Posted by
Ron Devito on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:28:25 AM
by Gary P. Jackson
Probably not. But I found this over at the E3 Gazette
and thought it put to bed the notion that a "quitter" could never go
further in politics. This is also a good time to remind everyone that
the last time Sarah Palin "quit" her job, she ended up taking down most
of the Alaskan Republican party hierarchy as well as the Governor of
Alaska!
Anyway, the folks at E3 Gazette offer up an interesting wager:
Imagine
a politician who is elected to one office, then two years later loses
in the Electoral College. Two years and seven months into the term of
the first office, months after the loss, this politician resigns! Can
you imagine such a "quitter" being elected POTUS in the next election?
I'll bet you $20 it can happen.
You'd lose the bet.
Andrew
Jackson resigned his US Senate seat on October 14, 1825, after two
years, seven months, and ten days in that six-year term. For those
keeping score, that’s a dozen days fewer than Sarah Palin served of her
four-year term as Governor of Alaska. He won the 1828 election for
President, the first to do so in the "Democratic Party" faction he
formed from the "Democratic-Republican Party". So the next time you
hear a Democrat talk about a "quitter", remind them about Old Hickory.
Something
more up to date but equally appropriate is a look at Ronald Reagan, the
nation’s last great conservative leader, and one of our greatest
Presidents. Reagan was generally disliked by the media, the democrats,
the beltway elites, and the Rockefeller wing of the Republican party,
the ones we today call RINOs.
Reagan
was said to stupid, a B-movie actor who worked with chimps. (They
always forgot he was a two term Governor of California...much like
some, including Obama called Palin the Mayor of Wasilla) Reagan was
said to be lazy, intellectually uncurious, a right wing nut, a
warmonger, and much more.
The
thing to remember about people is they generally attack who they fear
the most. Just like Reagan, if Palin was such a dolt, such a joke, they
wouldn’t be spending so much time trying to marginalize her.
In
the last election a lot of people were upset because they perceived
that the left "chose our candidate" because John McCain was the left’s
"favorite Republican" and they propped him up, only to tear him down
when the actual campaign against Obama started.
Well, I say this time we should let the left pick our candidate for us, as well!
In
fact, they already have. You don’t see the democrats spending one
minute of time attacking Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee. Not one minute.
But they have thrown every dirty trick in the book at Sarah Palin to
stop her.
Unfortunately for them, Sarah Palin won’t go!
A quitter indeed.