While Palin's approval rating was at 54% in May (the most recent date I could find numbers for) that's a long way off her 90+ per cent high in 2007 and below the 59% of Alaskans who voted for McCain in 2008. Also, her approval rating has been dropping steadily ever since the end of the campaign as she has been more and more pre-occupied (or seen as being so) with National maters.
So, it's not quite as rosy as you paint it, especially considering she's leaving office a year and a half early.
If there isn't a scandal about to come to light I'd say she is leaving because the relentless heat she has had to endure. She's broke because she has had to defend herself from multiple attempts to find fault against her in court proceedings. In Alaska the Governor doesn't get taxpayer funded legal council for protection against lawsuits. Her enemies have used this to cause her hardship and financual loss while running her and her family's name through the mud. The lawsuit typically gets a lot of attention until she is cleared. No attention or scrutiny is given to the failed accuser.
Sarah Palin's family also never stopped being open game. Most politicians can parade their family out for the photo op and maybe give some kind reporter an interview for feel good story. Beyond that the family is off limits. Obama even tried to make himself look all tough by forcefully saying his wife and family were off limits when some of the stuff his wife was saying was questioned. He said this even though the things she said were while she was stumping for him. Sarah Palin was given no relief even after the election was over.
Sarah Palin leaves office with still over 50% support in the State she governed. Lets see Obama match that.
You're conventionally overlooking the fact that she CONTINUALLY has trotted her family out as part of her political endeavors. She doesn't use her family for 'feel good stories', she uses them as a political tool. When that 'tool' runs counter to so much of the crap you spew you should expect to be called on it.
I don't have a problem with a lot of Republican policies, in fact I'm probably a fiscal Republican, but Palin is an absolute disgrace. She pretty much embodies a political system that's based more on marketing and catering to the lowest common denominator than it is about actually running a country.
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This is a woman who brought out her family at every turn for staged photo-ops, even a fake one where she was jogging with a stroller. It was all to sell her family image. When your family is played as pawn in your political manueverings, it makes it more fair game.
Palin's approval ratings in Alaska plummeted from 80% to 50% in only a few months. Obama had a 72% rating in Illinois most of his time and even higher when he left (for obvious reasons).
I am surprised Oberman had time between kissing Barak's a$$ to even say anything.
She will definately be running in 2012. She has no hope though. She did what she was supposed to do for McCain. She should have seen that fact and remain in Alaska.
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But she also told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she recognizes that her resignation -- disclosed in a rambling speech in the news dead zone of the Friday of July Fourth weekend -- might have damaged her prospects. "You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it," she said.
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In the Fox interview, Palin also continued her complaints against the media, whose critical coverage she suggests helped drive her from office.
“Most candidates, most public officials get to look into a camera and say, 'You know you better leave your hands off my kids." Well I haven’t been able to say that. And that double standard that’s been applied, that’s been a little bit frustrating,” she said.
MSNBC is the liberal counterpart to Fox News; such a pathetic journalist.
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From all accounts and purposes, she is a fairly average intellect. That said, the United States has a pretty long history of being led by men with fairly average intellects: Reagan, Clinton, Carter, GW2...
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. That does not mean he was a traffic engineer by the way.
George Bush neither applied to, nor graduated from Yale's law school. He graduated with a C average and a B.A. in History. It's widely understood that he was a "legacy" admission--a common practice at schools with large endowments.
He later attended the Harvard MBA program. But he never studied law anywhere.
Bill Clinton, by contrast, earned scholarships en route to a Bachelor of Foreign Service from Georgetown University, then earned a Rhodes scholarship to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. He then went on to earn a J.D. from Yale law school in 1973.
You can argue as to what any of this means. But in a strictly scholastic sense, Bush's resume comes nowhere near achieving what Clinton's did. Sort of like their presidencies, come to think of it...
George Bush neither applied to, nor graduated from Yale's law school. He graduated with a C average and a B.A. in History. It's widely understood that he was a "legacy" admission--a common practice at schools with large endowments.
He later attended the Harvard MBA program. But he never studied law anywhere.
Bill Clinton, by contrast, earned scholarships en route to a Bachelor of Foreign Service from Georgetown University, then earned a Rhodes scholarship to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. He then went on to earn a J.D. from Yale law school in 1973.
You can argue as to what any of this means. But in a strictly scholastic sense, Bush's resume comes nowhere near achieving what Clinton's did. Sort of like their presidencies, come to think of it...
Sorry, I meant GW attended an Ivy League school; I thought it was Princeton.
Okay, if anybody thinks that Clinton was anything but a rube cleverly disguised is completely out to lunch. Ricky Ray Rector anyone? Too bad he didn't study ethics.
Sorry, I meant GW attended an Ivy League school; I thought it was Princeton.
Okay, if anybody thinks that Clinton was anything but a rube cleverly disguised is completely out to lunch. Ricky Ray Rector anyone? Too bad he didn't study ethics.
I'm not sure if I read that correctly, mostly because it makes no sense, but are you saying that Clinton was a "rube cleverly disguised"??
You just got the rundown on his incredibly impressive resume and he's a "rube"?? I'd say you're the one out to lunch.
Sorry, I meant GW attended an Ivy League school; I thought it was Princeton.
Okay, if anybody thinks that Clinton was anything but a rube cleverly disguised is completely out to lunch. Ricky Ray Rector anyone? Too bad he didn't study ethics.
Wait--a Rhodes scholar with a southern accent is a "rube"---and it's people who criticize Sarah Palin who are "elitists"?
In 2006, a study based on varied and often subjective historical material analyzed with the tools of historiometry was published in the journal Political Psychology. It estimated IQs for all US presidents since 1900. It rated G.W. Bush second to last, with an estimated IQ of 125 (with the estimate ranging from 111 to 139; the standard average for all people is 100). The same study estimated president Bill Clinton's IQ at 149.[10] In an interview, the study's director noted that "Bush may be 'much smarter' than the findings imply" but that he "scores particularly unimpressively for 'openness to experience, a cognitive proclivity that encompasses unusual receptiveness to fantasy, aesthetics, actions, ideas and values.'"
Wait--a Rhodes scholar with a southern accent is a "rube"---and it's people who criticize Sarah Palin who are "elitists"?
Forgive me for finding that a smidge weird.
You've got this all backwards. The poor kids from broken homes who drag themselves up and earn fancy educations and eventually become President are the "elites". They can't relate to the average American.
The rich kid with the drinking problem, the baseball team and the fake accent is regular folks.
It's the same logic that saw the decorated soldier turned into a coward and the draft dodger into a war hero
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Palin is the hot girl you pick up the bar. Once it goes quite and you listen to her talk it just doesn't seem worth it. Dumb as F%@$!!!
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