it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term

A room filled with all these "countless others" who've left their positions honorably. They appear to be reading all those newspapers Sarah claimed she reads.

Well, I'm glad that's all cleared up. And stuff. WTF?

"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." -from Palin's written remarks as published on her website this weekend.

Mark Foley and Richard Nixon are the only national public officials off the top of my head who I can think of who quit midterm and I wouldn't exactly call theirs ''honorable'' circumstances. Google (although I know that's such a leftist mouthpiece) gives a quick search result of Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales and Tom Delay as some of the others. The only higher calling I've noted is Karl Rove's at Fox News.

Can anyone here provide a link to names of more midterm quitters, Dem or Rep, honorable or otherwise, and what they went on to do? Thanks.

Sarah Palin is all platitudes and zero erudition. She tends to say things that sound good.

So, those "countless others" don't actually exist.

But her ardent supporters, who assume she knows what she's talking about, won't question her. They'll simply take her word for it that she's one of many great and noble leaders who have abruptly quit their high offices with no real explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33SpFvnt8fk

Spiro T. Agnew - tax evasion, fraud, corruption

John G. Rowland (R - Conn) -- corruption

Fyfe Symington (R- Arizona) -- mail fraud

Just sayin'

Could it be possibly not Sarah but Todd? Might he have been caught with his pants down or hand in the till or caught "borrowing" State funds? They seem to love shooting at "game animals" from planes in that time honored tradition of randomly killing animals that are inedible and unreachable to dress out? Or could another kid done something dumb, like getting caught with weed or crack or something worse? The possibilities are just endless.

Have to give credit to the boyfriend. He listened to the speech, turned to me and said, "What do you suppose they caught her doing? I bet someone made a deal with her--you resign and we won't drag you through the mud on this, thus ruining your chances of running for Prez in 2012."(We'll just wait til then to spill it)

Is in fact Dennis Healy's law of holes -- "when in a hole the first thing to do is stop digging"

He made this statement as the UK's chancellor of the exchequer.

Healy is a very impressive guy, who reduced Thatcher in debate, twice, to tears.

Once about thirty years ago he was debating Richard Perle on Nuclear disarmament. Perle accused Healy and the Labour party of "wanting to appease the Russians just like the appeased Hitler." One problem, Chamberlain was a Conservative, as was Baldwin. Perle went on to call Healy personally a coward -- at this point Healy had to leave the House of Commons studio to vote in a Commons division. The presenter chose to put the final knife into Perle:

"That was the right honorable, the General [Marine Reserve], Sir Dennis Healy MP, Military Cross, Beach Commander at Anzio ......" Most of Healy's military career was classified the last time I heard -- a lot of it was as a Marine Commando behind German lines. Perle's military career is non-existent.

Thatcher's government were obliged to react by asking the Reagan Adminstration to keep Undersecretary Perle out of the UK as he was "unhelpful." He did not appear of British TV for about 15 years.

XJS and ME: Perhaps you just think it's cool to call people names like a 3rd grader. Perhaps just hate all women or perhaps you are a plant from the Palin camp because the only way she gets sympathy from more than the people who" share" her very abstract values, is if people like you start using words like "slut" and "cunt" to define her. That's as bad, worse actually, than her very shallow rhetoric.

"The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the “politics of personal destruction”. How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country. "

This from the woman who vilified President Obama? Stating that he "paled around with terrorists". Took every cheap shot that she could at democrats. Hell, the republican party invented personal destruction - look at what they did to Carter and Clinton and what they're continuing to do to Obama.

Pot... Kettle... Black...

She makes all women look bad and sets them back 50 years. Why doesn't she just STFU and go away.

"All About Me." Because, as the last year has shown us, for Ms. Palin everything really is all about her. Her speeches and attitudes seem to be those of a maladjusted teenager rather than the parent of one.

The launch of a new product line, "Palin's Own."

The first product, "Palin's Own" Kool-Aid, has already been test-marketed and the sample groups simply cannot get enough of it. If you try it, you'll buy it. Profits after no-taxes go to regressive causes.

From the conclusion of the July 3rd post, "Sarah Palin Crosses the Rubicon:"

She will now be the anti-Obama, standing up for her personal beliefs, free of the constraints the Alaskan people have placed on her. She is now free of them, and they of her - though I think they will be the ones to regret it first. [My emphasis.]

Goddamned Alaskan people!

Also, are they the slightest bit aware that Caesar crossing the Rubicon is generally not considered to be a good thing? At least, not for the Roman Republic.

But we don't understand because, Sarah, you didn't tell us clearly why you quit. Your breathless, scattered speech seemed like the result of a very hasty decision, made in the heat of the moment.

What we DO know now, is that if you have ambitions to a 'higher calling' such as another Presidential ticket, then we would like it to be a three-way. For example, maybe a Romney/Palin/Jeb Bush ticket.

That way, when you quit, the American People will still have a VP that they elected.