actually, as I think more about it - if somebody in any context commented about me having a spread in Playboy - hey, I would take take it as a major complement;-) . Palin ( if you get abstracted from what she says and how she acts) - is HOT, hot, hot!!!! Can't deny her obvious assets - so, really, why not???? There is nothing demeaning about it.

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Palin can make millions of $ in speaking engagement.. ( i think i read something like 50k/appearance ).
I never viewed Palin as a "serious" politician, McCain just used her as an asset to offset his own centrist position to appeal to religious rights.
I hope she does well in whatever private business she decides to go into.

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the only viable Republican outhere
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Really? Because McCain had a better chance of getting my vote without her on the ticket.

McCain believed Republican pundits too much. I remember reading that picking unknown from Alaska will carry him into the White House back in June of 2008. It all came down to this "Woman/Black/Woman/Jew in the White House!!!!!!" that started with Joe Lieberman.
To answer Lina T.'s relentless, unstoppable, unbearble fight with racism in our concealed coffers, do you know why some people were remembering ugly idiotic stamps of yesteryear racism? Because it was strange and super racist how someone's race will carry one into the White House. They spoke out of frustration.

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Really? Because McCain had a better chance of getting my vote without her on the ticket.
Really??? Any Republican had as much chance of getting your vote, as I had chances of being asked on the date by Cindy Crawford back in 1992.

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Я хотел написать: "...chances of her asking me for a date, and me turning her down" *но потом подумал что первая версия достаточно выражает малую вероятность лининого перехода в республиканцы.

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IMO in the last election Palin represented exactly the brand of conservatism that causes seizures in independents and progressives - socially conservative religion driven narrow minded agenda. Give me an open minded fiscal conservative - Teddy Roosevelt style, please - I'll vote for him.

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do you know why some people were remembering ugly idiotic stamps of yesteryear racism? Because it was strange and super racist how someone's race will carry one into the White House. They spoke out of frustration.
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And here I was under some misguidedimpression that most Soviet immigrants just tend to harbor racist sentiments.
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Obama's race had absolutely nothing to do with him getting my and millions of othervotes... and you arejust asmistaken if you think that I would never vote Republican - to me it's all about the candidate and the issues.

Obama's race had absolutely nothing to do with him getting my and millions of othervotes...

Thanks, Lina, I needed a good laugh...

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On her decision to resign - I don't think she ever used 500K as an excuse to resign - just to describe how painful all this political witchhunt has affected her personally. I think her decision was mainy affected by two factors 1) Her family/kids (and everyone who goes through such horribe attacks should put their family first, not everyone does though), 2) Her lame duck status as a governor - she's been unable to perform her job because she had to respond to all this friviolous complaints. I wish she didn't have to resign - she's been an excellent governor, but I respect her decision-family comes first.
However, she totally is a serious politician, or can become even a more serious one :-) if she chooses to. About her views being not mainstream - liberals have to stop reading liberal pubications only. The largest poitical group in US are conservatives 40%,and only 21% liberals.
***********.gallup.com/poll/120857/conservatives-single-largest-ideological-group.aspx