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Our view: Palin calls it quits

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lilsuzq32 wrote on 07/05/2009 08:35:22 AM:

　

Top 10 Real Reasons Sarah Palin Is Resigning As Governor:

10. She's pregnant again and is having John Edwards' baby.

9. She's "hiking the Appalachian Trail" with Mark Sanford.

8. She wants to spend more time teaching abstinence to her family.

7. She's joining the cast of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"

6. She wants to spend more time watching Russia from her house.

5. She wants to devote herself full-time to making comedians apologize for all the new jokes they're going to tell about her.

4. Her daughter Bristol actually IS having Alex Rodriguez's baby.

Timothy Geithner was nearly blocked from serving as Treasury Secretary because of his failure to pay taxes. Tom Daschle was blocked from serving as HHS Secretary.

If tax evasion is grounds for disqualifying a Cabinet official, isn't it also grounds for impeaching a sitting Governor like Sarah Palin?

Gov. Sarah Palin must pay income taxes on thousands of dollars in expense money she received while living at her Wasilla home, under a new determination by state officials.

But you might not want to stick around to see it...

In 1984, the Democratic VP was a charismatic young woman who made history, turned out huge audiences, and fired up the party base. Unfortunately she had some controversies during the campaign which ended up costing her party a point or two.

When her party lost, did the Corporate Media annoint Geraldine Ferraro as the savior of her party, worthy of endless TV coverage? Absolutely not. She was immediately made into a non-person. She lost a subsequent campaign for U.S. Senate and faded into obscurity as an occasional guest on FOX News.

So why is Sarah Palin being treated as a conquering heroine?

Obviously she has nothing intelligent to say about the nation's problems, which are overwhelming. If she did, she would have said them on the campaign trail.

She doesn't even look great because she had to give back her fabulous Neiman-Marcus clothes.

If Republicans were hoping Sarah Palin would lead them out of the wilderness, Carl Cameron just nuked that idea by revealing Palin didn't know Africa was a continent.

We're told that she didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a country just in itself.

Even Shepard Smith was shocked and asked how on earth she could have gotten past the vetting process.

A Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Priceless! (h/t Salon)

Last night, Rachel Maddow made fun of Kit Bond's attack on "the gay," but no one has demanded an apology from McCain-Palin for Bond's attack on people with disabilities.

Disability Rights Organizations Express Outrage Over Attacks at McCain-Palin Rally

(Washington, DC) The National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR) pushed back today against the McCain-Palin campaign for ridiculing the legal rights of people with disabilities. News reports describe McCain-Palin campaign representative Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo), joining Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin at a rally in Rush Limbaugh's hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, mocking Presidential candidate Senator Barak Obama for stating that he's looking to nominate judges who empathize with "the disabled."

I was flipping cable channels last night around 6:45 p.m. ET and really had to laugh. On MSNBC, Sarah Palin aide Nicole Wallace was selling McCain-Palin kool-aid. But when I flipped to FOX, Fred Barnes was burying a knife deep into Wallace's back, claiming she was responsible for buying Palin's $150,000 wardrobe and demanding she take responsibility for it.

Barnes was really angry, and for two good reasons. Politically, Palin will forever be remembered for her wardrobe, and her chances of becoming a serious national leader - and raising the GOP from its post-election grave - are nil. And on a personal note, Barnes's mad love for Palin will remain unrequited. Watch:

McCain's advisors are making a big mistake going after Palin privately with attacks like this:

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”