Oh, puh-LEEZE. What that tells me is that I don't need to bother to finish reading your post. She resigned for TWO very good reasons: 1) to avoid being forced into personal bankrupty and 2) to avoid seeing her Administration wasting man-hours and tax dollars responding to a strategic attack of frivolous lawsuits whose SOLE PURPOSE was to drive her to personal bankruptcy (she wasn't allowed to use a defense fund set up by her supporters) and to paralyze her Administration by making it expend so much energy on required responses to the ridiculous lawsuits on such things as what logo she was wearing on a t-shirt, or holding up a fish during a speech.
The enemies that launched that below-the-belt attack KNEW THAT FOLKS LIKE YOU would perceive Palin badly no matter what she'd done -- if she'd NOT resigned, you'd be right here criticizing her for being so inept that she had to declare personal bankruptcy and for costing her state so much money dealing with lawsuits filed against her -- you'd be saying she should have gracefully bowed out (aka, "quit") rather than use the dime and time of Alaskan taxpayers to defend her political ego.
YOU have been manipulated, and would have been regardless of what Palin had done.
You begin by saying you didn’t read my whole post, so your response is meaningless. You’ve simply inventing my position as you imagine it, and then attacking that position. That’s that kind of response I expect from blind followers—you don’t like what I posted and claim you didn’t even read it, yet you ‘answered’ it, because all those who do not worship the object of veneration are evil and must be shouted down.
Sorry, I think for myself and march in lockstep behind no political figure, even one I like, like Palin.
I don’t like quitters. Palin’s two big resume items are positions from which she’s quit. You can rationalize it all you like, something you wouldn’t do were she a democrat.
Unlike those who worship Palin, I don’t alter my standards and ethics to accommodate someone I ‘like’.
Simply put:
Her resume simply doesn’t tell me she is prepared for the job. And in two cases, the same two cases her boosters claim make her perfect for the job—she quit.
And now, she seems to be prepping to enter the race late, after the others have ‘bloodied’ each other. Huh, when previous potential candidates did that sort of thing we always criticized that attitude as being a sign the person wants to be coronated, and didn’t want to work for the job.
Unlike you, I answer directly what you’ve brought up, and I ask this:
You’ve explained that Palin left the governorship because of the liberal attacks and lawsuits—which is true as far as I can see. So, do you think those won’t happen when she’s president?
YOUR WORDS: “to avoid seeing her Administration wasting man-hours and tax dollars responding to a strategic attack of frivolous lawsuits whose SOLE PURPOSE was to drive her to personal bankruptcy (she wasn’t allowed to use a defense fund set up by her supporters) and to paralyze her Administration by making it expend so much energy on required responses to the ridiculous lawsuits...”
So these SAME liberal scum (we can agree on that) who couldn’t stand her while she was governor of Alaska are just going to watch her as president and do nothing? NO efforts to “paralyze her Administration by making it expend energy”? What should she do then—quit? Or deal with those attacks, which will be all over the media? Is the governorship of Alaska important enough that she had to quit to stop the distractions, yet the presidency of the US ISN’T?
And we see she has quit twice, whether justified or not, and now she’s waiting as long as possible to enter this race. The message that sends to me is that this is a person who leaves early and enters late, and you bots can spin it all you like, what does that say about someone’s ability to stick it out through the long, boring, tough job of the presidency?
All of this while she is bringing up a family—something that used to be so important around here. Now I guess the ‘conservative’ position is that the job of presidency is something a person can do on the side while attending to what we used to agree was the primary job of a mother—bringing up her kids.
I like Palin’s positions, which is why I’m having such a tough time deciding if I still support her, because beyond those positions, which I believe SHE believes, she doesn’t seem qualified.
You can spin all you like, but you seem to forget that if there are even a few conservatives asking these questions, there will be countless non-conservatives she needs to attract who won’t be paying attention to your nuanced responses.