Monday, July 6, 2009

And you won't have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore...

On Friday Sarah Palin announced that she would resign as the Alaskan Gov with 18 months to go in her term. Claiming that she did not want to be a "lame duck" Gov as she did not want to run for reelection and that the state is wasting too much money investigating/defending her ethics violations. In my mind I would say that if your feel like your state is using too much money to look at your ethics violations maybe you should be resigning for YOUR ETHICS VIOLATIONS. Glad to see that the only time she worries about "laws" or "ethics" is when it is costing her tax payers money instead of worrying about what she is doing. Some have stated that Palin may be resigning to begin a run for 2012 President race. If this is the case then it was a pretty silly way to do it. Politically she just showed that either a) she is easily pushed and can't maintain her Governor's job whilst campaigning or b) she just flat out is a bit of a quitter. While I do not like Palin I would not consider myself anti-Palin. While I think the media did tee off on her during her campaign as V.P. (a campaign that she should not have even be in in the first place) I do not feel like it was unfair. Many said that the media did not attack Obama and Biden as much but they were also not the fresh face on the campaign and had all their motives and backgrounds analyzed by the left the right and all around. The quote from Palin in this whole thing that bothers me is "And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make (cite here)." The reason that it is honorable is that those people usually inform the press or at least their constituency what that higher calling is not just saying that "I can do more without the title." Those different standards revolve around the fact that most of Palin's moves seem irrational and borderline incompetent. Saying...

"I never believed that I nor anyone else needs a title to do this, to make a difference," she said. "I'm determined to take the right path for Alaska, even though it is unconventional and it's not so comfortable."(cite)

...tells me that she wants to be praised for the successes that follow here but ultimately not held responsible for failures. While I do not wish negatives to Palin I just wish people would step out of their political party mindsets and really look at her. The reason that the press piled on Palin is hypocrisy, it is always looked at through a microscope and is what brought so much attention to her. I think that the Republican party has some soul searching to do and I hope that they do it. I don't want a one party system in America but it is unfortunate that as opposed to the Republicans redefining themselves at all they are just hoping for a Democrat failure.