A Heartfelt “Goodbye” to Sarah Palin
4 Comments Published July 27th, 2009 in National and International Issues.A guest blog by “Peggy”
I just watched Palin’s 20 minute going away address. In that she gave only one reason for leaving her job early. And she looked at the crowd and said: It’s just very obvious why I quit. It’s because I am honest and good and don’t want to waste your tax dollars being a lame duck Governor.
So, I have two questions that I think should come to everyone’s mind when she said that.
- She feels she did a very good job (according to what she said in the first fifteen minutes of her speech) and she said she loved the job, do why did she feel she was a “lame duck”?
- Does that mean every politician, when they reach the point that they feel they are a “lame duck” (because they want to quit or they realize they won’t be elected again) – that every politician when they reach that point should quit? What a mess that would be! But she is saying she did the honorable thing in quitting, since she was a lame duck (and why does she feel she was a lame duck?) – and so, I guess the answer to my question is that yes, every politician, if they were as honorable as she is, would quit once they feel/know they are a lame duck.
Why doesn’t everyone have these questions? Who are these people who fall for that stupid reason she gave for quitting? What stupid people!
I haven’t blogged recently about Ms. Palin (Not “Governor Palin” anymore!!) because:
* I think she’s doing a fine job of burying herself. She doesn’t need my help.
* I also think that she will rapidly disappear from the headlines now … especially if we do everything we can to ignore her. (You’re not doing your part, Peggy.)
But Peggy clearly needs to vent a little more. I decided to help her do it.
But, in answer to Peggy’s second question … If more politicians decided to quit like Ms. Palin, I don’t think it would be a mess at all. I think it would be highly beneficial. Just like it was with Ms. Palin.
So, still I ask: Why does she call herself a lame duck? Lame ducks, as I understand the term, are usually elected officials who can’t run again because they are in the last term they are by law allowed in their office. She could have run again, this being her first term. So why does she call herself a lame duck and why doesn’t anyone call her on this?
And I said I felt it would be a mess if all lame ducks quit before their term was up because, unlike Ms. Palin, who has someone officially to replace her, others in office do not and so there would be the expense of special elections and no one really, being in the office, officially for some period of time. If all lame ducks quit, like she did (even though she’s not a lame duck), we’d have lots and lots of offices not filled until the person could be replaced. It really would be a mess.
Yet she states that she is so very honorable to have quit. Her whole speech was centered around all of the promises she made to the people of Alaska when she was elected and the “fact” that she kept all of those promises. HA! She made a promise to be their Governor and she didn’t keep that promise because the job became difficult (which she brought on herself). And her reasons for quitting are just plain dumb.
Yet there STILL are people who think she’s just the neatest thing. Why don’t those people have the same questions about her that I do? Again I state: What stupid people!
As a practical matter, I sincerely doubt that we would ever, “have lots and lots of offices not filled.” Ms. Palin is a nut head, a cheese brain, a weird duck … even for a politician. If would be nice if they did, but nobody is going to follow her example.
It does make you wonder what people are thinking. But I’ve given up wondering because it’s a fruitless use of brain cells. There are so many, many examples:
According to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, only 24 percent of Americans know that the First Amendment prohibits the establishment of an official religion. But fifty-six percent knew that Paula Abdul is one of three judges on American Idol. And elected officials scored lower than the general public.
According to an Associated Press survey,
About 1 in 4 Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half of Americans can name at least two members of TV’s ‘The Simpsons’
The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just 1 in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms.
Can you spell, “R-o-m-a-n–E-m-p-i-r-e” ??
(Some content above cribbed from Rick Shenkman, Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter, New York Times bestselling author, and associate professor of history at George Mason University.)
Peggy, You failed to mention the Marching Bands, the Flying Colors and the hand=picked audience. That’s more than former Governor Huntsman recieved when he left. Maybe Mrs Pailin is setting a new trend.
And oh yes. The remark about eating and hunting. Do all people in Alaska eat wolves or just aselected few? Lena