Sarah Palin: 'Time-out or flame-out?'

Kind of hard to put lipstick on a pig...

Sarah Palin is probably a year away from hawking her own line of costume jewelry on the Home Shopping Channel.

Her political career is on life-support.

Sarah has made a fairly mavericky move that should appeal to Rove's Right Wingnuts. But in reality she defines the Principal and has Petered out.... This IS good for Alaska because Palin should be in a place where she can do no damage. I predict the GOP won't want her around (or at least not associate herself with the GOP) if/as they try to appeal to a broader voter base, but any deviation from the rightmost rant will likely make Rove's Base stay home on voting day - Mr. Rove got his party in a precarious position... how to maintain what's left of the Base while trying to appeal to normal voters.

According to the Democrats who write for the Swamp, being governor of Alaska is a "thin" resume credential for the Vice Presidency.

But evidently, being a first term senator is plenty of resume credential for the Presidency. If the senator is a Democrat.

FLAME OUT - crash and burn!!!

Why the qualifier when mentioning the Washington Post but not for the New York Times? They've had their share of troubles, included writers who just plain make up stuff.

Well, with any luck, Palin will go away for good. With her gone, why don't you morons pick on a liberal Democrat for the next two years? Just to change it up a little? Or is it even possible for you to criticize the left? Sadly, probably not.

Not the "M" word again!

She sounded like she was cranked up in that rambling discourse she gave.

Funny she mentions the "politics of personal destruction" when she was such a willing participant in this standard Republican tactic in the last presidential election.

Sarah Plain has thrown the people of Alaska under the bus and if given the chance, will throw the rest of us under, as well. I saw her rambling disjointed *resignation* speech
and it sounded more like she was launching a new career.
America doesn't need this kind of leadership. No wonder the GOP is in trouble.

Sarah Plain has thrown the people of Alaska under the bus and if given the chance, will throw the rest of us under, as well. I saw her rambling disjointed *resignation* speech
and it sounded more like she was launching a new career.
America doesn't need this kind of leadership. No wonder the GOP is in trouble.

"Time out or flame out?'' one of our newspapers is asking today. Our own Mark Z. Barabak writes of the governor's "disjointed and cryptic remarks...blah, blah, blah"

The libs are deathly afraid of Palin & it will be great to see the Kool-Aid drinking Obama zombies finally see what a true American leader looks like.

GO SARAH!!!

No one should be surprised by this and should expect the unexpected from a goofball like her.

Palin’s move puts yet more pressure on Obama to finally get some results, the soaring rhetoric isn’t hypnotizing the plebes like it used to.

This week Helen Thomas, Colin Powell, and Warren Buffet all turned on him. Polls are looking droopy for The One lately. Obama’s porkulus program is a train wreck, all it’s done is bump interest rates and tank the dollar. We are being laughed at by bad guys like Tehran, Pyongyang, and Al Qaida who amazingly turned-down Barack’s friend-requests.

Palin could trounce him in 2012, when Americans would vote for the Gipper-in-heels in droves- begging for lower taxes, free enterpise, and a defense posture with some backbone.

Go get em, Sarah- and don’t mind the press, nobody will be listening to them anymore after the pending Obamamania implosion- doors are opening for you now.

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Look on the bright side Mark, you now have countless future stories to sandbag Sarah as she bring her refreshing Conservative message of fiscal responsibility (that a majority of American folks desire) back in the limelight. It must be a relief not to have to explain why those 3.5 promised new jobs are a fantasy or why the Porkulous is failing, or that many campaign promises ( especially no taxes on continuously changing income levels or Obama special interest pals such as the unions and repeal of our 95% tax break for average Americans) are broken. Or that it is not politics and business as usual in Washington but fantastic business as usual (lobbyists abound more than ever) and more partisan than ever. Or that we have a new "surge" from a anti-war campaigner, or a Bush basher who quietly retains policies that he trashed and has expanded overseas. I could continue listing the causalities of the Obama bus but one can see the big picture (except for the blind Obamablots) that will emerge from the MSM as they join in a disingenuous diversion, Sarah Palin, thus removed from covering the honest facts of the Obama policies from the American folks.

Sarah Palin attacks are just bigotry against those women who are not from New York, Boston, Washington DC or San Francisco. There are a lot of well educated redneck hillbilly hicks who like country, jazz and classical music, and appreciate a woman who fishes too. I happen to like to stop and talk to my neighbors and strangers passing by my house. Imagine that. Out here between the big waters we like Sarah Palin, not Caroline Kennedy.

I was delighted when McCain chose Palin as VP candidate but McCain wasn't much help and ran a terrible campaign which hurt his party and candidates.
The liberal media were their usual abusive unfair selves and did everything they could to humiliate her.
While harming Palin they ignored Obama, Biden, Rangel, Schumer, Frank, Waters,Dodd, Leahy, Emanuel, ACORN, SEIU, and the policies of nepotism and cronyism which Obama has enacted.
I pray Palin comes back stronger, more articulate and helps destroy these clowns ruining our beloved country.

It's liberation, not self-destruction. When you have the current republican party as a friend, you don't need enemies.

Rather than incorporate disparate views, the republican party lets it's members take abuse without sticking up for them. I noticed this when long-time republican outsider Ron Paul was campaigning for president. The leftists ran a smear campaign on Paul early on and the republican party complicitly dotted the i on that during the presidential party debates, when all candidates outside of brown-noser Romney and pre-selected McCain were marginalized. After being knee-deep in republican presidential politics -- and treated like a leper at his own party's convention -- Paul's straighforward recommendation was to vote third party, ANY third party, rather than republican or democrat.

Recently, David Letterman made a crude joke on national TV about one of Palin's daughters. No coordinated uproar from the republican party. When moderates and independents see things like that, they wonder: "Would republicans stick up for me as promised if I vote for them when they won't even stick up for one of their own?"

Palin may be calling it quits as a future candidate and shooting for a power-broker position. That's the most likely read from her own announcement. And that's what has Ed Rollins' and Michael Steele's knickers in a bunch -- the thought of THEIR republican party having to court Palin to get the votes she represents. On top of that, she's younger than most, and has time and opportunity for a political rebound.

And the senior 2008 McCain campaign aides still griping about Palin? The biggest bunch of all-time LOSERS!

Is she the last person in the country to recognize she isn't qualified to be president? Or does she still think she has a chance?
Last fall she claimed her expertise is in energy due to her role in negotiating a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48. There is now a glut of gas and I expect this pipeline will be delayed for a decade or more. That would be bad news for her political aspirations, so, by resigning, she'll blame it on her successors

In listening to hear speech, I was less impressed with her than ever. She was rambling and redundant. Who with even an ounce of critical thinking skills could vote for this woman as president?

Palin is showing exactly what she is. A flake. Would she be quitting in a a couple years if she and McCain had won? Worse yet if she were to be elected as president (in her dreams) and decided to quit. Why anyone even things she's capable is beyond me. I think this is her final curtain so far as political aspirations, but she'll probably make a lot of money. Hopefully were down with her.

Maybe Sarah wants to take a hike on the Appalachian Trail; or maybe she wants to dribble through that full court press. The only thing she said that made much sense was the part about how dead fish go with the flow.

The Republican Party is displaying a meltdown that exceeds even my wildest imaginings. Let's hope that the good folk, who have probably been lying low to prevent being trampled by the zealots, the religious and the righteous, will rise to the top and bring in an era of balance, true compassion and pragmatism.

Palin repied to reporters questions after her speech with, "Golly gee, heck gosh darn,yup, hey, aw shucks , more time for huntin' them der moose from helicopters

Ed Rollins is one of the smartest cookies around.

And what he says about the Wasillan One Term Wonder is so true.

At least from here in provincial Hyde Park where we get to watch roller ball Chicago politics from the sidelines, closely.

In today's Republican Party, a "bold venture into a new realm of political leadership or as an irreversible, destructive act of political self-immolation" are not mutually exclusive.

For example: McCain insisting that he debate Obama in townhall meetings. McCain naming Palin as his running mate. McCain declaring he was going to cease campaigning, postpone his debate with Obama and return to Washington, D.C. to resolve America's financial crisis.

Top 10 Real Reasons Sarah Palin Is Resigning As Governor:

10. She's pregnant again and is having John Edwards' baby.

9. She's "hiking the Appalachian Trail" with Mark Sanford.

8. She wants to spend more time teaching abstinence to her family.

7. She's joining the cast of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"

6. She wants to spend more time watching Russia from her house.

5. She wants to devote herself full-time to making comedians apologize for all the new jokes they're going to tell about her.

4. Her daughter Bristol actually IS having Alex Rodriguez's baby.

3. She's taking up Playboy's offer to pose nude as part of their upcoming "Governors Gone Wild" issue.

2. She came to the end of the Bridge to Nowhere that is her political career.

1. She didn't resign at all. It was an elaborate hoax pulled off by Tina Fey.

"disjointed and cryptic remarks'' - I watched more than once...I read the transcript and I'm still confused. This is not the first time I thought she talks in circles.

As far as her family being put on stage, I believe she was the one who paraded them out there on the campaign trail. If she wanted them to have a private life, she should have left them in Wasilla.

I heard one pundit say this may be her bridge to the presidency. I see it as her "bridge to nowhere".

In the time of need for Alaskans, it seems time to cut and run for some percieved personal benefit.

Look Out Dems; there's nothing like a women's wrath.

Worse case scenario for her: she's toast. Best case scenario for her: people just think she's a moron.

quiter..... just what we don't need for elected office.

Sounds like she going for the talk circuit to make a lot of money.

quiter

I can only hope that she's chosen to leave politics. She represents the last thing the Unites States needs as president. I don't wish her well or ill. I just wish her away from my sight and my government.

If it's another scandal...it must be pretty damn bad....Well she nipped that fallout in the butt. (See you in prison!) If she's planning on being the Republican Mascot for a few years rallying support....she's genius. The people who flock to her like her "falky" temperament. They see it as an action oriented person-- radical enough to make changes (I'd say radical enough to get us involved in WWIII with Russia while leaving her POTUS post mid term to re-write the Constitution). When so much of our government is slow to address problems, unless it's politically convenient, radical people become the antidote. Let's see how well she lives up to her words: hard fought freedom of speech should be used to promote equality and respect.....(not holding my breath)

""Time out or flame out?'' one of our newspapers is asking today"

What do you mean 'our'? If it's the L.A. Times, then call it that. As a Chicagoan, I have no ties to southern California. I originally thought you meant the Sun Times, but apparently the term was used in reference to Herr Sam Zell and not the city the article is written for.

We hardly knew ye. And, we are all better off that way.

I am relieved that Palin finally saw the light and is leaving politics. She took a horrible beating from the media and it's good that she will be going into the private sector and take care of her family. For Sarah Palin to remain in politics only hurts Palin and the Republican party. The Republican party has to shake that "laughingstock" image and get back to being the power it once was.

I'm inspired by Governor Palin's use of analogy to create one: you generally don't hit the eject button unless something's wrong with the plane.

Assuming all else is normal, if I were her, I would have stayed as Governor of Alaska to build up my record, to show people what I *can* do. I agree with Ed Rollins; this makes no sense--*unless* another shoe is about to drop.

And as far as the line from General MacArthur is concerned--"We're not retreating--we're advancing in another direction"--I think I just felt the entire Republican party cringe. Incredible.

Now both sides have dismissed Palin. Only the few on the right margins will carry her banner--Oh,what banner?
This move is actually good for the party. It will force everyone to face the reality of the last administration AND the last ticket. Our political landscape does not fare well with people like her, tho politics of distant generations could.
Now the stakes are too high, the scope too global.

Now both sides have dismissed Palin. Only the few on the right margins will carry her banner--Oh,what banner?
This move is actually good for the party. It will force everyone to face the reality of the last administration AND the last ticket. Our political landscape does not fare well with people like her, tho politics of distant generations could.
Now the stakes are too high, the scope too global.

Perhaps Todd has found his "soul mate" somewhere south of the border?

Or is another daughter pregnant without benefit of husband or age of 18?

Or are the ethics investigations finally coming to roost?

Or is she going to move to Montana or Wyoming to live somewhere that she can shoot moose but have a state population larger than the caribou herd?

At her press conference, she lacked a coherent story, as well as looked and sounded rattled. I'm with Ed Rollins -- another shoe is about to drop and she wanted to be out of the governor's office when it did.

Guess that Todd will need to go back to fishing, rather than sitting in on all of her meetings in the governor's office.

CSpan is re running Sarahhh's "farewell address" right now.

She's positively out of breath.

Sucking in air at every semicolon. (OK, that's giving credit to too much organization.)

Sounds like she and Todd were just going at it just beforehand.

S, take one deep breath and calm down.

Tina couldn't top this example of self-parody.

Scarah was waay too comfy in her Neiman's rags to just be finally tired of the politics as usual. Some bombshell was about to drop and she ran for cover.

I smell a scandal coming up. The Republican Circus continues......

Please go away. Palin reminds me how stupid people are led by stupid people so easily.

I remember shortly before I became an Independent the melting down of the Democratic party.. it could have fell to the way side IF the Republicans hadn't taken the attitude of being superior.. however, the Republicans were saying the SAME things the Democrats are right now and they let their mouths over load their rears too.. look at what happened.. If the indication of the Democrats leaving the party to become Independents means anything the Democrats aren't doing very good right now either..
As for Sarah.. while I am not sure if she'd make a good president or not I will say she has shown much more restraint than I or most mothers would have when their families are being attacked publicly on national media .. it is sad.. to attack a candidate is one thing but the Democrats are showing no CLASS when attacking her family.. thing is no one making these comments even knows the reason.. it could be a health issue..While the Progessives want to portray themselves as compassionate.. I have found them to be bitter, hostile and close minded.. no wonder REAL Democrats are leaving the party.. By the way until 2006 I was a tried and true Democrat.. almost always siding with the Democrats, no more, just because your party has the power today doens't mean they will tomorrow but the lack of values they have lost they can NEVER regain.. now they only make choices by whatever lobbyist best pays them..

Right wing conservatives who embrace Palin should fear her rather than support her. We liberal Democrats pray she runs for the presidency or some other national office. This woman is a threat to no one except the survival of the Republican party. Please, please run for office Sarah.

Sarah's successor has spoken and the verdict is in:

"She's accomplished more in these two and a half years than most governors accomplish in one or two terms," he said. "Our governor has been a great governor. She is going to be Alaska's and is Alaska's greatest gift to our country."

You hear that, rats?, she is the "GREATEST GIFT TO OUR COUNTRY". Isn't that what the Pugs said about Dub'ya?

Sarah 2012, rid America of the Obama Dictatorship.

"...delivered in a voice that often seemed rushed and jittery"

Her voice always sounds like that. Hopefully this is the last time I'll have to endure the sound of it.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0wRJjXvyZ1I/SkrIzJMU8CI/AAAAAAAAECM/E54lYbPGI4I/s1600-h/palixon.jpg

"But evidently, being a first term senator is plenty of resume credential for the Presidency. If the senator is a Democrat." ...

To be more accurate, you should also look at President Obama's time spent in the Illinois State Senate.

Lets not forget to compare educational backgrounds as well. I'd rather have a Harvard Law grad (who finished at the top of his class) vs. anyone with a "journalism" degree (especially one who rails against the very journalists whom she is one of).

Not a double standard, just common sense.

So if Palin does indeed seek higher office, is she going to resign that post too before finishing a single term?

good bye palen and good riddens.bozo moron flak pick one.

I wish her well in whatever she does now. She is a brilliant woman. Alaska's loss.

The basketball analogy is aweful. Passing the ball is akin to letting some of the other officials call the shots on some lowing priority issues. Leaving the team is QUITTING. Palin = quitter. and America does not need quitters, we need movers and shakers and DOERS!

Today's Republican Party isn't a circus......it's a carnival freak show. David Vitters, Michelle Bachmann, Mark Sanford, Jeff Sessions, Saxby Chambliss, Bobby Jindal, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michelle Matilin, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter......

Worse case scenario for her: she's toast. Best case scenario for her: people just think she's a moron.

Posted by: GBlivins | July 4, 2009 12:09 PM

you nailed it.

I do not blame her for resigning as Governor. Her boss is President Obama and he would most likely make things difficult for the state of Alaska because of Sarah Palin. She made the right choice. I would quit too if I had a boss who did not know how to run this country. I hope Sarah makes all the money she can on her popularity and stay in politics. She would make a better leader than Obama. You can keep the change. He changed his family by adding a dog and a swing set and he has done nothing for the unemployed. No matter what 2012 is the year to change the President again and vote against Obama.

Something smells in Alaska and its not Salmon

kathleen, please take a class in civics; sarah's "boss" are the people of Alaska.

Goodbye and good riddance, Caribou Barbie!

I do not blame her for resigning as Governor. Her boss is President Obama and he would most likely make things difficult for the state of Alaska because of Sarah Palin. She made the right choice. I would quit too if I had a boss who did not know how to run this country. I hope Sarah makes all the money she can on her popularity and stay in politics. She would make a better leader than Obama. You can keep the change. He changed his family by adding a dog and a swing set and he has done nothing for the unemployed. No matter what 2012 is the year to change the President again and vote against Obama.

Posted by: Kathleen | July 4, 2009 6:28 PM

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What?!?

POTUS is not the boss of any state governor. Please go to the library and learn something.

Outright quitting? And she is a Republican? If she ever becomes President, will she up and quit? When Gingrich "un-invited" Palin to an important Republican event, that spoke volumes.

I'm tired of my Republican party lower themselves to just name-calling and she's queen of the name-calling.

Republicans need leaders with facts, knowledge, history, a clean record, leadership ability, etc., etc., etc. We can't have Rush Limbaugh being our "spokesman."

I'm glad the Republican party showed her the door.

Ed Rollins says it makes her look flaky. She looks flaky because she is flaky.

The next great leader of the Republican party has not been born yet.

Sarah Palin has no mystique, no grace, no class, and the United States would be turned into a massive laughingstock if she were ever elected into office. She would be the absolute best that the Republican Party can find? Go ahead and run for President. It's her equivalent of the Miss Wasilla Beauty Pagent.

According to the Democrats who write for the Swamp, being governor of Alaska is a "thin" resume credential for the Vice Presidency.

But evidently, being a first term senator is plenty of resume credential for the Presidency. If the senator is a Democrat.

Well what the heck, before him, we elected a former governor and failed businessman who sat out Nam in the National Guard not even from his home state, who had no federal experience. So why not?

She wants to stay in the Public Eye, fine. Now tell me why her husband was a member of the AIP - a political group that hates the US Government and wants Alaska to secede from the Union. And from what I remember reading, Sarah has attended some of their functions in the past as well.

Moral of the story: don't claim to love your country when want to secede.

Hail to the Chief, 2012!

I love all the wingnuts complaining about Obama destroying the country. Where were you people during the Bush administration? Did you vote for Caribou Barbie and the old fossil McCain? After 8 years of Bush and Cheney didn't you get enough stupidity? Obama didn't cause the current economic disaster that we are dealing with right now. It was your team that did that. Cutting taxes isn't the answer to all the problems in this country, especially when those tax cuts are for the richest 2% of the people.
Bush took us from a record surplus to a record deficit in just 8 years. He didn't veto one single bill until he vetoed a children's health care bill in 2008. The Republicans are just as fiscally irresponsible as the Democrats. The only difference is the Republicans are bigger hypocrites because they don't practice what they preach.

The Republican party is extinct for the next decade or two. They threw out their principles for corporate greed and tax breaks for the rich at the expense of the middle class. Voters finally figured that out at the last election.

I pray Palin wins the GOP nomination in 2008 because that will give Obama the time he needs (8 years) to correct all the Bush mistakes.

No matter how bad Obama screws up he can't ever beat Bush's record of being responsible for the deaths of a million people in Iraq. According to a John Hopkins University a million people or more could be dead because of Bush's warmongering. As far as I'm concerned that blood is on the hands of Bush voters too.

Replying to Reaganiterepublicanblog.

You really are out of touch with current sentiment as is the GOP unfortunately.
Do everyone a favour and drop Ms Palin (from 30,000ft preferably).
She is the most destructive individual the party has had to endure in living memory and there have been some real Bonzo's.
Palin = halfwit

I don't think it will be feasible for her to re-enter the political scene if that's what she's planning on doing in a few years.

Was I the only one that noticed the ducks swimming in to claim their new lame duck leader? Sarah Palin. Quack. Quack.

The world needs more children with down syndrome? May the next mother whose child is born with this condition thank Governor Palin for this blessing!

Sarah Palin realizes that experience is not required to be elected President. No doubt she's going to become a Community Organizer somewhere, and also write 2 narcissistic books about herself. That's the ticket ! After all, as George Will had called Obama "the least experienced presidential nominee in 75 years," Palin in '12 would merely be the least experienced presidential nominee in 4 years ! YOU GO GIRL.

Now that Sarah is gone, maybe the wolves & bears will stand a chance not to be hunted down by aircraft and snares. Her environmental policies were a complete disaster. I would bet that the wildlife is breathing a lot easier now.

Resigning as governor of Alaska is not "mavericky" (and that is not even a word), it is QUITTING! Time for her to move out of politics and take care of all those kids of hers. It is time for a woman president, but IT SHOULD NEVER BE Sarah Palin.

There are plenty of intelligent women in this country. As a woman, I am, and always have been, appalled that Republicans believe Sarah Palin is a good representative of my gender. Palin simply made me feel I was back in high school, watching the "popular" kids make fun of the smart ones. Why should Joe Six Pack be a model to emulate? What's wrong with pronouncing names of countries correctly...as our military are rightly trained to do? How can anyone make fun of professors and education, or say that those who are intelligent are out of touch, or not part of "real" America?

Again, didn't we get over this in high school, this teasing of the nerds and geeks and Advanced Placement students? Why would I want as the leader of the United States government someone who believes the lowest common denominator is good enough?

We have intelligent students and citizens in this country. Push them, and they improve, they excel, they accomplish incredible, marvelous, miraculous things. They overcome huge obstacles.

I refuse to acknowledge Sarah Palin as someone who understands in the slightest what "leadership" means. Because leadership does not mean mocking those who try to excel, to achieve greater things for humanity, who pursue science to discover ways to improve and extend human life. She believes the way to win is to make people feel good about being lazy, or lacking ambition, or making fun of the "intelligentsia." She panders to mob mentality and eggs on their anger and invective. She spouts childish insults in response to rational debate, buzzwords and cliches in response to serious concerns - both the last resort of those who
have no firm foundation for their actions, their beliefs, their politics.

And numerous ethics allegations and examples of petty, nepotistic and self-serving behavior later, she fails to live up to her obligation. She breaches her contract with the State of Alaska, breaks her promise to serve.

Again, why is this person (because I am ashamed to share the noun "woman" with her), this idiot who lost McCain and the Republican party the election, let's face it....why is she still being touted as a possible presidential candidate?

Have the Republicans truly gone insane? Can they not do better? Have they no understanding whatsoever of the intensity of dislike and disrespect men and women alike have for Palin?

She is unqualified. She is uneducated. She is illogical. She is childish. She is untrustworthy. She is incapable of rational debate, and responds to criticism with rah-rah egotistical invective and increasingly unbelievable defenses of her behavior, her violation of Alaskan law, her poor decisions based on family issues and personal dislikes.

Please. I beg you as a woman: Give us something better. Please don't let all of us intelligent, rational women out here end up with her as our "representative." She is not. She represents nothing that is meaningful to me. Let her disappear into obscurity as she deserves.

Why quit as governor? Those sports metaphors at the end of Palin's speech explain it.

She has a contract with the WNBA.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/great-decisions-2009/

The duplicitous vitriol directed at Palin, whether from the left, the media or even those
Republicans who conveniently blame her for McCain's failure in Election 2008, is frankly unbelievable.

She is obviously going to devote her time to writing a book (I suspect she is going to get a very large advance) and unlike Obama, Hillary and a host of others, she determined that it isn't fair to the public if she does that while drawing a salary as a public official.

I also suspect that she will have many PAID speaking engagements over the next few years.

She is doing exactly what Obama did - earn money so that she and her family can afford a furtherance of her political career. Of course Obama produced his 2 books while on the public payroll.

The duplicitous vitriol directed at Palin, whether from the left, the media or even those
Republicans who conveniently blame her for McCain's failure in Election 2008, is frankly unbelievable.

She is obviously going to devote her time to writing a book (I suspect she is going to get a very large advance) and unlike Obama, Hillary and a host of others, she determined that it isn't fair to the public if she does that while drawing a salary as a public official.

I also suspect that she will have many PAID speaking engagements over the next few years.

She is doing exactly what Obama did - earn money so that she and her family can afford a furtherance of her political career. Of course Obama produced his 2 books while on the public payroll.

Must be trouble brewing in Wasila. Too bad for the people of Alaska they deserve better treatment from their elected leaders than just bailing out to go do some vague higher calling. Guess serving the people and taking care of the State of Alaska isn't that important to her.

I agree with Rollins, there must be something worse coming down the pike. Another one of those ethics probes must had struck a nerve to send her running like this. Maybe she was getting her house rebuilt by the Ted Stevens construction company. Well, it is sure to be welcome news to the Sanfords, they don't seem to be the only irresolute republican prez prospects. Rush must be proud.

Oh my Flo. that dead fish comment was right on! Dead fish go with the flow; what a brilliant analogy for the blind adoring Obamablots. You go girl!

Your article is slanted way too far LEFT to read with any ounce of credibility. Thanks for the boased journalism and yet another example of liberal media having a hay day with Palin or for that matter and Conservative fodder. This is ridiculous.

I guess you can choose whichever analogy you want, bubba Porter. My hope is that your babe, now that she has passed the ball, will flow into oblivion where quitters belong.

It would be great to have a woman president some day but not Sarah Palin. I couldn't imagine her as "leader of the free world. I am hoping that she is resigning because of the family's needs at home right now, and not some ambitions that are out of her reach. Obviously she wasn't doing her job as governer and was paying more attention to her own agenda. If she does have designs on a future in the government, she needs to go back to high school, take some English courses and improve her vocabulary. Her speechs are a disaster - they don't make any sense. If she thinks the media is tough on her now, she should look at what it would be like in a higher office. The media is brutal and you have to be very strong in how you handle it. You can't "just quit your job".

I think Sara Palin is great and I love her. She is doing whatever she feel is best for her family and its nobody's business why. So the poor pitiful press will just have to have someone else to prosecute. Oh yea, there's always Rush. Gee the weirds in this country sure were afraid of her. I love my country, but feel sorry for it now. Poor pitiful left wing nuts. Go away people--hopefully.

Sam Houston quit as governor of Tennessee and went to live with the Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma before leaving for texas where he became Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge there . He later also became Governor of Texas. Let time judge Sarah Palin, not idiots.

Do we wish her well? Hell no! Are we glad she's now in a place to do less harm? YOU BETCHA!

no mystique, no grace, no class-
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/07/sarah_palin_timeout_or_flameou_1.html#comment-3064801
Excellent description of the Present White House.

Who cares! I have too much else to do, but thanks for the info! Bye for now.

I only hope that you people that make fun of Sara Palin are very sure of what your saying because you were sure about B.O. and look what a mess the Country is in. Please don't say it's Bush's fault, that's old news, and besides, two wrongs don't make a right. If Bush screwed up the economy with the bailouts, why did B.O. triple down on it? Instead of helping the private sector he's driving us deep into the second version of the Great Depression. If B.O. likes socialism so much, please America, Impeach him and lets get him out of office as soon as possible before we loose our country. Socialism was not what our founding fathers faught for. God Bless the USA and all good citizens like Sara Palin that really do want to do good for our nation.....For those of you who are still blind with B.O. please wake up before it's too late.....Peace and love to all....