Palin: "I'll Always Be Sarah From Alaska"

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 10:30:41 AM EST
Tags: Sarah Palin (all tags)

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I just saw Sarah Palin interviewed at her polling place. She wouldn't say who she voted for. She said, no matter what happens, she'll "always be Sarah from Alaska."

Please, go vote, so Sarah stays in Alaska and the only time we have to mention her is in connection with a post-mortem analysis of McCain's reckless, selfish failed Hail Mary Pass.

I muted her when she started talking about the Personnel Board Report. Unlike the Legislature, the Personnel Board is an agency of the state's executive branch and its officials can be fired by Palin. Even those appointed by her predecessor. Of course they came out for her on Election Eve, they want to keep their jobs, as TChris wrote here. The Legislative Report found she abused the power of her office. How convenient for her to gloss over that.

Bye, Sarah.

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As a reminder. . . (5.00 / 0) (#1)
by LarryInNYC on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 10:33:49 AM EST

the legislature in Alaska is Republican controlled, so to the extent there was political pressure on that investigation, it would have favored Palin as well.

I'll always be Sarah from Alaska? (5.00 / 4) (#3)
by TChris on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 10:39:09 AM EST

Right. And J-Lo will always be "Jenny from the block."

Pretty good one (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by AlkalineDave on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 10:48:52 AM EST

TChris. You made a conservative McCain supporter laugh out loud at that one.


Bill Kristol (5.00 / 0) (#8)
by Jlvngstn on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:16:07 AM EST

says she reminds him of FDR.

I get towing the party line and being supportive even in disastrous situations, but comparisons to FDR seem a bit of a stretch. Like Andre the Giant slipping into danny devitos boxers.


More like (5.00 / 0) (#21)
by cal1942 on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 12:04:20 PM EST

Danny DeVito getting lost in Andre The Giant's boxers.

And finally, Bill Kristol is an idiot with a good tailor. The sole criteria for Village success.


: lol (none / 0) (#27)
by Jlvngstn on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 02:03:13 PM EST

but the fractures in their party are necessary, they need to unify on direction and messaging and methinks in 8 years it will be a very different Jindal - Crist kinda party....

volunteer a little time. (5.00 / 1) (#4)
by connecticut yankee on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 10:41:29 AM EST

I'm making calls and I'll be doing door to door in a few hours.

If you have any spare time go over to barackobama.com and you can get lists of people to call in swing states. I've called lots of college kids and urged them to get out of bed. heh.

Best not call me. (5.00 / 1) (#14)
by Fabian on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:46:27 AM EST

I got a personal (robo)call from Obama yesterday! Hung up on him too.

I did listen to the robocall for county coroner though. It was a change from the cr@p the Ds and Rs have been sending out.


well (none / 0) (#24)
by connecticut yankee on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 01:32:18 PM EST

Sounds like standard behavior from you. Hows that working out?


: If only the robocallers would (5.00 / 1) (#26)
by Fabian on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 01:42:13 PM EST

take a hint!
Just got a personal (robo)call from McCain and hung up on him too.
It wouldn't be so bad if only the calls had relevant and intelligent content. Any time you have to get and hold someone's attention in the first ten seconds, it's going to be some appeal to emotion, not intellect. I'm not an emo-voter so that stuff just turns me right off.

CBS News poll found... (5.00 / 0) (#7)
by wasabi on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:03:47 AM EST

There is evidence that Palin's presence on the Republican ticket has hurt McCain with some voters. Fourteen percent of Obama's supporters say they once supported McCain, and the top reason given for their switch was McCain's selection of Palin as his running mate.
CBS Poll

Bye, Sarah from Alaska.

She wouldn't say (5.00 / 0) (#9)
by Lil on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:23:29 AM EST

who she voted for? Maybe she voted for change too.

: Probably a ding to pollsters, (none / 0) (#28)
by KeysDan on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 02:37:25 PM EST

and a good dodge on her favorite son, Ted Stevens.

One important reason to be grateful... (5.00 / 6) (#10)
by marian evans on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:31:05 AM EST

the election campaign is over.

No, it's not just Sarah Palin I'm looking forward to hearing less of.

It's the cognitive dissonance displayed by far too many on the left which I can do without - who while calling themselves "progressive", have created an environment in which people can wear t-shirts saying "Sarah Palin is a c*nt" to a political rally gleefully thinking they are making some kind of political comment.

It's not just the shamelessness of it. It's the stupidity. The shallow, banal crassness of it.

That I can do without.

What I do want is the discussion of sexism and misogyny that America needs to have with itself.

The worst and most painful irony of this election cycle has been that the probable election of America's first AA president - something that any person of good will must want for the US - has been at least partially achieved by the basest of means...by the kind of demonizing and pillorying of female candidates that was as brutish and nasty as any witch-trial.

We've come a long way, baby.

Or not.

Cognitive dissonance (5.00 / 1) (#11)
by Fabian on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:40:51 AM EST

is listening to one side cast Palin as totally awesome and the other paint her as epic fail.

It leaves me without a clue who or what Palin really is. It's not that I care really, I just think that there might be a snowflake of truth in this blizzard of questionable data.


Truth in politics? (5.00 / 1) (#20)
by marian evans on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:56:37 AM EST

Ah, Fabian, if we're talking precipitation, then truth's got a snowball's chance in these less temperate regions of the political underworld...:).


I parked my car (none / 0) (#25)
by Fabian on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 01:33:23 PM EST

at the far end of the lot when I voted. It reads NO MORE LIES IMPEACH in four inch high letters. I thought about "no more lies" with regards to a presidential election and laughed. Fat chance!


My father says (5.00 / 2) (#29)
by Steve M on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 02:53:00 PM EST

the Democratic slogan should be "we lie less than the other guys." You could probably woo some independents with that kind of brutal honesty!


: Our lies are better than their lies! (none / 0) (#30)
by Fabian on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 03:10:19 PM EST

I want fresh lies! The "AH! Terrorists" line is stale. At least the "Higher Taxes!" schtick is always relevant.

I think Palin sees (5.00 / 0) (#12)
by WS on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:42:28 AM EST

the writing on the wall.

She's probably planning her future, but her Republican primary foes will use this election against her.

She won't say who she voted for. (5.00 / 1) (#15)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:53:22 AM EST

But you can be sure it wasn't for "present."

Stay on topic and stop (5.00 / 0) (#22)
by Jeralyn on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 01:07:53 PM EST

the snide drive-by comments and Oculus, that especially means you. If you like Sarah Palin, I'm sure you can find a site with people who feel the same way.

Just a reminder that comments that oppose the Dem. ticket or support McCain or Palin are limited to 4 a day expressing that view.

: BTW, Jeralyn... (none / 0) (#23)
by easilydistracted on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 01:18:08 PM EST

Any word on how many turned out to see Ms Palin yesterday in the Springs?

with any luck (5.00 / 0) (#31)
by cpinva on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 06:38:27 PM EST

at all, the iceberg she lives on will break away, and float off into the pacific, never to be seen or heard from again.

her selection as veep candidate, by mccain, was an insult to all thinking women in this country. oh hell, it was an insult to all thinking people in this country, period.

this is weird (none / 0) (#2)
by lilburro on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 10:37:11 AM EST

but digby mentioned this on her blog, and while watching SP on SNL last night...it does seem that she has changed her accent a little bit. [was it part of the joke? did i miss it?]

That may be my impression only because Tina Fey has gotten as much airtime as the real Sarah Palin. Again, GREAT job on the rollout there McCain team.

Palin's speech coach is public (none / 0) (#13)
by Fabian on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:43:41 AM EST

knowledge. A lot about Palin has changed over the weeks.


: We were supposed to see (5.00 / 1) (#16)
by WS on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 11:55:25 AM EST

Sarah Barracuda. Instead, she was really Sarah Quayle.

Sounds like the personnel board's findings (none / 0) (#6)
by easilydistracted on Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 10:54:00 AM EST

were fair and impartial -- according to republican standards. And, you know..."Sarah from Alaska" would be an ideal title for her potential photo spread in the rag of Hugh the Photographer. I wonder if he's asked her yet?