Frankly, I don't like people who quit in the middle of a fight.
>>>>>She didn’t have a choice. Either finish out the term and don’t run in 2012, or resign and run in 2012.
That's flat out wrong and you know it. Palin's term ended in December 2010! She had plenty of time to run for POTUS. In resigning, Palin has given her attackers in the liberal establishment even more ammunition to use against her, should she some back one day to run again. Nixon was politically dead in 1962 and President in 1969. Anything is possible, but her resignation doesn't help with Independents and the proverbial fence sitters. Which any presidential candidate needs to win. Sadly, in the short term, Palin has damaged her reputation by resigning.
No, I don’t think it’s flat out wrong.
I thought it was January 2011, but okay, let’s say it’s 2010. That’s still not a lot of time to get prepared. Remember the last election and how early everyone started?
The first of the Republican debates was on May 3, 2007. Building a national network in 5 months is ‘plenty of time’? I have my doubts about that. Remember how flustered the morons were about Fred Thompson missing like 3 of those stupid debates?
I think that she didn’t resign because she was backing down from a fight. I think she resigned, because her hands were tied so she couldn’t fight in her current position. I have almost zero doubt that between the RINOs and Rats in the AK legislature, that they would have tried to start impeachment proceedings the moment they got the slightest whiff that she might be running for another office. She made a lot of enemies in the AK Republican party and the Rats are desperate for any excuse to derail Palin. So, she removed the problem from the equation. Call it the Jack Traven ‘shoot the hostage’ political strategy. Risky for sure, but also solves problems that need solving in a quick and final way.
Frankly, I also agree with her sentiment that it’s a lousy state of affairs when politicians collect a paycheck from their current job while doing nothing but running for another. It IS part of the problem.
“Frankly, I don’t like people who quit in the middle of a fight.”
Then you didn’t like Reagan cutting and running in Beirut after the Marine Barrack bombing.
Reagan was a great President but the facts are the facts.
Palin had no choice. The campaign to set up an effective organization and assit GOP midterm candidates, starts right now. To think otherwise is political naievette.
The Independents and proverbial fence sitters just voted for a big spending, baby killing, tyrant loving Obama.
If Sarah can explain to these geniuses why their vote was wrong, she can easily explain why her resigning a job that would be impossible to perform correctly, while running for president, is the correct decision.
“Frankly, I don’t like people who quit in the middle of a fight.”
Thanks for bringing number one in the Olberwierd Countdown in as a talking point.
Rebuttal: The only means the left had to attack Palin was thru her official capacity as governor with ethics complaints. She has accomplished her stated missions with regard to political corruption, pipeline, and cutting state budgets.
Choice 1- would be to sit there in office and continue to field more frivolous ethics complaints, go broke, and have every news story about you pertain to ethic complaints.
Choice 2- take away the enemy’s means of attack, free yourself up to stop a socialist blitzkrieg with gains in the 2010 congressional elections, build a national campaign to compete with the criminal enterprise the other side operates.
I know, I know, she should have stayed, and then lied to the people of Alaska while running for re-election. Or better yet, just sit there in office, unable to make much political movement, while we sit here on FR and wonder what the F she is waiting on.
There is a reason why every evening news ad is for prescription drugs and adult diapers. We will never win the adult diapers users vote. Although I suspect a few on the forum today could use a free sample.