Palin steps down as Alaska governor (Shame on her enemies)

WND ^ | July 03, 2009 | WorldNetDaily

[RobinMasters]

Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate last year, announced today she will not finish her first term as governor.

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will take the oath of office before the end of the month.

Palin, regarded as a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, made the announcement from the backyard of her home on the shore of Lake Lucille in Wasilla.

The governor emphasized she has been the target of 15 ethics complaints -- all dismissed -- at a cost of $2 million to the state and some $500,000 to her family.

"It has all been pretty insane," she said.

"And the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn't cost them a dime."

Palin's brother, Chuck Heath Jr., told Fox News after the announcement she was spending up to 80 percent of her time defending herself the complaints.

[Dr. Ursus]

Ethical complaints,personal destruction,voter fraud,voter
re-count fraud. Adolph would be proud!

[Uncle Miltie]

Sarah, you can’t let people run you off.

[Jeff Head]

I listened to her entire announcement. It was honorable, it was direct, and it punctuated the insane politics of our day...it also punctuated her personal commitment to fight, and to do so when it would not distract further from her job as Governor and the foundation she has built there.

I am proud of her and support her. She is a great American.

I think Sarhah has just turned, like a fed-up mama Bear, on her detractors. She has put things in order, she has left them in the hands of capable people, and she has now turned to face her enemies directly.

...and I think they are going to be sorry. We have smelled the fear in them for a long time. Good on her!

I believe she will assist others greatly in 2010, and will run herself in 2012...and she has my full support.

GO SARAH GO!

HOW SARAH PALIN TRUMPS LIBERALISM



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[mom-7]

Gee, wonder who the goverment press will take on now? Hopefully barry?

[Bean Counter]

Cheer up!

The silver lining to this little cloud is that the DemocRats can do for Alaska what they have done for the lower 48...

[Reagan Man]

If you want a long career in politics, you have to have thick skin and a smart disposition.

Reagan had both. Appears Palin had neither.

[Puppage]

So, political attacks work. Especially when they start to come from your own party. How depressing.

[imintrouble]

It would seem a woman campaigning for the Office of the President would in future have to be drawn from the cloistered confines of a convent.

What better candidate than one who births and raises a family - who understands the common man and woman and their financial fiascos we all encounter unless we are the highly paid elitists who practice primogeniture in some bastardized New Land manner - the chosen ones - all male will win the day for our nation.

The most often voiced complaint today is she seemed “scattered” - well I guess so - she wasn’t using a scripted teleprompter and her littlest child was interrupting her speech with a language of his own - how
peasant-like for the insiders in Washington and the media.

As a woman who hoped to see this bright star launched properly and groomed adequately (which the McCain camp never bothered to do), I am grieved that we have launched backward in time to “women in the kitchen only” and in so doing have shut down a beautiful, passionate and intelligent American woman who loves her nation.

Shame on us and we will continue to perpetuate “what we deserve”, driving this once great national pinnacle of freedom into a backward polyglot of split groups owing every county in the world for our survival.

Well done all the deal makers who spend our money as it is their own - and have no more foresight than what they can
produce for their own benificence!

[fish hawk]

I see this a little differently than most of you.(probably) I see it as Palin, who I had a lot of faith in and was hoping she would be the front runner for the next election, caving and showing weakness. I don't believe for one minute that it is because of the reasons given here. I would bet that she thinks she has a better run at the Presidency if she commits her full time and energy into that campaign. Still I am disappointed at this move.

[thecabal]

Easy for you to snipe from the sidelines.

[Reagan Man]

Face reality and stop whining!

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is what happens when you scare the sh*t out of a band of ruthless Chicago thugs. They will eventually destroy you. The Commie Marxist ‘RATS didn’t expect or want November 4, 2008 to be that tough. She put up a fight. Commies hate people who do that.

[ScottinVA]

This a real downer; I had such hopes for her in 2012. Looks like the libs are clearing the playing field on the republican side.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Palin and Michele Bachman are hated primarily because they are unapologetic Christians

[Star Traveler]

You said — This a real downer; I had such hopes for her in 2012. Looks like the libs are clearing the playing field on the republican side.

—

Well, I always posted, before now, that Palin couldn’t be running for President in 2012 and still run for Governor of Alaska. I said that if she was going to do that (... President...) then she would have to quit being Governor and I didn’t think that was very likely...

It looks like I was wrong there...

Now she’s able to run for President.

[abigail2]

Why don’t you wait and see what happens. I notice that people who are liberal are putting a negative twist on it. They don’t understand her. She is not your usual politician. They were wrong about Obama, and his ‘change’, and I am positive they are wrong about her. She is setting up the lietenant governor to be in a good position to be reelected in 2 years, she will be able to pay attention to her detractors now without detracting from her job as governor. She can get paid for speaking engagements and books to pay for her bills, don’t forget she found a way to pay for her schooling which was unconventional, by entering beauty contests.

Listen to your heart, conservatives and wait and see what happens.

[Star Traveler]

Well, she did say she was *still in the game*.... :-)

So, I suspect still being in the game means a run for President... but if that’s so, we’re *certainly* not going to hear about it before the “timing” is right. So, you could wait and wait and wait for the next few weeks and *still* never hear about that, from her...

But, still being in the game is telling...

[truth_seeker]

“If you want a long career in politics, you have to have thick skin and a smart disposition.

Reagan had both. Appears Palin had neither.”

He had family, too. He had political opponents, too. He had hostile press, too.

Same for Nixon.

They had the stuff.

And if Sarah goes off stage, prepares on the big issues, comes back much stronger and better prepared, she may have a political future.

If she even wants one.

[LucyT]

> The governor emphasized she has been the target of 15 ethics complaints — all dismissed — at a cost of $2 million to the state and some $500,000 to her family.

“It has all been pretty insane,” she said.

“And the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn’t cost them a dime.” <

[rabidralph]

She’s not. She’s now free to visit the Lower 48, attend rallies, raise money and speak more boldly about Obonzo’s destructive policies.

[rabidralph]

People really are short-sighted. What better way to concentrate on 2012 than to clear your plate and free your schedule?

[jan in Colorado]

Thank you for expressing my thoughts so much more eloquently than I ever could!

It seems once again the politicians were successful is using Saul Alinsky's techniques to rob this Country of someone who loves this Country and desires to represent THE PEOPLE!

[TrueFact]

“She’s not. She’s now free to visit the Lower 48, attend rallies, raise money and speak more boldly about Obonzo’s destructive policies.”

EXACTLY!!!!

[Polarik]

I see this differently, too. Make no mistake about this: she is running for POTUS in 2012.

As long as she was Governor, she would continue to be the target of Leftist libtards, 24/7, and sore loser staffers.

Sorry, but using Reagan as an example, vis-a-vis Palin, is disingenuous, derisive, and just plain dumb. A President like Reagan comes around once every fifty years.

Don’t forget that before Reagan ran for Governor, he was President of the Screen Actors Guild, and a Liberal. It was McCarthy’s attacks on Hollywood Communists that got him to switch parties.

He became a Republican and a spokesman for conservatism.

He was elected Governor in 1966 and had what Arnold had going for him when he ran, namely POSITIVE STAR POWER and NAME RECOGNITION, two things that Palin didn’t have to start her career in politics.

Reagan was a better Actor than a politician, but he was a quick study.

He also ran for President at a time when the country despised Jimmy Carter, who was not exactly a Messiah that made women, and male news reporters, swoon.

But, the fix was in for 2008, with voting fraud rampant across the nation, with a one-sided media and Leftist terrorists, and when your running mate, the guy at the top of the ticket, is not only way far Left of you, and someone who still thinks that Obama is an “honorable man,” you might as well put a bullet in your brain, rather than to take all the sh*t she took from both the Leftist libtard terrorists and McCain’s staffers.

No one else has ever been trashed as badly as she was, but she was not run out of government. Hell, Yes, she’s going to run for POTUS in 2012.

Hopefully, the Republican Party will have pulled their collective heads out of their a**es by then.

Reagan had a party behind him. Had he been McCain’s running mate, that would have made a difference??

Yeah, right...

[null and void]

This is what happens when you scare the sh*t out of a band of ruthless Chicago thugs. They will eventually destroy you.

Or you them.

[rodguy911]

Palin is doing the reputable, classy thing by resigning IMHO.

Rather than stay as Governor,mom,and running for President with endless air time in the mix, she chose to do the right thing and resign from and office that would only compromise her every day she worked.

Trying to be in several places doing several jobs at once is most unrewarding and you inevitably give one employer less than 100%. She realized that and did the noble thing IMHO.

As far as the msm/dbm and other detractors from rinos to the worst of libs they can all go to hell as far as I am concerned.

[imintrouble]

Thank you for your kind words. I wrote that in a steam of anger and have revisited it to see how many typos I made!

I wonder if we have ever given up the model of inherited
leadership after all - we might as well reinvent the crown because I do not believe the vote by the people is actually counted these days.

We have devalued our vote, our interest, and this is the consequence. A gang of old, icompetent fools who should be
comfortably installed in their mansions and consulted only after the people have recouped their power.

We the people has become an international joke. We have made it so ourselves.

[El Gato]

Gee, wonder who the goverment press will take on now? Hopefully barry?

Don't hold your breath.

[Ryan Church]

Don’t forget that before Reagan ran for Governor, he was President of the Screen Actors Guild, and a Liberal. It was McCarthy’s attacks on Hollywood Communists that got him to switch parties.

That's the first I'm hearing of this, and I worked for the man. Considering the hearings were in the spring of '54, McCarthy was dead by '57, and Ronnie switched parties in '62, that really doesn't make such sense.

But that's you all over.

[MHGinTN]

What a lack of class you expose about yourself! A classless person using Reagan’s name ... shameless you are to boot. Do you think this opens doors for the Mittiac rino?

[yongin]

First Sanford. Now Palin. Romney is smiling. I wonder if he had a hand in pushing Sanford & Palin out.

[MHGinTN]

“... I worked for the man.” Prove it, scum.

[Reagan Man]

The level of outright stupidity shown by you and other FReepers today is some of the highest I've ever witnessed on this fine conservative forum.

If you followed the political debate on FR and stopped worrying about your own personal agenda, you'd know I despise Willard.

Palin quiting was disgraceful.

Btw, Reagan never quit.

[Let's Roll]

The ‘tard media not only decides elections, they even decide who runs for election.

And as she noted, it doesn’t cost them a dime to make the accusations. No wonder normal people don’t run for office.

[MHGinTN]

Ah, just had to expose more of your classless ego, eh? Bwahahahaha nice try though, better than most nasty dispositioned stealth posters.

[Reagan Man]

You are a first class moron.

[MestaMachine]

If you want a long career in politics, you have to have thick skin and a smart disposition.
Reagan had both. Appears Palin had neither.

You are mistaken, Bwana. Sarah has both with some to spare. And to her credit, she is NOT an actor so who we see is who she is straight up. There is not a phony bone in her body.
Sarah Palin sealed the fate of the loony left, the mad messiah, and his media hounds in this country by the giant leap she took today.
If they think she left hanging her head or because she couldn't take it, all the better for us, because most of us know better.
First of all, what she did was brilliant. AND had she been a man, the press would have called it strategy. She has left Parnell a decent amount of time to prove his creds so when he runs for governor on his own, he has the exec experience under his belt as her heir apparent to hold the office and continue HER policies.
She is honest and cleareyed and said exactly what she meant, that it is more necessary for her to have a national voice sooner rather than later, because later might be too late. She loves Alaska, but even more than that, she loves this country and is prepared to fight for it with every weapon at her disposal...and they DO fear her in a way I have never seen before.
Every time she stepped foot in public, slimy media types, dem operatives, and rino sleazebags attacked her and her family mercilessly. It hasn't just cost her, it has cost the state she loves.
Maybe to some politicians, wasting their state's time and money is no skin off their noses, but Sarah is no ordinary politician. She actually believes that serving the people who put her in office means doing the right thing by them and not what is easiest for herself.
Staying in office for its own sake, when it would have caused diminishing returns for her state goes against her grain.
She has achieved what she set out to do in Alaska and left a great window of opportunity for her Lieutenant Governor to carry on in SPITE of their attempts to destroy her.
She could not remain as governor and have a national voice without her STATE being attacked. So she chose to protect her State, not herself.
I am so proud of her. She is a fighter. The long knives have been out for her since day one. Let's see what happens now that Sarah isn't bound by the Oath of Office and chained to the heavy desk of the governor's office she had to drag everywhere she went.
It's what they used to keep her from fighting back and now there is nothing to stop her...and nothing will. Watch the numbers. Everyone thought she was riding a wave before. That wave has just turned into a tsunami.
GO SARAH, GO!!!

[MHGinTN]

Ah, more obamanoidesque classless drivel. Is it any wonder Republicans are losing to the marxist democrats, if you’re any example of what drives the party? Your lack of class is not even amazing anymore. Care to try again? Bwahahaha

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>>First of all, what she did was brilliant.

Only if you dwell in the twilight zone.

[Reagan Man]

Get back on your meds and get psychological help, asap.

[MestaMachine]

For Reagan, party affiliation during the early ‘50s was a mere technicality.

From Wiki, which you probably could have looked up yourself if you weren’t so obsessed with attacking other posters.

“Amid the Red Scare in the late 1940s, Reagan provided the FBI with names of suspects whom he believed to be communist sympathizers within the motion picture industry. Reagan testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on the subject as well. A fervent anti-communist, he reaffirmed his commitment to democratic principles, stating, ‘I never as a citizen want to see our country become urged, by either fear or resentment of this group, that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resentment.’”

“A registered Democrat, admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and supporter of the New Deal, in the early 1950s, Reagan’s political leanings began to shift rightwards out of a desire for a more limited federal government. As a result, he endorsed the presidential candidacies of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 as well as Richard Nixon in 1960 while remaining a Democrat.”

“In his position with General Electric, Reagan was required to tour GE plants around the country and deliver speeches to the employees. Often, these speeches were politically motivated and held a conservative, pro-business message. He wrote his own speeches, laboring diligently and daily upon his prose. Although he had speechwriters later in the White House, he continued editing, and even occasionally writing, many of his speeches. Eventually, the speeches became too controversial for the company’s liking, and Reagan was fired by General Electric in 1962.”

“Reagan formally switched to the Republican Party the same year, revealing, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.”

[MHGinTN]

You’re such a bore. But that was another good try, littleman. At least you didn’t expose more of your putrifacted soul in that post; tried to be humorous.

[MestaMachine]

“Or you them.”

EXACTLY!!!

[MestaMachine]

I dwell in the TRY RIGHT zone.
And you?
Handicapped only?

[Reagan Man]

Stick to comic books. You’ll do better.

[Smokin' Joe]

Appears Palin had neither.

Yeah, not to mention half a million in legal fees to defend against BS. A sure sign of an honest politician is the absence of gobs of money to defend against spurious accusations.

[Reagan Man]

Granted, but you don’t cut and run with 17 months to go in your term and expect to be taken seriously.

[EDINVA]

The AK legislature should adopt legislation that anyone bringing unfounded charges that are dismissed is liable fully for their costs. Put a stop to that real fast.

There are federal fee-shifting statutes, i.e., civil rights suits, and that should be adopted more throughout the judicial system, and quasi-legal proceedings. Many people sue solely to bankrupt their opponents, using the judicial system as their sword.

Jesse Jackson for one has made a living on it .. he sues or threatens to sue (ACLU, too) so the organization/city/corporation settles rather than face litigation costs. If those entities knew they could recover their costs, they might proceed to litigation and stand up for themselves and their positions/policies.

[Vendome]

Lyin:
What is your point here? You know sooner or later you are going to end up on everyone’s ignore list.

How is that Polarik is injuring the Republican party? With his posts and accusations? Seriously, no one in the government or state run media are paying any attention to this. In fact, they have taken to ignoring it so that it goes the way of gods of the roman time and becomes irrelevant.

In any case this is our little conspiracy party and we are enjoying the play. If you have something relevant to add by all means...

Other wise you are not doing anything more than ensuring the view that Barry is not who he says he is.

Why don't you ask the question where is Barry's educational credentials? You seem to treat Polarik as someone unimportant and that is fine. However, your challenges only lend credibility to his work.

At the same time, someone who is seemingly important, Barry POTUS, is not required to show any documents that prove his existence, education or intelligence.

Why is it that the POTUS, who suffers from telepromptitis, is immune from your scurrilous attacks.

BTW, you continue to mention that you worked for Ronald Reagan. Maybe your handle, Ryan Church, is throwing people off but, no one knows who you are.

If you did work for the man, may one assume you are in your 70’s? If so, perhaps you are suffering a sort of dementia. If not, have you altered your prescription that will help to mediate your bipolar condition.

Seriously, I am beginning to become concerned about and for you. Is it possible that you suffer a mental defect much like a stalker? Why is Polarik so important to you?

I ask as it looks like your only views, posts and screed are reserved to and for Polarik.

Please inform me of your identity so that I may ascertain what integrity you may have once had in your life or so that I may find you the help you need.

As it is, if you came here to be a bully, you really are not very good at it and hence I believe you are a momma’s boy. So get home and hide behind her skirt, have some milk and cookies and then have a nap. You will feel better.