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Neither one, dipshit. I’m quoting that dimbulb who’s filling in for Glenn Beck; clearly not a Palin fan, which is alright by me, but he’s indulging in wishful thinking like crazy. In so doing he’s really making an ass out of himself on live television. He’s homing in on the “quitter” argument, obviously got his ego wrapped up in it. I think he really does know: It’s now-or-never to get that talking point going. Palin can’t stand the heat, so she’s getting out of the kitchen. She’s meek. She’s mild. This isn’t the game for her.

Actually, it’s quite silly to debate whether or not Sarah Palin can take heat. That was decided months ago. One of the reason she has so many fans is that she’s shown she’s got the grace and maturity to let crap like this roll right off.

It’s the personal financial expense — and the pointlessness. Gov. Palin is doing exactly what I thought I’d be doing, in her shoes, several months ago. It’s an iron-clad rule with ankle-biters: GET AWAY NOW. They’re black holes for your energy. The “that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” rule doesn’t apply; instead, it’s the “never wrestle with a pig” rule that applies. I know this as well as anybody else. I’ve got jealous ankle biters in my past. I have no regrets whatsoever…none…about putting distance between me & them. I’m filled with regret about waiting as long as I did to get it done. So I can relate to this decision of hers, fully. Hanging around them, letting them hang around me — every single second of it was a soul-sucker. And there was no up-side to any of it.

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.

She implied that her real decision was not to seek re-election, and that the resignation was a natural step after that in order to avoid a lame-duck final 18 months of her term.

“With this announcement that I’m not seeking re-election, I’ve determined it’s best to transfer the authority of governor to Lieutenant Governor (Sean) Parnell,” Palin said. “I’m determined to take the right path for Alaska, even though it is unconventional and is not so comfortable.

She calls it a “superficial, wasteful political bloodsport.” Anyone who fails to understand that reference simply hasn’t been paying attention. Hopefully, once she’s out of the Governor’s office it will no longer be possible to target her for these capricious “ethics” complaints — at least until something materializes with some indictable meat to it.

Yeah, like that’s gonna happen.

Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but Dagny Taggart resigned as the Vice President of Operations, Taggart Transcontinental, in Atlas Shrugged. Twice. Both times in the middle of “reforms” similar to exactly what’s taking place right now. Just kinda interesting…

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• Mel
• Rick
• Neo

Ya know… I STILL don’t get this fascination with Palin. Srsly. It’s completely lost on me.

Whatevah.
- bpenni | 07/03/2009 @ 18:09
Maybe it’s like jazz, if you have to have it explained you’re never gonna know.

I think people in this country of all ideological stripes are hungry for humble public servants. You take all the laws that are passed against us…and I’m using that word “against” deliberately…and I’d say fully four out of ten of these laws are there for no purpose but to prove what wonderful good people are our “masters” in government, how much they “care” about us. Your kid has to be in a child safety seat until he’s 150 pounds and 5’4″. You’ve got to pay taxes on your cigarettes that go into a special fund to try to push the cigarette company out of business. Cap and trade. Health and pension plans and union contracts that bankrupted GM. “Common sense gun safety.”

If you confine the survey to only our newest laws, passed over the last ten years or so, I’d say seven out of ten laws fit into that category.

If you confine the survey to only our bad laws, the ratio goes up to 9.9 out of ten. It’s called Goodperson Fever and it is the source of nearly everything, in government and out of it, that sucks. People trying too hard to prove what they themselves doubt. Getting stuck on that treadmill. “This is what I’ve done LATELY to prove how swell I am!”

Barack Obama is anxious to prove what a good person He is. So far, all His policies are terribly unpopular, even among His fans.

John McCain lost the election trying to prove what a good person he was. Which meant moderate. Which meant milquetoast. Which meant unreliable. Which meant futile.

Romney, Giuliani, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee…they’re all out to win people over who aren’t prepared to support them, and because of this can be swayed on just about every issue. If you get any one of those people to commit to your side of an issue, you really can’t count on them because someone else will get ahold of them and say “I’m not quite so sure about you, you have to do XXX to prove your inner decency to me.” And it’ll work.

Sarah Palin isn’t out to prove she’s wonderful. If you like her, that’s fine, but if you don’t like her, well that’s regrettable but that’s alright too. Meanwhile, if she supports a certain policy it’s because she’s thought it out, and that’s the way it’s gonna be. It’s the “aw shucks I’m sorry to hear you disagree, hope you get over it by Election Day” thing. Reagan had it. George W. kinda-sorta had it. At least with Iraq, anyway, GB2 had it.

It’s called character.

It really isn’t asking too much, for us to insist on this in our leaders — we should know what we’re getting when we vote for them, even if later on it becomes uncomfortable for them. But lately it certainly is in short supply. That’s why we have all the liberal policies lately. Nothing more than Goodperson Fever. It’s the quickest, easiest, cheapest way to prove you’re a decent fellow…when you yourself, as a pandering politician, don’t believe you really have it. Just “prove” your inner goodness to the struggling intellectual lightweights who wouldn’t know inner goodness if it walked up and kicked ’em square in the ass.

That’s why we need her in a national office. Right now. Her, or someone like her. The non-pandering type.
- mkfreeberg | 07/03/2009 @ 18:33
Good points, particularly in re ignoring ankle-biters and the broadspread dismissal of character as a primary virture.

Good use of the jazz analogy too. A huge amount of life comes down to “getting it,” in whatever milieu.

If you gotta ask, Lady, don’t mess with it.

– attributed to Louis Armstrong
- rob | 07/03/2009 @ 18:46
Also:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/how-vanity-fairs-palin-profile-helps-her/full/
- rob | 07/03/2009 @ 18:47
I predict mad amounts of Sarah Palin support at Tea Parties tomorrow.
It will be the first distributed nominating convention.
The GOP powers-that-be are going to have to shoot, s**t, or get off the pot.
- smitty1e | 07/03/2009 @ 21:02
Good use of the jazz analogy too. A huge amount of life comes down to “getting it,” in whatever milieu.

Our mutual friend in New Mexico is a real man, one with balls, who shares our values. I think he does “get it.” But he’s temperamental; the Yukon schoolmarm has done something to cheese him off. It doesn’t take much. This is the guy who ruled out Fred Thompson because of some crappy Iron Eagle movie or some such.

It comes down to this: Palin represents a dedication to policies that just-plain-make-sense. Not policies that demonstrate some inner personal wonderfulness in our bosses that isn’t really there — like what they have in England. Just sensible policies. A man should have taken the lead in promoting this…should’ve…but it just didn’t happen, so a chick has jumped in to fill the leadership vacuum. So be it, then. A real man can appreciate when he and the other fellas have been beaten. Give the barracuda her due — men had a perfectly workable opportunity to supply the talent that was needed, they failed, and she’s succeeding. Man up and admit it.
- mkfreeberg | 07/03/2009 @ 21:30
SO, did Beck leave the Brit, that needs a penny or two on his tone arm (tone arm?), behind so he’d look saner when he gets back?

If so, it’s working. But, kinda’ low hanging fruit…
- CaptDMO | 07/03/2009 @ 21:30
I noticed a lull in M. Jackson reporting while the “oh by the way, play OR pay”
affordable health edict was being “debated”, apparently the recent surge out of the blue of all Palin Bashing-all the time, was reintroduced for the “SCOTUS nominee
glib racist ruling for Conn. overturned” bit was gaining traction.

Thank goodness for all that Jackson non-funeral coverage, of non-important people.
I wonder what’s proposed for Congressional discussion/voice vote- during the well hyped N. Korean missile drive-by, or MJ’s 3 day long funeral and recap?
- CaptDMO | 07/03/2009 @ 21:40
The key is the MacArthur quote
- Larry Sheldon | 07/03/2009 @ 22:19
Agreed.
- mkfreeberg | 07/03/2009 @ 23:26

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