• Sarah Palin

    The NEW Sarah Palin: Palin’s Plan

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    Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn’t announce her plans

    Roger Stone, politico and adviser extraordinaire has it RIGHT about Sarah Palin.

    Like Nixon, Palin needs some rehabilitation to her political image caused by the relentless attacks of the elitist media, the knife-work of the relatively talentless Republican Party pros like Steve Schmidt and her own self-inflicted wounds from the post election period that were born out of inexperience at this level of political combat. Like Nixon, Palin can re-make herself in the controlled environment of television. Instead of being tortured by smug media types like Katie Couric, Palin can demonstrate her better understanding of issues and articulate a case against Obama. She can be folksy and plain-spoken and above all, ‘smart.’ All hail the Conservative Oprah!

    The “New Palin” is crucial to the expansion beyond her base of true believers to be a viable presidential candidate. The obvious place for Palin to re-tool her political image is FOX television. FOX’s viewers are Palin’s potential voters. It is ironic that FOX president Roger Ailes is the genius TV producer who erased candidate Nixon’s flaws in a controlled environment and facilitated the greatest political comeback in American history, is at the helm at FOX.

    As Bill Kristol, the only DC based analyst who “gets it” said the move also frees Palin to “write her book, give speeches, travel the country, and educate herself on some issues.” It also frees her to build a net work of fundraisers and supporters throughout the country – many of whom will be her TV viewers.

    Palin will also be more in demand as a dinner speaker, fundraiser and campaigner than any other Republican in 2011. She can suspend her TV career and will have a chance to collect countless political IOUs along the way, campaigning for candidates and raising them money and hitting the State Republican dinner circuit. Demand for the “New Palin” will only increase.

    Palin’s “star-power,” charisma, presence and genuineness cannot be discounted. No one can discount her moxie, her energy and her inspirational qualities. Her anti-elite middle-class message can have resonance again when the Obama economic policies likely fail. The Ivy leaguers and Hollywood crowd so high on Obama may be riding for a fall. The media has unfairly labeled her as “dumb.” All she must do is disprove this…and she can have sixty minutes each week to do it.

    Palin’s stunning move guarantees an outsider strategy in which Palin is a movement but not a party candidate. No decision on running should be made until 2011 and focus must be on image repair. This is a woman who held off 36 year Senate vet Joe Biden in a 90 minute debate. She may just be up to the task.

    Ok, now over to Roger Ailes and Fox News.

    Might she partner up with her friend Greta as a start?


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    Sarah Palin: “You Know, Politically Speaking, If I Die, I Die. So Be It”

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    Gov. Sarah Palin steps out of her skiff at the family’s setnet site near Nushagak July 6, 2007. Her daughter Piper stands near the stern.

    Sarah Palin gave a series of interviews on Monday evening to the press for the first time since she announced her plans to resign as Governor of Alaska on July 26th.

    The Associated Press at the Baltimore Sun has a round-up of the series of media interviews.

    Sarah Palin says she’s not a quitter, she’s a fighter, but adds that, politically speaking, “if I die, I die. So be it.”

    The Alaska governor spoke in taped interviews on ABC, NBC and CNN broadcast Tuesday morning.

    She told CNN that “all options are on the table” for her future.

    But told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that she recognizes she might not have political staying power after her surprise resignation Friday, which came just as she had been expected to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 GOP presidential run.

    “I said before … ‘You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,'” she said.

    Speaking in fishing waders from the town of Dillingham, Palin said her administration has been paralyzed by fending off frivolous lawsuits.

    “I’m not going to take the comfortable path. I’m going to take the right path for the state,” she said of her resignation, which she characterized as a matter of progressing in an unconventional way.

    “That caught people off guard. … It’s out of the box and unconventional. That’s what we are as Alaskans and certainly how I am as a public servant.”

    Palin said she doesn’t think she needs a title to affect “positive change,” but added that she can’t see herself being totally out of public service.

    So, in other words, stay tuned for more.


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    Day By Day by Chris Muir July 7, 2009 – Common Sense Sensibly

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, the Beltway Pundits/Consultants and Party Hacks have vested interests in the predictable and average candidate.

    It is easy money for them.

    They do not have to wake up in the morning and actually plan on electing a candidate. The candidate does what they say and the campaign runs like clockwork. If they win, it is because of their sage advice. If they lose, they blame it on the candidate.

    And, so it is with Sarah Palin.

    She is attacked brutally from the LEFT and RIGHT.

    So, why not be more independent and make her own way – whether it be in elected politics again or not.

    I remember when Ronald Reagan lost to President Gerald Ford at the GOP 1976 Presidential Convention and he returned to the radio waves. He then crafted the themes that carried him to the Presidency just four years later.

    Sarah Palin can now, out of office, take her time, raise her young family, make some money with her celebrity status and work on her “A” game. Sarah will be ready – if SHE wants it.

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    • Fox News Seattle-based correspondent Dan Springer got an interview with Gov. Sarah Palin today in Alaska. The interview will air first tomorrow morning on America's Newsroom at 9amET. This is Palin's first TV interview since her announcement Friday that she'd be stepping down from office on July 25.
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    • Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. While independents and Democrats most often say their views haven't changed, more members of all three major partisan groups indicate that their views have shifted to the right rather than to the left.
    • Since Palin's stunning announcement that she is resigning her Alaskan governorship, Benway has been glued to her computer, reading everything she can about the former Republican vice presidential candidate. Yesterday afternoon, the 63-year-old retired court reporter was among the throng of online-enabled, Facebook-connected supporters who posted a comment on Palin's official fan page.

      "Congratulations, Sarah, for a courageous move! You accomplished a great deal for your State in 2 1/2 years. I commend your courage in making a difficult decision. You know the East and West Coast elites will criticize, but they will no matter what. God is bigger than the MSM," Benway, of Whispering Pines, N.C., wrote on Palin's page. "There are many of us out here in Real America who see what's going on and are grateful you are speaking out. Now that you're not the Governor, the ethics b.s. can stop. I am praying for you, dear Sarah, and totally support you in whatever the future holds!""

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    • The Obama administration poured cold water Monday on any notion it is giving Israel the green light to attack Iran or that it is reconsidering plans to engage diplomatically with the Islamic republic.

      Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the United States would not stand in the way of Israel in its dealings with Iran's nuclear ambitions.

      But State Department spokesman Ian Kelly rebuffed suggestions from reporters that Biden could be seen as giving the Jewish state a green light to attack Iran, which it views as an existential threat.
      "I certainly would not want to give a green light to any kind of military action," Kelly said, repeating Biden's point that Washington considered Israel a "sovereign country" with a right to make its own military decisions.

      "We're not going to dictate its actions," Kelly added.

      "We're also committed to Israel's security. And we share Israel's deep concerns about Iran's nuclear program," the spokesman said.

    • The state's budget travails, and those of local governments, have inevitably given rise to demands that Proposition 13, the landmark property tax limit measure enacted by voters 31 years ago, be altered.

      Proposition 13, those on the political left contend, is the root of all fiscal evil, leaving California's governments unable to meet the state's legitimate needs.

      Recognizing that Proposition 13 remains politically popular, its critics don't demand its repeal. Rather they seek changes, such as a "split roll" that would allow taxes on commercial property to rise while leaving limits in place for residences.

    • If Sarah Palin’s political career ended last Friday, 10 tumultuous months after she was introduced as the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, those five words will be its epitaph.
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    • Should we really have been so surprised? Quitting things seems to be a defining trait of Sarah Palin. This, after all, is a woman who attended five colleges in as many years:…

      And then there was Palin's explanation for why she abruptly ended her tenure as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission:…..

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    • Reuters has run photo of a bloodied Honduran protester (below) dramatizing the bloodshed at protests for Manuel Zelaya. (h/t) Problem is, this photo appears to be staged.

      Blogger Hunter Smith, who recently finished his Marine service including two tours in Iraq, flew to Honduras to cover the turmoil. Earlier today, Hunter phoned in this post:

      He did see an older man in a white shirt reach down into the blood pool and cover his hands. He then wiped them on his shirt to make it look like his blood or that he had been involved. Hunter saw what he thought was an AP photographer take the man's picture. Hunter said if you see it on the web, don't believe it. It was faked.

      If you look at the man in the photo, it is clear that the blood was not the result of a wound, but was wiped on his shirt, just like Hunter said. This photo was staged, although the Reuters photographer did not necessarily know it.

    • The healthcare reform bill that emerges from Congress this year will include a government-run public health insurance option, regardless of the bipartisan negotiations seeking a compromise in the Senate, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday.

      "Make no mistake about it, the president is for this strongly. There will be a public option in the final bill," Schumer said on CBS News's "Face the Nation."

    • The California morass has Democrats in Washington trembling. The reason is simple. If Obama’s health-care plan passes, then we may well end up paying for it with federal slips of paper worth less than California’s. Obama has bet everything on passing health care this year. The publicity surrounding the California debt fiasco almost assures his resounding defeat.

      It takes years and years to make a mess as terrible as the California debacle, but the recipe is simple. All that you need is two political parties that are always willing to offer easy government solutions for every need of the voters, but never willing to make the tough decisions necessary to finance the government largess that results. Voters will occasionally change their allegiance from one party to the other, but the bacchanal will continue regardless of the names on the office doors.