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Why Sarah Palin Quit 
 In bowing out as Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin harkened back to her high school basketball days - although there was no sign of the "Barracuda," as she was nicknamed for her ability to cut through the opposing team's offenses. In a hastily called press conference on the eve of a three-day holiday, Palin presented herself as a point guard exhausted by the "full court press from the national level." The 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee explained how the metaphorical point guard should respond. "She drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her head up because she needs to keep her eye on the basket, and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can win," Palin said. "And I know when it's time to pass the ball for victory." Or take a timeout, as the case may be.

Palin's stunning announcement raised more questions than it answered: Is she bowing out of public life? Is there a more nefarious reason for her resignation after only two-and-half years in office - yet another G.O.P. scandal in the offing? Or is the woman who tops most G.O.P. 2012 shortlists to challenge Barack Obama stepping down to get a head start on her next presidential campaign? Palin took no questions after her unscripted, rambling address, and her comments seemed to hint both ways: that she's "passing the ball" of elected office, and that she plans on working for all Americans, not just Alaskans. "Some are going to question the timing of this and let me just say that this decision has been in the works for a while. In fact this decision comes after much consideration," Palin said, holding up her left index finger as she amended her thought, "Much prayer and consideration. And finally, I polled the most important people in my life, my kids. And the count was unanimous. While in response to asking, 'Hey, do you want me to be a positive influence and fight for all our children's futures from outside the governor's office?' it was four yeses and one 'Hell, yeah.' The 'Hell, yeah' sold it." (TIME Photographs: Sarah Palin...)

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Best of luck to her!! Anyone the mainstream media worked so hard to destroy must be someone remarkable.  Depending on the opposition, she may well have my vote.

If she got the nomination, it means the Republican party has basically conceded the election already.  So, I think it is unlikely, even if she tried for it.

Personally, I want the candidate to be a real conservative first and foremost.  I'd rather lose on principle than win with someone who doesn't have any.

Secondly, if the GOP is going to stand a chance, we HAVE to nominate someone young and charismatic.  Obama and Clinton clearly demonstrated that young and hip will beat out old and grumpy every time, even if old and grumpy is a real war hero, and young and hip has no substance at all beyond their image.

Last of all, even though we took a good "woodshedding" from the voters last time around, don't write off the GOP!  If the "Cap and trade" bill passes the Senate and becomes law, it will create huge tax increases, enormous new federal bureaucracies, and massive unemployment.  The American body politic is a big ol' sluggish beast, but it can only take so much before it rises up and shakes off those bloodsucking parasites.

yeah, I dont think it will happen. She appeals only to the far right wing of the party. Also, if she cant handle the job of governing a state like Alaska it doesnt seem likely that she can run the country. Personally I think we dodged a huge bullet.  Had McCain won I would have been moving to Canada.   :smile:      Not because of him really, although it did show his lack of vetting and disregard for what was best for the country with picking her, but because of her, she scares me.

I really hope we have seen the last of her. For someone who is so vocal about family being off limits she took every opportunity to shove them in the spotlight. She used them when it suited her agenda. 

I'm unconvinced Palin is such a person.  She didn't seem to be any more classically conservative, to me at least, than most of other republicans. 

I also have to say, do people really find her charismatic?  I found her mannerisms quite irritating, which is basically the opposite. 

Being a war hero doesn't qualify anyone to run a country.

Barring any scandal, I would expect to see her on the ballot for the primaries. I honestly doubt she will win the Republican Party nomination however.

I'm suspicious of that statement.

Yeah, she comes across as very cold. She's basically a more attractive version of Hilary.




I'm just plain suspicious...

*doggett whistles innocently...*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPYP0puqgBk

I'm not going to tell you what I think of Sarah Palin, because it includes nothing good.

As to why she quite, I think she's probably in one of those stages that people reach when they first become super famous. Like a pampered movie star, she has surrounded herself with people who only tell her the things she wants to hear. Granted, she has an inexplicable popularity with a certain segment of the populace, but her handlers are probably telling her that extends to everybody. It doesn't.

Politically, I don't think abandoning your post is ever going to help you, which is what she just did. Stranger things have happened, politics don't make much sense because people don't make much sense. They do love humiliating others, though, and Palin is well primed for a very public burn-out.

Tryin' t'start somethin' smart a**?   :bouncegiggle: Thanks for crediting ME with "that statement..."  :lookingup:  :hatred:  :twirl:  :bouncegiggle:

Note to all: AHD did not write that suspect sentence.  Some Time reporter did, I guess. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT_OwLS6Uew

I've watched "Naylin' Paylin" so it's hard for me to take anything with her seriously.

But even then I wonder what she'd be up to: Speaking as someone who isn't American, I don't know of anyone at all who considers her a candidate of anything, let alone the Presidency, so who knows what she's thinking.  If it's anything like politics here, people generally jump ship when things are about to go bad, or to avoid a controversy of some kind [or get voted out]  I've yet to see someone go out on top here and still be regarded as a 'good sort'. 

Don't know but we'll find out soon enough so why go throwing darts in the dark?

Because gossip is good for the soul

Could someone help me, please?

How does "bowing out" of your current office qualify you for future higher offices?

It has nothing to do with her gender at all. But everytime she opens her mouth and says something idiotic, I just wanted to tell her in person to please just shut the hell up and go away for good.  If she is already the best option  that the Republican party has to challenge Barack in 2012 then they are in even worse shape then I thought that they already were. I smell some kind of scandal on the horizon as to why she is stepping down in midterm.

Because shes a maverick, you betcha!    :lookingup:   

She is a functional illiterate at best and I wonder how some people can look at this woman and one, see her some how running the country and two, think that her hokey winking and you betchas are endearing.   Its crazy. How many colleges did she go to before finally getting a degree in journalism? 6 I think in 6 years.

Now that's not necessarily a bad thing but when you consider her most recent act of quitting it shows a pattern.
   

I'm as worried about her getting elected president as I am about the possibility of developing ovarian cancer. Neither are going to happen. Like I said before, I expect to see her on the Republican primary ballot but seriously doubt she will get the nomination. I put her odds of winning on par with the same odds of Al Sharpton winning the Democratic nomination or for that matter, Papa Smurf being elected President of the United States, ain't ever going to happen.

If you go to the latest poll figures from "USA Today," you'll see that her quitting has improved her standing among Republicans and worsen her standing among Democrats and Independents. Independents saying by a majority of 55% to 44%, that they'd would not vote for her as president, if she did run.

There is some good news for her among the poll results. Not only Republicans, but Independents by a small majority, think she has been treated unfairly by the press.
 

I really don't know why anyone would consider her qualified for anything. She was Mayor of Wasilla, a very prosperous community, one that was growing before, during, and after she was mayor, and at that, it's not any real huge city. On top of that, she did nothing to solve the problems it has, such as being the hub for the state's illegal drug market. She ran for Gov to succeed Murkowski, possibly the WORST Gov ever, his own party didn't want him on the ballot for re-election. Murkowski is the biggest thieving sleaze to walk this state, outright saying he'd plainly go around the entire state procurement (so he outright broke the law, intentionally) just to replace his prop-plane with a jet, just to be like the other Govs. Is it any surprise she won? Her entire campaign was "I'm not Frank Murkowski, and since I don't know what to do, I'll just do the opposite of what he did". Her resume includes being Commander-in-Chief of the Ak National Guard, and she'll tell anyone that will listen that, BUT, she has not done a single thing or made one decision regarding the AKNG, it's nothing but resume fluff. Does anyone really want a president or VP that NEEDS resume fluff? As Gov, she hasn't really done ANYTHING except a bunch of superficial crap. Yes, she sold Frank's Jet and put the money back into State coffers, , but realize she did sell it at a loss. She vowed to get the natural gas pipeline going, which she started strong on, but like a kid with A.D.D., it's gone nowhere after the initial burst, and we don't hear anything about it. Then if was off due to being pregnant, then on the campaign trail. We've gotten in those couple years what, a couple MONTHS of leadership from her? More than once she's tried to start something and pushed her way right into making it obvious she is like a bull in a china shop. For one, she started working on getting inmates housed out-of state back, and making decent progress, before bothering to figure out that we just didn't have the space to house them. THEN she started pushing to get a new prison built. Can you say 'cart before the horse'? Keep in mind that Alaska is one of the easier states to run: We have the permanent fund, and the majority of the people perceive it as the Government giving the people money, so they don't question the State nearly as much as other states do. BUT, is you want a good-looking woman in the white house and that's all you're concerned with, then she's your candidate.



So we should elect someone because they were a war hero? Is being a 'War Hero' what you consider 'substance' in regards to being president?


Well, she does fit THAT bill. . .

She should transition to porn.
I'd watch it!   :smile:  :thumbup:

What do you think would be a good name for her first porn video?

She should do a JOMG movie first, PM Me if you don't know what that is. . .

"So we should elect someone because they were a war hero? Is being a 'War Hero' what you consider 'substance' in regards to being president?"

A couple of you have posed that question in one form or another, so let me answer briefly.

I think that those who have sufffered and sacrificed for this country, like John McCain or Dwight Eisenhower, or even Andrew Jackson, treasure the nation in a way that those who have never had to actually defend their freedom cannot.  (And yes, I include myself in that latter category.  I spent four years in the Navy during the Reagan years, but never served in combat.)  I think military service, and especially military command, during time of great peril, gives a person a much clearer vision of what a dangerous place this world is, and just how fragile our freedoms actually are. And, far from being warmongers, those who have endured the horrors of combat are usually the least likely to start new conflicts.  They have seen how high the price of freedom is.

 That is something lifelong bureaucrats like Obama and Bill Clinton can never appreciate.

As far as Mrs. Palin goes, I have never lived where she governed, but I have watched a number of interviews with her. I find her charming and intelligent, but in need of seasoning.  I do not thing resigning the office, or publicly being so thin-skinned, will help her politically.  But I do share her basic political philosophy, and I find her lack of political correctness refreshing.

And, since I despise this country's sheeplike, liberal mainstream media, their attempts to destroy her made me even fonder of her, just as their unrelenting worship of Obama fills me with suspicions regarding him.

I'm not a scientist but I very much appreciate doctors, technology and medicines.

My point ?

No point, just shootin' the breeze... :teddyr:

indianasmith, I have personally known a great many veterans who are nothing but trash; drunks, meth addicts, wife beaters.  I have known veterans who I wouldn't trust to manage a McDonald's, much less a city, state, or country.

Some people joined the armed forces because the love the United States.  Others joined it just to get money for college, others just because they couldn't think of anywhere else they could get three meals and a place to sleep, a few may have just wanted to be Rambo.

In short, veterans are people just like any others.  You can't make a judgement about what kind of people they are based solely on the fact of their military service.  Some of them are heroes, some of them are patroits, some of them are just guys who did some time in the service, some of them are scum.

This is not intended to be read as a dismissal of members of the armed forces, past or present.  But you cannot and should not judge someone's character based on their military experience any more than you would if that person had been a doctor or a teacher.

Well, I wasn't speaking of just veterans as a whole.  I was speaking specifically of those who have acquitted themselves with valor and distinction in combat.  Most - albeit not all - of them tend to be a cut above the average person you meet.

True, I have known some folks, both in my active duty time and since I got out, who do not seem to be improved one whit by their service to our country.  But many are, especially when they have been tried in the fires of combat and come out mentally intact.  War is a bitter crucible, and many good men melt in it . . . but others are tempered to become more than they ever would have otherwise.

Well I HAVE been to combat, , and i can tell you you're reading way too much into it. You may have some grandiose idea that it somehow changes you or gives you some magical, divine knowledge that makes one qualified to run an entire country, but believe me, it doesn't.


You should work for Hallmark  :lookingup:


Why don't you just cut through the chase and say outright that you choose combat service as your measuring stick because the current Republican candidate has seen combat service, and the current and recent Democrats have not? I'm not sure what you have been watching, but nowhere have I seen Palin come off as intelligent. Maybe in comparison to George W, but that doesn't say much. And for the record, I was a republican until about halfway through Ws second term, I voted for him twice, so don't accuse me of blindly following either party.

Some real nice language there, Indiana, though retorts by Akiratubo and Ghouk are valid if not funny.  I learned a valuable lesson reading the last few comments.  Never take yourself too seriously.   :smile:

Did her teen daughter break-up with her husband?

So...  You voted for Kerry, right?   :twirl:

This is what I was wondering as well. I have never heard anything remotely intelligent come out of her mouth. Im amazed and quite frankly dumbfounded by people who say things like this. 

oh and McCain was a hot head.

I hope we don't have a falling out over politics ! :bluesad:

That, my friend, will never happen (again) on this forum.  Anyone who's been here 18 or so months or longer knows how admired Indiana is (our resident "bonehead" and I know Indy will get me) who has "acquitted himself" always as a considerate gent. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eflickfilosopher%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F2009%2F07%2Fwatch%5Fit%5Fhitler%5Ffinds%5Fout%5Fsara%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

They never got married, and as I understand it, no, they are not together.

Ghouck - it has little to do with the last election; that's over and done with till next time.

I think the bottom line is that I am a romantic idealist and you are a cynical skeptic.  Nuthin' bad about either position, but it will invariably lead us to opposite conclusions.

I hold myself properly scolded.

However, I will say this - the guys that won WW2 are STILL The Greatest Generation.


Period.

Greater than the guys that won the Revolutionary War?  Or would you care to revise your statement?  :bouncegiggle:

No, I'll stick by it.  Our founders created a great nation.  But the WW2 generation saved the world, pure and simple, from the greatest danger it has ever faced.  And they paid a much more bitter price in blood.

I'm assuming you mean all the ally troops and not just the US ones...

Specifically, I was referring to the U.S. troops.  The Brits were incredibly brave and definitely kept the fight going when no one else was in it, but they were hanging on by their fingernails and couldn't have won the war without help.  The Russians paid the biggest butcher's bill of all, and might have eventually crushed Hitler, but they were fighting for a system just as monstrous and evil as Nazisim, and for a leader who frankly made Hitler look like an amateur.  All three sides were necessary, however.  America could not have won alone.  But it was American participation that gave the victory the shape that it took.

No American GI's, no victory in World War II.  No Brits, no victory in World War II.  No Russians, possibly no victory in World War II.  It was British courage, Russian blood, and American steel combined that crushed fascism.

I'm glad you mentioned the Russians.  :thumbup:
People forget how many they lost.

No, I just don't ignore the fact that she's largely been useless. You see a pretty face and some talk about decades old basketball games, I see someone that has a large part of the nation fooled. The funny thing is, that the few issues I mentioned are just the tip of the iceberg, and aren't national secrets, everyone up her knows the details, and everyone in the lower 48 could also. The problem is that people from the lower 48 support her without, well I was going to say without question, but they largely didn't even look into her far enough to even begin to bring up any questions. Pretty face, nice legs, hunts moose, and she's qualified to run the entire country. These are the same people that accuse others of blindly voting for Obama for one irrelevant reason or another. I see the positives and the negatives in everybody, and weigh them against each other, I just don't place any real value in the superficial crap that makes her popular: the crap that has nothing to do with running a country.

Her supporters are going to feel foolish if/when it comes out that she really did leave for a lucrative media deal, even though I seriously doubt Levi knows what he's talking about, and am fairly sure he was manipulated into making those accusations. There's already talk of a media deal for her in the works from other sources.

Hold on, I thought we were talking about Sarah Palin.

He's here all week, ladies and gentlemen !  :teddyr:

What about the French?  :bouncegiggle:  I kid the French.

I know, you're more of the Janet Reno type. .  :teddyr:

 :tongueout: Not quite.

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Uncle Joe was only our uncle for a short while, but we must remember the good times we all shared together, and not think of him or his family totally as a bunch of nutters. Communism had it's good points too, like expendable lives. If it weren't for Communism we wouldn't have such films as "If Footmen Tire Your What Will Horses Do?".

Peace everyone!