"Once I am 'Sarah Palin, Alaskan,' I can really call it like I see it," she said.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Palin said she is eager to begin life as a private citizen.

"Once I am 'Sarah Palin, Alaskan,' I can really call it like I see it," she said.

"I look forward to continuing to work for Alaska and for energy independence and for the contribution that Alaska could and should be making to allow our nation to be more secure and more prosperous," she said.

Palin says Alaska voters have accepted her decision to resign, even as she continues to receive criticism from the national media and even some fellow Republicans who question her decision to leave with 18 months left in her four-year term.

"We don't give a damn how they do it outside," she said, quoting a popular state bumper sticker. "We do it a different way up here. The pioneer spirit runs strong."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/19/palin-says-alaska-tour-is_n_240218.html

:eyes:

[Curtland1015]

1. So, what she's saying is, as a politician, she never told us what she really meant.

...and this is supposed to make people WANT to vote for her, should she ever run for anything again?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. "The gloves are off until I run for President. Then the gloves go back on. Oh, you betcha."

:rofl:

[DefenseLawyer]

3. On my new Fox Talk Show!

Cha-ching!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. Can anyone tell me why she always frames everything

is terms of "fighting."

"I'm a fighter" seems to be her mantra, and there are always these "dark forces" closing in on her, forcing her to do things she doesn't want to do, keeping her from telling the truth, bending her to its evil will.

Is she seeing herself as some sort of martyr to government - the office she "fought" so hard to achieve, the VIP slot she "fought" so hard to achieve?

Because - now, I'm clinically sane, so I realize I'm at a disadvantage here - she's making even less sense with these epic pronouncements.................................

[MilesColtrane]

9. She's almost like Nixon in the level of paranoia she displays.

The difference is that her enemies list includes "logic", "facts", and "syntax".

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. lol

[emulatorloo]

12. She's basically in denial. Just substitute "quit" for "fight" and you will get the picture.

EOM

[The Gunslinger]

26. she knows how to speak to her base

Fighitn' and guns is what they love.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

29. I think that's it -

fightin' is easier than learning and understanding and negotiating and compromising, and, in general, behaving in an intelligent, informed, adult way.

Obama was right, remember, in that remark he made during the campaign, the one at a private fundraiser that was surreptitiously recorded?

They DO cling to religion and guns.

And Sarah Palin, you're correct, is whoring for them. It fits well with her natural passive-aggressive personality...............

[petronius]

31. Republicans in general need to have an enemy, and an authority figure

to tell them how to feel about/respond to that enemy - it makes the world a lot simpler. She has that worldview, but she probably plays it up as well because she know that it's the right language to manipulate the shallow-thinkers who compose her base...

[Blue_In_AK]

32. Have you read any of her tweets?

She is seriously "over-the-top" shall we say? A drama queen.

[tanyev]

5. Oh, this is gonna be good.

:rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

6. There's so much wrong with that piece

I don't even know where to start. But I'll start here "But this is what Palin loves best: Reaching out to Alaskans, no matter how remote." :puke: Tell that to Emmonak.

And Alaska voters have not only "accepted" her decision to resign, we are ECSTATIC!

What a clown.

[NYC_SKP]

8. And "energy independence"? For Alaska, really?

Aren't you all a net exporter of energy???

:shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

15. We are, and we suffer for it.

Alaska has the highest energy costs of any state in the union.

It's not that Alaska COULDN'T be energy independent because we could, with wind, geothermal, tidal, solar (in the summer) and so on, but she didn't really show much interest in that. Her only focus seemed to be on that pipeline to the tar sands.

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. So, like a third world nation, it exports its resources to the detriment

of its own economy.

THAT'S the Republican vision of tomorrow's America.

[uppityperson]

37. I see Eagle is getting help, how about Eagle Village, after the Yukon breakup/flooding?

What with The Church being a solid bloc in Eagle, I figured they would get some help, wondering about Eagle Village, do you know?

[rocktivity]

7. Does she really believe she can walk away from being a public figure the way she did

with her credibility intact? That's not a pioneering spirit, that's a personality defect. From now on, she'll HAVE to care how they do it outside.

:crazy:
rocktivity

[Blue_In_AK]

33. That part about "We don't give a damn how they do it Outside"

is an "inside" joke. We get it up here, but she was stupid to bring it up to the national media. I've always hated how she presents Alaskans to the rest of the country, magnifying our weaknesses and minimizing our strengths.

[bemildred]

10. This is what comes of watching too much television.

You start to think all those trite cliches you heard on TV dramas are real.

[northernlights]

11. for all her babble

She'd rather quit than fight.

[spindrifter]

13. Is her mouth really big enough to put her feet into?

With her reserved, scripted babble, we have heard plenty of gaffes. Bring it on now, Sarah.

[gleaner]

24. It seems to be.....

I think that she has had both her feet and the feet of others in her mouth for so long, that she scarcely notices.


I had hoped that when she retired she would shut up. Silly me. Would someone please help her to catch a fish and then insert it firmly into her mouth? Between that and all those feet in there, maybe it will serve to muffle whatever she says.:crazy:

[Metta]

14. Right. Those lights, cameras & action would certainly prevent anyone from being true to themselves.

Or morally consistent with what they profess to believe. Happy karma, traitor.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. Once she's 'Sara Palin, Alaskan drifting away on an ice floe,' we can finally say goodbye.

[tularetom]

19. Like the pic of the Palin protesters under the swaying Alaskan palm trees

WTF?

[DefenseLawyer]

21. I believe she may have run for national office at one time

Perhaps the photo was taken then. :eyes:

[Bolo Boffin]

20. I can hardly wait.

Bring it on, Citizen Palin. We ain't seen nothing yet? I believe it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. Does this mean she was holding back during the campaign?

Talking about understanding Russia because she could see it was an example of restraint? Mentioning that Putin could rear his head at any minute and enter U.S. airspace was an example of restraint? Saying that we might go to war because of the crisis in Georgia was an example of restraint? Talking about an unknown entity called the Department of Laws is an example of restraint? Having no idea what the Bush Doctrine was and merely looking stupid and saying "in what respect, Charlie?" is an example of restraint?

If this person ever lets the floodgates of her bizarre mind open and lets everything flow out of it unrestrained, calling it like she sees it, it will be a truly amazing spectacle.

[livetohike]

23. Yep, jaw dropping stupidity coming our way

No one to restrain her, just her worshipping cult clinging to her every incoherent sentence. Leave us a nice twitter paper trail Sarah :-).

[ezgoingrl]

25. Wow.

So once she's Citizen Palin, she's really gonna unleash the crazy. This should be good.

:popcorn:

[Kadie]

27. We ain't seen nothing yet?

:scared: :scared: :scared:


or


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[alsame]

28. This is a good thing. She will continue to

self-destruct. The real danger would have been if she had quietly gone home, finished her term and tried to learn a thing or two.

[MisterP]

30. yeah, yeah, non-Alaskans are subhuman. go play with Terry Nichols n/t

[Lex]

34. Oh, this circus act called Sarah Palin is about to get even BETTER!

:popcorn:

[lunatica]

35. So is she going to have handlers and publicists to tell her what to say as an Alaskan?

She's getting to be such a bore already. The sparkle is beginning to really wear thin.

[uppityperson]

36. Pioneer Spirit is NOT "quit when the going gets rough" you twit. eom

[handmade34]

38. In Vermont, the squirrelly people up there have their saying...

"I'm a Vamonta, I do what I wanta" same thing
I am sure every state has their 'saying'

"We do it a different way up here. The pioneer spirit runs strong." ......It ain't the 19th century anymore folks!