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You People? Hey now FRiend! What’s with this ‘YOU PEOPLE’!?!? (just kidding)

I appreciate the well documented argument, and clearly there is some merit to your perspective. However, Palin supporters can’t selectively praise her for ‘standing up to Obama and the liberal elite’ and say she quit her job because she was no longer able to do it with all the attention she was getting. Either she is tough enough to take the heat and do her job or she’s not. If being a popular target of the left while trying to execute the duties of the Alaskan governorship is too distracting, what have you seen her demonstrate that shows you that she can handle the presidency?

Looking back, I don’t know how Bush did it. I think he should have stood up to his critics, answer back at least a little, and I would have liked Sarah to show that kind of mettle to go against her critics and expose them as the desperate frauds that they are. No such luck.

I live in Arizona, and I’m guessing its the newness of the SB1070 thing, but I am just waiting for motivated leftists to dig into Brewer’s history, sift through her trash and pull out all the stops to find something that will besmirch her. I am sure this coming gubernatorial race (Brewer’s first) will be brutal with national resources doing opposition research on everything she has ever done.

So. To address your arguments one x one:

She quit honorably because she wasn’t able to do the job any longer because she was attracting too much attention from the left. You believe voters would have preferred her to step aside.

First, I believe that is supposition on your part that you know the will of the Alaskan people. Had she defeated a few of these ethics probes, they would have subsided. However, you assume she would have been clinging to power, broke, gasping for air. Why such desperation? Even the moonbats give up after a while. But no, she quit. I don’t think quitting is an option at the presidential level.

I am not outraged that she quit. She can do whatever she wants, but it doesn’t demonstrate the stamina (I won’t say courage) to weather the presidency.

Smack down? Don’t flatter yourself.

Those politicians continued to serve out the offices they were duly elected to serve in. As distasteful as it is with that list of shady characters, they did serve out their terms as elected. Politicians milking jobs? duh.

“Higher Calling”...come on man. The thinly veiled religious fanaticism associated with Palin followers has got to stop. Let’s not become easy targets here. Her facebook jabs at Obama didn’t do everything. She’s not elected, has no power, and her facebook comments were pretty indicative of the right wing sentiment on every issue. Which is my major point with her - she’s not a thought leader, or projecting original thoughts. Nothing she posted isn’t something Rush or Steyn or Hannity hadn’t been chatting up. EVERY Republican is against Cap’n’Trade. Every senator and congressman had been complaining about that. Don’t grant Palin some power she doesn’t have. I don’t think anyone would honestly cite her as the most influential person in the mix at this point. She has NO power...period. As for her endorsements...Again, I live in Arizona. I saw Sarah campaigning for McCain. So don’t tell me how she’s bravely endorsing conservatives as a rule.

Inexperience: As an executive the 2.5 years of governor of one of the least populated and least complex states, mayor of wasilla (ahem), and helping run a small business. Yeah, I’d say that’s not a lot of experience. If she had more experience, she would have chewed up Couric and the other leftist media types. She didn’t. Larger states, more complex scenarios, more direct involvement in varied executive roles would have necessarily made her more decisive, a better communicator, and forced her to have her positions more thought out. She’s just not there yet.

I appreciate a debate. I hope someone we can all agree is a better choice than Sarah comes along (and soon). We can all go and vote this person into the presidency and feel great about it as conservatives.

It's not as if she was leaving the governorship to an incapable person or an enemy of the people. Is the new person screwing everything up already?

A willingness to give up coercive power such as a political seat is a virtue the lack of which is partly the reason for this nations' troubles. Clinging to power is the one thing a corrupt person or a compromised person will never do of their own free will, and that is why we so seldom see it and see arrogance instead. There is an unfortunate mindset in this country that power is the objective and that mindset is destroying us.

If Bob Dole and McCain had known when to fight and when to forget their quest for power in exchange for the less prestigious power of the pen in political debate this nation might never have had to suffer through two communist presidents and congresses full of people so habituated to the Beltway and the northeast that they have lost touch with reality and indeed, any pretense of sanity. They have come to believe that they personally are essential and nothing could be further from the truth.

However, Palin supporters can’t selectively praise her for ‘standing up to Obama and the liberal elite’ and say she quit her job because she was no longer able to do it with all the attention she was getting.

Again, it's either stay in office and be ruined financially and politically, or step aside and fight the enemies on your terms. Which route would you have chosen?

Either she is tough enough to take the heat and do her job or she’s not.

Look, it's not about being "tough". It's about representing the people and protecting her state. You have to retreat and regroup sometimes. She lost a battle but she sure as Hell isn't going to lose the war. That's what happened here.

You believe voters would have preferred her to step aside.

Yes. Alaskans neither cared for Sarah's popularity nor their state being under a microscope after she was selected VP. They just wanted to be left alone. It was clear that Sarah had crossed into rock-star status and was too big for her britches in Alaska. So she had to be destroyed, she saw that and let someone else run the state so she can fight back against her enemies.

Had she defeated a few of these ethics probes, they would have subsided.

She defeated ALL but one of them, whereas that one was the equivalent of pleading no-contest, but the bogus charges just kept coming. State law provided no recourse for her, and she had no help from the legislature. Sarah had to fight all of these charges on her own, USING HER OWN TIME AND MONEY.

However, you assume she would have been clinging to power, broke, gasping for air. Why such desperation? Even the moonbats give up after a while.

That's exactly what would have happened had she stayed in office. She would have been financially and politically destroyed, and I'm sure the people "outraged" that she quit would've set up a fund (oh wait, that very fund was illegal too) and still supported her for POTUS. Not.

But no, she quit. I don’t think quitting is an option at the presidential level.

President and Governor are two separate things. There are not going to be moonbats filing ethics charges against her if she's President.