Republicans Should Reexamine the Public Good of Private Citizens

Weekly Standard ^ | July 7. 2009 | Jim Prevor

[CharlesWayneCT]

The argument that being Governor for 4 years would be better than 2 years, in terms of executive experience, has nothing to do with the question of whether her resigning is good for Alaska or not. It is a simply question of experience.

I don’t particularly like the argument that she should quit because it harms Alaska for her to stay. That means we can get rid of any governor we want simply by filing ethics complaints, and then forcing them out for “the good of the state”.

If frivolous ethics complaints hurt the state, the legislature should change the law so it’s not so easy to file ethics complaints and drive up costs to the state.

But that has nothing to do with the question of executive experience.

[CharlesWayneCT]

This could well be good for the Lt Governor, and for Alaska.

But serving out the term would mean another year of executive experience. Motives or outcomes are immaterial to the years of experience.

[kevkrom]

Bah, time in office means nothing. Accomplishments matter more than time, and she's pretty much accomplished everything set out to do already. The biggie left is the gas pipeline, and just to spite her personally and deny her the accomplishment, the feds would do everything possible to slow it up.

Besides, if she builds the ground support, fundraises, and gets conservatives elected in 2010, "executive experience" isn't going to matter one whit anyway.

[HalfFull]

I’ve got a lib sister so I can identify. Can’t stop loving her, can’t lock her in a padded room or anything, so we just pray for her...LOL. She’s deaf to any rational discussion of politics.

What puzzles me about our lib sister, is she has a good heart.

Since Sarah is a "rock star", she will get a lot of exposure. Hopefully as times get tougher, more and more people will see through the crap of the MSM. Time will tell...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Don’t bother explaining to brain-dead FReepers why Palin is stepping down. Seriously, these people clearly haven’t heard Palin’s speech where she succinctly outlined her reasons. They hit and run every Palin thread with the BS about her “quitting” and that she needs more experience. Never mind that the woman already has 17 years of elective and appointed experience in office already, and that the remaining 1.5 years would have been engulfed in more taxpayer wasted dollars of bogus ethics charges and smears against her family. She did the right thing here, she doesn’t care what people think, just like she quoted from her Mom’s refrigerator magnet.