{"id":191695,"date":"2009-07-04T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/04\/another-thought-on-sarah-palin\/"},"modified":"2009-07-04T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T16:18:00","slug":"another-thought-on-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/04\/another-thought-on-sarah-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Thought on Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on Sarah Palin surprise resignation remains that she quit to run for President.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, I have been receiving reports of her  hubris and self-important behavior from my dad since before the election, and I think that she <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/eric-boehlert-and-bill-kristol-are-both.html\">really believes that God wants her to be President<\/a>, and  with what shee sees as the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/mccaniacs-deal-more-palin-dirt.html\">increasingly vitriolic campaign of the Republican establishment against her<\/a>, she feels the need to &#8220;talk directly to the people,&#8221; specifically the people of Iowa and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>I think that she honestly believes that if she can meet enough voters 1 on 1, then she can win the caucus and primary. <\/p>\n<p>I should note that my position is <b>not<\/b> the consensus in the blogosphere, which is that there is either a major scandal or health issue about to rear its head.<\/p>\n<p>Palin&#8217;s bizarre performance at her announcement would indicate something sudden, but both the recent very public push-back from the DC &#8216;Phants and a potential scandal falls in that category.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, I long for the day when she goes on my <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/this-is-oj-and-britney-free-zone-too.html\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p>Posted via mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on Sarah Palin surprise resignation remains that she quit to run for President. Simply put, I have been receiving reports of her hubris and self-important behavior from my dad since before the election, and I think that she really believes that God wants her to be President, and with what shee sees as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}