Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who quit on the state of Alaska, is now lecturing President Obama on what it means to be a leader in an appalling display at the far-right Tea Party Convention.
Once again, Palin proves that she didn’t get it then and she still does not get it now as she goes around the country cashing in on her fame and promoting herself on Fox News.
Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002080002
Sarah Palin quitting as governor of Alaska is probably not a really big surprise. The timing, however, is a little surprising to me.
Think Progress reads:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) announced this morning from her home in Wasilla that she will not be seeking re-election and that she will be stepping down in a few weeks. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated as Alaska’s governor on July 25.
So, there are some questions we’re left to ponder: 1. Is Sarah Palin gearing up to make a run for the presidency in 2012? 2. Is there some scandal forcing her out? 3. Is she simply tired of politics and the media? Time will answer those questions and others. Indeed, there are probably a lot more questions, but those are some that come to mind at first thought.
Here’s another question: Is Palin a serious candidate for the presidency?
Personally, I just can’t see how she can be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. Republicans would be unbelievably stupid to nominate her for the presidency in 2012 (unless they want to put her up as a sacrificial lamb thinking President Obama could be unbeatable).
This is from Fox News right-wing (I know, it’s kind of redundant)contributor Charles Krauthammer as quoted by POLITICO:
Now, as to Palin, I agree entirely with what Mara said. She is — she has star power without any doubt. She has an extremely devoted following. But she is not a serious candidate for the presidency.
She had to go home and study and spend a lot of time on issues in which she was not adept last year, and she hasn’t. She has to stop speaking in clichés and platitudes. It won’t work.
It could work for eight weeks if you’re the number two candidate, as she was last year. But even so, she got singed a lot in that campaign. You cannot sustain a campaign of platitudes and clichés over a year and a half if you’re running for the presidency.
Palin can’t be taken seriously as a candidate for the presidency. If she was even going to attempt to be taken more seriously she would be better advised to take on a role as a senator or congresswoman. She was severely lacking on the national stage beyond one-dimensional popularity among hardcore right wingers who were pleased to see someone other than an old white guy become popular with the big “R” by their name.
Sarah Palin went out on the Alaskan stage the way she stepped onto (and off of) the national stage: Crying relentlessly about the media (an easy target), singing her own praises (the ones she could muster) and vomiting one-dimensional Republican talking points.
Palin would be best served to go home and chill out since “only dead fish go with the flow.”
It’s better than sleeping with the political fishes in 2012.
I’m not sure if Republican Party head Rush Limbaugh approved this particular message (although I am sure he approves of any anti-Obama message):
The Republican National Committee issued a news release that chastised Obama for saying he understands American’s troubles, but then hopping up to New York for “a night on the town.”
That is a funny comment coming from the party that (throughout last year) criticized Barack Obama for being a community organizer in the city of Chicago (where he was working with working-class people and not making a lot of money doing it). Conservatives turned “community organizer” into some kind of evil term. Now, coming full circle, the Republicans are trying to portray him as some out-of-touch elitist. It won’t fly and it just looks plain silly for the conservatives who are grasping at straws trying to attack President Obama.
I guess the conservatives (Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter and others) are taking a break from mischaracterizing and smearing Judge Sonia Sotmayor (a U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee) while inexplicably and inappropriately painting her as a racist (funny coming from some of these far-right conservatives). With a break from that comes this manufactured nontroversy over President Obama going out with his wife.
Fox News/AP:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/30/obamas-head-new-york-city-date-night/
Former Navy SEAL Jesse Ventura, the former governor of Minnesota, has been on a tour schooling conservatives for their illogical opinions on torture. The student taken to school in this video is the conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the hosts of The View.
It’s kind of painful to watch as Hasselbeck is working hard to defend her position and, quite frankly, failing miserably.
The Gholston Post:
http://simmerdown3.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/jesse-ventura-school-bus-stop-1-the-view/
