I understand and certainly go against the grain here from time to time. However by resigning now Palin:
1. made herself available to fund raise for other GOP candidates in 2010. This will strengthen the party.
2. made her own fundraising available to her to run for the presidential nomination should she decide to seek it. As it was much of that money might have been chewed up by legal expenses.
3. allows herself the time it takes to get ready to run for president if she so decides. This includes still writing a book if she so desires. Running for president is a tough haul, having a bit of time to prepare can be important.
She also likely determined that some would never give her credit for being the Alaskan governor and others would credit her executvie experience anyway. To a great mass of voters she will be Gov. Palin and they will not remember that she left office early.
You keep saying the going got too tough. I keep saying, that she quit to allow herself the freedom to explore running for president. You are taking the MSM position, I am the one really going against the grain here.
JLS, you’ve read the threads here and think you’re the one going against the grain here. Well... okay.
Thanks for explaining your thoughts. Take care.
BTW: I am explaining my views here. I am not regurgitating the MSM line.
I’m not going to jump up and down and act all gleeful when I think a bright and shining star for our party, and a very viable presidential candidate, destroys her own career.
That’s what I think she just did. I don’t think she’ll be taken seriously as a Presidential contender now. I am saddened by that. Is it you position the MSM is?