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 let’s not forget Barack Obama, who the people of Illinois elected him to be SENATOR, and what did he do, he served 100 days, if even that, and used that role to go campaigning for President, so in reality, he had no intention of even serving the people of Illinois, he just used the term “senator” to say “See, I have credentials, I can run for President now” and he was applauded by the left for doing so
Bob Dole didn’t resign in the middle of his first term in major elected office.
I think all public officials should be forced to resign when/if they seek another office and are not putting their full time and energies into the office to which they were elected. Period.
Bob Dole resigned from the Senate after securing the nomination. It was sometime in the summer, a little before the convention, if memory serves correctly. Plus, Dole served in as Senator in Kansas since the late '60s. And, let's not forget Dole was old, very, very old.
To draw some kind of comparison between what Bob Dole, just months before the election, and what Palin did years before any possible election, is a stretch, at best.