Palin quits

She's shown she doesn't want the job. Not that she isn't up to it.

By her own words, if you listened to her, God, familiy, country, state.

What isn't to like?

[AngusJS]

Look at the timing of the announcement - on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend in a news-filled week. Is she trying to make as few waves as possible because of some scandal we don't know about?

Pure speculation, but what she's done and said doesn't make much sense.

Not that she's ever been known for clear thinking.

Originally Posted by AngusJS

Look at the timing of the announcement - on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend in a news-filled week. Is she trying to make as few waves as possible because of some scandal we don't know about?

Pure speculation, but what she's done and said doesn't make much sense.

Not that she's ever been known for clear thinking.

And look at the time our Democratic lead congress passes thier bills much after close of business on fridays... that is a poor argument.

So what is the embezzlement story involving the Wassila sports complex and Palin ?
Upcoming Federal indictments maybe?

[bookworm_020]

Well at least her impersonator can take a break for awhile!

[Skybird]

I read the budget has become tight in the state of Alaska. Maybe she runs while there still is time.

[Max2147]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

She's had it with the lies, insults, and baseless accusations from the left. I can't say I blame her for putting her family before the junk. She doesn't have the left's political class mentality.

My Alaskan relatives would laugh their tails off if they saw this. She's a vindictive shark, even by the vicious standards of politics. People who work for the state or need a state license to work are afraid to criticize her because they're afraid that she or one of her minions will fire them.

What does this resignation mean? I don't know, but the sooner she's gone the better. She's the Pauline Hanson of American politics.

[Takeda Shingen]

Oh, that wacky Sarah Palin.

I don't think that you'll see her run for public office again, because it really won't be an option. All her opponent would have to do is ask her if she plans to walk off the job again if things get tough. If she leaves for her family, then that is something else, but I don't think this is the case. After all, she may be folksy, a woman, attractive, a mother and charistmatic, but she's still a politician. Not a very good one, but a politician none-the-less.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Max2147

My Alaskan relatives would laugh their tails off if they saw this. She's a vindictive shark, even by the vicious standards of politics. People who work for the state or need a state license to work are afraid to criticize her because they're afraid that she or one of her minions will fire them.

What does this resignation mean? I don't know, but the sooner she's gone the better. She's the Pauline Hanson of American politics.

LOL and she and her family were treated with kid gloves

Ive never heard Ms Palin described in this manner. It may be true but its the first I have heard of it.

From what I understand Ms Palin is going to campaign for conservative values, whatever that means.

[Max2147]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

LOL and she and her family were treated with kid gloves

Oh, I'm not denying that she had some cr*p thrown at her. I was just trying to point out that she's not some innocent martyr "American hero" who was slayed by the evil lefties, as CastleBravo was implying. She was vicious - indeed, that's one of the main reasons she was popular. It wasn't the left that called her a pitbull.

[AVGWarhawk]

I would go with what Torplexed believe she will do.

[CaptainHaplo]

This move actually makes ALOT of sense if she intends to return to politics.

She has a lot of legal bills from the trash that has tried to smear her, so getting out of the office to go do some speeches and such will solve that. Kind of like Bill Clinton does. Now, once the bills are paid, then its money in the bank - to start a campaign with. Being away from public office, but speaking, lets her focus and communicate her views, without the widespread media attention. She can create her grass roots movements, get a platform established, then be "dragged" into running out of a sense of service. This move actually looks like some prep for 2012.

Oh - for those that want to make fun of her - she sure made the current VP look like a moron in their debate - so you might want to be careful what you throw.

As for her being a pitbull and tough - the woman won the governorship of Alaska - you don't win something like that unless your tough as nails and sharp as glass. Funny how people deride her, yet she has been successful in many ways.

And please- ask her why she "left office' early if she runs again. She actually answered that at length when she announced her decision to not run again - but of course all some here is "blah blah blah" because they already have an opinion based on preconception. Pity.

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

She's shown she doesn't want the job. Not that she isn't up to it.

By her own words, if you listened to her, God, familiy, country, state.

What isn't to like?

What's not to like is as personal as one's own political views. About not being up to the job, refers to quitting when the going gets tough. That is not a good presidential quality.

As for congress in 2010? Sounds like a reasonable prediction.

As for conservative values? I'll start a new thread.

Buddahaid

[AngusJS]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

Oh - for those that want to make fun of her - she sure made the current VP look like a moron in their debate - so you might want to be careful what you throw.

You must have watched a different debate. The one I saw was a draw, which IIRC, was the general consensus. That, or a personal win for Palin for managing to prevent another disaster after those interviews, where she showed herself to be a moron.

After this what would you do?

Notable Quotables Flashback: Ten Months of Media Scorn for Sarah Palin By Rich Noyes Created 2009-07-04 11:23 In announcing that she was stepping down as Alaska Governor on Friday, Sarah Palin noted the unrelenting hostility of liberal media elites. In the barely ten months since she burst onto the national scene, Palin has been scorned and mocked by journalists -- including many supposedly objective reporters -- like few other politicians. Here are a few of the choicer attacks, as compiled from MRC's Notable Quotables [1] newsletter:

"She is a far-right conservative who supported Pat Buchanan over George W. Bush in 2000. She thinks global warming is a hoax and backs the teaching of creationism in public schools. Women are not likely to be impressed by her opposition to abortion even in the case of rape and incest." — Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter in a "Web exclusive" posted on his magazine’s Web site, August 29, 2008.

"[McCain has] done it [picked Sarah Palin] at great cost, because the whole Republican convention...was going to be the slogan, ‘He’s not ready to lead,’ meaning Barack Obama. Well, Sarah Palin makes Barack Obama look like John Adams. I mean, it’s just, it’s no contest." — Newsweek’s Howard Fineman on MSNBC’s Countdown, August 29.

Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift: "This [McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin] is not a serious choice. It makes it look like a made for TV movie. If the media reaction is anything, it’s been literally laughter in many places across news-" Host John McLaughlin: "Where is that? See that?" Clift: "In very, very many newsrooms." — Exchange on The McLaughlin Group, August 31, 2008.

"I’m not that convinced that that’s her baby....The daughter — who we know is fertile because she’s knocked up again, or maybe for the first time...she did like take a five-month leave from high school because she had [uses fingers to indicate quote marks] ‘mononucleosis’ right around the time the baby was being born. And the mother, the so-called, you know, okay, maybe it is the mother, but, you know, she was back to work three days later. You don’t smell something?...It’s not like they’re not willing to lie about everything else." — HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time, September 5, 2008, promoting the left-wing conspiracy theory that Sarah Palin’s infant son is actually her daughter Bristol’s baby.

"If [Bobby] Jindal had been governor of Louisiana in 2005 [during Hurricane Katrina], everything would have been different, and he would be John McCain’s running mate instead of this wacko right-winger." — Co-host Mort Kondracke talking about Sarah Palin on FNC’s The Beltway Boys, September 6, 2008.

"Before Gov. Sarah Palin came flying in from the wilds of Alaska for the Republican convention in St. Paul, there was a lot of s******ing in media rooms and satellite trucks about her beauty queen looks and rustic hobbies, and the suggestion that she was better suited to be a calendar model for a local auto body shop than a holder of the second-highest office in the land....In the press galleries at the convention, journalists wrinkled their noses in disgust when Piper, Ms. Palin’s youngest daughter, was filmed kitty-licking her baby brother’s hair into place." — New York Times media writer David Carr, September 7, 2008.

"You know, the one thing that I don’t think anybody’s said yet is that she’s very mean to animals, this woman. Why does she have it in for these poor polar bear and the caribou and she aerial kills wolves? That’s a very mean thing to do. I think that that’s an important point." — ABC The View co-host Joy Behar explaining her opposition to Sarah Palin, CNN’s Larry King Live, September 9, 2008.

"Is this a, like a Clarence Thomas where they wanted to pick an African-American for the Supreme Court so they picked the kind they wanted?...They have a person [Palin] here, who’s apparently, to some extent, in terms of foreign policy, tabula rasa. Someone they can fill up with all this neo-conservative thinking....Is that what they wanted, just sort of a vessel to sell and carry their product, rather than someone with independent thinking on foreign policy?" — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball, September 16, 2008.

CNN’s Jack Cafferty: "If John McCain wins, this woman will be one 72-year-old’s heartbeat away from being President of the United States. And if that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, it should....That [Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric] is one of the most pathetic pieces of tape I have ever seen for someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in this country. That’s all I have to say." Wolf Blitzer: "She’s cramming a lot of information." Cafferty: "There’s no excuse for that. She’s supposed to know a little bit of this. You know, don’t make excuses for her. That’s pathetic." — CNN’s The Situation Room, September 26, 2008.

"Is this [vice presidential debate] about her brain power?... Do you think cute will beat brains?...Do you think she’d do better on the questions on Jeopardy or the interview they do during a half-time?...My suspicion is that she has the same lack of intellectual curiosity that the President of the United States has right now and that is scary!" — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during the 7pm EDT Hardball on October 2, 2008 a couple of hours before the debate.

"Here’s what’s disturbing: Either she didn’t know, because actually the legislative role [of the Vice President] is just about zero as Biden says, or -- scarier -- she has a little bit of Huey Long in her. The kind of -- you could see her being a demagogue, saying ‘I got to do this, the rules are in the way, to heck with the rules, let’s do it.’" — Newsweek’s Evan Thomas reacting to Palin suggesting at the debate that a vice president has a legislative role, on Inside Washington, October 3, 2008.

"Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president…She has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start....For John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible." — Newsweek international editor and CNN host Fareed Zakaria in his Oct. 6, 2008 column

"Palin Is Ready? Please."
"The fact of the matter is, the comparison between her [Sarah Palin] and Hillary Clinton is the comparison between an igloo and the Empire State Building!" — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball, October 14, 2008.

Reporter David Wright: "Last summer, McCain mocked Obama as an empty-headed celebrity....But then he created a celebrity of his own." Clip of John McCain: "When you get to know her, you’re going to be as impressed as I am." Wright: "Many were impressed, but plenty of others came to see Sarah Palin as an empty designer suit." — ABC’s World News, November 5, 2008.

“Sarah Palin: Ill-informed, inarticulate shopaholic has ego bigger than Alaska — and she’s still the darling of the GOP.” — From Newsweek's “Conventional Wisdom” column, December 29, 2008-January 5, 2009 issue.

“Sarah Palin — now don’t laugh — is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she’s ‘collaborating’ on a book....What an embarrassment! It’s one of these ‘I told you,’ books that jocks do. You know she’s already declared — I mean, why they do it like this? ‘She can’t write, we got a collaborator for her.’” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball, May 13, 2009.

“Here’s the question: Would you rather listen to a speech by Sarah Palin or a speech by Newt Gingrich...or would you rather just stick needles in your eyes?” — CNN’s Jack Cafferty on The Situation Room, June 9, 2009.

Ex-MSNBC anchor Dan Abrams: “Sarah Palin, to me, is like the representative of everything that’s gone wrong [for the Republican Party] lately.”... Comedian Chuck Nice: “Sarah Palin to the GOP, this is what I’ve got to say: She is very much like herpes — she’s not going away. Okay? That’s it.” — Exchange on NBC’s Today, June 9, 2009.