Hardly the stuff of "irrelevance"...
I’ve never understood why the liberals have jumped on the fact that she resigned as governor of Alaska as some liability, lack of character, lack of leadership, etc.
It was okay to the liberals that many fellow liberals, such as Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and others, to resign offices to which they had been elected. In their cases, they were going on to other offices, so perhaps that’s what has the liberals panties in a twist about this. Sarah Palin did not resign to take another governmental office. And for this she is pilloried.
Then again, these liberals look to government as the be all and end all of their lives. Sarah Palin represents people who do NOT have to be in some government job or elective office to make a difference in the world.
I’ve also never understood the liberal uproar over the fact that Sarah Palin’s daughter had a baby out of wedlock.
Liberals tend to be non-judgemental about these situations, and decry those with allegedly puritanical attitudes about the subject. Yet Sarah Palin was attacked for not being the best mother because of her daughter. I don’t understand the liberal thought process.
Off topic, but just want to add, that when he had his show, liberal firebrand Keith Olbermann named Bristol Palin the worst person in the world. Her crime was having the baby out of wedlock, then working and getting paid by an organization which works to prevent teen pregnancy.
That always got me, because certainly nobody would criticize an alcoholic, or a drug addict, for example, for working to persuade others to avoid the issues they have faced with their alcohol or drug problems. Yet Bristol Palin was targeted because she wanted to help other young girls avoid what she had gone through.