It is - but the result is the same! If the person feels he/she can't govern (keep in mind, it's not a job, but a pubic service), then she acts accordingly for the benefit of her constituents. When she resigns, the lieutenant governor will step up (who has the same agenda as her).
Ann Coulter has predicted this paranoia around Palin right after she resigned. This is a funny article.:-D
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The same rules apply to Palin. We don't have rulers. We have stewards of the Constitution. Her role as a governor is gravely undermined by her enemies. And we as New Yorkers should be grateful that our own governor cannot do much as a politician as well.
She has a clear message and a principled, gutsy, folksy agenda. Now, she can get on the road and start talking or she can bury herself in an office unable to run the State because she has to write a long narrative about a STUPID FUCKING BOX.
Thanks for reading. I'm on vacation, but YOU go back to work - millions on welfare depend on you.

"(keep in mind, it's not a job, but a pubic service)"
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what exactly is the difference?

Thanks for reading. I'm on vacation, but YOU go back to work - millions on welfare depend on you.
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what they receive pales in comparison to corporate welfare.

Lina, so we don't flood this topic, won't you open a topic about corporate welfare? Educate us. I'd like to know how my tax dollars support those lazy, not working, drug addled, free housing & WIC checks receiving corporate fat cats.

no, I'd rather continue not flooding the topic by discussing the Obamas... and as for corporate welfare -that was certainly money well spent (H)

Isn't giving up your senate seat to become a President of the United States of America, different from quitting your job midterm?

Not all that different, if you consider that the senate seat was gained as the means for the candidacy and was never planned to be fulfilled in earnest.
Additionally, I feel that if you believe that the public post will benefit from your absence (as in an example when your job is so mired in controversy and media opposition) it is an honorable action ot hand over the post who will better suited to finish the job

honorable and selflessindeed, and has absolutely nothing to do with a rather lucrative book deal, touring the country and giving paid speeches, while sifting through high paying television and radio job offers... why the woman is practically a saint - only thinking of her constituents

This is a free country. Everybody can do whatever they whant to do.Sarah did whatwas good for her.
Shamless Hillary Clinton sneaked into United State Senate -representing New York State were she hasnever lived before and nobody would elect her in Arkansas.Now after bushing Obama in the presidential compain she works for him. You could call her Monica Clinton after that.

Now after bushing Obama

how does one bush Obama? :) Is that a play of words, or does our ex-pres now has a verb named after him? Sorry for flood