Adviser: Palin Will Be 'Friend and Force' for Other Republicans

This is what happens when a good citizen runs for office, and this is why America will always be stuck with career politicians and media superstars. People are getting what they voted for. I feel badly for Alaska - they know what they are losing - but if she feels like she can't do the job justice because her focus is constantly being pulled by viscious attacks, I support her decision and wish her luck.

There's obviously more to this story.
My guess is that by Labor Day we'll see her on Fox or will have already learned about a serious scandal. Putting all the wackiness aside, that oath and four year committment to the people of Alaska
obviously were dispensable. Not positive character trait for an aspirant to the presidency.

I remember when learned that she went to 4 or 5 different universities to get her degree in journalism and I thought that was odd.

Then she took the VP nomination, not even knowing what the job entailed.

Now she quits as Governor.

Its always about Sarah. A runner-up beauty queen.

IT IS THE BEST MOVE FOR GOV. PALIN.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS HELP SELECTING A PARTY LEADER, SHE CAN HELP

Joe Biden is so lost he called palin lt governor.

Joe Biden called justice stevens justice stewart on the night he was sworn in.

Joe Biden thought the new hudson river tunnels was for cars.

Joe Biden is senile and is unfit for office. He should be the focus.

Biden shows the incredible sexism in this country and I am not a Palin fan.

Biden gets away with being a bafoon and america loves their biden.

Okay, this is nonsense. Try to spin it however you want, a quitter is a quitter. So if she were President of the USA and bloggers got her down then she'd quit before her final year? "Politics as usual?" Nope, it's called doing your job.

Obviously there's something more going on here than we are privy. If she quits politics (i.e. elected office) then someone is holding something really bad over her head. Or she realizes that she can make more money being Rush Limbaugh or Oprah (and probably as influential). If she gets back into elected office, then this is just the craziest darned thing...

I decided sometime ago that it would be best for my personal sanity not to try and make sense out Gov. Palin's conduct or the contents of her communications.
She's a bit like a truck-stop version of a Donald Rumsfield press conference.
(No offense to truckers intended)

I am so tired of conservatives trying to put lipstick on a pig...Palin is what she is....a political neophyte, a person of mediocre intelligence, a diva, and an opportunist. Her background has shown this...she is what she is. It doesn't necessarily make her a bad person. However, it should open folks eyes to the fact that she is totally unsuited for any government leadership position above running her hometown of Wasilla...National conservatives need to find a better spokesman with more substance..To tout her simply because she irritates liberals is an insult to every thinking man, Republican, Democrat, or Independent.

Book deal, "speaking" engagements already lined up. What else is in the works? Her own talk show, reality show, radio show...why not? The darling of the right? Go ahead, be a "friend" and a "force" for the GOP, make some big bucks while you're at it. Keep lowering the bar for credibility in public life. Just don't expect sane people to EVER take you seriously.

Why is this person still getting coverage? Why are we at all interested in what antics this person is pulling every day just to get and keep attention? If we would just ignore it, it would go away! Let's try that idea!

I suppose Palin merits at least a little
tar and a few feathers, but she has not
decimated her state the way our current
Prez is dismantling the Union. Fellow
travelers (think media moguls, Soros,
Goldman-Sachs bigwigs) have succeeded
in getting their man in place for the
transformation. The government-handout
crowd will back him to the death. Obama
is assaulting any group standing in
the way.

No Republican I see can buck this mob.
Either the "patriots" gather against the
storm, or the America we know, and
some of us still love, will dry up
and blow away in the wind.

Ms. Palin, for all her faults, can be
a rainmaker....and this scares the
"in crowd". That's why she "must be
destroyed". Neocons are gone. It's
the Paleo-libs that call the shots
these days.