I just saw the resignation speech. From what I can figure from her nearly psychotic ramble was that she is retiring ASAP because she does not want to run for a second term. Because she does not want to run for a second term, that makes her a lame duck. Since she is a lame duck, she will resign right away because a lame duck governor has no political power.
I think that's what she said, but if it is what she said, it is insane. If that's not what she said, I'd be grateful is some conservative wizard could explain it to me more clearly.
In any event, the real story reason for throwing in the towel should become evident in a few days. I suspect it will not good news for the Republican Party.
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:00 am Post subject:
Truly loony tunes. She's only been governor for some two years; she's barely learned the damn job, and she's resigning because she's a lame duck? That's ... well, truly loony tunes. As you say, David, the real reason will bubble to the surface before too long. Or, of course, this is the "real reason" and she's simply loony tunes.
Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 1648 Location: Michigan
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 03:10 pm Post subject:
My guess:
She is a regular person and is a hot item now. As a governor she makes less than 90K a year (I looked it up) and is bleeding money with all the slings and arrows from everyone with little benefit to her and there is a big target on her family.
She did not come from money and has a background in journalism:
"Palin attended Wasilla High School in Wasilla, located 44 miles (71 km) north of Anchorage.[12] She was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at the school, a member of the girls' cross country team, and the captain and point guard of the school's girls' basketball team that won the Alaska state championship in 1982.[13][14] Palin's family regularly ran 5 km and 10 km races.[13]
After graduating from high school in 1982, she enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College in Honolulu. She left after one semester and transferred to North Idaho College, a community college in Coeur d'Alene and spent two semesters as a general studies major in 1983. In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant,[15][16] then finished third in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant[17][18] and won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award.[13]
In August 1984, she transferred to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, where her older brother, Charles W. Heath, was majoring in education.[19] After two semesters at UI, Palin returned to Alaska and attended Matanuska-Susitna College, a community college in Palmer, for one term in the fall of 1985. She returned to the University of Idaho in January 1986, where she spent three semesters completing her bachelor's degree in communications-journalism, graduating in May 1987.[19]"
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject:
She has a background in journalism, eh? Seems like a bit of a stretch, but then, I'm not a fan so I am undoubtedly biased. Still seems like a very odd decision to me. The most telling argument against her as VP candidate was her lack of experience, lack of seasoning, to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. So, what does she do? Leave her substantive job as governor half way through her one and only term. I don't care what she does henceforth; whatever it is, it is most unlikely to burnish her reputation or experience as a substantive, serious executive/manager.
Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 1648 Location: Michigan
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 03:25 am Post subject:
"In 1988, she worked as a sports reporter for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV in Anchorage,[21] and for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman as a sports reporter.[22] She also helped in her husband’s commercial fishing business.[23]"
I know she has more than Mike Huckabee (I know he was a minister) and he is on his second contract with Fox News and we are talking fees that range in the triple figures and I assume she wants some buffer for her child who has a child and her handicapped child who is a toddler. You do not have to be a fan to have some empathy for her situation. She is not a graduate of an Ivy League school but a working mom - my gosh her husband is still a commercial fisherman. I mean if you need empathy from a Supreme Court justice what of an out of work governor - LOL
Breaking with tradition for presidential candidates, Mike Huckabee is continuing to accept paid speaking engagements in the thick of his insurgent presidential campaign, although churches get a break from his usual fee of up to $25,000.
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That is old news and he gets more than that now with his own show on Fox News - watch - with speaking fees and books and the like - there is big money to follow. You may even see a radio show.
She's just a grifter, that's all. It's always about the Benjamins and the lifestyle for them.
Gov. Palin may have been caught by the authorities in one of her grifting adventures, which required the unplanned resignation. Perhaps it is a part of a plea deal soon to be announced? Who knows?
In any event, she's nobody special, as grifters go. In fact, she's not as sharp as most. She's sinking in the deep end of the pool of national politics and media.
Otto Kernberg described malignant narcissism (also known as narcissistic supply) as a syndrome characterized by a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), antisocial features, paranoid traits, and ego-syntonic aggression. An absence of conscience, a psychological need for power, and a sense of importance (grandiosity) are often symptomatic of malignant narcissism. Pollock wrote: "The malignant narcissist is presented as pathologically grandiose, lacking in conscience and behavioral regulation with characteristic demonstrations of joyful cruelty and sadism."[1] Kernberg claimed that malignant narcissism should be considered part of a spectrum of pathological narcissism, which he saw as ranging from the Cleckley's antisocial character (today's psychopath) at the high end of severity, to malignant narcissism, to NPD at the low end.[2]
Kernberg wrote that malignant narcissism can be differentiated from psychopathy because of the malignant narcissists' capacity to internalize "both aggressive and idealized superego precursors, leading to the idealization of the aggressive, sadistic features of the pathological grandiose self of these patients." According to Kernberg, the psychopaths' paranoid stance against external influences makes them unwilling to internalize even the values of the "aggressor," while malignant narcissists "have the capacity to admire powerful people, and can depend on sadistic and powerful but reliable parental images." Malignant narcissists, in contrast to psychopaths, are also said to be capable of developing "some identification with other powerful idealized figures as part of a cohesive 'gang' ... which permits at least some loyalty and good object relations to be internalized."
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