Sarah Palin

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday her plans to resign from office. Here’s a link to the latest AP story Alaska observers say Palin had gone fishin’ on job.
Other AP stories:
Official: Palin cited toll of ethics complaints
Rove: Palin resignation part of a ‘risky strategy’

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Categories: General
Michael Huber

49 Responses

  1. A.M. Bush says:

    Losing her is Alaska’s gain since she was barely qualified for the governor’s job, to say nothing about the VP position she thought she was entitled to.

  2. iknowtruthismine says:

    Any political party that allows her to proceed with her plans for the future should go the way of the Whig Party. She is not worth the suffering she is going to put us all through, just to end up on the inevitable heap of historical bad ideas.

  3. katie smith says:

    I guess after all the excitement running for VP – a governor’s job is too lowly for her. We haven’t heard the last from her. She’s got bigger fish to fry when she should be frying moose burgers instead.

  4. Jan says:

    The liberal media hasn’t let Gov. Palin or her family alone since the election. Is it because they are afraid of her? She brought a breath of fresh air to the presidential race, and was forming quite a base among conservatives. As far as being qualified to be VP, I don’t think too much of the one we have..he’s a prime example of what my grandmother said that fools & children tell the truth, if you really listen to him. The socialist policies of BHO & Congress are killing the country…Go Sarah 2012!!!!!!

  5. BL says:

    Re: today’s editorial…

    Hillary quit, Obama quit, McCain would have quit…

  6. ReepDaggle says:

    “Hillary quit, Obama quit, McCain would have quit”

    Seriously? You’re really comparing those who resign one office in order to move to another to which they’ve already been elected, to Palin’s resignation?

    I believe I may have just witnessed the ultimate in straw grasping.

  7. BL says:

    Quit is quit. Everyone left to pursue interests that bettered themselves and not their constituents.

  8. Woody says:

    Poster #1- She had an 80% approval rating as Governor of Alaska. She was asked to be VP she was entitled to it. A.M. Bush, Go pay some taxes!!

  9. A.M. Bush says:

    Sorry Woody, no one is entitled to an elected office that they do not currently hold. “Had” is the key word in regards to her approval rating as governor.

    As for your tax comment, I’m not quite sure what relevance that has to this topic and frankly, I don’t care.

  10. ReepDaggle says:

    “Quit is quit.”

    Whatever you need to cling to.

  11. CJV says:

    The woman is a nitwit and is a slap in the face to all the educated women of this country. Good riddance to her I hope she does get the GOP nod the next time around. It’s clear path through 2016 for Pres. Obama. I’m absolutely, 100% NOT afraid of Palin she’s the best thing to happen to the Democrats! Even if she does get nominated hows she gonna win with 70% of the republicans who make up only 25-30ish percent of the electorate? That amounts to a public spanking of the repubs!

  12. jakester says:

    I actually think the media will be sorry she won’t be around.
    Maybe just maybe, she’s sick of all the crap… she’s dippy if she goes back.

  13. BL says:

    “Whatever you need to cling to.” It’s not clinging. I’m no fan of hers, but I can see that she is leaving to position herself better to improve either financially or politically. As did any of the aforementioned politicians. They all left their jobs before their terms ran out so that they could further their own personal interests. As far as I can tell, only animus allows you to make a distinction.

  14. Angel says:

    BL, you really make no sense. If Palin quit to run for president then she quit 3 1/2 years early. Clinton and Obama quit after they were elected/appointed to a new position. There is no comparison.

    She is not intelligent. She cannot complete a coherent sentence, she knows very little about world affairs. She wants to cut taxes but she left Wasalla and now Alaska in debt.

    I hope she runs, because that will be the end of the GOP party. And I am not a liberal, I am independent which I think more people will soon identify with.

  15. ReepDaggle says:

    “As far as I can tell, only animus allows you to make a distinction.”

    No, COMMON SENSE allows me to distinguish between situations of people quitting to take the job to which they’ve ALREADY BEEN ELECTED, versus quitting for unspecified reasons, and years before the job to which they HOPE to be elected even becomes available.

    Animus plays absolutely no role in seeing the distinction. I don’t know what, other than stubborn refusal, is preventing you from seeing it.

  16. BL says:

    Politicians are self-serving; no exceptions. Everything they do is to meet their own ends. Leaving a job early for whatever personal reason, at the end of the day means that you did not fulfill your obligation, contract that you made with the people. You have quit. When, why, and where you go are immaterial. Again, it’s more animus than anything that makes people carve out distinctions.

  17. BL says:

    Because it doesn’t matter to us what they do afterward. IN all cases, they failed to fulfill their commitments. Leaving for whatever reason does not change the quitting part; that’s irrelevant to us.

  18. ReepDaggle says:

    BL, I’m quite confident that 99% of the population can differentiate between the two reasons for quitting that have been discussed here, so I see no reason to waste more of my time debating it with someone who refuses to open his eyes to what is so obvious to the rest of us.

  19. JG says:

    For the record, Tina Fey said she could see Alaska from her house and not Sarah Palin.

    I think she is taking herself out of the limelight for her kids, especially the teenage daughter. I cannot imagine having a kid that age ridiculed on the David Letterman show, and then have to deal with it. How do you explain that being referred to as promiscuous on national TV is just a lighthearted joke to a teen age girl? How do you explain to the girl why it keeps getting talked about day after day, repeated on youtube?

  20. ReepDaggle says:


    Easy. First you tell her that the only person who was hinted at being promiscuous in the joke was a baseball player, not her or her knocked up older sister. Then you explain to her that it was talked about day after day because mommy made sure to keep it that way, that she alone caused millions of people who would not otherwise have heard it, to hear it incessantly.

    The only person the girls need protection from is their own mother!

  21. A.M. Bush says:

    “The only person the girls need protection from is their own mother!”

    Sad, but oh so true!

  22. JG says:

    Poor explanation DeepRaggle. Politicians’ kids ought to be hands off. I am a big fan of David Letterman, but I lost more respect for him by his half-baked apology.

    You cannot explain to a teenager (boy or girl) why they are a laughingstock even when they really are not. Children at that age have enough self esteem problems. Mrs. Palin did not “keep it that way” as you right, she had a right to demand an apology from Mr. Letterman in defense of her teenage daughter.

    I think that incident was the straw that broke the camels back and caused her to resign. She liked the limelight too much to quit being the governor, but she had to because something like this was too much for her family.

  23. mmcdonald says:

    reep,he also refered to Palin as a slutty airline stewardess,if someone refered to Sotomayor as a Puerto Rican Hussie or something along those lines I don’t think people would just stand by.

  24. ReepDaggle says:

    The explanation was in jest, and a tool to take shots at her. It’s not an explanation I would ever expect her, or anyone else, to actually use. So, I take no offense at you calling it poor when it wasn’t seriously designed not to be.

    “Politicians’ kids ought to be hands off.” Unless they have personally put themselves out there for shots, I agree. But it’s ironic that the Palins, who DID blow this situation out of all proportion, are of the same ideological bent as the “fat Nazi gas-bag” (borrowed phrase) who made jokes about Chelsea Clinton’s looks, and you didn’t hear the people who jumped on the anti-Letterman bandwagon chastise Limbaugh when he made those despicable remarks.

    As for Sarah Palin not “keeping it that way”, you are flat out wrong. For the umpteenth time, what WOULD have been gone the next day was instead kept on the front page for nearly two weeks BECAUSE the Palins wouldn’t let it go. THEY are the reason millions of people saw or heard it who would not otherwise have done so.

    The only reason I lost respect for Letterman after the apology was because he offered it at all. He had already given her one. She didn’t deserve the second one.

    As to that being the reason she resigned, I don’t for a second buy it. She’s exploited her kids all along. Why stop now? For now she’s thriving on the speculation. No doubt she’ll reveal her reasons, truthfully or not, as soon as the current buzz dies down and she needs her next limelight high.

  25. mmcdonald says:

    When did Rush limbaugh make those remarks?I don’t ever recall such a scenario.

  26. ReepDaggle says:

    Shortly after Clinton took office. Limbaugh spoke of the Clinton’s cat, Socks, then mentioned they had a dog, and showed a picture of Chelsea. I don’t know the date it occurred, but I’ve seen the footage.

    Sarah Palin put Bristol on display every chance she got. “Hey everybody, here’s my knocked up unwed teenage daughter. Ain’t she just super-duper?” Letterman’s only mistake was in “targeting” the wrong daughter, but it’s not like there wasn’t a family history of the type of behavior he alluded to, and the apparent Palin pride in such behavior.

    What did the Clintons do to provoke Limbaugh’s comment? And where was the outrage from all those lining to exhibit their hypocritical faux outrage at Letterman’s far less offensive remark?

  27. John Reith Jr. says:

    I wish Sarah Palin well in whatever she pursues, as long as it is not for a higher elected office in the United States(hint hint). Sarah Palin seems like a genuinely nice person but I do not beleive she is capable of being President. The one thing I do ask Sarah is to please stop shooting wolves from a helicopter. Thanks,John.

  28. A.M. Bush says:

    I remember Amy Carter not being much on looks and catching flack for it. Of course, that was 30+ years ago and I’m lucky to remember specifics of some things that happened 30+ minutes ago sometimes. If someone is interested, I’m sure they’ll do their own homework.

  29. ReepDaggle says:

    My recollection on Amy Carter is similar, but not specific enough to cite it as an example, and it definitely wouldn’t have involved Limbaugh. The comments may also have been tamer, because I believe it was in the latter part of the Carter administration that Republicans began to master the art of beign truly nasty and vindictive.

  30. mmcdonald says:

    Actually Reep,Limbaugh corrected that statement,still i will agree it was not called for;however,the first ones to make fun of Chelsea were the cast of SNL,kinda backfired since she has become attractive in her adult years,I think the David letterman thing was blown out of proportion ,although I do agree he would have never done that with a demanazi canidate,but thank god we ended up with Biden instead of Palin(now you spend your way out of bankrupcy);If bBiden were a republican they would be ALL over his statements.