Here’s the Sarah Palin resignation statement
i hadn’t seen this before. Draw your own conclusions.
UPDATE: And here’s the transcript of the whole thing.
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Normal
July 4th, 2009
8:40 am
Well, at least there was no teleprompter…I wonder when the other shoe will drop…Talks about change…Isn’t that interesting?
catlady
July 4th, 2009
8:53 am
This sounds like Mark Sanford’s rambling speech. I always thought she was pretty self-serving; this proves it.
Southern Comfort Zone
July 4th, 2009
8:58 am
Wow,
What a wasted use of bits…and bytes…and… So, maybe she’ll decide to run in 2012 on the secessionist platform.
@@
July 4th, 2009
9:10 am
That’s not the entire video, jay. You’ve “selected” to????? I watched the entire announcement.
What did I hear? I heard a woman who’s fed-up. I heard a woman who’s about to break free of the shackles of politics and take a road that’s been “graded” just for her.
In a portion that preceded she talked about supporting candidates who are ready to do what’s right regardless of whether they’re dems or reps.
We shall see.
Like I said……..Sarah Unleashed is far more dangerous than Sarah, the POLITICAL candidate.
jconservative
July 4th, 2009
9:12 am
There is more to this story than Palin is admitting.
No one is going to vote for a “quitter ” who ducks & runs when things get tough. If she is President will she resign after 33 months to avoid the “lame duck” label? Do you guys who support her positions on the issues sincerely want an admitted quitter in the White House?
This is the 233 year of the Independence of the United States. The Sarah Palin attitude is not what John Adams, Ben Franklin & Thomas Jefferson signed up for!
DB, Gwinnettian
July 4th, 2009
9:14 am
If she is President
ha ha. jcon makes a funny.
Daedalus
July 4th, 2009
9:16 am
There is a word for this: “quitter”.
She’s resigning because being a lame-duck governor is “not fun.”
So, unless public service is “fun” she won’t bother. How about staying in the job you were elected to do?
Normal
July 4th, 2009
9:16 am
@@: Dangerous how?
DB, Gwinnettian
July 4th, 2009
9:17 am
Sarah Unleashed is far more dangerous than Sarah, the POLITICAL candidate.
Dangerous how? As in, she’ll go back to Idaho and train a bunch of Xtian crusaders to wage jihad? I suppose that’s possible.
More likely, though, she’s figuring–sorry, figurin’–to start up her own Excrement in Broadcasting network and leverage her fan base into a lucrative TeeVee career. After all, Huckabee’s already got a head start there, so why not BibleSpice?
JohnD
July 4th, 2009
9:21 am
“Sarah Unleashed is far more dangerous than Sarah, the POLITICAL candidate.”
Don’t they have leash laws in Alaska? She doesn’t need a leash, she needs a muzzle. The more she talks the more ‘deep doo-doo; she steps in.
I’m all for more Sarah Palin as the face of the national GOP. The only thing better is more Gingrich as the face of the national GOP.
DB, Gwinnettian
July 4th, 2009
9:22 am
Jay, from downstairs, just now saw it–
If Fred Barnes ever set foot inside a Waffle House he would faint of embarrassment and fear. If he ever so much as stuck a nightcrawler on a fishhook — well, he couldn’t. He is the epitome of a Washington hack, and believe me, the competition for that title is stiff.
That was beautiful, man. Tastefully done.
Redneck Convert
July 4th, 2009
9:22 am
Well, happy 4th of July everybody. Today we sellabrate the people that up and rebelled against the British to give good rednecks like me and you the right to keep taxes low and do what we want to do, if it’s done in a Conservative way.
I see the libruls done started rumors that our Sarah is about to be charged with violating tax laws because she let the same co. that built the big sports complex in Wasilla and put the town in debt to furnish the lumber and other stuff for the house she built near a lake. Free. I’m just praying it’s a big lie. I would hate to see her led off in handcuffs by federal police. It would kind of sour me on Law and Order. If you can’t make a little money by giving a co. a contract, I don’t see what good it does to hold elected office. It don’t pay enough otherwise.
Anyhow, we’re all ready here at the trailer for a big BBQ. We got a big barrel with the top cut off and holes in the bottom to let the air in. My boy and my girl and the missus and little Sonny Zell George will be cooking ribs and steak and potatos and all that stuff. But we won’t be having no lemonade on account of this Ferguson guy. There’s plenty of beer, though, and Jim Earl and Joe Bill will be dropping by. Maybe the Rev. Jim Bob Buice after it gets dark if the police ain’t around.
Have a Happy Independence Day everybody.
Southern Comfort Zone
July 4th, 2009
9:24 am
I see more Palin’ around with terrorists in her future. Excuse me, …Palin’ around with secessionists. Then again, what’s the difference.
Scooter
July 4th, 2009
9:24 am
At least Palin is smart enough to know to get out of the kitchen.
Southern Comfort Zone
July 4th, 2009
9:27 am
Gingrich and Palin pretty much sum up the GOP –brains and brawn. Now, which is which.
RW-(the original)
July 4th, 2009
9:51 am
Here’s the Sarah Palin resignation statement
And the dishonesty of Jay B’s corner of the AJC marches on. If you’re going to write a headline like that then you really should run the whole statement. What exactly did they teach in the journalism department of that state u you attended? At the very least you should have provided a full transcript to go along with your video snippet.
Sarah’s biggest mistake in the statement she made was the “lame duck ” bit (Especially with the frolicking ducks over her shoulder, but I digress) because she gave her detractors and the media an excuse to ignore the real reason which she also laid out. The reason she had no choice was because the libs would never stop filing frivolous ethics complaints and she would be bankrupted defending those charges. You already have the woman a half million in debt and haven’t made a single charge stick plus she had no time to do anything else.
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
9:57 am
Have you been under a rock?
“not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse” certainly described my neighborhood this morning as we walked the neighbor’s dogs. We love and honor our “holidays.”
I just had a scary thought, what if we actually needed our military to defend THIS country ans protect OUR freedoms?
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
9:58 am
RW-(the original)
July 4th, 2009
9:51 am
Wait’ll we get the “rest of the story.”
booger
July 4th, 2009
10:05 am
I’ve never seen a person quite so facinated with anyone as Jay with Sarah.
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
10:10 am
Glamor Queen?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090704/D997K7BO0.html
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
10:10 am
booger
July 4th, 2009
10:05 am
Wonder what it means?
Sam
July 4th, 2009
10:11 am
Booger, that’s b/c Jay sleeps with a Sarah Palin blow up doll in the guest bedroom…..
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:13 am
Ah, more Sarah! She just won’t go away will she? And if, G-d forbid, she should join Sam Magee on the on the marge of Lake Lebarge, the Huskies here at work would be nipping at the heels of her ghost.
Everybody so snidely feeling superior to the poor thing, bless her heart, ought to listen to what it is they say they have against her and, seriously, if THAT’s all you can feel superior to, then you must really have a pretty low self-esteem yourselves.
RW-(the original)
July 4th, 2009
10:13 am
Wait’ll we get the “rest of the story.”
Put up or shut up gelding.
j$
July 4th, 2009
10:17 am
i’m going to have a flask of wild turkey handy today so that when any lib starts croaking about palin, they get a shot of the kickin’ chicken. ought to be a lovely party…
getalife
July 4th, 2009
10:18 am
Sarah should hope they blow her case like the Steven’s case and she gets no time.
Alaska is the new Louisiana in corruption.
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:20 am
getalife–
“Alaska is the new Louisiana in corruption.”
Seems the GOP took a page from the Democrats playbook, eh?
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
10:21 am
RW-(the original)
July 4th, 2009
10:13 am
How in the world would I know? It’s just that it doesn’t add up. Stay tuned, this is going to be shocking to the ones she deceived.
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:22 am
BTW y’all–Hillbilly Deluxe sent me on a Ray Stevens review. See his “New Battle of New Orleans.”
AmVet
July 4th, 2009
10:23 am
Happy Birthday America! May you have 233 more!
Ms. Palin, the neo-conned’s gift that just keep on giving.
(Even Skeletor aka Charles Krauthammer knows she’s nothing more than pretentious piffle.)
“A full court press”? My gawd, she can barely keep a dribble going.
“I know when to pass the ball for victory”. (I’m a horrible shot from everywhere on the court.)
“No more politics as usual”. (Until I can get free of this acting responsible gig, then I’m gonna go ballistic! And you think I’ve said some really stupid things before! Watch out Uppity One, here I come!)
“This decision comes after much prayer and consideration” (NEVER, EVER waste any political opportunity to throw in a reference to the Big Guy with the white, flowing beard!)
“…my trip to Kosovo and Landstuhl…” (And since I’m wrapping myself up in the red, white and blue LITERALLY, I simply HAD to make a gratuitous reference to our wounded troops. And if I get my way, there will be a whole bunch more.)
“They’re (the gratuitously referenced troops) bold and they don’t give up.” (Like I just did. Oops!)
Who’s trig?
“.. after seeing this REAL climate change that began in August…” (I’m a flat-earther and I compare/replaced good stewardship and even decent respect for the environment with my puny political aspirations.)
“…know when it’s time to audible and pass the ball…” (Zooks. Mixed sports metaphors? I thought the comedienne was blustering about b’ball not football…)
And quoting McCarthur to end it? All she needs is a corncob pipe.
So on the American Bandstand scale, I’d give it a solid 39. The timing’s bad, the lyrics disjointed and cryptic and you simply cannot dance to it…
Perhaps now she’ll go home and focus on the semi non-functional family of hers…
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
10:23 am
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:20 am
Reckon there might be equal opportunity corruption in all 50 states?
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:26 am
Am Vet;
“So on the American Bandstand scale, I’d give it a solid 39. The timing’s bad, the lyrics disjointed and cryptic and you simply cannot dance to it…”
Now, THAT’S taking swipes with wit and humor! Good one!
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:27 am
Tn Gelding: Equality? Ain’t it grand!
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
10:28 am
AmVet
July 4th, 2009
10:23 am
Funny stuff! But where’s your respect for this poor, mistreated patriot?
233? Not a chance. We’ll have foolishly depleted Mother Earth way before then.
RW-(the original)
July 4th, 2009
10:28 am
How in the world would I know? It’s just that it doesn’t add up. Stay tuned, this is going to be shocking to the ones she deceived.
Gelding,
Let’s deconstruct that declaration of yours, shall we? You begin by saying you have no idea. Then you move on to your worldview where it doesn’t add up because it doesn’t to you, but I’ve already provided a perfectly plausible reason. From there you move to a definitive statement that she has deceived people and the details WILL BE shocking. That’s an amazing leap from sentence one to sentence three.
j$
July 4th, 2009
10:34 am
have a shot amvet
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
10:34 am
RW-(the original)
July 4th, 2009
10:28 am
Since when is rationality a requirement to opine? Suspicious minds want to know!
Seriously, I hope she was sincere and can return to her life with her family. She accepted a tremendous challenge with Trig and it’s going to take all of them supporting each other to endure.
But history tells us there is more, much more, to the story.
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
10:35 am
j$
July 4th, 2009
10:34 am
You’d better run out and get more.
RW-(the original)
July 4th, 2009
10:40 am
But history tells us there is more, much more, to the story.
Really gelding? Care to cite some?
j$,
You’re going to need much more than a flask if you’re going to get these buffoons through a weekend of PDS.
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:42 am
Talking about wackos who just won’t go away, what’s the news from Madame Mao McKinney (hyperbole, Jay, hyperbole!)
AmVet
July 4th, 2009
10:46 am
Tn, I realize 233 more is a stretch. But it’s good to have a dream.
That’s me josef: half-witted, I mean witty! And humorless, er humorous.
Sister Sarah’s OK.
She has stood up to the BIG oil interests in her state from time to time. (If that mean’s following the Dem’s and the public’s lead and raising taxes on them, the Point Thomson take-back and engineering a proposal to award a huge natural gas pipeline project to an independent firm, and not to the state’s major industry players .)
But clearly, she’s got too much of the GOP’s getting-perfected martyr syndrome though.
As seen on this blog a lot recently…
j$
July 4th, 2009
10:47 am
RW:
nawww, they won’t be able to handle the heat along with the chardonnay, cheese and turkey on top.
DoggoneGA
July 4th, 2009
10:47 am
I’m afraid that our very own Kayaker71 has said it all. Forever after, whenever I see or hear Palin, or even see or hear news about her I’m going to remember this description: “some Alaskan hick who just doesn’t get it”
RW-(the original)
July 4th, 2009
10:49 am
j$,
You could slip them some of that tar based Chilean wine and save the WT for yourself.
mm
July 4th, 2009
10:50 am
RW,
What’s wrong? Did your superhero turn out to be a superzero?
Poor, poor Sarah. People talked bad about her. Boo hoo.
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:50 am
DoggoneGA–coming from her sisters in the Southern colonies, eh?
DoggoneGA
July 4th, 2009
10:51 am
I’m afraid our very own Kayaker71 has already made the be-all and end-all quotation. Forevermore, when I hear or read anything from, or about, the soon-to-be ex-governor of Alaska…I’m going to remember this quote: “Alaskan hick who just doesn’t get it”
No one will ever be more eloquent than that on the subject.
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
10:52 am
Am Vet, oh, well as Uncle Ralph, better a half wit than a dimwit.
And the martyr–on a more serious note that’s exactly why I’m so the way I am about this jump on the poor thing…good G-d, why GIVE them a martyr?
DoggoneGA
July 4th, 2009
10:53 am
Sorry for the doubl post…my browser crashed and I thought it didn’t go through the first time!
DoggoneGA
July 4th, 2009
10:55 am
“coming from her sisters in the Southern colonies, eh?”
Trust me on this…her “southern sisters” could have been a WHOLE LOT more coherent. In fact, it would have been a lot more fun!