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NBC: Sarah Palin says she’s out of politics for good

8:33 pm July 3, 2009, by jgalloway

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell is reporting that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out of politics, permanently:

“She has told some of her biggest backers in the national Republican Party that they are free to choose other candidates for 2012.”

See the video here, via Time magazine’s political blog, The Page.

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Chris Salzmann

July 3rd, 2009
8:38 pm

And the real story behind the Sarah Palin version of her “Appalachian Hike” is……….stay tuned!!!

johnc22

July 3rd, 2009
8:39 pm

That’s too bad – she made George W. Bush look like a scholar and a gentleman. I was so hoping to see her run for the GOP in 2012. No one is more disappointed today than Jon Stewart, Dave Letterman and Conan O’Brien.

Old hippie

July 3rd, 2009
9:26 pm

Word out of Alaska is that she (and Todd?) are under criminal investigation with indictments soon to come.

Damn

July 3rd, 2009
9:49 pm

Aww, I’m so sad. I was hoping that she would get the GOP nod in 2012 election…

…so we can guarantee an Obama landslide!

The GOP is a dying party. They should take their ‘values’ and hit the reset button.

AH

July 3rd, 2009
11:12 pm

Uhmm, apparently your not paying attention folks. This frees her up to run in 2012. She will now get to spend the next 3+ years perpetually campaigning and not have to worry about continuing ethics complaints. And since she still draws a crowd and media attention, unlike Romney and Gingrich, she would be a fool to sit up in Alaska while she could be using this time to get out and control the race from the Republican side and keep all the other challengers out.

EB

July 3rd, 2009
11:23 pm

Here is the latest from blogs. I am not agreeing or disagreeing. Just reporting.
The latest from http://bradblog.com: 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.

Politico

July 4th, 2009
12:39 am

Fascinating — she may be even more stupid than Tina Fey made her seem to be. Another right wing idol crashes and burns.

EB is a tool

July 4th, 2009
1:33 am

EB posted a rumor ginned up by idiot libs. That rumor was debunked during the last Presidential Election. The libs are scared to death of Palin. They have been since she made fun of Obama’s greel temple set at the Republican National Convention. I cannot wait to see all the libs and their wh@res in the media attempt to explain her unconventional move. She will be forming an exploratory committe pronto. By the way, Obama said that if we passed the porkulus unemployment would not go above 8.5%. The idiots in DC passed it and the Grand Pooba of the idiots, Obama, signed it. Now Obama says that we will see unemployment at 10% or more. Perhaps there is another politcial obit that is being composed now, and it ain’t Palin’s.

Will Jones - Atlanta

July 4th, 2009
1:35 am

The curse on Sarah Palin came not without cause: she is inbred whitetrash fronting for Big Oil.

The koolaid is spoiling

July 4th, 2009
3:24 am

I want all you Obama lovers to keep thinking just the way you are. The general public is starting to see Obama as the cold calculating lying US hating Marxist that he is. It won’t be long before the “Obama Landslide” is his mountain of lies.

VICK SUPPORTER

July 4th, 2009
3:31 am

Come on guys, don’t hate. Palin has a real nice butt and rack for a 40-something–a true MILF, indeed. Other than that though, she’s is joke and does the GOP proud.

Ross

July 4th, 2009
5:32 am

What scares me is that this person held ANY public office at all, much less one of 50 governorships. And consider “koolaid” above – a large percentage of people in this country are incapable of making rational decisions about who they vote for – no sane person would cast a vote for Sarah Palin, yet out of 300 million Americans she was one of four who might have held the office in these times. That is truly a bone-chilling, sobering thought.

The right wing crazies are not going away. They know nothing, understand nothing, seethe with hatred stoked with ignorance, superstition, and collectivist zeal. Given that the economic situation is almost certain to get much worse, these people are all out there waiting to vote in an absolute demagogue. It happened in Germany – it can happen here.

-drl

David Numberman

July 4th, 2009
6:15 am

Maybe A-Rod did knockup her daughter.

She should apologize.

Miss_Lola

July 4th, 2009
7:08 am

Pure and simple: who quits, citing the avoidance of being a “lame duck,” with a year and a half left to her term?

She claims to “love her job” so much, and love Alaska so much, she’s willing to abandon both?

Listen to the pundits on BOTH sides-they are all saying this effectively knocks her out- Seriously-who would consider this piece of fluff if she can’t take the heat of being the gov. of the most sparsely populated state for a full for years.

Seeya, Sarah. Don’t let the door hitya where the Good Lord splitya.

deegee

July 4th, 2009
8:23 am

Sarah Palin is a fraud. I still don’t see how a 40+ year old woman gets pregnant, hides it for 7 months, maintains her work schedule, delivers a baby, returns to work a few days later and is back in her size 8s within a couple of months. I don’t think that even Cher and her 24 X 7 trainers could have pulled that off.

Thompson

July 4th, 2009
8:44 am

Quitting now doesn’t help her in 2012. She’s going to get hammered for that by other GOP contenders in the primaries. Her “executive experience” was supposedly a big deal last year,alot of her supporters said this made her more experienced than Obama.

She looked scared and came across as incoherent yesterday. Stepping down now looks like a)she got a job with Fox or on talk radio for big bucks b)she cut a deal with a prosecutor or c)she’s being blackmailed and forced to step aside. Raising money for 2012 is a possibility,but quitting isn’t a good political move.

In Alaska she was a big fish in a small pond. On a national level she looks,quite frankly,like a buffoon.

jconservative

July 4th, 2009
9:05 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!

JohnD

July 4th, 2009
9:32 am

Follow the money. She wants to cash in on big paydays for book deals and speeches designed to appeal the hard-right conservatives.

Fine. Nothing wrong with making money. But the notion that she cannot be an effective leader as a lame-duck is just stupid. She doesn’t have to spend her time going on trade junkets, she could use the time to analyze Alaska’s most pressing problems, propose solutions for them and work with state legislators to fix them.

Kind of like what any good public servant should do. Except in Georgia of course, if you think Sonny Perdue is gonna spend his last months working on transportation and water infrastructure you’d be better off spending your time at the lake fishing.

The Walking Man

July 4th, 2009
9:40 am

Darn it, I told Sarah and Mark Sanford that the App. Trail was NOT a private place to meet after all. But, his Argentine mistress was busy at the time, so to the AT they went.

Ah well, this kind of stuff keeps the Hotel 6’s of the world in business.

David Numberman

July 4th, 2009
10:46 am

I don’t know why she quit. But I hope it’s something….

dirty.

tc

July 4th, 2009
12:23 pm

what a pity….she’d probably win this backwards state’s nod for prez

ATL Guy

July 4th, 2009
12:34 pm

This woman is Looney Tunes strange. She quits with 1.5 yrs left during her FIRST term and then uses a basketball analogy about the star forward passing the ball the save the team? Seems like the star forward just dropped the ball and walked off the court. In the end, Sarah knows she’ll make more money as a private citizen than as a governor where she was only making $125,000 a year. She has over $500k in legal bills; better to get out now, get on the talk show circuit and make some mollah.

Will Jones is the affirmative action retard poster of the universe

July 4th, 2009
12:38 pm

All the libs are scared to death of Palin. One has to ask why, right? Me thinks that you are terrified.

Will Jones is the affirmative action retard poster of the universe

July 4th, 2009
12:51 pm

NBC, like the NYSLIMES, PMSNBC or the Urinal-Constipation is not a legitimate news source. NBC/PMSNBC in particular is nothing but ashill for the White House and the National Democrat Party. I love this: another lib hack/media wh@re, Howard Fineman (Newsweek), is reporting that Palin is definately running in 2012. So, which is it libs? Or haven’t you guys gotten the talking points from the DNC/White House, yet?

Art Vandelay

July 4th, 2009
12:57 pm

Terrified of what? She’s already shown herself to be incapable of having an intelligent discussion, and she was the albatross around the neck of the McCain campaign. Even if she does manage to stay out of prison for the rumored embezzlement indictment, she still has zero chance of holding national office. Palin is a joke, and the best thing that could’ve happened to the Democrats.

catlady

July 4th, 2009
1:16 pm

I love to hear the Mark Sanford appologists take on the cause of Sarah Palin. Soon we will hear how she was “hounded out of office” when the real truth comes to light. Sarah doesn’t do things for her family, her state, or her country. She does them to serve herself. So, whatever the real reason for her abdication, it won’t be so she can “more effectively serve outside of government.” You can take that to the 1st Wasilla National Bank!

The Snark

July 4th, 2009
6:05 pm

Sarah Palin is an amateur. She has no managerial skills and practically no knowledge of government on the national level. Choosing political leaders isn’t American Idol, folks. Our nation has sustained enough damage from amateurs.

brandon W

July 4th, 2009
6:33 pm

maybe she will secede from the U.S. what a moron. NBC is not a serious news source? I guess FOX is. LOL

The Snark

July 5th, 2009
11:08 am

When all the libs decide one thing, it is a good bet that the polar opposite is the case. And I agree that NBC is not a legitimate news source. They have hosts that claim, on air, that when Obama speaks that they get thrills running up their legs. Chris Mathews, who is normally covered in his own spittle is a former democrat hack staffer (Like Mr. Potato Head, Russert). NBC is a joke and thier ratings prove it. I do not care if Mrs. Alan Greenspan says she has a source, she is wrong alot.

Georgia Peach

July 5th, 2009
12:24 pm

Repugs – Attacking the media neither supports nor defends Palin’s quitting her job. All is does is show that you suffer from talk radio-inspired monomania about a grand conspiracy between media, liberals, and democrats. You’re pathetic!

Will Jones - Atlanta

July 5th, 2009
5:36 pm

Bush and Cheney committed 9/11. Here’s the irrefutable proof, free of charge: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/hankramey/The%20New%20Pearl%20Harbor.pdf

They did the treason to distract us and to serve Big Oil (Bushes have fronted for the Vatican banker/Standard Oil monopolists for five generations), whom Sarah Palin serves.

MSM was taken over by Organized Crime during the “Circulations Wars” of the 1910’s, look it up.

Max Cleland, a true Georgian like Hugh Thompson, is a hero we can tap for politics here at home by drafting him and making him elect as Governor. He quit the 9/11 Commission because he has true integrity, like all good Georgians.

Let’s restore righteousness in America as We are the sovereign People, and Georgia’s the best place to start ridding ourselves methodically of the trash who backed the Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court who made a draft-dodging closet-queen president to commit 9/11.

Let’s focus on the truth so justice is established in Our Land.

Cleland for Governor, all else pales in significance. Justice must be done and it is only we, by G-d, who can ensure it.

Pope Juan Busho Clintano XXVII, Rome, Italy

July 5th, 2009
9:33 pm

We are watching you, still, Wille Jonez ATL.

herbK

July 6th, 2009
8:17 am

will ‘commie’ jones: the face of the NEW quintessential socialist!

Will Jones - Atlanta

July 6th, 2009
10:43 am

Opposing fascism, anarchy and treason does not a “commie” or “socialist” make. It’s called being an American: E Pluribus Unum; Novus Ordo Seclorem; Annuit Coeptis.

If you care not for America’s Creed move elsewhere.

Pope Juan Busho Clintano XXVII, Rome, Italy

July 6th, 2009
11:08 am

We have found a way to scan through your tinfoil hat Will Jones. We are reading your mind and know of all your treason against Rome.

Will Jones - Atlanta

July 6th, 2009
11:23 am

“Treason” against Rome, identified as “the real Anti-Christ” by America’s Whig Founder, is why Huguenots, Radical Protestants and Jews, Freemasons, Baptists and Africans enslaved by the “Wall Street of Slavery” for 2,000 years – Rome, Italy, came to America to receive, in Covenant with the Creator G-d, this Land of Promise.

It is only Rome’s “Fifth Column” and its witting and unwitting agents, who object to America’s Founders’ Whig Interpretation of History, and a true understanding of the three Mottoes which comprise the American Creed.

theamericanfundament.blogspot.com

Jones, Will

July 6th, 2009
11:28 am

They are coming for all of us named Will Jones. They were around here friday asking questions about some Will Jones that spits on people he disagrees with. They had pictures of his doing it at some rally somewhere.

Will Jones - No-man

July 6th, 2009
11:30 am

Bush’s nose job that he got in Rome from Dr. Rockefeller while listening to Bill Clinton’s gran jury testimony is to blame for all the evil that I , Will Jones – No-man, is fighting.

Wilma Jones

July 6th, 2009
11:37 am

Will Jones does spit on folks in public. It has been a problem for years. I know, he is my old man.

zuperman

August 15th, 2009
7:26 am

Sarah was a breatth of fresh air.Anybody who voted for Obama because they lost there job I hope losses there house and everything they own . Stop being a bunch of worthless mooches and pay for yourself pricks