Yes, it sounds about exactly right.

One note about her shedding Alaska: I noticed in the article in Runner’s World (I actually read the whole thing) that she said at one point something about how she loves running when it’s really hot (weather-wise). She mentioned it more than once — that people who live in warm places don’t realize how good they’ve got it and what a pleasure it is to be where it’s warm. I thought that sounds like someone who grew up in a very cold place and never realized there were places where the climate is very different, and now that she does, she’s ready to bolt.

I know she has been out of her home state before, but I’m thinking the long stretches she spent in warm climate places during the campaign had a serious impact on her ability to go back and spend the winter in Alaska. I won’t be a bit surprised if she ends up moving to the sweaty south, and if Todd and/or any of the kids want to stay “home” well, that’s fine, Mom will visit ya when she gets a chance.

Wonkette dug up an old clip of Palin saying Hillary “does herself a disservice” by complaining about how the media – unfair or fair – treats her.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting, but Jill at Brilliant seems way off. First off, even without the evangelical crack Palin’s smoking, she would never have been a feminist the country could rally around because she isn’t one. Not even remotely close. But even if she had been, she’d never have been a viable candidate because she’s an uneducated twit. Palin isn’t even qualified to handle a Fox hosting gig because she can’t handle a simple interview.

If McCain had never picked this wingnut, nobody would even know she existed, except Alaskans.

Haven’t we learned anything from the Bush administration?

She’ll never be President; you know it and she knows it. Everyone should know it.

In 2012 or 2016 anyway. The thing is, she’s only 45 and could spend the next 15 years cashing multi-million dollar paydays, maybe shack up in the Heritage Foundation for a few years to put a finer polish on her brand of dumb and/or get a cabinet post in some future (God forbid) GOP administration, and make a run for it in 2024 or 2028. By then, the 2009 “Bailin’ Palin” event will be a distant memory.

Umm, 2024? The only reason her base loves her as much as they do is because she gives guys like Rich Lowry “starbursts” when he sees her wink at him on the TV. John Hinderaker just wrote that creepy post that screamed, “I just jacked it to that picture of Sarah in her jogging shorts.”

Do you think those guys are still going to line up to promote her when she’s sixty?

The wingnuts liked to hurl the “sexist” charge at the liberals in this country, but the truth is, we hated her overwhelmingly for being stupid, for lying, for being an insane christianist, and for being wholly unqualified for such a high national office.

The sexists were the ones wasting ink on her jogging shorts and waiting breathlessly for her to wink at them from the TV. They won’t be doing that once the ravages of time have their way with her looks. if they actually do still love her once she’s not so MILFy, then I’ll be the first to apologize to them for proving me wrong.

She better run fast for the cash. I can’t imagine her in a regular gig anywhere, so her best bet is probably one-off speaking engagements, etc. Her publisher must have a tag-team cranking out that book at speed. They’ll treat her like a queen –wining and dining her around the country and try to bleed out sales.

Bill O is an ass, but he’s a pro. She is not, so can’t imagine she’d last long at Fox. Those Heritage fuckers are also all pros who do their “work”, show up, know the ropes, schmooz with the establishment(s), etc. Even the RNC will grow tired of her shit.

No. She just isn’t quite top-drawer enough for even those skeevy gigs. Maybe a Christian thingie? A short-lived reality show? A Christian short-lived reality show? Hawking bibles late at night?

PS – She may have fans in the base, but it’s pretty obvious the Republican establishment hates her. Without the establishment she’s not going any further. And she knows it. I think.

Oh, heck. Why am I trying to figure her out?

She’s nuts! Plain and simple.

Nixon fell further, survived, prospered. I wouldn’t bet against Wet Wilma from Wasilla.

Given the dire predicament in which the republicans find themselves these days you’d think they’d prefer to spend their (seemingly endless supply of) cash on someone with an actual shot at a successful campaign in 2012 or 2016. It’s not at all clear to me what more Caribou Barbie can do for them — doesn’t her particular flavor of ignorant and incompetent get old pretty quick, even with a receptive audience like the wingnuts?

Her 15 minutes of fame have already been dragged out admirably by the very press she’s now blaming for ending it; that’s not going to change for the better even if she does keep popping out the occasional special needs kid and continues to surround herself with a weirdly entertaining family of felons and misfits. At the end of the day, Tina Fey can do as good a Palin as Palin…

There’s really not that much of a rush for the republiKKKans. They’re getting FISA, TARP, no single payer, a terrific war in Afghanistan, war possibilities in Iran and North Korea, the continuing devastation in Gaza, no help for NOLA, no change in mountaintop removal mining, their tax cuts remain in place, no regulation of coal ash impoundments and the end of the UAW from Obamco. Plus they really get to hate on the federal government while state budgets – social welfare first – are getting shredded and they can tag the Dems with their economic mess for a coupla years while blocking or maiming recovery efforts. They’re not doing so badly for being “out of power.”

We are, though.

From some angles I get a hint of that Lurita Doan shiny jowly look. It’s heading toward either that or the Way of Joan Rivers.

She also definitely needs to learn how to wink without moving her lips. Maybe Botox trout pout will fix that annoying tic for her.

The real question is — after a man-sized bowl of cheetos in the basement, is she still “hot” compared to the other creatures of the right?

A Rose For Abigail writes about another woman whose ladyparts don’t interest him:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07…..6ross.html

Signed,

Chunky Reese Witherspoon

The odds are not with her. Nixon, for all his foibles was at least intelligent. As Colin Powell described Palin she does not have the “intellectual rigor” to be president (let alone work at a conservative think tank). The “quitter” label has killed her politically. And if that rambling explanation is the best she’s got, there is no way she will dig herself out of this hole. Grifter smarts will only get you so far in the political arena (especially in this 24 hr news era). Desertwind has it nailed I think. Conservatives will slowly get sick of her babbling, and she will soon become persona non grata.

Holy Christ.

That sonovubitch really believes that education equates to class. And that’s just one of the things wrong with this remarkably insipid article.

Goddamn fucking fuckwit… aw, hell, JDM3. You take it from here.

Couldn’t agree more. For all the Hopey-Changey Muslamo-Socialism the Republicans tried to use to scare people into voting for the angry old man and his snow baby, it sure looks an awful lot like business as usual around here. “Yes, We Can — But We Won’t” seems to be the message coming out of the White House, and that surely is the essence of American reactionary conservatism. Reagan would be proud.

Billy Mays is gone and now Sarah needs a job.
Coincidence? I think not.

Having read about the family she grew up in, especially her father (who seems like a vicious, sadistic SOB), I think she had about as much chance as growing up well-adjusted as Michael Jackson. They were both pretty much doomed to be trainwrecks from the start..

Anne Applebaum at the WaPo says Palin’s full of shit. It’s like Anne is just daring Palin to sue the Post. Seems to me that Palin will be hanging on for weeks months years subscribing to the maxim that bad PR is better than no PR.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..inionsbox1

I don’t think I can buy the part that she might have been an effective representative for women, and even potentially the first female president, if only she did not have a withered self-centered soul. For the same reason, I couldn’t buy the idea that she might be a contender if she would hit the books for awhile. She reached middle age with even less interest in history, government, law, and international relations than George W. Bush had. She might become president, but it will only result from an electorate at least as ill informed and distracted as that in 2000 and 2004.

I am not a “scandal as the reason” for her resignation believer because quitting in front of a major scandal would require some gravitas that Palin simply doesn’t have. She prefers to loudly deny reality in an effort to make it fit her pathologically idealized view of herself. I think it’s about the money. She had a short window to rake in the bucks before the real stories about her awful behavior on the campaign trail come out and she simply said “FU” Alaska, this is about me.

Uhm, if you’re busy bitching about your massive legal bills and you claim they’re why you’re quitting your well-paid job as governator, it seems slightly odd to then at the same time send your expensive lawyers off on a fool’s errand of suing everybody in sight with little or no chance of winning.

I guess I just don’t get that Palin logic thing… Douchehat does, which is why he can write a column that simultaneously points out the myriad ways in which she was a glorious f***up and at the same time claim we all can and should love her because she’s just like us.

Any lawyers here? I don’t even play one on TV and it seems to me that a public figure claiming (through her expensive lawyers of course) that unflattering news articles will be met with a lawsuit shows a remarkable lack of understanding regarding what constitutes libel for a public figure. If you are in the public eye, well, deal with it honey, it comes with the territory. Especially when you willingly court it, just so long as the rag in question follows the Pravda model and you imagine yourself to be the winkin’, Xtian, Stalin-in-a-skirt (but in a nice way) O’ the North Country.

Nixon had been national political figure since the late 1940s at the time he lost the 1960 presidential election and the 1962 California governor’s race. He had a wide base of support in the Republican party among the foreign policy types and the anti-communists who found him more palatable than McCarthy. He also had cultivated a moderate domestic image. In short, He had worked his ass off in elective office from 1946 to 1960, and then spent the next eight years building up IOUs among the party establishment and polishing his credentials with foreign travel and writing.

I make this point as a distinct non-admirer of Nixon. Just sayin’ that he paid his dues a million times more than Palin has before running successfully for president.

Mr TBogg,

I definitely recall you posting about her not settling for Alaska after the Campaign, prescient bastid

I am coming back around to this not being about some looming scandal (although a gal can hope) nope, I think someone is touting the good life on the lecture/fundraising/astroturf cirucit – using the rebirth of Gingrich and how he has more money and more clout than ever as an example – imagine what a “rock star” like you could do with all that Sarah

Speaking of money, in that photo above, see the awkward way she is holding the iPod? Conspicuous Product Placement much?

The speculation about what Palin might have been like, as a genuine feminist, is akin to that original series Star Trek episode where the historian tries to establish a good Nazi regime on some tabula rasa planet (blah blah Godwin). It’s as bad as the comparisons to Nixon; whatever else you can say about Tricky Dick, he had a genuine appetite for the hard work of politics.

Sarah, on the other hand, just wants to be a star and to leave the hard work for her underlings. She’ll milk the speaker’s circuit for as much as she can, for as long as she can. I think that the very last thing that she really wants is to have to sit in endless meetings and/or legislative sessions again; been there, done that, not enough applause. Her last couple of weeks as governor were spent in empty ceremonial gestures and dealing with the still-numerous outstanding ethics complaints against her. Fuck that commotion!

Governor Palin combines the unhinged, say-whatever political approach of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann with a dash of the “Know Nothing”, nativist and dangerous hate-mongering of Hal Turner.

She’s Bachmann-Turner Overdrive!!!!

I think most of Tbogg’s faithful readers are from the reality-based community, which means none of you are going to be able to figure out what the hell Sarah is thinking. Reality is not her friend. Ditto her faithful followers. I listened to some right-wing radio this morning, and Sarah’s fans are just giddy with excitement about what her next move might be. The host (some conservative Texas talk show guy filling in for Glenn Beck) kept saying that Palin quitting was not a good thing. Sarah’s cult went bat-shit on the guy. To say something negative about Her Nibs is just a big no-no in wingnuttia. I actually got a headache from just listening to these nutjobs for about an hour.

I think you nailed it in a post last year in which you compared Palin to the baseball player who was thrust into the major league much too soon for his own good.

Your obvious talent for prophesy leads me to imagine a wild-eyed John the Baptist figure, pounding out your prophetic posts from the midst of whatever meager wilderness your hometown is able to provide.

I have much better things to do with my life than speculate about Sarah Palin’s next political move, as if there isn’t enough to do with dealing with two wars, a crashing economy, 50 million people without health insurance, and hurricane season about to get revved up.

Well, maybe I don’t.

The Bush bubble has evidently moved over to Sarah. Seems like her two advisors, Todd and Meg, tell her things like, “Sure, you can sue anyone who speculates on your resignation. I think it’s called lye-bowl.” The VF article pretty much confirmed that “real” advisors would get canned pretty quick if they ever told her something she doesn’t want to hear.

So, I’m recommending that Sarah hire Bill Kristol lickety-split to run her Presidential campaign. They so richly deserve one another.

Damn, you last a whole hour listening to that crap? Can I be a member of your fan club?

Okay then. She’s fully qualified to be the wingnut front runner. But she needs a VP on the ticket, and I can think of no better person to fill that slot than Mr. Mark Sanford. Palin/Sanford. Or maybe Palin/Gingrich. Palin/Mittins. So many choices, so little time.

I just don’t see her on television – completely apart from her utter lack of skills and professionalism. Her ego requires applause and live, adoring audiences.

Whether Palin survives her own trainwreck to compete for high profile political positions is less relevant than Republicans continuing to court people just like her. Corrupt dumbass dipshits like Palin, Joe the Plumber, and Meghan McCain are a dime a dozen. The threat is less any one of them than the Party choosing to invest in them.

Let’s see how the drooling neocon fan club loves Palin if she looks like Kay Bailey Hutchinson in 15 years.

She reminds me of a previously unknown second-banana starlette of a TV show who’s fallen in love with seeing her face on the screen, wants way more exposure but doesn’t want any of the responsibility. And it seems very likely no one is around her except for people telling her what she wants to hear.

When even Karl Rove sounds doubtful about her political survival, the boneheaded cheerleaders look positively demented . Which is not unusual.

Right on! She is not a feminist, and she is not presidential material because of who she is. Period.

As for speculations, I keep thinking about her presser (will not watch it again), and I can’t get over how angry and rattled she look. Something big got her to step down, and while it may not be one of her countless grifting acts that got her into hot water, it didn’t help.

She is not going away. Narcissists like her don’t just fade away, especially against their own wills. If she goes down, she’s taking a lot of people with her.

As for the presidency, I don’t think she’ll be president. Can I say that I’m sure about that? Unfortunately, not. Never underestimate the stupidity of the masses.

I miss Carrie Prejean.

“Higher calling”? Three letters: T B N. South Coast Plaza awaits. . .

Who was that guy who said there was a risk of Obama’s daughters being ridiculed because of TBogg’s post?

That didn’t take long.

But I didn’t know ABC read TBogg.

The most comprehensive federal treatment for a politician’s family member having a right to sue for defamation would probably be Condit v. National Enquirer. 248 F.Supp.2d 945 (E.D. Cal. 2002). [SLAPP suit]

Most important, nobody would have realized yet how much she
looks like Tina Fey.
-Ross Douthat

I know you miss Kristol, T-Bogg, but ole’ Ross is doing his best to be just as wrong, just as often.
Palin has said many times that she dressed up like Fey for Halloween long before the VP pick. Even saying that “Alaska was ahead of…” the rest of us Chunky lovers.

Here Ross, fact check just for you.

Geez, if the National Enquirer sez Toad called Mrs Governor Sarah’s hotel room to complain about one of her bfs and that’s not a fact, the National Enquirer is by golly looking at a trial. Mrs Governor Sarah, not so much.

Christ, she’s just so full of low rent rent snowbilly shit. Not to be specist about it, but she makes me ashamed to be human.

She is homo sapiens, isn’t she?

Jesus H. fucking fuck.

She claims to have dressed up like Tina Fey for Halloween? She’d better not let that Halloween celebratin’ thing get out there too far; my sister the Xtianist considers ANY behavior associated with celebrating Halloween to be the work of SATAN!