Just heard on TV that Bristol’s ex-boyfriend has his own theory: cash. Palin had dollar signs in her eyes, thinking about book deals and reality shows, and that stupid ol’ governing job was just slowing her down.
They did not say they had to do that. Nor did they indicate they could not keep up with their duties.
She defended Palin. What more evidence do you need?
In the PR department, Palin strikes me as being in a similar situation as Reagan was back in the day. The liberal mainstream media hate her like poison. Thus they spend gallons of inks and gazillions of electrons screaming "SHE’S HORRIBLE AND STUPID AND NASTY AND BAD AND EVIL AND WRONG!!! HATEHERHATEHERHATER!!!’
But not everybody will do as they’re told. Because we don’t all reflexively agree that resigning from an elected office means one is thereby disqualified to be President.
I know it drives the left-wingers batty (or, I should say, battier) but it is reminscent of what George Orwell said about Emmauel Goldstein - that he was refuted in Party newspapers a thousand times a day, and held up to public view as the trash that it was. And yet his influence never seems to grow the less.
Regards,
Shodan
Shodan, do you really see no significant difference between a president-elect resigning his Senate seat because he is about to take over the presidency, and a sitting governor resigning her seat to…go fishing, or something?
I think she wants the attention as much as the money. She had to hate having to go back to Bumfuck, Alaska after being the belle of the ball for two months. Not only that, but she had to go to work. For her, that was like having to leave the party of the year to go work a graveyard shift at a 7-11, two towns away from the city. A year ago, she made manager, and that was exciting, but now managing a 7-11 seems like small potatoes after she got to hang out with all those big city kids with their cool clothes, and their cars and all the attention they gave her. Plus, now there are all these coroprate suits from 7-11 starting to ask questions about cash counts coming up low, and why there’s two cases of beer missing from the inventory, and telling her she shouldn’t have fired that guy just for breaking up with her sister.
So basically, she just decided to call in her assistant manager to take over, and walk out on her job, because her maturity level is that of a 16-year-old.
Did this actually pass your brain filter and sound good? Really?
Resigning from a senate seat because you were elected president is the same as resigning from a governor position because of some mysterious reason no one can quite figure out?
Wow, you really got us there. That’s an air tight argument. If one can resign and be okay, then every resignation must be okay too!
Thank you for showing us the error in our ways. Our hypocrisy blinded us to the depth of your wisdom.
“Its not his ignorance that scares me, its all the things he knows for certain that just ain’t so.”
- Mark Twain
You may have a point, there, Shodan. Myself, I am so blinded by libmedia that I cannot recall much in the way of her accomplishments. Happily, this doesn’t apply to you, so you can, no doubt, instantly point out some of her many, many achievements. Just the top ten, we don’t want to put you under any strain…
Starv, if you do decide to read Ms Paglia’s books, would you keep a videotaped record? I’d like to have it for posterity, the exact moment that your hair catches fire. Just a hint: radical feminists were much more civil and polite in the 50’s.
Fear?? Yep, we’re guffawing, our sides are splitting, we’re ROFL in fear, I tell ya.
Last September, I referred to Palin as the gift that keeps on giving. (Might’ve been here, might’ve been out in the blogosphere somewhere, maybe both.) Believe me, I haven’t changed my mind since! Nothing in the way of horse-race politics could please me more than if she won the GOP nomination in 2012.
You know that GOP Congressional candidates in competitive districts are telling Palin to NOT come and campaign with them? There’s some fear for you!
By all means, keep on thinking that, if it makes you happy. Me, I’m just sitting back in a lawn chair with a margarita, watching the parade go by: Ensign, Sanford, Palin, Ensign again, who knows who will be wearing the clown shoes tomorrow? It’s a summer of high amusement, thanks to the GOP.
Maybe they can recoup some of their losses by getting people worked up over Sotomayor. Oh, wait - they tried that already, and it just got a lot of Latinos pissed at the GOP. Cool. 
I’ll admit to some fear. I fear that America may actually be filled with enough stupid people for Palin to have some measure of power. She’s a moron and has great sway with her own.
Also, quitting office to take up the presidency is a far cry from quitting an office to cash in on book deals.
Please, please, whatever you do, don’t nominate Sarah Palin, anybody but her. Obama wouldn’t stand a chance against her. Please don’t throw us in the briar patch either.
Yeah – on the one hand, I am filled with a certain glee at the thought of Palin actually running for the presidency and getting the nomination, just because I’m pretty sure that would make the U.S.S. GOP sink like a dead moose carcass.
But I’m not 100% sure. I think it’s just barely possible that she could squeak out a win. That’s what scares me. Not (heh) the fact that she, clever and sly as always, quit her job halfway through her term, apparently as a resume-builder. You just keep using that big ol’ noggin of yours, Sarah Palin.
Virtually everyone was much more civil and polite in the 50’s.
Still, it’s always amusing to note the inaccuracies in statements such as this. I’ve never held the fifties up to be a much better time as I regard virtually the entire 20th century prior to 1968 to have been a much better time.
It’s also amusing to note that, typically, of the entire littany of complaints I laid at the feet of liberal permissiveness - anything from the glamorization and proliferation of street gangs and thug life, to an educational system that promotes otherwise failing kids from grade to grade simply because to fail them would make them feel bad, to encouraging promiscuity (with its concomitant abortion and STD rates) and a drug culture that has resulted in more deaths and misery in this country than any of the lynchings that the left loves to portray as emblematic of that time - what everyone around here seizes upon as a defense is to make fun of my comments about that time’s politeness and civility.
It’s also interesting that, around here, politeness and civility are looked upon with such disdain.
You are mistaken; the disdain is for your attitude that politeness and civility can only be found in a bygone era. Most of us recognize that politeness and civility is to be found around us everyday in most situations, and so we find your constant assertions to the contrary to be silly, unfounded and irritating.
Hope this helps.
Interesting that you would pick 1968 as the particular year that everything went to hell. Did anything especially significant happen that year? Maybe some act of legislation which radically changed some things?
Hmmm…yeah… it’s on the tip of my tongue.
Probably bemoaning the election of Richard Nixon. Hey, I can relate!
Apt, yet hilarious analogy. Your prize for winning the thread is on the way.
This could be just the break the Nixon campaign has been waiting for!
Nixon/Manson in '12!