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I love Sarah Palin! I wouldn't vote for her for dogcatcher (moose-catcher?) but she's been the most entertaining character in politics that I've seen in years. And who knows? If she and her followers bolt for a third party it would give the GOP a chance to rebuild as a worthwhile party.

If Sarah Palin had been inaugurated as President in January 2009 and had behaved as Barrak Obama has done in the last seven months, it would be taken as evidence of her ignorance and stupidity. To take one example, anybody who has taken the trouble to examine her career closely would know that she would never have abdicated formulation of a 'stimulus plan' to a congressional clique.

James Jack: You are so right the democrats fear her and so does Axelrod but he doesn't want the public to know. She isn't lletting the left hand know what the right hand is doing.and she is right. The democrats will be all shook up .if she runs for the presidency. Palin is right, too much information to the media is not good. Surprise attack is better, I can't wait to find out if she is running in 2012. I like her and I will not vote democrat. I voted republicn.

If the news corps would stop talkin' about Palin the only ones thinkin' about her are her brain dead supporters who actually think she has a brain!! Stop talking about this half baked (or maybe full baked) Alaskan. Read the post from the Alaskan that doen't want her in power anymore. I have a friend who lives in Alaska that is willing to send her to the lower 48 and I politely declined telling her to keep her half baked Gov. She's a has been. Stop reporting on her and she will go away.

Funny how the party of fear keeps saying every one else is afraid of Palin? I don't have her as a Governor and she doesn't get unlimited air time on the media I watch. So fearing her ignorrance and confused rehetoric doen't register. And I don't believe in the Repugs fear, so with Obama as Pres all is good!
Hey and you narrow minded Repugs- don't forget "oggedy-boggedy-BOO!
Scared you didn't I?!

How anyone with half a brain could believe Palin is smart. Are all Palin supporters hillbillies? Or just White trash.

It was announced yesterday Sarah Palin is going to write a book about her life. I hope she has enough crayons!

I am sure Axelrod doesn't have time to think about Palins' next move, he is to busy directing the media away from Obama's failures and falling poll numbers, not to mention Obama's inability to speak intelligently without his teleprompter. After the latest press conference where Obama was rambling nonsense that showed that he does not have a clue as to what is going on around him, he then chose to spew his racism into the last question. Axelrod then had to direct the media into something that Bush/Cheny "thought" about doing and Palin's falling poll numbers to direct the public's attention away from the incompetancy of Obama and the ever increasing evidence that he would rather divide the country rather than unite it.

I have news for Axelrod and the rest of the Obama manipulators – Obama is a one term wonder with his approval ratings sinking by the day. He's media made.

David Axelrod is so cool. Palin's not a Gov. anymore, who cares what she does, she's a private citizen. Unless your her fan, I say let her fade into the background and out of the public eye. I for one will be happy when there are no more news stories that have the name Palin in them. Goodbye and Good luck.

Anybody with a fonctional brain as a politician will worry less about Sarah Palin as a rival.
She can run for a senate seat in Texas which I beleive is the only place she can appeal to her sembable hillbilies and ignorant racist bigots.

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Four hours, 20 minutes and counting (EST) nah nah nahhh nah, nah nah nahhh nah, heyyy heyy hey, go-ood byeeee!

Hey--- John King! Palin is not news anymore.....

Get him a ticket to Fox News.

Personal to Poker_Person:

Her core "believes"?!?!?!

Speaks volumes, my friend, speaks volumes.

Sarah Palin and her supporters are the LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD.

It is important for Palin supporters to be honest – I think she's a beautiful lady and probably a "real" person (e.g. goes fishing) but those are not qualifications for being president. For president we want the smartest, toughest, wisest and MOST HONEST person. I consider myself to be very smart but I admit that Obama is probably way smarter than me – and that is GREAT – you want a president with a good grasp of the issues.

Bush was way smarter than Palin but he too wasn't exactly a genius, and he was also very dishonest (like Palin, who is a pathological liar) and look at the destruction he wreaked upon America – stop voting for people who'd make good beer drinking buddies. You wouldn't go to a doctor based on whether he was "real" or "fun" but to one who knows what he's doing.

The Obama Administration and it's supporters will never lose sleep over Sarah Palin. I say to end this argument we have a debate between Obama and Palin. The feelings by the GOP supporters that we are SCARED shows how STUPID THEY ARE. Sarah Palin is "A JOKE" just like her supporters.

the day we stop talking about Pain, the better off we will be.

While the right wing nuts are happy to see that Obama's popularity has dropped, they should see how much more favorable he is viewed when you put the likes of Palin, Pawlenty, Gingrich, Mitt-wit, or Huckabee up against him.

I really don't think Palin put the crooks in Alaska in jail. She spent most of her term fighting her own ethics violations. It is obvious she has little understanding of government.

Considering that when polled Americans did not know who is the leader of the GOP.

Considering that Palin was not mentioned in the top 10.

Why should the Obama camp be concerned?

Ever notice how right wingers LOVE using words of fear and distraction..."radical", "rationing", "communism", "terrorist".

I guess Revelations teaches them that.

They holler about this being a "Christian nation", yet know NOTHING about acceptance, forgiveness, cooperation for the greater good.
They really do make me sick and November 2008 was just as much a referendum on them as it was on 30 years of failed GOP policies.

The Christian crusades are in full swing, folks!

I had great health insurance, until I walked out on the highway of dreams..

As a pure political hatchet guy for Obama, Axlerod is either incompetent or a liar. Oops, more likely both

I'm sure Palin is a very nice woman, but she is by NO means ready for the international stage. Intelligence is something you either have or you don't ..........you can't cram for it.

It should be no surprise that Bible thumping, undereducated, simple-minded people see themselves in her.

Does no one find it ironic that she hold a degree in JOURNALISM, yet can't form an intelligent, coherent sentence on the fly???
For her to think she could match wits with the likes of an "elitist" Harvard grad and President of the Harvard Law Review are laughable at best.

Anybody ever notice that Palin is like a really old version of Jessica Simpson. I think Jessica is a pretty woman who genuinely means well, but she's dumb as a rock.

Well, I guess since Jessica is a talented singer... so they're not exactly alike...

Also Jesicca has this posted on her web site "I look forward to reviews, no matter what they are. I look at it as constructive criticism. If anything, it just pushes me to do better the next time"

Could never imagine Palin saying such a thing.

I'm sure Axlerod and other Obama toadies are more comcerned about cleaning up the latest Obama mess than they are about Sarah Palin. We Democrats had an amazing opportunity and wasted it on this guy. Responsible is to Democrat as honest and moral are to Republican...

Are you folks serious? No one lives in fear of Sarah Palin. This Democrat will miss the side splitting laughs I get every time she opens her mouth. Now that she is a private citizen without the publicist and the big money backer of the party she may be funnier, as evidenced by her rambling resignation. I hope she keeps getting coverage. Even her fashion sense has suffered, what was up with those red sandals in a business suit. Every time she speaks, the Republican party will forever be linked to this mistake. Just like they are with the current crop of bigots the tea partiers and birthers.

Axelrod is the one running the Obama white house. Obama is just a figure head!!!

The Wasilla Hillbillies are heading to the lower 48 to pan for gold – good god...

She is a total idiot and the fact that she has followers is the only thing thats frightening! She is a backwards slack jawed yokel who only appeals to other slack jawed yokels!

Whats the relevance of CNNs question of Palin to David A?
Why not interview Palin instead of David if you want to know whats she is upto?
the media trivia is holding this country hostage on their cable chatter that can never tackle issues

All the man said is that he is not thinking Palins next move then he went on to say he wish her well. Now Obama haters blast him for that .One thing about haters they are loyal to their cause, when they hate you they hate you and nothing you do can please them.

Sarah Palin is a right-wing poster child. If you're a right-winger, then you "CONNECT" with her; the rest of society does not. She's a polarizing, non-transformational, stick-in-the-mud figure who has a history of making brash, knee-jerk decisions.

She's a lot like Bush, only prettier and more ignorant.

I'm sure Obama keeps him busy working on the "Transformation of America."

To Lilarose in Brandon Oregon, Yeah, she will always have her followers who think like she does just like Obama's sheep who follow him no matter what he does to America.

This man is now too busy to fix the damage contol of OH!Obama once more misspoke..."the police acted stupidly" now the rod has to be fixed to fix Obamas' axel....Leave Sarah Palin alone and get on with keeping Obama oh so savvy.....!!!!!Ha ha ha ha savvy Obama

Think about these two names-- Trig and Tripp.

Palin is an immature child. She serves as pure entertainment for most Americans. No body fears her. But we do enjoy the show she herself creates, then cries about. My four year old doesn't whine as much as this lady. I want to debate her. I am sure i could give her a major run for her money. And i don't have to worry about what I say. I would let the my thoughts fly!!
Some of you act like this women is so superior that we are all so scared of her ower and emmsense knowledge of issue that we have to attack her. She brings it, she calls press confrences, she parades her children around, she fights with talk show hosts. SHE IS A JOKE!!!

Obama has been received warmly overseas. Reparing 8 years of failed Bush/Cheney foreign policies will not be easy or fast. Hillary is doing an excellent job. Obama won the election....Republicans should just get over it and move on.

Amazing all the bed wetting liberal Democrats are so afraid of Sara Palin.ALL they do is try to discredit her for what she has accomplished,and they have a hard time swallowing the facts that she has more Executive experience than Obama and Biden put together..... Axelrod will not have to keep up with Palin,I am sure the mainstream Biased Media will be on her every move,trying to find fault with her and the truth about her.

Sarah Palin? Another "Miss Potter', putting all the little animals in their places.

John King shouldn't haven't even asked that question because no one cares about that Palin lady not even Democrats.. This lady is good for jokes and We wish her goodbye and keep it moving!!

I think you should edit the text in quotation marks to read "absolute honesty" and not "absolutely honesty". I was surprised that David Axelrod would make that mistake, and just now when I listened to his comment he did say "absolute honesty".

Obama administration advice to Palin:

1. Don't be specific
2. Spend
3. Spend
4. Tax
5. Borrow
6. Spend
7. Blame Bush
8. Blame Bush
9. Travel
10. Blame Bush

Message to democrats.............Be afraid, Be very afraid.....................Sarah Palins coming and you can't stop her.........hahahaha

sarah palin is a pathological liar.

I think that John King's question says more about the state of the press than it does about David Axelrod. Why is the media so obsessed with Sarah Palin?

We lost Walter Cronkite last week. The press today is awful when compared to him. Perhaps more time should be spent reporting news and not trying to make it. State of the Union is going the way of Meet the Press.......... not worth the time.

There are to many other things to discuss and think about than Sara Palin and her next move. I am tired of hearing about her, listening to her and would rather hear about the problems of today.

Sara might make a good librarian, but that's it.

The liberal media and DAmacts so readily point out the most recent polling that shows the majority of American people does not "approve" Gov. Palin. Well, let's see the OB's numbers objectively. OB's most recently polling numbers on personal trusts, economy, healthcare, national security, and long-term fiscal responsibility and deficits etc are all falling below 50%. It would be interesting to see whether the DAmacts have the courage to comment on them and whether OB has the courage to let Biden to take charge as Gov. Palin does.

Here's the deal for me. I want a president and congress that works for the American people and appreciate that that God gave us this great land and it's constitution and will respect it's people and laws. I don't care if they are black or white or green or purple, as long as they have enough itegrity (that's what it takes you know) to honor those basic rules then they have my vote. I don't care if they are Democrat, Rebublican or WHATEVER ELSE. If they have the integrity (that's what it takes you know) to honor those basic rules then they have my vote. To date (i can't predict the future eh) Sarah Palin seems to have the best interest of The American People at heart and until I see anything differently I wouldn't have anything against her politically (definatley not personally). Watch her resignation pres conf. She already told you her plans eh. God Bless Americans,every one of them.

She should start a cheerleading academy or open an abstinence center...with stimulus money...

I agree – who cares about Palin? I don't. When I bring up the latest Palin foible, my GOP co-workers ask me if I am afraid of Palin. My response is no. If anyone should be afraid it is the GOP for feeding into her baloney and if she becomes the GOP standard bearer and candidate for 2012, the GOP has the problem, not the dems. I think she is an idiotic moron.

I love it....Go Sarah!!!

"PS. See what happens when we allow the media to shape the outcome of an election"
Poker_Person

This just indicates that you have let your media shape your feelings about who won and why.

Sarah Palin will be the ONE to unite and bring America back it's glorious root! It's time to clean house in DC, especially the craps we have there now!

If Palin weren't attractive not one person would care what Palin does. Everybody knows this. She's a D-list celebrity at best. Before long she'll be on I'm A " Redneck" Get Me Outta Here or Dancing With The Stars.

The world is filled with fools who fail to see the truth for fear of losing what is promised but never received. Sarah Palin is not about making promises, she's about making change and restoring what we're losing. Our constitution, our rights are being challenged and perhaps the best person to restore a secure foundation to our country is the person who isn't blinded by the pressures of a few wealthy Washingtonians but someone who can hear the voice of the masses.

quit whining, and do what is best for the country, or quit telling other countries how to run their elections

Palin connects with idiots who are just as shallow and tunnel visioned as her.

No one should exoect to see positive report from CNN on Palin.

To those who say that the Dems are afraid of Sara Palin.
No, we are not afraid of Sarah, but we are afraid of her becoming president. America will be like a glass plate in the hand of a child. Everybody will have to run for their live. Imagine a president who doesn't know where in the map is any country, she will bomb the wrong country for another and destroy her allies instead of her enemies. Pleeeeeaaaase. The hell with Sarah, we're not ready to die yet.

Palin be where de money at mon, what wrong with that she has a husband, and several children to support

Give her a penny for her thuoghts + she'd allready be showing a profit.

I'm sick to death of the right wing nuts blaming EVERYTHING on "liberal media". what does that really mean, anyway. All the media outlets EXCEPT fox "news"? Get a clue. Is nothing your own problem? Seriously? Poor Sarah get shredded by the media becuase she's an idiot. I wish someone would advise her to drop off the face of the earth.

We all hold our own beliefs, and as a Democrat I'm very open-minded, but Palin and her followers scare the living daylights out of me. In a nod to Greg Greenman, I enjoyed your post; and you're right. Obviously, for some, Palin's novelty has not worn off. And that's all she is: a pretty novelty lacking substance in all areas. And I agree with another poster about the fact that I want a leader who's smarter than me. I'm more qualified than Palin to run this country, except (whoa is me), I can't see Russia from my house.

As a life long Alaskan and a conservative voter I was extremely dissapointed in Governor Palins performance in just about every aspect of her time in office. She can speak to the ideas of social and fiscal conservative politics.....if you can understand her....but she simply isn't capable. Not at the state level and certainly not in the nations highest office. Careful what you wish for Palin supporters.

Why is it when someone ANSWERS a question, people twist it so that they brought the subject on his/her own?? Like calling Axelrod "arrogant": why would a person who is busy working for the administration be even thinking about Sarah Palin?

Only the people who want Americans to be consumed constantly, like CNN, with the next election instead of working at the problems at hand would be wringing their hands about what might happen in three years.

[...] advisor David Axelrod has no advice for Sarah Palin.  Duh. “I can tell you with absolutely honesty,” Axelrod said Sunday on [...]

Well, it is okay for any politicans to practice their faith and religion in their private lives. As soon as they use their religion as their political platform, whether it is consistent with my faith or other faith. They will loose my vote immediately. It scares to hell out of me to have religious nuts to run my life. Sarah Palin is one of the nuts.

I believe Palin is getting out of office to raise money to pay her legal debts under the assumed guise of a candidate for higher office and at the eleventh hour will decide not run – after she has amassed huge money. Just watch.

Palin is going to see that the good ole boys of the GOP that supported her as VP-candidate will turn on her in a primary!

Maybe we could see an article on what Joe the Plumber thinks of Palin now? Come on, CNN, this is NOT NEWS! The fact that Axelrod does not spend time thinking about Palin is basically anti-news.

Maybe Palin is out of politics forever. Maybe she will write a best-selling book. Maybe she will jump into national politics and demonstrate a huge following. If she does one of these, she will again be news. But not now.

The fact that "Sarah connects with the people" is undeniable. So is the stupidity of the people she connects with. She is so obviously inept to even be a governor she had to quit. She's so unethical that she can't get through a term as governor of the state that has fewer consituents than Austin, TX, folks!

Put on your thinking caps – see the clear picture here – she's just Sarah Pretty and Stupid.

David Axelrod and the rest of the Obama team have far more important things to discuss and worry about than the future of a has-been former governor like Sarah Palin. Enough already about her!

The biggest favor these back woods GOP supporters can do for the Democratic is to please let Sarah Palin win the 2012 primary.

Not even the media can make her look any smarter than she really is.She only follows the exxonmobil talking points to the letter.

Sarah is talk show caliber and nothing more. proof is in the discussions that occur everytime her name comes up in these "news" topics. blah blah blah and no substance. just gut feelings good or bad. no substance. nothing to balance a budget on or address world politics with. move on people. we keep wasting time. me included

No one is afraid of what Sarah is going to do I dought any one really cares I no I don't , but the way the media protrays her it's sad, Alexrod said one thing and look at the head lines, it's something very wrong with the media. If the American people did not want her to be VP what makes you palin cheer leaders think she's going to be President.
GET REAL

If your core beliefs align with Sarah the unethical, hypocritical liar, I feel just as sorry for you as I do for the ignorant, almost illiterate Sarah Palin.

The thought of Sarah Palin as a vice president was scary enough. As president? God help us!

So is this to say the Liberals are feeling so high and mighty that they can offer advice, please spare me. After the advice Obama gave to the Cambridge police last week his ratings will be in a death spiral.

If Sarah can get enough support and votes to be elected president, she shall not fail to sell the position for her money.She shall set a deal beforehand with whomever she will pick as VP, and then resigns shortly after being elected to pass on the power.She knows she doesn't have the bravery, the knowledge and qualification. She is scared of critics, and she does not like opposition especially when her decisions are to be vetoed by the senate. She's no politician, but is using politics to survive.

I hope she runs. After all only dead fish go with the flow. She will flow like a dead fish.

Yep, the hard work got to be too much–so she QUIT!

Is that what it takes to quit–too much hard work?

Tell that to the soldiers in the Middle East!

With all of the problems any Political Advisor to Obama has now...he's got his little brain full just figuring out how to spin this Administration into looking like anything but the worst administration the country has ever seen. They can't get anything done but they keep starting new stuff. Yikes!

Meow!!! How cattty Axelrod.

"Don't Pull Palin on Me" translates into "don't quit on me when the going is hard and tough"

She is just a quitter!

How do you think gov. Palin would do in some of the press conferences President Obama has held to date?????.

It's disturbing to think that anyone would elect Sarah Palin. My 15 year old daughter can match wits with this lady. i don't want a person who is just like me as the president. I want someone smarter, more logical, more informed than I am. What's incredible is this. Now listen closely, Republicans claim that John Mccain was not a real republican, but yet they voted for him to become the republican presidential nominee. How incredibly stupid is that. I hear it all the time from my republican friends how John was not really their first choice. Umm then why did you vote for him. Now comes Sarah Palin. A candidate who barely made it out of college. A candidate with little to no knowledge about what was happening outside of Alaska. A candidate who was once part of an organization that wanted Alaska to secede from America. Repubs like to talk about our "Messiah" but in actuality the Repubs are the ones that first began touting him as that, and at the same time they show Sarah Palin the same type of jubilation and craze but no one mentions that she is a "messiah". Hypocrites.

The reason nobody knows what Palin is going to do next is because Palin doesn't know what she's going to do next. The offers she expected have not exactly been pouring in.

How many political candidates – Republican or Democrat – want Palin to campaign for them? Well, maybe Rick Perry and his Texas secessionist supporters.

Any candidates who are courting moderates will not want Palin around.

I'm glad he isn't giving her any advice. I'm sure she wouldn't take it. She has a brain of hre own.

Her core believes are very similar to mine and a lot of other Americans. That makes her very relevant and cause for concern to some. It is time for the people to choose a leader, not the media as was the case in the last election.

PS. See what happens when we allow the media to shape the outcome of an election.

Whatever you think of Sarah Palin's political views, it is impossible to ignore that she is very ignorant about the world, she took seven years from four or five schools to get a degree, she's has little experience, her ethics have been constantly under investigation, she has poor judgment, and she, most importantly, she bailed on the job that she was elected to do. She is incompetent.

It is ludicrous to even mention her with regard to the presidency. It boggles the mind to think that anyone, even if they agreed with her politics, would consider her capable of any kind of higher office!

Ever notice how all the comments supporting Palin are signed off in the same way ....?

It's funny how conservatives/republicans can only talk about "fear". I understand it's an easy and effective way to control large groups of people, but really, don't you worry about your mantra growing tiresome?

Speaking for myself, the only thing I "fear" about Sarah Palin is the support she has been able to garner based on her perceived authenticity. I have never seen or heard a single comment from ANYONE that offered evidence of any issue about which she is actually informed. Her attempts to show her "expertise" on energy are laughable. She has added nothing to any debate, and this doesn't bother her or her supporters one bit. So "afraid"? Sure - of what the underbelly of my country is turning into.

I'm sure Sarah Palin is in tears because Axelrod and the other cretins don't spend their time thinking or talking about her... why do idiots always like to flatter themselves?

See what I said about "Liberals are afraid of Palin" being a republican talking point. As I was typing my earlier response, 2 more people posted that we're afraid of her. Once again, fear has nothing to do with it. It's the comedic relief we're looking for.

I find it amazing that the folks who think that Palin "hung the moon" base it on a few "gee whiz" speeches she made early on. Keep in mind that she read these from a teleprompter and who knows who wrote the speeches. When she was left on her own (interviews with Gibson and Couric), she bombed. She just doesn't seem to have the politcal chops to get the job done.

The Dems aren't afraid of Sarah, but we are afraid of the stupididity of some Americans. The fact that she was selected by John McCain and came so close to perhaps being president, if something happened to him was irresponsible at best, and dangerous on any level.

The woman does not have the capability of running this country or any country I would say. McCain has backed away from her gracefully, but you still have irresponsible Americans pushing Sarah on the rest of us.

Thank God most Americans came to their senses. Whether you are a Dem or a GOPer, you have to believe the country should come first. If I had my choice between and inept Democratic candidate and a GOPer who was more qualified, I would vote Republican. The country should always come first.

41 % of Americans are now Independents – guess who is aware of that? Intelligent people and someone from Alaska.
Norah G
Michigan

Sarah, I wish you well. I will be your lifetime supporter. You have been great. Unfortunately this world is an ugly place especially when we have inexperienced leaders wasting our tax-payers money. Anyway American people will teach them lesson sooner than later. Only tragedy is that people voted for this radical president and we have gone 10-15 years backwards. We will need more time to clean up the mess but I have faith in American people and new leaders who will be elected in 2010 and 2012.

Susan B. Arnold, you are right that Sara P. is unique. Never has there been a candidate for V.P. on either side of the aisle who has known so little on so many subjects. The problem is that she does not know WHAT she does not know.

Sarah Palin CONNECTS WITH THE PEOPLE , and the far left are scared of her – it is so obvious. They should be as she is on the move.
James J
ND

Wow, can we ever see how scared the liberal loons are of Palin – she's on the move. Independents are going to kick the bums out in 2012.
Jake
CA

Crooks don't like the fact that Palin CLEANED UP ALASKA, puttting both parties in jail for their corruption.
Decent and good people want decent and good people as our leaders – crooks do not want that.
Jack J
Co

To every one planning to die before 2012, please pospone your death to a different date. Sarah palin, they say, is running for president in 2012, Imagine all the laughter, and jokes, and ironies, and ridicules, and stupidities that will characterize that election. Don't die now and miss that event, you will die laughing anyway; at least you'll get a last laugh.

The reason the LIberals abuse Palin is that they are scared of her because: PALIN CONNECTS WITH THE PEOPLE.
Jane J
WI

Why should he be concerned about what Palin is going to do when she doesn't have a clue herself? Palin has a knock for waiting until the last minute to make decisions. She tends to think the world is going to wait until it is to late to make decisions. She is not a very organized person.

@ Susan B.......LOL

Yeah Sarah is all that. She especially has the sparkle in her eyes when she sees Russia from her porch. The woman could not even give basic history answers about VP duties to a 4th grader.

I am glad he considers her irrelevant.

David Axelrod is spot on; maybe if we ignore her she will go away for good.

It is easy to forget that this woman got by solely on her looks; there is no substance to her whatsoever. No brains; no thoughts; no center; just mindless far right, fundamentalist buzz words and talking points.

So long SP! you betcha (wink)

"She attributed the decision to tremendous pressure, time and the financial burden of a litany of ethics complaints in the past several months" Welch, CNN

NUFF SAID? By her own admission, - she can't take the pressure, she can't manage her time, and the ETHICS complaints against her have become overwhelming and by "getting out", imo, she "hopes that what-ever she has done will now be ignored in the interest of her state "moving FORWARD" ,-because she is gone-–
--or has she made that deal?

Please Sarah be the face of the Republican Party. And its brains ) Please Sarah run, get the nomination. Please.
Yeah, she's exactly what the Democratic... oops, I mean Republican Party needs. Run, Sarah, run.

As a Democrate leaning Independant, all I can say is, I hope she does run. Nothing could help my side out more. She, to put it mildly, makes no sense when she speaks. None! I can't imagine her representing our country abroad. Eeeeek!

The Alaska Govenors office is in her rear view mirror "looser looser" and her run in 2012 is same as the " her road and bridge to
nowhere .
Her baloon is full of hot air .

Pro life is her Number 1 agenda and America really needs a President that does not let a one side issue consume them.

Sarah Palin is unique. She is competent, honest and genuine. Her eyes are filled with a spark for life, love and and concern for others, not self-centered greed like so many of our high level Washingtonians. She is right, for the need to bring good back to our country. Her time is coming.

Palin's future. . .REALITY TV!

Palin knows ALL ABOUT SOCIALISM!!! She has a big plan to REDISTRIBUTE the wealth of the oil revinue to the people of Alaska.

Most of us in Juneau, AK are not thinking of Palin's next move. Why is it the media never came down to Juneau to ask our opinion of Palin during the presidential campaign? They would have discovered she wasn't winning popularity polls here!

Palin represents those dwindling, largely rural and Southern, whites who think of themselves as "real" Americans while everybody else isn't. It's a sizeable group but not big enough to win the White House.

A majority of Americans will never elect Sarah Palin. That is due in large part to the fact that she thinks of a majority of us as not "real" Americans.

I can't believe anyone is still talking about her. Why are conservatives in love with these intellectual light weights. She's cute but she's dumb.

Axelrod, like the rest of the current Administration is arrogant, pompous, and over confident; believing they cannot be beat or challenged. Next time they have a collective thought, they should let it go. Even if Axelrod wanted to give Palin any 'advice', she would be well advised to ignore anything they have to offer.

Palin is a loose cannon!!! I dont understand Americans
you just went thru 8 years of hell with Barney Fife and Darth Vader
At least you have someone in there now with great intelligence trying to make health care better for all you but instead you put Obama down
when he is only cleaning up the mess Barney and Darth made
Sitting around using a senseless label like socialism and THATS all it is!!!
Palin would be more wise to educate herself for two or three years and then try
You DO NOT need a female version of Barney Fife at the helm in 2012
The thought is enough to make one shudder!!!

The people who think Palin is any sort of threat to ANYBODY are delusional. She won't even make it past the Republican primaries, let alone to the nomination. People like Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee will eat her alive during the primaries.

Really, if you think she's the biggest hope for the Republican party, that party is doomed.

Some sage advice for Sarah Palin would be to find a career other than politics, she neither the knowledge, professionalism or charisma needed to repair the damage she did to herslef in the campaign with Senator McCain. Personally, if she decides to run in 2010 I will the first person in line to campaign against her election. She is an embarrasment to women in general for her brashness and rudeness. Certainly no "soccer mom that I know of who act as she did. However, she does have certain criteria of a lot of politicians – cheating and lying.

I'm anxiously awaiting the new 'less politically correct' Sarah Palin. Boy, that's going to be truely hilarious.

The only reason I read anything about her (and more often I don't) is to see what level of stupidity she she has accomplished. I don't watch soap operas, but it seems similar.

I for one am not sitting around waiting what Sarah Palin is going to do.
The only reason she had her 15 minutes is because the Republican Party needed the female vote.

I don't think the press has to spend more time on Mrs. Palin.

I'm thinking about Palins' next move and I'm hoping it's OUTTA HERE!!!
The one comment about her standing shoulder to shoulder with
other great women leaders of the world is on the mark. We should be embarrased she ever got to where she did.
The good people of Alaska should also be relieved... that is with the exception of the few hundred that attended her picnic...

So do any of you Liberal Palin-haters actually believe anythin Axelrod says? The Dems know unquestionably that Palin appeals to millions of Americans that have woken up to their tax and spend, socialistic agenda. This is why a day doesn't go by without commentary publicized by the Obama-controlled media and the vicious but ficticious lawsuits the Democratic machine continues to wage! Yeah right, Democratc leadership isn't watching her like a hawk because she is a major threat to their liberal gameplan.

Right about now, I don't think anybody wants advice from anyone in the Obama camp.

There's no point in offering Palin advice, she doesn't listen. She does what she feels like no matter what.

Anyone considering voting for her in 2012 is endangering the country. I'd hope someone with experience and in the right frame of mind like Romney or Pawlenty will challenge her and expose her for the freak and moron she is.

Palin is smart enough not to take any kind of advice from this one term administration. Obama is going have to worry about Hillary or Biden running against him in 2012 let alone contend with a possible Palin run for the WH.

Once again anyone that thinks any DEM is afraid of Palin is totally wrong. She is not a THREAT she does bring ougt a point that must be seen as a real problem. A small but very vocalk percent of the US population has some very strong feelings about subjects that really do not belong in politics.

Family values has been a big topic, and far too often those that preach the most are also those have have the most guilt. Palin has a family and during the election she showed no family valuses that I hold hightly. Unwed teens is not a value I hold. Rejection of science is not logical.

The fact that Palin runs away when things get tough does not look good for future goals. As a free agent she can run around talking all she wants about whater ever she wishes to talk about it is a right earned by the brave. BUT THEN WE ALL KNOW TALK IS CHEAP!

Sarah Palin is not worth worrying except if she end up destroying the GOP .

All those who are so unconcerned about Ms. Palin's plans sure do spend a lot of time wondering what she will do next. One thing is almost certain, Ms. Palin does not waste any of her precious time thinking about or getting all tingly legged over an Axelrod or others in that administration.

Sarah Palin is just another symptom of what is wrong with this country, all the things that will precede the fall of Western Civilization. Ignorance will not prevail and will end up dragging the rest of us down with it.

Read "The Family": The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. It is a sobering look at the sick theology running through our government today that will continue to sacrifice the rest of us for their "greater good", the "chosen ones."

You better believe the gangster-government libs don't sit around talking about Sarah Palin – she's their worst nightmare. Go Sarah!

Obama never even made one single attack against Sarah Palin.

Palin, however, made several, even after losing the election.

And now, who's the quitter?

Besides, 2012 is the LAST thing we need to focus on.

She quit. That's all one needs to know. She quit. She's through. She'll make money, perhaps, with her book and a few speeches, but she clearly doesn't have the stamina or intelligence of someone like Rush Limbaugh to have any future in anything long term. Basically, she was a flash in the pan, someone of no substance.

Can you imagine Sarah Pain in the company of distinguished women who led their governments? Do you see her mixing easily with the lights of Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, or Angela Merkel? What an embarrassment she would be! I had hoped to see a woman President in my lifetime. I think she has set us back at least 25 years.

As an independent I would never vote for Governor Palin. What I would do is vote any one currently in office out of office. The democrats have controlled the budget process now for 3 full years and look what they have done. This years budget increased the debt more then all the other presidents combined. These people should be arrested. They are NOT doing the peoples job anymore. What we need in office are fiscal conservatives and social moderates. Why would anyone under 30 ever vote for any of these idiots.

Palin is not important because she will never win a national election. Sure, she is very popular for the GOP but the fact is she is too polarizing and someone like her will never win a national election. She needs broad appeal and she needs to be well versed in national and world politics. These are things she is not. So she will always be one of the biggest stars in the GOP but forget about an actual national election win.

Axlerod hit the nail on the head. She's not a threat. Her brains wont fill a thimble. Her 15 minutes of Fame has used up 14:59 minutes allready. In 2012 it will be "Sarah Who".

Susan said they sit around laughing at how dumb people have to be to back Palin. I was thinking about how dumb people have to be to back Obama. What she says about Palin change the name to Obama and it goes for him also. We all have our opinions, Huh?

The fact that this woman was chosen as a GOP running mate shows how disjointed the Republican Party is.

I'll be glad when she's not in the news all the time.

Palin is an opportunist. She got what she wanted–book deals, talk circuits...she's even deserting her post that her people elected her to early to pursue her self-centered interests.

Thank God McCain and Palin didn't make it to the White House.

Well, I am not a DEM or a REP. I wouldn't vote for Palin. However, I think that people like Letterman making endless jokes have gone too far. She has lots of talents and is a decent human being. I think that Obama and his advisers need to worry about whom OPRAH might put on her wish board next election season. We are finding the Obama's nice, but he acts like a 28 year old doing the best he can. He really doesn't know what he is doing and he is a sensitive person. However, the Cambridge police comment and it's involvement show he doesn't have the psychological dexterity needed to lead America. He is fun, refreshing, trying his best; but we need more than what OPRAH's wishboard can bring. I hope she doesn't put best friend Gayle as she choose our next President. Maybe Letterman needs to start making jokes about best friend Gayle now. In summary; Palin isn't a presidential contender, she can have strong talents in other politcal areas; however Letterman and the dedgregation have gone too far, and we need to look at a naive Obama and maybe make jokes about that.

The New MEANING for CNN is CHEAP NEWS NOW.

Every week I see a media who is driven by ratings then telling the story like it is. These questions are only asked to generate ratings for CNN not inform the public, that is why Jon Stewart comedy show is regarded as "trusted news". CNN has Lou Dobbs getting in the mud to promote his talk radio and compete with Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and the Limbaughs of the "Right". CNN has taken a huge plunge into untrusted territory of Faux news and I have switched channels more and more these days because I'm sick of this. For now I'll watch Stewart for news because he doesn't give jerks like "Birthers' the platform to spew their propoganda.

Palin will continue to live in the minds of those that have trouble getting over the fact that a BLACK man is president. She seems to thrive in areas filled with HATE. Does not say much for the future

How can Axelrod know what is Palin's next move when she doesn't have a big mouth like Obambi who shoot it off like a looney. Obambi is done!

After reading the posts... I have to say, anyone who actually criticizes Axelrod over what he says is so clearly biased they have lost sight of all normalcy and decency. He basically politely declines to answer the question at all. It was the right thing to do. He doesn't criticize her.

People need to get some perspective here.

I am positive that Palin could care less about what Axelrod is thinking when it comes to her. Axelrod has enough on his plate just keeping Obama from having his name smeared by those who are claiming that Obama has a gay lover, and all the American citizens that refuse to remain silent until Obama produces a legit certifcate that will prove his American birth right, oh the tangle web we weave when at first we try to deceive, and deceiving has been the top priorty on Obama's scam list. Axelrod should be very careful or he will find himself weaved into Obama's web. Betty

They love to put articles up about palin because we get all riles up about her. 60% of people hate her 30% love her and everybody else is in between. Im tired of paying attention to her so im not going to respond to these anymore.

John King needs to find a job with the FOX Network.

No we as Democrats do not sit around discussing Palins political moves .......we sit around laughing at the things she says and the way she says them....and all her funny and stupid remarks.....her incoherent interviews, that's what we sit around and talk about ......and how dumb the people that support her must be.........

We have plenty of leftist and rightist anti-constitutionists in federal government now. The current executive and legislative branches are drowning in the former and the judicial branch, which is supposed to be non-partisan, is a cauldron of partisan politics. To look to Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudolph Giuliani or any of the other anti-constitutionist rightists would be trading one miserable mess for another.
Until we look to principled people for somewhere other than the current neo-liberal, neo-conservative and moderate/populist camps we'll just keep digging our nation's grave deeper and deeper.

Just amazing to me that the Republicans actually see quitting halfway through a first term, which was marked primarily by campaigning, as paving the way to the presidency. Are these people kidding me??

Why would they even ask him this question. Who really cares? What a ridiculous question to ask the president's aid.

CNN, you are wasting everyone's time reporting on this woman. I admit it's amusing to watch her on tv when she's wildly floundering for a coherent thought. But it's not news and it's not relevant.

Which I guess puts it on a par with most of the stories on your homepage.

Palin is a QUITTER!! and a complete illiterate!....GO AWAY & read a newspaper....

and I'm sure Governor Palin doesn't sit around thinking what David Axelrod will do next either.

The only thing Palin wants is MONEY!

She's broke – this is the only way to be flush again. Do it now or lose it forever.

TCM....he answered a question posed to him? DUH.... you're trying to squeeze blood from a turnip here. He was short and polite. There is nothing to criticize him about...so just stop.

Great answer to a stupid question. State of the Union has really gone down in quality and meaning.

Well now I can sleep better Axelrod and his political liberal friends don't discuss Palin. I would hope not since this country is going broke at the hand of you and Obama.

Palin is a freak show, not worth discussing. It is not her lack of experience or the ethics that bother me. She doesn't have a grasp of issues facing this country and she got a lot mouth and scary ideas. Let's not forget her 'REAL AMERICA' comment during last elections.

I do not believe that David Axelrod does not " think about Sarah Palin's next move " . Axelrod is the political guy for President Obama ! President Obama came for nowhere ! Like another political guy named Rove , Axelrod make be secretly plotting how he can make Sarah Palin the next Ross Perot ? Also , like another political guy named Rove , Axelrod may be plotting ways to stay out of jail ?

You wonder why palin is in the news so much? well the news media is owned 98% by consertive republican billionaires. all the negative news is coming from them. the american people have had a snow job for the last 30 years.

Alaska can now enjoy government as it should be run. It will not be the circus it has been. The Dems are not afraid of her and why anyone with half a brain would "sit around and wonder what she is going to do next" is pathetic. She will make money, people will write scripts for her, and hopefully she will not be asked to answer questions in depth.

At the end of the day – Sarah Palin will be gone, except to the Christian Right Wing, which does not run America. If the Republican Party wants to return to a leadership role in National Politics, the Party better work to win over the millions of voters that were lost in 2008. Sarah Palin clearly hurt the Republican Ticket in 2008.

TCM, he just answered their question. What do you want him to do, start talking like he's going to answer it, then twist and turn and keep yapping until something comes out of his mouth that sounds like an answer, then keep going until you run out of words that are strung together in some vague parody of the English language? Oops, someone's got that angle covered already.

WHO CARES? She's a loser and a nobody! Can't we just move on!

America does not FEAR Sarah Palin, it's her "twisted views"!
Grow up republicans, the past eight years, you clowns allow George Bush to recklessly ruin the country.

Lets just hope this idiot goes away and stays away. No one like her and no thinks she has the brains God gave a goose much less brains enough to be President. I think street sweeping is up her alley.
Palin go back to your hole in the ground and stay there, no one like you!!!!

Oh, sure you're not concerned about Gov. Palin. My guess is Sarah Palin, besides Hillary Clinton, is on the front burner of your discussions. I'm sure you're not "thinking about what Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might do next." I'm sure you're worried about what Alaska Gov. Palin might be doing next.

CNN, how is this news? Palin has NOTHING to do with Obama or anything! Why don't you ask Axelrod or Obama how the White House food is? It's just as irrelevant to the national scene. If you think we can't figure out that you are trying to distract the American public from Obama's sinking approval rate on health care by asking and reporting on stupid fluff questions that are better suited to People magazine, then you need to close up shop! Absolutely unbelievable!

Your right; we need to stop thinking about Palin and vocus on the failures and the fact that Obama has spent more in 6 months than any other president in history. This country is broke and he is to stupid to realize it. And no I didn't like Bush's spending either but Bush should be behind us not to be used for blaming every failure on by Obama and company.

Why would anyone with any intelligence worry about Palin?
The only reason she is of any significance now is that the media continues to push her down our throats.
She will self destruct.

There is no reason for anybody to sit around wondering what Sarah Palin will be doing once she leaves office. The fact that she is leaving is great news. After that, she becomes Joe Citizen, and just like you or me, becomes irrelevent...or more so than she already is.

The Democrats will keep slamming Palin instead of dealing with the issues. Why are they so afraid of her?

but, what do the Bildenbergers' think of the swinging in the breeze Palin, thats' the question..

Palin had her chance! The only one that is worried about her is the press that continually tries to break her! I mean she was the VP candidate and lost yet she is headline news every day. She is not my choice but it seems that media is really worried about her popularity. We need someone from either party that understands economics to run our country. No more lawyers and daddy's boy please!!!

I am glad to hear there is at least one person in Washington that does not care about Palin. Now, if we could only get the media to take the same attitude. That would be heaven.

Sarah will always have her followers, most who think just like her....duh.

But she has no future as a president-elect.

I do hope she goes on campaign trails with future presidential hopefuls in the Republican party–or anyone running for office in the Republican party.

She will help keep them out of office.

Oh come on CNN. Failin Pailin is too disorganized and dense to ever make it. She won't waste her money even getting into the primaries (if she has a friend smart enough to tell her the truth).

Get off Palin. She's a lightening rod for hate, division, liars, and the brain dead neo-christians. Poor poor sara.

It's interesting how many people say now that they would vote for Sarah Palin if she ran for President but when they had the chance to vote for her they didn't. I am at a loss as to why the Republicans want to dumb down their candidates but if this is who they think is the best Republicans have to offer, go for it. I guess Republicans don't mind being dumbed down.

".....I'm not thinking about Palin's next move...." (as he's mentioning it to CNN so they, who are also not concerned about Palin, are running yet another article about her...)