I’ve decided today that Sarah Palin is sort of a genius.
Unless the real reason she’s stepping down is that the National Enquirer is about to publish a cover story revealing that she’s actually a man who became a woman to escape his history as a Sandinista guerilla fighter, her resignation is flat-out brilliant. It’s certainly possible that she’s leaving her post in advance of some big, ugly, serious scandal becoming public, but I suspect not. And if not, then she’s made the best political move I can imagine in her plan to run for president in 2012.
Whenever I make a big decision, or help someone else make a decision, I always ask this question first, “what’s the downside?” If we ask that question about Sarah Palin’s decision to resign, there really isn’t one of any consequence. Sure, some (not all) Alaskans will be irritated. And some Americans will consider her a quitter. But as Palin begins to build her national organization in earnest, the pissy Alaskans will be equivalent to a few political gnats, and the folks in the lower 48 who will express their disapproval of her resignation don’t like Palin anyway, no matter what she does.
So those are the negatives. If there is any other downside, I am not seeing it. And of course, we Americans have a short attention span, and the “quitter” label just won’t carry any weight within a year, particularly since Palin is now an iconic figure who transcends any single action she takes.. Given who she is, and the passions she stirs in people, the relatively dull, bureaucratic fact that she decided to leave office early really won’t factor in the grand scheme of the Palin narrative
So what are the benefits to Palin? They are huge. First of all, her resignation offers the very basic positive of immediately freeing her from the ethical and logistical constraints that come with her office; as givernor, she can’t leave Alaska too often. She can’t raise money as easily. She has to deal with day to day tasks of actually governing, and she has to face the press scrutiny that comes with being a high-profile, sitting public official.
So Palin resigns yesterday, pointing to the truly unprecedented way she continues to be trashed in the media. She frames it as “best for Alaskans,” saying that the press has essentially driven her from office, and noting that she’s doing the honorable thing by walking away so that Alaskan government can regain some sense of peace and normalcy. Plus, even as she claims that her family’s privacy continues to be violated, she explicitly reminds us that her toddler has Down Syndrome, and she gets Good Mother points by saying she needs to spend more time with him.
Both the suggestion that she’s basically been forced out of office by the liberal media, and her stated plan to be some version of the saintly stay-at-home mama galvanize her admittedly limited, but very enthusiastic and cohesive base: the rightest of right wing Republicans, plus Evangelical Christians. They love her already; now she becomes a crusading martyr with a story to tell, and a comeback to plan. While her base doesn’t actually have enough votes on their own to get her elected, she can spend the next 18 months wringing every last penny they have to give out of them, money she can then parlay into a more comprehensive and well-financed campaign organization that will do its job of turning that money into votes outside of her base. For the next year and a half, Palin will be on the road continuously, speaking, rallying and passing the hat at churches, pro-life meetings, and gun advocacy groups. And when she’s not out there rallying her activist footsoldiers, she reinforces her mainstream GOP street cred with occasional Fox News analysis gigs.
It’s brilliant, I tell you.
Don’t underestimate Sarah Palin. Any woman who can calmly stare down David Letterman, without blinking, forcing a humiliating public apology out of a man who routinely makes lesser mortals weep via his withering excoriation is a woman with a plan. A big plan.
You wait and see.
CLARIFICATION: Thanks for all the comments on this post (except the ones I had to delete – the ones threatening violence against other commenters. Sheesh people.) After writing the post yesterday, and seeing the dozens of “Right on, fellow Palin supporter!” comments since that time, I feel the need to clarify for those who are perhaps first time visitors to my blog that I am not a Sarah Palin supporter. (That would, in fact, be a radical understatement.) In saying that I believe Palin’s resignation was a brilliant move for her in terms of pure political strategy, I am not suggesting that I support her policy positions, or that I hope she succeeds in her quest to become president. But yes, I do think that she just checkmated her political enemies in a pretty clever way. And I also think she’s a seriously tough cookie with a Big Plan. But for those of you who read the post offering my recognition of these things, and then got the impression that my compliment for Palin’s political savvy equates to being a fan or supporter, sorry to disappoint. But I hope you’ll consider stopping by my blog again, now that you’ve discovered me. I may be one of “those people” you love to hate, but at least now you know I’m one who is willing to call ‘em like I see ‘em 
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“The buzz in Alaska is that the IRS is about to drop the hammer on the Palins.”
The same IRS headed up by a tax cheatin’ liar??? That IRS. I’d sure love to see them try….. there could be some huge backlash.
I find it refreshing that Sarah put the needs of her state (to have effective and efficient government) ahead of herself. She truly has a servant’s heart. She is a fiscal conservative who hates to waste money as well. The ridiculous ethics complaints must have rankled not only her heart but her pocketbook and the pocketbook of her state. Imagine a politician who is concerned with how the taxpayers money is spent……
Sarah is not the only governor to “quit” her job recently, UT, AZ, SD come immediately to my mind. I wonder if we should be calling them quitters too and saying their political careers are over??
And there are some governors who should have “quit” IL, NM, and SC come immediately to mind.
I respect her for her deciscion and believe she has a bright future ahead.
“The buzz in Alaska is that the IRS is about to drop the hammer on the Palins.”
The same IRS headed up by a tax cheatin’ liar??? That IRS. I’d sure love to see them try….. there could be some huge backlash.
I find it refreshing that Sarah put the needs of her state (to have effective and efficient government) ahead of herself. She truly has a servant’s heart. She is a fiscal conservative who hates to waste money as well. The ridiculous ethics complaints must have rankled not only her heart but her pocketbook and the pocketbook of her state. Imagine a politician who is concerned with how the taxpayers money is spent……
Sarah is not the only governor to “quit” her job recently, UT, AZ, SD come immediately to my mind. I wonder if we should be calling them quitters too and saying their political careers are over??
And there are some governors who should have “quit” IL, NM, and SC come immediately to mind.
I respect her for her deciscion and believe she has a bright future ahead.
Hope you’re right Mamapundit. But I don’t see it that way. I think she’s out of it. To state that she’s quitting because she believes a lame duck gov can’t be effective? Hun, that is a burnt bridge. Now if she ever wins the POTUS, the msm, dems etc will hammer her in a 2d term over that statement. As much as I love Sarah, it was a very lame excuse.
I think that she certainly and recently banked a huge check from publisher Harper/Collins and then she looked around at her very vulnerable family. And then she made her decision. Family first. I am certain it was difficult for her. But there was no sign of the vile dem’s, msm and GOP moderates backing off. And who can blame her? I don’t. Certainly she’ll campaign for conservative 2010 candidates. And if the political climate changes drastically she may get back in. But for now, she’s out. We shouldn’t delude ourselves. If she were going to remain in the political arena she’d have kept her job as Alaska gov at least for a while longer. DD
I agree with previous commenters who said that if you don’t get what Sarah said in her speech you are not listening and are putting too much into the syntax of it. Many people speak in this manner instead of the correct english of the Ivy League. We normal people heard, “I am not able to be as effective as I’d like due to the constant attacks and baseless ethics charges so I am changing the game for my family and for the good of the state of Alaska. Alaskans deserve to have their money spent on the state’s programs rather than on defending me from these baseless charges, even if I am blameless. By taking myself out of the way I am making sure that these out-of-state organizations will remove the money funding the people bringing these charges that are costing the state 2 million dollars, so far. Furthermore, I think they will lose interest and funding for attacking my family.”
sarah palin and ron paul save this country
sarah’s appeal is not just to the ‘rightest of the right’..in fact, she’s far too libertarian for those folks. the foaming-at-the-mouth left can’t seem to get beyond their inexplicable hatred for her, but the rest of us who are somewhere in the middle see someone who is very down-to-earth and worthy of admiration. it will be interesting to see what she does in the coming years.
Additionally, we heard,” I plan to spend some time uplifting my family and then I will be busy campaigning for others and furthering the adgenda I believe will be the correct way forward for our state and our country.” We did not hear, “I quit! FU!” I think Sarah will be a name in politics of our future whether she decides to run or not. This article may be correct in it’s points about Sarah making a brilliant move, but it is just a move, brilliant or not. The proof of it’s effectiveness is yet to be seen and there is the chance that it could be a flop….We’ll see soon enough!
Nice work here Katie. Everything is qualified with “as long as she isn’t about to” pick yer poison – audit, probe, cover-story, indictment-
there, in fact, isn’t much downside.
Voters didn’t let Ed Muskie off the hook for crying, nor Dan Quayle for mispelling potato (or is it potatoe?). She’ll have a number of years to remake herself and overcome that branding. So yeah – she may be ‘politically’ genius (since we’re qualify)
But what if her rational is driven by something totally unheard of?
> Just ready to get out, got more important things to do
Mark Steyn at The National Review had a fresh article about Palins resignation in The Corner section http://ow.ly/guDz
“In states far from the national spotlight, politics still attracts normal people. You’re a mayor or a state senator or even the governor, but you lead a normal life…
Most of those who sneer at Sarah Palin have no desire to live her life. But why not try to – what’s the word? – “empathize”? If you like Wasilla and hunting and snowmachining and moose stew and politics, is the last worth giving up everything else in the hopes that one day David Letterman and Maureen Dowd might decide Trig and Bristol and the rest are sufficiently non-risible to enable you to prosper in their world? And, putting aside the odds, would you really like to be the person you’d have to turn into under that scenario?”
It’s worth a read. Since it politics I’m laying 50-1 odds that’s not why she resigned. But a little part of me holds out hope that she just decided … to walk away. “Got more important things to take care.”
Keep writing Katie,
Brian
“To state that she’s quitting because she believes a lame duck gov can’t be effective?”
Isn’t quite what she said. She didn’t say, in generic terms, a lame duck governor can’t be effective. She said that, in THIS case, the state would be better served by having her lieutenant governor get some time in office for incumbency in the next election. That way, he continues her policies, and she’s freed up to do whatever.
And think of what she’s going to do next now that she’s freed up. It’s not as if she’s going to go home, and the next we see of her is popping up in January ’12 to enter the primaries. She’s going out to do something, and depending on how that goes, it could completely reverse any disappointment over Friday.
For example, if she were to go out and take a visible and/or pivotal role in returning conservatives to control the House in 2010? If she could pull that off, would anybody even *remember* despairing way back during this weekend? There’s a long way to go still even before midterms.
Sorry, but not completing her term is not a good idea. I mean, would another 16 months have been that bad? What about the charges that she does not have enough of a track record of results?
Quitting now, rather than just building a track record for another 16 months, is a poor move. Period.
Bobby Jindal will not quit his job, even though the left-wing attacks against him will be even worse than Sarah Palin’s. Just see.
The only positive I see from this is not for Palin, but for the Right in general.
Palin becomes a martyr – driven from office by the vile leftists who attacked her children because they are not above such tactics. Now, the left will claim victory, and go on to tear down the next conservative. The left will thus overreach (by, say, attacking Bobby Jindal’s kids in racial terms), and provoke a backlash from the center and right that really decimates the left.
So this is the perfect bait with which to lure the left into the error of overreach, and decapitate them after the left takes the bait.
So the best thing the Right can do is make Palin a martyr, and set the left up for the ultimate trap.
Who says she’s not going to build a track record for the next 16 months? Given the circumstances, it appears she can build a much better one from outside than from inside.
I am Irish born, live in Australia, never was in the US.
I knew zilch about Palin when McCain chose her as running mate and I was intrigued by her, and listened to her comments, and watched her body language.
I see no signs of her being dumb.
She can make errors of judgment, as I may be making here, but that does not make her dumb.
As regards the press reports, the Letterman remarks, I find them unprofessional, juvenile, and downright disgusting. And I compare her behavior with that of Hilary Clinton who broke down in tears about media coverage.
My guess is that she would like to be a national figure, and believes that she has something to give the US. I doubt she will make it – she is a kind of female Don Quixote. Not lacking in brains, courage, but up against stupid name callers. Also I think the US will be the poorer for what they did to her and her family.
Of course they attacked her family, that’s how you get at a woman like her. Male’s families are kind of out of bounds. Males have a habit of resorting to physical violence at times like that.
I neither love nor hate Sarah Palin – but the Vanity Fair writer clearly needs to get out more. As in, out of New York. Who can take seriously an article that includes:
“It is in this Alaska—where it is possible to be both a conservative Republican and a pothead, or a foursquare Democrat and a gun nut—that Sarah Palin learned everything she knows about politics, and about life.”
If the author thinks there’s something wildly odd about a gun-nut Democrat or a pot-smoking conservative Republican, there’s only one word for him: clueless. For pete’s sake, man, quit navel-gazing in Soho and come visit America.
Anyone who has to quote from Vanity Fair, or MTV for their political gossip is less than believable source! How shallow!!! It’s like telling teens to find their idols from American Idols Show! It is just sad. This writer apparently is biased… or simply very immature.. This is like an article written by a 15 years old at a school newspaper.
I do not particular like Palin, nor do I like Michelle Obama. However, one thing I have to say is the media has been ruthless and ridiculously low!!! David Letter has to apologize twice because he crossed the line of insulting a teen… I don’t care she is just 18 or 21. Let along she is only 14! I know he said he did not know… well…ooops. You just punched someone to bleedy lips… oops.. just the wrong one! Since I am a comedian… I can claim i am innocence… Well, this is the biggest problem with liberals… it is always someone else’s fault.. the society’s fault, the parent’s fault, the government’s fault, the neighourhood’ s fault… the TV’s show fault!! NEVER their own!
One need only read the myriad responses to this story to understand why it was a good move: A pot pouri of intellectual and neanderthal thought. My old pappy once said, “A hit dog do bark.” By reading the posts, you can spot the dogs!
I think people are looking to much into this. I think its simple. We all know how much Sarah loves Alaska and she would NEVER do anything to compromise the state.
With all the media coverage and the internal political bickering she realized that she can no longer effectively govern her state. Announcing she isn’t running for re-election with her new lame duck statues – would have just made it even more difficult to achieve any results. She did the right thing for her state and she up help what she has sworn to do to faithfully discharge her duties as governor to the best of her ability… Sarah risked her political future by faithfully discharging her duties for the best of Alaska.
This post makes sense if we’re all now living in some crazy non-linear female universe where being authentically Sarah trumps either ideas or governance. Reagan never did anything like this and neither did Thatcher, but of course they lived in a male-dominated world where you proved your merits by showing you could lead consistently and by articulating core philosophical principles on a daily basis. Sarah has allowed herself to become a pop-cultural phenomenon when this country desperately needs a serious leader. Must I add that a good faith effort to speak readily decipherable English would be a plus?
“… the folks in the lower 48 who will express their disapproval of her resignation don’t like Palin anyway, no matter what she does.”
Wrong! I have been a supporter of Mrs. Palin and she was my girl for 2012. No more. I have lost all faith in her judgement and ability to lead. I can’t think of a worse political move than this. It was just plain stupid.
Kenn
If you truly have been a supporter of Gov Palin, I know you are now disappointed and the commentaries you are fed on TV aren’t helping you much. But if you let it settle in and think what she has done you’ll come around to realize she did what was best for Alaska. In the meantime I would advise you to read the following articles it will help you get a grip of things.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Conventional-wisdom-cannot-explain-Palin-49924842.html
And this from someone who’s first reaction was like yours and has now come around.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/
Alaskan bush pilots like her hubby Todd call this type of manuvering “augering in” ie as in a nose dive crash. Most only get one try to get it right!
A simple ‘thank you’ for this piece. May God bless this brave woman.
Agree with comment on Gateway Pundit blog that Palin will prove to
be our Fort Sumter.
You don’t burn the type of bridges she is burning in politics if you want to run for president.
She is not as popular as the posters here think.
I think she will run after the money and become part of the media and do a political news show.
“Vanity Fair”? William Makepeace Thackeray, the author of the exceptional book “Vanity Fair,” has been dead since 1863; he never wrote about Palin. Whatever this thing referred to above as “Vanity Fair” is, it is clearly a cheap knock-off consumed by those who either know no better or do know better yet choose to go with the flow. Do not accept it.
I think Sarah Palin is brillant. She is a very gutsy,strong and loving lady. Whatever she decides to do, I will support her 100%. I feel very honored to have lived in an era when a person like Sarah Palin has taken the call to serve the American people. The liberal media has not heard the last of her. LOOK OUT you left wing goons.
Obama left his US Senate position to campaign. Sure, he didn’t “officially” resign
(why give up that steady paycheck, Barry) but continued to do nothing as a senator!
I supported the McCain/Palin ticket and was thrilled when she was picked as the running mate. But the press conference the other day left me thinking she couldn’t handle the scrutiny that goes with politics. She and her family were not treated any worse than the McCains, the Bush family or even the Clintons. The only candidate (and family) who were ever given a pass by the media are the Obamas – and that’s because they’re black and the media didn’t want to be called racist.
SHE IS BRILLIANT. IT IS NOT ALL BECAUSE OF THE SCRUTINY, ALTHOUGH SHE HAS HAD MORE OF HER FAIR SHARE. ALL THE WOMANS GROUPS ETC DID NOT SAY A WORD. AND AS FAR AS OBAMA GOES YEA HE’S BLACK BUT THE MEDIA COVERS UP EVERYTHING HE DOES AND CANDY COATS EVERYTHING HE SAYS OR TRIES TO MAKE A BILLION LIES SOUND LIKE THE TRUTH. FUTHERMORE ALSAKA HAS BEEN SPENDING TONS OF MONEY NOT TO MENTION HRS. FOR ALL THE STUPID LAWSUITS.SHE IS NO QUITTER, AND SHE WILL PROVE THAT IN THE MONTHS TO COME. SARAH IS AN HONEST,SINCERE, AND A PATRIOT. SHE REALLY LOVES AMERICA. I UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE IS DOING.
I have never heard of such mean spirited reporting about a person in my life. No matter what Sara Palin does, it is wrong according to some. They say she is dumb, doesn’t know how to act in public, etc. She is striking fear in the politicians hearts, because she is real. They fear her and so do the papers/mags..How come no one picked up Obama and his visiting 57states? Austrian language? Not too smart to me and all the lies during campaign..but why be nasty?
I was always taught, when you report the news..your opinion doen’t matter, you are to be unbiased. That is true reporting. There is something going on in America and instead of knocking people, we better pay attention, before it is too late.
Oops, my mistake. She’s brilliant, she’s a sage, she’s
a legend, she’s a great political mind.
Nah, that’s not it.
She’s a frickin’ idiot better suited for peddling tampons on the airwaves. At least she could (probably) read that copy correctly.
The inability to speak extemporaneously and to form complete sentences (much less thoughts) is quite striking, only trumped by the stupidity of people on this website who are unable to see that very obvious flaw.
We (should) want our leaders to be smarter than us. The problems we face are complex and nuanced, and waaaaaay beyond her “job creation/not business as usual/mavericky” sound bite lunacy.
The reason that liberals are rabid about her is that there has never been anyone as dim on the national stage—-ever. And that is terrifying. She’s not even as bright as my puppy.
All conservatives should ridicule the Obamacans when they call Sarah Palin stupid. For deeds are more than words, and the deed of the Obamacans in supporting the Obama cult and believing that this action, this support of the so called “smart power” in Obama, will make the supporters smart… is more funny than a thousand Nigerian scams successfully employed against nit witted and gullible Leftists.
The Left is stuck on stupid, because their foolish Utopia will not change their genetics. Stupid is permanent, and it is not just a literal bump in the road, a setback.
But SHE is deeply stupid, and HE is deeply smart.
Those points are unimpeachable, you jackass.
I can’t think of a worse political move than this. It was just plain stupid.-Kenn
Exactly which election did you win against corrupt Democrats and Republicans, again?
I would have thought that conservatives had by now realized the folly of hubris. You are not the center of the universe. You are not the supreme decider of life and fate.
If it will take more suffering and the concrete of truth to pierce people’s self-delusions, then so be it. For hubris will fall in the end, one way or another.
Your entire post is … wrong.
I am – or was – an enthusiastic Palin supporter. Many in my circle are – or were – excited to vote for her again.
Now? Now I, and millions like me, are a little less enthusiastic. And that is an ENORMOUS downside, my friend.
If she wins a primary battle and gets the nomination, I’ll still be voting for her, of course. But I now have serious questions about both her will and her wisdom. Had she finished her term and then quit … fine. But what she did just reminds me of what the Obama-ites do. And I thought she was different.
I still like her enormously personally, but as a candidate – I’ll look elsewhere now, for someone with both more gravitas and more real experience … and without a track record of bailing on constituents.
If you think the above opinion among conservatives is rare … you’re both naive and not reading the major blogs. If you think that isn’t a downside, you’re insane.
It’s to bad. Had she finished a term or two, gotten some foreign policy experience in the Senate or a future cabinet … then run 2020 or so, I’d have been an avid supporter.
Now, she’s just another disappointing politician, albeit a charismatic one with whom I agree on most issues.
Shorter version: she’s finished.
Those points are unimpeachable, you jackass.
What’s unimpeachable is that Planned Parenthood didn’t have nearly enough time to plan Obama’s abortion when he didn’t have a right to vote yet.
Do you believe your personal eugenics belief based upon your personal criteria of who deserves to live (the smart) and who deserves to die (the dumb) will not eventually come and terminate you?
Do you believe Western sterilization and enforced genocide of the poor brown and blacks in Africa and elsewhere won’t come back at you? Hah
You want to talk about American sins, Obama’s brilliance, first look to yourself. You are too deficient to realize what is what. Irredeemably deficient.
What goes around, comes around. Your crimes against those weaker than you, those you deem inferior, will blowback on you. The rise and fall of civilizations would mandate this, if justice and a God won’t.
If stupidity is the measure of a life’s quality to Lorna here, then obviously those who propped up Obama as a “smart” (puppet), when he thinks there are 57 states in the US, must not be living a very satisfied life.
I have to agree with the author, Katie – Palin’s move was a brilliant political move.
She took the Alinsky rule #13 away from the Lib’s, and strategically set herself up to
support Conservatives by raising funds, while she can rack up study time and experience
for her resume.
I also agree that her speech was cogent, coherent, and crystal clear: she is doing
what is best for Alaska by removing herself from any ethics charges, saving taxpayers
from having to foot the bill for this malarky. Her lawyer made a statement which
basically draws the line in the sand: back off, or there will be a lawsuit; and, as a
private citizen, she can now do this! Brilliant!!
(By the way, she made the basketball analogy because she played basketball in highschool.)
Whether it is simply to help maneuver Conservatives into positions for 2010, to set
herself up for a possible POTUS bid, or both! – only time will tell. She said herself
(quoting MacArthur) that she is “…advancing, in a new direction.” Awesome political
move. Great for the family, and great for Conservatives. You ROCK, Sarah!!
If you think the above opinion among conservatives is rare … you’re both naive and not reading the major blogs. If you think that isn’t a downside, you’re insane.
It’s a downside, but only because people are stupid.
That’s why they need leaders. That’s why they need to be told what to do. That’s why they voted in Obama.
And conservatives are only slightly better. For the last few decades in which the Left transformed this nation while everybody sat around and argued politics, education, and their personal bank accounts, what have the conservatives and Republicans been doing?
They’ve been talking about compromising with Democrats, as if this was still a nation of the loyal opposition vs the party in power.
We’ve seen this before, when conservatives or those who claimed they wanted to see victory in Iraq occur, met up against Petraeus and COIN. Oh the battles they fought to segregate Iraq, to contest Bush, to annihilate him. Only because they refused to admit that they were wrong.
If it so happens that Palin proves the idiocy and the blindness of her detractors or those who just didn’t get it because they don’t have the expertise or the interest to get it, will people admit that they were wrong? Will they admit their plan to split Iraq into 3 parts was wrong, and would have resulted in aiding treasonous elements had it succeeded?
Some will, most won’t. And that’s humanity for you. No matter the individual competences of individuals, no matter their “experience”, people are still stupid once you get them together in groups of more than 2.
Had she finished a term or two, gotten some foreign policy experience in the Senate or a future cabinet … then run 2020 or so, I’d have been an avid supporter.
You are a complete fool if you believe this nation wouldn’t already be half way into a Chavez democracy and Mullacracy by that time.
In six months, Obama has dismantled vital safeguards on American liberties. If you are one of those moderate Republicans who think this is the time to sit back, compromise with the Dems, work out a “compromise” and just “wait and see”, you may want to look up what “procrastination” ultimately ends up with in war.
Palin is a bit more motivated than that.
It is not credible to argue she can’t run for President and build a national organization while being governor of a state, since being governor or Senator hasn’t stopped anyone else from running for President.
She can’t leave Alaska too often? Get out of my face. Being “stuck” as governors of Texas or Arkansas didn’t hold Bush or Clinton back; nor did it stop them from raising money; nor did the day-to-day tasks of governing or press scrutiny stop them from running for President.
If the press drove her from office as governor, how is she going to handle being President? Much more press heat in that kitchen.
I wish people who attributed statements to me would look to what I wrote, below the by line. I both read and heard what Palin said in her statements. I got it! She spoke clearly and understandibly. She gave me hope for the future of our country. I emailed her a letter of support asking where to donate and volunteer if and when she starts her campaign. I hope she gets enough air time to counter Obama’s every attempt socialize the nation.
Sarah is one of the few people who can make Laura Bush look like a genius.
Big news out of Alaska saying that Sarah Palin’s resignation as Governor is actually damage control because a major embezzlement scandal is about to erupt involving construction projects in her home town of Wasilla.
^^^^Now that sounds more like the politician we have come to know.
I’m floored that the comments on this blog are so supportive of
SP, she is bird brain and an idiot and the most unqualified person to run for national office.
She is perfect for a Fox talk show!
These posts scare me. These people are going to be lurking around here now.ugh.
I have to say this is a great move. Sarah can’t do what she wants from behind that desk. Our country is going to h e double hockey sticks and she is coming to kick some…
BTW, for those who think there is something going on about her home, http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/07/04/from-palins-lawyer/
Dewi, that person you call a bird brain got a degree in Journalism and got herself elected to the governorship of a state defeating an incombant of her own party. I’ll bet her accomplishment stack up well against yours. I wondered where people on the left got their ideas. I was wondering. Do you know you are a liar? Rush posed the question the other day where liberals come from. I suggest they are the result of gay sex. Something unnatural because they seem to be unable to recognize truth.
The reasons of Palin resignation are controversial. What could be the real cause of her decision? Vote on the most possible one – http://www.votetheday.com/america/palin-resignation-424/
I am clearly the product of gay sex–cuz I am so smart!
Wow, that was stupid (see above).
Yeah, Dewi, I’ll believe that scandal when it happens. It sounds like more twaddle from the Palin-bashers, and I am decidedly NOT a Palin fan.
I tend to agree with this take.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/us/politics/08nagourney.html?hp
You said, “For the next year and a half, Palin will be on the road continuously, speaking, rallying and passing the hat at churches, pro-life meetings, and gun advocacy groups.”
Since I don’t recall anyone accurately predicting Mrs. Palin’s actions of the last 18 days, I’ll have a hard time taking seriously anyone’s predictions about Mrs. Palin for the next year and a half.
I’m not saying I don’t want Mrs. Palin to do everything you said, I believe she’s going to play her game her way.