Posted on 07/09/2009 8:13:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I hate “good government conservatives”. We need a new breed Nihilistic conservatives.
There was, indeed, another fork in the road that she could have taken. Call an emergency session of the legislature and plug the too-easy ethics complaint loophole. That of itself would of course ramp up the rate of ethics complaints. And the Alaskan government would have to deal with every last particle of the B.S. until the legislation passed, as well as the appeals against how the legislation was passed.
Now if the anklebiters immediately start going after the Lt. Gov. in the same way, there will be no choice.
She did put a lot of money into public education.
I don’t think the author supports any of the claims made in the article.
The accomplishments do seem conservative.
The ethics charges seem insurmountable and growing exponentially as a cost to the state.
The decision seems not just prudent but self effacing for the purpose of helping Alaska.
“But Mitt Romney, on the other hand, blah, blah, blah...”
Go peddle that fish on another corner, Hindtaker.
Romney is more to the left and a worse choice for sure.
I saw a report today there is yet another ethics complaint: it has to do with her collection of expenses for living at home.Nice piece of change involved.Hopefully,the charge is groundless !!
No he is hooked up with Pawlenty. You can here is show here and it is embarassing. Another Rino who hates conservative women. They rip Michelle Bachmann to.
Read the article 3 times and never saw Mitt’s name mentioned by the author. Your MDS is showing what a shock.
Most people think Sarah’s reasons for resigning are very silly.
She could have stayed as governor till 2010 and easily start her Presidential campaign after that and can raise tons of money.
At this stage, her decision to quit does not add up and has ended up pulling down her chances for 2012 nomination.
Gee, I didn't know Hindraker was a mind-reader. Nobody knows what Sarah is going to do. That's the beauty of being an unconventional politician rather than a statist.
Does Palin really want to set a precedent that a Republican who is unfairly attacked by Democrats will quit?
What part of putting Alaska & her people ahead of politics does Hindraker not understand? My God, I swear these people hypocritically tsk-tsk the fact that Palin is resigning, but would have still piled on her had she remained and been bogged down by more bogus ethics charges ("Palin's term marked by scandals, GOP sources says she's unqualified"). They are psychologically incapable of seeing an elected official put the interests of the people before their own selfish agenda.
Here is why I think Palin quit: she wants to be the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012.
More mind-reading, more rampant speculation just to feed blog traffic.
Her rivals for the nomination are beginning to make the circuit of Republican and conservative grass-roots groups.
What rivals? Romney & Jeb Bush are distrusted by the base and has no chance of winning them over. Huckabee is mired in a talk-show. Pawlenty is staying on the job until 2010 which means he too will get a late-gate for a 2012 bid.
Palin, on the other hand, is isolated in Anchorage.
Not after 07/26 she isn't.
I still think Palin's resignation was a mistake; it will make the logistics of campaigning much easier
But wait a minute. I thought Palin was "isolated in Anchorage." So Hindraker, which one is it? If she stays in Alaska and completes her term, she'll get criticized for being isolated, but yet she shouldn't have resigned?
LOL
And for that simple observation, well rooted in logic, Hindraker will be labeled a Romneybot, Milquetoast Republican, RINO or other some such nonsense, as we've already seen.
When in fact, Hindraker has been a movement conservative his entire public life. He's an attorney's attorney and one of the best litigators in the country. But, because he's an Ivy League educated professional, who can link a couple sentences together that might even include a few polysyllabic words, he's really just elitist intellectual scum in the mind's of many. It's very disturbing for the future of the conservative movement that such criticism exists. But, it is what it is.
So don't comment on the story idiot. Oh, you already did idiot.
So AK kids: take time to take your parents fishing: "You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation" -Plato
What a stupid trailer trash idiot /s.
Norman, you realize Hindraker contradicts himself with that, right? He criticizes Palin for not completing the job, yet says that Palin is isolated in Anchorage (BTW, it’s Juneau).
These hand-wringers whining about her leaving is getting old-come down to the lower 48 Sarah...WE NEED YOU!
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