Via the AP: Palin links resignation to ‘higher calling’
in a statement posted on Palin’s Facebook account, she suggested that she had bigger plans and a national agenda she planned to push after she resigns at the end of the month.“I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint,” she said.
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“How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country,” the statement said. “And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.”
The above statement was confirmed as authentic by her spokesperson according to the story.
Unless she is joining the ministry, talk about a “higher calling’ certainly sounds like she is planning on staying in politics and seeking the GOP nomination for 2012. Still, one wonders why she feels the need to be so cryptic. I understand that there are reasons linked to campaign finance rules to avoid a formal announcement, but gee whiz: they don’t require this type of vagueness, either. And why do all of this on a holiday weekend if one is looking to a “higher calling”? It is all quite weird.
And really, at some point she is going to have to give up that victim-of-the-media routine. I know it plays well with some of her supporters, but at some point it starts to sound like whining–not to mention the fact that if one wants to be President one has to be able to handle a critical press.
Also: I hate to tell her, but the questions about her early departure from the governor’s office of Alaska are not a liberal media construct. The reaction to it has been widespread, almost universally negative and not limited at all to the mainstream press or even liberal outlets.
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July 5th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
I have never understood the term higher calling. It seems to be associated more with the conservatives and egotists rather than down to earth liberals. Does it actually mean that God actually comes and tells them what they should be doing like the time when “God” told George W.Bush to invade Iraq? If you notice these “Higher Callings” seems to always happen to people who talk to themselves, who are preoccupied with themselves and slightly delusional. A Borderline personality disorder is another terminology that comes to my mind.