[TomasUSMC]

I hope your right, actually no. I hope your wrong. I don't want this strategy of quiting in the face of fire to become a modus operandi for US. Maybe her Lt. Gov will refuse and give her a chance to reconsider. Because I believe that her appeal will be weakened by her resigning and I must admit I find it surprising that there are those who don't. Wouldn't she be able to raise more money and get bigger crowds if she was still Governor? Anyway she was a pick for VP. I was on TV here speaking out for her the day she was picked by McCain. And she is still light years ahead of 99 percent of the democrats. Dead fish may go with the flow but a real Pit Bull never quits.

[rbmillerjr]

“Wouldn’t she be able to raise more money and get bigger crowds if she was still Governor?”

No. She will be bogged down by ethics complaints that never end due to Alaskan law. She has now defeated 17 of 18 ethics charges against her. She would be embroiled in a minor war with State Dems who want her Quaylized.

But the bigger war would be with the Murkowski Political Machine, which has never forgotten how they were defeated and marginalized by Palin. That is a no win battle.

The war is to stabilize the GOP for the midterms and if she gains infludence, make a run for the Presidency.

I was a paratrooper, you are a Marine. Imagine an operational commander of a recon unit training his unit well and being promoted to take on the commanding role of the entire Recon mission. The commander succeeds. Should he take his skill and leading elite units and stay where he is or go to Staff War College and attempt to take on the whole Marine Corps?

That’s not quitting the Recon units, that’s taking a bigger challenge. I see the 2010 midterms as Palin’s War College. Let’s see how she does.