I'm thinking Palin is nuts for just asking to see Thatcher. I can not say I blame Thatchers staff for saying just that!

I actually wanted them to find something that would remove her as a possible candidate. I think if she was smarter, she'd be great, but I wince every time she opens her mouth. :)

Still, I think they are going to excessive lengths compared to others who are actually candidates.

Again, I'm fine with them spending XXX man-hours on researching her as long as they do the same for other non-candidates, and some multiple for actual candidates.

These emails were requested a long time ago under FOIA, mostly when everyone was thinking "who the hell is Sarah Palin?" and a lot of stuff about Troopergate was flying around.

So, the release of them now is not exactly related to the media focus on her. That focus is due to her unusual quasi-campaigning and undeclared status in a lacklustre Republican field.
Naturally, I'd prefer if there wasn't so much attention paid to her without good reason, but a man can dream :03:

The fact that 20-odd thousand emails are being released is newsworthy enough and will be covered, seeing as how she seeks and pretends to avoid the spotlight incessantly.

By the way (slightly off topic), but whatever happened to McCain? Will he be running again? He might not be a spring-chicken anymore, but I got the feeling he was quite popular across the board.

That is answered by....
Though it could be added that this FOI request was just one of nearly 2000 they made that year for official correspondance.

He will not run again. He can not function a Blackberry. This was a prerequisite in the last race. :doh:

I cannot help but feel Palin will be in the oval office some day. She is under constant attack from all quarters, but she survives and continues on.

Let's hope she's washing the floors then. :shucks:

When people complain about the media scutiny of Pailn, consider who she is: a charismatic figure with scattershot, extreme ideas; passing herself off as a folksy friend of the working class; constantly positioning herself as an outsider against "big government", a "maverick"; making broad statements with no specifics; surrounding herself with rabid supporters who themselves have particularly noxious sub-agendas; wrapping herself in the flag and virtually declaring herself and her followers as the only true patriots; relying more on fervid emotion than calculated, reasoned thought; replacing policy with slogans...

No, the media should not place Palin under a magnifying glass. After all, critical media scutiny probably wouldn't have helped in 1930's Munich...

There are times when I watch Palin making speeches or giving statements that I feel she might benefit from an admonition the nuns in my school used to give us: "It is better to be silent and mistaken as a fool than to open one's mouth and erase all doubt"...

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