Sarah Palin Steps Down as Governor of Alaska

Looks like job abandonment according to what I read on the BBC site: [i]But in a written statement, she made it clear that once she had decided not to run again, she did not want to hang on in office until her term expired. "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," she said.[/i] Whatever her reasons are, she's dumping the folks who put their faith in her with very short notice.

It is probably strategy, perhaps she is preparing to run for Senator.

The Anti Palin hyenas can crawl into holes and rot. Piss on everyone of the lying child abusing wastes of human flesh. She is a better person than any of them.

I like a person who can be relatively important and still not take themselves to seriously. I loved her hockey Mom joke, being a retired hockey Mom it hit close to home. I have been removed from rinks due to poor officiating -- .a 2 minute roughing call meant a kid stomping his foot wearing a hockey skate on a young man's arm; resulting in muscle, tendon, and ligament damage and surgery. Still, I was wrong for yelling out it was a bad call and got removed from the game. But I hope Palin gets back in the game.

Retreating is retreating, regardless of direction. Sarah Palin is a bit of a hazy enigma to me. I do not think she could acquire enough in her lifetime of what it takes to lead an entire country. "nuff said. Karen

I just heard about this on the radio. Could it be that she has something better politically up her sleeve? Maybe she will be groomed for a future position somehow. I have a hard time believing that she'll be out of the picture for good. This is very mysterious for sure.

I think I listened to her with my mouth wide open as well. I'd only heard part of her statement at first but in the past several hours I've heard what I think is the whole thing several times and I'm still kind of shaking my head. I'm sorry, Sarah admirers, but sometimes it's REALLY difficult to make sense of her rather rambling speeches. She spoke of the allegations and investigations against her, she spoke of our troops fighting for their states (HUH?), she alleged that "some nasty adults" had mocked and made fun of her son, Trig, which if true would be indefensible but nobody else seems to know where those allegations came from and she talked about other lame-duck politicians who milked it out by finishing out the terms to which they had been elected by their constituents. It seemed that she was retreating AND advancing in EVERY direction at once! Annie