Her service has nothing to do with him and everything to do with her, you stupid shill. Hell, you’re just another dime-a-dozen cellar-dwelling troll with no life, little gray matter, and lots of time on your hands. You wouldn’t possibly understand the concept of service as you are just another taker. Dry up you worthless toady.

And, to split the difference here, there are at least somewhat valid criticisms of Palin – for one – “what, Palin resigned because she thought 3 years was too much experience” . Try using something like that.

Or try to prove your point. If there’s some sort of official list of “good reasons to resign” and “bad reasons to resign”, I think that might help to make your case.

To this point, your argument consists of a dislike of Palin and a desire to see Palin called a quitter.

Recap: you need 1) evidence that others were called “quitter” 2) an agreed-upon list of acceptable reasons to resign and unacceptable reasons to resign.

Sarah Palin is showing that same integrity and being burned for it.

In reality, her situation is not entirely analogous to that of the Clintons and is neither justification for nor against her decision.

Your take is much different from mine–I would not want someone in my employ who, because of personal difficulties could not perform their function in the manner prescribed by the position description. I would gladly accept their resignation with thanks for their previous service.

I still remember how proud I was of Clinton when, in the face of all those ridiculous Republican slurs (including, you may recall, truly despicable jokes about his daughter), he said he would keep fighting for voters “until the last dog dies.” Whatever Sarah Palin’s been through, her opponents never went so far as to impeach her on trumped up charges. Bill’s legal bills dwarfed anything Palin is facing. But he didn’t quit; he fought through all those slanders and told the GOP where to stick it. And he won.

Or take Hillary. After spending 8 years as the most vilified First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt — actually worse, since Eleanor was never accused of murder — no one would have blamed her if she had headed off into a quiet, well-deserved retirement. But instead, she dove right back into the arena and won a Senate seat. And then when she ran for president, and faced all those sexist attacks, it would have been easy for her to make it all go away by dropping out, but she kept on fighting until the last primary. And when she finally conceded and endorsed Obama, we all assumed she’d go back to her safe Senate seat and become an elder stateswoman of the party. But once again, she left that safe seat because she wanted to serve her country.

The common thread among both Clintons is that they believe so strongly in helping people that they refuse to let petty attacks keep them from their jobs. We still don’t know why Sarah Palin walked away from her responsibilities to the voters of Alaska. Maybe it was because she was sick of the attacks on her family. Maybe it was to position herself for ’12. Maybe it was just to make money to cover her legal bills. All of those reasons may be understandable from a selfish point of view. But that’s just the point. They’re all selfish. Can you ever, in a million years, imagine Bill or Hillary walking out on a public-service job like that?

As an employer, I would never tolerate one of my employees walking out on the job without a good explanation, and I certainly wouldn’t turn around a few years later and hire them for a more important job. I feel the same way about Sarah Palin walking out on her “employers”, i.e., the voters of Alaska.

Is there anyone other than Palin that has the cajones to step up for the GOP? The party is dying and they continue to stab at it from the inside out.

Remember when Dole ran for the 3rd time and how awesome every news organization said how awesome that was?

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1996/05/16/1996-05-16_dole_leaves_the_senate_he_qu.html

It’s one of three things:
1. They don’t actually know what the news is
2. We are supposed to go out and find the news
3. They are making it all up

I think it’s most likely #3.