Comments on: Leftist Christmas in July: Sarah Palin Resigns

By: acejack

acejack — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:15:16 +0000

Mrs. Palin will do just fine. She'll join the lecture circuit. She'll write a book. She'll become a Fox News political analyst. She'll get paid – no worries.

By: Benito

Benito — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:18:05 +0000

When she accepted the VP nomination, she knew she needed to bring her professional game up to another level, she never did. She knew that her family would get attacked as did Hilary and Chelsea before her (by even her twin maverick brother McCain in 1998), let face it she knew her family affairs would come out. But now she plays the victim card again, a card she played after those comical first extended interviews that we all enjoyed and SNL immortalized. But for the icing on the cake, she quits, because she does not want to be a lame duck governor, because the lawsuits keep coming, because it was the media’s fault, because seeing Russia from her house finally got to her, because is was not fair that Alaskan’s paid her salary while she was running for the VP position, take your pick. So what does she tells us? Dear Mr. President, when things get tough, quit. Dear military men and women, if you are not having fun, quit. Dear son or daughter, if things are not going your way, quit. Sure, I agree when she first was introduced and gave a descent speech, sure the polls went up, but after the extended interviews, they went where they ended, down. She showed her true character, I real hope the book deal, Radio/ TV shows and the speech circuits make up for what her party has lost by her actions.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:30:00 +0000

That sparsely-inhabited state has some challenges, however, that simply don't exist in other states. No Governor deals with energy issues more directly than the one in Alaska.

But consider that perhaps the McCain campaign's incompetency had some part to play (I'd argue from evidence it was a large part) in many of the mistakes you seem to have identified.

In either case, there's plenty of time for Palin to do what she needs to do to be ready for 2012 if she chooses to go that way. I'll point out that the last two Democratic Presidents were not exactly long on foreign policy, or even domestic policy experience. Heck, the one we have right now had no executive experience at all, not even running a lemonade stand.

Truth is, Palin hasn't imploded, not any reasonable stretch of the imagination. I'm not saying she's the Republican Savior in 2012 but I think anyone who discounts her at this point is being extremely foolish. She has been successful her whole life doing things her way. There's no good reason she can't be successful as a national candidate in the same fashion.

By: acejack

acejack — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:05:02 +0000

Precisely my point, Jimmie. She may have been, by all accounts, competent as the governor of a sparesly inhabited state but her attempt to play in the big leagues of national politics failed, in part, to her inexperience and lack of intellectual depth.

I think it's best for the Republicans that she imploded now rather than continuing a delusion that Palin was a legitimate, nationwide candidate for president.

Frankly, the Republicans are running for second in 2012. By 2016 there will have been enough time passed for the masses to have forgotten how truly terrible W was — thereby given Jeb a chance to win in 2016.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:24:01 +0000

Actually, the reasons aren't controversial and she gave the real cause of her decision.

By: VoteTheDay

VoteTheDay — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:10:30 +0000

The reasons of Palin resignation are controversial. What could be the real cause of her decision? Vote on the most possible one - http://www.votetheday.com/america/palin-resignati...

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:53:58 +0000

Do you have actual examples of her incompetence? By all reports from Alaska, she's been quite successful.

By: acejack

acejack — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:03:16 +0000

Palin was a subpar vice-presidential candidate who rose to the level of her own incompetence. Seriously folks, where have the real conversatives gone? More importantly, where have the real Republicans gone? Regan sowed the seeds of the party's demise when he blended the fiscal, social and religious conservatives into a coalition that, by definition, have little in common. Unfortunately, the talk show conservatives are nothing but mouth pieces for the corporatists. I'd take a Truman, an Ike or even a Richard Millhouse Nixon over the consortium of idiots that call themselves Republican these days.