Sarah Palin to resign as Alaska governor
 

Pass the popcorn, y'all ...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/03/palin/index.html

That's good, I think Alaska being Governed by her is just.. ugh..

What if she had done this before the election?

Hopefully she goes into porn now

I wonder what's going to happen in the next election, there's been more attention to bad Alaskan politicians in recent years. Considering she was an outsider (even though she's lived there awhile) there may be a closing of the ranks for impression management.

My Alma Mater will also have to change the boasting from Alaska's governor, to the first woman governor of Alaska. She was kind of our big alumna we touted for awhile.

There really wasn't much reason to at that point regardless of how 'bad' she looked.

She was more popular than McCain was and Alaskans were still happy but things have changed...articles were printed following the election that she burnt enough bridges to the point that her return to Alaska wasn't going to be a smooth one.

But putting all of this reasoning, wondering and guessing aside, the 800lb gorilla in the room is...WHY?

Why is she resigning?

ETA: Wait....isn't there an ethics investigation going on?

The current prediction that I've heard is that she's gearing up for a Senate run.

Well how does leaving your office in the middle of your current term put a positive spin on running for senate?

If McCain had won the presidency, then yeah, I could see that but right now she just up and quits with no explanation?

No.

Please tell me we have another Republican sex scandal in the making.

Maybe she's having an affair with her daughter's baby daddy. (Sorry, that was in horrible taste.)

I think that's lame.

She said something about "I don't want to be a lame duck politician" or whatever. I think if that's the case, she should get out of politics all-together because at some point in their careers that is what they will all end up being

Political insiders have said that she's getting out of politics altogether. Apparently, the tide turned against her in Alaska as soon as the election was over.

Was this everyone's way to push MJ out of the spotlight for a minute? ;)

But in all seriousness I like her and hope she finds her true calling, since it doesn't appear to be politics.

I just don't get that feeling that the door has closed on the whole story.

To put it into words that we might hear Sarah herself say "I'm thinkin' that we haven't heard the last of this, ya know?"

Say, she hasn't been in Argentina lately, has she?

Kidding! I'm a Republican, but I'm also lukewarm on Gov. Palin.

All reasons she could have left office... :rolleyes: :D

But as has been said, I don't see how resigning will help her run for a more prestigious position later on. If this was her tactic (and maybe she tried to downplay it by breaking the news on a Friday before a holiday weekend), lying about the reason she resigned definitely won't help her gain support in possible future campaigns.

Another argument is that she is becoming increasingly angry/embarrassed/upset by the constant jokes being made about her and her family, and she doesn't want to be in the limelight anymore.

On the flip side of that, others are saying that after being the "star" that she became while being in the public eye, to return to the small state (population-wise) of Alaska was kind of a disappointment.

Whatever the reason, I think her explanation of not wanting to be a lame-duck politician was to conceal the real justification for wanting/needing to resign.

Yes it was.

Anywho, maybe she is tired of having her family members dragged through the mud or the topic of sick inappropriate jokes. That alone has to be hard on anyone male or female, regardless of political affiliation. I believe strongly that is a major reason as to why good folks don't/won't run for public office.

I think political opinion/policy/actions(especially within the last ten years) are fair game for attack of any one running in any election. What I dont agree with is personally attacking family members of a politician, especially if they are children/minors and/or have nothing to do with the development of the political views of their parent's candidacy. That kind of senseless mudslinging alone would make me want to quit, but that is just me.

Yes. That's why I said that it was.


I certainly hope you're not referring to Bristol Palin here, because she absolutely has everything to do with the development of her mother's political views. It is exactly her mother's attitude about abstinence-only sex education which is to blame for the multitude of unwanted teen pregnancies in America every year. Shame on Sarah Palin for not doing her job as a mother and making sure her own daughter didn't get knocked up in high school--and heaps of shame on her for trying to ensure that the teenage girls of her constiuents don't receive the education they deserve regarding the options for preventing pregnancy.

/soapbox