Sarah Palin an idiot. She’s going to run for president, and if I were her opponent in the primaries, I’d be like “Mrs. Palin, you quit your job in Alaska because you didn’t want to be a lame duck. You put your pride before your commitment to the people of Alaska. So why should Americans trust you to keep your commitment as president.” I’d hammer that point in every commercial. “When the going gets tough, Palin quits. You can’t trust a quitter to be president.” I think this is the dumbest thing she has ever done, and that’s saying quite a lot. And to try to pin it on her kids after she’s gone on and on about how it’s discriminatory to imply that she can’t do the job because of her 12 kids, that’s an insult to all working mothers.
A Palin aide is saying she actually quit because all the Freedom of Information requests, ostensibly made by potential opponents, were costing Alaska too much money. The problem with that argument is that even after she leaves office, the state will still have to comply with FOIA requests; stepping down doesn’t cancel out her record anymore than quitting your job makes your personnel file disappear.And the whole “everybody picks on me” thing is getting really old. They’re not out to get you because you’re a lady, sweetie, or even a conservative lady. They’re out to get you because you ran for the second highest office in the land and for some inexplicable reason you’re considered a viable candidate for the presidency. If you wanna run with the big boys, you need to learn to take it like a man.
