Posted on 07/12/2011 10:47:52 AM PDT by Gargantua
In your first post, as a reply to your own article, you used the word abdicated, and you said they all did. They all did not. Where did Fresh Wind say that you used it in the article?
I dont doubt that she felt it was necessary for the security of Alaska for her to step aside. But she did leave before her term was up, and it because she had been elected to higher office.
I think the quit issue is somewhat silly, because the people who are going to vote for her no matter what will find a way to justify it by saying she did it for good reasons. And the people who are not going to vote for her will say that if she can be run out as Governor, what will happen as President (that is not my position, just stating what their line will be). And I dont think the independents will care about this issue. With the economy, 3 wars, government philosophy, class warfare, and social issues, I think this will be pretty low on the “vote for her, or not” scale.
Dead on right. For those questioning that wisdom, may I suggest picking up a copy of “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu. Many of the questions about what SP is doing become crystal clear when looked at through that prizm.
Someone on her team knows and more importantly, ‘inderstands’ that book - to it’s very core. If not she herself, then someone advising her closely.
Ha. Are you kidding? Stop quitting out of our statutory discussion halfway through and I’ll consider responding. Till then, I'll wait for Rippin. Thanks anyway, "sweetie."
Obama wants to expand the jar so more hands can get into it and he's willing to do it on credit. I don't think his mom ever slapped him for raiding the jar but his grandma might have as he threw her under the bus (typical WP).
When you think about it, America needs a strong mom or Grizzly, if you will. This house is a mess, nobody's doing what they should, and their grades seem to fall no matter who runs the show. I don't think America can do any more Weekends at Bernies with star-studded punks like Obama throwing parties while the bills go unpaid.
Thanks again.
Showing your true colors. Didn’t take long in spite of your civil pretensions.
I was in MA when Romney did worse by running full-time for president instead of governing for the last two years of his one term in office. Didn’t Perry recently promise that he would fulfill his term rather than run for president? Then there’s Michele Bachmann who devoted herself to running for president full-time within a couple of months of the start of her third term in Congress.
What would you have us go up against Obama with? TPaw? Huntsman? I say we go with the most gifted and principled candidate we’ve had in a generation and yes, that would be Gov. Palin.
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1) That they intend to win election to a different office. This announcement alone qualifies as an abdication of their existing office. Merely in order to run for that further office will require their total involvement in a series of activities which will require them to cease performing the duties they were elected to perform. A willful abdication of their elected position.
2) That while they might appreciate the high honor bestowed upon them in their current elected role, it is not what they aspire to. Whether they win the new position and do not return, or lose the new bid and later return egg-faced, that have already let their constituents know that, given their druthers, they'd be elsewhere. A de facto abdication.
Slice it, dice it, spin it up, down or sideways, it is an abdication when you seek any higher futher/different office than the one you now hold.
Period.
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Easy. There are two kinds of Lame Ducks.
One is a person who has less than half their term remaining and is about to embark upon a re-election bid (1.5 to 2 years in the current political lexicon). Sarah was there.
The other is a pol who either lost their party majority in the relevant congress and can, as a result, no longer effect their policies, or an Executive who has already accomplished all of their goals and campaign promises, and has nothing left to finish. Sarah was also there.
I think you're letting your animus cloud your logic.
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So, if I'm understanding this right, about a year and a half into her first term (when she became McCain's running mate) she had already accomplished everything the voters elected her to office to do?
I'm impressed. If she's that efficient, she can probably resign from the presidency in just a couple of years, once she gets the US budget at a surplus situation instead of these deficits we have now.
You're not even trying to be objective are you.
Palin describes the lawsuit problem.
PALIN:Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law I championed became their weapon of choice. Over the past nine months I've been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations – such as holding a fish in a photograph, wearing a jacket with a logo on it, and answering reporters’ questions. Every one – all 15 of the ethics complaints have been dismissed. We’ve won! But it hasn't been cheap - the State has wasted THOUSANDS of hours of YOUR time and shelled out some two million of YOUR dollars to respond to “opposition research” – that’s money NOT going to fund teachers or troopers – or safer roads. And this political absurdity, the “politics of personal destruction” … Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn’t cost them a dime so they’re not going to stop draining public resources – spending other peoples’ money in their game. It’s pretty insane – my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more “politics as usual,” but THIS isn’t what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.
Palin talks about her choices given the lawsuit problem.
Palin chooses a course of action given the lawsuit problem.
All one has to do is read what she said.
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Only if you completely ignore my puissant rélade, the fact that I teach a refreshser course for sous chefs at l'Obêrge every third Saturday of the month, and my recently passed Mom's love for my walnut brownies.
How could you be so callous?! I know it's the hurly burly of a political "Silly Season," but for God's sake, man...
...have you no soul?
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Just once.
I had been selected for Jury Duty, and it was a case where an inmate was accused of attacking a guard with a broom during a prison riot. Halfway through (roughly) the trial, I realized that the defendant was a guy I had gone to gradeschool with. He had legally changed his name. Anyway, I informed the Judge and he gave me this big, puffed-up lecture (I think he secretly hit the sauce during bathroom breaks) and sent me packing.
I guess that's the equivalent of "quitting."
You?
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Classic. I’d expect no less of you. I’ve bit my tongue to keep it as civil as I have. I’m not particularly fond of have dark innuendo played on me behind my back, as you have done elsewhere, without apology. True colors indeed. Get a life, “sweetie.”
Oh, and I am perfectly willing to answer your question. I have a great answer that supports my position. I only believe, really, truly, and sincerely, it would be utterly wasted on you. Why should I go through that, to benefit one who will not appreciate it? Your “keep it classy sweetie” is your own language. You used it on someone you thought was stooping below uncivil limits, but you can’t take what you can dish out. Are those your true colors?
So, did she ever apologize to the people of Alaska for “championing” and signing the law that resulted in thousands of hours and millions of dollars being wasted?
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