[Pining_4_TX]

Have to agree with most of what he said. If you want to be president, you don’t just up and quit an important job, especially in the current situation. It makes it look like she couldn’t handle the pressure. What a mess.

I hope this doesn’t mean we’re stuck with Romney next time. Ugh.

[what's up]

you don’t just up and quit an important job, especially in the current situation.

One of the most important things she could have done for Alaska she recently did...the Exxon pipeline deal.

Now all that would be left is more and more spurious lawsuits which would bankrupt both her and Alaska.

She's done the right thing IMO...ESPECIALLY if she plans a run for higher office.

[csvset]

I hope this doesn’t mean we’re stuck with Romney next time.

Only if you vote for him. Look at Romney, he did his full term, (since that's so important), and Mass is a liberal hell hole. Now, what's more important, finishing the full term or what you did to or for your state while you were in office ? Hmmmmmm ?

[definitelynotaliberal]

Then you must not have heard what she said. She said that staying in the job and taking the hits constitutes going with the flow. And as a fisherwoman, she knows that only dead fish go with the flow. She chose to stay VITAL.

The going got tough in terms of spurious ethics charges against her, and she took off. That's cowardly. That's not sign of staying power. It's a sign of wanting to get out while the getting is good, in order to become a full-time candidate for a presidential race that won't culminate for 3 1/2 more years. It's a little too calculating, by half -- or more.

[wagglebee]

I hope this doesn’t mean we’re stuck with Romney next time.

No, this just means that the CINOs at the American Spectator are in the tank for Romney.

[Theodore R.]

Alas, we could be because Republican primary voters believe strongly in the “It’s his turn” mantra. Bless her heart, Sarah is beautiful but could carry no more than five states in my opinion.

[Albion Wilde]

It makes it look like she couldn’t handle the pressure.

Read my tagline.

[Kackikat]

The problem is too many conservatives have forgotten what it means to “change the rules of engagement”. In football it’s called “the best defense is a great offense”. Sarah has been on the defensive with all the lawsuits/ethics complaints sucking up AK taxpayer dollars, and her staff’s time. She has resigned to change the “rules of engagement” from defense to offense. I love it!

2010 is coming, and “offesive engagement” is coming for the likes of Dodd, Pelosi, Reid and people like them. Sarah said nothing about running for President, but she did say she would fight for freeom, national security and our country...think about it. She will be free to campaign for the opposing candidate of the jacka$$es we all want out of office. What better place to start, and without being accused of abdicating her duties as governor while doing so.

In the meantime she can write a book, spend time with family and plot strategy...and with all the current ethics complaints thrown out, this stepping down will put her out of the line of fire until the real war heats up. God bless Palin, and we now have a chance in 2010 to end the problems in Congress. Palin draws huge crowds, and that is what many new candidates will need. It isn’t about herself, it’s about stopping the costs to AK, and helping America. It is no accident it was stated on the eve of Independence Day...go Sarah!

[old school]

I think the real story is that she’s amassed enormous personal debt; defending herself against the relentless psycho-mysoginist cabal that formed against her; because of her appeal to ordinary Americans, of which she was one. The election was over, eight months ago but they continued to attack her as though she were an imminent threat. She spoke, forthrightly, without dissembling and the establishment horde couldn’t tolerate that! And, she could communicate a cogent thought without the aid of a teleprompter! She didn’t come from that cesspool of political cynicism that is Washington and she wasn’t going to play ball, that’s all! All I can say is that she’d have made a damned-sight better President than that dunce we have now!

[Sertorius]

I for one hope she runs in 2012. I remember when Bill Clinton was elected his last time as the governor. He promised that he would not quit for a presidential run. Needless to say he lied. At least if Sarah runs, she is being up front and honest to the people of Alaska. If she can’t do the job and run for president, then she has shown that she has the guts to go all in without an “escape clause.”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If you want to be president, you don’t just up and quit an important job...

Obama quit his job as Senator to run for POTUS. He just didn't resign from the office -- he quit while still pulling down the paycheck.

It strikes me as more honorable to resign from office, stop taking taxpayer money, and run full time rather than stay in office, take the taxpayer paycheck, and totally ignore the duties of your office.

[BlessingsofLiberty]

“If you want to be president, you don’t just up and quit an important job, especially in the current situation. It makes it look like she couldn’t handle the pressure.”

Some times in a battle, you have to move your troops around.

Don’t think so small....you are a Texan!!

[LadyDoc]

maybe she decided her family was more important than being president.

[Huck]

That was my thought too. That Romney’s going to win in the end by being the only guy who doesn’t screw up.