Palin takes to Web for hints of political future
July 5th, 2009 . by TexasFredPalin takes to Web for hints of political future
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn’t wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month.
After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly announcing she would soon give up her job as governor, Palin indicated on a social networking site that she would take on a larger, national role, citing a “higher calling” to unite the country along conservative lines.
“I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint,” the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote in a posting on her Facebook page. Palin’s spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, confirmed Palin wrote the entry.
Palin shocked even her closest friends on Friday when she announced she would resign July 26, more than a year before her first term ends. But the controversial hockey mom has not revealed many details of bigger plans and national agenda.
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Palin takes to Web for hints of political future
Today, the Sunday news and blogs are FULL of stories regarding Palin and all this brouhaha.
The vague, rambling and really weird speech on Friday left a lot of people wondering just what was going on. Palin doesn’t like the rumor mill, that is glaringly apparent, but her vague manner Friday only fueled that rumor mill even more. She fed the fire.
Now it appears she’s going through some Joan of Arc, answering to a higher calling thing.
A ‘higher calling’? Did she get high and hear voices?? A ‘higher calling’ from whom if I may be so bold? God maybe? If she feels that she was moved by God, she needs to say so.
Did the RNC make that 3AM call to Sarah? Did they give her a call to come save the GOP? Is that ‘higher calling’ really a SAVE THE GOP? Does Palin know that GOP and Conservative are words that don’t necessarily equate?
I’m about as HARD CORE Conservative as it gets but I just don’t see this woman as the political power that many Conservatives apparently do. I don’t see her as much of anything other than yesterdays news, and she just won’t go away.
Many Conservatives complain that Barack Hussein Obama was an extremely inexperienced person when he took the reigns of this nation. I fully agree with that assessment. Obama was a ‘community organizer’. Obama served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997–2004 and the United States Senate from 2005–2008. And we ALL thought him to be far too inexperienced to be the leader of this nation.
We gripe about Obama not having enough experience? Excuse me? A ‘higher calling’ to unite the country along conservative lines?
Sarah Palin was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and then a partial term Governor of Alaska, a job she is quitting to answer this ‘higher calling’.
Huh? 
When Sarah Palin was nominated as the VP candidate to run with John McCain, I thought, “she’s window dressing, but, maybe she has a good plan”. Then the facts got out there, and Palin started talking. Then she got all ‘mavericky’. The more she talked the more disgusted I became.
She was terribly inexperienced, yet many voted McCain/Palin because of her. I can’t tell you how many times I heard or read, ‘I’m not voting for McCain, I’m really voting for Sarah Palin’, and I still get chills just thinking about that.
Many said that Palin’s speeches during the campaign, and her manner of speaking, were a direct result of the McCain campaign and the RNC trying to control her. After this last spectacle, I am starting to doubt that even more.
I haven’t heard of a huge Push for Palin movement by the GOP. Maybe they have a back room good ol’ boys thing going on, maybe not. Some clarification from the RNC/GOP itself would be nice.
And again I say, IF Sarah Palin is the next chosen one, if she is the golden child of the GOP, and GOP voters, then the GOP is in crisis and the GOP is in a lot worse shape than any care to admit.
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Fred, I suspect you are wrong about Sarah-Barracuda, The next 17 months (till the mid-term) elections will tell the tale.
She just may be what the conservative movement needs, a kick in the ass because they damn sure haven’t gotten out to get conservatives in the WH or in congress.
Yeah GM, she’s EXACTLY what the GOP needs by golly, you betcha she is don’tcha know doggone it…
And as for not getting Conservatives in Congress, speak for YOUR part of Texas my friend. In MY part of Texas we have 3 of the very best Congressmen serving, Sam Johnson, Jeb Hensarling and Ralph Hall.
As I said, IF Palin is the best the GOP can get, they are screwed, but I will take it one step further, if Palin is the SAVIOR of the GOP, the GOP isn’t on life support, it’s D-E-A-D DEAD!
I have to agree with you…if she is our only choice…then the GOP is in trouble. I too have come to identify myself more as a Conservative, instead of picking based on Party lines. I know I’ll catch flak on this…but this country is not ready for a woman President. We have had both Parties pick a female as a running mate (VP) and both times those Parties failed to be elected. I think Palin needs to move to one of the lower 48 States and run for some other position ( Congressman or Senator ) other than the big one. She needs to do a little more to prove herself capable of making life changing choices for her people ( State or Federal ). She a nice looking woman…as Obama is a talented speaker….but in my opinion… neither of those make a good leader…as we are seeing ever so clearly with all the things Obama is putting into play.
Everyone ( or most ) are calling her a ‘quiter’….which I think she is far from being that….but she does need to come out and state what she is really doing and put a stop to the humors….plus get another outfit that is not RED.
extex_cop, Jessica Simpson is a good looking woman, she has no business as POTUS…
Halle Berry is a beautiful woman, and she’s black, she has no business being POTUS…
For me, it’s not about color, looks or the sex OF the POTUS, it’s about ability and qualifications. Other than serving as Mayor of Wasilla, AK Sarah Palin has about HALF of a term as Governor, she is LESS qualified than Obama.
If Sarah Palin can’t take the heat of being a Governor, she would be a debacle as POTUS, she resorts to shrill histrionics and threats of law suits against any that she feels speak ill of her. She is, in MY opinion, not even CLOSE to what this nation needs…
If Sarah Palin is what this nation needs, we are screwed…
I think the GOP is in extremely bad trouble. I mean – about as bad as it can get. Surely, surely, they have better sense than to run this lady. She cannot win! If there was ever any “there” there, it is gone now.
Frankly, I can not come up with a single name I’d be willing to vote for today under the GOP banner. Given time, I might be able to come up with somebody, but not at the moment.
Yeah, its BAD!
JDL
She essentialy said this in her speech. And if this is her goal, she went entirely the WRONG way to reach it. It leaves her even MORE open to excoriation.
Man-o-man. . .
BZ
Speaking of the RNC………havn’t seen them denouncing the 8 house reps that voted for Cap and Tax. Would make me feel a little better if they made it clear to those yahoos that they should run for reelection as dems because they’re getting no support or funds from the GOP. Just saying.
Sarah Palin is infinitely more experienced than the pile of shit we have in the “White House” right now. Right now she is the person who could run this country and lead it out of the morass piled up by the Libtards and the Demo/socialists. At least she wouldn’t apologize for our greatness.
Doc, I have, for the 1st time, got to disagree with you…
Neither of them can find their asses with BOTH hands…
I don’t believe Sarah Palin led her state, she was the governor, but she wasn’t much of a leader, she QUIT… And if she quit on Alaska, what makes you think she won’t quit on the USA if the pressure becomes too much??
Fred, if you’re right, and you possibly are, this country is in a condition which will only see it disintegrate in to a weak banana republic. There are several good Republicans available, but the stinking media will or would kill them at the slightest indication that they were going to run for higher office. Nothing scares a Dem/Socialist like a Republican with powerful character and ability. Note Palin. Our so-called news media handles all the assassination duties for the Libtards.
Doc, we are damn near there now…
We have a monkey in the White House..
Hence, banana’s follow shortly…
Well, for a long time we have known that Dr Moonbat, aka Ron Paul, had his Paulinistas…
I just got a *tell you off* message on Yahoo about my take on MY blog regarding Sarah Palin… I guess now we have Palinites too…
Let me make this crystal clear to you teckrek, Jeff Howell, when YOU start paying MY bills and when YOU start paying for MY blog, then YOU can tell me what I can and can’t post. Until that time, this is still the USA, we are still free and YOU can KISS MY ASS!