OT- Governor Palin will resign July 25, 2009.

[partypup]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=ocrenter]from http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/did-a-scandal-sink-the-uss-palin/?cid=hp:mainpromo2:

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.[/quote]

OCR: This seems to be the most plausible explanation. If I recall correctly, Palin was dogged by these type murmurings during the campaign.

Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has announced he won’t be back in his state role in order to focus on a presidential run in 2012. I would think Pawlenty, Huckabee and Romney will be the presumptive heirs to the Republican crown, and I doubt anyone would consider Palin a serious front runner against that field.[/quote]

Agree completely. She has no shot in 2012. But then again, I don’t think any incumbent from ANY party will have a shot in 2012. Voters will have their torches and pitchforks ready when they go to the ballot boxes. Palin appeared to have potential for about 2 weeks, then the laminated film came off. How much you want to bet these rumors true? This woman is yet another elected crook/official. Even if you’re a backwoods, rifle-toting, moose-hunting, down-home girl with barely a lick of education, once you get into office you turn into a crook. It’s just pathetic and profoundly distressing.

[socrattt]

These are all great posts and some even a bit laughable. Let’s be honest Palin didn’t bode well as a pick for the Repub ticket last year. I thought if any Repub stood a chance against the messiah it was Romney (looking at things from an economical standpoint), although his Mormon faith didn’t help his cause.

I don’t believe Palin stands a chance on the ticket in 2012. I am not saying I dislike her, I just don’t see it happening. She is definitely a bit more on the right side of politics, but maybe America will need a little more right in 3 years. It is quite obvious what is happening in our current government with the amount of control over just about every sector. One thing is certain, the next 3 years will be some of the worst and most challenging in America’s history so Obama will have a lot of critical decisions to make in order to keep the left in office in 2012.

I think the Repub’s will definitely need a standout for the ticket because if Palin is to go up against Obama I don’t see upset happening. This will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Let’s all stop the speculation and wait to see the truth about why she walked away from the position. Happy 4th to all of you. May the freedom in this country continue and not be stripped away from us!!!

[socrattt]

These are all great posts and some even a bit laughable. Let’s be honest Palin didn’t bode well as a pick for the Repub ticket last year. I thought if any Repub stood a chance against the messiah it was Romney (looking at things from an economical standpoint), although his Mormon faith didn’t help his cause.

I don’t believe Palin stands a chance on the ticket in 2012. I am not saying I dislike her, I just don’t see it happening. She is definitely a bit more on the right side of politics, but maybe America will need a little more right in 3 years. It is quite obvious what is happening in our current government with the amount of control over just about every sector. One thing is certain, the next 3 years will be some of the worst and most challenging in America’s history so Obama will have a lot of critical decisions to make in order to keep the left in office in 2012.

I think the Repub’s will definitely need a standout for the ticket because if Palin is to go up against Obama I don’t see upset happening. This will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Let’s all stop the speculation and wait to see the truth about why she walked away from the position. Happy 4th to all of you. May the freedom in this country continue and not be stripped away from us!!!

[socrattt]

These are all great posts and some even a bit laughable. Let’s be honest Palin didn’t bode well as a pick for the Repub ticket last year. I thought if any Repub stood a chance against the messiah it was Romney (looking at things from an economical standpoint), although his Mormon faith didn’t help his cause.

I don’t believe Palin stands a chance on the ticket in 2012. I am not saying I dislike her, I just don’t see it happening. She is definitely a bit more on the right side of politics, but maybe America will need a little more right in 3 years. It is quite obvious what is happening in our current government with the amount of control over just about every sector. One thing is certain, the next 3 years will be some of the worst and most challenging in America’s history so Obama will have a lot of critical decisions to make in order to keep the left in office in 2012.

I think the Repub’s will definitely need a standout for the ticket because if Palin is to go up against Obama I don’t see upset happening. This will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Let’s all stop the speculation and wait to see the truth about why she walked away from the position. Happy 4th to all of you. May the freedom in this country continue and not be stripped away from us!!!

[socrattt]

These are all great posts and some even a bit laughable. Let’s be honest Palin didn’t bode well as a pick for the Repub ticket last year. I thought if any Repub stood a chance against the messiah it was Romney (looking at things from an economical standpoint), although his Mormon faith didn’t help his cause.

I don’t believe Palin stands a chance on the ticket in 2012. I am not saying I dislike her, I just don’t see it happening. She is definitely a bit more on the right side of politics, but maybe America will need a little more right in 3 years. It is quite obvious what is happening in our current government with the amount of control over just about every sector. One thing is certain, the next 3 years will be some of the worst and most challenging in America’s history so Obama will have a lot of critical decisions to make in order to keep the left in office in 2012.

I think the Repub’s will definitely need a standout for the ticket because if Palin is to go up against Obama I don’t see upset happening. This will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Let’s all stop the speculation and wait to see the truth about why she walked away from the position. Happy 4th to all of you. May the freedom in this country continue and not be stripped away from us!!!

[socrattt]

These are all great posts and some even a bit laughable. Let’s be honest Palin didn’t bode well as a pick for the Repub ticket last year. I thought if any Repub stood a chance against the messiah it was Romney (looking at things from an economical standpoint), although his Mormon faith didn’t help his cause.

I don’t believe Palin stands a chance on the ticket in 2012. I am not saying I dislike her, I just don’t see it happening. She is definitely a bit more on the right side of politics, but maybe America will need a little more right in 3 years. It is quite obvious what is happening in our current government with the amount of control over just about every sector. One thing is certain, the next 3 years will be some of the worst and most challenging in America’s history so Obama will have a lot of critical decisions to make in order to keep the left in office in 2012.

I think the Repub’s will definitely need a standout for the ticket because if Palin is to go up against Obama I don’t see upset happening. This will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Let’s all stop the speculation and wait to see the truth about why she walked away from the position. Happy 4th to all of you. May the freedom in this country continue and not be stripped away from us!!!

[citydweller]

Does anyone think she may be resigning in order to become active in the Alaskan Independence Party, to help Alaska secede from the Union?

I know it’s a long shot, but she never ceases to amaze.

[citydweller]

Does anyone think she may be resigning in order to become active in the Alaskan Independence Party, to help Alaska secede from the Union?

I know it’s a long shot, but she never ceases to amaze.

[citydweller]

Does anyone think she may be resigning in order to become active in the Alaskan Independence Party, to help Alaska secede from the Union?

I know it’s a long shot, but she never ceases to amaze.

[citydweller]

Does anyone think she may be resigning in order to become active in the Alaskan Independence Party, to help Alaska secede from the Union?

I know it’s a long shot, but she never ceases to amaze.

[citydweller]

Does anyone think she may be resigning in order to become active in the Alaskan Independence Party, to help Alaska secede from the Union?

I know it’s a long shot, but she never ceases to amaze.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=partypup][quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=ocrenter]from http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/did-a-scandal-sink-the-uss-palin/?cid=hp:mainpromo2:

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.[/quote]

OCR: This seems to be the most plausible explanation. If I recall correctly, Palin was dogged by these type murmurings during the campaign.

Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has announced he won’t be back in his state role in order to focus on a presidential run in 2012. I would think Pawlenty, Huckabee and Romney will be the presumptive heirs to the Republican crown, and I doubt anyone would consider Palin a serious front runner against that field.[/quote]

Agree completely. She has no shot in 2012. But then again, I don’t think any incumbent from ANY party will have a shot in 2012. Voters will have their torches and pitchforks ready when they go to the ballot boxes. Palin appeared to have potential for about 2 weeks, then the laminated film came off. How much you want to bet these rumors true? This woman is yet another elected crook/official. Even if you’re a backwoods, rifle-toting, moose-hunting, down-home girl with barely a lick of education, once you get into office you turn into a crook. It’s just pathetic and profoundly distressing.
[/quote]

Partypup: Quite a few of my clients are in the Oil/Gas/Petrochem industry and absolutely loathe Palin. Well, in point of fact, they loathe pretty much all of Alaska, which has made a pretty fine living shaking down, er, I mean “taxing” the refiners and oil services companies up there.

I don’t think Sarah Palin needs any lessons in that regard; she seems to have already mastered how to put the arm on those with money.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=partypup][quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=ocrenter]from http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/did-a-scandal-sink-the-uss-palin/?cid=hp:mainpromo2:

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.[/quote]

OCR: This seems to be the most plausible explanation. If I recall correctly, Palin was dogged by these type murmurings during the campaign.

Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has announced he won’t be back in his state role in order to focus on a presidential run in 2012. I would think Pawlenty, Huckabee and Romney will be the presumptive heirs to the Republican crown, and I doubt anyone would consider Palin a serious front runner against that field.[/quote]

Agree completely. She has no shot in 2012. But then again, I don’t think any incumbent from ANY party will have a shot in 2012. Voters will have their torches and pitchforks ready when they go to the ballot boxes. Palin appeared to have potential for about 2 weeks, then the laminated film came off. How much you want to bet these rumors true? This woman is yet another elected crook/official. Even if you’re a backwoods, rifle-toting, moose-hunting, down-home girl with barely a lick of education, once you get into office you turn into a crook. It’s just pathetic and profoundly distressing.
[/quote]

Partypup: Quite a few of my clients are in the Oil/Gas/Petrochem industry and absolutely loathe Palin. Well, in point of fact, they loathe pretty much all of Alaska, which has made a pretty fine living shaking down, er, I mean “taxing” the refiners and oil services companies up there.

I don’t think Sarah Palin needs any lessons in that regard; she seems to have already mastered how to put the arm on those with money.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=partypup][quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=ocrenter]from http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/did-a-scandal-sink-the-uss-palin/?cid=hp:mainpromo2:

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.[/quote]

OCR: This seems to be the most plausible explanation. If I recall correctly, Palin was dogged by these type murmurings during the campaign.

Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has announced he won’t be back in his state role in order to focus on a presidential run in 2012. I would think Pawlenty, Huckabee and Romney will be the presumptive heirs to the Republican crown, and I doubt anyone would consider Palin a serious front runner against that field.[/quote]

Agree completely. She has no shot in 2012. But then again, I don’t think any incumbent from ANY party will have a shot in 2012. Voters will have their torches and pitchforks ready when they go to the ballot boxes. Palin appeared to have potential for about 2 weeks, then the laminated film came off. How much you want to bet these rumors true? This woman is yet another elected crook/official. Even if you’re a backwoods, rifle-toting, moose-hunting, down-home girl with barely a lick of education, once you get into office you turn into a crook. It’s just pathetic and profoundly distressing.
[/quote]

Partypup: Quite a few of my clients are in the Oil/Gas/Petrochem industry and absolutely loathe Palin. Well, in point of fact, they loathe pretty much all of Alaska, which has made a pretty fine living shaking down, er, I mean “taxing” the refiners and oil services companies up there.

I don’t think Sarah Palin needs any lessons in that regard; she seems to have already mastered how to put the arm on those with money.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=partypup][quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=ocrenter]from http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/did-a-scandal-sink-the-uss-palin/?cid=hp:mainpromo2:

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.[/quote]

OCR: This seems to be the most plausible explanation. If I recall correctly, Palin was dogged by these type murmurings during the campaign.

Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has announced he won’t be back in his state role in order to focus on a presidential run in 2012. I would think Pawlenty, Huckabee and Romney will be the presumptive heirs to the Republican crown, and I doubt anyone would consider Palin a serious front runner against that field.[/quote]

Agree completely. She has no shot in 2012. But then again, I don’t think any incumbent from ANY party will have a shot in 2012. Voters will have their torches and pitchforks ready when they go to the ballot boxes. Palin appeared to have potential for about 2 weeks, then the laminated film came off. How much you want to bet these rumors true? This woman is yet another elected crook/official. Even if you’re a backwoods, rifle-toting, moose-hunting, down-home girl with barely a lick of education, once you get into office you turn into a crook. It’s just pathetic and profoundly distressing.
[/quote]

Partypup: Quite a few of my clients are in the Oil/Gas/Petrochem industry and absolutely loathe Palin. Well, in point of fact, they loathe pretty much all of Alaska, which has made a pretty fine living shaking down, er, I mean “taxing” the refiners and oil services companies up there.

I don’t think Sarah Palin needs any lessons in that regard; she seems to have already mastered how to put the arm on those with money.

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