Cheat Sheet

The Best In Brief

2009
11
23
NOVEMBER 2009
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
GOP Watch

Palin Follows Sanford, Ensign

HP Main - GOP Suicides
AP Photos

With Sarah Palin’s surprise announcement that she’s resigning, she joins the ranks of Mark Sanford and John Ensign as once-promising 2012 contenders who have disappointed their party. Can Palin bounce back from her bewildering, much-panned Friday evening resignation announcement? Only time will tell. In the meantime, pundits, are left speculating and dissecting the fallen star. Mostly notably NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell, who said that Palin has “had it” with politics.

Posted at 5:25 PM, Jul 3, 2009
Save it
  |  
Email
  |  
Facebook
  |  
Twitter
  |  
Digg
  |     |  
print
  |  
Cheat Sheet Worthy?
Thumb Up
(%)  |  
Thumb Down
(%)    
Comments ()
rapierwits

Hopefully, politics has "had it" with her!

|
|
Reply
|
5:40 pm, Jul 3, 2009
DemsDeBreaks

Palin / Bachmann 2012

Because I need a good laugh.

|
|
Reply
7:23 pm, Jul 3, 2009
opedanderson

The liberal Palin-haters over at TDB must be freaking right now. The British chick who runs TDB clitoris has probably dropped on the floor with this news.

You have been predicting the end of SP for how long now? And she is still in the news........

|
|
Reply
|
5:42 pm, Jul 3, 2009
rapierwits

I am not taking the bait.

|
|
Reply
5:48 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Ritarita

What's your prediction Oped?

|
|
Reply
6:59 pm, Jul 3, 2009
piktor

Michael Jackson, Ensign, Sanford, Palin are still in the news. News of the wrong kind, you see.

|
|
Reply
|
7:13 pm, Jul 3, 2009
amapola101

piktor,But talk good,talk bad,but please talk about me. When we dont talk or notice and ignore them,then those are the politicians,that mean nothing.

|
8:04 pm, Jul 3, 2009
blinky

"Cut and run."

|
|
Reply
|
9:22 pm, Jul 3, 2009
MarcosElMalo

"A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket . . . and then punts!"

|
9:43 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Redhead5050

So are other disasters...war, floods, drought, and like those disasters she will be in the news.

|
|
Reply
2:40 pm, Jul 4, 2009
Mhussein

It feels like the 0 little indians....
And then there were none.....
The disappearence of the GOP....
And I am loving it.

|
|
Reply
5:52 pm, Jul 3, 2009
rapierwits

If ya'll pay attention to the text of her speech, and listen about the

"millions of dollars go down the drain in this new political environment" and her reference to "the full court press picking away at the national level" and "political bloodsport" and giving her reasons "candidly and truthfully" and avoiding "allowing millions of dollars to go to waste just so I can hold the title of governor"

I reckon ya'll can see that she's trying to avoid a bigger problem. I reckon she's referring to at least one investigation into her actions as governor. I reckon she might not have served out her term regardless of today's announcement...

|
|
Reply
|
5:54 pm, Jul 3, 2009
sparky13

It is fishy

|
|
Reply
|
6:11 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Dylan111

Yes, what is Alaska's Peg Bundy really up to, I wonder?

|
7:09 pm, Jul 3, 2009
idicula1979

Her speech was no better then the one she gave to Katie Couric a little under a year ago . It was full of non-sequiters and at this point I don't know whether to laugh at her or feel sorry for her and I hope this episode finds it's way into a movie scriptit would certainly be a must watch.

|
|
Reply
7:06 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Nuld001

bye bye (doing the beauty pageant wave). be sure to turn off the lights and don't let the door hit your ass.

another repug commits political suicide. the dumbos are dancing in the streets.

|
|
Reply
6:29 pm, Jul 3, 2009
smit9187

She is running for President.

|
|
Reply
6:48 pm, Jul 3, 2009
idicula1979

I bet something real juicy story has dot her playing defense otherwise I do't know why she would resign, as much as I hate to say it she did have a bright future in the (soon to be deunct) GOP. Also I bet their is more story to come out over the Mark Stanford scandel. But you can find me laughing all the way at how inept the GOP is

|
|
Reply
6:59 pm, Jul 3, 2009

This user is no longer registered.

|
|
Reply
|
7:14 pm, Jul 3, 2009
MaliciousDisorder

Your an idiot on every page

|
|
Reply
10:58 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Hawnzz

She would fit right in on the Fox News channel. (Though it is a very long way from Alaska.)

|
|
Reply
|
10:04 am, Jul 4, 2009
Redhead5050

Except she is not blonde...nor is she young enough.

|
2:41 pm, Jul 4, 2009

This user is no longer registered.

|
|
Reply
7:29 pm, Jul 3, 2009

This user is no longer registered.

|
|
Reply
|
7:29 pm, Jul 3, 2009
nortonclybourn

And why don't you mention the in-law's refrigerator magnet and the millions of dollars some governors love sending down the court past the point guard in this political climate and...what was the question again? Whose oxycodone stash has she been dipping into?

|
|
Reply
7:46 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Ritarita

Turnip-
Sounds like you're really
Hurting over this.
But I wanted to take issue with the notion
That this is a 'Liberal' blog.
I've always thought it was Right wing.
A matter of perspective I guess.

|
|
Reply
|
9:33 pm, Jul 3, 2009
sparky13

Shit, I'm on the wrong blog !!!

|
10:39 am, Jul 4, 2009
amapola101

Wow,fascinating,it is just fascinating what she does to people. a true candidate. After being called slut,verbally abused,her family made the joke of America,and stabbed by the jeolosy of her own party Oh I think she is on the way to the top. no one is bumping Obama for the next 8 years no one,But she certainly is a force out there.AND WOMEN,you can hate her politics, but why allow all these houndogs, to chew her up.Let me say I do not like her, and certainly would not vote for her.But my hat goes off to her. AND ALOT of people,the more she is attacked,the bigger all those who hate her make her.!!!She has the thick skin of a real candidate.

|
|
Reply
|
8:12 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Progressive2

lol thank you Ama I needed a good laugh PAlin/Anyone 2012!!!

|
|
Reply
9:24 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Ritarita

Wrong.
She has thinner skin that
Anyone in the political arena.
It's her Achilles heel.

|
|
Reply
|
9:35 pm, Jul 3, 2009
MaliciousDisorder

you would have folded the first week

|
10:59 pm, Jul 3, 2009
KateTheGreat

Just because she's female I shouldn't allow anyone to say that she's a bleeding moron/embarrassment? BS! That's about as backwards/sexist as you can get...her insecurities and thin-skin are glaringly apparent...I'll vote for the woman candidate when she's the best qualified , not because she's a "she."

|
|
Reply
|
9:10 am, Jul 4, 2009
Hawnzz

Amen... I would find voting for her anti-feminist.

|
10:07 am, Jul 4, 2009
mattbenzor

What a great picture of Three blocks in the white washed wall.........!YOU BETCHA one leaves the state for sex and leaves the state for uuuuuuuuuuuuh .....! trouble brewing in the distance.

|
|
Reply
8:25 pm, Jul 3, 2009

This user is no longer registered.

|
|
Reply
9:51 pm, Jul 3, 2009

This user is no longer registered.

|
|
Reply
10:19 pm, Jul 3, 2009

This comment has been removed by The Daily Beast's editors.

|
|
Reply
11:24 pm, Jul 3, 2009
Leave a Comment
Leave a comment

Thank you.
As a first time user, your comment has been submitted for review. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or two for your comment to be reviewed, depending on the time of week and the volume of comments we receive.

View Comments
Leave a comment

Please log in to leave comments.

View Full Cheat Sheet