[Gargantua]

Just to avoid having to repeat myself to your numb pals, please tell them all to read this. They quite obviously follow your marching orders. I'll use mostly small words. When any, and every, sitting politician announces their intention to run for a higher/further/different political office than the one they currently hold, they are announcing two things:

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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[LearsFool]

What does any of that have to do with Sarah Palin's resignation?

Wasn't that the whole point of your original post? To exonerate her regarding her resignation? A resignation that took place not before the election, but after she lost?

How does your use of the word "abdicate" in post #91 square with your use of it in your original post? How does a "notice of intent to resign if I win" square up with an "I lost but am resigning anyway"?

it is an abdication when you seek any higher futher/different office than the one you now hold.

But see, that's not what you were defending Palin for. You're making things up as you go along.

If she decides to run for President, Sarah Palin will have plenty of obstacles to overcome. You seemed determined to be one of them - which makes me suspect you're an agent provacateur.