I’d love to have Sarah as President, but if does indeed run in 2012, she’s going to be tagged with a “quitter” label which will be hard to shake. I wish she’d gone longer as AK governor, at least for one more year. Absolutely, I’ll support her whatever endeavor she chooses, but I don’t think her actions yesterday helped her if she has aspiration for the White House. I’m crossing my fingers she carefully weighed the options and knows what she’s doing.
At first she will. But as we get past this first phase of her resignation we need to help her by pointing out that ANYONE who loses half a million dollars while trying to do ANY job has a right to quit that job.
Staying in a job just for appearances and losing hundreds of thousands more dollars to do it is insane. SHe can certainly be criticized for that, too. She is justified IMO just on the financial aspect of it. She does not owe the people of Alaska another year and a half at the cost of perhaps $750,000 of personal debt.
I think she’s officially done. Dumb move if you want to stay in politics.