Palin steps down as governor

[Locutus of Bored]

I can see the partisan press wetting their diapers even more than a month ago. It's so funny how those that direct them are so scared of her.

You're still riding the "people are afraid of Palin" train even after she managed to snatch major defeat from the jaws of lesser defeat for her ticket? Yep, democrats and their evil liberal media are so afraid of her scary political prowess that they want her to run in 2012.

Feel the terror!

She'll have to undergo a MASSIVE political makeover to have a chance in 2012 and hope that everyone gets amnesia. Frankly her post-campaign exploits so far haven't shown any indication that she's studying up or improving in how she deals with interviews or commentary.

I even think it sends a dangerous signal that if you take pride in your femininity, as Palin seemed to, you will be treated as not-candidate-material and an object of ridicule and your family and appearance will be used to hurt you in ways that would NEVER be done to a man, no matter how strong you may be.

Who criticized her for her femininity? If anything, it gave her a lot more positive attention than an equivalent male VP candidate would have gotten. It still doesn't change the fact that when she starts giving interviews and there's nothing there, people aren't going to give her a free pass.

The only significant negative critique of her from a purely female perspective I recall was the unfair criticism that it was wrong of her to be on the campaign trail when she had a child with down syndrome at home. That was equally as sexist toward her as it was toward her husband for assuming that he couldn't take care of the baby when she was busy.

 

[Squiggy]

Now Palin says she's frustrated with the media coverage of her resignation.

 

[Gertch]

When SHE made the decision to thrust her unwed, pregnant teenage daughter into the spotlight by accepting the nomination

Accepting a nomination does not open your whole family to scrutiny. They didn't do it will Chelsea and they didn't do it with the Obama kids. If Michelle hadn't been out stumping for her husband she would have been left out of it also.

But you have a conservative woman who lives by her principals and counter to the media and left-wing dogma and we got a feeding frenzy on the family.

A hunter goes to Maine to hunt bears. A huge bear surprises him, attacks him, sodomizes him and leaves him for dead. The guy spends a week in the hospital, then comes back to hunt in the same spot.

Same bear, same attack, only this time the guy's in the hospital for a month. He gets out and returns to the same spot.

Same bear again rushes out and grabs him, then says to the guy "This isn't really about hunting, is it?"
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You're not really stalking Sarah for the news are you...

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

The only significant negative critique of her from a purely female perspective I recall was the unfair criticism that it was wrong of her to be on the campaign trail when she had a child with down syndrome at home. That was equally as sexist toward her as it was toward her husband for assuming that he couldn't take care of the baby when she was busy.

That was one, and I agree it was very wrong to both of them. Nobody bats an eye when men are away from their families all the time and leave all the family duties to their wives--so apparently the reverse is "taboo"?

You also have the appearance/sexuality-based snipes such as Letterman and the "slutty flight-attendant look" comment, which a man on the campaign trail wouldn't have to put up with unless they actually got caught with their zipper down, not to mention the fact that somebody actually stirred up a brouhaha over her wardrobe--which was all destined, even before the controversy, to be put up for a charity auction and not kept. Yet if you ask me, there shouldn't have even been any pressure for her to have to dress a certain way in the first place, as long as there were no wardrobe malfunctions. A man could wear any old suit. But apparently if you're a woman, your worth is determined by your clothes and your looks. Very sad.

 

[Squiggy]

When SHE made the decision to thrust her unwed, pregnant teenage daughter into the spotlight by accepting the nomination

Accepting a nomination does not open your whole family to scrutiny. They didn't do it will Chelsea and they didn't do it with the Obama kids. If Michelle hadn't been out stumping for her husband she would have been left out of it also.

None of them were pregnant teenagers or members of a secessionist party.

 

[Misfit Toy]

When SHE made the decision to thrust her unwed, pregnant teenage daughter into the spotlight by accepting the nomination

Accepting a nomination does not open your whole family to scrutiny.

Yes, it does. Whether that's right or not isn't the argument. The point is that either she knew what would happen or she was too unprepared to run.

 

[Aurian]

Now Palin says she's frustrated with the media coverage of her resignation.

It would be wierd if she didnt feel frustrated.

 

[Squiggy]

1. Call press conference
2. Quit
3. Complain about the media coverage over the press conference you called
4. ????
5. PROFIT!
6. WHITE HOUSE!!!

 

[sidious618]

1. Call press conference
2. Quit
3. Complain about the media coverage over the press conference you called
4. ????
5. PROFIT!
6. WHITE HOUSE!!!

I'm taking notes.

 

[1001001]

Now Palin says she's frustrated with the media coverage of her resignation.

It would be wierd if she didnt feel frustrated.

She's more than frustrated, she's threatening to sue!

The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans have fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090705...Ec2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDcGFsaW50YWtlc3Rv

 

[sidious618]

She'd have never survived in the White House.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

She needs to get a grip if she ever wants to run for president.

 

[sidious618]

She needs to get a grip if she ever wants to run for president.

I can't see it ever happening. I honestly think she's chickening out and running away because it just doesn't seem like fun anymore. All she wants is fun and fame and that is no longer an option.

 

[SeerSGB]

Now Palin says she's frustrated with the media coverage of her resignation.

It would be wierd if she didnt feel frustrated.

She's more than frustrated, she's threatening to sue!

The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans have fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090705...Ec2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDcGFsaW50YWtlc3Rv

So more fuel to the fire that this was the reason she quit. Notice they're going for defamation, which doesn't mean that it has to be true or false only harmful in some way, versus libel and slander which require the claims to be false as well as harmful-- if IRC.

 

[1001001]

Yeah, threatening to sue bloggers. That'll go over well.



I believe that she is resigning in order to go into Satanic Lesbian Bondage Porn.

There....Sue that!

 

[Aurian]

^LOL.. yeah.. that will go over well.

 

[MIB]

If this is a move towards a 2012 run for the presidency, then Palin is a bigger fool that I originally gave her credit for. For every time she slammed Obama for his "inexperience" in '08, there will be half a dozen people in line to slam her over the fact that she couldn't finish a single term as a small-state governer without bugging out. Not to mention the fact that even while she was governor, she was well known for delegating everything to other people while doing jack-sh*t herself.

 

[indranee]

She needs to get a grip if she ever wants to run for president.

she needs to get a brain first.

 

[indranee]

Yeah, threatening to sue bloggers. That'll go over well.



I believe that she is resigning in order to go into Satanic Lesbian Bondage Porn.

There....Sue that!

Flailin' Palin.

 

[Teelie]

Threatening to blindly sue anyone who disses her. Yeah, that'll go over well. Isn't she supposed to be against this kind of thing? Frivolous lawsuits don't seem like an effective way to deal with anything.

All it does is show you are either:
After money for selfish gains and hoping for a settlement out of court
Offended by the defendants of the suit making fun of you
Trying to scare them away from making fun of you
Too limited to counter with anything but empty threats