Posted on 02/24/2012 8:51:50 AM PST by kristinn
Fed up with mounting legal bills and rattled by intense scrutiny of her family and work, Sarah Palin was ready to step down as Alaska's governor months before she left office in July 2009.
Emails released Thursday, most from the last 10 months of her time in office, show she told her husband in April, "I can't take it anymore" and complained to spokeswoman Sharon Leighow and aide Kris Perry in March that she had been the target of "many frivolous suits and charges since the DAY I became VP candidate."
"I can't afford this job," she wrote.
The emails illustrate what Palin has said all along: After running for vice president unsuccessfully with John McCain, she returned to Alaska to find that the financial and emotional drain of her gubernatorial job was too much. She flirted with a presidential run last year, but told supporters she instead was dedicating herself to "God, family and country." She currently serves as a commentator on Fox News.
In a March 19, 2009, email, Palin complained that more than 150 freedom of information requests had cost the state more than $1 million, adding: "and who knows what all the bogus ethics charges have cost the state."
She expressed anger at having to pay for her own defense, with a bill that at that point totaled more than $500,000, and said her husband had to go back to work on the North Slope to help deal with the growing costs.
"We've all had to pay for our OWN legal defense in this political bloodsport - it's horrendous - why do you think Todd is on the slope today?" Palin wrote. "I am paying to defend in my capacity as GOVERNOR - actions taken in my official position. This is unheard of anywhere else."
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The state legislature should have stopped it and didn't.
Very well said and s true!
I can see why she decided not to run for President too. These liberals are evil and will destroy anyone the see as a threat to their power! Sarah didn’t surrender. She took up a different strategy!
Oops! Pardon me, I missed that. Must focus.
“It’s not political success, but it’s the way a good life is lived. I really respect that.”
She should have just raised the limit on her credit cards. And borrowed money from some rich Chinese person.
(Can you imagine what political, national and economic success it would be if HER values were in the White House?)
When I worked on our school newspaper, we learned to put the most important and relevant facts at the top, and then work down from there.
You know you are reading a propaganda rag when they deliberately reverse that order, under a deceptive headline.
Because most people just read the headline and the first few paragraphs, and then figure that it’s not worth reading the rest, because they’ve got the story.
Notice that if you read paragraphs 5-7, they are the ones that reveal what the email in question said, and they are the ones that reveal why Sarah decided to step down.
Frivolous lawsuits were costing the state millions, and frivolous lawsuits were bankrupting the Palins. And clearly that was exactly the purpose of those lawsuits.
That, of course, is the real story. It’s like the recall election in Minnesota, which is costing the state millions, to satisfy the agenda of the Communists and the Union Bosses.
Sarah resigned because she had done the things she was most concerned about, and would leave a good Republican governor in her place. She resigned to spare the state more wasteful expenses, to spare her husband the need to work hard to pay these unfair debts, and to escape inevitable bankruptcy.
But you have to read paragraphs 5-7 to understand that. AP trusts that most readers will simply go by the headline, “I can’t take it any more,” and the lead-in. “I can’t take it any more” refers to the looming bankruptcy and the useless expenses to the state, not to some sort of cowardice, as most readers would assume.
“I used to be one of those who slammed Sarah for quitting....but this puts it much more into perspective, and frankly, I don’t blame her one bit for doing what she had to do.”
Maybe you should have paid attention rather than casting judgment.
We all make mistakes.
If only.
I didn't want her to run last Fall, but now she is the best candidate who has yet to declare. We have such crap candiates to choose from.
Agreed, Gator - and a good response to a completely unhelpful, snarky, holier-than-thou comment.
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LOL I’m thinkin that Jackman is a little slow on the up take.
Not to mention the attempted murder by arson of her fellow members at the Wasilla Bible Church as Obama`s operatives left town.
No prob.
We are all Sarah’s allies.
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
In a sense I can’t blame her. But if this was enough to drive her to quit, she was in no way prepared to become President.
I bet they’re bitterly regretting doing that.
Err, why? If the left forced her out they succeeded. Quitting her gig as governor will make it next to impossible for her to ever be taken seriously as a Presidential candidate (I don't mean on FR or C4P, I mean nationally among the general public). The White House is not exactly a job a person can just quit halfway through because the other side is too nasty. I understand why she did it, but the idea that it didn't badly wound her politically is just silly.
I don't think the left regrets anything. They came for her with barrels blazing, feel no regret about it, and will do it again with as much or more enthusiasm because of their past success.
It probably wasn’t a judgmental thing. Quitting as Gov. was all she could do at that point but I was disappointed that the Left was going to get their jollies at her sake again. I was wishing that she could have hung in there but they won and were getting what they wanted.
I felt pretty bad for her.
In an alternate universe somewhere, Sarah Palin became the first woman President of the United States, and America became a much stronger, safer, and more prosperous nation because of it.
Steve Schmidt lost the election for McCain. SP gave the ticket at least 10 points they never would have had: 0 would have won in a major landslide without her, imo.
I wonder why her name is no longer a favorite search term here, on Free Republic. Have to think a lot of us are curious for news from her.
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Even the weak, talentless cowards on the Left, can WIN when they have overwhelming numbers on their side.
Against a disgusting, unrelenting, lie-filled media and political Full Court Press, Sarah and Todd were going it alone. Aside from Greta Van Sustern, I don't recall anyone with a platform standing in their defense.
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