Palin resignation: color me flabbergasted

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Jul 5, 2009

Michael, it seems pretty clear to me that she is not a politician who is concerned with holding a political office. She stated pretty clearly that she and her staff, who are supposed to work for the state of Alaska, spend more of their time responding to these petty ethics complaints than they spend in taking care of state business. She does not want to be a detriment to the state and she also can now more effectively go after those who are spreading lies about her and in cultivating the growing Tea Party movement and philosophy.

Jul 5, 2009

Why should she stick around and get continued harrassment by some dems who want to destroy her? She is saving probably millions of tax payer dollars. The lt. Gov has a year in job that he will hopefully keep. She has to spend money to defend herself why her opponents spend zero. Great move. Time to make some money, spend time with family and prep for a run if she wants one. Why can't you guys get it? She even has republican moderates after her. She was main reason mccain kept it close. He is great man but many conservatatives he upset. And where were all these independants he was suppose to get?

Jul 5, 2009

Why should she stick around and get continued harrassment by some dems who want to destroy her? She is saving probably millions of tax payer dollars. The lt. Gov has a year in job that he will hopefully keep. She has to spend money to defend herself why her opponents spend zero. Great move. Time to make some money, spend time with family and prep for a run if she wants one. Why can't you guys get it? She even has republican moderates after her. She was main reason mccain kept it close. He is great man but many conservatatives he upset. And where were all these independants he was suppose to get?

Jul 5, 2009

Re: Jason Uphoff...You hit the nail on the head. Otherwise bright people can't seem to grasp that she will have plenty of free time to hammer Obama's failing agenda. She only has to use Biden's recent quotes.

Jul 5, 2009

IF SHE RUNS FOR PRESIDENT, I WILL VOTE FOR HER, SO WILL MANY OF MY FRIENDS

Jul 5, 2009

The reaction to Palin is another test for honesty in a conservative. If you're honest, the analysis of her actual reasons is: 1. Skeleton in closet about to escape. 2. Can't take pressure. 3. Doesn't care about fulfilling her promise to serve her voters. Honest conclusion: In each case, she should get out and stay out of public service. None of the defenses offered for her evades those three cases. I suspect the skeleton case, but it doesn't matter. All three cases lead to the same conclusions--IF you're honest. (Not an original analysis, but I agree with it. Sorry I've already forgotten where I read it first.)

Jul 5, 2009

Oh, we get it all right. She is, indeed, brilliant in being self-serving. She will make loads of money doing speaking engagements, which is much easier than doing that pesky ol' Governor job of Alaska. Why, it wasn't really a job anyway, only a title. Why, it's just no fun anymore since since people are so mean to her. Why, it's so hard now since the economy took a dump along with her reputation. She's taking the easy way out for HER, and she is ABANDONING us Alaskans. You don't quit when the job is too hard, or when more money beckons, or when you think you can get a better job - not when you are a public servant and were voted into office by people who believed in you to be there for them. She is NOT a true public servant, and I am ashamed to have her call herself a proud Alaskan.

Jul 5, 2009

Could you whine just a little bit more? Part of the me generation perhaps. Or maybe Woody doesn't mind having his tax dollars wasted on frivolous baloney as long as it benefits his ideology. I wonder does it occur to any of the establishment, conservative or otherwise, that she doesn't want to be President? Are some of you so vested in a hero who can save the day that you can't conceive of someone outside of the Presidency who can affect the direction of the country? Too many have supped from the Woodrow Wilson/FDR cup. That includes many who call themselves conservatives and are anything but.

Jul 6, 2009

Anyone who questions Sarah Palin's choice to carry her pregnancy to term has no business calling her- or himself "pro-choice." While being pro-choice does mean supporting women's right to choose abortion, it also means supporting their right to choose other options, and anyone who would criticize or condemn Palin's choice to carry her pregnancy to term is not truly pro-choice.

Jul 6, 2009

Shannon Jacob's is a prime example of lefties who just "don't get it" (and that includes how to post only once). If Shannon Jacob's were honest, she would understand the her point number 3 is contradictory. If leaving in office serves the voters better than remaining in office, then Palin is fulfilling her promise. If these 15 or so frivolous ethics complaints prevents her from actually doing the job of governor (which is clearly the objective of the complaints), the she better serves the votes by yielding to someone who can actually concentrate on the job of governor. Clearly, Jacobs has let her hate of Palin get the best of her.

Jul 6, 2009

Mr. Barone, I understand your confusion. May I point you to the fascinating piece that Mark Tapscott wrote in the Examiner on Saturday? He lays out, I have to admit, a persuasive argument for what her intentions are. If he is right, and she can pull it off, we are in for a remarkable political ride over the next year or two.

Jul 6, 2009

I observe a strict rule about not watching news on television. The medium creates outsized feelings, positive and negative, about people you don't come into contact with. Presidents Obama and Bush are living proof. The Youtube segments of Palin's announcement were literally the first time I'd heard her voice. To call this speech a masterstroke is to call corn chips a harvest; no teleprompter, no styrofoam Greek columns ("Let me use an analogy I'm comfortable with--sports"; can you imagine the snickers on Riverside Drive?). I think her goal is to restore some semblance of sanity back to her life; it's easy to see why political people find this bizarre.

Jul 6, 2009

"It seems that some pro-choice people can’t forgive her for making the choice to give birth to her fifth child, and the volume of hate and vitriol directed at her has been stunning." First, she has received nothing close to the "hate and vitriol" that most major American politicians over the past, oh, 230 years or so have received. But self-pity is to conservatives what oxygen is to the rest of us. Second, please stop pretending that you were trying to make a joke about liberals hating Palin because she didn't abort her Down's Syndrome child. Have the guts to state what you clearly believe, regardless of how stupid, deranged, and false it is. We liberals can take it.

Jul 6, 2009

Sarah Palin has been constantly attacked by frivolous lawsuits costing $500,000 in legal fees. The latest rumor, concerning her Wasilla house, has been denied by the FBI. She is now free, as a private citien to speak and move freely. The more hateful and vitriolic her detractors become, the more conservatives are sure she is the right person for the White House.

Jul 6, 2009

We don't know the reasons, it also could be that she or a family member could be ill. I wish her the best.

Jul 6, 2009

We don't know the reasons, it also could be that she or a family member could be ill. I wish her the best.

Jul 6, 2009

TR, I left the Democratic Party after 30 years because of the likes of you.

Jul 6, 2009

Its amazing in reading all the accolades from the Palin pundits. To think they beleive that Palin have the intelect or required intelligence to lead the Country let along Alaska are either stuck on stupid or living in a ignorant dream world like most of the so call repub base. She has never given or capable of given any type of coherent substantive thoughtful speech, most of which are scatter brain as evident by her intelect, just like her actions in resigning the Governership. Take your blinders off folks, there are many women in this country who have the intelect and intelligence to lead this country, Sarah just don't have it nor will she ever have.

Jul 6, 2009

Its amazing in reading To think they beleive that Palin have the intelect to lead the Country let along Alaska ike most of the so call given or capable of give scatter brain as evident by her intelect Sarah just don't have it The preceding was an unpaid political announcement sponsored by The New York Review of Books.

Jul 6, 2009

I'm with Shannon Jacobs & Woody -- and yes, I'm a Republican. Her contracted term of governor is 4 years. Yes, it's got to be unpleasant being a governor during a major recession, and yes, she's gotten a lot of unfair, nasty publicity. That's politics for you! If she can't handle this, how is she going to persuade anyone beyond the conservative Evangelicals who already love her, that she can handle national office? Resigning like this, with 16 months to go in her term, just vindicates her critics.

Jul 6, 2009

From a purely political view, this does make some sense. How many politicians with presidential ambitions have been crushed by circumstance? Her crowning achievement (the natural gas pipeline) is a done deal, and her approval rating in Alaska has no where to go but down.

Jul 6, 2009

she is doing something no political player can comprehend. she is removing herself at personal risk for the folks she was HIRED to represent. i believe she honestly ran for governor to be an asset to alaska. the DNC and media lapdogs have made that impossible. how refreshing!! a public servant doing what is best for her constituents rather than her own personal self interest. would that others could follow her unconventional lead. on this independence day great reminder the government belongs to us not the other way around. yoou political hacks in washington in your 8th term, take a lesson. two things come to mind. why was the media so afraid of her? and i need a bigger palin bumpersticker

Jul 6, 2009

For far toolong, the majority of our population has been put in a very uncomfortable sector. Majority = Blacks, Latinos & Poor Whites. Forced us into an unnecessary war, convene special Congressional session for the life of a dying woman in Florida against the husband's will & into POVERTY. The nation is sick & tired of Republican "Miss-Fits". One by one, they'll come and fade out as diminishing stars. Watch, as the Almighty does His thing. They have been makink a fool of thewmselves in the name of God.

Jul 6, 2009

The Democrats, being the vicious horrible people they are, were successful in "Quayling" her. Maybe she's going to advance the cause she believes in such as motherhood.

Jul 6, 2009

Rev Felix, your fellow Democrat politicians voted for the Iraq war but gave up when the going got tough. Thanks to the strength of G W Bush we won. If you cannot see our country is better for it, you're not too smart. PS: Assuming you're a good Democrat, I'm somewhat suprised you believe in God.

Jul 6, 2009

I have a few questions for Sarah Palin's shameless boosters like, say, Mary Matalin, and the court jester/carnival barker Glenn Beck, et. al. Is it "hateful" or "bigoted" to point out that Palin believes that the dinosaurs were here on the earth 4,000 years ago? Should we Americans should feel comfortable giving the nuclear football launch codes to such a person as Sarah Palin? Does John McCain have any sense of shame or embarrassment?

Jul 6, 2009

Michael, surely you see no one is taking on Washington. Where are the other Rep presidential candidates...where is Romney...Giuliani...none of these guys are speaking out. There is a longing for someone to take on Washington. What has she to lose the media, liberals and RINO republicans hate her. Her resigining has been all you people have talked about since Fri. She now has 3 years to beat on Obama because the punk republicans are to scared and Sarah knows there is a void to be filled by someone who will. So I say Liberals and RINOs beware. You are sitting on the traintracks out of gas and the big light is bearing down on you. Be afraid ....be very afraid!!

Jul 6, 2009

I had a high opinion of Palin but I think this finishes her as a serious candidate. As far as I am concerned she has abandoned her post. She was elected by the people of Alaska to serve out her term and she has let them down. If she did this on some kind of calculation, she miscalculated. To leave an office you agreed to serve in in order to spend more time pursuing a higher office makes you look ambitious at the expense of the public. They say nobody likes a quitter. I know I don't and I expect she'll find out how true that statement is.

Jul 6, 2009

SCSoxFan is right: Mark Tapscott is the only commentator I saw who mentioned the Tea Parties. She's going to get out in front of the people who are disgusted with Imperial Washington, help them forge the GOP into a mighty instrument at the local and state level, and then lead the charge to return power to the states. A crisis has been building for decades; now it is upon us. There are many, many people who have determined that one way or another, the statist juggernaut must be stopped. You lefties better hope Sarah is successful; you won't like the alternative.

Jul 6, 2009

I should also point out that Sarah Palin was elected to serve as governor, not sentenced. She did not want to sacrifice her family and its financial situation to please those who wanted her to continue as governor. She put Alaska and her family ahead of her ambitions. What is it about reasoned analysis and selflessness that many cannot understand?

Jul 6, 2009

I am with ronnie, Sarah has her hands tied in Alaska and suddenly she realized that what we in middle America feel, that NO ONE is speaking for us in Washington. We need a voice for fiscal responsibility, love of America as the most generous country and people on earth, the need for family values, and the will to speak out against those who tarnish our country and are self serving politicians and media insiders. Name one Republican in office who will stand up and say why Obama's policies are wrong day in and day out until someone starts listening. Sarah will and I don't really care the words she uses are not eloquent enough for the media, maybe because I used to be a point guard too!

Jul 6, 2009

It seems that ALL politicians are interested first in their "careers" A.K.A. POWER, so I personally find extremely refreshing that someone resigns from an elected position without having some prostitute, mistress, gay lover, embezzelment, tax fraud, or other such nefarious scandals about to erupt. Though I don't agree with her resignation and am also confused, why can't we as a nation give her credit for being THE REAL DEAL as someone who really intensely feels and knows that public service is to SERVE the public, not stick it to or screw the public?

Jul 6, 2009

Sarah: Stay home and enjoy life with your family. The 4th estate will BURY you ! You don't want to be President anyway after this MORON Zero because this destruction of our once-great nation will be blamed on ZERO'S successor. Irreparable damage! BYE BYE Mss American Pie. USA-United States of ACORN!

Jul 6, 2009

Sarah: Stay home and enjoy life with your family. The 4th estate will BURY you ! You don't want to be President anyway after this MORON Zero because this destruction of our once-great nation will be blamed on ZERO'S successor. Irreparable damage! BYE BYE Mss American Pie. USA-United States of ACORN!

Jul 6, 2009

TG; we got a President carrying the nuclear football launch codes thinking the USA is made up of 57 states!

Jul 6, 2009

Why is it considered a failure to leave office to run for President but perfectly acceptable to run for President while IN office? Who was serving PresBO's or McCain's constituents while he was running? It certainly wasn't the person elected to the position! If any of us started looking for a new job on our present company's time, we would be fired. In Washington, it just means you go back to what you were doing before... and expect everyone to forget you ignored your job for a couple of years. I find it refreshing when a candidate cannot allow themselves to serve an electorate poorly while running for higher office. I think all politicians should have to quit their present jobs before running.

Jul 6, 2009

Wait wait wait. Do we have Republicans, the people from whom the term Swiftboating originated, do we have them here whining about people being mean to their girl Sarah? LOL. Get out of the kitchen, you can't stand the heat!

Jul 6, 2009

Sarah Palin is one of the few I'd eagerly support from among the possible GOP presidential contenders. I'm in the camp of "we have to wait and see" what she intends to do in "advancing in another direction." What really amuses me is how the commenters can't get out of the prism of analyzing her decision to resign on political ambition grounds. For anyone who actually listened to her statement, she made the facts clear -- that the political attacks, meant to destroy her, have gone so far that they are hurting Alaska too now. She ran for office to serve Alaskans, not to "milk" the office for personal aggrandizement -- although that's what ruler Obama wanted for himself and his crooked cronies. She wants to stop the harm to Alaska, and she especially wants to ensure that the attacks directed toward her don't take down Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell -- which would damage Alaska even more.

Jul 6, 2009

Mr. Barone, you are typically an acute political observer. You must be aware that Palin is a force like no other in recent memory. As opposed to serving out her term as governor being a help to her, it is a hindrance. She is established in the political world. HOw is her name recognition? She needs to be able to get out on the field and play with the other big guns. Being governor of Alaska limits her travel and time. Walking away from it frees her up to do politics, although not by conventional methods. If she finally is able to make people understand that she means what she says, and she says it in plain English, she is likely unstoppable. She may or may not ever run for President, but she is a political force already. This move makes her a much bigger force. Love her or hate her, she is going to be in the news and making news for the foreseeable future.

Jul 6, 2009

Pontification doesn't matter; time will prove the facts

Jul 6, 2009

Cyjeff, leaving office would have meant not running for a second term as governor. If that had been her announcement, that would have been fine. Instead she is quitting an office she sought, knowing full well how long the term was. Her reasons for leaving make running for another office illogical. Does she think the attacks on herself and her family will go away in two years, or ten? She had no problem running for vice-president. Would she have quit the second highest office in the land after the VF article? If she couldn't handle the fishbowl now, how is she going to handle it later? I'm a conservative and I looked forward to seeing Palin on the national stage but now I don't see how I can vote for her, on any level. If she wants to work for the party or in some other capacity that's fine but I can't see voting for someone I can't count on.

Jul 7, 2009

"How does resigning as governor strengthen her as a presidential candidate?" Because as a Republican governor, she cannot get away with what Obama could. She cannot campaign for the presidency and against Barack Obama the way he began campaigning against Bush and for the presidency nearly as soon as he was elected to the Senate. being a Republican she would be held to a different standard with the left, the media and probably many Republicans complaining that she is neglecting her duty as Governor by trying to increase her national profile. By resigning, she can do what NO other Republican has yet done -- forcefully fight, indeed campaign, against the Obama/Democrat agenda.

Jul 7, 2009

You've heard pro-choice people express anger at Sarah Palin for having a child? Who? Can you provide some evidence of this? "How dare you have a child" is not something I've ever heard, anywhere, in an attempt to score points against someone. Perhaps you insert the words "seems like" when you want to say something you have absolutely no evidence for. It's a childish ploy, and it insults our intelligence.

Jul 7, 2009

Re: Jason Uphoff.. Yours is the best simple explanation I have read so far. All of the talking heads just do not understand because she isn't "playing the game" and they know no other way of approaching politics. There is a real grassroots movement to take our country back, regain our freedoms, she is now free to join the fight, without risking constant retaliation toward the state she loves so much.

Jul 7, 2009

Mr. Barone, are you insane? You really believe that liberals dislike Palin because she gave birth to Trig? Do you talk to any actual liberals anymore? Do you think we all get together and discuss how we just would adore Sarah Palin if it wasn't for that meddling baby? I am thrilled she kept her child. I also happen to think she is fruit loops, flaky, intellectually vapid in a way that puts W to shame, and dangerous. No wait, I hate her baby. That's the only logical reason anybody could oppose her.

Jul 7, 2009

Maybe Sarah Palin is going John Galt. Lots of discussion about the 2012 presidential election, but the real action is in 2010. If the 2010 election doesn't put the brakes on out of control spending and big government incompetence, will the country hold together for 2012?

Jul 7, 2009

The more they hate her, the more I love her. She has more integrity in her little finger than Obumbler and all his legion that have deceived their way to power and prominence.

Jul 7, 2009

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Jan 4, 2010

There is a real grassroots movement to take our country back, regain our freedoms, she is now free to join the fight, without risking constant retaliation toward the state she loves so much.
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