[SaraJohnson]

Serious questions have been raised by this and unfortunately she has provided slim answers. That leaves it for her ememies to fill in the gap with the worst speculation.

If she’s quiting politics, it does not matter. If she wants to stay, it really mattered a lot that she did this right.

[calex59]

She didn't give slim answers. She told us exactly why she was quitting, it isn't her problem that people don't want to believe her. She quit to help Alaska, to quit spending money on ethics charges that she keeps winning, 15 at last count, and probably more coming if she stays. She is leaving the state in good hands, and there is possibly another reason. Her lt. Governor wants to run for governor in 2010, by having 1.5 years under his belt, and if he does a good job, he will be more electable and more of a name than if she finished out her term. Either way she was quitting, she finished the objectives she set for herself and is now moving on.

Basically, most people on this forum would have quit long before this. She has undergone huge, baseless attacks on her, attacks that would have brought most people to their knees long ago.

I think she is doing the right thing, whether she quits politics altogether or not. I personally don't think she is quitting, I think she is going to campaign for other people.

[Arizona Carolyn]

She couldn’t afford to stay in office, she is not a wealthy politician, they are a working family and since last November she is $500K in debt thanks to the ankle biters up in Alaska who, BTW, are linked to Obama and keep bringing petty ethics charges against her... not to mention this was taking up a lot of state time and state money which, like every state, is tight these days. Add to that the relentlessness in going after her children and then people criticizing HER when she defended her cubs and no wonder she told them she was through... a man would never have been treated like her, especially if he was a democrat.