Palin steps down as Alaska governor (Shame on her enemies)

WND ^ | July 03, 2009 | WorldNetDaily

[RobinMasters]

Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate last year, announced today she will not finish her first term as governor.

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will take the oath of office before the end of the month.

Palin, regarded as a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, made the announcement from the backyard of her home on the shore of Lake Lucille in Wasilla.

The governor emphasized she has been the target of 15 ethics complaints -- all dismissed -- at a cost of $2 million to the state and some $500,000 to her family.

"It has all been pretty insane," she said.

"And the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn't cost them a dime."

Palin's brother, Chuck Heath Jr., told Fox News after the announcement she was spending up to 80 percent of her time defending herself the complaints.

[Dr. Ursus]

Ethical complaints,personal destruction,voter fraud,voter
re-count fraud. Adolph would be proud!

[Uncle Miltie]

Sarah, you can’t let people run you off.

[Jeff Head]

I listened to her entire announcement. It was honorable, it was direct, and it punctuated the insane politics of our day...it also punctuated her personal commitment to fight, and to do so when it would not distract further from her job as Governor and the foundation she has built there.

I am proud of her and support her. She is a great American.

I think Sarhah has just turned, like a fed-up mama Bear, on her detractors. She has put things in order, she has left them in the hands of capable people, and she has now turned to face her enemies directly.

...and I think they are going to be sorry. We have smelled the fear in them for a long time. Good on her!

I believe she will assist others greatly in 2010, and will run herself in 2012...and she has my full support.

GO SARAH GO!

HOW SARAH PALIN TRUMPS LIBERALISM



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[mom-7]

Gee, wonder who the goverment press will take on now? Hopefully barry?

[Bean Counter]

Cheer up!

The silver lining to this little cloud is that the DemocRats can do for Alaska what they have done for the lower 48...

[Reagan Man]

If you want a long career in politics, you have to have thick skin and a smart disposition.

Reagan had both. Appears Palin had neither.

[Puppage]

So, political attacks work. Especially when they start to come from your own party. How depressing.

[imintrouble]

It would seem a woman campaigning for the Office of the President would in future have to be drawn from the cloistered confines of a convent.

What better candidate than one who births and raises a family - who understands the common man and woman and their financial fiascos we all encounter unless we are the highly paid elitists who practice primogeniture in some bastardized New Land manner - the chosen ones - all male will win the day for our nation.

The most often voiced complaint today is she seemed “scattered” - well I guess so - she wasn’t using a scripted teleprompter and her littlest child was interrupting her speech with a language of his own - how
peasant-like for the insiders in Washington and the media.

As a woman who hoped to see this bright star launched properly and groomed adequately (which the McCain camp never bothered to do), I am grieved that we have launched backward in time to “women in the kitchen only” and in so doing have shut down a beautiful, passionate and intelligent American woman who loves her nation.

Shame on us and we will continue to perpetuate “what we deserve”, driving this once great national pinnacle of freedom into a backward polyglot of split groups owing every county in the world for our survival.

Well done all the deal makers who spend our money as it is their own - and have no more foresight than what they can
produce for their own benificence!

[fish hawk]

I see this a little differently than most of you.(probably) I see it as Palin, who I had a lot of faith in and was hoping she would be the front runner for the next election, caving and showing weakness. I don't believe for one minute that it is because of the reasons given here. I would bet that she thinks she has a better run at the Presidency if she commits her full time and energy into that campaign. Still I am disappointed at this move.

[thecabal]

Easy for you to snipe from the sidelines.

[Reagan Man]

Face reality and stop whining!

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is what happens when you scare the sh*t out of a band of ruthless Chicago thugs. They will eventually destroy you. The Commie Marxist ‘RATS didn’t expect or want November 4, 2008 to be that tough. She put up a fight. Commies hate people who do that.

[ScottinVA]

This a real downer; I had such hopes for her in 2012. Looks like the libs are clearing the playing field on the republican side.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Palin and Michele Bachman are hated primarily because they are unapologetic Christians

[Star Traveler]

You said — This a real downer; I had such hopes for her in 2012. Looks like the libs are clearing the playing field on the republican side.

—

Well, I always posted, before now, that Palin couldn’t be running for President in 2012 and still run for Governor of Alaska. I said that if she was going to do that (... President...) then she would have to quit being Governor and I didn’t think that was very likely...

It looks like I was wrong there...

Now she’s able to run for President.

[abigail2]

Why don’t you wait and see what happens. I notice that people who are liberal are putting a negative twist on it. They don’t understand her. She is not your usual politician. They were wrong about Obama, and his ‘change’, and I am positive they are wrong about her. She is setting up the lietenant governor to be in a good position to be reelected in 2 years, she will be able to pay attention to her detractors now without detracting from her job as governor. She can get paid for speaking engagements and books to pay for her bills, don’t forget she found a way to pay for her schooling which was unconventional, by entering beauty contests.

Listen to your heart, conservatives and wait and see what happens.

[Star Traveler]

Well, she did say she was *still in the game*.... :-)

So, I suspect still being in the game means a run for President... but if that’s so, we’re *certainly* not going to hear about it before the “timing” is right. So, you could wait and wait and wait for the next few weeks and *still* never hear about that, from her...

But, still being in the game is telling...

[truth_seeker]

“If you want a long career in politics, you have to have thick skin and a smart disposition.

Reagan had both. Appears Palin had neither.”

He had family, too. He had political opponents, too. He had hostile press, too.

Same for Nixon.

They had the stuff.

And if Sarah goes off stage, prepares on the big issues, comes back much stronger and better prepared, she may have a political future.

If she even wants one.

[LucyT]

> The governor emphasized she has been the target of 15 ethics complaints — all dismissed — at a cost of $2 million to the state and some $500,000 to her family.

“It has all been pretty insane,” she said.

“And the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn’t cost them a dime.” <