Palin takes to Web for hints of political future

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn’t wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month.

After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly announcing she would soon give up her job as governor, Palin indicated on a social networking site that she would take on a larger, national role, citing a “higher calling” to unite the country along conservative lines.

“I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint,” the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote in a posting on her Facebook page. Palin’s spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, confirmed Palin wrote the entry.

Palin shocked even her closest friends on Friday when she announced she would resign July 26, more than a year before her first term ends. But the controversial hockey mom has not revealed many details of bigger plans and national agenda.

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Today, the Sunday news and blogs are FULL of stories regarding Palin and all this brouhaha.

The vague, rambling and really weird speech on Friday left a lot of people wondering just what was going on. Palin doesn’t like the rumor mill, that is glaringly apparent, but her vague manner Friday only fueled that rumor mill even more. She fed the fire.

Now it appears she’s going through some Joan of Arc, answering to a higher calling thing.

A ‘higher calling’? Did she get high and hear voices?? A ‘higher calling’ from whom if I may be so bold? God maybe? If she feels that she was moved by God, she needs to say so.

Did the RNC make that 3AM call to Sarah? Did they give her a call to come save the GOP? Is that ‘higher calling’ really a SAVE THE GOP? Does Palin know that GOP and Conservative are words that don’t necessarily equate?

I’m about as HARD CORE Conservative as it gets but I just don’t see this woman as the political power that many Conservatives apparently do. I don’t see her as much of anything other than yesterdays news, and she just won’t go away.

Many Conservatives complain that Barack Hussein Obama was an extremely inexperienced person when he took the reigns of this nation. I fully agree with that assessment. Obama was a ‘community organizer’. Obama served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997–2004 and the United States Senate from 2005–2008. And we ALL thought him to be far too inexperienced to be the leader of this nation.

We gripe about Obama not having enough experience? Excuse me? A ‘higher calling’ to unite the country along conservative lines?

Sarah Palin was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and then a partial term Governor of Alaska, a job she is quitting to answer this ‘higher calling’.

Huh?

When Sarah Palin was nominated as the VP candidate to run with John McCain, I thought, “she’s window dressing, but, maybe she has a good plan”. Then the facts got out there, and Palin started talking. Then she got all ‘mavericky’. The more she talked the more disgusted I became.

She was terribly inexperienced, yet many voted McCain/Palin because of her. I can’t tell you how many times I heard or read, ‘I’m not voting for McCain, I’m really voting for Sarah Palin’, and I still get chills just thinking about that.

Many said that Palin’s speeches during the campaign, and her manner of speaking, were a direct result of the McCain campaign and the RNC trying to control her. After this last spectacle, I am starting to doubt that even more.

I haven’t heard of a huge Push for Palin movement by the GOP. Maybe they have a back room good ol’ boys thing going on, maybe not. Some clarification from the RNC/GOP itself would be nice.

And again I say, IF Sarah Palin is the next chosen one, if she is the golden child of the GOP, and GOP voters, then the GOP is in crisis and the GOP is in a lot worse shape than any care to admit.

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Palin resignation leaves questions on 2012 run

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) - Even for a nonconformist, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has defied political logic with her sudden, stunning announcement to leave office more than a year early.

Supporters and critics alike say the former GOP vice presidential candidate’s resignation, announced Friday afternoon and effective July 26, is an inexplicable move for a high profile Republican widely seen as a contender for a White House run in 2012. A half-term governor campaigning for president?

“If she is thinking that leaving her term 16 months early is going to help her prepare to maybe go on to bigger and better things on the political stage, I think she’s sadly mistaken. You just can’t quit,” said Andrew Halcro, a Palin critic who lost the 2006 gubernatorial race to her.

Palin’s abrupt announcement Friday rattled the Republican Party but left open the possibility of a presidential run. She and her staff are keeping mum on her future plans.

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To all those folks that voted for the McCain/Palin ticket, and said their vote for McCain was actually a vote for Palin, what’s on your mind now?

I didn’t vote for McCain/Palin. I voted for Bob Barr, and before ANYONE goes off saying that a vote for Barr was a vote for Obama, go stuff yourself! It was a vote for the man I felt to be the most qualified candidate in an extremely weak field of candidates, candidates from ALL sides of the equation.

I have read much speculation regarding Palin and her possible reasons for resigning.

Some say she’s just a quitter. That is a possibility. I really can’t see a sitting Governor just deciding to leave office, regardless of the words she said about not wanting to be a LAME DUCK. She’s a one term Governor, she could have easily run for Governor of Alaska again.

Some are of the opinion that this is nothing but a move designed to get her prepared for a run at the White House in 2012. Maybe it is. In MY opinion, IF it is, it’s a really LAME way of going about it, Americans don’t like quitters. A sitting Governor, Senator or Congressman running for the White House is more than acceptable and she could, and again, in MY opinion SHOULD have pursued that path if this is her intent.

Then I read a few blogs that plainly state, Palin resigned because she was tired of all the snark and snide that was directed at her and her family. OK, maybe so, that is a strong possibility. Let’s say that’s the case, if she can’t take the heat as a Governor, HOW IN THE HELL will she take the heat as POTUS? How will she take the critical news articles, blog posts, late night comics and foreign press as it’s piled on in the event she were to become POTUS?

In my opinion, she would collapse like the proverbial house of cards.

The GOP is in trouble my friends, they have a lot of house cleaning to do. Mark Sanford in South Carolina and John Ensign of Nevada are prime recent examples. Then we have this; June 11, 2007: Republican Senator Larry Craig is arrested for lewd conduct in the men’s bathroom of an airport. March 8, 2007: Republican former U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich admits to extramarital affair, April 23, 2007: Federal auditors find repeat violations of federal election law from the 2004 Senate campaign of Republican Senator Mel Martinez, July 11, 2007: Republican state Representative and Florida co-Chairman of McCain for President Bob Allen is arrested for soliciting a male undercover police officer, offering to pay $20 to perform oral sex and July 16, 2007: Republican Senator David Vitter holds press conference acknowledging being on the D.C. Madam’s list and past involvement with prostitutes.

Those are just a few of the more high profile cases to date. There are rumors afloat that there may be some kind of scandal about to break concerning Palin. Until such time as it breaks, I won’t even speculate. But I will say this, there are far too many possibilities at hand with this sudden resignation. There are, at this time, too many unknowns to even make a great educated guess.

As many already know, I am NOT a Republican nor am I a Democrat. I have very little use for most of the Republicans and none of the Dems in office at this time! Luckily, in MY part of Texas, we have 3 of the best Congressional Representatives we could ask for in Sam Johnson, Ralph Hall and Jeb Hensarling. Our U.S. Senators leave a lot to be desired, but compared to many other Senators, they are great!

I will say this, and again, it is MY opinion, the GOP is in DESPERATE trouble! If Sarah Palin is where the GOP is pinning it’s hopes, if Sarah Palin is the best the GOP can offer up, the GOP is screwed!

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