Dole is not the only politician who ever resigned to do something else. They’re rarely called quitters. Or, maybe I’m wrong, maybe they’re called quitters all the time.
Find me the links to other politicians who are called quitters for resigning. If it was as common as you think, you should have no problem finding those links.
Palin resigned in part to help Republicans get elected in 2009 and 2010.
Also, typically, when you put a word in quotes, like “hate”, there’s an assumption that the person you’re arguing with used that word. I didn’t.
Palin is not “allowing herself to be labeled a quitter”. You are labeling her a quitter. Most of the people here are explaining to you why it is wrong for you to call her a quitter. Again, many have resigned for many reasons, without being called a quitter. I have proved my point. You have not proved your point.
There is no reason to put caveats on what are considered
justifiable reasons to resign. H Clinton is a quitter, K Sebelius is a quitter.
Get off it. You're being profoundly disingenuous.
Senator Dole, as the Republican Presidential nominee, had two jobs; - each with its set of duties and responsibilities.
As the Republican nominee, he had an obligation to the party and to registered Republicans throughout the country to do everything in his power to win the Presidential election. Sometimes, a nominee feels it is best to relinquish one set of duties and responsibilities to fully commit to the other set of duties and responsiblities.
By that point, Dole had already spent 30 years in the Senate. He was a senior citizen and in his twilight years.
You're trying to make it seem as if he left the Senate to work as a floor manager at a department store out in Witchita.
Campaigning for President of the United States as the Republican nominee is NOT just "doing something else". Get real.
Find me the links to other politicians who are called quitters for resigning. If it was as common as you think, you should have no problem finding those links.
Again, I asked you to find another governor who quit simply because they felt like doing so, not because of ethical violations of their office or medical reasons; -much less a governor who did so in the middle of their first term. You couldn't.
Palin resigned in part to help Republicans get elected in 2009 and 2010.
Another bogus argument.
IIRC, Governor Palin had already helped Saxby Chambliss win re-election to the Senate out there in Georgia.
None of the people that she is going to try to help in Congressional races were expecting her to quit her job governor.
Senators help candidates running for office, members of the House help candidates that are running for office, and governors help candidates running for elective office. This happens all across the board with with everyone.
Palin is not “allowing herself to be labeled a quitter”. You are labeling her a quitter.
Palin is allowing herself to now be labeled a "quitter". If Sarah had come out this past week, and said that she was determined to remain in office, - no matter how hard her enemies tried to force her from the governorship, people across the board here at FR would be cheering her resolve as a politician. And justifiably so.
So how can people cheer her when she does the exact opposite and announces that she is resigning in the middle of her term...? Again, that makes absolutely no sense.
There is no reason to put caveats on what are considered justifiable reasons to resign. H Clinton is a quitter, K Sebelius is a quitter.
More nonsense. Clinton and Sebelius resigned their offices after they had been appointed by the President of the United States to serve as Cabinet Secretaries in the Executive Branch. Clinton serves as head of the nations's State Department. Sebelius now serves as the head of this country's Department of Health and Human Services.
If there had been no offers to serve in President Obama's cabinet, and Hillary *still* decided to resign her Senate seat, then, yes, she could be labeled a quitter.
Both Clinton and Sebelius had already completed one full term in office by the time they received their their Presidential appointments, BTW.
Now if Palin ( hypothetically ) had resigned her office after being selected as the new Secretary of Energy, that would be a completely different situation.
Needless to say, she's not even going to receive the Ambassadorship to some third world country in the Obama administration.