Sarah Palin Stays in Alaska, out of National Spotlight

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thrust into the spotlight as a Republican rising star, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been depicted as an up-and-comer capable of helping reshape the party and jockeying for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
Rollins, a veteran of the Reagan White House, called Jindal, a first-generation American born to Punjabi parents, a "young dynamic governor" with "appeal to younger voters."
The governor is a "textbook Republican" who is "scary smart,"
By-by Sarah.
One of mom Sarah Palin's chief support groups -- right-wing evangelicals who promote abstinence -- tore into Bristol over her comments on Fox News that "abstinence is unrealistic." dID MOM SAY LEAVE MY KID ALONE. HELL NO. Why? No back bone?
If Sarah Palin's evangelical base really wants to confront teen pregnancy, they'd be smart to listen to Bristol Palin and others in her shoes and absorb some of their real-life wisdom.
Where's Palin's vituperative comeback at Van Susteren or the NAEA?
Her silence says truck loads.
“Obviously something big took place in the media,” she added. It is “very frightening, I think, what the media was able to get away with, this go around.”
Palin suggested that unbalanced media coverage posed a threat to democracy.
“This is for the sake of our democracy that there is fairness in this other branch of government, if you will, called the media,” she said. “It is foreign to me the way some in the mainstream media are thinking.”
“There have been lies told, there have been reputations trashed, there have been children that have been harmed,” she continued.
See above paragraphs.
Mostly copied and pasted from news media.
So I suppose if the other politicians didn't say something stupid the news media should make things up --- right---wrong.
Stay home until you are defeated in 2010 as governor. Oh, don't forget to take the stimulus aid for your state.

L. W. Ross of KS 10:21PM February 23, 2009

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thrust into the spotlight as a Republican rising star, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been depicted as an up-and-comer capable of helping reshape the party and jockeying for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
Rollins, a veteran of the Reagan White House, called Jindal, a first-generation American born to Punjabi parents, a "young dynamic governor" with "appeal to younger voters."
The governor is a "textbook Republican" who is "scary smart,"
By-by Sarah.
One of mom Sarah Palin's chief support groups -- right-wing evangelicals who promote abstinence -- tore into Bristol over her comments on Fox News that "abstinence is unrealistic." dID MOM SAY LEAVE MY KID ALONE. HELL NO. Why? No back bone?
If Sarah Palin's evangelical base really wants to confront teen pregnancy, they'd be smart to listen to Bristol Palin and others in her shoes and absorb some of their real-life wisdom.
Where's Palin's vituperative comeback at Van Susteren or the NAEA?
Her silence says truck loads.
“Obviously something big took place in the media,” she added. It is “very frightening, I think, what the media was able to get away with, this go around.”
Palin suggested that unbalanced media coverage posed a threat to democracy.
“This is for the sake of our democracy that there is fairness in this other branch of government, if you will, called the media,” she said. “It is foreign to me the way some in the mainstream media are thinking.”
“There have been lies told, there have been reputations trashed, there have been children that have been harmed,” she continued.
See above paragraphs.
Mostly copied and pasted from news media.
So I suppose if the other politicians didn't say something stupid the news media should make things up --- right---wrong.
Stay home until you are defeated in 2010 as governor. Oh, don't forget to take the stimulus aid for your state.

L. W. Ross of KS 10:21PM February 23, 2009

You're the idiot..... get your facts straight.

Diane of CA 6:05PM February 23, 2009

she should save her money and not bother to run in another 4 yrs.
Hopefully Obama will do well and get another 4 yrs.

Jaybee of WI 1:19PM February 23, 2009

O f course Palin took hits at home.
"The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut down."
The woman has numerous influential political foes on both sides of the aisle in Alaska who she has spanked in debates, campaigns,
and in policy-making. It is hardly surprising that these
minnows pretending to be whales would feel emboldened
after the formidable assault by big-league political players
in the national arena and media juggernauts like the N.Y.Times,
Newsweek, NBC, and ABC tag teamed her.
Indians flocked to Danny Boyle movies before he was given
membership in the "Best Directors in the World" club but as
soon as he became a household name Indians took
to the streets to damn the man.
The contempt for Palin nationally and among and increasing
number of voices in her home state is both understandable
and predictable: she has succeeded beyond anyone's dreams.
Finally, it's peculiar to me that people think Palin has gone to the
mattresses. Not including the interviews and traveling she did during
the campaign, I can't think of 10 interviews she has given nationally.

John Carpenter of NY 12:16PM February 23, 2009

You are a smart fella and I think Palin could benefit from your political and historical savy.
If we could somehow meld her moral integrity and common sense with your intellectual capacities - well, I think we have something. Say, what are you doing in "12?

R.L. Schaefer of CA 11:29AM February 23, 2009