Sarah Palin to Resign
Posted on July 3, 2009
The news is a bit more shocking than the speculation she wouldn’t seek re-election. She is actually resigning within weeks!
In a stunning announcement, Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday morning she will resign her office in a few weeks.
Speculation has swirled for weeks, perhaps months that Palin would not seek re-election in 2010 as she pursues a political career on the national stage. The former vice presidential candidate has long been rumored to be considering a run at the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Palin did not address those rumors at the press conference at her Wasilla home, during which she did not take questions from reporters.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated as her successor at the Governor’s Picnic at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks on Sunday, July 26, Palin said.
“I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path,” said Governor Palin after the announcement. “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. 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.
The lingering question is “why”? Many think this is the end of her national political career!
David Schuster is offering a typical sneering tone, but it doesn’t make it any less accurate: “If it’s true that she’s leaving the governorship before her first term is complete, her national political career is done.”
A broken clock can be right twice a day, and Schuster is right here. If Sarah Palin wishes to someday be President of the United States, then she had to serve at least one full term in statewide office. (Yes, Obama had been in the Senate for about two years before running for president, but he had a lot of stars align for him at the right moment. Beyond that, at some point, “but Obama did it that way” isn’t a persuasive argument.)
Departing with little or no warning, after about 30 months in office, is beyond surprising. I’m sure the Lieutenant Governor will do fine, but there’s definitely a sense of leaving with work unfinished and as her career was just beginning to take off.
MSNBC is speculating a scandal. Maybe she doesn’t want to be president and she is just tired of all the crap being thrown at her.
I’m thinking…an ambitious woman like Palin would not do something so seemingly reckless and yes, career-damaging, unless politics is no longer an issue for her.
It’s wrong to speculate, but Palin is forcing speculation.
Some local AK reporters are saying “she feels she can do more outside of government.” Don’t believe that. If she has disappointed her base like this (and she most emphatically has) then she’s useless. Nope. Not buying it.
Is she going to become an Oprah competitor? Again, after pissing off her base, she’d have no audience, so no. Makes no sense.
I’m sticking with my original thoughts. Either she or someone in her family is ill, and she wants to keep it private and not subject it to the vulgarity of the Palin-hating beasts in the press, who savaged her last year, or…she and Todd are on the rocks, and she doesn’t want to subject her children and her marriage to the same vulgarity.
She will be absolutely slammed from all sides during any run for failing to fulfill her obligation to the citizens of Alaska. She abandons her elected post once something better opens up for her personal advancement? Like I said, not the best imagery.
And that is that.
It’s over. You can’t resign from a governorship and then run for higher office. Barring some strong reason, like needing treatment for cancer.
Who knows all the reasons — Todd and Sarah Palin, presumably fully understand.
Listening to her, it seems like this is a combination of stepping back and moving forward. Stepping back, because it’s way too overwhelming to be Sarah Palin, political phenom, Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, and Sarah Palin, wife and mother. I don’t know that anyone can fulfill all those roles well, simultaneously. And we’re unrealistic, I think, when we assume people can or should.
Possible reasons for this development? Conservatives are tweeting that it could be health issues, some brewing scandal, or she’s “gearing up” for the 2012 Presidential campaign.
It doesn’t seem like a great political move, to me. Why so fast?
Pamela at Atlas Shrugs says all the speculations are wrong:
My take? If Palin is anything like I think she is (know she is), Obama’s treasonous presidency is responsible for this. She, like all patriotic Americans, is shocked by what is happening. Obama is destroying this country. She knows it. We all know it. We need a leader. She is answering our call.
She did not quit. She is going to get into the fight to save America. Watch what happens.
For those who underestimate Sarah, they do so at their own peril. We have seen no other politician like her, and that is not a bad thing; it is truly a good thing, so her announcement today is not a negative in my book. She realizes the frivolous complaints by the weak, whiny libs from the DNC were unnecessarily costing Alaska too much money, so she’s stepping aside to have more political clout from outside the political box.
Also see Michelle Malkin.
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Alaska has been well squared away. Now the country needs her. She couldn’t run both Alaska and effectively fight the clear and present danger in DC. The pundit class has no experience with politicians who have both guts and principles. Look out.
I think everyone is misinterpreting the direction she intends to travel. It didn’t sound to me like she was giving up. I suggest that her sights are not on the White House in 2012 but in reinvigorating the conservative base and destroying the liberal agenda. She will no longer be tied up with frivolous ethics violations suits because as a private citizen she can go on the attack against Obama & Co in unrestricted mode.
Liberals feared her while she was in office, I think they will rue the day the sicced their cronies on her and freed her from constraint. Think of Rush Limbaugh,
Think of Sarah Palin. 20000 came to hear her talk after the election in upstate NY recently. 100 people showed up for Joe Biden in Erie PA. Liberals beware!
After the way Sarah Palin has been treated every democrat who ever has a problem should advertised We can start with Ted “Killer” Kennedy Barny “Gay Outcall Service” Frank, Robert “KKK” Bird, Willian “Cold Cash” Jefferson and so many more i cant even list
Good riddance. She was a joke. She is a joke.
She always will be a joke. Scandal to appear in a matter of days.
Right! It’s certainly not like wingnuts have been screaming “Chappaquiddick” for 30 years.
The only thing that makes any sense here is that she’s in a boatload of trouble and it’s about to hit the fan.
Everyone is reading this wrong. She did not resign, and she did not step down. She is “transfer[ing] the authority of governor to Lieutenant Governor Parnell.” Words mean things and these words were carefully chosen. She’s taking a sabbatical. She’ll be pushing conservative and patriotic ideals for the next 14 months. When she retakes the authority of governor for the last 2 months of her term, the MSM will freak out, and she will be able to demonstrate that the MSM cannot be trusted to accurately and factually report the news. She is brilliant.
But she is not running for president, unless she’s forced into it.