Sarah Palin resigns as governor of Alaska
From the Anchorage Daily News:
Gov. Sarah Palin announced today that she will resign in a few weeks. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will take over at the Governor’s Picnic in Fairbanks on July 26.
“People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing’s more important to me than our beloved Alaska,” Palin said.
“Serving her people is the greatest honor I could imagine.”
Palin made the announcement at a news conference at her home in Wasilla.
“I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path,” Palin said.
“Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional ‘Lame Duck’ status in this particular climate would just be another dose of ‘politics as usual,’ something I campaigned against and will always oppose. It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success.”
As for her future, Palin said: “I look forward to helping others — to fight for our state and our country, and campaign for those who believe in smaller government, free enterprise, strong national security, support for our troops and energy independence.”
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josef nix
July 3rd, 2009
4:24 pm
Oh, boy! A second helping of refried beans!
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
4:30 pm
If you can’t take the heat., get out of the kitchen.
Dang, now I got the munchies.
Lord Help Us
July 3rd, 2009
4:32 pm
This should be interesting…
A lot of powerful forces in the GOP openly question Palin’s fitness for office (any office) and consider her selection as McCain’s VP a flop.
How in the world will she be able to shift to the center, not lose the 20-25% ‘conservative’ base AND appeal to people who use logic deciding who to vote for as President?
Palin has a long, tough slog through that minefield.
mike
July 3rd, 2009
4:33 pm
Why are liberal pundits so fixated on Sarah Palin?
Lord Help Us
July 3rd, 2009
4:37 pm
Good Heaven’s I didn’t read the whole story…she is cutting and running from her current term!!
She’s a quitter…exactly the wrong thing I would think any sane person in her position would do in order to better position herself for the GOP nomination.
Sump’n don’t smell right…
Bosch
July 3rd, 2009
4:37 pm
I just asked my Magic Eight Ball and it told me that she’ll run for Senator in 2010, then won’t finish out that term to run for President in 2012.
The problem she has is that this bizarre twist will be fodder for any Republican running against her. I feel her political career is over, maybe that’s what she wants.
But then again, Al Franken is a Senator now. I was watching the old movie “Predator” the other night and there was one standing Governor (Arnold) and a former Governor (Jesse Ventura) – stranger things have happened.
But if Palin is the GOP candidate for POTUS in 2012, I take back what I wrote earlier about Obama being a one term President.
ByteMe
July 3rd, 2009
4:38 pm
Why is mike so fixated on liberal pundits?
josef nix
July 3rd, 2009
4:39 pm
BOSCH–we could work on a script for “Gidget Goes to Washington.”
ByteMe
July 3rd, 2009
4:40 pm
Bosch: did your Magic Eight Ball know that she’s about $500K in debt from legal fees for all the ethics investigations that have been going on in the great white north?
She’s either going to hit the talk circuit or she’s going to be a TV talk show host. Nothing else will pay her enough to clear out the debt.
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
4:41 pm
She is out of politics. Letterman won.
TGT
July 3rd, 2009
4:42 pm
Jay says,
“So why do I bad-mouth Palin?
“Because of cultural issues? No. Because she would make a disastrously bad president of the country I love and admire. Because she doesn’t know a damn thing and believes it doesn’t matter. Because she is so far out of touch and so star-struck by the image in the mirror that she doesn’t even know what she doesn’t know. Because it reflects badly not just on the Republican Party but on the country as a whole that she could even be mentioned as a possible candidate for president.”
Unbelievable that a supporter of Obama, Mr. “Community Organizer,” who never ran anything other than a campaign (if he even did that), would accuse a former mayor and governor of not knowing “a damn thing.”
Jay also says, “Not only can you not sustain a campaign on cliches and platitudes. What on earth happens should you ever actually become president?”
Oh I don’t know, why don’t we ask Mr. “Yes we can!”? You Obama supporters are kidding, right? I, mean the guy was nothing but full of bumper sticker slogans and platitudes and he made all the way to the top!
Given who currently occupies the White House, I suppose we’ll find out soon “what on earth happens” when someone who doesn’t know “a damn thing” becomes president of the United States.
Kamchak
July 3rd, 2009
4:42 pm
“Sump’n don’t smell right…”
I agree. I suspect another shoe will drop.
Lord Help Us
July 3rd, 2009
4:43 pm
Has Sarah Palin been to Argentina lately???
Just Askin…
ByteMe
July 3rd, 2009
4:43 pm
TGT believes the silliness that Obama was a community organizer in his 20’s and somehow did nothing else until he magically appeared as a Senator 20 years later.
ByteMe
July 3rd, 2009
4:44 pm
Kamchak: she went from “I’m not re-upping” to “I’m outta here” in less than two days. You betcha something else is out there.
Sumpin'Don'tSmellRightIsRight
July 3rd, 2009
4:46 pm
We all know that Sarah Palin does not operate via altruistic navigational charts. Either something’s about to come out that she knows will end her career anyway, or she’s positioning for something else ….. but this seems a peculiar way of doing so. Not surprising for her, but peculiar nonetheless.
George American
July 3rd, 2009
4:48 pm
TGT has it right. We know what kind of “_______ community” Obama organized. And it doesn’t include the Real Americans.
Brad Steel
July 3rd, 2009
4:53 pm
Didn’t Obama run the Harvard Review and was a senator from the district with the third most populated city in the country?
Well, I guess you can’t really expect the knuckle-dragging crowd to be familiar with Chicago.
Bosch
July 3rd, 2009
4:57 pm
Kamchak and ByteMe,
Yeah, I think another shoe will drop too. My Magic Eight Ball kind of hinted around at that, but wouldn’t give me a clear answer.
Lord Help Us,
Or, has she been hiking lately? Has anyone checked Hartsfield?
getalife,
LOL!! I forgot about that.
Kamchak
July 3rd, 2009
4:58 pm
ByteMe
Yeah—I just wonder if the other shoe is a hunting boot or a Jimmy Choo.
Angry Black Man
July 3rd, 2009
4:58 pm
Bosch,
I’m at work, and I haven’t spotted her coming off an international flight at Hartsfield. I’ve got my eyes open though, LOL!!
Truth
July 3rd, 2009
4:59 pm
You pathetic libs are so scared of Palin. You all talk of her stupidity. How many of you are actually smarter than her??? None! You are just so scared of how well she connects with so many Americans. Jay, how many more Palin blogs will you write (or paste) now??? You and your followers are a joke.
Bosch
July 3rd, 2009
4:59 pm
ByteMe,
Just watching the news too, and she’s doing a book – the book proceeds will get her out of debt and give her free press in the lower 48. Don’t know why anyone would want to read a book about a narcissistic beauty queen who hasn’t got a lick of sense, but then again, look at the people who thinks she’s the cat’s meow.
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
4:59 pm
She got 7 million for her book and will have a show to compete with Oprah on Fox.
Joel Edge
July 3rd, 2009
5:00 pm
Well she’s gonna be out of office now, Jay. That big bad woman with a mind of her own won’t be as big a threat now. So, I suspect you’ll lay off now? Didn’t think so.
Dusty
July 3rd, 2009
5:00 pm
Well, here we go again. Democrats will wipe out the Slash & Burn Campaign method on Bush and start lining up the pointless investigations, unprovable accusations, family attacks, manufactured records of every kind, print unattractive pictures, question her patriotism, secure her doctor’s records illegally, check out her parents, make claims of financial indiscretions, question who is the father of her children, and any bunch of hooey they can find.
Sarah Palin will remain looking like a strong ethical woman. Democrats will continue to look like the perpetual political shysters they put on display.
See ya later. Birthday party!
Bosch
July 3rd, 2009
5:01 pm
Angry Black Man,
Good, keep your eyes posted. You could get a great news scoop!
Bosch
July 3rd, 2009
5:02 pm
Truth,
Did you read Jay’s post downstairs – it ain’t just us libruls that don’t like her! LOL!!!!!!
josef nix
July 3rd, 2009
5:03 pm
BOSCH–She’s doing a book, eh? Who’s doing the illustrations?
ByteMe
July 3rd, 2009
5:03 pm
getalife: I’m guessing the publisher will be another division of Murdoch’s empire. But $7M seems high in a down economy.
Brad Steel
July 3rd, 2009
5:05 pm
She’s a great friend to the democrats. I hope she doesn’t disappear. She’s the best 2nd term insurance that Obama could ever hope for.
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
5:05 pm
She is pregnant and Todd is not the baby’s Daddy.
See who is on the next Maury show.
ByteMe
July 3rd, 2009
5:06 pm
Sources close to the ex-guv are saying she’s out of politics for good.
TGT
July 3rd, 2009
5:06 pm
Brad Steel: Anybody that uses the phrase “knocked-up” referring to an underage teenager has no right to call anyone else a “knuckle-dragger.”
Jay: I have to say that there is hope for any liberal that has trapped animals, bashed them in the head with a baseball bat, skinned and sold their furs. Sorry, but that makes you sound more like Palin man than an Obama one.
BTW, of the aforementioned, who do you think is more likely to have baited a hook with a night crawler?
Truth
July 3rd, 2009
5:06 pm
Bosch… I said nothing about who likes or dislikes her, but your laugh makes sense because your kind think this is all a joke. I hope yall wake up before things get worse.
Lord Help Us
July 3rd, 2009
5:07 pm
I am waiting for someone who supports Palin to tell us how cutting and running from ones responsibilities is a good qualification for the Presidency.
waiting…
D. Numberman
July 3rd, 2009
5:07 pm
Maybe Letterman wasn’t joking. Hence, the apology. Too sad to be a joke. Poor Sarah.
Redneck Convert
July 3rd, 2009
5:13 pm
Well, Sarah is out and I’m so low I need a stepladder to touch a snake’s belly.
My buddy Jim Earl says it means somebody is about to come out with a story about her and a mule. I told him that’s silly, that kind of thing only involves people that run for guvner in GA. In Alaska they just have kids out of wedlock.
Have a good p.m. everybody.
Lord Help Us
July 3rd, 2009
5:13 pm
My guess is there is no shoe to drop. She chose to insert herself and family into the political frying pan and she simply can’t take the heat.
Thank GOD she is not one heartbeat away from being the leader of the free world.
I sincerely hope that between Bush and now Palin, the GOP have learned that substance matters…
RW-(the original)
July 3rd, 2009
5:16 pm
BM,
I think you left out the part her being cleared in every case where she’s had to ring up that half a million in legal fees. Funny thing about the libs filing all the phony charges in an effort to bankrupt her. You’ve just made sure that nobody that isn’t rich will be able to risk holding office.
Kamchak
July 3rd, 2009
5:21 pm
Lord Help Us
My guess is there is going to be some kind of follow up to the Vanity Fair and CBS stories.
Joey
July 3rd, 2009
5:27 pm
2012 is to 2008 as 2009 is to 2005.
Jay;
Were you and your peers ready to vote for Obama on July 4, 2005?
I do not know if I will vote for Palin (assuming she runs) in the 2012 Georgia Primary. But I do know that I will not seek the advise of Jay Bookman when I make that decision.
Bosch
July 3rd, 2009
5:28 pm
Truth,
Yeah, that is the truth, I think she is a big, giant joke!
Gawingnut
July 3rd, 2009
5:40 pm
“She’s a great friend to the democrats. I hope she doesn’t disappear. She’s the best 2nd term insurance that Obama could ever hope for.”
She doesn’t need any help from “The One.” He’s single-handedly desgtroying countless American instutitons while we watch; Komrad Jay writes glowingly about “The One” while Rome burns & Alaska fares better than most states.
Hurry up mid-terms.
Brad Steel
July 3rd, 2009
5:51 pm
“He’s single-handedly desgtroying countless American instutitons (sic)” Countless!!!
And don’t forget he is secret-Muslim and ACORN is not controlling all voting in the United States of America!
@@
July 3rd, 2009
5:58 pm
We can speculate all we want as to why Sarah Palin has made this decision but one thing is for certain.
If she so chose, she COULD become THE most dangerous threat to politics as we know it after today.
Where could she wreak the most havoc? Right at the “heart” of the left-wing progressives.
YOU GO GIRL!!!!!
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
5:59 pm
The drama queen has left the building.
Well, we still have Sanford.
Truth
July 3rd, 2009
6:00 pm
Bosch… You act like a baboon.
Gawingnut
July 3rd, 2009
6:03 pm
Hey Brad, do black helicopters fly around your house at night?
Is you phone tapped?
Is there a dark 4-door parked down the street when you get home from Hardee’s at night?
Brad Steel
July 3rd, 2009
6:15 pm
“YOU GO GIRL!!!”
wow!!! what hip lingo!!! how today!!! how fly!!!