Thanks for proving my point. Rather than address the article's arguments and explain how they are mistaken. You went immediately for the "you're an out of touch liberal."
The simple fact of the matter is that I think Palin is great. I was an early advocate of her for McCain's VP slot, in fact.
However, there's a difference between support and enabling. Unless Palin comes out soon with an announcement that either (a) demonstrates she's taking on a new national role [ex: head of RNC or US Senate run]; or (b) makes clear that she's retiring from politics to be with her family [which is a perfectly legitimate decision], her decision is a baffling one. And it ill serves both her and the cause to pretend otherwise.
Tell you what.
How about you climb up Buffalo street and back down for a week. Then have a veggie burger. With tofu.
Then if Palin hasn’t done or said anything which is to your satisfaction, then you go ahead and pile on!
Until then, that is exactly what you are doing. And yes you’ve been in Ithaca too long. IMHO. :)
I’ve done nothing to ‘prove your point’.
YOU are the one who started calling people who might disagree with your position an ‘army of apologists’ and then have the audacity to tell me that _I_ am the one who called you an ‘out of touch liberal’?
Your behavior here indicates one of two things: either you’re trolling for a fight about this, or you’re a complete drooling moron. I vote the former, since I’ve read your posts on FR for years. Though, the latter is not completely out of the question.
I haven’t really taken a position about Palin either way. I’m waiting to see what happens. However, people like you seem so adamant about pushing her aside. It’s almost zealotry. One looks at that and wonders what you have to gain from it.
LOL ... we only have 3 FReepers in the “CITY OF EVIL” (that I know of) would hate to see one go to “The Dark Side”!!
Like her or not, Palin, IMHO.. is what gave McCain his creditable Loss. WITHOUT PALIN, McCain’s vote count would have Rivalled MONDALE in 1984.
But then, I couldn’t blame her if she told everyone to go EFF themselves and go off and go Fishing!!
I don't have any more information than anybody else on this thread, but it would seem to me that if Sarah Palin were going to retire from public life she would already have said as much. That means she is engaging in the time-honored political tradition of "keeping her options open." In any case, why does she have to "play all her cards" at one? It serves no purpose that would benefit her.
Apparently it is to you, why all the demands on her? Why must she tell you what she is going to do? What do you care anyway, she can't win?
Good grief people get over yourselves, she is not Michael Jackson, she is a clever politician. We are not entitled to know what she plans, we may have a genuine interest, but we have no standing in her plans, until we are invited in.
Some people are easily baffled. Not Sarah's fault. More like a personal problem.