[el penguino]

No link yet but CNN is reporting that Palin announced this morning that she will not run for another term as Alaska governor and will resign from this position within a couple of weeks despite having 18 months remaining on her term.

Stay tuned...

[Dodge]

Maybe she's tired of the media hovering over her? I can't blame her, but she is in part enabling that, too. That would be a weird reason to resign from the governorship though. I mean, she seems like a nice enough lady, but she is not cut out for the spotlight.

[Dodge]

Whoa, I'm listening now.. she sounds like she's been drunk since noon.. what the hell is she talking about?

[bobbob1313]

Fox news just compared her to George Washington.

[Dodge]

Maybe her and Carrie Prejean are going to co-host a show on FOX News?

[WildMarlinMan2003]

This is a shame. Although she isn't strong enough to ever become President, she was truly an outsider to the corrupt politicians. I believe Plain and Ron Paul are one of a kind- Paul just more intelligent.

I believe she forced out.

[pierremvp1]

WildMarlinMan2003, on 03 July 2009 - 05:01 PM, said:

This is a shame. Although she isn't strong enough to ever become President, she was truly an outsider to the corrupt politicians. I believe Plain and Ron Paul are one of a kind- Paul just more intelligent.

I believe she forced out.

I don't think she was forced out. This was a smart move by her. There are similarities between Paul and Palin, but Palin is clearly more intelligent.

[gizmo12688]

"Maverick"

[el penguino]

WildMarlinMan2003, on 03 July 2009 - 04:01 PM, said:

This is a shame. Although she isn't strong enough to ever become President, she was truly an outsider to the corrupt politicians. I believe Plain and Ron Paul are one of a kind- Paul just more intelligent.

I believe she forced out.

While I do think she projects a better aura of integrity than the likes of Romney, Obama, and McCain, she hasn't established a platform that I find to be remotely impressive.

I am guessing she thinks this move will help her in the 2012 run, but I highly doubt it will work. I could certainly understand not running for a second term, but resigning her current office sends a terrible message.

[WildMarlinMan2003]

el penguino, on 03 July 2009 - 05:37 PM, said:

WildMarlinMan2003, on 03 July 2009 - 04:01 PM, said:

This is a shame. Although she isn't strong enough to ever become President, she was truly an outsider to the corrupt politicians. I believe Plain and Ron Paul are one of a kind- Paul just more intelligent.

I believe she forced out.

While I do think she projects a better aura of integrity than the likes of Romney, Obama, and McCain, she hasn't established a platform that I find to be remotely impressive.

I am guessing she thinks this move will help her in the 2012 run, but I highly doubt it will work. I could certainly understand not running for a second term, but resigning her current office sends a terrible message.

Unlike the media is reporting, I truly believe she is 100% done with politics now. I believe the government forced her out.

Let's see.....2 days ago she challenged Obama to a race and now 1 day before the 4th of July she resigns? Something is NOT right here. She has called out Obama for hanging out with terrorists and America haters and said at one point the government is trying to enslave us.

I think she was forced out as a rebel who didn't go along with the global elitists agenda but maybe I'm wrong.

[Dodge]

WildMarlinMan2003, on 03 July 2009 - 05:48 PM, said:

el penguino, on 03 July 2009 - 05:37 PM, said:

WildMarlinMan2003, on 03 July 2009 - 04:01 PM, said:

This is a shame. Although she isn't strong enough to ever become President, she was truly an outsider to the corrupt politicians. I believe Plain and Ron Paul are one of a kind- Paul just more intelligent.

I believe she forced out.

While I do think she projects a better aura of integrity than the likes of Romney, Obama, and McCain, she hasn't established a platform that I find to be remotely impressive.

I am guessing she thinks this move will help her in the 2012 run, but I highly doubt it will work. I could certainly understand not running for a second term, but resigning her current office sends a terrible message.

Unlike the media is reporting, I truly believe she is 100% done with politics now. I believe the government forced her out.

Let's see.....2 days ago she challenged Obama to a race and now 1 day before the 4th of July she resigns? Something is NOT right here. She has called out Obama for hanging out with terrorists and America haters and said at one point the government is trying to enslave us.

I think she was forced out as a rebel who didn't go along with the global elitists agenda but maybe I'm wrong.

Yeah, just maybe.

[el penguino]

That all sounds far too unlikely. I'm sure the real reason will come out eventually, even if she doesn't enter the 2012 race.

[Spike]

I always felt bad about the smear campaign the major media threw at her during the election. Whether she was the right choice or not(she likely wasn't at the time) or what you thought about her personal beliefs, she looked like the lovechild of Aristotle and Confucius compared to Joe Biden yet Biden's constant ignorance rarely got mentioned.

[Mets_bs]

WildMarlinMan2003, on 03 July 2009 - 05:48 PM, said:

I think she was forced out as a rebel who didn't go along with the global elitists agenda but maybe I'm wrong.

Ok Alex Jones.


She's gearing up for an ill advised presidential run in 2012 -- although she would be smart to run for Senate. She was thrown to the wolves in 2008 -- unfortunate but I think she's been tainted (lol).

[FutureGM]

Best news I've heard all day. Hopefully she and her massive ego can stay out of the spotlight for awhile. Maybe now she won't be able to use her baby as a political stage prop anymore (not counting on it).

I do find it interesting that she resigns just days after a Vanity Fair article comes out that embarrasses her pretty thoroughly, with some help by former McCain staffers.

I'm really not sure what she's doing here. On the surface it does look like she's basically giving up on politics, since resigning with almost two years remaining in her term of office is going to be very hard to explain if she tries to make a Nixonian return to the scene. However, I find it hard to believe that someone who just 8 months ago was on the ticket as a potential Vice President of the United States, and who is still considered a major player in the GOP, would just up and leave everything behind.

There's also the possibility that she is getting WAY out in front of a particularly bad scandal that is about to come to light. Alaskan politics are EXTREMELY corrupt, even more so than most states. I mean, just in the last couple of years a Senator and a major Representative have been caught in major corruption scandals. Palin herself has been involved in some shady dealings, even before last year's 'Troopergate'.

[el penguino]

In science, we follow something called Occam's Razor and it might potentially apply here. Given the available information, I think the simplest, most logical conclusion is that she is leaving politics altogether and this was her own decision.

She went from being an unknown governor in a meaningless state to perhaps the greatest media personality of 2008. I don't think she is egotistical and I don't think she wanted this coverage. The media really threw her under the bus criticizing her children, her intelligence, her mannerisms, her personality, etc. If the David Letterman incident tells us anything, it's that she doesn't have the skin for this type of media attention and criticisms. I do believe her when she talks about being disillusioned by the political system (as people have said here, she is more of an outsider).

Of course this could be way off but I'm guessing she's had enough and just wants out.

[superfish]

FutureGM, on 04 July 2009 - 01:25 AM, said:

Best news I've heard all day. Hopefully she and her massive ego can stay out of the spotlight for awhile. Maybe now she won't be able to use her baby as a political stage prop anymore (not counting on it).

I do find it interesting that she resigns just days after a Vanity Fair article comes out that embarrasses her pretty thoroughly, with some help by former McCain staffers.

I'm really not sure what she's doing here. On the surface it does look like she's basically giving up on politics, since resigning with almost two years remaining in her term of office is going to be very hard to explain if she tries to make a Nixonian return to the scene. However, I find it hard to believe that someone who just 8 months ago was on the ticket as a potential Vice President of the United States, and who is still considered a major player in the GOP, would just up and leave everything behind.

There's also the possibility that she is getting WAY out in front of a particularly bad scandal that is about to come to light. Alaskan politics are EXTREMELY corrupt, even more so than most states. I mean, just in the last couple of years a Senator and a major Representative have been caught in major corruption scandals. Palin herself has been involved in some shady dealings, even before last year's 'Troopergate'.

She is a Nasty Women

[Mets_bs]

FutureGM, on 04 July 2009 - 01:25 AM, said:

Best news I've heard all day. Hopefully she and her massive ego can stay out of the spotlight for awhile. Maybe now she won't be able to use her baby as a political stage prop anymore (not counting on it).

Translation -- Sarah Palin scares me.

Ego? John Edwards. That is all.

Look, Sarah Palin is a lot of things. Probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Not the most experienced person we've seen on a ticket (nor the most inexperienced). BUT she is charismatic and extremely popular. And that scares the left. And if she ever got her crap together she'd wipe the f***ing floor with whoever the left threw out there.

[superfish]

Mets_bs, on 04 July 2009 - 09:33 AM, said:

FutureGM, on 04 July 2009 - 01:25 AM, said:

Best news I've heard all day. Hopefully she and her massive ego can stay out of the spotlight for awhile. Maybe now she won't be able to use her baby as a political stage prop anymore (not counting on it).

Translation -- Sarah Palin scares me.

Ego? John Edwards. That is all.

Look, Sarah Palin is a lot of things. Probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Not the most experienced person we've seen on a ticket (nor the most inexperienced). BUT she is charismatic and extremely popular. And that scares the left. And if she ever got her crap together she'd wipe the f***ing floor with whoever the left threw out there.

Are you kidding us?

[Mets_bs]

No, tell me at what point did the McCain ticket gain it's most steam? Who was the star of the RNC? Hell, she was arguably the most talked about VP candidate ever. Like I said, she's one of the most charismatic and popular candidates that the right can throw out there in 2012 BUT she has some short comings that the lib media attacked relentlessly.

[Rabbethan]

Mets_bs, on 04 July 2009 - 09:52 AM, said:

No, tell me at what point did the McCain ticket gain it's most steam? Who was the star of the RNC? Hell, she was arguably the most talked about VP candidate ever. Like I said, she's one of the most charismatic and popular candidates that the right can throw out there in 2012 BUT she has some short comings that the lib media attacked relentlessly.

Damn Gotcha-liberal media...

[Dodge]

Sarah Palin did not for an instant "scare" me. I would love to see her run in 2012. She would not win.

[el penguino]

She has no chance.

She has too much baggage and this latest stunt won't help anything. She does have some charisma, but she doesn't know enough about the issues to provide a good interview or debate.

Obama has not been doing well in office, so I think at this pace it is the Republicans' race to lose in 2012 if they can come up with a decent candidate. From my ideological perspective, I'd love to see the GOP rally behind someone like Peter Schiff for the 2010 Senate race, get him elected, and then run him for President. He's charismatic, witty, aggressive, and confident and would completely wallap Obama in a debate. Of course, this entails a sequence of events that are all unlikely, but the point remains that if the GOP can find someone intelligent and knowledgeable, they can regain the White House.

[FutureGM]

Dodge, on July 4, 2009 - 12:13 PM, said:

Sarah Palin did not for an instant "scare" me. I would love to see her run in 2012. She would not win.

Also this.

I don't feel sorry for her at all. She had plenty of opportunity to not take the position offered to her. Many, many politicians over the years have turned that same job down, so she wouldn't be even close to the first.

I also think it's perfectly legitimate to wonder why a woman at the end of her pregnancy is flying back to Alaska with her fluid leaking on a plane, just so she could have the kid in her own state.

[el penguino]

Oh, please.

It is certainly fathomable for someone not being a career politician to not foresee many of the scathing attacks issued by the media. While she certainly must have known that her daughter's pregnancy (and other things) would be mentioned, I could easily see the difficulty in anticipating the nature of the criticism and the effect it would have on her family. I think it acceptable to assume that she got more than she bargained for when she signed on to the McCain ticket. It would have been different if she had been an established multi-term politician.

Secondly, at the time Palin wasn't due to give birth for over a month. She experienced minor contractions that subsided before she flew and her doctor said her behavior was not unreasonable.