I’m actually surprised Palin has such a lead in that poll.
Look, I love her conservatism and I supported her fully in 2008, but I really don’t see how her resignation is going to go over well. She is going to get shredded in the debates because of that.
I voted for Jindal in that poll, but it’s still a long way until 2012.
I cannot see any logic in that position.
Her resignation has proven brilliant from a political standpoint. It has increased her ability to control the debate by ten times. Her every Twit, or Facebook note now instantly becomes national news that travels the internet at near light speed, and must be answered by all parties.
Her biggest gain is from the moral issues. Remaining in office would have cost the state in uncountable ways, and diminished the office. She cleverly sidestepped that, while setting up her replacement with the tremendous power of incumbancy. The poll that is the subject of this thread shows the wisdom of all of her choices; why remain in denial?
That's because you failed to understand her reasoning for doing so and continue to not understand it. Read her words and not what others are saying and it's very easy to understand.
I am not surprised. At the National Tea Part there was a fella carrying around a huge pic of Sarah Palin. As he walked from one area to another you could hear the crowd react with enthusiasm and cheers.
She is one of us.
Here is a repost of something I wrote a couple of days ago. If I may say, it bears repeating:
George Washington became the first president because he exhibited leadership. He was observed to do what he did best, represent the will of people and advance and protect the people of the U.S. I can not pinpoint the exact time in our history that our presidents became something else to the people but I am sure it was after John Quincy Adam was president.
At a Capital tour the tour guide said that JQA took a serious demotion when he went from president to representative (the only one to do that). What she said regarding that is a peek into what is wrong with our current day “politicians’. It is celebrity, popular, egotistical in its manifestation. Not sure how or if we can go back to pure representation but I can dream.
and:
Before the primaries is NOW. Let us get busy now.
Time to get a determined plan in the works. My gut feeling is to start with a local plan.
Can we get a roll call of the 435 districts in the USA here on FR?
Can we get find out how many districts are represented here?
From there can we start organizing info and people to get each district represented here on FR educated as to who is running for each seat, what these people running for a seat believe and how these people will impact the political scheme both locally and nationally?
How about brainstorming about how to best interact and educate people on the local level? People are more alert to the political consequences of our votes than at any other time that I can remember. Let us not lose this opportunity. We may never get this chance again. sarc: We could call ourselves ....hmmm community organizers! How about that novel idea? Quite opposite of Acorn and friends we will behave ourselves honestly and with integrity./sarc
If she had stayed, the only thing people would know about her would be all the fake ethics investigations.
She will not get shredded for this. All she has to do is say she got tired of wasting personal and state money and time defending herself from the 15 ethics complaints lodged against her. BTW I won them all.
Anyone would be stupid for attacking her for saving tax payer money and her family from baseless lawsuits.
You are way off base.
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