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“WASILLA, Alaska - Sarah Palin plans to resign as governor of Alaska in a few weeks, KTUU-TV reported Friday.

Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008, made the announcement at her home Friday morning, the station said.

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will take over at the end of the month, KTUU reported.

With her at the announcement were Parnell and most of her cabinet.

There was no immediate word as to why she will step down before the end of her first term, though some have speculated in the past that she may be interested in running for president in 2012.”

This is already being torn apart by the liberal media that stepping down will hurt her as she will not finish her term. Let’s not forget that Obama didn’t finish his first term as Senator in order to run for President.

I’ve received an email from the Palin people who tell me that this move is in fact to run for President in 2012. Whether or not stepping down from the Governorship is a bad move will remain to be seen, but Sarah has always said that if her desires for national office got in the way of her job as Governor she’d quit.

I believe this makes sense.

Additionally, letters signed by Palin have been distributed in force in the last few weeks that ask for funds for her PAC.

Here’s her statement via email from her office..

“I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path,” said Governor Palin after the announcement. “Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional ‘Lame Duck’ status in this particular climate would just be another dose of ‘politics as usual,’ something I campaigned against and will always oppose. It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success. I look forward to helping others – to fight for our state and our country, and campaign for those who believe in smaller government, free enterprise, strong national security, support for our troops, and energy independence.”

The transfer of power will occur following the Governor’s picnic in Fairbanks on July 26. At that point in time, Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will be sworn in and Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will assume his role as Lieutenant Governor.

Governor Palin will spend July 4th in Juneau.Governor Sarah Palin announced today that she will not seek a second term as Governor of the State of Alaska and will relegate the power of governor to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell in order to serve Alaska’s best interests. Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will move into Parnell’s current role.

“People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing’s more important to me than our beloved Alaska,” said Governor Palin. “Serving her people is the greatest honor I could imagine.”

Standing outside her home in Wasilla, Alaska, Governor Palin reflected upon some of the administration’s accomplishments for Alaska as she approaches her final year in office.

“I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path,” said Governor Palin after the announcement. “Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional ‘Lame Duck’ status in this particular climate would just be another dose of ‘politics as usual,’ something I campaigned against and will always oppose. It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success. I look forward to helping others – to fight for our state and our country, and campaign for those who believe in smaller government, free enterprise, strong national security, support for our troops, and energy independence.”

The transfer of power will occur following the Governor’s picnic in Fairbanks on July 26. At that point in time, Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will be sworn in and Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will assume his role as Lieutenant Governor.

Governor Palin will spend July 4th in Juneau.”

One thing is for sure, the expected avalanche of lefty slobbering and speculation of why comes, it will only embolden her chances for President.

UPDATE: As to my friends on the right who say that stepping down from the Governorship kills her chances of becoming President let me remind them, NONE of them at the beginning thought Barack Obama would beat Hillary Clinton in the primaries much less win the Presidency.

We live in changing times. Fifteen months from now when the 2012 primaries ramp up Sarah Palin will be the front runner, you can mark those words.

UPDATE: Sarah’s speech is being played on Fox News now. I’ll have the video up shortly.

UPDATE: A political guru here in South Florida - a Democrat by the way - calls this a shrewd move, and even a smart move. Again, think of the attention span of the American people. A year and a half from now this will be a drop in the bucket as America mired in failed policies of Barack Obama look for someone to restore fiscal accountability and sanity.

Here’s the video.

By the way, I just contributed $100.00 to SarahPAC. Must have not been the only one, it took several times to access the site.

UDPATE: Byron York, as much of conservative blogging crowd, echo’s the left in saying that she needed to finish the term to give her bonafides to running for president.

Again, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, both inexperienced by far to have run for President, much less one of them actually getting there. Get a grip or shut up.

UPDATE: It will be on her Twitter site soon, but this is about 2012, and a surprise for detractors.

Via Mark Levin: “Palin is running for President, get used to it”.

Bill Kristol weighs in again.

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Imagine this:

“Randy Brinson, a conservative political consultant in Alabama, has been fielding anxious calls for weeks from business interests across the South.

Their concern is massive ad blitz on Christian and country-music stations across 10 states. The ads, funded by a left-leaning coalition, urge support for congressional legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions — by framing the issue as an urgent matter of Biblical morality.

“As our seas rise, crops wither and rivers run dry, God’s creation cries out for relief,” begins one ad, narrated by an evangelical megachurch pastor. Another opens with a reference to the Gospel of John, slams energy interests for fighting the bill, and concludes: “Please join the faithful in speaking out against the powerful.”

Here is a clue for the left, God doesn’t believe in “man-made” Global Warming. God-made yes. In fact they should be reminded that one day he will end the current word and remake it through - fire.

“But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with Yahweh (the Lord) as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Yahweh (the Lord) is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of Yahweh (the Lord) will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of Elohim (God), wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness (2 Pet 3:7-13).”

Now we don’t know when that day will arrive, and indeed most lefties don’t believe in God anyway and therefore this prophesy means nothing. Doesn’t make it any less true. Yet it tells us that God - not man - will determine that day.

After all the assaults of the godless left on God’s people over the last 40 years, they have a lot of gaul trying to use God for their political ends.

UPDATE: Bill Kristol gets it right, “You just saw the beginning of the 2012 Campaign”.

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At least from his last few - very few - positions on international conflict, it doesn’t seem that he is on ours. James Kirchick of the Daily News:

“President Barack Obama has made it clear that he does not want the United States to be seen as “meddling” in Iran’s internal politics. Never mind that the Islamic Republic has been “meddling” in our affairs for the past three decades, if such a bland word can be used to characterize the seizure of our embassy in 1979, the killing of 229 American servicemen in 1983 and the planting of roadside bombs to kill our soldiers in Iraq. The Obama administration apparently believes that words and actions in support for the Iranian people in their struggle against religious fascism will hurt their cause, even though the mullahs have never needed a pretext for blaming their self-inflicted wounds on the West.

The administration’s response to the events in Iran was predictable given its obsession with “engaging” a regime that shows no interest in returning the favor.

Yet while distancing ourselves from democratic forces in Iran under the guise of respect for that government’s sovereignty, we have been quite eager to “meddle” in the domestic politics of Honduras. Worse, we have wound up on the wrong side.

Last Sunday, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was awakened by soldiers who gave him a one-way ticket to exile in Costa Rica. What seemed like a prototypical Latin American military coup, however, was belied by the events leading to Zelaya’s departure. Like his chief backer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Zelaya was intent on rewriting his country’s constitution to abolish term limits.

Only the Honduran Congress, however, is legally capable of calling a constitutional convention. Unable to convince even his own ostensible legislative allies to support his scheme, Zelaya said he would implement a referendum unilaterally, and Chavez mailed the necessary ballots. When the country’s Supreme Court declared his actions unconstitutional and the country’s top military officer informed Zelaya that he would not carry out his orders to oversee a sham election, Zelaya fired him. Zelaya then led a mob of supporters - including armed thugs supplied by Chavez and Nicaraguan Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega - to try to steal the ballots.”

What took place in Honduras wasn’t an affront to democracy, it was in support of it. The soldiers acted in defense of their country, not in revolt of. So what does this tell us about Barack Obama?

Well nothing that is out of line with his true beliefs as a socialist. What he’s telling us here that once one is “democratically elected” they are then free to create whatever country and system of government they desire.

We’ve already seen this with the government takeover of banks and car companies, all private or public companies, which many experts find a violation of the Constitution and an overstep of his authority. So in essence we’ve already seen his desire to increase his power.

Remember during the campaign, at his Inauguration and even on his 100th day of how he talked of “Remaking America”, as if we needed to toss the whole thing and start over? Imagine if a Republican had said that? Indeed imagine if any conservative had said that?

However, it is no secret in itself, Obama’s position on remaking America as liberals have been trying to do just that for the last 40 years, and now with the most leftwing of their party as President they have their greatest chance.

But think of how slick he’s been so far. For instance, enacting legislation that boarders impeachable offense - such as the taking of treasury money to buy stock, again considered by many experts to be a violation of the Constitution and therefore his oath. Or of detailing our classified national security secrets to the wor

So where are the calls for his ouster? His impeachment? Had this been Bush or even McCain taking such actions lefties would be screaming from the rooftops. But alas silence.

Americans - true Americans - need to keep a special eye on President Obama, or else risk a time when his unconstitutional grabs for power get past the point of no return. Our constitution also provides the solution for that, and I hope our elected leaders - on both sides of the isle - remember that.

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Significant for the GOP in 2010.

“President Barack Obama’s first five months in office have seen his job approval remain stable overall - currently at a politically healthy 57 - 33 percent, but his disapproval has risen 8 - 10 points among several key demographic groups even as the national mood has improved somewhat in recent months, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.

Approval among independent voters is 52 - 37 percent, compared to 57 - 30 percent in a June 4 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. The survey of more than 3,000 voters also finds that voters feel 32 - 30 percent that things in the nation have gotten better since President Obama was inaugurated. Independent voters say 32 - 27 percent that things are worse, with 40 percent saying things are the same.

“Those who liked President Obama the most from the start - African-Americans, Democrats, women - still like him by the same margins, but a chunk of voters who were undecided have decided he’s not their cup of tea,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “Among independents, men, white Catholics, white evangelical Christians and Republicans, his numbers have fallen. He still has a ways to go before his coalition becomes politically unstable, but there are some groups and issues - especially the economy - where he needs to make sure this trend does not continue.”

This of course doesn’t tell the whole story. As I often cite Rassmussen’s excellent daily tracking poll that shows Obama at a -2 when you compare the strongly approve vs the strongly disapprove.

As those unemployment numbers increase and the economy continues to tank the disapproval will increase. This of course is good news for our prospects in 2010. As I’ve been saying we ought to take a play out of the democrat’s playbook and use Obama’s decrease in popularity as a club to beat down democrats in key races. The democrats did this with Bush during the 2006, 2008 elections. Yet the economy is no where near the shambles it is today and will be in the coming months.

It’s time to begin sticking the label of “free spending, tax increasing liberal” on every Democrat up for reelection. In light of the gloomy circumstances it will stick.

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First, as you all know, from my stories of my wife’s cancer struggles and healthcare stories, they are indeed emotional and trying times. So why then does Obama have to stage a sad story to prop up his trillion dollar health care proposal? During a so-called townhall meeting today in Annandale Va today he called up a seemingly unknown from the audience to share their sad tale. John at Powerline picks it up:

“What followed was, nevertheless, a tear-jerker. The woman told a story of woe about having kidney cancer and being unable to obtain health insurance. The high point came when Obama gave her a hug and, to applause from the audience, promised to find a way to help her.

Following their colloquy, Obama reinforced the idea that he didn’t know who she was:

OBAMA: But what was your name again?

QUESTION: My name is Debbie. I’m…

OBAMA: Debbie is a perfect example of somebody who we should, in a country this wealthy, be able to provide coverage for her health care problems. … So, Debbie, you are Exhibit A, and we appreciate you serving — sharing our story.

So: who, exactly, was Exhibit A? The Associated Press has a little more information:

President Barack Obama wanted to put a human face on his plans to overhaul health care, and a Virginia supporter did just that Wednesday. Fighting back tears, Debby Smith, 53, told Obama of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job.

The president hugged her–she’s a volunteer for his political operation–and called her “exhibit A” in an unsustainable system that is too expensive and complex for millions of Americans. …

Smith, of Appalachia, Va., is a volunteer for Organizing for America, Obama’s political operation within the Democratic National Committee. She obtained her ticket through the White House.

Well now, she could have just called the Washington Post, I’m sure they could have made all the arraignments!

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