Posted on 07/05/2009 7:06:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's not clear why Sarah Palin resigned her position as governor of Alaska, but it must have been for one of the following reasons:
(1) there is a scandal that would have made her position as governor untenable,
(2) she couldn't take the heat that was coming her way,
or
(3) she concluded that it was in her best interests to do something other than fulfill the duties associated with the position the voters of Alaska entrusted to her.
In all three scenarios, Palin is unfit for high office, and certainly unfit to be the vice president or the president of the United States. Moreover, Palin's resignation confirms how disappointingly reckless it was of John McCain to choose the then-untested governor to be his running-mate.
And what are we to make, in retrospect, of the euphoria that greeted McCain's selection of Palin -- a euphoria that made the Republican convention seem so strange to me that, for the first time in my life, I felt I had returned to the real world when I arrived back in Washington, DC? I imagine the euphora was founded on the desperation Republicans felt as we saw the presidency slipping away, having already lost control of Congress.
There's no dishonor in this reaction; the dishonor belongs to those like Peggy Noonan who understood the situation but would only express it when they thought their microphone was off. But when we conservatives say that we need a restoration of conservative values, we should remember that one of those values -- perhaps the most important -- is sobriety.
Paul Mirengoff is another DC guy who just can’t wrap his head around the idea that Palin might have done what she thought was in the best interests of her state.
RINO
or perhaps she is going to run for something else soon and decided to give the electorate the opportunity to have a leader who will serve them instead of getting a paycheck while ignoring them....alla clinton, obama, mccain, leiberman, edwards, biden, dodd, kerry. maybe she saw the strain her VP candidacy placed on the job and does not want the same interference. plus if there were some scandal, certainly the news media who have relocated to Wassilla for the important news would have found it and reported on it by now regardless of how true it is.
I’m not voting for Romney.
Quitin’ Palin ‘09
What do you expect from elitists. They hate her because she did not go to Harvard or Yale, the schools for the so-called brilliant ones, kinda like Caroline Kennedy, she went to Harvard and Yale, and look how great she turned out, can’t have a conversation without saying “you know” 10 thousand times. God bless those pricey educations
The author’s wishes have manifest themselves in type.
We’ll see what comes. I suspect this idiot will be disappointed.
It all depends on what her intentions are. If she has no intention of running for president, then she very well might be doing what she believes to be in the best interest of her state. If she does intend to run for president and this is somehow part of the plan, then she’s just cuckoo. Time will tell.
and therein lies the problem...
(4) Clear the baggage to create and lead a 3rd party.
It seems you either love Sarah or you hate her, and it’s pretty clear that this guy falls in the latter category. I hope she proves him and all the others wrong. In fact, I’d bet money on it!
I don’t know who this guy is and I certainly don’t care who he thinks is “fit” for high office. Right now, there is an American-hating communist in our highest office and a half-wit imbecile in our second highest office. By comparison, Sarah is Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan rolled into one.
I don’t know who Paul Mirengoff is but what an ass. He has to return to Washington DC to find normal? One of the reasons I like Sarah Palin is because I detest people like him.
Powerline - she told you why she resigned - in very clear terms. It's your problem if you can neither hear nor understand.
The ‘elitists’ don’t like Gov. Palin. Why? ‘They’ don’t like those who don’t follow that we are to be ruled by our ‘betters.’ What...run for national office...on a State College education??? Why the nerve...how ‘upppity’ of her...
Respectfully, that is a load of crap. Bob Dole resigned from the Senate in order to focus on running for President and I don't recall people saying he was crazy. In fact, I seem to recall people praising him for not trying to hold on to a job that he couldn't possibly devote adequate time to if he was off running for President. Why the double-standard now?
And, imo, the best interests of the country.
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