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A refugee from San Francisco and desperate for cash, I worked the summer of 1990 for a Republican Senator in Anchorage before shipping out on the Bering for three months of cleaner work. I am still amazed someone like Sarah Plain could get elected up there by Republicans.
I’m amazed she can get a vote anywhere…
I’m sure you guys are.
she is unbelievably attractive — until, of course, you hear her speak and voice her opinions. but, i think her attractiveness went a long way for her in getting attention and votes. never misunderestimate the horny-man vote. a lot of dudes up there who spend a lot of time on crab-boats and oil rigs.
“Attacks inside Alaska and largely invisible to the national media had paralyzed her administration,” someone close to the governor told me. “She was fully aware she would be branded a ‘quitter.’ She did not want to disappoint her constituents, but she was no longer able to do the job she had been elected to do. Essentially, the taxpayers were paying for Sarah to go to work every day and defend herself.”
This situation developed because Alaska’s transparency laws allow anyone to file Freedom of Information Act requests. While normally useful, in the hands of political opponents FOIA requests can become a means to bog down a target in a bureaucratic quagmire, thanks to the need to comb through records and respond by a strict timetable. Similarly, ethics investigations are easily triggered and can drag on for months even if the initial complaint is flimsy. Since Ms. Palin returned to Alaska after the 2008 campaign, some 150 FOIA requests have been filed and her office has been targeted for investigation by everyone from the FBI to the Alaska legislature. Most have centered on Ms. Palin’s use of government resources, and to date have turned up little save for a few state trips that she agreed to reimburse the state for because her children had accompanied her. In the process, though, she accumulated $500,000 in legal fees in just the last nine months, and knew the bill would grow ever larger in the future.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124700261179807839.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
“…for a few state trips that she agreed to reimburse the state for because her children had accompanied her.”
Just curious…do the taxpayers pay when Obama’s children accompany him to Russia or Paris? What about Obama’s mother-in-law who went along to Paris? I was curious about who paid when former First Lady HRC took world trips (without President Bill) and took Chelsea along.
NoMiss: see if this link helps answer your question:
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS21835_20070410.pdf
I don’t get that bent out of shape over the families going along with heads of state (national or governor) when they go on trips. They have to travel a bit and keep very long hours so I don’t begrudge them that fringe benefit for the most part.
The Horny Mans vote??????????
Ladies,… oh Jane there’s a subject on NMC ‘s site may be of interest to you dear. I know how you are about politics and all. especially Sara Palin.
How bout them saints?
So boys and girls, lets see if you can keep up…Caribou Barbie can’t understand what all the dang fuss is about her crazy-ass resignation. So what should she do? Well let’s call all the MSM (nasty mean ole libruls) back to Alaska so she can give all these individual interviews (earily similar ones at that) while she’s photogeniclly fish-pickin’ and fail to still provide any reasonable explainations, but you know she just can’t stand not to be seen and heard. Even better we now find out is that the guy she appointed to be 3rd in line and who would take over as lt. gov. has decided to take his ball and go home, too. She already named someone else to take his place, but the problem is he hasn’t been confirmed by the lege for his position…soooo, guess where all this is headed. That’s right, a special session of the lege…. surely that’s not gonna cost the poor folks of the state of Alaska anything. Now, stay tuned class cause she ain’t never goin away.
Thanks, Ben. That presidential travel policy is a sweet deal. It’s no wonder that the presidential families travel so much–both with the president and without. I think we can correctly assume that the taxpayers pick up the tab ninety-nine percent of the time.
I was wondering I’ve seen the comment’s stating where most folks don’t want there money spent. So just where do you want your tax dollar to go? I haven’t heard much on that. After all that’s a lot of money folks.
pr1954, “she ain’t never goin away” because everyone keeps talking about her. She certainly stirs people’s passions. It appears that there is a public obsession with her—just look at the number of comments about her on this blog- and the first Palin post ( dead fish thread) on this blog kept going for days. Who else could have overshadowed Michael Jackson’s death and memorial? Meanwhile, 95 U.S. military have died in Afghanistan since Jan. 1st (six of them today), Obama is in Putin’s Russia trying to talk sense with those leaders, weird things are happening in China, and there was a serial killer loose in N.C. But the media and blogs are talking about Sarah Palin.
NoMiss your right there’s so much going on in the world than to speak of the same person over and over. I’m home with the family I love my wife, Jane daughter, April and grand child, Amber things like this mean so much more especially our grandchild she is so beautiful 13 months described as perfect she’s smart and guess what we named her Sara Jane Marie.
Sorry, NoMiss but there ain’t nuthin’ overshowing the michael jackson story. Not yet anyway, there’s always tomorrow though. That said, you’re missing my implications on SP, if she would “go away” we could all move on, but trust me, she ain’t goin’
Michael Jackson songs 24/7 are getting damn near as irritatin’ as Chrismas carols in October.
pr1954, my implication is that in today’s world, people “go away” because the media ignores them or at least downplays them by giving them little attention. Sarah Palin is well aware that she attracts attention and that everything she does causes a media blitz. She’s gone beyond politics; she’s become a celebrity. (It’s the same world in which an unknown regular person became a jilted tv show “bachelorette,” then became a dance show star/celebrity and will now become a tv talk/news-show person. The money and job opportunities just poured in for jilted bachelorette. And all within just a few months.) Palin’s made the decision to go with attention/celebrity flow by making money in it. She may “die” in that flow, but she’ll make a lot of money first.
Why does she attract attention? Perhaps it’s the result of what several bloggers here have noted—that she is a “sexy” female and that there is something called the “horny vote.” Why did Farrah Fawcett get so much attention early in her career? Was it because she was a “sexy” female and something called a “horny vote” that voted by purchasing her posters a million times?
Pragmatically, Palin’s decision makes sense. She’s tired of the investigations and accusations, and she thinks that once she’s out of the governor’s office, she’ll avoid further politically motivated investigations. She can travel (with her family) on paid trips, but not at taxpayer expense. She can get paid to talk, which she enjoys doing, and she obviously needs the money to pay legal expenses. It’s a smart thing for her to do—Jesse Jackson has made a fine living doing that for years. And one must strike while the iron is hot—or pass the ball at the right time to win–or whatever.
Well said, NoMiss. She’s a marketable product right now. Sharp promoters and “image consultants” see in her a great opportunity to bring her to market, for lack of a more descriptive term, and to milk her “product placement.” Theres a long list of advertisers who will pay big bucks to sponsor her appearances, so long as their market research shows she’s producing a return on their investment. I’m betting Fox News will pay gobs for her appearances as a talking head. She doesn’t have to say anything that would qualify as a diagramable sentence … all she has to do is blather about lower taxes, abortion prohibition, fun with guns, and how the
liberal press and the Democratic party are partners in destroying America.
She won’t gather any wind beneath her political wings, but she can bring deep pockets to GOP fundraisers. In time, she will fade away, but she be a pox on our tvs in the near future.
I wish it weren’t so, but it’s all John McCain’s fault.
I love this. Sarah Plain, whose national political career may never really get off the ground, has people talking incessantly. This blog may have differing reasons for obsessing over Sarah but methinks she stirs something deep inside conservatives which is good. And, no, not necessarily male hormones. She is spirited and spunky. I wish the fledgling conservative movement could have her cloned.
“…methinks she stirs something deep inside conservatives which is good.”
OK … I’ll bite. What is “good” in conservatives?
if she is stirring something deep inside of conservatatives as you say, Osa, then conservatives are in for trouble. i hear nothing but the same party line BS from her, which won’t nab the majority of this country any more (although it will still nab Mississippi).
There is a fine line between newsmakers and news creators. Okay, granted she called a press conference to announce her resignation as governor. Beyond that, what if the media went away and let her be and didn’t tell us what was and wasn’t news, what we should and shouldn’t care about? What relevance is Alaska’s governor to me, other than talking heads clogging up the airways and intelligent blogs? Nairn.
Whoa. I stayed out of his for a while b/c time time to expire;.bhlah blah..blah.
Since that is the window, ANY of you Palin balishers ready to discuss real issues,e.g. U6>16% or U3>9%?
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Ben, stick to your day job. Comedy is not in your future. Just kidding, so don’t take it personally. Or, maybe you should. But, I digress.
Jaxrelief, conservatives are in trouble anyway. The country has taken a turn towards socialism that history says will be irreversible. But, it’s not merely the conservatives in trouble, it’s the entire country. Now, if anyone to debate whether we’re becoming socialistic or whether that’s a bad thing, assuming I am correct, then be prepared to strap on your big boy britches, because there will be plenty of fols ready to pounce on the subject if past postings is any indication.
But, back to your comment jaxrelief. I agree we’re not earing new ideas from conservatives and that is shameful. As a general rule, conservatives don’t know how to convey messages well. They/we are a timid bunch on setting and playing the national agenda. Liberals are much better street fighters. But, I suspect thecountry is in for some “correction” back to the middle financially. I still feel sad for my grandchildren having to grow up in a country saddled with PC, huge debt, nationalism of former private enterprise, and socialized medicine.
Just saw this article by Ann Coulter which captures what I have been saying. Don’t bother to read if you’re going to complain about how long it is.
Fogetting Sarah Palin
by Ann Coulter
07/08/2009
Sarah Palin has deeply disappointed her enemies. People who hate her guts feel she’s really let them down by resigning.
She’s like the ex-girlfriend they’re SO over, never want to see again, have already forgotten about — really, it’s O-ver — but they just can’t stop talking about her.
Liberal: Ha, ha … Sarah who? She’s over, she’s toast, a future Trivial Pursuit answer, nothing more.
Normal person: Whatever. How about the North Korean missiles?
Liberal: Can you believe she just resigned the governorship like that? What a quitter!
Normal person: Speaking of quitting, how’s work?
Liberal: Did you hear she might get a TV show? There’s no way Sarah Palin’s getting a TV show! No way! I can’t believe stupid Sarah Palin could get her own stupid TV show now. Well, I’m sure not gonna watch it — that’s for sure!
Normal person: Have you seen all the Michael Jackson coverage on TV?
Liberal: How does she think she can run for president in 2012 if she can’t finish her term as governor of a Podunk state? She’s finished.
Normal person: OK, then! You won’t have to vote for her.
Liberal: I was never going to vote for her! But now I’m not going to vote for her twice. And I will never watch her TV show. I am so over her.
Reporters had already written their stories on Palin’s press conference — “rambling!” “incoherent!” — before she even stepped to the podium.
Whatever you think of Palin, her argument for resigning was the opposite of “rambling” and “incoherent.”
Palin’s basketball analogy couldn’t have been clearer, even to prissy liberal pundits who get uncomfortable when the subject turns to sports: She decided to destroy the other team’s game plan, which has been to obsessively focus on her, by resigning.
This is particularly apt here — she’s passing the ball to a fantastic right-wing lieutenant governor, who shares her principles but doesn’t set off the left’s neuroses.
This is better for him, better for the state, better for the conservative program and better for Palin personally, whose family is sick of all the crap. Now she can make a lot of money and promote conservatism on a national stage.
It certainly won’t be held against Palin by people who don’t already loathe her. (On the other hand, her approval ratings among people who think she’s worse than Hitler are down to 48 percent.)
With the left frenetically filing ethics complaint after ethics complaint against Palin, costing her state millions of dollars and her personally half a million dollars, citizens of Alaska must be asking, “Can we please have our state back?”
But to read the news reports — which actually were rambling and incoherent — you would think Palin was speaking in tongues.
The truth is liberals are furious they won’t have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore — at least not with Palin’s hands tied behind her back by her public office.
Something tells me Keith Olbermann isn’t going to be pulling any big numbers this summer attacking Eric Cantor and Michele Bachmann. I don’t anticipate any sudden outbreaks of “Mitch McConnell Derangement Syndrome.”
Soon we’ll only hear about Keith when his creepy e-mails using his mother’s death to hit on chicks start making the rounds again. (Tip to Keith: When a girl refuses to give you her phone number, her assistant’s phone number or her personal e-mail address, and only gives you her assistant’s e-mail address, you’re not halfway in the sack.)
Bonus: If Olbermann gets canceled as a result of Palin’s resignation, that will put her in a really good position for 2012.
But instead of being honest and saying, “Oh well, it was a good ride while it lasted,” liberal chatterers indignantly demand: “Is this not the greatest betrayal a public servant ever committed against the people?”
On one hand, liberals are enraged at the heinousness of Mark Sanford — whom they didn’t vote for — for not resigning and, on the other, they’re enraged at Palin — whom they also didn’t vote for — for resigning.
The peculiarly venomous hatred of Palin is driven by women of the left and their whipped consorts. All that needs to happen is for a feminist to overhear two Nation readers saying, “I hate to admit it, but Palin is kind of hot” and …
WHAT??????????? YOU CALL THAT HOT? I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW WE’VE GOT A MEGA-SUPER HOTTIE IN DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. AND NEED I REMIND YOU AGAIN OF THE RAW SEX APPEAL OF RACHEL MADDOW?
Democrats are a party of women, and nothing drives them off their gourds like a beautiful Christian conservative. (How much money has that other beautiful born-again, Carrie Prejean, been forced to spend on lawyers to respond to liberal hysteria?)
So the motives are clear, but the money is not. Who is paying the rent for the losers filing all these frivolous complaints against Palin?
At least when Richard Mellon Scaife was funding investigations of Bill Clinton, we knew who Scaife was, he was an American citizen, and his money was accessible to U.S. tax authorities and not stashed in offshore accounts like a certain Hungarian Nazi-collaborator I can name.
How about some modern-day Scaife investigate the investigators?
From Time today, http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1909019,00.html
“In the past 50 years, people with mental problems have spent untold millions of hours in therapists’ offices, and millions more reading self-help books, trying to turn negative thoughts like “I never do anything right” into positive ones like “I can succeed.” For many people — including well-educated, highly trained therapists, for whom “cognitive restructuring” is a central goal — the very definition of psychotherapy is the process of changing self-defeating attitudes into constructive ones.”
“A great deal of psychological research has shown this, but you need look no further than any late-night bar debate you’ve had with friends: when someone asserts that Sarah Palin is brilliant, or that the Yankees are the best team in baseball, or that Michael Jackson was not a freak, others not only argue the opposing position, but do so with more conviction than they actually hold. We are an argumentative species.”
Ain’t it the truth. Maybe Dr. X can prescribe us all something to put us out of our collective misery on all things Palin.
I’ll have another slice of Chamoun’s chocolate meringue pie and a big glass of Brown’s Farm unhomogenized milk … thank you very much.
Ben. Eatin’ pie and drinkin’ unhomogenzied milk like that kilt both my grandpappies…one at 87 and the other at 93. You better hold back on both. ‘specially if you happen to be talking about Palin at the same time. That’s some bad mojo in combo.