did he quit 3 and a half years before the election?? Or after he had the nomination sewn up?
Go Sarah!
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.
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.
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.
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.
And look how well it worked for him?
Did Dole quit in 96 to campaign for the 2000 elections.
There is no real comparison between his and Sarah’s decision.
Good one!
and were the democrats critical of Kathleen Sebelius (and others) for resigning to take up Obama’s cause? her Lt. Governor had to balance the state’s budget.
but that’s quitting for a different reason right?
Bob, you just wasted a good job because you don’t have a chance in hell to win.
He lost.
What’s good for the gander apparently is not good for the goose these days.
Regarding him resigning from the senate, it was the right thing for him to do. The same goes for Palin if she's looking to run for higher office, especially since she would be a long ways away from Alaska if running.
Back to Dole, I applaud him for stepping down, because that's not something a lot of politicians would do. McCain, Lieberman, Clinton, Obama, Kerry, or Biden wouldn't do it. Regardless of who won or lost, I'm not so much of a fan of my tax dollars going to pay their salaries as worthless senators AND their presidential campaigns.
A little reality dose for those who run their mouths about Palin "quitting".
And how did that work out for you, Bob?