Sarah Palin and where she chooses to speak.
The principle being: “If you want her to perform-you have to pay her.”
Not unlike this place:
Birds of a feather and all that.
“Madame, we’ve already established what you are-now we are just haggling over the price!”
Skippy,
Not sure what your point is. How much is Algore paid to speak about a total nonsense apocalypse? I think you’ll find it’s a lot more. How much is Jimmy Carter paid to speak about how evil joooooooooows are?
Thank God we can hear our sec of hls speak of the system working for free!
I’ve turned over some sort of leaf this new year. I enjoyed sparring with both you and your other skippy in Canada but it did wreck my own standards for civil decorum. I’m not going there any more.
Foggy, my sincere apologies for being a complete asshole.
regards,
Curtis
If she is going to be a leader of her party-CPAC is a long established event. Certainly moreso than this tea party convention. She’s not giving that the time of day. CPAC doesn’t pay people. Even George Bush spoke at CPAC.
It just proves the point-Sarah Palin’s overriding concern in her endeavors is money. But then we knew that already. Even her own supporters are crying foul at this, like Dan Riehl.
Just think, a short 2 hour ride and your Louisville Slugger!
So she wants to make money?
Isn’t this a dems wet dream to have Sarah and Beck as candidates?
Don’t be so quick to condemn the Tea party. Some are racists and some are ignorant. But its not a monolith.
There are some folks are are concerned about the direction of the country. and yes, they have no love for the right either.
Whats happened is that the left and the right have defined each other in the most extreme terms. There is a great middle. These are folks who still have a brain cell that functions above the third grade level.
They look at the world, not unlike James Fallows, and shudder. At least the American centric world.
When I was a young man JFK, RFK, MLK were killed. We had the SLA, weatherman underground, George Wallace etc etc. The country faltered but did not fall.
Because, in the end, despite the politcians and their inanities, as usual, the AMERICAN PEOPLE stepped up to the proverbial plate and did what they had to do.
We not only survived but prospered.
Americans believe that problems can be solved, difficulties overcome, issues faced and resolved.
The malaise will end.
“Lastly, on the floor of the closet, are a bunch of snapshots taken with a brownie……
But it is the children who seem oddest. Like their parents they are quaintly dressed. ..There is an intensity in their expressions. They are leaning slightly forward, as though tying to see into the future. And they are smiling.”
William Manchester…’The Glory and the Dream 1932-1972.”
Richard,
The thing is they won’t have Sarah as a candidate-but they will expend so much energy fighting about her, they will deprive themselves of the opportunity for victory. And so we will have to hear even more “socialism” nonsense.
The only problem I have is that for all the supposed “anger” at the right-they never showed it when it would have counted. Like in the run up to Iraq or when George Bush proposed Medicare Part D. The only anger is with the left for actually doing what they said they would do.
Skippy, I guess you are going to label me as jsut another “low brow” person for looking at Drdge, but I found an interesting response to Palin on one of the stories about the new book “Game Change” that is coming out. You know, the one that people will try to downplay probably even though Harry Reid just apologized for his comments in the book on saying how Obama chooses to “speak like a Negro” when it is advantages for him, well here is what one poster thought about Palin:
“These are only few accomplishments by Sarah Palin (Originally written by Dewie Whetsell, an Alaskan Fisherman.)
“The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done
anything similar.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect The huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES.” Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, “don’t let the door hit you in the stem on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor
in the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork.” She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning – I imagine – that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth, they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started… This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court
action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for
electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are Obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you Continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents’ wives.”
Is some of it a strecth, probably but I can say that the ponit about the Dems rejoicing is spot on. They all liked McCain when he went against the Rep, but hated him when he ran for Pres.
I suggest you go back and compare Sarah’s rhetoric on points 3 through 6 versus what she really did. Details can be found here: http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2009/03/17/Governor-Palins-Big-Energy-Battles/.
Furthermore-its a great example of how Palin blows with the wind, in that she was once a person willing to work with the opposition, until “William the Bloody” turned her into a conservative superstar.
Not to mention she lied about the whole pipeline thing in her book:
As Going Rogue: An American Life sales sail past the million mark and critics cackle over its many mistakes, two unreported misstatements about Alaska petroleum development form book-ends for Sarah Palin’s recently-published autobiography.
This piece focuses on the opening and closing mistakes in Going Rogue. (On my web site [URL below], I discuss and document several of the problems related to Alaska petroleum development that Palin either created or failed to deal with before she resigned as governor.)
Palin’s first mistake occurs at the start, the other at the very end. Together, they add fuel to this question: Is Palin plagued by an astonishing inability to distinguish fact from fiction, an appalling disregard for truth and accuracy, or both? These book-ends further damage Palin’s claim to energy expertise, a pretense she has frequently undermined since she ascending the national stage in 2008. The latest mistakes to surface also open the door to a new closet of energy skeletons from her tenure as governor that she failed to mention in recounting her political life.
In the opening pages Palin tells readers that construction on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline project (TAPS) “began in 1975? and when oil began flowing in 1977 the “[t]he state raked in more revenue than anyone could have imagined – billions of dollars almost overnight.” Palin got key dates of the centerpiece of recent Alaska history wrong. In fact, TAPS construction project began in 1974. Moreover, state records show that Alaska’s annual revenue from petroleum operations did not exceed a billion dollars until 1980 – six years after TAPS construction began.
Maurice,
I like the cut of your jib. I also like Sarah Palin. Watching our host go nuts in his insane hatred for the lass is amusing. Oh dear, she mislaid a year in her book…. Gosh!~
Skippy, when they started construction on “Skippy Mansion”, was the start date the day you signed the contract or the day the surveyor first arrived or was it the day the heavy equipment moved the first dirt, or was it the day the forms were laid?
Maybe you should read the book your sister gave you as a present, you might learn something.
I’ve already given it away to the thrift shop. As a tax write off at least, Sarah Palin is useful for one thing.
Which is more than one can say for all democrat/liberal politicians. They’re like road kill, good for nothing.