[counterpunch]

This is a good article.
And Steyn is right.
It’s time to cut bait on Sarah Palin as the future hope of the GOP, just as she’s cut bait on political life.
She’s not the Moses to lead us out of the desert.

[pissant]

I never put any energy into hoping or thinking she’d be my gal for 2012 anyway.

[SolidWood]

just as she’s cut bait on political life.

Guess you listened to MSNBC's Mitchell instead of paying attention to Palin's statement.

[WVKayaker]

While all of us are able to express our opinion, you seem to be trolling each and every post about Sarah Palin.

TO ALL: DO NOT RESPOND TO counterpunch, THE TROLL!

[skinkinthegrass]

You STILL haven't answer the question....
Who are you pushing?....MYTH Again.

[Lancey Howard]

She’s not the Moses to lead us out of the desert.

Well, it's not McCain, and it's not the Huckster, and it's certainly not the slimy Romney.... Who do you suggest, genius?

[matthew fuller]

"It’s time to cut bait on Sarah Palin as the future hope of the GOP, just as she’s cut bait on political life."

You and Steyn are most likely right, but let's give this some time. Whatever her dreams now, I am praying for her success. If she has chosen a future that precludes political aspirations, she has at least served as an example and a beacon for hope for Conservatives that we haven't seen the likes of since Reagan. God bless her in her future plans. Based on yesterday's speech, I'm not counting her completely out yet.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Agreed. Reading some of the cult-of-personality Palinites on other threads, they have idolized SP as some Superhuman Goddess of Mythical Proportions.

So desperate are they for a counter-messiah to Obama, they can’t BEGIN to think that maybe, just maybe, this is a normal human being puts her personal responsibilities above fulfilling their hyperinflated expectations of her.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Agreed. Reading some of the cult-of-personality Palinites on other threads, they have idolized SP as some Superhuman Goddess of Mythical Proportions.

So desperate are they for a counter-messiah to Obama, they can’t BEGIN to think that maybe, just maybe, this is a normal human being puts her personal responsibilities above fulfilling their hyperinflated expectations of her.

[giotto]

I would almost accept his interpretation...except that Palin seems too honorable a person to just leave her job like that, unless she really does have future political plans. I mean, if she really was concerned about the witchhunting obstructing her job performance, and if she really just wanted to go back to being Governor Palin and NOT Sarah Palin, future candidate for President, then all she had to do was announce that she has absolutely no plans or desire to run for any national office. Period. Make it emphatic, get it in writing if necessary. Bingo--the media and the Democrats would leave her alone and everything would be back to where it was before Aug. 29, 2008.

But that's not what she did. So I have to think she has something else up her sleeve.

[RobRoy]

Actually, this may take more than a Moses. This may take a second coming. If so, she is Dagney Taggart joining John Galt.

IOW, she is doing the right thing if, in fact, it is for the reasons suggested by Mark.

America is at that awkward stage...and apparently Sara has figured that out.

[nickcarraway]

There is no person. The media has learned how to destroy anyone good.

[SuziQ]

It’s time to cut bait on Sarah Palin as the future hope of the GOP, just as she’s cut bait on political life.

If you read her statement, she did nothing of the sort.

[OrangeHoof]

I’m not abandoning hope until I see the next move. Once out of office, she’ll have the freedom to rip the Left a new one without having to worry about how it looks as governor or how it plays out in the beltway. She can just be herself and that might really be what makes her a better candidate.

However, she may also decide to take her ball and go home. And who could blame her with all the crap she’s had to take, not just from the nasty Left but from the RINO wing of her own party?

I’ll wait to see which direction she takes.

[beelzepug]

You seem to make a habit of showing up on every Palin thread for the purpose of putting her down. What suggestions, if any, do you have for who and what it will take to get conservatives united?

[SeaHawkFan]

It’s time to cut bait on Sarah Palin as the future hope of the GOP, just as she’s cut bait on political life. She’s not the Moses to lead us out of the desert.

You obviously don't know much about Moses. God has a history of using ordinary men and women to do extraordinary things.

[DeusExMachina05]

I agree. You dont bail half way through a job and still come out as a success.

Her action undercut people like me who stuck up for her in the campaign and beyond...it just looks weird now.

[LS]

Yeah, I think you're right. I love Palin's political positions and her plain speech. But I've become extremely concerned that she would, or could, develop the intellectual rigor necessary to become a "new Reagan." Even before RR was governor of the most populous state in the country, during one of the most difficult times in history, he had honed his message on everything from unions to defense to oil in his GE talks around the nation. Then, after eight full years of trench warfare in CA, he spent several more years writing his own radio addresses on virtually every topic imaginable, doing his own homework.

I did not see that from Palin. And as Steyn points out, in her domestic situation, it is a damn near impossible chore. Maggie Thatcher did not have kids to worry about; was located in the London region; and the British system is entirely different.

[aruanan]

She’s not the Moses to lead us out of the desert.

Moses led them out of Egypt and into the desert. It was Joshua who led them out of the desert and into the promised land.

[jwalsh07]

It’s time to cut bait on Sarah Palin as the future hope of the GOP, just as she’s cut bait on political life.

You say that like it's a bad thing. It's never a bad thing to climb out of the cesspool.

[EveningStar]

Some of these folks think Sarah Palin is George Washington, Ronald Reagan, Moses, and Jesus Christ all rolled into one.