Posted on 11/19/2010 3:33:21 PM PST by Anamnesis
I don’t recall it...
I’d would rather elect someone willing to relinquish power over a title-clinging politician (i.e. Blagovich, Sanford, Chavez) who refuses to surrender power under any circumstances short of being indicted or ousted in a military coup.
“Quitting” isn’t inherently bad, if done for the right reasons. In fact, let’s look at her history. Did you know Palin “quit” another six figure job, her oil & gas ethics commissioner job before she became governor? She resigned to protest corruption when the sitting Republican governor wouldn’t investigate the state party chair for sharing confidential state documents with an oil lobbyist. She quit because by law as a commissioner she couldn’t go public with her concerns because of confidentiality rules. So she quit to be able to blow the whistle on collusion knowing it would probably kill any chance she had to succeed in state politics as a Republican. And you know what happened to that state party chair? He was later given the largest ethics fine in Alaska history, largely because Palin had the courage to put pressure on the governor’s office and the Republican party. And what happened to Palin? She became Governor of Alaska. For a more in-depth look I suggest you look at this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2630320/posts
Now let’s look at her situation as governor.
Palin was paid roughly 337,500 in 32 months as governor. After 19 bogus ethics charges against her, she owed around 500,000 in legal fees to her attorney. The current laws of Alaska required that every single filed ethics complaint to be investigated no matter how ridiculous (being photographed with a fish, wearing a jacket with a logo, receiving “cookie” bribes) and all at the personal cost of the defendant. Had she stayed in office another 16 months, she likely would have been forced into bankruptcy because Alaska law does not automatically cover the legal defense of its governors nor was the Attorney General of the state or someone else designated by the state to defend her like all other states. If you were working in a job that was costing you almost twice as much to go into work everyday than you were making would you stay there?
Even her set up of a legal defense fund like other politicians have was deemed unethical (It was arguably the strictest legal defense fund in history with all the restrictions it had for those who could donate) wherein a politically motivated investigator suggested Palin should just let Alaska taxpayers pay for her legal defense. They wanted Alaskans to take the bullet for the political malice of Palin’s enemies.. In less than a year, she racked up half-a-million (to put this in perspective, her salary as Governor was only 125,000 a year and she had even declined a 25,000 raise by the legislature) in legal charges with much more to come.
One can argue that she should have just fought her enemies instead of letting them win.
If you decide to continue fighting your enemies at the expense of the people you serve is that even ethical? If your presence in office is causing heavy collateral damage to your state, is it smart and ethical to remain in office no matter the cost? Has any politician at the state level attracted the volume of attacks directed at Palin? Is it normal for a governor to go personally bankrupt defending themselves against bogus ethics complaints? Palin incurred almost twice as much legal debt as the salary she drew as governor. Every day she spent in office she was one day closer to personal bankruptcy.
These frivolous lawsuits effectively paralyzed her administration by wasting time and money doing research for countless Freedom of Information Act requests and addressing the ethics charges. The estimated cost of wasted time for the State of Alaska was 2 million and rising. By resigning she effectively took the circus out of Alaska.
Very good, sir!
She has plenty of company with the greatest leaders of this country...I just wish she would get rid of the McCain baggage like her her foreign policy advisor.
That association hurts her.
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reason # 15, the american people actully know who she is (unlike the last two residents)
5 recent presidents: Obama, W Bush, Clinton, Bush and Reagan. So now they say she’s even more qualified than Reagan!
Idiot. You didn’t even have to read the post or even scroll down to know that the post was referring to Carter. Hint: Check the picture.
“You didn’t even have to read the post or even scroll down to know that the post was referring to Carter. Hint: Check the picture.”
Very well but even still. More qualified than HW Bush or W Bush? Come on.
Sarah Palin would also have special insight on the needs of public education since her father and brother are present or former public school teachers. No wild attacks on "government schools" from her.
Men are slaves to the visual. Harmid Karzand nearly lost it over her, gushing over how beautiful she is. Can you imagine her power as president among men who enslave their women, i.e. muzzies, wearing some shorts and carrying a shotgun?
Sarah says “profile away” to the TSA while all the other contenders cower and triangulate. You go girl!
You ask God for this for what reason? And what is this oddball "G*D" text? Makes no sense.
You ask God for this for what reason? And what is this oddball "G*D" text? Makes no sense.
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The PTA as a qualification for POTUS! You are kidding, right?
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> “PLEASE G*D, I HOPE SHE DOESN’T GET THE NOMINATION”
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Yea, let’s just let the country keep on pouring down the sewer.
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