Posted on 07/06/2009 2:23:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
She redefined the game.
You were a Palin troll before this happened, I don’t really expect any change from you.
Nothing intemperate about it. Read what others have said in response rather than simply repeating yourself.
There are certainly benefits to working outside the system.
And she has reached her limit to working within it.
Sarah is a better fit for an activist role.
I think she would have much more success as an activist outside the system than as a politician inside of it.
CP isn't a troll. Anti-Palin yes, troll no....
Read Palin’s statement. It was no temper tantrum and time will tell whether it is a brilliant move or a stupid one. It’s one or the other . . . not a middle ground sort of move on her part.
I just don’t think she has the potential to attract more votes than 0bama in an election.
But she certainly does have the ability to attract a large dedicated following.
To me, this says that higher office is a dead end for her (with serious negative consequences for us), but she can accomplish much in an activist role.
No, she changed the rules of the game. Behind the governor’s desk, she couldn’t shoot back. Now she can.
She is now in a position to raise tons cash and campaign, not just for herself, but for those who support her policies and wish to replace those who don’t.
Instead of being immobilized by the Cloward-Pivens strategy, she intends to boomerang it right back into the leftists face.
I’m not anti-Palin, I’m anti-0bama.
And I understand that she would be unable to defeat him in 2012.
And how is a public servant supposed to pay $600,000 in legal fees? No job should pay less than the cost of holding the position.
I wouldn’t say she buckled under the pressure. Instead of playing the difficult hand she and Alaska were left with because of this disgusting strategy, she has sidestepped them to where they can’t get her. If this were football or some other sport - or war - you’d be calling it brilliant.
And, I believe that the rats are prepared to negatively affect national security (the missiles in Alaska) to diminish her credentials. Now that is really bad but I wouldn’t put it past them for a second.
Yes, I know you position. I should have been more clear. I don't like to see fellow FReppers getting trashed for their views, it is irritating. That said, I do disagree....I think Palin is re-grouping and firing back. I hope I'm correct and you are not......we'll see soon.
No, honey, she made a wise move. At least, that’s my opinion. I’m allowed to have an opinion, aren’t I? Or, are you always right? Do you always get your own way? Did you vote for Mitt? I thought so. Now go away, you bother me.
Didn’t you make the nonsensical case back before her resignation that because she was on the ticket that lost to Obama in 2008 that she can’t beat him in 2012? I’ll give you credit, it takes considerable chutzpah to posit that argument with straight type!
We all are just sharing our opinions.
Some of us are just swimming upstream against mob mentality.
It is interesting that most of the people trying to change my mind think insults are the best way to accomplish that...
I’m not saying what Sarah did wasn’t a wise move for herself, and perhaps even Alaska.
But it was not a wise move for anyone who wants to pursue the votes of a majority of Americans, and it did hand a significant victory to her enemies.
This is exactly what they wanted.
If you had taken a poll of Americans and asked them “should Sarah Palin resign her office?” it would have been the Democrats answering ‘yes’, not us.
So tell me, who really won here?
It is obvious to anyone who is not desperately trying to spin.
And you commonly insult people who disagree with you as “kool aid drinkers” and “cult followers.”
Now you claim to be a victim. Good grief.
What is this nonsense about voting for Mitt Romney?
I live in California. By the time the primary got here, and McCain and Romney were still in the running.
Which one should have I voted for?
The answer is... I voted for neither.
Independent voters are not allowed to vote in the Republican primary in California.
She can fight better out of office. It was a good decision.
No I don’t.
I have compared Palin’s blind cult following to that of 0bamas (but on a MUCH smaller scale), and I have said that I refuse to drink the Palin Kool-Aid.
But when debating an individual, I make my case for why Palin will only bring us defeat if she runs against 0bama again, I don’t badger them with insults as a means to ‘win’.
How is playing right into their hands side-stepping them?
They already got her. This is what they wanted. They won.
Driving her out of office was their goal, and they achieved it.
Now no Republican is safe from Cloward-Piven.
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