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Palin to RESIGN as Alaska Governor
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 3, 2009

Posted on 07/03/2009 12:33:39 PM PDT by lewisglad

UPDATE: Palin To Resign As Alaska Governor UPDATE: KTUU-TV in Anchorage reports that Palin not only won't seek re-election, but will resign later this month.

ORIGINAL POST: Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has announced she will not run for re-election in 2010, CNN reports. She's scheduled to make an announcement shortly.

The decision frees Palin to travel in the Lower 48 as she considers a potential run for president in 2012. A re-election campaign could also have been tough on the former vice presidential nominee; her approval rating has dropped from stratospheric highs, and a number of candidates in both parties are said to be considering runs.

Even if she won, the race would have been dominated by the specter of a presidential bid, giving her adversaries an opportunity to wound her politically. She's still fending off ethics complaints, many spurred by the "Troopergate" scandal.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; bumblingnutter; fedindictmentcoming; palin; quitter; sarah; sarahpalin; sarapalin
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To: SolidWood

More likely it will be 2016.


21 posted on 07/03/2009 12:38:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: STARWISE

US Senate in 2010?


22 posted on 07/03/2009 12:38:18 PM PDT by lewisglad
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To: lewisglad

Wow...I’m not sure how bright this move is.


23 posted on 07/03/2009 12:38:33 PM PDT by SoDak (Molon Labe)
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To: lewisglad

Still not voting for Romney.


24 posted on 07/03/2009 12:38:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: lewisglad

Bizarre.

SnakeDoc


25 posted on 07/03/2009 12:38:50 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." -- John Wayne)
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To: lewisglad
What? Not running in 2010, I can see. But stepping down now?!?
26 posted on 07/03/2009 12:38:58 PM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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To: teg_76

Why, you live in Alaska?


27 posted on 07/03/2009 12:38:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lewisglad

She may just be leaving politics all together. Resigning as a first term governor wouldn’t make sense politically to me. She may just want to raise her child and end the dirty attacks on her and her family.


28 posted on 07/03/2009 12:39:04 PM PDT by cdchik123
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To: lewisglad

No decent American would want to take the attacks, hatred and beatings she has endured from the Commie DemocRATS and their little toadies in the state run “media”. I don’t blame her. “American” politics is for kneecap busting thugs, Commie scum and greedy pigs these days. If you don’t meet that criteria, you shouldn’t be in politics.


29 posted on 07/03/2009 12:39:38 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out?)
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To: ASOC

This is not good.


30 posted on 07/03/2009 12:39:38 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: freekitty

She’s running away to Argentina with Mark Sanford.


31 posted on 07/03/2009 12:39:41 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: floridavoter2
Fox News is giving her a show.

(I can wish, can't I?)

32 posted on 07/03/2009 12:40:01 PM PDT by TheConservator ("I spent my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.")
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To: Moonman62

LOL, we have a winner.


33 posted on 07/03/2009 12:40:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lewisglad

She probably has decided that she and her family being destroyed day after day after day in the vicious media just ain’t worth it.


34 posted on 07/03/2009 12:40:16 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: OldDeckHand
"all but the most ardent Palin supporters."

She could literally be dead, and they would still flame you if you expressed ANY doubts about her being able to win. lol

35 posted on 07/03/2009 12:41:22 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: lewisglad

I like Palin but have been sceptical of her prospects.

It is a complement to say that she’s not cut out for the despicable and degenerate world of contemporary national politics in America.

She really deserves much better than our politics would inflict on her.


36 posted on 07/03/2009 12:41:30 PM PDT by angkor
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’m with you. She has a disabled son to care for, an unmarried daughter with a baby, and two other daughters that “need their mom.” I don’t know why people assume there’s something ON her. I think she got sick of the attacks on her children and she is protecting THEM.


37 posted on 07/03/2009 12:41:35 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: lewisglad

I posted on another thread that I hope there hasn’t been a serious threat on her and her family.

She has had to endure more personally and about her family.

She is the only one I care for in 2012.


38 posted on 07/03/2009 12:41:40 PM PDT by exit82 (Be vigilant--what is happening on Iran's streets may yet happen here in America.)
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To: Moonman62
She’s running away to Argentina with Mark Sanford.

Scum.

39 posted on 07/03/2009 12:41:48 PM PDT by SolidWood (Down with the islamic regime! Freedom for Iran!)
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To: Inspectorette

And it ain’t!


40 posted on 07/03/2009 12:42:14 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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