Palin Quitting in a Month - Page 10 - Big Big Forums

YNKYH8R · 07-05-2009, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by SurferGirl

As a private citizen she can do so much more without the limitations of her office as governor.

I sure hope she does what I think she'll do. After all the frivolous attacks on her I hope she really goes on the attack.

Yeah like goes on Oprah.....LOL

YNKYH8R · 07-05-2009, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by hesnothere

Last time I checked quitting wasn't an American Value.

Neither was getting knocked up....oh well.

YNKYH8R · 07-05-2009, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by jeanea33

I hope something better came along. I like her. I think many in the media did attack over petty things. I dont blame her for leaving. No one in politics has been picked apart like they did to her and her family.

Richard Nixon and Bill CLinotn come to mind.

pepperpot · 07-05-2009, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by YNKYH8R

Yeah like goes on Oprah.....LOL

How do you think Obama got so popluar with so many votes?

YNKYH8R · 07-05-2009, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by SurferGirl

It's so sad that Sarah had to endure endless attacks from the left that left her and her husband having to pay legal bills for frivolous law suits. Strange things happen to those that make the "one" feel threatened.

The "one" wants to impose strict cap and tax on the people who he promised he wouldn't raise taxes for. Nice going, while he will live in comfort and luxury the elderly and the poor will have to suffer when it's hot or cold. I wonder how many people will go hungry because it will drive up the cost of food.
He will still serve $100 per pound meat at his cocktail parties. He doesn't care, remember last winter he kept to oval office so hot they could have grown orchids. What would he care how much fuel gets wasted by his family taking a different plane at the tax payers expense. He wants the public to give up their cars for tin cans on wheels and yet he rides in a limo. I think "the one" is against America and it's freedoms. Remember the hateful way they talked about America in his church. Remember how hateful his wife was about America. I'm ashamed of a country that put this dictator in power.
I'm so very ashamed and I was proud of my country until November.

And what about attacks from the right?

YNKYH8R · 07-05-2009, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by SurferGirl

Don't mind me I'm just really upset over everything that has happened to a nice family. The cracks on Letterman was one thing but the photo shopped pictures of her little boy are another. Just about as low as anyone could possible get.

This is just a small part of a recent article

I believe that Sarah Palin, who puts her family first, knows she needs to get her family out of the massive $500,000 debt they’ve incurred fighting the malicious and frivolous ethics attacks, all of which have been dismissed. She can do this with speaking engagements alone. She couldn’t do this from the governor’s office, and, the attacks would only continue. With eighteen months left in her term, her family could be over $1,000,000 in debt by the time her term finished.

Maybe she could enter a beauty pagent and pay it off. Or be a reality tv star with Bristol and Trigg.

hesnothere · 07-05-2009, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by YNKYH8R

Maybe she could enter a beauty pagent and pay it off. Or be a reality tv star with Bristol and Trigg.

A gig with Faux News comes to mind...

YNKYH8R · 07-05-2009, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by mabby89

Why does Obama have to be brought into EVERYTHING? Just curious.

It's the rights' revenge for the Bush years.

YNKYH8R · 07-05-2009, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ahippiechic

Like I care what she looks like?? Honestly, I think she's ugly, so is Obama, Biden, McCain & Palin ain't all that either. But I think if I had posted a pic and made fun of Palin's looks, clothes, makeup etc 1/2 the board would have been in here on my ass.

You can't have it both ways. if people shouldn't make fun of one, then they shouldn't make fun of the other.

BTW, how do you dress? Can ya post a pic here so we can critique it?

Here you go.

Nice tusks.

gmyers · 07-05-2009, 12:38 PM

I'm glad she quit. No job is worth the personal attacks on her family. People can justify it all they want but its wrong. And if thats what you have to expect then why would anyone want to run for office. I guess its too much to expect for people to show human decency and not go after a teenage girl and her baby or a baby with down syndrome. Really makes me proud of our country that people justify it. Where in the world have peoples morals gone that they think its ok to make fun of people or personally attack them. People used to show respect for people but they don't seem to respect anything anymore.

whatever · 07-05-2009, 01:24 PM

Here is the "latest" update from yahoo. So goes to show you can't believe a blogger saying she's in trouble! Its all HERESAY and WISHERS causing rumors.

JUNEAU, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month.

After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly announcing she would soon give up her job as governor, Palin indicated on a social networking site that she would take on a larger, national role, citing a "higher calling" to unite the country along conservative lines.

"I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote in a posting on her Facebook page. Palin's spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, confirmed Palin wrote the entry.

Palin shocked even her closest friends on Friday when she announced she would resign July 26, more than a year before her first term ends. But the controversial hockey mom has not revealed many details of bigger plans and national agenda.

Palin instead cast herself as a victim and blasted the media, calling the response to her announcement "predictable" and out of touch.

"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country," the statement said. "And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans have fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

He also told the Anchorage Daily News that Palin wasn't in any criminal legal jeopardy.

"I can say definitively I am aware of no criminal investigation whatsoever involving Sarah Palin. Zero," he said.

The FBI reiterated that claim Saturday, telling the Los Angeles Times for a story Sunday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not investigating Palin's activities as governor, a former mayor or in any other capacity.

"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez, the bureau's Alaska spokesman, said.

Palin has kept a low profile since her sudden announcement Friday at a hastily called news conference at her home in suburban Wasilla, outside Anchorage. All of her public communication since then has been on the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, or through statements released by her office.

At the same time, Palin informed her spokesman David Murrow early Saturday that someone using the name "exgovsarahpalin" on Twitter was spreading a false rumor that there was to be a party at her suburban home in Wasilla, outside Anchorage. Palin was afraid her home would be mobbed, and security was dispatched, Murrow said.

With only a few weeks before she steps down on July 26, and Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell takes her place, the governor spent the Fourth of July weekend in the state capital, Juneau, but was only spotted briefly on the sidelines of the city's parade.

She had been invited to ride in a convertible, as she did last year, but never told organizers whether she would attend.

Juneau parade director Jean Sztuk said officials drew up banners in case Palin showed and was willing to take part.

As the last of the parade's clowns and marching bands headed past her, Sztuk gave up on Palin. "What governor wants to be at the end of the parade?" she asked.

Her low-profile and vague Internet messages left mounting questions about her plans for the future shrouded in mystery. Will she lay the groundwork for a 2012 presidential bid? Will she find a high-profile place in the private sector, maybe on the speech circuit? Will she drop out of the limelight and focus on her five children?

Her constituents, for one, wanted to know, especially in Juneau, where she has struggled to win over residents.

"I think she owes it to Alaskans to tell us why," said state Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau, the son of Alaska's first governor, Bill Egan.

Egan, hosting a 50th anniversary statehood ceremony, said he was disappointed Palin decided not to finish out her term, which was scheduled to end in 2010.

"It's sad she abandoned us at this critical time," said Egan, who was appointed by Palin to an open seat on the last day of the legislative session in April, after a protracted battle with Senate Democrats.

Palin's departure can't come soon enough for Laurel Carlton, a waitress at the Capital Cafe in the Baranof Hotel, where the city's political movers and shakers meet every morning before walking a few blocks to the Capitol.

"I think she has a game plan that's not Alaska, and hasn't been for awhile," Carlton said.

She noted Palin has a book deal, and seems headed for the national stage.

"If you're really not going to stay and do your job every day, you should leave anyway, and so the sooner the better so somebody can step in and actually do the job," Carlton said.

And as far as Carlton is concerned, Palin doesn't need to explain why she's leaving.

"We don't care. We just want her gone," she said.

Palin, whose popularity in Alaska has waned amid ongoing ethics investigations, gave many reasons for stepping down: She didn't want to be a lame-duck governor; she was tired of the tasteless jokes aimed at her five children, including her son Trig, who has Down syndrome; she felt she could do more in another, still-to-be-defined role.

Sen. John McCain didn't rule out a return to politics for his former running mate, saying Saturday he believes "she will continue to play an important leadership role in the Republican Party and our nation." He gave no other details.

Even Parnell, who plans to run for re-election after finishing out Palin's term, said he was shocked at first when he learned of his boss' decision.