[Clarence]

I think that Palin is an interesting person who has some good things to say; she certainly knows how to hold the attention of the press. I find myself agreeing with about 90% of what she says.

Can someone explain to me (serious question) why she would be a good president given that she quit her job as governor of Alaska? She quit that job, went straight to Fox and is making big $. Is being governor of Alaska not that important? Doesn’t a resume count anymore? If so, her resume is scarred with walking away on her constituents. For the record, I have no problem with anything else in her history other than quitting that job.

In other words, is she a quitter? or not? Most of us don’t care for quitters, and the tough sledding is all ahead of us- we need people who are going to get in there and fight until the end.

[Sacajaweau]

I think the "she's a quitter" is overplayed. It's more about the real "Why did she quit"?

She's making a ton of money, works on her own clock and answers to no one.

And that amounts to self-serving.

I was her age once. I quit a magnificent Civil Service job and started my own business. And damn right....it was self serving.

So it wasn't my quiting...I never quit working...

[corkoman]

Can someone explain to me (serious question) why she would be a good president given that she quit her job as governor of Alaska?

I cannot imagine a more inane question. Obambi quit his senate job before becoming president - does that say something about him?

Did you happen to read about the numerous ethics charges she was forced to defend against - all found baseless - yet costing her hundreds of thousands of dollars and keeping her "busy"?

You must have missed that.

[Matchett-PI]

"Can someone explain to me (serious question) why she would be a good president given that she quit her job as governor of Alaska?"

The mere fact that you would even ask that question is evidence that the answer is probably over your head.

Suffice it to say that Palin is tough as nails and knows how to play hard-ball to neutralize and out-maneuver her political enemies. And they never see it coming - her fist is in a velvet glove.

[Venturer]

She quit for the good of her State.

She could not get anything done because of spurrolous charges and it was costing her State and herself money defencing herself instead of allowing her to get her work doen.

How hard is that to understand. If the idiots who kept making asses of themselves had left her alone she would now still be Governor. She did the right thing for her State and herself. It was a brave and brilliant move and anyone but a troll could see that and understand it.

The Democrats keep bringing it up like it was an essential issue, and it is not.If you are fooled by it then you are falling right into their hands.

I think there were something like 26 charges against her and she beat them all flat out.

[FrankR]

Well, Clarence...you seem to be one of those who either gets their news from MSNBC, or just reads headlines.

Sarah Palin sacrificed her job as Governor of Alaska - which she loved doing - because of the bevy of legal attacks from the left, filing one frivilous lawsuit after another, designed to throw her into bankruptcy.

As was required, the state of Alaska was having to foot the bill for a lot of the legal defense she needed, placing a burden on the state and totally consuming her time and energies as Governor. And in her wisdom, she called it right for the left was never going to stop harassing her and the state. You know the old saying, "When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember you initial objective was to drain the swamp."

Any moron who has paid attention knows that Sarah Palin dearly loves Alaska, and I think it was not only courageous, but noble of her to step down and save the hassle and expense for the state.

Also, Clarence, the woman has five kids - one of them a special needs child - was she supposed to sit home on a diet of obama beans and franks when she needed the money for her family. Was she supposed to sign up for unemployment? She didn't "quit" the governorship to go to work for FOX news, FOX news offered her the consulting gig after she resigned.

Of course she took it, I would too, and so would you for the money they pay her. She walked her talk and went right out and found a way to be a productive citizen to feed her family and stay off the government dole.

To accept the liberal labels and talking points on people is really quite lazy and careless; the talking point about her being a "quitter" is just one of the many 100's the MSM are throwing around, and they are hoping that the headline readers out there will stake their entire judgement base on a single word or accusation. It's tantamount to saying "Bush's Fault" over and over.

Sarah Palin is about as busy and hard-working as a person can be getting out the word on conservatism and traveling all over the country (at her expense, not the state of Alaska...another savings), writing blogs, and endorsing conservatie candidates with 7 out of those 12 elected.

Now, having said all that, I would much rather know that someone is leading the country that actually cares about the country than another empty suit like Mitt Romney. He's a obamabot showboat whose main worry is if he is out of hairspray or not.

But there are a lot of people who just can't wrap their brains around a woman being President; it just galls a lot of guys out there, ya know. And the liberal women - well, you'd think Palin showed up for a party wearing the same dress as they had on. But up to this point, she has shown more courage and moxie and intelligence that most any of the field of "possibles" that are being paraded.

This board is peppered daily with anti-Palin propaganda and there are some on here that actually hate her...headline readers, no doubt.

Whether she runs for President or not, she has my admiration as a patriot to loves her country and doesn't back off from standing up and saying it...out loud and in yo' face. If she does run, she has my vote.

I'm really sorry that she doesn't suit you, and I find that people who don't like Palin have a penchant about posting it all over the place for the world to see. They are like members of a gay day parade who think people want to see their lovemaking in public. Chalk it up to exhibitionism, I guess.

The Palin-haters can't seem to just say, "Well, she's not my choice so I just won't vote for her.". No...it's got to be all the petty bitching about her voice tone, her accent, her delivery, her this and her that...nothing of substance, just lefty hate speech.

She had a stellar record as Governor of Alaska, and resigned to protect the state and her family from monumental expense from the left doing what they always do when they can't win on merit - politics of personal destruction.

I - on the other hand - listen to WHAT she says and not HOW she says it...at least she doesn't have to read a teleprompTer.

I also listen to a lot of other people besides Katie Couric and all the other lefty harpies out there who didn't make the cheerleader squad in high school and are still filled with hate.

So, Clarance, you do what you will, but I endeavored to tell you why I think that blind headline-hatred without the facts is not my cup of TEA.

[uncbob]

Can someone explain to me (serious question) why she would be a good president given that she quit her job as governor of Alaska?

Serious Question

Where have you been?

She has answered this and it has been posted here over and over

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Oh how cute.You know the deal about Palins resigning as governor dont you? You have been here since 1999 you ought to know.

[wtc911]

Despite what her fan club here says, her quitting as governor is a deal killer with all but her most ardent admirerers. It will be played out over and over in the form of...

"Mrs. Palin, we know what it took to get you to quit as governor...what would it take to get you to quit as president?"

There is no good answer for that. This is why I consider her to be unelectable and why I do not support her for the nomination.

I think that she herself fully understands this and will not run.

[screaminsunshine]

She would be good because Liberals hate her. Anything Liberals hate is good.

[momto6]

The fact is that she did not walk away from her constituents, she did what was best for them. While the charges against her were costing her personally they were costing the state much more. Every one of the charges required massive amounts of paperwork, research and documentation, since she was the Governor we the residents were paying for that. State employees spending most of their on the clock time doing this.
She did the right thing in stepping back, looking at the whole picture, and making a very difficult decision. Sean is a good guy, she knew that the state would be in good hands with him and that the people who were trying to bring her down would be stopped in their tracks.
How would she know for sure that she would have a gig at Fox or that her book would be a huge best seller? It is just as possible that after she “quit” she went home and lived on Todds income and vanished into obscurity.
Bottom line is that she did what was right for the state and the people in it, and not for the first time either.

[jocon307]

I’m really surprised you do not know the reason Palin gave for leaving the governorship.

Alaska has unique system wherein any gadfly with an ax to grind can file an “ethics” complaint. I’m not sure if it’s against any elected official, but obviously against the governor.

As the left has made it their mission to destroy Sarah Palin, because they fear her more than the average geek fears zombies, the ethics charges came thick and fast after the ‘08 election.

All of these must be treated seriously, no matter how bogus, and so the legal bills, time & effort, etc. mount up.

As another poster has pointed out every single charge filed proved to be baseless.

She felt it was bad for Alaska, bad for the tax payers, and quite obviously a waste of her own time.

[Gargantua]

Have you lived in a sensory deprivation chamber for the past three years?

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/master-list-of-governor-palins-2009-accomplishments/

Plug (copy and paste) the above url into your taskbar and hit "Enter."

It'll take you a couple days to hit and read all the links provided for articles on Palin's earth-shaking accomplishments as Governor of Alaska and beyond.

To synopsize the high points:

1) After beating Frank Murkowski to win the Alaska governorship, she hunted down, prosecuted, amd jailed those of her predecessors who had run afoul of the Law, regardless of Party affiliation. Many of them still languish in prison today. Unheard of in modern politics, despite being the right thing to do given The Oath all elected officials take.

2) As Governor, she negotiated with the largest corporation on planet earth (Exxon-Mobil) to return a fair share of the windfall profits from Alaska's oil resources to the owners of that resource; the Alaskan people. Tried before a number of times, never accomplished. Exxon-Mobil threatened Palin that, if she persisited in this, they would pack up and leave the North Slope. Palin told them, "Don't let the door whack you in the ass on the way out." Exxon-Mobil caved.

3) She successfully negotiated the single-largest construction project in history, sealing the deal for the pipeline to bring Natural Gas to the "Lower 48." Four major oil companies and three countries had to be brought to the table and into consensus; tried by two prior Governors, Palin succeeded where they failed.

She does what needs to be done, and does it without fanfare or grandstanding. These are a few of the vast array of her remarkable accomplishments; things others had attempted and failed at. That she accomplished all the things listed on the site I posted the url to is, frankly, superhuman. That she did it all in half a term as Governor is ridiculous. That she also, during that same timeframe, had a baby and ran for Vice Persident with John McCain transcends the ridiculous into the sublime.

Never in American political history has such a dynamo of human productivity been recorded in Statewide elected office as an Executive Administrator.

America is at a dire corssroads right now. We need someone with a demostrated ability to make executive decisions on the fly, and get things done quickly, if we are to avert the End of The American Dream.

There is no other possible candidate out there who brings to the table her resumé, her dedication or miles-long shopping list of brilliant Executive prowess.

When the Left started launching dozens of frivolous lawsuits against her, claiming bogus "Ethics" breaches (which have since been thrown from court), tying up her time and ability to do her job as Governor, she made the extrememly selfless decision, for the good of the Alaskan people, to step down as Governor and turn the reins over to her Lieutenant Governor, Sean Parnell.

Because she has been very successful since then with her book "Going Rogue," the Left (and many GOP sour grapes imbeciles) have claimed that she left office to "cash in." For that to be true, she would have needed a crystal ball to predict that her first book would ship 2 million copies in 6 months. Despite that no initial offering from a first-time author had ever even come close Sarah supposedly knew that this was going to take place.

These kinds of spurious, half-baked allegations stand pale, wan and limp next to the improbable litany of Palin's proven, on-the-record successes, both as Governor, and as an author, and as a "King-maker" for the GOP.

We need someone really, really special in 2012. There is only one. Sarah Palin puts the "L" in "pain," and she's coming for a whole new crop of scumbags in '12.

;-/

[AFreeBird]

Clarence, tell us: what would you have done, if in her position of having to defend against numerous ethics complaints brought on by your political enemies, about the mounting legal bills ($500,000 and climbing) that are threatening to financially ruin your family; the millions of state funds diverted to have staff deal with complying with records needed to answer each and every complaint, not to mention the wasted man hours of state employees diverted from their jobs handling the matter, and with no end in sight?

Oh and the same ethics rules that are being used against you, also effectively tie your hands in your battle.

She was not only responsible for the State of Alaska, but for her family’s well being. She served both by resigning.

Is it the mark of a good leader to allow such a situation to continue to fester, draining more time and money away from the task of governing? Or is the mark of a good leader, one who does truly care about her people and state, to pass the reins of state on to another, not so encumbered by such petty political games?

And in case you havent been paying attention: Sarah has never stopped supporting her state or it’s people, after regrouping and reloading, she’s come out swinging... And not just for Alaska, but for our country.

The gloves are off.

[NeoCaveman]

In other words, is she a quitter? or not? Most of us don’t care for quitters, and the tough sledding is all ahead of us- we need people who are going to get in there and fight until the end.

Would you hang onto a job where it cost you twice your salary, in legal bills, to hold? Me neither.

[CharacterCounts]

Nearly everyone looks at Palin with blinders on!

Those that hate her reuse to look at her strengths.

Those that love her ignore any weaknesses.

[Leisler]

She should of pulled a Mitt. Do nothing for two years, then run for office the second two years in offices, abandoning the state to the evil Democrats. ( Oh, and cementing the socialization of medicine in the state ).

As a leader, he abandoned the troops in his command. Not that a Romney male would know anything about loyalty or fight, or troops since no one single one has ever served, in any capacity, not once, in the US military since they came to the country before the Civil War. If there was ever a longer linage of cowardliness and non-Patriotism, I’m not aware of it.