McCain expects Palin to remain on national stage
By ANIMonday, July 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin, whose resignation as the Alaska Governor was termed as a political suicide, has received worlds of encouragement from her ex- boss, Senator John McCain, who is confident that Palin will remain on the national stage.
“I understand that Sarah made the decision where she can be the most effective for Alaska and for the country. The fact is she is very popular with our Republican base. She will be a very strong voice,” Fox News quoted McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate who tapped Palin to be his running mate, as saying.
Palin, whose children even were targets for critics and comedians since she burst on the scene, called a press conference on July 3 to announce she had decided not to seek re-election.
She also surprised political observers when she added that she didn’t want to be a lame duck governor so was quitting her post 18 months early.
McCain said he wasn’t shocked by Palin’s announcement last week but was “a bit surprised” since she did not tell him about it.
“I have never seen sustained, personal, family attacks that were made on Sarah Palin and her family in my life. I’m sure that had some impact,” McCain said, adding, “I don’t think she quit. I think she changed her priorities,” he said.
McCain said he was “confident” that Palin would make a fine president but he didn’t offer an endorsement, saying it’s too soon to pick a candidate for 2012.
He also had a word for critics who want to cast her off as not nimble enough to be a presidential candidate.
“In all due respect to those who like to examine the entrails and look backward, the fact is we were three points ahead on September 15 and the stock market crashed and we went seven points down. Sarah Palin ignited our party. We were winning and we could have won,” he said. (ANI)
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July 13, 2009: 6:10 pm
Can anyone real tell me that you were impressed by her exit speech? You can’t real believe that she is the only person that can win in 2012. You know, if she can’t take a joke, don’t get in the game, its politics, they all get kicked around. Let me paint you a picture, in my opinion, for the last eight years where the mantra was no regulation and no oversight and spread to all federal agencies and the justice department was filled by unqualified religious types and the dullard (ex-drunk) religious president started two wars of choice with extreme tax dollar spending, is anyone surprised with our current economic situation because of those choices. Sure “W” sucker the religious right to vote for him and that’s why he placed unqualified people in positions of responsibility and they failed (almost a “plan to fail”), do you forget Katrina, where the Director of FEMA Michael D. Brown, was relieved of his duties because of incompetence? Or can you forget disgraced White House correspondent James Guckert, AKA Jeff Gannon, the male escort, why was a male escort getting into the Whitehouse, hmmm? I know it was Barney Frank’s fault, he controls the county and republicans had their hands tied (even though 7 of the last 8 years they had the majority and the presidency to do something (fact or fiction?), but not the will to act). Oh, by the way I read that God blog, very funny, it reminds me of those TV evangelists who claim the talk to God and want so and so foreign country leader to be killed or such and such a us state to be punished by God for a court ruling that intelligent design is just another word for religion. We had enough of religious dullards in our government. If you believe that the USA has strayed from God then go out to your communities and preach to your neighbors, the sick, the shut ins, the poor and invite them to take part in your church, build a community. But I know that’s hard work we want a government official to do that for us, well they tried that and look where it left us, in the gutter, but our country does not quit and we will rise again. Do you remember how Ronald Reagan got us out of a recession? By spending and we will do the same. But she is just another “W” in heels and she is stringing the religious right along, she will sell you her books, her radio/TV shows and speaking engagements. Lastly, I do not want you to believe what I believe, so please keep writing, feel free, I am starting to enjoy this. |
 Benito |
July 13, 2009: 6:03 pm
When she accepted the VP nomination, she knew she needed to bring her professional game up to another level, she never did. She knew that her family would get attacked as did Hilary and Chelsea before her (by even her twin maverick brother McCain in 1998), let face it she knew her family affairs would come out. But now she plays the victim card again, a card she played after those comical first extended interviews that we all enjoyed and SNL immortalized. But for the icing on the cake, she quits, because she does not want to be a lame duck governor, because the lawsuits keep coming, because it was the media’s fault, because seeing Russia from her house finally got to her, because its not fair that Alaskan’s paid her salary while she was running for the VP position, take your pick. So what does she tells us? Dear Mr. President, when things get tough, quit. Dear military men and women, if you are not having fun, quit. Dear son or daughter, if things are not going your way, quit. Sure, I agree when she first was introduced and gave a descent speech, sure the polls went up, but after the extended interviews, they went where they ended, down. She showed her true character, I really hope the book deal, Radio/ TV shows and the lecture circuits make up for what her party has lost by her actions. She may go down in history as the quitter that twittered. |
Paul