Yep, quitting halfway through is a deal killer for all but the most ardent admirers. And, those folks will never understand that the average American will see it as weakness, not political savvy.
Ha! If you two STILL don’t get why she resigned, there’s no hope for you anyway.
"Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction." (Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950.)
I sure didn’t understand the resignation, especially from a political perspective, I don’t think it will serve her well in the future (couldn’t stand the heat got out of the kitchen...is how it’ll be “sold.”) But the ultimate “turn off” for me is the political posturing by supporting McCain. If you’re going to be a conservative and have the press beat you up for that reason, more power to you, but if you’re going to say you’re a conservative, and then do things that are contradictory to that stance (i.e. supporting McCain), then that’s another story.
I am not going to worry about it until she says she is running. Right now she’s just shaking things up and she is doing it quite well.
she had $500,000 of legal bills in 6 months on a 175k/year salary
how many people would keep such a job?
i understand other arguments against her, she’s not a perfect candidate, but this one about her resignation is preposterous. if you give the Dims a pass, they will sue every candidate they can, so you will are much less likely get a real conservative
Mitt-likeable enough on TV but let’s face it, flip-flopper or maybe just like most real world CEOs I have known who say and do what they have to to keep their job. Admirable when they change to what conservatives want/
I don’t know if SP can do it or not but why I hope she can—she will tell the truth about budget and fiscal issues as well as national security. Mitt, Newt will not about budget; they will have to screw the middle class to shut up the libtards and their wards and keep their banker friends rich, the latter is ok but not at expense of middle class.
SP earns BIG on trust, Mitt and Newt dont
If she runs she will be fighting off the media and political hack attacks while to trying and run a campaign at the same time. Much like she did when campaigning for VP and trying to govern. It isn’t fair but just look at the attacks coming on the heels of her speech. She is conservative and stands for everything we believe in — and that’s what we want, but if she can’t bring in a lot of independents, it will be almost impossible to win. The reason Scott Brown won is because of independents. The reason Zero is so low in the polls is because independents are deserting him. Do conservatives have the numbers to win without independents? Does anyone know the stats?
IMO it’s all going to boil down to debate performance. If she blows away her Repub competitors in the primaries and then Obozo, she can wipe out the “quitter” meme. The bar is not set high for her, so a good performance would be seen as a blow-out. I’d say she’s sittin’ pretty.