Don't Forget ...
Sarah Palin addresses the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami tomorrow. Check back for clips.
Readers, here's the related QUESTION of the day: At what point does Palin's damage control tour amount to overexposure?
Don't Forget ...Sarah Palin addresses the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami tomorrow. Check back for clips. Readers, here's the related QUESTION of the day: At what point does Palin's damage control tour amount to overexposure? 27 Comments |
She had to take on just a few things to show that life for her goes on. Even if she sticks to life in Alaska (which is still yet to be determined) she had to show that she not knocked down or out. These few things that she has scheduled will be just right. Then it's the holidays and before you know it, is a whole new year and we'll see. I truly think she is not sure what the future holds. Life is good in Alaska. She loves what she does there. But we love her here, too. We shall see! I don't think she will let herself get "overexposed" she seems to have great instincts and be very grounded.
I think it's also wise that she chose Greta for her first interview. They had already established a rapport and Greta is so respectable and fair.
Great job for Sarah Palin, In recent interview with Wolf Blitzer, the question was asked about the relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers.
This was such a serious topic during the campaign, that tried to discredit Obama. If Ayers
is or was a radical domestic terroist, why is he not in jail, could he possibly plan an attack on the US like he did in the seventies.
Great job for Sarah Palin, In recent interview with Wolf Blitzer, the question was asked about the relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers.
This was such a serious topic during the campaign, that tried to discredit Obama. If Ayers
is or was a radical domestic terroist, why is he not in jail, could he possibly plan an attack on the US like he did in the seventies.
The fact any media is giving her air time is an affront to every American with an IQ GREATER than that of the average HOUSE PLANT. She might as well have given one interview -- as all she REPEATS is the same packaged lines .. over, and over, and over again. She never ANSWERS their questions -- merely RESTATES whatever drivel pops into her air-HEAD.
As a woman and (former) lifelong Republican, who has spent my entire life reading and learning, searching for knowledge about our universe, I am grief-stricken she has been provided a PULPIT from which to spew her hate-filled GARBAGE. The Secret Service indicated that AFTER Palin began her hate-mongering rallies calling Obama a terrorist, unAmerican, etc.-- ASSASSINATION threats INCREASED. Every decent human being had to be aware of the potential THREAT she was inducing. Hell, she practically called for one of her right-wing NUT lunatics to wipe out what SHE considers an unAmerican stain. Had ANYONE but Sarah Palin spoken the way she has -- they would be behind BARS for inciting riots and hate crimes.
CAN ANYONE MAKE THAT WOMAN SHUT HER MOUTH? She runs on and on and has yet to answer ANY QUESTION in under three to five minutes!
This woman is a total joke. That's the reality.
More the media speak about her, more it's good for president-elect Obama and the Democrats.
Democrats hate her and more important Indepedents don't like her.
The democrat Begich( at this moment he leads) will win the senate seat in Alaska and she will stay in Alaska.
It's very good to look how FOX and others stupid right wings are in love with her.
I hope the media will continue to speak about this stupid woman and than she will be the GOP nominee in 2012.
This woman is a total joke. That's the reality.
More the media speak about her, more it's good for president-elect Obama and the Democrats.
Democrats hate her and more important Indepedents don't like her.
The democrat Begich( at this moment he leads) will win the senate seat in Alaska and she will stay in Alaska.
It's very good to look how FOX and others stupid right wings are in love with her.
I hope the media will continue to speak about this stupid woman and than she will be the GOP nominee in 2012.
Wolf Blitzer did not bring up William Ayers... Sarah did...again! She is so sure that Obama runs with terrorists that she is willing to help him in any way. She is such a joke! Not once did Obama mention her in his speeches and even quieted his crowds when her or McCain were booed.
A reporter in Miami last night said the other Governors were hoping she wouldn't show up for the meeting.
It would be an act of extreme folly on the part of Sarah Palin to harbor any thoughts of contesting for her party’s nomination for the 2012 presidential election. She must bide her time until 2016 when she would be still only 51 years but considerably more seasoned. George Bush has tarnished in every way possible the Republican Party’s standing with the public to such an extent that Barack Obama will have to try really hard to make himself unelectable for the second term in 2012. Even if he keeps playing golf with his buddies every day of the week or spends all his waking hours, in emulation of his presidential role model, Bill Clinton, in more pleasurable amorous pursuits in the Oval Office, the economic situation in the country will ceratinly improve from its present abysmal level even without any efforts on his part. His re-election for second term, therefore, is 100 per cent certain and Sarah Palin can bet her bottom dollar on it. She will do well not to throw away another and, probably, her last chance but try, instead, for a U S Senate seat and spend the next six years in hobnobbing with the Washington DC beltway crowd and learn something more about the other 49 states in the union. She must concentrate on honing up her admittedly meagre knowledge of various issues, both domestic and international and erase from the electorate’s mind, to the extent possible, the impression of being a superficial, dim-witted, un-informed ignoramus that she had created during her short stint as the vice-presidential candidate.
It's unbelievable that this lady is such a point in US. Looking over her interview I could already see Frey telling what she said and it's a scream, you can just laugh with tears. She talks like a Miss: you know, energy, you know, peace, ah, you know, kids with disabilities (It resonated well throughout the campaign!!). It's breathtaking that America makes such a fuss about her. I feel embrassed for her anytime she opens her mouth and relieved she doesn't say even more hilarous things. Poor her.
"I'm proud of Barack Obama"!! Why would she be proud? She wanted to throw him under the train. How can you say something like that? She is so so so... You know,.... :-)(she said 'you know'7 times)
Cherry up, she is not VP. And sorry for America if she would ever have something to say in federal politics.
If there is a point of overexposure, Jennifer, it hasn't happened yet.
The attacks continue, and if she is silent, she is simply allowing others to define her. Now that she is back in her comfort zone, she has the freedom to test her positions and learn the things she now knows she needs. It's all about the base; she got one in an eruption of sudden emotion, but it was immediately eroded and attacked. Now she has to solidify, rebuild, and expand that base if she wants a future. But she can't do that if others are controlling her narrative, without some pushback.
As you know, modern politics requires active pushback to counter monomaniacal media focus, the talking heads and the screaming bloggers. Notice that the haters on both sides still consider her a fair target for anything and everything, real and imagined. That's not the battleground; the real fight will be over the hearts and minds of moderates and other, less-immobilized voters. Neither McCain nor the remainder of his campaigners is going to protect or assist her. Since there's no one else to do it for Palin, if she wants to have any national political future, she has to do the pushing herself.
Right now, it's national media still focussed on her. The real test will come when the spotlight shifts to the lower media levels. At that point, she can continue the same tone, at which point it becomes over-exposure. Or she can use the opportunity to lay the groundwork that all successful politicians do when the glare dims. That won't be over-exposure; it will be a measure of whether she was a one-hit wonder or someone with potential.
Bottom line: she has to build a base from what she suddenly got three months ago. If she communicates effectively to solidify, build and expand that base, it's not over-exposure. If she stalls or her base begins to shrink, then she's been in the sunlight too long.
Please. Use the proverbial 'hook' and get Sarah Palin off the stage. Why is the media giving her a platform? ENOUGH already!
I think it is already over-exposure. The media needs to focus on someone more viable to connect with the GOP. She was there for awile but she and McCain lost and by a big margin so we have to wonder......does this person need to be in the spotlight? She was quite slanderous toward Obama, the campaign called her a Diva, most woman for Hillary can't take her and wont so what is the fascination? Now she wants to "help" Obama. I'd tell her to take a flying leap! She is a joke! I would think anyone with any common sense would pick up on her rhetoric. That's all it is. She has no facts to back up her statements on anything and if she were ever to utter something profound, interesting, and/or of some intelligents I would fall over. No people. Please get her out of the spot light. We are sick of her and that screeching hill billy voice! And by the way who votes for Pelosi and her to take a slow boat to China? Oh!Is that a country or continent and does the woman know how to read? The GOP may never recover the fiasco she and McCain put on that party. Guess, I'll stick with the Demo's except of course Pelosi. She's another joke.Palin is a broken record so why anymore interviews? There is no defining her. Sorry wish I could say something nice but what can I say...you know what I mean?
I agree with all -please go home Sarah and take of Alaska, your famliy and the mooses -America has voted for the best
I agree with all -please go home Sarah and take of Alaska, your famliy and the mooses -America has voted for the best
ENOUGH already about this idiot! You are insulting intelligent Americans by constantly covering this self-absorbed diva! In the future, please cover REAL news of interest to those of us with active brain cells! The more attention you pay to Palin, the more she craves. If Palin REALLY cares about this country, she will do everyone a favor and GO AWAY!!!
Sarah Palin is a bane on the American political establishment. I cannot believe people actually support her. So what if she is just like you? I know I have an infinitely better grasp on world affairs than Palin and I know I am not prepared to be in national politics, let alone the VP or President. She is a blank slate and full of blind ambition. She mentions Darfur to show she has knowledge of world affairs, but press a little further and she would show that she wouldn't know that Darfur is in Sudan, or that the two warring ethnic factions in Congo/Rwanda are Hutu and Tutsi. The fact that people support her shows how little they, too, know about the world or what it takes to run the United States. She acts like she knows about energy, but I don't hear T. Boone Pickens crying "Drill, baby, drill" and I trust his expertise, experience, and judgement over hers any day of the week. She is no more than a novice trying to play a professional's game. Outside of pushing and inciting hate rallys I see nothing that she has a full grasp of.
Sarah Palin is a bane on the American political establishment. I cannot believe people actually support her. So what if she is just like you? I know I have an infinitely better grasp on world affairs than Palin and I know I am not prepared to be in national politics, let alone the VP or President. She is a blank slate and full of blind ambition. She mentions Darfur to show she has knowledge of world affairs, but press a little further and she would show that she wouldn't know that Darfur is in Sudan, or that the two warring ethnic factions in Congo/Rwanda are Hutu and Tutsi. The fact that people support her shows how little they, too, know about the world or what it takes to run the United States. She acts like she knows about energy, but I don't hear T. Boone Pickens crying "Drill, baby, drill" and I trust his expertise, experience, and judgement over hers any day of the week. She is no more than a novice trying to play a professional's game. Outside of pushing and inciting hate rallys I see nothing that she has a full grasp of.
Sarah Palin is a bane on the American political establishment. I cannot believe people actually support her. So what if she is just like you? I know I have an infinitely better grasp on world affairs than Palin and I know I am not prepared to be in national politics, let alone the VP or President. She is a blank slate and full of blind ambition. She mentions Darfur to show she has knowledge of world affairs, but press a little further and she would show that she wouldn't know that Darfur is in Sudan, or that the two warring ethnic factions in Congo/Rwanda are Hutu and Tutsi. The fact that people support her shows how little they, too, know about the world or what it takes to run the United States. She acts like she knows about energy, but I don't hear T. Boone Pickens crying "Drill, baby, drill" and I trust his expertise, experience, and judgement over hers any day of the week. She is no more than a novice trying to play a professional's game. Outside of pushing and inciting hate rallys I see nothing that she has a full grasp of.
Please...do I have to continue to read about her? When are the GOP's going to find someone I, as a democrate, can trust? It certainly won't be her. Do they think she can come up against Obama in the next election and win? She needs to go home, take care of her family, read some books on grown up politics (not hockey mom style)and come back and try for the Presidency when Hillary does. This way I know Hillary will get in as well.
Goodbye Sara, enough is enough, go back to your deep freeze state and govern the yokels. Your opinion on the national stage is moot. Understand: moot,irrelevant,of no account. It's over, Sara.
Goodbye Sara, enough is enough, go back to your deep freeze state and govern the yokels. Your opinion on the national stage is moot. Understand: moot,irrelevant,of no account. It's over, Sara. The one campaign stand is over with and we had a good time but quit stalking us.
Does she think good looking and unreasonable maverick will make her President in 2012? She should keep quiet and polish her skills (if she has ones; lol) if she really want to run for an office again. Just a thought!
After watching several of these interview, I have come to the conclusion that Gov. Palin does not have a petty bone in her body. It must drive those who do absolutely mad.
After watching several of these interview, I have come to the conclusion that Gov. Palin does not have a petty bone in her body. It must drive those who do absolutely mad.
After watching several of these interview, I have come to the conclusion that Gov. Palin does not have a petty bone in her body. It must drive those who do absolutely mad.
Calm down, vultures. The reality of Gov. Palin is that she still MAKES news and even critics see her involvement in the future. I cannot think of anyone who has been in her position so far that has THAT kind of potential future. With the right coaching, a strong marketing strategy and learning she can and most likely will be a force few will easily combat sucessfully against.
I've come to the conclusion that Paris Hilton has more sense. Can we get Dr Phil to do a serious intervention on S. Palin before long? I'm astounded by the governors in Miami NOT telling her to back off. It's more than time to take off the kid gloves.