If she's the party, whether on Fox on in a 2012 Presidential Primary, the party is over. She makes Mark Sanford's meandering public confessions seem a little saner. Or maybe she just earned herself the next room in the sanatorium.
From Josh Marshall, quoting the speech:
The potential real reason: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.Quitters stick to it. Winners quit.
I've now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin's house and the Wasilla Sports Complex built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the "same windows, same wood, same products." Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources.She'll spin it, to be sure. Federal Obama government intruding into Alaska and personal life, political vendetta, blah blah. And her stupid, I mean committed fans will eat it up.The BRAD BLOG has not been able to receive confirm from any federal sources on this. Our information comes from local Alaskans who follow Palin, and who have been keeping an eye on this for some time, while keeping it quiet at the request of federal investigators.
Bottom line, though: same ol' same ol'. If true, just another narcissistic corrupt pol.
With a 'cuda smile.
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I think net net this is probably a great decision by Palin. Granted, she's all but proven that she's not qualified to run her state, that she's not to be trusted to meet her responsibilities, that she considers her Oath of Office a joke, her donors dupes, public office merely a stepping stone in her own self-aggrandizement, and by today's incoherent ramble which reinforces her many other moments of unscripted blather during the campaign, that her brain canters as smoothly as a three-legged dog.
So what?
40% of the Republican party adore her. The same 40% who think that BHO's a Christian separatist Muslim who had Bill Ayers write his biography, that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian who had an affair with Vince Foster just before murdering him and forging his suicide note, and that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of a dinosaur. These 40% don't care what she does. She could've bitten the head off a chicken on the podium today and they'd love her even more because she's regular folks, just like us.
And they're right: in many many ways she is the perfect emblem, the standard bearer, the Jeanne D'Arc of what the Republican Party has become. If 30 years ago as Reagan's handlers led the party down a road paved with ignorance, deceit, incompetence, jingoism, racism, and egocentricity, you could've imagined the logical terminus off in the hazy future, she's it -- The End Of The Road.
So: she's prob going to take a job w/ Fox or make speeches to the faithful every day at $250K per, bankrolled by the usual suspects, the depraved spawn of the first Gilded Age, as over-the-limit campaign donations disguised as speaking fees, and in one year she's going to earn $50+ million, so much that the First Dude can buy a platinum snowmobile and her probable scores of illegitimate great-grandchildren will never have to work for a living.
Not bad for a hick from nowhere who spent more time getting thru college than Bluto Blutarsky.
Then, around 16 months from now when she announces for Pres, she'll have a personal war chest to tap as well as the abovementioned 40% loonies, who've been lighting votive candles and hoarding ammunition in fervent hope of this day, and it'll be nearly impossible for a Romney or Huckabee or Pawlenty or whomever to keep her from scrounging up that last 11% she needs for the nomination, and once she does the rest of the Republemmings will fall in line, as they always do, declaring her the reincarnation of Einstein, Churchill, and Pericles.
So, like I said, this decision is makes a lot of sense for her.
And besides, it's just so (wink) mavericky!
BTW: For all of you out there who couldn't bear to view Winky's speech to its meandering end, she grandiosely closes with a quote from Gen Douglas MacArthur. As always, it seems, Republican faux patriots just love quoting military men -- it makes them all proud and tingly about the victories they imagine they would've achieved had they actually joined the armed services rather than sitting at home eating Cheetos.
In this case, however, the quote is a perfect one.
In late 1950 after successfully pushing North Korean forces back across their border, MacArthur decided to ignore the direct order of his superior and push north in an overt attempt to goad China into direct war with the U.S. The Chinese army proceeded to sweep in and drive US/UN forces back across the 38th parallel.
The net result of MacArthur's misadventure was tens of thousands of US casualties and deaths, a monumentally humiliating defeat for the US, an emboldening and solidification of the Mao's gov't as ruler of the PRC, the near start of World War III, and the gargantuan expense (of every sort) to the US of keeping troops in S Korea for the next 60 years. In addition, repairing the regional loss of respect for the US military was one of the prime rationales given for our involvement shortly thereafter in Vietnam. And of course, Mac got the boot.
Anyway, while Mac and his troops were being driven screaming and bloody out of N Korea, this quote is the bullshit MacArthur put forward to attempt to gloss over his own treasonous bungling.
So to summarize: Palin ends her truncated term as Gov by referencing a misadventure marked by hubris & self-aggrandizement, failure, loss of respect, immense cost, immense collateral damage...and the original quote itself was self-serving face-saving bullshit.
Like I said: perfect.
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