She got her start on Court TV, the CNN as a lawyer, prosecutor, defense attorney… and seemed to know her stuff.

I gotta think Murdoch gave her an obscene amount of money to sell her soul and, as a typical lawyer, she snatched up the money.

There’s nothing but dollar signs in the Van Susteren/Palin connection. It’s a cash cow gig like being Michael Jackson’s ’script doctor.

I suspect it’s part of the whole Fox News Channel business plan:

“I’m not a journalist but I play one on television…”

And what the hey….

For a limo and a Malibu beach house and walking-around money, I have what it takes to substitute for Glen Beck when his clozapine wears off. I’ve read CONs on WE Blog and I know all their insanities.

Greta latched on to the Moose-Dresser because she was expecting a media money train.

Along the way she lost track of the fact: the Moose-Dresser is crazy as a hoot owl.

Todd Palin was Greta’s guest at the White House Correspondents dinner in May.

‘Sustern”+”Palin” produces any number of interesting hits.

“Questioning Van Susteren’s Palin Ties NYTimes

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren’s ties to the Palin family are raising questions at a time when her ratings are also spurring talk that her show may be shifted from its coveted 10 p.m. time slot, the New York Times reports. Ms. Van Susteren’s husband, John Coale, gave Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin advice about starting a political action committee when the couple met the Palins for an interview the weekend after the presidential election, the newspaper says. Many news outlets frown on staffers covering events if their partners are in some way affiliated with them, the Times adds.
—Aimee Picchi

I can’t escape the feeling that something very big is about to come to light and Fox is helping Palin with damage control.

“The filing deadline for governor is close to a year from now. As long as no one knew if she was running for governor again, she would not have been a lame duck and the state legislature would have had to treat her with respect. Saying she did not want to be a lame duck is disingenuous since she is the one causing the orthopedic problem in the duck by making this announcement.”

http://www.electoral-vote.com/index.html

“The one that rings most hollow is, she doesn’t want to put Alaska through the terror of [her] being a lame-duck governor,” Will said. “If she is just weary of it, one can understand that. Still, she made a contract with [voters] to serve out her term. And she said, in her own words, she now is a quitter.”

Karl Rove, the “architect” of George W. Bush’s successful presidential campaigns, said the resignation left many of Palin’s fellow Republicans “a little perplexed.”

“It’s a risky strategy,” Rove told “Fox News Sunday.”

“Astounding,” was the pronouncement by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and conservative columnist George Will said Palin was declaring herself a quitter.

Every Sunday this woman sat there and thought she was going to help God pass out those lighting bolts on Judgment Day. But she died a lonely, old bitter woman with no friends. Why? Because every saw through her face of hypocrisy.

I pitied that old woman until she died. She never really knew that she was causing harm to the name of being a Christian. She really was jus an arrogant fool.

You lib haters need to get out more. It is good for the soul.

How ’bout the Wasilla Whacko?

Not Bush on steroids…more like the 2nd Coming of Hitler.

More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly.

When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”

That’s a pretty simple, but pretty big factor.

In basic political science, and throughout all theories of government, there’s a balance between serving the people’s wants and serving the people’s needs.

And then it gets weird.

I’m sure in the bowels of Josef Stalin’s brain, murdering 20 million dissidents was what the Russian people “needed.” Crazy? As a hoot-owl. But somehow it seemed like a good idea at the time.

“Dr No” and “Goldfinger” didn’t think they were insane. And there’s probably a rationale Kim Jong Il could come up with which would rationalize why 300 Vegas lap-dancers were more important than giving North Koreans 29 more grams of rice per day. I’m not sure that’s specific evidence against socialism but it’s pretty good evidence against Kim Jong Il.

(I mean, if you’re gonna judge socialism on the basis of Stalin and Kim, I’m gonna start looking for connections between Scott Roeder and Operation Rescue, okay?)

But I digress…

Hmmmmm.that photo might have proven to be an impeachable offense for the Governor if SHE WASN’T ALREADY A QUITTER!!!!!!!!!

While clapping themselves on the back for backing “a maverick.”

Careful what you wish for, I guess.

I agree that there are probably many Americans who are able and fit to lead the US as president, but who’ve become wealthy by now. Wealth has the obvious “income effect” of making its holders more aware of the true value of privacy and free time. Their fortune, our loss.

That might not be entirely true though. Palin’s views seemed a little out of line, of McCains views. The people who funded McCain were probably kicking themselves in the head, for his decision to pick Palin as his running mate.

…Doesn’t mean they’d get my vote, but I’m not one to deny someone’s their Constituition rights.
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Got it, thanks for the clarification.

I would even go as far to say, that money and power, are what’s keeping some of our best potential leaders, from ever being heard about or known of in the first place.