SoCal78_IHB
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This convo has been going on for five days. I think you guys need a little reprieve. Look, everybody - it's Spider Pig!
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Congrats. You just became the most recent member of the n_v “ignore” club. You’re either so blinded by idology you ignore facts that are inconvient, or you are a moron.
Certainly I’ll enjoy your silence.
tmare said:It's time to start laying down bets as to why she did this. Sex scandal? Getting ready to be charged with something? The Friday afternoon timing forebodes of something very negative. You don't give up a governorship so abruptly without reason, especially when the initial news this morning which was considered big was only that she wouldn't seek a second term. What is really going on? It will be interesting.

Sunshine said:She spun her so-called unconventional resignation as saving tax payer money by not being a lame duck governor. If she was so unconventional, she'd fulfill her term and actually govern to the end. She was only 2.5 years into her 4 year term... and she's playing the lame duck card? This doesn't pass the smell test. Also, her speech just went on and on and on and-- one run-on sentence after another. I hope Tina Fey makes an SNL appearance.
No_Such_Reality said:She's an opportunist. She realizes she can make more money outside the governorship than inside. While quitting may massively damage future political ambitions, staying on at the helm as Alaska follows oil into the near future abyss would be more so...
Meg Stapleton, Palin’s Alaska-based spokeswoman, called it “a fighting move.”
But even Stapleton acknowledged that the job Palin said she loved during the press conference had become a drag.
“It’s a liberating feeling. ... She can’t get out of there soon enough,” said Stapleton.
stepping_up said:It's really got to be about the money, but it's still pathetic that she won't finish out her term.