“So Walker’s skittishness and his sudden need to finish his college degree and to get a hair transplant don’t speak to someone who has a strong character and who can withstand a lot of criticism without apologizing when the heat’s too much. Sorry for the lengthy explanation”.
So Walker is less a profile in courage than Palin, who didn’t even bother to finish out her only term as governor barely halfway into it - because of one little liberal blogger??? Uh, ok.
Nobody is suing Gov. Walker continually and making his ability to govern all but impossible. And, yeah.
What do you mean one little liberal blogger? You have it all totally wrong for the reason she gracefully stepped down. Alaska, the only state in the nation at the time had a loophole in their law that Obama operatives found that provided a way to bombard the governors office with relentless ethics lawsuits even if they had no proof. Alaska at the time had a statute on the books that provided if a complaint was filed, the Secretary of State would have to launch a investigation. Obama operatives seized the opportunity and they came out of the woodwork filing complaints right and left. For example, one complaint filed by a democrat Obama supporter stated that Governor Palin showed up at a iditarod race wearing a jacket with a logo patch on it. A complaint was filed saying the governor was supporting the company that was on the patch and a violation of the governors office. It was further from the truth. Never the less a full blown investigation took place causing her and her staff to be tied up in hours of depositions and research.
In all over 27 of these similar type lawsuits were filed on average of one a week and her legal bills were piling up to over 700k and climbing. Since Alaska statutes at that time didn’t provide defense funds for the governor, she had to hire her own defense lawyers, pay for them out of her own pocket and she and her family were going broke and facing total bankruptcy and she was being prevented from doing her duties as governor due to countless hours of depositions. Palin returning from the VP campaign had just taken a 25k salary cut out of her salary of just 125k a year as Governor. She was left with two options, stay and tie up Alaska’s state business while going broke fighting the lawsuits OR step down and turn over the governors office to Lt Gov Sean Parnell to carry on her policies and fiscal reforms and take the liberal fight to the lower 48. She chose the latter and immediately after she stepped down, not one ethics complaint was filed again. Later one by one, all ethics suits were dismissed as frivolous without merit and Alaska’s state business under her policies continued without any more interruptions.
In essence, Obama and his supporters thought that by using the loophole to file these bogus suits, they would ruin her politically and send her into obscurity. It failed and she showed her political power during the midterm elections with her drawing huge crowds endorsing tea party candidates. That is when President Clinton went on national TV a week before election day and warned democrats voters and candidates to “Don’t underestimate this woman. She is resilient like me”. He was right because most of her endorsements were victorious . In the end after she stepped down. Alaska passed a new law that would make the Secretary of State defend their governors from ethics complaints. Palin would have stayed if the new law was in place at the time.
Palin was in office 965 days, some 35 days shy of President Kennedy’s 1000 days in office. She accomplished in that time span everything she set out to do with an exceptional record of policy making, even accomplishing more than her predecessor attempted.