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'Pullin' a Palin'

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor July 10, 2009 10:19 AM


At this point, it could be construed as piling on.

But the Democratic National Committee is continuing its assault on Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee last year, soon-to-be-former governor of Alaska, and potential 2012 contender.

It posted a web video today that takes advantage of the hipster Urban Dictionary adding an entry called "pullin' a Palin" -- basically quitting midstream when times get tough.

It is today's word or phrase of the day. The definition:
"1. Quitting when the going gets tough; abandoning the responsibility entrusted to you by your neighbors for book advances and to make money on the lecture circuit.

"2. Bizarre move that will damn ambitions for higher office."

Palin shocked her state and much of the political universe a week ago when she announced her resignation as governor, 18 months before her term ends.

The DNC video is not very creative -- it just lifts a segment from Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" show on MSNBC that also wraps in sex scandal-plagued South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Senators Larry Craig and John Ensign.

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This DNC arrogance and piling on will soon come back to bite them. They ought to keep their focus on improving life for the taxpayer by getting the F out of the way.

Posted by J.B. July 10, 09 11:51 AM
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The DNC has piled on bogus ethics complaints that are costing the Palins and the State of Alaska millions. Palin resigns because these bogus complaints are preventing her from doing her job, and are wasting the taxpayers' money. The Dems then find fault with the behavior that they themselves caused.

Posted by Barak Obama's Aunt Zetoonie July 10, 09 12:09 PM
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The DNC is a disgrace

Sarah Palin is, was, and always will be a fraud

these are not mutually exclusive realities

Posted by Roy Keane July 10, 09 12:11 PM
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I'm a Democrat and even I'm embarrassed by this DNC video. Enough already please?

Posted by John July 10, 09 12:14 PM
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To blame the left for ridiculing Palin is ridiculous. It is the Republicans who have chastised her more, and the ethics charges largely came from her own party. She brought everything on herself...parading her 17 year old pregneant daughter through the campaign knowing she would become a target is not good parenting. She should have been dropped from the ticket as soon as it was discovered and saved her all the potshots that would have come to any candidate in that predicament. Can you imagine if it were Chelsey Clinton pregeant and dropping out of school at 17 and what the right would have had to say about her parents? Conservatives pick their candidates strictly on emotion and no logic whatsoever...no wonder they are where they're right now...cannot pick their leaders that appeal to the common sense of Americans

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