Palin ally: 'Life is not happy for her' right now

She doesn't want to run for office, she's content to be a consistent advocate for curtailing all the rights stemming from the First Amendment.

Palling around with quitters, are we?

Just read in the Huffington Post that a pundit on Faux News called Palin "inarticulate and undereducated"! Hell must have frozen over! Someone on Faux News actually telling the truth! Wow! THANK YOU AMERICA FOR REJECTING MCCAIN/PALIN!!

Stu @ July 6th, 2009 2:24 pm ET "Palin is the only national level political candidate who is truly middle class. The rest, on both sides of the aisle, are millionaires out of touch with reality." I think if you look at the assets the Palin family holds, you will find that she is a millionaire, on paper, at least. As for her "touch with reality," we can only judge by her actions. BTW, there are several members of congress who are not millionaires. Dennis Kucinich comes instantly to mind.

She is the poster child for Harry Truman's statement of "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the Kitchen!"

Maybe Ms. Palin should have consider hte "inconveniences" of running a state when she ran for governor. Doesn't like the "commute"? What, did she think Alaska would move its capitol to Wasilla for her conveniences? And she doesn't like the media? I have a great idea. Media, ignore her. No more coverage. No more mics. No more cameras. Let's see how long she can stand that.

Think about it: Sarah's argument is that the media sunk her reputation. But she came out swinging in MN. She was out to clobber Obama's reputation and all. She was not a respectful adversary, and she even attacked the media. Plus, she was the one who gave those dreadful interviews, she would not take her teams advice, and and she made judgments as to who real Americans were, and were not. She did so without regard of what peoples response would be, and she did not like the results. Now she quit her job, but she can still make tons of $ which is not a bad spot to be in. SHE NEEDS TO STOP CRYING ABOUT HER COVERAGE. Nobody is assured fair press. The press is an element with its own properties. There is no controlling it. Once false move and Obama will have to court them too.

I WISH SHE WERE DEAD. SEEMS THE ONLY WAY THE MEDIA WILL FINALLY STOP MENTIONING THIS BRAIN-DEAD AND VERY, VERY DANGEROUS PERSON, WHO IS AN EMBARRASSMENT AND A DISGRACE FOR AMERICANS WITH A BRAIN. I don't know who she slept with to get to be a governor and to force McCain to "choose" her as his running mate, but I wish those people to rot in hell forever, as well as the brainless deer killer herself.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Really?? *sniff* Stop...you're making me cry. GO HOME TO WASILLA, SARAH! Stay there! Take care of your baby, and get out of a game for which you are both emotionally and mentally unsuited. Alaska is well-rid of you as "Govenernor".

What? Can't take the heat? She was all over Obama because he was too busy on the campaign trail.... At least he didn't drop out...

Maybe her chickens have come home to roost, as with the rest of the republican party.

Now she's gone from governor to just a babe.

I am glad in a way that Sarah Palin wanted to leave public service to spend more time with her family and follow her personal agenda. I think family is most important. However, with our leaders, we need them to sacrifice their family and their own agenda somewhat for our overall benefit. The leader's spouse and others need to understand that. Although Obama could make a great involved father, he can't be there as much as his girls would want. That is a sacrifice that he has made and we should thank him for it. Likewise, I just had surgery -- and I am happy that my surgeon sacrificed his family to work 100 hours a week to train to be the best surgeon possible. I wouldn't have wanted him to leave training early each day to go home and play with his kids. Sarah Palin wants all the attention and fame, but may not be able to handle the stress and the time and the responsibility, and be able to smoothly handle critics, to really be a national leader. Not everyone can. That is why people need to be tested on a smaller scale before handing them the ultimate job. McCain, Hillary, and to a lesser degree Obama have been tested. Palin has failed. Who in history have left their jobs early to concentrate on a national campaign 3 1/2 YEARS before the election? That is crazy. She just wants to follow her own personal agenda of preaching to the choir which she can do and be successful at on Fox News or speaking engagements, but certainly she has failed as a public servant, sacrificing for the greater good. She will never get elected again. The only thing I see here is that she wants to become Alaska's senator in 1 1/2 years then run for presidency immediately after, and figures she can secure her and her family's finances over the next year. She can make millions. The Alaska governor's position is indeed getting in the way. Except that everyone will see through her ignoring local Alaska's needs for her own. That is quite selfish. This will fail, but in the end she will have millions. Who knows, she might not have had any other choice. She is not ready to give up a national agenda, but it was not working as her still governor -- bills were mounting and her approval slipping. So here we are.

"commuting posed a major challenge" Am I reading this right? Commuting? What a silly thing!

We'll hear about the legal troubles soon enough.

She needs to put on her cowboy hat and ride off into the sunset.

How can anyone possibly goevrn in such a hate-filled political environment? America is dying and good people are being run out of giovernment and the slobs and rats are in!

"Her life is very difficult, she cannot spend time with her family." Really? Was Palin held hostage all those times she appeared at GOP fundraisers, rallies, interviews and photo ops? Wasn't her family with her at many of those media events? Isn't the primary responsibility for a governor to serve as the state's chief executive, not travel the country pushing his or her national agenda? Are we seriously expected to feel any sympathy for her?

The Ducks made more sense than she did during her resignation speach, it you can call it that.

Let me give you COMMENTORS free advice, if you want to release a BOOK or an album and you want to make kill on it. CAUSE a scene and that is exactly what Palin has done.

CNN devotes disproportionate coverage to death of a celebrity they once hounded because --at least one suggested on Sun. morning-- they feel a little guilty about what they did to MJ. At that earlier time, both public and comedians ridiculed MJ as well. American media and unfortunately the public at large have the maturity/mentality of high school freshmen: Let's grovel before who is "cool" at the moment and harass whoever the cool kids don't like. Those shout the loudest who most need approval from the reigning prom king/queen/jock.. Sarah Palin is just the latest to be targeted LIke many who don't fit into high school cliques, she'll go on to a happy life.

Palin was one of the other women Mark Sanford fooled around with. Several in attendance saw them leave together at the last Governor's conference.

Stu July 6th, 2009 2:24 pm ET "Palin is the only national level political candidate who is truly middle class. The rest, on both sides of the aisle, are millionaires out of touch with reality." Huh? What about Joe Biden? I make more than that guy makes. And I'm no millionaire!

Stu July 6th, 2009 2:24 pm ET Enough hateful comments please. Palin is the only national level political candidate who is truly middle class. The rest, on both sides of the aisle, are millionaires out of touch with reality. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yea! Who cares if she's stupid and a quitter. As long as she's 'not a millionair' it's all ok. Let's elect stupid people (some of US republicans fit the bill!), as long as they aren't millionaires!

Palin's remarks about wishing that there were more children in the world like her son Trig, I am the mother of a handicapped child whom I loved with all my heart "He's has passed" but to wish all of the struggles on another child NO. I feel that she uses this child as a prop when its convient .Just like the attact on Letterman,She appeared on SNL and they had said much worse about her family "Todd being involved in incest w/his daughters" she complains about being mistreated when its convient or suits her purpose. Everytime she opens her mouth something stupid comes out Sarah PLEASE STAY HOME . I would love to see a Woman in the White House but I want someone who can do the Job and not quit when it gets tough. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!! Pricilla

Palin is Bush in drag.

I've always liked Sarah, but I don't see how this can be spun as a positive. It seems to me that she couldn't stand the heat as governor. I know she had more to deal with than most governors, but this is a woman who wanted to be vice president, and maybe president someday. I'm not sure how well she'd handle the job if the admittedly difficult trials and tribulations of governing Alaska was too much for her.

After the stuff this woman said about President Obama trying to make him sound dangerous did he whine did he quit NO, Palin is a whiney little girl shes not fit to be Gov or any part of politicts stay home Palin be a wife and a Mother cause you sure cant take the Heat

Now she will have the time to travel to the "country" of Africa!

She has mounting legal bills so she quits her job and loses her income? That makes perfect sense - NOT! Of course, that huge contract she's going to sign with FOX will take care of all that! Love hearing all the Repubs trying to defend her resignation. If a Democratic governor did that, Repubs would be screaming that he's a quitter. Such hypocrisy! Well, I'll say it -- she's a quitter. Put that on your resume, a one-half term governer. A resume so thin you can see through it! Quitter.

If she truly quit for her family, then good luck. But what I think happened is the same as Ensign and Sanford. These guys were thrust almost unwillingly on the national stage by neocon agenda setters, with no vetting at all. They lived their lives and ran their deals ... what happens in _______ stays in ______. Esp freaking Alaska .. no one goes up there and looks around. This scrutiny is unwanted, wasn't looked for nor desired, but there it is. And these unprepared lives get exposed. I think Palin actually is doing the smartest thing she can and that's to get out from under the ethics probes and try to clean dirty laundry away from political office, so she can in fact come back on national scale. Alas, its too late. That genie is out of the bottle or out of the pipeline.

oh, boo hooh!

@Chloe in Chatsworth, Ca@12:57 Once again you talk about liberals as opposed to REAL Americans. I think that all Democrats who are fighting overseas should come home immediately because they "have a higher calling". I am sure that Republicans would understand!

Oh say it aint so !! This woman was chosen by the Republican Party front runner just a few months ago to the VP, of the Maverick. She is as smart as a fly and as dangerous as a child with a loaded machine gun ! It is incredible how Sarah "Drop Out" Palin can quit at a time when "The Great State of Alaska", were she can see Putin (ha ha ha), needs her the most. She has no business in politics, and certainly no business in serving the people of any state or country, not even Iran or North Korea. Conservatives will always support Dim Wit, Bible thumping adultering hypocritical racially insensitive homophobic anti-immigrant socially repressive talibanistic people because the alternative, is an educated black man with his liberal socialist ideas and his ethnically diverse followers....bhooo sounds scary. Wake up America...ignorance and mediocracy is not beneficial to our great country. Our founding fore-fathers were brilliant men with passion, not quiters!

Palin sees the world against her. She is always the VICTEM! The fact that all these problems are brought upon her by her own actions (dragging her family on stqge making them aprt of the political program) all points to the fact she does not really GET IT. If I were to run against Ms Palin either as a Republican in the promaries or a Dem in 2012 the first thing out of my mouth at every question or speach would be "Do yuou want someone that will go the DISTANCE or do you want a QUITTER?"

demwit July 6th, 2009 2:21 pm ET Palin, Pelosi and Hillary are proof that women belong at home in the bedroom, washroom and closet. demwit, your comment is hilarious! We need more people like you on this site.

How in the world would she have handled the vice presidency? She haven't been in the national spotlight for a year and can't take the pressure. She's weak and make all women look bad.

Enough hateful comments please. Palin is the only national level political candidate who is truly middle class. The rest, on both sides of the aisle, are millionaires out of touch with reality.

There is more to this story I smell a SCANDEL stay tuned!

I'm not a fan of Mrs. Palin, but after her campaign efforts during the General Election I came to firmly believe her real niche is talk radio. She shines in that arena. Move over Rush Limbaugh.

That's going to be cool if she runs for President. She'll quit when it gets hard on her or her family. You GO Sarah, live your life as you see right. Who cares about all those people who depended on you when they elected you! Screw them all.....it's all about YOU girl! Yay for Sarah Palin, she's original: A politician that will quit on you when ever she feels like it!

Just when a Palin/Coulter 2012 ticket seemed possible. "We'll make them Dems sweat. You betcha!". Rush for Secretary of State. Dream Team

Did Governor Palin not know where the state Capital of Alaska was when she ran for Governor? To say the commute is hard is to imply that the location of the state capital was a surprise to her.

@ Mary Bonella July 6th, 2009 12:25 pm ET RUN, SARAH, RUN (for president)!!! That is my new bumper sticker that will sit along side the one that says OBAMA IS RUNNING A GANGSTER GOVERNMENT. And in closing, LETTERMAN YOU ARE AN IDIOT! Mary, I hope I never see your car . . . I might be tempted to throw paint on it!

No, it's not a slap in the face to Americans who are deperately looking for work to see an elected official and self-proclaimed role model just pick up and leave her job. It's not selfish or cowardice, its all about using the family you are so desperate to protect as an excuse to leave a job that the people voted you to do. As for all the people on here who are defending her, when your bills are mounting and you miss your family who depends on your job to survive, do you just pack it up and quit because of the pressure? If you answered yes, you don't deserve a family.

Fox will pick her up any day now. We'll probably have to put up with her idiotic blatherings every day. Does anyone know what the heck she was talking about when she quit the other day???

So cry me a river.

Palin, Pelosi and Hillary are proof that women belong at home in the bedroom, washroom and closet.

Sarah--For your next career, memorize these lines: "Table for how many? Smoking or non-smoking?"

Chloe in Chatsworth, CA said: "Liberals, even those with who have devoted their lives to public service or have loved ones in the military (or even lost a loved one in a foreign war), could never understand the sacrifices Sarah Palin has made for her state and her country. Sarah Palin is a true American hero." Was this said tongue-in-cheek? Too, too funny!