Gov. Sarah Palin's Last Day: Now What for the GOP's Nortth Star?

[No Elephants]

Source: Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket

So is today the practical end of the political career for Palin, who turned a Wasilla town council seat and a corruption expose of her own party into a surprise upset of the long-entrenched Republican establishment ruling the nation's largest state, and then defeated a better-known returning Democratic governor in the 2006 election finals?

Or is today merely the end of the beginning for the unconventional, grassroots-talking hockey mom who has the one thing every politician covets and very few have -- star quality, that ability to force people to pay attention simply by their presence? (See video above.) Bill Clinton has it. So does Barack Obama. Like them or not, people turn and look when they're around.

By conventional political standards, Palin's caribou is cooked.

She's quitting a powerful elected position that only 50 Americans hold, a chief executive's office in....


...some state capital, a job that's produced four of the last six presidents. It's a prominent political pulpit, although the world rarely tunes in to Juneau.



Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/sarah-palin-last-day-as-governor-video.html

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Our long national nightmare, however, is probably not over.

[peekaloo]

1. shouldn't that be Death Star?

[No Elephants]

7. Maybe, but I see I typo'ed North. Oh well, too late to edit.

[ScottLand]

2. Now begins the long march to the White House

followed by 18 months service as the President!

(And we all better hope I'm wrong!)

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Three-Card Monte in Front of Penn Station in NY n/t

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. People turn and look when Sarah is around?

I am more likely to turn away when she is around . . . to find a receptacle in which to HURL. :puke:

[tj2001]

5. Sarah's Lingerie Line

coming soon

[KittyWampus]

6. why would someone unrecommend this thread? Honest questions, I really want to know

[No Elephants]

8. Some here may be very sensitive about Sarah.