Palin Stepping Down
Former GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is stepping down as governor of Alaska at the end of the month, cutting her term short by seventeen months and sending the clearest signal yet that she is running for president in 2012.
And why wouldn’t she? Particularly given the rate at which GOP presidential hopefuls are falling by the wayside …
“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.
Really?
And bailing on your state a year-and-a-half before your term is up so you can run for president isn’t “politics as usual?”
Also, announcing the decision on the day before the long Fourth of July weekend – when Americans are completely tuned out – is pretty “politics as usual” if you ask us.
Heck, the only thing not “politics as usual” about Palin?
How hot she is. And how curiously aroused her footwear makes us.
Comments
By Richard on July 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 pm
This almost makes me wonder if someone had dirt on her and threatened to use it if she did not resign.Certainly she can make more money on the lecture circuit, but will she choose family values and stay home to rear her children? Probably not!
By BLBarBob on July 3rd, 2009 at 7:51 pm
She’s another right wing fraud, just like our own
dear Gov. Sanford. The most dangerous person in the
world is crazily hormonal woman with a thing for guns.
WTF was McCain thinking? Of course, she’s hugely
popular here in my beloved SC mainly by the same
redneck contingent thought Sanford was being cute
when he took the pigs into the Statehouse. Wake up
you dopes (oh, nevermind, go back to watching NASCAR,
sleeping with your best friend’s wives, and pulling
for the suckass Gamecocks). Bye Bye for now.
By CNSYD on July 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Tina Fey is back in business!
By roofus on July 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Let’s see–her church was firebombed by arsonists (while children were in the building)–her children were mercilessly attacked by savage liberal “entertainers”–and she’s 500 grand in the hole due to malicious lawsuits brought about by Obama’s People.
I think she’s just had enough. Who the hell can blame her?
By sic shillie on July 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Palin is a world clas clown. anybody who thinks she is presidential material or has ANY plans to run are sadly deluding themselves beyond all reason. personally, i thought mark sanford’s press conference was downright eloquent compared to the almost miss teen SCesque nature of her incoherent ramblings. i’ll say this for her: she really makes me laugh.
By harpazo on July 3rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
“The most dangerous person in the world is crazily hormonal woman with a thing for guns.” Really? Unlike a crazily hormonal man with a thing for Argentinians?
By Ron on July 3rd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
More information on “grassroots” supporters gathering across the nation to support Sarah Palin for President in 2012 can be found online at http://www.palin4pres2012.com
Note, the website is in danger of crashing due to the flood of readers and supporters signing up to show their interest in a Palin Candidacy. The GOP establishment had better watch out, Sarah Palin and Ron Paul combined with the power of the internet will remove the stranglehold of GOP special interests and the elites who have brought the party to its knees in defeat in the 2008 elections.
By Interloper on July 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 pm
The question is not: ‘What is Sarah Palin running for?’ It is ‘What is Sarah Palin running from?’ With all due respect to her vacuous press conference, she is not resigning because of David Letterman. Let’s hope that her real reason does not make the Luv Guv look like a stand-up guy in comparison.
By Mike on July 4th, 2009 at 12:08 am
I had a few people today convinced that she said that she had “crossed some lines” with another governor…
Oh, and Bob- why so angry bro?
By Upstate Conservative on July 4th, 2009 at 12:48 am
I think Sarah Palin is really letting down the people who voted for her. When I vote for someone, I expect that person to serve a full term unless circumstances make the person unfit to serve. So far as I’ve seen, Palin’s choice is a matter of personal preference.
I think she would perform much better in 2012 if she stayed quiet for a while. Fall off the radar and emerge a more on-message person. She has some good ideas, but she lacks direction when it comes to articulating them. Plus, the overexposure if she stays in the public eye will kill her campaign, in my opinion.
By liz on July 4th, 2009 at 7:00 am
How come so many Governor’s are ” getting gone” these days. All have differing reasons…
California- Gray Davis, then came McGreevy, Blagowhatever,two went to DC- Sebilius and the other one that is now an Ambassador, and I can’t recall the others but there are a couple more.
What is up with Governor’s ya’ll?
By Earl Capps on July 4th, 2009 at 7:00 am
I was going to say something like “three years as a Governor of a small state does not qualify one to be President”, but then I realized that we just elected a President with four years in the US Senate … and then I realized that given the mediocre job he’s done with his bogus “stimulus” and the way he’s emboldened Iran and North Korea … well, maybe we couldn’t do much worse.
Oh wait a minute, there IS Moonbeam Sanford …
By Wm. Griff Griffith on July 4th, 2009 at 8:30 am
We need a competent Republican party to clearly articulate useful conservative solutions. Sarah Palin will never be the leader of that party. Bottom line, Sarah is a physically attractive woman with a good dose of political acumen. Unfortunately she is ill informed regarding the issues we face and has some deep rooted “red neck” tendencies.
By Silence Dogood on July 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Even without having a tenure in office as President, just McCain’s campaign alone will have a lasting (negative) impact on U.S. politics because of this moron. She was the reason I realized that I couldn’t vote for McCain.
Talk about an opportunist, inexperienced idiot. So by Palin’s warped standards, we currently want Sanford to resign, but he won’t. However, under he twisted logic, he should be resigning anyway since he is about a year and a half away from being term limted. Does this mean if she wins the presidency for a second term she will resign a little over half way through her second term???
She is dangerously stupid.
By James the Foot Soldier on July 4th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Gee Silence – it took you this long to figure McCant out??
You and the other South Caorlinians that vaulted that dufus to the republican nomination have no one to blame but yourselves for Obama.
By Dj on July 4th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
After about a month this will die down to nothingness and what will the Huffington Post write for the 90% story space they will now have? I really dont get this lunatic hatred for a person regardless of their political association. I dont blame her for stepping down and the excuse that a politician should be able to suck it up is ridiculous and speaks volumes about what in politics we really care about. We dont care about actual political progression but more about the idiotic tabloid soap opera that is political “journalism” these days. When we brag about how we get our news from Jon Stewart rather than actual news (whatever that is these days) is clearly a sign that we truly live in an American idiocracy. We would rather form our opinions from other opinion writers who, when you get down to it, dont know shit about politics or law but have a very big mouth. We are so brain dead that no matter what we will defend our “side.” You will see the predicatable BS that will nail the coffin shut on Palin in the next few days and it will be full of angry hatred from people who dont have the balls to take her place in government who now will feel that it is their right to say the craziest BS. I love how people who dont even know where Alaska is have this devilish hatred for this women. You probably hate yourselves because you and your family and friends have the same problems she does. Im no huge Palin fan but even I could see through the media BS that you haters obviously cant. Apparently all you people who hate special needs children and womens rights and love aborting babies consider this a win. Its not, it s a loss because it only emboldens your ridiculous hatred for fellow human beings and ultimately bringing politics to school yard bullying levels. But being the asshats you are i’m sure you cant wait to run for office at any level to prove you can do better…right?…..Fuck you. You are doing a disservice to your country by kowtowing to what is fed to you.
By Que? on July 4th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Damn DJ…I thought i was pissed. You go girl. Sister calls herself a Sexy grandma. She looked as if she was pretty dependent on that dern teleprompter. IMHO..she aint got a hope in heck…then again if you want the truth axe my opinion and then bet like hell on the opposite.Either way shes gonna have her hands full with the incumbent. I especially like mande wilkes writing (aroused by her footwear indeed)
By Mr. Independent on July 5th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Has anyone ever heard this woman say anything at all that is not topical or shallow?
Drill baby drill? Come on – let’s get real. This isn’t an energy policy. It is a slogan for the simple minded.
She wouldn’t know a fiscally conservative policy from a dead moose.
I understand how she has appeal to some uneducated white women, but let’s face the truth. She has yet to offer any solid ideas on how to get our country back on track. She has probably spent more time picking out her wardrobe than studying the issues that need to be addressed to get our country back on track.
By Interloper on July 5th, 2009 at 8:43 am
So, Sarah Palin is having an affair with Ron Paul?
By roofus on July 5th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Mr. Independent,
So what exactly is Mr. Obama doing for the economy? How’s your 401 K looking these days?
16.5% unemployment is hardly what I would call success.
Drill baby drill may seem simplistic to Ivy League Socialists, but hey, when cap and trade passes, we will likely import over 85% of our oil.
But dependence upon foreign countries for our energy needs is what it’s all about (didn’t you see Obama bow before that Saudi King?)
Mrs. Palin is such a simpleton.
By Commoner on July 5th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Sarah Palin will now be branded as a quitter. Her resignation announcement sounded like everything else she has said. It was full of rambling platitudes and lacking any common sense.
If the Republican Party embraces her as a leader , no one should take the Republican party seriously anymore.
By Charles on July 5th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Uh, Roofus, actually my 401K is better than it was when GWB left office. In case you had not noticed the stock market is higher than it was on GWB’s last day in office.
By roofus on July 5th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
I’m glad your 401 K is doing so well. It’s too bad we lost another 460,000+ jobs last month. I’m sure it’s all just Bush’s fault.
By Elmo on July 6th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I hear Sarah Palin is going to take Jerry Springer’s spot.
Roofus, blaming Obama for your 401k loss is childish. Take personal responsibility for your retirement funds. You could have yanked your money out before Obama took office if you knew he was going to ruin the economy.