What it all comes down to with Palin is that she made one fatal mistake

[TwixVoy]

she entered the national stage and was naive enough to believe she actually belonged there. Then she broke the cardinal rule of a puppet candidate - she went against her handlers. Anyone remember the story that came out during the campaign that she went rogue and started shooting her mouth off about things her handlers had not approved before hand?

Now the republican powers that be are ending her career. She crossed them. Make no mistake about it. That's what it all boils down to.

[RandomThoughts]

1. I disagree with her politics.

But by that situation, if politicians go rogue on society by not doing what is best for society, would not the same situation happen to them?

[baldguy]

2. She revealed her EEVIIL PLAN TO CONQUER THE WORLD to the hero too soon.

[WeDidIt]

3. Bush played the game the way he was told to

and you see where it got him.

Going rogue just shows she has no business in high level politics.

[Marr]

I agree with you. For whatever reason; arrogance, stupidity,

a mixture of the two... Palin just seized on McCain's choice of her as the next big gift she was entitled to. She seems to have no perception of her own role in the scheme of things. It's just "me, me, me" all the time.

[Juche]

4. She didn't bet on black

The problem with people like Palin is that she believes the simplistic jargon the right wing uses to lead their followers. Some of the leaders of the GOP are fairly smart, cynical people (Cheney, Dent & Rove come to mind) who know the base of the GOP consists of dogmatic, superstitious people. However Palin is one of the dumb followers, not one of the cynical leaders and it scares the hell out of the real leaders of the GOP. Same thing happened to Huckabee when he started surging ahead, the GOP tried to tear him down. The useful idiots are to be led, not to be doing the leading.

They want a Romney (who uses simplistic language and always supports corporations first) to take over the GOP.

[stanwyck]

5. She's ending her own career. I doubt the Republicans with IQs over 100

have much respect for Palin, but they're not ending her career. Her mistakes are many. She accepted the offer of the VP slot without having even a basic understanding of our government. Her knowledge of world affairs is minimal. And yet she felt qualified to be next in line for president. She criticized Hillary Clinton for "whining" about her treatment by the media. Yet now she's whining about the media. She aligned herself with a man who made a cruel joke about then 14-yr. old Chelsea Clinton. And now she rants about jokes about her children. She didn't know what the Bush doctrine was "you mean his world view, Charlie?" She couldn't name one newspaper she reads consistently. She was for the road to nowhere before she was against it.
I don't walk into a hospital's emergency room and ask to be given a job as a surgeon. I wouldn't know where to start and people would end up hurt. Or worse. Yet Palin decided she was qualified to be second in line for the highest office in our country. Nevermind her glaring inadequacy for the job. Her disdain for Americans is so immense she really believes she's qualified.
One fatal mistake? More like 100.

[TwixVoy]

6. She APPEARS to be ending her own career

but I seriously doubt it is by her own choice.

I have a feeling the republican party leaders made it clear to her that it would be her own best interest to step down before they had to go and destroy her.

What it all boils down to is the fact that if she had shut her mouth during the campaign, did as she was told she would not have made enemies in her own party. Same as Bush. He shut his mouth and did as he was told thus they kept him in his puppet office. If he had gone rogue the same would have happened.

[Jade Fox]

7. That's what comes from deciding....

that everything that happens is God tellin' ya, "You go girl!".

She could've had a future (maybe) if she'd just said, "Thanks, but no thanks" when the clueless GOP showed up at her door offering something she couldn't begin to handle.

[BuyingThyme]

8. William Kristol is going to dump a shitloat of neocon money her way.

Don't count her out.

[spanone]

11. i think she's just getting started.

[opihimoimoi]

9. They learn nothing, think of nothing, and DO Nothing...The GOP and Palin both fucked up.

[applegrove]

10. I think some GOPers want her free from the governorship to make stump

speeches and stir up the base. Nobody else seems to be able to do that and the base (koolaid) needs to be stirred to keep freepers from realizing that life for people who don't happen to be rich is better under Obama and "good government".