I was not and do not parrot the press, my opinion was mine and mine alone. Except for hearing on the news that she had quit I don't remember any discussion in the press about her decision.
Since I formed “my” opinion I discovered that I was far from being alone in my feelings of disappointment. She quit, she walked out on a job that she had been elected to do by a majority of the citizens of Alaska.
You can walk out on anything, a marriage, a business deal, a career but you will have to suffer the consequences.
You didn’t answer the question. But ya dance real purty.
Yes, and in this case, the consequences had she stayed would have been worse. She'd have the same folks fretting about her abilities, and on top of it, she and her family would be totally bankrupt because the (at that time) $600,000 or so in costs to fight frivolous ethics charges had to come out of her own pocket, and would have been who knows how much bigger had she not stepped aside.
So by now, instead of being a "quitter," she'd be a politician so flaky that she had to declare personal bankruptcy! At least, that's the way people who today call her a "quitter" would see it.
So instead of you arguing, "If she couldn't handle it in Alaska, why should I think she could handle it in the White House?", you'd be arguing, "If she couldn't avoid declaring personal bankruptcy, why should I think she could handle the economy as U.S. President?"
The Democrats who deliberately assaulted her with the ethics charges knew perfectly well that either way, people like you would find something to hold against Palin. It's why they did it. And it's why the law has since been rewritten to prevent it from happening again.
That doesn't mean that they won't be viewed as a quitter. Palin quit her job and went on reality TV. No amount of spin is going to change that fact, and the rabid Palinbots should learn that every single FReeper that I've met would support Palin over Obama in a general election. We're not the people they should be targeting, are we?