Palin stepping down as governor

Well, this should make all of you nasty libs very happy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...

Not like it's a big deal she was governor of a state with less people than Columbus, noone even knew who she was until That old guy ran for president and chose a woman for the wrong reason. Betcha Alaska is gonna miss her a heckuva lot. She is hot for a community college educated governor of the smallest populated state. She isn't taken seriously anyway so WHO CARES!!!!!????

heh, I knew it wouldn't take long. predictable you libs are.

I'm not a "lib" as you would say. I'm tired of hearing about someone of zero relevance. I'm tired of hearing about Obama, Fox news, Limbaugh, etc. You don't know me, so why are YOU judging ME???

First Michael Jackson dies and now Sarah Palin's career has died!!!!! OH GOD WHAT NEXT!!! I'm gald both happened.

Fox News?? Flush's sidekick? I understand she is out of politics. Maybe she is gonna be Sanford's new soulmate!
I heard a Republican Senator from Alaska say that she was never taken seriously as a governor and they found it hard to believe anyone would take her seriously in the lower 48.
I am disappointed she won't be running for president.
Her speech today was rambling and disjointed. All about how wonderful she is. She kept saying she is not a quitter...as she quits.
She is a bit strange.

dutchoven wrote:

I'm not a "lib" as you would say. I'm tired of hearing about someone of zero relevance. I'm tired of hearing about Obama, Fox news, Limbaugh, etc. You don't know me, so why are YOU judging ME???

yeah, riiiiight.

Sarah is focusing her energies on winning a U.S. Senatorship this fall and the U.S. Presidency in 2012... provided any of us are still here on Earth after December 22nd, 2012...

Why would you resign a job you were elected to do?
Something doesn't seem right. She said she didn't want to be a lame duck. Well, HELLO, everyone is a lame duck sooner or later. Palin drops the ball on this one. We can't finish what we started. If she runs for prez, this day will come back and haunt her, IMO.

Frankly I think Palin is washed up for good. She's not gubernatorial material, let alone Presidential. Sarah is the reason I didn't bother to vote last November. She would be bad enough as a Vice-President but a disaster if she became President.

Old Man River 3 wrote:

Why would you resign a job you were elected to do?
Something doesn't seem right. She said she didn't want to be a lame duck. Well, HELLO, everyone is a lame duck sooner or later. Palin drops the ball on this one. We can't finish what we started. If she runs for prez, this day will come back and haunt her, IMO.

I pretty much agree. She talked about wanting to "make a change" then decides to step down. What better position to be in to make a change than the governor of a state?

Godspeed to her and hers, whatever her path.

MollyHigh wrote:

Frankly I think Palin is washed up for good. She's not gubernatorial material, let alone Presidential. Sarah is the reason I didn't bother to vote last November. She would be bad enough as a Vice-President but a disaster if she became President.

Molly - There is no good reason not to vote. Why would anyone not vote because of a VP candidate?? Not trying to slam you, but I always vote. I can't figure out why others don't.

FURTHER UPDATE now added below: AK sources say 'embezzlement' scandal, federal indictments may be in offing. See below...]

Palin resigns. She was to have been in office until 2010. Something else is going on here above and beyond what she's saying, though I don't know what yet. Josh Marshall seems to agree, noting in his "first signs of what happened" coverage:

[T]his clearly happened so quickly that Palin hasn't even had a chance to come up with a coherent cover story for her resignation.... Remember that based on the public record, Palin is a wildly unethical public official, guilty at a minimum of numerous instances of abusing her authority as governor. And a lot of very damaging information has come out about her in the last few days --- though mainly embarrassing information about her character rather than new evidence of bad acts. I would not be surprised if this latest round of revelations shook something else loose that we haven't heard about yet."
I'd expect another shoe to drop very soon here...Looking into it...More shortly here...

UPDATE: Alaskan Sarah Palin authority (and occasional BRAD BLOG guest blogger) Shannyn Moore, who broke the news at HuffPo today, tells me she believes, with good reason, that there is an "iceberg scandal that's about to break. She's doing damage control."

Moore tells The BRAD BLOG resignation is 'damage control' for scandal 'not of family nature'...
MORE: Federal embezzlement investigation related to materials used in Palin's house may bring indictments soon, say AK sources...
"The governor would not be able to continue her job when it comes out," she told me on the phone just now, before adding: "Why would Mark Sanford not resign, but Sarah Palin did? Her family didn't even know about the resignation until they were standing with her by the lake" when she made her announcement.

Yes. It seems another shoe, apparently a big one, will indeed be dropping, likely within the next week or so. Perhaps earlier now that everyone will be poking around up there.

FURTHER UPDATE: Okay, I've now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin's house and the Wasilla Sports Complex built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the "same windows, same wood, same products." Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources.

The BRAD BLOG has not been able to receive confirm from any federal sources on this. Our information comes from local Alaskans who follow Palin, and who have been keeping an eye on this for some time, while keeping it quiet at the request of federal investigators.

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With all of the above in mind, her rather manic, rather rambling, rather bizarre announcement (as seen below, via RAW STORY, text transcript here), seems to make a bit more sense,.

I'm one lib who is not happy to see her step down as governor of Alaska! I wanted her to run as the Republican candidate for 2012. And I was looking forward to watching her debate with the other Republican candidates in the presidential primary.
I doubt very much she would have been much competition for them. I know there's been the mantra that the Democrats feared Palin's ever running for president, but most of us had no fear at all and were hoping for that possibility. There's got to be more to this story than we are being told right now.

dutchoven wrote:

First Michael Jackson dies and now Sarah Palin's career has died!!!!! OH GOD WHAT NEXT!!! I'm gald both happened.

put a chunk of alum in your pocket, is good for 'galding'

Old Man River 3 wrote:

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Molly - There is no good reason not to vote. Why would anyone not vote because of a VP candidate?? Not trying to slam you, but I always vote. I can't figure out why others don't.

My feeling was that Obama was unacceptable as a Presidential candidate. Palin was unacceptable as a likely successor to the Presidency. Good chance McCain would have died in office; furthermore, in selecting Palin as his running mate McCain displayed unacceptably poor judgment. She would be a chronic burr up our butts even as a vice president. That made both tickets equally unacceptable to me. My only recourse would have been to vote Libertarian. That would have been a futile gesture. I'm glad you saw the options more optimistically.

Captain Beefheart wrote:

...It seems another shoe, apparently a big one, will indeed be dropping, likely within the next week or so...

I CAN'T WAIT!

MollyHigh wrote:

<quoted text>My feeling was that Obama was unacceptable as a Presidential candidate.

Why? Because he's black? Racist much?

obamafan wrote:

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Why? Because he's black? Racist much?

she didn't mention race, you did

hOTHEAD uGLY wrote:

<quoted text>she didn't mention race, you did

they're the ones who perpetuate race problems.