Former Governor Sarah Palin real reason for quitting as governor was she had done everything she promised to do. Job well done. Time to move on and make sure the things you did in Alaska stayed in place or are achieved and not stopped by Washington.
(No Governor in history has done more in three years for their state)
From the Minors to the Majors, and who as Governor was "MPV" all three years running, needs to be brought up!
Brought up to get the pipeline done, for the people, not only for Alaska, but America! To stop the liberals from throwing in the red tape on the pipe line and on America’s energies supplies.
Small government, lower taxes, less government regulations, more freedom, ---That’s what Governor Palin did for Alaska and with the help of GOD, we the people (Praying for GOD Guidance), and President Palin will do for America!
This Lady is ready, the fans are in place. The lame street media is pushing back,
PLAYBALL !!!!
I’m all for vanities, but have you ever heard of proofreading?
You really have a crush on her, dontcha?
You may spin it all you want but all America is going to see is a quitter...and Americans don't like quitters.
Of course, this is lost on you, you're the guy who vanitized that Palin is better qualified to be POTUS than George Washington was.
Umm, we know why Sarah resigned the governorship when she did. It was an intensely ethical decision. Those who fault her for it are ignorant of the reasons why it was the right thing to do. “Moving on” was tangential to those reasons.
We know Sarah reasons but the real question is:
Why Sarah wasn’t going to run for reelection.?
So...if she decides she's accomplished all she wants to after 30 months in the White House are you comfortable with her resigning that office too?
The real reason governor palin resigned was to give Bob J a reason to torment freerepublic with poorly reasoned and pitifully written anti-palin screeds. Bob J is a big wig in the laptop and computer monitor industry. He reaps huge, windfall profits from FReepers destroying their equipment during and after frustrating encounters with his illogical postings. Thanks to the recent Supreme Court ruling, Bob will be able to funnel 100% of his profits to the RINORomneyPAC. He is hoping to secure a post election appointment to head the new Ministry of Information Distribution and Control. Let us all do our best to bring logic, sanity, and a sense of inner peace to Bob J.
She did it for the money and to spend more time campaigning for president... DUH!.
Can you help on this. I live in Alaska and I can't find the pipeline or anything remotely leading to the pipeline.
Between all the Beck Bashing since yesterday, and now Sarah dissing, I think I'll log off and come back tomorrow and see if it's still the same old CONSERVATIVE Free Republic that I remember?
Either that or there are a whole bunch of RomneyBots or Paulinistas here who are doing a hatchet job on Beck and Palin much the same as other mainstream RINO's have been of late and I wish y'all luck if you think one of them can get elected in 2012!
I'm not sure if Sarah will run or if she's up to it, but until such time as we know for sure, how's about we save our ire and attacks for The Community Agitator and all the other Demo-Rats????
Her choice was to let her state move on, to stop the bleeding in her families finances and to take advantage of her marketability at this time.
Many people in office are prohibited in making money outside of the pay from the office. So when you make a nickle and you see a dollar fly out the window with lawsuits and lawyers for defense, you make a choice (if you have one).
The thread has drifted into ‘Can Sarah win the Repub primaries thread’ I tend to doubt it, but there is a lot of time from now till then and I adopt a wait and see position for now.
I’ve heard many reasons offered, none make sense.
Whenever Sarah Palin’s name gets mentioned in mixed company, you will inevitably encounter the tired “quitter” accusation. It surprises me how often this comes up, not only with people who follow politics closely but those far removed from it. It goes to show how hard the media has hit Governor Palin on this issue without explaining the who, what, when, where and why very effectively. The “quitter meme” carries with it such contradictions that it’s easy to poke holes in false perceptions. You might just first ask yourself if the same people calling her a “quitter” are the ones saying she’s not fit to hold any office of responsibility anywhere. See what I mean?
The conversation about “quitting” usually goes something like the following four scenarios and you can use the sample responses to politely challenge your friends, family and co-workers on their misperceptions.
Scenario #1: Resigning shows bad character – or does it? For the politically uninvolved, who don’t have a lot of knowledge about the situation, the term quitter has automatic negative connotations.
Sarah Doubter: She's a quitter. I won't vote for her.
You: So quitting is always a bad thing?
Sarah Doubter: Yes, it shows a lack of character.
You: Have you ever quit a six-figure job before?
Sarah Doubter: No, but that doesn't have anything do with it.
You: Did you know Sarah Palin quit another six figure job, her oil & gas ethics commissioner job before she became governor?
Sarah Doubter: No, but that just proves she's a lifelong quitter.
You: Yeah, she quit to protest corruption when the sitting Republican governor wouldn't investigate the state party chair for sharing confidential state documents with an oil lobbyist. She quit because by law as a commissioner she couldn't go public with her concerns because of confidentiality rules. So she quit to be able to blow the whistle on collusion knowing it would probably kill any chance she had to succeed in state politics as a Republican. And you know what happened to that state party chair? He was later given the largest ethics fine in Alaska history, largely because Sarah had the courage to put pressure on the governor's office and the Republican party.
Sarah Doubter: Well, if she's so tough, she should have stayed in her job as governor.
You: If you were working in a job that was costing you almost twice as much to go into work everyday than you were making would you stay there?
Sarah Doubter: No, definitely not.
You: Well, Sarah Palin was paid roughly $337,500 in 32 months as governor. After 19 bogus ethics charges against her, she owed around $600,000 in legal fees to her attorney. Had she stayed in office another 16 months, she likely would have been forced into bankruptcy because Alaska law does not automatically cover the legal defense of its governors, and Sarah did not want to foot taxpayers with the bill. Would you have been willing to go bankrupt in your job?
Sarah Doubter: Well, no ...
You: So quitting is not always a bad thing?
Sarah Doubter: Well, she just wanted to make money and be a celebrity. She could have paid her legal fees with her book deal and speeches anyway.
You: So, she should have done her book deal and speeches while being governor and collecting a paycheck from taxpayers and attracting even more frivolous lawsuits every week that she stayed in office?
Sarah Doubter: No
You: So, quitting turned out to be the best thing for Sarah Palin personally and the State of Alaska?
Sarah Doubter: I guess so …
Scenario #2: Resigning displays a lack of toughness – or does it? For some conservatives, the question of Palin’s resignation evokes their disdain that she couldn’t keep up the fight, and their belief that she “let her enemies win.”
Sarah Doubter: Nobody who ever quit a governorship in their first term could be elected president. It's just not going to happen.
You: So you're concerned about how Sarah Palin's resignation affects her political image and electability?
Sarah Doubter: Yeah, it shows she can't handle the heat.
You: So staying in office would have shown she could handle heat?
Sarah Doubter: That's exactly what I'm saying.
You: What you're suggesting is that quitting removed the heat from her, right?
Sarah Doubter: Yes, exactly.
You: Isn't it true that by quitting she has attracted more heat, including from people like you on her own side? And wouldn't it, in fact, have been easier to sit in office, collect a paycheck, concede to spend 80% of your time on non-productive "defensive" activities, stick taxpayers with the bill, travel the world, and pretend that you're accomplishing something?
Sarah Doubter: Well, she should have just fought her enemies instead of letting them win.
You: If you decide to continue fighting your enemies at the expense of the people you serve is that even ethical? If your presence in office is causing heavy collateral damage to your state, is it smart and ethical to remain in office no matter the cost?
Sarah Doubter: Well, every politician has political enemies. Ronald Reagan had them, George Bush had them. They didn't quit.
You: Has any politician at the state level attracted the volume of attacks directed at Sarah Palin? Is it normal for a governor to go personally bankrupt defending themselves against bogus ethics complaints? Sarah Palin incurred almost twice as much legal debt as the salary she drew as governor. Every day she spent in office she was one day closer to personal bankruptcy.
Sarah Doubter: Well, she should have started a private legal defense fund then.
You: She did, which led to yet another frivolous ethics complaint, wherein a politically motivated investigator suggested Sarah should just let Alaska taxpayers pay for her legal defense. They wanted Alaskans to take the bullet for the political malice of Sarah's enemies.
Sarah Doubter: Well, I guess that's just part of politics. Taxpayers always get shafted.
You: So that's politics as usual, huh? Are you happy with politics as usual?
Sarah Doubter: No, not all.
You: Do you think people out there in America who are gathering for tea party protests are happy with politics as usual?
Sarah Doubter: No, absolutely not.
You: So doesn't that suggest that Sarah Palin has a huge base of supporters sympathetic to her decision making? Isn't she really the patron saint of "no politics as usual"? She gave up power, saved the people from frivolous legal expenses, and now continues to fight her enemies on the national stage as a private citizen?
Sarah Doubter: Well, maybe.
You: And don't we need more leaders just like her who won't go with the flow?
Sarah Doubter: I guess so. You may have a point.
Scenario #3: She wasn’t a serious governor – or was she? There are many on the independent or liberal side who use Sarah’s quitting to prove she was just plain flaky and didn’t take her governor’s job seriously. Here’s how it usually goes:
Sarah Doubter: She quit on her state, and that’s just wrong.
You: So you think Alaska would have been better off had Palin not resigned with 16 months left in her term?
Sarah Doubter: Yes, that’s what I’m saying.
You: Hmmm … How specifically would the state have benefited from her staying in office?
Sarah Doubter: Well, she promised to serve a four-year term. She’s quit on them to go make money.
You: But how would it have benefited her state, her continuing being in office?
Sarah Doubter: It just would have.
You: So, what you’re really saying is that despite her administration spending 80% of their time fighting junk ethics charges, Palin was indispensable in governing the state of Alaska?
Sarah Doubter: No, she’s a quitter. That’s all.
You: So, you’re really concerned with how her resignation affected her political image rather than the actual effect it had on her state?
Sarah Doubter: No, that’s not what I said.
You: Do you generally support or oppose politicians who put their state’s interests ahead of their own political image?
Sarah Doubter: Sarah is a money grubber and she’s stupid.
You: So you're glad she resigned?
Scenario #4: She’s a diva – or is she? There are some independents who may not be that political but they’ve read about Sarah Palin getting lots of money for her book deal, and that’s the image they have of the governor – as someone attracted to the bright lights of fame, willing to throw her state under the bus.
Sarah Doubter: She really let her state down. How can we trust a woman like that?
You: So you think Alaskans are disappointed she quit?
Sarah Doubter: They should be.
You: Well, I guess if they thought she was doing a good job, they would be disappointed. Do you think she was doing a good job as governor for her state?
Sarah Doubter: I dunno. Maybe
You: Well, according to most Alaskans she was one of the better govenors Alaska has ever had with a long list of accomplishments in just 2 1/2 years so yes, that's understandable that some would be bitterly disappointed about her resignation. They really liked her and wanted her to be their governor judging from the 80% approval rating she had before the VP pick.
Sarah Doubter: She's just such a quitter.
You: Why would someone who was doing such an outstanding job as governor just up and quit?
Sarah Doubter: Because she wanted to be a celebrity.
You: Wasn't she already a celebrity after the VP pick anyway?
Sarah Doubter: She wanted to make more money.
You: Well, quitting a six-figure job isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you want more money. She would have had the book money regardless of whether she quit her governor's job. But it sounds like you think she's a diva who cares only about a cushy lifestyle?
Sarah Doubter: Basically, yes.
You: So, she does a fantastically competent job as governor, including reducing the governor's personal travel budget by 85%, selling the private jet, laying off the chauffeur and the chef to save the state money (not to mention all the policy initiatives she got passed)... and she spends several weeks during the summer as a commercial fisherwoman, one of the grimiest jobs on the planet ... and then she wakes up one day and decides to become a diva? Do divas actually fish?
Sarah Doubter: She got used to the crowds on the campaign trail and all the adoration. She missed that.
You: So you don't buy her reason that her newfound celebrity and the negative attention and bogus charges it brought was harming her state?
Sarah Doubter: No.
You: Hmmm ... So it was fair to Alaskans for their executive branch of government to be basically shut down with 80% of its time dealing with frivolous lawsuits and freedom of information act requests? Doesn't that sound like a huge waste? One frivolous suit after another ... 19 in all, with no merit to any of them, all because of the presence of celebrity Sarah Palin in office? Wasn't she really harming her state sticking around? Basically doing more harm in her position than good?
Sarah Doubter: Well, maybe. I dunno about all those ethics charges.
You: Would divas really care about their states? If she were a diva, wouldn't she have stayed in office, screwed the state over, traveled around the country or the world the next year (expensed it to Alaska) and reveled in being an Alaskan celebrity while still collecting her governor's salary? Nobody would have called her a "quitter" then. Don't you think, in fact, it took guts to quit? Especially knowing her decision might be misunderstood by Alaskans and that she might be signing her political death warrant?
Sarah Doubter: I suppose.
You: Don't we need more elected officials with that kind of courage?
Sarah Doubter: Probably