Comments on: Sarah Palin's resignation inspires me

By: JimVince

JimVince — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:40:49 +0000

I think that her resignation was the right choice for her. After gaining that much momentum from the presidential election, she couldn't just sit up in Alaska and waste precious time with so many opportunities abound. She is one busy woman, I wonder if she will run for President next time around, I think she might have a good shot at winning.

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:24:32 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. Sarah Palin has been persecuted because she is a strong conservative woman. Have you heard any of the liberal women's groups coming to her aid? Not on your life, because it's not about her being a persecuted woman, it's about her being a persecuted Christian conservative.

By: ObiJohn

ObiJohn — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:17:02 +0000

Jeez, what are people so upset about?

Sarah Palin quit because she saw that she would be ineffective as governor of Alaska. She had already fought 13, count'em THIRTEEN frivolous ethics charges filed by Democrats to harass her and won with all of the charges being dismissed. The Dems filing the charges were out to ruin her financially and politically. Resigning was the best choice. When you let your opponents define the rules of the game, you lose. Sarah stepped out of all that.

Even better, she was able to take advantage of her time in the spotlight to write a book and set herself up for life (just as Obama did, the Clintons did, etc.). Now she doesn't have to worry about money or being hamstrung by rules that put her at the mercy of her detractors.

You may not like Palin or what she stands for, but her decision-making here was both courageous and spot-on. She may not ever run for office again, and if she does she may not win… but if she had remained governor she would have been bankrupted and then driven from office in disgrace when she could no longer afford to defend herself.

If her Democrat opponents had been smart they would have left her mostly alone, and she would have been stuck in Alaska out of the political spotlight and soon forgotten. Her option would have been to either re-run for governor, or retire back as a housewife. Now she's independently wealthy, and she is injecting herself into races where she believes she can make a difference… and if she is right she will be a formidable presence with a lot of political clout.

By: liz

liz — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:44:23 +0000

Do any of you live in Alaska? Word is up there that her kids are frankly "out of hand" and baby daddy hubby ain't doing such a good job on his own. I hope to god she quit to deal with them before they have more children at young ages. Heard Willow is slugging vodka at parties,among other things. People have completely lost touch with reality. Some people quit because their personal lives get completely out of hand. And, that should be commended. You are not much worth to anyone or anything if you are a complete mess. Ahhhh the speculation about that resignation.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:43:36 +0000

Not only is Sarah in charge of her own career, she owns most of you here spewing hate for her. You do not know Sarah! What you think you know about her has been manipulated by the media and the tunnel-vision liberals. You try so hard to be "smart" and career focused, yet you are just average. Your rhetoric is the same as what's being printed in the newspaper. You don't think, you only regurgitate.

By: aspen71

aspen71 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:01:07 +0000

I love your first point "Get out of a job when you are done doing it." I am making a career choice right now that may seem incongruous in our tough job market times (leaving a good one,) but I am DONE doing it, and every day is like torture. Perhaps SP felt the same way . . who knows. All I know is I cannot continue to ignore my true passion!

By: Marcia

Marcia — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:11:59 +0000

I love your blog but I can't stand this post. I know being a liberal from the Northeast makes it hard for me to deal with anything related to Palin… I find her very name abhorrent , her morals hypocritical and her preparation for any higher office questionable– if not absent. If "managing" your career enables you to get to a higher office without the skills and knowledge, this is just plain scary!!! not admirable — it's like getting a higher score on your SAT's because your parents paid $4,000 to help you do it – you aren't "smarter", you just strategize. In the end, all this does is make everything a farce — God help us all!

By: Jim Johnston

Jim Johnston — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:11:05 +0000

Sarah is a perfect example of how to leverage your career. She stops loosing money paying off law suits and she goes national and collects 10 times the money without the legal expenses and having to answer to a constituency. She is exactly how everyone should look at career leverage. I am not a Sarah fan but she made the right career move for her.

By: Kate Zimmerman

Kate Zimmerman — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:58:56 +0000

This list of comments was so long that I must confess I couldn't read all of them. Maybe somebody else has made this point. I'm just wondering — in terms of career advice, what about the concept of over-reaching, which Sarah Palin has clearly done? Is a brazen careerist's goal to simply get as far as one can despite one's personal limitations? Is it admirable to block-headedly pursue a level of power to which one is not equal, simply because one has been encouraged by Republicans with their own agendas? We are all good at different things. Sarah Palin is probably good at driving to hockey rinks. Understanding the complexities of local, state, national and international politics is obviously beyond her, just as it is beyond many of us. But then most of us aren't so conceited that we believe otherwise. I think we're the ones to be commended on our wisdom, not Palin.

By: Nubiles

Nubiles — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:58:25 +0000

“But Palin is refusing to waste her time in the Alaska governor’s office.”

She already did what she can for Alaska so Sarah Palin has the license to do what she pleases.