Palin Declares "Class War" Against Kennedy, Couric, and Fey

But her fifteen minutes of LAME will never end.

15 minutes of lame. Wood beat me to it!

right on targt wood

Maybe she'll shave her head and attack a car with an umbrella like Brittany Spears did last year.  That kept her in the press for months.

Not sure that I trashed Alaska.  Some have made disparaging remarks about the state.   I haven't; I save that energy up for TX bashing (just kidding).  Sorry to have offended. 

How long has Palin been governor and what has she done for the state?  Not saying that she hasn't been a great governor.  I just don't know her many accomplishments. 

Anyone have any idea what fraction of Alaska is federal property?

"People who do not sure her values slam her at every opportunity "

BULL.  People that don't agree with her are not immoral, evil or whatever adjective you want to use.  I consider myself an honest hardworking christian.  I don't have a thing against the people of Alaska. Palin is a polarizing, hate-mongering person who will not accept responsibility for the mistakes she has made.  She made a fool out herself on national television multiple times and is now blaming everyone else for her shortcomings.  If I had any respect for her, it is completely gone now.  She is fanning the fire by insisting on staying in the spotlight when she should be educating herself so maybe someday, she can be taken seriously. 

I'd add that it's one thing for Palin to take a stand against abortion, but quite another to make rape victims pay for their own rape kits because they contain the "morning after pill," which Palin considers to be a form of abortion. It's one thing to oppose sexually explicit material and another to violate the first amendment rights of a city librarian to determine what books should be on the shelves of the library. As for what she's accomplished as Governor of Alaska, well, that consists mainly of handing out government checks to Alaskans and obtaining pork-barrel spending projects for the state.

@trex   That's compassionate conservatism for ya

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I'm not sure bringing Teddy into the mix and his drunken driving night totally adresses the orignal post, but that family has always been treated as royalty

Let's see one Kennedy brother killed while flying missions during WWII, one Kennedy brother elected President of the United States and is assassinated another brother Attorney General of the United States running for the nomination of President of the United States and is assassinated.  A Kennedy son has a leg amputated due to cancer.  Another Kennedy brother elected to the Senate of the United States has brain cancer and is still at work.

Yep treated a royality.  Uh huh.

jaywow67 ....You forgot her brother John and his wife disappearing in his plane over the ocean....

She is not responsible for turning around the defecit...unless she is behind the record profits for the oil companies.  It's easy to run a positive budget when you have the nation's largest oil reserves and a federal admin that lets you drill anywhere/everything.  The people of AK get a share of oil profits, hence the high approval rating; other oil states don't do this.  I believe all the major oil states are doing well now, budget-wise.

How much did the rise in oil prices have to do with that? How much credit should be given to the Honorable ex-Senator Stevens for helping the state out?  If someone asked her to STFU would she do that? Just asking.

yep, she has done exactly what she was suppose to do and she has done it quite well...To bad other public servants don't learn a lesson from her....

She's finishing up her first term, and by all accounts, she has turned around a deficit, returned tax money to citizens, and carries the highest approval rating of any current sitting governor. In other words, she does what the people ask her to do. Isn't that what public servants should do?

Well, let's see...

The "tax money" she "returned" to citizens was tax money collected from the oil companies, paid to Alaskan citizens.  The tax was PAID by those of us in the rest of the US.  So, she didn't "return" it, she contributed to the high cost of gasoline by taxing the oil companies, causing THEM to raise prices.

The budget surplus in Alaska for had little to nothing to do with Sarah cutting back, but with the price of oil.  Period.  It was beautifully put, here:

The crap about Palin's veto pen being responsible for the State of Alaska's budget surplus is really annoying me. The absolute truth is that Alaska's budget surplus is solely due to the rise in oil prices.

From what I can tell the State of Alaska budget deficit in 2004 was roughly $4 billion. At that time oil prices were roughly $30 a barrel.

http://www.ioga.com/Special/crudeoil_Hist.htm

From what I've been able to see from State budget reports is that the deficit was completely replaced with a surplus by 2006 - coinciding with the rise in oil prices.

It looks like oil prices rose $27.43 a barrel from January 2004 ($30.87) to January 2006 ($58.30), which I believe coincides with the State budget surplus.

As an Alaskan I hate to point out that for lack of a better way of saying it, we profit from the misery others, (and the U.S. economy as a whole) with the meteoric rise in oil prices.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/state-of-alaska-budget-surplus.php

Now that oil prices are dropping back to normal, the deficit will be back, with a vengance.  Palin's budget for 2010 was returned to her for more work, as she based it on oil averaging over $60/barrel, when it's closing at around $30 a barrel these days. 

And, her approval ratings?  Not so stellar as they used to be, now that a little light has been cast into the corners.

According to the Alaska Daily News:

bove 80 percent approval for parts of her term -- she was at 82 percent in a key local poll twice this year -- Palin's popularity has swooned as new information about the local abuse-of-power investigation known as Troopergate has trickled out, and as national and local media pick over her track record as a governor and small-town mayor.

She was at 68% in October, BEFORE losing the election with McCain to the Obama/Biden team, and before some of the new suits were levelled against her.

You could be right ....the future of the party is bleak to say the least, and I'm a conservative......

Pac NorWest,

If the GOP has any sense, they are wishing, as are the rest of us, that Pallid Sarah would just ride off into the sunset .. oh wait .. she is from the land of the midnight sun ... no sunset to ride into ... OH CRAP.

bduboftexas----I don't think Sarah paraded her kids by your definition any more or less than obama did. I qualified my initial comment on the subject by referring to "major events"---such as accepting nomination, convention.

Lisaed,

Please refresh my memory, I can't recall any event Palin went to that her kids WEREN'T at.  As I recall one of them (quickly hushed by Mom) commented that it was difficult to catch up at school after so long away.  (Might have been Piper?)  I only saw Obama's girls a couple times.

Yeah, they were definitely with her more often. The pregnancy and the baby could have something to do with that, though.

Still, the hockey game comes to mind. She was booed, with her kids at her side. Poor taste by the audience, sure -- but it was right around the time her "terrorist" fear-mongering was at its height, and I think she had turned people off, and the boos couldn't have been unexpected, so why drag your kids in front of them?

(That's what I meant by saying she seemed, at times, to try and use them as a shield.

I that a good thing. What I look like on NV  "Troy Anthony Davis" is a death row inmate in GA who may be executed when a great many of the original witnesses in his trial have recanted their statements that led to his conviction.  Regardless of that, he is still on death row and being denied a new trial. I look nothing like Troy but, when it is was a hot topic, we were fond of saying "I am Troy Davis".  I have lost track of the his status but haven't changed my avatar in months. I can't let go of this injustice.  This is off topic.  But I was interested in why you said I looked like Bill.

I live in Georgia...don't think you look like him...Troy that is...... I happened to look at your picture and you don't look like a criminal to me.....

I said you looked like Bill my neighbor.......

Have heard of the case, and if he is innocent ...what a shame to be convicted and not have a fair trial....

You left out FOX News.

good comments and I agree.....husband says the same thing you just said.... she was treated  quite badly.... we related to her because she used simple language and spoke to us like the every day people we are....

as for the media, they were pretty much one sided and very bias....and it showed....

Everyone in the public eye has to deal with the media.  It's just part of the deal.  Everyone has to make their own choice about how they will deal with that.  To paraphrase an old saying...'if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen'.  Whining is just childish.

Pat,

My problem with Palin is exactly that, she is just an average Joe.

Unfortunately, that also means that she is not too "up" on the issues, nor has she given many of them much thought.

In Palin's case, we all got to watch her learn on camera and she is one SLOW learner. It wasn't necessarily her inexperience that turned me off, but watching her was painful, her gears turn VERY slowly and I don't think we can afford that for the next few years.

I, for one, would hope that we would be governed by the best among us, I am not sure Obama is the best among us, but I am certain that neither McCain nor Palin are.

I felt for her myself.....it hurt to see her reactions sometimes. I relate to her because I am slow to respond myself.... Gosh I never cared for McCain. I always thought he stuck his finger in the eye of the Republican party....hope you're right about BO....

I related to her just fine.... maybe because I am getting up in years I could have possibly had a brain fart....but I like her....

I never heard Palin say one sensible word.  The news media didn't HAVE to spin, she did it by herself.  (and is still making a fool out of herself.)

really?   have you seen the debate between her and biden on vice president.   she says she would get in with congress and make changes----optimistic in that they would listen to her---but not wrong

biden states---the vice  president can not preside over (he did not say vote--he said preside over) the senate except in cases of a tie.

I suggest you go look up the articles of the constitution and see which of them doesnt know ANYTHING about the VPs job in the senate.    and he is a senator--and didnt realize the VP ALWAYS has the right to preside over the senate.

Brian you really, really need to go to school a take some American Civics classes.  Then come back and start all over again.

The VP only acts on cases of a tie.  Presiding over the Senate is totally honorary and is a nothing.

wow---no wonder biden is so clueless--with voters like you voting for him

Beyond this role, the only duty required by the is that the Vice President serve as the President of the Senate

Brian, like I said please go to school.  As the President of the Senate he may act only by voting on a tie.  Duh.

Okay, Palin was torpedoed for not knowing any newspapers she has read, not being able to name a supreme court decision (other than abortion), not knowing what the bush doctrine was, etc etc.  STILL waiting for a sensible word............................

Well, not really. According to your link, she simply claims that the press (her boogey-man) once again took her out of context.

It's true that she never said anything about Kennedy's qualifications, just wandered whether the press would make any effort to dig into them.

I don't see in the article you posted anywhere in which she expresses distaste for Zeigler.

(Though, she should. The guy is a hack.)

she simply claims that the press (her boogey-man) once again took her out of context.

Her "boogey-man" of choice this time was Zeigler.

She never once says anything negative about Zeigler in the article you link. Not once. In fact, she reiterates what she *did* say in the interview.