Why did she quit as governor if she was doing such a good job?
I like Gov. Palin, but lots of people I know point to that event, and say that it disqualifies her as a candidate for The White House.
Thoughts?
The answer to your question is: Legal bills. Democrats filed motion after motion to create a political quagmire in Alaska.
I guess the same argument will be made against Christie, if he runs right?
"People close to Sarah Palin say national political reporters and pundits have missed the real reasons for her surprising decision to resign as Alaska governor. The national media have dismissed or downplayed her real motives, which had little to do with any plans to run for president in 2012.Contrary to most reports, her decision had been in the works for months, accelerating recently as it became clear that controversies and endless ethics investigations were threatening to overshadow her legislative agenda. "Attacks inside Alaska and largely invisible to the national media had paralyzed her administration," someone close to the governor told me. "She was fully aware she would be branded a 'quitter.' She did not want to disappoint her constituents, but she was no longer able to do the job she had been elected to do. Essentially, the taxpayers were paying for Sarah to go to work every day and defend herself."
This situation developed because Alaska's transparency laws allow anyone to file Freedom of Information Act requests. While normally useful, in the hands of political opponents FOIA requests can become a means to bog down a target in a bureaucratic quagmire, thanks to the need to comb through records and respond by a strict timetable. Similarly, ethics investigations are easily triggered and can drag on for months even if the initial complaint is flimsy. Since Ms. Palin returned to Alaska after the 2008 campaign, some 150 FOIA requests have been filed and her office has been targeted for investigation by everyone from the FBI to the Alaska legislature..."
socialists were willing to murder Alaska to spite Palin. She wouldn’t have any of it. She did it to save Alaska.
Country first before me, my, and I!
You would NOT have to ask this question if you have followed Sarah, or even listened to her as to why she resigned.
The leftists did NOT accept her just going back to Alaska to do her job, but instead decided to destroy her and her family. They tried to BANKRUPT her by filing false accusations, which she personally had to pay an attorney to represent her, as well as all the wasted money Alaska had to pay to research and give the recommended documents.
Her resignation as Governor was a brave and honorable thing to do. Something we DO NOT have in our current parties.
Sarah knew what people would say about it, knowing they WOULD NOT accept the truth as to why she HAD to resign, but make up their own stories and lies about it.
Really? REALLY?! That’s only been hammered on about a million times here.
Short version: Frivolous lawsuits and ethics complaits - all of which were eventually dismissed or Palin won - were costing the state millions and were preventing Palin from doing her job. So she rendered them moot by resigning.
Funny how she resigned her position as Energy Commissioner so she could unseat Murkowski as Governor, and that was just fine.
But stepping down as Governor to unseat O'Buttface as President... well, that disqualifies her? Sorry, but the logic doesn't follow. It's just a convenient excuse for oxygen-wasting brain-dead imbeciles to crap on a uniquely overqualified Christian leader. Period.
It makes decent people sick to their stomach to see adults behaving like this and acting like it's somehow justified because "We're talking about Palin!"
:^\/
Why did she quit as governor if she was doing such a good job?
She was no longer able to do a good job. The entire force of the national democrat party was exerted against the Alaska democrats to stop working with Palin. Bogus law suits crippled her administration which had been reduced to answering FOIA requests and responding to law suits about why she wore a certain coat or why she left the state on a trip.
Her small staff couldn’t accomplish the job of governing because Sarah Palin was a national political target. She could remain as Gov. and be personally responsible to pay the cost of defending against the lawsuits and be totally ineffective for the next year and a half as well as unable to be a factor in the 2010 midterm elections or she could resign and live to play another day. She decided that if she turned over the governorship to her Lt. Gov. that her administration could resume its job of serving the state. She resigned and the bullseye was taken off of Alaska.
She resigned for the good of her state, and she knew very well that there would be a big cost to her politically, but if you think she quit, all you need to do is look at the effect she had on the 2010 midterm elections.
There are none so blind as those who REFUSE to see.
Lawsuits - a steady, expensive stream of them. As governor, she couldn’t afford to defend herself from them.
In fact, she couldn’t do her job.
Unlike Anthony “Not my dick!” Weiner, she stepped down.
Anybody that claims she isn’t qualified for the White House while Obama is occupying the seat is either dishonest, or such an idiot that pouring piss from a boot would be a challenge . . .
even if the instructions were written on the heel.
The day Obama asks Holder to resign because of Gunrunner, I’ll eat my words. Palin ousted the chairman of the State GOP.
The press had her tampons categorized and bagged, but they couldn’t fact check an article on Obama that CAME FROM AN AP REPORTER while Obama was a Senator that SAID HE WAS BORN IN AFRICA.
The establishment on both sides has been telling Palin in no uncertain terms - ethical people need not apply.
she’s done more for USA since she resigned. She is hardly a quitter. How many miles flown 100,000 for candidates and causes? she didnt curl up in a corner. Like she said in July 2009, she made a tactical move to move forward in a different manner. It’s ok by me to give the Libturds credit; the Libturds did have her in constant “check” in AK NO WAY she does anything for us Americans if she is stuck in AK. Had the ‘Turds been easy on her, she’d still be there and we could be ralllying around Mitt.
You're a little behind in your American Political homework.
“Why did she quit as governor if she was doing such a good job?”
If you had even a slight interest in Sarah Palin, let alone like her, you would not need to ask that question, you would have known the reason, So therefore I consider answering said question a waste of time.