Resignation is a BIG mistake if she actually aspires to higher, national office. Only three years as a governor in a very sparsely populated state will be a deal-breaker to a great number of Americans, if not to all but the most ardent Palin supporters.
She could literally be dead, and they would still flame you if you expressed ANY doubts about her being able to win. lol
I agree. Why step down now with a year to go. This looks like she can't finish something she has started and is taking the easy way out. Hate to say it but I think her career in politics just went out the window. Hate to see it as I really like her and would work for her election but this is bad.
I think she’s getting out of elective politics. This would leave her never having finished a term in elective office, other than mayor of an itsy bitsy remote town.
My guesses: Either big scandal brewing and/or Todd threatened to divorce her if she didn’t get out, or Republican Party offered her some high-paying, low-workload, low profile job to get her off the table. The latter would be a really good move — notwithstanding the enthusiasm of all her starstruck fans, she’s utterly unelectable on a Presidential ticket and continued babbling by her starstruck fans saying she is, is simply deadly to the Republican chances of getting Obama out of the White House in 2012.
“Resignation is a BIG mistake if she actually aspires to higher, national office.”
Why is that? Hussein never was Governor and he aspired to higher, national office. Although he had the title of “Senator”, it was for a very short time, and he was mostly absent.
Maybe not. Look who we have now.
Yeah, the same number that didn't see only three years as a Senator from a very corrupt state as a deal breaker for our current President.
The move is a side step to free herself from the conflict of interest ethics charges that the Dem activists have tied her up with. A half million dollars in legal expenses to fight those is not a small thing to a middle income family, nor is it a good use of her time to be spending most of it fighting these frivolous evil activist lawyers.
That tactic is one the DEMS use to bankrupt opponents and thus deny them their free speech rights.
I'm glad she is now free to speak out without having to shell out for the privilege.