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Sarah Palin to Step Down as Alaska's Governor
By Michael Kerr | 07/03/09 | 05:15 PM EDT | 16 Comments
Sarah Palin announced that she would be stepping down as Alaska's governor at the end of the month. She intends to transfer authority to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell on July 26th. Palin said she made her decision after much "prayer and consideration."
Governor Palin's decision sends a very strong signal that she intends to make a run for the White House in 2012. She will likely be spending her "off time" laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign.
Palin and her family have been under intense media scrutiny since she was selected as John McCain's vice-presidential running mate in August of 2008. A recent Vanity Fair article is the latest round of mud slinging aimed in her direction.
This should get interesting...
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There's no pretty way to spin this. And if she loved her family all that much, she wouldn't do something that would force her kids to hear about how their mom is a quitter for the next three years.
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|What part of planning for the future don't you understand. The press would pull apart every decision she makes as governor. Now she can make tour speeches without regard for missing time in her office as Governor. Her family has nothing to do with this decision, except she has higher plans.
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|Look out, Sarah is in the ring! Who can beat her? Romney? Jindal? No way.
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|Oh, no. I have to look at this moose hunter for the next three years? She is horrible.
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|This will give her some time to brush up on her foreign policy. This is going to be fun...
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|Matt: Well, Sarah's children will see their Mom as a "Fighter" as opposed to a "Quitter".
When was the last time that our Republic has witnessed a woman figure who is transforming politics?
Sarah Palin is pushing Hillary Clinton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton aside by creating a new page in the US History books by re-writing the role of women in politics.
Perhaps there is a calling for Sarah Palin to fight on through unconventional ways and stepping down may be a conventional thing to do for a women of her stature.
Nevermind, that Sarah Palin is a Republican who she will be a thorn to the liberal left and she continues to solidfy the GOP base much stronger than we have seen in years.
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|In his wildest dreams he couldn't have looked this retarded. The people of Alaska elected her to office and put up with a part-time governor for several months last year as she campaigned with McCain. Now she is quitting her term well over a year before it is over. It's one thing to announce you aren't running for re-election like Romney and Huckabee; it's entirely another to quit.
"Wink, wink, Alaska! When I'm prez you will get paid back! Ya betcha now!"
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|You can try to spin this any way you want. The bottom line: This woman is a mental case. Do you honestly think she has a shot at the White House in 2012? Oprah has a better chance. It is sad to see how far the Republican party has gotten of course. God, I miss Reagan.
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|The Republican heirarchy put McCain/Palin on the ticket in 2008 and look at the mess they got us into. The Democrats must be hoping the same level of incompetence will prevail in 2012. Frankly speaking, if Palin is the best we Republicans can put before the voters, we are doomed for four more years of Obamarama. He will be vunerable in 2012, but not that vunerable. If I were giving Sara Palin advice, it would be get elected to the U.S. Senate, take a low profile, work hard upholding conservative ideals and learn the ins and outs of why our government in Washington D.C. is so screwed up. A full term or two as a Senator would do wonders to broaden her horizons on a number of fronts. In her spare time, she could do appearances to help the National Party raise money, but forget the daily news flashes. At some point in the future, Sara Palin may well develop into a serious Presidential Candidate, but it will not be in the near future.
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|I'd trust a cabbie to make better decisions for America than I trust Obama, who is a Marxist/Socialist One-World-Superstate kind of a guy. Sarah will run, and she'll do just fine as she redirects the politcal discussion back to the ideals that America was founded upon: limited government, liberty, individual responsibility, private property rights and a civil society based on a God centered moral code. If we can't govern ourselves we will be enslaved by those who would govern for us -- the elites. Give me Liberty or give me death!
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|We wouldn't even be having this conversation if it were not for McVain. He fell in love with his brilliant political chess gambit. He would stand two steps behind and one step to the left beaming as his stared at her assets. Yes, he got a brief bump up in the polls during the honeymoon period. Then the slow implosion in his campaign played out. And now this is his legacy.
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|Andrea Mitchell is reporting that Palin is out entirely, that she's just sick of politics, the commute to D.C., etc.:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/03/andrea_mitchell_sources_say_palin_has_had_it_with_politics.html
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|Andrea Mitchell should reveal the source, if not then shut up! This is the problem with the DC culture within the snobbery of the elites: they gossip, sabbotage and do nothing for the good of the country only for themselves. The political class is going to get a rude awakening when the voters and the general public is ready to shake the whole system!
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|This isn't a matter of national security. And even then, she would not necessarily be required to reveal her sources, and neither should any journalist.
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|Uh...credibility? You know, the kind that you don't have?
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|...independently of anonymous sources, journalists are not required to reveal them. You know, freedom of speech, that thing we all have whether we like it or not?
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