Should Sarah Palin step down?

Question

I personally think so.

She will be doing her family a favor by stepping down, and more importantly the country,

I think she is a great woman with greater potential in public office, But now is not the time.

This is whole thing seems like a circus. She has a lot to to fix in her personal family life. Anyone who sees this as "things happen" is obviously delusional as to the way they are treating this.

They make it sound like it's all gravy, but no mother or father can truly act as calm as they are on the national stage. There's probably so much anger being bottled up in the heads of that family.

It hurts me to say this, but I see this as a tragedy waiting to happen. Someone in the circle is going to lose it sooner or later.

Everyday she spends on the campaign trail is just another day I see her as only being interested in her political resume, and nothing more, not even her family's well being.

I do believe that if she and Mccain were to win the White House, she will resign before her term ends.

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I know she is not pregnant. Her DAUGHTER is. She now has to divide her attention between 5kids, 1 kid with a kid.

America, wake the **** up. We don't need that right now.

I want to thank those with opposing views who choose not to act like kids, but give thoughtful and educated explanations.

Answer 1

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How would her daughter feel having to live the rest of her life knowing that SHE was the reason her mom didn't get to run for VP? Palin's doing her a favor by running and not quitting because of her.

And besides, Obama is the SON of an unwed pregnant teenager. What's the difference? No one seems to think that HIS family tree is a problem.

Answer 2

No she will be a good VP

Answer 3

I think that was the plan from the beginning.

Answer 4

Are you aware that she is not the one who is pregnant?

Answer 5

you are an absolute idiot.

Answer 6

No way, and if they get to the White House she is part of the reason they got there so why would she step down.

Answer 7

OMG what is wrong with people big f..Inga deal her daughter got pregnant before they were married (they are planning to do so) since when did your ability to lead a country have anything to do with your daughter's ability to keep her legs crossed.?
Since when was being Pregnant before your got married a no no for liberals? Aren't ye all about Free love.

who the heck put you in charge of what a woman can handle, we manage quite well being Mothers, career women, wives & any numbers of things while still keeping it all together.
Your assumtion is Bolox.....how is that for thoughfull.

Answer 8

So from what you say Obama also needs to step down because he can't be a good father to his young kids.

Answer 9

Shouldn't Obama step down since he embraces a white hating phony religion? That is more applicable than the behavior of Sarah Palin's children. After all, who truly believes that:

“To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!”

"Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man 'the devil."

"complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary."

"The time has come for white America to be silent and listen to black people"

"All white men are responsible for white oppression"

"There is, then, a desperate need for a black theology, a theology whose sole purpose is to apply the freeing power of the gospel to black people under white oppression."

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."

"While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism."

"If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist, the white church seems to be a manifestation of it."

Answer 10

The Palin matter is becoming a national joke. I think that Palin will make it out of the convention but she will decide to step aside when she realizes how far over her head she is.

McCain has screwed up by choosing a cute neophyte for VP, and it will be best for all concerned if she quietely and discreetly steps aside.

Answer 11

I think Biden should step down and let Hillary take her rightful place

Answer 12

Yes. She has to much issues with her family.

Plus who wants a VP that has a possible of becoming president if something happens to McCain from Alaska? Alaska government is nothing like the US government. She has no ideas how the rest of the country works.

But the bad news here is Obama has no idea either. Both are inexperience. So this is the worst election ever. I cannot vote for either one.

Answer 13

Any GOOD HEARTED MOTHER would care more about her family than ones self....She never should have accepted knowing the pain it would bring her daughter......The only idiot I see is her......my opinion folks......choke on it!

VETERANS FOR OBAMA

Answer 14

I am not a Republican, but let me try to look at it from their point of view.

If Palin steps down, it looks really bad for the Republicans. It looks like they didn't know about her when they picked her. And it looks like they don't know what they're doing, like they don't have a plan, they are just improvising.

This happened once before. In 1972, George McGovern picked Tom Eagleton, senator from Missouri, as VP candidate. The next day it came out that Eagleton had undergone electro-shock therapy for depression. For some reason people thought that disqualified him. McGovern announced immediately that he supported Eagleton 'one thousand percent', but before the convention was over Eagleton was out and they'd replace him with Sergent Shriver. This jinxed the entire McGovern campaign. I mean he was losing anyway but he lost BIG-TIME.

It was a gutsy, risky move to pick someone like Palin to begin with. Now they have to gut it out. They can't very well just come out and say something like: 'Well, we didn't know she had a pregnant daughter, and we are as shocked as you!'

It was a high risk move to begin with, a 'Hail Mary' play to win the support of the Christian Right, who are none too pleased with McCain. And from that aspect it seems to be working--money is beginning to roll in from the religious organizations. If they cheese -those- people off, they're dead.

Answer 15

I know how it is for a woman to work out of the home with two children, can not imagine five. I just feel sorry for the little downs syndrome baby, it will be neglected by it's Mother. Say it is not true if you want, but it will lack the maternal care that it needs right now.

Answer 16

No. Thanks to Palin, Obama will win by a landslide.


Obama/Biden '08 The SENSIBLE choice

Answer 17

I think you're being a bit absurd. I do believe a mother should care for her children when they are young, especially in this case with her youngest. Bristol will have to take responsibility for her own actions. It's not mommy's job. She's the one who decided to have sex. I believe Palin has a high calling here on earth, and she will fulfill that role. She's the type of woman you see in positions of great power every great once in a while. Most women in politics can only dream to be what that woman is.

Answer 18

You should be ashamed of yourself, but I will answer the question for the educated professionals reading - Of course she should not step down. Our country is in a much larger mess than her personal life is....and duly note I stated "personal life." Nice try though for the Obama-followers. Amazing how a woman can thrive and help lead, if not lead a country, and still manage the mess that others might have made for her.......Oh yes, I forgot though - she did go fishing without a license - that "wild" thing. *smile* - Shame on you! Have a great day!

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Read the paper.

Answer 19

I absolutely agree with you. How could she be vice president when she can barely keep her family under control?
And I think this whole thing was a big publicity stunt my John McCain.
He makes fun of Obama for being a 'celebrity' well look at his running mate.. she is in magazines now. Hypocritical I'd say.

Answer 20

You'll get your chance to actually have a say in all this come Nov 4, just like the rest of us. Between now and then we're just talking.

If it wasn't this it would be something else.

Why shouldn't Biden step down? Washington is a corrupt cesspool and nobody is more Mr Washington DC than Joe Biden.

Answer 21

The choice of Palin just shows how out of touch the republican party is with the rest of the country. Why would she agree to run with that hothead McCain is beyond me - especially with all the personal problems in her life right now. Who is going to nurture the downs syndrome baby - oh that's right, anything that is work-like the republicans hire immigrants to do at extremely low wages.

Answer 22

You think you knows it all but you don't and neither do the other Democrats. Sarah Palin will be one best VP we ever had. She has the guts to things other can only dream of. She is beautiful, experienced and knowledgeable far better than the Democrat Presidential candidate. Vote the only way McCain Palin 2008.

Answer 23

I was probably going to vote for McCain until he picked this idiot as his running mate. She is the perfect representative of everything that's wrong with the Republican Party.
If she were a good mother, you'd think her attention would be focused on her train-wreck of a family right now. But she clearly isn't a good mother at all and her family values are worth a wooden nickel.
Whether she steps down or not, McCain will not have my vote.
I predict: low voter turnout -- big Obama victory.

Answer 24

Yes. She is a far right extremist who says hateful things with a smile.

John McCain is bad enough. Sarah Palin is downright dangerous.

I believe that we are a deeply divided country and that Sarah Palin and the speakers last night exacerbate that divide. If they are elected, this country is truly on a bad course.

What happens to the people who want to live and let live? The tolerant people? The normal people? We will be looking back longingly for the Bush years if that ticket is elected.