Sarah Palin: It's Her Party And She'll Resign If She Wants To.

bighollywood.brietbart.com ^ | July 9, 2009 | Chris Stigall

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Sarah Palin: It's Her Party And She'll Resign If She Wants To.

by Chris Stigall

It has been amusing to watch the speculation of the Alaska Governor’s motivations and future aspirations after announcing her resignation last Friday. Senate bid? “No, Alaskans would never forgive her for leaving them” said the Sunday shows. Presidential bid? “Not possible now,” say the smartest strategists and campaigners. Host a talk show? Sell books? Go on the lecture circuit? All possible, though not all probable. But the one thing most of the pundits on both the left and the right in Washington D.C. have declared certain - Palin’s political career is D.O.A.

Not so fast, my friends. Since we’re all engaged in wild speculation, allow the reading of one more set of tea leaves, if you please.

[wk4bush2004]

Great article! SARAH makes the liberals’ heads explode and herds the RINOs off a cliff! She represents average Americans and we LOVE her for it!

SARAH PALIN, 2012!!!

[Oldsailor]

The DC talking heads are so NOT RIGHT about Sarah Palin because she is not fitting into their narrow little stall.

She has very valid reasons for what she is doing and it will become pretty clear soon.

[SandWMan]

I think this was a bad move on her part. She will now always be looked upon as quitting when the going got tough.

[Terry Mross]

I asked a 37 years old why he hates her. He said because she’s stupid. I said “How many states are there?”

He replied, “Fifty.”

I said Obama said he’d been to all 57 states.

He replied, “Well, he meant states and territories”.

I said “They all have to rationalize.”

I find it humorous that the elites in D.C. who hate Sarah because she’s not an elitist tell the rest of us who are not elistists what Sarah can and cannot do.

[SolidWood]

I think this was a bad move on her part.

Baloney. It was the only possible move if she wants to have a national future.

Read this:

Why Sarah Palin isn’t Dead Politically

She will now always be looked upon as quitting when the going got tough.

You say the same about George Washington?

[SolidWood]

Next time mention that Obama said that his great-uncle liberated Auschwitz. Either this means his great-uncle was in the Soviet Army or Obama doesn't know where Poland is. He confused the largest death camp with a sub-camp of Buchenwald. Total idiot.

Also mention that Biden said that Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to the nation on TV in 1929, when there was neither TV nor Roosevelt President.

[Crolis]

Thanks for posting, great article!

[Shannon]

I totally disagree. What she did was HONEST. Would it have been better had she played it like Obama; campaign after 100 days all the while pretending to be holding a position? No. What she did was honest & up front. It'll never hurt her. Some people are hoping it will but it won't.

[alarm rider]

From the article:

“No, they’ll not say it publicly. In fact, they’ll dismiss her influence altogether if asked. But I’ll bet my house that the weekend voice mailbox of Governor Palin was full of begging, pleading Republican Senate, House, and gubernatorial candidates humbly requesting this “erratic, irrelevant, lightweight” to come stand at their side during their upcoming picnic/potluck/town hall/ cocktail fundraiser”.

Yeah, bad move.

[SandWMan]

George Washington? good grief...

While she may well have been a good governor, I do NOT see her as presidential material, not by any stretch of the imagination, and I definitely don’t see her as the conservative messiah that so many others worship. Personally, I think she would do well to run for Senate...not the presidency.

[jamese777]

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”—Vince Lombardi

[SolidWood]

Ah! So your beef isn't that she's damaged herself, you (surprise) didn't support her in the first place.

Who do you favor for President?

[MBB1984]

“The first time you quit, it’s hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don’t even have to think about it.” — Paul “Bear” Bryant

[SandWMan]

I don’t say I don’t like her, but I will say that I just don’t think she’s presidental material. (plus, the whole “we should consider going to war with Russia over Georgia” thing showed me how she was willing to tow the neo-con party line...or worse yet, she believes it herself. That turned me off to her).

Beyond that, yes, I think this episode hurt her...but she was damaged goods already. I think that nationally, she is utterly unelectable. I liked Dan Quayle, but could he possibly have gotten elected as President??

I would love to see the republican party nominate an actual, honest-to-goodness conservative as their presidential candidate (I don’t think it will happen anyway), but surely someone better could be chosen. Now, I am NOT a pragmatist. I’m the least pragmatic person on Freerepublic, I’m sure. Pragmatism is the devil that has led us to the sad state we are in now. Revolutions are not fought, much less won, by pragmatists, but I just think conservatives might need to hitch their wagons to a different horse.

Of the current crop of prominent Presidential possibles, I see NO ONE that I really like at all...and several I despise... DeMint might show some promise, but I’d have to research him more before I could say I would support him.

Unfortunately, principles do not win elections in America. Appearances do.

[jveritas]

Seriously folks you need to get a grip on reality. Sarah Palin did not want to finish her first term as a governor and you think that people will elect her President? If a democrat has done this and want to run for President it will be the first thing we use against him or her. She screwed it up big by resigning her job as governor but yet some people want to delude themselves that this is a good thing.

[SolidWood]

the whole “we should consider going to war with Russia over Georgia” thing

More of the typical taking out of context... she was talking about a scenario where Georgia was already a member of NATO. Yes that's what NATO allies do... go to war for each other in case of an attack.

She was 100% spot on and it's about time we stop groweling before the Gremlins in the Kremlin.

but she was damaged goods already. I think that nationally, she is utterly unelectable.

Take note what will happen in the following months and years, once she conquers the lower 48 for the GOP.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I couldn’t agree with you more.

[wk4bush2004]

“She screwed it up big by resigning her job as governor”

I’m sorry, but you’ve really got to stop believing the liberals’ lies.

SARAH is more popular than ever! She accomplished at least 15 MAJOR THINGS as Governor in TWO YEARS!!!! That’s more than most governors accomplish in two terms!

Who else can bring in 20,000-30,000 people at a short notice??? You don’t see Romney or Huckabee doing that, do you?

It is a great thing that SARAH won’t be bound by the varmints in the Alaska State Legislature. She can’t run for President from Alaska. She knows she’s needed in Washington and we are gonna help her get there!

SARAH PALIN, 2012!

[SolidWood]

She wouldn’t have gotten anywhere had she stayed in Alaska:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2289000/posts

[SandWMan]

Bless your heart. I thought I was the only one. Sarah Palin has more worshippers than Ron Paul! (and yes, I do like Ron Paul).

[jveritas]

I do not even listen to the f****** liberals or what they say let alone believe the shit they say. People are not going to vote for someone who quit the job as a governor before completing the first term. It is a fact. So do you expect her to quit being President in two years if she ran and won? If it is a good thing if she quit the governorship why not a good thing if she quits the Presidency?

You can delude yourself all what you want and for certain I cannot convince you and you cannot convince me.

There is an Obama cult among liberals and their is a Palin cult growing among some on our side.

[Steve_Seattle]

Have you read John Fund's column in the WSJ regarding Palin? You might not know the extent of it, but Palin was the victim of a relentless campaign by Alaska Democrats to burden her administration with frivolous ethics complaints (15 and counting) and Freedom of Information Act requests (150 and counting). By law, each of these must be responded to by specific deadlines, and each one can take days or even weeks of staff time to comply with. To make matters worse, some of the ethical complaints rolled several distinct items into the same complaint, so that far more than 15 items had to be addressed.

When Palin said she could not govern under such circumstances, she was telling the truth. Would you call a ballet dancer a "quitter" if she left the stage while being pelted with rotten tomatoes? That is analogous to Palin's situation. The real scandal of the Palin resignation is that she was driven from office by a well-orchestrated campaign of harassment, a campaign that undermined the Democratic process in much the same way that a campaign of street-thuggery would.

[The Wizard]

This is indeed a great article.....read the whole thing, you deserve....

[The Wizard]

no offense, but you speak like a fool....

[Steve_Seattle]

Obama promised his constituents he would serve out his term as Senator; within a year, he was on the campaign trial.

Katherine Sibelius quit as Governor of Kansas to join Obama.

Janet Napolitano quit as governor of Arizona to join Obama.

Rahm Emanuel quit as U.S. Congressman to join Obama.

Ron Sims quit as King County (WA) Executive to join Obama.

Politicians of both parties do it all the time. Is it LESS justified to resign - not for a better or more prestigious or more exciting job - but because your opponents have made it impossible to effectively do your current job?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

We need to stick together! :-)

I really was excited about Palin as VP. I thought her an excellent choice. I was not happy about McCain, and only voted in the general election because of Palin.

I simply cannot excuse walking away from an elected office. I don't care if the word used is: "resigned" vs "quit". The action is the same. This business that she left because of the nonsense lawsuits makes absolutely no sense to me. Once Prez, she'll have it much worse. Will she quit then?

Clinton showed us you can be President and be sued - and look how distracting that was. Tactically, I think her resignation was a terrible mistake. I think it would have been far better to toughen Alaska's "loser-pays" frivolous lawsuit legislation -- anyone seeking to sue (and is proved) that the suit is frivolous should face VERY, VERY stiff penalties and fines. That way, she keeps her spot as Governor, keeps her reputation and those that throwing dirt will be penalized.

Personally, I'm finding some of the Palin supporters very rabid in their support, and many of them are lacking in manners.

[Victory Rocks]

Isn't it amazing how many of these Palin critics who say she's unelectable and is dead politically, think they're great prophets and can see into the future like Nostradamus.

Now I'm no prophet either, and at this point I don't know what the future holds for Sarah, but I can at least give her the benefit of the doubt, and give her a chance to prove herself before making rash judgments and predictions based on what "so called" experts in the Beltway think.

I say to the Palin critics, try to at least give her a chance until the GOP primary debates. She has enough time until then to improve her debating skills and gain what ever extra knowledge she needs to present a clear, simple, conservative message that will wow and win over primary voters. If she defeats the other GOP candidates then we'll know she's ready to take on Obama and has a great chance of winning the White House. If she bombs or fizzles out during these debates, then we'll know for sure she's not ready for prime time and we can rally around the person who does win, because who ever wins the GOP primary debates will probably be our nominee, as long as Obama and Acorn can keep their stinking paws out of and off of our primaries.

[Steve_Seattle]

What makes you think her resignation was “tactical” in any way? People - right and left - just assume it was part of some long-term “strategy.” Maybe it wasn’t. Maybe she has no distinct plans, and was just doing what she said she was doing - getting out of the way so Alaska could go about its business without the distractions and waste of time and money her presence was causing because of the petty ethics complaints and FOIA requests.

[longhorn too]

“it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to”

You would too if it happened to you!

[MrsEmmaPeel]

You may be 100% correct. If that is the case, then why should I even consider her for future political office? And why should I bother to take her seriously when she decides to endorse other GOP candidates?

If this was all a whimsical action with no long term planning or strategy - then I most definitely don't want her as President. If she thought it through and is planning a future political career, then I don't want her as President.

[jveritas]

The real scandal of the Palin resignation is that she was driven from office by a well-orchestrated campaign of harassment, a campaign that undermined the Democratic process in much the same way that a campaign of street-thuggery would.

And democrats are not going to do this for a Republican President? They have been doing this to Republican Presidents and Republican politicians since Abraham Lincoln. As I said before nothing will convince you that what Sarah Palin has done is very bad for any future she may have had as a viable candidate for President and in the same token you are not going to convince me otherwise.

[jveritas]

And you are who? The Wizard of all wizards? The fountain of wisdom? I am so blessed that you lowered yourself to my level and talked to me.

[Oztrich Boy]

Clinton showed us you can be President and be sued - and look how distracting that was

The lesson here is appoint a compliant Attorney-general and the Justice Dept will work for you.

[Steve_Seattle]

Belated reply: If Palin’s resignation was not part of some long-term career strategy, that does not make it “whimsical.” People quit jobs every day of the year, often for very good and heart-wrenching reasons, without knowing what their next job will be. Such decisions are far from “whimsical.” If you know what your next job is - especially if it’s a better job - it’s easier, not harder, to quit.

[Steve_Seattle]

I don’t worship Palin; I think she probably wasn’t ready for the VP nomination, and might not ever be suited for that kind of national-level job. But I’ll defend her when I think she needs defending.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Clinton showed us you can be president and be sued."

The president of the United States has far more resources at his disposal than the governor of Alaska to deal with legal matters. Plus, I don't think Clinton PERSONALLY had to deal with dozens of ethics complaints and 150 FOIA challenges. Also, his supporters said the Lewinsky deal made a huge impact on his ability to govern. Also, Clinton had the press on his side.

[sarah fan UK]

Sometimes sayins ain’t invicible - sorry Vince!

[Terry Mross]

Doesn’t matter. Everyone will make excuses for the guy. The media is the worst about it. They all love to say “What he really meant was.....”. I have no idea what he meant. I just know what he said. And what him and Biden say is usually stupid. Yet, to them, it’s Palin and
W who are stupid.

What’s always blows my mind is talk to some of these people in “generic” terms and they’re very conservative. Yet they vote for liberal politicians. Guess they’re just brainwashed.

[who knows what evil?]

New Hampshire's Attorney General Kelly Ayotte (female) just resigned from her position to run for Judd Gregg's Senate seat...try as I might; I can't find ANY reference to her as a "quitter".

Wonder why?