Comments on: Palin loses – what does it mean?

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:00:11 +0000

I have yet to see them proposed in any locality other than ones where Democrats frequently lose close elections and RINOs have a tough time winning.

It’s in use in Minneapolis and New York City.

By: mkent

mkent — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:33:08 +0000

“Palin broke faith with her voters by not serving out the term they elected her to, for _what_?”

For what??? You have the gall to ask “For what?”? I’ll tell you for what — it was to keep her family out of bankruptcy.

And that’s exactly what the Democrats were doing to her in an organized and intentional fashion. Alaskan law at the time required her to fund the defense of ethics charges out of her own pocket. Once the Democrats realized this, they organized an effort to flood the system with bullshit ethics complaints, causing her to spend tens of thousands of dollars of her own money to defend against each one.

The Democrats even publicly stated that they were going to keep filing bogus charge after bogus charge until she was ruined, either through bankruptcy or resignation. She has a special-needs child that needs constant care, and even more so than most families hers would be devastated by personal bankruptcy. So she chose resignation instead of certain bankruptcy.

She was the victim of an organized effort of personal destruction. To hold that against her as some sort of personal failing is disgusting. I, for one, am glad that she fought the good fight for as long as she did. We need many more people like her.

By: AMartel

AMartel — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:42:32 +0000

Palin’s the one politician that I can think of who walked away from The Game (for clearly expressed and decent reasons) and made money in the private sector.
Oooh, how awful! How terribly gauche!!
How awesome. And she got back in the game again to try to make a difference now that the rest of the world has finally caught up to her. Gross!
And as for “going Hollywood,” she leveraged her popularity like a champion. She knew she had two built-in demographics: People who genuinely liked her, and the haters, including those deepstate creeps from the McStain campaign who used her and then sold her out and now feature heavily in NeverTrump World. I don’t worry about her; she’ll be fine. But it’s also safe to regard the people who continue to automatically run her down as gullible, insecure, and easily swayed by mob opinion and faux conventional wisdom.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:42:25 +0000

She hasnt been in office for 13 years but murkowski that eldritch orc has and look how much damage she has wroughf

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:17:00 +0000

Sophisticates like niki haley or kristi noem one will defame a whole peoole because of one drunk tweaker one lets girls be threatened by psychotic chimera

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:13:34 +0000

I have had no use for Sarah Palin for several years now, starting when she quit the governorship and decided to go “Hollywood”. She was singularly unimpressive during her stint as a Fox News Contributor and now she seems like an embittered has-been and has as much connection with Alaska as Liz Cheney has with Wyoming. For some strange reason she became a saintly figure for many people on the Right, probably because in 2008 she actually wanted to win while John McCain just wanted to lose by a small margin and then go back to being the Left’s favorite Republican.

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:07:17 +0000

I have had no use for Sarah Palin for several years now, starting when she quit the governorship and decided to go “Hollywood”. She was unimpressive during her stint as a Fox News Contributor Now she seems like an embittered has-been and has as much connection with Alaska as Liz Cheney has with Wyoming. For some strange reason she became a saintly figure for many people on the Right, probably because in 2008 she actually wanted to win while John McCain just wanted to lose by a small margin and then go back to being the Left’s favorite Republican.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:26:58 +0000

Having to pay at least 500 k in legal fees against a never ending flood of ethics complaints have you not been paying attention since 2016!

By: Jefferson’s Revenge

Jefferson’s Revenge — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:43:49 +0000

We have two parties. One knows how to get elected but doesn’t know how to govern. The other knows how to govern but doesn’t know how to get elected.

I leave it to you to determine which is which.

By: Christopher B

Christopher B — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:06:35 +0000

I’ll reprise a comment I made at Althouse’s on this topic.

While RCV and other innovations like At-large Congressional Districts and proportional voting may not lean left, I have yet to see them proposed in any locality other than ones where Democrats frequently lose close elections and RINOs have a tough time winning. The people proposing them rarely seem concerned that Republican Congressional candidates in California got around 45% of the popular vote in a recent election but won only about 30% of the House seats. Kinda like how everybody who slags on the Electoral College goes ‘but Wyoming!’ even though Vermont, Rhode Island, and Delaware have only slightly larger populations per EV.