Can you imagine if Obama quit after being mocked for being a community organizer or because someone said something horrible about Michelle?
Politics is for tough cookies. It's about having the ability to withstand all the mud. I understand why Palin wouldn't want to be the target of the mudfest but that's why I'm not in politics. I couldn't take it for a day. Sometimes I get tired just blogging about it.
But Palin dove in where she didn't belong, slung some mud herself, then she quit. Then she went fishing.
"I am not a quitter. I am a fighter," Palin told CNN on Monday while on a family fishing trip, on the heels of her Friday bombshell announcement that she was resigning as Alaska's governor.
Palin did her interview standing on the shores of Dillingham, Alaska, wearing waders. She granted 10-minute interviews to CNN and three other news networks Monday.
She resigned because of the tremendous pressure, time and financial burden of a litany of ethics complaints in the past several months, she said. The complaints were without merit and took away from the job she wanted to do for Alaskans, Palin said. Read the whole thing at cnn.com
