DISQUS

balthus2 · 4 months ago

Palin is a narcissist who can't handle the scrutiny and ridicule she rightly received since being plucked from her small-town roots into the national spotlight. Now, she'll nurse her poor, damaged feelings by going on a greed-fest of epic proportions - milking the generosity of her followers - people like herself who fear that which they can not understand; the seismic cultural changes our country is undergoing. Well, that and she'll probably kill a few terrified wolves at close range from a helicopter too, just to make her feel, you know, powerful again.

Digitaldarling · 4 months ago

That's exactly it. She cannot deal with the scrutiny of having placed herself into a position of national exposure. Presumably, had the McCain/Palin ticket prevailed in November, she'd be resigning from the Vice Presidency. It certainly cannot be "easier" or give rise to less scrutiny to be VP, or (FSM help us) POTUS.

2poor2BaRepublican · 4 months ago

She's not going away. I think she's headed to fox noise to be a mouthpiece. She loves the spotlight and isnt going to give it up quietly. After all, this is the woman that wanted to give a concession speech the night John McCain lost the presidency. How she thought this was her speech to give is beyond me.

Yesterday she gave Alaska the middle finger as she spring-boarded off of them in order to jump into something more lucrative for her and her family. .

TLars · 4 months ago

This makes sense to me. She's been in broadcasting before.

2poor2BaRepublican · 4 months ago

I dont understand why she calls herself a lame duck and has decided that the next year and 4 months would be a lame duck session.

You're only a lame duck when you are term limited or you announce that you are not running for re-election. She could have chosen not to make her re-election plans --public knowledge-- until maybe 10 months from now. At least she could have accomplished something in those 10 months before her term expired or she resigned. As it stands now she is leaving her job after 28 months- 3 of which she spent campaigning with McCain and this isnt counting the time she spent after the election giving speeches and campaigning for that Georgia senate run-off race in December.

Resigning now has no integrity to it. At least Clinton and Bush both had completed a full term as governor (Clinton had completed 4 terms) before they gave up their governorships to run for president.

Even after the press conference yesterday we still dont have a reason as to why she quit. She didnt really give one in her rambling, anti-media, rant. She's a joke.

Laguna_b · 4 months ago

"Higher Calling" This woman is clearly deluded and megalomaniacal....a very dangerous combination. The same person who beleives that men walked with dinosaurs to bolster her Bronze Age religious beliefs......oh John McCain...what hath thou wrought? So much for putting country before self...

colby · 4 months ago

"Assuming Sarah Palin's resignation reflects "a strategic decision to prepare for a presidential campaign,""

I think that's a HUGE assumption. It's simply a terrible idea, even correcting for the fact that Palin generally has lousy political instincts.

Dave_in_Gainesville · 4 months ago

She doesn't crash this announcement on the Friday afternoon leading into a holiday weekend if she's doing it for strategic reasons, and my gut tells me that the sharp cookies at the New York Times know that. Could they be goading her into letting-down her defenses, somehow? 'Cause she's hiding from *something*.

IndieRepub2 · 4 months ago

Good to see you again Dave. I've been gone a while.

It's pretty simple. Sitting office holders catch much more flak for violations than former ones. It saves them from the embarrassment of calls for resignation, and also since a lot of these processes are to save the public from the crazy thing she is being in office, some of these processes will slow down or stop.

Chudleigh · 4 months ago

I believe that "something" is the Trig lie, and even she
doesn't want to be a sitting governor when the truth breaks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQdYdCfl60

Jim_M · 4 months ago

One oddity of her announcement is that she referred to herself as a "lame duck". That's usually a term describing someone who can't run for reelection because of term limits. She herself was only in her first term as Governor, and was eligible for a second term. So I'm not sure if she was saying she couldn't get re-elected in Alaska, or if perhaps she just doesn't understand the meaning of the term "lame duck". Given her general lack of knowledge of politics and government, I would lean towards the second possibility.

Meffy · 4 months ago

She's collecting all the animal metaphors. Now she's a majestic caribou, a pit bull, a pig in lipstick, a moose calf surrounded by liberal wolves, a cartoon ostrich, a barracuda, a dead fish, and a lame duck.

Next week she'll be an American eagle (but one with nice hair, not the bald kind), a dust mite, a proud lioness with big pointy teeth, a roseate spoonbill, a palm civet, an amphioxus, and a seventeen-year cicada.

gypc_dave · 4 months ago

You left out Fluffy the Bunny.

kristrail · 4 months ago

Cue up "Animal Crackers in My Soup"

Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop
Gosh oh gee but I have fun
Swallowing animals one by one

In every bowl of soup I see
Lions and Tigers watching me
I make 'em jump right through a hoop
Those animal crackers in my soup

When I get hold of the big bad wolf
I just push him under to drown
Then I bite him in a million bits
And I gobble him right down

gypc_dave · 4 months ago

"I was just thinking about the way it's supposed to be,
I'll eat the plants and the fruit from the trees,
And I'll live on vegetables and I'll grow on seeds,
But I don't eat animals and they don't eat me,
Oh no, I don't eat animals 'cause I love them, you see,
I don't eat animals, I want nothing dead in me." - Melanie Safka

I'm living proof that you can be a fat vegetarian. It takes dedication, perseverance, and a lot of planning, but you can eschew meat, fish, and shellfish and still qualify for your own zip code.

Meffy · 4 months ago

Shirley Temple: Fearsome Carnivore.

(to be pronounced "car-NIV-uh-ree" in the Bob and Ray manner)

Meffy · 4 months ago

Darn, and several more I'm sure.

dkw4 · 4 months ago

This is a good quote: I read it on a comments section to Maureen Dowd's column today.

"I believe it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote, "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag carrying a cross...we will have fascism with a happy face."

Isn't this the 'new' republican party of Ms. Palin?

gypc_dave · 4 months ago

We'll, it's a faction of the Republican party of today. It's not really new, and you can't credit Sarah Palin for it. It's the product of PNAC and the neo-conservatives co-opting the Xtian right wing in order to gain power, which culminated in the election of George W. Bush. Call it another unintended consequence of Kissinger's "realpolitik." Or call it neo-fascism. You might even call it "belated royalism," but the Republican party was merely a vehicle for the ruthless to grab power. Don't blame the car for plowing into a crowd at full speed - hold the driver accountable.

dkw4 · 4 months ago

Thanks for the clarification.

Rapid · 4 months ago

She is toast. The only reason the press types are writing these things is to fill page inches. You can go on and on with speculation, and I am sure some will, but she is finished. She now lives in the decreasing cult of her personality, which is where she has always belonged.

Meffy · 4 months ago

We see toast, but her True Believers think they see their messiah. It's not easy to make out but look -- those two dark blotches are her posh eye makeup, that burnt spot is the nose she couldn't keep out of where it shouldn't've been, and there's an itty bitty crumb up there in the occiput...

[edited to correct typo]

alrudder · 4 months ago

All, she will probably run in 2012, not to win, but to boost her profile. It's a publicity stunt.

nightslider · 4 months ago

Ummm the only thing this moron can do is run a vacuous mouth, from a detritus filled brain. any cognitive thought passes into the public arena from her is suspect, she caannot from a meaningful sentence to cover any thing substantial, ti all has to be written out for her, see the Katie Couric interview for an example, but then again 36763 she's looking for a few good men for use as foils, you really should volunteer.

williamreynolds · 4 months ago

Now that Sarah Palin has announced her plans to resign as Governor of Alaska, she may have now set her sights on the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination.
I would like to give Ms. Palin a little history lesson...
Former Vice-Presidential Nominees who tried for their Party's Presidential nominations:
George Hunt Pendleton, the 1864 running mate of George McClellan, lost the 1868 Democratic Presidential nomination.
Charles Francis Adams, the 1848 Free-Soil running-mate of Martin Van Buren, lost the 1872 Liberal Republican Presidential nomination.
Hiram Johnson, the 1912 Progressive Party running-mate of Theodore Roosevelt, lost the 1924 Republican Presidential nomination
Earl Warren, the 1948 running-mate of Thomas E. Dewey, lost the 1952 Republican Presidential nomination
Henry Cabot Lodge, the 1960 running-mate of Richard M. Nixon, lost the 1964 Republican Presidential nomination.
Edmund Sixtus Muskie, the 1968 running-mate of Hubert H. Humphrey, lost the 1972 Democratic Presidential nomination
R. Sargent Shriver, the 1972 running-mate of Geroge S. McGovern, lost the 1976 Democratic Presidential nomination
Jack Kemp, the 1996 running-mate of Robert J. Dole, lost the 2000 Republican Presidential nomination
Joseph T. Lieberman, the 2000 running-mate of Albert A. Gore, Jr., lost the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination
John Edwards, the 2004 running-mate of John Kerry, lost the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination.

Former Vice-Presidential nominees who lost Presidential elections:
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who ran for Vice-President in 1800, lost the 1804 and 1808 Presidential elections
Rufus King, who ran for Vice-President in 1804 and 1808, lost the 1816 Presidential election.
Robert J. Dole, the 1976 running-mate of Gerald R. Ford, lost the 1996 Presidential election.

Former Vice-Presidential nominee who later was elected President:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 1920 running-mate of James M. Cox, was elected President in 1932.

So, as Ms. Palin may think that she has a clear shot at not only the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, but, also the Presidential election, thankfully, history is not on her side,
as you can clearly see by these statistics.

I would suggest that Ms. Palin take her, now tarnished, beauty pageant crown and slip off the national stage.

Chredon · 4 months ago

And don't forget that the only losing VP candidate who did make it to the Presidency, FDR, spent the interim as Governor of New York - and he didn't resign after Wall Street crashed, he rolled up his sleeves and started making things better for the people of his state - programs that worked, and that he implemented on the national scale after his election in 1932.

Roosevelt had polio, couldn't walk, was living in the worst economic times this nation has ever seen - but he didn't walk out on his obligations to the people who elected him.

kind67 · 4 months ago

Gee, soon to be Ex-Governor Palin makes former Alaska Sen. and Presidential candidate Mike Gravel seem level-headed and credible. I still think Sen. Gravel will have more of an impact with his National Initiative--see more about it at http://www.mikegravel.us
than Sarah Palin ever will. Which is probably a good thing!

TLars · 4 months ago

As far as being a presidential candidate, Palin is toast. Americans won't elect a quitter -- no matter why she quit.

nightslider · 4 months ago

only dead fish go with the flow? why then is Palin disappearing on the ebb tide?

okojo · 4 months ago

There is no way Palin is a viable candidate. She resigns from a job and give no coherent explicable reason. The speculations of why she will resigned ranged she is sick of politics to she wants to start a new crusade with her leading it as Jeanne D'Arc. Much like Jeanne D'Arc, She seems to have voices in her head telling her what to do.

Her speech on July 3rd was incoherent. She didn't make any sense. She was constantly contradicting herself. ("I love my job" to making a bigger difference outside of being governor for Alaska)

She reminds me of a 16 year old girl trying to break up with her boyfriend. She is trying to sugar coat the break up, but can't explain why she is doing it, she just rambles.

PumaSF · 4 months ago

Everything she does is a huge gamble. She can't even walk outside without causing some major controversy. I'm glad she did it and I HOPE this means she will announce her run for the presidency.

euphgeek · 4 months ago

I hope so, too. I want her to win the Republican nomination so that Obama will get four more years.

pisher · 4 months ago

Oh he'll get that anyway.

Palin would just give him the biggest landslide in American history.

Trouble is, the GOP has already figured that out.

;)

IndieRepub2 · 4 months ago

I think the GOP pushed her to resign...

Tyke · 4 months ago

Actually they sent out a letter saying they wanted the complete idiot of a governor who had demonstrated how severely ethically challenged he was to resign. It was meant for Sanford but Palin recognized herself in it and thought it was for her.

IndieRepub2 · 4 months ago

Sarah can read?

euphgeek · 4 months ago

I'm sure he will. I'd just like to have some good entertainment first. :)

balthus2 · 4 months ago

More likely within a year she'll be a Playboy centerfold. At least I HOPE that's what happens.

gypc_dave · 4 months ago

Maxim, maybe. Playboy has certain standards.

Joe517 · 4 months ago

Playboy might do her. At 46, she would be the oldest ever I think but I don't read or view the rag so I dont know for sure. I hope she would go for something like that, she would be gone for sure. Insect.

MaicoMark · 4 months ago

She's too old for Maxim. Only people like 367 find her attractive. I prefer women with intelligence.

Besides, it's obvious that most of what 367 has posted over the past few months is based on his fantasies about her, nothing about reality. I've come to doubt anything he claims (married and a lawyer). More likely he's one of those pathetic losers with no life and a lot of keyboard courage. No other explanation fits his pathological devotion. He's officially at the "creepy stalker" stage.

IndieRepub2 · 4 months ago

367 is probably just one of her media team. You think they don't send out people to these sites?

vance · 4 months ago

That's what 36763 is hoping too.

DetroitTechnoDem · 4 months ago

She'd make a better spread than a Pres!
(hey, that rhymes!)

cynic · 4 months ago

Well so would W and I sure as h..l don't want to see him as a centerfold.

36763 · 4 months ago

Everyone knows that 2012 is the President's to lose. What are the odds of him blowing it? I think his policies are wrong but I understand the counter argument. On the economy we're, to some extent, in uncharted territory. His policies could even look like they work or work enough to convince enough people not to change presidents in 2012.

Today, I'm saying his odds are 55-45. If he increases the tax burden, his odds diminish. If we get hit, he's toast. Everyone knows this also.

So what is confusing? Months ago Palin decided on one term. (Clue book deal. A gaudy embarrassment of riches for the average AK voter. She'd have waited if local politics were her primary motivators.)

She will not know exactly what she would be doing after 2010 because she would have to see how beatable Obama could be. She does not really care about being President as much as one would think. She'll make up her mind next year depending on what the economy looks like. So it's timing. There is only two factors.

I was a proponent of her running for reelection until I watched how weird Alaska politics can be. In Pennsylvania, she's never have these problems. She's and her family have been laboring under an onslaught of personal economic assaults because her state's new ethic laws are flawed. They invite abuses that cannot legally be rectified. The process had degenerated into suing her for having political opinions. Good tactic? If you want to drive people of limited means out office, then Alaska has the model Code for you.

She's not that wealthy. She and her husband had a net worth of $1.2 million before the crash and before her book deal. She has legal bills of $600,000. Had she stayed in office those bills would only mount. What sense would it make to have a pac and a book deal that you can use to advance what you believe in only to have to pay legal bills?

So she cuts her losses sooner rather than later. This gives her more time to improve herself as a national politician in an infinite number of ways. She can hump the book and grow Sarahpac.

It also helps to give her successor badly needed time as an incumbent. Big Oil still controls a lot, including those Republican politicians who oppose her in Alaska. Parnell is the best bet for her policies to continue. Otherwise, Big Oil undoes the pipeline, etc.

The down side is that she gets labeled a quitter. You saw her response already. Mitt Romney can be accused of running for president the last couple of years he held office. She has calculated that she'll run the risk of being called a quitter. Big deal she gets clobbered for whatever she does anyway.

Her decision to try to be the first female President is still based on the same equation.

Laguna_b · 4 months ago

'If we get hit he is toast'????? So why wasn't W toast after we ACTUALLY got hit....yeah, lets ratchet up the war drums again....what have we got to lose? (other than the fact that we have all the targets.....)

xgoper · 4 months ago

Just imagine if he got Osama, his Approval may go to 75%!

Joe517 · 4 months ago

Osama is most like dead and has been for years.

mag7 · 4 months ago

Please stop with the "Poor, abused Sarah" crap. She is nothing more than a professional victim waiting to exploit any challenge to instead be an attack. She totally embarrassed her ignorant self in the Katie Couric interview but once out of the studio immediately mocked her host as self-centered. Brilliant, Sarah -you're a clown and a coward. She can exploit her cute kids but they're off limits to anyone who might point that out. Her husband joins a secession effort and she masks it as rowdy independence posturing -no biggie folks. Forget her infant kids, she's the infant.

Dave_in_Gainesville · 4 months ago

You're delusional and, as of today, you are also a liar. No pundit ever told her to resign as Governor of Alaska halfway through her term, as you have claimed earlier today in this very forum, and you know it. You are a liar.

pisher · 4 months ago

"If we get hit he's toast."

Not that you're hoping for that. Of course. :[

ANY President would see a huge uptick in public support after a major terrorist attack.

Obama would handle it far better than Bush.

And let's just be grateful we'll never know how Palin would handle it.

Because she's out.

The smart move for her would have been to keep as low a profile as possible, serve out her term as governor, and wait for her GOP rivals to make mistakes--Sanford just took himself out of the running. And apparently, she felt upstaged by this. :\

The smart one is Huckabee, so far. He's the only one not making any mistakes. Pawlenty would be the toughest opponent for Obama in the general, but Huckabee is the one making all the right moves. He wouldn't raise nearly as much money as Palin--for Obama.

;)

rainfresh · 4 months ago

You give reasons for yourself to support this woman. Not the country as a whole.

When she first came out in your convention. I was ready to give it up to your party. I thought she was a winner. It only took one interview for me to realize she was not qualified for vice president. This woman in all her speeches talked reckless and dangerous. She did not include all the country, she divided us up into what she called "the real Americans & the terrorist." Your party supported this kind of talk and it has put your party OUT. Your party will not come back until you can stop this slaughter of the constitution. Yet, you continue to have people like R.L. & A.C. doing this over and over. Not only is your party doing this , but for once, people understand what you mean about "smaller government." Your idea for smaller government is to have big corporations running the country. The government is for the people and by the people,when you realize this ...just maybe something will happen, for you. I really don't think you republicans will ever learn this lesson. Your party has made people hate you ways, not you as a person, but it gets where we can't stand you. I guess it's because you never learn.

hamster999 · 4 months ago

"Months ago Palin decided on one term"

Except now it's a fraction of one term.

"She does not really care about being President as much as one would think. She'll make up her mind next year depending on what the economy looks like."

And that's assuming that it's possible to predict what's going inside that head of hers. This announcement took everybody by surprise, even her close aides. So, 36763, how do you know what Sarah is planning? Do have some information nobody else is privy to?

"The down side is that she gets labeled a quitter."

Yes, and that is a huge downside. In fact, it's so huge that it means her political career is essentially over. She had a choice: the money or the career. She made her choice. And that's fine by me. But please, please, stop the whining about how unfair it is for her. An astute politician usually manages to navigate the roadblocks, whatever they happen to be. The fact that poor old Sarah can't speaks volumes about her fitness for office.

I'm still flabbergasted that yesterday you compared Palin to Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower. Said they were all quitters. Those great Americans were NOT quitters. They all faced adversity, made personal sacrifices, and yes, were criticized by their contemporaries. But they got the job done, and we're better off as a nation for it. Palin is not in the same league, and I am astounded that anyone would try to make the comparison.

Unsphexish · 4 months ago

So, 36763, how do you know what Sarah is planning? Do have some information nobody else is privy to?

Imaginary pillow talk, I'd wager.

mostlyharmless · 4 months ago

Yeah, Sarah told him, in much the same way as God told Sarah.

IndieRepub2 · 4 months ago

One of the most important qualities a president can have is to surround themselves with good people. I don't know who's watching after Palin and reviewing her public speaking engagements, but they were a terrible choice. Same goes for her ethics adviser and her media relations team. If you can't even engage the media, how do you expect us to trust you to engage Venezuela or Iran?

All in all, Palin has proven herself to be a foolish, unprepared celebrity. She has no value outside the look good and wink sphere.

Defoe · 4 months ago

<It also helps to give her successor badly needed time as an incumbent. Big Oil still controls a lot, including those Republican politicians who oppose her in Alaska. Parnell is the best bet for her policies to continue. Otherwise, Big Oil undoes the pipeline, etc.>

In your own words 36763 you have the kernel of Sarah's failing. Here she has the perfect dragon to slay, a dragon which any credible candidate for POTUS must have slain at some time in their ascent to the doorstep of POTUS. A more perfect scene could not have been set for her. Big Oil. Her responsibility and the reward following its completion was the fruit of national credibility. She was the one who energized the debate on the pipeline but would not deign to carry it through. Her failure was someone else's (MSM) fault she says.
You say that "Parnell is the best bet for her policies to continue" but Sarah Palin was that one. She initiated it, it was her self chosen game, but she aborted the play. The failure is obvious. If she could not follow through on her actions how could she handle the larger problems of the world stage like N. Korea, or China or Iran or even some brushfire war somewhere? Who would have confidence in someone who has accomplished little beyond being a mother and surfing the waves of constant contention?
There is a momentum any Governor would acquire upon assuming office and good faith would give that Governor time to carry out the necessary things like budget etc. but here we have the graphic example of the Peter Principle wherein the manager rises to the level or his or her incompetence, writ large.

Joe517 · 4 months ago

Sarah learned her ways well from the repub playbook. If you screw up, blame somebody else, especially if it is the dems. Shift it to the 'liberal media'.

north2008 · 4 months ago

Please please please tell me about the Little Oil companies she has championed.

vance · 4 months ago

Please, please, please don't make me read another single word about this disgusting woman. And make 36763 go away.

xgoper · 4 months ago

yeah he is dreaming, i`d say Obama has about 80-20 chance of re-election short of a major terrorist attack or depression. The GOP has no one in Obama`s league and in general Americans don`t like replacing incumbent presidents.
Palin can never appeal to more than 35% of the voters and there is no way if we are in crisis mode the country would entrust our problems to this lightweight.

gypc_dave · 4 months ago

Major terrorist attack, a liability? It was a source of endless power for George W. Bush - more than he could effectively use. Even though he invaded the wrong country, destroyed our basis for international support, and never caught the bad guy, he was re-elected. It's hard to imagine a worse response to an attack by a small band of fanatics, but even that was no liability for the President.

north2008 · 4 months ago

You win. I wish I knew how to make 36763 go away, but at least it didn't have an answer for my question, which was the third time I'd posted it.

NevadaTom · 4 months ago

Drill Baby Drill :) wooooot we want more money for the oil companies and it somehow will make our gas prices fall.....(loves palin supporters what next)

Shoot Endangered Animals Baby Shoot?
Spy Baby Spy?
Rich-Tax Breaks Baby Rich-Tax Breaks?
TEA Baby TEA >>
Invade Baby Invade?

http://quitterfailin.blogspot.com

Mark_in_VA · 4 months ago

I had no idea "Baghdad Bob" landed on PW as poster 36763.

What's next? "Tis only a flesh wound"?

DetroitTechnoDem · 4 months ago

The one thing I can actually agree with you on is that I HAVE labeled her a quitter! Geez, imagine if McCain had won and croaked... six months later, we'd be hearing, "Oh, I don't wanna be president anymore. I'm hearing a higher calling saying I should run for queen of the world, so ta ta!"

*epic megafail on Sarah Palin*

NevadaTom · 4 months ago

Thats because no one likes her maybe, 1-3 blog posters i mean i notice how everytime the supporters come out its usually either right away they stop for 2-6 hours then reply so what im wondering if this guy is actually the same other palin supporters using different logins.

Pathetic.

Now make sure to hit up espn.com and how much she is going to help them
foxnews needs you
so does politico,cnn,msnbc,and twitter cya when you make your "Spam" rounds with the same post over and over again.

http://quitterfailin.blogspot.com

Tyke · 4 months ago

"I was a proponent of her running for reelection until I watched how weird Alaska politics can be."

Translation "I was a proponent of her running for reelection until I watched her poll numbers dropping like a stone and realized she very well could lose."

36763 · 4 months ago

Wrong.

Tyke · 4 months ago

"The new Hayes Research poll shows the governor's favorable rating plummeting a whopping 32 percentage points in just one year- to 54 percent. That’s the governor's lowest approval rating since taking office."

http://www.thealaskastandard.com/?q=content/new...

She's still above 50% ... for now, but the trend lines are obvious even to an intellectual lightweight like Palin.

36763 · 4 months ago

Hardly plummeting.

serafina · 4 months ago

Thanks for posting this. It's interesting to see how this decision is being interpreted by Gov. Palin's supporters. My father says she's "crazy like a fox" for resigning now. He also is convinced that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim parading as a Christian for political reasons.

36763 · 4 months ago

Your father is very astute. Put yourself in the shoes of Palin's top adviser. She fighting two wars. First, she's pinned down in Alaska where she has the Republicans, Democrats and the biggest newspaper in the state slamming her daily. Since November being Governor has cost her about $86,000 a month in personal legal fees responding to politically motivated ethics attacks take up a portion of her time. She makes $120,000 a year and has a net worth of $1.2 million dollars. Her legal fees are $600,000 and counting.

dectra · 4 months ago

Whoa, there buddy.... poster 36763 posits: "I'm saying his odds are 55-45."

You've got to be kidding, right???

Who exactly is his credible opposition? The "gop leaders" in congress? (who are they again?) Newt? Mitt? Huckabee?


They can't even get a straight plan to voice a logical difference of opinion with what the Democrats are doing.

I voted GOP since Nixon, but after the party nominated bush (the lessor) as the best and brightest that we had, I said Never Again. I won't remind the readers how he lied us into a war, or how we were ATTACKED ON BUSH'S WATCH, or that bin laden is still out there, laughing at us.

In response to Obama's desire to change course, and start to solve some of our basic problems, such as energy, education and health care, what has my 'former' party done?

They've said "NO"

As in "No" from Palin (the quitter) or Mitch Mcconnell , or Bohner, or any other republican who could and should be able to come up with a reasonable, responsible counter argument to Obama.

Leaders they are not.

If you think one of these idiots can Lead this country better than Obama, you better put down the crack pipe, son.

PumaSF · 4 months ago

Everything she does is a gamble. She can't walk outside without some frivolous lawsuit being filed against her. I support her and I will run with her. These attacks are unfair and we should all stand up to them.

Laguna_b · 4 months ago

You people believe in her like a religion....which is to say, you make up your god, then believe without any good reason that it will save you. Just what is her qualification? She can't even make clear statement much less fill it with content.

Obama is the greatest president you ever see.....barring someone not yet visible....Sarah is one of the few that could top W for incompetence and stupidity....glad she is history.

NevadaTom · 4 months ago

She isn't even in my top 10 republicans I think would win the nomination.

Laguna_b · 4 months ago

10???? Are there 10 Republicans who haven't got some scandal, not too old, not too tainted, not too rational for fundamentalists?

Actually, as long as Huckabee is in the race Palin can't even get a plurality of the stupid vote....

NevadaTom · 4 months ago

There 10 out there you just don't know their names ... just as we didn't know who obama is and I still don't really know who he is xD hes sorta like our guy who rode up on a white heavenly horse with long blonde hair and scooped up a babe ... Love at first sight(in our case vote)

http://quitterfailin.blogspot.com

jbnt729 · 4 months ago

BS. She gets exactly what she deserves. She stated that Obama was "palling around with terrorists"!

If she had evidence that Obama was hanging out with terrorists, why the hell didn't she call the police/FBI? And now, she claims she wants to do a foot race with Obama, the "terrorist". How bad is that?!

She is a disgusting un-American woman who has earned to be criticized.

dkw4 · 4 months ago

You have my permission, but I would honestly rethink what her priorities are. Do you honestly feel she could be president right now with all that is going on in the world and do a good job? That's the only question anyone has to answer. Would you want her answering the phone at three in the morning?

IndieRepub2 · 4 months ago

You're absolutely right Puma. Women are immune from ethical misconduct. Shame on us.

Tyke · 4 months ago

Damn right. I absolutely hate how so many moonbats have filed frivolous suits demanding to see her birth certificate that has already been produced!

Oh wait. That wasn't her, was it?

Sarah needs to learn that big boys and girls don't pout and stomp their little feet then cut and run from the job they promised to do because people are picking on them. She made promises to the voters in Alaska when she ran for Governor and then took an oath to serve out her elected term as Governor. It was bad enough when she failed to show up to work with the legislature so much that Alaskan Republican Legislators were seen wearing "Where's Sarah?" buttons. BTW this AWOL act during the state budget cycle came after the presidential election had been over for months.

She is running out on the state because she cannot handle the pressure of the office of the governorship of a state with fewer than 700k people. Thank God we found out that she is a quitter before she got a really important job!

IndieRepub2 · 4 months ago

Country first. Not state.

kind67 · 4 months ago

Maybe if you hold national office, that would be true. But not when you're the governor of a state.

IndieRepub2 · 4 months ago

No no no, it's always true for republicans. It's worth noting though that Alaska and Texas may be talking about themselves when they say "country." Damn successionists.

kind67 · 4 months ago

Well, if that's true then Texas and Alaska would be foreign countries--whether or not they could see the U.S. from their windows.

CarlCampos · 4 months ago

Miss Piggy has finally gone completely mental.

No serious person would have performed the kind of circus-clown performance she delivered in her duck-laden Quitter Speech. Good riddance!

Joseph Granata · 4 months ago

Sarah Palin resigning after 21/2 years in office is mind boggling, it makes no sense for her to do this. What makes it worse is that in her speech she made no sense and no real reason for resigning. She said she decided not to run for Governor and said it is better she is not a lame duck governor, ok fine, but why announce it a year before she truly had to. She could have made the decision not to run and just left it a secret by saying she has not made up her mind yet and let it go until then. But instead she decided to resign. By doing this I can see the questions already if she runs for President.

If she runs she will most likely be announcing the creation of an exploratory committee in late 2010 or early 2011 and then go to New Hampshire and Iowa to raise money and get support. However the questions will be flying. Why did she resign for governor a year before she truly needed to and then a year later decide to run for governor was this her plan all along. She has been rumored to run for Governor and this resignation just makes those speculations intensify. I am beginning to think she is as dumb as she looked in 2008.

E_Grise · 4 months ago

I was off the grid when the announcement came. Darned pity!

I interpret her passing the mantle as being self-serving: she knows that the next 18 months are going to show the destruction of everything she's taken credit for as Gov. But if she's not there when it fails, she can blame it on the new Gov: "I regret not having stayed on. I made an error in judgment in trusting that man to understand what needed to be done."

The scary possibility is that she'll spend the next 18 months cramming for the job she'd like to have. She's smart enough that she could show huge progress (any way she goes is up!).

But, nah. It's really the Peter Principle at work: at the top in Alaskan politics, she's realized that success on the national stage is beyond her - and that continued success in Alaska is also beyond her.