Posted on 07/04/2009 3:10:43 AM PDT by truthfreedom
did he quit 3 and a half years before the election?? Or after he had the nomination sewn up?
Go Sarah!
What’s the difference? A quitter is a quitter. Dole quit his term with about 2 and a half years to go. Palin has less than 2 years left.
Bob Dole and Juan McLame were both very old has beens when they were nominated simply because they’d been hanging around so very long.
Hell with that reasoning Robert Byrd should now be president.
Neither were really conservatives and neither was G.W. Bush.
Hopefully Sara Palin will remain true to her roots and remain a REAL conservative.
Go Cuda, show the boys how to kick ass.
You like her I like her, but that’s because we’re conservatives. Most of the liberal morons who vote have been told to hate her by the unending media assault on her and they do because they’re too stpid to have values of their own. Even worse a lot of so-called conservatives in the “fat moron daughter of Mccain” camp hate her too. This includes the republican “leadership” (to use the term advisedly.)
And quitting really got Dole far, didn’t it?
He quit to run for president, by the way.
He was the Republican candidate for President. He had won the nomination.
If Sarah Palin was going to follow Dole’s example, she would have quit when McCain picked her as his running mate, not 8 months after they lost. The only example of Dole’s she followed was losing an election as the VP candidate to Jimmy Carter.
Her real reason for quitting is so she can write a book and cash in on her fame before it’s all gone.
I think she just sucks up too much oxygen.
She’s causing the same problem for Republicans that Clinton caused for Democrats after he left office. He wouldn’t move out of the way, and now it looks like she’s not going to either.
There’s no parallel here, for either side of the question “should she have quit?”
Dole had spent a lifetime in the Senate, Palin is a rookie governor.
Dole was an old has-been who the liberals giggled at. Palin has the liberals so frightened they have launched a series of “ethics attacks” coordinated from the Oval Office to make her remaining time in the governor’s chair untenable.
I think she may have pulled a jujitsu move on the Big Zero Messiah.
It doesn’t mean I think this makes it easier to win the presidency herself. It probably doesn’t.
But it does free her up to go after that lousy commie muzzie lying Kenyan usurper and destroyer of the US Constitution. She doesn’t have to actually become president to become one of the most important figures in US history.
We’ll see.
Sure, I guess, but the point I was trying to make was that Dole quit the Senate to campaign for President, and no one suggested he was a quitter. They shouldn’t call Palin a quitter either.
More politicians should quit their current jobs when running for another office. Voters are voting for someone to do the job, not for someone to run for a different job. Voters are getting shortchanged when someone doesn’t do their job, and spends a lot of time running for a different job.
Palin is a threat to the status quo. She shakes up the old guard of the Republican party. And they are afraid of losing their lofty perches so they tear her down.
There is not a nickel difference between the DemocRAT and Republican parties.
Time for a new REAL conservative party yet?
I am ashamed of being in a party that is simply dem lite.
AND I’ll be damned if I’ll ever vote again for some old fool just because he is the parties nominee and is possibly better that the liberal they put up but still a liberal p.o.s. or middle of the roader.
That is the elephant in the room. Look, she could start a legal fund tomorrow and have 200K by weeks end and 500K within a month to pay off her legal fees. I have noted many Freepers talking about her going on speaking tours and ranking in huge sums. She loses all moral high ground if she is seen to be enriching herself at the expense of the Alaskan people and American public.
She has a book coming out, I know she is going to sell a ton of copies, money should not be a driving factor.
What? You mean just possibly New York got short changed having Mrs. Clinton as a senator?
I understand what you are saying.
My gov. Crist has been running for any job higher that Gov. of Florida since day one.
Dole quit when running for President.
If Palin runs for President, she too will have quit to run for President.
Dole wasn’t criticized for it and neither should Palin.
It’s funny, her quitting could be second guessed if she doesn’t run for President, but if she does run for President, it’s to be expected, as Dole did it without being criticized.
She’s the natural leader of the Republican party. Move out of the way? Why would she do that? She just drew 20k in upstate NY.
When Presidential candidates miss work in Washington DC because they’re too busy in Iowa or New Hampshire shaking hands, they aren’t doing what the voters elected them to do. Hillary, also Obama, but our guys too.
Dole showed great integrity when he resigned the Senate for his Presidential run.
Sarah Palin is showing that same integrity and being burned for it.
The media has decided sarah Palin isnt liberal enough for them and they will do ANYTHING to harm her chances for President.
To be honest I don’t think she can make it, and if were me I wouldnt put my family through that grist mill for the stinking job .
I like her, and her politics better than any candidate the Republicans now have, by 2012 even the media may have enough of Bamalamadingdong, but will they support Palin or will they put all their power behind some middle of the road RINO? My guess is they will go with the RINO.
Not even close in comparison. I feel like some folks are trying to question our sensibilities and intelligence with posts like this. Time to drink some coffee.
You don’t see a difference between quitting 2 years before your term expires and 3 years before the primaries even began (which means she could have finished her term and still had plenty of time to run full time) and quitting once you’ve been nominated as the candidate by your party?
Palin should have finished out her term at least.
If she was really serious about being taken serious, she would have run for reelection, and then run for president as a successful 2 term governor. That’s what you really need. Hillary put off running for president until she was reelected to a second Senate term. And at least 0bama didn’t quit the institution he had just been elected to just 2 years in to run for president.
What Palin did is ridiculous.
And I think she’ll find she gets shunned for it.
A half-term governor who quit doesn’t do the GOP any good in presidential politics. Her appeal was that she was a governor. She no longer is. She didn’t even complete her term. That makes her finished politically.
Sarah Palin is not the natural leader of the Republican party.
The Republican party is leaderless, in case you haven’t noticed.
She’s only the leader if the example is to resign.
Hmmm... maybe she ought to be the leader for a lot of these Republicans.
Funny, isn’t it?
Mark Sanford won’t resign, but Sarah Palin does out of the blue.
Man, the GOP is f’ed up.
And look how well it worked for him?
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