GOVERNOR PALIN ANNOUNCES NO SECOND TERM, NO LAME DUCK SESSION EITHER

State of Alaska Governor's Office ^ | 3 July 2009 | State of Alaska Governor's Office

[Blaine Spade]

GOVERNOR PALIN ANNOUNCES NO SECOND TERM NO LAME DUCK SESSION EITHER July 3, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin announced today that she will not seek a second term as Governor of the State of Alaska and will relegate the power of governor to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell in order to serve Alaska’s best interests. Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will move into Parnell’s current role.

“People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing's more important to me than our beloved Alaska,” said Governor Palin. “Serving her people is the greatest honor I could imagine.” Standing outside her home in Wasilla, Alaska, Governor Palin reflected upon some of the administration’s accomplishments for Alaska as she approaches her final year in office. “I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path,” said Governor Palin after the announcement. “Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional ‘Lame Duck’ status in this particular climate would just be another dose of ‘politics as usual,’ something I campaigned against and will always oppose. It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success. I look forward to helping others – to fight for our state and our country, and campaign for those who believe in smaller government, free enterprise, strong national security, support for our troops, and energy independence.” The transfer of power will occur following the Governor’s picnic in Fairbanks on July 26. At that point in time, Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will be sworn in and Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will assume his role as Lieutenant Governor. Governor Palin will spend July 4th in Juneau.

[Allegra]

I liked SP until she made such a poor showing in that Katie Couric interview.

Don't let the media play you. My approach to anything the media puts out is "Dont trust...AND DO verify."

[exit82]

You say she has given her detractors an opening to attack her.

And that is different from the staus quo how? They are attacking her —and her CHILDREN—anyway.

Her comeback is her accomplishments, and asking her detractors to name theirs. So, the srawman argument you cite in my previous post is not a strawman argument at all.

Your opinion is that she has made a mistake, but you don’t know that.Nobody can know that—yet.

My opinion is that it will go down as one of the gutsiest, most brilliant political moves of all time—especially it leads to GOP and conservative gains in Congress in 2010 and the unseating of the closet Muslim President in 2012.

The jury is out.

But your mind is made up already.

[blackie]

Non conservatives don’t need reasons to attack Sarah Palin; they make them up!

I’m for her 100% and donate money to her PAC.

She has integrity and is accountable, that’s something east coast non conservatives can not understand.

She is a breath of fresh air!!