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“Palin is the Paula Abdul of politics.” That is the best analogy I heard. For good and bad, that is so true. I think I will post that everywhere. Thanks!

Luckily the Republicans I know were scared to death at the thought of her becoming vice president and either didn't vote this election or voted for Obama.

I love that she's what the Republican party is throwing out as a candidate. There are so many of my rural PA friends and family either leaving the party or not voting anymore that she's a savior.

Please, Please, Please Sarah, run for president in 2012!!!!!!

The Democratic Party needs you.

How do I contribute to SarahPAC?

apparently those who call her inteelegent and articulate haven't heard her speak or do an off the cuff interview, the interviews with Katie couric weren't her only flub-ups. Even during the debates she shot herself in the foot. I have no hateful sentiment towards Sara Palin at all. I don't agree with about 90% of her politacal views and policies but I don't agree 100% with any one person wioth the exception of God. For you republicans don't assume I think she is dumb or unintelligent I just don't see her ass the cream of the crop as most republicans do. If she runs in 2012 I doubt she will win, but if she does I will support her as I did all her predecessors. Though she would have a lot to work on to swing my vote in her direction.

What I find most enjoyable about these posts are the ones that state "Liberals are afraid of Sarah". Please Republicans, rally support and make this woman your 2012 nominee for President. We would welcome watching her debate President Obama. BTW – the Dow topped 9000 today and housing sales are up. Must be due to all those wonderful Republican ideas, right?

Why are any Palin articles filled with these posts with people saying "she is so over","move on", "Why is the media still talking about her"...etc

If she really didn't matter, if she really was not worth your time then you would nto stop and take time from your day to be sure and post every time. If you were to do that then the media would move on as the viewers and readers have moved on... Fact is that you just can't help yourselves

Nope, she won't go away. People are finally starting to see the light about the community center leader and his ill informed opinions about his Harvard pal. Go Sarah!

I do not understand the appeal she has for others.

To consider having her as a president or vice-president is like considering Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan for the same position.

Just don't see it!

When will they stop airing the air head? Enough, already, CNN, this woman is not newsworthy. Gag.

Look folks there is no reason so be so hateful. I pray fro you and your anger, I hope you can find peace in your lives.

gotta love all you sara haters.

btw, wonderfull job your president is doing of wrecking our contry, wow, we are soo lucky to have him...

CNN – please stop covering this loser and insult to intelligence throughout the galaxy.
Dear Caribou Barbie – just go away. There's a blob off the Alaskan coast looking for you!

I think people are confusing fame with infamy.....like watching a train wreck!

She is a charming , intriquing person, perfectly lovely on the outside , but as my mama used to say, beauty is skin deep but ugly goes to the bone. And that is how I feel about Palin , she shows one thing but really is another by her actions. So we cannot judge a book by its cover , especially with this lady. So buyer beware .....
Some just cannot see through this gee whiz wink wink fasade she protrays.
But she has her fans , hey so does Rush , Bush , Cheney , Rowe, etc etc. If people are so inclined to support her , it is their loss , just hoping it will not be mine. This lady never completed a thing she started , she puts her interests first , and thinks about what she can gain from it all personally , not the people of her state and heaven forbid she would would pretend to care about the lower 48.
But what bothers me most about Palin , is the fact she is not intellectually qualified , she can take all the time off she wants but she cannot study up enough to be this country's President. When she opens her mouth she is a train wreck , the IQ just is not there. She can talk for 10 mins and she says nothing if left to her own imagination....she is a GOP joke. I want a second party but the GOP is not it any longer , they have very few true intellectuals left .

John... Ha ha ha. Nice bit of revisionist history but trust me because I am one of the liberals of which you speak. At no point were we ever in fear of Sarah Palin! You can think that if you want (I guess it makes you feel better?) but don't expect to say it without having someone point out how wrong you are. Let me reiterate: No libs were ever the least bit afraid of Sarah Palin! The whole idea is laughable.

WHY can't the media let go of this woman. Enough already!!

She's the Britney Spears of politics. She has the hair extensions to prove it. Next thing is the melt down in the Encino hair salon where she hacks off her hair before she goes to sputter nonsense at the Reagan Library.

Are you people crazy. Of course she hasn't left the building–there's money to be had and more people to dupe. She is NOT going anywhere.

Okay here's a lady who went to five different colleges to obtain one degree that she spoke of in saying, "I used to have a journalist degree", to dumb to realize once you receive a degree you always have it..

She back in 2004 quit her job less than a year at the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation. Now, she quitting as governor, that says a lot about Sara. Education is what she lacks and need it badly to play in the field of politics. Repugs Party can get her as their pick, however, it will say alot about them.

Palin is not a rising star......she and her family are a freak show. The public didn't demand to know everything about her life....it was shoved down our throats by the media overkill. Why is it this loser gets so much attention. Never mind news doesn't matter anymore...it's only the Hollywood gossip that most of the morons watching the news or reading the papers want. Go figure.

Palin, a mother of five, "caught the imagination" of the public because there is no one else like her". THANK GOD!!!

"When she walks into a room, she definitely commands attention and she gets more than most. She's definitely a star,"

So does Bozo the clown! She is not a star, what she is is a pretty dunce. Check out the majority of the people who support her, either they think her popularity can somehow turn into some kind of political gain (like Bush's did) or they never finished high school. The greatest nation in the world is going to be ran by the stupidest woman in America....puhleeze!

"Particularly for conservative America, there hasn't been a rallying figure of this type"

With an unqualified, inarticulate dunce as the rallying figure for conservative America, it's no wonder the GOP is in a nosedive.

Hmm, maybe any politician who is in trouble should do what Sarah did. Quit, and then everyone will love 'em (at least according to this article).

All of my Republican friends and family are incredibly disappointed that this is the best their party has to offer. Sarah Palin proved very early that while she may be physically attractive, she's not very bright, can't speak a coherent English sentence, and blames everyone else for all of her mistakes.

They don't like the victim attitude, coupled with the arrogance and religious self-righteousness. The final blow for my Republican friends and family is the hypocrisy of a self-described "pit bull in lipstick" who not only quit before the end of her term as governor, but offered the most ridiculously transparent rationalizations for wanting to leave the boondocks of Alaska to bask in the glow of her new-found following.

And none of them will ever forget the ridicule she heaped on then-candidate Obama about how "all" he'd ever done was "write a book". This from a woman who is going to make millions on a bookdeal to have a ghostwriter (who can actually write English) pen her autobiography.

Disgusting!

unpolished, under-informed and someone that will walk away from a committment when bored. To me this is the new face of conservatives. Is she different? You Betcha!

moose on the loose. she is really going "rogue". Well we are in for many, many laughs, because we know she can't keep her mouth shut.

She's right up there with Paris Hilton.....popular but with no intelligence. Palin will always be a sideshow spectacle.

Benet's a bigger idiot than she is. I don't know how anyone can listen to her voice or the words that come out of her mouth. I don't like anything about her and never will.

... And she's hardly news any longer either. Let's put the focus back on important issues.

Palin is appaling. Next ...

When does dhe give up the keys? What a quiter.

With all the problems the American people are facing we need some one with the intellect to solve problems not just criticize the president. I guess after quitting her job she has a lot of free time to pal around with the other losers of her party

If she isn't bringing solutions to the table, she needs to keep her mouth shut; which is hard for her to do.

Sarah Palin definitely has star appeal. Like any other sex symbol, she's a tool for some men in the back room. This time it's Fundamentalist Evangelical Christian men. They'll use her to raise money and promote their vision of an American Autocratic Theocracy. She'll make Sanford look good enough to vote for. She'll help Gingrich and Huckabee battle paganism. She'll do the dirty work of trashing gays, insulting blacks and hispanics, and snuggling up to Randall Terry.
But in the end those men will abandon her. She'll be relegated to sitting opposite someone like Brian Kilmeade, pontificating on the benefits of being pure and white in America. Like Prosperity Gospel or the Six Mountaintops. Selling neoconservatism like hawking ShamWows. Ready willing and able to make a complete ass of herself whenever those men demand it of her. Kind of like what Janeane Garofolo does for neoliberals.
She's a fiction. a shill, a token. Those men in the back room know, in their hearts and minds, she could never survive a campaign for national office.

She caught fire alright but expoded once the Conservatives started to tell her what to say.

No Republican or nobody for that matter would even give her the time of day if she looked like Geraldine Ferraro.

QVC, here she somes!

Please enough is enough about this CRAZY Unintelligent woman! we have better things to focus on!

"She's kind of a shooting star that caught fire and kept burning," Good characterization. Shooting stars are not real stars. They are meteoric debris that come shooting down and usually burn out in the atmosphere before they reach the earth.

syfredrick: Really, Paula Abdul may not be a genius, but she has some hit records to her name. Sarah Palin, on the other hand . . .

its obvious she quit as gov. so she could make money in the entertainment field. she was pitched. why be in politics when she can make millions as a talk show host or reality tv star? shes going to be the female rush limbaugh. she will be the voice of the nitwits. WATCH it will happen. and will anybody call her out on it? will anybody be angry that she shows money and fame over the public service to america that she promised and stood by? of course not!! the sheep will follow. just like all the nit wits that stood up to do the pledge of allegiance at that town hall meeting like a group of elementary school kids. THAT is her fanbase. the lunatic screaming "i want my country back!!" which in other words means "i dont want a black president!!!"

Oh yes, she garners attention, all right. Any idea how pleased the majority of Alaskans are that she's gone on sunday? Really take a good look and get past the pretty factor.

There can be no doubt that Palin has the attributes of an attractive candidate and political leader. She aroused the nation in 2008 with her charisma and folksy charm. Now she has moved on to a higher calling and in so doing, has captured the attention of an adoring public. She may not be the favorite of the elites who criticize her but she above all others understands regular people. Palin is indisputably the 2012 frontrunner.

I am so embarrassed for our country. We are kind of pathetic if this is what we glorify.

Sarah P., needs to quit while she is kinda/somewhat/notsomuch ahead. She's like a freak show, at a carnival.....Give it Up Sarah P.!

I have to admit, that is one fancy looking woman.

Palin's publicity, for some of us, is an outcome of her assumption that she could do a job for which she is not qualified. We follow her story to see
the reality of her limitations and how they are more and more evident with each exposure.

She just needs to keep having kids, and drive into the sunset...and I'm a republican.

We told you this woman has some dirt on her, the Republicans being ostriches that they are put their heads in the sand again.

How many times do we have to tell you a crook is a crook is a crook.

I'm on my way to Alaska this afternoon. I wonder if I can visit Sarah in Wasilla to get a tour of Russia.

Incorrect:
"Palin explains why she's stepping down"

Correct:
Benet attempted to explain why Palin is stepping down.

The GOP "base" likes her because she is as dumb and ingorant as they are, and proud of it, like they are. They don't care about the fact that she's completely unqualified to run a state, let alone the most powerful nation in the world.

Sahah palin is the best! She drives liberals crazy and that makes me happy. she is a stealhy repub in that she draws fire from the conservative agenda. it is like when george bush attacked iraq and drew militant Islamists from all over the world like flies to stink to fight there. once entrenched in iraq, we picked them off under the cover of freeing the iraqi people. if that happen, fine. if not, we tried. our military paid the ultimate price to ensure our freedom and protect us from an onshore attach larger than 9/11. the military understands the big picture and endorsed bush all the way. obama was advised that bush's strategy is genius and that is why he continues both the wars in iraq and Afghanistan!!! he will reverse course on gitmo too – see the closing delay happening? some people play checkers and some play chess three moves out. bush laughs at you, knowing full well his dealings were in the best interest of the country and his place in history will higher than the messiah (grand failure) and clinton. sarah palin laughs at you tools.

Her detractors are so afraid of her. Of what are they afraid? That she values all human life (unlike those who subscribe to Obama's new health program), that she loves this country and the principles on which it was established (which the present administration is trying so desperately to destroy by taking over the Justice Dept and telling the Legislative branch what to do, bankrupting the country all by himself, reducing our national defenses), that she loves and protects her children in the name of common decency, that she wants this country to have adequate national defense, that she thinks government is too big and too obtrusive into the lives of citizens? Just what are the objections of her detractors? Without knowing the facts, they just call her names, and ACORN is out there recruiting and registering more of them.

Isn't it newsworthy that a writer of a biography of Sarah Palin has something to say. She's a waste of good paper and has no chance to "rise" into politics. She's a certifiable nut job. .... and Benet is trying to sell a book about the nut job. UGH!

Okay, okay liberals we get that you hate her. Yet you cannot clearly explain the reasons for the hate other than her politics, WHICH by the way she is entiltled to! You are entitled to your hate but I am sure Palin is losing lots of sleep over it! NOT!

Obama's star is fading... Sarah Palin is the supernova that will save America!! People just need to get over their misinformed pride of voting in an inexperienced empty suit trained in corrupt Chicago politics.

syfredrick
Why are you so afraid of Sarah Palin–I think that you and all the liberals continually watch CNN for any tidbit of information about her and as soon as you see it–you hurry and put in your 2 cents worth. Sarah Palin resigned because she can do the country more good by being a private citizen than she can being Govenor of Alaska. Hang around, (and I know you will) and watch. She will be getting under the liberals skin even more now. I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The latest rumor in the entertainment industry is that Sarah Palin is getting her own TV show. Experts say it is perfect for TV viewers who find Paula Abdul too coherent. - Conan O'Brien

Don't worry DEMS, she'll be back......

who cares about sarah palin, she must just stay in Alaska forever....

I lost all interest in Sarah Palin about 5 min. after I heard she would be McCain's ticket mate.

The only thing Palin was good for was eye candy to aging men and young boys who are into the MILF thing. She needs to go ahead, quit, do a couple adult movies, and then get spit out the bottom of the business like the rest of the talking heads she represents. What a nut.

Falin Palin

Republicans, can you come up with some better candidates for 2012?

What a shame. I was hoping I'd never have to hear her name again.

Are there not more important issues in this world?

Iraq?
Iran?
Afganistan?
North Korea?
Health Care?
Economy?
Education?

Just to name a few. Can we hear more on these topics as opposed to a politican who quit her job as governor to free her time to keep herself, her neanderthal ideas and her (dysfunctional) family in the news.

The best this woman can hope for is to become another Coultergeist.

But if the Republican "let's pretend" machine pretends hard enough, maybe she'll be their 2012 nominee and then she'll preside over the end of the GOP as we've come to know it.

She garners attention like an auto accident, we all like to gawk at the damage. Please, somebody explain, why the GOP would nominate a person with so little experience besides her school board, small town mayor and half a term of Gov. in a remote State, for President of the United States.

If only it was the curtain call...She has two options at this point:

1. Run against Murkowski for the Senate seat and hope she wins.

2. Run for President in 2012.

If she does option # 1, she can then wait till 2016, or beyond to run for office, if she runs in 2012 though and she loses, she is done. I highly doubt she'd even get the nomination. I want to see Obama face an opponent who is competent.

Obama vs. Romney 2012

Stop reporting on Palin, she's old news!

Palin may have conservatives convinced she's the Messiah (she did sign her birth announcement for Trig, 'your heavenly Father,') but fortunately, the rest of us read and write and speak English, not Palinese. She has lied, been unethical, and not one thing is ever her fault. I think we had enough of that behavior in the last administration. She will not hold national office, and I pray that if a Republican is finally back in the White House, she will be long gone tending to her family affairs.
A shooting star? Yes, but they tend to fizzle out eventually.

Can anyone tell me who might be running against Nancy Pelosi in 2010. I'd like to know where to send a campaign contribution.

On Palin..shake it up girl.

Let the Palin bashing begin... thats what the Dems do on this site when a Palin article is published, right?

And here I thought the GOP feels like "celebrity" is a bad thing ..... I gues not when a Republican is the celebrity.

That's the problem with that party ... they have no honor, no integrity, no morals, no scrupples ... truly is the PARTY OF NO.

They do however have plenty of HIPOCRACY.

Say what you will, Palin is here to stay and not undaunted by the liberal left and their constant attacks. Obviously driven by fear that a Republican woman may be the next president and not a Democrat woman.

Sex sales regardless of who is selling it, some or most will go for it.
Palin will become a TV personality and will maybe campaign for the republicans but will no run for office, I do not believe.

Maybe the right wing has more clout than I think. I know they have the money for George W. Bush made sure that they increased their net worth by the millions while the middle class was losing buying power and more of the lower end of the pay scale and the really poor had to rely on food banks, food stamps and family to get the bare necessities of life.

She walks into a room and commands attention?

Apparently the reporter is enamored with this woman. She commands nothing. At best she is a quitter. I would never ever consider voting for someone who violated the public trust as she has. She simply is not intelligent enough for real politics in the real world.

Although I have never been an avid Sara Palin fan, I keep asking myself why would the Liberals hate her so much? Then I think, she had a child with special needs and did not abort, she demanded fiscal responsibility for her State, she aspired to weed out corruption within her own party, she is an attractive woman and she has charisma in the white community much akin to the Usurper in Chief. I have never seen anything equal to the personal attacks carried out by the media on any politician in my lifetime. As an American citizen, I stopped looking at Obama beyond his failure to provide the American people full and open documentation supporting his being a legitimate Presidential candidate as defined by our Constitution, would not feel any difference if he were Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy. You have to earn this American's trust Mr. Obama!

she is still a loser not to mention a quitter however ways anybody want to spin it.

It should be a curtain call. The woman's an idiot. In addition, she needs to lose that weave. She might be fooling some people, but she ain't fooling me.

The fact that she's brain dead, doesn't matter..........how sad

Hopefully she will go a way, go away palin, go away already

Paula who? What are you 12?

The First female to run for the VP spot. First Republican Female to run for that spot with aspiration to milk that cow dry. Even if she doesn't run for POTUS she's very well off for the rest of her life. We're never going to get rid of her

It seems she has never had a concrete plan of her life. She just takes life as it comes to her day by day!

Someone must have been board out of their mind; thinking to even write about this...

It's not a curtain call because the media makes money fueling interest in someone who has done nothing but promote racism.....In some circles, 'looks' is the only prerequisite.....

Palin pros – Very good looking older woman.

Palin cons – Very divisive and ignorant.

Perfect republican!

I'm a registered Republican and was going to change that until I decided it would be better to vote for this creationist freak in the primary. I hope she is the front runner in 2012 so, Obama is elected again in a landslide. I also wanted to mention how funny it is to hear one of the members of her ignomineous base claim that the Libs are running scared from her. That's the farthest thing from the truth. I welcome her with open arms; she will help to keep the Good Old Party in the gutter for years to come. Mark my word some Kook on here will mention that the libs are scared. MARK MY WORD.

Because you, CNN, keep writing stories about her! Leave her alone. We don't care what she does.

She will never run for President nor do I think it would be a good fit but almost any of the candidates could have been better than Obama/Biden. We need experience right now and neither Palin or Obama fill the bill.

syfredrick,

While Barack Obama is the Jerry Springer of politics.

Palin will still be a star when most everyone will be saying........"Barack Who"??

She has done nothing to help anyone but herself and her family that I can tell from the published list of her so called accomplishments. The best thing she has done for the State of Alaska is to resign. No maybe they will get someone in office who is genuinely concerned with the welfare of that state and to in pushing their own political agenda. On the national stage she is a joke, and not a very funny one at that.

>>"Particularly for conservative America, there hasn't been a rallying figure of this type," he noted.<<

What a shame that conservative America has only Sarah Palin as a "rallying figure." Desperation, for sure.

Awww. . . come on, she's not THAT bad! I kinda like Paula Abdul!

Sarah, just wait until you have to deal with your GOP buddies in the primaries. I hope there are no pix, or we're all going to see them!

Or, you're going around stirring people up and raising money to pay your legal expenses/lawyers with no intention of running!

Whichever, and it's one of them, you're really a piece of work!

Afraid I have to disagree. Paula has a wonderful voice. Sarah's voice is like fingernails scratching the chalkboard. Sit down quitter and shut up. Go home and tend to your kids. Teach them how to hate, and lie.

Keep digging and you will find a lot more than ethics problems.......this woman QUIT her office and the people of Alaska so she can go out and cash in on the money........she is not Presidental material or even VP material........I hope she goes down big time with the media hounding her every step of the way.....

Let us be clear...that is not a star shining from the admiration it receives...it is a star shining from the amazement at her lack of knowledge...and we all need a good laugh once in a while. I get mine from the Palin news.

OMG!!! I hope she keeps giving speeches, talking to reporters at impromptu meetings, giving interviews.....it confirms my opinion of her the first time I heard her speak...she is not smart, not informed, not compassionate, not ready to serve anyone in public life, not a good mother, not a good person.....

NO!!! SARA PALIN WILL NOT GET OUT OF THE MEDIA SPOTLIGHT!!! So quit asking, begging, pleading praying that she will just go away...OTHER PEOPLE LOVE HER!!

"Benet said. 'Particularly for conservative America, there hasn't been a rallying figure of this type,' he noted." HAHAHAHAHAHA! That is the sad truth. Way to go GOP, way to go! The laughing stock of America is your savior. Have fun!

She'll quit anything she starts because she can't handle the criticism. And there will be a lot because the people of Alaska don't even want her back...they want her to move to the lower 48!! God no, please don't let that happen!!

"She's kind of a shooting star that caught fire and kept burning," said Lorenzo Benet.

I can't wait for her fuel to run out, but it would be nice if she could make it to Russia before that happens.

So tired of hearing about this wanna-be-famous ex-governor... Is it not enough that she is completely ignorant on all topics – except child-raising, hunting, and the alaska pipeline? This woman doesn't even know the names of world leaders – forget about global politics!
"She is a mother of five" So what? I'm a educated, working mother of three and I don't get kudos for that. Who exactly is behind this woman??? I'd love to know the IQ scores of these people!

Wow, it's hard to believe it's been a year already. I remember the day McCain announced, I was sitting at my desk and on CNN.com. I was a bit dumbfounded at the choice, but anyway, time flies. Does this mean the next four years will fly by fast too?

No, she's not going away. She has a remarkable talent for recognizing what government should be doing for the people, how to make that happen and how to stop the things that get in the way. She doesn't pull punches or pander to the media or anyone getting in the way of what needs to be done. People have not seen a woman like this before but they will see plenty more of her. We don't need more lawyers in Washington. We need a leader, someone to see the job clearly and do it for the people and the best interest of the country.

She will never sit in the oval office. It's just a fact.

Why is this news?

…."When she walks into a room, she definitely commands attention and she gets more than most. She's definitely a star,"….
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If an unread bigot commands more attention than most, than it is a pretty sad reflection of her and her supporters.

Palin's resignation, defense fund and her twitter account do not matter.
She doesn't matter.
Her homegrown bigot ‘Country First’ supporters don't matter.

All she was good for was to reveal to the global media and the educated world the true hypocrisy rooted in the racial and religious bigotry of (R) 'Christian 'Conservatism.

Her 15 minutes were over months ago. She's an intellectual leper. Put her and her isolationist bigots in an intellectual leper colony far far away.

Palin is now totally irrelevant. She was a worthless bimbo before, now she's also a quitter who will never see time in a federal job. She is a non-issue. Just drop her already. Sick of hearing about the idiot.

...."When she walks into a room, she definitely commands attention and she gets more than most. She's definitely a star,"....
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If a unread bigot commands more attention than most, than it is a pretty sad reflection of her and her supporters.

Palin's resignation, defense fund and her twitter account do not matter.
She doesn't matter.
Her homegrown bigot ‘Country First’ supporters don't matter.

All she was good for was to reveal to the global media and the educated world the true hypocrisy rooted in the racial and religious bigotry of (R) 'Christian 'Conservatism.

Her 15 minutes were over months ago. She's an intellectual leper. Put her and her isolationist bigots in an intellectual leper colony far far away.

I hope she stays in the spotlight. This country is already seeing Obama for the empty suit he is. Trying to ram through another socialist agenda, not giving anybody time to read the bill. Even if she doesn't run for the Whitehouse, she can represent conservatives in a positive light. The libs will never like her and only believe in government handouts, so that part of the population doesn't matter. The more conservitive Dems that believe in fiscal responsibility could vote Obama out of office in 2012. Just ask the blue dog Dems, having a (D) by your name doesn't guarantee votes. I just pray that it's not too late by the time 2012 rolls in. Look at what he's done in just 6 short months, just 1/16 of his term. Did he think blaming Bush was going to work forever? This guy is a complete joke, and a failure.

Thank god maybe she can explain Obama Health Care to me. Because Obama can't explain any of the health care program. That was event last night. WHAT WAS HE SAYING HOW DOES IT EFFECT ME. HELP ME SARA A DOUBLE TALKER IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Thank God she's leaving! The U.S. will be a better place without her and her Republican cronies ruining our great country!

"When she walks into a room, she definitely commands attention and she gets more than most. She's definitely a star," said Benet, who was the only national journalist to have spent much time with Palin in the weeks before she was announced as McCain's running mate.

Benet and McCain most have taken a page from Nixon play book when they agreed to put Sara Palin on McCain ticket.

Sorry, but your Nixon plan back fired.

Did you ever think that maybe Palin isn't a "star" but so bizarre that that is why she has any interest in her? I mean, she was a mayor of a small town, then Governor of a lovely, but not powerhouse, state, and from that she has quit before her FIRST term has even ended! What kind of "star" quits halfway through? Is this country in such a state of affairs that we see a quitter as a hero? Her resignation statement was odd and created no clarity, yet some are still touting her as someone to look to for guidance and wisdom? Huh?! Shame on us all if she carries ANY clout whatsoever in the political arena.

It's over baby!

she is gonna fade away. Good riddance. She will probably go independent

I feel if dental health was covered, heart disease would be less of a health problem for most Americans. Especially the middle class,most ignore the care of their teeth because of costs. I've seen several suryeys asking when was the last time they had seen a dentist, most , a long time. If they had children, money was spent on their teeth and not on the adults. This has been the provbem we have always had. The lower incomes sonetimes can get help, the wealthy can afford it, but the middle class cannot afford even the basic trips to dentist until it's too late to save the teeth. Please address this question.

Sarah Palin had her 15 minutes of fame, and will do anything to stay in the spotlight. After the election, she made sure we didn't forget her. When we started to put her out of our brains, the Levi soap-opera-drama occured. When we finally were starting to not focus on her, she resigned as governor to get our attention. She will run for President to get our attention, maybe even the Senate in 2010. Ms. Maverick was obviously not given much attention as a child.

She has my vote as long as she stands up to the politics as usual crowd. She is not liked by either party because she calls them both out. Sarah 2012! Thats CHANGE I will vote for.

She's got similar scandals and an annoying voice to match.

to carlos: well written chap, I thought you were one of those ditto heads......hehehehehe

We should no longer use the phrase "having a blonde moment," but instead use "having a Palin moment." She has brought disgrace to brunettes.

I just SAD that the American populice can be so interested in someone SO AVERAGE!!! It truly states how pathetic some of us haVE become.
To look up to someone who:
... can BARELY answer any questions of significance with depth.
...blames everyone else for her problems (especially the Media)
...deliveried extremely inflamatory (untrue) statements in the Presidential campaign and ALLOWED hate speech from those attending
...and when the going REALLY got tough..SHE QUIT!!!
I always thought Americans hated QUITTERS!!!
I guess I was wrong all you have to be is a woman trying to protect her family after she paraded them around to influence voters.
I find it AMAZING that many women do not see it for what it really is. Sarah Palin is a living example, that supports what many men think of women..ALL TALK and when the going gets tough a woman will use any excuse to get away from the HARD WORK.
Sarah Palin left her job early because her words during the campaign changed the dynamics of the Governors office...It became TOUGHER..
SHE'S A QUITTER!!! Look at her history. SHE'S A QUITTER!!!
And we need to QUIT giving her so much attention...IT'S PATHETIC!!!

@syfredrick said:

Sarah Palin is the Paula Abdul of politics.
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And Barack Obama is the Moe Howard of politics.

And here comes the "news" (PR blitz) about her ghostwritten book. Before you know it she'll have her own TV show where she'll claim Oprah pals around with terrorists.

The DOW is over 9,000 points. This is news, not Sarah "The Quitter" Palin.

15 minutes are up. Good-bye.

I don't understand how someone as dumb as Palin, could be considered a star. She's a quitter, all she cares about is money, and has nothing to offer this country except some decent insight on energy. It's the nut wing that loves her because they are so uneducated that they don't know better.

This woman is an over baked cake. She have too much baggage and I don't think the White House is big enough to holds all her baggages. It this is all the Repubicans have in 2012, she will be their waterloo.

Bottom Line: Lots of people voted for Sarah Palin/McCain because of her LOOKS.

Sarah is not going to be so pretty in the next election season. I think you will see a big change in interest when that occurs.

Just sayin'

I keep hoping her 15 minutes are up, but she will do her best to make sure that won't happen. The media will help in her effort I'm sure.

I wish that President Obama and Palin could have a debate so the American People can finally put a nail in her political coffin. In this moment in time, Palin and her followers are pathetic patriots without a clue.

Sarah Palin has become a media favorite because she can be counted on to stir up drama, nothing more, nothing less. And we all know too many in the media will react when ever she bares her complete ignorance of whatever she tries to talk about. When "issues" don't work, she trots out her family for media fodder....shame on you for continuing to legitimize this embarrassing bimbo who should have faded completely from view by now.

This woman is an emetic.

So, is it really true that Republicans, as a whole are a lesser educated group of peoples. Less likely to travel over seas? Less likely to get a degree? Less likely to be comfortable with anyone who is not in their immediate comfort zone? Statistics show that prejudiced peoples are uneducated peoples and prejudiced peoples are almost always Republicans. So....no wonder you guys think Sarah Palin is worthy of some sort of political future..."when she comes into a room she commands attention..." So does someone passing gas.

she needs to go away

Go Sarah Go!!

hopefully the star flames out soon

She's a star? She quit her job. She'll be even less qualified for POTUS if she decides to run for that office.

Poor republicans, the only people who pay any attention to Palin are red state white trash hillbillies, who are upset Obama was elected. think she's all that because they own lives are so pathetic.

Palin is a star because of three reasons that have nothing to do with her abilities: she's a woman, she's attractive and she'll follow orders blindly.

The dirty, greedy right has hyped her to the point of saturation and beyond because they plan to steal another election and have her stumble about like Bush, not answering anything and smiling for the camera while the same old GOP rip-offs, lies and wars are shoved down the worlds' throat.

The US right wing is a global obscenity that the world will have to deal with if jokes like Palin and Bush continue to be fraudulently installed in power while filth like Cheney rape the planet.

The recent election of a decent, intelligent candidate has, for the moment, stopped the worlds revulsion and disgust for the US after the last eight years of lies, theft, pollution and arrogant corruption. If the right wing manages to play with the voting machines and shove another stooge into the White House, you can say goodbye to the last shards of respect for Uncle Sam.

If a lot of serious illnesses are cause by poor dental health, why has dental health never een covered, will this ever be an option?

Yes, she has as many followers as there are idiots in the US....

" She's definitely a star,"
who are the kidding??? she's an idiot that won't go away.....

that's a long way from being a 'star'..

Palin's resignation hardly a curtain call

It is for me. Good riddance to your ignorance and race baiting.

What to give up?over-priced Insurance, under p rotected citizens of the United States.

Palin is just another Republican we would not miss if she got out of politics.Like our SC Representatives the people are the last thing on their minds.Jim DeMint shows how little he thinks about the state or the people.Why do we need them?

Sarah Palin is the Paula Abdul of politics.

And this is an ad for the Benet person's book?

WHERE'S THE NEWS?

ENOUGH WITH PALIN!

Now is the time that Governor Palin's intelligence will finally get to surface, after the Liberal media and Saturday Night Live, succesfully
turned her into a joke (that they can't stop laughing at). Tina Fey was
hysterically funny as Sarah Palin, I still laugh when I think about that.
But now given a wiggle out the 'McCain Campaign Advisor' hand-cuffs,
she is free to really be heard. (I am so glad that she is out there now, to champion Conservative Values!). The Liberal media is like the bully on the playground where Governor Palin is concerned. And most American's can relate to that. We will rally around her, and cheer when
she gets to land those overdue punches to the gut of the bully pulpit.
We won't laugh while the Libs are down, but we will cheer Sarah Palin!

Ok.. It must be me then .. i need to look into the mirror and myself why, Because i'm still lost as to why so many think she is the next best thing since sliced bread.. but as they say YOU LiKE what YOU Like.. and always tell yourself what You need to hear ....more power to you .. Good Luck I guess

To those people who slow down to look at a car wreck, she's worth watching. I would prefer she just take her faux reality show that is her life and blend into the oblivion of the radical right winger crowd. Please Murdoch – just put her on the Fox media channels amongst the rest of the "in-curious clowns" where she will have her captive audience, and then I will have no problem avoiding her shallow and foolish perspective.

She's a star for whom , certainly not any of us, this hateful, inciteful , unarticulated of a woman is a quitter , how come some of you don't reconize that , she has quit every office she's been in , and yet some people out there thinks she would make a good president , not in this country or any other country , it goes to show that a lot of Americans , and you know who you are enjoy the racist politics that this woman spews, and last she's definitely not ready for the world stage !!!!!

Some rashes won't go away, no matter how many creams u apply!!!

Besides Michael Steele, Palin is arguably the most stupid individual in politics. Her rabid supporters, the ones with the "ooh, look at the shiny ball" syndrome, obviously share the same degree of intellect. The reason why some of us "fear" her is because we find it unfathomable that somebody so ignorant could've been a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Boy such a gushing article who is this writer trying to suck up too. Personally I wish this woman would just go away.

Love you Sarah! I'd love to go moose hunting with you. Keep after those loser socialist liberals. They are running scared of you.

all i have to say.. is i really like that pic of her. her hair down is a much better look for her than that librarian updo... i bet straight haired ann coulter is so jealous, she wished her mop could look that good.. thats all.

The narcissistic Obamabots are scared of Sarah Palin because she is an extremely intelligent, articulate woman who would win any election she ran in by a landslide. She's a paragon of family values and integrity as well. Palin/Octomom 2012. Have a nice day!

I see that a day can still not go by without a Sarah Palin story. Why is it so important to CNN that this irrelevant and idiotic woman be kept continually in the news?

yes and she can also take credit for creating the worst open case of hatred and bigitry in our nation. she has brought out the worst in people an will continue to polarize an separate americans with all her filth speeches and ignorance of policies. if there was ever a politician that was open about white supremacy she is the one. if she were ever to be elected ,it would be the end of america as we now know it. she was the ending of the GOP and hopefully that era has passed forever.

She's popular for all the wrong reasons. Come on now. She's a failed beauty queen, a failed VP, and now a failed governor.

America: the only place where you can fail miserably and still be popular.

Good riddance to bad leaders!

The woman is gutsy, intelligent and is the breath of fresh air that we (all of America) need. The only reason she is hounded and scorned by the majority of Liberal Democrats is due to the fact that they fear her... You heard me right, they FEAR her. She can count on my support for as long as she wants to receive it.

Cnn, you and "Morning Joe" just can't get enough of her can you?

Liberals are afraid of Sarah because their little girls admire this traditional lady for all the right reasons. She's able to bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan and still not let her husband forget that he's a man. She IS indeed three times anything the progressively liberal agenda has to offer..

It may not be a curtain call, but it has affected her reputation. I say, for both Republicans and Democrats, think of her as Limbaugh II, and move on. She will always have her followers, like Limbaugh does, but probably no more than that. Didn't I read somewhere on CNN that only 1/3 of all Republicans thought she was qualfied for President?

I wish it was a curtain call. I'm so tired of the media treating this woman like she's someone important. She is only special in her family's eyes and the crazy right wing nuts that follow her. I frankly wish she will just dissappear. A shooting star? Yeah right. More like a black hole.

more like trainwreck

That's a heck of an opening line, Palin Resignation Hardly A Curtain Call", you remember this article at the swearing in of the the new President in 2012. Someone with the knowledge needs to introduce a bill that limits Senators, Representatives, and Congressmen to two terms. NOT LIFE. LIKE THE LIABILITYS OF THE KENNEDYS, PALINS, KERRYS, CHENEYS, AND ETC.

Goodbye Sarah! May you fade into oblivion.

She doesnt have a chance in hell of ever being president...she shoulda jus stuck wit her Governors job and then fade away...

She is not a star. It is the media that is trying to make her a celebrity. She has nothing to offer to the public. Let her go away. Enough already.

Aaaaah Schucks..... SURE it is. Sarah Palin will soon be a private citizen and she will be an "open target" not subjected to any special treatment or protection from provided staffers.

Like momma would always say..... 'BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR, YOU MAY JUST GET IT AND MUCH, MUCH MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR"!!

The media is just drooling for anticipated opportunities to EXPOSE the REAL Sarah Palin once and for all.

If I was Sarah Palin, I'd stop flapping off at the mouth. Silence is golden.

Oh PLEASE run her in 2012 against Obama... PLEASE NeoCons, PLEASE!

Yawn...turn out the lights, Gracie!

If we just ignore her, maybe she'll just go away? Please?

yeah, she's become the face of American stupidity ... err ... rupugs