This was her speech much delayed by the McCain McCeystone McCops who wouldn't let her speak.

Now this may be complicated for most liberals to comprehend. I had enough trouble trying to understand as mothers try to explain it, what with the slurring and the occasional highball glass whizzing by my head.

Do you really think she was only talking about Alaska. She is national now. She is leaving the governor's office because she would eventually become a lame duck. Sarah Palin would have and has already in a sense won in 2012 against Obamba. It's just that once she has won, which she would with no problem, winning every state with huge margins, she would in a sense become a lame duck then as well. And because being a lame duck is so literally lame (not handicapped literal but stupid literal) and you really can't do anything and you can't really make any money on the speaker's circuit since you are the President and can't really charge France a speaker's fee,

Sarah Palin has skipped all that lame duckery and gone right to business of being an ex-president and reigning statesman of her party. Now, maybe she can get things done.

Things that don't include the job she was elected to do. What a shameful display of support for attention-whoring.

Is every woman politician a whore in your opinion or just Sarah Palin?

Just Palin.

One does not have to be female to be an attention whore.

For example, Newt Gingrich is every bit as much an attention whore as Palin.

She doesn't seem particularly whorish in my opinion. She is a devoted wife and mother and a devout Christian. Her entire background has been examined with a magnifying glass and the worst that could be found is that she brought her kids along on state business trips. The level of viciousness and rage in the attacks against Palin have a real archetypal misogyny.

Obviously you don't understand the use of comparison. She not literally a whore, but she does sell herself and her family for publicity.

Misogyny is when women support silly, air-headed women simply because they are women. Every politician has had his or her background examined, but since Mrs. Palin chose to bring her unwed, pregnant daughter and her lover to the convention, she has no right to weep when they are talked about. Why any self respecting woman who cared about women would defend this woman is beyond me. I worked my entire career in predominately male fields and I never quit and never expected to be given a bye. I did what women do best, worked by ass off.

So, when Mrs. Palin stops blaming everyone else and gets down to business and actually accomplishes something I might defend her. Until then, shame on you for sticking up for a woman who has set back the hard work of women in this country.

What a crock. She has already accomplished as much as Obama did before he was elected President, if not more. What we have here is a classic double standard. Obama asks that his family be off limits and the press complies willingly while at the very same time going after Palin's family often with unfounded rumors and outright lies. For all the venom of the attacks and the combined weight and effort of the DNC and the national press, the only charge that could be made to stick on Gov. Palin is that she took her kids on state business trips.

When you accept a job, especially as important as being governor, you also accept the responsibility to see it through, regardless of your private aspirations.

Should every governor not wanting to be a lame duck because it’s no fun quit?

I think not, dear. Is she a Constitutional Scholar? Does she have more than a BA? Did she get better than average grades? Did she do anything in school that showed her willingness to serve, such as edit a school paper? Did she do any volunteer work before she decided to run for office? Did she organize parents at her children's schools or raise funds?

What exactly has she done for Alaska? The things she talked about in her speech were often not her ideas. What new ideas has she had? What does she propose for America specifically to support her stated goals for America?

Obama did ask that his family be off limits but he hasn't made his family the cornerstone of his campaign or his presidency as Mrs. Palin has. I noted that at the WaPo posters regularly call his daughters whores and his wife an ape. I don't' see him quitting and complaining. Politics has always been this way.

It is you addled brain that tells you President Obama has "gone after" Mrs. Palin's family. Please be specific about that. What has he done? You are spreading rumors and that makes you as bad as the so-called MSM.

Ethics is ethics. If you violate ethics codes then you are as unethical as everyone else. You give great latitude to Mrs. Palin that you don't give to others. I'll bet you weren't saying that the only thing they found Clinton guilty of was one lie.

You have skirted the issue of Mrs. Palin's incompetency. She is simply an intellectual lightweight. We've been down this road before with George W. Bush. Oh, yes, a C student but with native intelligence and uncommon common sense. Yeah, right. I don't want another good-old-boy or gal in the White House. President Obama can run intellectual rings around Mrs. Palin. Hell, I can run intellectual rings around her. What I don't have is a desire to be a media whore.

Obama did not insist that his family be off limits. He insisted that Palin's family be off limits.

And a fat lot of good that did. Obama has been ineffectual in protecting Palin from media scrutiny since day one. Where was he when Katie Couric slapped her around like the offspring of two highly disturbed individuals with crippling delusions of grandeur coupled with a fondness for vodka and cough syrup? Where was he when Levi dumped Bristol and told everyone that he wasn't allowed near his son? And most importantly, where was he when the media was attacking her for claiming that he hung out with terrorists?

He really should be ashamed of himself for causing all the pain that Sarah Palin has had to absorb. Thank God she won and she was able to resign before 2012 came about or he would be a real asshole.

It really is about Obama, isn't it? Palin had the nerve to call him out on his far left associations, former terrorists in fact, and she was the only one who had the guts to do it. Now of course it is obvious where Obama's heart lies, in particular his condemnation of the governments actions in Honduras where he sided with soul mates Castro and Chavez. This so called Constitutional scholar is well on his way to undermining our monetary system and eventually our government with his reckless and imprudent spending bills. His pet projects like the abysmal cap and trade bill have all been power grabs, actively hostile to free enterprise and atomic miracle grow fertilizer for the federal beaurocracy. If cap and trade passes, you will all stare in horror as this economy collapses like a 1000 lb pumpkin this October.

Funny how you can't actually come up with a defense of Palin that doesn't involve bashing Obama.

But nice of you to try to dodge the simple fact that it was Obama who asked people to leave her family alone. Pathetic that people like you can't extend the same courtesy to his family.

Who said anything about Obama's family? I had an epiphany after reading this commentary from you people this evening, which is that Palin was probably right to have stepped down as Governor. This silly small minded back biting and rumor mongering was what she was facing everyday and it really is a complete waste of time trying to combat this. Let histroy decide and move on to more important task, whether that be running for Pres or raising one's kids. Battling the mockers of world is futile and soul depleting. Her Lieutenant Gov. can carry on the Republican adminstration. She would be a true egoist if she thought the State of Alaska could not go on without her.