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36763 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:06:25 -0000

Hardly plummeting.

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36763 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:03:33 -0000

Wrong.

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36763 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:02:17 -0000

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.

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dectra — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:03:08 -0000

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.

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north2008 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:25:13 -0000

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.

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e_griese — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:39:41 -0000

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.

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jag0581 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:28:29 -0000

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.

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Chredon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:57:15 -0000

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.

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IndieRepub — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:22:15 -0000

Sarah can read?

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serafina — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:40:51 -0000

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.

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Jason Platt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:52:58 -0000

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.

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CarlCampos — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:40:58 -0000

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!

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euphgeek🇺🇦🌻 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:54:02 -0000

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

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williamreynolds — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:49:37 -0000

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.

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okojo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:48:33 -0000

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.

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cynic — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:40:15 -0000

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

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IndieRepub — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:23:54 -0000

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.

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Jason Platt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:21:22 -0000

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

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Mark_in_VA ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:16:06 -0000

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

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

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IndieRepub — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:10:34 -0000

Country first. Not state.

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IndieRepub — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:03:36 -0000

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

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IndieRepub — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:02:43 -0000

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.

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IndieRepub — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:00:28 -0000

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

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IndieRepub — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:59:00 -0000

I think the GOP pushed her to resign...

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IndieRepub — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:58:04 -0000

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.