Palin Calls for Stevens to Step Down

They finally convinced her to follow the talking points.

Jake,
Did you garble the transcript?
“OK, then he needs to step aside and allow our state to elect someone who will be supportive of those ideals of America: the free enterprise, the missions that we’re on, to win the war, those things that have got to take place in order to progress this country”
What the hell does this mean?

Jake, did you notice that today’s PEW Research poll gives Obama a 15 points (FIFTEEN POINTS) national lead?
In the last week of a presidential race, that is BIG NEWS.

Who cares what this women thinks anymore.

Whew. Now we can cross that off the “What Sarah’s done wrong this week” check list. What’s next, Jake?

“Do you see the logic in McCain waiting for the verdict than Palin waiting for McCain?”
The logic makes sense if Palin and McCain are not speaking to one another and need public pronouncements in the press to figure out the other’s position.

Now we wait to see what he has to say in return…

In the last 18 hours, this blog has had four stories about Stevens with references to the McCain campaign. Four out of 15 or 16 stories. 25% of the stories.
Objective much?

The question is will she now be voting for Stevens opponent – the democrat?

John McCain made a direct appeal to baseball lovers Tuesday morning while mocking his rival’s decision to buy 30 minutes of television time Wednesday night for an address to the nation.
“No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I’m President,” he said to the approval of a crowd of thousands at a stadium

Wonder if they will now look into how Palin’s house was built by so called friends… and take a better look at how she herself took over 25k in “gifts”.
Palin is just as disgraceful as Stevens… so she should not talk and ask him to step down… thats something she herself should be doing…
She broke an ethics laws, which is still on its second investigation, she never reported the per diem money she took to the IRS, she took gifts, and most important….
She slanted the bidding process for the not yet started pipeline to favor a contractor that had ties to her administration.
ABC does not report on any of this…. guess thats why Obama left them out on his 30 minute buy out on the GOOD major networks…
ABC .. always in the tank for McCain/Palin

Yes, because alaska politicians found to have acted unethically should resign.
Just like Governor Palin was found guilty. Cya Sarah!

dl
There wouldn’t be complaining if there were at least some attempt at journalistic integrity. Where is the coverage of the Fl Congressman Tim Mahoney? Are you personally “outraged”?
How about William “Freezer $$ rescued by State Trooper” Jefferson from Louisiana–under indictment and yet….still on the ballot.
Hypocrisy thy name is liberal.

Wow Daisy. Obama’s internal polls must not be nearly as positive as the media wants us to believe. A “November surprise” about a “possible” 43-year-old car wreck.
~sigh~

Palin is a giant hypocrite. wasn’t she found guilty of abuse of power and chose to ignore that saying she was vindicated? go far away Palin.

Jake, Barack Obama leads John McCain by a 52% to 36% margin in Pew’s latest nationwide survey of 1,325 registered voters.
That’s a 16 points lead, one week from Election day.
Wouldn’t you call the BIG news? SHOCKING news even, for the prospects of McCain and Palin?

Jake, Barack Obama leads John McCain by a 52% to 36% margin in Pew’s latest nationwide survey of 1,325 registered voters.
That’s a 16 points lead, one week from Election day.
Wouldn’t you call the BIG news? SHOCKING news even, for the prospects of McCain and Palin?

I can’t believe Republicans would consider Sarah Palin to run in 2012!!
This woman needs to be able to express a thought!!! She says a lot of words, but she does not express a clear thought!
Palin needs to step aside!

She only is doing this because John McCain said it earlier.

Oooh, Uncle Ted’s not gonna be happy about this, no sirree bob!
Check every politician in Alaska and report back if you find any without oily handprints on their hips and wallets drippin’ crude. Alaska is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Big Oil, and the only consolation to the taxpayer is that they always use plenty of lube.

Ryan…do Mahoney and Jefferson’s actions bother you? Not compared to anyone else’s actions…no moral equivocating. Just asking a simple yes or no question.

I’ll be so happy when we can all go back to not knowing about how corrupt Alaska is.
It’s so tiring.
P.S. Is it welfare if you are the least populated state in the union but you get more federal dollars than any other state on top of your oil stipend money?
You betcha!

“This means that Pew is Whacked and that everyone else is showing Obama losing ground. ”
No, he isn’t. The Rasmussen report shows how steady a race this is, with Obama keeping his lead at + 50% of the vote for more than full month now. That is amazing; a very strong performance.
Today, Rasmussen writes:
“Nationally, Obama has now been ahead by four-to-eight points every single day for 33 straight days. During that 33-day stretch, Obama’s voter support has stayed between 50% and 52% every day while McCain has stayed in the 44% to 46% range.”
The REAL defeat for McCain though is in the state polls. These are devastating for his prospects and today still predict a landslide victory for Obama. There’s possibility to turn all those states around in a single week.
BTW if you truly think McCain will win, you could be rich soon! Some trader sites will pay you 10 dollars for every dollar you bet on a McCain win! That is, should McCain indeed have won. So, bet a 100 dollars! If McCain wins, you’ll have earned 900 dollars!!
LOL

She wants to treed lightly for she herself had work on her new house done at the same time…..What goes around comes around…..

“Ryan…do Mahoney and Jefferson’s actions bother you”
Mahoney is going down on election day though you have to wonder about the voters in that district who have consecutively voted for a pedophile then a philanderer.
Jefferson has been stripped of his committee assignments two years ago when the bribery scandal first emerged and I wish he had been voted out in 2006 and the primaries.
Now that I have discussed the Democrats under the cloud of corruption would you like to discuss how you feel about
Delay?
Cunningham?
Hunter?
Doolittle?
Ney?
Ya know just for starters amongst corrupt Republicans.

Stepping over the top of the ticket and now throwing her mentor under the bus. This woman is scary.

Obama is losing ground? What about this news then today:
I”n a sign of last-minute concern about a traditionally red state, the independent arm of the Republican National Committee is launching television ads in Montana.”
LOL. Montana…

But wait, didn’t Palin head a 527 in support of Ted Stevens? Wouldn’t that mean that she was for Ted Stevens before she was against him?
Oh nooooooo…
She’s Sarah Kerry!

Ryan C.
You forgot Charley Rangel — who “forgot” to pay income tax on his rental property.
Or Barney Franks who was in “bed” with his boyfriend from Fannie Mae, so he cut the Fannie favors.
Chris Dodd who received preferred treatment and below market mortgage rate because of his ties to Fannie and Freddie.

John McCain is getting social security checks each month how sad! what about McNasty’s dui secret car crash, what about Keating 5 and 5.1 !

One Alaskan rat fumigated, one more to go. Sounds like Sarah has just thrown her old pal Ted Stephens under the buss. By the way, what ever went with all the money that was ear marked for the bridge to no where? I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would vote for a person that was a member of the Alaskan Successionist Party, a party that hates the US so bad that its’ total purpose is to secede from the United States. Now Sarah brags about how patriotic small town Americans are, the real question here is how patriotic is Sarah Palin?

I almost forgot the $33,000 in hair and make-up in just two weeks for Palin.
Palin’s hair and make-up people make more money than McCain’s Chief Foreign Policy Advisor.
Priorities….

Which one is more difficult….and more painful?…….
John McCain trying to distance himself from President Bush?
or…….
Barack Hussein Obama trying to distance himself from Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Louis Farakhan……and even Michele Obama?
Ouch!
I just made up my mind. I will be voting for McCain.
Hillary 2012.

Obama thought the election was all over and that he could just coast into the White House. LOL! Big mistake, Senator Government!
Obama is bleeding votes in Ohio, PA, VA and FL!

No matter what happens with the election, Palin has reached celebrity/ stardom status. Just like some of the Hollywood celebs that get rewarded for bad behavior, Palin will continue to use her power for her own benefit, whether that is in a public office or in entertainment, she is the ultimate winner, thanks to the American public.

Isn’t that like the skillet calling the kettle black. I have not once heard her admit her wrong going or offer talk about her effort to do better after her “abuse of Power” slap. Is this woman self righteous or what? What mirror does she look in the one from the Magic Kingdom.

Let’s all take a second and notice – Palin has no loyalty or compassion whatsoever. Stevens has been an Alaskan senator OF HER PARTY for decades, and she throws him under the bus at a moment’s notice. This woman is not honest, not ethical, not intelligent, and certainly not loyal or compassionate. Aside from those failings I suppose she might be a nice enough person.

ROFLAMO.
MaryD is uses the same source for Frank’s supposed relationship that was pimping the Ashley Todd hoax HARD.
But since we’re playing connect the dots.
Why was Rick Davis paid $280,000 in 2008 by Fannie Mae? Was it for access to McCain?
Oh and speaking of paying taxes, is Cindy McCain up to date on her property taxes after failing to pay them for 4 years?
Funny how the right wingers need made up scandals to “counter” real life indictments and conviction of their party members.

One of the “ideals of America” is “the missions we are on”? What the heck does she mean by that? It sounds like more spreading of democracy or spreading of something. Christianity? Manure? Palin should travel with a translator.

“If they kick Ted out, perhaps Sarah can take his job and sit near McCain in the Senate.”
Hmmmm how does it work in Alaska if a sitting Senator is removed?
Are they replaced by appointment?
Is there a special election?

Palin as soon as you step down, Sen. Stevens will too…

marxism isn’t so bad…capitalism sure isn’t working: wait’ll til the baby boomers hit SS age and collapse the healthcare system…
and the rest of us are supporting them, our taxes will increase by 50%…
palins ‘statement’ is pure babble/gibberish…
can anyone here actually say they understand what she’s trying to say?
is it english? martian? moron?

The kettle calls the pot black ….
Palin you are a Hypocrite … in the n’th degree.

You need to check your facts Ryan C (the actual real one). Obama started his campaign in a Ramada Inn and has never “palled around with Marxists.” He worked on an education project with Ayers that was funded by one of the wealthiest of Republicans-the Annenbergs. This lie makes all of your claims suspect, especially when you use Fox News as your source.

This is hysterically funny, considering all the freebies Palin received when she was building her new home in Wasilla.
Daisy, that 1964 possibly fatal McCain car crash and the subsequent cover-up is being reported on Huffington Post, too.

Marxism is that bad……………..no country do well under Marxism. Jobs go away, freedoms go away, productivity goes away, income and buying power go down for all, drug and alcholol abuse soars. If you are actually naive enough to think Marxism isn’t bad…..I think you should research Kenya

Sharonklim
spot on!
she better keep her yapper shut and be very careful what she says about ‘uncle ted’…he’s a very powerful man, the oil companies love him, and he’s been around ~50 years…everybody owes him and he has dirt on everyone…the dems are smart, they’ve said nothing and are not capitalizing on this…
there’s a good chance he’ll be re-elected and she’ll be going back to AK with her tail between her legs, bruised from the fight…her career is over…
she’s the repub edwards…

Anybody check the receipts on Todd’s snowmobiles?

“Now I wait to see if Ted Stevens takes Sarah Palin down too????”
He’s 85 years old and no one wants to die in prison.

the US has the largest drug problem in the world…it’s murder rate is right up there too…
it’s all in the execution…obama will make marxism work here, get used to it, or you’ll be in a ‘re-education’ camp wishing you had got on board…
take a large portion of money from the top 5%, and give it to the bottom 95%…
screw ‘em, they are unarmed wimps and are out numbered and can’t hold their ground…lack of smarts and guts…bad combo…it’s their fault for counting
it’s a new day…

Are they replaced by appointment?
Yes, the governor fills the vacant seat for the duration of the term.

Are we still on the “Marxist”/”Socialist” fearmongering? Because, while McCarthy used it to good effect to make his scary shadow-puppets, in the light of day it’s just a stupid wad of used tissue.

Wasn’t Stevens a supporter of Palin’s when she ran for gov? Palin better watch her mouth until her own corruption issue is resolved. She may be joining Ted in the slammer.

Now you turn on your Uncle Ted who taught you everything you know about how to screw the lower 48 out of earmark money?
PS Isnt her Saksgate excuse the same as his? The stuff just showed up from no where so I used it.

Sorry ArthurPE, you obviously have not bothered to research anything at all about Obama cause it’s just so much easier to listen to others who also know nothing and take their word for everything. It’s disgusting.
Obama is not going to take anyone’s money away from them. He wants to give the middle class [who make up roughly 95% of the population] the same rates Clinton had for us on income taxes so that he can get the economy going again. And yes, he will increase taxes on the wealthiest people [about 5% of the population] who can certainly afford to pay a little more in taxes since they earn so much more [over $250k].
What is wrong with some of you. Can’t you do any research for yourselves. Obama is going to be a great POTUS unlike what McCain would be – probably another POTUS who would make the 20% ‘approval rating’ of Bush look glorious.
The saddest thing about this election is that once Obama is elected, he will help our entire population and our country as a whole. The very people who will vote against him for all their ridiculous [mainly racist] reasons will still receive the same benefits from him that his supporters and those of us who love him will receive. It hurts to know that even the bigots and racists will still “benefit and prosper” under an Obama administration and the world view of us would once again shine. Unlike a McCain administration where, once again, ‘only the wealthy’ would prosper and survive in this economic recession and the world view of us would remain as it now stands – terrible! Is that what we want? I don’t think so.
Think before you vote.
Obama/Biden 08

arthur p…….so what marxism,socialism blah blah blah…November 5th will be a wonderful day.
Palin is ridiculous,can’t wait unitl she steps down.Do the right thing Barbie

Don’t you all remember how fast an ad from Sarah Palin’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign featuring an endorsement from Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was scrubbed off her WEB site as soon as she was named VP?

She can’t help it if she’s a little bit slowww. America can’t afford a slow-thinking or hate-inciting VP. And they’ve made that clear yesterday in Indiana when up to 40 call center workers walked off the job rather than read McCain/Palin script attacking Obama according to an a Talking Points Memo article.
Time for change.

So during her tenure as Governor of Alaska Frau Palin raises the taxes on oil companies doing business in Alaska, thereby reducing the net income of said companies, thereby taking money away from the stockholders of said companies and “redistributing” this money to the welfare kings and queens in Alaska. And this is not “socialism” Sarah? Hmmmm?

Longest GOP member of the Senate is a felon.
Hmmm, must be indicative of something. But what?
Oh yeah, how corrupt the entire GOP is, that’s what.

That answer made no sense. It lacks coherence.
Welcome to the world of “Palin-speak”. And she claims to have a JOURNALISM DEGREE?????

I agree, McCain is relying on the ignorant folks to take his word. He assumes american’s are not smart enough to use the web to research. He just admitted his health care plan was a failure on MSNBC. He is going to keep the tax cuts for the rich permanent. But it boils down to silly folks that don’t want to see progress among races. No matter who ran, if they were not white, they would find fault not to vote for them

by the way..She brags about shopping at the little cosignment shop. Stuff in there is not cheap dont ya know.

Bhrandon,
In fairness to Jake, he did post an update with Sarkozy’s comments.
The McCain ad is a dishonest lie anyway.

“Governor Sarah Palin has more –much more– executive experience than Barack Hussein Obama”
Corrupt terms as mayor of a small town & governor that were case studies in the abuse of power and conflict of interest are not the kind of experience that America needs or wants.

oops sorry for my last post wrong blog :)

“Corrupt terms as mayor of a small town”
I saw an interview with the current mayor of Wasilla. When asked to highlight the duties of mayor she could only think of one thing – signing the paychecks. That is the sum total of Frau Palin’s “executive experience” as mayor. Maybe she thinks the duties of the VP are to sign the checks for all the federal employees and. therefore, her Wasilla experience applies? LOL

waya: “Wasn’t Stevens a supporter of Palin’s when she ran for gov?”
No, he wasn’t. In fact, Stevens tagged Palin publicly as a crass opportunist, and supported and endorsed the GOP incumbent, Gov. Frank Murkowski, during the 2006 primary. There is very little love lost between the two. Let’s not re-write history to suit our own ends.

Stevens I hope you throw McCain and Palin under the bus don’t keep quiet tell us what you know about good old Sarah Palin who is the biggest liar of them all. Stevens were all waiting for you to come clean about Ms. Palin don’t hold back.

Palin and Stevens
Co-director of 527 bearing Stevens’ name
The Washington Post’s Matthew Mosk reported on September 1 that Palin served as one of three directors of a 527 organization, named Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc., “until June 2005, when her name was replaced on state filings.” From Mosk’s post on the washingtonpost blog The Trail:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state’s political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political group organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
Palin’s name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.,” a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in the state.
The stated purpose of the 527, according to its 8871 form, filed with the Internal Revenue Service and signed March 19, 2004, is “[t]o increase the number of Republican women in elected offices and in appointed governmental and political positions, including advisory and regulatory commissions through training and education

Gov. Palin has already shown she is a crook just like the rest of the washington politicans…hired her frinds for posts they were not qualified for – so much for the public interest. Doesn’t see anything wrong with spending 150K on clothes and she can’t even pronounce their names – this should show everyone that she can identify with the common woman.
McCain: you followed bad advice from your handlers when you agreed to bring Palin into your campaign – your now sinking faster than ever before.

Chris in Texas called Gov. Palin “delusional” because she said she was ready to serve as Vice President. Well let’s see, almost six years ago, when Sarah Palin was the Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and becoming a national expert on energy, there was a young back bencher out in Springfield, Illinois who was starting his seventh year in the state senate and no one in either party could remember any significant bill that he was the lead sponsor on in the previous six years. He talked a lot giving his opinion on many bills sponsored by colleagues. But he was not real kean on doing the hard work of sponsoring bills on his own. That loud mouth state senator who never did anything but vote present 130 times in eight years and who did nothing in DC but talk for the last 45 months since he came to the US Senate, where he also never did anything of consequence, is now being pushed by Democrats for the highest office in the free world and that is an administrator job. His sole qualification is based based speeches. If you read the speeches instead of listen to them, they are empty rhetoric. The biggest chuckle is that Obama says he is ready to be president because he ran a $600 million campaign. Is he joking? David Axelrod makes every important decision on how to spend money on commercials and how to raise more illegal cash. It takes lot of chutzpah to say the governor of Alaska is not qualified for VP but this empty suit who never did anything in Springfield except have two books ghost written for him is somehow fit to be president based on speeches alone. Seems to me the people who think Barry Obama has sone anything real in the last 45 months to make himself ready to be president of the United States are more than a little delusional.

disparaged
sarcasm is hard to convey via this medium…
I know obama as well as I know mccain, and obama has my vote…
but I do say, take the best from all systems: capitalism, socialism, etc., and craft one system that works…ours is failing and as been for years…
the rich have gotten richer, the poor, poorer…a country can’t be built on the backs of the ‘peasents’, it must be built by, and for, them…
for the last 40 years we’ve had redistribution of the wealth, poor/middle class to rich…it’s time to reverse the trend…imho, it’sthe sole reason for our current calamity…the greed of the rich…making 10 times the average wage isn’t enough, they need 20 times…

“becoming a national expert on energy” -
you cannot seriously assert that Palin in a national energy expert. This is beyond belief. She doesn’t know a BTU from a BPS.

Stevens will say when she steps down for Troopergate, he’ll consider it.

Palin’s an energy expert in the same sense that Bonnie and Clyde were experts on the American financial industry.
She is, however, increasingly well-schooled in corruption, misuse of public funds, and abuse of power… all vital survival skills in the cesspool of Alaskan politics.
I rather hope Uncle Ted annihilates her career in a fit of pique before they send him up the river.

She has done similar things to Stevens, the state is her piggy bank. Why would the Trailer Park Diva have anything bad to say.

I did not see her announcement however I did use my fancy decoder ring – I entered all the words written and after 5 minutes and a near explosive demise to my decoder ring I was able to make sense of what she said! I need a drink

Of course Palin is going to call for Stevens to step down. She’s going to need a job when the election is over.

If Palin and McCain can’t get their own senator, Ted Stevens to quit the Senate, how can the American voters expect McCain-Palin to reach across the aisle to influence Democrats. They are impotent.

The first time Stevens defrauded the American taxpayer by accepting bribes, Palin was in kindergarten. Ted Stevens says “thanks for the advice, now go cry a river.”

Why isn’t Palin in jail yet?
She and her husband make me sick. I can’t help but wonder why they want to go to the White House when they want Alaska to seperate from the Lower 48.
I’m sick of her lies and can’t wait till I can watch tv again without seeing her face.

Can you imagine the audacity of palin to ask steven to resign? Its like a kettle calling a pot black. palin should instead step down as a nominee for vice president. She did worst things than steven as a mayor and a governor. She has no moral grounds whatsoever to ask anyone to resign. She has made history as the first candidate running for vice presidency to be indicted of a crime. SHAME ON YOU PALIN!!

Did she also ask for that massage chair he said he ‘borrowed’ from friends

She should take her own advice!

If Stevens does win the election and steps down November 5th, Palin can pronounce herself as his replacement for the remainder of his current and next term.

while so many of you are touting Obama as our economic messiah who is going to help the middle class so much, I would like to remind you of an article the New York Times (admittedly a newspaper with Democratic leanings) ran in 1999. The article warned that Bill Clinton was pressuring mortgage companies to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
At the time the article was run, Barack Obama was working for an organization in Chicago pressuring banks and mortgage companies to do the same thing. One party–the Republican party–tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules, but were blocked by a Democratic majority in Congress.
Isn’t it convenient, now that those disastrous decisions have finally caused everything to come crashing down, that you have Bush to point the finger at, and Obama to “save” us?? And while we’re at it, let’s bash Palin all we can, too.