Palin Emails Show Her Eyeing VP Slot in Summer ‘08
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Much of the country was taken by surprise when Sarah Palin became the Republican vice presidential candidate in August 2008, but newly released emails make it clear that the little-known Alaska governor was angling for the slot months before Sen. John McCain asked her to join him on the GOP ticket.
Earlier that summer, Palin and her staff began pushing to find a larger audience for the governor, wedging her into national conversations and nudging the McCain campaign to notice her.
Palin and her staff talked excitedly on June 19 about plans to repeal Alaska’s fuel tax. Ivy Frye, a longtime Palin aide and friend, said she would send details to McCain staffers when they became available.
“They’re going to love it!” Frye wrote. “More vp talk is never a bad thing, whether you’re considering vp or not. say President Palin sounds better tho…”
The glimpse into Palin came in more than 24,000 pages of emails released Friday from her first 21 months as governor. They showed a Palin involved closely in the day-to-day business of the state while trying to cope with the increasing pressures that came with her rise from small-town mayor to governor to national prominence.
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They also revealed that Palin, as the newly minted Republican vice presidential nominee, was dismayed by the sudden onslaught of questions from reporters, especially one about whether she believed dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time. She also dealt with death threats, and at least once, she prayed for strength.
The emails cover the period from the time she took office in December 2006 to her ascension to GOP vice presidential candidate in August and September 2008. They were first requested during the 2008 White House race by citizens and news organizations, including The Associated Press, as they vetted a nominee whose political experience included less than one term as governor and a term as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
The emails provided details about how Palin was involved in various gubernatorial duties, including priorities like a natural gas pipeline from far northern Alaska to ship natural gas to the Lower 48.
But some of the more intriguing details centered on her rise to the national stage.
On June 4, she appeared on Glenn Beck’s program on the Fox News Channel. Afterward, she received a string of flattering emails from conservatives looking for a fresh face to run alongside McCain.
“You would make an excellent president (forget being VP!!!),” a Virginia woman wrote that same day. “It is so refreshing to hear someone speak in a common sense manner.”
A Cooperstown, N.Y., wrote, “You are what this country needs. … McCain is old and maybe not be in the best of health so you would be taking on alot (sic).”
Later that month, Palin and her team were making final preparations on a letter about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She told one aide to make sure the letter was sent to newspapers across the country. Then she added in a follow-up email: “Pls also send to McCain and Obama’s camps. Thanks.”
Also in June, spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton sent Palin a draft of an op-ed piece carrying the governor’s name that would be pitched to national publications “beginning with the New York Times.” Palin responded the following day, writing: “Pls print.”
But many reporters were already paying attention. A deputy press secretary told Palin in early June that she was fielding interview requests “on everything from polar bears to the VP buzz” from national media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal.
Three years later, Palin is among the top tier of potential 2012 presidential candidates in polls of Republican voters. Her recent bus tour of the Northeast fueled speculation about her national ambitions. She has said she has not yet decided whether she will run.
Within minutes of the emails’ release on Friday, Palin tweeted a link to the website for “The Undefeated,” a documentary about her time as governor and her arrival on the national political stage.
Her supporters, meanwhile, encouraged everyone to read the messages. “The emails detail a Governor hard at work,” said Tim Crawford, the treasurer of her political action committee, Sarah PAC, in a prepared statement.
The nearly three-year delay in releasing the material has been attributed largely to the sheer volume. The emails were packed into six boxes, weighing 250 pounds in all, stacked in a small office in a complex of buildings near the state capitol in Juneau.
Lawyers went through every page to redact sensitive government information. Emails that remained portrayed her as most fierce when the subject was defending her record or her family.
“Will ktuu (an Anchorage TV station) and adn (Anchorage Daily News) be corrected re: the “internal investigation”? I did not request it, as they are both reporting,” she wrote to an aide in Aug. 13, 2008.
As news organizations began vetting her record, Palin was accused of essentially turning over questions about her gubernatorial record to McCain’s campaign managers, part of an ambitious GOP strategy to limit any embarrassing disclosures and carefully shape her image for voters in the rest of the country.
On Sept. 13, 2008, her then-spokesman, Bill McAllister, wrote to Palin at her government account: “Governor, Got your message just now; didn’t quite understand. Mike said yesterday to refer most things to the campaign. That pretty much has been the practice lately.”
On Sept. 15, 2008, Palin responded to a host of news media questions presented to her by McAllister. Among them was one about a tanning bed at the governor’s mansion and whether it was her “belief that dinosaurs and humans co-existed at one time?”
“I am so sorry that the office is swamped like this! Dinosaurs even?! I’ll try to run through some of these in my head before responding,” Palin wrote. “And the old, used tanning bed that my girls have used handful of times in Juneau? Yes, we paid for it ourselves. I, too, will continue to be dismayed at the media.”
On Sept. 17, 2008, Palin forwarded a profanity-laced email from a man claiming to be a Juneau resident from her government account to two aides.
“You need to be shot from one of the planes that shoot th (sic) very wolves that you ordered,” according to the email. “I own guns, and will fight any gun owner hands down witha (sic) simple throwing knife, how about you palin ,,,want to go hunting for wolves still? lets make you run in your heels …”
The emails also showed the support that national political figures gave Palin on a variety of issues.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered advice to a McCain-Palin campaign manager on how to blunt the impact of a September 2008 Washington Post report that she accepted $17,000 in per diem payments for time she spent at her Wasilla home.
Gingrich said the campaign should elaborate on its initial defense that Palin didn’t charge the state for money she could have collected to spend on her kids.
The voluminous nature of Friday’s release, the isolation of Juneau and the limited bandwidth in the city of 30,000 people has forced media outlets to come up with creative ways to transmit the information. The AP plans to scan the paper copies to make searchable files available to its members and clients.
Mike Oreskes, the AP’s senior managing editor for national news, said the news cooperative requested the emails when Palin rose out of relative obscurity.
Oreskes said public records requests are a common tool that the news organization uses to research candidates, with more than 1,500 requests filed across the country in 2009 and an additional 1,000 in 2010.
“Palin is one of many officeholders whose public record and leadership the AP has sought to illuminate by obtaining emails, memos and other documents,” he said. “She’s maintained a sizable profile in the current political scene and may run for president. We are pressing to obtain the records of other presidential contenders in the months ahead.”
The emails were sent and received by Palin’s personal and state email accounts, and the ones being released were deemed state business-related. Palin and top aides were known to communicate using private email accounts.
Once the state reviewed the records, it gave Palin’s attorneys an opportunity to see if they had any privacy concerns with what was being released. No emails were withheld or redacted as a result of that, said Linda Perez, Parnell’s administrative director in charge of coordinating the release.
Another 2,275 pages are being withheld for reasons including attorney-client, work product or executive privilege; an additional 140 pages were deemed to be “non-records,” or unrelated to state business.
The release of the emails generated widespread interest online.
Many news organizations, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and msnbc.com, began scanning and posting the emails on their websites throughout the day. The New York Times asked readers to join reporters in reviewing the documents. Tidbits of the emails were featured on blogs and Twitter.
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Comments (155)
Danang1972
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:13amWould someone please explain to me just what “Qualifications” the current Nimrod -in -chief had to be president. Joe the Plumber would have been a much better choice than what we have now! Sarah is not my first choice right now, and I can’t say I am impressed with the field as it stands right now, but I would sure “back ” Sarah if she turned out to be the nominee. She could sure beat the He!! out of what is running (ruining) our country today.
Report Post »motergraderman
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:06amYeah i am amazed the most investigations are about Conservatives. As far as win or loose? Who said she was running? besides when did traveling America getting the freedom word out is such a crime? And whos to say she dont throw all her support to Herman Cain??
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:05amFreaking panty sniffing media whores.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:01amThe libs are desperate to stop this woman. She has been making fools out of the media. They have nothing on her, and must resort to her emails to prove how stupid they think she is. Palin, I am sure will turn this back on them, She is a very smart woman, don’t underestimate her.
Report Post »luckyme
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:59amnow they just gonna have to make things up, again! sucks to be them…
Report Post »His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:54amIsolate, defame, and destroy-the mantra of the communist leftists and militant SA queers. Our US congress is so perverted and corrupt there is no hope for the present quadrangle of thieves. Lobbyists(bribers) have legitimized extortion under the past few regimes until the republicrats and demicans are one in the same, and only differ by name. Most with anti USA communist leanings. “Burn the monster out!” is what the dodo said in Alice in Wonderland. Odumbo the Kenyan should be crucified and then burned alive, along with his commie buddies. Lobbyists should be taken out and shot or gassed, otherwise it will just be more of the same. Traitors, all of them.
Report Post »Wanderer66
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:49amBy next year things could be bad enough with our economy that many more people will except any alternative to OB. It’s become painfully obvious that he was totally unprepared to be the president of this “once” great nation. Unlike Sarah, he had “no executive” experience and the very thinest resume you could ever imagine.
Some said we need a George Washington. Today they would tear him apart for being the largest moonshiner in the colonies. LOL, but true. Seriously, the mainstream media will fight to control the narrative as they always do, and we all need to fight to defeat them and their propaganda.
Report Post »indy1
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:45amHow pathetic, the lib media is obsessing about thousands of e-mails and the big find is Sarah Palin wanted to be VP! The lib media is desperate to take the attention off their Golden Boy Anthony Weiner, who loves to tweet underaged girls and show his private parts to strangers. PoLIBico was even caught making up qotes to destroy Sarah. Palin Derangement Syndrome is an epidemic.
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:45amI want to know about everything about Obama How can he pass a law to protect himself so we cannot find out about him lets demand spying on him yes
Report Post »Browncoat359
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:40amSo let me get this straight,the AP thinks Glenn Beck was on Fox News in 2008? Good to see we can still trust them to get the facts straight. I realize that‘s a minor thing but if they won’t fact-check themselves on the little stuff then I have no reason to believe they are correct aboutteh big stuff either.
Report Post »NSH
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:40amSo when is the press going to access former Senator Obama’s emails?
Report Post »indy1
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:46amNo that would be harrassment and racism!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:33amLet’s see Obamas emails from before he was POTUS. I bet that would be a heck of a lot more interesting.
Report Post »NSH
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:42amMy thoughts exactly…
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:06pmHey we can’t even see Mr. Smart O-dumbers college records.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:30amSarah Palin will be the most completely vetted, examined, and studied president in U.S. history – and a perfect replacement for that mystery guy who currently sleeps in the White House (in between vacations).
Report Post »psst
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:38amUm! I hoid the house where that mystery guy was born (w/ a cawl over his face)is now a National Monument in Hawaii ,Kenya..
Report Post »psst
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:28amPalin-Palin-Palin-Palin.
Report Post »Ya wanna know the reason all the MSM are babbling about Palin.
This keeps er from having to report on Soetoro the marxist goals across all fronts.
His goals/s is/are to destroy the country.
Keep their lemmings = 50%+ of the country occupied hating a person that their heroes in the MSM tells em is Satan.
The MSM and the marxist dems (pardon the redundancy)knows their constituencies very well.
They have been successful in dumbing them over the past many years.
The foist day in publiK sKrools, the union teachers (?) punch a hole in the noses of the chirrens/chilluns.
When they go on to the universities of higher learnings (?) w/o knowing how to add 2+2 and couldn‘t find the USA on a World’s map, the marxist profs then attaches the rope.
Presto. ameriKan voters.
US is doomed. Tis’ just a matter of time ( like Brook Benton sang)
CaptainKook
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:57amAnd do you know the reason the right-wing media is spending so much time on Weiner and defending Sarah from her own behavior?
The less you know – the easier you are to stampede.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:57pmCaptain,
Right… because we want wiener to overshadow Palin..
that’s what you want.. you love your wiener for taking a hit for the ‘team’
sucker….
Report Post »hi
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:22amMcCain lost because of Palin. Don’t run Palin! Gender discrimination is alive and well in this country as shown by the loss in the last elections of CEO women Whittman and Fiorina, not to mention the loss of Clinton to Obama. Females can’t win. We can’t take a chance. I’m not sexist, just pointing out the rest of the country who are.
Report Post »Jimtt500
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:30amBefore Palin’s selection, remember, McCain suffered from an enthusiasm gap. Republicans were reluctant to vote for the senator from Arizona because of his reputation as a maverick who’d countered his party on taxes, immigration, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and “cap and trade” climate legislation. But Palin’s conservative record in Alaska changed the Republican mood. With her by his side, McCain’s fundraising and support from conservatives improved. It wasn’t enough to beat Barack Obama — but McCain probably would have lost the presidency by a greater margin if he had, say, selected independent Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate, further alienating the GOP base.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:32am@ HI……….you are so wrong, as with everything. McCain lost because he’s a progressive and most of us had to hold our noses to vote for him. If it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin, I would not have voted at all.
Report Post »Many feel the same way. When they ask who I voted for I say Sarah, certainly not that McCain.
hi
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:49amExplain the loss of Fiorina, Whittman, and Clinton. Also, any man would have destroyed Harry Reid, even a warlock.
Report Post »StargazerInSavannah
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:24amMcCain provide O some of the very best campaign support available. The progressive hacks on McCain’s staff began attacking Palin within two weeks of the convention. The McCain campaign was pretty well destroyed from within by incompetence.
Report Post »Palin was savaged by the Democrat media complex from the beginning because she was seen as a threat to the anointed one. Even today there are a substantial number of mindless Obama supporters that will try to tell us that Palin stated she could see Russia from her house. The tens of thousands of gaffs and lies that have come from the current president and vice president go unchallenged.
The bulk of the most influential Democrat media complex were educated at bastions of Marxism like Columbia.
The day Obama was confronted by “Joe the Plumber” he told us that he was a Marxist, but the Democrat media complex shifted the investigation to Joe the unlicensed rather than Barry the life long Marxist.
I remind you that neither Barry and Joe have done a single days honest work in their life times. Barry the Marxist who so admired his father and Joe the incompetent plagiarizer.
VanGrungy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:56pmStargazerInSavannah,
Joe did honest work.. one does not need to be a union member to be honest… just like being a public servant does not make one infallible..
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:22amHow many trees were sacrificed to paper print all of the emails so the troll press can dig up some juicy or spicy dirt on the Governor? Could ANYONE in Congress withstand the abuse this woman endures daily? NO! Let’s go dig up some dirt (or just plain slam) Debby Wasserman Hyphen Shultz. How much of this crap could she take before she starts crying when confronted on her wizard of Oz doo and/or her toddler speech impediment. She’s the best the Dems have to re-elect POTUS. That in itself should enspire the right. A $billion war chest might not cut it, mr prez. Resign early, Bracko, avoid the November 2012 embarassment.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:52amSo, you think an elected official should do the business of his/her office in secret?
As Governor, “her” business was the PUBLIC’S business.
And the press is doing the same – and always has – to the other politicians.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:20amWithout the leftist media bias, the republicans would win EVERY election by a landslide.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:05amThe liberal fascists plans are going to backfire. Her emails are going to portray a hardworking, intelligent, and honest governor. The more she is attacked, the more confirmation I have that she is my candidate.
SARAH PALIN 2012
Report Post »jumbles
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:41am‘Hard working.intelligent and honest? I think you are mistaken.Palin is self serving,of average intelligence (at best) and just as honest as any other politician,which as we all know is a contradiction in terms.She is a complete joke and would be very much un-newsworthy if the right had any kind of viable candidate instead of reruns of the Bush administration.The right wing politicians do nothing but critisize the current administration but can come up with no practical soloutions themselves,other than the tired cliche crap of them all being patriots,make America great again,bible,god,Amurrica,blah,blah,blah.What a joke!
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:50pmJumbles = a Big Wiener fan
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:11pmSome can’t stand the simple fact: Sarah can be the best President we’ve ever had. I believe some are scared to death she might look into the waste our Country has dealt with and they might lose their ill-gotten gains. Most of our programs are so corrupt they probably cost our country 3-4 times what a private contractor would charge. Too many medical folks lie about their treatments and make many times more than if they billed the truth.
Report Post »Corruption abounds and no one has the guts to do anything about it. Just like the illegal immigration is breaking the backs of many states because of the free services they have to render.
Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:12pmAND……….who pays for it? WE pay for it, we pay for it, we pay for it. And I‘m sick of paying for others who don’t lift a finger to help themselves.
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:03amThese dopes believe that because they have no moral standards, nobody else does either. They are totally flummoxed by someone who follows the straight and narrow and practises what she preaches. That must scare them to death.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:12am@ Loa “Arranger” You hit the nail on the head. Good carpenter! If they happen to find anything they can misconstrue, they will tear it apart just to get the action. MSM types and libs will sell their souls to the devil if it furthers their evil cause. Makes me think of Judas and his ill gotten coins. Sarah has proven she can take the heat in the kitchen, now “they” better get out of the kitchen because she won’t play their game and it makes me like her even more than before. Now I know she is the one who doesn’t mince words to appeal to all sides. She tells it like it is. So refreshing. How novel to have a President who isn’t lying to us constantly. (guess who lies?)
Report Post »discardofevil
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:01amTime for People and CONGRESS/WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. to FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION!!!
Report Post »Stop the Haters of America deport them!!!
Tankertony
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:57amSarah Palin will win the Presidency of the United States in 2012, in a landslide.
Report Post »This is great that she is being double and triple vetted now, lets get that out of the way.
The more they read, the more they’ll see what a person of character she is.
And character, my friends, is the most important quality of a leader.
VanGrungy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:50ambut wants Ron Paul as President.. talk about calling the kettle black..
lemme guess.. you smoke pot..
btw.. everyone knows Allen West is the measure of a real American President..
Palin and West match up much better than Paul and West..
you have to cover all of the bases.. you know.. and Paul has much more actual nuttiness to explain to Independents than Palin..
Imagine that Paul became the nominee.. the MSM basically ignores him now..
What happens when Paul gets Palined?
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:54amnot going your way are laws in alaska that makes the taxpayer pick up the tab for fishing expeditions..
are you a Palin birther too?
Report Post »beckbotsrlame
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:36am@ Vangrungy Mr. West left the military under less than honorable conditions. And no I do not smoke pot. Although my understanding is that if you are a true BeckBot mental midget you are into anal probes. By the way many state have the same laws as Alaska in regards to legal action against the governor. As hard as it is for you minions and acolytes to accept she frigging quit, and the Beckester had his ass fired. Now go give the Beckester 5000 so you can go to Israel and get one of his famous colonics. Shalom
SFsuper49er
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:00pmShe has been bashed again and again but keeps coming back… She will put up the same fight for this country when she is president! You can truly see this woman’s heart. She is the one that’s most feared by liberals. That should clearly tell you who to vote for in 2012. If she don’t run vote for Bachmann ! She’s a cut from the same mold and if Bachmann wins she will pick up Palin as Vice President. I can feel it. Then this country will be on the right track again.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:01pmlol..
If you think what Lt. Col. West did is ‘less than honorable’, you only serve to reveal your indoctrination..
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:04pmI wish, but I’m sorry to say the MSN has trashed her for so long and if she ran now.
Report Post »They would swarm all over her. Think back to 2008. It could be much worse.
Matlor
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 2:31pmAnyone thought about a Palin/Bachman ticket? C’mon Michelle…:)
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 2:39pmFor all of you Paulistinians, talk about someone unelectable? The guy has some good ideas but he’s a kook. Do a Paul v.s Palin rally in any town in America. 10 people will show up for Paul, 10,000 for Palin. Theres a reason for this (hint: we know what a leader is). The ‘media destroyed her’ argument is pap. They’ll try to destroy any of our candidates whom they fear (they are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the democrat party). With her, the more they attack, the stronger and more popular she gets. People are waking up not to what a fraud she is, but to what a fraud her detractors are.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 4:57pm@ beckbotsrlame…………………….Just what are all these negatives that everyone is talking about? Could it be that she is a conservative woman, a person that is not a Washington insider, a woman that believes in the constitution, (and especially the 2nd Amendment), a woman that believes people should come first over animals, a person that believes in using our natural resources, a woman that thinks schools are for learning and not indoctrination, a woman that loves her country and hates what the progressives are doing to it? Tell me just what are all those negatives your spewing about?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:54amOkay most of the e-mails have been released and appearantly there is nothing new in them other than showing the liberal press has been acting like their usual incompetent hate filled vitreolic and neandertholic selves spreading lies and dissent to any who dare stand in the path of their truth.
Time to get back to what matters in the nation.
Report Post »gatekeeper96740
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:31amThese two articles are spot on with the public being asked to help them in the Wilding of Sara Palin.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_wilding_of_sarah_palin.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/further_thoughts_on_the_wildin.html
The Wilding of Sarah Palin article: attacks on Palin constitute a sexual violation. The Left doesn’t just want to discredit her; their thug like methods are aimed at terrorizing not only Palin but all conservatives.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:39am@Gatekeeper:
Thank you for the links, that indeed shows it rigth from someone who has been on the inside and seen evil face to face, recognized it, and is warning others. I shall pass this on to others.
Report Post »beckbotsrlame
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:53am“The left and progressives of all sides will once again demonstrate what a series of retro grade classic neandertholic vitriolic moronic persona’s primadonnas they are; hippie rejects of a best forgotten age”. Wow Cat person did you think of that your self or did your caretaker give you some help? By the way a spell checker might work wonders for your coherence of thought, then again….. Shalom
13th Imam
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:20amBeckbot
Possibly just another self-hating Socialist Jew? Please advise us of your stand on Israel Vs Arabs.
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:24amgatekeeper96740:
Report Post »Yes and a lot of the people on this board are doing this.
jumbles
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:25amBoycott 13THIMAM…..he sleeps with his sister.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:21pmWhile these news people & MSM sniff through all these emails (like a dog sniffs others poo) they need to look at what their own are doing and stop trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat (trickery)
Report Post »This article says they show her “eyeing” the VP slot in summer of 08. Oh! The horror of it. I believe I could count many who have been eyeing the Presidential slot for 2012. What the heck does this even mean? Anyone who’s considered running has jumped in with “interest” as they always have. Geez! Making a mountain out of a mole hill is what the libs do best. Lies, lies, lies.
tower7femacamp
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:53amIf we had some good Privacy Laws her emails would have been
Report Post »safe.
CaptainKook
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:22amBy law, her emails and records in the context of her office are the PUBLIC’s business
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:20amWhy is everyone spending so much TIME trying to destroy Sarah? I will tell you. She IS righteous and genuine AND evil (left) does not like that so they will do everything in their power and then some, to TRY and destroy her. We should be PRAYING for her. Not condemning her. She has never done anything wrong in my eyes. How about yours? Let’s talk about WHY WE WOULD VOTE FOR HER, not why we won’t, which doesn’t seem to have ANY MERIT. I see more good in her and what she did for Alaska, and I just don’t see anything bad. So, WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE LISTENING TO? AND, CAN YOU PROVE SHE IS BAD? PROVE IT TO US. And the people who have tainted and tarnished Sarah’s image TO YOU, ask them WHY and I will just bet you THEY CAN’T TELL YOU. Would that be enough for you then? Such immature Americans who don’t care about America. If you did, you would see past the left and do what is right for America!! Sarah is right for America. She should be President. She loves this country. She spends her own money to convey to us that America is in trouble. I have NEVER seen or heard of a more GENUINE conservative IN ALL MY LIFE. It excites me that this woman doesn’t care what you all think and just goes out and does what she wants. Can’t any of you see that? I can see her as President and telling the world to kiss our ‘A**”. She is the real deal. THE REAL DEAL. SHE is a TRUE conservative. What more do you all want? WHAT?
STAND IN HER SHOES.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:32pmWhere are Obama’s emails???? How about a school records? .. .Social Security number information (do you know he has had several and the one he “uses” is from a state he never lived in) … Birth Certificate that has NOT been deemed a forgery by experts? Adoption papers and name change back to or just to Barack Obama? Passport when traveling outside the United States under Barry S.? Who is this man in the White House and why are the MSM still covering for him .. while he destroys the country?
They continue to be consumed by Sarah Palin .. all the while telling us she can’t win … if that were the case would they need to continue to try to destroy her .. and why does Obama feel the “need” for 1 BILLION dollars for his campaign .. if he is “such a lock”?
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:00pmAhhhhhhhhhh, you know little about (public) records do you.
Sure would be nice see see some of O-dumbers college records.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:52amIf she wins in 2012 it will be good for U.S. A.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:26amand a miracle
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:42amOnce again, another person who is a COWARD but cannot explain WHY she shouldn’t be President. Disgusting and very un-American. Sarah would be a perfect President or do you want another Obama? Ah, that must be it.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:45amPalin will smoke the Marxist, but the tricky part is getting short-sighted conservatives on board for her nomination.
Seriously, Palin is head and shoulders above her counterparts at this point. She’s got everything you want in a leader and the kicker is the way she gets the left lathered-up. Many argue she can’t win, but those same people will never tell us which particular issue they disagree with.
There’s no doubt my fellow conservatives are “over-thinking” this process. Wait until Palin kicks it up another notch – she’s hell on wheels, people!
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Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:06amHAUSCHILD:
Exactly. No one can explain WHY she wouldn’t be a good President. They are the cowards. They are the left, portraying themselves as conservative. I wouldn’t put it past the left to infiltrate this board BIG TIME and pretend to be conservative trying to bend truths against Sarah.
PICKY, PICKY, PICKY people, who haven’t got a backbone. You are all like the ladies in the gossip circle who takes the lie with them when they leave and believes it. THIS is why this country is in so much trouble – BECAUSE OF YOU.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:52amFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered advice to a McCain-Palin campaign manager on how to blunt the impact of a September 2008 Washington Post report that she accepted $17,000 in per diem payments for time she spent at her Wasilla home.
See This girl is a fake tea party plant, getting advice from Newt World Order Gingrich
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:57amNo, Palin is not a fake Tea Party plant; she is a true American who is seeking to do what is needed for saving this nation and restoring the liberties for so long we have squandered. She is her own peson and the e-mails reveal nothing new or incriminating against her or her time in office, although those who are against her will attempt to spin anything into an attack on her, her character and upon her own family.
The left and progressives of all sides will once again demonstrate what a series of retro grade classic neandertholic vitriolic moronic persona’s primadonnas they are; hippie rejects of a best forgotten age.
Report Post »myfamily04
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:02amNo…This woman is for real now. She can make a real impact on the USA, but Herman Cain will get us back to where we need to be to be employed and prosperous.
Report Post »ISeeDanger.com
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:04amYawn….
Report Post »Sorry, Sarah will not win and at this point only hurts the Tea Party.
She needs to go away.
You don’t put a LARGE target in front of your movement if you plan to win over most of the country.
It will take a George Washington, not someone SEEKING the spotlight.
http://www.ISeeDanger.com
Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:06amI’m shocked, absolutely shocked! NOT! Looks harmless to me. Wouldn’t you expect just this?
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:09amOut of 20K e-mails this all you’ve got?
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:14amSarah is the polar opposite of Obama. Just what we need to balance things out. The far lefties had thier shot, now it‘s the far right’s turn. Obama has failed on every level and has caused so much damage, it will take a radical swing back to the right just to fix things.
Report Post »Jimtt500
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:18amCNN finding that Palin was hard-working governor
Sarah Palin is exactly what she’s represented herself to be and this appears to be backfiring on the MSM.
Video:
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Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:20am@TOWER……. Re-reading the posted article, I believe Newt OFFERED advice to the campaign manager. I didn’t read anything about Sarah ASKING for any advice from them. As I barely remember now, since it turned out to be a nothing, there was a reason for the per diem payment, perhaps like “snowed in” duh? And $17,000 is nothing compared to the money Michelle spent in Spain & elsewhere. Kinda like a drop in the bucket. But, your kind has to make something out of nothing, and that’s what it usually turnes out to be……nothing. ha ha ha you fools!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:24amWhen will the press seek BO’s email ?
Report Post »sbeejustsaying
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:26amIf she were a plant the left wouldn’t hate her like they do. Does the left complain about McCain or Gingrich or Romney? Not so much.
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:28amHey Blaze how bout you take down the Old Navy Adds….
I’m tired of seeing them after reading this….
Old Navy Gay Pride T-Shirts – Starting next week, (actually,last week) Old Navy will
debut a series of Gay Pride t-shirts in their stores, donating a percentage of the profits
to the it gets better project. (If you haven’t seen the commercials, that’s the popular new
celebrity-led campaign that aims to help gay teens feel pride in who they are)
What an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE Old Navy has done! STOP pushing the gay agenda down our throats! Clothing & politics should NOT mix! What’s next? Abortion shorts? Stem Cell Bikinis?
150,000 Christians are martyred worldwide every year.
Report Post »Will someone make a t-shirt to honor them? ….crickets…. I won’t hold my breath.
Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:39am@ Tower…….Also, any time she‘s away from the State’s Capitol she is allowed room & board, duh?
Report Post »Why not use her own home. It probably cost less than a hotel room. As I also remember, didn’t the Pelosi group fly to some conferences last year and had to pay over $2,000 per night per room with a minimum stay of 5-6 days? There were 30+ people with her. My math might not be as good as yours, but I took my socks off so I can count better and for just 2 nights there I believe it cost well over $17,000. Plus the cost of the private Government airplane & gas. So, make a reasonable point if you have to degrade Sarah for being frugal at best.
I support God's Israel!
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:40amAll you people on this board CLAIM that Sarah would not win and WHY NOT? WHAT SPECIFICALLY IS THE REASON SHE WILL NOT WIN? No one seems to explain that so it leads me to believe that you either have:
1. Jealousy because she is so genuine or
2. You still cannot see a WOMAN being a President.
I am sick and tired of all you so-called PATRIOTS and Tea Party people PRETENDING to be patriots, yet for some reason, NONE OF YOU can come up with a reason why she won’t win except because of what SOMEONE ELSE HAS TOLD YOU. WHY NOT????????
Can’t you people start THINKING and DECIDING FOR YOURSELVES INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO OTHERS and FOLLOWING WHAT THEY SAY AND DO? Can’t you make up your own mind BASED ON FACTS ABOUT PALIN, instead of gossip from your friends and other board bloggers? I think the conservatives are starting to become corrupted, just like the Democrats. You are like the Pied Piper of Hamlet and it is really starting to get to me.
Haven’t ANY of you listened to what Glenn Beck has taught you? DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. MAKE YOUR DECISIONS ON THE FACTS.
There is NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH SARAH PALIN, politically. Just name one thing please – JUST ONE. All I read on this board are JEALOUSY statements. Sarah would make a GREAT President. THINK FOR YOURSELVES. IF YOU LIKE HER AND TRUST HER, THEN FOR GOD’S SAKE BACK HER AND VOTE FOR HER, IF SHE DECIDES TO RUN or you will be just another COWARD cow-towing to others and what they sa
Report Post »gatekeeper96740
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:40amOh the horror she said Sheeeesh in an e-mail and wanted a tanning bed.
Oh! the nerve!! A tanning bed in Alaska!
You go girl!
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:42amThe key word in this statement is McCain……………
Nuff said?
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Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:53amMiketheTrucker:
YES, McCain is a bitter pill we swallowed but it was the choice your college electorates made! LOOK AT THEM. Let her run as President. She could and would win if you LET HER GO FOR IT. After all, she is living the AMERICAN DREAM we all thought about growing up. She is GENUINE. Stop blaming her for running with McCain, who is a moderate. Sarah is no moderate but HOW ELSE WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO GET HER NAME AND FACE OUT THERE????? Answer that. She did it and that is what she should be commended for.
ALL OF YOU ARE LOOKING AT THIS ALL WRONG!
Sarah NEEDED to make herself know and what better way than to run as VP with McCain. She is far from moderate and if McCain had won, she may have done a lot of great things for America. THAT, IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING AT. But no, you choose a Marxist President WITH an entitlement mentality and no job experience, to run your America.
I am really ashamed of some of you. I thought you were all genuine, but I now see that some of you ARE NOT.
It is sickening to read these comments from people who cannot tell me WHY she would not be a good President, except to say she ran with McCain OR she too pretty, OR she has no foreign policy experience (neither did our Marxist President), OR some other crap someone has told that probably doesn’t have anything to back it up with.
Maybe those who don‘t like Palin should go to the MODERATE BLOGS because you sure ain’t CONSERVATIVE. Sarah is. GIVE HER A CHANCE
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Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:01amBLUEBONNET:
Another one you are. Sarah SOLD THAT GOVERNOR’S JET, remember???? She gave the money back to the state of Alaska.
SEE? Everyone on this board does NOT do their own homework or you would KNOW these things. There are times when some of these politicians ON BOTH SIDES NEED to have the taxpayers foot the bill for some of these things. BE REASONABLE. The Bible even says, “Come, let us reason together.’ And STILL, you all are spouting half-truths, lies, or what SOMEONE ELSE HAS TOLD YOU – you are repeating it without any facts.
Sarah is about as genuine as anyone running and I pray that she goes for it. She hasn’t said she will run but she still gets out there and speaks her mind. How many other do that WHO AREN’T RUNNING? She should be embraced for her honesty and above all her INTEGRITY as I don’t see any of that on the left, and I don’t see that much of it on the right, except for her. She had nothing to gain, yet she went out there to try to convince all of us that this country was in trouble and that WE, THE PEOPLE need to take it back.
Please be honest with yourselves. I believe she is a RIGHTEOUS woman and we need to stand with her on that righteousness or we are a doomed nation. Change your thinking or we will lose, big time as a nation. The LEFT will do ANYTHING to poison your mind on Palin. Look at their M.O. When you do that and you do your own homework about Sarah, THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. And, if you like Gingrich, you
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Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:09amto finish my last statement:
Report Post »IF YOU LIKE GINGRICH, THEN I KNOW YOU ARE FROM THE LEFT.
SFsuper49er
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:25amYou see, these liberals dislike true Americans because they want to hang on to there slimy wicked ways of life and don’t want to clean up America. Truth is when you get down to it it’s the Satan in all liberals. Bash The good, bash the good… So you go back to your wicked liberal mob and leave true Americans alone so we can fix the USA back to preexisting conditions so people can feel proud about our country and bring jobs and prosperity back again.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:28amWOW, she’s ambitious and blah blah blah. While she was clearly working hard all the time, she wasn’t spending most of her day texting and taking naked pictures of herself & sending them to STRANGERS.
Going thru her emails is somehow acceptable but a Congressman playing with himself and taking naked pictures of himself is acceptable by 54% of New Yorkers. Wrangle, another disgraced congressman, said this morning “At least he wasn’t going to prostitutes” (like a Republican), “He wasn’t emailing young boys” (like a Republican), ”He wasn’t taking a wide stance in a bathroom stall” (like a Republican” ARE YOU KIDDING ME. He’s comparing those things with what Weiner did. I don‘t care for this visual but I’ll make my point by saying this, “HE’S SITTING NAKED ON A CHAIR AND TAKING PICTURES OF HIMSELF. Charlie along with Barbara Walters need to retire their respective jobs. They are so far out of touch with the American people.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:52amYOU MEAN THIS “17,000″ ….READ the article again, liberal troll:
“Gingrich said the campaign should elaborate on its initial defense that Palin didn’t charge the state for money she could have collected to spend on her kids.”
UH, operative words were ‘”THAT PALIN DIDN’T CHARGE THE STATE FOR MONEY SHE COULD HAVE COLLECTED”
These EMails are great for PALIN!!! THEY show she is a hard working, Patriotic, very caring, very loyal AMERICAN.
RUN SARAH RUN!!!! Maybe PALIN/RYAN??? BUT FOR SURE “PALIN” !!!
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:01pm“Gingrich said the campaign should elaborate on its initial defense that Palin didn’t charge the state for money she could have collected to spend on her kids.”
Yep – Gingrich told her to keep pushing that nonsense.
yougottabekidding
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:07pmYou take advice from everyone you sort and process everything.
Report Post »Let me give you some advice! You can learn from everyone even the dumbess of us, even if it is how not to do it.
All I can say is it’s too bad we did not have a better canidate for President, war hero, but not Presidential Candidate matterial
drattastic
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:09pmI‘m sure obama’s attack dogs (lap dogs) in the lib. media will make something they find into a scandal no matter how normal or mundane it is. The scrutiny they give this woman is astounding, they truly fear her. Had they given candidate obama’s record and past even a fraction of the attention they pay to Palin he would have never been a serious contender for the democratic nomination back in 2008. What a joke so called journalism has become.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:17pmWhy is it that we see all the emails of Sarah Palin and we have never seen the emails of Clinton, Obama, or anyone else seeking the presidency.
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:20pmThe reason palin aon’t win is very simple. Most, say it with me, MOST of the country think “That Woman, Is An Ideot”. The only ones that would vote for Palin are you radical right wing extremists, and you don’t surround us. Even if you use Beck’s highly exagerated numbers there are only 30 million of you. Less than 10% of the population. Hell, there are more illegals than there are tea partiers.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:26pmLOL .. I love it … you anti-Palin anti-American trolls still spouting the “she can’t win” mantra .. tell me then why is the MSM wasting SOOO much time trying to destroy her and her FAMILY still. She is the REAL DEAL .. I have seen the woman in person .. she is dynamic and REAL .. and not a Washington insider and the left is scared SH* TLESS because of it!
TEA!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:35pmThe libs dig and dig and dig themselves into a deeper hole Looking foolish—KEEP DIGGING!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:38pmIf Sarah had something to hide she would have fought the release of these E-mails, Is she fighting NOOOOOO!
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:48pmHey, OLDPHOTO, listen to BANJARMON–you just keep digging! Go for it! Keep yourself good and occupied telling everyone Palin can’t get the votes so not to worry, not to worry…. The 2010 elections were just some kind of weird fluke….Why if Palin gets the nomination, the Dems don’t even need to waste gas money to go and vote….
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 4:49pmThese will only make her more appealing to the dimwit liberals. If it’s facts they refuse to listen too then these emails and such may make them fans or at least shut up. The liberals of all sorts then can continue to try and burn the Constitution in other ways and hopefully they will fail and fail hard.
Report Post »mill
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:48pmfake, no. So what?, at least she didn’t cheat on her taxes, show her wiener on the internet, kill someone…SOOOOOOOOOO WHAT>>>
BLAZE can’t you find something better???
Report Post »VegasGuy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:19pmThe Times and Post’s plan is going to backfire on them. Palin will be shown to be an effective honest leader.
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