Todd and Sarah Palin to divorce

[GAP]

Todd and Sarah Palin to divorce
Affairs on both sides
Updated 7:53am Sunday AKDT August 1, 2009
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Palin lawyer threatens to serve papers to blogger at kindergarten, then balks

9:20pm Saturday - AlaskaReport.com receives letter from Palin lawyer Van Flein evidently confirming some details (will post when we clarify missing information)
AlaskaReport has learned today that Todd Palin and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are to divorce. Multiple sources in Wasilla and Anchorage (including a former Palin staffer) have confirmed the split.
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[gaspasser]

And this is important to day to day life because............ :-\

 

[Edward Campbell]

And this is important to day to day life because............ :-\

Because Ms. Palin "leads" (or is the poster girl of the moment for ) a large, important wing of the US Republican Party. Until that wing can be exorcized and replaced with more traditional Republicans (small towns, small business, small government, socially moderate, fiscally prudent and modest in foreign policy) then Obama will have free rein.

That being said, divorce is an unhappy process and one hopes that both parties will do their best to minimize the impact on children and grandchildren.

 

[gaspasser]

Okay, thanks, I don't keep up on US politics much. I know alot of the mid-west doesn't care too much for Obama.  As for Palin, I think divorce should be a private thing especially for a public person.  It does wreck havoc on the kids and close family. 
I wish both parties good luck and hopes for the future.
^-^

 

[GAP]

As ER says, it is important in today's US politics....it explains much of recent events and adds fodder to future plans for many...

Edited to Add: Whomever the Republicans choose for 2012, is basically a throwaway candidate....I don't see Obama losing much support in his first 4 years....but there's always hope...

 

[Redeye]

I of course can't find the link at the moment but apparently both Palins denied the story and called it basically unsourced nonsense.  I'm sure it will disappoint President Obama if it isn't true, because Caribou Barbie managing to get on the GOP ticket in 2012 is about the best re-election insurance policy he could dream of.

 

[Old Sweat]

Geez, I don't know about this report. I checked CNN, CTV, CBC and Nationalnewswatch and Bourque. None of them have reported it. That does not mean it is not true, but it seems to be in the not proven category for now.

Having said that, I have got the ketchup ready in case I have to eat my words.

Edit: ditto for Fox News.

 

[vonGarvin]

Edited to Add: Whomever the Republicans choose for 2012, is basically a throwaway candidate....I don't see Obama losing much support in his first 4 years....but there's always hope...

I remember a SNL skit in 91 that was a mock up of the Democrats' convention, basically trying to pick someone who'd get their ass kicked by Bush in 92.  That was on the heels of the First Gulf War, and of course, William Jefferson Clinton pulled that one out. 

UPDATE:
Palin denies divorce rumours
Sarah Palin divorce reports are untrue, says the ex-governor of Alaska's people

 

[GAP]

I was just going to post "Huffington Post" article saying it wasn't true, but MR beat me to it....but, true or not, it continues the swirl of controversy around her. It will be interesting to see what the end result will be.....does she survive? or do the instigators get outed?

 

[gaspasser]

Caribou Barbie......that's funny!

 

[Rifleman62]

The loonie toon left (LTL) has mounted a continuous attack on Ms Palin. She has been subject to, and has been proven innocent of, at least 17 ethics violations. All the legal fees for her defence comes right out of her own pocket. Attempts to bankrupt her??

Maybe the divorce is true, she denies it. Maybe another personal attack by the LTL.

This is harassment plain and simple. If Ms Palin was not a Republican, and a threat to the current administration, this would not be happening.

 

[SupersonicMax]

A threat to the current administration ?!?

 

[Dennis Ruhl]

because Caribou Barbie managing to get on the GOP ticket in 2012 is about the best re-election insurance policy he could dream of.

I'm not so sure.  When the presidential campaign is well underway in 2 years Obama will then own the recession.  There will also be the inevitable scandals that always appear and the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police gaffe will be repeated.  There is also a thriving conservative news media in the US unlike Canada.

If 3 out of 100 voters changed their minds a Republican could be president.  Just as Obama came out of nowhere to lead the Democrats there are lots of Republican senators and governors that could do the same.

Whether Sarah Palin could ever be president is still a big maybe.  I always thought the first black president would be a Republican because Democrat African-American leaders become leaders by slamming the system.  Obama, from outside the traditional African-American society, co-opted the system.  He was white enough for mainstreet America and black enough for racial minorities to support.

Personally I find Hillary Clinton not to be made of the material necessary to be the first female president.  She is too polarizing and easy to dislike if you don't agree with her.  Sarah Palin has a natural constuency ouside the major industialized states but until she starts convincingly attacking issues relevant to urban and minority voters, she's dead in the water.  The liberal media did a job on her last election and I don't know if she can recover.

Personally I like Palin.  She didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, or Cambridge.  She's from the same kind of people I am and on her trips south she probably gassed up at my local gas station and grabbed a burger at the local MacDonalds.

 

[Xiang]

I know alot of the mid-west doesn't care too much for Obama

I thought so too until the state of Indiana, a state that has voted Republican since 1964, gave Obama a majority.  Strange world eh?

Also, I'm going to hold back my opinion on this story until it comes out of a bigger news outlet that doesn't reference the National Enquirer as one of its sources.

 

[Redeye]

Palin isn't a threat to the current administration.  She's an asset.  If she rises to any sort of prominence in the next GOP campaign she's sure to help Obama win a second term.

She's great as a small town mayor I'm sure.  Probably on the PTA too, and even as governor of a small, mostly rural state (well, until she abruptly and inexplicably quit).  She lacks the education and wisdom to be president and that was clear during the campaign.  She though the "liberal media" was attacking her unfairly, but they were doing their job and showing she was not up to the job.  She'll be great as an organizer for the GOP perhaps, but as a candidate she is doomed.

The loonie toon left (LTL) has mounted a continuous attack on Ms Palin. She has been subject to, and has been proven innocent of, at least 17 ethics violations. All the legal fees for her defence comes right out of her own pocket. Attempts to bankrupt her??

Maybe the divorce is true, she denies it. Maybe another personal attack by the LTL.

This is harassment plain and simple. If Ms Palin was not a Republican, and a threat to the current administration, this would not be happening.

 

[Roy Harding]

...
Personally I like Palin.  She didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, or Cambridge.  She's from the same kind of people I am and on her trips south she probably gassed up at my local gas station and grabbed a burger at the local MacDonalds.

I like her too - for similar reasons.

Hell - I'm pretty sure that she and I could get along and enjoy each other's company over a beer or two.

Just because I like someone, however, is not a recommendation for them to assume the most powerful office currently existent in the world.

I know a BUNCH of guys that I like having a beer with - and I wouldn't trust ANY of them with my personal financial information - let alone public office.

 

[mariomike]

I like her too - for similar reasons.

Me too.
A bit of a learning curve to be sure. However, the only one of the four candidates with high level executive experience ( ie: governor ) was Sarah Palin. G.W. Bush, Clinton and Reagan were all governors. Spiro Agnew only had about a year in as governor when Richard Nixon picked him as his running mate.

P.S. I came across a Richard Nixon quote that I must include: When Nixon was asked why he kept Agnew on the ticket in the 1972 election, Nixon replied that "No assassin in his right mind would kill me."

 

[Rifleman62]

I did not give an opinion that Ms Plain had the credentials to be POTUS. I said she is a threat to the Obama administration. The smear campain is evidence of this, otherwise why would there be all the attacks on her?

Ms Palin is a threat because of what she brings to the table. I am supposing that everyone reads the thread before posting. If you did not, read post number three.

Do you really think that Pres Obama has the experience to be POTUS?? But, he is and lets all hope he turns out to be an excellent President, cause as the US of A goes, so does Canada (and the rest of the "free world" to some lessor extent).

To continue to bash President Obama WRT his credentials to be POTUS is about as useless as demanding his birth certificate. He is The President.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

I thought so too until the state of Indiana, a state that has voted Republican since 1964, gave Obama a majority.  Strange world eh?

Also, I'm going to hold back my opinion on this story until it comes out of a bigger news outlet that doesn't reference the National Enquirer as one of its sources.

As I understand it, a lot of Repulican voters stayed home in a snit about something or other, giving everything to the Dems. I hope they learned their lesson for next time. As for Obama, he just got a lesson that as Senator you can say any stupid thing and people really don't care, but when you say something stupid as POTUS, then they do care and listen. We will see if his next lesson costs more than a round of beers to fix.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Perhaps this is going to allow her to do whatever it is she has planned without the press being able to attack her family. Just a thought.

If they weren't worried about her, Letterman and the rest of the Hollywood school kids wouldn't still be attacking her.