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TODAY'S STORIES
10.11.2008
Palin Forever

Back in the Alaska governor's office Friday, Sarah Palin vowed to get back to work for the state:

A lot to do, as every day is a full day here in the governor's office.... It's gonna be busy days here just like it was busy days on the trail, being the governor full-time in addition to being a candidate. Now, of course, we get to concentrate just on one of those.

Yes, but which one? The AP reports that 

[T]he candidate has scheduled a series of national interviews on Fox News Monday night, NBC's "Today" show Tuesday and CNN on Wednesday.

On Thursday, of course, she'll be devoting herself to the state of Alaska in Miami for the Republican Governors Association, where she'll be granting a press avail at 9:40 a.m. and "remarks" for the plenary session at 10:00.

Those of us who complained that the press did not have sufficient access to her during the campaign may wind up eating our words.

--Christopher Orr

Posted: Monday, November 10, 2008 8:29 PM with 14 comment(s)

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mpatrickhendri said:

Please, please let this be the beginning of the GOP Joan of Arc revolution. Oh God, make it so.

November 10, 2008 10:33 PM

mjhollerich said:

Fear the Palin.  (If you're a Republican who ever wants to win a national election again.  The rest of us can just sit back and cheer her on.  Nice to see the other side afflicted with self-defeating behaviors.  As for me, I like winning.)

November 10, 2008 11:34 PM

ralphnelle said:

The new Fox interview is absolutely absurd. How much does this woman want to say about clothes? Wow, talk about striking a chord. Memo to file: this woman is DEEPLY insecure about her image.

November 11, 2008 1:20 AM

Wandreycer1 said:

The press is covering much more Republican hoo-ha than anything else - once again totally out of sync with the public, just lke the debate analysis.  

Hint: we just won by 8 million votes and will change the way the country runs. The whole Republican angle is boring and irrelevant.  Democrats have won the debate and have earned the right to be the main story.  Any more items on this arrogant, stupid, lying woman who most of the public finds ridiculous, I'm skipping.

November 11, 2008 6:47 AM

micjimenez said:

As I've said before, the entertainment value is unbeatable.

November 11, 2008 8:02 AM

fougasseu said:

My dream would be for my very heavy Sunday paper, loaded with circulars, to fall from my arms and out would spill a copy of "Parade" with Sarah on the cover, smiling with that angry smile of hers, with recipe tips for your Super Bowl party.

I hope her wit and common sense wisdom finds its way into "Reader's Digest", her plans for Bristol's wedding are covered in detail in "Bride", and Todd's amazing story is told in "GoSnowmobiling". Let the war for the cover stories begin. How could Romney compete?

November 11, 2008 8:14 AM

michael said:

We finally have the far right's version of the Clintons or ACLU. I have no reason to reply to Orr but the analysts for the blog need to see big numbers from a Palin story.  Take a cue from Foxnews and their new found respect for Hillary last year. Keep it positive about Sarah or we won't have around. We also need quotable snips from respectable people from our side so the GOP can use them (but nothing that will haunt us in four years).

Since her loyal backers admit she only needs the equivalent of 8-10 years of serious education (20+ in Palin years) her learning will not keep pace with events. But it is a must we make her path to the '12 ticket fast, smooth and painless. I don't know a better way for the GOP to corral 30% of their base who will alienate the rest of the electorate than to have Palin out there reminding everyone why their time has past. So keep up the good work but keep it positive until we have her in our nets. We can't let her get away unless it's on our terms. And that means taking more of her party down with her.

November 11, 2008 8:56 AM

Political Animal said:

PALIN'S P.R. OFFENSIVE.... Christopher Orr noted that as recently as Friday, Sarah Palin told reporters that she's ready to get back to the people's business. "[E]very day is a full day here in the governor's office," Palin said. "It's gonna...

November 11, 2008 9:09 AM

jblum8156 said:

I just watched  Matt Lsuer ask Piper Palin if she'd like to campaign with her Mom again in 2012. I think we need to look ahead to 2022(?) "Piper Palin for President" has  a nice ring to it.

November 11, 2008 9:22 AM

ratnerstar said:

In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of competence; and I say Sarah Palin today, Sarah Palin tomorrow, Sarah Palin forever!

November 11, 2008 9:49 AM

Rhubarbs said:

The more we see and hear from Sarah Palin, the harder it will be for Mike Huckabee to keep his profile up sufficiently to run in 2012. Which is very good news for Democrats. So please, Sarah, come on down for more conferences! Make yourself a regular on Fox! Hook up with that congressman from whichever Carolina who's already accusing Obama of building a Marxist Gestapo "as powerful as the military" and answering directly to himself. Or, you know, whatever crazy shit the paranoid right invents; jump behind it and make that message your own. Keep yourself in the public eye, and crowd out any of the Republicans who are capable of rebuilding a national GOP coalition around themselves. Please.

November 11, 2008 9:54 AM

blackton said:

Everytime I hear her voice and try to decipher her word salad, my IQ plunges 15 points and I get a headache. She is the first person who I have ever heard whose words seem to be occuring to her newly formed as they come out of her mouth. Look at this from her interview:

"that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a 10 trillion dollar debt in a Republican administration? How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration? If we're talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing."

She talks like a ditzy 15 year old. Is she capable of talking at a truly mature and serious level?

She is simply too fucking stupid to be anywhere near the White House, even theoretically. Don't cheer her on.

November 11, 2008 10:30 AM

cspencef said:

Rhubarbs, that's a Georgia congressman:

www.ajc.com/.../congressman_Marxist_obama.html

November 11, 2008 12:05 PM

icarusr said:

You mean Obama does *not* have plans to ship Republican politicians to Abu Ghraib?  Damn - this is what happens when you support a guy fueled only by hope.  THEY ALWAYS DISAPPOINT.

November 11, 2008 6:15 PM