Sarah Palin resigning as Governor, Scandal to come?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/03/palin/index.html

Palin added in a statement that she was "determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path. ... Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional lame duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose."

I can understand her not running for reelection in 2010 and starting her presidential campaign in January 2011. But quitting with a year and a half left in her term? This makes her look ridiculous.

Politicians do holiday weekend news dumps when they want the minimum news coverage possible. Damn I hope there's a hilarious sex scandal about to break.

Lesbian lover ftw

This is a very odd move. I don't understand it, either, unless there's more to the story that has yet to be revealed.

However, the Republican Party will be better off in the long run without Sarah Palin. If this is foreshadowing the end of her relevance, I won't be disappointed.

Republicans need a leader who appeals to the common man right now, not a polarizer.

YOU SOUND LIKE ONE OF THOSE COLIN POWELL/TOM RIDGE R.I.N.O.'S THAT JUST WANTS TO GET ALONG WITH THE LANGUISHING LEFT.



"REPUBLICANS" NEED A LEADER NOT SOME PANSY MODERATE. (SEE REAGAN CIRCA 1980.) PALIN DID THIS PERFECTLY, THE MEDIA IS ALL AWAY ON VACATION AND/OR SUCKING OBAMA'S NUTS. SHE WILL KICK HIS ASS IN 2012 AFTER THE ECONOMY COMPLETELY TANKS.

Any prominent Repub is going to become a "polarizer" thanks to MSM. As a conservative I despised McCain. And he was every liberals favorite Repub before he became the nominee. The moment he got the nomination, however, he became a "dangerous, extreme right-winger". El-Oh-fucking-El.

i hope her resignation has nothing to due with health issues or personal, family problems...

i like her as a personality although i do not agree with her politics...

it's a shame so many folks bashed her although many of those same folks complain about a sameness amongst politicians...

The early word is that she's quitting because she doesn't like the evil Liberal media attacking her and her family. This is a woman who 8 months ago wanted to be Vice President, a job that involves media scrutiny 10 times what she's getting now. And up until today, everyone assumed she wanted to be President, a job with 100 times as much scrutiny.

She's also implies that she doesn't want the state of Alaska to continue to have to spend money on investigations into her ethics violations. "Over the last nine months I've been the subject of all sorts of frivolous accusations...The state has wasted millions of your dollars" The last person to use that excuse was Nixon.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politic.../palin_resigns/

According to Think Progress, the spectacularly wrong Palin supporter Bill Kristol phoned into Fox News to say: “If I had to guess, we just saw the opening statement of the 2012 campaign.” Meanwhile, on MSNBC Andrea Mitchell says she's hearing from GOP sources Palin is out of politics "for good."

We now see how tough and tenacious that pit bull hockey mom Sarahcuda really is. When things got tough, she grabbed her bat and her ball and walked home.

How old are you? The fictional Reagan super-conservative in your head is nothing like the actual Ronald Reagan. Reagan's huge political accomplishment was uniting big business conservatives, social/religious conservatives, and moderates (aka "Reagan Democrats") into a coalition....a coalition that has completely fallen apart due to people like Sarah Palin.

Your plan is a good recipe for never winning a Democratic election ever again.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/pa...-springs-l.html

Political Party's SUCK!!!!!

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The best thing Palin did was give Tina Fey another reason to be on TV. Gawd she is so hot...

Anyway fuck the GOP they're dead and gone. The Independant Conservative movement will replace them shortly. By 2016 you won't even remember the term "republican" lol.

Sarah Palin has resigned and taken responsibility for NBC's screwed up Wimbledon coverage this week.

Agree 100% with Druff. I am a Repub but this is an odd move to say the least. She is finished. The only possible thing is maybe she is angling for a radio show.

Its been a harsh week for Repubs to be sure........

She represents Alaska I mean:

For the record, I was never a McCain fan, and I don't really think we need a moderate Republican leader. Mitt Romney tried too hard to be a moderate during the 2008 campaign, and it lost him the primary. People saw him as a flip-flopper who didn't stand for anything.

What the Republicans need is a good conservative who is articulate and charismatic. This person must have the ability to demonstrate to the average American what benefits the Republican party can bring to them. Reagan did this extremely well. No Republican candidate has been particularly good at doing this since then. Both Bushes won thanks to their weak opponents in all three elections.

As evidenced by Bush winning in 2004 despite sinking popularity, it is pretty hard to unseat a President after one term. If the Republicans have any hope of taking the White House back before 2016, they're going to need a pretty damn good candidate to do it. This candidate will need to appeal to the majority of Americans -- not just the conservaitve base.

The first task for the Republican Party is to clean up its image. They simply can't allow themselves to continue to be seen as the party of rich fat cats and fanatical Christians. There are many people out there -- including a lot in the center politically -- who don't particularly like Obama and the Democrats, and want a reason to vote the other way. We need to give them that reason.

Definitely makes your top 5 "Dumbest things I said on NWP" list.

You have discounted Romney way too quick. He is a fiscal conservative and its a known fact he has never slept with anyone but his wife. If the economy continues to tank he will be a huge force in 2012. In fact, I think he is the favorite right now.

The Republicans are in very bad shape simply because of current and future demographics. I try to stay away from hyperbole, but I can't see them winning the general election in a long, long time. It is going to take them abandoning long held sacred cows like being pro-life, anti gay marriage stance, immigration issues, and even if they did that, they lose the South and still lose anyway.

Just crunching numbers with the rate the Hispanic/ and AA populace has children, the definitely more liberal views of under 30's and increase in atheism( they may become more economically conservative with age, but few change positions on social policy), I don't see how they do it mathematically. The house and senate will probably flip flop at times, but I don't see how the Republicans win the general barring almost total economic collapse and 30% unemployment.

They turned a blind eye to immigration reform while in power to cozy up to big business and keep wages low. That is going to haunt them for generations as they didn't gain anything politically in the form of votes and allowed the genie out of the bottle and I don't think they can recover. Just looking at census trends which Obama certainly isn't going to attempt to remedy given they vote 90/10 Dem for AA and 75/25 Dem for Hispanics, it's going to eventually take a Repub candidate that garners 85% of the white vote to win. That's almost impossible, like trying to win playing 7-2 out of position over 300,000 hands.

That fucker is going to have to be really charismatic.

I hope Palin sticks around, maybe the Senate seat coming up next year.... bottom line, she drives the liberals completely berserk and its very entertaining watching them tilt over her.

How could she possibly run for public office after this?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/...-down%E2%80%99/

From Palin's spokesperson-

"she found…resistance, and she found as she looked up more and more that state time and resources were being just wasted with just frivolous ethics complaints coming in, and FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests and lawsuits — but to an extraordinary extent, and from literally those doing opposition research," spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux on The Situation Room Friday. "And so she said really, is this good for Alaska? Is this what a governor is supposed to do, sit and watch money going down the drain?"

"I know you want to put that sort of negative word in there, but it's not a 'liability' — it's that she has a vision for the state…the best way and the best place to effect change at this point is outside her role as governor, because as governor people are just focused on bringing her down rather than building up the state, and that's not who she is."

Holy shit. That's her actual reason for quitting. Because people were filing ethics complaints against her? You know what's a good way to have fewer ethics complaints filed against you? By not blatantly violating ethics guidelines. Hillary Clinton has had an industry built up around scrutinizing everything she's done in the past 17 years. Do you think people have filed a couple frivolous ethics complaints against Hillary Clinton?

And let's analyze the official statement "...she has a vision for the state…the best way and the best place to effect change at this point is outside her role as governor". What job does Sarah Palin think she can get that would give her more influence implementing her vision for the state of Alaska than the Governor and chief executive of the state of Alaska? That's completely insane. There is nothing concrete she can do for a 2012 presidential run until January 2011, exactly when her term was up.

It's possible that Sarah Palin just quit her job and threw away her political career from being on tilt due to a mean Vanity Fair article.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feature...rah-palin200908
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/200...alin/index.html
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/200...ight/index.html
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/200...midt/index.html