By Philip Rucker and Eli Saslow
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 3, 2009 4:06 PM
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) announced this afternoon she will resign from office on July 26 and return to private life, a stunning decision by last year's Republican vice presidential candidate to leave office before the end of her first term.
"We know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference for our priorities," Palin said in a news conference alongside a lake in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.
Using a basketball analogy, Palin said, "I know when it's time to pass the ball for victory."
Palin, 45, is a major star in the GOP and is seen as a leading candidate for the party's presidential nomination in 2012. Her decision not to run for reelection in 2010 and to leave office imminently came as a shock to Republican strategists today.
"We've seen a lot of nutty behavior from governors and Republican leaders in the last three months, but this one is at the top of that," said John Weaver, a longtime friend and confidant of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the party's presidential nominee in 2008 whose of selection of Palin catapulted the first-term Alaska governor to national prominence.
seems like a stupid move to me if she really has presidential aspirations. i mean, who wants to elect a president that may resign?
Q5echo
you figure, if she brought her kids out to stand beside her while she explained that this was above all a family decision then you have to assume that it is. there are no other expalinations yet to suggest otherwise. i don't believe there will be.
for most everyone here it's understandable how hard it is to be able to rationalize an explaination like that but it kinda makes sense after watching liberals taking every aspect of life to task for no other reason than being afraid of her for the last 10 months.
not only have they made it needlessly and wastefully harder on her to govern, it's obviously affected her family in a negative way. again, needlessly. now you can criticize her for that decision but in the end you must also ask
josh4
careful Q. we'll see how quick you are to label her a victim if we find out this was prompted from another child pregnancy or an affair of some sort.
Q5echo
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Originally posted by josh4
we'll see how quick you are to label her a victim if we find out this was prompted from another child pregnancy or an affair of some sort.
you won't. but like she said, we can all learn something from your eagerness.:rolleyes:
Lebezniatnikov
If you can't stand the heat, stay the hell out of the White House.
josh4
I'm not a fan of American tabloid culture either but that's all it was. American culture has a way of building up celebrities and national figures and in many cases dragging them down again. It puts a certain expectation on anyone that would be in that position.
There was not a librul media crusade against her. It was just the media. Same situation for the likes of Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, or Barack Obama. No different. She wasn't a special victim.
I don't mean to justify it, that's just the way of things. If she wants to move away from that then so be it.
Q5echo
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Originally posted by josh4
There was not a librul media crusade against her.
i think Hillary described it best, albeit mistakenly, as "a willing suspension of disbelief"
josh4
haha okay i'm curious. is this librul crusade run by the same underground conspiracy cabal responsible for man-made global warming misinformation or is that something different?
Q5echo
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Originally posted by josh4
haha okay i'm curious. is this librul crusade run by the same underground conspiracy cabal responsible for man-made global warming misinformation or is that something different?
liberal crusades are all the same animal.
you touched on it yourself when you said something about tabloid culture and how it pervades mindsets about people. well, it's gone beyond that now. it's tabloid politics/journalism that has taken over our culture. most of the crap seen dumped on this woman's lap was not in the interests of legitimate political discourse. it was done out of fear and in the interests of political assassination.
ziptnf
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Originally posted by Q5echo
most of the crap seen dumped on this woman's lap was not in the interests of legitimate political discourse. it was done out of fear and in the interests of political assassination.
You think the democrats are afraid of Sarah Palin? :stongue:
Capitalizt
That's one theory, lol.
and she certainly sounds nervous when she is speaking doesn't she?
breathy..manic..like she's strung out on meth or something..
