All Dressed Up
July 6th, 2009 | Editorial Cartoons | 6 Comments
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What are we to make of Governor Palin’s rambling, almost incoherent resignation speech? Other than what we’ve already learned–that she’s clearly not presidential material. Maybe she was just trying to make us forget her performance in the Katie Couric interview. It was always hard for libs like me to understand her appeal. My buddy Scott thinks it’s because we’re all a bunch of elitist snobs who are out of touch with the working class folks we claim to love but with whom she actually connects. I refuse to believe that. Given the recent track record of the Republican party in opposing almost anything that might help the working man, it’s hard to accept that she might appeal broadly to the folks who are hurting so much right now. I get it that the right wing of the party adores her stands on social issues and her take-no-prisoners rhetoric, but they’re a shrinking minority in a country that’s no longer listening to their rants. Even most in the Republican party were taken aback by this move. One doesn’t just walk away from elective office (in the middle of the first term, no less) because it’s just not fun anymore..
Is this, then, the end of Sarah Palin on the national stage? The pundits are already writing her political obituaries, and this latest weirdness should by all rights doom her–but I’m making no predictions. Nothing in politics surprises me anymore.
Topics: Alaska, GOP, governor, resignation, Sarah Palin
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As the Scott in question here I have to say Ed quoted me correctly. I THOUGHT Sarah Palin was going to be a power to be reckoned with. This latest stunt is truly head scratching. Given her reasoning, if she were ever elected to a second term of anything she would, by her own strange logic, be forced to quit.
I am deeply dismayed by many of my conservative friends who say she did the right thing because she was under so much attack. The thing is, this is , indeed,the world of politics. If rough, Sarah. Welcome to the NFL. You better wear a cup.
Walking away because things got too tough runs contrary to everything I believe as a conservative. Steadfastness. Unyielding belief. NOT QUITTING YOUR FRIGGING JOB BECAUSE IT’S TOO ROUGH!!!!!!!
At least there’s Minnesota Governor Pawlenty who seems like a strong candidate for the GOP nomination in ’12. He’s conservative without being nuts. He has not quit his job in a huff. He does not have a “soul mate” in South America.
I don’t know who Scott is referring too, but I have not heard a single conservative pundit say anything positive about this move by Palin.
As a conservative myself, I find her move to be very puzzling and in my eyes a big mistake. Not that I wanted to see her take the lead in the GOP at all, in fact I did not.
I wish she would just go away quite frankly, I dont think she is an asset to the GOP, rather, I think she is a liability.
My bet is that she is chasing the bucks (the green kind). I’m predicting a TV/radio show and a contract that will set the Palin’s up for life. It’s the American Way!! Take advantage of your moment of fame before fading back to obscurity in Alaska.
“I have not heard a single conservative pundit say anything positive about this move by Palin.”
Not even a “Thank you, ma’am, and good riddance!”?
-Rusty
Oh, but shes just passing the ball….takin’ one for the team. So, now, we have a lipstick-wearing pit bull playing basket ball. Who wants that as president? Good luck in ’12, Palin.
Sarah was driven out of office by people with malicious intent filing false ethics complaints against her. Damned Communists.