Sarah Palin ~ QUITTER

Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska —- Quits

Speech transcript here

Like the rest of the country, I watched, stunned, as Sarah Palin meandered her way through an incoherent speech on why she wasn’t running for reelection, well, really, at the end, why she was quitting.  I heard a lot of excuses, folksy analogies that were stupid and even a ‘hell, yes’ from one of her underage children.  But, I still don’t know why she QUIT — and quit she did.  Of course, everyone is making up reasons for her, as the cult goes into full time defense of their idol.  An idol who broke one of the prime rules we were raised with – never quit, never give up, do your best and see it through.

I am baffled — I have NO idea what Sarah Palin stands for.  NONE WHAT SO EVER.  I do know she doesn’t stand for fulfilling her obligations.  I may be the only conservative out there who listens to her and hears nothing substantial.  I hear conservatives credit her for things she never said and never did.  I see them getting excited about things that don’t remotely translate to leadership, foreign policy knowledge or a place in the White House.  I have never heard anything with substance or intellect.  She says deep things like ‘knowing when to pass the ball’ and ‘only dead fish go with the flow’ — yep, that’s intellect worth reckoning with — and, it was actually written and rehearsed for a speech.

Agreed, she has been treated badly – and, the last conservative not to be treated badly was????  Things said about the Bushes were horrendous, not to mention Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Tony Snow, Ronald Reagan — yet they NEVER QUIT.

No, no one would ever get away with saying the same things about Sasha and Malia and Chelsea that were said about Barbara and Jenna and the Palin kids.  But, that is the double standard we have been living with for a very long time in this country.

The higher the ideals you aspire to, the farther you have to fall when you don’t live up to them.  Yes, there is a duplicity in how the left and the right are reported.  Nothing new here.  Having Sarah Palin and her family attacked might be a reason to stand up for them, it is NOT a reason to run her for the Presidency.  And, now that she has proven that she can’t fulfill a term in office, why would anyone consider it???

I have to agree with Jonathan Kay’s blog entry — Sarah Palin’s resisnation speech symbolized her vacuous approach to politics.  I agree completely with his assessment:

“…we still have no real idea why she is resigning.  It is to build up a presidential run in 2012 — or because another skeleton is about to jump out of her closet?  Or, does she genuinely want to get out of politics?  It’s impossible to say.  Her speech is just a jumble of conflicting, facile metaphors stitched together by people who evidently have a low estimation of the public intellect.”

What is particularly interesting to me is that I know many bright and thoughtful conservatives with whom I usually agree, who support and defend Sarah Palin for everything she does, no matter how vapid.  I have politely asked each of them what they see in her.  NONE OF THEM have provided a coherent answer, but have attacked me.  Now the cult mantra is “if you don’t like Sarah Palin you are jealous of how beautiful she is.”  They seem to miss the point that just Republicans can not get her elected and she doesn’t even have the votes of most Republicans.

No, I don’t get Sarah Palin.  Feel free to give me FACTS and QUOTES, if you can.