July 3, 2009
Gov Palin stepping down July 26th (text)
Gov Palin resigns, July 26th (video)
Sens McCain & Murkowski chime in re: Palin
Republican Governor’s Association re: Palin
DNC re: Palin “continues a pattern of bizarre behavior”
Official Dem Party blogger alters Trig Palin’s face as “joke”
Republicans react to Gov Palin’s announcement. Of course the timing is suspicious – or barryesque. Remember that “report” about his staffers’ dealings with Blago? How conveniently was that released? John Edwards finally coming out after barry goes to Hawaii? But when Palin does it it’s “inept”.
One of those cowardly anonymous Republican sources:
it was a “calculation” she made that “it was time to move on.” The governor’s “book deal and other issues” were “causing a lot of friction” in her home state, the source said, adding that he believes she is “mapping out a path to 2012.”
[Palin] thinks she has accomplished goals she has set forward. … She sees what a positive influence she has had on people’s lives from traveling the country in the last year.
RANDY RUEDRICH CHAIRMAN ALASKA GOP, RANDY RUEDRICH: he “was not even contemplating her stepping down.”
CNN Republican strategist ED ROLLINS: Palin is “terribly inept.”
I think everyone is shocked by this, and I think to a certain extent everyone is going to assume there’s another story. You don’t just quit with a year and a half to go. You certainly don’t do this as a stepping stone to run for president. You finish the job that you’re in, and obviously she’s not doing that.
I think people are going to be very suspicious because of the timing. You don’t quit on the Friday of a three-day holiday. If you are going to do this, you think it through, you give a good speech.
CNN Republican Strategist MARY MATALIN:
Her delivery was incredible, if you’re a less charismatic person, you probably couldn’t pull it off. [Now] she will be freed up and liberated the way Mitt Romney is to raise money and get political chips by spending it and getting political capital. And she is still raising the kinds of crowds and money she always did.
We presume if there was anything else we would know it by now.
“We”? She was surprised by the announcement itself. The arrogance of these folks is amazing.
You know, I was surprised at first, and didn’t understand, because I think the traditional political thing to do is to stay in a position like that, and then, you know, leverage it into something greater. But that’s not Sarah Palin,” he said, praising her “independent streak.” “She is a real person with real dreams for real people, and when she believes she can effect better change for others through other means, she’s just going to do that.
GOV PALIN SPOKESWOMAN MEGHAN STAPLETON:
When the former Republican vice presidential candidate returned to Alaska after the campaign and pressed her agenda, “she found…resistance, and she found as she looked up more and more that state time and resources were being just wasted with just frivolous ethics complaints coming in, and FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests and lawsuits — but to an extraordinary extent, and from literally those doing opposition research. And so she said really, is this good for Alaska? Is this what a governor is supposed to do, sit and watch money going down the drain?
…I know you want to put that sort of negative word in there, but it’s not a ‘liability’ — it’s that she has a vision for the state…the best way and the best place to effect change at this point is outside her role as governor, because as governor people are just focused on bringing her down rather than building up the state, and that’s not who she is.
RNC CHAIRMAN MICHAEL STEELE STATEMENT:
I plan on talking to Governor Palin very soon. She is an important and galvanizing voice in the Republican Party. I believe she will be very helpful to the Party this year as we wage critical campaigns in Virginia and New Jersey. I am certain this has been a difficult decision for her to step down as Alaska’s governor. She has been a good governor for her state and I wish her and the Palin family the best during this transition.
I wish Sarah Palin and her family well, and I know that she will continue to be a strong voice in the Republican Party.
Sounds like he hopes she’s done for good.
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