[Darren McCarty]

Suppose she says she resigned the AK governorship because she knew in 2012 she wanted to be a candidate? Is that really so far fetched?

If Palin decided to run in 2012 back in 09, she should not have quit but simply chose not to run for re-election as Alaska Governor.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

I have plagiarized below shamelessly from SR; he has an even better post somewhere but it was too old to find. If you are a conservative, I am know you are capable of thinking beyond “2 legs bad, 4 legs good”. The Sarah Palin resignation was a truly unique event as resignations go. A combination of vicious political harassment, a poorly written ethics law that crippled state and victim, and a potential calling for another service post, president or simply GOP campaigner-in-chief, was a perfect storm that led to her resignation. On the assumption that you are truly conservative, please find some time to understand the situation so you, as a true conservative, can say truthfully to your friends, that SP had to resign, or she would have been lynched, politically at least. She resigned in 2009 to avoid bankruptcy, advance the interests of AK, and start preparing for her entry into national politics (you remember her campaigning in 2010 don't you? And didn't Charles krauthammer and other advise her to “study up”?! What do you think she was doing?)

Now for SR’s post.
“• As for the “quitting” meme, get over it. You’re a quitter too. Yes you are. Are you still employed in the very first job you ever held? No? Were you fired or did you quit? If you quit, you’re a quitter. See the problem? “Quit” is just a smear word. It means nothing because it explains nothing. No doubt you quit because you had good reason. Well and good. Then quitting is OK if the reason is good, right? Care to apply the same rule to Palin as you do to yourself?
Or would you accuse a field commander of “quitting” if he backed his men out of a firefight he knew they couldn’t win, so they could come back later to reengage the same enemy on a battle field better suited to victory? Because if you still consider that quitting, then all is lost, because our own George Washington is a quitter by your standards, as he often used strategic retreat as a way to beat a numerically superior enemy. My own position is if it’s good enough for Washington, it’s good enough for Palin.”