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Quitting as govenor and walking out on the people of Alaska was a willful choice by Palin. Just as not supporting her is my willful choice. And I assure you, I am not alone.

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Exactly.

There is a hard-core Palin fan club here that, based on postings, numbers in the dozens (maybe). The FreeRepublic is a lot of things but it is not an accurate bell weather for the mindset of the American voter. For most of us character counts and quitting is not a sign of character.

Amen

There is a hard-core Palin fan club here that, based on postings, numbers in the dozens (maybe). The FreeRepublic is a lot of things but it is not an accurate bell weather for the mindset of the American voter. For most of us character counts and quitting is not a sign of character.

It's sad that even some FReepers are willing to legitimize the sleazy Democrat tactic of using taxpayer dollars and the machinery of government to attack their political opponents.

For most of us character counts and quitting is not a sign of character.

"Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law I championed became their weapon of choice. Over the past nine months I’ve been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations - such as holding a fish in a photograph, wearing a jacket with a logo on it, and answering reporters’ questions.

Every one - all 15 of the ethics complaints have been dismissed. We’ve won! But it hasn’t been cheap - the State has wasted THOUSANDS of hours of YOUR time and shelled out some two million of YOUR dollars to respond to “opposition research” - that’s money NOT going to fund teachers or troopers - or safer roads. And this political absurdity, the “politics of personal destruction” ... Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn’t cost them a dime so they’re not going to stop draining public resources - spending other peoples’ money in their game.

It’s pretty insane - my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more “politics as usual,” but THIS isn’t what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.

If I have learned one thing: LIFE is about choices!

And one chooses how to react to circumstances. You can choose to engage in things that tear down, or build up. I choose to work very hard on a path for fruitfulness and productivity. I choose NOT to tear down and waste precious time; but to build UP this state and our country, and her industrious, generous, patriotic, free people!

Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: “Sit down and shut up”, but that’s the worthless, easy path; that’s a quitter’s way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and “go with the flow”.

Nah, only dead fish “go with the flow”.

I'm sorry, raybbr, I must have missed your personal campaign in New York to have ethics charges leveled against David Paterson.

And if New York doesn't have the same kind of ethics laws that Alaska does, well, then - what are you waiting for? Get on getting them passed, already, so's we can smite our opponents with them! Keep us informed of your progress.

After your success, we can revisit the conversation about Palin.

Whoops! My bad!

I'm sorry, wtc911, I must have missed your personal campaign in New York to have ethics charges leveled against David Paterson.

And if New York doesn't have the same kind of ethics laws that Alaska does, well, then - what are you waiting for? Get on getting them passed, already, so's we can smite our opponents with them! Keep us informed of your progress.

After your success, we can revisit the conversation about Palin.

There! Fixed it!

I wouldn't want to accuse raybbr of slacking in a state where he's not a resident, when he's already busy slacking in his home state...

Credit for "all talk and no action" where credit is due...

There is a hard-core Palin fan club here that, based on postings, numbers in the dozens (maybe). The FreeRepublic is a lot of things but it is not an accurate bell weather for the mindset of the American voter. For most of us character counts and quitting is not a sign of character.

I post on a large fitness site that has over 6 million registered users. At any given time there is 300-400k people viewing the site. There is a political forum and on a recent poll, I can't remember the exact figure, but maybe 15-20% of the people who said they would vote for Palin. FR is not America (sadly). Most Americans are middle of the road/leaning slightly right.