Palin resigning Options

[*Janette*]

WASILLA, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month, leaving open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_...palin_resigning

[brooklyneast05]

i still don't get why she stepped down. i don't get when she says she stepped down rather than accept the "lame duck status and sit around and do nothing while claiming the paycheck". does that just mean that sitting around doing nothing and collecting a paycheck is all she intended on doing? i don't get why stepping down was the only way to prevent her from doing nothing. why not just...do something instead? i don't understand. it just reads to me like her saying that was what she was planning on doing but she's decided to not do that. which is a weird thing to say to me.

her running for president would be completely ridiculous. i can't fathom a republican party that would be THAT stupid to think they could win with her. it won't happen because i don't think those in the middle will ever really vote for someone like palin. the GOP has been going on for months about rebuilding and blah blah blah, plain would be an awful "new face" of the republican party. get a respectable one who doesn't come across as a nutcase. that's what they need to do, just keep the nutty sounding ones out and they will be better off.


i agree that a lot of palin's unfair treatment is becasue she is a woman. but if you think she wouldn't have gotten ridiculed for the stupid answers she gave if she were a man then you're kidding yourself. she would have gotten a ton of shit regardless, just probably less of this personal nonsense.