Paul Mirengoff needs to get his head out of DC! What an elitist snob. I'm sick of these people trying to tell the rest of us who we should support and why. Thanks, but I can think for myself unlike the kooks on the left who need a 'leader'.
Posted on 07/05/2009 7:06:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's not clear why Sarah Palin resigned her position as governor of Alaska, but it must have been for one of the following reasons:
(1) there is a scandal that would have made her position as governor untenable,
(2) she couldn't take the heat that was coming her way,
or
(3) she concluded that it was in her best interests to do something other than fulfill the duties associated with the position the voters of Alaska entrusted to her.
In all three scenarios, Palin is unfit for high office, and certainly unfit to be the vice president or the president of the United States. Moreover, Palin's resignation confirms how disappointingly reckless it was of John McCain to choose the then-untested governor to be his running-mate.
And what are we to make, in retrospect, of the euphoria that greeted McCain's selection of Palin -- a euphoria that made the Republican convention seem so strange to me that, for the first time in my life, I felt I had returned to the real world when I arrived back in Washington, DC? I imagine the euphora was founded on the desperation Republicans felt as we saw the presidency slipping away, having already lost control of Congress.
There's no dishonor in this reaction; the dishonor belongs to those like Peggy Noonan who understood the situation but would only express it when they thought their microphone was off. But when we conservatives say that we need a restoration of conservative values, we should remember that one of those values -- perhaps the most important -- is sobriety.
Paul Mirengoff is another DC guy who just can’t wrap his head around the idea that Palin might have done what she thought was in the best interests of her state.
RINO
or perhaps she is going to run for something else soon and decided to give the electorate the opportunity to have a leader who will serve them instead of getting a paycheck while ignoring them....alla clinton, obama, mccain, leiberman, edwards, biden, dodd, kerry. maybe she saw the strain her VP candidacy placed on the job and does not want the same interference. plus if there were some scandal, certainly the news media who have relocated to Wassilla for the important news would have found it and reported on it by now regardless of how true it is.
I’m not voting for Romney.
Quitin’ Palin ‘09
What do you expect from elitists. They hate her because she did not go to Harvard or Yale, the schools for the so-called brilliant ones, kinda like Caroline Kennedy, she went to Harvard and Yale, and look how great she turned out, can’t have a conversation without saying “you know” 10 thousand times. God bless those pricey educations
The author’s wishes have manifest themselves in type.
We’ll see what comes. I suspect this idiot will be disappointed.
It all depends on what her intentions are. If she has no intention of running for president, then she very well might be doing what she believes to be in the best interest of her state. If she does intend to run for president and this is somehow part of the plan, then she’s just cuckoo. Time will tell.
and therein lies the problem...
(4) Clear the baggage to create and lead a 3rd party.
It seems you either love Sarah or you hate her, and it’s pretty clear that this guy falls in the latter category. I hope she proves him and all the others wrong. In fact, I’d bet money on it!
I don’t know who this guy is and I certainly don’t care who he thinks is “fit” for high office. Right now, there is an American-hating communist in our highest office and a half-wit imbecile in our second highest office. By comparison, Sarah is Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan rolled into one.
I don’t know who Paul Mirengoff is but what an ass. He has to return to Washington DC to find normal? One of the reasons I like Sarah Palin is because I detest people like him.
Powerline - she told you why she resigned - in very clear terms. It's your problem if you can neither hear nor understand.
The ‘elitists’ don’t like Gov. Palin. Why? ‘They’ don’t like those who don’t follow that we are to be ruled by our ‘betters.’ What...run for national office...on a State College education??? Why the nerve...how ‘upppity’ of her...
Respectfully, that is a load of crap. Bob Dole resigned from the Senate in order to focus on running for President and I don't recall people saying he was crazy. In fact, I seem to recall people praising him for not trying to hold on to a job that he couldn't possibly devote adequate time to if he was off running for President. Why the double-standard now?
And, imo, the best interests of the country.
Leader of the Conservative movement!
She has left Alaska in good hands.
She has stopped the petty ankle bit ting against her, with these bogus ethics charges.
She has set herself up to make lots of money on her book deal. (She deserves every penny!)
And, she has set herself up to be the “majority maker” in the next Congress.
She is in a perfect position, right now.
Quiter?
Obama quit his US Senate Seat, after only two years, to become President. Actually, Obama never really was a “Senator” for much of that time, he was a Presidential candidate from the FIRST DAY he was elected to the Senate.
Kathleen Sebelius quit her job as Kansas Gov. after promising she would not.
Hillary Clinton quit her job, as carpetbagging Senator of New York.
Rahm Emanuel quit his job, did he not?
How many others quit?
Is it better to keep a job, and be AWOL, or is it better to leave the State of Alaska in good hands, and fight to take back Congress?
Just leftist trash talk.
It’s DC against the rest of us, that much seems pretty clear. I wonder if these sucking toadie wannabes realize they will be the first useful idiots to be sacked when DC takes over everything?
(5) flip the DNC/GOP/MSM establishment the bird and do things her way (outside the box). In the process, help elect conservatives and pick off a few RINOs in the process.
After this, and collects IOUs, it’s her call. I wish her well.
And if she plans to run and wins, does that make you cuckoo instead?
She told us why she resigned. It isn’t her fault a**hats like this and many on FR can’t understand why. She said it twice, once on Friday and once Saturday. Anyone reading her two speeches and not comprehending why simply need to get a brain.
Paul Mirengoff needs to get his head out of DC! What an elitist snob. I'm sick of these people trying to tell the rest of us who we should support and why. Thanks, but I can think for myself unlike the kooks on the left who need a 'leader'.
And let’s not forget Barack Obama, who the people of Illinois elected him to be SENATOR, and what did he do, he served 100 days, if even that, and used that role to go campaigning for President, so in reality, he had no intention of even serving the people of Illinois, he just used the term “senator” to say “See, I have credentials, I can run for President now” and he was applauded by the left for doing so
Where have I heard that term, “Straight Talk” before? Hmmmmmmm.
Yup. Classic false dilemma.
Yup. Classic false dilemma.
Bush’s, Clinton’s, Obama, Ivy League all. Look at the mess they’ve made of things. Reagan wasn’t in their league and neither is Palin. God bless the outsiders!
Perhaps Sarah should recite the speech again, this time using sock puppets to once again repeat why she is leaving. She spelled it out simple as pie, some just refuse to get it
That says it all! What a jerk!
In other words, only DC knows what is best for the rest of us hicks. These elitists pos can kma.
Those Ivy League morons are the ones who have driven this country into the ground.
Hey, another HIT piece on Palin. She is doing one hell of a job of confusing the liberalsliving in a box.
They can’t handle the truth....that Palin is coming to throw them out of DC with a little help from her friends....the American grass roots.
Obama did not even, really, serve as a US Senator, as he was campaigning for President every single day he served as Senator.
Palin served as Governor for more days that Obama served as a US Senator.
Quit drinking the liberal koolaide.
I’ll tell you what, I resent mightily those that use their elected position to ignore their constituents while they run around trying to get another elected position.
All we need to understand is that RINOs and “moderates” are lying, manipulative, bottom feeding scum who will happily hand a seat to democrats if they think they can use fear to put it in RINO hands in the future.
I agree, supposedly Obama went to an ivy league school(even though we never saw his school records, hmmm I wonder why) look what this supposed genius has done. My dog could have done a better job with this country then Obama. How about for a change, we get someone in the White House who might not have that ivy league education but has something better, something called STREET SMARTS, someone who cares enough about America to defend it no matter what
Ronald Reagan faced the same thing. He definitely proved himself and they still hated him. But that’s okay as long as one is hated by the right people. Sarah can do it as well.
I wish Mike Royko was still around. He’d tear the Palin-bashers a new booty-hole.
Exactly, Ronald Reagan didn’t have that elitist education and he served this country honorably and wonderfully. The left hated Reagan and they hate Palin because they see too much of Reagan in her, she has spunk, and she fights for what is right, and God Bless her she cares about our troops. Watch a lib cringe every time Sarah says “God Bless America”
4) Dealing with all the rabid anti-Palin leftist media was taking away too much of her time. It was unfair to the good people of Alaska to not give them a full-time governor. Now she only has one full-time job: prepare for '12 and trouncing obama.
If the leftist liberals thought she was threatening and dangerous before, wait 'till they see her un-caged and out of Alaska.
heh-heh! (yes, I'm posting this all over!) This is why she needs to get out of Alaska! To shadow and dog the so-called potus on his treasonous adventure!
Having read some of the comments on this thread, I have to say that I think it’s time to stop uncritically defending Sarah Palin.
I don’t say that as an elitist Palin-hater. I was one of Sarah’s earliest fans. I was elated when she was chosen. I found her convention speech to be electric. I thought it was the dawn of a new conservatism - or maybe even the old conservatism, reborn. Then the campaign began in earnest, and I was disappointed that she seemed uninformed and relied too often on bumper-sticker slogans - but still I stuck with her. I rationalized that she’d been thrown into the campaign on terribly short notice and was probably required to tow the McCain line on certain issues. When McCain lost, I told myself she’d study up for four years and emerge as a formidable presidential candidate.
And then this happened. After resigning in the middle of her first term in state-wide elected office, she can’t be considered a serious candidate for president - or certainly not in 2012. Nothing she can do between now and then can overshadow the inexperience and “quitter” status that will define her. I’m not attacking her for it. It’s very possible she’s decided not to run for president, and therefore can do whatever she pleases. But as a presidential candidate, she is toast.
Finally an intelligent post on the matter!!! Thank you!
But ONLY the Ivy League can rule us! They are better than us. They talk all fancy and stuff...
Back during the 08 Presidential campaign, Camille Paglia, writing in Salon, really hit back at the Palin Syntax Derangement Syndrome...and they effete, elite who who are sooo flumoxed by ‘you betcha!’ Paglia wrote that any language evolves over time; and that colloquilisms and ‘local’ speak are part of English (outside of the beltway). Paglia may not have agreed with Palin politically...but she recognized her as a political force (that average Americans could related too).
Bob Dole didn’t resign in the middle of his first term in major elected office.
I think it’s (2), which makes sense having a special needs baby and a daughter with a child of her own. There’s nothing wrong with it and I admire the woman and what she represents but there’s no way she is fit for the presidency. Friends, in the immortal words of Mark Twain, “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt”.
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