CharlesWayneCT: “Being Governor of Alaska was good executive experience, but 4 years would be better than 2.”
Then you’re not buying her argument that she would do more harm to Alaska by staying rather than turning it over to another competent person? Plus you think she should operate at an extreme disadvantage, if she chooses to run for president in 2012, by trying to operate a campaign out of Alaska? And, you think she would be able to run such a campaign, serve her state, and take care of her family?
How many politicians have you know that have “served” in an office while campaigning. McCain didn’t resign as a senator, but do you honestly think he was serving his state well at the time he was campaigning?
Sarah doesn’t conform to typical political behaviors, and that’s exactly why I’m starting to like her more and more. I don’t care if she’s some deep conservative intellectual. I’m more impressed that she IS conservative.
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.
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.