Palin lays groundwork for 2012 presidential bid
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Alaska Governor and former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attends an autism awareness fundraiser in Purchase, New York
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Sarah Palin, John McCain's polarising running-mate in his doomed presidential bid, is discreetly putting down markers for a 2012 run of her own, in a low-key tour of the US this week.
The Alaska Governor joined an autism charity's fundraising march in upstate New York yesterday, one of a number of small-scale events designed to cast her as a serious political figure and erase memories of the national lampooning she suffered as the Republican presidential campaign fell apart last year.
As well as associating herself with soft causes, she will reprise a key campaign theme, scattering the week with meetings to discuss energy independence and press for more oil drilling.
At one event in Auburn, New York, over the weekend, Palin was greeted by the crowd with a revised version of her campaign-trail mantra of "Drill, baby, drill". As she arrived on the podium, the 20,000-strong audience erupted in a chant of "Run, Sarah, run."
While Ms Palin has taken time out from national political campaigning to allow the dust to settle on her disastrous vice-presidential bid, she has put in place some of the early infrastructure needed for a 2012 challenge to President Barack Obama. In January, she formed a political action committee to raise funds for candidates committed to energy independence and "conservative principles".
And she has continued to be a rallying figure for the Republican base, which Mr McCain had hoped to energise with his pick of running-mate and which is likely to form the core of any appeal to primary voters by Ms Palin in three years time.
A speech in Anchorage last week, introducing Michael Reagan, son of the late president Ronald Reagan, who is now a talk radio host, was classic Palin and has earned her a second life on the internet.
She praised Mr Reagan for his willingness "to screw the political correctness that some would expect him to try to adhere to" and condemned "self-proclaimed intellectuals, and the smug lobbyists who dominate Washington, and the liberal media".
Ms Palin is being accompanied on the week-long tour of the lower states by her husband, Todd, her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, and other members of her family, but only two political aides.
Members of the media are not being alerted to any of the events.
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the only massive following she is building are those who are as uneducated as she is who steadfastly refuse to listen to any other person or issue who disagrees with their position.
Bluntly? she's dumber than dirt and twice as offensive. IF she had half a brain in her head I'd respect her in spite of her political views.
Edited at 2009-06-08 06:59 am (UTC)
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Mcain/Palin by the polls were 3% ahead in the polls when the Stock Market crashed and the the election was close.
Even if the market had not crashed, her interview with Katie Couric singularly destroyed any credibility and benefit of the doubt she might have had with the main stream public. The woman revealed that she is dumb as a stump.
It might be difficult for you to accept, but sometimes you have to realize, the truth really hurts.
Palin.
Is the Governor of the American state of Alaska. Palin was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996 and the city's mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. OIL. I smell oil. Nothing else. Oil is good for my banks. They will kiss me forever for oil. She was elected Governor of Alaska in November 2006. Palin is the first female governor of Alaska and the youngest person elected governor of that state. "Bridge to Nowhere".
Palin was the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee for the 2008 United States presidential election, on the ticket with Senator John McCain. This failed . No one can use one ticket to vote, come, and sit on one chair unless you sit on one another. I have little knowledge on one ticket. Throw some light please. Palin was the second female candidate and the first Alaskan candidate of either major party on a national ticket, as well as the first female vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party. Since the McCain-Palin defeat in the 2008 election, there has been speculation that she will run for president in the 2012 presidential election. Good. Allah help us. We can take care of our ourselves, but who will help the almighty. Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, the third of four children of Sarah Heath (née Sheeran), a school secretary, and Charles R. Heath, a science teacher and track coach. The family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. The family regularly ran 5 km and 10 km races. She looks very pretty but then so did Elizabeth Tailor. One of Taylor's last starring roles in a major film was also opposite Richard Burton, in Franco Zeffirelli's 1967 production of The Taming of the Shrew.
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Firozali A. Mulla
Taylor has been married eight times to seven husbands:
Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (6 May 1950 ? 29 January 1951) (divorced)
Michael Wilding (21 February 1952 ? 26 January 1957) (divorced)
Michael Todd (2 February 1957 ? 22 March 1958) (widowed)
Eddie Fisher (12 May 1959 ? 6 March 1964) (divorced)
Richard Burton (15 March 1964 ? 26 June 1974) (divorced)
Richard Burton (again) (10 October 1975 ? 29 July 1976) (divorced)
John Warner (4 December 1976 ? 7 November 1982) (divorced)
Larry Fortensky (6 October 1991 ? 31 October 1996) (divorced)
Relationship with parents
Taylor's mother exerted influence on her life well into adulthood. Despite their often difficult relationship, Sara was always her daughter's biggest champion.[citation needed] When she died in 1994 at age 98, Taylor was devastated. In 2000, when Taylor was made a Dame of the British Empire, she raised a glass of sparkling cider and made a toast: There's a woman who deserves our deepest appreciation because if it weren't for her we'd all be somewhere else right now. Let's all drink to my mother Sara Taylor.
A guest shouted "Hear, hear!" Taylor then said "No! Let's drink to two things. To my mother and forgiveness."[citation needed]
Little is known regarding Taylor's relationship with her father.
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Firozali A. Mulla
More than 20,000 people saw Palin on Saturday in upstate Auburn, where she led a parade to celebrate Founder's Day and helped raise money for a museum honoring William Seward, the secretary of state who acquired Alaska for the United States
In 1988, she eloped, a runaway kid, with her childhood sweetheart Todd Palin. According to her mother, she believed that her parents "couldn't afford a big white wedding.? and now we have the white paints all over with the new therapy for the global warming. Todd Palin works for the British oil company BP as an oil-field production operator and owns a commercial fishing business. CEO steals money and Sarah is married to one.
Sarah Palin's father bashes Levi Johnston for interviews, parenting
Heath tells the magazine he wishes Johnston would "take some of this money he's making and buy some diapers with it." If he can find these sizes XXXLLA. Gosh, this could go one. Palin, you are pretty but I understand your father comes on the way. I take U-turn.
Johnston, 18, appeared recently on "The Tyra Banks Show" and CBS' "The Early Show" to tell his side of the story. He was not paid for either of the interviews, he and the shows' publicists said.
In the interviews, Johnston accused the Palins of preventing him from spending time alone with his four-month-old son, Tripp. He also said he believes the 2008 GOP veep nominee knew he was having sex with her daughter, Bristol.
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Firozali A. Mulla
Palin takes questions from the media, and holds extensive press conferences frequently in Alaska. Obama in constrast refuses to answer questions that have not been vetted by his handlers. Palin gives speeches without a teleprompter, while Obama is lost without one. So madame, "dumber than dirt" describes Obama, not Palin.You have to be kidding right She has to be most ignorant person to ever run for office. She could not even remember the name of a news paper she read( I'll believe that whe I see it). If she runs for pesident it should be a easy for dems to get back to the white house. Hey maybe she can run with that fat blow hard rush that would be great.
Column: Is Sarah Palin running for Prez? http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-po
Palin continues advocacy for children and adults with developmental disabilities: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-sa
Photo Gallery: Sarah Palin at a Yankees Game http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-pa
True Conseratives stay away from war, and Palin is a true conservative. Palin is no NEOCON, she is the real thing. While I have no doubt she would protect the United States, I see her much more like Reagan and would carry a big stick, and alot less like Bush.
You are the one misinformed, as Palin has an excellent education. Not only that, she has actually worked in the private sector, ran a business and actually managed, unlike are Ivy League educated Obama who never even held a regular job and it really shows - what a freakin disaster.
The only education you get from out of touch schools like Harvard and Yale is how to steal from the people and take away their rights. I would much rather have a Palin as President than east coast snobs.
is that well educated ?
Please understand that it is 2009, and the population can look up the facts on line, that's why the big corporations will no longer be able to stay in power by using the conservatives as a front to lie, cheat, and steal there way into power.
thank you.
Brett Thomas
But you state media lackies shouldn't get too comfortable, because Sarah will be back to do some more "polarizing."
Ken
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And to have the nerve to say that all you were doing was walking for your sister's autistic child. Nice work!
Hey, how was the Yankee game? I saw you make that hard right about 100 yards into the walk so you and your family could make the Yankee game in time. Oh, I didn't see the game myself, I stuck around for my son.
And finally, thanks to you, your family, and the cops guarding you for bullying your way through the crowd to get to the starting ribbon and the cameras! My son and his good friend (also has autism) were so scared by the abolute lack of respect and regard for the rest of us that they were crying as they tried to keep from getting elbowed and shoved out of the way by the whole group of animals.
Thanks for a special day, Sarah! You are a TRUE CLASS ACT!