Posted on 07/12/2011 10:47:52 AM PDT by Gargantua
Lancing the “She Quit!” Boil One Last Time
© 2011 By Gargantua
One of the more unsettling hallmarks of the unfair, often deceitful, and always unprovoked attacks on Sarah Palin is the way in which she is frequently castigated for doing things commonly accepted when done by others, but which somehow rise to a level of unconscionable effrontery when she does them. A good example is the way that she was excoriated for having posted on her website a map of the United States which used surveyors marks to denote vulnerable Democratic congressional seats for The Tea Party to “target”in the 2011 midterms.
Leave aside for the moment the fact that Democrat operatives had created a similar such map using actual gun sight crosshairs (and not the somewhat more innocuous surveyors marks Palin had used) in laying out their “aim for” congressional map. Leave aside the fact that a Democrat candidate actually aired a commercial in which he repeatedly fired a rifle at a copy of the “Obamacare” bill.
Ignoring these facts as well as the fact that Jarod Lee Loughner was a demonstrably insane liberal who had stalked Gabrielle Giffords for the past several years, and had most probably never even looked at Sarah Palin website, nonetheless the extremist left immediately started blatting into every microphone and TV camera they could find that it was clearly Sarah Palin who had caused the lunatic to shoot the Congresswoman.
I use this example to_underscore_the clear double standard employed whenever the extremist left decides to opine on Gov. Palin. Turning our attention now to another of the Lapdog Lamestream Enemedia’s frequent mantras concerning the governor, let's take a comprehensive look at their assertion that she should not be considered for future office because “she quit." The way that canard is presented, one might easily believe that it is something offensive and out of the ordinary that Palin had decided to do. After all, with this act, she was turning her back on and walking away from her constituents and her elected post as governor.
Whereupon arises the question, what Senator, Representative, or Governor in the history of the Republic, did not in fact walk away from his constituency and elected position so that he could run for another office? Can you name one? Of course you can't. Every Sen. Rep. and Gov. who ever ran for a different office after having been elected to their current one walked away from their constituency and their elected post in order to do so. It's a common practice. It's a commonly accepted practice.
Unless, of course, Sarah Palin tries to do it.
Even more insidious in the use of this strawman when attacking the governor is the fact that she did not “run away” in leaving her governorship. She put the reins of the state in the hands of her very capable lieutenant governor Sean Parnell, turned and charged into the teeth of the beast that was assailing her. And proceeded to royally kick its butt.
Speculation was rampant and predictions were unending that this marked the death knell for the poor governor. The path of her political ascension had reached its zenith, and she was in a fire and smoke trailing tailspin headed for political obscurity. Nobody the day after Gov. Palin stepped down predicted that she was about to publish two best-selling books. Nor did they predict that she was about to embark on a series of speaking engagements commanding six figure compensation. Most assuredly, nobody even thought of suggesting that she might mount a series of campaign endorsements, often times for obscure candidates trailing badly in the polls, the majority of which would then win elected office creating the Republican Revolution of 2010; the single largest party shift in control of the House of Representatives in the history of the Republic (whereby Sarah would be most appropriately crowned “Kingmaker”).
Just to recap, Sarah Palin did indeed leave her governorship to move on to bigger and better, and far more meaningful (not to mention unpaid) contributions to the political ship of state. Just as had every elected official in American history before her, Sarah left the Alaska governorship to pursue higher goals prior to the conclusion of her full-term. The main difference being none of the other elected officials who had undertaken this commonly accepted practice were ever so roundly and universally excoriated as a “quitter” for having done so.
As a fitting end to this story of truly unique practices and outcomes, Sarah Palin is quite likely shortly to announce her candidacy for President of the United States in 2012. Should she do so, the most likely outcome will be that she defeats in a landslide the most badly failed president ever to hold the Oval Office.
The irony, and oh-so poetic justice, of just such a scenario is most certainly not lost upon those who still admire and will always support so unfairly mistreated a hero as Sarah Palin.
In your first post, as a reply to your own article, you used the word abdicated, and you said they all did. They all did not. Where did Fresh Wind say that you used it in the article?
I dont doubt that she felt it was necessary for the security of Alaska for her to step aside. But she did leave before her term was up, and it because she had been elected to higher office.
I think the quit issue is somewhat silly, because the people who are going to vote for her no matter what will find a way to justify it by saying she did it for good reasons. And the people who are not going to vote for her will say that if she can be run out as Governor, what will happen as President (that is not my position, just stating what their line will be). And I dont think the independents will care about this issue. With the economy, 3 wars, government philosophy, class warfare, and social issues, I think this will be pretty low on the “vote for her, or not” scale.
Dead on right. For those questioning that wisdom, may I suggest picking up a copy of “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu. Many of the questions about what SP is doing become crystal clear when looked at through that prizm.
Someone on her team knows and more importantly, ‘inderstands’ that book - to it’s very core. If not she herself, then someone advising her closely.
Ha. Are you kidding? Stop quitting out of our statutory discussion halfway through and I’ll consider responding. Till then, I'll wait for Rippin. Thanks anyway, "sweetie."
Obama wants to expand the jar so more hands can get into it and he's willing to do it on credit. I don't think his mom ever slapped him for raiding the jar but his grandma might have as he threw her under the bus (typical WP).
When you think about it, America needs a strong mom or Grizzly, if you will. This house is a mess, nobody's doing what they should, and their grades seem to fall no matter who runs the show. I don't think America can do any more Weekends at Bernies with star-studded punks like Obama throwing parties while the bills go unpaid.
Thanks again.
Showing your true colors. Didn’t take long in spite of your civil pretensions.
I was in MA when Romney did worse by running full-time for president instead of governing for the last two years of his one term in office. Didn’t Perry recently promise that he would fulfill his term rather than run for president? Then there’s Michele Bachmann who devoted herself to running for president full-time within a couple of months of the start of her third term in Congress.
What would you have us go up against Obama with? TPaw? Huntsman? I say we go with the most gifted and principled candidate we’ve had in a generation and yes, that would be Gov. Palin.
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1) That they intend to win election to a different office. This announcement alone qualifies as an abdication of their existing office. Merely in order to run for that further office will require their total involvement in a series of activities which will require them to cease performing the duties they were elected to perform. A willful abdication of their elected position.
2) That while they might appreciate the high honor bestowed upon them in their current elected role, it is not what they aspire to. Whether they win the new position and do not return, or lose the new bid and later return egg-faced, that have already let their constituents know that, given their druthers, they'd be elsewhere. A de facto abdication.
Slice it, dice it, spin it up, down or sideways, it is an abdication when you seek any higher futher/different office than the one you now hold.
Period.
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Easy. There are two kinds of Lame Ducks.
One is a person who has less than half their term remaining and is about to embark upon a re-election bid (1.5 to 2 years in the current political lexicon). Sarah was there.
The other is a pol who either lost their party majority in the relevant congress and can, as a result, no longer effect their policies, or an Executive who has already accomplished all of their goals and campaign promises, and has nothing left to finish. Sarah was also there.
I think you're letting your animus cloud your logic.
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So, if I'm understanding this right, about a year and a half into her first term (when she became McCain's running mate) she had already accomplished everything the voters elected her to office to do?
I'm impressed. If she's that efficient, she can probably resign from the presidency in just a couple of years, once she gets the US budget at a surplus situation instead of these deficits we have now.
You're not even trying to be objective are you.
Palin describes the lawsuit problem.
PALIN:Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law I championed became their weapon of choice. Over the past nine months I've been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations – such as holding a fish in a photograph, wearing a jacket with a logo on it, and answering reporters’ questions. Every one – all 15 of the ethics complaints have been dismissed. We’ve won! But it hasn't been cheap - the State has wasted THOUSANDS of hours of YOUR time and shelled out some two million of YOUR dollars to respond to “opposition research” – that’s money NOT going to fund teachers or troopers – or safer roads. And this political absurdity, the “politics of personal destruction” … Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn’t cost them a dime so they’re not going to stop draining public resources – spending other peoples’ money in their game. It’s pretty insane – my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more “politics as usual,” but THIS isn’t what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.
Palin talks about her choices given the lawsuit problem.
Palin chooses a course of action given the lawsuit problem.
All one has to do is read what she said.
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Only if you completely ignore my puissant rélade, the fact that I teach a refreshser course for sous chefs at l'Obêrge every third Saturday of the month, and my recently passed Mom's love for my walnut brownies.
How could you be so callous?! I know it's the hurly burly of a political "Silly Season," but for God's sake, man...
...have you no soul?
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Just once.
I had been selected for Jury Duty, and it was a case where an inmate was accused of attacking a guard with a broom during a prison riot. Halfway through (roughly) the trial, I realized that the defendant was a guy I had gone to gradeschool with. He had legally changed his name. Anyway, I informed the Judge and he gave me this big, puffed-up lecture (I think he secretly hit the sauce during bathroom breaks) and sent me packing.
I guess that's the equivalent of "quitting."
You?
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Classic. I’d expect no less of you. I’ve bit my tongue to keep it as civil as I have. I’m not particularly fond of have dark innuendo played on me behind my back, as you have done elsewhere, without apology. True colors indeed. Get a life, “sweetie.”
Oh, and I am perfectly willing to answer your question. I have a great answer that supports my position. I only believe, really, truly, and sincerely, it would be utterly wasted on you. Why should I go through that, to benefit one who will not appreciate it? Your “keep it classy sweetie” is your own language. You used it on someone you thought was stooping below uncivil limits, but you can’t take what you can dish out. Are those your true colors?
So, did she ever apologize to the people of Alaska for “championing” and signing the law that resulted in thousands of hours and millions of dollars being wasted?
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