[truthfreedom]

Dole quit when running for President.
If Palin runs for President, she too will have quit to run for President.

Dole wasn’t criticized for it and neither should Palin.

It’s funny, her quitting could be second guessed if she doesn’t run for President, but if she does run for President, it’s to be expected, as Dole did it without being criticized.

[lt.america]

Are serious? Can you not see the difference? I thought someone already spelled it out for you earlier, but I guess it didn't register. Dole won the Republican nomination about a month prior and the Presidential election was to be held in 6 MONTHS; not 3 and a half years. And did you get the part above, where he was the Republican nominee, which means he was running against the Democratic nominee, one more time, IN SIX MONTHS.

Not even close in comparison. I feel like some folks are trying to question our sensibilities and intelligence with posts like this. Time to drink some coffee.

[counterpunch]

You don’t see a difference between quitting 2 years before your term expires and 3 years before the primaries even began (which means she could have finished her term and still had plenty of time to run full time) and quitting once you’ve been nominated as the candidate by your party?

Palin should have finished out her term at least.
If she was really serious about being taken serious, she would have run for reelection, and then run for president as a successful 2 term governor. That’s what you really need. Hillary put off running for president until she was reelected to a second Senate term. And at least 0bama didn’t quit the institution he had just been elected to just 2 years in to run for president.

What Palin did is ridiculous.
And I think she’ll find she gets shunned for it.
A half-term governor who quit doesn’t do the GOP any good in presidential politics. Her appeal was that she was a governor. She no longer is. She didn’t even complete her term. That makes her finished politically.

[angkor]

Counterpunch: I notice that you've made about 120 anti-Sarah Palin posts in less then the last 24 hours.

I'm buy no means a Palin cheerleader, but I have to ask:

What's that all about?

[Cyropaedia]

Dole wasn’t criticized for it and neither should Palin.

You have got to be kidding.

By that point, Dole had been serving in Congress for thirty six years. He had served in both houses ; he had been Minority and Majority Leader of the Senate.

At his age, he wasn't going to run for re-election to the Senate anyway, so he wanted to devote all that he had for one last shot at the Presidency.

If you really think that that is a valid comparison, you're delusional.