CNN - "Palin: 'I am not a quitter; I am a fighter'"- Like Palin, Dems Who Quit, Are Really Fighters

[TomCADem]

We always have a steady stream of folks who dramatically announce that they are quitting the Democratic party, quitting on supporting Obama, quitting until President Obama or the Democrats immediately (insert list of demands)." This began in early March 2009 when the DOW dropped below 8,000 and folks started to worry that we were headed into a complete meltdown of our economic system, but it continued, with folks quitting because President Obama did not push single payer, or adopt some cause or another as their primary cause.

I am a bit naive, so I hope you bear with me. I was under the pollyanish view that when the going gets tough, than you need to work harder. My parents grew up dirt poor, and they worked really hard, and only started to take it a bit easy after their lives improved. The Civil Rights movement took place during an era of rampant segregation. Heck, on the right, the right wing tea baggers, seem most active when their party is out of power in Congress and the Presidency.

Yet, in the past few days, I was reminded once again on this Board of the power of apathy. Perhaps Sarah Palin is right. By quitting, she showed us the true fighter that she is. Those folks who quit on the Democratic Party, and refuse to participate in the system because they have tired "of the political bloodsport" to quote Ms. Palin, are showing their fighting spirit.

In contrast, those of us who are activists, who canvass for progressive candidates, write letters to members of Congress, and contribute to the campaigns of Democrats, are apparently the losers engaging in what Sarah Palin called "politics as usual." I must admit, I have never appreciated the nobility and purity of spirit of disengaging from our participatory system of democracy. Indeed, with the Supreme Court now allowing corporations to spend unlimited sums on campaigns, I would think that now is the time to unite and fight harder than ever before.

But, I am not Sarah Palin, and she apparently is a fighter, which is why she quit.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/07/palin.resignation/index.html

Palin: 'I am not a quitter; I am a fighter'

Sarah Palin's not a quitter, she wants the public to know.

"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.

[ChicagoSuz219]

1. Whatever... n/t

[TomCADem]

3. With the Supreme Court Ruling, Will The Pace Of "I Quit" Posts Accelerate?

And, by quitting, are we really showing our true fighting spirit ala Sarah Palin?

[groundloop]

2. Well, there's work to be done... but Palin?

I much prefer to quote John Belushi

Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!