Posted on 07/07/2009 5:15:09 AM PDT by coffee260
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Chairwoman Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning amid frustration that she is being forced to keep silent about ethics allegations against Republican Party of Alaska chairman Randy Ruedrich.
"I'm forced to withhold information from Alaskans, and that goes against what I believe in as a public servant," Palin said in a Friday interview.
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She is unlike 99% of politicians. She doesn’t slack on the job and stands to her mission and principle.
whatever she does i wish her all the best. if she decides to run, i'll vote for her.
One the best ethical moves she ever made. Thanks for the reminder!
What was your intent behind that comment?
Historic reference.
Palin is the winnowing fork.
The author, or whoever added “Sound Familiar?” to the title,
IS CHAFF.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
I absolutely believe it’s financial. She can easily command over $50k per appearance and with the mounting legal bills, kids getting ready for college and the cost of raising a special needs child, she’d be insane NOT to take advantage of her popularity and make a few bucks.
It’s also brilliant to keep her language vague about her future roll in politics. Keeping the door open increases her value.
This allows Sarah complete freedom to spend time in lower 48, help conservatives in 2010, begin building a national organization and lay the groundwork for her 2012 run. If she remained gov, it would be difficult to do these due to the geographical constraints and the continuing costs of frivolous ethic charges.
There was a lot more going on behind the scenes than anybody was telling. I am one of those who would have ratified her decision to resign from the Governorship with a “Hell yeah!” endorsement of her action, because from the outside, she can make moves that were impossible as a sitting Governor (and target).
Now she can be out on the move, and carry the message to the faithful in the lower 48 in a way she could not even a year from now (when she would normally have been leaving office anyway). Soon, unless things are somehow reversed, the stranglehold of the “New New Deal” will begin to tell on the latent power of America, and we will sink into Great Depression II. I am among the people who think the original “New Deal” by FDR lengthened and exacerbated the Great Depression far beyond its original impact. America was in worse shape in 1938 than it was in 1933.
Say what you will about her, the girl has got spunk. And that is an admirable characteristic in any woman.
Her stepping down from the commission had much less to do with “frustration” than it did with her ethics. She then ran and won the Governorship, even with her opponents whispering “quitter” due to her stepping down.
Likewise, the phrase “quitter” won’t hamper her as she runs for future office as she is following her own set of ethics and not merely the conventional wisdom of politics.
WE are keeping track of all the Obama drones posting here so keep it up Obama smear TROLL !
OOPs. One of the best ethical moves she ever made.
To be anti-Palin doesn’t necessarily mean “pro-0bama”.
You just have to be elitist. There are plenty of elitist Republicans that believe that we just have to get the “right” elitist in power.
Coffee260 has been on FR years longer than you have.
I am sick and tired of highly polished lawyers with their parsed speech and hair that costs more than a kitchen remodel and the elected for life politicians making my life more complicated with laws they don't have to follow and taxes they'll never have to pay.
For all her strengths and her faults, Sarah Palin is more like what the founding fathers had in mind for our elected public servants. She is one of us, not one of "them". And I'm really tired of "them".
WTF are you talking about? She resigns and then wins governorship. HELLO! That’s far from her being finished. I totally support her Mr. Reactionary. Read past the headlines next time.
BTW, the definition of a fanatic is someone who won’t change the subject and can’t change their mind.
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