Sarah Palin again
I'm sorry, but...dude, if she really is thinking about running for president in 2012, she's shooting herself in the foot and fucking herself over this way. Really! I mean, look at this article I found on the CNN website recently.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/07/palin.resignation/index.html
Does she really think that she's helping herself this way? For one thing, I don't trust her lawyer that's saying there's no "bombshell" that's going to come to light involving why she is leaving office. How often do people in the spotlight say that, or have a spokesperson or lawyer say that, and then a little while later something happens to contradict that?
For another thing, let us assume that everything said in this article is true, and the reasons that are given for her leaving office are true as per this article. Let's also assume she is AT LEAST thinking about running for president in the 2012 election. Let's just assume these things for argument's sake. It's still a bad move. Why?
Well, she's saying that finishing out her governorship term in Alaska is too stressful. So, she thinks running a nation is going to be less stressful? Saying that something of lesser responsibility is too much work and/or is too much stress, or is in some way GENERATING too much stress for you is not going to help you get a job at something that is just on a general basis more stressful. Let's remember that to become the Republican candidate, she has to win the Republican nomination. They might not even consider her because of this. I wouldn't! Not even because I don't like her politics, but just because she can't even handle being a governor, how is she going to handle something like a the presidency of an entire nation, if she can't even run one state?
The fact that a joke made by David Letterman contributed to her decision to step down...that is ridiculous! I know the joke that he told was in bad taste, as I think all jokes of that nature are. And I, for one, NEVER thought her family should've been attacked in the media the way it was. Her family has NOTHING to do with her political career or her ability to lead. But, if she can't take criticism, and if she can't handle people making jokes about her, or the people around her, then its further evidence that she can't handle being in politics in this way.
If she thinks that she is going to just drop out of sight in the media and that they will forget about her, and that if she comes back to run for election in 2012 that it won't reoccur all over again, she's got another thing coming! It's going to start up again just as if it had never stopped, if it ever does stop!
I agree with Les Gara, she's just making excuses. And if she isn't telling the people everything about her decision to quit, then she's hurting herself worse. Maybe she just doesn't want to commit to anything too specific in case she changes her mind or something, but it's stupid of her to think she is helping herself with that.
As for the money she had to pay back because of ethics probes...Well, she shouldn't have taken that money and used it for her own and her family's own personal use. If she hadn't done that, she wouldn't have had to pay back so much money. She signed the law into being, so she should have known that it could've been used against her that way. I'm not saying she should've looked into the future, but if you are going to have anything to do with laws, you need to know how they might be used even if that isn't how YOU intended them to be used, or how the creator of those laws intended them to be used. You need to look at the law at all angles. And I don't know why ANYONE would think using money garnered in those ways for your own personal use and for your family's own personal use is an okay thing to do. That was a stupid thing. Everyone makes mistakes, but when they catch up with you then you can't make excuses. You just have to stand up like an adult and take the consequences. Like we teach all of our children when they are young. Apparently, though, we just teach our children that, but they aren't supposed to make use of the lessons and knowledge when they grow up, I guess.
Things might have slowed down for her in the media if she'd given it long enough. But the first year, no way! By the end of this year, and into next, though, she probably would've showed up less and less in the media, except perhaps in Alaska itself.
Now, don't get the wrong idea. I am NOT trying to say she made the WRONG decision to step down. If that is what she wanted or needed to do for ANY reason, then that's her business. Personally, I'm not complaining that she's stepping down, I think its a good idea. If she can't handle it for any reason, or if her family can't handle it for any reason, she needs to step down. Anyone, man or woman, who is faced with something like that should know when to cash in their chips.
And, personally, I don't think she needs to have a seat in a government office, anyway, for reasons I won't harp on here.
It is her way of doing it that I am ranting about. Not that she did it. I think that she has made many mistakes, and if she does intend to seek another office at any time, including but not only a presidential office, then she's going to have to deal with the fact that the problems she is leaving because of are going to come back full force, if not worse, and that the way she stepped down from her governorship of Alaska is going to come back to bite her in the ass.
She has her right to privacy, like anybody else, I agree. She has the right to make her own decisions as she sees fit, like anyone else. Of course, I agree completely. However, if she intends to continue in politics, and especially if she wants another political seat (especially a high one), she is right now making a huge mistake in the way she's going about things. That is ALL I am saying.
But, like everybody else except herself and her family, and perhaps a few select others who are not talking (and even that I don't know, and am only speculating on), nobody is going to know what is really on her mind right now for certain.
I don't HATE her, I just think she's not fit for politics. And, to me, this more or less proves it all over again. But, I DO wish her all the luck in the world with the next leg of her journey through life. I just HOPE that she doesn't seek another political office.
But, we will all see what unfolds as it happens. :p
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/07/palin.resignation/index.html
Does she really think that she's helping herself this way? For one thing, I don't trust her lawyer that's saying there's no "bombshell" that's going to come to light involving why she is leaving office. How often do people in the spotlight say that, or have a spokesperson or lawyer say that, and then a little while later something happens to contradict that?
For another thing, let us assume that everything said in this article is true, and the reasons that are given for her leaving office are true as per this article. Let's also assume she is AT LEAST thinking about running for president in the 2012 election. Let's just assume these things for argument's sake. It's still a bad move. Why?
Well, she's saying that finishing out her governorship term in Alaska is too stressful. So, she thinks running a nation is going to be less stressful? Saying that something of lesser responsibility is too much work and/or is too much stress, or is in some way GENERATING too much stress for you is not going to help you get a job at something that is just on a general basis more stressful. Let's remember that to become the Republican candidate, she has to win the Republican nomination. They might not even consider her because of this. I wouldn't! Not even because I don't like her politics, but just because she can't even handle being a governor, how is she going to handle something like a the presidency of an entire nation, if she can't even run one state?
The fact that a joke made by David Letterman contributed to her decision to step down...that is ridiculous! I know the joke that he told was in bad taste, as I think all jokes of that nature are. And I, for one, NEVER thought her family should've been attacked in the media the way it was. Her family has NOTHING to do with her political career or her ability to lead. But, if she can't take criticism, and if she can't handle people making jokes about her, or the people around her, then its further evidence that she can't handle being in politics in this way.
If she thinks that she is going to just drop out of sight in the media and that they will forget about her, and that if she comes back to run for election in 2012 that it won't reoccur all over again, she's got another thing coming! It's going to start up again just as if it had never stopped, if it ever does stop!
I agree with Les Gara, she's just making excuses. And if she isn't telling the people everything about her decision to quit, then she's hurting herself worse. Maybe she just doesn't want to commit to anything too specific in case she changes her mind or something, but it's stupid of her to think she is helping herself with that.
As for the money she had to pay back because of ethics probes...Well, she shouldn't have taken that money and used it for her own and her family's own personal use. If she hadn't done that, she wouldn't have had to pay back so much money. She signed the law into being, so she should have known that it could've been used against her that way. I'm not saying she should've looked into the future, but if you are going to have anything to do with laws, you need to know how they might be used even if that isn't how YOU intended them to be used, or how the creator of those laws intended them to be used. You need to look at the law at all angles. And I don't know why ANYONE would think using money garnered in those ways for your own personal use and for your family's own personal use is an okay thing to do. That was a stupid thing. Everyone makes mistakes, but when they catch up with you then you can't make excuses. You just have to stand up like an adult and take the consequences. Like we teach all of our children when they are young. Apparently, though, we just teach our children that, but they aren't supposed to make use of the lessons and knowledge when they grow up, I guess.
Things might have slowed down for her in the media if she'd given it long enough. But the first year, no way! By the end of this year, and into next, though, she probably would've showed up less and less in the media, except perhaps in Alaska itself.
Now, don't get the wrong idea. I am NOT trying to say she made the WRONG decision to step down. If that is what she wanted or needed to do for ANY reason, then that's her business. Personally, I'm not complaining that she's stepping down, I think its a good idea. If she can't handle it for any reason, or if her family can't handle it for any reason, she needs to step down. Anyone, man or woman, who is faced with something like that should know when to cash in their chips.
And, personally, I don't think she needs to have a seat in a government office, anyway, for reasons I won't harp on here.
It is her way of doing it that I am ranting about. Not that she did it. I think that she has made many mistakes, and if she does intend to seek another office at any time, including but not only a presidential office, then she's going to have to deal with the fact that the problems she is leaving because of are going to come back full force, if not worse, and that the way she stepped down from her governorship of Alaska is going to come back to bite her in the ass.
She has her right to privacy, like anybody else, I agree. She has the right to make her own decisions as she sees fit, like anyone else. Of course, I agree completely. However, if she intends to continue in politics, and especially if she wants another political seat (especially a high one), she is right now making a huge mistake in the way she's going about things. That is ALL I am saying.
But, like everybody else except herself and her family, and perhaps a few select others who are not talking (and even that I don't know, and am only speculating on), nobody is going to know what is really on her mind right now for certain.
I don't HATE her, I just think she's not fit for politics. And, to me, this more or less proves it all over again. But, I DO wish her all the luck in the world with the next leg of her journey through life. I just HOPE that she doesn't seek another political office.
But, we will all see what unfolds as it happens. :p