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It would be easy to spend the next several days just linking to all the (seemingly endless) opinions about Sarah Palin's decision to resign from office as Alaska's governor.

From the moment she was named the Republican VP candidate, the progressive-Left launched into a non-stop attack of pure hate. Unable to win in the "arena of ideas," these "progressive" sheep blindly adopted Saul Alinsky's twisted tactics, even stooping so low as to attack her new-born baby:

• Ridicule is a man's most potent weapon.
• Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
• Especially if your target's a new born baby with Down Syndrome!

It takes such a sick and twisted mind to attack an innocent baby, it's disturbing (to say the least).

On the right ... opinions about Sarah are all over the map - "Sarah Palin Is Here to Stay," "It's Over," "Playing the Victim," "Maybe she has just had enough of the BS," "Stupid, stupid, stupid," and the list goes on ...

Personally, I like Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin (still) shows great promise for "we the people" in this age of a criminal Leviathan. She possess stronger libertarian-leanings than any politician in the Republican Party (other than Ron Paul), and her Reaganesque charisma is a welcome and refreshing change.

What about her decision to step-down? It really doesn't matter to me ... hasn't changed my opinion of her one bit.  It was her decision, made for reasons of her own, and since I'm not a psychic I won't pretend (like the Beltway-Idiots) to know.

Let's face it, any person who gets into politics with a sincere vision of protecting the people, only set themselves upon a path of ridicule, hatred, and ultimate disappoint.  Just ask Ron Paul.

God bless Sarah Palin!  I just hope "we the people" didn't let a good one go.

A little (unsolicited) advice for Sarah: Don't do it!  Don't sink to the level of these buffoons who say such stupid things, even as vile as they can be.  I mean, I get it!  They've milked your family dry, costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars in defense of their baseless attacks.  But please Sarah, please ... don't sue those rat bastards!

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I've always enjoyed Lew Rockwell (uh, oh ... there goes my conservative audience), he's sharp, witty, and a true intellectual indeed. He may go too far in his attacks on the Republican constituency, but he's just trying to make a point. That said, he's had some spot-on (and supportive) observations about Sarah Palin that conservatives will certainly enjoy reading!

September 2, 2008:

The frenzied reaction of the middle class all over the country toward Sarah Palin has no real precedent that I can remember. Indeed ... She provides a much welcome cultural break from the chip-on-the-shoulder, grudge-against-the-world model of public women that have been held up to us for years, embodied in the belligerent and insufferable person of Hillary Clinton.

Sarah, on the other hand, is both beautiful and professionally accomplished, a wife and mother and a natural politician, both religious and secular, both feminine and fears no tasks such as hunting that are usually associated with men. She offers a different model of a woman who has excelled not through intimidation and aggressive demands for reparation, but through her own efforts, charms, and intelligence.

What's more, her political outlook has much to recommend it, from what we can gather so far. There is a libertarian impulse here. She has rejected the perks of public life in favor of common sense. She is friendly to business interests but unfriendly to special privileges. She has praised Ron Paul and rejected the party mentality of GOP regulars.

It strikes many people as a brilliant choice on McCain's part, and I would agree. Social conservatives have forgiven all of McCain's deviations. Many people who just last week didn't give a fig about whether he wins or loses have come around completely.

The claim against her that she lacks "experience" is one of the most bogus things out there ... And contrary to what media pundits say, what is far more important than experience are the political values you hold.

The demand for experience seems to imply that somehow we are seeking social and global managers for public office, and that is manifestly what we do not want. In a truly liberal society, the job of a White House executive could be held by anyone or no one.

Now, the sad part begins. The first job of anyone who works for the government – and that is the job of the vice president – is to echo the line of the government. People find that to be reasonable. It really comes down to a matter of job loyalty.

But in government, this job requirement takes on a different cast. When a decent person accepts a job such as vice president, our first instinct is to celebrate that good people are in a position of power and influence ... But this is an illusion ... Good people become part of the party machine and surrender all their principles in order to survive.

It is perhaps possible to be the governor of a small state such as Alaska and not be part of the machine. It is not possible to be vice president of the United States and not enter into the deeply immoral arena that values the burying of all principle, and saying and doing whatever is necessary to bolster power.

Sarah will be slapped around if and when she openly disagrees with McCain's politics. When they win the election, she will immediately be required to take on the role of an apologist for all that the administration does.

Many people become educated with sound political values and find themselves attracted to Washington politics. They quickly feel embarrassed about their naïveté and seek to fix themselves up, adopting the approved cynicism that eats away at their soul. They become changed over time, morphing into the very opposite of what they started out, and of what they started out believing.

This, sadly, is the future of Sarah Palin, who may have been doing some good in Alaska.

There is something about Sarah I really like, especially that she seems to have had some sympathy for an Alaskan secession movement, which, contrary to media hysteria, is a perfectly reasonable and liberal position to take. But you can be sure that if she plans to be a successful vice president under a McCain administration, all of this will be swept under the carpet and her primary accomplishment in life will have been to dupe many people into supporting an administration that promises to be the worst thing that has happened to this country ...

September 18, 2008:

Did I miss Sarah’s appearance on ‘Beltway Eye for the Straight Gal’? I caught just the end of the Hannity interview last night, but she looked like a lobbyist for GE: dark-blue power suit, gold earrings and pin, no necklace, too shiny lip gloss, too shiny spray on her Mrs. Obama hairdo. What happened to the busy, middle-class mom look? No more seeming to do her own hair and make-up, and seeming to choose her own clothes. Just another rich insider, a trophy wife for the State. This strikes me as very stupid.

July 4, 2009:

Good for Sarah Palin, who has resigned unexpectedly from the governership of Alaska to take up life as a taxpayer rather than a taxeater. How dare she without informing her dedicated enemies in the national media, they complain. Very funny.

Many Americans are subjected to a ten-minute hate by the opinion molders, but hers has lasted a lot longer, and mostly for her virtues. Not only was she smeared during her unfortunate VP run, complete with a ridiculous makeover by the creepy Beltwayites, but the Republicans attacked her then, and have never stopped, anonymously, of course. The Democrats and their stations and newspapers have never stopped as well ... because the Dems fear that Obama will be a one-term president, thanks to the Depression, and she was his most dangerous opponent.

Perhaps Palin is resigning to run for president. I hope not. Then the knives will really be out, and the temptations of power much intensified ... Sarah, don’t run ... Look at what the national political sewer has already done to you and your family. Stay in the private sector. If you want to be involved politically and ideologically, start an organization to promote your ideas. But do it from glorious Alaska, not the DC cesspool. Oh, and stay away from Bill Kristol.

UPDATE from Skip Oliva:

My favorite reaction to Palin’s decision came from Amy Holmes at National Review:

“No way around it. She has just labeled herself a ‘quitter.’ Someone who doesn’t finish what she started. . . And her bit about polling her kids on her decision to resign was also egregious. We women abruptly quit our public responsibilities because our kids don’t want mommy working anymore?”

Yes, putting one’s family before the state is “egregious.”