Sarah Palin on quitting

July 12, 1:17 PMUS Headlines ExaminerCharisse Van Horn

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Is Sarah Palin a quitter? This is the question that was asked by CNN correspondent, Drew Griffin. After Sarah Palin announced her resignation on July 3, 2009, her fans have supporter her and her critics have asked one simply question, “Why”. Many of her critics have also selected another word to describe Sarah Palin: quitter. Drew Griffin asked Sarah Palin whether or not she was a quitter. Here is the conversation and Sarah Palin’s response.

Drew Griffin: When I first met your dad, the one thing he will me about you was how tough you were. And no matter what was coming down the pike, Sarah could handle it.

Sarah Palin: Yes, yes.

Drew Griffin: Did this prove tougher than you thought?

Sarah Palin: Now what has proven tough has been making this decision, because it's a decision that I did not make lightly. It was careful consideration before I made the decision. And it's tough to take a tougher road, a less comfortable road. The comfortable road for most politicians is you just hang in there, kind of go with the flow. And especially through a lame duck session.

Yes, you know, you're not going to get anything done. But hey, you take advantage of it. You go do what you want to do. You're finally here. Tough has been no, I'm not going to take that comfortable path. I'm going to take the right path for the state. I'm going to let this state progress. And then I'm going to be able to get out there and help people, help affect change in our state and positive in our nation. That is my goal, help me to work for other people to do such a thing. And I don't need a title to do that. And they don't need titles either to affect change, but I want to help people who want to fight for the right things.

Drew Griffin: But governor, if that is the right road for Alaska...

Sarah Palin: Yeah.

Drew Griffin: …is it the dangerous road for you to be labeled in this land of tough people a quitter?

Sarah Palin: I'm certainly not a quitter. I'm a fighter. And that's why I'm doing this, to go out there and fight for what is right without the constrains that have been surrounding me in these final months. And anybody who lives in Alaska will tell you of course our administration has been paralyzed. We spend most of our day fending off frivolous lawsuits.

Let me give you an example. Two years ago I was out here commercial fishing. We've been doing this for decades. Out here commercial fishing, I catch a fish, so I hold the fish up . Somebody snaps a picture of it. That picture was used on our state seafood marketing ad. I was hit with an ethics violation for being in an ad for the state seafood marketing. The ethics violation charges have been absolutely ridiculous. And I'll leave it up to my attorney to keep fighting those and keep winning those, because we haven't violated the ethics code that I championed as a matter of fact when we got in here.

So no, it's not a matter of retreating or quitting. It's a matter of progressing and forwarding a good, positive agenda in an unconventional way. And I think that's what caught people off guard is wait a minute, it's kind of out of the box and unconventional. Well, that is who we are as Alaskans. That's certainly how I am as a public servant, as a person very proud of my state, seen great potential in my state. Unconventional in the way that we're getting things done, but we certainly are getting those things done.

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