Oh brother: Palin has a “higher calling” in politics
July 5th, 2009 by Rightwing Czar at 1:43 pmI was ready to give Palin a pass if she was resigning from governor because she wanted out of politics. Her family has been put through a lot since McCain plucked her out of Wasilla and it would be understandable if she was just finished with the media scrutiny, legal battles, and harassment that has been coming her way.
But a higher calling? Good grief.
“How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country,” the statement said. “And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.”
Sarah – I’ll be the first one to say that the media was brutally unfair to you in the last election and has continued to be so afterward. But no one leaves their office in order to run for president. It just doesn’t happen.
It’s one thing to run for president, get elected, and therefore have to vacate your seat when that happens. Obama just did that in the Senate, Bush and Clinton did it as governor – it doesn’t bother that many people. But Palin isn’t leaving office because she has been elected to a higher calling, she is leaving office so that she can run for a higher calling. And she is doing it without finishing even one term as governor.
This is pure political ambition putting her duties and responsibilities as governor on the back burner. You were elected to serve your state – not back out early so you can get ready to run for president three years from now.
If you had matured as a candidate over the next 3-8 years I could certainly have seen myself supporting you in a primary, Sarah. I can’t imagine the possibility of that happening now.