Palin resigning as Alaska governor - Yahoo! News WASILLA, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement from her home in suburban Wasilla on Friday morning. She said she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. "Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional Lame Duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose," Palin said in a statement released by her office. "It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success," she said. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the governor's picnic in Fairbanks at the end of the month, Palin spokesman Dave Murrow said. Palin was first elected in 2006 on a populist platform. But her popularity has waned as she waged in partisan politics following her return from the presidential campaign. Her term would have ended in 2010.
I doubt very much she will run for President now. Republicans still don't have a viable candidate because I doubt very much that Ron Paul will run.
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I think the funniest part is that she resigned because she might be planning on running for president.
You Betcha! If you think it's hard being a governor, just try quitting in the middle of your first term, and then running for anything like President. It would be an incredibly desperate nation that reaches out to a quitter to save them. Ouch.
I can honestly say she damaged the Republican Party more than George W. Bush. Good riddance. (not a repub btw)
American's are not going to vote for someone who ditches out on her first term as governor, just so she can start raising money for her presidential campaign. I'm really surprised by some people who are still supporting her on here, it seems like what she's doing is the exact kind of thing that they would be against.
I doubt that VERY much. Bush was in the spotlight for 8 years with an R next to his name. He is a huge reason why Obama got elected. Bush did far more harm. Now if she runs for President and gets the nomination, we'll talk after that.
She was a distraction, while the election was going on, and ever since then she has seemed kind of a desperate attention seeker. Bush destroyed the economy, and attacked two countries for nothing. Palin made the party look stupid, and backward. Bush made them look stupid, backward, delusional, evil, and unrepentant. Bush is Satan, Palin is just Mike Tyson with a girdle. An ear biting moron with a drop dead punchline! I'm sorry, I'll go away now, tooo...many...jokes...
what happened with that? i thought letterman made the slutty comment or whatev, and then palin made a comment that's her being an attention whore?
You guys are so full of crap, you are stinking up the place. I don't know if she'll run or not but I can guarantee that she will not be elected president of The United States if she is not a globalist minion, and I doubt that she is. You all believe that Palin damaged the Republican party because of mass hypnosis. The republican party is rotting to death from the inside out because of liberalism and political pacifism. They let them selves become corrupted and that is their own damn fault. But at least they are not the democrat party who are currently wadding up to their armpits in fresh bull shit.
i never seen a v.p. candidate get so much attention after the election is over... ..the dems. are so scared of this woman... that they did all they could do to get her to back off of politics,, ..allthough her ideaology is still strong in the american public.. besides im sure she will do better at giving speeches... giving thousands who attend her speeches a idea of what it will take to turn america around..
Hell yea! I love the fact that she instills such anger in democratic/liberal circles. She will be involved with national politics for a long time to come.
Quitting? Proving every point ever made about her was not only correct, but more correct than we knew? Anyone still supporting Sarah Palin, Quitter, Exorcist, Oil shill, and all... Just likes buxom brunettes with no brains, I guess. The Midnight Milf will return, as a spokesmodel for Viagra.