Posted on 07/06/2009 2:23:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
WASILLA, Alaska -- Sarah Palin resigned as Alaska's governor because the volume of state investigations and public-record requests scrutinizing her activities kept her from doing what she wanted, said one of her closest confidantes.
Kristan Cole, who has been friends with Gov. Palin since both were in the same elementary school nearly 40 years ago, said she heard personally from the governor over the Fourth of July weekend. She was one of the few to speak with Gov. Palin, who stunned the political world when she announced Friday she was resigning, effective July 26. The governor gave no specific reason for her exit, beyond citing relentless complaints into her affairs that were hampering her ability to do her job.
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You mean the reasons she gave for resigning are the reasons she is resigning? Who woulda thunk it.
From the article:
“Here’s the bottom line: She has a ton of support, but she felt behind a desk her resources were being wasted,” said Ms. Cole, who runs a real-estate business. “She thinks she can get things done more efficiently this way.”
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Sarah’s gonna travel around the country and she’s gonna build up support for a 2012 presidential run! SHE IS GONNA WIN IN 2012!!!!!!! YEAH, BABY!!!!!!!!
I am so excited! I’ve been donating to SARAHPAC and I’m gonna join her 2012 campaign, once it gets going!
Even if she doesn’t run, she can head a very powerful PAC to help the conservative cause and candidates.
Good for her for putting Alaska first.
there is such an absolute vaccuum out there waiting to be filled by a voice that will take on Obama, she’ll be fine.
In other words, Palin has proved that she is susceptible to the Cloward-Piven strategy.
I read today that her Pac has received new HUGE donations..Kristen Cole is awesome. I have talked to her online before and also follow her on twitter, she is a great person. I can’t wait to hopefully meet Sarah when she comes to the lower 48, it will be a dream come true for me
When it comes to lookin' out for the folks, Sarah makes Bill O look like a complete slacker.
No.
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Why do you say no?
Palin resigned because she was overwhelmed by investigations and public-records requests.
That is the Cloward-Piven strategy, and she cracked under it.
No, Palin was smart enough not to sit there as a sitting lame-duck victim of the strategy!
They drove her out of office. They won.
She let Cloward-Piven take her out.
She buckled under their pressure.
Theres plenty of time before a campaign can start.
Hell no.
The benefits of her now being unleashed far outweigh any downside. If she "cracked and caved" she'd withdraw entirely from public life and put her politics to rest. That's not what's happening.
You mistake a tactical maneuver with a retreat.
Get lost, troll.
In other words, she pitched a temper tantrum?
Alright, if you want to look at it that way.
She redefined the game.
You were a Palin troll before this happened, I don’t really expect any change from you.
Nothing intemperate about it. Read what others have said in response rather than simply repeating yourself.
There are certainly benefits to working outside the system.
And she has reached her limit to working within it.
Sarah is a better fit for an activist role.
I think she would have much more success as an activist outside the system than as a politician inside of it.
CP isn't a troll. Anti-Palin yes, troll no....
Read Palin’s statement. It was no temper tantrum and time will tell whether it is a brilliant move or a stupid one. It’s one or the other . . . not a middle ground sort of move on her part.
I just don’t think she has the potential to attract more votes than 0bama in an election.
But she certainly does have the ability to attract a large dedicated following.
To me, this says that higher office is a dead end for her (with serious negative consequences for us), but she can accomplish much in an activist role.
No, she changed the rules of the game. Behind the governor’s desk, she couldn’t shoot back. Now she can.
She is now in a position to raise tons cash and campaign, not just for herself, but for those who support her policies and wish to replace those who don’t.
Instead of being immobilized by the Cloward-Pivens strategy, she intends to boomerang it right back into the leftists face.
I’m not anti-Palin, I’m anti-0bama.
And I understand that she would be unable to defeat him in 2012.
And how is a public servant supposed to pay $600,000 in legal fees? No job should pay less than the cost of holding the position.
I wouldn’t say she buckled under the pressure. Instead of playing the difficult hand she and Alaska were left with because of this disgusting strategy, she has sidestepped them to where they can’t get her. If this were football or some other sport - or war - you’d be calling it brilliant.
And, I believe that the rats are prepared to negatively affect national security (the missiles in Alaska) to diminish her credentials. Now that is really bad but I wouldn’t put it past them for a second.
Yes, I know you position. I should have been more clear. I don't like to see fellow FReppers getting trashed for their views, it is irritating. That said, I do disagree....I think Palin is re-grouping and firing back. I hope I'm correct and you are not......we'll see soon.
No, honey, she made a wise move. At least, that’s my opinion. I’m allowed to have an opinion, aren’t I? Or, are you always right? Do you always get your own way? Did you vote for Mitt? I thought so. Now go away, you bother me.
Didn’t you make the nonsensical case back before her resignation that because she was on the ticket that lost to Obama in 2008 that she can’t beat him in 2012? I’ll give you credit, it takes considerable chutzpah to posit that argument with straight type!
We all are just sharing our opinions.
Some of us are just swimming upstream against mob mentality.
It is interesting that most of the people trying to change my mind think insults are the best way to accomplish that...
I’m not saying what Sarah did wasn’t a wise move for herself, and perhaps even Alaska.
But it was not a wise move for anyone who wants to pursue the votes of a majority of Americans, and it did hand a significant victory to her enemies.
This is exactly what they wanted.
If you had taken a poll of Americans and asked them “should Sarah Palin resign her office?” it would have been the Democrats answering ‘yes’, not us.
So tell me, who really won here?
It is obvious to anyone who is not desperately trying to spin.
And you commonly insult people who disagree with you as “kool aid drinkers” and “cult followers.”
Now you claim to be a victim. Good grief.
What is this nonsense about voting for Mitt Romney?
I live in California. By the time the primary got here, and McCain and Romney were still in the running.
Which one should have I voted for?
The answer is... I voted for neither.
Independent voters are not allowed to vote in the Republican primary in California.
She can fight better out of office. It was a good decision.
No I don’t.
I have compared Palin’s blind cult following to that of 0bamas (but on a MUCH smaller scale), and I have said that I refuse to drink the Palin Kool-Aid.
But when debating an individual, I make my case for why Palin will only bring us defeat if she runs against 0bama again, I don’t badger them with insults as a means to ‘win’.
How is playing right into their hands side-stepping them?
They already got her. This is what they wanted. They won.
Driving her out of office was their goal, and they achieved it.
Now no Republican is safe from Cloward-Piven.
She can fight better out of office. It was a good decision.Fight, yes.
Trivasanno tonight said there were 15 investigations in the last 2 years.
Results: Nothing, not a thing.
Well that depends on where she goes now and how successful she is at it.
They weren’t driving her out because she was Governor of Alaska, they were after her because they don’t want her to be POTUS and that is still TBD.
Far as I’m concerned Cloward-Piven ought to be a strategy our side looks at using. Then maybe we’ll end up with at least a stand-off. But sitting with our hands tied won’t work.
Our side can’t look at the Cloward-Piven strategy.
We don’t have George Soros money.
Now no Republican is safe from Cloward-Piven.
I agree that the Dems had a strategy of destruction through legal/ethics challenges, that this worked, and Palin's quitting office is a victory for these creeps, that will encourage its practice elsewhere.
I don't think it is called Cloward-Piven though. Cloward-Piven is described thusly:
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
That describes what the White House is doing with massive deficits, entitlement spending, etc.
I am not sure that a targeted legal/ethical assualt has a name, unless it is now the Palin Strategy.
BTW, I would love to find an Cloward-Piven's original article in the Nation, but haven't seen it posted or .pdf'd anywhere.
In the "Troopergate" matter, an investigation by an agency under her office cleared her of any wrongdoing, while one headed by a legislative committee concluded she had abused her office.
Meanwhile, the following had been posted at the time, on the Flopping Aces website:
Talk about a stacked deck!
Sarah Palin is being investigated by the Alaska Legislative Counsel for any improper action she may have taken in firing the State’s public safety commissioner or any pressure Palin may have put on him regarding her brother in law: a State Trooper known for being violent towards members of his family and threatening to kill Palin’s father.
Mata Harley has the whole story covered in detail.
Questions about the partisan nature of the investigation arose after State Senator Hollis French (D), project manager for the investigation, promised the findings would be an “October surprise.”
Further questions regarding the objectivity of this investigation are raised by the following photograph which shows some Democrat members of the Alaska Legislative Counsel and State Sen. French, at an Obama event July 30, 2008. From the official Obama web site:
(Click link above for rest of article and links.)
This "legislative committee" is referenced again in a recent article at Flopping Aces:
4: Sept. 2, 2008: Palin files an ethics complaint request on her Troopergate charges, saying that the legislative investigation has now become too political. This is the first of the three Troopergate related ethics charges, atop the legislative investigation. One day before the election, the Personnel Board dismissed the charges, saying the firing of Monegan violated no ethics laws. As I said… already been there, done that… see the Troopergate series archives.
WSJ's brief reference to the findings of "a legislative committee" would naturally put doubt in the mind of the reader that, perhaps, Sarah had been guilty of some wrongdoing, especially because it was the "agency under her office" that cleared her.
Slimy, aren't they?
The same principle is behind it.
They overloaded Palin’s office to the point that it could no longer function, forcing her to resign as the only way to end it.
Her administration fell due to being overwhelmed by a flood of public-records requests, primarily, thus using the mechanics of the system against itself.
Columbia University, you say?
Where did 0bama go, again?
Or put in military terms, if you are under siege by a superior force, but your forces are mobile do not wait until you are completely surrounded. Find an escape route, use it, then find a field of battle were you have an advantage.
I can think of more then a few great commanders where retreat, seemly in defeat was in fact a prelude to a great victory. In fact that was one of Napoleons favorite moves, he learned from Alexander the Great.
Zero hasn't stopped running for President.
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