Palin's Attorney: Her Resignation Is "Self-Sacrifice"

Mr. Lawyer seems to have forgotten his jacket. Alaskan fashion I guess. At least its not a hulk tie.

I saw that guy on my doorstep last week, wanting to talk to me about the Church of the Latter Day Saints.

Ah, that's some good ol' fashioned country lawyerin'.

NB: new page format still needs work.

Only Alaskans don't pay state taxes.

She was happy to dish out $1 billion in "Energy Rebates" to Alaskans instead of speaking out about the out-of-control heating fuel prices. She was all too happy to speak out as a "private" citizen to endorse the Pebble Mine project - but not about the consistent gouging of Alaska's citizens through gas/diesel/heating fuel prices.

She bailed because the good times have come to an end. She barely got the Capital Spending Budget out LAST year when the state had a massive surplus, (needed Todd's help to write it - WTF???) I can't imagine she's looking forward to some "actual" budgeting where you don't have enough money to cover your costs.

BTW, REAL working class people don't have the luxury of quitting their job just because it gets hard. Many stay in thankless, low paying jobs to keep shitty health insurance for their families.

About 30,000 people commute to Anchorage from Wasilla every single day, most have done it for years - I know my family has done it for a decade.

Her husband commutes to the North Slope every couple of weeks - and he's been able to continue governing the state without a problem =-)

The reason she needs to spend so much money on ethics investigations is because her ACCUSERS possess bad ethics? Not following the logic of her lawyer's charges.

I had been contemplating what I'd thought were the 3 most likely reasons why Palin abruptly quit. One was "huge scandal about to break." The second was the politically unwise and inadvisable "getting ready to run for prez in '12". And the third was "cash in quick and massively before fame fades."

Given her behavior during and especially after the 2008 presidential election, and with the apparent senselessness of this resignation, I'm now wondering if mental instability isn't also a distinct possibility. I don't think I've ever seen a politician act so erratically and consistently against their own best interests, while at the same time bolstering their egos with ill-advised stunts. (Like that Runner's World interview and cheese-cake photo spread -- there was no dignity in that whatsoever.)

With all this talk of "self-sacrifice," someone should probably point out to her that the problem with putting yourself on a cross is that you can never get that last nail in.

She told us exactly what she was up to in voicing her basketball analogy. She is the point guard (i.e., she is running the team or party), and she sees the full court press by the opposition (liberal media and democrats). Now being the smart guard she is, she pulls off this incredible feat of deception (by resigning) all the while blowing past the opposition to score and win the game (the presidency). How else could you interpret this sport's metaphor?

""She's taking the battle on a different battlefield...She's gonna help conservative candidates that she supports for the 2010 elections," he said."

Yeah, at $50k a pop, I betcha. Or more.

"I didn't find her speech rambling." I guess that's because HE DID NOT READ IT.

I watched the Mitchell interview and was literally embarrassed for her.

I was also angry because it was a huge waste of my time.

Mitchell had an exclusive interview with Van Flein and she didn't ask a single question about his threat to sue other reporters and media outlets, including MSNBC.

How does Mitchell's interview with Van Flein constitute legitimate reporting by a professional journalist?

I think witty1 nailed it. Palin quitting is like a company insider selling all their stock in the company. Alaska may be headed for some budget problems and Palin doesn't want those problems to show up on her resume. In Palin's twisted logic, the solution is to quit the governorship. Then when Alaska runs out of money, Palin will claim it was not her fault.

I do not like this new format.

I still think there is a legitimate family excuse for Palin leaving office, but she's thrown up this smoke screen of speculation about her reasons for leaving to protect the family member. It's the only thing that makes sense. It explains the last minute switch from not running to resigning, as well as the hastily constructed excuses.

Notice that she has already dropped out of site, ostensibly to go "fishing", and that the whole family is MIA, as well. (watch for one of the daughters to be missing for much longer, perhaps a month, to as much as a year)

(one month = D&C, one year, delivery and recuperation)

Her political career was over the moment she quit, and judging from the reaction of establishment doyens, they're not about to let her drag the party down further.

She'll keep the book deal, she'll make some speeches, but, come election time, the only time you hear her name will be when they use it to explain the "comparatively MODERATE" positions of Jeb Bush.

Or, even Joe Scarborough.

For Sarah Palin so loves Alaska that she's sacrificing her valuable TITLE.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/sarahs-sacrifice/