Video: Ferraro says Palin made a “big mistake”
posted at 11:15 am on July 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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From the network that gave Sarah Palin her best coverage, and from the woman who gave Palin the best treatment among Democrats, Palin’s resignation still gets criticized. Geraldine Ferraro defended Palin from some of the worst excesses of the media attacks and continues to do it in this interview, but also says failing to finish her term would damage her long-term political prospects:
Ferraro makes another good point towards the end. As governor of Alaska, Palin had a seat at the table for policy issues, especially on energy and budgeting. Regardless of how the media treated her, her office gave her access. As Sarah Palin, private citizen, that’s no longer going to be the case. She’ll make her money on the lecture circuit, but she’s all but destroyed her opportunity to force change, at least in Alaska.
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In another thread yesterday ideas were being kicked around about how (instead of setting her sights on 2012) she might use her new found private citizen status to publicly barnstorm, unloading both barrels on O-Führer’s campaign of destroying the country. Something no other Republican has the balls to do unfortunately. Just might make the difference in the Nov. 2010 election…
infidel4life on July 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Good question and I am in agreement with you for the answer. However, with a clear cut message crafted by the GOP, you can’t find a better spokesperson to deliver the message city by city by city. The GOP needs a counterpoint and solution to every one of Obama’s directives. They need to be ticked off one by one and repeated often. It needs to be drilled into every voter’s head for the next three years so there is no question in the summer of 2012 as to what the GOP stands for and how they are cleaning up after Obama’s mess. Sarah Palin is the magnet that can draw the crowds and the ironic part is the media can’t leave her alone so she is guaranteed coverage and can speak freely and openly, doing herself some good as well as the party. I don’t think she will announce a run for the 2012 presidency. I think her mindset is to disrupt the agenda of this administration.
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Unlike Newt and Mitt. ROFL…good Lord.
Without someone who has her charisma, Obama’s getting at least 2 terms. I don’t care what his agenda is or how the public feels about it.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 5:34 PM
“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”
Margaret Thatcher
Saltysam on July 4, 2009 at 5:37 PM
You may be right, but charisma doesn’t pay the bills. We have no idea what the economy will look like in three years let alone what grave mistakes The One will undoubtedly make between now and then. He will always have the nutroot and black base. The middle is the meat market to go after. They are the deciders, fortunately or unfortunately.
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Palin couldn’t take the pressure of the job, and stabbed her supporters, and the people of Alaska, in the back. She was elected to do a job in Alaska and she quits. Can you imagine had McCain won? She would have had even more pressure, and she would have quit as VP to go back and be with her kids. Letterman would have had enough legitimate material for the next ten years. She is a quitter. Once you walk off a job, there is no going back to politics after that. She has shown she can not be trusted to hang tough and follow through.
When elected, one has a duty to perform for the length of the term unless illness strikes or you are asked to resign. This is not like getting a job at 7-Eleven where you quit when you don’t like it after a couple months. She’s a disgrace and an embarrassment to conservatives everywhere. She is also an embarrassment to working moms because she has just validated all the stereotypes used to attack her – that she was not ready for prime time, that she was more of a hockey mom than a leader, that her heart really wasn’t into it.
We don’t need people like that. People like that don’t save republics. Those people cut and run and care more about their own personal life than they do about the big picture. She could not dedicate herself to fight the good fight. Which is fine, but then don’t have the audacity to run for public office, especially VP of the United States.
keep the change on July 4, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Agreed. Except for the “clear cut message crafted by the GOP” part. The GOP is too busy being “nice” to draft such a message. Someone who isn’t paranoid about hurting their political career needs to do it.
infidel4life on July 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Eliot Spitzer and any number of less prominent males might beg to differ. “Sexuality?” I’ll grant you that. But now you’re in trouble with the atheists.
Barnestormer on July 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Charisma gets people elected nationally, though.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM
So if you weren’t a supporter of hers, and you don’t live in Alaska, it’s no skin off your nose. Go tout the candidate or ideology or whatever of your choice.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 5:46 PM
So true. My hope that is if she starts the smackdown, the wimps of our party will follow. It would be hard for any of our senators or congressmen to not jump on the bandwagon if Sarah was in their backyard talking to a crowd of 50,000 of their constituents.
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM
And after all the support people like you gave her. Tsk tsk.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Sorry, but quitting is quitting. On some personal levels, I can empathize, except Bristol got pregnant and the Democrats will be who they are… anti-life. All that talk about choice and respect for single mothers goes out the window when it’s the daughter of a Republican governor.
Then the small children… I thought she made these choices knowing full well the extraordinary effort that goes into juggling a family and a career. The ethics charges were abused, but she knew going into the 2008 election that if she and John McCain failed, there would be a bounty on her head, and the same for all GOP politicians to a lesser degree.
I just can’t say enough how disappointed I am that Sarah Palin quit instead of fighting and finishing her term. Feraldo is right, even if she’s a Democrat. It was a bad move and a let down. Krauthammer and Levin were generous in saying it’s not the end, she was persecuted, she is still young, but quitting?
alliebobbitt on July 4, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I do hope you’re right. But what I’d really like to see is some unabashed, unashamed, unapologetic non-wimps come up through the ranks and kick some ass. People follow leaders, not hand-wringers.
infidel4life on July 4, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Definitely a contributing factor. Do you think that if Obama’s approval numbers are somewhere in the low 30 range in 2012 that he is guaranteed a second term even if the Repub candidate has a strong alternative message but may lack the charm and wit for public speaking?
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Very well said. I like that line.
I suppose we will clearly see the direction of our party and this country on the morning after the 2010 elections. If they haven’t done it by then, they will be scrambling and the misfires will be very apparent.
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM
In this day and age, charisma is THE factor. As for Obama’s numbers, that’s a really big “if”. And it depends on what that “strong alternative message” is. If that message is effective, the spokesperson will be savaged just like Palin; and there will be plenty who will buy into the savaging and give up on said spokesperson/candidate.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Ya know what? I really don’t think the GOP has it in itself to take back Congress in 2010, or even to make significant gains. It’s that bad.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 6:03 PM
I agree with you there. That is the part that rubbed me the rawest. She could have been such an inspiration to so many women, and instead she just said, “A woman’s place is with her family. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too. My husband said, ‘Hell, yes, quit, and I’ll keep racing sleds and fishing and working on the North Slope rigs and support us.’” It kind of burns me up.
alliebobbitt on July 4, 2009 at 6:03 PM
I understand your point but can I hope you are wrong :)
sherry on July 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM
For the love of God…2012 is a long waaaaaaaays away…worry about what the saviour is doing to us every fricking day, not what Sarah is doing,….is there no fricking perspective anymore????
Check your eggs, I think they are boiling
Morons…
Tim Zank on July 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Hang on…I thought she was an embarrassment to working moms because she put her selfish ambitions before her special-needs son…my, it gets hard to keep up sometimes…
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 6:09 PM
As
Sarah PalinNEWT, private citizen, that’s no longer going to be the case. HE’ll make his money on the lecture circuit, but he’s all but destroyed his opportunity to force change, at least inAlaska.USAwhy would Newt resign his speakership he is done in politics. He will never be heard of again.
Ed I really don’t think you are that stupid to not see that if Newt who resigned under fire no less is not washed up that Palin with all her gifts would be
unseen on July 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM
I think you might be right, although that is a horrible thought.
myrenovations on July 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM
2010 is pretty close, though, and it’s still not looking all that good.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM
um, those are actually kind of the same thing.
splink on July 4, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Apparently many commenters here didn’t pay attention to what she said. She’s resigning because she and her staff are spending more time fighting frivolous ethics complaints and democrat attacks than they are doing what the citizens of Alaska elected her to do. She’s turning the ball over to Parnell to give Alaskans a better government, not a side show.
She’s not out of the fight, and once she formally resigns on the 26th we’ll have a better understanding of what she’s going to do.
darwin on July 4, 2009 at 6:13 PM
They are not interested in what she said. They are jumping on the talking points, which, sadly, are coming from both parties.
myrenovations on July 4, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Does it really matter if she runs, Newt runs, or Daffy frickin’ Duck? We have just been handed (with no opposition)a front row seat at the table of SOCIALISM.
Why in the frick would I care now if Sarah runs, walks, trips or whatever….It simply won’t matter…we are fricked….
get used to it..
Tim Zank on July 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM
I’m assumin the answer is yes, but have you guys read the statement she put out today? It’s noncommittal but…there’s something there.
splink on July 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Not two weeks ago, posting on an HA thread, I said exactly the same thing, Tim. I had given up all hope for this country. And I mean ALL hope.
That was before I realized just how many pissed-off people there are out there…conservatives, Republicans, moderates, independents, even democrats. LOTS of them, and more all the time as Obama’s poison continues to seep. So don’t give up hope yet…not just yet.
splink on July 4, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Palin can’t effect change out of office? Out of curiosity, what office did Martin Luther King hold? None, if I remember correctly. Plus, Palin has a history of abandoning a situation when it gets too clogged up for her to get anything done. Prior to winning the governorship, didn’t she quit some oil oversight committee because of corruption and dirty politics? She doesn’t play that game, that’s obvious. What is so different here other than the scale of the resignation? Personally, I think she’s done with running for office because she expects that the white house or congress won’t be any different in kind. But Ed if you think she has lost an ability to effect change, you are very mistaken. In fact, your viewpoint here seems so elitest and beltway-ish that I think you need to get out into the real world for a while. She is a star of tremendous magnitude, and she’s going to go bipartisan, which will bring moderate democrats to her causes. She will be a force to reckon with, you watch.
Godzilla on July 4, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Naw, that’s just what he WANTS you to think. ;)
Palin = traffic = money.
Dissing Palin = more traffic = more money.
splink on July 4, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Well I’d like to NOT give up, but I’m in the real estate biz, and from where I sit in Indiana we are increasingly totally fricked…The only way the government could make it more difficult is to simply close the banks, they might as well have…you an be a Rockefeller with an 800 credit score and 50% down and you won’t close for 6 months…hope and change is just frickin’ swell….
I’m practicing my new line “welcome to Walmart”…
Tim Zank on July 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM
The pro-life movement didn’t cause those women to get pregnant. Their hormones got them in trouble.
Del Dolemonte on July 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Don’t give up. You’ll know when we’re truly screwed – it isn’t yet. I thought it was, I was wrong. Hold on and wait.
splink on July 4, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Couldn’t be further from the truth…. otherwise, back in the 50’s when it was ILLEGAL, we would have had far more kids having kids. Lack of values, plain and simple. Nobody is willing to recognize that their actions have consequences, good and bad.
CC
CapedConservative on July 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM
The unconditional approval of liberals made it ok to get pregnant under ANY circumstances…
Tim Zank on July 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM
AnninCA is a fool.
splink on July 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM
A government that gives seemingly unconditional shelter, food, medicine and cash to a woman raising a child without a family structure is the problem.
myrenovations on July 4, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Human nature is the real problem. But since we can’t fix that, let’s fix gov’t.
splink on July 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM
AnninCA works for a non-profit. She ferociously supports pro-death and communist health care policies, so I’m assuming her non-profit is involved in one of those two areas and gets government money for abortion propagandizing or will get government money from communist health care.
darwin on July 4, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Bullsh*t – what the Palin sitation has revealed is that IN SPITE OF women thinking they’ve got it made because they can gut their unborn babies when it’s inconvenient to be pregnant they STILL are expected to be good little girls and know their place in the important areas.
Most women poiticians either had a small family, delayed entering politics until they were old or rode some man’s coattails to prominence.
You’re just pissed that once again Palin has proved that working mothers are NOT the SAME as working men – but they shouldn’t have to be. Equal does not have to mean identical. Some people are such hypocrites – you’d bitch and moan if they neglected her kids and now you bitch and whine that she considered them. How many male politicians ever even get asked about their small children – let alone be expected to prove that they’re the biological parent?
katiejane on July 4, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Bullsh*t. You’re just pissed because once again Palin has proved that the woman’s movement has turned into a disaster. Women are still expected to play by the men’s rules and get slapped down when they don’t. Equal opportunity does NOT mean being identical.
Are you so naive to think that a woman with small children can be the same absent parent a male politican is? If she ignored her kids like most male politicians do you’d whine and fault her for being a bad mother. How often does anyone criticize a male politician for anything about his kids? Did I miss the bashing all the Kennedy fathers took for the brood of miscreants they produced?
Unfortunately too many women seem to think that the women’s movement was created just to give them the freedom to rip any inconvenient babies from their bodies. Working women need the opportunity to make their own career choices – not infanticide choices. After decades women are still expected to either not have more than a small family, delay trying to advance until they’re old, content themselves with a supporting role or find some man whose coattails they can ride.
katiejane on July 4, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Her charisma is only most apparent to fanboys like you. You can’t explain her roughly 50% negative ratings without launching into another media conspiracy, tinfoil explanation.
give it up she is done for the next two cycles at a minimum
Bradky on July 4, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Barbara Ferraro is nothing less than another bitter RAT loser…I wouldn’t take anything this old-has-been-hen has to say as being serious!
byteshredder on July 4, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Newt’s got even more baggage, dude. And Mitt, after the media’s through with him…
You’re going to have to come up with some solutions there, Bradky. Or are you just good at dumping on Palin?
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Yeah, my gut feeling is that she’s probably done politically. But it doesn’t take tinfoil-hat theorists to see that she was the object of the most comprehensive slime job in US political history. The record is just too clear.
Anyway, who’re you going to dump on now, Bradky? This must leave a tremendous void in your existence.
ddrintn on July 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
More Shannon Bream please. Or should I say pretty please?
Woody on July 4, 2009 at 11:08 PM
I’m sorry, but the game has changed.
brennan251 on July 4, 2009 at 11:39 PM
FIFY
TMK on July 5, 2009 at 1:53 AM
Geraldine Ferraro … LOL
The woman who said she’d never vote for Obama because he was inexperienced and ran a sexist campaign.
Then reversed herself because Obama picked Biden for this running mate … and “This satisfied me that the foriegn policy issues would be competently handled by an Obama administration.”
LOL … Endorsed Obama because he picked the great gaff-machine and mouth clown Joe Biden. Show’s how much smarts this woman has.
She says that people wanted to talk to “Governor Palin” but don’t want to talk to “Sarah Palin”.
News for Gerladine – NO ONE wanted to ever talk to YOU no matter what title was in front of your name.
Ferrraro … LOL
HondaV65 on July 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM
We’ll see. Maybe she has simply had enough. I am interested to learn what her plans ultimately are.
drjohn on July 5, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Like Geraldine Ferraro, Palin was the VP candidate on the losing Presidential campaign.
No VP candidate on a losing Presidential campaign ever goes on to be the Presidential candidate in a future election cycle.
Palin will do great raising money for the Republicans and making money on the lecture circuit, as a book author and TV commentator. However, as a nomination-winning candidate for any political office she is surely finished. (Just as Ferraro was finished after her VP candidacy.)
albill on July 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Shannon Bream. Schwing.
LtE126 on July 5, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Let’s look at the facts:
-she bailed on her job
-she bailed on her state
-she couldn’t handle the pressure
-she couldn’t handle the media scrutiny
She has created a spectacularly huge albatross for herself – if she ever runs for the Repub nomination she’s a weak-kneed quitter.
Now she’s just another Joe the Plumber. Zero access. Semi-celebrity. She’ll be lovingly followed by some of the base but completely blown off by everybody else with even the most basic criteria for selecting a leader.
PLEASE RUN HER IN 2012 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Dave Rywall on July 5, 2009 at 9:55 AM
She confirmed the negative stereotypes with this bizarre act, the ones about a working mother not being able to cut it (How does that strengthen the pro-life message?), the ones about her being unprepared for the vice presidency, that she was a small-town Mayor v. a Governor, that she was a drama queen and a victim with a martyr complex and a whiner… now a quitter. Sorry, I was the biggest Palin supporter you’d find, and when I watched her convention speech, I saw what John O’Sullivan saw, a potential Thatcher, a first woman as the POTUS. She just destroyed that credibility and any argument that she was tough, a “pitbull with lipstick.”
alliebobbitt on July 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM
She just confirmed that. Some crazy Trigg truther rumors made her quit her job. She just said she should put her children before her career.
alliebobbitt on July 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Oh, so it’s both. I get it.
Be serious. You know you’d much rather see Romney or Huck in the role. Really.
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Not only can you, but in this case she had to, in order to take on the bigger job of fighting and dethroning The Barackcrazy and its idiot-media supporters.
Basilsbest on July 5, 2009 at 10:37 AM
The GOP can go to hell. They’re the same as the DNC. I want a third party not part of the establishment.
joshlbetts on July 5, 2009 at 10:44 AM
There are two things that we don’t do in Australia.
We don’t go after politicians children.
We don’t trash female politicians. At least not as bad as the US does.
The United States has failed on theses two counts as far as Sarah Palin is concerned.
Crux Australis on July 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM
And another thing, it’s the GOP’s mess as well. TARP 1, earmarks, bridge to nowhere.
They will jump on the tea party bandwagon, high jack, use it to get elected, and then betray us, all the while blaming the “democrats”. Horsesh*t.
I want a third party.
joshlbetts on July 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Palin: “You wanna bet?”
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Clueless. A third party guarantees the reelection of the Dems.
Basilsbest on July 5, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Why would you make it look like I said that? Are you lazy, or just stupid?
Basilsbest on July 5, 2009 at 10:55 AM
You know what quotation marks are, right?
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM
I’m sorry – I’m going to have to call bullshit on this. Nobody should have to endure the utter bullshit lawsuits the personal attacks against her family – particularly her children from the Media.
And I’m sure there are lots and lots of attacks which go under the radar. Attacks on huffington Post on her down-syndrome child (how sick is that???).
I imagine the disgusting hate mail Michelle (Malkin) gets and occasionally post pales in comparison to what Palin (who the elites of washington hate with a passion) gets both publically (by so called comedians such as the pervert (Letterman) and the so called ‘press’) and privately.
As Governor she has to restrain herself because she represents the people of Alaska – heck she can’t even expose the bullshit. As a private citizen its a different matter.
CrazyFool on July 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Geraldine Ferraro is the female version of Lanny Davis. Slimy partisan spinner.
marklmail on July 5, 2009 at 11:07 AM
I think you need to stop and take a deep breath because you are putting all kinds of words an inferences in my posts that were never there. If she did this because of personal reasons and gets out of politics not only would I completely sympathize but I’d say she made a very brave decision. And I wish her well if that’s the case. If she did this to set up a run for president, then to me it’s a turn off. Not a deal-breaker, a turn off. We haven’t ‘turned on her’. Faith-shaker for my wife. We haven’t ‘turned on her’. Get it? But she’ll have to win me over again. Because this sort of thing, quitting mid-team, which is completely different than what Obama did with his Senate seat, doesn’t not look good at all. I’ll wait and see but I need to be won back over because it’s such a radical move. But I guess that’s part of why I am conservative.
Why all the hostility? Sheesh.
oddjob1138 on July 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Do you not know how to post a comment in way that isn’t misleading?
Basilsbest on July 5, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Yeah, I do. Why didn’t you fully attribute the quote in your original post? Are you lazy, or just stupid? Good grief. Get a grip.
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Geraldine Ferraro giving political advice
Next
entagor on July 5, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Right. I watched Ferraro’s resentment bubble to the surface during the Pres campaign. 1. She’s a lib. 2. She’s jealous AND frightened that a conservative WOMAN would succeed where she failed so miserably.
marklmail on July 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM
On the flip side of Sullivan and MoDo’s schadenfreud, Ace laments the backlash on conservatives who think Palin made a bad move:
And I do think I am taking off the week. You guys only seem to want to talk about sarah palin and furthermore you only want to hear the same thing — she’s running, this is a great move, she’s now perfectly poised for the race, etc.
It’s nonsense. And I hardly need to blog about it, because you all seem to know the words to the song. So you don’t need me as part of the chorus. You can sing the same words well enough without me.
I am really tired of this relentless nonsense and occasional nastiness whenever someone is believed to have departed from the conservativey correct line.
Mr. Joe on July 5, 2009 at 12:40 PM
I think the dust has settled, and I just don’t see the reall downside of this decision.
Oh yeah, the “quitter” stuff is going on now. Let’s remember, Obama was a senator for less than a real year!
LOL*
So there’s precedent.
AnninCA on July 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM
It pains me to defend Obama but I’ll just say I’m defending any candidate who had a job while they are running but use Obama as the most recent,pertinent example:
The two are nothing alike. Obama may have phoned in his Senate duties but that’s a far cry from quitting. Quite a bit different actually. He didn’t resign his seat so he could run.
That being said I hope there is more to the story (in a positive way, I doubt the scandal rumor but it gives me pause) so that this makes more sense. Because I’ll tell you what I do not admire in a leader: quitting. And I’ll bet there are plenty of people who think like me who are fans of hers.
oddjob1138 on July 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Palin, Schmalin. Who is the freaky-hot Fox blonde?
Jaibones on July 5, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Pointless, ill-suited comparison. The knock on Obama is obvious and well-documented. He went from being an unknown and unaccomplished Illinois State Senator serving a cloistered little leftist enclave around the University of Chicago, to running for President.
When he was elected to the U.S. Senate, he did absolutely nothing but run for President. He missed votes, blew off committee assignments, effed up easy votes, and basically acted like the affirmative action know-nothing that he is.
From Chicago.
Now imagine all of that from Anchorage. It’s just not possible.
Jaibones on July 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM
How is it a positive thing to “phone it in” to your employer, keep drawing your pay & perks, hold the job unfilled, while you are actively campaigning for another one?
Obama’s absence from his Senatorial responsibilities only shows how insignificant a Senator actually is – doesn’t matter much whether one of them is there or not. Maybe we should make people resign those positions before they devote a year or more to campaigning for another position. Certainly seems like Obama quit on his Illinois constituents – he wasn’t representing them while he was out selling himself.
katiejane on July 5, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Pointless is right. The unaccomplished argument is completely valid and SHOULD have pulled more weight in the last election. But it’s still a completely different charge than saying he quit.
As for him taking pay and perks while running for office, couldn’t the same be said for Palin herself running for VP while Gov of Alaska? That has happened for time immemorial on both sides of the political spectrum. If there’s another precedent of a person RESIGNING to run I’d be interested to know it but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.
Now quit making me defend Obama!
oddjob1138 on July 5, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Where did I say it was POSITIVE? I didn’t. I even said it pains me to defend Obama on that charge. Go read it. It’s there. But the argument that there is some double standard is a fallacy. It’s a false comparison. The two are not alike. Not historically or actually.
oddjob1138 on July 5, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Resigning ones position didn’t seem to phase dear leader Note that he never accomplished diddly but voting ‘present’ so I guess he didn’t miss a beat or was missed or noticed. What a mess we’re in if Palin doesn’t come back!!!!
DanaSmiles on July 5, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Fair enough. Let’s wait and see what her next move is; but remember the world is not stationary, 2012 is still a long way from today and events yet to unfold will shape the next presidential election. In 2005, would you have bet that a first term senator with a arab middle name would be President in 2009? This move by SP could be viewed as the reason why she never attains higher office or it could be a new entry in the playbook on running for POTUS. All I’m asking conservatives is to stop playing by the rules set by the democrats, rules they do not follow themselves, just because beltway insiders see this move as boneheaded doesn’t always mean it’ll end up that way. SP has always been an outsider, fighting the system from outside like when she resigned from the Oil/gas commission in Alaska to file ethics complaints against her former boss and then running for elective office. If she spends the next couple of months helping other conservatives seeking office in the 2010 elections and she’s perceived as instrumental to drawing crowds to rallies and thus putting a searchlight on the issues vis-a-vis obama’s agenda, i doubt if this move of today will be enough reason to stop her from mounting a successful campaign to unseat Obama especially if the economy continues to stall. I may be wrong but I’m willing to fight in my own way to ensure I’m right. The best way to start is not to use the playbook of the democrats or clueless HA moderators like Ed and AP
julian on July 5, 2009 at 2:48 PM
This was a Custer moment for Palin. Thought I’d never agree with Julian Epstein on Fox (BTW his Republican counterpart also agreed)when he quoted the old saw “Quitters never win and winners never quit.” But she probably knows this and her book will make big bucks for her (as well as speaking engagements) and she she should retire in comfort.
MaiDee on July 5, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Question; If SP spends the next couple of months revving conservatives in the lower 48 and helping to draw mammoth crowds at rallies for conservatives in the 2010 mid-term elections, how is that quitting?
julian on July 5, 2009 at 2:54 PM
I’m guessing there’s a lot of people who would like to walk away from their current jobs — maybe just enough that Sarah’s quitting will actually gain her more support than had she stayed.
Most people don’t like a quitter. And most people don’t like their jobs. The trick will be convincing America that quitting was better for them, not her.
deesine on July 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM
So I guess you’d keep your chin up and hold your head up and take insults to your family by your employer and co-workers. i’m guessing you’d quit but not before you force your employer to pay you compensation for a hostile work environment. this is the best I can come up with based on your analogy, when you come up with a better one, i’m sure I can educate you further and make you see the light. unfortunately under-educated people like you are what the founders feared might be reason we’ll lose our system of government if and when we do. I read posts like this and I must say I think it’s over, we conservatives are fighting a losing battle.
julian on July 5, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Show me the light, oh enlightened one.
That must be some tasty kool-aid.
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deesine on July 5, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Because it was the widespread sentiment which was important, not the author. The use of quotation marks accomplished the opposite of what you claim it did. The next time you make a mistake show some character: apologize and move on.
Basilsbest on July 5, 2009 at 3:19 PM
While you didn’t say it was a positive you apparently see no virtue in Palin not wanting to continue to do it through the end of her term as governor.
IMO there is a difference between a politician being absent once he is actually the nominee – Obama bagged his day job for how many months before he won the noimination? If Palin spent the remaining months of her governorship capaigning for some unspecific office she’d be no better than the One.
katiejane on July 5, 2009 at 3:24 PM
I wish I could, but you seem like a lost cause, the only person who could rescue you has passed on; but you can check some of his works under author name; William F. Buckley, then make your way up from there. I sincerely wish yhou the best in your travels of self discovery of “Who am I and what do I stand for”, we are counting on you. Peace be unto you
julian on July 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM
You’re in deep. Start to see criticism for what it is — not an attack on you, on your position, on your party, on your philosophy.
deesine on July 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Ed…dude…let it go. You are in the minority. You don’t get it. Now you are agreeing with Ferraro? Unbelievable.
Fed45 on July 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM
The next time you see a “mistake” that really wasn’t a big deal, show some character: don’t act like a friggin’ kindergartner.
ddrintn on July 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM
LOL. The good ol’ boys are praying that she’s quit. After the names she’s been called, does anyone think she gives a hoot about being called a quitter — especially when she remains the hottest ticket in town AND will now be able to leave Alaska to actually show up for the event? The beltway boys don’t decide her future, the people do — I, for one, say she has a great future.
littleguy on July 5, 2009 at 4:36 PM
First off I don’t see anything about what Palin is doing by quitting as being positive… YET. There isn’t enough info. What I can tall you is that if it’s simply to run for 2012 I think it was a boneheaded move because it won’t play well with voters. If there are other reasons like ethics violations ruining her family or what have you, I’d be willing to listen. But as of now it looks bad. To me.
Also, running while in office has been going on forever though. On both sides. For instance: George Bush ran for President while Gov. of Texas. Also, every single sitting President that ran for a second term. Doing it so soon after getting into office… That’s kinda slimey but still, not the same as quitting.
oddjob1138 on July 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM
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