Bye Bye, Sarah -
 

we (wish) we hardly knew ye:

WASILLA, Alaska (July 3) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement from her home in suburban Wasilla on Friday morning. She said she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans.

Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional lame duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose," Palin said in a statement released by her office.
"It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success," she said.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the governor's picnic in Fairbanks at the end of the month, Palin spokesman Dave Murrow said.
Palin was first elected in 2006 on a populist platform. But her popularity has waned as she waged in partisan politics following her return from the presidential campaign. Her term would have ended in 2010.


WTF did she say? Does that statement make sense?

She's saying,

1.) I'm not running for re-election in 2010, because I want to make a presidential bid in 2012.
2.) I'd like to ensure that my party stays in power in the 2010 election, and thus will be giving my (Republican) lieutenant governor the chance to run as an "incumbent" rather than some guy no one's ever heard of.

If Palin becomes our next president I'm going to become a militant lesbian.

And here was me thinking this thread meant she'd completed the celeb heart-attack at 50 triumvirate

Methinks there will be a rotting moose corpse turn up in the Alaskan executive branch in the near future, and she's trying to get out before it starts stinking.

i nominate Fuglystick for the best user handle from a newb.

I can't imagine what she's thinking. It looks bad for a sitting governor to leave their term early; that won't be good for a run in 2012. I'm wondering if there is some other news fixing to come down the pike.

I believe she is doing this because she THINKS it's a wise move; so she can travel around the country, making speeches and keeping herself in the public eye.

What will ACTUALLY happen is she will keep both feet firmly planted in her mouth while impregnating her ass with her thumbs and she will be shunned by the repubs next election time.

I'm betting she runs for congress in 2010, both the house and senate are up for Alaska.

After quitting her existing position early? Who would vote for her when she can't even finish a job she started? I'm with Alluvial on this one -- news released on a holiday weekend can't be because it is good.

I dislike it when I see a mosquito in the room.

I dislike it even more when it flies out of sight, but you know its hanging around because you can still hear the whine.

If she wins I'm out. I mean it I am going to seek political asylum before it really hits the fan

To hit the pre-campaign trail, raising money, writing a book, doing the sideshow circuit, without being accused of neglecting the Gov's office.

If she does run it will be really bad for Republicans. The 'core' a.k.a. wingnut social conservatives love her, so she has a chance to get nominated. %70 of the population (including moderate and economic-issue Republicans and most Independents) wouldn't vote for her on a bet so she's an almost guaranteed loser against an incumbent Obama unless he royally screws up.

I hope with every fiber of my being that the Republican Party will run Sarah Palin as their candidate against President Obama and do does the Democratic Party.

Seems like both Clinton and Bush managed to do it all. I think she'll look like she quit before she'd finished her duty.

Compared to Bush and Clinton, she's got a longer row to ho.... e.

But, uh, wouldn't quitting the gov's office early be considered neglecting it? I mean, her term would have been up December 2010. She could have followed through and still had plenty of time to hit the trail to run for --

Oh, yeah. Logic. Palin. Hmm.

At least I can look forward to her fanbase getting warmed up, don'tcha know!

Methinks so as well.

Not that I actually vote or anything, but I'd much rather have a choice between two strong candidates than a strong candidate and a loser.

By strong candidate I mean someone who is highly qualified and has a hope of winning, rather than simply someone who could win.

Check out the interview: http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001896/

She sounds like she is on some kind of drug. She also says that she is going to "affect change". I guess that means that those who are effecting change will be affected by her actions. Or something.

My favorite airhead.

Her popularity in Alaska went from 90% to 60% before the election and 55% now. Maybe she thinks she can get out now and preserve her reputation for the national stage.

Scuttlebutt is that the feds are investigating her ties with a construction company that built the sports center in Wasilla. Supposedly they 'gifted' her the supplies needed to make her home.

So she's 'passing the ball for victory'. Her contention is that nothing can get done during 'lame duck' status so why bother? By that logic all presidents, senators, and governors should end their final terms early.

The only sense in this is political. It could be she is dumping a 'dead moose' on her Lt. Gov, it could be she is giving him a chance to run as an incumbent, or both.

What's funny is to hear her give all these examples of soldiers and other's who refuse to quit....while she quits.

She quotes McArthur "We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction."

Half the people think she's quitting politics, and the other half think that she's running for the White House.

Rumor has it that she faces indictment next week. Time will tell I suppose.

I wish she could go away quietly. Attention Ho.

My thoughts exactly. I can't believe anyone would consider her presidential material now (although, I still can't believe she was considered so by some, when she was on the ticket with McAddledBrain).

I strongly suspect there's much more to this than currently meets the eye. Something along the lines of what Pico and Me mentioned... she's got her ass in a crack somehow, and ditching her job is her lame solution.

She's toast. http://www.matafyde.com/content/Port...FaceWaving.jpg Buh-bye.

That's easy for you to say, you can't see Russia from your house. :haha:

bwahahahaha. :D

Good riddance. Oh wait. You mean she isn't actually leaving the public eye? Damn!

I think we have a winner.link

Sarah has a 'higher calling.' Oh won't you all stop picking on her? She's a victim in the meanie old world of politics.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...er-understand/

"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country," she said in a message posted on her Facebook page. "And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it’s right for all, including your family."

Everything she do, she do it for you.

I'd like to hear her definition of "a higher calling." Unless she's joining a nunnery or moving to Darfur, I call bullshit.

Bless her little heart. :)

If that turns out to be A-Rod's baby, there could be a dangerous irony implosion.

:lol2: And we'll crown David Letterman king!

I'd like to point out that the President left HIS office to further his political career. Not a peep about that.

He didn't resign the Senate until he was elected President, as is normally the case.

Ew. That's not funny, about Piper.

Speaking of, that poor thing was getting bitten by mosquitos the whole time she was standing there! Shame on Palin for dragging her out there. In flip-flops, no less.

Point to UT

Okay. But he can't see me from here.

Oh yes he can, UT sees ALL :eek:

Even when you're naked. ;)

I see the Daily Kos published that Al Franken impregnated her youngest daughter.

I thought it was David Letterman?

cite?

It has to be trew. Didn't you see Al in his daily diaper outfit?

No.

Fixed it for you.

Why not talk about "Change"? It seems to me that it worked out pretty well for someone recently, but I can't recall who that was.........

Because she's so busy railing against "politics as usual" herself, using that as her excuse to quit. BS. As someone said here, why doesn't everyone just quit before their term is up, if the lame duck excuse is valid?

It's all rhetoric from all of them, but she's not clever enough to even attempt to hide that fact.

Oh, and she's a lot dumber than the other change person. Yeah, and also not as smart. And more stupid.

I hope her higher calling is guru-ing on the top of a snowy cold mountain to like minded folk, so we never have to hear about her, or her following, again.

She's going to run for president - of an independant Alaska. She will lead the Alskan independant movement troops up Mount McKinley as Teddy Roosevelt did at San Juan Hill. Not that anyone's defending Mt McKinley....

I think she had a shot at the Senate seat for Alaska if she would have finished her term as the Gov. Not now. She will be lucky to be elected to another public office.

Sarah don't care, man! She's done gone fishin'! With the Toddster!


"Sporting fishing waders, a pony tail and a French manicure, Palin defended her decision to resign as Alaska governor in half a dozen interviews broadcast and published this morning. The former vice presidential candidate invited media outlets to Dillingham, an Alaska town of about 2,500, where she was fishing with her husband, Todd, and children.

Palin wouldn't rule out a 2012 presidential run, and told CNN that "all options are on the table" for her future.

"I don't know what doors will be open or closed by then," Palin told Time magazine. "I was telling Todd today, I was saying, 'Man, I wish we could predict the next fish run so that we know when to be out on the water.' We can't predict the next fish run, much less what's going to happen in 2012."

*snort*
That woman couldn't predict that the sun might rise tomorrow morning. Or if the Pope is Catholic.

I usually fish with a lure. I wonder what you catch fishing with Todd and the kids.

Herpes?

OMG, seriously? I guess the reporting suits the subject.
Yes, I am a conservative, for the most part.
NO, I DO NOT endorse Sarah Freakin Moose Huntin Folksy Wolksy Palin.
Seriously? How can ANY even half-educated human being even begin to take her seriously?

/rant off
//sorry

republinders

Republicans have a major problem. The party needs leadership. If Palin is an example of their choices, the party will have to turn to Rush Limbaugh for leadership.