Looks like Gov. Palin is resigning... speculate below

[AZRedhawk44]

I think John Galt paid her a visit...

[LadySmith]

The press will dig even harder, convinced that she was dealing cocaine and child sex slaves from the Governor's mansion, under the control of Zionist alien overlords. 

But would they do that to discredit her or make her more acceptable in the political arena?

[Boomhauer]

Sometimes I think American politicians should learn from the ones in Israel. Here they don't resign until the police come to lead them away from the office in handcuffs, and sometimes not even then.

Um, most American Politicians do that.


Like others, I think Palin's just tired of the *expletive deleted*it that gets thrown on her family by the monkeys of the press. Yes, resigning will not stop that, but the press will eventually get bored and leave.

Sad to see her go, but at least Alaska has a competent Lt. Gov. to take the office, unlike down here in SC...

[Jocassee]

Um, most American Politicians do that.


Like others, I think Palin's just tired of the *expletive deleted*it that gets thrown on her family by the monkeys of the press. Yes, resigning will not stop that, but the press will eventually get bored and leave.

Sad to see her go, but at least Alaska has a competent Lt. Gov. to take the office, unlike down here in SC...

If only in had been Andre Bauer in Argentina instead of Sanford, the world would still make sense. But no, we are about to have a perennial daredevil in the Governor's mansion. Nothing like a plane wreck in your record to instill confidence.

[Boomhauer]

But no, we are about to have a perennial daredevil in the Governor's mansion. Nothing like a plane wreck in your record to instill confidence.

It wasn't just a plane crash...it was an idiotic plane crash. And Andre Bauer wants to remind all LEOs that might pull him over that he will soon be the Governor.

[Waitone]

It wasn't just a plane crash...it was an idiotic plane crash. And Andre Bauer wants to remind all LEOs that might pull him over that he will soon be the Governor.

And his questionable behavior continues albeit undisclosed by our guardian media.

I have to search my memory for a politician much less a potential national politician which both parties abhorred.  Democrat side is edging toward derangement all the while warning everyone else of the lady's danger.  Meanwhile republican poobah's are sniping her from deep cover.  Looks to me the political class embodied in the Them Party deem the lady a threat.  Why?  What had Palin done or will do that threatens members of Them Party?

[agricola]

Why?  What had Palin done or will do that threatens members of Them Party?

Precedent, dear boy:

[Stand_watie]

Precedent, dear boy:

I hear her and Ronald Reagan being compared all the time...what do you think of the comparison?

[agricola]

I hear her and Ronald Reagan being compared all the time...what do you think of the comparison?

Thatcher was an (IMHO) a far better national leader than Reagan was (given the difficulties she faced and largely overcome during her premiership compared with what Reagan had to deal with), though perhaps neither would have achieved as much had the other not existed - you cant really see her and Carter getting on, after all. 

I must admit, up until about three or four years ago I really did have a negative view of her, but given the leaders we have been afflicted with since, her stock has steadily risen in my eyes.

 

[Cromlech]

It's funny that, isn't it? I know that not all past leaders were exemplary, but a fair few of them cetainly do put the more recent ones to shame.

[El Tejon]

Thatcher was an (IMHO) a far better national leader than Reagan was (given the difficulties she faced and largely overcome during her premiership compared with what Reagan had to deal with)

Oy, what pap! 

Reagan destroyed an Evil Empire that murdered 100 million individuals and kept its population in the poverty of socialism and Maggie only had to reform leadbottom, moronic British bureaucracies and . . . wait a tick, agricola may be right.

[El Tejon]

As for Palin she is either:

1.  a whiny quitter.
2.  a crook one step ahead of the USA.

I have no use for her either way.

[Monkeyleg]

but a fair few of them cetainly do put the more recent ones to shame.

I never thought I'd miss Bill Clinton or Gerald Ford.

Palin is a newcomer to the national scene, as well as a newcomer to politics in general. As such, she hasn't worked her way through the party system, hasn't done the requisite work to raise money for other candidates, and in general hasn't become a member of "the club."

If the Republicans start letting people run for president who aren't members of "the club," then who knows what sort of conservative we might get?

The Democrats go after her for several reasons, one being that she's like Miss California: an attractive woman with conservative views. Can't have that. Another other reason is that Palin has reached this point without having to be a feminist and play the victim. Of course, she's also a threat because, with the right coaching, she could win. An assertive, attractive, conservative woman in the White House would send all the wrong signals, just like Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas (no, I didn't mean that Clarence Thomas was an attractive woman ).

El Tejon, is there something in the news today giving the reasons why Palin stepped down, or are you making assumptions?

[longeyes]

Palin has realized that to be "one of the boys" in the Republican Party means signing on to America's cultural, economic, and moral dismantling.  So long as the GOP prefers to get along and be "polite" rather than show phillosophical clarity and intestinal fortitude it will continue to be a slowly fading non-player on the political scene.  I think Palin and her rejection of the "game" is an early harbinger of how the social climate in America is setting itself up for convulsive and and dramatic change.  Palin may never run for President but she may still be a great populist leader in an evolving polity where "government" is gradually being viewed as an alien life form inside America.

[El Tejon]

Nothing in the news yet.  Her cover story at her press conference was laughable.

However, while cooking dinner last night, I did hear Mark Levin take on the Palin resignation.  If you have an at least neutral stance on the behavior of Alaskan politicians (I think like New Orleans or Chicago that they are all on the take which stems from the culture up there), Levin makes the most sense.

[longeyes]

So Levin's take was what?

(Levin's a brilliant guy, but like so many others he talks like a "brinksman" and then pulls up at the last moment, refusing to fully follow his own instincts where they lead.  If he really believes we are living in a "soft tyranny" he needs to offer some practical and concrete counsel on what to do next.)

[agricola]

Nothing in the news yet.  Her cover story at her press conference was laughable.

However, while cooking dinner last night, I did hear Mark Levin take on the Palin resignation.  If you have an at least neutral stance on the behavior of Alaskan politicians (I think like New Orleans or Chicago that they are all on the take which stems from the culture up there), Levin makes the most sense.

If there is a story behind this, then perhaps there is some merit in Levin's suggestion.  However there are some issues with it:

i) she has recently been through one the most thorough background examinations ever in rcent political history.  The combination of the Dems and the MSM doing their digging would surely have found something so bad that it would force her to resign;
ii) in addition to the above, she has enough domestic enemies to suggest that if something did exist someone would have leaked it;
iii) there are good enough reasons for her to jump anyway (falling approval ratings, the incredible hostility of large sections of the media to her, the absence of any really prominent Republican leadership, the fact that its very difficult for her to do any more in Alaska than she has already done) irrespective of what she actually chooses to do.

[BryanP]

I don't see any way this can be spun in a positive way.  Hell, without thinking hard about it I can already write the Democratic ad copy for 2012

Some grave-voiced political ad guy going  "Sarah Palin abandoned the state of Alaska midway through her first term of office. And now she expects us to believe that she has what it takes to lead the country? America doesn't need quitters; America doesn't need Sarah Palin"

Whatever her reasons might be, she's done.  Stick a fork in her.

[Chuck Dye]

I suspect others here may have pegged it:  Palin could be trying to get out ahead of [reverb]THE HORRIFIC REVELATION.[/reverb]  But then I have had way too much fun with the (wholly manufactured) idea that Martin Luther King Jr. himself hired James Earl Ray, choosing martyrdom over an ignominious death from some form of mal-de-hankypanky (the real conspiracy being the quashing of the true autopsy results.) :D

[longeyes]

What "horrific revelation?"

There is nothing that Palin can be accused of that can possibly exceed what Obama has already done and is doing to America.

Too many here are looking at this through traditional political lenses.  The venom aimed at Palin by the new media types is unprecedented, verging on the insane.  Maybe she is protecting herself.   Maybe she is deciding how to navigate a new and evolving American political landscape that has ceased to be about Democrat and Republican or even traditonal elections.  Who and what she represents still resonates with many millions of Americans, and barring something vast and atrocious I don't see that changing.

[seeker_two]

Oy, what pap! 

Reagan destroyed an Evil Empire that murdered 100 million individuals and kept its population in the poverty of socialism and Maggie only had to reform leadbottom, moronic British bureaucracies and . . . wait a tick, agricola may be right.

...and don't forget the Faulklands....she brought about the first significant British military victory since WWII....Reagan just had Grenada....

I don't see Palin as either a new Reagan or Thatcher....but she could re-energize the conservative base better than any candidate currently being discussed....question is: will it be for the GOP or will she take them over to one of the third parties (Libertarian, Constitution, etc.)?....

[Gewehr98]

What's coming next in America is what's already come to so many other nations.

Oh, Jesus.  Here we go again. 

Revolution, Apocalypse and SHTF/TEOTWAWKI, you've seen it here first on APS, folks...

The orange stains, they do go away, you know.

[Balog]

El Tejon, is there something in the news today giving the reasons why Palin stepped down, or are you making assumptions?

El T, for whatever reason, hates Alaskans the same way he hates Libertarians.

[Gewehr98]

Maybe Alaskans wear/grow wookie suits?   

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

I'm curious, what could Palin possibly have done that would cause her to be portrayed any worse in the media than she already is?  They've been attacking her full-on for a year now, and there's really nothing more they can do.  She could get caught strangling babies and they wouldn't be able to harass her any mor than they already are.

I'm with the John Galt theory.  She's probably had enough of the crap, enough of the Lettermans joking about raping her daughters and so forth.  She doesn't strike me as the type who needs power and prestige to be happy.  She's probably content to let the lower 48 implode, secure in the knowledge that her little world up in Alaska is reasonably isolated and self-sufficient.