The Stunning Resignation of Sarah Palin
I honestly don’t know what to say. I don’t get it. Luckily I’m not alone, because it seems nobody else does either. Some people are trying to guess the reasons, citing burnout or family reasons or some as-of-yet hidden scandal, but until Palin says something herself or some other kind of news arises, guess is all we can do.
My sense of the response to the news from across the media and blogosphere is one of utter confusion in most places, but apart from Palinistas like Conservatives4Palin, the response from the pundits is pretty overwhelmingly negative thus far, even from conservatives. It is strange. Government officials typically resign for only a couple reasons: 1) Scandals 2)To “spend more time with the family” 3)Medical reasons. Of those three, #2 is usually only common with appointed officials like Cabinet members. Politicians typically don’t resign because of negative media attention, even at the level that Palin has gotten. If such were the case, George W. Bush would have resigned well before his second term was completed.
I also don’t buy the lame duck excuse because no politician is a lame duck until the period between an election and the end of a politician’s time in office. She either really doesn’t understand what a lame duck is (and I assume she does), or she’s hoping her constituents won’t. Unfortunately, not everybody follows politics as close as other people, so maybe she’s trying to speak to the uninterested here, hoping it slips through. I don’t think it will.
I think Ed Morrissey at Hot Air puts it best when he writes “Palin’s abandoning her post, and at least from her own description, doing it because she doesn’t want to deal with the issues of being a “lame duck,” a status all politicians have to handle at some point.” He’s right. You don’t resign unless there’s a very good reason to do so. That may be the case. The speech gave very little detail over her thought process, other than vague references to a lame duck period that won’t happen for over a year. So, there could be something else there. If so, though, why not just announce it? If there is some kind of illness in the family, I can understand wanting to have privacy, but with a national profile like hers, it’s eventually going to get out anyway. Better to say it now and end the speculation before it starts, yes?
The way all of this going down will give the perception to many that she’s only interested in her own ambitions, even at the expense of her own fellow Alaskans. Even if the reports of her no longer planning to run for president in 2012 are true, I think jumping ship now, without a valid for doing so, will put a bad taste in Alaskans’ mouths. Americans are not interested in leaders who up-and-run at the moment things seem tough. They want people there who will do their utmost best to represent them at all times, and leaving office now makes Palin seem like someone who isn’t as tough as they might have hoped. In any case, it will come back to haunt her should she wish to run for president.
Finally, I’d note that there seems to be an insistence by Palin to keep this focused on the fact she’s not running for re-election rather than the resignation. This is perhaps best exemplified in a recent Tweet which says, “We’ll soon attach info on decision to not seek re-election… this is in Alaska’s best interest, my family’s happy… it is good, stay tuned”
Palin may wish to try and control the way the story goes, but the fact she is resigning in such a bizarre way has already taken it out of her hands. A decision not to run for a second term would certainly be news, but it is relatively common enough that it would be treated much differently. I think the story is going to remain about the resignation, and given the reaction throughout even most of the conservative blogosphere, she won’t be able to demonize the media for it and retain credibility.
Those are my thoughts. I have a brief punditry round-up after the jump.
Jim Geraghty at NRO: “Departing with little or no warning, after about 30 months in office, is beyond surprising. I’m sure the Lieutenant Governor will do fine, but there’s definately a sense of leaving with work unfinished and as her career was just beginning to take off.”
Ace at Ace of Spades HQ: “And that is that.
It’s over. You can’t resign from a governorship and then run for higher office. Barring some strong reason, like needing treatment for cancer.”
Steve Benen and Hilzoy at Washington Monthly: “Walking away from the governor’s office after one term is incredibly foolish — but walking away from the governor’s office after two and a half years in office is stupefying.”
Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO’s The Corner: “If she is stepping down because of what politics has done to her family, because of something in her family life she doesn’t want to see as David Letterman fodder, because it’s impossible to be governor, a star, and a mom to an infant … this is good. It demonstrates good judgment and priorities.”
Allahpundit at Hot Air: “Bill Kristol thinks resigning now could actually be a bold gambit to free herself up for an intense presidential campaign, but I think she’s following more of a Nixonian strategy here. I.e. it could be she’s burned out on politics and dispirited by all the crap she’s put up with it and wants to get away at an opportune moment. If, as is likely, The One wins a second term, the GOP will be so dejected that it’ll happily give her a second look as a potential savior in 2016, much as it did with Nixon after he lost the 1960 presidential election and 1962 California gubernatorial race. The question is, what does she do with herself in the meantime?”
Here’s some of what Kristol said: “Now she can do her book, give speeches, travel the country and the world, campaign for others, meet people, get more educated on the issues – and without being criticized for neglecting her duties in Alaska. I suppose she’ll take a hit for leaving the governorship early – but how much of one? She’s probably accomplished most of what she was going to get done as governor, and is leaving a sympatico lieutenant governor in charge.”
another nail in the coffin of the GOP if Palin becomes the 2012 nominee. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?p=2048
All this makes a lot of sense if you consider what those who opposed said about her.
true in a general sense I think. And those who did say those things about her were either incredibly ignorant or had stunning levels of hypocrisy – only exception would be if they said the same about the Great OB.
But it’s odd, the only plausible reason I can think of is if she had promised somewhere to only serve one term and feels that she is in effect a lame duck now. But I’ve never seen it if she did say it. I can’t see her being a carpetbagger and moving to a liberal state to become it’s Senator. She’s too at home in Alaska.
What I wonder is just what her rationale was. Sure, she could just feel in over her head, appalled by the unfair treatment she feels she received from the media or mainly concerned for her duties as a parent. I mean, I never understood what the heck she was about before and not now either. There is talk about her doing damage control knowing some scandal will soon erupt, but I have no idea whether that is credible.
Wonder what she would have done if she had been VP by now. We should all be glad we don’t have to wonder about that.
What scandal could hurt her? An affair? American’s said they didn’t mind that when they elected Clinton. Drugs? We said it was okay with Clinton, okay with Bush and fantastic with Obama.
Perhaps the Swedes could be glad Course we’re pretty glad we do not have their system of government. State of the US since Jan 20th certainly has changed – we’re going to shoot for Positive Change next time.
one things for sure, we’d have less debt and probably more employment.
Of course a scandal could hurt her, because it would be a novelty in many ways. Clinton, Bush and Obama all admitted to their drug use and Americans seem to have grown up about such matters.
“one things for sure, we’d have less debt and probably more employment.”
Well, we’ll never know. To a high degree because Obama’s contender in 2008 chose her for VP.
What one person calls growing up others call a moral decay. The left’s frothing panic over her was out of fear. She didn’t have the moral decay that is championed these days.
Wrong, we do know. McCain would not have done the extensive check writing the Great Spender has done, and he would have been proven correct as The Great Spender’s spending was meaningless
or as Biden said – oops.
Interested, you’re absolutely right. All democrats fear Palin. If I were you I would work tirelessly on getting her to be the republican nominee in 2012.
If she’s nominated the democrats will all have to change their underwear.
look there’s one of them now
Well while I was not a “BELIEVER” Brainwashed fool of Sarah Palin, I was in fact a fan of her. Not that I believed she was some super politician who could save the world or who could jump over buildings with a single bound. I knew her to be a right to far right politician who did not hide from her beliefs. Did not pretend to be something else for political gain.
I was a fan because she was a woman and to be honest Im sick and tired of MEN in politics. Having said that I had reservations about her ability not because she is not smart or capable of being president but rather that she seemed thin skinned and unable to handle the pure hatred flowing towards her from the left which would be multiplied 10x’s coming from hateful people around the world.
An Iron Bitch she is not. Good for her. I hate Iron Bitches. Its the one thing everyone hated about GWB for being unflinching, uncaring, unwavering from positions and she was someone who seemed to be capable of caring, responding and reflecting and for that she was crucified.
It was a concerted effort by the left to destroy her and they succeeded. They should be proud. But in fairness the GOP tried to do the same to Hillary Clinton and what goes around comes around in DC politics. Sarah Palin unfortunately was the brunt of the Lefts “get even” retribution.
You’re right Michael. I don’t buy the “lame duck” reason either. If a lame duck is someone who will not run for the same office again, then that makes any president a lame duck after their first term. And if she really was concerned about wasting the people’s money by traveling all around (quite an exaggeration), couldn’t she just not do those things, rather than resign?
Something definitely seems strange here. I guess it could be just because of the attacks, but if that’s the case her chances for 2012 (if she’s still interested) are over, because the president needs to be able to stand the heat and stand strong against even unfair attacks. And if she just wanted to spend more time with her family, why not just say so?
In fact, I think if we don’t get a straight answer from her that is believable, she won’t be able to overcome this if she runs for president. If we don’t know why she left, how can we be sure she won’t do the same thing as president?
Maybe one of her side trips was to Argentina last week?
I don’t Know. I’m not saying. I’m just saying.
She resigned to have more time to prepare her criminal defense.
Clearly Palin is still radioactive. My advise to all, don’t speculate just wait.
Can all just move on now?
I agree with c3. There is more to this story than we have heard. No one resigns halfway through their term as a governor for the reasons she has given. There is a big piece of the puzzle missing which I am sure will surface soon. All of this smacks of some backroom deal that has been cooked but has not been served in totality.
@Interested
The reason I didn’t like Palin is the same reason I don’t like seeing middle-class people of common intelligence get jobs more intelligent lower-class people deserve simply because their dads are more well-connected or because they happen to have brilliant smiles and middle-class social skills. I am a firm believer in meritocracy and Palin is a privileged social chameleon who dares to think of herself as discriminated and denied proper recognition for her qualities. She flaunts she lacks (actual knowledge about issues, humility) and she actually lacks what she flaunts (maverick status, being a down-trodden anti-DC salt-of-the-earth person).
America let one of these “gutsy anti-establishment” people who are *proud* to be clueless, fact-despising and egomaniacal get into power once, and look what happened. I refuse to extend any respect towards someone who doesn’t know his or her place, and Palin feels she is entitled.
As for moral decay, I’d rather have a president who tired cocaine than a president who tried exorcism for witch-craft protection.
“The reason I didn’t like Palin is the same reason I don’t like seeing middle-class people of common intelligence get jobs more intelligent lower-class people deserve simply because their dads are more well-connected or because they happen to have brilliant smiles and middle-class social skills.
1) Palin is a privileged social chameleon who dares to think of herself as discriminated and denied proper recognition for her qualities.
Palin is a Woman, the left was quick to give this layup to Clinton when she ran for President.
2) I am a firm believer in meritocracy
Good, so you are not saying that Palin didn’t work her way from school committee to Governor step by step and with just as much merit as Obama did the same from Community Organizer to President? (actually, Palin skipped less steps that Obama did I think)
3) I don’t like seeing middle-class people of common intelligence get jobs more intelligent lower-class people deserve simply because their dads are more well-connected or because they happen to have brilliant smiles and middle-class social skills.
So, again, Obama as an example. Obama is President, Palin is just Governor. Neither one was “given” any more than the other as I can see. They both earned it, and they both are considered to have connections and brilliant smiles. Come on, Obama, no brilliant smile? I think Obama grew up fairly middle class. (He seemed to have had a bit of a better childhood (as far as family finacial security) than I had actually.
And as far as “not liking” the above, there are lots of things that I “don’t like” that I recognize may be out of jealously for other that “have” certain things or qualities. But being an adult, I know that life is not fair, and I have to stop bogging myeslf down by thinking “wouldn’t it be nice”. All you can do is do your best, be honest, and as good a person as you can be, the rest will come.
This is not to say I think Palin should be more than she is or that I support her. (I think she has a LOT to learn if she is going to go any further in Politics) Not that I am an expert.
“the left was quick to give this layup to Clinton when she ran for President.”
This is a point how? I never liked Hilary myself.
“Good, so you are not saying that Palin didn’t work her way from school committee to Governor step by step and with just as much merit as Obama did the same from Community Organizer to President?”
There are intellectual and non-intellectual ways to get ahead. Social skills, for example, is nothing to judge a person’s appropriateness for an intellectually demanding office by. From comparing written and verbal material presented by both people it is obvious that Palin’s route either was less demanding than Obama’s when it comes to qualities I respect, or it so happens that the bar was quite low for both people and Obama overshot it by some distance.
“Neither one was “given” any more than the other as I can see.”
Please. Palin might not have been the “pretty woman getting the promotion”, but she was all profiling and demographics, her place on the ballot the antithesis of meritocracy. When I heard some people claim she represented “true feminism” I rolled my eyes so fast it broke the sound barrier.
“I think Obama grew up fairly middle class. (He seemed to have had a bit of a better childhood (as far as family finacial security) than I had actually.”
He is also obviously very intelligent. Palin has impressive willpower but I wouldn’t want her in power over others, least of all myself.
“And as far as “not liking” the above, there are lots of things that I “don’t like” that I recognize may be out of jealously for other that “have” certain things or qualities.”
Human beings have an instinct to be adverse to the idea of people with so-so intelligence but strong personality gaining power. The one thing that really scared me with Palin was her total lack of humility and self-reflection. People mock me for being a VP while not having any prior statements on foreign policy? Well, I’ll portray myself as a victim of the leftist media and appeal to people who also feel set aside by the ridiculous “intellectual” expectation of those elites. She is very far from “adult” using your own definition of the word.
Mike: She was claiming to be a lame duck now by virtue of her decision to not put her name up for re-election.
Doomed: So are you suggesting that a far-left or far-right candidate who is upfront about their positions have a serious shot at the presidency? And yet almost every candidate for every position plays both the base and the moderates at some point. And most moderate for the general election.
MM
I’m not sure where you come to that conclusion. I was talking about ME personally. How I personally saw her.
I knew she was moderatelyfar right. I gave McCain/Palin ZERO chance to win the 08 election but at least she held to her principals.
Obama on the other hand is a radical far lefty who ran on a moderate platform and the minute he was put in office, came out of the closet to once again claim his far left mantle.
Thats all Im saying. I thought Palin had about a 20 percent chance of being president in 2016 if she played her cards right. I think Palin has ZERO chance of ever being president now.
Also MM
Theres a big difference between Playing To the moderates and PLAYING the moderates. Obama did the latter while I think McCain was the only moderate in this last election.
“the left was quick to give this layup to Clinton when she ran for President.”
This is a point how? I never liked Hilary myself.
I say this becuase the left has played the “woman” card for anyone running for office anywhere they can. When the left saw a conservative woman running for office it scared them. I didn’t say this as anything to you personally, just as an observation that the left has said the same thing of Palin as you just did, but in the same breath, this was fine with Clinton.
“Good, so you are not saying that Palin didn’t work her way from school committee to Governor step by step and with just as much merit as Obama did the same from Community Organizer to President?”
There are intellectual and non-intellectual ways to get ahead. Social skills, for example, is nothing to judge a person’s appropriateness for an intellectually demanding office by. From comparing written and verbal material presented by both people it is obvious that Palin’s route either was less demanding than Obama’s when it comes to qualities I respect, or it so happens that the bar was quite low for both people and Obama overshot it by some distance.
Careful, I would think the “intellectiual route” would naturally cause a leader to want to *reduce* a deficit, you know, take drastic steps to reduce costs under their control, rather than taking unheard of drastic measures to increase the deficit in the middle of a deep recession, and their heightenend logic would certainly never allow them to consider implementing cap and trade or a public insurance option during these tough times. I must be in bizzaro world, silly me. I guess is should just keep looking at the “written and verbal material presented by both people” to make my assessment, and not actions.
..”Social skills, for example, is nothing to judge a person’s appropriateness for an intellectually demanding office by.” That’s why I wanted Ron Paul for President, and Not Obama..
Neither one was “given” any more than the other as I can see.”
Please. Palin might not have been the “pretty woman getting the promotion”, but she was all profiling and demographics.
You call it “profiling and demographics” I call it a libertarian / small government streak. That’s one thing that I (and a lot of others) do like about her.
“I think Obama grew up fairly middle class. (He seemed to have had a bit of a better childhood (as far as family finacial security) than I had actually.”
He is also obviously very intelligent. Palin has impressive willpower but I wouldn’t want her in power over others, least of all myself.
Well, I would say that I don’t want *anyone* in government having power over me. Public servants work for me, not the other way around. “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
“And as far as “not liking” the above, there are lots of things that I “don’t like” that I recognize may be out of jealously for other that “have” certain things or qualities.”
Human beings have an instinct to be adverse to the idea of people with so-so intelligence but strong personality gaining power. The one thing that really scared me with Palin was her total lack of humility and self-reflection. People mock me for being a VP while not having any prior statements on foreign policy? Well, I’ll portray myself as a victim of the leftist media and appeal to people who also feel set aside by the ridiculous “intellectual” expectation of those elites. She is very far from “adult” using your own definition of the word.
what is that instinct called? The “you have a higher IQ so therfore you must have superior ethics, judgment and logic skills than I have?” instinct?
I somewhat agree on the lack of humility and self-reflection front. I think that is one area where she definately needs work. But these are not issues of intelligence, these are life skills that for some reason she has chosen to block out, she does need to “grow up” so to speak.
@Michael Merritt
“Mike: She was claiming to be a lame duck now by virtue of her decision to not put her name up for re-election.”
Right, and I’m not seeing how that makes her any different than any other politician that *cannot* run for the same office due to term limits, such as a president in his second term. Would a second-term president be considered a lame duck?
If you believe that Obama has the best interests of 100 percent of America at heart then you have to believe his actions in the last 6 months are not intelligent at all.
However if you believe that he is into wealth redistribution and that he wants to penalize some Americans because they have succeeded then he is very intelligent.
If you believe that the 44 million Americans are more important to him then the 256 million other Americans then he is shrewd and calculating.
If you believe that someone who can give an awesome speech when his teleprompter is working but is befuddled when it is not is intelligent then Obama is your man.
If you believe that an administration that cooks the press. Controls them and chooses what questions to ask so their man looks intelligent then Obama is your man.
If you believe that someone who promises not to raise your taxes then offers cap and tax to the tune of trillions in price increases is intelligent then Obama is your man.
If you think 15 percent unemployment because of the policies of Obama is intelligent then Obama is your man.
If you think a harvard law professor who never held a job in his life and walked the streets of Chicago telling people to get out an vote is qualified to run the largest economy on earth then Obama is your man.
If you think that a guy who set in church for 20 years and didnt know his preacher was preaching that kind of message then Obama is your man.
Did anyone bother to notice that Jeremiah Wright Unretired after Obama was elected president and not a peep from the MSM? Obama is your man alright. He is very intelligent at playing the people to get what he wants.
Obama is a con man. Plain and simple. Unlike most politicians who try to be con men but are not too good at it….Obama is simply dazzling and in order to pull this off he has to have a lot of help.
Obama is not running our country….his aides are. If anyone gets credit for being Intelligent it should be his aides….not him. Hes nothing but a puppet for his handlers. They say sit and he sits…..read the speech Mr. President….we will tell you what you think.
Politicians typically don’t resign because of negative media attention, even at the level that Palin has gotten. If such were the case, George W. Bush would have resigned well before his second term was completed.
If you listened to her speech, you would realize the problem was not negative media attention. It was constant baseless ethics complaints which made her work impossible. Bush did not have to deal with these types of complaints. In the case of Clinton, btw, I think such a complaint did affect work in the White House. But should such complaints be made against the President, frivolously, then the President has an entire department to deal with it.
“If you believe that someone who can give an awesome speech when his teleprompter is working but is befuddled when it is not is intelligent then Obama is your man.”
Right, and this just goes to show you that Obama is not speaking from the heart with his over dependence on teleprompters. Hi should be speaking to us fromthe heart, and should not need them as much as he does. The problem is, I think that if he did speak from the heart most of America would not like what he has to say.
I was a Palin fan before all this happened but in retrospect. Looking back on her I have to say that I think she is a quitter.
As someone said before she has quit two of the three government jobs she’s had.
She can’t take the heat. She is one of those incessant whiners who just seems to think the world never treats her fair.
I have a daughter who believes everything in life is all about her. Sarah Palin I believe has this same syndrome….ME< ME< ME.
In fairness. I still liked her but I think she sees the opportunity for lots of money and shes going for it because she knows that she will never have what it takes to be prez. Good for her. Another case of a politician sticking it to her supporters much like Sanford, Dodd and well just about every other politician to walk the planet.
Doomed: You mean that job she quit after she tried to complain about corruption and was told to shut up? You think she should have stayed there? What other job did she quit?
Yeah that job. and She just quit as governor.
The only job she held on to was mayor of a small town. I think shes just going after the money now. Speaking circuit. Book writing. Public appearances to gather money. Fox news cant wait to get her on board in some capacity.
I think she knows she has to cash in while she is golden.
I noticed that no one wants to talk about what I believe is a huge motivation. These ethic complaints that she continues to be absolved of are bleeding her family dry.
She’s no quitter, but she is a big game hunter. Never met a big game hunter that was a quitter, at least one thats still breathing. Those that have been sling the mud had better be factual because I don’t think she will be backing down on them, and has as much as said so. She has freed herself up from the contraints that public office held her to.
Wilky: that’s because it’s too simple. To actually listen and respond to what she said is too much for most people.
I want to know why nobody is talking about the fact that this ethics law caused her government to come to a standstill. Does that mean things would have been better off without it?
me
The fact that the MSM hates all Republicans. Hates anyone who is not left and liberal and has an agenda that is driven to push the country left is why no ones talking about what really happened.
But no matter what really happened. She quit.
Quitters never win. Evah.
No matter how hard, how long, how tough, how painful, how long the road winners keep on keeping on. They dont quit. Its why the Seals and special forces want you to quit. They encourage you daily to quit. They dont want anyone who even entertains the idea of quitting on their team.
Neither do I want to entertain the idea of a quitter in the White House. Good bye Sarah. I still like you and wish you well but your a quitter and quitters never win.
So much in politics is in the eye of the beholder. I would contend that Gov. Palin was as good a reason to vote for the opposing ticket as any. As Kastanj alluded to in an early comment, I’d had enough of the folksy, aw-shucks BS after eight years.
That does not, of course, excuse the excesses of Pres. Obama or his party with the current agenda which is beginning to appear to me as rather unbalanced.
Gov. Palin underlines the need for a third party. Each election we voters are drawn into a Pamplona-like running with the bulls and only after the elections do we learn the very small differences in governing. As regards lack of character, both parties have proven extremely able.
As regards Gov. Palin herself, I’ve listened to her speech several times and have not been turned from a sense of vacuum in her intellect. She is not nimble in my mind; nimble enough to carry out the duties of a president. The personal rumors, attecks, etc. have no bearing on my opinion of her. I’m sure she’s a fine mother, wife, and even governor is you stop to compare with many current or former governors of the other 49 states. She IS held to a higher standard because she DID seek national office.
It would be nice (but beyond hope, I know) for the children of candidates to be left out of the process entirely. For the jackels in the press, “morals” can be found in the dictionary but not on the campaign trail.
What worries me most is this: I’m certain that after four years as president, Barack Obama is going to need replacing. The Republicans are the only alternative as present, and who they put forth is crticially important. I wish Gov. Palin and her family well, but I believe any pursuit of the presidency on her part will be both injurious to her party and to the nation.
MJ I agree that I think Palin shot herself in the foot by resigning.
Addtionally Palin is Toxic. She illicits hate. Just as Clinton illicited so much hate that by the end of the primaries ONE HALF of the democratic party hated her and was accusing her of everything and anything.
Hillary wisely, just melted away. Quietly taking the yoke and even as Sec. of State has been out of the eye, quiet and trying hard to keep the spotlight off of herself.
Palin on the other hand…….Well she is toxic. I hope she just gets rich, becomes a statesmen and perhaps lands a nice cushy job as secretary of Labor or sum such with the next GOP president.
Farther then that and Im afraid she is more then the party can handle. The only thing worse would perhaps Dick Cheney ran for president..
You named most of the Democrat politicians. So bring up something tangible about her instead of rumors.
You’ll have to help me out here – you talking 42, 43 or 44?
Citations needed where Palin or McCain did.
You’re going to need to cite proof for this one. Unless you’re also going to compare Obama’s Editorship (without publishing anything) to Governorship?
I doubt you have any real idea what true feminism is. But do tell us what you think it could be.
Too bad OB isn’t held to the same standard.
I agree, but if the angles that the Left has cost the State of Alaska over 2 million in lawsuits and that the Left has not prevailed in them – it does make a strong Conservative argument that she’s looking out for the People of Alaska.
But it’s too fast, if she’d completed her first term it’d be much easier on her – much easier to understand that POV.
I have no doubt that Sarah Palin was treated with the most contempt, disrespect and vileness of any politician this side of Hillary Clinton.
I honestly believe that Sarah Palin was a direct response to what the GOP did to Hillary Clinton. What goes around comes around in politics. However the one true difference between the two is that….Palin quit. Hillary did not.
If as many claim these frivolous lawsuits were costing Alaska money then where was the MSM on this? This is a story that were it happening to a democratic governor somewhere the MSM would have a 1000 reporters camped on the Capitol steps and reporting it with the same fervor as Michael Jackson.
Our nation is on a Fascist march towards a new term. Its a mixture of Fascism…thou shalt not question the one party who hates and blames conservativism for everything…..Socialism….thou shalt let government dictate production quotas………communism….thou shalt have a classless society in which all are equal.
I hate the direction this government is moving. Where is the MSM to shed light on this? My only guess is that the college professors have done their job well and we have a million Faciocommiesoshes running around now with their agenda and their power and they are using it.
Difference between HRC and Palin – HRC declared war on anyone that dared question her divine path she set carefully into motion.
Palin’s been receiving from the starting gate.
Interested the differences were profound until the progressives noticed that Hillary stood in the way of the chosen one. Once that happened then the vileness with which they went after her was no different then what they did to Palin.
As a Palin supporter….which I was….I can see that democrats really dont like women politicians. They seem to have it in for them and yet its the GOP that keeps being painted as the party of bigotry.
No where is it more evident then the absolute hate they inflicted on Clinton to get Obama the nomination. Yet they innocently look around and point a disbelieveing finger at themselves and say “Moi?”
Doomed – If as many claim these frivolous lawsuits were costing Alaska money then where was the MSM on this? This is a story that were it happening to a democratic governor somewhere the MSM would have a 1000 reporters camped on the Capitol steps and reporting it with the same fervor as Michael Jackson.
Doomed, you asked then answered your own question. Most reports that I’ve seen has the cost to the state a about $2,000,000 in addition to up to 80% of her day dealing with these complaints. The low end of what its cost her family is $300,000. The complaints filed are now standing 0 for 16. Another complaint filed again yesterday. She might as well quit, she’s not governing, she’s spending most of her time dealing with these complaints.
And people wonder why we can’t get good governance.
Wilky: The greatest scandal are those in power WITHOUT scandal. By that I mean all those holding public office who tut-tut from the sidelines about “ethics” while at the same time stuffing their own pockets….
“keep looking at (fill in the blank)…there’s nothing going on here! Stop looking behind the curtain.”
Whatever Gov. Palin has done or is being suspected of, how could it compare to Nancy Pelois bellowing eloquent about raising the minimum wage…..but ensuring that American Somaa was NOT covered by her precious legislation…because that is where the Pelosi family had tuna interests there? But that’s old news. But it is an ageless scandal.
@Mike
Not until the next presidential election was held, and someone elected. That’s how the lame duck period has always been defined, as the point between an election and the time you leave office. For example, Bush’s lame duck period was between November 4, 2008 and January 20, 2009.
The trouble with Palin saying she’s a lame duck now is one of politics. It’s a horrible move because it suggests she doesn’t have enough sway to get an agenda passed, which is a key factor in determining the overall success of a politician’s term in office. It’s that way for the President, anyway.
It doesn’t really matter now since she’s resigning, but what if she were to suggest something like it while not resigning? You can bet the Democrats would run with it. And they still may if she goes for president, seeing as how campaigns tend to turn into what was done in the past.
“You named most of the Democrat politicians.”
First of all, you are wrong. Second of all, I probably wouldn’t vote for most of them if I had the chance because they seem to lack basic moral instinct. Most bad decisions and ideation come from the hamstringing of instinct.
“You’ll have to help me out here – you talking 42, 43 or 44?”
W. He valued “guts” over brains because brains was some sort of weird tumor that grew on the top of “elitists’” heads while guts were for people like John Wayne who came from tough country and did what was “right”, even when it was clearly wrong. Palin is *profiling* herself as the “revenge of the over-looked and maligned salt-of-the-earth” while being no better than the DC establishment. Heck, at least most of the DC establishment is educated. I’m sure there are plenty people without expensive educations who would be more worthy of leading the country. Palin is not really one of them.
“I doubt you have any real idea what true feminism is. But do tell us what you think it could be.”
The removal of all sex-based prejudices and expectations, be they “positive” (“a girl will be nicer and more socially supportive”) or negative (“girls don’t always focus on the ‘rational’ matters”). Also, the creation of a society where no one is promoted or hindered by his or her sex (Palin got the spot because she was a woman, which is just as bad as her not getting the spot because of it).
Umm – no I’m not. I’d suggest you research back through countless Presidential elections and see how the Dem comes across.
You appear to have gotten off the question – again.
Are you talking 42, 43 or 44.
I applaud your reference googling. and how exactly do you think Palin is not a representative of true Feminism?