Is Palin's national political career over? (Sadly, the answer is YES)

Hotair ^ | 7/3/2009 | Ed Morrissey

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

And with those millions she will travel the country and get her conservative message out to the masses.

Those who underestimate Sarah Palin do so at their peril.

[SeekAndFind]

Are there no men in Alaska who could rid America of this sore on the body politic?

Forget Alaska now. Let's look to Louisiana and/or Indiana now.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Does anybody remember how Bill Clinton’s career was over after his disastrous 1984 Democratic National Convention speech—the one where the delegates burst into raucous applause when Bill finally got around to saying “and in conclusion?”

That was in 1988, and Clinton was supposed to be done after Gennifer Flowers came out.

[dusttoyou]

Timing might be fantastic, just ahead of all the Tea Parties! Guess who’ll be the topic of discussion???

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

another person who likes sarah but questions questions...

look, she ain’t running for Pres now, who knows, maybe ever (I hope not) but this is all about 2010. If good things happen in 2010, she calls more shots in 2012. why is that so hard to understand. I think it’s great she can come down to lower 48 and elect real conservatives? Do you or don’t you?

Do you think people in OH district are going to care if Palin stumps for an R there that she resigned in AK? good grief

with friends like you....

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I’m with you on jokyfo posts. Either a romneyite or a DU seminar poster.

BINGO! There are a LOT of them suddenly out and about on the Palin threads who I've never seen before.

[Raycpa]

He may be right. Sarah’s old political career is over. Can’t wait to see what the new career brings.

[Steel Wolf]

I can't help but be reminded of this exchange, early in the Obama pre-campaign campaign.

“My dad told me that you've got to strike while the iron is hot,” Reverend Alvin Love recalls saying, and Obama replied, “The iron can't get any hotter."

Back when Hillary Clinton was The Next In Line, aka The Inevitible One, there was one man who read the terrain correctly, and realized that he could beat The Unbeatable.

Fellas, there's nothing in Palin's background like the Reverend Wright. Everyone who took one look at Barack Obama and laughed him off as a political lightweight with crippling negatives was wrong. Obama ignored the establishment in the media and in the Democratic party, who were all nice but largely dismissive of him early on.

Palin's the only politician we have right now with the same level of natural talent and connection to the average voter that Obama has. If she's mobilizing now, it's because she sees a path to victory, and is taking it. We can laugh at her and dismiss her as flaky and unready, just as the Democrats initially dismissed Obama as an untested rookie. Or we can wait and see if she's actually up to something worth getting on board with.

She's either dumber than we thought, or a lot smarter than we are. Sometimes, vanity gets in the way of making that assessment clearly. It certainly did in our assessment of Obama.

[SeekAndFind]

Deciding not to run for re-election next year would have been completely understandable. Resigning abruptly like this? Not so understandable.

Precisely. I would have understood it had she merely announced that she would finish her term and not run for a second term. THAT would have been better. But this .... this is really strange.

[papasmurf]

It doesn’t matter what she believes or doesn’t believes about what she says.

It doesn’t matter what she you believes or doesn’t don't believes about what she you says.

I don't believe you ever wanted her to succeed.

[libbylu]

Oh ye of little faith.

[Two Ravens]

Face it non-elites are not allowed on the national stage.

That's true

[Guyin4Os]

She's done. Ed's exactly right. Her convoluted reasons for quitting make no sense at all. American voters don't jump in line behind people who quit after only 2 years on the job... however good those reasons may be.

It is time for us conservatives to get behind someone else. And its too bad because I would have campaigned vigorously for Sarah.

[Raycpa]

Your tag line:

JESUS CHRIST: The Light of the world... AMERICA: The light of freedom.

is a put down to Christ’s death on the cross. His death brought us freedom once and for all.

[Houghton M.]

That would be Neuwein and Zwiebelkuchen.

[SeekAndFind]

Palin's the only politician we have right now with the same level of natural talent and connection to the average voter that Obama has. If she's mobilizing now, it's because she sees a path to victory, and is taking it.

My problem with this move is the TIMING. She was ELECTED to serve a full 4 year term. The next presidential elections are 3 1/2 years away. Why resign now ?

Why not serve till 2010 and THEN announce that she's not running for a second term ? That would have been the better course of action if she were truly exploring a run for the presidency...

[Taking Congress back in 2010]

She’s done.

After that rambling wreck of a speech I still don’t know why she is resigning.

[onedoug]

Romney ain’t likin’ this.

[modhom]

Sarah Palin is Obi-Wan Kenobi. She just turned off her light saber and the dark side is taking a meaningless swipe. Meanwhile poor Luke is confused and a little frightened.

[dusttoyou]

You and jokyfo friends or just got the same “talking points” fax from axlerod?