Sarah Palin's not just a quitter -- she's a professional quitter. And taxpayers get the tab
By David Neiwert Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 5:00pm
Sarah Palin quit as Alaska's governor because, she claimed, she needed to "do the right thing for Alaska".
But has anyone sat down and figured out how much this stunt is actually going to cost Alaska's taxpayers?
One of our wise Alaska friends e-mailed the other day, pointing out that Palin's resignation is likely going to wind up costing in the vicinity of $200,000 or more, because a special session is going to be required to name a successor to the lieutenant governor's post.
Indeed, Greg Sargent is reporting that one of the reasons Palin repeatedly gave for resigning -- that defending her on the ethics complaints was costing taxpayers a bundle -- was fundamentally false.
All this for the sake of someone who already has a history of quitting on the state when she hit rough sledding -- but using the splash she made from doing so as a stepping-stone to higher office.
John Ziegler, Palin's Biggest Fan, dropped that point in passing the other night on The O'Reilly Factor -- as though it were an admirable thing to do, of course.
Crisitunity at Swing State Project explored this in a bit further detail:
One other thought about Alaska that just about everyone in the tradmed seems to be missing. Sarah Palin did have a job in between being mayor of Wasilla and Alaska Governor: she was chair of Frank Murkowski's Oil and Gas Commission. How long was she on this Commission? Less than a year... until she quit in January 2004 with a big public huff (leaving the Commission in the lurch with only one member), saying "the experience was taking the 'oomph' out of her passion for government service and she decided to quit rather than becoming bitter." She publicly cited her frustration with being unable to be all straight-talky and mavericky about the corruption and backbiting on the Commission, but the resignation also came at a very convenient time for switching over to lay the groundwork for her successful 2006 gubernatorial run.
As DavidNYC at DailyKos acidly observed:
Don't forget that she also quit four different colleges en route to getting a degree in journalism. It seems that the one lesson Sarah Palin's learned her whole life is that quitters always win.
The best part is that the taxpayers pick up the tab for it, too. Apparently, "what's right for the people of Alaska" is to give them the shaft -- now that she's "too big" for them, especially.
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I think one of the striking and quite telling, I think, aspects of this whole quitting saga is that nobody and I mean nobody, including her supporters, believe her. Think about what that says. Should be a media narrative all in itself. SP quits, no one buys her story.
even whores have morals
just wait
for she is the only one who would
just picturing their coupling makes me wanna puke
btw, if loofa boy doesnt see the diff between an appointed and an elected position...then he truly is an idiot
Oh I'm sure he sees it really. But that wouldn't make him not an idiot.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care...
Doesn't provide evidence of the claim about Palin's resignation. In fact, this is a completely different article altogether.
Oops! Sorry bout that. Fixed now.
That right-wing whiners are certifiably insane:
Palin still a viable candidate.
Whatever conservatives Palin may bring to the table, she repels more in every other category.
in 2010?
Why yes, there is. It's Lisa Murkowski's seat, and her dad was AK gov before the Wasilla Shrilla. Maybe she's got a hardon for the Murkowski family...
Yes, Palin was quite the little bandit when she got the chance, and i bet Liely is proud. Remember though, pride is a sin.
It seems to me that the expenses incurred by the Alaskan Ethics Committee have been offset so far by Ms. Sarah’s reimbursements of the monies that she attempted to embezzle from the state. There is also too more monies that should be reimbursed so it’s not like its’ Even Stephen’s or anything like that and all too. I guess too what I’m trying to say also is that the only one paying a bundle here is well poor pitiful Sarah.
I'm sorry, I can't watch that clip! O'Reilly and Ziegler on the same screen is just waayyy too much idiocy for me to take in one sitting.
I can't bear to listen to that snide, condescending prick Ziegler ever again. I'd rather spend an afternoon listening to gas coming out of a horse's ass than listen to Ziegler for one millisecond.
Lucky me. I don't even know who he is. I never watch FUX videos.
In case I neglected to say it before, Palin is a douchebag.
Oh, wait, that smells worse than horse farts.
Never mind.
I would have guessed that Ziegler is a $1.99 a bottle Eau de Catpiss (aka AXE)kinda guy
I picture Ziegler as the guy who made a point to buy the last 10 cases outta the factory when they discontinued the brand. Now it's got 20 years of aging in the glass, and at $0.49/bottle wholesale price that his cousin got him, it was the best investment Ziegler ever made.
you seen gas come fron two horses asses.
I never watch Liely, a man who has snapped!
I have to be truthful, although I loath John Ziegler and everything he stands for, he is such a fucking douche bag that I actually can't help but feel sorry for him.
And that is the honest to God's truth. I often wonder about stuff like that.
...I couldn't help but think that all her supporters think it's fine that she quit because the office of governor -- of Alaska yet -- is beneath her. In the White House, she will call on the Department of Law to silence her critics, and through the use of the extraordinary powers of the executive, which Bush claimed and Obama seems to be extending, she will be able to control those who criticize her. I could easily imagine a White House like none before. With the assistance of a totally worthless MSM, she would establish a level of message management that was previously inconceivable.
Unfortunately for Palin, she is a complete idiot, and it's hard to imagine events not spinning out of control. Just picture Palin as the person guiding the nation through a major crisis? She would screech her way through incoherent stream of consciousness speeches that ordinarily would be expected to calm the people and demonstrate that a cool, competent head is leading the country, but with her delivering the assurances all but Palin's most ardent fans would come to the opposite conclusion -- the ship of state is rudderless and the captain is high on meth.
Ziegler's performance seemed strange to me. At first, in this clip, it seemed that he was criticizing her as a serial quitter, but later he reverted to normal with his penis taking charge and speaking on his behalf in typical mindless "Palin's the greatest" fashion. Maybe he was just afraid that O'Reilly would beat the crap out of him if he disagreed with the loud-mouthed bully.
Just a tip o' the hat to the one that got this screen grab. Orally is truly dead-clown-in-the-closet scary.
MAJOR ass-hat. I'm usually more articulate, but I don't wanna waste my words on that tewl.
Mavericks don't quit.
That is the quittingiest (I know, that really isn't a word, but this is the lipsticked pitbull we are discussing) person that ever lived. Her excuse for quitting that commission was very similar to her excuse for quitting the gov.'s office. I had forgotten she had quit that with all the other ignorance going with her. Thanks for reminding us all Mr. Ziegler, you stupid chump!
I have an image of Palin as the head of the cheerleading squad who gives her boyfriend, the captain of the football team, handjobs wearing a rubber glove.
Colin Powell was told to resign. Idiot!
What fools! But they are republicans. and we all know that republicanism is a mental illness!
..She's a Quitter, let's just hope the electorate realizes that this would be a dangerous person to install into any other office including Game Warden. BOR, who cas.
One a tool, second a fool.
she probably doesn't realize that the Republicans will use her to keep the rednecks in the fold but will NEVER support her candidacy for any public office again. They just can't afford her. Simply, she could never be trusted to support a rational Republican agenda (if the clowns can ever get their act together) and would always go off on her own and screw the party. She'd never select advisors that she'd listen to, being a narcissist, just like she wouldn't listen to the McCain people but just went off on her own (idiotic interviews and statements) after steaming in frustration.
I don't think they'll throw her out of the fold for being a twit, but they'll use her, and eventually she'll stomp off in a rage at them for refusing to give in to her demands.
Maybe she'll end up heading Todd's movement for the secession of Alaska from the US. Unsuccessfully....
Tab's only marginally better than Diet Rite.
Do they even make Tab anymore? God that stuff tasted like shit!
trying to make his living sucking at the the teet of Sarah Palin? And why does he have to yell, when talking calmly would serve him better?
I'm John Ziegler and Sarah Palin was railroaded....WAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Stuff it Zig. Nobody with a brain cares what you think.
What a total ass-wipe this loud mouth, pompous prick is. Honest to god...does he change the Lipstick-pig's diapers? What a water boy, butt head.
I can't stand to watch this prick babble his lunacy. What did he swallow to be such a qualified mind reader for the Lipstick-pig? Jesh, what an ass hole.
I still love that dating game clip he was on. What a total ass hole then, and even refined his game now. Saw him on the cable news network where he insulted the female host and nearly got cut off for his adolescent smart ass behavior. WHY is he even on the news??
Actually, it is hard to decide. Is John Ziegler an asshole, or a whole ass?
You decide.
I'm convinced Ziegler wanks off to pics of Palin in her CFM heels. How else could you explain such outright idiocy? If she wasn't such a complete narcissist, and had half a brain, she would have had him investigated as an obsessive stalker.
But then, this is winkie-poo Priscilla from Wassilla, the overage pageant model.
It wasn't that college was hard was it? It was for the public good.
Palin is just another professional BAD LIAR in the Right Wing-nut party.
This is quoted from the very excellent Mudflats blog:
"On a hunch, I reviewed online lists of all the men and women who’ve been elected governor of their state since the year 1900. Pored over them for a few hours. Over 1200 politicians have taken that first-term oath of office. Some soon died in office. Many resigned to accept other positions in government, including Spiro Agnew who was “tapped” by Nixon after being the Governor of Maryland for about five minutes. On a handful of occasions, a first-termer was dragged off to the slammer or impeached. One was incapacitated by a nervous breakdown and one left just as impeachment came knocking on his door. So—how many out of over 1200 just up and quit before the end of their term?
Three: Jim McGreevy, Eliot Spitzer and Sarah Palin.
Just saw this post.....Why does anyone give John Ziegler any air time? That guy is an idiot. He has a very unhealthy obsession with Sarah Palin.
O'Reilly's comparison of Palin quitting is no comparison with Colin Powell's resignation. I believe Powell resigned because he had fundamental differences with the Bush administration on the war in Iraq.
And Ziegler say that the media hasn't reported on Palin quitting her job on the oil and gas commission because she "couldn't do her job?" Why couldn't she do her job? She was ineffective.
Ziegler is such a whacko.
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