STUNNER: A Palin announcement: Resigning in weeks; “It hurts to make this choice. But I’m doing what’s best for Alaska”

By Michelle Malkin  •  July 3, 2009 03:04 PM

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Lots of heavy media anticipation over a Sarah Palin announcement expected any minute from Wasilla.

Here’s CBS:

There was no indication as to the topic of the announcement.

CBSNews.com producer Scott Conroy, who covered Palin’s vice presidential campaign last year, said it is rare that Palin sends a press release out nationally.

Feel free to speculate.

Allahpundit has a developing round-up; multiple sources reporting that Palin will say she’s not going to run for governor again in 2010.

Here comes 2012?

***

A contrary take: FNC’s Chris Wallace take the announcement as a sign that Palin is not interested in pursuing national politics.

Palin supporters take cable news anchors to task for puzzling over announcement on “slow holiday news day” and missing Independence Day timing.

Latest from BNO on Twitter: Palin resigning in weeks????

From KTUU TV in Alaska:

Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor’s Picnic at the end of the month, Palin said.

There was no immediate word as to why she will resign, though speculation has been rampant that the former vice presidential candidate is gearing up for a run at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Palin made the announcement flanked by Parnell and most, if not all, of her cabinet.

***

CNN showing the press conference video:

Palin: “I love my job. I love Alaska. It hurts to make this choice. But I’m doing what’s best for Alaska.” Tears in her eyes.

Says she will be able “to effect change from the outside.” America needs protectors of individual rights now more than ever. Promises to always be there for Alaska. Wants to work not just for Alaska, for the rest of the country. Taking a fight for Alaska in a new direction. Quotes MacArthur: “We are not retreating, just advancing in a different direction.”

Lt Gov. Sean Parnell says he receives announcement with a “heavy heart.” Thanks Sarah for inspiring so many.

More from press conference: After touting Alaska’s accomplishments, Palin laments “politics of personal destruction.” Notes attacks. $500,000 in legal bills. “Life is about choices. I choose a path of fruitfulness and productivity. Life is too short to compromise time and resources…I will work very hard for others…I will support others…”
***

Chuck Heath, Palin’s brother, on FNC talking about incessant attacks. Very emotional. “It’s weighed on her a long time.” Couldn’t effectively govern when having to defend herself against attacks.

The Anchoress is wondering what’s really going on:

Either she or someone in her family is ill, and she wants to keep it private and not subject it to the vulgarity of the Palin-hating beasts in the press, who savaged her last year, or…she and Todd are on the rocks, and she doesn’t want to subject her children and her marriage to the same vulgarity.

Can’t say I blame her in either case. And I hope I’m wrong on both counts.

But nothing else makes sense, does it?

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  1. #501
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:25 am, GladzKravtz said:

    Just look at the number of comments about this lady! Close to 500 now (maybe more once this posts). Says a lot about her.

  2. #502
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:29 am, sonofdy said:

    501 YYYAAAYYY

  3. #503
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:33 am, spaceycakes said:

    all I have to say is…over 500 posts about SARAH PALIN! and no comment from undreseige…

  4. #504
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:39 am, backwoods conservative said:

    The number of comments over at Hot Air in multiple Palin threads is really stratospheric. One thread is over 3300. I have no idea what all the threads added together are.

    With the kind of attention this lady can generate, the only way her political career is over is if she wants it to be.

  5. #505
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:40 am, purplepeep said:

    Ragspierre said:
    Awaiting further development.

    Yup, we’ll have to wait and see. But either in public office or out of it, I suspect she’ll be a force to reckon with!

  6. #506
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:42 am, purplepeep said:

    sonofdy said:
    501 YYYAAAYYY

    I’ve never seen anyone so excited about Levi’s jeans!

  7. #507
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:45 am, Ragspierre said:

    But either in public office or out of it, I suspect she’ll be a force to reckon with!

    Hopin’.

  8. #508
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:49 am, spaceycakes said:

    Meanwhile, isn’t Statism a wonderful thing?

  9. #509
    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:57 am, rambler said:

    I wonder how long the pundits can talk about how she blew it. This is a classic case of “fear of the unknown”. The GOP exposed her to the world and then found that they could not control the response to her. They can’t control the public at large. I’m tired of the lies,the snow jobs and the we know what’s best for you candidates. Why even have elections when we have such pathetic choices? The NYT said her speech was rambling and unfocused. And their column wasn’t? If she had been the gov of a democratic state, the GOP might not have attacked her for fear of losing the state, but since the reps hold the state, the gloves came off. The Dems have exposed themselves as being the “drain the wallet of the workers to give to the lazy” party and the GOP is the “we eat our own” party. Is it any wonder that they both are the “we fail to govern in best interest of the country” parties. Sarah, please give them a reality check.

  10. #510
    On July 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am, b-cat said:

    On July 6th, 2009 at 10:49 am, spaceycakes said:

    Yeah, they’re pretty predictable. Foolish also comes to mind.

  11. #511
    On July 6th, 2009 at 11:10 am, Weary Citizen said:

    Sorry, but I never understood the infatuation with Palin. She was ok, but she is not the savior of the conservative movement (granted compared to mcamnesty, she is a conservative god). I would take Sessions, Hunter, or Tancredo over her anyday of the week.

  12. #512
    On July 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Can you imagine all this speculation if the governor of California resigned? (Relief, yes! Speculation, no!) What about the governor of South Carolina? New York?

    I don’t know what this means and I don’t know if it helps or hurts any future political ambitions. I will wait and see what the good lady says in the next couple of days.

    But, in a couple of years even lunatic lefties will probably have to admit that she was way more qualified than “The One.”

  13. #513
    On July 6th, 2009 at 11:33 am, atheling said:

    On July 6th, 2009 at 9:54 am, purplepeep said:

    It wouldn’t make sense if I didn’t bring up that kapo lgm is a Jew. He’s a traitor (hence the kapo term) to his own people.

    He, like many other liberal Jews, voted for a man who has an antipathy towards Jews and Israel – a man who sat for 20 years in a “church” spewing anti Semitism (among other bigotries).

    What kind of person does that make lgm? A traitor. And one can’t call him that without calling attention to the fact that he’s a Jew, and he betrayed Israel and his own people.

    That makes him a contemptible POS in my book, and no better than those kapo Jews who collaborated with the Nazis against their own people.

    It’s harsh, but it’s TRUE.

  14. #514
    On July 6th, 2009 at 11:34 am, atheling said:

    On July 6th, 2009 at 11:10 am, Weary Citizen said:
    Sorry, but I never understood the infatuation with Palin.

    It starts with “C” and ends with “A”.

  15. #515
    On July 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, rambler said:

    Ross Douthat has an opinion piece in todays NYT.

    “Sarah Palin represents the democratic ideal – that anyone can grow up to be a great success story without graduating from Columbia and Harvard.

    Here are the lessons of the Sarah Palin experience, for any aspiring politician who shares her background and her sex. Your children will go through the tabloid ringer. Your religion will be mocked and misrepresented. Your political record will be distorted to better parody your family and your faith.

    Male commentators will attack you for parading your children. Female commentators will attack you for not staying home with them. You’ll be sneered at for how you talk and how many colleges you attended. You’ll endure gibes about your “slutty” looks and your “white trash concupiscence,” while a prominent female academic declares that your “greatest hypocrisy” is the “pretense” that you’re a woman. And eight months after the election the professionals who pressed you into the service of a gimmicky, dreary, idea free campaign will still be blaming you for their defeat.”

  16. #516
    On July 6th, 2009 at 12:47 pm, purplepeep said:

    atheling said:
    He, like many other liberal Jews, voted for a man who has an antipathy towards Jews and Israel – a man who sat for 20 years in a “church” spewing anti Semitism (among other bigotries).

    That might make sense if you were to call all white folks who voted for Obama “POS Cracker Lapdogs” or made other note of their skin color, since “Rev” Wright is rabidly anti-white . Or if you had looked for reasons why Presbyterians, for example, should not have voted for Obama and then called one out by denomination, (“POS Presby Lapdog”)

    I think you’d still be wrong to do that, but it would show an across-the- board consistency.

    Again, you and others are obviously free to see it differently, but it’s my opinion is was wrong.

  17. #517
    On July 6th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, atheling said:

    I didn’t know that the term, “Jew” equates to “cracker”.

    I think you’re comparing apples to oranges, here.

    Not very logical.

  18. #518
    On July 6th, 2009 at 12:55 pm, John Deaux said:

    On July 6th, 2009 at 11:34 am, atheling said:

    On July 6th, 2009 at 11:10 am, Weary Citizen said:
    Sorry, but I never understood the infatuation with Palin.

    It starts with “C” and ends with “A”.

    I don’t get it.
    CamerA.
    CanolA.
    CrayolA.
    CanadA?

  19. #519
    On July 6th, 2009 at 1:01 pm, sonofdy said:

    The trouble is that the word “jew” is an accurate destription of what LGM is. But using it brings up the memories of a certian austrian painter even if you don’t mean to. Perhaps hebrew??

    Anyway if it tweaks off LGM just a little more, I am for it ;-)

  20. #520
    On July 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pm, purplepeep said:

    atheling said:
    I didn’t know that the term, “Jew” equates to “cracker”.

    I think you’re comparing apples to oranges, here.

    Not very logical.

    Only if you fail to address the entirely, atheling. I wrote:

    “That might make sense if you were to call all white folks who voted for Obama “POS Cracker Lapdogs” or made other note of their skin color, since “Rev” Wright is rabidly anti-white . Or if you had looked for reasons why Presbyterians, for example, should not have voted for Obama and then called one out by denomination, (”POS Presby Lapdog”)

    I think you’d still be wrong to do that, but it would show an across-the- board consistency.”
    ***

    Note that I wrote “or made other note of their skin color”. Now if can show where it’s the norm for you to cite other commeneter’s race or religion and tie it to their vote for Obama, I’d stand corrected.
    (Corrected in the sense that you had shown it’s just your usual habit – I’d still believe it’s a wrong habit.)

  21. #521
    On July 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pm, John Deaux said:

    purplepeep,

    Your comparison might be more valid if Wright were running a country pursuing nuclear research towards making a bomb and had called for all white people to be wiped off the map.

  22. #522
    On July 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pm, Ragspierre said:

    John Deaux said: I don’t get it

    s’ok, John. I have these moments, too.

    CharismA.

  23. #523
    On July 6th, 2009 at 1:50 pm, purplepeep said:

    John Deaux said:
    purplepeep,

    Your comparison might be more valid if Wright were running a country pursuing nuclear research towards making a bomb and had called for all white people to be wiped off the map.

    Hi John -

    I disagree. I think part of the problem is that most folks are not familiar with terminology and distinctions. For many – if not most folks – “Jew”, “Judaism”, “Israeli”, for example, are interchangle terms – all meaning the same thing.

    In fact, to be considered a “Jew” a person only has be born of a Jewish mother. Political, social, religious views of the person vary from person to person. Those views are not dependent on what others – especially non-Jews – expect or demand of them.

    But what gives “pause” here to me is in using religious terms as a preface. I expect there may be a thing or two that Michelle doesn’t see eye to eye on with the Catholic Church, but that wouldn’t drive me to address her – if I sided with the Church on a point -as “Catholic Michelle”, much less “Lapdog Catholic”.

    Just territory that I don’t get into.

    And just a sidenote – as far as I know, Wright isn’t running any country and he doesn’t have any nukes. Thankfully, he’s a just a total jerk.

  24. #524
    On July 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pm, chapoutier said:

    s’ok, John. I have these moments, too.

    CharismA.

    I am pretty sure he was joking around.

  25. #525
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:04 pm, Ragspierre said:

    I am pretty sure he was joking around.

    Y’think…?!?!?

  26. #526
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pm, John Deaux said:

    Yeah, that’s it, I was joking.

    Seriously, I actually didn’t think of it. Forgive me.

  27. #527
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Hey, John…

    Remember the card Paladin used in the old TV Western…

    Have Gun

    Will Travel

    Wire Palidin

    I was well into adulthood before I realized that Wire was NOT the guy’s first name. I mean, what a great name for a gunfighter. Wire

  28. #528
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:23 pm, purplepeep said:

    Ragspierre said:
    I was well into adulthood before I realized that Wire was NOT the guy’s first name. I mean, what a great name for a gunfighter. Wire…

    LOL. There were some great westerns back in the day.

  29. #529
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:27 pm, chapoutier said:

    Seriously, I actually didn’t think of it. Forgive me.

    Just be glad you didn’t suggest chlamydia, or Palin would have sicced her attorney on you for libel.

  30. #530
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:27 pm, John Deaux said:

    Let me tell you a story about my childhood trip to the Capital Gains Farm. Or was that the Catskill Game Farm?

  31. #531
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:29 pm, chapoutier said:

    Or was that the Catskill Game Farm?

    An ostrich took my dad’s high school ring off his finger and swallowed it on our one and only trip there.

  32. #532
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pm, John Deaux said:

    You know I have to ask.

    Did he get it back?

  33. #533
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:38 pm, chapoutier said:

    Did he get it back?

    As I recall, we did not even report it, since I am pretty sure my dad was doing something he shouldn’t have been doing.

  34. #534
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:44 pm, Ragspierre said:

    As I recall, we did not even report it, since I am pretty sure my dad was doing something he shouldn’t have been doing.

    A formative…traumatic…childhood experience….???

  35. #535
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:46 pm, chapoutier said:

    A formative…traumatic…childhood experience….???

    Not nearly as formative as living on the commune of drug using satanists.

  36. #536
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:59 pm, John Deaux said:

    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:46 pm, chapoutier said:

    A formative…traumatic…childhood experience….???

    Not nearly as formative as living on the commune of drug using satanists.

    So law school was just the natural next step, eh?

  37. #537
    On July 6th, 2009 at 2:59 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Not nearly as formative as living on the commune of drug using satanists.

    So, you spent part of your childhood in Hollywood, too? Maybe we were neighbors…

  38. #538
    On July 6th, 2009 at 3:17 pm, kjw33 said:

    Just be glad you didn’t suggest chlamydia, or Palin would have sicced her attorney on you for libel.

    yeah, chap. cuz palin clearly has the corner of the market on frivolous lawsuits. /sarc

  39. #539
    On July 6th, 2009 at 3:53 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Paladin? LOL! Now see? I’m not the oldest one in here.
    Ah yes, Richard Boone. Great actor.

  40. #540
    On July 6th, 2009 at 4:59 pm, AuntiEm said:

    Did you see Michelle Obama’s picture from Russia on Drudge? You could see her butt from Alaska!

  41. #541
    On July 7th, 2009 at 4:10 am, Ignatius Reilly said:

    On July 6th, 2009 at 4:59 pm, AuntiEm said:

    Did you see Michelle Obama’s picture from Russia on Drudge? You could see her butt from Alaska!

    It was ~amazing.~ (And I want to see how many late-night comics and other media hipsters will put ~that~ in their patter.)

  42. #542
    On August 18th, 2010 at 1:37 pm, Bob1234 said:

    love2rumba said:
    Keep in mind that this is what the left will do once they know they will lose in Nov.2010 big time..they will wrap themselves around someone they claimed to be a conservative to hate. This will be someone they will now come love since he really doesn’t believe in conservative principles in the frist place..that is George W. Bush.

    After January 2011, it should become painfully obvious that “W” really was and is respected by Democrats in ways that should unsettle his conservative defenders…

    An interesting, and, I believe, cogent observation.

  43. #543
    On August 18th, 2010 at 1:38 pm, Bob1234 said:

    Please ignore the above. It was inadvertently posted in the wrong thread.

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