Comments on: Sarah: always running

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:06:20 +0000

For now, I take her at her word that she’s done with politics.

In the meantime, the important thing is to kill Waxman/Markey.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:24:19 +0000

Gah. Who the @#$!! is advising her? Seeking and winning a second term were the two things most likely to improve her image outside Alaska. Now she’s just going to look like a flake — which, sadly, is already how too many people view her.

I’d write her off, but I wrote off her chances of winning the governorship in 2006 after she got the nomination, and look what happened.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:02:24 +0000

In fact, she's not going to finish this term. Given her long-standing tendency to go the distance, this can mean only one of one thing.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:23:43 +0000

Current banner at cnn.com:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is expected to announce that she will not seek a second term, a GOP source close to Palin says.

Who would have thought there were any GOP sources close to Palin? Not this guy.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:42:16 +0000

I confess I was a tad disappointed at the posiness of at least one of the pics. I hope that was the photog’s idea, but if so it would have been nice if the Governor had demurred. Dignity is sexy too.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:00:34 +0000

Having looked at the other pictures in the offering, some of them very carefully, I am reasonably certain that this is purely photo-shoot garb.

By: Lisa Paul

Lisa Paul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:52:02 +0000

Hmmm. This must be her attire for the photo shoot. Or she was only running a 5K. Because anyone who runs — or even walks — distance knows that over 5 miles, spandex and copious amounts of KY Jelly are the only way to avoid the dreaded “road burn”. Doesn’t matter how thin your thighs are, your skin will be torn off your appendages by any loose fabric.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:47:58 +0000

…and what am I thinking, commenting on the background of those pictures!?

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:47:07 +0000

I believe those mountains behind her in some of those pics are the Chugach. Very spectacular backdrop for Anchorage, and on most days that city’s main claim to being within seeing distance of Alaska (as we who lived in the other 99% of Alaska liked to say).