News blurb: Sarah Palin says so long, for now . . .
3 July 2009 by Stardust
Is it really any surprise?
Sarah Palin resigning as Governor of Alaska
Palin has stated:
“We know we can affect positive change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference,”
However, this move raises speculations that this decision will free up her time to allow her to travel about the country without the responsibilities as governor. She would be better able to focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race. Will she be back, or is she gone from the political arena for good? We can hope for the latter, but I think we haven’t seen the last of her.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the governor’s picnic in Fairbanks at the end of the month, Palin spokesman Dave Murrow said.
3 July 2009, on 6:55 pm
Hopefully, this creationist fool, will now lock herself away in a room , someplace, and whack her head with her bible till she dies!!! We haven’t heard the end of this yet….. I’m Sure! Wait till the real truth comes out! I wonder if she’s banging some guy in Argentina, or maybe being blackmaled for some other indescretion. I can’t wait!!!! I’m LMAO!!!!!
4 July 2009, on 12:07 am
Mark my words: She’s planning a Presidential compaign.
That enough people in this country have shown interest in voting for this intellectual lilliputian is equal parts disturbing and infuriating. Listening to Shrub speak was painful, but listening to Palin wrestle with our language whilst making ernest attempts to fool the listener into believing she has a clue is downright embarrassing.
This news did not bring a smile to my face–it sent a shiver down my spine.
4 July 2009, on 5:43 am
This really shocked me so I’ve been reading all I can and basically I’ve heard several different things- either she’s planning a Presidential Campaign, or she’s got some really serious ethics violations, OR she was just sick of politics.
I really don’t think she’s planning on running for President. Why quit in the middle of your term if you wanted to do that? It would give her more experience. Now, if she finished out her term and did not seek re-election, then I’d say she was running for Prez. Not this.
I’ve got a feeling we’ll hear the real reason at the end of July.
4 July 2009, on 7:01 am
BWWAHAHAHA! There’s lots of speculation being thrown about, but my bet (and hope) is that there’s a shit-storm about to hit the fan. (I can haz ethics violations?)
4 July 2009, on 7:36 am
Our soon-to-be ex-governor may well end up running for President. She’s crazy enough to do it but I hope not. My wife has agreed that if Palin becomes President, we will move to Canada or New Zealand or someplace where the national leadership isn’t a complete embarrassment. 8 years of dubya was just about all I could take. Another fundie would make me cringe and cry. I think, however, that Sarah would have little chance of succeeding as a Presidential candidate. At some point she would have to face news interviews and her complete lack of education and general stupidity would be demonstrated.
4 July 2009, on 9:35 am
Thing going around now is that the $12+ million sports center contract she awarded to a friend, also paid for them to build her new house. She is supposed to be or will be under federal investigation for embezzlement.
4 July 2009, on 11:51 am
This is the comment I left over at ScienceBlogs
(http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/07/palins_resignation.php)
“Yep, that quitting in the middle of the term thing really worked out for Mittunswillard Romney.
He, and two of the three former GOP governors from MA quit mid-term, the results.
Bill Weld: Quit to get an ambassadorial gig from Clinton, blocked by a real republican, Jesse Helms (Dead Racist Asshole–NC). Left Paul Cellucci in charge.
Paul Cellucci: Served out remainder of Weld’s term, was re-elected in 1998. Resigned to become ambassador to Canada, which went a little less than really, really well. Left Jane Swift in da house.
Jane Swift did not resign, she was suckerpunched by Mitt Romney. Of course she was an idiot and may well have been beaten by a Democrat in the gubernatorial race, but Romney, who had owned a home in Brookline, MA for years (though he hadn’t spent most of his time there) decided he could get the job if he wanted it. This was based on his “hero” status for turning the SLC Olympics around. In the event, Romney was elected, was pretty much despised by the average reasonable MA voter for his lying, conniving and bullying tactics and, when he ran in the 2008 presidential primary, garnered 52% of the vote–in a “semi-closed primary” state.
I wish Sarah the Impalinator similar political success. Maybe she can be the Ambassador to the Holy See.”
4 July 2009, on 12:53 pm
If this is the start of a presidential run, it is the worst start in history. That presser was laughable! I think there’s an ethics investigation in the works.
Cna you say, “Caged Heat”?
4 July 2009, on 1:40 pm
I still stand behind what I said in my earlier comment–between havin’ Jesus, donchya know, dodging earlier ethics charges and Sean Hannity and the rest of Faux News enamored of her, I really think she figures herself to be bullet proof at this point.
Plus, she’s fucking stupid.
Demmocommie; if you’re figuring she’ll take a lesson from Mit, you’re figuring her to be someone that looks at the facts–not a strong point for the “Impalinator” (love that).
No, this is preparation for a POTUS campaign.
4 July 2009, on 7:10 pm
Leave politics for good? Are you crazy?
This batshit woman is the best thing to happen to liberals in my rather considerable lifetime.
Please, please, let her get the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Ensign, Vitter, Sanford, Palin…who’s next? This is wonderful fun.
You know she resigned to dodge some upcoming scandal. I can’t wait for the next shoe to drop.
4 July 2009, on 10:23 pm
Remember this?…[fun with mouse clicks?]…
http://www.palinaspresident.us/
We can laugh now…but…
What a horror, if it ever DID happen!
[Personally, I'd be assembling a chomp-down cyanide capsule...IF that ever happened!
I can't afford what it would cost to leave the country.]
What’s that?…”Surely, you jest!”
(Don’t call me Shirley?)
6 July 2009, on 12:44 pm
Two things, either she is going to be brought up on criminal charges, or she is making a run for money on the wingnut welfare circle.
Being a star on the wingnut welfare circuit, she can spout of all she wants about abortion, abstinence-only education, guns, and all the other pet issues dear to conservatives, without having to need a record of accomplishment. She clearly is delusional though.
10 July 2009, on 12:17 pm
Will she be back, or is she gone from the political arena for good? We can hope for the latter
Not so fast. She is actually somebody that I WANT the Republicans to choose. Why? Because I think she virtually guarantees a sure victory for the left.