WTF? Palin resigning as Alaska governor.
WASILLA, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down — throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.
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The former Republican vice presidential candidate said she had been considering leaving office since she decided not to run for re-election.
“Many just accept that lame duck status, and they hit that road. They draw a paycheck. They kind of milk it. And I’m not going to put Alaskans through that,” Palin said.
Wow, just wow.
“Many just accept that lame duck status, and they hit that road. They draw a paycheck. They kind of milk it. And I’m not going to put Alaskans through that,” Palin said.
OK, now that she put it that way, I agree and if frees her up of other things.
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
I’ve seen it put this way. Her resignation comes right at the point where she’s achieved everything she originally got herself elected to achieve.
There is speculation that perhaps she is planning to run for president in 2012 and needs to be free from the governor job in order to begin campaigning. I would support her.
Since I respect her instincts and intellect, I respect her decision. Since she wasn’t going to run again, now would be as good a time as any.
She would have continued to be hounded by the LLL media and operatives, anyway, whether in office or not. The bogus ethics charges were not going to end, as long as she was there.
Now they will have to attack her as a private citizen, and she will not be restrained by public office, and can return fire without distraction. In fact, she can now direct fire, instead of returning it.
I would vote for her as President in a heart beat, because of her conservative principles, and because she doesn’t know all of the nuanced answers of Washington speak. She knows America and Americans, and is our citizen, not a citizen of the world.
I say good for you, Super Sarah, and good for your family.
The left and their sickly coward sycophants fear you, and that makes you formidable.
I am afraid that there is another shoe to drop. This move makes no sense at all. There is nothing logical about it.
re: #4 by iam7545
If so, let it drop.
Perhaps preparing the way for a Senate run?
Most folks who said she’d never win said that she’s the Gov of Alaska and has no real contact with Washington (I.e, she’s not an ‘insider’ which is required in order to be involved in federal government)
Maybe she’s quitting now to announce a run for senate in 2010?
There’s no freakin shoe! That BS! If there was they wouldn’t be holding it – they would have thrown it at her head!
FEAR! They fear her!
If for nothing else, that would make her ok in my book! But, to put it mildly, when she speaks of conservativism, and liberty and freedom, by golly! She reminds me of Ronald Reagan! No one IS Ronald Reagan, but she reminds me of the things he used to say that so stirred my heart – even as a flaming liberal!
UPDATE: Just heard a caller on Mark Levin who brought up a good point. She made her announcement today because most of the media is already gone on a long weekend and aren’t around to tear her apart. So she was able to make her case to the people, stunning the stand-ins, who wouldn’t be able to have their regular attack dogs on hand to ravage her in the press! Smart move!
That’s well played – plus I’ll be forever personally grateful to her for getting Michael Jackson off the tube and radio!
re: #6 by LanceKates
Historically, governors of small states have a better winning percentage for POTUS, than Senators do.
While I realize Alaska isn’t a small state, it does have a small population.
Senate voting records have been the undoing of many presidential candidates.
re: #7 by vapig
Good point about the news cycle.
Now, if they criticize her for doing it, she can throw it back into their faces about what B-HO does.
If she plans on running for POTUS, fine.
If she were to become the Chairman of the GOP, I would cheer madly.
If she becomes the voice of conservatism, a rallying point, like Newt was in ‘94, I like the prospects for 2010.
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re: #8 by no2liberals
Actually, Alaska has a huge economy with it’s natural resources. The problem is it’s not part of the lower 48. I have no doubt that a Hawaiian governor would do no better. They’re part of us, but they’re not and that’s been her biggest problem. If she’d stayed in Idaho, no one would be making this distinction!
On a side note, this woman has exploded not only every readio and tv station but the blogisphrere as well. If that doesn’t say something about her pull-power I don’t what else does!
re: #11 by vapig
She can’t be anymore obscure than some recent small state governors, such as Cahtah, and Clintoon,
before they became candidates.
She is attacked relentlessly because she is a conservative. It wouldn’t matter which state she governed.
One note on the blessing her announcement has meant for the (still dead) Michael Jackson, comes from Rush.
Yep, and he’s still dead.
re: #10 by no2liberals
I’m thinking your #3.
It gives her freedom to answer her critics, it gains her experience. A few speaking engagements pays off her legal bills. She could write a book.
But best of all, with her star power she would attract huge crowds that could here her speak on conservatism and taking our country back while pointing out the hell that Obama has in store for us.
If this leads to your #2 or even your #1 at some future point, then she already has her creds laid out and out there!
I have to say I’m excited! In Alaska she was isolated and a stationary target with a bulleye on her back to the DNC’s concentrated attack machine concentrated on her. Now she’s unleashed herself on the entire country. Good times are ahead!
re: #12 by no2liberals
LOL! I heard him say that! I love him simply because only he can put something out there like that and get away with it. The libs heads exploded over it, but they really had no response!
re: #13 by vapig
The Genie is out of the bottle, and the libs can’t put her back, no’mo’.
She draws huge crowds, wherever she goes, and the libs are terrified of her, as no one is listening to their memes.
BTW, if you are planning on doing any travel this weekend, be sure to potty before you leave.
re: #14 by vapig
Hee-Hee!
Say it ain’t so, go on LSM, say it.
The real Sarah has stood up, and people like her.
re: #4 by iam7545
You think so?
After all the underwear drawer snoopers and womb worriers thirsting for ANY AND ALL rumors of ANYTHING they could use to smear and snear at her?
After watching this for the last 20 years, I won’t say there is NOTHING but I would be willing to bet MONEY that there isn’t any big scandal with any depth to it out there. (this of course means that the media can speculate and bloviate about WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!
I watched CBS and ABC and while both told about all the ethics suits, neither mentioned that all had been dismissed. CBS said she was “quitting” and ABC said she was “abandoning” her governorship so it’s obvious how it’ll be played in the media.
re: no2liberals; I can guess but I’m curious as to what your LLL media anacronym means?
I personally prefer: LWMFMOSMW
because I hate the LEFT WING MFM Obama-SUCKING MEDIA WHORES.
re: #17 by no2liberals
I really do respect her! She’s a strong woman! I think that’s what scares the libs so much!
You should check out some of the blogs – hotair, alone has half a dozen separate threads about this with thousands of comments! It’s pretty incredible out there!
LLL? Isn’t that Left Leaning Liberals?
re: #18 by jakee308
LLL=Looney Liberal Left
re: #19 by vapig
I doubt there isn’t a conservative or liberal blog that hasn’t made a thread.
I’ll check out HA, after I eat something.
Man the more I learn about Sarah the more I like her and her politics.
Its ironic that certain liberals try to claim she is not “compassionate” because she hunts animals, yet those same liberals are advocates of abortion!
Killing unborn humans is OK, yet somehow killing and eating a Moose is a crime against humanity!
re: #6 by LanceKates
Murkowski is up for re-election and like father like daughter. If you’ve ever had the occasion to watch this piece of &&** (think collins or snowe. [is there something about northern winters that produce ignorant faithless,feckless women who like to run for national office? I hope Sarah is an exception} or any other governor selected beneficiary of her old man’s political connections)
I think it may be for Senate but Murkowski hates her guts and has lots of support by the backroom boys in AK. PLus it would contradict what she just said today unless she didn’t attempt a run for Pres in 2012.
I’m hoping for a talk/listen/donation tour for about 18 mos and if things look good announce for pres. in time to use her popularity to make points with reps and sens up for election in 2010. Then a run for pres in 2012.
We’ll see. I was but am not now discouraged by this.
P.S. will someone pls call mark sanford and tell him to STFU!!!
I hope to G-d she is running for POTUS. I think she’s a terrific mix of Regan and Teddy Roosevelt.
Palin for POTUS ‘12
re: #22 by no2liberals
I don’t go there often, but they’ve evidenty made it a habit to do hit pieces on her and their people have been letting them have it.
Well, I’m out of here, myself! You have a great dinner and evening!
To all:
God Bless America and celebrate our blessed Independance Day!
re: #24 by jakee308
Sanford ate the Energizer Bunny, and he just keeps going and going and….
Very well put N2L (#3), I’m late to the party!
re: #26 by vapig
Wait…what?
HA attacks Sarah?
What, are they now GOP establishment, and therefore, Romney supporters?
Glad I seldom go there.
re: #29 by no2liberals
Ed seems ok but AP does hit jobs on her all the time. They don’t like Romney either. Mormon, you know…..
UPDATE: Think of how the GOP attacks her – the inside pundants. Maybe they’re just cynical, but they pretty much echo those sentiments. i.e. she’s inexperienced, she’s a hick, she talks funny, she has a funny hairdo, she’s lousy on policy, etc., etc., etc….
re: #23 by bar
Irony, by another name is, liberals.
Self-reliant, religious, and pro-life are like garlic, a crucifix, and holy water to a vampire, when it comes to libs.
re: #28 by imtoast
Hey there!
Thanks, and hope you are doing good.
re: #8 by no2liberals
That is wholly true, but that was the criticism against her nonetheless.
Frankly, given the poisonous nature of DC, I saw it as a good thing.
If that IS why she quit, then I hooe DC doesn’t poison her.
re: #30 by vapig
I don’t know who AP is.
Don’t like Sarah, and she is conservative, don’t like Romney, and he is establishment…who do they like?
Paul?
re: #33 by LanceKates
I agree, insiders are quick with compromise, and weak on principle.
Well, it would be interesting to see, but I know she is already poison to DC and the chattering nut-jobs that reside there.
re: #32 by no2liberals
I’m doing fine, my memory comes and goes but it’s better than having no memory. Thanks for asking.
re: #34 by no2liberals
AP = Allah Pundit
Ed – Ed Morrissey
I used to think they were the same guy. My bad!
They don’t see anybody out there that they like. Pretty miserable, actually. They shoot everybody down!
re: #35 by no2liberals
I understand compromise on irrelevant issues…. where to eat, color of car, movie to watch…. don’t understand it on important thongs.
Conservatives are right, liberals are wrong,, so why compromise what is right for the sake of appeasing whining scumbags?
re: #35 by no2liberals
Well, with eight years of rino’s and a complete trashing of our economy by these dirtbags, I’m thinking we may be in for a 1994 housecleaning.
That would make every incumbant a target, including the good, the bad and the ugly. Won’t matter! People are FED UP!
Ok – that’s it for real this time.
Night all!
re: #39 by vapig
1994? huh?
I quit. Fuck all of you.
re: #36 by imtoast
God Bless ya’.
I always wonder, when I don’t see your nic, how you are doing.
re: #37 by vapig
Maybe they should check their negativity, and work on being more positive.
re: #38 by LanceKates
I understand compromise too, but not on principles.
The first principle for me, as a conservative, is to cut government spending, not raise taxes.
The reverse is true for libs.
re: #41 by mike
What’s up with that?
re: #39 by vapig
A website you need to visit.
re: #40 by savage
The mid-term election, the Republican Revolution, that turned the Congress for twelve years.
I tend to think in terms of 1966, when an even bigger backlash against the jackass party, their tax and spend nonsense, and rising inflation.
re: #41 by mike
What’s the boggle?
re: #47 by no2liberals
Oh hell, she should have said 1994 style.
re: #49 by savage
You just have style on the brain.
re: #50 by no2liberals
hehe
Mike, were you speaking as though you were Sarah’s inner monologue?
If not, what is it about differing opinions that upsets you so?
Other than that, this is for you.
re: #51 by savage
…and profilin’
re: #52 by no2liberals
dayam!
re: #54 by savage
Saw that, didja?
Save it, you never know.
re: #55 by no2liberals
Yep, it’s in my bookmarks now. bwahaha
re: #56 by savage
A little crude, but direct.
I usually prefer a Shakesperean insult:
re: #57 by no2liberals
re: #52 by no2liberals
Who’s “mike?”
re: #59 by Escovado
#41
Where Mike told us all to get fucked!
Just saw a really nice fireworks display. For all Columbus, OH is a liberal town they manage to put together a very patriotic show.
re: #58 by savage
re: #60 by bar
Oh…OK…I thought there was more to it than that.
re: #61 by BenZs Bat
They were having a big one tonight, a few miles away, but too much prep for tomorrow to go there.
The one tomorrow night, I can see from my patio, and it’s pretty darn good.
Few liberals here, just meat eating ring wingers.
re: #63 by Escovado
Just an effu, no comment.
Nice.
The Gun I Didn’t Have
All the speculation about Sarah. I think you don’t have to speculate. She quit because she cannot run for President fighting endless lying liberal ethics charges. Also I think she is being trained right now by God…she will run in 2012, and win. She has the right spirit and mind, but was too inexperienced and had to realize the depth of the hatred and the determination of the enemy. (Something that could not be beat into George W Bush’s head with a thousand cluebats.
I think she gets it. Remember how you felt about her when she first spoke at the Republican convention…something very special about Palin. Well she is that same person but is being tempered into a sword that will be used to cut these enemies of freedom down to the ground.
Not very often you get someone like this, maybe once in a hundred years. Reagan was one, before him Lincoln, before him Washington, and YES I think she is on that level. It is not about being smarter than the next crazy-ass liberal, after all according to them the are always the smartest people in the room.
It is about being filled with light as opposed to their darkness. One last thought, she is the instrument of their judgment and they sense this, beyond all the professional political jerkoffs in the GOP, the Left knows the instrument of their doom, that is why they hate her guts beyond anything we have seen, it is instinctive, like vampires to a Holy Water carrying priest with silver bullets, that is their reaction to Sarah Palin.
Put Sarah Palin and Osama bin Laden in the room with a liberal with a gun with one bullet, guess who they would shoot?
OT.
I am getting ready to write on my blog about Michael Jackson, but here are a few thoughts:
He was raised and destroyed by a demon possessed father, an extraordinarily sadistic and cruel man.
Forced to sing grown up romantic ballads and love songs while still a child, this was a form of psychological sexual abuse. This is a kid that was utterly alone in an earthly hell, with a mother that did NOTHING while he was tormented.
His self-loathing and self-hatred was expressed as facial and body mutilation before us all, we did not care. Instead a large percentage of Americans feasted on his soul like damn gouls. They are still doing this. His greatest work was a video and songs about zombies, do you think he was trying to tell us something?
He ends up alone, with some animals and a perverse sexual identity, and molesting kids, surrounded by enablers who wanted only more of his soul to trade for money or reflected fame.
Now LA will have a huge funeral as the damn ghouls come out for one last feast on his carcass. It makes me ashamed to be an American to watch what was done to this little boy, may God judge all that feasted on this tormented soul and those that still do, I cannot detest them enough.
As for me I will pray he finds forgiveness and peace with the Lord, nobody, but nobody deserved what happened to this human being. Let it be an occasion of real divine judgment on the pop culture of the United States.
re: #64 by no2liberals
Yeah, I watched the big one on TV.I’ll see the local one tomorrow night. Not as spectacular but still enjoyable and a heck of a lot easier to get home from.
re: #69 by BenZs Bat
Yep.
As I’ve gotten older, the heat, and the crowds, aren’t as appealing as they once were.
re: #68 by Jehu
I agree with you.
Had he not had talent, those ghouls would have found someone else.
One minor point, he converted to islam, so I’m not as certain about his eternal souls destination.
re: #71 by no2liberals We have authority to pray for his salvation, even after death IMO. I am pretty hard most of the time but cannot find it in my heart to hold MJ to much blame, sometimes I think God allows something to reveal the depravity in the hearts of others, not that they seem to be getting any of this.
I doubt MJ understood what Isalm was other than just another sharp stick to poke into the eye of his Jehovah’s Witness father.
In fact Islam is the religion that attracts bitter and rejected souls, it sprang from Ishmael, who is the prototype of all that are bitter and rejected and who hate true revealed religion, that is why it does so well in prisons.
re: #63 by Escovado
So far “mike” refuses to extrapolate on his own comment, so at this point it stands as get fucked!
Prophecy?
Saved by Zero.
re: #72 by Jehu
Still, we have free will.
Regardless of his influences, he made many bad choices as an adult.
One of my clients told me a friend of his went to the Neverland Ranch auction, a while back. Not that they wanted anything in particular, but mostly out of curiosity, to actually see what was inside. He said it was bizarre. The paintings, the furnishings, and the multitude of nude cherubic boy sculptures, some even animatronic.
re: #73 by bar
Thus, my digit disdain stands.
re: #76 by no2liberals
Yeah, that is a great link you have. I agree and for some reason cant stop form clicking it!!!
re: #77 by bar
HAH!
Sometimes, things like that have a way of making a point like nothing else.
On another matter, I spoke sweetly, and in dulcet tones, while caressing and massaging those ribs. So much meat on those bones.
I praised the ribs ancestors, for making the journey from Europe, and propagating so prodigiously.
Arizona Approves Bill Allowing Guns In Bars - OK Coral, have they never heard of that?
Japanese Scientists To Breed ‘Super Tuna’- well we did fuck over the blue fin Tuna, so its our little addition to the animal kingdom that we hope to make bank over.
Woman Obama Hugged at Town Hall Was His Volunteer – nuance
re: #79 by bar
The OK Corral wasn’t a bar.
Maybe the patrons will behave themselves better.
An armed society, is a polite society.
Talk at y’all later.
Going to watch a little of the Alabama B-B-Q cookoff on Food TV, then hit the bunk.
Buttermilk pancakes and crispy oven fried bacon in the morning, then ribs, tater salad, beans, etc., in the evening.
Can’t wait.
re: #78 by no2liberals
Sweet, I never met a BBQ meat I didn’t like
re: #80 by no2liberals
I was thinking that booze and firearms may not be a great combo.
re: #79 by bar
So…Is this tuna gonna be big like Godzilla…or…Rodan? Will it swallow Tokyo? Or maybe swallow the U.S. Naval Fleet?
re: #82 by bar
While I tend to agree, at least those who obeyed the law in the past wouldn’t be at a disadvantage to those who didn’t.
Either way, it won’t effect me. I don’t live in Arizona, and I don’t go to bars.
re: #17 by no2liberals
God I LOVE this woman. WhatEVER she decides to do, she will have my full support. (I think she’s going to run for Senator, but y’all keep it under your hats, lest we alert the other team).
I only have a minute but I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Independence Day. May we go forward with the same spirit those brave “traitors” Of England had. Thank God for them.
God bless y’all.
{{HUGS}}
re: #85 by tuffy
Ain’t she a peach?
Have a good’un, tuffy.
I like Sarah Palin, but I don’t know if she can overcome the HUGE media bias against her. She is basically the opposite of Barack Obama when it comes to how she is portrayed in the media.
With Sarah Palin, the media goes for the throat. With Barack Obama, they ignore the bad and print all positive pieces. Frankly, I find it disgusting.
Obama smokes in the White House and I doubt you will see a photographer with the gonads to take a picture of him puffing away.
The MSM is now just a propaganda arm of the government at this point.
Welcome to one party rule.
re: #87 by Bill Jenkins
If she can’t, then why are they so terrified of her?
She is free from any office and its decorum, now. She can attack, and defend in any manner she chooses.
The LSM is shakin’ and quakin’ at the prospect of her speaking freely, and going over, under, and around them.
re: #87 by Bill Jenkins
Just look at what the official White House blog is saying.
Be afraid, LSM, be very afraid.
re: #82 by bar
The law stipulates that one carrying cannot consume alcohol. This was not really about bars anyway (the LLL media is just spinning it that way). It was originally meant to allow concealed carry in restaurants that have bars or serve alcohol (Think Chile’s, Macaroni Grill, etc.). The original law banning carry in those types of places essentially meant that if you really wanted to carry, you were restricted to fast food restaurants because most good restaurants serve alcohol also.
This fixes that problem and restores carry to where it should be, especially given that the original impetus for the nationwide adoption of CCW was the Luby’s shooting in Texas years ago in which a woman watched her parents die because she had obeyed the law and left her gun in her car. The law as it stood would have caused the same issues — a crazy could attack in a restaurant that serves alcohol, knowing that it was essentially an unarmed victim zone. This law solves that problem
re: #90 by AZfederalist
to really fix the law, allow citizens to carry. period.
someone gets drunk and committs murder, they go to prison.
when they try to legislate firearm responsibility, it just lets criminals have the upper hand.
The mainstream media were almost more obsessed with this story than they were over Michael Jackson’s death.
The moment her announcement was made, she was the focus of media attention anytime I flipped on the TV over the next several days.
I’ve heard a lot of people say they think Romney will be the 2012 GOP nominee, but I voted for Palin in this poll.
re: #68 by Jehu
re: #75 by no2liberals
Yes, I thought Jehu’s post was excellent, and I had not considered that angle before. Michael did have a lot to overcome to “reset” himself to a more normal human being. Even his mother must have supported the abuse meted out by his father, which sickens me.
Yet, if we reach adulthood, we’re allowed to choose our own path, but the ghosts of the past sometimes have too many clutches around us for us to see it. I remember reading that it’s harder to mentally free yourself from a dysfunctional family, even though it seems like you’d run for freedom the first chance you get. Healthier families prepare their children for independence; dysfunctional ones can emotionally imprison one for life.
The trick is remembering you have the key to your own freedom. Michael never seemed to get that — and was mired in his emotional demons, for the world to see.