Posted on 07/04/2009 4:35:55 PM PDT by TheFreedomPoster
Obviously, the fifteen frivolous ethics violation charges, all dismissed, were more than beginning to take their toll on her, her family, and becoming a distraction from her ability to effectively govern the State. She did mention in her speech that she had personally incurred over $500,000 in legal bills, "just to set the record straight," and she had to be wondering if the onslaught of attacks from her political opponents would ever stop.
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I have watched in wonder as every “reporter” on various networks interviews every imaginable person to try to figure out exactly why Gov. Palin resigned. It is abundantly clear by their questioning that the media personalities have never owned a business or attained a position with more responsibility than daily wardrobe choices, or the answer would be obvious. When someone of good character and conscience assumes leadership “command and control” of any organization, a good leader will place the needs and interests of those led/served above their own.
For those who still don’t understand, let me explain. Gov. Palin is not running from the personal assaults against herself and her family, although who could really blame her if she did try to shield her children from the filth and evil in the minds of some of her most fervent attackers. She has chosen to remove herself from a situation that has become both costly and unproductive for the government and people of Alaska.
In the face of unrelenting ethics attacks that wasted the time, money, and talents of the citizens of Alaska that Gov. Palin had sworn to faithfully serve, she finally said “enough” in order to end the waste, fraud, and abuse perpetrated against the people of Alaska. It appears that Gov. Palin made careful arrangements to provide a smooth if not seemless transfer of power to the Lt. Gov. at the end of July, and this was not a hasty personal retreat.
Bottom line, Gov. Palin saw the damage that the personal attacks against her were doing to the people and government of Alaska through her, and chose to fall on the grenade to save the people and state that she loves so dearly.
In my line of work, we call these HEROES.
The only people looking at Palin as a quitter are people who were disinclined to support her in the first place.
“Not hard to figure out.”
Well good for you. Because I, and most other people, are baffled. Do you have some sort of inside info we don’t?
You actually thought she’s quitting just in order to go away permanently? Wow.
No wonder you’re being snarky, you don’t have a clue.
God Jeff, I pray your right.
We are on a fast train to hell and somebody better find a damned brakemen...
“Because third parties never get off the ground... Reagan understood that the best path for the enactment and preservation of conservatism is through the Republican Party”
The Republican Party was once an outsider party, fighting for a place at the table after the Whigs fell apart.
We’ve almost always been a two party system, but not the same two parties. Sometimes the parties change without changing their names; sometimes they fall apart altogether. Don’t know if it’s time for the Republicans to change, fall apart, or stay the same. But you never know when it’s time for an implosion.
“Holding public office has never been a requirement for being a public figure”
Exactly. If Michael Jackson had to put up with abuse, so does Sarah Palin.
We are at a pivotal crossroads in our nation's history. A very steep, very hard and dangerous roads leads one way...an abject fatal precipice leads the other.
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She made it clear, in her statement, why she's resigning. I'm sure there will be all kinds of motives attributed to her, but I'm taking her at her word.
Watch the video of the statement, or read the transcript. She says it plainly.
“The Republican Party...gained a toehold in power only because of the sheer force of anti-slavery sentiment outside of the South.”
You can make the argument that the Whigs never would have broken up but for the slavery issue. But someone had to take over the old Whig constituency. Whether or not it was the Republicans who did so, a new party(/parties) was in order.
“There is no political issue today that generates that kind of passion.”
No, there isn’t. But it need not always be one issue. It can be several. There are plenty of popular positions that remain largely untouched by Republicans, most importantly enforcement of immigration laws.
The trouble with saying “it can be several” is that the number of people who feel passionately in the same way about several issues is much smaller than the number of people who feel passionately about one issue.
At some point the math works against you.
Amen to what you said. Sarah Palin’s move was both couragous and selfless. Most career politicians would have clung onto that job till their last breath, regardless of the damage it may do to their state.
Exactly. These people weren’t supporters of hers anyway.
Only through the eyes of leftists.
“the number of people who feel passionately in the same way about several issues is much smaller than the number of people who feel passionately about one issue”
I agree, except political parties are masters of combining diverse views under one tent, especially in the age of “identity politics”. The reason why Democrats were able to build a legislative majority for most of the latter part of the 20th century after they became the Big Government party under Wilson and FDR wasn’t because they pounded home a single issue. They didn’t come out and say, “We’re socialists. If you want socialism, vote for us.” Rather, they conquered group by group, offering something to unions, the “poor”, the elderly, racial minorities, and so on.
Look at things today and ask yourself, what is it that binds liberals to liberals and conservatives to conservatives. No one single thing. Some conservatives are big on national defense, while some are libertarians. Abortion is an indicator, but in itself means little, since both parties are more or less willing to sit with things as they are.
I realize not much of this is to the point, since various shades of opinion flock to either party because they don’t have much of an alternative. The idea being that in the beginning, Democrats and Republicans stood for something tangible. That if they’ve changed since—for instance from Jacksonians to Wilsonians—it was from within. That the only time they ever imploded, besides the Jeffersonian party building an irresistable consesus, was because of the one big issue of slavery.
Well, I don’t deny that the Whigs crumbled because of their mishandling of the slavery issue. But I don’t believe that’s the only reason a party ever could crumble. There are examples outside of American history. Perfectly reasonable to imagine one or more major party decaying, leading to a temporary multi-party system before one party is able to coalition-build its way toward majority.
That’s what worked for the Nazis. There were a lot of big issues swirling around then: “the peace,” the depression, and so on. Moderates were split between Christian “social democrats” and more traditional types. Nazis started out opposing communists, and manuevered their way into power by picking up veterans, proletariats, rebellious youths, national defense-ers, big business, etc. Different reasons for different groups, but in the end, there they all are.
One aspect of slavery as the Big Thing is right on. Something important must be happening. Slavery, depression, impending war. Something momentous. But we usually never know when the times are special while they’re happening. If aliens were able to decipher our language, and were given to study the general period before the Civil War, would they have been sure carnage was coming, and that a new dominant national majority would grow out of it? I don’t know. Hindsight obscures my view.
All I know is, there’s a depression happening, and a variety of issues not being adaquetely addressed for a large plurality of voters, from immigration to the drug war to the national debt to the war on terror to prok-barrel projects.
“You actually thought she’s quitting just in order to go away permanently? Wow.”
Please point out to me where I suggested she was going away permanently. Cut and past accordingly. I won’t hold my breath.
My point was that nobody knows exactly what Sarah is doing right now, including YOU. So maybe the level-headed amongst us should adopt a “wait and see” approach before making “Madame Cleo” style predictions about her future plans. Like most news stories, the details will eventually find their way out.
Why is that? That is the reality of the situation, no?
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