Packing it in
Soon-to-be-former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin has announced that she will resign as governor of Alaska this month.
In a news conference from her home in Wasilla, Alaska, Palin announced Friday that she would resign later this month. The state’s lieutenant governor will assume the office of governor on July 26.
A CNN story quotes a source speaking on the condition of anonymity as saying Palin has accomplished all the goals she set out to accomplish. Much like our own Matt Blunt. (It took Palin only three years. Poor Matt had to use his whole single term as governor to accomplish all his goals.)
In her announcement, she took heavy aim at the media and “politics as usual” for making it difficult for her to govern the state. She said putting her head down and working would be the easy thing to do. So instead she’s quitting.
She laid out her accomplishments in her three years as governor, placing special emphasis on a pipeline project that would deliver, she says, energy independence. She claimed victory over “frivolous” ethics charges that were politically motivated, and pointed out how expensive those complaints were for the state and for the Palins.
She said she knows she can “effect positive change from outside of government.”
The governor was the subject of an unflattering Vanity Fair story this month.
Jamie Riley is the P-D letters editor and gatekeeper of the letters blog. Before joining the editorial page in May 2005, she was a reporter and page designer. Jamie lives in University City with her husband, Charles, daughter, Elise, and the world's best Jack Russell terrier, Logan, better known as Stinky. 
EJ…………you can’t really be serious…….you can’t really believe what you just wrote……….the state run media is “guarding the democracy”? If you had capitalized the last word, you would approach believability.
1whisky… Please show proof of a state-run media.
In fact, please show proof of a liberal media. You know: `proof,’ as opposed to `hearsay.’ Ridiculously, hearsay is a favorite conservative tool, but it proves nada.
Jamie,
Shocked! Absolutely shocked that lynch-pin[pun-intended] of objectivity would “unfatteringly” write about any conservative.
Even more shocked that Jamie Riley would edit me for saying she could look like Palin if she pulled her hair back, put on some glasses and smeared gobs of vaseline on the lens!
Libposters get away with way worse daily, and she quietly acguiesces. But say anything funny about her…the claws come out.
Let’s see if she does it again.
I think Sarah Palin is by far the smartest conservative in America today. Just reading some of the comments on this thread convinces me.
And dr-debunk, you are really clever and really funny. How do you think up all those funny, funny comments? You must eat a lot of fish.
“How do you think up all those funny, funny comments? You must eat a lot of fish.”-Jamie Riley, AKA-”O brother”
–Just comes naturally, based on a lifetime of “seeing” through the leftist agenda.
–Also have always been a slave to words. Words mean things. When someone writes or speaks their thoughts, it is like a window to their soul.
–Have developed the ability given by my mother to read people’s souls. Like her, am rarely fooled or wrong.
–What does fish consumptive rates have to do with anything? Or is that your attempt at humor?
–BTW…I only eat what I catch, and clean.
EJ Rotert:
“What I find scary are those people you reference who continue to listen to her — despite the interviews showing she can’t think on her feet and that she’s unintelligent and uneducated. And when pressed for an answer, she spouts off some crackpot lie (ref., she reads “all” the newspapers and magazines).”
I was wondering what kind of damn fool tangent Rotert would go off on today. I saw the Couric/Palin interview and was thoroughly disgusted with how the perky little shrew persistently asked Palin what books she read, refusing to accept a general answer. You and every other loopy seems to think that makes Palin look dumb. A week before, the pesky little witch interviewed Joe Biden and he fed her the cock and bull story about FDR going on TV to calm people at the start of the depression, more than 3 years before he was elected President and 10 years before TV was successfully demonstrated at the New York World’s Fair. The perky little leftist was too dumb to know how dumb Biden was or tongue tied and unable to ask which book he read that in.
I’ve given you a You Tube of the idiocy so you can slink away in shame after seeing what starts at the 1:40 mark. Please respond with your sincere apologies for not knowing what is really dumb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBl7jrD1GzU
“was thoroughly disgusted with how the perky little shrew persistently asked Palin what books she read, refusing to accept a general answer.”
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–And how Charles Gibson would look down his nose through his eyeglasses at her. As if intelligent folks can’t see the staging.
–The MSM is certainly obsessed with her, though. The “guys” at MSNBC must be gnashing at the bit.
–She is what she is, a fresh-face and voice that won’t conform to the “cognoscenti”, and doesn’t fit in to the MSM’s preconceived molds.
–That is one reason she is so popular with conservatives and moderates, and why the MSM MUST destroy her.
my gosh, ‘hart’…
three posts in a row…
don’t you have something meaningful to do…
besides posting your usual wandering, indecipherable, un-legible tripe…
and your usual complaining about the editors requesting you to follow the regulations…
under your usual multi-named ‘unknowing sage’-‘dr.debunk’-‘gamecock’ monikers?
“wandering, indecipherable, un-legible tripe…”…Do you mean ILLEGIBLE?
–Not surprised you can’t understand proper English, bean. Go take english 101, not too late to learn.