Palin "whisked away" on plane immediately, headed back to Alaska

I missed part of this on MSNBC, so listen for it and help fill in the blanks, k?

They said the McCain campaign says nobody is going to see Sarah Palin in Alaska or the nation until at least the middle of next week.

Various excuses being offered - needs to see son off to war, needs time to practice and prepare, etc. But "just as they whisked her away from AK in the dead of the night, so she returns."

What the hell is going on with these people?

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That's what she did last time.

going back home to have a baby.


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troopergate
affair allegation
ethics complaint
general stupidity

I don't think she likes people of color.

...she hasn't been around people of color. Granted there is a native population in Alaska, but I doubt a lot of her close friends are NA.

believe I read that Todd is 1/2 inuit. So that may naturally have widened an otherwise small circle for her.

Very limited.

because I don't want my elected officials pretendng that America only looks like vanilla ice cream anymore.

1/8, which means one great-grandparent at best.

(1/16 Menominee, 1/16 Shawnee) but I don't talk about it, don't think about it, and don't make public claims about it--this post notwithstanding :) Why, you ask? Because culturally I'm as white as anyone. I had 2 native great great grandmothers. I don't feel native, don't look Native. I think it would be silly for me to go around claiming I were.

I feel the same way about him. They trotted out the "he's Inuit" line to make him interesting. He's still not interesting.

of them at the RNC?

Maybe she was shocked, just shocked that they actually let 36 African-American delegates attend.

think like that.

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the more she hides the more the press will seek her

if that is what is happening. The more they cannot talk to her, the more they want to, thus creating a media feeding frenzy, thus creating huge interest in her first interview, etc.... They could easily be playin it like that. Or maybe like some have suggested on here they had to get thru the convention and now is when the campaign decides if she is staying or being replaced... and how to do that without getting killed by the "base."

I read they were going to campaign in Colorado Springs.

yet at some point today, it was announcd that she was canceling an appearance (I thought they said MI?), followed by McCain's cancellation of that Habitat for Humanity get together.

So if she had scheduled appearances that they had to cancel, this move back to AK was NOT part of the original plan. Surely, the family values woman knew her son was leaving on 9/11, as she has repeatedly told us this at every opportunity. Her scheduled appearance Monday means to me that his leave taking wasn't so much a big deal when she planned that (and she could have made it back for the 11th anyway).

So, what really made them move so fast to hide Sarah back in her own state for the near term? The possibilites are endless, aren't they?

cancelled late wednesday night via email (as per St Pete Times)

that has anything to do with Palin's cancellation?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/hillary_to_campaign_for_obama_1.php

Plans were announced just about the time Palin cancelled, perhaps Hillary was looking to go one on one.

Delicious!

it'll be interesting to see if McCain even shows up to the Dobson panderfest. i considered trying to get tickets but just couldn't bring myself to give mccains camp my personal info.

blowing off dobson sure as fuck isn't going to help them any.

still be available for a press conference or two.

Palin will not answer any specific questions about foreign policy or domestic policy. She will make speeches, she will read her scripts and perform. I think the next drinking game should be "pitbull with lipstick" - how many times will she reuse that "clever ad lib"?

It's like hiding the "odd" member of the family -- afraid that s/he will embarrass the rest of them.

But this is the same group that had their top dog candidate tell the crowd that the theme of their campaign is "the repubs will save us from the repubs" - I mean, wtf?

Hey did she fly in a private jet?

first thing he asked was if she was in a jet she bought on ebay.

What crack are they on?

... so that would be meth.

He looks tired, and is getting more senile by the hour.

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The media will be pissed.

for further indoctrination. They have to make sure she's fully on board and ready to do their bidding.

The Alaska business is bogus.

Who the hell knows, no one knows where they are.

lipstick.

:spray:

Would you buy a car if they didn't let you "kick the tires"?

Someone needs to remind voters that this is another throwback to the Bush/Cheney stealth tactics, and look what that's done for us.

so no questions will be asked. It is just a matter of who will hold out longer.

and barricuda Palin hidden from the press? Just askin...:shrug:

She'll be reading books of policy and history and studying maps of places like South Africa and the Iraq, and everywhere, like such as... Joementum is rumored to be her foreign policy wonk-in-residence to edumacater her.

more like picture flash cards with two word talking points printed on the back in big capital letters.

She will NEVER be allowed to appear w/o P.O. Dubya, and he is dumb enough.

as in "Where's Waldo" in another thread.. when have we have a Candidate that has to HIDE, not even like Bush and his bus people, but has to HIDE from EVERYONE?

It just gets more and more Bizarre with these losers and their media..

But she IS quite busy: gotta shred stuff, blackmail some people, talk to her lawyers, stake care of the Wasilla librarian and other folks, and on and on.

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Kooter Palin - perfect!

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Kooter it is!

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and Bob Weaver - that picture -

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Even the Dukes of Hazzard have their standards.

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for family reasons, or some other sham excuse

No, she is going back to Alaska to learn about foreign policy (guess she didn't do so well in her international relations courses at the 5 colleges she attended) and what the Vice President does.

Maybe they are ordering all of the episodes of Schoolhouse Rock for her.

Real fast.

She has Joe to debate.

I think it may actually fill her in on some of what a VP does "evraday".

She's a fucking weakling. She's doing a disservice to women. MAN UP.

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didn't I read here today in a thread that someone called into the Stephanie Miller show, claim his brother worked the the National Enquirer, and that a far, far worse story was going to come out in next week's edition? Along with a claim from NE itself that a "larger story was to follow this week's"?

ETA: I can't even believe a campaign is being run like this, one step ahead of a reporter from the National Enquirer, no less. A candidate who flees in the night to escape scrutiny and legitimate questions - I mean, she told big fat whoppers in her acceptance speech. Did she not give a thought to those chickens coming home to roost?

Half-Baked has returned to Alaska to do some serious arm-twisting and some serious covering up. I hope she has a huge shovel, 'cause she's gonna need it.

Could all be interesting :popcorn:

Yum yum! Good to eat!

Enquiring minds want to know. It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

under the rug!

Palin may be able to read a teleprompter, but she ain't ready for prime time!

Too bad for her that half the news media is up in Moosilla now dig, dig, digging... she is TOAST!

OH NO HE DIN'T!! :rofl:

Must. Have. Video.

Wasilla Gone Wild! Only 9.99!

:)

soon in the ethics investigation about her.

she was scheduled for a depo, agreed to show up for it, and now has refused to do so for a variety of tactical delaying reasons.

First claimed executive privilege, then her lawyer came up what he thinks is a clever trick of having Sarah file an ethics complaint against herself, thus seeking to remove jurisdiction from the panel setup to hear it (bi-partisan, as I understand) and via this ethics complaint, give it to a state personnel board comprised of either people she appointed or that her predecessor appointed, but with whom she has deep connections. So that she can perhaps have control over the result she gets.

Nutshell version as I have understood it (and as a retired lawyer, who admittedly doesn't have all the facts, it just seems to be a boneheaded waste of time, which may end up giving Palin a bad rap for trying to evade the process with which she had at one point agreed to comply).

..they can't just let her get away with that! It seems like you're saying that it really won't help her in the long run to give the complaint to an appointee??

It is a weird dodge... I'd be surprised if she can pull it off with the spotlight sweeping around there now..

She needs to threaten a few people - in person.

The same brown dress. She ran out of clean clothes. Or at least her kids did.

to trap her ass.

Including seeing her son off to Iraq. He doesn't leave any earlier than 9/11, so she might be back in Alaska for a while.

She's gotta take her shovel home to load incriminating papers into the hopper.

Then she's gotta push the dead bodies through the chipper.

She's got a lot of cleaning up to do. A lot of sites to scrub, a lot of dirt to sweep under the rug.

A woman's work is never done!

You can run but you can't hide, lady. We're gonna find out everything.

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... because she doesn't know crap.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/no_questions_please_were.html

they have known that she doesn't know crap since they picked her. So why schedule appearances for next week, knowing she is unprepared, and knowing how much speculation those cancellations and the whole dead of the night plane ride will generate?

I am not thinking this was something planned all along. I am sniffing panic.

... or she's turning out to be a slower study than expected.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91gcaveman.phtml

Sorry, couldn't find any video for the uninitiated.

The media will be following her night and day. She's a celebrity now, and whatever journalist breaks the big story on her first gets a book deal.

Sure the M$M media may not scared away from investigating her, but not the tabloids. All they care about is sales.

I can't tell whether you guys are joking or not...lol

As for the rest, ie the stated reasons why, and the speculation of what might be the real reasons? Those are guesses, or just rumors, at this point anyway. I am thinking we will get a confirm next week re why she cancelled a Monday appearance and suddenly blew out of town, esp. when her boy was always scheduled to leave on 9/11.

This whole thing feels like something I'd read about in some gossip rag like the National Enquirer....oh, wait.

Never mind:)

It's like the Lost island or something (SPOILERS!)? :rofl:


"Ben, get us the fuck out of here!"

Seriously there's not *that* much to Anchorage and Wasilla. This is going to be interesting!

Spent a year there and it was unbelievably beautiful. Did not meet the "fucking redneck."

Damned turncoats!

They don't want her answering any questions until she has been trained.

Really. That's what Republicans said Wednesday.

Way to squander any momentum from the convention.

She snarks and runs, not that I'll miss that sneering face in the least.

Whatever makes them remind voters of Bush/Cheney, I'll take it.

I had the stupid song "Afternoon Delight" running through my head way past the afternoon.

Now, all I hear now is the chorus from an old song:

Sarah, Sarah
storms are brewing in your eyes
Sarah, Sarah
no time is good time for goodbyes
Sarah, Sarah
storms are brewing in your eyes
Sarah, Sarah
no time is a good time
no-oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-Sarah
why did it, why did it,
why did it all fall apart?

Points awarded if you are as old as me and can remembr who sang it WITHOUT googling it:)

I remember the song from my highschool days when I was dating a girl name Sara

I don't know any other songs by Jefferson Starship but that one and apparently it has stuck with me all these years.

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Perfect for someone who talks out of her asshole! McCain't was trying to read her lines. :rofl:

the mean snarl as she lies about Democrats at the convention...

She IS Dick Cheney!! Dirty old bastard found a way to transfer his spirit into a younger body!! RUN!!!!

Tough talk and bad strategy doesn't get the job done.

They've got to prep her to fake it through another 2 months.

This is fishy. There are plenty of friendly media outlets for her, including a certain 24 hour "news" channel that would not only give her softball questions, but provide a list in advance.

And her excuse doesn't make any sense. She drops her 4 month old baby like a hot potato to run for VP, but she needs a week to say goodbye to her 18 year old son? Please.

n/t

yet you dont hear anybody in the media talking about that.

then again, maybe thats cause joe is a bigger person than to flaunt it around like a toy or a doggy treat...

He's not going to give away any classified info for a freaking political speech either!

That would be an hour and a half of such unspeakable (for the repukes) public bloodletting that it will never be allowed to happen.

Chances of Caribou Barbie answering questions on her own or giving a solo press conference can be measured in degrees Kelvin: Absolute Zero.

in never-never land.

Sarah 'went home to....spend more time with her family!' ;)

That would explain it.

Palin being swept out of St. Paul and off to the secret bunkers in the great white north is a clear indication that something has gone terribly wrong.

Selecting Palin for VP was the championship win for the republicans, and after such a win, the team is supposed to go enjoy the victory with their fans. The ticker tape is supposed to rain down on the winning team, and the fans are supposed to celebrate in person with the players and show their love and support.

Rather than indulging the republican base with the excitement that McCain and Palin created for the past few days, they are sending the bench warmer out to meet the fans by himself.

While Palin will be shuffled into the deep dark of the AK safe-houses, McCain, who has begun to play 2nd fiddle to Palin, will be sent onto the campaign trail to convery a message that had a serious disconnect from that which stoked the fire and furor of the republicans during their convention. McCain wasn't the red-meat hurler that the rest of the speakers were. The mud-slinging, moose-hunting mother from the wild frontier will sit this one out while the less exciting, retrospective POW will take this race on by himself, without his first-stringer.

I cannot imagine this will bode well, either for the republican supporters who are expecting to see both McCain and Palin at appearances over the next few days, or for the Palin family and their cleaners who have been in AK for the last couple days conducting damage control.

The winning team should never avoid the opportunity to celebrate their success with their fans, unless of course that winning did something they should be ashamed of and are resorting to smoke and mirrors, but that usually only happens in the minor leagues.

Just in case: :sarcasm:

The Ghost Detainee VP!

Are they going to clean the laundry ?

and is hiding until he cools off and/or apologizes.

that the two of them McCain and Palin will be doing "an informal meet & greet in Downtown Cedarburg, WI." today (sept 5).

Could be just a ruse to divert attention from her?

Big surprise.

This should be asked over and over again.

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McCain't claims he'll have a transparent administration, while his veep candidate rivals dick cheney for time spent in a secret bunker.

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If you cower in fear of the media, you are too weak to stand up to our enemies!

McCain't/Half-Baked rivals Bush/Quayle for biggest wimps.

I am anxious to see how many show up. I will be watching the local news tonight. McCain is trying to garner the Macomb County votes.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7365240&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

According to Wikipedia, Freedom Hill has a seating capacity of 7,000. A far cry from the Joe!

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can one of you guys post if they show up, how many attend, and if she takes questions?

investigation.

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a battleground state.

I can't explain it. I still think the part I saw was discussing her not coming back to the lower 48 until middle of next week, and there was a ticker saying she had cancelled the WI appearance (I had seen that part earlier). I don't know what the hell is going on anymore. Change of mind? Too many bad comments about her running away?

The part I saw was maybe a couple minutes of discussion, with the strange excuse of seeing her son off and tieing up loose ends, because she had left Alaska for the nomination process in such a hurry.

Whatever I heard, nonetheless it sounds like they must have switched back to the original agenda.

ETA: If she is showing up in WI, instead of what was reported at one point last night, then I consider it good news. I would much rather have her on the stump, with reporters forcing the issue of making the vp nominee act like a grownup and answer questions, than worry about just how wierd our election got with her going off to hide in AK.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=182027&mesg_id=182027

Has the video of Fineman on MSNBC discussing how Palin is going back to AK "taking a timeout from the campaign trail". So I did hear that correctly last night.

Who knows if they had it right, or the McCain camp gave disinfo to make them look dumb or if they were wrong. I haven't watched this version on youtube because I am a dialup victim.

She just speechafied.....

someone else here said it was a repeat mostly of her convention speech.

I don't know what made them stick to the schedule, instead of heading back home like Fineman reported, but I'd like to think it is because she will be answering someone's questions. Anyone's questions, really. I wonder if she took questions after this rally, or if they have just moved her to the next venue.

What a thing - never expected that we could actually even come this close to being saddled with someone with no meaningful qualifications, who pops out cutsey one liners (most of which aren't true, and need to be questioned), and then ducks and hides from our press.

That said, I still think McCain has made a series of blunders this week from which he will not recover.

how to deliver mean, nasty lines.

Sarah Palin came to where she is by plans made by fundies years ago. Start on the PTA, get elected to school boards to smaller office holding positions and then go as high as you can, mostly under stealth. She is a great success for them and it is very scary.

this is a link from this morning is Wisconsin...

http://www.necn.com/category/32/18044#

she supposedly slams Obama on the war. I could not stand to watch her for more than a minute

what a dick-

can i call her that, or does that make me sexist?

they use her or muzzle her like a dog