As Palin campaigns in Georgia, Alaskans wonder where their governor went
By David Neiwert Monday Dec 01, 2008 1:00pm
Sarah Palin's out in Georgia today, ostensibly campaigning for the execrable Saxby Chambliss with her usual brand of right-wing populism that plays especially well in places like Gwinnett and Forsyth counties.
I say ostensibly, because who she's really campaigning for is Sarah Palin in 2012. These campaign stops are all about Palin positioning herself to become the leading figurehead of the Republican Party. Lotsa luck with that, of course. (You betcha!) [Wink]
But in the meantime, the fine folks back in Alaska are wondering what became of their governor. The Alaska Democratic Party's chairman, Patti Higgins, held a press conference a little earlier today raising that question. From their press release:
Palin has been back in Alaska at work for only a few days since running for vice president.
"Alaskans need our Governor here earning her salary and working on key problems facing Alaska families," said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Patti Higgins.
Alaska is facing significant challenges, Higgins said, including:
- Oil prices have dropped dramatically to about $45/bbl from the peak of $144/bbl in July, which threatens the state budget.
- Alaskans are paying some of the highest prices for gas in the nation, averaging $2.87 per gallon, while the national average is $1.91.
- The state's oil production continues to decline, due to falling prices and mature fields.
- The global credit crunch and falling natural gas prices threaten the Alaska gas line.
- The State is failing to meet its constitutional obligation to take care of public education as shown by the high drop out rates and the low graduation rates.
- Many Medicare patients cannot find doctors.
- There is continued flight from rural villages.
- Alaska faces the prospect of reduced federal dollars from Washington, D.C.
"Alaska's challenges are significant, and there is much that needs to be done right now. Our Governor should remember that her primary job is to work on behalf of the citizens of Alaska, not engage in partisan politics in other states," Higgins said. "Governing is more than creating photo ops. We'd like a commitment that the Governor is working, not just scheduling media appearances."
In a way, though, there's a certain symmetry about Palin gallivanting off to campaign for Chambliss. It makes clear she really doesn't give a rat's hindquarters about her actual constituents.
And as Senate Guru explains, neither does Saxby Chambliss. Two peas in a pod.
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I hope Obama puts in an appearance for Martin. It sort of looks like Franken might lose, so it would be great to get rid of Chambliss. An appearance by BO would help.
Frankly, the more Palin appears and opens her mouth, the better. The woman is an absolute idiot.
Palin's office said the Chambliss campaign, in apparent violation of federal and state laws, is paying for only a small fraction of Palin's costs for her trip.
She is in Georgia for 2 days, in Philadelphia tomorrow for a 2 hour meeting, and her office calls the Georgia visit a side trip.
I guess we should expect anything from the "Sarah First" campaign these days. She sure is a great "reformer," who doesn't engage in politics as usual.
Which federal and state laws are being violated? Is it illegal for a Georgian Republican to fly in a "celebrity" to campaign for him? I'm guessing that's probably not illegal. What's more likely is that, once again, Palin is using Alaskan state money to fund her junket to Georgia, and probably charging Alaska a per diem rate for her room and board while she's in Georgia.
Is she still wearing those RNC clothes, and dragging her kids around to use as STAGE PROPS at those rallies?
There are too many right wing wackos there who HATE him!
Better he should send a surrogate good ol' boy like Bill Clinton to campaign.
"That dog won't hunt", and all that shit.
This woman CANNOT have the intellectual wherewithal to handle any of these problems.
There could have been no better person to come to Georgia to speak for Saxby Chambliss than Sarah Palin. Both politicians are inept and hold an innate contempt for the people they serve.
Speaking as a Georgia voter, I can only hope that Saxby's embrace of people like Palin show Georgia Republicans just how bad the future looks for the national GOP.
Besides... it won't be long before Alaska impeaches Palin. Why would any Republican politician want to be associated with her?
Saxby? The guy who ran against a vet with lost limbs & told people he would aide & abet Osama Bin Laden?
The racists down here will vote for Saxby, either on a pro-life bid (people down here had stickers on their cars that read SARAH!) or as a racist thing.
This state is despicable.
Many of us Alaskans are hoping she will stay in Georgia.
At our Thanksgiving dinner last week three people said they had donated their entire PFD to Obama's campaign.
I would agree that we wouldn't mind if she stayed in Georgia.
Preferably the one just south of Russia.
"execrable"......
Tee Hee, I don't know what the hell it means, but I like it.
It's like excrete, excreta etc.
I like to use the phrase bovine excreta.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0aW8IXdAjA
Was that scare-ah hitting?
Excellent phrase - I'm going to borrow this one, if you don't mind.
Bugs Bunny always wanted to turn left at Albuquerque.
Was he a pinko?
That's Albu-koi-key for the uninitiated.
Not only pinko, but a secret Muslim terrorist with Marxist tendecies.
Bugs Bunny's eastern seaboard accent was a clear indication that he wasn't a real American. Also, the fact that he was a vegetarian didn't help. People in the noble heartland of America can spot a north-eastern Librul easily, and usually vote for the Foghorn Leghorn/ Yosemite Sam ticket.
I say...I say...give that man a seegar!!!
And one can only assume that having the 'paralyzed from the neck up' palin doing her little 'you betcha' dumbass act for whats-his-face will only help the opposition as much as it did last time.
You go caribou barbie.
Sing and dance and wink while your state draws up the papers to have you removed. LOL!
she's been fucking the dog, now she's selling the pups.
I thought she was turning them into her new coat.
They don't allow such photos on the internets no more.
she has mad skills.
:)
I wonder how hard it would be to convince her that she's in the Georgia of the Russia-Georgia conflict? Prob pretty hard, since she's never heard of that.
I expect all it would take is dressing someone as "Boris and Natasha" and allowing them to stroll past the podium talking about 'Moose and squirrel' in those outrageously bad cartoon accents.
It's easy! All she has to do is look for Putin's head. You can't see it from Georgia U.S.A. (There is,however, a Moscow Idaho, which I'm sure Palin would order the Air Force to BOMB if she ever manages to get elected President.)
I believe she went to school in Moscow, Idaho; home of the University of Idaho. Then again, she might not remember the name of the town, so bombs away.
I have mixed feelings about Palin speaking at events like this. Yeah, it's good to have her out there making an idiot of herself and showing most Americans how much of a nit wit she really is. Further, it keeps her out of Alaska, and it appears as if this is pissing Alaskans off.
On the other hand, I cannot stand that woman and really do not like seeing her in the news often. She is power hunger; she wants control. I cannot stand the way she speaks. She makes me sick.
While I wish for her to keep digging herself into a hole, I also wish she would just go away!
Palin can be blessing to progressive politics as long as she continues being the idiot face of the GOP and people see through the ruse. She will continue having her Bible-thumping, adolescent minded followers fawn over her until she eventually disappears, but herein lies the conundrum. She didn't arrive at this position (Governor) without having some very shrewd handlers.
The Tundra Tart will be repackaged, coached, and given the right amount of coverage to keep her as a media darling. Her appeal is based on a strange convergence of anti-intellectualism and reality TV spin. She offers nothing of substance, but throw her out on the TV enough and some people will be convinced she has something. As an example of how the corporate media can sway people into BUYING celebrity, here is a true story.
Several years ago, friend of mine was attending a Triple A minor league baseball game. During the middle of one of the innings, the announcer stated that there were two celebrities in the midst of the crowd. One was Willy Mays and the other was Jared ( from the Subway commercials). Within minutes Jared was being swarmed for his autograph and a handful of people went to get Willy Mays' autograph. At a freaking BASEBALL game, one of the greatest players of all time was virtually ignored while a media schill was surrounded by adoring fans. That's the type of people Palin's handlers are hoping to snag over the next four years.
And that's frightening.
The story about Mays is sad in so many ways. That guy Jared is like Charlie the Tuna, he's just an empty symbol for a company. I guess Palin is trying to become an empty symbol for her party.
Palin already is an empty symbol for her party.
I still cannot understand why so many fawn over her. It blows my mind that that "Our Country Deserves Better" PAC even exists, but even more so that they spent good money on an ad thanking Palin. IT IS WEIRD! IT IS A BIZARRO WORLD! Why didn't they use that money for something good and decent in these bad economic times, like giving it to the poor???
I can't figure out why Alaskans haven't lynched her.
I guess... or maybe that's digress.
Oh. My. God. Sarah Palin actually believes that the people of Alaska is what held her back from winning the election.
Oh, of course. It all makes sense now. It isn't the fact that she's a brain dead bimbo with no real political ability beyond getting free drinks at a bar, its because no one takes Alaska seriously enough.
The level of dumb here is staggering. I almost feel bad for the Republicans for having to hitch their trailers to this stump.
I almost fell for that.
good one!
:)
Alaskans should be happy their village idiot is out of state.
so she has a list of problems to address. as long as there is a democrat, there's someone else to blame it on. maybe alaska will become one of those former blue states once they tire of repug corruption.
naw, who am I kidding?
This crazy bitch just won't go away....and you guys won't let her!
They'd be better off in Georgia with Reverend Fred Phelps, the gay basheing Jaysus wacko representing Saxby Chambliss. At least the neocons would understand Phelps. >snicker<
Wouldn't it be poetic justice if this train wreck got impeached up there in Alaska. You betcha!!!!!!!
As you saw with the ethics investigation, practically nothing is illegal for politicians in Alaska. Apparently there's nothing illegal about firing the state's safety commissioner because he refuses to fire your ex-brother in law for personal reasons, or about firing the town librarian for refusing to burn books you don't like, or about firing the town police chief because he's not pro-gun enough for the NRA's litmus test. Kinda makes you wonder what a poor gal has to DO to get impeached around here!
Besides which, we all know that only Democrats can be impeached. Republicans are immune.
She was found to have violated ethics laws by the legislative investigation. She violated Alaska Statutes section 39.52.110(a). Not in firing the Commissioner, but in illegally using her influence in her attempts to have the trooper fired. It's only an ethics law, but it is still a law, and obeying it is not considered optional.
And don't forget, she refused to honor an officially issued subpoena, and no doubt influenced the First Dude to do the same.
The Legislature is free to take action to censure her when they reconvene in January. There is a lot of resentment against her up there even among the Republicans, but too much party loyalty to allow impeachment, I suspect. But even censure would take her down a notch and give her some more bad publicity.
MSNBC covered one of her speeches live this morning. Why? Even FOX didn't bother. She was all about the sanctity of life and the unborn and all the rest of her holier than thou crap.
For Chambliss to want her speaking for him as his closer says a whole lot about him and the votes he's courting. Maybe Georgia will prove to be better than that.
has to make up for their election coverage.
If I were an Alaskan I'd be throwing a party every day she wasn't there! Maverick! *wink*
She's addicted to publicity now and she needed another fix. Sounds like Alaskans would like her to dry out and get back to doing whatever the hell it is she's supposed to be doing as governor.
The more she's exposed to the world without an army of handlers to try and make her look and sound intelligent, the more people will realize what a cosmic joke she is.
While turkeys are squirming in the background having their necks broken as she sips a Starbucks vanilla latte/Dr. Pepper with no soy?
What a fucking idiot and embarrassment to Alaska and the United States.
What? Do we REALLY want to represent to the entire world that SHE represents the average American woman? And she calls herself a freakin' FEMINIST??!
Would somebody please indict her or knock her up again or impeach her? Just make her go the F away already!!!
Pissed off Patricia said it best "whenever Sarah speaks we all feel smarter"
Pissed off Patricia said it best "whenever Sarah speaks we all feel smarter"
Humping her own inflatable sarah palin doll.
...and plllttttt she was gone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqnm3A10m8I
a part of the U.S. where there are lots of people who like Sarah Palin for anything but a good laugh in disgust.
FWIW, this from a Perot and Nader voter who belongs to the NRA.
14:58 and counting..
And why won't she go away?
Its just obnoxious self serving behavior.
She's like Madonna without the "talent".
1. WAH-H-H-H-H!!! A democratic party leader has a nasty comment against her republican governor. Wow. That has just a TON of credibility. Who cares what lil' Patti Higgins has to say? If a republican flak started complaining about Alaska's governor's record, then perhaps somebody would listen.
2. WAH-H-H-H-H!!! Oil prices are down and Alaskans are losing money because of that. WAH-H-H-H-H!!! Get in line behind the rest of us who are suffering from this economy that you and your ilk (oil industry pricks) have helped give us.
3. WAH-H-H-H-H!!! Your gas prices are higher than the national average...WAH-H-H-H-H!!!!!
4. WAH-H-H-H-H!!! Your governor is stumping for an absolute asshole in Georgia and is so delusional that she thinks she is the party leader...WAH-H-H-H-H!!!
(Just thought I'd toss in my irritated rant, some things just set me off).
Go ahead..PREACH PREACHER!!
if nothin' else, she blew it by wearing white after labor day...
or is that the lord's light shinin' down on her?
Remember what happened to her in "Serial Mom"?
She don't need no stinkin' fashion rules...remember, she's a maverick. You betcha!
Her wardrobe has been drastically down-sized!
Joe the Plumber beat Palin to the punch. His new book came out today. I bet he would have liked another shot at the stump speeches to push his book sales.
Did everyone here remember to put his book on their Christmas wish list?
I'll put it on the book burning list
Seems using the pages of the book for toilet tissue would be appropriate since he is a plumber.
The normal handyman sense or the Nixon/GHWB variety. ?
You can see that now that she doesn't have McCain's staff to write her speeches for her, they're pretty darn lame.
I'd be thankful she wasn't in Juneau trying to play governor. The less she's in the capitol, the less damage she can do to the state.
In other news, recent polls have found that Alaska's collective IQ jumped a dozen points with its governor out on the campaign trail.
Every day Palin is out of her state a moose in Alaska has one more day of life.
"here's the dill?" can you not say Deal, for f%$# sake is this woman for real? If she is the best you have Reps your lost. Her and her 5 kids are so effected by GA. all the way from Alaska? This woman talks out both sides of her face and now, her ass.......
Now that's the person you need campaigning for ya...
I'm genuinely curious. I graduated from high school in Gwinnett County and once I did, I left a few months later and never went back. Not even to visit, except for a couple of times before I moved to England when I visited someone to buy coke (back when I still did such things). Seriously, as I remember it, it's exactly Palin's demographic and my recollection of it from the last time I had the misfortune to drive through the county last year is that it's basically just a more populous version of Wasilla.
They'll make her their queen.
It's going to be torture having to listen to her grating voice for the rest of my life. Almost as bad as having to endure 8 years of W. At least he won't be running for anything else.
Well, if we factor in the Hague and War Crimes investigations and torture investigations etc., etc. etc., he might be running for his LIFE!
i will GLADLY sit through and listen intently to THAT testimony...
Alaska, but has become an advocate--the very avatar--for cheap, no-class, illiterate parvenus everywhere...
Hallelulia!
Sarah Palin: "You do not have to feel that you are working for your government, but your government must be working for you".
John Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".
As Sarah headed from Alaska to Georgia, she had only one question: "Saxby? What's a Saxby?"
Yes and the long flight must have been the perfect opportunity to Google her way to the speech.
Not a pleasant place to be if you get on the 'to do' list of the Sheriff's dept.
... to return to tend to her duties as governor? Am I to assume that there is more to that job than being mayor of Wasilla whose job consists of staff meetings on Mondays and check signing on Thursdays?
When a pitbull is elected to lead Alaska, we will see her in her office doing her job OR AT LEAST standing on the shore making certain PUTIN DOESN'T REAR HIS HEAD AND ATTACK THE USA !!!
SARAH we are counting on you...
with her. If they are observing her post election activities, they know that her aspirations don't really seem to involve Alaska all that much. She's far more interested in playing hard core national partisan politics. She is campaigning in Georgia as if she were a dixie belle herself and a long time good ole friend of Saxby Chambliss. But she probably knows him as well as she was vetted by the McCain campaign before McCain even met her, which is to say, not at all. Oh well, I hope Alaskans see the phony partisan hack for what she's worth. Her ambition to run for president in 2012 is really coming through in her post election partisan escapades. When Alaska has had enough of her, they will retire her from Alaska politics.
What republican, and many democrats for that matter, truly care about their constituents?
Palin can sit on his lap and ask the viewers to vote for her "Big Daddy" right before he feels her up.
I needed a laugh. Thanks!
The fact that Palin has gotten as far as she has is very frightening.
I declare I hear hear tell she goes all the way.
what an irritating voice. I feel sorry for 'the first dude', and all Alaskans for that matter.
They would vote for a rock if it is stamped GOP. That is how stupid republicans are. That is how we got Bush. Igorant mfs.
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