I'm amazed.
The republican fascination with Palin .. who is of such little stature and has no political future on the national stage .. and more importantly, confines republicans into a smaller box .. is just mindblowing to me.
What's mindblowing to me, is the fascination the LEFT still has with this woman of little stature and no political future on the national stage. It's also fascinating how you left out she has a special needs child, her daughter had a baby out of wedlock, and she has no foreign policy experience.
Here is this woman you claim is so insignificant in politics, yet the left can't seem to shut up about her.... I wonder why? Even after the elections are over, and your guy won, some people were still talking about Palin being a potential 2012 candidate, so the left has proceeded with the character assassination, trotting out their late-night funny guys to make sick perverted jokes about her kids, mocking her special needs child, doing smear pieces in Vanity Fair... taking every pot shot you can, all for someone who is completely harmless and politically insignificant.... that is just amazing to me!
And here we are, she has resigned as governor of Alaska, she no longer even holds a political office, and what is the left doing? Well, they are still piling it on thick and heavy! Still responding to this thread, to squash any inkling of a thought that she MIGHT run for president in the future! Perhaps if we burned an effigy of Palin, you would all feel better? Maybe Congress should pass a law that Palin can't ever run for president, and no one can even discuss it anymore? I bet there would still be pinheads yammering about Palin, trying their best to destroy her with lies and distortions, slander and unfounded attacks. Just on the off chance she might find some loophole in the 'No Palin For President' law, and run anyway!
Let me explain it to those of you who just don't get it yet... Palin scares the ever-loving liberal dog shit out of the left. Everywhere she goes, crowds are there, she is a Rock Star, much in the same way as Obama, she resonates with the people. Hard core liberals know how DANGEROUS someone like Sarah Palin is, how quickly they could find themselves on the outside looking in, at a Palin Administration one day. This simply must be averted at any and all costs. Therefore, we have the incessant and continuing bile spewing from the left about Sarah Palin.
The first thing, I think those of you who are taking this opportunity to write Palin's political obituary, are being just a bit premature. She is still very young, and there will be plenty of presidential elections in her future, should she decide to run. This latest move does nothing to diminish that fact, or taint any such future candidacy. Secondly, I think you are underestimating Palin, and what she can do outside the confines of Alaska governor. For one, it takes her out of the political spotlight, and away from the stately obligations of a governor, where she can respond to those who are attacking her and her family. It also affords her the unique opportunity to go around the country talking about conservatism, where she will be undoubtedly greeted by hoards of adoring fans, which the news will undoubtedly cover. This will serve as a foil to all of the lies and distortions being churned out daily by the left.
I don't think she plans to run for president in 2012, and I am somewhat relieved. I don't think she could win the presidency in 2012, and if she ran and lost, it would be over for good. I think it's plausible she could run for one of the Alaskan senate seats, in two years or four, and she could serve a couple terms in the Senate before running for president in 2020, maybe even 2024 or 2030... she is very young, as politicians go.