The left should be afraid, very afraid! Bring it Sarah!

Personally, I prefer Palin/Thompson 2012(Fred as VP, Jeri as the new head of the RNC). Having said that, there's nothing tying her to 2012 yet, and the Left can't shape the argument any more, that she's tied to the traditional 4-year election cycle. She can do whatever she wants. I'm pretty sure her next ideas will be what a lot of people want to hear.
What she really needs is a solid, savvy team to help her get her message out. I think she'll relocate to the lower 48 in anticipation of that, and as long as she doesn't have the millstone of a McCain campaign dragging her down, the sky is the limit.

Exactly right. We've become used to politicians not sticking to their principles, that when one does we begin to make excuses and look for scandals in the shadows. Great move by Sarah! As someone whom obviously saw the tremendous lack of leadership on the right she chose to help her country as well as her state over herself. Now her state can have a full time executor without the cumbersome and baseless legal issues, and she can concentrate on bringing conservatism back to DC.

I agree. How can you seek relevance when you quit the only job that made you relevant? If Bill Clinton had resigned as governor of Arkansas would we have ever heard from him again? Nobody quits a governorship and wins higher office. Maybe she'll remain active but only as a speaker or conservative opinion maker. Her political career is finished. I think the strain of fending off these frivolous complaints was what buried her. It's a shame really. Now the liberal MSNBC crowd knows that their petty harassment and attacks on her and her children succeeded. This is the first successful political lynching by Democrats since Robert Bork.

"Wow. I always thought Palin fans were delusional, but this leaps right off that cliff into self-parody. Why would any sane person ever vote for her for any office?"
Those "delusional" Palin fans did more for McCain's campaign than McCain ever did. If Palin versus the libbies is a Star Wars analogy, Palin and McCain were the political equivalent of "A Star is Born," because toward the end of the campaign far more people were going to listen to her speak than McCain.
As for being delusional, the ill-informed idiots who voted for ol' Big Ears Obama are delusional if they still think he is going to do anything to really help them.

Hmmmm. Are you deluded as to what Sarah Palin did, or what you want her to do?

The ethics junk is over. The need for Sarah to stay in Alaska is over. She is needed elsewhere. Now as to a future?

She is going to be campaigning for fellow candidates. Kinda interesting that she will be owed a lot by the time the Campaign for president in 2012 comes around.

As it is, she is a draw. They interrupt important broadcasts because she is talking. Speculation is through the roof now.

If I was a liberal, I would be planning new ways of trying to undo her popularity. As a conservative, I am laughing at how the left gets all in a twitter when she even quietly goes to the ballpark with her daughter.

She scares the bejesus out of liberals because of who she is.

The people who adore her are in the minority. The people who see through her baloney are in the majority. She does not have the intellectual ability to lead this nation, let alone to be the commander-in-chief of our military. It will never happen. This article is crap. And you people accuse liberals of living in never never land ! ! !

She probably quit because serving the people of Alaska was interfering with her avenue to the big bucks, like spending time on her book deal, and being paid for speaking engagements.

Odd they didn't ask her that when she ran for governor. IIRC, she did quit a job in the Alaska State Government at that point.

Ah yes, found it. She chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and resigned in protest in January 2004.

Oops. Someone's a wee bit too caught up in the caricature to remember these things. Just ignore it and continue preaching teh Narrative.

And Obama has the abilities you mention?! HAR DE HAR.

It's not like she ever had to worry about small villages being flooded or volcanoes errupting with downtown Anchorage in its sights. Something Bambi never had to worry about while campaigning 24/7 from his Senate seat. Governors are full-time jobs. She's been inundated with invitations to raise money for groups near and dear to heart but she's lucky if she can make two a year. It wouldn't surprise me if she wants to work with the Kennedy family for a year or so with the Special Olympics projects/fundraising. It wouldn't surprise me if she wants to use her SarahPac funds to campaign the lights out for the 2010 candidates she truly believes in. She has the ability to turn both the DNC AND RNC upside down. No one else has that raw power she has right now to do that. Whatever she decides to do next, you can guarantee that Rahm Emmauel/Axelrod will be the first to be concerned about it. And Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan will just bitch about it.

Take off the GOP blinders. Sarah Palin was/is never going to win a national election. Taking away the job that gave her the only experience a very inexperience candidate had, isn't going to do her any favors either. Unless she's planning on studying History or Geography at Wasilla Community College, this is a bad move.

When I first heard of her resigning I was like NOOOOOOO but now that I think about it she is crazy like a hedge hog. First off I should preface this with the story, the Fox knows many things, the Hedge Hog knows one BIG THING. Sara has something up her sleeve and its a big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. I believe the post is correct in saying that now she is unbound from the bs that the leftist scum suckers have put her and Alaska through so she can go after the gold her way. And also, she will be what amounts to a private person so who unto any idiot who decides to libel her or her family. This is just a good way for her to concentrate on several fronts. Her book will be a total smash hit to be sure and she can raise money for her campaign and others as well. This could be a really smart, gutsy move.

To every liberal who has posted a comment:
With unemployment at its worst point since Carter was in office (and inching ever closer to 10 percent after Obama said it would go higher than 8.4), and people like Colin Powell, a Republican who voted for Obama, saying they have concerns about his agenda, I wouldn't be as confident as you all are trying to sound. If the Misery Index shows up again before 2012, change is indeed going to happen whether Palin is a candidate or not. Personally, I hope she is.

BREAKING NEWS….BREAKINGS NEWS…this just played on CNN and MSNBC and all the BEDMATE MEDIA. They just announced why Sarah resigned. She wants to get more qualified to run for President. She is becoming a community organizers, joinning ACORN, Joiing the Chicago Communist Party, Joining Jeremiah Wright's Church, Traveling to Indonesia, Pakistan and finally to Kenya to become a Kenyan Citizen.

She is excited about thid next endeavor in her life and hopes it will pay off in 2012. Also with this trainning she knows the Media will LOVE HER.

LIBS FEAR TO HEAR SARAH the TERROR. They pee themselves like rabbid puppy dogs.

Leading the Revolution!

Presidents who didn't go to college:
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Zachery Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Abraham Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Harry S. Truman

Won't the governor's salary just get paid to the replacement? I'm having a tough time following you here. This doesn't seem like it will save the state a dime.

Then color me a proud minority.

1964 all over again…only worse.

Great minds think alike; this is my post published at July 3, 2009 at 10:51 pm.

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/if-yo...

It is my contention that it is the newly-energized Tea Party activists that will pick up the “light saber of liberty” and fight the “dark side” of oppressive government control. In other words,the concept of citizen politician (rather in keeping with the vision of our founders), will be carried on by regular people who have become involved with the process only recently. In that sense, the left’s triumph is Phyrric at best. Will we win in 2010? You bettcha!

Finally! A conservative leader that the voters can rally around. Let the rest of them (Huckabee, Romney,etc.) shy away from the national spotlight. Sarah has the guts to stand up to the left wing haters and put them in their places.

Barbarism has its virtues: “Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.” — Teddy Roosevelt.

Barbarism would be preferable to the smiley-face fascism of the American left, or the hard fascism of South America under Chavez. But even if it would be an exercise in futility, I won't give up on our Republic. I'd never be able to look at a portrait of any of the founders or of any of Western Civilisation's great scrappers and champions, without hanging my head in shame.

+1 cloudbuster ( sorry I can't quite "smiley face" about it)

"Personally, I was unaware of the urgent moral imperative of serving out one’s full term as governor…"

Priceless. Really.

To borrow another show business analogy…when it comes to Sarah Palin, I am like Agent Scully on "The X-Files": I want to believe.

I am impressed with her charisma, determination, and personal honesty, and I want to believe she has the judgement and knowledge to back that charisma. (I couldn't care less that she does not come from the GOP Beltway elite that produced fools like the Obama-endorsing Christopher Buckley.)

As of July 2, though, I was still not convinved she was ready to be POTUS. Her resignation announcement does nothing to make my mind up one way or the other. I believe she plans to run for POTUS in 2012; if so I will see how she does in the heat of the GOP nomination campaign before I commit to her.

If her resignation does in fact mark the end of her political career, then I don't need to worry about her ability to be president.

Right. Let me ask you something…how much of a chance do you think a politician who doesn't want to get re-elected have at accomplishing any of his or her agenda? It's called being a "lame duck" for a reason.

Here's a question for you: Do you think Obama wasted the tax payers money by taking a salary to do the work of a Senator and then spending the whole time planning his presidential campaign? Be honest.

Free Kool-Aid here. If Sarah Palin truly wanted to prove she was presidential, she would have stayed on as governor, not only finished that job, but won re-election and served out a second term. She needs experience — the experience of multiple budgets, multiple fights, multiple election cycles. She needs seasoning. She chose to fold up her tent because she knew she couldn't even win re-election to the governor's mansion. She is an overly ambitious quitter, looking for the easy way out. Her best attributes — her looks — will fade soon, so she has to strike now. But she just comes across as goofy. It has been a great four weeks for someone on the other side of the fence from Palin, Sanford, and Ensign. I'd say Romney is looking pretty good.

Oh, hey wr1, happy dependence day. What are you doing to celebrate dependence, spending the day on your knees praying to your Barry, and your love of government. Well happy dependence day, slave!

LEFTIES and the Bedmate Media NEVER VoTE or SUPPORT a CONSERVATIVE…them hating her makes us love her even more.

I'd never be able to look at a portrait of any of the founders or of any of Western Civilisation's great scrappers and champions, without hanging my head in shame.

I can't even look at them now.

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Found it anyway, and I have to say your gift for flattery is somewhat wanting…

If my life has taught me anything at all, it's that failure is not only an option, but that it is inevitable.

Tolkien called it the Long Defeat. Good must needs summon up all the strength it can in order to prevail for even a little while, whilst evil recuperates almost at will.

When I heard Palin had resigned, like the trolls and useful idiots, my first thought was that there must be a scandal out there. And there still may well be. But it also is possible she or someone in her family has received a serious medical diagnosis that would preclude her from doing her job as governor. Or maybe it's just that she can't afford the frivolous ethics complaints launched against her. Or maybe it's just a mother who can't justify watching her children attacked by political ideologues like Letterman, Couric, Gibson and the DNC. From what she said in her conference, these vipers are now even attacking a Down's Syndrome child. What parent would want to subject his or her 14 year old daughter to the likes of David Letterman? His excuse that he was talking about her 18 year old daughter was even worse — as though four years justifies such vile comments. A comedian? That ridiculous old gap-toothed reprobate hasn't been a comedian for two decades. He's a political operative, just like Couric and Gibson and the rest of the propagandists.

Sarah Palin is the part of the iceberg that is above the water. Lurking below the waterline is what happened to Ted Stevens — ethics complaints filed against him in an effort to deprive him of his Senate seat. Interesting, isn't it, how the case was dropped once he lost. Then there's Al Franken who just stole a Senate seat in MN. Congrats Minnesota, you deserve him. I hope you've seen the picture of him in a diaper — what's in the diaper is what you did to your state. Then there's four years ago when Gregoire (Washington) had the vote recounted until she won – then, miraculously, no more recounts.

What the media did to Sarah Palin is similar to what the Russian Bolsehviks did to the Tsar, his wife, children and servants. Only they used words and character assassination instead of bullets. Perhaps if the Russian Bolsheviks had had a media as compliant as American Lefites have, it wouldn't have been necessary to kill the children.

And then I had an awful sinking feeling.

Sadly, for you, your analysis is dead wrong. Mark my words………this lady is super crafty. She has something up her sleeve, and all you naysayers and lefties will change your tune. I "betcha" Obama's flunkies are shaking in their booties.

JKB………………you hit the nail on the head!!

You've got it right, Kurt. It was a well-timed move, with all the leftie talking horses hienies out to Chappaquiddick for the weekend, leaving only a few wienies here to snivel and snipe and lick their chops over imagined juicy scandals.

The governor's mansion has become a distraction for her, and unlike Clinton she does not need it for a platform. She is already known, and by the way she is known as a person of integrity, not a sleazy sex-crazed demagogue. There are a good 50 million of us out here already who can't wait to vote for her again. And this time she won't get stuck playing second fiddle to a loser. She can run with Romney, in either slot and it will be fine with me.

Someone suggested Huckaby in 012. I say no way, and Palin will not get stuck with him. That likable fool cost us the chance to have a real candidate last time, and his abuse of Romney was unconscionable.

The admin is at it again.

This doesn't seem like it will save the state a dime.

With Sarah gone, the left have lost their motivation for harassing the Alaska state government in court with time-consuming and money-wasting ethics complaints.

Of course, lacking a motivation doesn't decrease a Lefty's enthusiasm for anything, so I'll probably have to concede that one.

I know, believe me.

It would be easy to think the Left underestimates Palin, but I think the rabid anti-Palin response happens because they know on some level that Palin galvanizes the Conservative base. She can go off-the-reservation and still do very well. She has always shaped her career around what's best for her family and the people she's representing- not around what has become politics-as-usual. The fact is, our political system has become nothing more than a machine full of insiders who play the game of partisanship, but really spend most of their time trying to get re-elected. Palin doesn't play the game by the old rules and that freaks people out. But the voting public knows she's the real deal.

"A New Hope" (which is what he said he was betting this was) was the title of the very first "Star Wars" movie. The second trilogy was "The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith."

Okay. Taking me geek hat off now.

I'll remind Sarah to get your o-k the next time she has a big move to make.

Obama in particular should be celebrating this Independence Day with zeal. What other country, but America, would this guy be anything other than a janitor?

No, what I mean is that if that's the GOP ticket, Johnson v. Goldwater will look like a close one by comparison.

Newt's a wonk. He's got (mostly) well-thought out policy positions on you-name-it. Sarah, not so much.

Sarah's got all the charisma in the world. On the other hand, Newt rings in on the likeability scale somewhere near Howard Cosell.

The good news is that Sarah's problem is fixable, or at least it was until: "Ya know, I just don't want to be governor anymore."

Yeah sqt, I am definitely buying Palin's book too. Pelosi has the personality of a dead fish and her book reflects that.

Scott proves once again that the issues of self loathing and snobbishness are alive and well on the left. Thanks Scott. Tell us do you eat oysters everyday for breakfast and have long irrelevant conversations with the same like minded twits in the leftist echo chamber you live in?

Sarah get's my vote for one reason! Drilling and Nuclear Power! She's for both. Without either one of these this country is doomed………..
Newt's an acquired taste, much like me, but he is brilliant.
The ticket most likely to be seen in 2012 is Romney/Palin or Romney/Jindal. After the finacial fiasco our current leader has created we will need someone who actually know's something about the economy and Romney's that someone………..Not a big fan of Mitt but he know's number's and that's what we will need by 2012. Actually we need that now…..

I still prefer Nugent and Palin though.:)

Sarah, Sarah, thank you for the early fireworks! Always ahead of the game. You gave them a holiday weekend to stew, I love it! What ever you do I am all for it. She accomplished four yrs of work in two, she put a stop to the frivolous lawsuits, quitter ha, not a chance. And if there was some kind of scandal don't you think they would of found it by now? I don't know what those troops told her when she went overseas, but I'm thinking they want her to fight the war for them here and soon! She's got the world's attention and I can't wait to see what she's going to do next!

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Jake,

SHAKE OUT OF IT, MAN!!!

If we all had YOUR attitude, we ARE lost. I refuse to just sit back and be "Eyore" about this! Get off your duff, man! Get active! Get the hence to a TEA Party! BE ACTIVE!!!

If we aren't active and come out swinging and fight the impending tyranny, we'll be just like the lefty sheeple: apathetic, morose, angry and deserving of every bad thing we get.

LET'S GO PEOPLE!!! Jake, don't make me show up at your place for a personal one-on-one "motivation" talk. I can be formidable: just ask my husband.

LMAO well put.

From a once republican to a now independent, I say Go Girl!!

She kinda looks like a dead fish, too, with those over-surgically-corrected eyes. Not bashing, just pointing out the obvious.

Hey we've got a Senate seat opening up in Illinois. I'd hate to see it happen to her, but she could learn all the neccesary tools here in Dimocratland. You know, things like how to lie, cheat, steal, pass the buck, throw someone under the bus, be an anti-semite etc…………There's also another bonus. The Democratic Machine will bury everything and anything that hurts her chances of being President………..Just sayin'

This may be the first example in recent decades of a "High Profile" person putting the needs of their children ahead of their own career. I know Letterman was just trying to be funny with his stupid comments. But with movies, magazines, music videos and television it is hard enough to raise our little girls with an ounce of self-esteem, without turning on the T.V. and hearing jokes about yourself being knocked up at a baseball game. And I sincerely hope that at least one liberal on these boards could agree with me that taking shots at a 2 year old baby with Downs Syndrome is simply pathetic. To think that you could be so desperate to take down another person that you would resort to that level, is just amazing to me.
No job title or political office is worth having your family attacked the way hers was. I hope she doesn't return to politics, screw the people, they're not worth it. Atlas is Shrugging!

That might just be too much awesomeness for one Presidential ticket.

I agree with the sentiment, however. It would be nice to not just defeat the left, but decimate them.

Sarah Palin has made a BRILLIANT move! She's going it alone. If there is one thing that's been hammered into her since the moment she became VP nominee, it was that no one was defending her except herself. McCain not only didn't defend her, he stabbed her repeatedly in the back. Her party didn't defend her – they were too busy trying to be demo-lite. And the media were attacking her like sharks. NO ONE defended this woman. She played with the team – and the team stabbed her in the back. So now? Well, Sarah's finally rid herself of that team and she's going it alone. God bless her. And another thing – the reason why the GOP, the Democrats and the media are scared witless of her doing this is because of what else has walked out on the 'team' of old time politicians and corrupt media – the American voters. Sarah has walked away from the same 'team' that's disgusted the American conservatives beyond all redemption. And this means that Sarah is walking in the same direction as the voters. Go Sarah! She's rid herself of the worst and aligned herself with the best.

Bork certainly did NOT leave the SCOTUS hearings with his reputation intact–at least at the public level. The left completely trashed him and the image stuck–so much so that his name became a verb for that type of nasty personal attack (borking).

Don't go by what NR writers are saying to judge the feeling of main street conservatives regarding Palin. Some conservatives may have wanted her to have had more experience, and to have been a bit more polished, but most of those same folks were (and are) enraged at her treatment in the press.

Personally, I wish she hadn't quit as I think it does create a bit of a problem for any future run. Then again, any Republican is going to have a very hard time running against "the first black president." Whether she quit in 2009 will (or should be) less of an issue in 2016, or later, if she does other things to enhance her national presence. For now, I'll keep hoping for "A New Hope."

It's simple – She weighed her priorities and decided to stop the garbage. I doubt she wants to seek any office, as she is now a viable pundit with a record of conservatism and achievement that should serve her well.
Which leads me to the larger question… who in the hell would want to run in this acerbic climate? It would take some superhuman virgin, who lives in a bubble and has no real life experience. He/she could not have run a business, had any sexual relationship or caused any problem, and still they'd hammer them on petty issues and mean spirited innuendoes. The left attack machine is alive and well and ready to cut down anyone that poses a threat, and on this July 4th, I grieve for our nation.

She's not going it alone.

Palin/Malkin 2012!

This is perfect timing for Sarah to get down her and make speeches on her subject – energy- and help us beat back the Cap and Tax bill. Can't wait to attend a Palin event. Since Obama has decided to govern like he's still campaigning, Palin can tour the country in anti-Obama campaign mode too. Although she has too much class and smarts to actually say she's camaigning against Obama, but her view of America is the opposite of Obama/liberal dems so it will just naturally be an anitdote to them.

Also, having just taken a side trip to NRO's The Corner, the NR writers are not unanimously against Palin's move. Victor Davis Hansen and Mark Steyn, Steve Hayward and K-Lo, all seem to think that it's too soon to write Palin off. Naturally, the left will criticize her decision. Ditto the Republicans who also didn't like her from the start (e.g., Steve Schmidt). Okay, let them crow a bit now. Palin is now in a position to learn and grow. She won't be totally out of the public spotlight, but she won't be center stage. That will give her a better chance to prepare for her next run (if she wants one).

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Let her tap the Tea Parties. Plenty of energy there waiting for leadership.

Shouldn't your screen name be BDS?

Exactly, I stood on the soap box at the Tea Party today and my point was that we need to take back our political process. Sarah is an example of how to do it. Main Street needs to invade the Capitol and K Street.

I'm sorry but the adoration people have for her here sounds too much like the brainless Adoration much of America had for Obama. Her Speeches are ranting and unsubstantive, she has no major achievements to her name other than going from Governor to VP candidate in one year.

She is going to get trounced in the Primaries (Dont tell me not to underestimate her) but the Republican Candidate is Going to Own Obama in the Election.

The legislature voted to allow the investigation to go forward but not out of animosity to Palin. It became a very partisan affair after Palin was nominated. Regarding the ethics investigation, here is an excerpt from a New York Times article 11/4/08:

The conclusion by an independent investigator for the state Personnel Board contradicts a determination last month of an inquiry by the Alaska Legislature that Ms. Palin had breached the ethics act by pressing to have the trooper, Michael Wooten, dismissed. That investigation found, however, that the governor was within her right to fire her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan.

Timothy J. Petumenos, an Anchorage lawyer who conducted the investigation for the Personnel Board, concluded, ''There is no probable cause to believe that the governor or any other state official violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with these matters.''

Ms. Palin's lawyer, Thomas V. Van Flein, said in an e-mail statement concerning the Monegan firing, 'The Governor is grateful that this investigation has provided a fair and impartial review of this matter and upholds the Governor's ability to take measures when necessary to ensure that Alaskans have the best possible team working to serve them.''

With regard to the Legislature's investigation by Stephen E. Branchflower, Mr. Van Flein wrote, ''Mr. Petumenos determined that the Branchflower report's findings that Governor Palin abused her power had no legal basis and that Governor Palin did not violate the Ethics Act as Mr. Branchflower incorrectly asserted.''

Yesterday, Sarah Palin detailed her reasons for resigning (prefer that to quitting or giving up) her job as governor.

Before she gave them she named 12 important big Alaskan accomplishments, including the reversal of two Ninth Circus decisions.

She started out giving her reasons for her resignation: “And there is such a need to BUILD up and FIGHT for our state and our country. I choose to FIGHT for it! And I'll work hard for others who still believe in free enterprise and smaller government; strong national security for our country and support for our troops; energy independence; and for those who will protect freedom and equality and LIFE… I'll work for and campaign for those PROUD to be American, and those who are INSPIRED by our ideals and won't deride them.”

This sounds like a run for senator, president or vice president. If it is one of the national offices, it gives her time to introduce herself to many American counties, build a national coalition and raise cash much like Reagan did.

Just fly your Gadsden below your stars and stripes. That's what we did at our Tea Party flag protest today. One is good; both are better!

You’ll notice that the same Republican reporters who set us up with McCain-to-throw-the-2008-election are drilling Palin as weak and a quitter. They are saying that it was too hot in the Alaska kitchen for her and she had to get out. In fact, they know that Palin, quite likely will make it too hot for them and their Bilderberger, New World Order puppet masters.

Palin is of the people, not Ivy League egg heads. She is exactly what our democratic republic was made for.

Two quick off-topic points. Ann Coulter said that Maggie Thatcher is a big fan of Palin and points out that she herself came from a lower class English background. She spent time in elocution classes to improve her ability to convince the upper crust that she could handle the job.

There’s a lot to be said for this. While watching Palin’s speech I saw two grammatical errors that drove me up a wall. She also has emotional flourishes, some of which endear us to her, others that seem a bit off-key. If Palin followed Thatcher’s advice it might go a long way to convincing our Ivy League egg heads that she is the real deal.

I think you may be right. Treasury would be a very good fit for him!
Romney has some definite negatives, but he has great speaking abilities and a very strong presence (I think that's the correct term?) about him. I am looking only as far ahead as the election debates. The average American voter seems to base who they vote for solely on how "pretty" the canidate speaks (that's sad but true) and I think Mitt would come out ahead against Obama. Probably for no other reason than teleprompter's are not allowed.
If Jindal would show a little more confidence when giving speeches and be more forceful when speaking he would get my vote in a nano-second! He's a little weak in this area still.
I've said it here before but it is worth repeating. I have family in New Orlean's and they say Jindal is very well liked across party lines, and, it also appears that he is well on his way to fixing a "very" broken Louisiana
In the end I just want any scrap of the Obama administration gone in 2012…………

Spoken like someone who let the MSM give him most of his Palin information. Are you sure it was actually Palin you were seeing and not Tina Fey?

I'm for Jindal/Romney, though Romney has great exposure and Jindal is still recovering from his disastrous premier on the national stage. Right now, I think Jindal has it all–strong conservative credentials, a successful track record and a long and brilliant paper trail, and he can kill Obama on academic credentials (and all of Jindal's are public and verifiable). Then of course there's that supposed non-issue of Republicans all being white as the driven snow. If Jindal can get his national recognition and show off his charm, I'm for him. If he fails to get enough national attention, I'll go with Romney/Jindal.

That's gonna be messy for them, considering they've got people like Sheryl Crowe wanting them to limit their toilet paper use to 1 square.

Excellent post. Sarah didn't abandon Alaska, as her detractors like to say- She brilliantly handed her successor the governorship without his having a primary challenge- BRILLIANT!!

"There’s plenty of talk out there about her somehow being a “quitter” for only serving as governor for three years,"

If only that were true. In fact, governor Palin only served 2 years and 7 months as governor of the fourth smallest state in America. If Sarah Palin is such a great candidate why is it that her supporters have to resort to out-right lies?

Jake: You're too strong to give up. Don't despair. I just got back from a walk, and even here in Moscow by the Bay, there are flags everywhere. We're down, but we're not out. Think Valley Forge. The Declaration, the Constitution and that glorious flag have been temporarily obscured, but the fog will lift, and America will shake off its lethargy and remember what Ronald Reagan said. It is indeed, still morning in America.

Liberals a only good for a few things,Supporting unions that they need because they are incapable of supporting themselves,telling others how to run there lives and fertilizer.To make a statement based on oh thats right Nothing is just like a Liberal,Goofy.I would trust Sarah Palin over any Liberal that has ever lived.

Liked the article. Sarah is brilliant.

[...] the bullshit thrown at her and her famiily? Or is she gearing up for a run for President in 2012? The latter would seem far fetched, as it doesn’t make a lot of sense (at least to me) to step down from a position that would [...]

Dobama the great community organizer I think not.Let me see in the order of great things accomplished it goes something like this.citizen,town council,mayor,senator,congressmen,governor,community organizer and than president.To hell with the blinders just open your eyes but im sure this wont help you since you need a brain to process the incoming info.

Didnt your mother ever teach you to NEVER under estimate a Women.Then again by your comment you might have been hatched not born.My mother on the other hand raised 6 children on her own.Two went to collage three own their own buisnesses and the youngest is a mother raising three children of her own, all by the way while being crippled by polio. After i gained the wisdom of age and site back and ponder i am totally in awe of my mom.If she could do this I know girls can do anything.You should change your name to lets say Neanderthal or better yet idiot look the word up or have someone do it for you.

What ever she has planned and whether we love her or not, we should not forget the
republicans that are sticking knives in her at this very moment. Including Jon Mc and his loser campaigndroids.

Also, the fact she has apparently not told even her closest "advisers" tells us that she
( rightfully ) trusts no one. Hopes she dumps the "R" from her name.

It amazes me how any decent human being can still support the liberal agenda in light of their hateful and evil attacks on innocent children, such as the Palin children. Do they not see how the democrats in Alaska are wasting their own tax payer's money to hurt Sarah Palin? Do they not see that power is their only agenda and will sell their own state or country out to get that power? I truly find it incredible. Are they brainwashed, stupid, or just without any decency?

Regarding Sarah–Go Sarah, Go!

Palin will be a celebrity on the national stage. By 2012, she will probably have to think twice about accepting a nomination for the Presidency, coming as it would with what will undoubtedly be a significant pay cut…

Note to Democrats: Be afraid. As a loose cannon, Sarah Palin can put you in a world of hurt.

Didn't I just read something about Newt? Didn't he cheat on his wife while she was recovering from cancer?

Isn't that way more evil than what Sanford did? Aren't we calling for the heads of philanderers on pikes in the town square?

Perry – Palin 2012

Didnt your mother ever teach you to NEVER under estimate a Women.Then again by your comment you might have been hatched not born.My mother on the other hand raised 6 children on her own.Two went to collage three own their own buisnesses and the youngest is a mother raising three children of her own

There is no way she could win a primary if she ran for President now. No way. Even Ed Rollins [Republican consultant and in Reagan's White House] said this makes her look like a kook rather than a serious politician. You don't quit before your term is out. If she were serious she would stay to the end as Governor and get things done in her state.

I think she resigned because she can get a whole lot more on the speaking circuit and with a book deal. She will still be a presence out there but 2012 will more than likely be Romney or possibly some unknown who will run in the election for the GOP.

I gonna try this again……..Jindal is someone I really want to see succeed. As I said in my post above people in Louisiana really seem to like him, as do a large number of Republicans and Independents across the country. If he can improve on his public speaking skills I think we will have a winner.
Something I put in my dissapearing post that 's worth repeating is about an Indian (from India) friend of mine. He had never heard of Jindal until I said something about him. My friend , was absolutely "giddy" at the idea of someone of his ethnicity running for President. He also seemed to be very impressed by his politics, which is the most important part.
He now has a Jindal in 2012 bumpersticker on the back of his car, as do his wife and children. It's a huge untapped voting group. No?
more……………………………..

I'll tell you who are delusional: The idiots who ran like lemmings to the ballot box and voted for someone who is shaping up to be the worst president in our history. A person who has a neo-Marxist agenda to turn the USA into a society controlled by a socialist apparatus. This cunning and deplorable would be dictator, marketed to the brain numbed nit wits, didn't have the qualifications to be voted dog catcher let alone president. The Left;s hatred and abuse of Sarah Palin makes me realise just how petrified they are of anyone – let alone a woman – who stands for the things that made this country great. She scares them witless and if it didn't we wouldn;t see the spieful, venom spitting attacks against her.

Ya true, that's a big "negatory" for Newt…IF ANY Liberal/Democrat brings up a "lack of experience" critcizing Republicans HA! LOL! Hussein Obama is the least experienced fraud and mistake to ever take the oath of office…

i'm going to be fascinated with how the palin supporters spin this when the federal indictments come out in the next few weeks against her. perhaps she wasn't aware that it's illegal for public tax dollars to be used to build her own private residence, or to make a deal with "buddies" to do so in exchange for guaranteed contracts for expensive local sporting complexes. this woman is no savior. this woman is no leader. this woman is a snake, just like 99 percent of ALL the politicians in washington. the very possibility that she could get the republican nomination in 2012 shows just how demoralized and irrelevant the republican party truly is. you folks will be lucky to unfilibuster the senate, let along regain any sort of real political or moral control of this country. evolve or perish.

Give your party a name and address Sarah. I can't wait to send money.

>Taking away the job that gave her the only experience a very inexperience candidate had, isn't going to do her any favors either

it worked for whatsisname, Obama

Wow, a large amount of spewage with nothing backing it up.

Someone's spinning and it isn't the "palin supporters" at this point.

It's a wrap.

Palin used to be relevant because she was a governor, and a punching bag for late night lefty comedians. Now she is officially relevant only as a punching bag for lefty late night comedians.

If she quit to protect her family, then she did the right thing. If she quit in order to run in 2012, then it's a boneheaded move.

Game over.

ps., what the Democrat mainstream media (redundant, I know) did to Palin and her family guarantees that I will vote Democrat again when hell freezes over — never.

Blah blah blah…………Blagojevich, Durbin, Burris, Rangel, Jefferson, Geitner, Dodd and on and on and all you liberal morons can do is harp on someone who hasn't done anything wrong. You can speculate all you want and make any accusations you can think of and still Sarah Palin has done nothing wrong except tie you panties in a knot……….Get over it you sniveling little troll……………………….How about a prediction from me! Obama, a one term President………………….

andrea2929
Blah blah blah…………Blagojevich, Durbin, Burris, Rangel, Jefferson, Geitner, Dodd and on and on and all you liberal morons can do is harp on someone who hasn't done anything wrong. You can speculate all you want and make any accusations you can think of and still Sarah Palin has done nothing wrong except tie you panties in a knot……….Get over it you sniveling little troll……………………….How about a prediction from me! Obama, a one term President………………….

Sorry Patrick Chester. Hit the wrong reply button. Pukes like this get me a little worked up……..

Does anyone think that the US will vote for a candidate who can't be asked a question by Katie Couric?

No problems, figured out from the content that you were probably not responding to me.

Saw this rumor spreading on other blogs. No facts to back it up, they're just repeating it over and over again. Guess someone's a bit worried that Sarah might not be down for the count and has unleashed the flying monkeys yet again.

Exactly. The Left is just a little too eager to declare that Sarah Palin's career is over.

I find the argument that "how can you vote for someone who quit as governor?" to be rather disingenuous coming from a crowd that was all to eager to elect a President who was a junior Senator from Illinois with less than 1/2 a term under his belt and absolutely no executive experience.

How can I vote for Sarah Palin? Because she represents what I believe in _and_ she gives good speeches. That puts her one up on Barry.

Rest assured there's no scandal. Please read this just posted statement by Sarah's legal counsel:

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/

If anything, a few Alaskan liberal bloggers are probably "trying to see Russia" from their house right about now. 'Cuda will be able to go after them full throttle now. This is what the conservative movement needs more than anything right now. For the Ayres, Rahms, Axlerods to know that we finally have a team that is willing to go after them for everything they've got so they cannot keep destroying hard-working Americans.

Kurt, your apologia is beyond silly, your hopes beyond reason.

Mrs Palin lost, and will lose again, because she is simply a dunce. She is ill-read, ill-educated, and utterly ill-prepared to lead the nation. She is photogenic, to be sure. But as with Dan Quayle before her, we have learned that a pretty face is never enough.

We have just suffered eight years of a President who could barely speak English, drove us into bankruptcy and into war with the wrong enemy, and proved to be as shallow a cheerleader as we have ever endured. Now you want more of the same? At least Mr Bush actually fulfilled his electoral obligations in Texas before seeking higher office. Mrs Palin? Mayor of Wassila (pop 7000) and 2.5 year Governor of Alaska (pop 654,000, the equivalent of a small city in Texas). What's the matter with you people? Do you WANT America to fail?

Electing Mrs Palin means electing a woman who believes in witchcraft (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-on3kfWuE), is opposed to evolution (like opposing gravity, one would imagine), teaches abstinence to little effect in her own family, whose husband has supported Alaskan secession (talk about traitors to America), and who mangles the language every time she attempts to speak it.

People who cannot speak clearly cannot think clearly. Period. Her disastrous interview on CBS is surely proof of this. Her media conference yesterday demonstrates that even her PREPARED remarks are incoherent.

Most of us are tired of being led by nitwits. Mrs Palin may make a great Basketball Barracuda. Intellectually, she's just another dead fish: flopping, failing and foolish.

Surely you guys can offer someone who is at least half-bright… no?

Really, I know your spiritual predecessor said a lie repeated often enough becomes true, but you really shouldn't presume the people here get their information solely from major news networks.

Nope not a sore loser! I am from Illinois! I've seen this freak show before! This is Rod Blgojevich on a national stage!
And for the record I was a registered Independent until Obama was elected.
To the point of Sarah Palin. The story you speak of is "a nothing story" it has died and been buried several times, yet some peope with an unhealthy fixation on Palin keep dragging it's corpse from the coffin………It's a non-starter…
But I'll take that deal, only, if you put the same sort of zeal into condeming the lack of an investigation into Dick Durbin's insider trading as you do going after Palin.But no one cares that he's profiting off of other peoples misery. He's a friend of Barry's, so he's safe
And…………..Sanford is an Idiot, but it hasn't cost me a dime so I don't care……………..

I gather you get yours from Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and the other radio clowns. Fair enough. It certainly beats thinking for yourself, which must be a great comfort.

The rest of us simply observe what Mrs Palin actually says, and how she says it, and draw self-evident conclusions. The conservative movement in our country has been advanced by serious thinkers (William Buckey, Bill Kristol, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, et al) and principled conservative leaders (Barry Goldwater, Bob Dole, Alan Simpson, et al). Every one of them will have read Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and understood him.

Mrs Palin? She is simply not a serious person, and utterly unfit to lead either the conservative movement, or our country. Her behavior is enough to give narcissism a bad name.

I gather you get yours from Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and the other radio clowns. Fair enough. It certainly beats thinking for yourself, which must be a great comfort.

You don't gather very well. Just the usual programmed macros ("radio clowns") when faced with someone not buying your claims. As for inability to think for oneself and comfort levels, well there's a little thing known as projection that you might want to look up.

…and now just argument by assertion based on your personal prejudices. Ho hum.

You are so correct! No teleprompter needed for Sarah!
I go on and on about Illinois way way too much, but I just can't seem to get my head around how anybody could think Obama is Presidential material. Haven't they ever seen any of his early interviews or speeches? If you didn't know better you would have thought he was a "Special Needs" person. The only differance now is that they gave him a teleprompter……..Sorry but I'll take the lovely young lady who can field strip a moose over the skinny dork who can pick out fresh arugula any day of the week……….

I posted at another thread earlier today: Sarah Palin's decision yesterday to resign as governor has those on the left going absolutely batsh_t. They are coming apart at the seams. She is 'in their heads'. They can't take it. According to Drudge, Maureen Dowd is first up and will help make my point tomorrow morning.

Pass the Cheerios…

NY TIMES Op-Ed Queen Maureen Dowd runs out of adjectives and insults while ripping away at Alaska
Governor Sarah Palin in an upcoming Sunday column.

Palin is "one nutty puppy", in the mind of Dowd, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT, with "erratic and egoistic behavior".

Dowd spits her holiday barbecue in 800 words, designed for fireworks.

"Exquisite battiness… solipsistic meltdown so strange… incoherent, breathless and prickly… Sarah's country-music melodramas… girlish burbling."

Happy dependence day to all the liberal parasites. Get on your knees slaves and pray to your Barry you love him so, that Sarah doesn't run. Enjoy the leftist lunacy while you can the conservatives will be back soon, you may have to get a job yet. Happy dependence day slaves!

Sarah Palin regardless what she does is a remarkable self made woman I only wish her and her family the best. If she does run in 2012 Barry will be sent home and ooze around with his fellow liberals.

Hmmm…wishful thinking? Perhaps you have not read the resume of the current occupant of the White House. Oh wait – he hasn't ever held a job…In case you have not noticed the people that are running this country into the ground have never had a real job in a real business. The Palins have owned businesses and run them with no assistance necessary.

At least she probably studied the factual History & Geography of The USA (and she was actually born here). I believe I will be happy to stand behind someone who is a good shot.

Hey Patrick: you write reasonably well, and so "I gather" you have an education.

If so, how can you stand having your party led by someone as silly and self-serving as this Mrs Palin? Like most Americans, I see how see speaks, and draw self-evident conclusions. She talks like an enthusiastic Barbie. That's what most people gather, and correctly so. Her own words are all the evidence anyone requires.

Did you watch the video with 'Rev' Muthee? Unless you too believe in witchcraft, Mrs Palin made a complete fool of herself in the company of such a charlatan. What next? Snake-handling?

Your party has been led by some very intelligent people: Pres Eisenhower, the first President Bush, even the anti-semitic crook Richard Nixon, and by such well-informed subalterns as Henry Kissinger, Condoleeza Rice, James Baker, Jack Kemp, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Alan Simpson, Orrin Hatch, etc etc.

How can you possibly compare Mrs Palin to any of these serious people? With all respect, she's just sort of… goofy.

Very nice! I don't think Barry and the boy's have figured out yet that the Independents (the voters that put him over the top) aren't in his camp any more. They seem to be the first of what I suspect will be a mass exodus as time goes on…………

Jimmy, Jimmy: all that the country needs to know is what Mrs Palin has told us. She's a quitter. After 2.5 years on the job, she dishonored her electoral contract with the people of Alaska. She broke her word when taking the oath of office. It's really pitiful.

If she had to resign because of health, or her children, fair enough. But she quit for what she imagines is political advantage, and that's a very different matter. Such behavior is self-serving and disloyal.

Do you really think this recommends her for higher office? If so, only in your circles.

The rest of America sees her for what she is: an airhead serving her interests first and last, the people of Alaska (and the US) be damned. Again, it's just pitiful.

Her word doesn't seem to be worth very much, as the people of Alaska have just learned.

Your voice just betrayed the good people of Alaska. She took an Oath of Office, and has now broken it. Apparently her word means nothing.

No American admires a quitter.

I like Sarah Palin. Her book will be a number one best seller and will break records. Contrast that with Nancy Pelosi's book. I think the Speaker of the House's book sold 2000 copies max with all that free publicity on the MSM.

There is justice in this Universe and it gives me great pleasure and a good laugh.

Sarah Palin Rocks. Go Sarah.

…and leading questions added to the personal prejudices. Surprise, surprise. Incorrect guess about me yet again. So sorry. I just read a lot.

Oh and the video? Doesn't work. If you mean the blessing against witchcraft she received from some African reverend, I believe its called being polite and respectful of other cultures. Sort of how an agnostic like myself would say "thank you" when someone said "bless you" or that they were praying for me. IIRC, it didn't involve any blood sacrifice or anything. Just a bit of prayer. Really, did you think I hadn't heard that one and looked a bit deeper?

Thanks for helping confirm that you really aren't seeking a discussion. Just assertion, assertion, and oh, assertion. Comfortable presumptions based on prejudices against certain looks, accents, lack of "proper' schooling. I guess we have an aristocrat class after all.

"The only way Obama loses is if he runs our economy into the ground (pretty likely), in which case the last thing the voters will be looking for is someone with even less experience to take his place."

This predisposes the idea that we didn't get our last chance to choose a president in 2008. Am I ready for my tin foil hat or am I seeing a lot of indications that while Americans have the illusion of being able to vote, our votes are, how shall we say it? Negotiable?

Ted Stevens was indicted in time for the Alaskan Senatorial vote. Interesting how the charges were dropped after he lost. Alaska has a Democratic Senator for the next six years. Would the Alaskans have liked to have the opportunity to revote?

When Christine Gregoire (WA) lost a close race for governorship, the votes were recounted. Twice. Only when she was ahead did the recounts stop.

ACORN is getting millions from taxpayers to "get out the vote". Why do I think they're not interested in getting out Republican or non-Democrat/non-Socialist votes?

Al Franken. Need I say more?

What about the Black Panthers intimidating voters in PA — something Eric Holder doesn't think is worth prosecuting.

And Georgia's trying to clean out the dead people from their voter roles. That one ran afoul of Holder, too.

And FOUR Scotus Judges saying it's okay to discriminate against white people? Somehow that got lost in the reporting.

I hate to be a Cassandra, but I'm sure the people of Venezuela thought they were going to have a shot at voting again after they elected Chavez. People foolishly believe nothing bad can happen unless it has happened. Watching the attacks on Sarah Palin gave me a cold chill. All that was missing was the blood and the machetes.

Still with the "repeat it so often it magically becomes true" tactic?

Looks more like you're afraid that "the rest of America" doesn't see her the way you do so you keep spamming comments sections hoping people will follow your lead.

…and now you're just recycling text.

quitter.

dishonored.

pitiful.

airhead.

trent, trent…tell me, babe…how do you really feel?

…and now that I express even more disagreement with you I become a target for your personal attacks.

Typical.

Pick your target, isolate it, freeze it and keep repeating until it's destroyed.

For all your oh-so-pious concern over an oath, you are lacking in any semblance of honor. It's likely you haven't even bothered to look up the oath and just declared it broken so you could screech and hope people will fall for it.

I'll try to avoid being shattered by the disappointment of a bigot like yourself. Looks, speech patterns, religion, politics, etc.

Well, Pat, your high dudgeon is a good joke.

You first wrote: "I know your spiritual predecessor said a lie repeated often enough", in a childish reference to Josef Goebbels.

Then, you wrote, "Judging from your rather rude postings here…"

C'mon, Pat, you don't see just a little bit of hypocrisy here? A double standard? I ignored your juvenile 'Big Lie' slur, and even now merely point out the inconsistency of your 'standards'. Pot? Meet kettle.

Nonetheless, the issue remains her fitness for high office. Apart from the commonly held view that she is an airhead, the inarguable fact remains that she took an Oath of Office as Governor. After 2.5 years she has found it convenient to break her word. Her promise. Her bond with the electors of Alaska.

I would have thought that might concern you. Just a little? No? Too bad. Even Richard Nixon only quit AFTER he was about to be impeached.

Sarah Palin has a very good chance of being elected president…of the Wasilla Rod and Gun Club.

Oh come on… the man is developing that insanity defense day by day. Oo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTnnKuNXUNE__

Do you read what you write???? Sane people DID vote for her. They were not too disapointed. She removed herself from the "game" to keep the true hatemongers, and outright LIARS from callingn her a "CHEATER".
The term delusional, as you mention, personifies a voter who believes that a man with 146 hours of government service, whom espouses the political ideology of Saul Alinski, and Jerimiah Wright, who was a professional rable rouser is qualified to be president. I wonder how much longer I will continue to see the Obama bumper stickers and lawn signs. They will soon be emblematic and synonomous with the terms: Sucker, dope, enabler, uninformed, anti american, and yes— DELUSIONAL!!!

Her family is on the verge of bankruptcy because the Alaska Democrat establishment filled up the courts with baseless, frivolous ethics complaints against her, all of which were filed AFTER the election interestingly enough. It doesn't matter that EVERY SINGLE ONE of them was easily dismissed, she still has to pay the legal fees, which are in excess of half a million dollars, and this is not a wealthy family.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say that she hasn't really been governor since last August. Dealing with these pricks has taken up the majority of her time, and this orchestrated attack has not abated. It will only to continue to get worse for her family and for the citizens of her state. She had a permanent target on her back, she was honest enough to realize that she could no longer be an efficient executive, and she did what a responsible leader would do. I hope Mark Sanford is paying attention.

Nice dodge. It was actually the patronizing "this is beneath you" remark.

You do not get to decide what is above or beneath me. Nor do you get to decide how much or how little something means to me. You can only assume based on your prejudices.

You also might want to avoid using "we" in such a presumptive manner. Or carry on, I am quickly getting tired of your repetitive style.

Here's the Oath of Office sworn by Mrs Palin: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alaska, and that I will faithfully discharge my duties as Governor to the best of my ability."

Anyone notice something odd here?

Either Mrs Palin's "best ability" was inferior to the demands of office, or she is simply a quitter. Either way, she broke her word, her bond, her promise. "Faithfully" means nothing to her.

When the electors of Alaska chose her, Mrs Palin entered into a contract. It was to serve the term of office to which she was elected. That's how it works in a democracy. Apparently this is just one of many things she never learned.

Being governor is not an office of personal convenience. It is a contract with a people — one she has now dishonored. Her misconduct is appalling.

I want a leader who leads.
I want a leader who leads in the right direction.
I want a leader I can be proud of and not cringe at.
"The President of Pop" – never again.

She couldn't do her job because Axelrod's thug team in Alaska was clogging up the courts and her time with frivolous ethics charges, which are bankrupting her family. It doesn't matter that she was cleared of every single one of them. She knew it wouldn't stop, and that she couldn't be the governor that they needed. A star ball player knows when he should take himself out of the game.

BTW Obama abandoned his job as a senator as soon as he was elected to start running for President. At least Sarah accomplished a lot of what she set out to do.

Barry only served two years of his six year term as senator of Illinois, what of his contract?

Your love of the Magic “O” has no bounds, blessed be the Messiah, for he has spoken, and you as a brave disciple fearlessly on the attack, to be certain that your $13.00 a week are not diminished. While you mindlessly flog away where you’re not wanted, you pray for a fulfilled life of worthless mediocrity, and government servitude, and one day, maybe you can be Section eight’ed near the blessed “One.” So charge on you, “useful idiots,” and spread misery across, “the fruited plain,” and know that your love of the federal government is appreciated, and the “O” gives you a hearty thumbs up. Now, back on your knee’s, and grovel!

When I first heard the news, I too assumed that Sarah was basically retiring from electoral politics (though not from politics per se) and my heart was broken.

Now, I'm not sure what she's up to. As so many others have stated, resigning her governorship gives the left, the liberal media, and the RINO turncoats a huge talking point against her. That said, when have they ever lacked for talking points?

All I know is that I support Sarah 100 percent no matter what she decides to do. She has my undying love, loyalty and devotion. More later.

Your PDS is showing. Please…… there are adults reading this.

It wouldn't surprise me if she has plans to start a third party. If she weren't so gracious I'm sure she'd have told the Repubs to FOAD.

I don't think she's looking at a Presidential run, at least not for 2012. It would be way too soon, and the media will use the "quitter" label ad nauseum.

Fringe candidates don't win the Presidency. She is on the fringe. No one is scared of her since she can't win.

If she is the candidate, Obama could slip the country back into civil war and he'd still win. I'd prefer to have someone who could beat him, like every other Republican out there.

I agree. I really don't think a Presidential run is feasible, but she can do much more founding a think tank, a newsblog site, or even a third party. She does have a journalism degree, and considering what she was put through, I'd like to also see her get some media watchdog group started, along the lines of MRC or Newsbusters.

She's done more in her first two years as governor than your messiah will do in his lifetime. If you actually checked other sources besides Matt Damon and SNL you'd know that.

And just what did Obama govern? You ever been to the south Side of Chicago? What did all his "community organizing" efforts accomplish? Ask Jennifer Hudson.

Here we see what trent and those like him want: an elite, book read, no life experence, so-called expert.

Obama has never run a lawnmower, let alone a business.

Obama has never fixed a car yet he can run GM.

Obama has never made payroll yet he can run banks.

Obama has never done more than put a bandaid on his girl's skinned knees yet he can fix healthcare.

Education means nothing unless there is experience and leadership to back it up. Otherwise its all hypothetical and standing on the shouldes of people who could APPLY what they learned. Obama is a bleak shadow compared to real people who know how to make decisions to help society.

yawn.

And that job would prepare her more to be president than being a 4 year senator (and then quitting) did for Barack Obama.

"Your disdain for Christians like Pat Robertson and Sarah Palin lead me to believe that you either don't believe in or don't like God all that much…

Never met the guy. Biography made him sound kinda scatterbrained, to put it mildly… though his son seemed like a pretty chill fella.

OK. You can go to bed. Dream of Sarah.

You make my point exactly. Thanks!

Morally superior? Hardly. I'm just an American who deplores the sheer half-literate ignorance of so many of our elected officers, left or right. Mrs Palin is, at present, Exhibit A in that gallery. This is not, I think, an issue of morality, nor have I ever described it that way. You did.

So your pining over the Oath was a cynical ploy. Oh sorry, I guess you don't consider that based on morality.

Btw, you were the one making the claim about the Oath so it was your responsibility to find it and try to prove your point. I actually did a cursory search, then realized I would be doing your homework for you. So I waited to see if you'd find it.

"More like you ignore facts in order to defame the person.. " — well said! Good riposte. Tell the truth now: could you ever, in a hundred years, imagine Mrs Palin capable of such a witty rejoinder? We both know the answer.

Actually, we both know what YOU want the answer to be. Nothing more.

Subtle difference.

…and you're becoming a broken record. More of the aristocratic presumptions about people who don't fit into your mold of a leader of this country. You hold certain types of people as fit to serve in higher government and presume others (Bush, Palin) do not. Your desire will inevitably lead to a ruling class for this country as opposed to of the People, by the People, for the People. Pity you don't notice, but then your up to the same smug assumptions I've seen before.

Perhaps that tells you something. Perhaps it doesn't.

Nothing new since you wandered onto this thread. You're a bigot based on politics, regions, "proper" education and religion.

No longer worth my time.

No, he's just another bigot. Nothing specific to Palin, she's just of the "wrong sort" of person to him. If another person who doesn't match his criteria for government work comes along, he'll be savaging that person as well.

Palin’s 4th of july message from her facebook account…

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=99477538...

Palin’s press release on her resignation as Governor…

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/exec-column.php

“But I have given my reasons… no more “politics as usual” and I am taking my fight for what’s right – for Alaska – in a new direction.”

“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”

“I do not want to disappoint anyone with my decision; all I can ask is that you trust me with this decision – but it’s no more “politics as usual”. ”

Nowhere does she say she is ‘quitting’. On the contrary, she makes it clear that she will remain active in politics, on a national level, for the benefit of both Alaska and the nation.

Well, like most other lib harpies, Dowd is deeply envious of her success, her happiness, her beauty, her fertility, and the fact that she has a hot husband and a pretty hot sex life.

NEWSFLASH idiot. That isn't the only interview she's ever done. IT's just that you libs have been playing that five-second soundbite in a loop inside your heads for almost a year now. I swear I think its a masturbatory thing with you guys.

Of course you obviously didn't bother to watch her interviews last month with Lauer and Blitzer. She owned those interviews and had those guy's nuts in a vise. For that reason, the media swept them under the rug and never mentioned them again.

You've got it. Admirably! Well done.

Sorry Pat, but once again you try to defend mediocrity, and ignorance, and recklessness — ie, Sarah Palin. She leads a good cheer, takes a good photo, and no doubt makes a good hockey mom.

But does this qualify her for the Presidency? Hardly.

Your use of the word 'bigot' is weird, btw, and a leaky refuge. Because it is so far-fetched, and so juvenile, I take no offense. If that's the best you can do, I understand.

Sarah Palin is unqualified. Not very bright. Take a look again at her CBS interview, and consider WHAT SHE ACTUALLY SAID. To say nothing of how she said it. She blundered as badly as Ted Kennedy did when asked the simple question by Roger Mudd, "Why do you want to be President?"

If Sarah Palin can't handle Katy Couric, how on earth could she handle the Chinese or the North Koreans?

Let me preface this statement by saying I am a right leaning independent who has never voted for a Democratic presidential nominee.Now, this woman is FAR too conservative to ever be a real player again on the national scene. She has already polarized the entire nation and is woefully inept on foreign policy. There is the possibility that she will take a page out of the Reagan playbook and spend the next years writing,studying, and giving speeches in order to try to enhance her national reputation, but it will all be for naught and I'll tell you why. SHE QUIT. Let me draw a picture for you. I'm an Iraq war vet (1/17FA BN). Imagine if my commander came up to me and said, "Well, this is too much for me right now and besides, I have greater aspirations down the road to make general". What a joke she is, putting herself and her ambitions before her DUTY to the people of the great state of Alaska. SHAME on all of you Palin fans for getting caught up in another good-looking, cult of personality politician. Sound familiar?? Obama is the same thing for the left. Both are very short on experience and have risen to the top based on looks and a good story. Wasilla mayor? A couple years as Governor? Come on people. Having said that, I will state that she got a VERY bad deal in the hard left media. Little of which was deserved. Her kids and even her secessionist husband should be left out of the equation. What you're left with is a woman who rose TOO FAST and got TOO FULL of herself before she learned the policy and learned the ropes. I sincerely believe the Republican party can do much, much better.

Jeez, Stan, did you ever learn English? Your grammar is a mess, your syntax insensible, your punctuation garbled and meaningless, and your spelling little better.

"Now, back on your knee’s, and grovel!"

"Knee's"? Whose "knee's"? You doubtless meant the plural form, 'knees'. In the context you offered, not that it makes much sense in the first place, the apostrophe S signifying the possessive is yet another mistake.

Here's the point: why are rabid conservatives so inept in the proper use of English? You mis-use and distort the most powerful language the world has ever known.

No wonder you admire Mrs Palin so much. You are as literate as she is, and that's not saying much. People who cannot speak, or write, clearly cannot think clearly either. And that's the great danger of electing dunces to office.

Mrs Sarah Palin
House of Cards
Wasilla AK 99694

Please make checks payable to 'Tod Palin, Alaska Independence Party'

You are correct! The topic is Sarah Palin! Yet you have felt the need to take swipes at Bush, Quayle, Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh etc. Do you notice a recurring theme in your posts? I do. You seem to be trying to hide your dislike of Republicans and Conservatives behind the guise of intelligent debate. I asked a simple question and you give me snide remarks about staying on topic.
The topic is Palins resignation, the reason for it, and the absolutely despicable treatment she has recieved from the MSM and people on the left.
You've answered my questions through your evasiveness though. Your a Liberal Obama supporter. You hate Palin for some unknown reason and you can not see any hypocrisy in ridiculing Palins lack of experience, when the President that you support has even less.
Just wanted to see where you stood! Now I know……………..

Seriously? Did you really just copy/paste this from above?

PDS = Palin Derangement Syndrome.

Similar to BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome). It is an affliction which is commonly shared by the MSM crowd.

Short of death, there are two cures. First cure (Which is more popular) is listening to the Rush Limbaugh show for 6 to ten weeks. The second cure ( Which is much more harsh) listening to the Mark Levin show for 2 weeks.

A crash course of both, seems warranted in your case. That is listen to both for at least a week.

Good luck.

Palin had to get freed up to take on the radicals – cuz it is pretty much her alone against the loons and their media hit squads

gotta luv the dowd hit piece – real classy woman – old 57 year old dried up lezbo

"…buried in the news cycle"? She had quite enough (hostile) attention. Does it ever enter your mind that normal people have normal reasons, like GETTING IT OVER WITH? She will step down in three weeks and it will make the news AGAIN.

I hate to be the devil´s advocate because I like Palin a lot. But her chances of holding another elected office are small now.

I understand and respect her reasons, but let´s be real: not even finishing her first term will make a bad impression on many voters. I wouldn´t call her a quitter because I care about the context. But in terms of political marketing, the charges are unanswerable: she did in fact quit. Couldn´t stand the heat. It´s totally unfair, but there it is.

She was hounded out of the office and it may gain her some deserved sympathy. She is after all an innocent victim. But no voter will trust her with another office because of that. Maybe despite that. But it is another hurdle for her and I think it´s one too many. I would love to be wrong.

Standing up to them while in office would have been even more impressive. Don´t get me wrong, I like her a lot. But to most people resigning in the middle of her first term will not look like she is standing up to anyone. Unfair as it is.

That is where you go wrong. They are all believers. The only thing our current government is "thinking" about is how to expand their power indefinitely. Their convictions are entirely belief-driven. There is nothing intellectually serious about Obama´s economic views, or views on social policy,or views on conflict. They are bad beliefs. Only conservatism has incorporated some historic human experience about these things in their ideology. Progressivism is utopianism is inhuman.

You’re the reason she’s the one, someone as inept as Ms. Palin surely doesn’t require so much time and effort from a sanctimonious blow hard such as yourself. Are you worried?

With unemployment at its worst point since Carter was in office…

No, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics series LNS14000000, the unemployment rate in January 1981, when Carter left office, was 7.5 percent. In Carter's entire presidency, the highest that rate ever got was 7.8% The unemployment rate peaked at 10.8% in November and December 1982; it was above 10% for ten months in the middle of Reagan's first term.

Here's the monthly data from 1976 until today.

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I admire Sarah's acommplishments and see her promise like most supporters but I do not "adore" her. I agree that Obamites adore him exactly because people cannot explain their odd devotion.

First, am I to assume you feel Obama is qualified to be President? Correct?

Second, if Rev Wright appears to you to be racist and foolish by only reading his sermons, what does this say about a man who spent 20 yrs listening to those sermons and never noticed anything odd?
I would ask that you apply the same standards to Mr. Obama that you have to Sarah Palin. You have implied many things about Sarah Palin based on a video from a church she went to. Should we assume that because Obama went to Wrights church, for a far longer period, that Obama is an Anti-Semite and Racist just because he was there?
There is no difference between the two comparisons. Both went to questionable church's, yet you are only insulting and debasing the female of the group. Why is that?

Sorry, Pat, but you fail to distinguish between moral and ethical obligation. An oath of office is the latter, and not the former. One has an ethical obligation to office and duty. One has a moral obligation to family and friends. I have never raised the subject of morality. It's been your hobby horse, all along.

By trying to exchange one word for the other, you distort meaning. Yours is the rhetorical trick employed by those who pretend that a horse chestnut is the same thing as a chestnut horse.

You continue to make the false claim that an insistence on intellect, reading, learning is somehow 'aristocratic'. What a silly diversion. It is simply a demand for merit over mediocrity.

So too your refusal to consider those Republicans like Condoleeza Rice who, in consequence of their learning and experience would make a MUCH better candidate for President than Mrs Palin. In fact, you have avoided that altogether. No wonder. You seem to prefer dunces.

And now you pose as a democrat, promoting "of the people… etc". As you should know, those words were spoken by the greatest Republican of them all, at Gettysburg. Mr Lincoln was, in your terms, a simple country lawyer — and the greatest President in our history. I personally admire him beyond all others. It is laughable to pretend Mrs Palin belongs in his legion.

Bigotry? Now you've really gone back to junior high, Pat. Many Americans prefer learning to ignorance, eloquence to incoherence, rationality to revelation, and all of America to any of its regions. Neither you nor Mrs Palin appear capable of grasping such principles.

She confuses personal ambition with the public good. You are much brighter than she is, and have no such excuse. I can understand dunces and fanatics defending fanatics and dunces. I expected better of you. You present no doubt about her at all.

Some agnostic.

Try this http://bit.ly/f4tLI

"your gift for flattery is somewhat wanting" ha ha…that has got to be the nicest way I have been insulted.

[...] Schlichter at Big Hollywood has an interesting take on the positives on Sarah’s resignation: Remember when Darth Vader faced off with Obi-Wan Kenobi? “If [...]

[...] From http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/07/04/the-force-is-with-sarah-palin (via Instapundit): A “Star Wars” analogy:  Remember when Darth Vader faced off with Obi-Wan Kenobi?  “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”  She’s now immune from bogus legal claims and her book will not only raise her profile but set up her family financially for life.  Now Sarah is unbound, freed from the need to be up in Juneau and able to network, fundraise and even (maybe) campaign without limitation. [...]

It is very brave to comment in a language that you know so slightly. Cheers.

How about Palin/Santa Claus, or Palin/Bigfoot? They stand about as much chance of winning in '12 as any of the other options you named.

We’ll see my friend! First 2010 then 2012, it reminds me of 64, 80, 94 see you at the polls.

uhhhhh dude………..we have already seen it. She hurt McCain's ticket more than she helped. Obama won a decisive victory. If this was a part of her strategy to win in 2012, then it is a poor one. Ask any GOP strategist. They've been all over TV rolling their eyes at her. Are you telling me that you know more than Ed Rollins? I seriously doubt that you do.

This is war. Sarah is about to spit on her hands and hoist the black flag. She is going to try to torpedo the entire Obama agenda. She'll definitely have the megaphone to do it, too. I suspect it will be tons of fun and very lucrative for her. This should be most entertaining.

No thanks, I hear the Kool Aid has a nasty strychnine after-taste. What you define as a disorder is what most people refer to as not being brainwashed.

Kurt, thank you for your posting. Unfortunately, there's one problem with your analysis: "Star Wars" is make-believe. Obiwan-Kenobi never existed. Miraculous reappearances are the stuff of fiction, not real life. F. Scott Fitzgerald was closer to the truth when he said there are no second acts in American life: if you strike somebody down, they're down for good. And make no mistake, Palin has been struck down.

As much as I like Sarah Palin personally, I had reservations about her as a national candidate. Not in terms of her ability or her experience – you probably could find someone more qualified than Obama if you picked a name at random out of the phone book – but you need more than an individual to govern: you need a party, and even more than that, you need an organization of professionals who are dedicated to your cause. Which means that you need money. Palin didn't have the organization, I doubt if she has much money, and I don't think the Alaska party is deep enough to put together an organization the way that Obama's Chicago mafia did. And there were problems with her persona. Her accent turned some people off, mainly the open-minded, oh-so-inclusive sophisticates who are quick to brand someone a hick if they don't sound exactly like themselves. And the fact that she's an attractive woman made it harder for some people to take her seriously: a barrier that, even in this day and age, a good-looking man (like, say, Obama) doesn't have to face.

So, it's a shame that she was treated as badly as she was. If she's retiring to private life, I wish her and her family peace and much happiness.

And truth be told, this may be for the best. We conservatives have to stop looking for the next Reagan, the next man on horseback who'll ride in to save us all. We have to begin our own long, hard task of organization-building. It won't be fast or easy, but that's the only way to defeat the corrupt mob who now runs Washington.

ahhhh……….the old torpedo the enemy by torpedoing yourself maneuver. You Repubs sure do have a fetish for war analogies! Let's review how things are going in your so-called war:

dems control the white house, the house, 60 votes in the senate.

good luck with that megaphone. i'm sure it will be about as effective as rush's.

Who is Ed Rollins?

How, by QUITTING???

Shouldn't yours be Bottom B*tch?

[...] you strike me down…” Is the Force with Sarah Palin? It strikes me as an overly optimistic interpretation from a partisan supporter, but who [...]

Whatever…she's totally irrelevant now, ala Mark Sanford; Romney in 2012 (face it Reps., it's your ONLY hope!)

Way to show your "knowledge" on things, mouth-breather…

Letterman still has a job and Failin doesn't; way to prove your point neo-cons!

i agree with you. durbin should be nailed to the wall. i have as much distaste for corrupt democrats as i do corrupt republicans. that said, i strongly suspect that palin is going to come out of this deal with dirty hands. now then, do we have a deal?

Look at who hates her and throws the most vicious attacks her way – they must be scared to death of this woman. I voted for her last November and I will vote for her again should she decide to run.

I respect McCain, but I don't trust him to lead the country (I'm still seething over the McCain Feingold bill). I was weighing my third party options when I saw Sarah at the GOP convention and she set me on fire. Here is a candidate I could get behind. Strong, gutsy, conservative. This is what we need.

I hope the GOP takes notice and abandons any plans of "moving to the center." Sorry GOP, but if you want to look and sound and act like Democrats, there is no reason whatsoever of voting for you.

You GO, Sarah!

Palin/2012

Who are you to define what constitutes "fringe," paleface?

[...] this — “If you strike me down I shall beco… July 5th, 2009 KURT SCHLICHTER: The Force Is With Sarah Palin. What’s this — “If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you could [...]

I'll second that!

The only thing that angers me is that I will be getting the government that YOU deserve.

I know you have not been programmed to hate them, but before you get boring, you will need to focus your attention on the Christian left. Ever heard of them? The people who think that the way to virtue lies in using the state to force you to be kinder and nicer. Cap-and tax, national health care… the Christian left loves the nanny state. And you will not be able to opt out anymore.

You didn´t think just because Obama never goes to Church anymore he would somehow safeguard your liberties, now did you? He is a passionate collectivist. Like all institutions, religion is just another racket for him. And it will be bad. At worst, Palin would not have done one percent of that damage. Neither did Bush. Because basically, when all is said and done, they will respect freedom more than anyone else who counts. Because as conservatives they at least respect what was and is. You may not be a fan of Obama, but you have ended up on the wrong side anyway and it won´t help you if you are in good company there.

I cannot help noticing that it does not seem to concern you that she was going bankrupt thanks to Democratic activists and their friends in the legal profession. She had to spend her own money to defend herself from baseless and silly ethics complainst while her accusers used the money of the state. Whatever you think of her, she was elected by Alaskans and fairly well liked. She would not have deserved this even if she had been as bad a governor as, say, Granholm (who for her disastrous performance was considered for the Supreme Court). If you liked thinking and rationality as much as you claim you could put aside your visceral dislike for a second and this would be the real point of concern for you.

Did you want to live in a system where a constituency can bleed a middle class politician dry out of pure hatred? Congratulations, you do now.

I love to watch the trolls come out and spew their self-involved nonsense. Governor Palin outsmarted you dimwits AGAIN! Get used to making poopoo in your pants there is way more to come. Her star is on the rise and she will WIN. I love watch all you d-bags freak out. Keep squirming trolls:)

One of the oldest rules of warfare, you choose your battlefield, you do not let it be chosen for you. She has now picked hers.

[...] would like to direct readers to the intense Star Wars inspired discussion on Big Hollywood. If it comes to pass, I will claim credit for “Unleash Hell” becoming the catch phrase [...]

Thatcher would be fantastic, and many of the other suggestions listed here. If she's going to go for it, she needs to assemble a brain trust. What Reagan did. He had the natural talent/charisma — the right stuff if you will — and with help, transformed himself into a superstar. Sarah's all that too! What did Reagan have, three main ideas he wanted to get done? Sarah needs to do that too, plus hone her chops to perfection and I think she could pull it off. Obama's stumbling. There's much to be optomistic about!

Maybe we the people should just help her retake the (R) from the ground up. Don't you think we deserve to have at least one of the two parties in this country be one our side?

For someone who has cut her own salary and let go her own personal chef, not a big deal.

You flubbed on your ability to read the English language. No "l" in that name.

She didn't break her oath of office. If by remaining governor she is doing more harm to her state than good, her duty is clear – resign. She did so. If the Left was only going to continue to load her down with ethics complaints that the state was compelled to investigate, wasting tax dollars to do so, than she was a financial drain. If her agenda was completed and her lt. governor was capable of carrying out her duties, she was more of a liability legally than she was an asset. Had the Left ceased badgering her and wasting the state's time, I have no doubt she would have served out her term.

With Palin, you have to divorce all you know and all you think you know because unless you've done the groundwork on your own, you likely don't know all of the truth. And she didn't quit; she resigned. There comes a time where you have to accept that a strategic retreat may be necessary to realize greater gains in the future. Is it risky? Yes, but imagine if we couldn't quit our jobs when the work situation became untenable or retreat from a battle when the tide turned against us. I'm not sure this would be a place I'd want to live in.

He graded my paper cute! So Trent, what's in it for you?

"I cannot help noticing that it does not seem to concern you that she was going bankrupt thanks to Democratic activists and their friends in the legal profession."

Perils of getting into politics in the 21st Century. Don't like it? I'm sure Mssrs. McCain and Feingold would happily draft up some bills to make sure neither side gets to do that anymore. Your cool with that, right?

You have no idea how much you just made me laugh. You voted for Obama and have seriously and critically watched his first 6 months in office and are still capable of writing most of this?

"He is ill-read, ill-educated, and utterly ill-prepared to lead the nation. He is photogenic, to be sure. But as with Bill Clinton before him, we have learned that a pretty face is never enough … " I could go on … "People who cannot speak clearly (without a teleprompter) cannot think clearly. Period … Most of us are tired of being led by nitwits. Mr. Obama may make a great basketball player. Intellectually, he's just another dead fish: flopping, failing and foolish."

Really this stuff just writes itself and is just ever more proof that the Left simply projects.

Short of death, there are two cures. First cure (Which is more popular) is listening to the Rush Limbaugh show for 6 to ten weeks. The second cure ( Which is much more harsh) listening to the Mark Levin show for 2 weeks.

Actually, I've never listened to either except maybe a brief recording or two. but I don't suffer from either derangement syndrome. (Nor do I suffer from the "they're both PERFECT" syndrome, but that's usually an accusation thrown because I disagree with the usual deranged tales about Palin or Bush.)

Even if they do listen it will probably drive them even further into insanity. From the transcripts and few recordings I do know that Rush isn't quite the monstrous monstrosity he's made out to be. Of course, he holds views that leftists dislike so that's enough to put him in the Ultimate Evil category.

Excellent, Nola. And too logical for liberal worshippers' thinking.

Over 70 PERCENT of the country hates neo-con hypocrites; not ALL of them can possibly be liberal…

Never was.

What I thought. Take away all the heroic words and you are enabling collectivism. The Christian feel-good left is of course not really Christian, they just never got around to dabbling in wicca or astrology. Like the majority of "secular" people, they buy into the collectivist religions of statism and environmentalism. And you like them better.

I realize you don´t really read my comments but let me say one final thing: If you are pro-life it must be a big deal for you on account of your conscience. If you are pro-choice, it should be a total sideshow. After all, abortion is available and not going anywhere. Have you noticed who is running the country lately? With all the bad laws passed unread, if you are still a single issue bore on the issue of abortion, you are most certainly not one of the thinkers. You are driven by anything but rational thought. I will now leave you to wrestle with your demons in private.

Take a look at the number of pages in this comment string, and try to make me believe Sarah isn't popular. Palin 2012!

Democrat Intellectual ability is an overblown status symbol that requires absolutely zero common sense or logic.
Sarah Palin has more common sense and logic in her little finger than ALL the leftist in Washington put together.