Maybe things aren’t what they seem:
Sarah Palin is fortifying her small staff of advisers, buying a house in Arizona — where associates have said she could base a national campaign — and reviving her schedule of public appearances. The moves are the most concrete signals yet that Ms. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, is seriously weighing a Republican presidential bid.
While it is by no means clear that she would be willing to give up her lucrative speaking career and her perch as an analyst on Fox News to face the scrutiny and combat that would come with her entrance into the race, she is being pressed by supporters for a decision and has acknowledged that time is running out.
Maybe she is moving to Arizona to establish residency to run for the open Senate seat, and has no intention of running for President. Not like this is unprecedented.
Or maybe Arizona is just a better place to base her lucrative wingnut welfare operation. She clearly wanted the hell out of Alaska as soon as she had an opportunity. Who knows?
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Sarah Palin’s Arizona?
MTmofo
Maybe she wants to keep an eye on Bristol and her latest boyfriend.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/25/979351/-Palin-angry-that-her-reputation-might-be-improved?detail=hide
shortstop
Maybe she just wants to be really close to John McCain to annoy the hell out of him. It would be the first thing she’s done of which I could approve.
Fred
John john john. Or maybe……she is going to try milk this thing for all it’s worth maybe? To make more $’s!
But you voted for the texas dummy twice so I no longer expect you to be capable of seeing the forest from the trees.
2liberal
what in the world would she do in the US senate? she’d die of boredom in the first week. and quit within 6 months.
gwangung
@Fred: Um, Fred, aren’t you getting a bit confused on your chronology and causality?
Elisabeth
@2liberal:
She’d acquire some bona fides ~ once she figured out what they are.
Villago Delenda Est
Actually, this isn’t all that far fetched.
Right now Arizona is outperforming Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, and South Carolina for the most loontastic state in the Union.
Perfect grounds for Sarah’s brand of sheer wingtard insanity.
beltane
Maybe she suffered from SAAD in Alaska. If you think about it, Arizona and Granny Grifter are perfect for each other. Alaska has its kooks, but Arizona has the really nasty white supremacists-she’ll fit right in. I’m just happy I can go back to liking Alaska.
Villago Delenda Est
@MTmofo:
The kicker is the photo.
Pretty much says it all.
beltane
@Elisabeth: Why are you making fun of Trig and Pepper Palin?
Violet
@2liberal:
A year in the Senate doing not much. Maybe get a gig on the Foreign Policy committee or something to burnish those credentials. Then run for President.
But by then she’ll be over 50 and her starburst factor will be much diminished. Plus the horny over-50 white guys who make up her base will be a smaller percentage of the population. If she’s going to run, this really is her best shot.
cleek
Razing Arizona!
Violet
@MTmofo:
This really bums me out because Kyle Massey seems like a nice guy. I can’t believe he’d get involved with a Palin. Shudder.
They’re making a reality show together, along with Kyle’s brother, where they all live together. If they really are an item, that’s going to raise some eyebrows. An oops pregnancy where she did the “brave” thing and “chose life” and kept the baby is one thing, but living with your boyfriend before marriage is another thing altogether. That doesn’t go down well in Christianist circles. And that’s even leaving out the color of his skin.
rikyrah
oh, this is hilarious. yes, be stupid enough to vote for that idiot.
cleek
quit the Senate early to run for President? could never happen.
The Dangerman
So, there is a nonzero chance that Palin would run against Giffords for the Senate seat? Yeah, Mrs. Giffords has a long way to go for that to happen, but that would be delicious.
Jenny
Her ego is toooooo BIG to give up her $100,000 speaking fee for an unglamorous committee assignment.
Plus, if she wanted to become a Senator, she could have simply primaryied Murkowski, last year.
If she runs, it will be for the presidential nomination.
Ghanima Atreides
i think….she just wants the WH. I think she is actually running for the VP slot right now, because she thinks that will legitimize her enough to run in 2016 or 2020 even if she is post-menopausal. But she has to do something pretty soon. She and Perry are tight. that might be the ticket.
If she sukks enough oxygen out of the room she can force one of the “legit” candidates to give her the VP slot.
hilts
If the 2008 presidential election taught us anything, it’s that Sarah Palin is a coward and a quitter who’s too goddamn gutless to run for president in 2012. She’s a mama jellyfish, not a mama grizzly.
Palin is too addicted to celebrity to do anything constructive or meaningful with her life. She’s not running for president or for senator.
Martin
No, permanent VP candidate. Seriously. Easier gig than running for Senate. More fuck-me boots budget too, also.
Warren Terra
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
And having done that, the logical next step is for her to move to Alabama. Or maybe Albania. The former would be a pretty good fit, but I have to admit I’m rooting for the latter.
ETA Considering whom we’re dealing with, a mis-spelled Arkansas should not be completely ruled out.
Ghanima Atreides
@Jenny: if she runs, she gets the nom.
and she will tap Perry for her veep.
they have a mutual admiration pact…if one of them runs for nom, the other won’t.
Violet
@Jenny:
She couldn’t have beaten Murkowski. Palin is not well liked in Alaska.
Ghanima Atreides
@Martin: agree, but not permanent– she wants to be legit. Thus, Sarah Palin, the Movie.
She thinks VP would give her a shot at the presidency in 2016.
Violet
@Ghanima Atreides:
Why would she run for VP again? She’s already done that and failed to win. She wants the top spot on the ticket. Not because she wants to govern (Governing is hard work; Sarah Palin doesn’t do hard work.), but because she wants the trappings of the office and the payoff that comes once you’re out of it and on the really big money lecture circuit.
Ghanima Atreides
@Violet: senator is too much work.
no, i think she really wants to be VP again and “show” everone.
Martin
@Ghanima Atreides:
45 caliber shot, maybe. But that’d be about it.
Martin
@Violet:
It was money. It was attention. It was credibility. It was only one debate and hiding in the bus the rest of the time. Bang for buck, it’s the best office to run for.
Ghanima Atreides
@Violet: because the polls show no one beats Obama in 2012. If she can VP to some
sukkersacrificial candidate that loses in 2012, then she has a smooth path in 2016 even if she is post menopausal.There Can Be Only One.
The Dangerman
@Ghanima Atreides:
I think if she runs, she gets kneecapped by some of the Power Brokers from the Right. She’s a House flipping, Senate losing (again), White House losing (again) disaster. Now, I could see her retaliating by running 3rd party, which would be oh so sweet, too.
I had Hucks. Had Daniels. Called NY-26 (though I figured that would be a nail biter). Palin is running in 2012 for something; I’ll still call for President, but Senator is a decent gig, too.
TheOtherWA
I assume it’s a combo of running for a senate seat and keeping Bristol under her thumb. When you’re young and move away from your family, you can develop into an adult on your own terms. Visits home get interesting because you don’t play the same role in the family anymore, and parents don’t always like that.
Yes, I’m speaking from experience here. Luckily, my parents weren’t control freaks like Sarah. I hope Bristol has an open mind and decides what she wants to do with her life, regardless of what her mother wants.
Cacti
I think it’s a lot more likely that she’s eyeballing Kyl’s Senate seat than the White House.
She runs for POTUS and gets creamed, her political career is over. She’s damaged goods in Alaska, but here in the land of wingnut uber alles, she could become a permanent fixture in DC.
Violet
@Ghanima Atreides:
Lolz. Seriously? There are plenty of senators who do not much at all. Don’t even show up for votes. They get driven around in cars, get a title, have staff do things for them, get courted by lobbyists. How hard is that? And then she can quit and run for President with those excellent Washington credentials. Bonus points if she visits Afghanistan or Pakistan on a “fact finding mission.”
Ghanima Atreides
Think, juicers.
She can get the nom, but she cannot win the general.
But if she is the VP on a losing GOP ticket, she is legit for 2016 when Obama cant run.
If she is the VP on a winning GOP ticket she is the next-in-line candidate, and she gets the spotlight for 4 years/8 years.
She is only 47.
the gravy train never ends this way.
Her contributions have been falling off since Rove told the elites to start shunning her. She wants back in the limelight.
Violet
@TheOtherWA:
Bristol may own a house in Arizona but she’s living in Los Angeles and filming a reality show. If Sarah’s moving to AZ, she’s not exactly going to be keeping a close eye on Bristol.
@Ghanima Atreides:
Has anyone run for VP twice in a row and lost twice? That just makes you a two time loser. Why would the GOP go with a two time loser in 2016?
And as for polls and listening to them, Sarah has show she’s not good at listening to experts. Why would she listen to polls and base a decision on them? Doesn’t fit her pattern.
Brian R.
Oh, God, please please please run for president.
Ghanima Atreides
@Violet: governor was too much work.
i rest my case.
not sayin they would….she THINKS they would.
And you kno, Violet.
The GOP elites are horrified that she is going to run right now.
She has them by the shorts hairs, and she does what she wants.
This dimbo thinks the only thing between her and the oval office is an image problem.
Cacti
@Ghanima Atreides:
But a POTUS gets termed out. At 47, she could be a US Senator for 30+ years.
Violet
@Ghanima Atreides:
When she was Governor she didn’t do much work at all, save using her office to intimidate and bully people and showing up at ribbon-cuttings and so forth. She wouldn’t even live in the Governor’s mansion and got the citizens of Alaska to pay her per diem to live and work out of her own home. She had that not-working thing down.
She quit because she couldn’t take the sweet money gigs as a sitting Governor. The Fox talking head gig, the reality show, the lecture circuit…none of that could happen unless she quit. So she quit. She’s a grifter.
Ghanima Atreides
short hairs.
Ron Beasley
Gets my vote!
Ghanima Atreides
@Cacti: Its the white house. she wants to give everone that sneered at her and laffed the “big middle finger”.
@Violet: guess we shall see.
cbear
I think she’s banging Sheriff Joe and wants to be closer to her man.
General Stuck
Sarah and Sheriff Joe hookup. Think of the evil.
Cacti
@cbear:
I think it’s probably been 2 decades or more since the Shurf popped a woodrow.
MikeBoyScout
Every fool knows, there’s never been a better time to buy real estate in Arizona!
freelancer
Shit. I just looked up the McMansion she’s moving into. When I’m down there, I’m going to be living 15 minutes away from Sarah FUCKING Palin.
TheOtherWA
@Violet: Perhaps. But if I were Bristol, I’d look for a reason to leave AZ if Sarah was moving there.
Fred
@hilts: Ah the voice of reason. Welcome to an otherwise wasteland of mindless speculation about as far from reality as one can get.
cbear
@Cacti: I dunno, he sure seems to have a hardon for those poor Mexicans.
Ghanima Atreides
@hilts: shes running for VP.
Fred
@freelancer: That is exciting (or not) how? I could give 2 shits where she lived in relation to me. Unless I had to put up with her barking dog or some other typical hillbilly shit!
Fred
@Ghanima Atreides: Because that worked out so well last time?
Seriously, is this low IQ night in this thread?
opal
@Ghanima Atreides:
That might have been true at some point, but her handlers didn’t anticipate how fucked up the current field would be.
Still, there is no doubt at all she will run in 2016.
freelancer
@Fred:
@Fred:
@Fred:
I think we found our new “Ombudsman”.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
She may be running for VP, but there is no way someone picks her again. Who is going to pick her?
Spaghetti Lee
But…running for Senate would involve, you know, work. Or at least more work than her current perch on the wingnut celebrity circuit. I can’t picture going through the year and a half of a senate campaign without blowing a fuse. We’ve already seen these last few days what a mess her political team is.
Not that I’d mind if she runs. It would make things easier for whatever Democrat ends up running. And if she does win, it’s not like she’d be worse than any other Senate wingnut.
I think a lot of people here are overestimating her work ethic (none), how well-liked she is in the GOP establishment (not very). “No doubt” she’s running for pres in 2012 and 2016? Guys, she’s called “The Grifter” for a reason.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
@Fred: Exactly.
JS
Sarah’s first day as the junior senator from Arizona:
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
McCAIN: There are many great guys here, so don’t feel you have to meet everyone. We just want you to enjoy yourself
while you’re here. There’s Lisa Murkowski..
MURKOWSKI: Hi.
PALIN: You betcha!
McCAIN: Hi there, fellows. Meet Lindsey and Mario…
RUBIO: Marco.
McCAIN: Sarah, l’d like you to meet Mohammed…
KIRK: Mark Kirk.
McCAIN: Jugdish, Sidney and Clayton.
VITTER: David Vitter.
BURR: Richard Burr.
COATS: Dan Coats.
McCAIN: Grab a seat and make yourselves at home. Don’t be shy about helping yourselves to punch and cookies.
(Sarah gets up and wanders into another conversation)
McCONNELL: l’m not going to say we’ve got this town wired, but a lot of outstanding guys figure they’ll pledge their votes to the Kochs or won’t pledge at all. We do have more than our share of corporate leaders… something that never looks bad if you go into lobbying. Sure, Everybody says my mentoring’s the best, but…
ORRIN HATCH’S REPLACEMENT: I hate to seem pushy.
McCONNELL: Let the unacceptable candidates worry,
because after tonight, they’re….
(turns to meet Palin)
McCONNELL: You are… Sarah! I’m Mitch McConnell,
senate minority leader. Meet my friends, John McCain…
PALIN: We already met.
McCONNELL: …and Jim DeMint.
DeMINT: How are you?
PALIN: How are you?
McCONNELL: Over there is Jeff Sessions, ranking member of the judiciary committee.. And that’s Tom Coburn, our lead negotiator on err… ‘personal ministries’… And here’s…
COATS: Dan Coats.
MCCONNELL: Jugdish, Mohammad, Sidney…
PALIN: We already met.
MCCONNELL: Super! Then you’ll have lots to talk about.
Jules
I really feel sorry for Bristol…she moves all the way to Arizona to get away from her parents and they follow her.
burnspbesq
@Warren Terra:
Neither of those are far enough away. How about Azerbaijan?
Frankensteinbeck (The ex-Uloborus)
@Ghanima Atreides:
If she’s shooting for a VP nom, she’s an idiot. Granted, she IS an idiot, but still. Nobody is going to pick her as their VP. She’s proven to be a huge drag on the ticket, abusive to the staff, refuses to be coached, and goes off-message at the drop of a hat. Oh, and she’s ungrateful.
There’s no upside to taking her. By the time you need a VP pick you’re no longer in the power of the Tea Party primary mob that is her only (and rapidly shrinking) base.
Martin
@Gordon, The Big Express Engine: Well, if a movement conservative wins the nom, someone like Romney, he’s going to need someone to bring the tea party home. I don’t think Palin gets picked, but someone like Palin is likely to be get picked, for exactly the reasons that McCain picked her – they’re going to need a wildcard.
rob!
Sarah Palin is fortifying her small staff of advisers
Funny, the word “fortifying” is almost only ever used when describing someone building a compound, perhaps in preparation for a battle (“fortifying their defenses”).
Which, come to think of it, is entirely appropriate in this context.
Violet
@Jules:
Yeah, I feel sorry for Bristol too. She got knocked up in high school, became a teenage mother, has no college degree, yet rakes in money on reality show after reality show and by lecturing other young girls not to do what she did, since it clearly doesn’t pay. Tough life.
rob!
@JS:
I’m pretty sure Sarah thinks the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Just Some Fuckhead
@cbear:
No self-respecting woman can have enough sexy underpants. Or so they tell me.
burnspbesq
@Fred:
Well, you’re here, and that’s a great start.
Spaghetti Lee
As long as we’re on the topic of Arizona, is Southern AZ really going to secede from the northern part of the state?
Just Some Fuckhead
@JS: Between Rubio and McCain you shoulda inserted
Palin: Polo!
Violet
@Martin:
Rubio. Tea Party elected him. He’s Latino. He brings Florida. Win, win, win.
celticdragonchick
@The Dangerman:
The power brokers lost control of the 27 percenters in the teanut base. They are scared to fucking death and they should be. This is their monster.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
@Martin: I agree with that. McCain picked her out of desperation. There are many other VP candidates that fit that bill without her demonstrated negatives.
Martin
@Just Some Fuckhead: Maybe you should stop stealing them, then.
celticdragonchick
@rob!:
She can see Hamburg from her front porch. Also, Alaska is the first place where Hermann Goering would rear his head…
Just Some Fuckhead
@Martin: Martin, putdowns aren’t really yer thing. You should stick to what you do best: tired conventional wisdom in defense of the status quo.
Violet
@celticdragonchick:
I’m pretty sure she can see Mexico from her new front porch.
SFAW
And remember, you can’t have “Aztlan” without “AZ”.
Viva la reconquista!
OK, so it’s not really a good fit for the topic. So deport me.
Martin
@Gordon, The Big Express Engine: True, but do you think Palin surrounds herself with people that will give her an honest assessment of her chances? She’s surrounded by grifters like her. If her negatives were in the 90s they’d still be telling her she’s a lock.
maya
I heard the race for Scottsdale Dog/Illegal Catcher is wide open.
Villago Delenda Est
@JS:
I bow before you. Superb!
cbear
@Just Some Fuckhead: Nor sequins. Or so I hear.
James E. Powell
She has a staff of advisers? Their advice is nowhere in evidence. Do they give advice or do they merely agree with everything she says?
Seriously, has Sarah Palin ever shown that she takes advice from anyone?
Just Some Fuckhead
@Gordon, The Big Express Engine:
FTFY!
SFAW
She would never allow a Boc1alist in AK. Except maybe in North Minehead.
handy
@Spaghetti Lee:
Here in Cali, it’s kind of a long-running gag that the North should separate from the South, as the Bay Area and surrounding CDPs are culturally different (read: superior) to the water-guzzling, air polluting, shallow people in La La Land and below. As with all stereotypes this one has some truth.
But having family in Tucson and friends in Phoenix metro, they really might as well be two different states.
SFAW
Well, that’s only because Rich Lowry recently joined her “Team”.
Just Some Fuckhead
@cbear:
Don’t hate me for being beautiful.
opal
@Just Some Fuckhead:
It takes two to know.
Violet
@James E. Powell:
Her spokesmouth, Rebecca Mansour, insulted her daughter Bristol and slammed a bunch of other Republicans. (Warning: Politico link).
cbear
@Just Some Fuckhead: Me? Never.
Btw, what’s this I hear about some sort of twittertwat contretemps between Cole and our boy Allan?
Just Some Fuckhead
@Violet:
The only thing that bunch is missing is Jerry Springer standing between all of ’em trying to get a question in over all the hollering and shoving.
Just Some Fuckhead
@cbear:
News to me. Where’s the fire?
Violet
@Just Some Fuckhead:
If it was Maury Povich’s show, at least we’d find out who Trig’s real parents are.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Violet:
Ha!
If it was Sally Jesse’s show, we’d find out Todd knocked up Bristol.
opal
Sounds like Firedoglake.
hilts
Mitch McConnell wants Sarah Palin in the Senate as much as he wants to be diagnosed with cancer.
Mike
When I heard she was moving to Arizona, I immediately thought about the Senate race. PPP has her in the lead there for the primary. That’s an easier path to a nomination than the presidency, and Sarah is all about the easy path.
hilts
Why did Sarah Palin have to attend so many colleges in order to obtain a degree?
Carl Nyberg
Compared to running for POTUS, running for U.S. Senate is easier.
I could see a bunch of GOP insiders courting Palin. They are concerned that Bachmann will get the nomination.
The insiders want to be able to deliver Palin’s endorsement to Huntsman, T-Paw or Romney at a key point.
So, get Palin running for Senate where she’ll need money and infrastructure.
And when they need her, roll her out to deliver the kill to Bachmann.
Carl Nyberg
@hilts: Mitch the Bitch might not want Palin in the Senate, but Mitch’s bosses would rather have her in the Senate than have her as the nominee.
And if Palin’s movie slows wingnuttia from coalescing around Bachmann that’s useful too.
Chris
Sarah Palin probably is too lazy and too happy to live in a grifter state to ever run for office, let alone POTUS again.
Probably, but not certainly. I could see the amount of adulation she gets from her supporters going to her head and inflating her ego until she starts believing she actually is everything she claims, and can handle the job. I could also see her getting into a campaign out of some vindictive “I’ll show them all!” streak, eager to win and rub it into the faces of those who laughed at her.
Unlikely, perhaps, but possible.
hilts
@Carl Nyberg:
The Rapture Dream Ticket in 2012 is Palin / Bachmann
cbear
@Carl Nyberg:
That’s the kind of hateful rhetoric that has incited so much violence against conservatives in this country. You should be ashamed.
Just Some Fuckhead
@hilts:
She thought a Bachelor’s degree was a men-only program.
Just Some Fuckhead
@cbear:
Both sides do it!
Ija
@Ghanima Atreides:
Oh come on, a loser candidate for VP TWICE? That would sink her career for sure. Why would the Republicans want her in 2016 if she was on the ticket twice before and lost both times? Even Republicans in their craziness are not that crazy.
A one time loser is redeemable, a two-time loser? No way.
Spaghetti Lee
@Ija:
Because they’re morons? Also, William Jennings Bryan and Henry Clay are getting lonely in the history book, and they could use some company.
tkogrumpy
I don’t comment on the Wasilla wingnut. I have, however been seen pointing and giggling in her direction.
The Dangerman
@celticdragonchick:
True, but those Power Brokers are either going to have to find a way to toss the 27 percenters overboard and move back to the center…
…or become the 27 Percenters Party.
So, Sarah can run as a 27 percenter third party candidate and split the party now or the party can be split later (assuming, of course, if she runs, gets kneecapped, and wants to take her revenge). Short term is fuzzy, but long term, the Tea Partiers are going to have to be evicted from the Republican Party. Too bad for them.
Warren Terra
@burnspbesq:
I was playing with the fact that Alaska and Arizona both have names of the form AxxxxxA. Alabama and Albania also qualify; Azerbaijan doesn’t.
2liberal
@Cacti:
her idea of hell. 30 years of WORK?
opie_jeanne
@handy: You have heard that it’s the North vs. the South, but it’s really the rural areas in the North that want to be rid of both LA and SF as well as Sacramento, and I’ve lived in both places. Both have shallow people, but no one in LA worries one tenth as much about SF as SF does about LA.
The movement to split North from South starts North of SF but these days it could include most of the land East of the I-5.
Yutsano
@Ija:
Dino Rossi. All the evidence of this you’ll ever need. Oh wait, he lost three times…my bad.
Geoduck
@2liberal:
As already noted, a senator (unlike a president, or, ahem, a governor) doesn’t have to work hard if s/he doesn’t want to. Keep a seat warm in a few committee meetings, show up for some votes, go schmooze with the donors..
Geoduck
@opie_jeanne:
My state Washington is another one that could easily be split in two, although in our case it’s east and west along the Cascades. Of course, the folks in the east don’t have a large enough population-base to generate the needed taxes to maintain the infrastructure, but hey, at least they’d be free of the tyranny of us western granola-munchers.
Yutsano
@Geoduck: Only one area east of the Cascades has any sort of stable economy, and it’s only because of massive federal gubmint subsidies. Otherwise it’s wheat farms and the depression pit that is Spokane. They couldn’t even come close to making it on their own, which pisses them off even more about Seattle. Four-fifths of the state population lives west of the mountains. That will dominate any political scene.
MaryRC
She has to run for something. Have you seen the comments on the pro-Palin blogs lately? Her fans are as antsy as first-graders with their hands up to go to the bathroom. She’s been teasing them with moves like her fire-in-the-belly comments until she has them worked up into a lather. She can’t walk away now, they’ll never forgive her.
What she needs to do is run for something and lose. It’s win-win for her. She won’t to have actually take on a job and her base will be stronger than ever because her failure will make her their favorite thing — a victim. To them she’ll have been “smeared” by the LSM, liberals and the GOP establishment. They’ll be ecstatic.
2liberal
@Geoduck:
I am sorry but i don’t think it is that easy. I am sure it is easy to be somewhat of a skate compared to other senators, but compared to a schedule of speaking appearances and Fox news commenting, it is work (= “HELL”)
Cliff
Well, right now Arizona’s two senators are the Crypt Keeper and the Fucking Liar. So Palin will pretty much be maintaining the status quo, quality wise.
bago
@Yutsano: We have LED parks and the Space Needle. They have grass, and a little bit of wine. And Cougars.
For the west side, did I forget to mention Bungie, Microsoft, Valve, Monolith, Infospace, Google, Expedia and Amazon?
jcapan
Yutsano!
Spaghetti Lee
@MaryRC:
Have you seen the comments on the pro-Palin blogs lately?
In fact, I take the utmost pains to avoid them.
Anne Laurie
@Jules:
“They”? Like Todd is gonna give up his precious salmon-fishing permit and snow-machine races? Say-rah goes to AZ, Tawd stays in Wasilla with the remaining kids, and whatever traditional Alaskan comforts he prefers. By the time the other two daughters have managed to find a bolthole, Trig will have aged out of his value as Mommy’s Little Campaign Prop, and by that time at least one of the older kids will need Grampaw to mind their young’un(s) while the parents serve overseas / go thru rehab / join the pr0n industry on a professional basis.
Calouste
@Yutsano:
And he’s probably going for four-in-a-row next year, the only thing he has to decide on is whether he wants to lose the Governor’s race or the Senate race.
jazzgurl
And she can keep an eye on the blossoming friendship,( which she is not too keen on), on Bristol and her dancing partner, the ‘black’ Kyle Massey
Just Some Fuckhead
@Anne Laurie:
I don’t see ’em giving up their cut of the Permanent Dividend Fund either. Money for doing absolutely nothing? That’s Sarah’s dream job.
Barry
@Ghanima Atreides: “But if she is the VP on a losing GOP ticket, she is legit for 2016 when Obama cant run.”
I disagree – that’s just make her a two-time loser. The best shot at the 2016 GOP nomination will be whoever comes in second for the 2012 GOP nomination. They can spend four years saying ‘If only I had been the nominee, we’d have won’.
It’s probably money and ego – she’s moving to Wingnuttia to raise her profile, and to increase her dwindling audience.
Barry
@Martin: “Well, if a movement conservative wins the nom, someone like Romney, he’s going to need someone to bring the tea party home.”
He already has that – Obama. You seriously think that the Tea Party won’t be out for 2012, if they think that the GOP has a chance?
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Fxd.
@James E. Powell: Do the voices in her head count?
I’m just wondering what there is for her to shoot at in Arizona. Probably thinks that because moose and Mexican both start with an M she can blast away at immigrants to her heart’s content. (Once someone loads the gun and shows her how to aim.) Hell, she probably thinks immigrant starts with an M.
SFAW
OK, but which one is which?
SFAW
I hear Trump is flying into Wasilla/Phoenix to give Sarah lessons on how to deal with “the blacks”.
Just Some Fuckhead
@SFAW:
Yeah, because Republicans can’t win elections without at least 5% of the black vote.
kay
One of the women who works here was all bothered because she follows Dancing With The Stars and she thinks Palin rigged it for her daughter. DWTS fans thinks she cheats.
So, for a while there I would ask, if Palin came up in any capacity: “do you think she rigged DWTS for her daughter? Because I haven’t seen any evidence of that”.
I need something else like that, but new.
Lojasmo
@handy:
ring ring……
Hech Hechy is calling.
Chris
@The Dangerman:
I don’t know. The present-day Gooper base doesn’t really seem to lend itself to third parties – they like being part of one coherent mass, all goose-stepping in unison, too much for that. And most of their moderates show an extraordinary willingness to follow them in their march to the right, if only because the Dems are the real problem, doncha know.
I’m honestly not sure where this is going. The teabaggers have painted them into a corner, but there are far too many of them for any “moderate” Republican to win without their support. Ideally, that might consign them to minority party status for a long period of time.
@MaryRC:
Well, that’s more or less what already happened in 2008. A repeat… well, to lose one election may be seen as misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.
@Cliff:
Damn you, Cliff! The theme song to that damn show just got stuck in my head and will probably be there all day.
Paul in KY
@Ghanima Atreides: All she has to do (from her standpoint) is get to where there is one old dude between her & glory. She’ll then fix it so there’s some kind of accident & voila! Pres. Palin.
I would not put it past her to off a Pres, so as to become Pres.
Paul in KY
@Frankensteinbeck (The ex-Uloborus): Logically, you are 100% correct. However, ‘logic’ is not something that Sarah! uses very much. She thinks all she needs to do is get on the ticket (VP better, as less work for her), mobilize her zombie army to the polls & win.
Then, she gets to work on removing the one impediment to total power.
Cacti
@2liberal:
If Strom Thurmond could be a Senator until he was 100, it can’t be that difficult.
Paul in KY
@Ija: GA is saying that’s what Sarah! is thinking. Not necessarily what will happen.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Cacti:
Robert Byrd continued as Senator for about three years after he died. US Senator from AZ may be the perfect job for Palin. Guaranteed lifetime appointment, great pay and benefits, Sunday morning celebrity and all ya gotta do is vote however McConnell tells ya.
Shit, only Clarence Thomas has it easier.
shortstop
@Cacti: His staffers did all the work — and there IS a lot of work, even when you’re phoning it in. Palin’s oft-demonstrated inability to keep staff around means that even if she delegated, she couldn’t do this job.
@Just Some Fuckhead: I used to cringe when C-SPAN would catch Byrd sound asleep on the floor. Well, in his chair on the floor.
bob h
“Maybe she is moving to Arizona to establish residency to run for the open Senate seat,..”
Is it likely that she wants to run for an office that is really just unglamorous, hard work? A lazy, quitter like her?
Yutsano
@Calouste: He’ll have zip chance against Cantwell in an Obama year, but if Gregoire runs again…maybe. She ain’t been exactly high on the popularity scale. I keep hoping she’ll retire and we get a fresh face like Inslee in there.
@jcapan: JC-SAN!! O-genki ka? I’ve been trolling about these parts after Swampland pretty much went vapid after K-Tum left.
Patrick
I’m pretty sure that if she was running for Senate in Arizona she wouldn’t be bussing* it up the East Coast in a rolling tribute to her own narcissism.
*–I have doubts as to whether she’ll ever be on that bus. I’m assuming it’ll be like her book tour where her lowly minions had ride the bus and she took private planes from place to place.