Sarah Palin's Tweets: Lines staying open: The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune

She's 'no quitter.' She's got Twitter

Posted July 17, 2009 3:05 PM
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Sarah Palin's college days: No Facebook, no Twitter, no worries.

The Swamp

by Mark Silva

Old Alaska governors do not die.

They just Tweet away.

Sarah Palin, stepping down as governor of the Russian border state near the end of the month, plans to keep in touch with her followers with Twitter.

In a Tweet posted today, Palin indicates that, after she has left the office which she is forfeiting 18 months before her term's end, she plans to use the popular 140-character term-limited personal network to keep lines of communication open.

She's "no quitter.'' She's got Twitter.

However, we are inviting interpretations here in the Swamp of today's Tweet from the lame duck chief executive of Alaska:

"elected is replaceable; Ak WILL progress! + side benefits=10 dys til less politically correct twitters fly frm my fingertps outside State site."

The former mayor of Wasilla, who was visiting the coastal town of Unalakleet to sign bills today, could be looking at a 2012 bid for the White House. She has another Tweet today that seems fairly straightforward about her successor, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, whom Palin says will have the "same positive pro-AK agenda it's all good."

The Tweet seems an appropriate medium for Palin, for this is the service that bills itself as a way "to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?'' -- a question which many have asked of Palin since she announced her resignation on the eve of fthe Fourth of July.

(The Associated Press contributed more than 140 characters.)

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ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

I don't know what is more irritating . . . Sarah Palin or new stories about Twitter!


Please......GO AWAY, YOU WHACKJOB!


14:57.....14:58.....14:59......


Less politically correct?? Poor Palin who LOVES to bait the media. (I thought she's leaving the limelight to protect her family, and not placing the equivalent of a GPS system on her every thought.) It's an appropriate medium because 140 characters is her vitrol limit. Anything after that - its rinse and repeat or running in circles. Will Piper Tweet too? My interpretation is as follows: she can't be the Republican mascot without her Gov of Russian border state (good one) polls plummeting. It's all in what she says (can't say what she'd want - curbed by the job) - not so much how much she was being investigated.


I will vote for this hottie!


More than once in my travels in Illinois, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Mark Silva's extravagent Palin fixation. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of "narcississtic personality disorder" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Medical Disorders--"a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy"--and thought it fit him perfectly.


Sarah Palin is flaky.


HAAAAAAAAAA!
She's driving you people MAD!!
HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!


The daily stalking of Sarah continues


Mark, are you that infatuated with Mrs. Palin that you have to write about her tweeting? Geez, come on!!

More importantly, how about writing about that clown in the White House who claims to be a Sox fan, yet calls U.S.Cellular Field, Cominsky Field? Now if he referred to it as Comiskey Park, then fine. But as a true Sox fan, those who always pronounced Comiskey, Cominsky, also riled up us real Sox fans. Pronouncing it Cominsky proves once again that he is not a true Sox fan. Just another lie by the clown.


This woman's ego is so transparent I can't believe the GOP and the press keeps throwing her out there at us. That's a good college age picture.... she just hasn't grown up yet, has she...


More than once in my travels in Illinois, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Mark Silva's extravagent Palin fixation. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had
Posted by: No Hope, No Change | July 17, 2009 4:39 PM
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Teresa,
You're pathetic, the only places that you've been traveling around to and hearing about Mark Silva's Palin coverage is in that empty space between your ears that you call a head.


So Palin is so fragile that reporters can't report on her and commenters can't comment on her from now because it's gonna make you get all teary eyed?


I thought Palin was a Pitbull in Lipstick or something stupid like that?


Palin is a joke, and the only thing that's halfway interesting about her now is the question of how a boneheaded dimwit like her could get elected Gov of Alaska in the first place.



John D what are you talking about? Oh I get it he is a clown and can't be a Sox fan because he said Comisky instead of Cominsky. I have been A huge Sox fan all my life when I was about 8 or 9 years old I new it was pronounced Comisky after the one time owner of the White Sox Charles Comisky nick named the old roman. If you were A true Sox fan you would know it too. Further More he is probably going to go down as one of the greatest Presidents this country has ever had. Oh and don't take it out on him if Bush didn't screw things up so bad he wouldn't end up looking so good.


People love her and it KILLS you people.
HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA!


Don't forget why Palin remains popular with what remains of the GOP base (paranoid self-pitying people loaded with rage and grievances and feeling betrayed and condescended to). Along comes Palin with her dog-whistle racism and appeals to the conceit of nasty stupid people. You watch, if Huckabee and Romney etc started to euphemistically praise mean pinch-faced church-going bigots and issue euphemized putdowns of minorities and gays etc, their Republican approval numbers would sky rocket too..


Think about it, the increasing number of Republicans who like Palin are also increasingly the only sort of people who identify themselves as Republicans in 2009 - about 20%.



ATTENTION SWAMP RATS!


Whenever Palin speaks don't call her a nut job or worse...call her the: "Voice of the Republican Party!"


You can see it if you look behind her syncophants, all the other Republicans in the room are trying to get as far away as they can from her without the pro-Palin Mob noticing.


Shackle your local Republican office holders to every word out of Palin's mouth. She'll push more moderate Republicans and Independents to the left than any substantiative policy discussion ever could.


"Palin is the true voice of the Republican Party!"


Of course, saying that with a straight face is going to be your biggest problem.



No spin, as a true Sox fan, I also know how to spell Comiskey, while not confusing Comiskey with Cominsky as you did. As a true Sox fan, I also know that Comiskey was a tightwad.
Anyway, Obumbles will go down as one of this country's greatest presidents? Hmmm, I don't think setting a one-year record deficit of $1.8 trillion, setting a 10-year deficit of more than $10 trillion (CBO projections of Obumbles current spending plans), increasing taxes to where people pay more than half their income in taxes, and destroying the fabric that has made this country great will net him one of the best presidents labels. Now, one of the worst, more than likely he will go down as that.


(The Associated Press contributed more than 140 characters.)


Is this the only site some of you go to for news??? Mark Silva is not the only one reporting on this. As the line above states (good one Mark BTW), the AP reported on this...it is all over the internet. Leave your pods once in a while and read/see more than one source.


As far as Ste. Sarah is concerned, she is the one putting herself out there by posting on twitter. What ever attention she gets because of her postings either on Twitter or her Facebook page, she deserves. If she did not want the attention, she'd stop twittering her every thought. I can hardly believe she is not enjoying seeing her name in the papers, on teevee, and hearing discussion about her on the radio. I don't believe any of her woe-is-me the media is being so mean to me routine for one minute. If it weren't for them...she'd have faded into the background the day after the election.


John D, Look throughout history when the middle class is strong the whole country does well. When the middle class is in trouble the country is in trouble. The middle class is the true fabric or back bone of this nation.
we just had 8 years worth of a direct assault on the middle class from a-z. From every program to tax payer money spent to send as many jobs overseas as possible. This administration even lowered the cap on what a human life is worth and during the same month they reduced regulation on employees working with hazardous material. It is plain to see either you are for a corporate run government that puts its citizens second to corporations or a government of the people by the people for the people.


Palin on Twitter:
"I'm Sarah Palin and there ya go with yer gotcha 140 characters also and such as. I'm mavricky and yer librul twitter can't constrain this point guard as I swim against the 140 character dead fish up stream. Also."



Linda Mae,

If Gov Palin is "such a joke", then why does the SWAMP and other left-wing media devote so much space to her? Why the obsession?


Jokes move paper. duh. She drives traffic, business. Why does Financial Wiz Terry want to put news out of business by omitting stories about crazies that drive bank? Same reason right-wing media devote time to --insert name of a democratic joke--.


Carpe Diem,

That would be a long list for the democrats.

You do make a good point - Newspapers aren't about news anymore.


Where's the joke in calling Alaska a 'Russian Border State'? Russia is right across the Bering Strait, and, yup, you can see Russia from Alaska. Little Diomede to Big Diomede. Two islands in the Bering Strait. One is ours, the other is Russia's. Just a few miles apart, and easy to see one from the other on a day with good visibility. Go look it up in your atlas, if you have one, geographically challenged Mark Nitwit.


Mark, you hypocrite. I thought you were so concerned with people "attacking the messenger." Seems like it doesn't bother you at all when the messenger is Sarah Palin.


So she was always white trash. Thanks for clearing that up.


Sarah's a mile wide, an inch deep and amusing, unelectable. Twitter on ...


Palin's latest "targetting" candidates in cross hairs!!! She has reached a new level of inappropriate actions!

She is so anit-American it is terrible!


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