

When you dump something late on Friday afternoon of a long holiday weekend, you want the story to die a quick death. You want it to be old news by Monday and old and tired by the following Sunday talking head shows.

And this weekend is more of a story killer than most others, since it’s the beginning of summer vacation for so many people. Also, more people celebrate this holiday more intensely than anything with the exception of Thanksgiving.

So, no, this doesn’t seem like something you’d do to launch your presidential bid. This has all the earmarks of trying to stuff the story.”

Maybe she’s just distracting the media before Todd’s passage is complete.

ANother pundit (Rick sanchez) just suggested another pregnancy?!?!?!?

Ex-Governor: I’m gonna miss Juneau. This town’s been awfully good to us.

Bort Palin: No, it hasn’t, Mom. That’s why we’re leaving.

Ex-Governor: Oh, yeah.  [pokes his head out the window]  So long, Stinktown!

NBC just suggested she needs the money and this leaves her open to travel and speaking engagements that would make her rich.

Here’s my prediction:  Palin and Sanford had an affair, the product of which is Trig.

judybrown - yeah, that’s an excellent point.  I’m ashamed to say i’m dying to know if this is sexual of financial.  But i think it’s one or the other and one fuck of a big story is blowing through alaska.

So do people with bi-polar disorder when they’re in a manic phrase. I forget the technical term for it, though.

I believe “pressured speech” is the correct term, along with flight of ideas, excessive risk taking, and impulsivity. 

Or maybe it’s just called “being a train wreck.”

‘Kay,

She’s officially a meglomaniac.

I <3 you jumpinjim

Aw, Jim is back, isn’t that cute?

Wipe up, Jim dear, you’re slobbering again.

She’ll never again love her country as much as she once did.

Or like she did when she spoke to the Alaska Independence Party, the one to which her husband was a registered member for so long?

I don’t think much of the patriotism of someone who would use an American flag, improperly treated, as part of the background of a photo shoot, but then, words mean more than actions in wingnut world, right, jumpinjim?

Thanks for a comment more incoherent than her resignation speech, jim.  What I thought was impossible, you accomplish with ease.

You all really seem to love your little gossip hate fest, don’t you?  Let’s stop speculating about this crap.  Same deal with Sanford.

Jim, try preview.  Please.

Ohh, the bitter sisters are coming out in droves.

Yes, I lovvvee it Ursula, and that goes double for you Jim.

Lovvvveee it.  Big Grin!

Dear Ursula:

Don’t you get it?  SP has advanced only by stepping over the political bodies of her mentors.  Now she figures she’s squeezed all the usefulness out of Alaska and so she’s moving on.  It’s only about her, her, her.  She’s an idiot but a ruthless one.

Let’s stop speculating about this crap.  Same deal with Sanford.

We don’t have to speculate about Sanford, to paraphrase what someone said about gay liberation in the 1970s: “The love that dare not speak its’ name now won’t shut up.”

As Peggy Noonan said in another context:

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

jumpinjim, I guess you didn’t hear that “retard” isn’t a welcome word here. 

phylosopher:  “Either she’s had an offer from the WNBA, or she’s leaving Alaska to run for another office in the lower 48 as a platform or broadcasting, or a ReThuglican spokeperson (which would truly show their desperation/stupidity.”

The rushed announcement suggests more scandal about to break.  She’s probably trying to get the book and media hosting contracts signed before it erupts.  She probably doesn’t know much about morals clauses; then again, Rush is still employed after his drug problems.

I would also guess she’s tired of Alaska now that she’s seen the big city lights.  They took away her pretty clothes, and she’s stuck answering impudent questions from ugly people and having her answers not even get heard by everyone any more.  She’s got to have been thinking of cutting and running since the day she returned.

Will she set her sights on being Gubernator II?  She’s dumb enough to think she could turn California around, and the GOP are probably desperate to find someone willing to try.

Dude, Sarah Palin was almost one heartbeat away.  Seriously.  No way we let this go.

Palin has a son fighting in Iraq and I don’t care if she wipes her ass with that flag.

Of course not. You respect your betters, don’t you.

I don’t care if she wipes her ass with that flag.

Of course not, you’re an Amurikan patriot.

I’m sure you’d rather she burn it.

It was that flag, minus 2 stars, under which my mother was liberated from the prison camp she was in as a ‘guest’ of the Japanese Imperial Army, so you’ve guessed wrong again.

As John Stuart Mill said:

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

  Letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington (March 1866)

Is there a contest regarding the number of meaningless catchphrases, buzzwords, and code words a person can fit into one speech? ‘Cause I think she won.

jumpinjim, that would be redundant.

Keep crying, Jimmy.

Mmmm wingnut tears. So sweet.

Seroisly, Jim, if she can’t take on the MSM and the DNC how the fuck will she take on Al Qaeda? That goes for any candidate that complains about “zomg! The EmmmEsssEmmm is soooooo unfair”!

Grow a spine, you’re a public figure. Hillary Clinton has been taking flak for 17 years. Palin couldn’t take 10 months.

jumpinjim—Biden would be a pretty good President.  Not as good as Obama, but pretty good.  That’s part of why he was a good choice for VP, in a way Palin never could be.

jumpinjim, no.  The word “retard” is just not welcome here, whether we’re describing someone who has Down Syndrome or the willfully ignorant Sarah Herself.

When I’m right, I’m right.

BREAKING:
Palin: Criminal Indictment “Pending,” Reports Alaska Law Enforcement Official

http://firedoglake.com/

Prepare for a hail storm of footwear dropping.

People without originality generally quote what others have said.

Yes, that was such a devastating refutation of what I wrote.  I would advise you not to quit your day job just yet.

You expect me to believe you are wildly patriotic because your mother got liberated by Americans? That does not necessarily follow. However, I would believe your mother might be a patriotic American.

My mother also characterized people like Palin as “dumb shits”.  She told me to always vote Democratic because they’re for the people and not the corporations as with the Republicans.

Again, thanks for demonstrating the thought processes of an Amurikan patriot,  pitiable as they appear to be.

If you’re hiding behind a child, does that give you -2 AC for partial cover or -8 AC for full cover?

Depends on the kid, I suppose.

I will say that having five children (one in harms way, one an unwed mother, one retarded and the other two still young) is significant in her decision.

Except that those factors(except for the second-mentioned) were true when she ran for VP. 

My wife isn’t a native English speaker, but hearing Palin on the boob tube, asked me"What is she talking about?” and when Palin talks about sense, she asked, “What, you think you’re making sense?”.

Who is to say Palin isn’t on meth herself? The pressured speech, erratic behavior, etc?

A few of my friends and I are discussing this on Facebook and wondering if there’s something else going on, because if she’s trying to make a run for the Presidency, doesn’t not finishing one term as governor make her look bad?

Her base are the sort of people who follow Limbaugh.  The only way one of their favourite politicians could look bad to them is if they’re caught screwing a goat on Main Street, and the goat happens to be of the same sex…

I suspend judgement awaiting events.  However, if it is a scandal, my bet is that it won’t be sexual - it’ll be something to do with legal troubles over her hand being in the wrong cookie-jar.  Possibly campaign funds…

If you’re hiding behind a child, does that give you -2 AC for partial cover or -8 AC for full cover?

Well, if you’re using GURPS, a kid would have, what, 4 or 5 HP?  A decent modern weapon should be able to exceed 2xHP and inflict Blowthrough Damage on whatever is behind it.  More if you’re using AP, and less if you’re using hollowpoint, of course.

Boy, didn’t you just know a patriotic mother would go to a ingrate and a bigot lickety-split ‘cause she doesn’t show proper fealty to Lady Sarah?

What criteria did she use and how does it fit Palin?

Being unable to make a coherent statement in what is suppose to be her native language, American English.  Although she only had two years of community college, Mother Avenger’s language skills, written and spoken, were as good as any college grad, and certainly better than those demonstrated by Palin in this performance.

Is your mother a bigot?

No, she only hated people who’ve demonstrated their idiodicy and former members of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is understandable in light of her experiences with them.

Have you not noticed that your government has begun to nationalize corporations?

Heh, if you believe that, I have a bridge over the Tule River I’d like you to take a look at.

2008: Some economists consider the U.S. government’s takeover of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and Federal National Mortgage Association to have been nationalization.[18][19] <u>The conservatorship model used with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is looser and more temporary than nationalization.</u>[20]

2009: Some economists consider the U.S. government’s actions with regards to Citigroup to have been a partial nationalization.[21] Proposal made that banks like Citigroup be brought under a conservatorship model similar to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that some of their “good assets” be dropped into newly created “good bank” susidiaries (presumably under new management), and the remaining “bad assets” be left to be managed under the supervision of a conservatorship structure.[20] The U.S. government’s actions with regard to General Motors in replacing the CEO with a government approved CEO is likewise being considered as nationalization. [22][23] On June 1, 2009, General Motors filed for bankruptcy, with the United States investing up to $50 billion and taking 60% ownership in the company. President Obama stated that the nationalization was temporary, saying, “We are acting as reluctant shareholders because that is the only way to help GM succeed”[24]

Her children were attacked and ridiculed. As a parent of five, I find that extremely odious.

No, their parents were ridiculed for their pious preachings that didn’t work, at least not with the first two.  You don’t moralize about sexuality to the point of abstinence only education and withholding rape kits from rape victims unless you are ready to face the heat when your daughter turns up pregnant.  You don’t sanctimoniously tout the virtues of your Christian family and rant on and on about wasting taxpayer money when you have to ship your son off to a military boarding school far away because of his involvement in a drug-fueled vandalism spree that cost taxpayers huge money.

If you’re hiding behind a child, does that give you -2 AC for partial cover or -8 AC for full cover?

Depends who’s holding the kid, and who’s making the attack. If it’s a Dem holding the kid, and a Republican attacking, the former might as well be wearing leather armour for all that it’ll deter the latter.

For example, jumpinjim, who I’m sure was right there with Party Leader Rush joking about 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton’s appearance and attacking John Kerry’s war record. And yet here he is, full of outrage and excuses:

I will say that having five children (one in harms way, one an unwed mother, one retarded and the other two still young) is significant in her decision.

Or perhaps it’s that pending criminal indictment that they’re starting to talk about.

Again, jumpinjim, she didn’t make the sudden announcement that she’s cutting her first term short in 3 weeks time on a summer Friday .. July 3rd ... in the afternoon, Alaska time ... if she was looking to make a point with it. For any politician, Dem or Republican, that timing is all about hiding something, and ensuring it doesn’t even make the 6:30PM Eastern newscast and that the major political reporters are already on their way out of town for the weekend.

Unfortunately for Palin, it’s not 1985, when coverage was limited to network television (no doubt your favourite medium) and skeleton holiday staff at the newspapers. So yeah, journalists and other people are gonna talk and speculate about why your all-Murkin pin-up is doing the political equivalent of the midnight flit.

Just exactly how did your mother decide to “characterized people like Palin as “dumb shits”.

I can’t speak for Avenger’s mother, but I characterise inarticulate, proudly ignorant people like Palin (and Prince Bush) that way because it’s pretty self-evident.

For someone who was freed by people with values very similar to Palin, I get the feeling your mother is an ingrate?

If you knew your history, you’d quickly recall that at the time it was liberals and progressives who wanted to fight the Axis, while the conservatives of the day (e.g. Nye, Lindbergh, Ford) were urging us to stay out of Japan’s business in Manchuria and make nice with Hitler.

Have you not noticed that your government has begun to nationalize corporations?

Well, what did you expect the government to do when the incompetent executives of those corporations came to them, hat in hand? Give them the money and be done with it? Aren’t you the folks who say government should operate more like a business?

Let me put it in terms you’ll understand: suppose you spent all of the family’s emergency cash to build a lemonade stand. Since you’re one of those “dumb shits” Avenger was discussing, you make a botch of things by using rotten moldy lemons. You go running to your smart older sister for money to buy fresh lemons. In return, she expects you to reimburse the emergency cash, and demands a portion of the money you earn above that amount. That’s business.

I am glad you showed up here, though—your reaction to Palin’s skulking exit from politics makes an especially sweet start to a holiday that’s all about the triumph of liberal Enlightenment values over religion-tinged tyranny. Happy 4th, everyone!

Have you not noticed that your government has begun to nationalize corporations?

Have you not noticed that those corporations begged for government support rather than close forever?  No? 

Oh, but the government should give no strings attached “loans” instead.  Uh huh. 

If you weren’t so very stupid, you’d be into the conspiracy theory that the government has adopted equity lending practices akin to those used by islamic banking systems.  That would take enough cultural awareness to understand what that means, though.

OMFG.

She was Captain Queeg in that video. All she needed was the clacking steel balls.

To think that this woman was the nominee of a major party to be next in line for the Presidency behind a 72-year-old with a bad heart is just plain frightening.

Her children were attacked and ridiculed. As a parent of five, I find that extremely odious.

Hey, what if a child said something less than worshipful about Palin? Would said child be fair game, then?

A transcript of that resignation would have about thirty sets of parentheses and maybe four or five periods.

Ever seen a dog try to chase a wild rabbit? It zig-zags, panics at the lack of escape, circles, and eventually finds its way under a bush or fence or whatever. That was my mental image while listening to the speech.

Something has killed, or has threatened to kill, Palin’s career.

Oh I get it dumpassjim - black = third world.

Yeah, just like his presidency is going to be temporary.

Well, sure. Eight and the guy’s out, or didn’t you notice that’s how it worked? Doesn’t matter how much people want him to hang around - like they did Clinton - Obama’s done with the job in 2016. It’ll be someone else’s gig, we don’t know who. All we do know is that it won’t be Sarah Palin.

Katie Joy, what do you want to bet she’s going to seek asylum in a foreign country and move to New Mexico in an attempt to evade justice.

She was Captain Queeg in that video. All she needed was the clacking steel balls.

If I gave it another listen, I wouldn’t surprised to hear the phrase “strawberry ice cream” in that muddled mess of a speech.

Oh I get it dumpassjim - black = third world.

Isn’t it cute how the racist code starts to ooze out when they get upset? Now let’s watch jumpinjim explain how a Constitutional scholar from a major American university, a former Senator, and a political centrist is exemplifies a “Third Worlder mentality.”

http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3276936

Jumpinjim, did your Oxycontin dealer cut you off or something?

Well, what did you expect the government to do when the incompetent executives of those corporations came to them, hat in hand? Give them the money and be done with it?

Well, I can’t speak to what he expected but I’m sure it’s what the auto executives expected.  After all, it’s what the banks got, unfortunately.

Well, I can’t speak to what he expected but I’m sure it’s what the auto executives expected.  After all, it’s what the banks got, unfortunately.

Well, that’s what happens when a President has a Third-World crony-capitalist mentality—that President being Prince Bush, of course (though to be fair the Obama administration hasn’t been much better regarding the banks).

The obvious answer is, a.) Gov. Sanford’s purported lady-love in exotic far Argentinia was actually only a red herring, and b.) there exist videotapes, and they have escaped from captivity.

Matt T.: Obama’s done with the job in 2016. It’ll be someone else’s gig, we don’t know who.

Michelle 2016!

Katie Joy:</B> A transcript of that resignation would have about thirty sets of parentheses and maybe four or five periods.

OMG Sarah is a LISP hacker!  Who knew?

Alova sudden I reverse my previously low opinion of her; I lerv you, sweet LISPin’ Sarah!

Michelle 2016!

Malia Obama 2040!

Chelsea 2024!

Maizie Biden 2048!

Bradblog says she’s facing federal indictiment for embezzement.  This dates back to her time as Mayor when she was building that big hockey rink or whatever.  Apparently she had the zoning laws changed so no one could see who built her beautiful home on the lake, and it ends up this beautiful home was built by the same people she gave the contract for the hockey rink to.  In other words - the Palins didn’t pay for their house.  The Alaskan taxpayers did.

Her idiot fucking husband is involved too.  Here are two people who have five kids, one of them a baby with down syndrome and they are going to be indicted. 

Republicans are deranged.  Just absolutely deranged.

And fuck you jumpinghimasshole.  Who told you that the taxpayer has to pay for the Barracuda’s house huh?  I hope they put her in prison where she belongs.

You fcuking puke republicans.  You will cry blood over a few bucks for the social safety net because you fear non-white people will get it, but you think I’m going to pay for your kings and queens to build palaces huh?

Well you and her are both in for a big surprise.  Choke on it.

Meghan McCain 2032!

(She’ll come around by then, if not sooner.)

I think that the voices in Turd’s head told her to resign so she can be Queen of the Republic of Alaska.

Her idiot fucking husband is involved too.

Trigg is living proof that this statement is redundant.

Come on people, the abelism in some of the comments is nasty.

Kathy, are you saying that Trigg’s father is somebody else?

A baby is living proof that his parents fucked - in most cases, anyway.  Palin is an idiot, her husband fucked her.  Therefore “idiot fucking husband"is redundant.

Lurn 2 reed.

Jeez!  I have no Internet access for a day or so, and the whole fucking world goes to hell…

BTW, if Palin’s political “career” is over, what will that do to the value of all those Gingrich/Palin 2012 - White Makes Right! stickers and signs I bought on speculation?...

Christ on a crutch jim, “one’s a retard”? When atheist used the word at least it was in a slang context and he apologized, you actually called someone’s disabled kid a “retard”. As the mother of a child with Down syndrome (see I can pull the parent card too) I can officially say you win the douchenozzle of the week award.

Dear, dear Ms. Kate.  (Wiping laugh tears from keyboard)  Thank you.  I sooo needed that.

For some reason, I keep finding myself humming alternately: “Ding dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead” and “My country ‘tis of thee.”

Obviously, it’s late.

I think the mother ship has arrived and summoned Palin back to her home planet…

I’m not going to believe there is anything criminal until I hear it officially from an MSM source. But seriously, I hope there is. Even though I think she would lose worse than Goldwater were she to get the nomination, just because I love my country I’d rather take a 30% chance on Mittens Romney being President than a 1% chance on Palin being President.

MikeEss,

The best way to double your money is to fold it in half.

Ben D.: Who is to say Palin isn’t on meth herself? The pressured speech, erratic behavior, etc?

Nah, her teeth would be falling out if she was on meth.

Acid however is a serious possibility. I got a contact high just listening to that speech.

She wouldn’t have been the first Republican to do so:

It is indeed, a Great Wall.

PALIN GOES FULL RETARD!!!!!!!1

atheist on 07/03 at 04:49 PM

Uhm, no.  PALIN GOES FULL GALT, perhaps.

Oooh maybe that’s it phylosopher. Maybe that nutty preacher she used to listen to that said Alaska was one of the safe points for the Rapture and all that convinced her to move off into a cabin in the woods and be her own sovereign country and she’ll go awayyyy…

I think the mother ship has arrived and summoned Palin back to her home planet…

NOTE: Palin died on the way back to her home planet.

she was raptured?

My beverage(s) for the 4th: Alaskan Summer Ale.

If you’re hiding behind a child, does that give you -2 AC for partial cover or -8 AC for full cover?

They changed the rules.  Now a higher-number AC is good - the oldest dragons and most powerful demons can have ACs in the 40s or even 50s. 

But I think cover is dealt with by “% miss chance” now anyway.

I cannot see Palin stepping down just for an indictment so I am betting on a sex tape with featuring Todd and Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity

Just got some brain bleach at Costco - anybody need a refill?

Matt T:

Hey, what if a child said something less than worshipful about Palin? Would said child be fair game, then?

I’m technically still a child. Therefore:

Sarah Palin is an unbridled embarrassment to women, politicians, and unbridled embarrassments everywhere. She seems to have missed her true calling in life, namely being an TV salesperson for Canadian Tire. I wish her children well in their future therapy appointments. Trust me, Palinites - therapy and psychotropic meds are hella fun. If Madame Sarah does have bipolar/a drug problem, hopefully she is/will get treatment for it.

Have at me, messieurs.

Dude, Joe Biden is a heartbeat away. How bout you petition Obama to replace him…fast!

Aside from all your other too-frequent demonstrations of stupidity, the meaning of “only a heartbeat away from the presidency” seems to have gone right over your head.

For someone who was freed by people with values very similar to Palin

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phylosopher:

Neither of the above. I’d say she’s gone Full Romney, but actually resigning halfway through her term would make it a Double Romney.

(For background: I don’t know for sure, but I suspect most MA Republicans were for Giuliani. Romney left a very bad rep behind, as he essentially gave up halfway through his term to travel around the country and slag the state he was supposed to be running at every conceivable opportunity. I don’t think he could get elected <strike>dogcatcher</strike>Animal Control Officer in Massachusetts these days.)

I cannot see Palin stepping down just for an indictment so I am betting on a sex tape with featuring Todd and Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity

Well I’m pretty certain that Limbaugh and Hannity are secretly bottoms, so I guess we’ll just have to think “Mistress Sarah?” every time we see her now.

Pass the brain bleach, Kate.

I don’t know for sure, but I suspect most MA Republicans were for Giuliani. Romney left a very bad rep behind, as he essentially gave up halfway through his term to travel around the country and slag the state he was supposed to be running at every conceivable opportunity. I don’t think he could get elected dogcatcherAnimal Control Officer in Massachusetts these days.)

While the last may be true, the first definately was not amoung the MA Repubs I work with, especially the ones from MA rather than just currently living here.