Palin resignation not an end to her political career Written by Staff    Thursday, 09 July 2009 16:40 Last week Sarah Palin announced that she was resigning as the Governor of Alaska a full 18 months before the end of her first term. That decision has led many people wondering why she did it. Even some members of the Republican Party see it as a risky and questionable move. She told media that she had planned not to seek a second term and she resigned so that she would not be a “lame duck” governor. She said that she did not want Alaskans to see her as a non-accountable politician spending excess amounts of money. But yet, cable television news continues to blast her for her decision. They argue that she is abandoning Alaska. But, it’s possible she’s preparing for a presidential run in 2012. It is more likely that she is gearing up for a run for one of Alaska’s Senate seats, which comes up for a vote next year. Regardless of her reasoning behind the decision, it is clear that a year ago, nothing would have been said about the situation. No one outside of Alaska even knew who Palin was. She wasn’t a national figure at the time and she had not already faced public scrutiny. When she was named as John McCain’s running mate, the media began to question her inexperience by stating that Palin was “a heartbeat away from the presidency.”  What made Sarah Palin unqualified to be Vice President? One argument was that she never had to deal with a national issue. Another was that she just wasn’t well versed on the issues that the country faced including wars in the Middle East and the financial crisis. In the past, we’ve had presidents that had not served at a national level or had dealt with national issues. Jimmy Carter served only one term as the Governor of Georgia before becoming president in 1976. George W. Bush served one full term as governor of Texas before winning the presidency in 2000. If past presidents didn’t have to have national experience, why should the Vice President? Sarah Palin would have grown with the job, gaining experience everyday. She just wasn’t what the American people were looking for. Her backwoods, country attitude appealed to some, but it did not appeal to all Americans. It’s time for the media to leave Sarah Palin alone. There is no sex scandal or any other scandal rocking her decision to resign that we know of. Other governors have faded from the news after scandals and some haven’t been hit as hard. The Republican Party has been rocked by scandal, most recently, the revelation that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford disappeared from the state to continue an affair with a woman in Argentina. But Palin’s situation is nothing like Sanford’s. Who can forget about Illinois’ Democratic governor Rod Blagojevich, who tried to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat? What people need to realize out of Palin’s decision is that she wants to put family first, for now. This move gives her time to consider her options and to build a national platform. While the move seems risky, it should not be seen as a career ending one. Comments RSS Hope this isn't the last we see of her. George Kaplan 07-09-2009 02:29 pm EDT I was all for Sarah Palin back in '08, and I still am. The way the left wing media demonized her only convinced me of their bad intentions. And look at where we are now. Obama spends out money as if there's an unlimited supply of it, while his promise to bring the troops home has fallen by the wayside. Massive stimulus bills are being passed, but no one in Congress is actually reading them. Obama certainly hasn't brought about any "change", just a different brand of failure. And we'll need a good president to pull us out of this in four years. Hopefully it might be Palin. Deluge 07-15-2009 12:39 am EDT I was also for McCain/Palin on November 2008, and they won my vote. The good lord knew better than me and gave the election to Barack Obama though. The truth is that Sarah Palin is unqualified, uneducated, inexperienced and ignorant. Had McCain know then was he knows now, I'm quite sure he would not have given her a single glance. So many unnerving details have surfaced almost a year after she was selected to be his running mate. This article beautifully details what we all know and much more: http://tinyurl.com/m8urhy Sources? Journawonky 09-21-2009 08:34 am EDT This article is at least balanced, but it has zero sources and not one quote. That's not real journalism or even student journalism. Only registered users can write comments! || REGISTER NOW Powered by !JoomlaComment 3.26 3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved." < Prev   Next >