Palin Keeps Attacking Obama: "No Present Button"

The presidential campaign is over, but Sarah Palin -- still at the epicenter of media attention -- continues to take digs at Barack Obama.

Speaking at the Republican Governor's Association meeting on Thursday in Miami, the Alaska Governor spoke primarily about the responsibilities of Republican executives in supporting domestic initiatives like tax cuts and budgetary prudence. But then she offered an obvious swipe at the President-elect.

Governors, she said make "tough decisions to best serve the people who hire us. And we are held accountable every day. The buck stops on our desk. We are not just one of many voting yea or nay or present. No. There is no present button in our office, is there? We have to make the tough decisions."

The line about voting "present," of course, is a clear jab at Obama -- lifted from an attack line that the McCain campaign (and the Clinton camp) used repeatedly on the trail. The crowd, it seemed, got the joke.

The dig comes, moreover, after Palin has continued airing concerns about Obama'a associations and readiness to be commander-in-chief in recent interviews.

It's hard to understand just what type of strategy Palin is deploying here. Her popularity rating plummeted as the campaign progressed, in part because of her attacks on Obama, in part because, after the campaign ended, aides to McCain painted her as vapid and out-of-her-league.

As such, she needs to push back against these negative narratives. And so we see her taking all of these national interviews after mostly avoiding press on the trail. But by continuing to take swipes at Obama, Palin seems to be doing little more than reinforcing the image that she is hyper-partisan and bitter over the election outcome.

UPDATE: Reader JMZ points out that in many states legislation can pass without the governor's signature -- the political equivalent of voting present (governors don't have to watch as their vetoes are overturned).

Comments

[minnvoter]

O.K., let's end the confusion here.

Wolverine Barbie V1, only came with the one sound cartridge, due to a strike at the Taiwan factory and a last-minute design change.

Version 2, due out in 2012, will have several message cartridges available, and will have complete accessories, including a Cessna, a small rifle, and several plastic wolves. :)

[Angmorg]

She is doing a movie


BRAINLESS In Juneau

So sad pray Stevens loses the race in Alaska.

Pray very hard

[theVoice0fReason]

No doubt.

And the MSM keep trumpeting her as being the next Senator in a run-off election.

Yeah, um, about that.... Isn't it kinda important to, i dunno like, KNOW stuff?

Wouldn't one need to know a thing or two about a law or two, if one were at all serious about becoming a legislator?

Call me crazy...

[scully09]

she is such a sore loser and sore loosers don't disappear

[Mapatty]

This is about all she can do is take swipes at Obama. She doesn't know anything else. She know nothing about foreign or domestic policies.

[Star2000dancer]

That's it! I'm forming a boycott Palin club. Do'nt read, blog listen. or watch anything about her.

[retrocozayshin]

Know your enemy.

[JFyfe]

I am beginning to think that her refusal to go away is all about money. She wants a talk show or a book deal or something if she cant get into the Senate. Surely she doesnt think she will be on the GOP ticket in 2012.

[Nonpartay]

Maybe the Huffington Post could stop having articles about her. After all, we are not exactly her "base" anyway. I couldn't care less if I never hear from her again. She's just unaccepable to me, has been ever since I heard her first lie in that dreadful acceptance speech. We elected our President. It's time to support him, all of us, not keep digging up trash and hurling lies and insults. ENOUGH!

[retrocozayshin]

Don't read the articles then.

[hotwire]

Well, stop then.

[cinthia7]

It is so pathetic that she is out there saying this sh**. When will she just go away ? i thought by now a moose would have taken its revenge.Th­is smug ignoramus is disgraceful.

[wadda]

I love to hate Sarah, but I'm almost through with her.

I'm not that worried about her because she has some fatal character flaws and talent deficits that will be limit her ambitious reach.

She has, however, added an new word to our household vocabulary:

Palinized

it's similar to 'vindictive' but with a different focus.

Palinized:

1. subjected to, or the victim of revenge or intended revenge; "Trooper Wooten was palinized.­"
2. being shown malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; to be subjected to actions motivated by spite;
3 to be a recipient of personal attacks for political, or financial gain.

Some people leave enduring legacies. For me, this will be hers.

[Ozohead]

"Cramming like Palin"

[TheRetiredOne]

For the love of all that is good, someone please shut that woman up. I can't take it anymore.

[AutumnBreeze]

Are we sure she wasn't taking a dig at McCain?

[zerotimes10]

AutumnBreeze: Are you sure she's sure ... of anything?

[sammyscout]

I listened to all she had to say and that was the Katie C interview; what a bumbling airhead Palin is. nuff seen/nuff said

[hernan1333]

Sounds like Sarah Plain and Paris Hilton have something in common....­celebrity status without any substance or merit...ti­me to switch the channel.

[sammyscout]

no paris bashing; she is 'too hot'

[thebatgirl]

Why is the media giving her time?
Have some pride, she was not available to talk to you before, now you are slobering over yourselves enabling her to serve up the same dribble over and over.
She is so hateful and devisive when the country has shown it no longer wants to go down this path.
Please let her go the way of Joe the plumber.

[PatForObama]

Thank you for echoing my thoughts!!

We who love to hate her have to change the channel whenever she comes on, and bombard the likes of Blitzer with the fact that her 15 minutes expired last week. As for Joe the Plumber, once Sarah's star starts fading expect a book deal from her shortly thereafter. The media has fed this monster, and will continue to do so until we the people say we are sick of it. Let the far right get back to their Left Behinds.

[retrocozayshin]

So do you want the media to do what's best for her by not giving her a method of delivering the ignorance that will destroy her future political career? Is that what you and many others are saying? The more stu.pid s**t she says, the more it hurts her. How is this not a good thing?

[silentknight65]

S tupid P itiful
A rrogant A ggravating
R epulsive L ying
A irheaded I gnorant
H opeless N obody

Nuff' Said......­.

[xmw]

someone please find the "OFF" button on this empty headed NINNY!