Posted on 07/03/2009 12:16:28 PM PDT by STARWISE
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is expected to announce Friday that she will not seek a second term, a Republican source close to Palin tells CNN.
Palin has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET news conference at her home in Wasilla. The governor’s office offered no further details about the subject of the news conference, but the sources tells CNN that Palin will announce her decision to forgo another run.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
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1. She is fed up with the assault on her family and herself and is tired of politics and is just calling it quits
2. Palin for Senate 2010.
Now Fox News reporting Sarah is stepping down... handing over the reigns to the Lt. Governor. What the hell is going on???
Don’t kid yourself.
Yes, I still like Sarah Palin!
By Camille Paglia
Nov. 12, 2008 | [excerpts]
“...Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover.
The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.
I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is and quite frankly, I think the people who don’t see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma.
So she doesn’t speak the King’s English big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes.
She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.
As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee what navel-gazing hypocrisy!
What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry’s nod for veep four years ago?
And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, for whom I lobbied to be Obama’s pick and who was on everyone’s short list for months, has a record indistinguishable from Palin’s. ..
..The U.S. Senate as a career option? What a claustrophobic, nitpicking comedown for an energetic Alaskan nothing but droning committees and incestuous back-scratching.
No, Sarah Palin should stick to her governorship and just hit the rubber-chicken circuit,.. Step by step, the mainstream media will come around, wipe its own mud out of its eyes, and see Palin for the populist phenomenon that she is. ...” By Camille Paglia
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/11/12/palin/print.html
Yes she is, the reports are saying she is resigning within two weeks.
First thing that came to mind for me.
Of course the MSM will spin it as "Getting out of politics because of the pressures", which is a crock.
This is horrible... I pray everything is OK with Sarah and her family. I was looking forward to seeing the Palins in the public eye for years to come.
The seat held by Murkowski isn’t vacant, unfortunately.
It’s funny when the Democrats offer advice to their opponents with a straight face.
It’s like one quarterback telling the quarterback from the opposing team, “You ought to try throwing with your other hand for a while.”
Idiots. Truly stupid people.
What vacant senate seat?
I wouldn’t totally rule that out either, but actually I think it’s a lot more likely that Todd has put his foot down and threatened to divorce her if she doesn’t quit the political circus and focus on maintaining a sane family life for her children. Having her husband divorce her would totally knock her out of the running for any elective office beyond a seat in the Alaska legislature.
Sarah Palin will NO longer be in public office; her every move can’t be scrutinized by the radical loons...good move.
Maybe she is fed up with the constant attacks on her family. I don’t know why any normal person would even want to run for office any more.
Based on what? Left wing blogs?
I know the USA needs her. But if the USA elected an abortion-loving candidate like Obama—the MOST liberal in the country—I’m not sure the USA deserves Sarah anymore.
The truth hurts, I know. I’m sad about it too. In a better time, Sarah would already be President.
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That is NOT GOOD at all. Resigning a position that people elected you to ... to me ... shows that you are not committed to the job.
I am sure her enemies will use her resignation as a weapon against her. They will try to show that she is not committed to the job or some other such argument.
That’s definitely a possibility.
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