Posted on 07/04/2009 3:00:43 AM PDT by Scanian
At this point there is much speculation about why Sarah Palin abruptly announced her impending resignation from Alaska's governorship. Her critics are already calling her "erratic" but she is consistent in one respect: she cares little for the established ways of doing things when she thinks she has a better course of action.
The conventional wisdom holds that you bury news when it is announced at 4 PM on Friday of a holiday weekend. But the comparative news vacuum seems to be only amplifying the echoes reverberating through the political world. Does anyone think that Sarah Palin minds the fact that the Bigfoot anchors and columnists are on Martha's Vineyard and unavailable to slam her?
One school of thought holds that Palin's career in politics must be over. ("She quit on Alaskans and she'll quit on America".) Some speculate a scandal lies behind the unexpected move and the odd timing. An alternative theory of leaving politics is that the toll on her family life, the vitriolic attacks (epitomized by the Vanity Fair article by Todd Purdham), and the false ethics accusations which have indebted The Palins, have led Mr and Governor P. to decide that it just isn't worth it. Perhaps they had a family discussion, and decided last night to put it aside, and focus on her kids. She more or less laid out this scenario today in her address.
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Aside from the personal reasons - and she has really been subjected to a campaign of hatred and totally off-the-wall viciousness - I think she probably felt that the state of Alaska was beginning to suffer and was going to be a target of the Dems, both in Congress and in Obama’s enforcement positions.
Resigning now, when it’s summer, a holiday and Congress is out of town, is an excellent way of short-circuiting the attacks on Alaska. Because of Alaska’s oil and the fact that this is going to be a target in Bambi’s insane “green” plan, Alaska is particularly at risk, and having Palin as governor meant that one of the Dems’ top priorities was going to be the destruction of that state in one way or another.
Good points about attacks on Alaska by the Green/Red coa;ition...
Good points about attacks on Alaska by the Green/Red coalition...There is no "Green/Red coalition".
Red is green. Green is red. They're the same damn people. You can't have a coalition when there's only one group involved.
Every green is a red and every red long ago adopted green as the most effective way to force redness down the throats of the innocent (and mostly stupid) American public.
Team Sarah is a diverse coalition of Americans dedicated to advancing the values that Sarah Palin represents in the political process.
I really want to think the best, but it is odd that two governors who opposed receiving stimulus money from the feds are effectively neutralized in the space of two weeks. Who’s next? Perry?
She can expect to spend the entire primary campaign trying to answer that. She'd better whip up a good answer.
Nobody forced Sanford to be a serial adulterer. What do you think they forced Palin to do?
At some point the bullshit gets so deep you can't do your job.
So I ask you, one and all:
Did she quit on Alaska, or did she quit for Alaska.
> Red is green. Green is red. They’re the same damn people.
That’s why they are called “watermelons”. Green on the outside... red to the core.
Some of her critics have been calling her “erratic”, for a while, and I’m afraid they may be at least partially correct.
Good way to put it Joe. She quit the governorship because she thought it was the best move for Alaska, herself, and her family.
All anyone has to do is listen to her speech and take it at face value. Sarah strikes me as a person who is without guile. The pundits who are trying to read between the lines are really clueless. There is no there there—her expressed intentions are the only ones that matter.
I look forward to Sarah doing some excellent campaigning for conservative candidates in the lower 48 during the next 16 months, and then she will have a bucketful of IOU’s to cash in if she wants to run for the White House.
N-S, haven’t I told you more than once not to post to me? You p’d me off on the eligibility threads, now you’re being a pest re. Sarah. Post all you want but do not post to me again.
I don’t even think “watermelon” applies anymore because the red isn’t “hidden inside”. It’s right out there in the open.
In true Orwellian fashion, the new equations are:
RED = GREEN
GREEN = RED
There is no distinction. There is no “horse of a different color”. There is no outside/inside. Every Green is an out-and-out commie and every commie (at least in the West) is a true Green (knowing the unequaled power of Green to advance communism and the enslavement of the ordinary people).
Like Obama, she realizes that starting to campaign 3 years before the election is a good way to start a political movement.
Unlike Obama, she sees an opportunity to attract hard working American voters by not collecting a paycheck from the taxpayers who can't afford it. Obama collected Federal paychecks during his entire campaign in the last election, and will again in the upcoming election.
> In true Orwellian fashion, the new equations are:
> RED = GREEN
> GREEN = RED
You make excellent points. The greenie’s mask has slipped, revealing the hard-core commie underneath for all to see.
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