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BBC News - Sarah Palin says she will not run for president in 2012

It looks like there will be know Sarah Palin in the White House, as she's said her Family are more important to her. I don't suppose the fact that she's had very bad poll showings amongst Republican supporters to her getting the nomination

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Thank goodness for small mercies.

She'd have been battling it out with Reagan, for the title of the dummest President ever.

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Surely RR has already been taken over by GB junior in that league table?

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It seems too cruel to even include George Dubya.

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Reagan did have the excuse of senility and at least he had a winning smile!

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Sarah Palin has had some scandal exposed in a book, which makes 'for sake of my family' sound rather shallow.

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Do you think her decision not to run for president has anything to do with the fact that she wouldn't have an Alaskan snowballs chance in hell of winning?

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I can sleep better tonight .

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I thought his co-star in one of his films more intelligent:rolleyes:

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That's what I said gynn, her ratings amongst republican voters was very poor

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you mean that old nag he used to be seen on the screen with

what was it called

oh yeah

thatcher :D

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Those were the days -they did make for some great "Spitting Image" sketches along with Gorbachov!

Franky goes to Hollywood also used them in one of their videos too!:D

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But for Thatcher, this country would have had an economy on a par with Zimbabwe;) Mind you after Brown and Darling were kicked out it wasn't far off anyway:)

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Is that a tear I can see in your eye Jay? Don't start going emotional on us -we know she was your "Darling";)

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Ah the Blessed Margaret:D

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Saint?

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No she hasn't been beatified yet mobertol;):D

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I believe Mrs. Palin is exactly where she wants to be right now. The best of both worlds, you might say. Since 2008 she has become a best selling author and has built a successful and very lucrative career in the private sector....which I am sure drives the Lefties crazy. She remains active behind the political scenes. If she decides to run for public office again, I doubt it will be before her minor children are grown. The polling numbers you mention don't mean much at this stage of the game and will remain fluid for some time to come. During the last presidential race, none of the early front runners made the final cut.

As for the Joe McGinnis tome, "Rogue" - even by his own admission, he wasn't able to verify the scurrilous rumors he nonetheless chose to include in it - leading some to wonder if Mrs. Palin might contemplate a lawsuit against the author and his publisher. I hear that the book is not selling well.

It is a pity that some of you seem incapable of making a cogent and reasonable argument when discussing political figures with whom you have philosophical disagreements. Resorting to cheap shots and infantile name calling doesn't make you sound clever. That nasty little gibe directed towards Ronald Reagan is not only cruel but incorrect, in that it implies he was already in the grips of Alzheimers during his presidency. In fact he had no such symptoms until long after he left the White House. This dreadful condition affects millions and should not be a topic for jest.

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It says something of the US political system that Sarah Palin got has far as she did; If she was in the UK, my guess is that the highest public role she would obtain would be that of a school dinner lady.

The woman is a 100% nutter.

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Pur-lease.

Reagan wasn't the shiniest button in the box in the sixties, when he was elected as Governor of California.

American politics - style over substance.

They only elected JFK, over that crook Nixon, because he shaved moments before the infamous televised interviews.

Making the gullible Yanks think he looked less 'shifty'.

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But a very well-groomed nutter...;)

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Top 10 Dumbest Sarah Palin Quotes

1. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

2. "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama's health care plan, Aug. 7, 2009

3. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

4. "Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'" --a Tweet sent by Sarah Palin in response to being ridiculed for inventing the word "refudiate," proudly mistaking her illiteracy for literary genius, July 18, 2010

6. "He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed." --Sarah Palin, botching the history of Paul Revere's midnight ride, June 3, 2011

7. "But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah Palin, after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas, interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Nov. 24, 2010

8. "Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible." --Sarah Palin, defending her fiery campaign rhetoric in the wake of the Arizona shooting massacre by invoking a phrase ("blood libel") that typically refers historically to the alleged murder of Christian babies by Jews, Jan. 12, 2011

9. "We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?" --Sarah Palin, admitting that her family used to get treatment in Canada's single-payer health care system, despite having demonized such government-run programs as socialized medicine that will lead to death-panel-like rationing, March 6, 2010

10. "Ohh, good, thank you, yes." --Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller, posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler's "Nailin Paylin," Nov. 1, 2008 (Read more about the prank call, watch the video and see the transcript)

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Please feel free Bullseyebarb, to post all Palin's quotes, which show off her worldliness, and superior intellect.

We could do with a laugh.

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Prank call -brilliant! Missed that one - got her hook, line and sinker...

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Odd, really.

With her being such a shrewd and savvy operator.

Must have caught her on a bad decade.

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Sarkozy's assistant .johnny Hallyday...

Johnny Hallyday Noir C´est Noir - YouTube

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Actually, those who listened to the JFK/Nixon debate on the radio thought Nixon won hands down. But he didn't come across very well on t.v. because he wasn't feeling well that evening and looked sweaty. JFK certainly had style.

Reagan was no dunce. Maybe you should dig a little deeper before pronouncing judgement. He was well read and a prolific writer. Most Americans approved of his governing philosophy and many Democrats voted for him....hence the two landslide victories when he ran for the presidency. He is still highly regarded by the American people.

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I have 'delved', thank you, and remain unimpressed. Though I'm happy you are.

Apparently peanuts make monkeys happy.

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You'll be trying to convince us next of Schwarzenegger's soaring intellect.

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Personally, I'm eagerly anticipating Macaulay Culkin's presidential campaign to start.

Which shouldn't be that long a wait now.

:rolleyes:

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Welcome back, by the way.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...A7u-QyNKicmI-y

We were worried you'd forgotten the combination number, for the lock on your bunker.

;):D

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Hang on a minute both Blair and Brown became Prime Minister:D

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...and Cameron, helped by that nice chap Clegg, who came across ever so well on the telly.

The sad Americanisation of British politics is nothing to be proud of.

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1. I'll grant you that the Couric interview was very bad. Palin was not prepared for national media, which cuts you no slack if you are a member of the Republican party.

2. She was absolutely correct on that one. All you have to do is read the legislation. Incidentally, she wasn't the only person to point out this fact.

3 & 4. Ditto my comments in 1.

5. Wee-wee'd up is an Obama quote. I don't tweet, so I am not sure what the context was for the other two words, but I believe misunderestimate belongs to Bush, (GW).

6. That's only a partial statement. Although not elegantly put, the entire quote is correct and has since been confirmed by historians.

7. I can't think of a candidate who hasn't found him or herself in this position at one time or another. Campaigning is grueling, they get really tired and simply shoot out the wrong word. Republicans don't get a pass on that either.

8. That term doesn't have only one use.

9. Not familiar with that quote. Please source it.

10. She is far from the first person to be "punked" and won't be the last. Prank calls are not that uncommon. I would recommend more vetting.

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Please don't lump Cameron in with those two useless clowns, I know he's far from perfect, but those two donkeys left this country in a real state

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Come on Bullseyebarb, we're still waiting for all the Palinisms, that will convince us of her intellect, and potential as a great leader of men.

As stated earlier, I'm glad someone like Palin inspires you, and a great number of your compatriots.

All she inspires, outsde of the U.S. bubble, is derision, laughter, and at the moment, a sigh of relief.

Still, Mickey Mouse, fast food burgers, and Hollywood films such as Dumb, and Dumber, you may have sewn up.

But when it comes to this world's greatest thinkers, and philosphers, we don't necessarily first think 'America'.

Palin, and her ilk, obviously fills a void, in small, simple minds.

You pays your dollars, and you take your chances that the cretin's not too cretinous.

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"I love that smell of the emissions!" --Sarah Palin, at a motorcycle rally in Washington, D.C., where she rode in on a Harley, May 29, 2011

"I haven't heard the president state that we're at war. That's why I too am not knowing -- do we use the term intervention? Do we use war? Do we use squirmish? What is it?" --Sarah Palin, on the U.S. and NATO bombing of Libya, March 29, 2011

"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree." --Sarah Palin, Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, Nov. 22, 2010

"This is Reagan country (applause). Yeah! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and inter-linked to the Golden State." --Sarah Palin, blundering on Reagan's education while speaking at a fundraiser at California State University-Stanislaus. Eureka College is in Illinois. (June 25, 2010)

"Absolutely not. I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken, that ... that would ... bring this whole ... I'm not doing this for naught." --Sarah Palin, asked about her plans for 2012 and whether she would disappear from the national political scene if she loses, ABC News interview, Oct. 29, 2008

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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"How's that hopey-changey stuff workin' out for ya?" Sarah Palin asked the anti-élitist Tea Party élites — those who could pay $549 for a ticket — gathered in suffocating self-righteousness at the Opryland Hotel on the first weekend of February. It was classic Palin, a brilliant line, brilliantly delivered: she does folksy far better than George W. Bush or any of the other Republican focus-group populists ever did. It was the signature line of her speech, which rocked the joint...

...Palin is a big fat target, eminently available for derision. But I will not deride. Because brilliance must be respected, especially when it involves marketing in an era when image almost always passes for substance.:rolleyes:

Read more: Sarah Palin Populism: Savvy Speech to Tea Party Movement - TIME

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Thank you darlin'. But don't expect me to make a habit of it because I'm so busy these days and haven't the time to spare.

By the way, I am not here to defend Mrs. Palin - or anyone else for that matter. Just thought it would be nice to point out the media double standard and perhaps throw in a little context now and again. To that end, I did a little research on the quote you mentioned regarding Palin and Canadian healthcare, which seemed to imply that she, as an adult, had taken her own family there for treatment. In fact, she was a child when her parents sought care in Canada during the 1960's - a time when there was no federal healthcare system in that country. The first such legislation came around 1972. The current system was instituted under the Canada Health Act of 1984. It's likely that Mrs. Palin's parents lived in a rather remote area of the U.S. and it may well have been that the closest medical facilities were across the border.

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My, you have been busy.

Now that's as clear as mud, I'm sure we'll all sleep much easier in our beds tonight.

Thank you.