Palin: She had to quit because "opposition researchers were making crap up"

[tj2001]

Route to resignation: Palin's political, personal turmoil
By Jim Rutenberg And Serge F. Kovaleski

In late March, a senior official from the Republican Governors Association headed for Alaska on a secret mission. Sarah Palin was beset by such political and personal turmoil that some powerful supporters determined an intervention was needed to pull her governorship, and her national future, back from the brink. The official, the association's executive director, Nick Ayers, arrived with a memorandum containing firm counsel, according to several people who know its details...

Like so much of the advice sent Palin's way by influential supporters, it appeared to be happily received and then largely discarded, barely slowing what was, in retrospect, an inexorable march toward the resignation she announced 10 days ago...

Her growing list of detractors quickly signaled that they were not impressed with her celebrity status. "We had business to do," said state Rep. Nancy Dahlstrom, a Republican who had worked on Palin's 2006 race for governor. "It's not all about adoration."

Late last week, as her sport utility vehicle made its way through the town of McGrath, Palin said in an interview that the seeds of her resignation had been planted the morning McCain named her as his vice-presidential choice.

"It began when we started really looking at the conditions that had so drastically changed on Aug. 29," she said. "The hordes of opposition researchers came up here digging for dirt for political reasons, making crap up."

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[hobbit709]

1. "digging for dirt for political reasons, making crap up

Right! Facts are just so inconvenient at times.

[Mike Daniels]

6. Wait until her opponents for the Republican nomination start releasing their dirt

If she thought it was rough when she was handed the gift of the VP nomination she's going to be in for a shock when Romney and Huckabee unleash their hellhounds to keep her from getting the nomination for 2012.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Oh the poor oppressed white christian conservative

Oh sarah, you provide way too much material for anyone to have to make "crap" up. You are a walking talking septic tank.

On that brilliant right wing radio program hosted by the alcoholic failure of a human being who can cry at the drop of a hate, palin quit "because she gets it."

[bobburgster]

10. You said it best!

Oh sarah, you provide way too much material for anyone to have to make "crap" up. You are a walking talking septic tank.

[louis-t]

3. The RGA's ED is named Ayers? Oh dear......

Seems more and more of her "detractors" are repugs.

[gratuitous]

4. She couldn't stand the heat, and got out of the kitchen

What's baffling is her self-justifying whiny rationale, repeated verbatim and without criticism by a whole bunch of talking chuckleheads who know better. Marie Cocco had a typically stupid column over the weekend crying about the sexism underlying so much of the criticism leveled against Sarah Palin. No Marie, it's not sexist to make fun of someone who answers "all of them" to the question of what newspapers she reads, and who can't identify one single solitary masthead of "all" the myriad newspapers she wades through every day.

[yellowcanine]

5. Milking that victim status for all it's worth. I thought Republicans were all about personal

responsibility. I guess they are until they aren't.

[lpbk2713]

7. No one needed to make up anything about Failin & Bailin Palin

In her case, truth was really stranger than fiction.

[Tanuki]

9. That pic reminds me of....

[no_hypocrisy]

8. A new day, a new excuse.

What's she up to folks?