Palin ends her political career

This has nothing to do with party BTW.

The issue here is that she quit before her term was up, if she tries to run for any higher office she's going to be labeled as a quitter. "What makes us think you won't just quit being President if your kids vote that you should quit?".

This is the best you could come up with??? Oh well, it's a free country for people with "correct" opinions  like yours.  Your free to express it.

And what will she say to any senator still collecting his paycheck to run for
president? I'm doing this on my time and my dime and you just can't stop sucking the public teat and have no confidence that you will win this election.
Regardless of what she wants to do next she's got a lock on the high ground and everyone else is fighting for bottom feeder. siegfried schlagrule

I'm just glad she's well + healthy and is not resigning for health reasons.
Altho, I don't know how she's held on to her mental health; what with all the cheap shots fired at her.
I say, God bless her; may she be well   

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Either way it's true, what person would you possibly trust the fate of the country too that couldn't stick it out as Governor?

Man Lasi, this is soooooo flaky and weak. Sure, what ever did not stick it out, not even a serious issue. The lady had the chuptza to do what most politicians wait until the last moment to do, and you hold it against her with the most petty of arguments. She did nothing wrong, and this reflects well or her, not negatively.

Man Lasi, this is soooooo flaky and weak. Sure, what ever did not stick it out, not even a serious issue. The lady had the chuptza to do what most politicians wait until the last moment to do, and you hold it against her with the most petty of arguments. She did nothing wrong, and this reflects well or her, not negatively.

BS, she quit, would you have wanted Bush to just "quit" in 2007 because of his crappy poll ratings? What if Reagan had just stepped down at the end of 1988 because he didn't want to be a lame duck?

You either finish the job you told the voters you would complete or you accept the stigma of quitting early, you can't have it both ways.

It doesn't matter that it's Palin, or what her party is, or anything else, if she tries to run for a higher office now her opponent is going to use this action to rip her to shreds.

There is no shame in what Palin did. She spared the voters of Alaska of having a Governor who has her duties split between running for  President and fulfilling her office. If you see that as quitting, fine, but I see it as noble and a deed that I hope I could have performed as well as she did. Boy, your sure are a hater of good lookin women, or is it only of good lookin Conservative women like most Liberals?

When Sarah came into the spotlight - the liberal lawyers parachuted into Alaska , filing dozens of frivolous lawsuits (none of which panned out) , these bogus accusations were costing the Alaskan taxpayers lots of money to process . She finally said enough is enough .

The latest lawsuit is over an Arctic Cat jacket she wore at a dogsled race last March .

There is no shame in what Palin did. She spared the voters of Alaska of having a Governor who has her duties split between running for  President and fulfilling her office. If you see that as quitting, fine, but I see it as noble and a deed that I hope I could have performed as well as she did. Boy, your sure are a hater of good lookin women, or is it only of good lookin Conservative women like most Liberals?

Regardless of who she is or what party she is part of, the simple fact is she quit and that is political gold to her opponents, no matter what party they are from.

And mark my words if she tries to run for office again this will be her downfall. The TV ad will be something to the tune of "Governor Palin allowed her children to decide if she should be Governor anymore, is she going to let her children decide how she runs things in the Whitehouse? We need solid leadership at the top that won't leave the American people hanging when times get tough, vote for candidate X"

Did she leave over tough times? Nope, but is that going to matter? nope. Remember the swiftboat ads,, and how effective they were. I think frankly it's going to be used against her more by opponents in the primaries than the opposing party too.

This is a simple Political Science 101 debate, not a Rep/Dem fight, i'm sorry if you can't separate the two and it has to be a polarized emotional fight for you.

She said she quite due to the law suites agienst her (and Alaska), by folks that are trying to destroy her b-4 she can make a presidental run,  Because they are scarred of her (like Lasi is doing here)  it I belived that is for the Greater good Of Alaska.
   I also Belive she is preparing for a presidental run.

She said she quite due to the law suites agienst her (and Alaska), by folks that are trying to destroy her b-4 she can make a presidental run,  Because they are scarred of her (like Lasi is doing here)  it I belived that is for the Greater good Of Alaska.
   I also Belive she is preparing for a presidental run.

Yes, "When the going gets tough, she got going.. out of office". She is hardly the first politician to have faced legal issues, people are going to easily believe that she left because of no backbone.

The difference is that you like her so you view it how you want to view it without a shred of logical thought and just attack me because I disagree.

I might as well try to have a logical discussion with a 3-year-old.

I didn't attack you lasi, as you just did me.
 But her rosining was for Alaska.
I'm sure the hatchet Salinger's will call her a quieter. But she Usenet doing it for herself personally.

If you remember Bob Dole he was trashed for not quiting as a senator when running for president, So he did the right thing and resigned, but when Obama and Hillary and Mcain did just that, no one said a word.
 They literally abandon there jobs to run, it would of been better if they would of quite

Good thing Hillary didn't quit to run for President then. 

After the way she was crucified by the Liberal Left I don't blame her.  The "R" beside her name was the same as a target and now that her reputation and family name has been ruined the Left can focus on other "R"s that threaten their grip on power. Heaven forbid a woman rise to power who isn't a Democrat.

Quit?  She chose to take a less expensive route to "change" for the people of Alaska.  How about that Obama? ...  if he really wants to make a change, how bout he QUITS and allows the people of America to retain that which they have rightfully earned rather than giving it away to those who do nothing and want it all.  I think that given the number of law suits being filed against her by the dems and the fact that none of them have come to anything, justifies her in stepping down for the good of the state before it goes bankrupt fighting off ridiulous law suits designed to keep her buried in red tape so that she cannot run for anything.  It is just a shame that the only way the dems can attempt to bring her down is to bash her for being an ordinary American citizen with ordinary kids and ordinary family issues and interests.  I guess it is true that for some they cannot look good and succeed unless the opponent looks bad and is surrounded by scandal...a dem just can't win it on their own merit.

Georgiaflutterby

It was "Ethics complaints," not lawsuits.

The most expensive one to investigate was the one she instigated herself.  It cost around 187K to investigate (the cost wasn't too far from 200K, anyway). 

The Alaska State Legislature had done its own investigation called the "Branchflower" (?) investigation.  It had 4 - 6 Republicans and 2 Democrats on that investigative board, and they determined that while she had not broken any laws, she had, in fact, violated the state's ethics guidelines.  At that point, Palin submitted her own "Ethics Complaint" against herself (!) to the Personnel Board, and that's the bunch that stated the complaint was baseless.

The Personnel Board is appointed by the Governor of Alaska. 

That can be checked at http://www.adn.com (Alaska Daily News), among other websites.

There are some who feel that Palin is finished politically and some who feel this resignation thing is a masterstroke of Machiavellian proportions (smart, wily politics, if you don't wanna look it up).  Most people have no idea what she has in mind.  Many wonder if even she knows.

Just a note: she never used the word "resign" in her press conference on July 3rd. 

Great article roswell you should read it. Palin is so on the level, leftist and rightest cant understand her.

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/854318.html


Alaska has a great paper also im saving it to favorites, very diveers, Thanks roswell

I like Palin but I sure wish she'd get her hair done somewhere.

teddy

Palin just finished a best seller book (funny how all the best selleres are from conservatives)  and giving interviews. I guess shes still in the Hunt,(and folks still support her, BIG TIME, LOL) despite the liberal socialist dreams/slanders about her.

Lasivian,

Have you read Sarah Palin's book?  If you did you problibliy would not have made this post,  Get a copy and 

Paul (Ca)

I don't think she has the brains to be President. Seriously. All the jokes etc during the campaign all pointed towards her disability. I like her, don't get me wrong. But she surely lacks the brain power. If we are all honest, pretend  she isn't beautiful. Pretend she looks look like Barbara Walters. Then listen to what she actually says. Not a sam chance in hades she has brains. She would be good at doing dog food commercials. Picture her in a lacy nightgown selling kibble and bits. I can hear the howling now.

 

I don't think she has the brains to be President. Seriously.

In the past I may have agreed but then we got Obama. Now I'm not so sure it takes brains. Whats needed today is money, ability to read a monitor, and to be for abortion. Oh yes, and one must be faithful to whomever bought them into office.

If we are all honest, pretend  she isn't beautiful. Pretend she looks look like Barbara Walters.

LOL! That's one for you  

Picture her in a lacy nightgown selling kibble and bits. I can hear the howling now.

Now there's a thought! 
teddy

Palin caused McCain the election. White trash begets white trash.

White trash begets white trash.

I think there are sometimes exceptions but as a rule I agree. It's also true that yellow trash begets yellow trash and red trash begets red trash and black trash begets black trash and green trash begets green trash, etc., etc., etc.

teddy

Palin caused McCain the election. White trash begets white trash.

I'm unsure what this is suggesting.
Are you implying that if McCain had a colored person as a running mate he may have succeeded,
or perhaps if more was made of Palins Inuit relatives it would have been different.
In any event your remark was racist.

Palin caused McCain the election. White trash begets white trash.

 disagree,  McCain cost Mcain the election. Palin got me excited for the Republican party agien, as she is a TRUE conservative not a wishy washy moderate like McCain.
  I will be suprised if the republicans dont nominate her this time out. of course I was amazed when huckaby (another true conservative) droped out to make way for McCain.

Palin caused McCain the election. White trash begets white trash.

 disagree,  McCain cost Mcain the election. Palin got me excited for the Republican party agien, as she is a TRUE conservative not a wishy washy moderate like McCain.
  I will be suprised if the republicans dont nominate her this time out. of course I was amazed when huckaby (another true conservative) droped out to make way for McCain.

I agree. But the media sure put all their guns on her, didn't they? They called out just about every worthless reprobate they had to smear her.

What does America want today? More people like David Letterman? On public television he immodestly admits before all America he cheats on his wife and America cheers! This is the baser sort casting the votes these days. America has had it. It's already over.

The biggest problem with Palin is she's way too honest and clean for how America is today.

My wife hope's Palin will be on the presidential ticket again but most likely this will never happen.

Palin caused McCain the election. White trash begets white trash.

 disagree,  McCain cost Mcain the election. Palin got me excited for the Republican party agien, as she is a TRUE conservative not a wishy washy moderate like McCain.
  I will be suprised if the republicans dont nominate her this time out. of course I was amazed when huckaby (another true conservative) droped out to make way for McCain.

I agree. But the media sure put all their guns on her, didn't they? They called out just about every worthless reprobate they had to smear her.

What does America want today? More people like David Letterman? On public television he immodestly admits before all America he cheats on his wife and America cheers! This is the baser sort casting the votes these days. America has had it. It's already over.

The biggest problem with Palin is she's way too honest and clean for how America is today.

My wife hope's Palin will be on the presidential ticket again but most likely this will never happen.

I admire honesty in a person and I believe President Obama is the most honest politition
that I have ever observed.
I admire David Letterman for his honesty.
And then we look at the party that expouses family values and engages in rampant sex scandals:
The Republican Party.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/06/sex_scandal_flow_chart.php

CMON PIG youve seen Blatent LIES by Obama posted over and over here in Obamas Own words,  and you ignore them??   whata fruittcake

CMON PIG youve seen Blatent LIES by Obama posted over and over here in Obamas Own words,  and you ignore them??   whata fruittcake

Show me proof of this. What lies and if you say he said it prove 2 things:
1. that he said it, and
2. if he did say it , that it is a lie and not a mistake or indeed the truth.

If you personally can't come up with the goods TC and you won't apologise then
you remind me of the enemies Jesus had.

7 lies in 2 minutes
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/cfu1_Scgyow" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/cfu1_Scgyow</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/d_Z5KZ42GXw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/d_Z5KZ42GXw</a>

do you really need more??

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMdmPn2tcd0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/TMdmPn2tcd0</a>

dude cant even be honest about where he meet his wife.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/34ULkUPLhWw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/34ULkUPLhWw</a>


or his pasture

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/UlBj9mzqOIU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/UlBj9mzqOIU</a>


Hell dude just type in obama lies on youtube and get it all yourself.  Or turn your Blind eyes away agien.
  Your the one that said "I admire honesty in a person and I believe President Obama is the most honest politition
that I have ever observed."
 

One of my favorites.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/069gUEHvP7Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/069gUEHvP7Y</a>

This guy is a Moroon

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/EpGH02DtIws" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/EpGH02DtIws</a>

  Now this one isent a Lie BUT its Hillarious, He accidently dident know how many states were in the country he was running to be president of.

NOW Piggy you can say "wow Im wrong, I guess Obama is a Liar"
 ohh and here is a particularly Pro liberal bias sight that just cant seem to figure a way to Hide his lies.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/personalities/barack-obama/statements/?page=2

 I dont care much for the sight because a half lie is still a lie. Pitiful record.

I'll highlight the "first meeting of Michelle" mistake by the enemies  of truth.

Obama said:
"I don't know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I did, but I'm sure that you're all going to have wonderful careers."
and we have this interpretation :
Not true! Politico, ever-vigilant in catching the lies of politicians, fact-checks:

But the truth is that the couple met not "in class" but at a law firm in Chicago, Sidley Austin, in 1989. Obama was a summer associate (essentially a legal intern) there and Robinson was an attorney completing her first year at the firm. She mentored Obama who was still at Harvard.

My(piggy's) view.
The law firm was the practical classroom where Obama spent his summer working and learning.
Michelle was tasked to be his mentor(his teacher).
He therefore met his future wife in a classroom. At no point did he say he met her in class at Harvard.
He therefore did not lie.

All of Obama's so called lies can be broken like this.

Good luck with that blind pig. Take your time, perhaps you can write book.
  Im sure it would make it to the best seller list.

 Check mate.

 The guys a liar.... or a misinformened idiot. either way hes hrdly a dependale enough  person to be the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth.

   Id love to hear your explanation of the 57 states statment....Or the post 33 statment.. LOL, hell the guy dosent even remember how he voted.

"he was tired"  "hes a idiot" you make the choice of your statments. But you cant conclude much else.

I posted 7 videos with multiple lies... and thats all you got..

The 57 states was a gaffe, he meant 47, with 1 more to go making 48.
He wasn't going to Alaska or Hawaii, which would be the 50.

even today... You cant make this stuff up.

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1151ap_us_obama_early_departure.html

I'm glad you brought this up.
This shows the human face of the President.
In all honesty, looking back at the work load he has worked through, do you
think a Palin or a Perry could have come through it with just a few gaffes.

The 57 states was a gaffe, he meant 47, with 1 more to go making 48.
He wasn't going to Alaska or Hawaii, which would be the 50.

  LOL...keep diggin brother, This is hillarious.  Ok It was a gaffe. as in "im a mooron, I dont know how many states are in the USA"

  Check mate
 Fruit cake

LOL I think any 2nd grader knows how many States are in the USA.  but please,  do'nt stop now you've only just started to defend the lies.

  This outta be moved to comedy central!

LOL I think any 2nd grader knows how many States are in the USA.  but please,  do'nt stop now you've only just started to defend the lies.

  This outta be moved to comedy central!

Back when the states thing happened, I said there's no way that guy will be president. My wife spoke up and said "I think he'll win." Well, the rest is history.

Just look at how the media sought to exaggerate every little speech goof by Bush. Obama doesn't have basic knowledge of the country he "leads" and says the craziest things and we don't hear a peep out of them. Hum, wonder why?

I personally dislike conspiracy theories but this one has gone way beyond theory.

I admire David Letterman for his honesty.
And then we look at the party that expouses family values and engages in rampant sex scandals:
The Republican Party.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/06/sex_scandal_flow_chart.php

My comment including Mr. Letterman wasn't an attack on him personally. David is a symptom and not so much a cause. If there weren't so many who loved his profanity and wicked talk he'd be out of business fast.

My point is, the popularity of people like Letterman tells us something about America. If America were more wholesome, Letterman wouldn't be saying and doing what he's saying and doing. These big celebrities are like measuring sticks of the morality of the country. They're in a business to give people want they want. They fill needs, they don't usually seek to create them.

Also, you are correct when you suggest that our countries moral issues are not limited to any one party. What I write about our president is about our president, not necessarily everyone in his party.

Here are some quotes from some of the dumbest men who ever lived. So stupid, so religiously warped, and so far right were they that they laid the foundational work for the most powerful nation the world has ever known.

Consider:

John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798 warned his fellow countrymen stating, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams is a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and our second President.

Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence said. "[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.  Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind."  

Noah Webster, author of the first American Speller and the first Dictionary said,   "[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence."

Governor Morris, Penman and Signer of the Constitution.  "[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God."

Fisher Ames author of the final wording for the First Amendment wrote,  "[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind."

John Jay, Original Chief-Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ,  "The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts."  

James Wilson, Signer of the Constitution; U. S. Supreme Court Justice, "Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. . . . Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other."

Noah Webster, author of the first American Speller and the first Dictionary stated, "The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. . . All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."

Robert Winthrop, Speaker of the U. S. House,  "Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet."

George Washington, General of the Revolutionary Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, First President of the United States of America, Father of our nation,  " Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society."

Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

"Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness . . . it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof." Continental Congress, 1778

Note that the above quotes are but a small sample of hundreds of quotes the Founding Fathers made in regards to the importance of a religious and moral people in a successful Republican Democracy.

In our young nation, the Bible was used as a text book for the purpose of teaching children moral principles to live by.  As time went on, the Bible was gradually replaced by other text books such as Noah Webster's Primer.  Webster's Primer taught children to spell but was also filled with moral Bible verses. In the front of his Primer was his picture with the inscription, "Who taught millions to read but not one to sin."

This is the exact opposite of the school curriculum today. The courts in this country have revised the First Amendment, thus erecting a wall of atheism around every public school in America, where in God is not allowed to be mentioned.   This is not the same wall that Thomas Jefferson envisioned.

Has the School Prayer issue affected other Freedoms?

America has departed from the wisdom of the Fathers and turned to idiocy. The "recessions" and "double dip recessions" of today will continue and worsen. America is doomed, that is, the America those of us over 40 knew.