I am really disturbed to see you think this is it for SP.

If you are right, I just don’t know what to think..
I guess we are up a creek without a paddle.

Sad.

I say let the moment play out for a while. Who know’s, the worm may have just turned.

The punditocracy may have won the battle, and still lose the war. Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh are all examples of folks that I do not ever expect to run for an elected office, They are also examples of people in the conservative movement who can promote and help to elect others.

there will be rumors, and ordinarily I’d just discount everything, but after Sanford and some other recent stuff I’m more and more convinced the liberal press is on a serious mission to take down all GOP leaders of any note.

Is it any accident now that the Dems are in control of the national security apparatus and the surveillance stuff and now we’re seeing new stories about personal scandals of GOP leaders?

So there might be something coming, and she might just want to avoid putting her family through it as much as possible, especially after all the Steve Schmidt McCain handlers coming out to blame her for the election so publicly.

Time to pull back, do some national travel to engage her base, and influence the direction of the future. Who knows what’s next.

I am not sure, she may not run for 2012, but she will (God Willing) restore the GOP to a Classic Liberal point of view. Small Government, States Rights and less government.

One can only hope that she takes, head on, the left, the media and the socialist.

God Bless her, her family and this great country of ours!

The Palin Derangement Syndrome leftists are grinning from ear to ear. What’s going to happen when they can no longer make a dime off of their anti-Palin posts?

I can’t decide if having her run for office is a good thing, or if she should just be THE voice of conservative women in America.

I’m upset with your take on this. Maybe I don’t want to attend the August 1st meeting if this is how you think.

Sarah wasn’t going to run for a second term. So, she leaves now and lets the Lt. Gov. take the helm and make him a shoe in for re-election.

Meanwhile she can travel to appear with “conservative” people running for the Senate and the Congress. She will draw HUGE crowds and those people will get elected. She’s smart and Erick, on this, you are stupid.

She knocked Michael Jackson off the news for goodness sake. That’s saying something. She is for real.

Even if she does take some time off (and I’m not sure that this is really a long walk away from it all), she’s not finished.

She’ll run for office again.

I feel badly for Sarah Palin and her family. But I suspect she and her family will do just fine in life. I feel worse for the nation. Because for every Sarah Palin who is run out of politics by the horrific treatment of the media and political machines there are dozens or hundreds of good citizens who would serve the country well who avoid politics in order to shield themselves and their families from the abuse that is sure to come. And the nation is left with, well, what it currently has.

and she is counting on, IMO, the negative attitude/opinion you attribute

Sarah Palin will not be President in 2012. She will not run for President. She will not run for any elected office ever again.

The political pundits who are saying she couldn’t take the heat, so she got out of the kitchen, may have found a winning cliche to apply, but then no one has faced the heat Sarah Palin has been subjected to, largely at the hands of the political pundits now dragging out that cliche.

and we’ve already been covering how, long term, there is time to play this out in a POSITIVE fashion, in the other FP Breaking News: Josh’s: Sarah Palin to Resign

2012 angle: Not Chicago-Thug Politics as usual….
JLenardDetroit Friday, July 3rd at 4:53PM EDT (link)
Nor even John McCain… Me, me, me… I’m next…. it’s my turn atop the ticket….. Politics as usual…. Whether that will play well, as we play up the Baracklash, remains to be seen. Enough time, obviously, exists between now and then to set the appropriate Positive narrative (as I spoke of up thread) BUT (equally obvious) the Lefty MSM will play up the Negative spin/aspects. Already hearing the “Media feeding R infighting angle” BS [Media feeding R infighting - MSM uses snippets out of context to feed Republican in-fighting narrative additional commentary on that here (speaking out against SoSo discussion) and here --- some people out in the great Brain-Dead unwashed haven't grasped the: The "Pretend you're a Liberal MSM reporter (and Spin the story)" Challenge]

The speech laid out the appropriate ground-work, didn’t flow perfectly but the pieces were there…..

Whether or not she can ride the NOT POLITICS AS USUAL line to the Presidential nominee - too much time remains to handicap that, but many are open to that “arguement.” She would still seem to be a very TOP pick for the VP spot again….

as well as what she can do for GOP 2010 Conservative Candidates here that will set her up for, at least, helping the GOP field get the right message out in 2012……

BUT, IT IS, IMO, SILLY FOR ANYONE TO HAVE A SET IN STONE FRONTRUMMER OPINION FOR 2012 YET!!!! To try and prop someone up or right someone off! Too much time exists… That can/may be a positive or a negative for ANY of them!!!!

If persons like this have so much power, it doesn’t pay to even leave the house.

After first reading, I was afraid you were relaying this pessimistic message from your sources. But after a minute of investigating, I am concluding (hopefully) that this is a rather quick interpretation / speculation on your part- and that there is not yet a need to worry.

Your post confused me though. It read very authoritatively.

She’s young, she’s a fighter and we are exactly six months into Obama’s administration. She can do so much damage as a talking head for the cause.

I have no doubt her book will be a national best seller and she will have huge free publicity for months. She will be unshackled from the minutiae on Alaskan politics. Track, Bristol and Willow will all be established full fledged adults.

She is a ratings bonanza. All the shows will want to book her. She been offered TV deals already. She can take a two year contract to have her own show of some sort; sit, study, watch and wait. If the bottom falls out on Obama she could jump back in a year or two from now.

People around here were some of the strongest Fred supporters and he waited till the last minute to run his “back porch” campaign. There is plenty of time.

Republicans wil continue will herald the next great unknown ala Sanford, Jindal, Ensign, Huntsman, … But those unknowns have not run the gauntlet and traps for them abound. Palin already tested and vetted. If not Palin, it will be someone with exposure probably Romney, Pawlenty or Huckabee.

She still has the ability to draw massive crowds and set a room “afire”. I could easlity see her playing the saviour role when the party is dispirited or needs life.

I disagree. She’s 45 years old and I think she’s just getting warmed up.

…Erick’s retraction when it turns out her resignation has nothing to do with the big, bad liberal press and instead is a result of the scandal that is inevitably going to reach the light of day. I thought Erick would have learned from the Sanford snafu…

‘If you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

As to the claim you make Eric about the level of attacks on Governor Palin, you are obviously too young to remember what was said about Ronald Reagan back in the 80’s. The level and intensity of hate and nastiness by the left towards Reagan for over 8 years far exceeds anything that Governor Palin or her family has experienced in 8 short months. History does not justify the reprehensible nature of the attacks on Governor Palin or her family, but it is the climate of politics today. I’d probably argue that this style of personal destruction was started by the left during the Bork hearings, but that’s a so what.

Darn man, you get criticized by the loony left in your own pond, recently over your stopping the naming of Obama as a citizen of Macon and I don’t see you heading for the hills.

Throw in the fact that we elect people to run government, that’s the job description, and no matter how you slice it, Governor Palin is leaving the job of Governor of the state of Alaska after only 30 months in office without a record of accomplishment, this is not a good thing.

I have watched the entire speech (until the satellite feed from Alaska failed, anyway), and she got the tough-looking jaw when she talked about being proud of America. I thought she was taking dead aim at O’Bambi apologizing for America, siding with dictators, spending and printing money like there is no tomorrow. Her brother, who was interviewed by Stuart Varney, said she’d discussed in the last few days that 80% of her and her staff’s time is spent fielding fallout from the attacks on her from ethics complaints, etc. I think she feels that her job is to run Alaska, and since the outside world won’t let her, she should let the job go to someone who can. There is some value in that conclusion, and I don’t see that as “quitting”, but rather taking away the target. Kinda getting inside the MSM’s OODA loop.

Thus, whe ends the distraction and cost of all the frivolous ethics complaints. She’s not Governor, she can’t be sued for ethics violations! She has stopped the leak in her family’s finances, and stopped having to ask for donations to help fight them. If she stayed in the job, the ethics complaints would continue, she might run up another million in legal fees by the end of the term..

I think she knows that when she speaks, a microphone is put in front of her mouth. I think she’s going to start taking on O’Bambi’s assaults on America, and she won’t be hindered in what she can say, or when she can say it, now that she’s not getting a paycheck from the State of Alaska.

She may not be running for anything, except taking her personal megaphone to expose the idiocy of the O’Bambi administration. Since there aren’t any Republican men in the Senate or House who want to show some huevos, I think she’s going to fill that void. I do not see this as a run for President, but as doing what she can to save her country.

This is what I hope.

Take no prisoners Sarah and lets VETT obama and his thugs together. SARAH YOU SURE RUINED OBAMA AND HIS THUGS JULY 4TH
HOLIDAY….LET HER RIP .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOW SING WITH ME

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

Take no prisoners Sarah and lets VETT obama and his thugs together. SARAH YOU SURE RUINED OBAMA AND HIS THUGS JULY 4TH
HOLIDAY….LET HER RIP .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOW SING WITH ME

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

Why be a sitting duck? She can’t defend herself from Alaska and she can’t rely on the GOP to defend her well. Would she get a trophy for sticking it out? No. Would Alaska be better off with all the democratic machine and half the republican machine trying to destroy her? No.

Sarah Palin just declared her Independence Day. Good for her. She’ll get rich and secure her family’s finacial future without using government favors. God Bless her! You’re about to see the POWER of capitalism. More money, more family, more freedom. Live, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

We’re about to see a great example of principles we espouse, and without the government aftertaste.

If she goes out, raises money for candidates, draws crowds campaigning for conservatives, helps get a few GOP candidates elected, this will be nearly forgotten. Let me put it this way, it only will bother the people who weren’t going to support her anyway.

I don’t think that this is the end of the story.

I have no idea what her intentions are. And no one else (save her closest friends) does, either.

It’s my opinion that one should not dismiss Sarah. She drives the left crazy and she knows it.

I have been bouncing back and forth between Red State and National Review Online, and I am appalled to report that Amy Holmes(a Republican talking head on the cable shows) has a post on NR’s The Corner in which she lumps Sarah Palin in with Mark Sanford and John Ensign. Amy, you should be ashamed of yourself. You can disagree with Gov. Palin’s decision and/or her reasons for making said decision, but she has done nothing to deserve your slimy commentary.

I don’t see any reason to write her off.

I don’t want to speculate…. but I do like to think she must have thought about all these aspects. This move frees her to go on offensive since she won’t be an elected official. I don’t see her as quitting… I think she realized that she is not able to do justice to her job due to all the media spotlight and scrutiny.

There are lot of lefty “experts” who would like to elect and define conservative leaders… I don’t believe that they are going to be able to define Sarah Palin…..

I suggest we wait and watch.

If there is any other human being besides Hitler or Bush that has been the focus of so much hate I would like to know who it is. I am tremendously disappointed but not surprised.
The scurrilous slime balls have finally gotten what they set out to accomplish. But it remains to be seen how the play will end.
I think it is tremendously ironic how the “reporters/political hacks” have so completely fabricated a positive image of Obama while at the same time erecting a monstrous image of Sarah Palin. Both are absolutely ridiculous. Even now Obama’s Rasputinizing of the news media is coming apart. Helen Thomas: “What do they think we are, puppets?” Well…yes… actually.
I don’t have any idea if Palin is going to continue in the public eye. I would think not, unless there is a reversal in public perception. The only way to let that happen is to abandon the field to the opponent. Left to themselves her detractors will probably destroy each other in the public’s perception. Then maybe the truth can emerge and she can reenter the arena in a much stronger role and much weakened detractors.
Obama is most certainly going to be the greatest failure in the history of the presidency. Any speculation beyond that is futile. It very well could be Sarah picking up the pieces.

The world may look entirely different…..a year is a lifetime in politics.

–People will wake up, and discover that retro-fitting public buildings with solar panels has nothing to do with lessening our dependence on foreign oil. They’ll also find out that to lessen the price of a commodity, you have to increase its supply.
–They’ll wonder why Barack Obama ever said he was “open to offhsore drilling” if he didn’t plan to really do anything about it. Just another Obama lie.

In short, “drill, drill, drill” will be back as a pocketboook issue, and people will be angry that they’ve been had. Governor Palin has actually done things to advance our energy independence, and in that type of a political climate, she will thrive.

In the meantime, I think she just wants to protect her family, and as Erick suggested, bring them back from the brink of financial ruin. The attacks from the animals on the left have left this good family with legal bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars; it’s hard to send kids to college when you’ve been the victim of this kind of character assassination. What’s been done to Palin and her family is criminal….but I still believe that what goes around comes around.

if the truth in the end is that the creeps succeeded in hounding Sarah out of office and that nothing further will come of it.

This lady has more spine than any 20 of us combined. I’m not usually sexist, but a strong woman does not walk away to avoid a hot kitchen. There is something else going on, and I don’t believe the Marxists and power grabbers are going to like it.

Thus spake redneck_hippie.

I see from a lot of the posts that again Sarah Palin is underestimated. I remember the posts here when she was announced as McCain’s running mate. ha ha yes I remember.
I ‘m content to sit back and watch for now. But when she hits the media spotlight again she won’t have the restraints of the McCain handlers or the governors office to hold her back. She is going to start a firestorm we have not seen in decades. If Obama was the media darling,Palin will be their biggest fear.

Oh this is so juicy and yes unexpected,…imagine that.

or teleprompter. Kinda nice tro see somebody talk that their brain isn’t scrambled like obamas’

or teleprompter. Kinda nice tro see somebody talk that their brain isn’t scrambled like obamas’

Alaska has a senate seat up for election in 2010. I don’t think Palin wants to run for POTUS in 2012, it would make far more sense to wait for 2016 unless Obama is REALLY weak in 2012 and loses to whatever Republican goes up against him, in which case she would wait until 2020. She has lots of time to get back into politics, she is very young yet. She’s one bright lady, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out she has a plan.

This will be interesting to watch.

1. I have no idea what Sarah is thinking… I just hope that she is.

2. You guys… collectively… sound like you all got your ‘johnson’ stuck in your zipper. (This might be bad… but it’s not THAT bad)

3. I had a day ending a week of getting my ‘johnson’ stuck in my zipper, totally unrelated to politics.

4. Related to idem #1 it would be nice if there was a Republican that HAD A PLAN for once. I’m not ready to say Sarah is one.

5. It’s a looooong way to 2012

6. If she has a plan it might be for her potential advisories to take some of the heat for a bit… while she has time to both heal and then come back.

7. Then again… who am I to know this?

8. I really don’t care… much. I might later, but not now.

Now… everybody take two adult beverages and twitter me in the morning

While noone knows for certain why she made her announcement today, all signs clearly point to it being the first major step in her 2012 Presidential campaign. Assuming that is the case, it was a brilliant move indeed! First, by bringing her right hand man, Lt Gov Parnell, into the office of Govenror she assures that her successful policies will be continued, keeping Alaska strong (in comparison to the rest of America which is hurting badly thanks to Obama’s mis-management). This frees her up to do something else that she does extremely well, and that is campaign. We all saw her campaign for Senator Chambliss in Georgia, how wildly successful she was in helping save that Senate seat. She will now have time to do that for candidates across America this year and next, setting the stage for her own 2012 campaign.

In making the announcement the way she did, she also accomplished something else, she made the left believe not only that they’ve ‘defeated’ her, but now they will also be distracted for t weeks, maybe months, salivating over the prospect of some ’scandal’ that is entirely within their own minds. While they’re speculating over the various fictional scandals, she will be shoring up her 2012 Front-runner status for real. By the time they realize what’s hit them, she will be stronger than ever. Another brilliant move by Sarah Palin!

I could not disagree with Erick more!

Regardless of what anyone may think about Palin’s intelligence, abilities as Governor, or her performance during the campaign, I can’t believe anyone can site evidence that she is weak, a quitter, or scared of the media and pundits.

To put this in military terms; Sarah Palin is pulling out of an indefensible tactical position, to one where she can overwhelm the enemy with return fire. I believe from this new tactical position, Palin will launch a multi-pronged assault on the media, Obama and the leftist congressional leaders.

I don’t know whether this operation is in preparation for the larger assault on the 2012 Presidency or not.

But I do believe that Sarah Palin is about to join the battle. Pass the popcorn
!

I for one am sick of watching people in this country destroying people through the processes used by the DNC and sycophants. If she resigned to withdraw her family from this garbage, she did the right thing. Screw the garbage she had to put up with, raise your family, it is the best.

There is no reason to continuously defend yourself in court over and over again, wow, democrats you guys are some really classy wusses.

So, good on her for getting out of this mess, heck, she made it farther than I would have, this kind of crap done to my family and with my temper would have gotten some sycophants in the MSM and DNC hurt, seriously. I am not kidding.

Sarah Palin referred to the financial toll sham ethics charges were taking on her. Now with this decision she has disarmed her enemies. In addition she can spend more time with her family but is also free to travel widely without the charge of neglecting her duties as governor. I suspect that she will throw her support behind one candidate for the 2012 nomination and thereby exercise her undoubted influence.

The recent draining of the GOP field is likely to create a vacuum in 2011 that will draw new candidates and personalities into the primary that would not have otherwise been prompted to jump in. When the pendulum swings radically in one direction, it inevitably swings back. What seems like a loss now will probably open up new, unforeseen paths for the party that may even be more beneficial than what we would have had.

We shall see.

about the magnet on her Mothers refridgerator….

“Don’ explain it: Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe you anyway!”

Palin was a proto-Nixon; a loathsome, self-serving, self-pitying whining ball of self-entitlement who thinks that the rules apply to everyone else and to themselves selectively if at all.

Her speech all but confirms that. Is it really a conservative value to walk away from your job? Leaving someone else to clean up your mess? I know, it’s because David Letterman made a joke that no one would have noticed if Team Palin hadn’t started screeching about it. That’s really what you want in a Presidential candidate; someone with skin so thin you could make sushi out of it.

Oh I know Erik, I’m banned, I’m soooo banned! Because you too are a loathsome, self-serving, self-pitying whining ball of self-entitlement and that is of course why you love Palin so. You’re both dolts cut from the same pathetic bolts of cloth.

Sarah Palin’s situation reminds me of how Col Stauffenberg was abandoned by everyone in the heat of battle.

Who in their right minds would dare standing up for anything in the GOP after this? Total victory for Obama&CO. I am abandoning the battlefield after this one. When you watch someone holding offuntil reinforcements arrive and the same reinforcements run like rabbits, it is time to rethink what brought you to the field to begin with.

“Up the dosage of meds”.. Sure, I realize now what this one has opened.
Sorry that a simple-minded dumb primary doc offers some thoughts. I guess I should just shut up and leave politics to the “experts”. What do I know about how politics works. However, I know enough to know that there will be no more contributions in the next years to come unless some heads are rolling throughout the party.

Agree with Mr Stevens with one correction:

Red State is not the ONLY one leaving the battlefield here.