Comments on: Updated: Palin Gives Up Governorship ('Only Dead Fish Go With The Flow')

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:56:48 +0000

MP, we do not know if her ‘quitting’ was impetuous or otherwise. As to her oratorical prowess (or lack of), I would submit that judging ability and maturity based on a speech is shallow. (O’messiah anyone?). Should I choose to make a final determination about her qualifications at this point, I would delve into what she has and has not put her signature on while in office. Should she be intent on furthering an agenda in a public arena, we will know more as time passes. I can only say at this point as I previously posted: I wish she’d spend time getting grounded in genuine principles of individual liberty from sources that the good ‘ole boys will never sanction.

By: ProphetJames

ProphetJames — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:46:47 +0000

Mrs. Palin clearly is a gutzy lady of high character. Something that the Republican Party clearly lacks is leaders with high character. I don’t anticipate Palin will run for President in 2012 but I’d vote for her. She’d have the Washington elites and Democrats in a state of frenzy. But, since she probably won’t run, and assuming Mr. Paul is not on the Republican ticket, 2012 will be another year to vote third party.

ProphetJames

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:08:22 +0000

To Martin Berrow as to why DR. myRON PAULi does not run for President – there already has been an candidate who ran and even his name could not be uttered at the G.O.P. Convention without the Gestapo arresting the offending person! I probably have enough hubris to think that I have good ideas but I know that I am several hundred million dollars shy of being credible (like Ross Perot). And I’ll put Ilana Mercer in charge of shutting down HHS if elected!

Also – to Martin and Haym about Sarah being “smart” – did you read that “speech”?! She had days or months to work on it, run it by highly skilled professionals, and she came up with that rambling drivel! I’d call it smart only under some “affirmative action” program that throws her in with tree shrews, lemurs, and marmosets. I’ll concede that she’s sexy and likes to hunt and there is no shortage of male doofuses in the G.O.P. – but that speech leaves little doubt as to her judgment and maturity to be President. Would you rehire a WalMart store manager who quit impetuously like Sarah. Would she quit in the middle of a war?

[Okay, okay; you win BAB’s Commentator of the Year. Keep me laughing.]

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:37:48 +0000

Gushing, Gee, I like that word. My hobby is writing fiction. I gotta find a place to use that one. Respecting someone for having a fighting spirit isn’t gushing, well since character assassination is so popular, maybe. A: I too voted for Ron Paul in 88 for president. I still support Mr. Paul, but the hope for leadership needs to go to a younger person, maybe if we could quit whining and start looking. B. No, I’m not looking for Mrs. Palin to lead anything but a cafeteria line; no one likes her, except my cousin in Alaska (another hunter.) C: I agree with Alex that mixing religion and politics is a bad idea; however that’s only our opinion, mixing Christianity and politics is not being a hypocrite but following a time honored tradition. In 1534, a man called – John Calvin, started the religion, “Reform Christianity.” It was political from the beginning, considered, Conservative because they wished to conserve society. He wrote the ordnances for the City of Geneva to start. At the same time in Geneva/Paris, the Atheist’s started their government/religion in competition with Calvin, calling themselves Progressives (which is a religion in itself) 500 years of infighting to date and only the citizens have lost.

By: Martin Berrow

Martin Berrow — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:10:48 +0000

After reading Myron Pauli’s view on Sarah Palin, I wonder why Mr. Pauli doesn’t run for President? After all, it appears that he has all the answers. While it is true that Sarah Palin is not perfect, Mr.Pauli needs to understand that he is not either, or anyone else. The other thing I will say in response to ILana is that Sarah had the reins pulled in tight on her because of McCain.This is why she is splitting away from over half of the Republican party. Martin Berrow

[Fair enough.]

By: Haym Benaroya

Haym Benaroya — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:26:18 +0000

I think Palin is a sharp person, one who needs some guidance on issues she knows little about. For all the geniuses who left negative comments regarding Palin, I would like to see how you would have done with a large family, a governorship, being pulled into the VP position – in second position to the incompetent and fence-stradler, seeker of leftist adulation McCain – and under a media attack the likes of which we have not seen since the days of Richard Nixon. I found her instincts on the mark, on energy, less government, on foreign policy, but I admit she should seek guidance on some of the fine details that can make a winning debater of one with the right instincts. I see her developing into a viable presidential contender. My problem with Ron Paul is that he has the worst instincts on foreign policy. His foreign policy is that we should stay out of other nations’ business. And that there is no justification for any action before we are physically attacked. But then Dr. Paul it is too late. By then, the jihadist nuclear device has been detonated over Kansas effectively taking the United States of America back to the 18th century. How do we prevent that Dr. Paul? How do we stop that without spies, interventions, preemptions?

By: Virgil

Virgil — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:11:28 +0000

“…this most recent trip to Kosovo and Landstuhl, to visit our wounded soldiers overseas, those who sacrifice themselves in war for our freedom and security… we can ALL learn from our selfless Troops… they’re bold, they don’t give up, they take a stand and know that life is short so they choose to not waste time.”

Enough already! These supposedly Christian politicians don’t even treat our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ with such reverence. “The troops” didn’t sacrifice anything for our freedom in Kosovo, in fact “our troops” didn’t even go into Kosovo until after Serbia (and the Chinese embassy) had been bombed into submission by Bill Clinton, Wesley Clark, and Tony Blair. As for freedom in Kosovo, when did the rampant proliferation of human trafficking, narcotics smuggling, burning down historic Serbian Orthodox churches, and providing bin Laden’s friends with yet another European hangout count as victories for liberty? In Kosovo the United States aided a violent, narco-terrorist group with links to Osama bin Laden against a Christian people who had been our allies in World War II and had done us no wrong. The whole story of Serbian “ethnic cleansing” of Albanians was as real as Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program. In fact, it was the Albanians that have cleansed Kosovo of its indigenous Serbian Christians, with Western complicity. Again, Sarah Palin needs to get away from the cameras and go read some actual books on these subjects.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:44:26 +0000

While that pathetic “speech” indicts her far more than anyone in the liberal media ever could, here is an profile of Sarah’s political career that can serve as a worthy epitaph to our gorgeous political meteorite who has (most likely) burned out for good:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908
Apparently, she was basically an attractive ambitious redneck with a slightly above average IQ and some decent political instincts who moved too far too fast and got in way over her head. Who knows how far someone like her could have gotten had she been a minority or had some competent “handlers” who could have molded her into something slightly more stable?

Unlike Nixon, a brilliant but brooding man, it is hard to picture a comeback from this. However, the country and the Republicans might settle for ANYTHING in 2016 after 8 years of the Big Man Messiah’s Obammunism.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:52:30 +0000

Sarah’s egotistical rambling “announcement” did not contain the word “resign” (e.g. it skipped the bottom line). She denounced “quitters” but violated her own oath of office by quitting without even a legitimate health or scandal reason. She cites “the troops” but if her son or “the troops” did what she is doing, they would be court-martialed for desertion. How are the troops building up their families? And what does “the world needs more ‘Trigs’, not fewer” mean – should we induce Down’s syndromes in healthy babies? Did this ridiculous Ditz even run the speech by anyone? It is the looniest nonsense I have seen since Ross Perot quit over lesbian photographs of his daughter. This “hell yeah”, basketball, “gotta”, dead fish, parents’ refrigerator, Baby Trig, Kosovo … drivel without even mentioning her resignation makes her sounds like a candidate for drug testing or psychoanalysis. Does she think people want her in charge of the NUKE-YOO-LAR trigger? Does she have any concept of: (1) logic, (2) honor, (3) principles, (4) duty, (5) humility, or (6) balance? Her speech makes Sotomayor look like Socrates. Worst yet, this resignation confirms the judgment of the liberal media that she is just a CLOWN.

[More please. LOL]

By: Sal

Sal — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:41:58 +0000

Her bit about visiting the troops is rife with disgusting horse manure…Sarah, if you want to serve something greater than yourself, go enroll in Ron Paul U. and get yerself educated and pass that awakening on to your family before you look elsewhere. That would be a truly important mission….a cause worthy of undertaking. As you say Sarah, life is short and time is a wastin’….