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To: alstewartfan
"All I know is that she could not govern any longer, entrapped within a system which allowed a dozen frivolous lawsuits against her, at her expense. I’d have bowed out of that situation as well..."

Then you too sir, would be forever labeled a QUITTER! I can't believe these so called conservatives defending Palin's SURRENDER. As a retired veteran I will never support a candidate for president who did not have the guts to fulfill their oath of office. If elected how could she order good men and women into battle knowing that when the going got tough for her, she QUIT! Quitting on your state, country and fellow servicemen will always be looked at as a bad thing to this veteran--no matter how you cheerleaders spin it.

153 posted on 03/04/2011 8:55:34 PM PST by blaquebyrd
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To: blaquebyrd
In what way did she not fulfill her oath? I read the oath that Alaska governors take, and nowhere could I find that they swear to serve at least four years.

I've been in the military too, and I wouldn't have had much respect for a commanding officer who'd expect his troops to remain in an impossible-to-win situation; that to him, switching to a more advantageous position would be considered a surrender.

If Sarah Palin was a quitter and surrendered, she would have gone back to Wasilla to live out the rest of her days in quiet obscurity. But she didn't do that. Instead, she seems to be attacking from a different position that's given her the advantage. So I suggest you cut her some slack.

194 posted on 03/04/2011 10:45:09 PM PST by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: blaquebyrd

“I can’t believe these so called conservatives defending Palin’s SURRENDER. As a retired veteran I will never support a candidate for president who did not have the guts to fulfill their oath of office.”

Spoken like a true liberal. Quit my ass, she is in the fight.


198 posted on 03/05/2011 1:13:51 AM PST by rbmillerjr (I will not, under any circumstances, vote for Mitt Romney....none.)
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To: blaquebyrd
I can't believe these so called conservatives defending Palin's SURRENDER.

Hey, PDS twit...for someone who "SURRENDERED" she sure took a lot of lib scalps in the 2010 elections.

204 posted on 03/05/2011 4:25:44 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: blaquebyrd

You may well be a “salt of the earth” American, I have no doubt, but the old line, “Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em” rings true to me. The leftist garbage thought that they had Sarah checkmated, but she escaped. She lived to fight another day, in my judgment. Hanging on to her governorship at all costs would have been foolhardy. I respect your disagreement. Bob


254 posted on 03/05/2011 6:43:03 AM PST by alstewartfan ("He's only come to bring another perfect dream." Al Stewart from "Shah of Shahs")
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