Palin resigns as Alaska governor; keeps plans secret

Saturday 04th July, 11:03 AM JST

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SushiSake3 at 09:41 AM JST - 5th July

I read she could be pregnant.

But she is still quitting her job and abandoning her state.

Not a good start if she wants to further divide America by running for president.
JoeBigs at 10:02 AM JST - 5th July

This is so bloody funny, the far right again and I do mean again, circles the wagon in an attempt to save the party.

I find it so funny that the far right here is so desperate to save it image that they will not question why someone can not complete a full term.

Then the far right dances around the obvious and tries to change the entire topic!LOL

We have the following far right dancers attempting to hide the elephant under the table;

Badsey at 09:15 AM JST - 5th July Show me a true vintage Obama birth certificate and not the fake computer print-out. -I have not seen it. How about some College grades?

Classic conspiracy theorist that has been disproven too many times to count. But keep trying to hide that elephant...LOL Bold try there, but that elephant is still in plain sight.....LOL

DickMorris at 07:34 AM JST - 5th July Great woman with adequate skills to become a successfull 2 term president. After the Obama debacle the Dems will be unelectable for decades.I'm really looking forward to her in power in 4 years time. You betcha!

Here is a great one, he claims she has the skills to be a 2 term President. But what he fails to comment on is that she could not be a one term Governor.LOL Another classic dance step from the far right. But I can still see that pesky elephant....LOL

inkjet at 07:33 AM JST - 5th July i understand why people may be opposed to plain. honestly i know very little about her, i'm waiting until we get closer to an election. why waste energy on her now? but i am really disturbed by the attack politics, the politics of personal destruction. it's really ugly.

Here inkjet tries to claim that the personal attacks are unwarranted because she is deserves better.

But wait, she quit her post as governor with almost 2 years to go! That shows her true character and it is sad. She quit as Alaska's CIC and her reason has been because she has a hirer calling?LOL

Darn it, there is that darned elephants behind still sticking out!LOL

mtimjones at 03:25 AM JST - 5th July Gotta love the liberals. What exactly did Sarah Palin do to the liberals, other than challenge them? Misogynists all...

Here an attempt is made by mtimjones that reason the left attacks her is that they have a hatred of women....LOL Nice, try to make into a,"they have a problem with strong women" rather than the obvious problem with her character.LOL

Not the only one trying to use gender as a defense but I thought this was the funniest.

Darn it, I can still see that elephant!LOL

Dubya at 01:17 AM JST - 5th July Good for Sarah. you are a REAL conservative

I edited out all the propaganda and got to what he wanted to say.

Now here our dear friend Dubya is calling her move, a good move for her. Then he claims she is a REAL conservative. But what he fails to even address is the fact that she quit two years into her term. WTFO....LOL

Darn it, you guys tried to hide that elephant but everyone can still see it...LOL

You guys really are in desperation when you fall on your swords trying to defend people who can not handle the job. In the real world if a person resigns their position. They are saying,"I can not do the job" especially a job as CIC of any post.

Palin stepped down from her job and you guys can not ask the simplest question,"why". All you can do is say,"Way to go!"LOL.......

I am sorry but her actions are not that bright, she really should have thought of the people of Alaska and finished out her term. The people that voted for her expected her to finish what she started.

When anyone gives their vote to a person, they are saying that they believe what the person promised, and she broke her promise. There is no excuse for breaking a promise. That shows her true character and it is a very sad one..........

If you far right wingers are putting your hopes on a person like this. Then the far right wing party will again lose. Then maybe, just maybe the Republican party will shed that far right Christian control that has brought it to this place.

So I for one hope that you guys do make her your candidate, then the reign of that faction will die!
goodDonkey at 10:12 AM JST - 5th July

JoeBigs said:

So I for one hope that you guys do make her your candidate, then the reign of that faction will die!

That would make her the Irrelephant opposing the Donkey.
Sarge at 10:23 AM JST - 5th July

The only question is who will be President Palin's VP? I bet it won't be someone like the current VP who wears combat boots with a business suit, heh heh.
Taka313 at 10:25 AM JST - 5th July

hat would make her the Irrelephant

An effervescing elephant!

Taka
Badsey at 10:30 AM JST - 5th July

With Pelosi (dumb as a rock) as speaker of the house, I believe Palin thought she had a stone throws chance of winning President or VP.

If the Federal Reserve was public (part of Gov) you may have a spending arguement. -But it is a private entity -We are only making the (bailed-out, over-extended) bankers richer =Seems to me they have enough money to bet on oil futures once again?

Palin is not one of the elites (CFR, Bilderberg, TriLateral) =Until she is she has almost a zero chance at President. =The bankers that control the Federal Reserve and hold America as hostage won't allow it.
goodDonkey at 10:54 AM JST - 5th July

sarge said:

The only question is who will be President Palin's VP?

Come on sarge, give Republicans credit. She will not make it past early April if she is not immediately trounced in the primaries. Even Republicans are intelligent enough to watch Palin in a debate and see the senior members of the party decimate Sarah. sarge will be singing a different tune in the late winter of 2012 (maybe early winter - if he has sense enough to come around after the fat lady sings). She better hold on to the money she makes in the next two years hawking her book and doing the lecture scene. Since she abandoned Alaska it will truly be the final curtain for Palin. Although She will still be able to make money on the lecture tour. Booooiiiing!!! If you know what I mean.
zurcronium at 12:59 PM JST - 5th July

Joe the Plumber for Failin Palins VP. They are a perfect match.
Klein2 at 01:44 PM JST - 5th July

Just to set a few records straight, why can't a woman be a misogynist? Every woman in my immediate family is an educated professional. Not one could even consider as an appropriate candidate for VP. More to the point, they considered that anyone who supports forced childbirth for pregnant women as wrong and counter to women's rights. So. Rather than opposing Mrs. Palin because she is a woman, which you think is misogynistic, indeed she was opposed in my family because she is a misogynist. Please consider that. And someone mentioned that the Republican leaders are taking flight. It is true. Newt seems to be the only high profile Republican remaining, and he is no giant. This just makes it all the more likely that we will see some kind of David Duke character popping up in 2012. How many Republicans would vote for David Duke today? Probably quite a few. OK. Some people will laugh at that, but look at how the party has transformed itself from Reagan, when it truly was populist. Christian interests narrowed it further, then what I could characterize as xenophobia alienated a lot of minorities from the party. Realizing that McCain and Palin and Sanford and Ensign were moderates of that party, quite seriously, what is left? Also realize that the military includes few liberals, and what we are witnessing is the US being transformed into a banana republic. Liberal government curbed by a constant threat from a hypercharged fundamentalist, militarist right. Winner-take-all-ism and a collapse of the center. It is all assuming a familiar pattern that threatens to Godwin this thread if I spell it out, but you can probably fill in the blanks.
Klein2 at 01:46 PM JST - 5th July

Why is that all one paragraph? I need two carriage returns? Oh well. Sorry everyone. I will try to improve.
BeaverCleaver at 02:47 PM JST - 5th July

Molenir-"For years, you've had nothing to say except Hate Bush, Hate America, Hate Bush."

If you want a sincere answer to your questions and assertions, might I suggest dropping the silliness while presenting them? I cannot say who you are talking to, but I seriously doubt anyone was saying to hate America.

"Well the Hate Palin crowd is still going strong."

This is true and sad. Some people don't know when to let go.

" Whats worse? That shes a woman and conservative? Or that shes a conservative woman thats successful. I really think the reason you hate her so much, must be that you people are so threatened by her."

There is some truth in that, and certainly some people are thinking like this 100 percent. In some ways, she represents setting the bar too high. I certainly don't want the country trying to run by her standards, or at least the ones we see, because I know that most Americans on both sides of the fence can't live up to it. For example, the anti-abortion stance. Its great when a woman can have so many kids, even one with down syndrome, and get by. But most people could not handle it, sad to say, and forcing them to anyway would be a mistake. Empty the orphanages. Then talk about scaling back abortion, at least.

Also, I cannot help but feel a sneaking suspicion that there is more to Palin than what we are seeing and being told. Its not that I hate her, I just don't trust her. I cannot get a clear picture of what she believes and represents. Remember, this the woman who once said ""How could I be the team mom if I was a U.S. Senator?" She is pro-gun but has supported a gun control bill (don't know the details) She is anti-gay marriage but vetoed a bill to ban it (citing unconstitutionality). Those last two, I like her actions, but not her stated stance. It somewhat bewildering, adds to the feeling of "do as I say, not as I do" type aura. She seems unpredicatable. (Maybe that also explains feelings toward Obama).

"She destroys your worldview, that you must be a loon to be a successful woman."

Few Americans of any political bend think that way about successful women these days. Come on! But Palin does threaten many a worldview, and that view is that a woman can be true to conservative principles and succeed and be happy. Remember, it was conservatives who held longest to the idea that women basically belonged in the kitchen. Conservatives say they changed, but have they really? Suspicions linger.

And her pregnant teenage daughter does not help her in any case. It looks like she really messed up there, at least in teaching of her kids. Abstinence only conservatives cannot support her because she seems to have failed to teach abstinence. (Yet they supported her!) Safe sex liberals cannot support her because she seems to have failed to teach safe sex.

But I think what really gets Palin turned into a punching bag is not so much the threat to worldviews, but just that she has come to be a symbol representing all conservatives. Her direct and indirect dublicity got her into that position as much as the issues around her have mass appeal, and now she just seems like the easiest elephant to kick. What is amazing is how many ways she does not represent conservatives, yet conservatives hold her up and liberals take pot shots at her.
Klein2 at 04:21 PM JST - 5th July

"In some ways, she represents setting the bar too high"

I strongly differ on this point. My problem with the Republican party is setting the bar too low, and then lower. They have reached the bottom of the barrel of moderates. Remember when Gingrich was considered the Republican firebrand? He is about as moderate as they get nowadays, seriously. Does this bother anyone?

But Palin is still, by all accounts, the front runner of the Republican party. My deleted post was making the point that her skills compare unfavorably to those of some leaders of the lunatic fringe who could step up to leadership as conservative Republicans tomorrow.

They can pass the loyalty test, too. Some lunatics' platforms must look increasingly attractive to the Republicans posting what I read every day in various blogs: killing doctors, condemning homosexuals, lynching public figures based on race and ethnicity, talking about Jewish media, Bilderbergs, killing Mexican immigrants, etc. In some places on the internet, Michael Jackson got a post-mortem lynching the other day, replete with racist epithets. Who can ignore that? The big lies are getting shouted louder and louder. What was the big lie above? Obama is personally responsible for a 33 trillion debt or something? Did voters write that nonsense? YES!! Did they identify themselves as loyal Republicans? YES!!

All of that might not play well on JT, but it is a huge hit in the midwest and south these days. And it will get worse. As the Republican party throws open its doors to find new blood and new energy, I wonder who will come walking in.
BeaverCleaver at 10:43 PM JST - 5th July

Beaver-In some ways, she represents setting the bar too high"

Klein2-"I strongly differ on this point."

You can disagree as strongly as you like. But I did say "some ways" didn't I? In other ways, yes, she is setting the bar low. But then, she is not exactly being viewed fairly. Take the Bridge to Nowhere for example. She could do no right with regard to that the way some people are. If she never supported the bridge, she would be called anti-development. As it is, people have to use a ferry to get to the airport near Ketchikan. Pretty silly really. And its not like overly expensive projects don't go unnoticed all the time. If she stuck to supporting the bridge, which became a political flashpoint more by chance than anything else (granted it was too expensive, but like say, this happens everyday. Hurrican Katrina actually played a role in getting the funding rethought), then she would be branded a theif and said to be in the pockets of big business. She drops her support, and she did, and she got the hell we all know she gets for it.

Her only real mistake as far as I can see is when she told everybody she canceled the bridge project, which was true. The problem was she neglected to tell everybody she initially supported the bridge. Holding that against her is like belly aching that she did commit political suicide by screaming "I am a flip-flopper". What do people expect? And this comes from somone who is no fan of Palin.

The bridge remains a good idea, its just too darned expensive.
knews at 12:19 AM JST - 9th July

If Palin ever gets anywhere close to the White House again in the future, that would be the beginning of the end of the world.
TokyoHustla at 10:22 AM JST - 10th July

Palin 2012!

Let's hope so. She's destroying the Republican party.