If anyone feels hurt or disappointed that Palin chose not to run for POTUS, they have only themselves to blame.
As for quitting the Governorship, if people don’t understand why she resigned, then they are either being purposely obtuse or they don’t understand why she resigned.
The people feeling “Betrayed” have only themselves to blame, as they put Palin up on a pedestal and are acting like a High School kid who just got turned down for a date by the girl he had a crush on.
The MSM has put Palin thru hell for 3 years and she never whined about it like Obama did and he still does, even though they toss him softballs while the MSM has thrown 99 MPH fastballs at Palin’s head every day for the past 3 years and continue to do so and are still dumpster diving in Wasilla, looking for anything to pin on her.
When they couldn’t find anything, they just made things up, like the “Africa is a Country” lie, had 10 people vett her first book, filed an FOIA to dig thru her 24,000 emails she sent/received as Governor and found nothing, yet they still continue with the attacks.
Most people are intellectually lazy and don’t do any research. They just vote for the candidate the MSM wants them to.
That’s how a RINO like McCain became the GOP nominee.
Did he excite anyone here?
No.
But when he chose Palin as his running mate, interest peaked in electing McCain because of Palin among those that follow the political process.
After Palin gave her acceptance speech, I predicted on this forum that the MSM is going to attack her with a frenzy unlike we’ve ever seen.
I don’t know how to find the post. Perhaps someone more familiar with how this forum works can find the post, but I said they would do to Palin what they did to GWB, but in a compressed time frame of 3 months and that they would ruin her, in which they succeeded.
Within a month, many voters believed that Palin said “She could see Russia from her house” and that she hunted wolves/deer/bunny rabbits from a helicopter, that her Son wasn’t hers, that her eldest Son joined the military to avoid jail as well as other lies, and even attacked her newborn child, claiming the Palin kids were “fair game” because she “used them as props” at the GOP convention and they turned her into an unflattering caricature of herself.
Meanwhile, Palin stood strong despite the MSM lies and lying by omission by failing to report her accomplishments, while propping up an empty suit.
They turned the race into the Harvard educated intellectual vs. Wasilla white trash, not Obama vs. McCain.
Instead of reporting how inexperienced Obama was and is, and his lack of accomplishments, his close ties to domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers and never asking him a single tough question or looking into his past, they threw him softballs while also leveling false charges against McCain, accusing him of cheating on his wife, digging up the old story of Cindy McCain’s pain pill dependency, insinuating that McCain was mentally unstable after spending 5+ years as a POW under inhumane conditions and being tortured and similar stories.
Pew Research Group did a media study that proved that the MSM overwhelmingly did favorable stories about Obama while reporting unfavorable stories about McCain.
The MSM also insinuated that the moment McCain took the oath of office, he would drop dead of a heart attack, and that “crazy lady” from Alaska, which isn’t really a part of the US, would then take the position of POTUS and we would all be screwed by this wacky, crazy woman.
After the election, she was in court nearly every week to fight frivolous lawsuits, which was bankrupting her and her family, as her legal bills were about 7 times her yearly salary, and there were dozens more of these lawsuits lined up against her, which is why she stepped down as Governor.
She was unable to perform her duties as Governor as she was in court fighting lawsuits, or preparing to fight these frivolous lawsuits, making her ineffective as Governor, which was also bankrupting her and her family.
Remember, this is a woman that was fiscally responsible to a fault, turning down a mandatory pay raise as Governor.
With the legal bills piling up and dozens more frivolous lawsuits waiting to be filed, what were her options?
Go broke and be run out of office?
Or resign in the best interest of her constituents (and her family) so her Lt. Governor could do her job while she went out and made money to pay her legal fees?
2.7 Million people bought her first book long before the 2012 campaign season began. People wanted to read her story as it is an interesting one and she is a fascinating woman.
I bought and read her first book as well, not because I thought she was going to run for POTUS, but because I admired her and her accomplishments and read it for inspiration and for entertainment.
I stayed up late many a night because I couldn’t put her book down, and would be tired the next day at work.
Sarah Palin is the epitome of the American dream come true and she did it thru hard work.
This is a woman that ran a fishing business with her husband and did so hands on, not from an office behind a desk.
If she were anti-2nd Amendment and pro-abortion, the MSM would have idolized her.
But because of the two stances above, plus her religious beliefs, the MSM attacked her unlike any candidate in modern history.
I don’t blame her for not running, as it would likely guarantee four more years of Obama, even though Palin is the better candidate.
But perception equals reality, and Palin is “damaged goods” in perception, not in reality and the MSM would step up their attacks to an even higher level to bring her down, down below Obama, who would look better by comparison if people went by what the MSM says, and that’s what many people base their votes on.
I have said it here many times that we have two enemies - the MSM and the Dems and in that order, as the MSM enables the Dems and allows them to get away with racism, misogyny, flat-out lies, and failing to vett or ask any Dems tough questions.
As I posted earlier, here is what the media would’ve written if Palin were elected:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227515/president-palins-first-100-days-victor-davis-hanson
Meanwhile, Obama and other Dems get a free pass.
I remember after Palin did the Charles Gibson/ABC interview and was asked a hypothetical question about Georgia (the Country, not the State) and if Georgia were a member of NATO, would Palin, as POTUS, send troops to defend Georgia? (Which is required by the US to defend other countries that are members of NATO) and of course, Palin gave the correct answer that yes, we are required to defend our NATO allies.
The next day, nearly every news outlet reported “Palin wants to go to war with Russia”
Like I said in an earlier post, you can’t fight City Hall, and you can’t fight 90% of a rabid, unhinged media that is out to destroy you.
Palin is as tough as they come, but decided against running as she is probably fatigued from her last campaign, her weekly court battles, 3 straight years of media attacks and will likely spend her time and energy on ridding the GOP of RINO’s and Corruption.
She is a relatively young woman and can run in 2016 or 2020 if she chooses, but I think she realizes that the GOP is filled with RINO’s and Crooks, and wants to get them out of office and to replace them with Tea Party candidates.
Perhaps at that time, she may run for POTUS, but if she chooses to retire from politics and the public life completely and enjoy her life from under the microscope, I wouldn’t blame her one bit.
It’s her life. She doesn’t owe anyone anything. No one forced anyone to donate money to her, to buy her book, or to volunteer their time, especially when she never even threw her hat in the ring.
If you feel “betrayed” and upset, you only have yourself to blame for getting your hopes up that she would run for POTUS
She didn’t string anyone along. She thought long and hard about her decision and made it long before the deadline for the first primary.
It’s her life and it’s her choice, not yours.
Like someone above said, it’s time to move on and to focus on getting Obama out of office.
Wipe away your tears and man up and move on.
Sample article of “Palin ‘prepared for war with Russia” after the Gibson interview and the bias contained within:
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Palin-39prepared-for-war-with.4488838.jp
Could any of you Palin critics tell me how she is supposed to overcome a plethora of media distortions?
Yes, she is more media savvy now than she was 3 years ago, and likely would avoid hypothetical questions in a more diplomatic way, but this is an example of just one of the many hit pieced on Palin that began immediately after she was named as McCain’s running mate.
Meanwhile, compare the Transcripts of Gibson’s interview with Obama and notice that he lobbed Obama softballs while during the Palin interview, he threw 99 MPH fastballs at her head.
Also a subtle trick ABC did during the interview was to zoom the camera way in on Palin’s face, filling the entire screen with her face which makes the viewer feel uncomfortable, even queasy.
If you can find the interview online, watch it on a big screen. The effect it has on the viewer is noticeable, as it has an unsettling effect, not to mention the way Gibson looked down upon her, but didn’t do so when interviewing Obama, practically bowing down to him as Brian Williams did.
Also notice that this was not done to anyone but Palin by the media.
Media bias is not always obvious and most times, it is not noticeable, but the camera angle, tonality, etc...has an effect on the viewer.
Print media bias is far easier to catch, as demonstrated in the article link above.
No one has themselves to blame. Palin ran for President from the get go. From her resignation speech right through this past summer. She made policy speeches, went on shows, interviews and met with Benjamin Netanyahu and hired advisers from the Reagan administration. Palin herself fueled the speculation. Palin could have put a halt to the talk herself but she chose to inflame it. Did you see her speech in WI on 4/15? Famous last words: “Game On”.
Blaming supporters for feeling betrayed is wrong.