The Final Word On Quitters?


Probably not. But I found this over at the E3 Gazette and thought it put to bed the notion that a “quitter” could never go further in politics. This is also a good time to remind everyone that the last time Sarah Palin “quit” her job, she ended up taking down most of the Alaskan Republican party hierarchy as well as the Governor of Alaska!

Anyway, the folks at E3 Gazette offer up an interesting wager:

Imagine a politician who is elected to one office, then two years later loses in the Electoral College. Two years and seven months into the term of the first office, months after the loss, this politician resigns! Can you imagine such a “quitter” being elected POTUS in the next election? I’ll bet you $20 it can happen.

You’d lose the bet.

Andrew Jackson resigned his US Senate seat on October 14, 1825, after two years, seven months, and ten days in that six-year term. For those keeping score, that’s a dozen days fewer than Sarah Palin served of her four-year term as Governor of Alaska. He won the 1828 election for President, the first to do so in the “Democratic Party” faction he formed from the “Democratic-Republican Party”. So the next time you hear a Democrat talk about a “quitter”, remind them about Old Hickory.

Something more up to date but equally appropriate is a look at Ronald Reagan, the nation’s last great conservative leader, and one of our greatest Presidents. Reagan was generally disliked by the media, the democrats, the beltway elites, and the Rockefeller wing of the Republican party, the ones we today call RINOs.

Reagan was said to stupid, a B-movie actor who worked with chimps. (They always forgot he was a two term Governor of California…much like some, including Obama called Palin the Mayor of Wasilla) Reagan was said to be lazy, intellectually uncurious, a right wing nut, a warmonger, and much more.

The thing to remember about people is they generally attack who they fear the most. Just like Reagan, if Palin was such a dolt, such a joke, they wouldn’t be spending so much time trying to marginalize her.

In the last election a lot of people were upset because they perceived that the left “chose our candidate” because John McCain was the left’s “favorite Republican” and they propped him up, only to tear him down when the actual campaign against Obama started.

Well, I say this time we should let the left pick our candidate for us, as well!

In fact, they already have. You don’t see the democrats spending one minute of time attacking Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee. Not one minute. But they have thrown every dirty trick in the book at Sarah Palin to stop her.

Unfortunately for them, Sarah Palin won’t go!

A quitter indeed.


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And why should we let the left do this?

whitman4562001 (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 3:19AM EST (link)

I am done with canidates like McCain. If another one emerges for 2012 than we are done for. As of right now I am too busy supporting the slaying of the Health Care Dragon to think of who should run in “12″. But, while we are on the subject, this person needs to be as direct and as tough as Dick Cheney… and conservative.

 

quitter? really now!

neane111 Wednesday, July 29th at 6:00PM EST (link)

Libs are fooling no one by claiming that Palin is a quitter. They certainly know better, and are working hard to discredit her. The big problem for them, libs credibility with the public is suffering.

 

Compare Palin to Obama

David123 (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 6:56PM EST (link)

Leftist: “Sarah Palin is a quitter”. Answer: When Barack Obama ran for president he continued to collect his Senate salary though he was not actually working full time as a Senator. At least if Sarah Palin chooses to run for president, she won’t be collecting the governor’s salary while she does it. Sarah Palin has more integrity and is a better steward of the taxpayer’s money than Barack Obama.

Whenever Sarah Palin is criticized for on an issue, she should be compared to Obama. On an objective scale Obama will be worse.

David123

I'll do that comparison, David123:

Achance (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 9:52PM EST (link)

Sarah Palin collected her Governor’s salary while she was running for VP. Granted, like the Senate, there are no time and attendance requirements for Alaska’s governor, but she never missed a check and went to elaborate lengths to try to say she was doing her job while she was out campaigning. She should have taken a leave of absence, she’d have gotten her precious money, and put Parnell in charge rather than foisting off a charade of being Governor.

In Vino Veritas

 
 

There is a difference between quitting and changing direction.

granitepaw Wednesday, July 29th at 9:45PM EST (link)

Governor Palin’s brilliant political move is easy to understand in retrospect. The legislature was gridlocked because of the angry Democrats who disliked the governor’s anti-democrat comments on the campaign trail. The Republicans are also angry because she tore down the good ole boy system they had enjoyed for years. They were voting down anything she proposed just for spite. In the meantime the frivolous ethics complaints were costing Alaska millions of dollars and the Governor herself had bills over $500,000. Her side-step neatly alleviates both of these problems while allowing her to speak against the inept policies of the Obama administration and to campaign for appropriate conservative candidates in the lower 48. Recall her entry into Georgia lst year campigning for Saxby Chambliss and he won by double digits. I anticipate she will help deliver the Congress to the GOP in 2010.

 

There's No Great Honor In Running Out The String

Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 9:57PM EST (link)

I Had An Absentee Governor For About Two Years

Romney bailed on his post. He was ana cting governor, but was never around. He’d be at dinners in Iowa and fundraisers in Florida.

Even supporters made it a running joke. I’d take him as an absentee Governor over most other Governors, but there is no honor in just running out the string.