Remember Sarah Palin was supposed to be this big tough pit bull

[bluestateguy]

She was being groomed to be the conservatives' American Margaret Thatcher. Tough as Nails. Colorful. Charming, but determined. Feminine, but with all of the grit of the most battle hardened male politician.

And then she bailed out after 2 1/2 years in her job when the going got too tough.

I am no fan of Thatcher or her politics, but she was harshly criticized and maligned for over a decade, and she never would have simply bailed out when the going got difficult, and certainly not after a mere 2 1/2 years.

Or how about Hillary Clinton? Does Palin really think that she has endured 10% of what Hillary has faced down for 16 years? Hillary won some battles and she lost some, but she never quit.

[BlooInBloo]

1. No, but I remember when she SAID she was a big tough pit bull.

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. she has gotten by with cutesy and BS

for her whole life Now it is time to pay the piper.

[csziggy]

3. Pit bulls can cut and run with their tails between their legs

When our cat jumped on one, trying to bite through its spinal cord, tear its ears off with his front claws, and kick its eyes out with the back one, once we pulled the cat off for the third time, that dog ran for the hills!

Pit bulls are like human bullies - brave when they think they are on top and chickenshits when they realize they are not.

[left coaster]

4. Pit bull my eye..

Sarah's more like one of those neurotic little purse dogs.. Alternating between inappropriate yapping, or shivering uncontrollably.



(No offense intended to any actual neurotic little purse dogs or their owners) ;)

[CountAllVotes]

6. that sums her up nicely

:hi: and Welcome to the Democratic Underground! :D

:kick:

[left coaster]

10. Indeed..

..And thanks! :)

[tj2001]

5. She found out governoring is hard work

especially when the oil money is gone

Also

[FormerDittoHead]

7. Am I the only one left who still thinks she was (is) RUNNING from something?

I know the shoe hasn't dropped in the ONE WEEK since her announcement, but my 'spider sense' from looking at that jack-in-the-box speech still tells me that someone/thing told her to drop out now or ELSE.

[madaboutharry]

8. Whatever one's opinion of Margaret Thatcher, no one

could ever say she was less than brilliant. She was educated at Oxford and was a barrister. Sadly, she now suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and has no recollection that she was once the Prime Minister.

Hillary Clinton is no less brilliant.

Neither Thatcher nor Clinton would ever have winked at a camera.

[zonkers]

9. Palin must keep your name in the news cycle. Fatter book deals. Once

she hints that she is not interested in higher office, her stock goes way down, IMO.

In response to your post: She is opportunistic. She is following the money, I also have some weird gut feeling that the Palin's will start a church. Just a hunch.

[WillyT]

11. She's More The Lipstick, Than The Pitt Bull...

:shrug:

[sam sarrha]

15. but there is a lot of BULL SHIT in her, her attitude and her political party..

[Jade Fox]

12. Firing people who challenged her....

surrounding herself with friends, regardless of their qualifications for the job, these are the actions of someone who is insecure, not tough.

Palin's pit bull story never rang true.

[customerserviceguy]

13. I actually started to feel sorry for her a bit this morning

I was watching Andrea Mitchell speak on MTP, and they cut away to a bit of a question and answer session from when Andrea joined Palin on a fishing trip. There was Caribou Barbie, muttering incoherent statements about lame ducks and such, and I thought, where was she a year ago?

She was very popular as governor of Alaska. She was below the political radar of about 99% of Americans, and her very name was not a punch line. She had nothing but support from her friends and fellow state residents for her decision to have Trig. Her daughter was in trouble, but there was no media scrutiny on her or her boyfriend, or his family that have exacerbated all of their ordinary weaknesses, and made them nearly insurmountable problems.

No wonder she's lost it.

John McCain did not do this "not ready for prime time" low level politician any favors when he elevated her into the spotlight. It quickly turned into a laser beam that destroyed the peace and serenity that her family had known. I'm glad for Bobby Jindal's young family that this did not happen to him.

[madaboutharry]

14. The issue here is that she brought all of this on herself with her

own insatiable need to feed her enormous ego and vanity.

[customerserviceguy]

16. Only if you think accepting McCain's invitation to run on the GOP ticket with him

was to feed her ego and vanity. Most any other governors from especially the lesser-populated states would have accepted such an invitation. It might have even given them a sense of grandeur.

All I'm saying is that if it hadn't happened, she'd be a lot happier right now.