Sarah Palin resigning as Governor, Scandal to come?

This is one of the strangest moves that I can't really figure out. Scandal coming ? Possibly, but I don't know. She just seemed so ambitous to just do this so randomly. I tried thinking of possibility of what things look like in 3 years. You wouldn't think she could regroup and be politically viable, but who knows ? If economy blows up she can take take the position she didn't want the stimulus, stepped down in protest, but that makes more sense if she did it a few months ago. Logically it doesn't make sense she could regroup, but I can never figure out how the right thinks. Just flat out strange. I thought maybe undisclosed illness, but I think she'd play the martyr and milk that and come out with it.

She may just be dumb enough to think she can regroup and spin ?

Maybe she just wants to cash in with books and such and figured it wasn't worth all the BS, but that's an abrupt turn around.

Straight tilt is possible ?

Her and Sanford have given the strangest press conferences I have ever seen the past few weeks. Hers was so fast, rambling, incoherent, it was like she was on Meth.

Sanford has just been flat out insane.

It's almost as if someone has something really dirty on these fuckers and tell them to self destruct before they get exposed and gives them 24 hours to do it.

Totally perplexed by her.

Nope - since any wack job can file them without limit and without good cause, there really isn't any way to stop them. Barry, don't prove me right too easily, don't tilt over Palin. And in case you are wondering, I did not vote for McCain/Palin, nor could I see myself voting for her as my representative at any level, but I do get lots of entertainment value from watching the left try their best to destroy her. So much for tolerance and understanding, and reaching across the aisle huh.

So you think Sarah Palin attempted a lot of bipartisan compromise? She couldn't even compromise with the *Republicans* in the Alaska legislature.

Of course people file tons of frivolous ethics complaints. That's why I mentioned Hillary Clinton. Every major political figure deals with them. The people that don't commit ethics violations have them dismissed immediately. Palin wanted to play in the biggest of the big leagues, and she clearly couldn't remotely hack it. If she's so tough and competent, why was the "left" able to "destroy" her less than a year after taking the national spotlight? It's seems to me that a pit bull hockey mom that was on the right side of ethics laws wouldn't surrender like that.

Even a plurality of the hardest core Conservatives on RedState.com think that there has to be a scandal behind this-
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/07/03/l...on-sarah-palin/

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, claiming she had been talking to people “very close” to Gov. Palin, reported:
“I have been told that she has told her supporters she is out of politics, period. She is fed up with politics. She doesn’t like her life. She feels that she needs to raise her family. She’s sick of the commute from Wasilla to the capitol, and she really does not want to run for higher office. This is not the case where she’s stepping down in order to clear the way for a presidential run. In fact she has told some of her biggest backers in the national Republican Party that they are free to choose other candidates for 2012.”

This changes the dynamic of 2012 a lot. Polls were showing Romney, Huckabee, and Palin virtually tied. This gives a huge boost to Huckabee, since he won't be splitting religious conservatives with Palin. That's great news of Obama, since Romney is the much more formidable candidate.

Some rumors that there is a criminal investigation into the building of her home by contractor in exchange for approving the Wasilla sports complex which cost $10 million plus. Nothing reliable, but plausible. If so I think she misplayed her hand. After the week Sanford has had and MJ 24/7 most wouldn't even notice unless they drug her away in leg irons. This is old story, but it concerns this.

http://plaidlemur.wordpress.com/2008/10/13...candal-brewing/

newer link- federal indictment- this seems possible

http://a11news.com/2125/sarah-palin-embezzlement-scandal/

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/03/palin-...-arena-scandal/


not exactly washington post yet

This was the first thing I thought as well.

I remember some campaign aide or someone similar saying that he had to take something up to her hotel room and that she opened the door and invited him in while wearing nothing but a towel. At that moment I suspected that eventually there'd be a sex scandal and also that she's a complete retard.

I must admit that I'd splash her, though I might have to put duct tape over her mouth first.

I really hope she's the Republican nominee for president in 2012.

Would you care to bet on this? You put up an amount of money and if Palin is not the nominee, you lose. If Palin is the nominee but loses, you lose. But if Palin is the nominee and wins, I'll give you 10:1. If Obama is not the Democratic nominee for any reason, there is no action. If the election has to be decided in the courts like Bush v. Gore, or if any state's electoral votes are awarded on a basis other than that state's popular vote, there is no action. If you agree to these terms, suggest an amount to bet and we can come to an agreement. We can also negotiate the odds I give you. Ball's in your court.

LOL . Palin was/ is a laughing stock. Scary that she was running for such an important position and to be so f'ing dumb . She has a major scandal brewing and I think she had a choice to resign or her laundry was going to be aired. Good ridance, she was scary dumb.

What the repubs need is hardcore religion wacko leader. They are the moral people of the world. They follow God and never deviate those repubs. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL !!

Tell me how religious those repubs are again . LOL.

Agreed. The Vanity Fair article may have been mean from her perspective but when you're as clueless, incompetent, difficult and self-centered as she is, the truth hurts. It's hard to see how this move makes any kind of sense.

Perfect strategy. If she resigns, it may pour water on the investigation like when Nixon resigned. Then when she runs in 2012, she can say nothing came of the investigation, I cooperated but nothing was proven, etc.

Palin's statement today-
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/...uly-message.php

We have accomplished more during this one term than most governors do in two - and I am proud of the great team that helped to build these wonderful successes. Energy independence and national security, fiscal restraint...

Since she's done two terms worth of work already, it's cool to duck out after a quarter of that time is up. The US Congress never authorized drilling in ANWR, like she supported, she's never been involved in national security, and she lost her battle with a strongly Republican state legislature to reject federal stimulus finds. So she's accomplished nothing and left the state with huge deficits to deal with.

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Oil/idUSTRE51302H20090204

With oil revenues accounting for nearly 90 percent of state general revenue, the new oil price forecast translates to a significant drop in money expected to flow into the treasury.

The budget deficit that was expected in December to amass to $450 million by the end of the fiscal year is now expected to be $1.2 billion more than that, Department of Revenue officials said.

Alaska, with Sarah Palin at the helm, went from generating huge surpluses, to running 30% budget deficits. Of course the price of oil is the cause, but Sarah Palin and the GOP sure took credit for those surpluses.

Also-
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/.../take_two_3.php

Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, has also sent out a letter rejecting claims that Palin's resignation is tied to investigations of the Wasilla Sports Complex, during Palin's tenure as mayor, or their house on Lake Lucille. In the letter Van Flein also threatens defamation suits against Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, Huffpo, Washington Post, the NY Times and MSNBC for discussing these claims.

She's threatening to sue media outlets for "discussing" the possibility of there being a scandal involving her house. There's a stronger possibility that she's on one of the greatest mega-tilts ever.

The defamation suits would be laughed out of court.

Looks like she is hinting at a run for national office: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090705/ap_on_...palin_resigning

:nochance GTFO

Her popularity was down in the low-50's already, and when the $3000 welfare checks get cut to $200 it's going to put a big dent into the #2 alaskan biz of meth production. She is trying to book a win with a small sample size. She is also talking about her national calling, when people like her start talking about a calling it's time to get a room ready at a nice mental hospital.

this seems plausible. She is setting the other guy up to take the blame that people may associate with something that is actually out of both of their hands considering she took the praise for it already