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02/12/2010
Warning Tea Party in Danger beware of "deceivers" and "usurpers" like Sarah Palin
If it acts like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck!
Tea Party leader Dale Robertson recently called Palin a "duck out of water among true Conservative Constitutionalists" and warned his visitors to teaparty.org to beware of "deceivers" and "usurpers" seeking to appropriate the group's ideals for political gain.
Arianna argued that two things that dealt a blow to Palin's image of authenticity: her double standard regarding the word "retard," and her $100,000 speaking Tea Party speaking fee.
Arianna observed that while the Tea Party clearly lacks cohesiveness, it is based on very real anger that both political parties ignore at their peril.
Dale Robertson – President/Founder – www.TeaParty.org
I am sending an alarm to the Tea Party membership! Be alert to turncoats and deceivers being herded into the Tea Party by usurpers from the weakened Republican Party for the sole purpose of capturing our populist movement.
Our political ideals were once theirs and our immense growth has created a lusting for their good old days!
Sarah Palin's well delivered speech and her attractive demeanor is little more than a veneer for her less attractive political philosophy.
She seems more like a duck out of water among true Conservative Constitutionalists.
Palin demonstrates her NeoCon flippant viewpoint and her naivete as she seems envious of the swelled numbers of Patriots pledging their allegiance, to of all things, AMERICA and not a to kool-aid ridden political dinosaur.
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02/11/2010
Poll reads Palin's palm: 71% say no chance in 2012
Poll reads Palin's palm: no chance in 2012; 71% of Americans don't think she's qualified to be prez
Thursday, February 11th 2010, 10:21 AM
WASHINGTON -- Looks like the bloom is off the Rogue.
More than half the nation - 55% - see Sarah Palin unfavorably, and 71% believe the "Going Rogue" author is not qualified to be President, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll Thursday.
The former Alaska governor and Tea Party darling said recently she will consider running for the White House, but both those numbers are new lows for her and don't augur well for a national political run.
"More problematic for Palin is that even in her own party 52% think she's not qualified for the presidency - up by 16 points from an ABC/Post poll in November," writes ABC News pollster Gary Langer.
Palin last weekend was the star attraction at a Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tenn., and told interviewers next day she had left the door open to a 2012 presidential run.
The Tea Party movement faces its own challenges, with negatives at 40% versus a 35% positive rating. But Langer sees some hope for the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-health reform movement. "Forty-five percent agree at least somewhat with the movement's positions on the issues - more than the 36% who disagree," Langer writes.
The poll was conducted Feb. 4-8 and had a 3.5 percentage point margin of error.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/02/11/2010-02-11_poll_reads_palins_palm_no_chance_in_2012_71_of_americans_dont_think_shes_qualifi.html#ixzz0fIhs8bih
02/08/2010
From the "Be careful what you wish for" file
For months we've seen progressive bloggers snarking about how the Republicans should "Please, please, PLEASE nominate Sarah Palin!" -- as if it were a shoo-in that Barack Obama would clean her clock in a head-to-head matchup.
Now Americans are pretty damn stupid and short-sighted. They'd have to be in order to give a shiny bauble like Sarah Palin any credibility as a potential Leader of the Free World when she sounds like that Miss South Carolina contestant who babbled about how the Iraqis don't have maps. They'd have to be in order to call a woman who's been associated with a secessionist group a patriot.
So she's an apocalyptic theocratic nutjob. What does that matter? read more
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Imagine someone who is devoid of intellect and has no moral compass to guide a reasonable debate running for political office. You don't have to imagine, she is upon us. In other words, try reasoning with an unreasonable, unscrupulous individual. Anybody who cares about their personal integrity and reputation is forced to back down from such a confrontation. Especially with this perfidious woman Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin revealed to the world that she cannot even remember what her own top priorities or beliefs are without writing them on her palm. Is that truly what the Conservatives, Republicans or even the opposition is ready to call a potential candidate?
I agree with the author, while America may deserve Sarah Palin, it's too bad the sane among us are going to have to go along for the ride. I know what to expect from the unwashed masses ie:conservative base, but I sure hope that the Democrats and independents will be careful for what they wish for the rest of us.
02/06/2010
From an Alaskan: Palin e-mails reveal 'Abuse of Power'
Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’
In Sarah Palin administration, her spouse was active in state business
By Bill Dedman
Investigative reporter
msnbc.com
Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials, which were released to msnbc.com and NBC News by the state of Alaska under its public records law, draw a picture of a Palin administration where the governor's husband got involved in a judicial appointment, monitored contract negotiations with public employee unions, received background checks on a corporate CEO, added his approval or disapproval to state board appointments and passed financial information marked "confidential" from his oil company employer to a state attorney.
While 1,200 separate e-mails were released this week, 243 others were withheld by the state under a claim that executive privilege extends to Todd Palin as an unpaid adviser to the government. Still, just the subject lines of those e-mails provide a glimpse of the ways the Palins divvied up their responsibilities when she became governor in December 2006, less than two years before Republican Sen. John McCain pulled her onto the national political stage by nominating her as his vice presidential candidate.
You can read all those e-mails in msnbc.com's searchable online archive, created in cooperation with a legal services company, Crivella West. We're still going through the documents, and invite readers at msnbc.com to search for themselves, connect the dots with public issues, and send us an e-mail with your own analysis.
The still-secret e-mails between Todd Palin and senior officials reach into countless areas of state government and politics: potential board appointees, constituent complaints, use of the state jet, oil and gas production, marine regulation, gas pipeline bids, postsecondary education
, wildfires, native Alaskan issues, the state effort to save the Matanuska Maid dairy, budget planning, potential budget vetoes, oil shale leasing, "strategy for responding to media allegations," staffing at the mansion, pier diem payments to the governor for travel, "strategy for responding to questions about pregnancy," potential cuts to the governor's staff, "confidentiality issues," Bureau of Land Management land transfers and trespass issues and requests to the U.S. transportation secretary.
Also withheld: a discussion of how to reply to "media questions about Todd Palin's work and potential conflict of interests."
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Confidential information
Todd Palin also often served as a conduit for information to flow from one part of state government to another. When a friend or campaign aide's spouse got a state job, he was often notified. At other times, he notified the governor's office.
Sometimes information from outside flowed through him to the government. In one instance, the e-mails show, Todd Palin sent confidential financial information from his longtime employer, the oil and gas company BP, to a lawyer for the state, which does a lot of business with BP. The e-mail of financial results, written by Steve Marshall, president of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., was marked "confidential"; it told BP staff about financial results and the levels of annual bonuses to be received. Todd Palin received that e-mail from Glenn Trimmer, the secretary-treasurer of the United Steelworkers local where he was working while on a leave from BP. Palin forwarded the e-mail from his work account to his personal account, then forwarded it again from his personal account to an attorney for the state, along with financial details for a second year.
BP did not reply to a request for comment sent Thursday to the company's press contact.
The Palins did not reply to a message from msnbc.com
Hers's the link to the searchable archive:
http://www.crivellawest.net/
02/05/2010
The Todd Mahal
The largest building ‘cabin’ on Safari Lake has a name… The Todd Mahal
Palin cabins not found in tax assessments
AP
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
— Cabins have gone up on two backcountry properties owned in Alaska by Sarah Palin, her husband and a partner, but the land shows zero value for building assessments, according to property tax records.It's unclear how long ago the structures were built, but the local borough assessor says an aerial survey of the area was being conducted for the first time in five years on Thursday.
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But Dave Dunivan, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough assessor, says owners are required by state statues to report any omissions or errors in their tax assessments.
02/04/2010
Alaskans Ready to Move On
Alaskans Ready to Move on From Palin Mania
WASILLA, Alaska -- It is not exaggerating to say that these days you have a better chance of a moose sighting than seeing Sarah Palin here.
"She's been invisible," said Anchorage Daily News columnist Julia O'Malley. "Unless you count the book signings."
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"She's been invisible," said Anchorage Daily News columnist Julia O'Malley. "Unless you count the book signings."
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"There is a weariness. Why don't we just turn the page?" said Michael Carey, an Anchorage public television host. "There was a point where she was new, fresh, what's gonna happen next. She was about tomorrow. Now she's about yesterday."
Lynn Gattis, 53, a self-described and unabashed "tea bagger" -- unlike most in the movement, she embraces that spin on its name -- takes a different view of Palin's trajectory. "She's a small-town girl who made it big," said Gattis, who is proud of Palin's increasing role in rallying national conservatives. But she, too, could do without all the fuss.
"We have so much happening with our economy, jobs and whatever, she's not necessarily front and center," Gattis said. "And I don't mean that in a negative fashion. But holy smokes ... Sarah probably isn't in our top 10 list."
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Lynn Gattis, 53, a self-described and unabashed "tea bagger" -- unlike most in the movement, she embraces that spin on its name -- takes a different view of Palin's trajectory. "She's a small-town girl who made it big," said Gattis, who is proud of Palin's increasing role in rallying national conservatives. But she, too, could do without all the fuss.
"We have so much happening with our economy, jobs and whatever, she's not necessarily front and center," Gattis said. "And I don't mean that in a negative fashion. But holy smokes ... Sarah probably isn't in our top 10 list."
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A new poll of Alaskan voters found fewer than half now do so. If there's a central cause for her decreased home-state popularity, it's expressed by Mary Lowrey, 55, a nurse from Kotzebue, above the Arctic Circle: "She was a quitter."
In interviews with dozens of Alaskans, the quitter theme came up often.
In interviews with dozens of Alaskans, the quitter theme came up often.
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Moments earlier, another woman, who called herself a conservative Republican, spoke incredulously about the "cynicism" of national Republicans in choosing someone clearly unqualified for the vice presidency. "How in the world could they?" she asked. "The phenomenon of Sarah Palin exists because people are uninformed politically." (Like several people interviewed, she refused to be identified for fear of "retribution" from Palin and her allies.)
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