Seriously. You must be joking.

The fact that we know all of these things about her tells me we just can’t get enough of her.

and the more traditionalist but still feminist woman’s version of Hillary, plus even if one isn’t much of a gossip hound, like a trainwreck, it is hard not to look.

As for Ted, I don’t see it happening, he is 85 y/o. But I’d never say never. I’m not sure the rest of the country understands just how popular he is up here. If it did happen, I’d be thrilled, because I think he might actually be able to make the gas line happen.

Oh in addition to the leg threatening to sue the gov, she is threatening to sue the leg. Gonna make the confirmation of WAR interesting. Popcorn anyone?

what, exactly, people expected Palin to do WRT the Bristol situation. It’s not like Bristol was five and Gov. Palin could just put her over her lap and spank her. Somewhere along the way, it has to be acknowledged that these kids are gonna make decisions about their lives, and that these decisions may not be marked with Aristotelean good sense, no matter their parentage.

Still, we owe a debt of gratitude for Palin’s run. She got us talking, really talking about what we want in our next leaders, even if she doesn’t quite make the cut in the end.

Before, we talked about settling, supporting the R candidate, and the candidate we got was the one we least wanted because the media led us around by the noses with the on again/off again affair with McCain.

We learned a lot and if we stop worrying about 2012 and worry about what we want to see for 2012 maybe we’ll have a better chance at getting at least close to what we want.

In the meantime, we can still work on 2010 which isn’t that far ahead in the future.

You must read the phone book for excitement.

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/747513.html

I think she’s probably right about the unconstitutionality of the law. There’s also a good argument that the closed caucus vote violates the State’s Open Meetings Act under which you can decide how you’re going to vote in a closed caucus, but the actual vote that decides any public matter must be taken in public.

She’s done more twists and turns about stimulus money than I can keep up with. First she made her dramatic, “I’m not taking it” press release that everybody got all orgasmic about. Then she said she was only taking part of it. Then she had Lt. Gov. Parnell start talking about what parts of it people wanted taken. Then she said she only wanted to have a dialog with the Legislature about what parts of it they wanted to take.

Just as she did with the budget itself, she played to the cheap seats and set it up for the Legislature to have to make all the tough decisions.

As to the stuff with kids and Todd’s relative, who cares?

I know this is an opinion piece, but it would be good to put some links in because the subjects are all important, at the very least link the part about Todd’s half sister…not that *I* think that has anything to do with Gov. Palin’s ability or lack of, whichever it ends up being.

Otherwise it looks like gossip….I think Gov Palin is in a hole in a big way, but she has many loyal fans, we will see how this all pans out.

That said…things don’t look good.

Look, I say this as a fairly open-minded Palin fan and as someone who delighted in watching Eric Holder eat crow on the Stevens thing.

If Stevens were to take on and defeat Palin in a primary, it would certainly make the lefties (and Art?) orgasmic in the extreme. But seriously, most of us Repubs & Conservatives in the lower 48 see Ted Stevens as a porkmaster who is just a small step behind Robert Byrd (D-WV) in his ability to extract tax money and is somewhat more corrupt, prosecutor malfeasance notwithstanding. If AK were to throw out Palin for an 87-year-old with Stevens’ reputation, the AK GOP would become the laughingstock of the party for years to come.

While we’re at it, why don’t we try to primary Jindal in LA, Sanford in SC, and find a way to dis’ Mitt Romney. We’ll just ‘civil war’ all our potential ’12 candidates and make it real easy on the O-man to get re-elected. Somewhere, Axelrod, Carville, Begala, and co. are laughing hysterically.

under “worthless tabloid crap that doesn’t matter” to Palin supporters. Or they can be filed under “wishful thinking” by Palin critics.

Twists and turns on the stimulus by Palin are no more serpentine than those we have seen taken by Jindal and now Sanford, who just caved.

Palin and Sen. Murkowski have apparently been working together. The Senator just introduced legislation which would clear some of the hurdles for construction of the Alaskan intrastate (Bullet) gas pipeline that the governor called for in her state of the state address.

Palin still enjoys a 60% approval rating in Alaska. At his advanced age, it’s not likely that Steven would challenge her, and if he does, it’s not certain that he would defeat her. She will probably run for reelection in 2010, but she has other options. I doubt that she would challenge Murkowski for the Senate in 2012, but a Palin-Begich contest in 2014 would be an interesting matchup.

If Parnell didn’t want it so badly, one could even imagine Palin challenging Young for his House seat. His 76% lifetime ACU rating would be seen as pretty pathetic by most conservatives.

- JP

I do think the latest media about her sister-in-law and Levi are plain silly. Gov. Palin certainly can’t control her sister-in-law and is in no way responsible for her behavior. As for Levi, he appears to be using his connection to the Palin family to make a quick buck. I say this as someone who is not a supporter of Gov. Palin. The media should stay focused on her policies, not rumors spread by Levi, who is likely a spurned lover who wants to get back at Bristol

with the latest stories about family chaos. Her changing positions on the stimulus package — as Achance noted — and her battles over filling a Senate seat are all issues that, IMO, should be discussed objectively since they involve substantive policy issues. But what her sister-in-law does or what some barely legal former boyfriend of her daughter says on some gossip show is irrelevant and shouldn’t be getting any air time.

There are many differences I have with Sarah Palin but I will defend her when she is dragged through the mud over issues not related to her performance in government. I also think she had a right to respond to Levi’s comments, especially his claims that Gov. Palin allowed him to sleep in the same bed with her daughter at their house. That just sounds preposterous and the Governor had a responsibility to her family to rebut such a claim.

Good Morning, Socialist America.

Sorry Rush.

/sarc

Well hells bells light her up she ought to be on the funeral pyre …..good gracioous how does this woman do her job? she has all these white trash “in-laws” and somehow, someway she is to be held RESPONSIBLE? Get a grip!

This woman can no more control people in her life and the things they do than you or I can……that you find it necessary to treat her life like the Enquirer does shows you are taken with her and her family. They do say that Good News Bad News as long as a your name is in the news they are talking about you and this gossip you thrust upon us here is PROOF that is true.

The oldstream media, old school Republicans are doing its best to bring her down BUT guess what? WE ALL have family members we would throw down a rabbit hole before we ran for office and it makes her REAL! It’s not like Joe Biden’s cocaine snorting daughter or The One snorting it himself along with his parade of clowns with which he hung NO, these are real people with real problems living real lives and the Governor has handled it quite well!

This problem is that Levi is acting like the schmuck he evidently is and in a world that has lost his sanity, he is lionized (and probably financially rewarded) for publically acting like a schmuck rather than being cut down to size, losing several inches or more in the process (as would have happened in times past).

Sarah is right to have spoken out as she did – in today’s world, ignoring Levi would allow her opponents to control the public debate – a lesson which Republicans need to learn, just look at George Bush.

However, Sarah continues to need to do right by refusing future comment – and keeping Bristol our of the public eye and away from reporters. Like Queen Elizabeth dealing with her dysfunctional family members.

Instaed, she needs come up with some accomplishments as governor. If Sarah is mending fences with Murkowski and working with her, that’s a good start. Even better if she doesn’t run against Murkowski in 2010.

Hopefully, Sarah is starting to realize that she needs to start finding some allies in her own political party, because the Democrats who helped her career are not exactly her friends and were not motivated by an altruistic interest in Sarah’s welfare.

Maybe Sarah will even start to fire some Democrats in the state bureaucracy – or am I getting too far ahead of myself here…