GOP Tried Intervention To Get Palin Back On Track
Monday’s New York Times puts together the pieces that led to the resignation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. It got to the point where an official from the Republican Governor’s Association went to Alaska to help organize and focus the governor, who was having problems dealing with all that had happened since she was selected to be John McCain’s running mate.
The official, the association’s executive director, Nick Ayers (right), arrived with a memorandum containing firm counsel, according to several people who know its details: Make a long-term schedule and stick to it, have staff members set aside ample and inviolable family time to replenish your spirits, and build a coherent home-state agenda that creates jobs and ensures re-election.
Like so much of the advice sent Ms. Palin’s way by influential supporters, it appeared to be happily received and then largely discarded, barely slowing what was, in retrospect, an inexorable march toward the resignation she announced 10 days ago.
Disorganized, canceling important events like CPAC after being offered a keynote speaker position, and not being aware of other events where organizers were led to believe she’d attend, Ayers was charged with helping to get her organization in order.
Hope for the intervention’s success soon faded. Despite advice to stick close to home and focus on an Alaska agenda, the governor accepted an invitation to attend an anti-abortion dinner in Indiana in April, even though the state budget was hanging in the balance in the Legislature.
When Tom Wright, chief of staff for the speaker of the Alaska House, suggested that the governor would catch heat for leaving, Ms. Palin stormed into his office and, according to a person familiar with the conversation, “proceeded to ream him out.”
But Governor Palin has youth, ambition and time. And a political party in search of a voice.
I’m thinking Sarah Palin needs a new church, didn’t her old one have something to do with rehabbing witches ala The Exorcist? Just sayin…
Oh right, completeing an “assignment” Would be a good anchor on her resume.
I know people who had 5 colleges but they have graduate degrees and a portfolio of work.
July 13th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Somebody mentioned she was wearing hip-waders aboard her fishing boat, which, if you fall into the water tend to turn you into an anchor.
Also, she’s reported to have gotten her nails done in the “French” style just before going on her fishing adventure, which sounds not only wildly inappropriate, but rather unpatriotic too, if, like so many on the right, she despises all things French.
So…does she really know anything about fishing, or was this just another photo op?
I can see the banner now.
“Fishing Accomplished!”
July 13th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Maybe she thought this guy might be related to Bill Ayers, and she didn’t want to be seen “pallin’ around with terrorists”…
Alan Colmes: Governor Palin has youth, ambition and time. And a political party in search of a voice.
Time has run out on Sarah Palin. She quit her post for unclear reasons. Much as I would like to see her drag down the Republican Party with her aggravating voice, they will nominate someone else, anyone else.
Unless they are even more stupid than I thought… which is not outside the realm of possibility. Run, Sarah, run!
July 13th, 2009 at 1:54 am
To be honest, she has a special needs child, so where was this child when she was fishing with her husband? She is EVIL, you cross her and she would do everything in her power to destroy you, for a woman, she is an embassassment. She does not reprisent me, since I am a liberal. If she is anything like Ann Coulter, no women can vote, nor hold down any good jobs. More or less women should be barefoot and Pregnant. We’ve Come a Longway Baby.
July 13th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Disorganized huh? Never would have thought that by the way her speeches are so well composed. The term, “Ditz” comes to mind when I hear her ramble on about what ever it is she trying to articulate.
Celticwitch Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 7:55 am
No air head comes to my mind, she talks and then talks about other things in on sentence.
Remember her interview with Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson? They were very disastrous, she could say what the Bush Doctorines were, she could not name any SCOTUS landmark cases. I can name a few, Miranda V. Arizona; The People V. Larry Flint: Roe V. Wade. Brown V. the Board of Education, to name a few. I doubt she would condone Larry Flint, but it went all the way to the Supreme Court, he won because it was the 1st Admendment, freedom of the Press. Miranda V, Arizona, You have the right to remain silent; the right of the criminals brought into custody. I am not running for any office and I can name a few.
She was asked what McCain reformed, she could not answer. Katie Couric was getting impatient with her, and seeing Charlie Gibson, I believe he was also. The only one who hung on her every word was Sean Hannity.
July 13th, 2009 at 7:40 am
for better or worse, this is the way she operates. The RNC can’t understand that.
It’s all part of that maverick spirit…she isn’t going to take orders from some national committee way off into whatever. her republicanism extends as far as she needed the brand to win election. She isn’t a career politician in that sense.
Some of those traits I admired…and some of those traits are what convinced me to not vote McCain/Palin.
She is far from the first politician to be a bully…LBJ was the biggest bully of all. She isn’t the first politician to be temperemental either…see John McCain.
For someone who believes less government is the answer, a lot of her operations make sense.
and celticwitch…you’re name is appropriate. Perhaps it would be wise to dial down the vitriol and hyperbole…she isn’t evil. Feel free to disagree with her, but branding someone, whom you really don’t know as EVIL is shortsighted…to put it mildly.
July 13th, 2009 at 10:18 am
am i banned again?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I guess not…gargled in the moderator.
July 13th, 2009 at 10:19 am