Mrs Palin’s term of office was due to end in 2010.
I, for one, smell a rat here.
“I’m taking my fight for what’s right in a new direction,” she said, as her family looked on.
Mrs Palin did not reveal what she intended to do after leaving office, and did not give an explicit reason for her decision not to run for re-election.But in a written statement, she made it clear that once she had decided not to run again, she did not want to hang on in office until her term expired.
“Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional Lame Duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose,” she said.
What this doublespeak probably means is: “Once I decided I was going to quit when my contract was up, the contract for an office I swore an oath to uphold, I decided to give up.”
You know all those scandals that dogged her, that she admitted no wrongdoing over? I think there’s something brewing that she can’t weasel out of while in-office, so needs to be out of the public eye before that storm hits and wrecks her chances of being GOP choice 2012. Or, she doesn’t want to be in office while grubbing for the presidency.
But seriously, what kind of politician just quits most of the way through for no reason? Is she going to do that if she’s elected to another office. “Well, I know it’s 3 years from when my term expires, but I’ve decided not to run for re-election for (senate/president) so let some other guy do it. PEACE OUT YA’LL! Fight the Good Fight!™”
I mean, for shit sake she’s resigning a full year and five months before she’d even BECOME the lame duck, Alaska’s next election is in Nov 2010, well over a year and a half before she’d actually be replaced.
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