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Sarah Palin Resigns As Alaskan Governor Effective July 26th

225px-palin1Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has announced that she will resign from office on July 26th. The news has led bloggers and comedians to breath into paper bags and use emergency dial-ins for their analysts across the country. Palin has been God’s gift to bloggers, including this blog. But fear not, this announcement may actually promise more not less Palin!

There was no explanation given for the news, though there is speculation that she is committing herself to run in the 2012 presidential election. One spokesperson, however, blamed the onslaught of ethics complaints as the reason, here.

She insists that, since she does not intend to run for a second term, she is simply avoiding that awkward lame duck period. She stated that she is “determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path. … Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional lame duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose.”

That is a curious rationale since voters probably thought that they were voting for a full term — since that is what she was running for when she asked for their vote. Under this logic, every term would be cut short by roughly a year if the incumbent was not looking for a second term. Moreover, instead of serving as a lame duck governor, she has given Alaska a governor who was not elected to that particular office. Since when is completing one’s promised term “another dose of politics as usual.” That would seem more like a promise as usual.

Palin has long had trouble with quotations, particularly with regard to the Framers. Her departure speech is no exception. The most notable line was a quote attributed to Gen. Douglas MacArthur: “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.” For those of us who are military history nuts, the line is well-known and not the words of MacArthur. 250px-Chesty_Puller480px-Oliver_P._SmithSome attribute it to General Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller (left) at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir when the 1st Marine division was surrounded. However, Puller is more often quoted as saying “”We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.” Some attribute it to Gen. Oliver Prince Smith (right). Others deny the quotation was actually ever made, here.

What was clear is that it was not MacArthur. I am not sure why Palin wants to portray herself as surrounded in the first place and coming up for another word for retreat. The more apt paraphrased quote from MacArthur would be something along the lines of “Alaskan Governors never die, they just fade away.”

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated as the new governor at the end of the month.

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74 thoughts on “Sarah Palin Resigns As Alaskan Governor Effective July 26th”

  1. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f9YQMbQMn0&hl=en&fs=1&]

  2. GWLSM,

    Just a guess, but I don’t think that Sarah Palin is in politics anymore.

  3. did anyone else get the background scenery at her press conference? was this in her backyard with a few neighbors present? were there like maybe 15 people there? did anyone else hear the ducks quacking in the background and wonder like I did that it sounded just like laughter? does anyone do any advance for this woman? first the turkey killing machine in the background and now the quacking of ducks?

    McCain must’ve been on drugs when he picked her to be his running mate. She was supposed to bring the “base” out and instead brought nothing but crazy salad to his campaign to the point where he was embarrassed to stand next to her. Does she really think that the RNC will support her in 2012 after quitting her job as governor because she got tired of being laughed at in the press?

    Poor poor rush. he is having one bad day after another.

  5. Wow, talk about your ultimate take out the trash day! Friday, July 3 – I can just imagine Jon Stewart’s anguished cries when he learned that Sarah Palin resigned on the Friday afternoon before his vacation…

  6. According to a story at Huffington Post, Gov. Palin spoke with a guy named Ayres who is connected to the Republican Governors’ Assoc., a little bit before she went public. He told news agencies she was planning to campaign more for candidates, raise her visibility level, etc. This seems all geared to try to become the new leader of Republican Party.

    So, to bolster her national image as a national leader she QUITS her only elected position of trust before the end of her very first term in order to continue her desperate chase for further political office and expects to gain the nation’s trust? Are Republicans really stupid enough to swallow that? Really?

  7. Artist etc:

    “I am not aware of any way in which Gov. Sanford has violated his. Sanford only flouted his promises of marriage, not those of public service.”

    ****************

    Leaving aside the fact that a lie to a trusting loved one to satisfy one’s own carnal desires is about the worst breach of trust one can imagine and truly indicative of character of the rogue, what would you call a public official, say an armed sentry charged with protecting only a few other soldiers, who, during a time of crisis abandons his post, lies to his superiors about his whereabouts, and then, when caught, finally comes clean and tells an incredible story that he did it for his own reasons and would likely do it again? I’d call him the worst sort of human, and the other thing I would call him is “fired.” Deserters claiming reform make poor public servants, but apparently admirable Christians, and neo-cons to be pitied. In nobler times, Roman public servants, so charged, would fall on their swords; Sanford apparently seeks others to swallow his.

  8. The Artist Formerly Known As FFN: “I am not aware of any way in which Gov. Sanford has violated his. Sanford only flouted his promises of marriage, not those of public service.”
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    No one has correlated the 77 times he was out of pocket without his security detail and the Governor’s expenses yet- I bet there are some interesting stories there.

  12. Why I’ve never seen a piece of Renaissance kitchen furniture that was not only psychic and interested in right wing Neocon politics, but is also associated with all the friends of family of a well respected and internationally recognized Constitutional Law scholar. That’s truly some of the finest cabinet making I have ever seen.

  13. Jon, please let your friends here know that the majority of your family and friends have repect for Sarah Palin and are ashamed and embaressed by your appearances on MSNBC, especially Keith Olbermann’s hate fest.

  14. Unlike Mark Sanford, Sarah Palin is doing the honorable thing, she is resigning her position as spokesmodel/Governor which just did not pan out in terms of power or graft, and begin her true calling, hunting the three toed sloth along while hiking the Pan American Highway with her lover, a very connected Paraguayan television personality.

  16. 15 complaints were deemed meritless. As I understand it one complaint related to airfare for her family and she did repay that. If she is going to run in 2012 then recent history says she would have to start in about 5 months and that would make her a lame duck Governor.

  17. Mespo,

    Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, even when it’s a gift to someone else.

  18. Maybe one of those dozen or so ethics complaints that have been filed against her is turning into problem or a potential problem. I’ll be interested to see if that’s a possibility that’s explored in all the speculation by the MSM.

  19. Right decision; wrong right-wing hypocrite governor. Those neocons will get it correct one day!

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