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i never understood her quitting the governor position. That is a deal breaker for a Pres run...you just can’t trust her.

We no doubt will get flamed ...its already happening ...instead of posters just responding to the criticisms.

As governor she was getting sued over and over again. State law forbade her from getting state funding to defend herself, forbade accepting pro bono legal help, and forbade a privately funded legal defense fund. If you are not a multimillionaire, then you will be made bankrupt. The law is written that way to keep the ‘wrong sort’ from becoming governor. So she quit, and was thus free of the restrictions, got a legal defense fund, made a few millions on TV, and suddenly every one of the screwy charges was shown to be without merit.

When she was on the Alaska oil board, state law forbade her as a member of the board from reporting corrupt actions by the board. She quit, stopped accepting the salary associated with being on the board, and went public. That was how she got to be governor.

Now the false charges were that she had some 20 years ago been having sex with the college basketball team. David Letterman on national TV advocated for her minor daughter to be raped. She has a daughter and grandson in Arizona that these people would go after in a minute if they thought it would help them.

Politics ain’t beanbag. I wish her well, and am sorry that people permit the kind of abuse that she and her family have been given. That she would decide to protect her family doesn’t surprise me. In a kinder world her husband could go on D. Letterman’s show and punch out Letterman, and explain why. We don’t live in that world.

Her rationale was clear - couldn’t sustain a personal bankruptcy under the AK rules at the times with multiple fake accusations. I understood that but you apparently are too stupid to comprehend the problem she faced or are too political to admit it publically! Take a hike!!

“i never understood her quitting the governor position. That is a deal breaker for a Pres run...you just can’t trust her”.

That was her original mistake. I still am not sure it could be considered a mistake, unless she was planning on running.

Quitting an elected office for any reason other than illness or corruption is pretty much a deal killer. She could never have survived an actual run. Imagine having to defend that in debates and at the same time, convince people you should get the top job in the land.

It would have been a nightmare. To her die hard fans, they don’t care, but it was the rest of the people that would have had a problem with it.

I don’t think she really likes elected office. I think she really enjoys campaigning, but the job that comes after the hullabaloo, not so much.