I am a big fan of SP. Love her dearly. However, among the people I know who are not, they commonly cite the fact that she resigned her job as a governor of Alaska. I think this will come back to haunt her. My wife is an independent voter-—does not like BHO at all. But she said of SP, if she can’t handle all of the flak she was getting in Alaska, how is she going to handle it on a national level? I had no ready response.
If you had no ready response, it means that you had not yet familiarized yourself with the facts. This is true of any situation/argument. One must know the facts. I’ll leave it to you to obtain them. It is not hard to do. I could simply provide them, but I’ll spare you having to do a 2-step process of first hearing them from me and then going to the trouble of verifying them.
The facts are there. The reasons for her resignation are both valid and honorable. I have no doubt that you’ll find that to be so as well. And may I also say that if you don’t know those facts, then ‘loving her dearly’ is invaid. You should rightly see her as a quitter for as long as you don’t know the reasons behind her resignation.
You need to tell your wife that all those frivolous lawsuits cost Alaska voters $2 Mil. Should Palin have stayed and cost them $4 mil? 6?
Also point out that every suit was brought by a Dem and ALL were dismissed.
Concur w/ your wife, GB. If Sarah couldn’t handle of the flak she was getting in Alaska, how is she going to handle it on a national level? We wonders.
Well, my reply is that she and her family would have been bankrupted, and millions of dollars in debt. Couple that with the fact the media was reporting on each and every one of those frivilous ethics lawsuits as if she were guilty, making national headlines out of them, and turning her name to mud (and they’d never ‘report’ when she was cleared of the suits), giving the public the impression she was the most corrupt politician in existence. So, had she just stayed and ‘taken it,’ she would have been both hugely in debt and politically obliterated.
She was given a terrible situation, and did the only thing she could. Folks that wanted her to stay in office and suffer the grim fate that had been orchestrated for her by her enemies and now voice disapproval of her unconventional action of resigning are disingenuous at best. They wanted her eradicated from the political scene to begin with, one way or another (and that includes a hefty percentage of the GOP establishment types, who’d never lift a finger to help her when she needed some support).
Tell your wife Sarah did not resign over flak. She resigned to save her family from destitution and the state from tens of millions in frivilous lawsuits. They stopped completely when she left office after completing her agenda in 2 years.She has since made enough money to save her home and pay the millions those lawsuits cost her in legal fees. Every suit against her was thrown out.
As others have said already, she didn’t resign because she “couldn’t take it”, she resigned for the good of the state.
In a sterile sense, I think Gov Palin is, bar none, the best we could hope for to run for president. Unfortunately, with all due respect to your wife, it’s the catty nitpicking that, quite bluntly, mainly only women are hurling against the Governor that are her biggest weakness.
I saw someone here on FR a few days ago nitpickin about her toenails for goodness sakes, and saying her choice of toenail polish “clearly made her potential to be president questionable”. (paraphrased)
That, and when I heard some woman call into Rush’s show and say she “agreed with Sara Palin’s politics, but she behaved too much like a woman” to vote for her, has made me pretty much give up WRT Palin’s chances.
What is it with all the cattiness? It’s crazy, but it’s there. It’s sad but she is mired in it, even more than Bachmann. She has no chance, and you can thank her fellow women for that, ironically. I thought they’d be her strongest base.
Sarah Palin handled the "flak" brilliantly. She was being attacked on a national scale. They expected her to sit up there in Alaska and take their flak to the extent of paralyzing her and her administration. She turned the tables on them. Instead of constantly playing defense, she took the battle nationally by going on the offensive. For an example of her offensive tactic, all you have to do is look at the results of the 2010 elections and the tea party movement. People say that the tea party hasn't any leaders but I maintain Palin disproves that claim. Never apologize for Palin resigning because like I said, it was a brilliant tactical move.
I thought Palin quitting...was because of the way AK politicians must defend lawsuits. The citizens pay.
And also were there not many totally bogus lawsuits?? But had to be litigated anyway?
It was my understanding....that she quit, thus saving the citizens of the State of AK...thousands of $$.
I dunno...I've owned positions in stocks...that went against me, and I took my losses. In order to not take MORE losses.
I've had other investments...that I got out of, before I lost my shirt. I never thought that was quitting....But always that was sound business practice.
Granted....I'm not 100% sure that's how it went down for Palin...but that is what I remember reading.
FWIW-
“I had no ready response.”
Then you are no General.
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but in matters political your wife is a moron.
Tell your wife to read my tag.
Tell your wife to read my tag.
Considering all the flak SP has received being on the front line against the left more publicly and vocally than anyone else on the right and more consistently to use the the argument that she “can’t handle the flak” because she quit is ridiculous. She’s fearless and never backs down no matter what’s thrown at her. And she doesn’t just defend herself, she defends us. If you had no ready response (at least to say, she’d be a better president than 0bama) then you don’t know a lot about her. She’s explained it. People here have explained it. She’s written about it. I bet when/if she gets in she’s able to make it a nonissue pretty damn quick. Maybe you and your wife could watch the Undefeated when it comes out on DVD/PPV to have a better understanding of Mrs. Palin. She has a 20 year history in public service and has never backed down.
Cindie