Posted on 07/05/2009 6:43:24 AM PDT by skimbell
Why did Sarah Palin step down?
Theories abound. But some of the people closest to the Alaska governor say she wanted to regain control of a political script that slipped out of her hands the moment she burst onto the national stage. She also wanted to shield herself and her family from the attacks that seem to have been aimed permanently at them in the 311 days since Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced her as his running mate, according to some former campaign aides and other advisers who speak regularly with Palin or her husband, Todd.
The Sarah Palin who stood outside her Wasilla, Alaska, lakefront home Friday to surrender her term with 18 months remaining appeared vulnerable and anything but the pugnacious hockey mom and combative candidate whom Americans came to either adore or revile. The woman who said she would never blink suddenly...
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It’s entertaining reading what passes for “liberal logic”.
They’re incredibly afraid of her. Good.
I was glad to hear her lawyer saying this morning that they WILL sue if people don’t stop disparaging her and making up lies about her and her family.
It has really been beyond the pale.
Consider the source.
Gibberish. Your concern is feigned.
I think what this shows is that conservatives here on FR are SO desperate for a viable true conservative candidate that we want to force Sarah into that image.
I was going to say ‘bullshit’, but feigned works too.
Notice how often thinly veiled sexism and disdain for women play into these “concern” comments?
I know its the 4th of July weekend, but lay off the the bottle.
Stop the sexism too.
Probably a common occurrence in the life of Ev.
“Notice how often thinly veiled sexism and disdain for women play into these ‘concern’ comments?”
I’d comment about how Hillary! gets a pass (even here!) but then, it’s not been confirmed that she’s a woman. ;)
Didn’t read her speech did you? Or the one she made yesterday either, did you? Or, and this seems likely, you are just a Sarah hater taking this opportunity to bash her. Sarah made a calculated political move. She is not out of the game and she is going to run in 2012. Her speeches told us all why she did it and what she expects to do after she resigns, it isn’t her fault that you, and others, simply can’t understand what she said and take it at face value.
Why is it that if you dont follow the “formula” (if you will) given by Washington or the media you are a train wreck. We are witnessing a new day. Its Independence day from the norm of now. She is done and we are done with what is going on in our country now.
Lets Roll!
I am completely flummoxed and flabbergasted over this.
Life is so unfair, isn’t it?
Your post is just offensive and diminishing of all women. Palin has proven a more effective political executive than the vast, vast, vast majority of political men. She just changed the game in her favor.
I also share your puzzlement with regards to her resigning.....
.....but to say she was trying for a "political comeback" is to accept that she was somehow knocked out of it in November.
The ticket lost because of the RINO McCain, the stupid anti-Bush vote, and Obama is black. Palin was the only positive on the Republican side.
MSNBC and the other TV news channels are constantly in anti-Palin frenzy mode because they fear her. She was never out of it because she was being targeted simply for the threat she poses.
That said, she may have misinterpreted the anti-Palin mode of the news outlets as negative public sentiment towards her and made a poor judgment as a result. I'll giver her the benefit of the doubt for now.
Yep.
Seen it time and time again in every Palin thread that’s been posted.
Or the other canard of ‘not enough experience’.
More BS from the ‘hate Palin’ crowd.
Maybe it's time for a nap.
She had to do a reset in order to be able to concentrate on the national scene. She’ll concentrate on 2010 by promoting conservatives and the conservative agenda; she’ll move on to 2012 per her schedule.
Dems and RINOs should be afraid.
Conservatives should support her PAC.
Was there another speech that I missed?
Whatever.
This frees her up to defend herself AND work on behalf of conservatism.
This is why the left is STILL trying to ruin her. Still. But she can fight back now. It’s gonna be phun watching.
LOL! Cankles don’t lie! :)
I agree. She will never be president now. It’s over. The only remaining question is this. Is there some scandal about to break as the leftist media has been reporting or has Gov. Palin made a giant mistake by wanting to begin her presidential campaign early without finishing her term as governor (big mistake). I don’t know.
The Obamanites have been trying to peck her to death by bogus ethics complaints and vile media hate crimes. We will see if they have succeeded. In his first two elections to public office Obama destroyed his opposition early in the campaign. In the Democrat primary for state office, he had his opponent's candidacy thrown out with supposedly not enough legal signatures. In his candidacy for senator, he got the press to illegally open some divorce records, showing information which would likely be taken as a badge of honor for a Democrat, but is a death knell for a Republican.
If she thinks leaving politics will halt the attacks, she is gravely mistaken. For about two weeks, starting with her Convention speech, she had the Dims and MSM running scared. For a brief moment there, it looked as if Obama was not a sure thing after all. As payback for that, she will be hounded for the rest of her life. If anything, her best alternative was to stay in power. I guess that option is closed now as she will likely not be elected to anything ever again.
Getting your talking points from DemocraticUnderground and DailyKos, eh?
Stifle that kind of talk, noob!
She never suggested so. Not being governor, she will be able to fight back these attacks.
I think Sarah was smart to make this announcement on “Independence Day,” for, if we do not shake loose from the powers that be in both political parties, we are done. We, the people, need to reorganize into a third party and we need to do it now. In addition, no one I can think of in the recent past has suffered the vile and unrelenting attacks that Sarah Palin has suffered. She stated in her resignation speech that adults had verbally attacked her innocent baby boy. They just cannot stand the idea that she gave life to him. I am guessing that some of her harshest critics have dabbled in abortion themselves and, perhaps, do not want Sarah around reminding them of their own guilt.
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Maybe you had bladder stones when writing your comment newbie?
Ev
I agree you mut be in to win it !
I think she would do far more good as a Republican-Conservative spokesperson, rather than a political candidate for national office.
This could set the stage for a 1994-esque take-over of both houses, and give some political focus to the SCOTUS appointments. She, on a daily basis, could take the wind out of the sails of Barry, David, and Rahm.
No talking points here...merely logic. Many of you twist yourself in knots to figure out how this is some grand scheme of Sarah’s to put her into the White House. I don’t see it that way. No sitting governor who quits to pursue higher office will be viewed as a serious presidential candidate. She made a promise to the people of Alaska and should not break it merely to run for the presidency. I don’t know why she did it. The rumors are out there...of course people lie all the time especially about Gov. Palin so we should wait and see.
I just don’t get it. If Sarah resigned to pursue higher office then I don’t understand her behavior. When you run for office, you make a promise to the people of your state. sorry, I can’t help looking at this logically. Also, we have been burned by our presidential candidates. Next time, I want a really good one.
You can answer your critics more from a position of power than when you have none at all. The governorship was just such a position. Not only did she disappoint a lot of Alaskans but I feel by her decision she threw herself under the bus politically speaking. Isn’t this what is wrong with conservatives in Washington? They give up too damn easily. Isn’t that what we have been saying for so long now and then this happens too? Come on people. Wake up for pete’s sake.
You can answer your critics more from a position of power than when you have none at all. The governorship was just such a position. Not only did she disappoint a lot of Alaskans but I feel by her decision she threw herself under the bus politically speaking. Isn’t this what is wrong with conservatives in Washington? They give up too damn easily. Isn’t that what we have been saying for so long now and then this happens too? Come on people. Wake up for pete’s sake.
I agree that Palin was the only thing that made the McCain/Palin ticket work and that is why this decision of Palin’s I can’t help but feel was a huge mistake on her part.
you would know that she repeatedly said that she will continue the political fight for America and is not going away. She also gives her reasons why she no longer sees a reason to serve out her term.
Of course if you prefer the imaginative interpretations... do as you please.
I don’t think this rules her out completely from future office or high-profile service. I do think it makes thing more difficult.
Could be this is the best move for her after all. But I would have been happier to see her finish her term. We need good people in _every_ office.
Certainly because of menstruations as you so intelligently suggested (barf!). Why pretend that you supported her in the first place?
I know conservative Alaskans personally who supported her, campaigned for her, donated to her, and helped put her in office. They are behind her now because they (like many of us) see the larger and more critical national fight for the very soul of this nation...and believe she is somebody who can help turn that around.
That's what she is about and she has just executed a flanking manuever on the MSM and the left that has taken them by surprize and has them in a frenzy.
Good on her. She has our support.
She had that chance as governor and she did it so why leave?
She had that chance as governor and she did it so why leave?
Maybe you don’t read the replies you receive... so here again:
She has to run a profoundly different kind of campaign if she wants to have a political future in any shape. Staying in Alaska, being obstructed as Governor and in her political activity was keeping her back. She freed herself and is now able to engage 100% in national politics, fundraising and extending her grassroots clout.
She did the absolute right thing under her circumstances.
Maybe Palin should start the third party and call it THE TEA PARTY! I’d be for that.
She achieved a whole lot as Governor... AGIA being the cornerstone.
I thot she had PMS, too. She was wearing red, a sure sign of PMS.
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