Legal bills swayed Palin, official says

Ms. Palin made no sense in her announcement to quit...what a surprise. This woman has never made any sense. It made no sense for the republican party to have picked her as VP nominee. All they, apparently, looked at was a republican, female that they could groom. Too bad they didn't do a very good job at vetting her first. The woman has a degree in journalism. She's completely qualified to report on the opening of the new city park. Well, actually I've seen her sports report, she did that ok too. I'll put her up against the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review and lecturer of Constitutional law at Harvard...oh and first black President of the USA at any time.

There's a saying that should apply here because it always applies everywhere everytime: " People are like a teabag. You never realy know what they're made of until you put them in hot, hot water." Now that I've heard her reasons,( and her spin.)..And have also heard speculations on her being Indicted for embezzelment etc. on corruption charges as the killa of Wasilla..., I can safely say I don't realy know which to believe. But when the smoke clears, you can safely say that too much well earned, deserved controversy and too little intelligence & wisdom are a very bad brew to simmer for voters electing a President in 2012.
OR ANYTIME IN THIS NATION'S HISTORY !!! The USA is in such dire straights and deep shit now as it is.
We don't need any more Reagen/Bush bamboozelers
to push us into the abyss. What's more insane than
wasting $2.5 million greenbacks on the State level is
the criminal insanity of amping this wolf killer up to the national level when she has access to the nuclear codes. We used to have a saying back in the 1950s to
counter the happy horseshit used to dupe schoolkids
with the "duck and cover" malarchy. In the case of nuclear attack bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
The people of Nagasaki & Hiroshima can tell you those 1945 mushroom clouds weren't the artwork out of Sara's magic toyshop mind, or cowboy McCain's mind either. The extremist selfishness of someone so
flagrantly inept as Palin still wanting to realize her childhood dream at the expense of everyone and everything else that matters should tell you straight up
she's a dangerous idiot that should be locked up. Who else has the gall to talk of energy independence
while the 500,000 citizens of Alaska ride Big Oil's gravy train with $3,200. payoffs each year ? I won't even buy another motor vehicle powered by a gas internal combustion engine. I'm waiting for the new electric cars like the BMW mini Cooper to come out this autumn, so that the ones that come out in Sept. 2010 will not be problematical. You can thank Obama for that. I'm also waiting for Mrs. " I hear voices of a higher calling " to openly claim she hears "God" talking to her and giving her instructions so that Palin can claim she's the new Joan of Arc leading a beseiged nation to victory. Because when that idiot claimed " It was God's will that the USA invade Iraq", (and not BIG OIL puppeteering mad King George Dubya ) she already
as much as admitted she's borderline scitzophrenic.

When a woman is married her title is Mrs. Last I checked Palin is married. Nevertheless, she should have made this decision earlier. If you are wasting roughly $2.5 mllion of your own and your states tax money just to cover legal fees and employ others to handle it, maybe it's time to visit Vegas. You waste your own money with a chance of winning some back, everything is unethical and you get free drinks. I would say try porn but aparently there's already a Sarah Palin in the industry.

The 08 election campaign was exciting to a record number of voters for two reasons. One, the American Empire was and is at a critical turning point in history drawing out huge numbers of people who would normally sit at home ignorant of the national political scene. Second, because no matter what party won, for the first time in American history a non-white or non-male would be on the winning ticket. The point being, will Palin be able to draw out the huge crowds again or is the excitement all over? With the number of headlines Sarah Palin has on Current, which is a liberal site, I believe she will.

She is so incredibly condescending.

She's rated 5 of 5 now on the republican candidate checklist:

christian.. check
idiot.. check
ignorant.. check
greedy.. check
crook status.. hmm, check

Ready for success this time around!

She had a lot of bills to pay so she quit her job? Oh that makes sense.

She quit so she could move near Washington just wait and see.

it costs a lot to be ignorant! ;)

Didn't she spend more than 2 mill on Clothing and jewelry during the last election?

well we see what she is made of. I'm not impressed at all. I do beleave that anyone would have been a better running mate.

I thought that as a person she seemed like a sweet lady. But I'd sooner smash my nuts in a car door (which I'd really not want to do) than elect her to any very powerful point of office.

Likewise it has NOTHING to do with her being a woman, honestly if I could switch gender rolls this second I would. I am an awesome house husband and I do damn good with kids, likewise I have no problem taking orders from women (makes my life easier).

It had much to do with her extremely short sighted views on how things operate in this world. Had she at least expressed desires to educate herself I'd have given her the benefit of the doubt but more often than not she expressed nothing but blatant ignorance to the world around her and I found that unsettling.

They are going to find out about how she built her home with alllll the money she used. She is just quiting before she is hung out to dry.Didn't we get rid of the Alaskan Sen.last year..She dosen't want to go through what he did that's all.Gewd move Sarah! Get oout and aboot.

I know she was recently complaining that law makers in Alaska have been drilling into her ass with all sorts of issues.

Which would be fine and good...if they were in session.

Come on the only reason she has such high legal bills is because leftists and Democrats have been making false ethical claims. She has not once been found guilty of any ethical crimes, and that is after 18 accusations. EIGHTEEN!!!! I have great pity for Palin. I hate the inconsistencies of leftists. Back in the 1990's Clinton's kids where never touched. What about Gore's son? Now, we have a media that is attacking all of Palin's kids even the young diagnosed down-syndromed child, morally wrong!!!! Maybe she is leaving her post simply because she needs time to care for her children and family, and leave the unrelentless scrutiny of this biass media behind, that began almost the same day she was picked to be VP back in 2008.

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." Churchill

I am surprise that anyone thinks her political career is over. Post Reagan, the Republican party has branded itself on two platforms, small government and conservative on social issues. Thanks to two terms of Bush II, the Republican party has turned into the antithesis of small government. That leaves social issues to rail on. Since this is an utterly vapid platform to run an entire party on, makes Palin the far and away perfect candidate. (Seriously, am I the only person seriously missing William F Buckley?). Her leaving office is perfect as it prevents her from having a record of screwing up or actually having a record at all...I guess she is using the "Senator" Obama method ...

I expect her to slaughter her opponents in the Republican primary as she will lock up the anti-intellectual vote along with with Jindal running a close second to form a power ticket. God forbid they actually win in the general election as I would be one of the many people sent to internment camps immediately for wearing glasses...

A good point guard passes the ball and then sets a pick or posts up for a wide open three to give the team a chance to score. They don't pass the ball and take themselves off the floor telling the coach and rest of the team "I quit" on the way out in the middle of the play.

That doesn't make any sense.
I thought those kinds of costs are generally covered by contributors of which she has no shortage. norm Coleman picked up near a milion dollars screwig Minnesota out of it's senator for 6 months and I heard he is planning on using the money to cover the legal bills for his corruption charges.

Higher office for Palin = bigger demands for Palin!

No matter what the reason, by leaving office half way into her first term as Gov., Palin has betrayed the people of Alaska who elected her to a four year term.

Palin has ruined any chance of further political office. Her resignation was political suicide.

She will forever be known as a quitter and some one who folded under pressure, She will never be trusted with political office again.

Personally, I hate all the "liberals this," "conservatives that," "democrats are that," "republicans are this" bullshit we feed each other all the time. Fuck, we're all just people. But, as a Republican and as a Conservative, Palin is just an ignorant (insert derogatory word here) who makes an entire party lose even more credibility.

If she were to run, and we were to let her win and make her president, I'd say we deserve what's coming to us. Someone as close minded as this woman can only bring more pain and suffering to a people who have been oppressed through misrepresentation and lies. If she runs, and wins, I guess the world will finally be right. It will be proof that we are a Stupid people. Let's not let that happen eh?

On another note, she's a damn dumb bigot who deserves no one's respect or attention.

....She will be doomed....I'd say....
...

She might try to run in '12 but there's no frikkin way she'll win the nomination. *fingers crossed*

LOL can you imagine? Palin vs. Obama 2012? LMFAO yeaaa right!

I can't feel bad for someone whose legal fees are piling up when all of them are related to ethical complaints. It seems like a repeat problem. No pity.

A person that cannot handle her own personal finances, has ethical issues and isn't smart enough to avoid investigation does not need to be on the world stage or considered for a leadership role in anything greater than the local PTA.

As much as i do not agree with her on major and minor policy issues, she isn't stupid. Get ready for Palin for President 2012.

Another bright star of the Republican party has fallen.

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At first I felt a twinge of pity at hearing all of the money she owed (just a tiny one, mind you), but that thought was quickly dashed at the thought of Palin pushing her conservative views at a national level. :facepalm followed by sigh: