Sarah has earned my respect too. If she had stayed on, costing the Alaskan taxpayers more of their hard earned dollars in defending the Governor’s office from these baseless charges, I would consider her just another oily politician, more interested in the power of the office, and her political future.
By resigning, she shows that she does care about Alaska, that she doesn’t see her political career more important than her constituents’ rights and those of her family.
She didn’t quit. She will outsmart the rats in the long run, just wait and see.
There’s no way this will propel her to the WH in 2012 and anyone who really thinks that is seriously delusional IMHO.
Look she earned my respect too but she was elected to do a job and she’s abandoning it. It’s not going to get any easier for her (or her family) if she tries to get back in the ring.
Politics is a dirty nasty business but you know that when you step into the arena.