Posted on 07/03/2009 10:48:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin’s jaw-dropping announcement that she is quitting her job as Alaska governor before finishing even her first term has divided Republican ranks and the wider political community in a very familiar fashion.
Many establishment GOP operatives and political commentators of various stripes were withering, both about the decision and the way she announced it—in a jittery, hyperkinetic news conference that rambled between self-congratulation and bitter accusations at the foes she says are eager to destroy her.
The performance, by these lights, adds credence to the claims of some associates that Palin—burned by the intense scrutiny on her and the crossfire that swirls around her—is so fed up that she's ready to get out of elective politics. Even if it's only the small stage of Alaska politics she hopes to escape, skeptics say Friday’s events also diminished and perhaps even demolished what was left of her viability as a 2012 presidential candiate.
But her defenders believed an unorthodox move, even if risky, has a clear logic and may only further increase her standing with conservatives who don’t care what establishment figures in or out of the GOP think. Leaving the governor’s office at the end of this month leaves her free to travel the country, command large speaking fees, and begin the process of rallying her devotees without pesky home-state opponents criticizing every move.
These varied reactions were an echo of the debates that have followed Palin every step since her nomination as John McCain’s running mate ten months ago—a surprise that turned out to be just the first of many surprises served up by one of the most colorful and polarizing American political figures in a generation.
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Heat is relative. The heat applied to the False Messiah is the equivalent of Antarctica. The heat applied to establishment RINOs (during the nomination period) is the equivalent of a Massachusetts Summer. The heat applied to Governor Palin and her family is the equivalent of the surface of the Sun.
Not even Reagan got deliberately $hithammered the way she has, and this has gone far beyond fair play. When you’ve reached the point of insulting her Down’s Syndrome infant, that’s pure, psychotic evil. She took the best course of action for her and Alaska, outsmarted, outmaneuvered and confounded the haters, and has ALREADY proven herself. There’d have been nothing left of the False One and Slick Willard if they had had a week’s worth of the deranged hate shown Palin’s family.
Now, do I have to ask if she’d pick up the phone at 3am ? I don’t have to ponder such a question for a moment.
One downside with Palin’s resignation, is that the Left will be even more emboldened to smear other candidates like Jindal or Haley Barbour.
The ethics complaint battle is a complicated issue that can’t be answered in soundbites. America is full of people who listen to only soundbites. That includes even conservatives. For example, Huckabee, on Fox Sunday, boosted how he faced ethics complaints too as AR Governor and don’t quit. A lot of conservatives will be taken in by Huckabee’s statements in the primaries.
The Left will always be emboldened to attack, but what they won’t be able to do now is try to sink her vis a vis anything she does as Governor. They simply were not going to permit her to do her job, as I’ve stated many times. Barbour and Jindal will get the usual crap, but they’re not viewed in the same light as Palin and aren’t subjected to such a level of scrutiny and sabotage. Remember what I said about differing treatment.
As for the Huckster, given that he himself was a RINO who kneecapped Conservatives not under his thumb in Arkansas (nevermind his retention of Democrat appointees), I scarcely have an ounce of sympathy for him, and he never got a fraction of the attacks and obstructionism even with a 75% Democrat legislature.
Palin will take her message straight to the people.
You joined FR to late to be a reliable source.
Reliable source? Lol.
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