Laurel,  your hatred and jealousy of Sarah Palin is glaringly obvious.   Your comments about a woman becoming pregnant are abrasive and unwarranted.  Having an unexpected pregnancy can happen to women who do not use protection.   That doesn’t make them anything other than they are expecting a baby.  

Yes she did allow the McCain camp to manage her.   That is what her book is about.   She has learned alot from that.  Yes, Obama did finish his term as senator and had over 100 voting "present" to his credit.   He didn’t want to leave a voting trail and we all know what he means now by transparency.

We all know why she resigned as Governor because the Obama researchers were slamming her with lawsuits every week.  You know how that is….when Chicago politicians just want you to "go away?"    That’s what they did to Palin.   Read her book.   You will learn how they accomplished that.    She did what was best for the state of Alaska, for her family and for herself.   ALL states are running into money issues, Laurel, where have you been?   Do you actually think Alaska is the only one?  Great Scot!  

She hasn’t "trashed" McCain….my your vernacular is offensive.   She never trashed him.   She is questioning why certain things were done for her and why they wanted to remake her.   I don’t know about you, but I certainly would want to get that information out if it made me look inefficient in some way.

Sarah Palin will be a fine politician over the next several years.   She continues to move forward improving herself.   I wish her well as she is a fine and decent mother and grandmother and she holds her head high while the scavengers try to pick her apart.   No one can stop her.   She is loved by millions of Americans.

Rainbow, I’m trying to make sense of your post.   It would seem to me that you should actually read her book before you made unflattering comments about it.    Don’t you think that’s fair?    I mean, you are stating she should’ve never written the book and yet you haven’t read it yet.    That’s remarkable.

Dana, that’s what politicians do.    They talk.    They promote themselves.   Sarah Palin was acknowledged a long time ago when she was elected mayor and the Governor of Alaska.

Beth, none of the democrats can dispute that fact.   In fact, no one on this site has even tried.   It is a fact that Sarah Palin has her records wide open for the public to review….the good, the bad and the ugly just like other presidents with the exception of Barack Hussein Obama.

Yes, it is scary or it USE to be scary.   Now that we know how he REALLY thinks we aren’t as frightened anymore.   We will simply vote him out of the White House in 2012.   I feel confident Hillary Clinton will be running for President for the dems and maybe just maybe Palin will be running against her….who knows at this point?  

Helen, if I may, True Grit has in no way attacked any woman on this site.   As for being "prejudiced" against Barack Obama?     The majority of Americans DO NOT APPROVE OF HIS DIRECTION FOR OUR COUNTRY…..what does that have to do with being prejudiced?

Sarah Palin isn’t an idiot or a money grubbing fool.   She has accomplished more than anyone on this site unless, of course, you have been a mayor or a governor.   She left her governor’s seat because of the lawsuits that were coming in every week from the Obama camp….you know the "transparency group?"   They were using their well honed Chicago thug tactics to destroy her but she was a little smarter.  It’s called "outfoxing the fox."   She resigned.   She cut them off at the pass.   And, now, only now has she been able to start over again to get her republican views and messages out to her supporters.   How in the world can any woman be angry at Sarah Palin for pursuing her dreams unless, of course, they are envious.   What else could it be?

 

Margo, I find your comments interesting.   Two of my children went to three high schools and both went on to graduate from excellent universities and grad schools.   I’m not sure why five colleges should be noted.   She does have a degree.   At least Sarah’s college information is out there for all to review unlike Barack Obama who felt it necessary to have all of his records sealed.   Let’s see…..transparency versus secrecy????

It is my opinion that the only reason Obama won was due to GWB creating the perfect storm.   Now Obama is creating that perfect storm for Sarah Palin??  

Margo, as always, you have your own personal opinions about Sarah Palin.   I believe President Obama may have it over Palin in loving the attention he is receiving.   Come to think of it, I’ve never heard Obama say "I love my country."   Interesting.  

Sarah Palin was elected mayor and elected governor.   I don’t believe for a nanosecond that Sarah Palin is in politics for the fun of it.   I believe it is reasonable to state that there’s a bit of jealousy going on among those who criticize her so harshly.   I also believe that anyone who could change career paths in order to double their income would do it.   There’s no harm in loving what you are doing and being well paid for it.  

Jon, it was a good interview.  Sarah Palin is working hard to become the voice of the moderate republicans.   It takes time and it takes her ability of self reflection on how she can be a better speaker to deliver her message.   I don’t believe there’s anyone on this website who is as accomplished as Sarah Palin.   If someone has been a Mayor or a Governor speak up now.   She is a working mother who has touched the hearts of millions of Americans…38% in fact.  

No one knows where Sarah Palin will land.   She’s obviously working very hard to improve herself.

Eldebbo C, Oprah didn’t have a choice, really.   Since she endorsed Barack Obama on her show last year her ratings have dropped considerably.   I got the feeling that Oprah is not happy with Obama’s first year as president.   It’s not what she ssaid it was what she didn’t say when she stated that she didn’t watch the night that McCain announced Palin as his running mate as she was "at that OTHER convention…you know, that OTHER convention."   Even Oprah must realize that Palin is loved by many in America….38% actually.   That’s a high percentage in terms of actually running for the presidential nomination.

Thank you, Eldebbo C.   It is clear that Sarah Palin represents a real threat to the democrats because she is down to earth, transparent and loves her country.   In contrast, the democrats elected a president who campaigned as a moderate and showed up in the White House on January 21, 2009 as a far left leaning socialist driven president.   He campaigned on transparency and hasn’t delivered it.   In fact, this administration goes behind closed doors to get their policies passed.  This president wasn’t raised to believe that America is a great country.   His radical affiliations and communist affiliations support this.    He felt it absolutely necessary to go around the world to apologize for our great country.   He is the first president to do that.   He had all of his records sealed.    Fact.

Cecile said "most dignified people prefer not to think about how their food gets to the table." 

  What a concept!   Americans and the rest of the world are quite concerned about how food gets to their tables.   We think about it all of the time…where it comes from, is it safe, is it organic?    You might want to try that comment again.

This article is interesting:

Undoubtedly at this very moment, two saffron-robed monks in a monastery north of Katmandu are earnestly discussing Sarah Palin’s presidential prospects. In the favelas of Rio, the normally fierce arguments about the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics are surely taking a back seat to high-decibel debates over the pre-publication excerpts from Going Rogue.

This is Palin time whether you believe that she is "The Divine Sarah" (as Sarah Bernhardt was once known) or the 21st century version of Barry Goldwater who will lead the Republican Party into the abyss. True believers stress her megawatt incandescence and her Facebook leadership of the conservative tea-party movement at time when all other Republicans seem pallid. Skeptics scoff at the hoopla and argue that the Republican establishment would never nominate someone who, according to a recent CNN/Opinion Research poll, 71 percent of voters describe as "not qualified to be president."
More than two years before the 2012 Iowa caucuses, presidential speculation should come with a soothsayer’s money-back guarantee. But what all the discussions of Palin’s future miss is the way that Republican Party rules are made-to-order for a well-funded insurgent named Sarah to sweep the primaries before anyone figures out how to stop her. If Palin can maintain, say, 35-percent support in a multi-candidate presidential field, then she is the odds-on favorite for the GOP nomination.

The secret of Palin’s presidential potential is the Republican Party’s affection for winner-take-all primaries. According to my friend Elaine Kamarck’s invaluable new book, Primary Politics, 43 percent of the 2008 Republican delegates were selected in primaries where the winner corralled all the delegates by winning a state or congressional district. As a result of the Republicans’ to-the-victor-go-the-spoils method of picking convention delegates, Mike Huckabee finished second in 16 states and won a paltry 74 delegates for his trouble.

In the name of fairness, the Democrats have banned such winner-take-all primaries, which is why the nomination fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton dragged into June. The Democratic Party’s method of proportional representation meant that neither candidate could score a game-ending victory until all the primaries ended.

In contrast, the Republicans have long been more concerned with avoiding a lengthy and divisive nomination fight than in designing a philosophically pure system of allocating delegates.

Here is why this kind of arcane detail may well smooth Palin’s path to the 2012 nomination. While nothing is certain this far out, Palin seems perfectly positioned to appeal to the conservative party activists who turn out for the opening-gun Iowa caucuses. Moderate New Hampshire, of course, is apt to be a daunting challenge for Palin.

Next stop on the traditional GOP calendar is the firewall South Carolina primary where, as Kamarck writes, "candidates such as Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson (who were seen as too radical to win a general election)…could be stopped early on."

But Palin would not be a lucky fringe candidate who won a caucus or two; she would be a universally known charismatic figure who could beat the party establishment in this conservative state.

In 2008, after South Carolina came a series of winner-take-all primaries in which John McCain rolled up a lopsided delegate lead. McCain won all of Florida’s delegates even though he received just 36 percent of the primary vote. In California, where delegates were allocated by congressional districts, McCain won 158 delegates with 42 percent of the popular vote. Mitt Romney received 34 percent of the California vote but was awarded just 12 delegates. In Illinois, Romney won exactly 3 delegates despite his 29-percent share of the primary vote. Because of similar primary rules, McCain won every single delegate in the early February contests in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri and Virginia.

If Palin launches a 2012 race – and survives the South Carolina primary with her aura intact – she could theoretically sweep the winner-take-all states without ever winning a majority anywhere. The Republican establishment (the congressional leadership, the governors, the major donors and national consultants) could all agree that Palin would be an electoral disaster against Obama in November and still be powerless to halt her juggernaut.

The best way to stop Sarah would be for GOP insiders to rally quickly around a single anti-Palin candidate. But such cabals rarely work in politics because there are too many egos involved. Would, say, Romney be so panicked about Palin that he would prematurely abandon his presidential ambitions to support a potentially more winnable candidate like maybe Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty? Not bloody likely. For that matter, would populist Huckabee drop out in favor of a big-business Republican like Romney to prevent Palin mania? Yeah, sure.

Although the party rules are entirely different than in 1964 when Goldwater permanently decimated the Eastern liberal Republican Party, the guiding principle is the same. A well-known candidate with a passionate following who organizes early can win the nomination even if a large swath of the party believes that he or she is ill-equipped to be entrusted with the nation’s nuclear codes.

Since the Republicans allow winner-take-all primaries but do not mandate them, it will be intriguing if major states decide to change their rules about how they will award convention delegates in 2012. Jiggering with the primaries might be the first manifestation of a top-down Stop Palin movement. Otherwise, winner-take-all Republican primaries may speed the nomination of the most polarizing presidential nominee since the Democrats picked George McGovern in 1972. http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/16/walter/

Shera, most people eat meat, fish, chicken and turkey.       Your point?      

S A, c lawre and Donna H, all of you are welcome to your personal opinions regarding Sarah Palin.   However, you cannot dispute the facts especially as it relates to the differences in what both parties believe to be right for America.   The core differences between these two parties is what divides our country.   Our independents are clearly supporting republican values.

To S A, anyone who is well versed in history knows that George W. Bush cannot take the entire blame for the mess that was handed to Barack Obama.   It goes way back to Jimmy Carter and his affirmative action belief that every minority should own a home.   He went to the banks and made it happen.   Bill Clinton enhanced it and John McCain tried to stop it but the democratic congress wasn’t buying the fact that the economy was in serious trouble due to SUBPRIME LOANS.   The war in Iraq is what George W. Bush is blamed for, a war, by the way, that Barack Obama acknowledged as having been a necessary war and made a difference in the lives of the Iraqi people.   So, if you have a problem with the Iraq war, take your issues to Barack Obama.

To c lawre, your comments emotional and cananot be supported.   Many people in this country believe in hunting animals.   In fact, killing animals for food started long before we were born.    People were divided on this topic of killing animals long before Sarah Palin came into the picture.

And, to Donna H, both you and c lawre are judging Sarah Palin’s book without reading it so you’ve placed yourself in a position of not being credible to discussing it’s contents.

What this country knows now is that Barack Obama hasn’t grown into t presidential material  after one year.  He is still campaigning instead of leading and making the tough decisions in Afghanistan.   I’ve tried to make a list of what he has accomplished in his first year and it’s difficult.   All I can come up with are failed attempts to turn our economy around and create the jobs that are desperately needed in our country.   Nothing he has done so far has worked and he will soon be telling the American people that we need another stimulus because the first one didn’t work.   Obama and his administration are clearly experimenting with our hard earned tax dollars and the American people are not happy with this.     The price tag of $15 trillion and pulsing in his first year in office and nothing to show for it is remarkable.

Obama is creating the perfect storm for a republican to win in 2012.  Today, I read where another state will go red…..Iowa.    New Jersey and Virginia elected republican governors….and the trend suggests that more will follow.   

Obama was too inexperienced to be POTUS.   It shows.   It will cost him re-election and open the door to a moderate republican leader.