The future’s not ours to see, Que Sarah, Sarah
At this point no one really knows the true reason (s) for Governor Sarah Palin’s sudden resignation. Bill Kristol called it “risky” but “brilliant”.
Steve Hayward reminded us to be careful to write a premature political obituary.
Newsweek, 1971, “Ronald Reagan’s Slow Fade,” ended with the judgment that “the somber truth is that Sacramento may mark the end of Ronald Reagan’s political road. . . By every normal measure, Ronald Reagan ought to be entitled to any political future he wants. A close aide said, ‘The Presidency? Oh, he’s not interested. Four more years and I think you’ll see Ronald Reagan riding one of his horses off into the sunset.’” And see Stephen Roberts in the New York Times Magazine: “In 1976, the reasoning goes, Reagan would be 65, and too old to run.”
“When a guy’s built on celluloid,” Democratic State Senator George Moscone said, “he goes up fast, but he burns out quickly.”
After the 1976 campaign, Newsweek offered a reprise, “Into the Sunset”: “The concluding line of Reagan’s convention speech—’There is no substitute for victory’—could also turn out to be a epitaph for his own political career.”
Of course both of these gentlemen and the scores of others who (like myself) fell in love with the truly conservative beauty queen, basketball star, marathon running, moose hunting mother of five are missing a huge difference between Palin and past political resurrections like those of Reagan and Nixon.
Sarah Quit.
It’s that simple really. To the MSM it’s not remotely relevant why she quit; only that she undeniably did in fact quit.
A huge part of her political appeal was the perception of her as a fighter. And fighters don’t quit.
Sooner or later the mystery will be revealed, it always does.
Given what we know after her rambling statement which isn’t very much, speculation has run the full spectrum of possibilities. My take is that only two scenarios make any sense at all.
If Sarah or someone in her family has been diagnosed with something very serious it would make sense and she could easily recover in time.
The more likely however is that a major scandal is about to break and she will never recover in any serious way.
Inside the beltway Republicans have long argued whether or not Palin was electable on the national stage; I think she just settled that debate.
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This is a pathetic post — and usually TAH is quite good at analysis.
This is dripping in MSM memes and narratives — she either has a personal problem, or, there’s a scandal. One thing about Palin that you seem to not understand is that part of her appeal is her honest, died-in-the-wool-conservative principles — she appeals because she actually practices what she preaches about fiscal responsibility, personal integrity, and individual freedom.
Why can’t you take her at her word for why she resigned? She made it clear in her statement, which was not rambling at all, but actually pointed, open, and simple, and with no teleprompter.
I have a feeling you did not watch her presser at all, or, you watched with a jaundiced, MSM-influenced eye.
I am certain she plans to run in 2012, and maybe even with a third party. Who knows yet?
What i do know is that she isn’t about to be indicted. the FBI released a statement that they have NO investigations underway, not planned, on her or her family for anything.
And Tim Blair has a good article with some telling bits from her attorney here:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/legal_options_explored/
Seems they have put everyone on notice that smears and slanders wiol be dealt with in court from now on. So it’s either put up or shut up with regards to allegations of this or that about Sarah Palin and/or her family.
I think that Palin is simply a political version of General Petraeus. She’s not going to fight things the same old way, but is going after the nation’s hearts and minds. Considering how the current numb nutz in Congress and the WH have so scr3wed everyone so financially, she may well ride a way of REAL change into the White House in 3 year’s time.
I for one will welcome her Presidency.
respects,
I look forward to developments.
COB6 noted: … missing a huge difference between Palin and past political resurrections like those of Reagan and Nixon.
I do think that the differences between Reagan and Nixon make that comparison tenuous at best. Comparisons with either and Palin may be more tenuous yet?
Palin is a woman, Palin comes to us via Alaska. Palin , thus far, has walked the walk even moreso than talking the talk.
As in all things time will tell.
I’m not fussing about your notion that something smells strange, BTW, only trying to point out a different take on the aroma. To push the olfactory thing a bit further… context matters, and we don’t know yet just what is cooking.
Not even pathetic.
For heaven’s sake, get somebody to read a transcript to, prepared to explain the big words to you.
Too early to tell what her intentions are. I would have prefered she finish her term but it may be responsible to bow out and let the Lt. Gov. take over. No doubt in my mind that she’ll be back in some political capacity.
I believe Sarah Palin’s move was gutsy.
Here’s a woman who has lived her entire political life in Alaska, semi-isolated from the worst of the MSM’s attention for most of her political career up until the point she was thrust on the national stage.
She is not a career politician, she’s a hunter, she was blatantly and falsely attacked about every aspect of her and her family’s life. Suddenly it became quite obvious to her that there is a real enemy in this country, a domestic enemy, which can be identified with every three letter acronym the media use to identify themselves. Further, that enemy would not be content until her family was utterly destroyed.
We who have lived within this bubble of media extremism tend to dismiss most of it as just the media being their biased self. That is not how it would appear to someone from the outside being subjected to it.
A politician would have stayed at her post and suffered through the next year and a half of small cuts the media would have inflicted on her. A hunter would decide that the predator hunting her family had to be faced.
I think Sarah Palin is making the preparations for that hunting now by clearing the decks for battle, and we are going to be seeing a whole lot more of her in a few months as she begins stalking her foes.
I don’t consider that quitting. I consider that to be what any frontiersman or frontierswoman would do to protect their family and their country, and I respect her all the more for it.
Dan Maloney
NY State Coordinator
Gathering of Eagles
http://nygoe.wordpress.com/
http://libertyboy.wordpress.com/
Given the cost of defending against all the false accusations and the harassment of her children, I don’t blame Palin for resigning early. I am sorry that she’s shown the left fringe that harassment as a way to force out enemies is a viable political option, but she made the call after consulting with her family and I respect that highly.
She is a classic answer to the question “why don’t the good people run for office?”
Dan, you said that loud and clear, and I believe you put it squarely in the black.
Any hunter worth his salt will not go blindly into the
woods seeking his prey. He will learn all he can about the creature first. It’s haunts, it’s feeding patterns, it’s method of attack and defense, what it prefers to eat, where it beds down. Then he will inspect and prepare himself and his gear to ensure he has the edge, that any surprised will be mitigated by preparation and pre-planning.
Only then we he venture into the woods, and odds are he’ll be bringing supper home for the clan. 🙂
Eagles Up!
OK, OK, I can take a joke – so, who REALLY wrote this piece?
I mean, really?
Is it a guest shot from IVAW? A hacking job by Southern Democrat? A prank by Team Obama’s Disinformation Bureau?