This means there is little chance for negative momentum to build.
Announcing something on the Friday afternoon of a major Holiday would seem to assure even more cover.
And yet, obviously, it does not appear Palin has anything to hide. So, why did she choose a weekend which would seem likely to bury her announcement?
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...Palin has anything to hide. So, why did she choose a weekend which would seem likely to bury her announcement?..
Because she is smarter and has more 'experience' than people give her credit for....
C-CS
I agree she is smarter than people give her credit for? But strategically, how does this help her?
SHe isn't chained by Alaskan issues if she wants to spend more time in D.C. or elsewhere attacking Obamaism. She no longer has to mind what she says ESPECIALLY if the intent is NOT a POTUS run but forming an organized opposition to Obama.
Face it, with the crew in The White House now even governors have to worry about pissing off Obama for fear of losing federal monies or help etc.
Now she can call him the raggedy ass piece of crap he is and not worry about that.
If that is her intent it's a really bold move.
she said why:
You don’t hear much about the good stuff in the press anymore, though, do you? Some say things changed for me on August 29th last year — the day that John McCain tapped me to be his running mate. And it was an honor to stand beside a true American hero. I say others changed, and let me to speak to that for a minute.
Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law that I championed became their weapon of choice over the past nine months. I’ve been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations, such as holding a fish in a photograph or wearing a jacket with a logo on it and answering reporters’ questions. Every one of these, though, all 15 of the ethics complaints have been dismissed. We have won, but it hasn’t been cheap. The state has wasted thousands of hours of your time and shelled out some two million of your dollars to respond to opposition research and that’s money that’s not going to fund teachers, or troopers or safer roads.
And this political absurdity, the politics of personal destruction, Todd and I, we’re looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills just in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn’t cost them a dime. So they’re not going to stop draining the public resources, spending other people’s money in this game. They won’t stop.
It’s pretty insane. My staff and I spend most of our day — we’re dealing with this stuff instead of progressing our state now.
And I know that I promised no more politics as usual but this isn’t what anyone had in mind for Alaska.
If I’ve learned one thing it’s that life is about choices and one chooses how to react to circumstances. You can choose to engage in things that tear down or that build up and I choose to work very hard on a path for fruitfulness and productivity. I choose not to tear down and waste precious time but to build up this state and our great country and her industrious and generous and patriotic and free people.
Life is too short to compromise time and resources and though it may be tempting and more comfortable to just kind of keep your head down and plod along and appease those who are demanding, hey, just sit down and shut up. But that’s a worthless, easy path out. That’s a quitter’s way out. And I think a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just kind of hunker down and go with the flow. We’re fishermen and we know that only dead fish go with the flow.
No productive fulfilled people determined where to put their efforts choosing to wisely use precious time to build up — and there is such a need to build up — and fight for our state and our country and I choose to fight for it. And I’ll work very hard for others who still believe in free enterprise and smaller government and strong national security for our country and support for our troops and energy independence and for those who will protect freedom and equality and life.
I’ll work hard for and I’ll campaign for those who are proud to be American and who are inspired by our ideals and they won’t deride them. I will support others who seek to serve in or out of office, and I don’t care what party they’re in or no party at all, inside Alaska or outside of Alaska.
But I won’t do it from the governor’s desk. I’ve never believed that I nor anyone else needs a title to do this, to make a difference, to help people. So I choose for my state and for my family more freedom to progress all the way around.
"And yet, obviously, it does not appear Palin has anything to hide."
Nothing --- Save the peripheral fact that she was a failure.
Failure as defined by you? And what have you accomplished in your life that makes you so superior that you can look down your nose at a woman like Sarah Palin and decree her a failure? What a snobby, elitist person you must be.
Maybe she decided to declare her independence and wanted to stick a thumb in the eye of the liberal media and seriously---you really think this story is going to be buried?
frivolous suits--2,000,000 $$$-I believe that was the amount..
PLUS-1/2 Million personal---
Alaska needs a LOSER PAYS decree--as a matter of fact ...every state needs a LOSER PAYS...
Lawyers fight LOSER PAYS always and so does the Dark Side....
BTW-SHE IS A WINNER NOT a failure....
C-CS
Failure? At what, Editrix?
$$ and family vs personal ambition
Her family owes $500k+ personally in legal expenses
She can be Ann Coulter on crack
60k per speech
Book advances
And not have to worry over partisan attacks on her kids which can pass without a vicious personal, biting, and telling rejoinder.
Think David Letterman would have said what he did about a child of Ann Coulter's?
All provided, of course there is no scandal hanging out there..hard to believe someone missed something after what they put her family thru.
Still the question remains. Why Friday afternoon of a major holiday weekend?
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