Why Sarah Palin Quit

If her objective was a 2012 run for POTUS, she would have been better off finishing her term as governor and simply announcing that she would not re-run for office.

To quit after 2 1/2 years in her first term as governor suggests a person who cannot multitask, handle the pressures that come with the job (working with the legislature, dealing with the press, etc), and someone who is more interesting in being in the spotlight and waving to the crowds than she is in being a serious political force.

Apparently theres been controversey in Alaska about her book deal and whether its taking her focus away from being Governor.

I've noticed many of the GOP frontrunners have signed book deals this year. Obama has left the GOP with the impression that a book deal is a shortcut to the Presidency.

I read somewhere once that narcissists tend to burst bubbles in tandem. For example, if a narcissist suffers disillusionment at work they might follow it up with shutting down personal relationships or giving up on their marriage. One way of trying to decode this is that she has been disillusioned on the national political stage and seeks to follow this up by withdrawing from politics altogether. The ambiguous moments in her press conference still indicate that she open to being wooed into running for the presidency. But the burden is upon us.

I'll pass on that and wish her well in whatever she does, so long as I don't have to hear about her again.

I really don't care why she quit. I do, however, hope that this is a permanent retreat from the political world, for everyone's sake. Palin's a bad political joke.

Palin has rebuffed FIFTEEN baseless charges from the rabid left already. I doubt there is much but wishful thinking behind the stuttering on this thread.

I imagine Palin has decided that quitting now is the best idea for her. I can't imagine her not running in '12, especially when she sees obama's poll numbers falling and even Powell now retracting his support for obama. She and Romney are the presumed front runners for the 12 nomination, and together would form a strong ticket, whoever is on top.

I will always remember her as a Saturday Night Live skit, and the chick with the pregnant teenage daughter, who made all her business public..did she do something else?

I have a neighbor who is a rabid Palin supporter. His theory is that Palin is now setting up a run for 2016 or 2020. I had to ask my neighbor if he would still support Palin as fervently in 11 years if she didn't look like she does now. Scorched earth still smoldering.

I just don't see how quitting her job a year and a half early is a good political move, there is something else going on and we will hear about it soon.

Sarah's next news conference, "The media made me do it"!

Sarah Palin now sees herself as a national figure. Alaska, in many ways, is a drag on her aspirations.

The sooner she leaves Alaska the sooner she can begin her career as an ongoing commentator on national issues. I expect her to have a national talk show, probably on Fox, by the end of the year. Just as likely is a daily talk radio program, syndicated from somewhere like L.A.

The biggest complaint about Sarah Palin, other than the completely irrational and hate based ones, is that she is incompetent to discuss national and international issues. Hosting talk shows will eventually cure those perceptions of her, and if she is as smart as people say, she will eventually become facile with most of the important issues.

Leaving Alaska puts the basis for much of the irrationality about Palin behind her. The 'seeing Russia from my house' themes of SNL will be replaced by whatever she becomes in the lower 48 media spotlight over the next 5 years or so.

Or she will run for US Senate from Alaska, certainly that is a possibility.

But I think Sarah Palin , talk show host, and conservative book author, is where this is , for the time being, headed.

dsanthony, do you not care who is on top??? well, maybe you don't, but i betcha sarah does...and i betcha 'ol mitt is just alright with that too !!!

luv,

ron

Where is she going to relocate her family? Alaska's just not big enough for her any more.

Poor kids. Dragged around due to their mom's frustrated desires to be queen one more time.

Thank you John McCain.

Our Sarah's either very shrewd -- or very dumb.

Has it occurred to anyone else that (I looked it up) the Alaska Senatorial Election is in 2010? Anyone wanna bet she's planning to run for the Senate seat by challenging the incumbent?

I predict:The Senate seat in 2010, and a run for POTUS in 2016.

Something else other than her rambling on reasons? Absolutely!

Have you noticed that 2 Republicans have come out in the recent weeks admitting to crimes against their parties base values? I don't think she is covering up an affair in this case, but she has been given an ultimatum to resign and some time to wrap up unfinished business before it comes out to be public info.

It is possible that she is looking at a run for the senate, but to quit the top spot in Alaskan politics is not very professional from a business prospective. I vote for people that finish what they start.

Bye Bye Sarah.

Time sure jumped on that one fast, and a holiday weekend to boot. No rest for the weary. LOL

Good seed, neenie!

At least she was able to speak without a telprompter. Her answers were honest and straight forward. She will be a successful motivational speaker, fund raiser etc. As she clearly pointed out, she doesn't want tobe alame duck governor who is just interested in drawing a check. She's not loaded like Uhbama and his cronies. She represented that common person who worked hew way up, not handed anything on a silver platter. She has more integrity inher little finger, than this clown we have in office who lies to the American public and makes promises he can't and won't keep, while bankrupting us all. And those critics who say that she is once again making herself the victim, i put to you that Obama is still blaming Bush, and that's getting old. After all, he's doubled our debt and is going to put this country in dire straits. I'd rather have an honest Palain in any office than the likes of crooks, swindlers and liars in this Uhbama administration that are ruining this country's ecconomic and foreign policies as we speak. The woman did nothing to warrant the treatment from the kiss-ass media and the Dems. Problem is, they are all scared to death of her, because like her or not, she can draw crowds. Now, she's free to go where she pleases and become a front runner (if that is her motive). And I will repeat it again, the media and Dems are terrified of her, and that's why they trashed her. 18 frivilous ethics charges just prove my point.

On a lighter note, I saw two posts in other threads about the Palin resignation that are worth a chuckle.

One poster speculated that she resigned because she's been accepted at a top university where she'll be majoring in political science.

Another opined that she was resigning to pursue a career as a Tina Fey impersonator.

On the serious side, the news cycle timing and Palin's nervous, disjointed, rambling excuse about lame-duck-ness make me raise an eyebrow.

It'll certainly be interesting to watch how this plays out.

Let's see... after 1 year of having her teenage daughters and infant child savaged by the left, Palin decides to resign. Just another step toward full facism in america.

The only thing that goes with the flow is dead fish................

And some fish swim upstream to spawn......and then die..........

sarah palin is going to spearhead a new, ultra-conservative party...they will call it the GAP (God and Palin) !!! stay tuned !!!

luv,

ron

Palin is a flake. She needs to be medicated or locked up in an institution. I feel sorry for her kids being put infront of the news like pawns for her sick and twisted thrill. Her so called press confrence on her leaving the Gov. office really showed how idiotic she is. Not one minute of that even made human sence. She might as well have stood there and said "Yes I am a loser and an idiot, Oh, and I am a quiter to".

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