From TPM: Ummm, good point guards don't get picked apart by presses. There were rumors after the election that she might get a talk show. I'm thinking that's more likely, as this makes running for Murkowski's senate seat harder, I would think. Troopergate wasn't seemingly enough of a scandal to bring her down. Unless she was caught on the Appalachian trail, total head-scratcher.
How is Palin going to have a national platform when she's no longer in office? To camp out in Iowa and New Hampshire for three years? Ask John Edwards how well that worked out. Quitting before her term ended, without announcing a Senate run or for any semblance of a real reason, seems like political suicide. Why is she willingly going off into the wilderness? Bonus points for comparing herself to Seward during the press conference. (b/c he predicted the Cold War & oil deposits a century in advance?). Palin's Folly indeed. Extra bonus points for the crying babies / duck mating calls in the background of the presser.
I guess I might be naive here but I think she just got tired of the ethics complaints (15) and attacks from the Lettermans. If she runs in 2012 she will lose because she obviously cannot handle the pressure, but if she just does a few books for cash and high cost speaking functions, she was tired of it.
So, because she can't handle Letterman and ethics complaints (I'm saving Alaska money they would have spent checking up on false allegations of misdeeds?), she can't fulfill her elected term as governor? And this thin skin somehow qualifies her to be president? Her statement sure didn't make it sound like she planned on going away anytime soon. We'll have Sarah Palin to kick around for a while yet, given her resignation speech's tone.
I heard the speech and I think it could easily be talking about some book deals or a TV show or something. I dunno why you are asking me why something qualifies her to be president cause I never said anything about that. I guess you are just spanking it over trying to attack her some more or something.
All of the petty ethics violations proved worthless and the media attacks grew more vicious. If you can't attack her policies, this is what the libpigs and their media handlers must stoop to -- and this is what we saw. It was the most coordinated, intense character assassination by the media in modern history. Why? Because she steals people away from the libs -- people that the libs thought they owned. This move allows Palin to focus 100% on connecting with the lower 48 and increasing her national profile. Smart, if she plans to run in 2012. I'm a Romney voter, but if given the choice of Palin versus the insidious fraud that is Barack Obama, then obviously I'm voting Palin.
Despite my views of her as a politician I hope she does well when she resigns. I think she resigned because of the insults dished at her children. I think she's hoping that her resignation will stop those insults and that she will fade away from the lime light. It's not for everybody, and I can understand that. She's going to get a big book deal, make a ton of money, and basically live an early retired lifestyle that will provide for her family and grandchildren for a long time. It makes sense.
Some of this makes sense, and I liked CaseyH's take on this quite a bit. But the bolded section above makes no sense. When has she shown that she wants out of the limelight? Or maybe by separating lime and light you mean that she thinks green stage lights make her look bad.
Odd; the second part of your comment didn't show up when I first read/replied to it, yet it doesn't show as an edit. I must have missed it. I wasn't questioning you specifically; I am however interested in Palin's or her advisors' thought processes into how this resignation is supposed to help her, politically mainly, but even in helping her sell a future book / television show. It seems like it's bad form, in either sense; to paraphrase her speech, you don't change a dead fish mid-stream, or something. I'll leave questions as to who is "spanking it" to the ones posting pictures of Palin in running shorts in the sister thread.
That was quite a rambling speech loaded with cliches and platitudes. If you removed all the repetitive fluff, it would have lasted 30 seconds instead of 6 1/2 minutes. Not finishing her first term as governor doesn't speak well to her political future. Palin may be dead in the water now, whatever her motivation for resigning. It won't be long before we find out what's up with her. Like Batman says, this is not good news for Dems. When Sarah Palin makes news, it drags the GOP further down. John McCain truly had no idea what he was doing. Maybe the Vanity Fair article and the incredibly vicious sniping it caused pushed this hasty announcement. I don't believe for one minute her resignation had been "in the works" for a while. This was rushed. Stay tuned.
