Palin resignation -- WTF??

[Anonymous]

op here - i'm not a real "in the loop" person politically so i keep thinking someone smarter and more plugged in will have an answer... but it just seems there is only shugs and speculation that something is going to come out sooner rather than later...

i can't image her becoming president -- then in a year or so in she decides, gee, i don't want to do this any more? what?? fine - she doesn't want to run again but hello?

[Anonymous]

I think this toasts her for President. Quitters din't get elected President. And the next few years are going to be bad because alaska's budget will crumble now that oil prices are back down, the Republicans hate her because the whole Maverick thing was a shot at them so she can't get legislation through, and she keeps firing/ losing people so her office is a mess. So she's abandoning ship.

To what? She's a former TV news person, so TV plays to her strengths. Rushette.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it was probably all the spotlight on her family...

Even though she complained enough about it, if the spotlight on her family bothered her that much she would have never run for VP. I think JSteele might be a little closer to the truth, or God Forbid, she has some illness that might prevent her from being able to handle the job.

[Anonymous]

There was an article in Vanity Fair just recently, where campaign staff from the Presidential race said they think she had PPD.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:My guess is that Alaska's finances are getting precarious and she sees what is happening to Arnold in California. She doesn't want a budget deficit hanging around her neck and budget cuts always piss off someone. There's not a whole lot to be gained being in charge during a bad economy.

that was my guess too; and I still think she has more experience than you know who. Though I am not saying I take her any more seriously than I take you know who--. And I think she has given as good as she has gotten on her family-though the nastiness reached there towards her daughter is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Palin quoted General MacArthur as saying "We are not retreating; we're advancing in a different direction." I like that quote so much I am offering you all a variation for the next time you feel yourself losing an argument: "You're not kicking my ass; I'm mooning your foot!"

[Anonymous]

Ha! I read later that wasn't even a MacArthur quote. Oh, Sarah.

[Anonymous]

The issue of Palin's and Obama's experience has been raised again in this thread. The attraction of both, while visible to different audiences, never lay in their experience. People saw things in them that may or may not prove to have been prophetic. I certainly did not expect Obama to funnel billions to Wall Street and leave gays waiting at the altar (forgive the intentional pun).

Each one raises powerful emotions in both supporters and detractors, for which we political junkies ought to be grateful. We get so much to bloviate about!

[Anonymous]

I had planned to leave it to a professional to break the bombshell about Palin's reason for resigning, but I just can't hold it in any longer. Recall Craig Ferguson's "naughty librarian" piece about Sarah Palin, then add the fact that both just happened to be in Kosovo from June 26 to June 30. Makes a trip to Argentina seem like a backyard jaunt, no?

[Anonymous]

I think she's preggers again. That's why she's quitting. Did you hear her press conference? The basketball analogy was inane. She's headed for TV. Watch this space.

Oh, and so she gets elected president, and she decides not to run for reelection: "I'm quitting with a year to go. Don't want to be a lame duck."

She was and always will be a footnote to history. Evidence of McCain's desperation and dementia.

[Anonymous]

Irony: In order not to be a lame duck, she lamely ducked the rest of her term.

[Anonymous]

I loved Anderson Cooper's points:
1) She's trying to lead by quitting
2) Imagine if all governors decided to quit when they became lame ducks

To release this late Friday before a holiday weekend means she's trying to bury it. I think something big and bad is out there (and it has to be really bad considering everything she's managed to wink her way through so far) OR she really is a whack job who can't finish anything she starts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved Anderson Cooper's points:
1) She's trying to lead by quitting
2) Imagine if all governors decided to quit when they became lame ducks

To release this late Friday before a holiday weekend means she's trying to bury it. I think something big and bad is out there (and it has to be really bad considering everything she's managed to wink her way through so far) OR she really is a whack job who can't finish anything she starts.

I know. Then they'd all quit with 18 months left in their terms and then they'd become lame ducks when they had 24 months left in their term!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Less of an experience problem than you-know-who. Didn't seem to need 'notes' to talk either. She is getting better with that over time (unlike you know who)

This post must be a joke. She really, REALLY should have used notes. And a teleprompter. And a stunt double. Her speech was basically one long rambling run-on sentence with various soundbites thrown in at random to make sure everyone knows she's still a maverick and a patriot. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Less of an experience problem than you-know-who. Didn't seem to need 'notes' to talk either. She is getting better with that over time (unlike you know who)

This post must be a joke. She really, REALLY should have used notes. And a teleprompter. And a stunt double. Her speech was basically one long rambling run-on sentence with various soundbites thrown in at random to make sure everyone knows she's still a maverick and a patriot. Come on.

Valiant effort to counter "you-know-who" poster, who for some reason has a typing impediment and cannot form the name "Obama" with her keyboard. But, really, there is no reasoning with some people. Palin could sh*t on a plate and this poster would call it chocolate cake.