Great article....
This is a good article.
And Steyn is right.
It’s time to cut bait on Sarah Palin as the future hope of the GOP, just as she’s cut bait on political life.
She’s not the Moses to lead us out of the desert.
A voice of reason. Maybe she just screw younz! I love my family and I’m not willing to move from God’s country and sacrifice them to the gods of power and celebrity. Let the sheep fend for themselves.
It is the explanation that makes the most sense, her family has been so battered by this process, by the unmitigated venom of the Democrat attacks against her, that they are simply withdrawing into their Alaskan reality. They never lived by the Beltway reality. They are just going home.
Not a lot is known yet about what Sarah Palin’s reasons for resigning are, and I am getting pretty tired of all the speculating, kvetching and etc., but I am of the mind that she feels she can work for conservatives in other ways than running for office. Maybe I’m wrong and she really is saying enough is enough. I guess time will tell, but I just don’t see her quitting politics entirely.
Besides, she’s still young and still has time to run for office in the future. ;-)
Good one by Steyn, as always.
M.S., Is really telling (the anal) "the Washington D.C. King Makers" to go "straight to hell".
The best thing Palin can do is stay away from the GOP's "professional planners".
So Steyn steps on his own words of caution by offering his own assumption. And not even an original one at that. For Steyn, this is subpar.
What about Reagan?
This country is not ready for a female president, and especially one that is not yet ready for prime time. It would take a highly gifted and respected woman to ever be elected POTUS. There is not any female today, in either political party, that has the gravitas to be elected to that office.
I wish nothing but the best for Sarah and her family, but she is not going to be the leader of the GOP or of the conservatives. We have no leaders at this time.
Steyn sums it up.
Hats off to all the FReepers, I’m out. If Sarah isn’t running I’ve lost interest in politics. Obama will probably be president for the rest of my life or close to it. If she runs again I’ll hear about it and see you guys and gals then. I’ve really enjoyed my time here, it’s been fun.
Thank you.
Mark Steyn is master of language, not a conservative. He cannot empathize with a true conservative. He could listen to Sarah Palin’s entire speech today and not come away understanding what she meant. Conservatives understood instantly. Steyn has become irrelevant. I am astounded by the positive reactions to his article in this thread.
....Mark your flat out wrong....
People stayed tuned..the chair is against the wall...orders are forthcoming
My guess, for what little it’s worth, is that she realizes that the single most effective thing she can do to advance a conservative agenda is to raise money for congressional candidates so that we can take back congress. Perhaps she is smart and ego-less enough to put country first- the good she could do raising enough money (and garnering publicity) to tip three or four senatorial races and a half dozen house races can make much more difference than anything she could accomplish as governor of a state; and it would lay the groundwork for 2016, a much more realistic goal than 2012 .
I have enjoyed the total frizzy (that is a combination of a frenzy and a tizzy) the MSM, GOP and DNC seem to be having.
Does she have some big problem not yet announced? Is she tired of the ethics cases that are unwarranted? Does she have BIGGER political aspirations that serving as governor hinder? Is she going to help a party that has pretty well thrown her to the wolves by stumping for them?
I don't know.
Myself, I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want to serve in politics.
If it were I, the media's unprecedented savage attacks on my family would make me rethink the whole situation. I can't think of any attack on the children of previous politicians that has equaled this. As a parent, they would be my first responsibility.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
I'm with the “she gave her reasons so let's wait and see” bunch.
All else is mental masturbation and oral flatulence.
Palin ain't “out” of the conservative leadership bullpen until she actually says she is out—and she ain't said no such.
As far as 2012 is concerned,our DeMint is the obvious best choice for America,but he is the only true conservative left in the United States Senate and the body would sink into it's own excrement without him..
Who?
Agreed. Her resignation is just that: resignation. Hopefully, we’ll see support for a presidential candidate who will cut spending for government schools instead of increasing it, be a man likely to be a great commander-in-chief, work to reverse the trend toward globalism and have a congressional voting record for proof instead of speeches full of contradictory generalities. Too many of the leading candidates to date have been opposing most of their constituents to accommodate their favored few.