You don’t see a difference between quitting 2 years before your term expires and 3 years before the primaries even began (which means she could have finished her term and still had plenty of time to run full time) and quitting once you’ve been nominated as the candidate by your party?
Palin should have finished out her term at least.
If she was really serious about being taken serious, she would have run for reelection, and then run for president as a successful 2 term governor. That’s what you really need. Hillary put off running for president until she was reelected to a second Senate term. And at least 0bama didn’t quit the institution he had just been elected to just 2 years in to run for president.
What Palin did is ridiculous.
And I think she’ll find she gets shunned for it.
A half-term governor who quit doesn’t do the GOP any good in presidential politics. Her appeal was that she was a governor. She no longer is. She didn’t even complete her term. That makes her finished politically.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. Dole quit with more than 2 years left. Palin quit with less than 2 years left.
In Doles case, the election was 6 months away. In Palins case, the election was over 3 years away.
But the voters of Kansas or Alaska don’t care about the Presidential election. They care about finishing the term.
The voters of Illinois voted for Obama to be their Senator in Washington, DC, not to run for President. Obama did not represent the voters of Illinois at all well. He missed votes, because he wanted a better job. He should have resigned, like Palin did, because the voters of Illinois deserve a Senator that will show up for work.
But you think that a Senator who doesn’t show up for votes (Obama) is better than a politician who quits their job because they feel their constituents deserve a politician who can give 100% (Palin).
Obama making less than a quarter of Senate votes -
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/02/obama.missed.votes/
i think you should listen to her speech again. every time she tries to do something, they try to tie her up, legally or otherwise, and it has made her ineffective. she could just go along and collect a paycheck, but what that be right? she said she had already achieved the goals she set out for her term. better for the unencumbered LG to carry on - better for Alaska, and better for her. seems logical to me.
You and every pundit I’ve seen on the tube seem to be operating on a false assumption....that she is doing this as a prelude to a presidential run in 2012.
Ain’t gonna happen. She’s way too smart.
This girl’s not just a great ball player...she’s a skilled hunter.
She’s got the vision of a point guard and the patience of a big-game hunter.
I don’t claim to know what she’s thinking. But I have confidence that she knows what she’s doing. Give it time.
I agree 100%. If she is tried of all the unfair BS she had to face then fine, but for people to claim this is a good thing for her political career they are sadly mistaken or are brainwashed. She quit before finishing her first term, if anyone things the press is hard on her now, just wait until if she tries to run for anything else. This would be brought up in every debate, snide comments will constantly be being made by dem’s and by her Republican rivals forever, hell I would do the same if she was my competition. example “How could the people of this great nation trust Mrs. Palin when she didn’t have the sticktuitiveness to complete one term of an office that the people of Alaska elected her for. Can we expect the same with this greater office she running for?”