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Well golly gee wow... thought if I would resign I couldn't be held accountable for anything I did while Governor. Jeesh....

I'd love for her to run again for any office. First question her opponent should ask is "If things get tough, will be you resign and run away... AGAIN". A waste of Alaskan tax payers money was her paycheck the last couple of months.

Mike: Normal, everyday people don't:

- quit when the going gets tough (higher calling – right!)
- steal from their employer (illegally taking a per diem from the people of Alaska)
- incite people to do violence against people they disagree with ("Kill him!" at her rallies)

I also desperately hope that most Americans are smarter than Palin.

No, Palin isn't normal; she's a deluded narcissist who runs away from problems and loves to cast herself as a victim.

Palin is making it look easy for Dems to bring down Republicans. Just filing a bunch of lawsuits and ethics complaints is all it takes to force a Governor to resign these days? WOW! What are we waiting for?

She is a good person. That really bugs those libs.

Hey, I disapprove of public officials wearing advertising at public events. I don't want my governor endorsing a particular brand of cell phone or clothing. This is pretty basic. There are plenty of clothes without visible advertising on them.

Next, we'll see cell phone commercials on the screen while we're trying to vote.

Ethics complaints will continue to dog Palin as long as she keeps trying to get away with things that she knows are wrong! She has no ethics herself, so she shouldn't be surprised that she keeps getting caught! Why is so hard for politicians to be honest?

So she WANTED this law making these claims easier but now wants to dodge them and says they're too expensive for the State's coffers.

Makes you wonder about all her other "plans" and "directions for our Country".... doesn't it?

A Quitter is a Quitter is a Quitter.

Another great comment section from clearly the uneducated. Does anyone know how many of these ethics violations have been thrown out. . . .ALL OF THEM. They are garbage. They are a mosquito, annoying and costing her personally $500,000. If a repubican was doing this to Hillary, all of you liberal lemmings would be screaming bloody murder. One of these ethics complaints is regarding a jacket logo that the governor wore. Another, that she took her kids with her for work, and the cost was given to the State. She has since paid out of pocket. Did Obama pay out of pocket for bringing his kids to Russia? I would bet not. Someone needs to file an ethics complaint against him.

Sarah Palin and her staff should be investigated and prosecuted if found to be in violation of the law. That's how it works. If there is not cause then there will be no prosecution. There certainly should be still penalties, including jail time, if convicted. NOBODY is above the law, unless they have a lot of money and political influence.

she plays such a victim.

I thought the only difference between Sarah Palin and a pitbull was lipstick. I guess that only holds true when you're given a nasty speech to say in front of an adoring crowd (sneer sneer, wink wink).

Out in the big, bad real world, a better description of her would be ...a scare, whiny mouse.

Gosh....will this woman ever go away!..please..she is a moron...by her own parties standards a s well. the repulbicans have filed plenty of ethics complaints against her...she is star struck...loves the media attention and to dumb to realize she is being laughed at and not with!........the coverage of her needs to stop! there is real news happening out there to report...and it's not the has been governor of alaska~

John, if Palin is an example of a political giant in this country then our status as a super-power is very shaky.

I wished they would have investigated the many Obama – Rezko ethic issues with such zeal!
Don't worry libs Sarah is not going to infringe on your right to kill babies . Your right to try to eliminate all religion and God will also be protected.

After all the dems are the Party of Atheism – Anti-God -Pro-abortion and Pro-Drugs.
A house built on that kind of foundation will surely crumble.

We all know that ethics complaints are no big deal if you are a Republican. If she was a Democrat, the hypocrites in the GOP would be blowing a gasket.

To all you Palin groupies. She's all your's now. As of July 26, she will be free as a bird, fired up and ready to go. Without any leadership in the GOP, I imagine she will be hard to contain. Good luck keeping her on message. I wonder who really fears her the most right now: the GOP or the Dems? I'm guessing the GOP.

Remember how Sarah Palin blasted Obama for writing a couple books? If writing a book is such a bad thing, why'd she ink the deal? (Can you say money?)

Her book deal is such a demanding assignment that, even with a ghost writer doing the majority of the work (since we all know she can't write), she had to quit her job as governor so she can do it.

What a lightweight!

Lets not forget people, she has quit every single post she has ever held. She has never completed one, not one post. She left the Wasilla council to run for Mayor of Wasilla, she quit Mayor to be head of that energy group, she quit that to run for Governor, and now quit the Governorship to, well, get rich and stay in the limelight.
Pathetic.

But there aren't any ethics complaints, Sarah said so! So that makes it true right?

Sarah use the "Force" leave the dark side of politics and join us as the Libertarian you truely are. We will help you on your quest to restore Freedom and Liberty to our nation again.

Suckerpunch by Obama: No, I get my information about Sarah Palin from reading her Web site and watching the videos she has posted there.

- She can't write or speak correct English, even though she has a degree in Journalism
- She loves to play the victim card
- She's a nasty woman with a Mean Girls high school mentality
- She professes to be a Christian, but doesn't follow Christ's teachings of forgiveness, compassion, tolerance and love
- She is ignorant of the world around her
- She has a huge ego, which leads her to make silly decisions (like quitting before she's completed her elected term as governor to serve a "higher calling" – so that's what they call a book deal these days).

I think shes the greatest thing since cornbread.

It is very ironic that when this woman breaks ethics laws......she is defended by the GOP lovers as 'persecuted' and 'a victim of the horrible liberal press'.....even though she is billing the state for personal expenses.........yet the same people will decry any Democrat they suspect of doing the exact same action......

These GOP Palin lovers should realize that by the time she tries to run for President (if she is that selfishly motivated at the expense of the GOP).......she will be dragging more baggage behind her than Jacob Marley's chain he forged in life in Dicken's Christmas Carol! Beware the Baggage!

Okay, I don't like Sarah Palin – never have and probably never will, but even I agree that some of these "ethics" violations are STUPID. I do believe that Governor Palin should not get per diem funds for choosing to live in Wasilla instead of Juneau. That was her choice and she should accept those expenses as her own. That being said – if the constitution of Alaska allows a sitting governor to live elsewhere other than the capitol, then the state might have to eat those funds. One thing I strongly believe is that if an ethics violation is brought, such as the outrageous one about her wearing a jacket with a logo, then the person who brought the violation should have to pay the legal fees if the governor is cleared of the charges. Let's pick our battles folks. There is no reason that the taxpayers should pay for the governor's misdeeds, nor should the governor have to pay for a taxpayer's petty complaints.

First, I fear that Palin will actually run for president in 2012 mainly because she would make a complete joke out of America.

However, she would make it SO MUCH EASIER for people to re-elect Obama even if he could not achieve all of his promises in his first term.

This woman is so thick-skinned that no matter what you do I can guarantee she will not disappear. She believes in the significance of her existence in politics. "Significance"? Well she does make me laugh, and she does make you realize how important it is to pick a candidate with intellect. So whatever she says or represents, just intelligently believe in the opposite or else you might end up in the same boat as this obnoxious lady.

Winners NEVER quit, quitters NEVER win! Ya Betcha..wink wink

come on ,it is a no brainer that reason sara palin resigned is because she is corrupt,more will come out each day.why is this a news flash, this former gov. is finished,and so the gop. we are tired of lies and nonsense,the gop is the playground party of fools. 2010 a landslide for the party of the people,(the obamacrats).

She covertly 'moved' the capitol to Anchorage and maintains her office there, only visiting Juneau when absolutely necessary. So she has a 40 mile commute from her home in Wasilla. The per diem system set up in Alaska is meant for workers who must travel outside of their home base and this just doesn't count. Sorry, Sarah, but I've thought all along that you were cheating when you claim per diem while in Wasilla. It's just wrong and you should have stopped it when you set up shop so close to home.

It is not like random people are suddenly making stuff up and causing these ethic investigations. Before an investigation starts there has to be some evidence that supports a violation.

I can't just say "hey I think Sara is unethical" and boom there is another costly investigation. No I need to offer up some evidence before an investigation will be started.

Geez...no wonder the Republicans are so religious. They have sins to confess on a daily basis.

The GOP has been beaten to a stand still. They have been whooped in the Senate and trounced in the House. The talent differential is mind boggling. Obama's victory was a landslide when you consider a Jr. Sen. destroyed a Sr. Sen. who is a war hero. And now we are taking over the Court. This is why the GOP is so happy to see that only 70% of the voters said said the president is a strong and decisive leader instead of 80%. You know you are a looser when your only argument for why you should be elected is because the other guys have everything. No matter how good or bad Obama does in office the right will never be able to erase the fact that a Blackman stomped the entire GOP by not only beating a nice clean war hero, but also ushered in a congress with a bulletproof majority! You guys go whooped

It is up to a greater power than just Palin stating "we haven't violated the ethics code." We have come to know Sarah and when Sarah speaks, it isn't worth much.

How can you be a good point guard when you quit at the start of the second half of the game (term)? Sarah Palin would be benched if I was coaching. She likely wouldn't win another term as governor anyway, so why play? What a disgrace!

Poor, poor Sarah. She opens her mouth and everyone jumps down her throat. Why? It's just too easy. If she had anything intelligent to say, it wouldn't matter, but unfortunately, she comes across as unwitting, unintelligent and scatter-brained. Neither she, nor her handlers know how to stage a news conference and it shows.

Poor Sarah, once again blaming someone for coming after her...she's so pathetic

This is how the dems deal with people they don't agree with? They nitpick them out of office over "small potatoes."

Funny they are so concerned about her spending while Obama spends 888 billion in stimulus money. Most of which is going to pay back his political allies. Then he brings his entire family all over the world.

Make any excuses you want, the behavior by these dems is disgusting and you really have no high ground in this argument!

palin is a slippery slope. no one will ever be able to nail her on any wrong doing, not alaskan law enforcement, not the fbi, not the cia.

If she's innocent, she's got nothing to worry about and should quit complaining. Baseless claims generally get dismissed pretty quickly.

Geez, she's a whiner!

Where is she staying now? Is Alaska paying for her move of items from the office where she work to her home?

The courts will figure out whether these allegations are true. Part and parcel of being a politician. If you can't stand the heat ...

She has brought this all on her own with her self righteous indignation. Her constant whining about being picked on is just fodder for people out to get her. Only problem is before she was a candidate for VP, noone cared a rats behind what happened in Alaska including it's politics. Now her ethics are being called into question every day. I guess she should have been vetted a little better last year. Don'tcha think? wink wink.

Barbara: If Palin wants to be left alone, she should choose a less public profession than politician. It's nuts to speak publically, propose ideas and criticize others and not expect any feedback.

We have the First Amendment, which includes freedom of speech and the press. These provisions were explicitly stated in our Constitution to guarantee a ruling monarch, religious figure or military leader could not control the people.

If Sarah Palin wants to be able to say and do as she pleases without consequence, then she either needs to retire from public life or go set herself up as the leader of an autocratic country. (May if Alaska sucedes, they'll elect her Queen.)

I think she got in way over her head. If McCain had picked Ridge, who grew up poor in a project, and was a Marine hero, he would have won. Oh? I forgot. Ridge was Pro Choice and the Right told McCain they would stay home. The Right is so wrong so often it's funny. The real problem with Sarah is her lack of fundamental knowledge about the Constiution, the Supreme Court, important cases other than Roe v. Wade [Sarah: go back to Wasila Community College and learn about Brown v. Bd. of Ed and Miranda and Marbury v. Madison, etc]. We need a national leader who is bright, articulate and who cares about ALL of us. Let's all pray no harm comes to this President.

So much news worthy events going on around the world and we're still reading about this non-relevant fruit cake...

Palin should counter sue the wolves that are going after her. They know she is a political giant in the country and they are scared of her.

She just needs to make some money and move on. As a money making Republican myself why not. Write a book and do the speaking gig and rake it in. Funny how Obama's wife and kids can take sightseeing tours on jets that take $10K an hour to operate and not a word is spoken. How telling.

Cheez Wiz – Real intelligent comment you got there!! Can't stand a normal down to earth person, you prefer great telepromter speaker.

Politics of personal destruction?
Hmmmmmmm, security had to be strengthened during the Presidential campaign after little Ms. Palin proceeded to play the politics of personal destruction with President Obamas life.

Palls around with terrorists(that statement put together with his middle name was a recipe for disaster)
Who is he really?
He's not like us

Sarah, when you stir fear and hatred that put a man's life at risk(a man with a wife and two children who love him), then you best be able to take any heat coming your way. You were disgusting during the campaign. When you said the words "Community Organizer" with disdain in your voice , you disrespected many Americans who are in the trenches trying to make a difference. Eff you.

If you claim that Sarah Palin is smart you automatically lose all credibility in your post. The End!

@ andy...
if you really believe that statement you made about libs being afraid of Sarah Palin is true I got some swamp land here in Texas I KNOW I can get you a good price on.

Poor, poor Sarah. She just does not know the first thing about being a public servant. She and her milquetoast hubbie should just disappear. The whole world would be a better place for all of us.

Why don't all the republicans try and form their own nation perhaps in the South East US somewhere ? That way they can remain even more isolated from the World and run their own brand of pseudo totalitarian control ? They always speak of "fighting against big government" and issues like that but as soon as you bring up issues like oppossing war and religious tolerance they get all fascist on you and claim you are not a true Roman –err American.

Repubiclan extremism and religious extremism – be it Christian fundamentalist or islamic is going the the way of the dodo in a world moving towards harmony and peace.

Palin has the intellectual power of a stump and a civics education of a 2nd grader – No wonder she has a loyal following in the GOP "base". Actually, they should be labeled as "GOP baseless" for clarity.
Remember "base", a vote for Palin will help elect dems with a brain so "Balin' Palin In 2012!"
You betcha'...

What a useless person. Stay home in Alaska.

Go Sarah Go! Gotta love that this is stirring up all those idiots who get their news from Saturday night live!!

When I was growing up; women like Sara were called AIR HEADS!!!!!

Note that several of these complaints came from a Republican. There is plenty of hatred for Palin on both sides in AK, which has to be a big reason for quitting. By the way there is nothing trivial about billing the state for travel – the per diem expense – when staying at home. That would result in an instant termination at my employer.

When you live in a glass house and have a glass chin one shouldn't throw stones. Run with the big dogs or stay on the porch.

What they are doing to this woman is disgusting. Filing ethics complaints because there was a logo on her clothing. My god, we could go after Obama everyday. He was wearing Lands End the other day. Regardless of if you are a D or R, or if you like Palin or not, you have to admit they are destroying this woman thru frivolous lawsuits. That is wrong.

TMC
I think you have a secret crush on President Obama. Your ramblings make no real points.......just pure nonsense

awaitingliberaliztion,

I'm sorry, but do you not see the ironic hypocrisy in your misguided contempt? If you want someone to extend you or Palin respect, perhaps it starts with treating others with that same respect first. Just a suggestion.

"Ye reap what ye sow."

I just love how she frightens all you Dems so bad. Especially the women. All you women just freak out. Go look up the definition of hysterical and where it comes from. Clearly they had Dem women in mind. Lack of focus and inability to put together a logical argument.

What happened to the pit-bull with lipstick? She now appears more like a whipped govt. mule…She acted like a racist bully during her weak campaign for Vice President...but everyone knows that a bully is nothing than a coward and a weakling – no matter how ‘pretty’ and ‘Christian’ you are.

The sexy pageant one-piece, wink, smile and folksy white trash redneck trailer jargon only worked for a little while. She’s yesterday trash queen and yesterday’s news.

Lefties tactical play book says to keep them off balance by using all means available. The content of most of the ethics vilolations were garbage and found to be without merit. I may not agree with her quitting....but I certainly understand it.

Liberal Schmiberal. What does the media being liberal have to do with Palin's questionable ethics, weak education and lack of serious qualifications to be the president of a school board let alone the USA?

Why are the conservative defending this cotton headed ninny muggins? Surely the GOP can come up with a good looking, "SMART" person and not just someone that can read off a teleprompter.

At this point the GOP could not pop a boner. All this "but what about Obama, and they don't like us cause were are GOP" is part of why the homos feel like they can move on you now. The GOP is weak!

Andy
With all her smarts and ability. Why did she quit?......Afraid of her?,,,,,,,,,,,I don't think so.......Most of the Dems are smarter then her....I think you're thinking with the wrong head.

no ethical problems with this straight laced evangilical christian, surprise, surprise

She's an uppity woman! How dare she leave the kitchen and pursue politics. Even worse – REPUBLICAN politics!

Sexism is the most at home in the Democratic Party – they can pretend to be PC while crucifying her for being a woman.

i hope sarah does run for the presidential nominee in the gop. the others especially romney will eat her alive. she will never make it out of the gate and will hopefully learn early that she is not qualified to do anything except hate speeches against president obama. it will take her running against her own party to realize she is not smart enough to be president.romney jindel,pawlenty and especially gulliani will boil her in oil. this will make for perfect TV in 2012. can't wait to see self distruction for sarah.

She cut and ran; forget about her.

TCM/July 9th, 2009 11:28 am ET–someone should investigate the rampant filings of complaints; these are liberal-driven, and the people complaining will hopefully be punished. On another note, CNN should do some stories about the lack of ethics going on in the Obama administration….illegal firing of Walpin, Stim money doled out to Obama-favorable districts in amounts far exceeding McCain districts…the unethical appointment of numerous Czars (now 34, next highest amount by a president was 5) to carry on "end-runs," of congress to achieve Obama's socialistic dismantling of this country….although, some are getting clued in; as representative of the latest Rasmussen report, Obama down another 3, that's -8 in the past two days…and this isn't some Keating Holland CNN Research Poll…asking only 1020 people…: SO I guess this person McLeod A REGISTERED REPUBLICAN who has filed 4 complaints against the lipstick FIDO is "liberal driven"?? Get a clue

In all, state officials say they have spent $1,963,840 to answer records requests from the ethics filings and to respond in other ways to them. Records show that since January 1, 2008, the state has spent $296,043 on such investigations.

That leaves $1667797. That was there before she hit the National stage in Aug 08. So how is that a dem thing? Sounds like shes been screwing Alaska long before we got to meet her.

I still laugh when I hear. " I didn't do anything wrong, but I'm gonna pay it back"
You sure your not from South Carolina?

I love it how any Palin sotry goes to 300+ comments in minutes... yet more than 85% are people saying enough already with her... etc.

If you really didn't care and if she was so unimportant, than stop commenting. Without all the attention given then CNN and others will move on. LOL people are very funny.

I'm not sure I understand, she said she was a pit bull and yet she tucked her tail between her legs and ran.

Now that's what I call a true red-blooded American. A tough talker but when things heat up, RUN!!!!!!!!!!

But we already had a nice example of this with people afraid to house the inmates at Guantanamo Bay in the US, even though we already house terrorists and murderers, but apparently 300 million Americans can't handle a few hundred inmates. Plus, in States like Texas and Alabama, those guys would blend in so well that no one would find them.

Cowards, all of you.

If this is so then OBAMA's trips and future trips for rest tours should not be allowed for filing travel expenses either. LET'S CALL A SPADE A SPADE.

Pore, Pore Sara, she is a quitter, she is quiting on the folks of Alaska, she can't take the heat. If she were president how would she react when a Muslim leader made a pass at her.

FLASH Sara has some deep dark secrets, lurking in her dark past. These things will haunt her in her pursuit of the presidency. Good yuck Sara.

Politics are a freak show magnet. Palin doesn't want to miss her opportunity to bath under the lights of the big top circus tent. Maybe she has a second head hiding under her arm pit.

I think someone should investigate you

Naturally she is still dogged by complaints. The only reason to seek election in Alaska is to have more too sell.

to me the interesting thing about soon to be ex-Gov Palin is that more people from her own party are coming out with negative things to say about her, heck I just read a commentary here on CNN from a Republican that is not very impressed with her. This lets me know she only appeals to a certain portion of the GOP base..the far right Limbaugh-lovers and it's that portion that has cost the GOP elections the past few times out. Now that the religious right can't honestly claim the GOP being the party of "family values" anymore with a straight face, what are they going to lean on? With her own daughter having a baby out of wedlock and thrust into the spotlight started the fall of that platform right there.

Russian Tv will be providing some light on her resignation!

So does that mean that these Junkets and world tours that our House and Senate have been taking on our tax dime will now be under the same scrutiny? Don't the Obama girls look so beautiful in Italy? Vote them all out in 2010 and 2012, our government is a total failure, they are all only loyal to their lobbyist masters!

Were do sign up to file ethics violation complaints for Obama firing the CEO of GM? Any answers from democracts... Yea...right

The Oscar for Professional Victimhood goes too Sarah Palin, you are a target because of your actions, take some personal responsibility. You choose to bring your brood on trips they were not invited too at State's expense because you thought you could get away with it. You choose to use the power of the governor's office to get back at your sister's ex-husband and settle scores. What happened to country or state first, I guess it only applies to the wrong doings of others, and not the republican pin-up. Get over yourself, the rest of us have.

Gov Palin's opponents have been unusually hostile and nasty to her to extremes and certainly not justified. Is this what the democrats have lowered themselves to, rudeness and destruction?

Why are there no ethics complaints about obama taking his family all over the world but there are complaints when Governor Palin

Because Obama has whipped the stuffing out of the GOP to the point that they no longer have the ACORNS to fight back.

What did she say? I would hate to go to Alaska and have to ask her for directions. I would wind up in Mexico.

Sounds like she wanted to know ALL about others, but doesn't like the same in her case. She's rotten to her spoiled little corrupt core.

Mike,
Her popularity is rising?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good one!

Alaskans would realize Palin isnt that bad if they would move to Illinois where ethics do not matter.

Ah the liberal politics of personal destruction continue. Watch them whine though when it happens to them. They then call it racism, sexism or bigotry. It is still just all sick hatred and the liberals are such professionals at spreading it.

Pullin' a Palin," is currently defined by urbandictionary.com as:

1. Quitting when the going gets tough; abandoning the responsibility entrusted to you by your neighbors for book advances and to make money on the lecture circuit.

At least she had the good sense to quit before her misdeeds diminish her party any further, unlike her peers who insist on fighting to the bitter end.

from the tiny gov, with the big expensive tastes, clothes(oh-she paid that back)/to jetting/-wait-she said she put that on e-bay(but did not)/to a home built (free?) , by the same people that built that(great hockey-area), just down the street.....in little wasilla, (wait.....did not the Sen she used to work for that went to trial, for his house being worked on for free......seems she was his campaign worker....oh that is where she learned this stuff.....stevens.....and then do not forget young......yeh....that's the two..)....boy she sure has been busy.
NO wonder she needs a break.
But realy.....you think she is just taken' a break....no way.....she's goin' be getting all the money she round up.....don't ya know.......
Look out world.......see......McCain gave her a sense of what running a National camgaine could feel like.......oh well......she better get a shopin' for all those travel clothes she'll need.....is that little reused clothing store.....still open?
Just when ya think she's done........up she pops.
Liked those wadders though.....nice touch.

The new media need to leave Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on her decision to step down. But if Sarah Palin continue to talk to the media go get her

Step down, write your book, and pose nude in Playboy. Really, we've seen it all before, Sarah. You and Rush Limbaugh should simply fade into the sunset!

So why would an ambitious woman, as she depicted herself as, for no apparent reason, all of a sudden quit?

Yes, she made her argument, that Obama was less experience than hers and his judgement was questionable....Well, there is no doubt her judgment is not only questionable, but she doesn't demonstrate any to exercise, and her experience is only a wind of her imagination....I just can't believe we were about to put this lose-cannon one step next to the presidency of the U.S.A.

Yes, getting out really helped her deal with those ethics complaints. Smart move.

What a whiner.

Oh here we go with the poor Sarah crap...she put herself in this predicament..."Palin has signed a law making it easier to file such complaints"...Karma I say.

Poor Sarah BOO HOO BOO HOO BOO HOO

Why are there no ethics complaints about obama taking his family all over the world but there are complaints when Governor Palin took her family a few places. obama is spending many, many millions for this and Governor Palin spend a few thousand. Both were for business trips for the government. Now that is change we can do without but change is coming probably in 2012. Go Romney and Palin.

By preparing for a national speaking and book tour Palin has made herself a target. Too bad she didn't want to focus on Alaska state government.

I am tired of Palin. She is irrelavent. If she is your future, GOP I feel bad for you, then again you never were the smartest bunch now were you.

Why should she be able to claim her home as "per diem"? As the state's governor, she has a place in Juneau. She knew that the job came with some perks and the house in Juneau doesn't go away because she isn't there. The costs continue whether she elects to stay there or not. Maybe she should have sold it on EBAY for a profit like she did the state plane?

When you go into politics you do live in a glass house and if she doesn't like it in Alaska, I would suggest that she find another occupation, There are a whole lot more reporters and people watchers when you get into more populated areas.

she's a pitbull(with no teeth). she should be able to handle things now that she QUIT her job.

someone should investigate the rampant filings of complaints; these are liberal-driven, and the people complaining will hopefully be punished. On another note, CNN should do some stories about the lack of ethics going on in the Obama administration....illegal firing of Walpin, Stim money doled out to Obama-favorable districts in amounts far exceeding McCain districts...the unethical appointment of numerous Czars (now 34, next highest amount by a president was 5) to carry on "end-runs," of congress to achieve Obama's socialistic dismantling of this country....although, some are getting clued in; as representative of the latest Rasmussen report, Obama down another 3, that's -8 in the past two days...and this isn't some Keating Holland CNN Research Poll...asking only 1020 people...

When someone files a suit against a Conservative, it is by definition a "frivolous" lawsuit.

When a Conservative files a suit against a non-Conservative, it is a heroic stand against injustice.

When a Conservative sues another Conservative, it is not a suitable topic for conversation.

I have an expense account. It would never occur to me to bill my employer for my child's travel expenses. It would never occur to me to bill my employer for living expenses while I am in my own home. This gal is cooking the books.

There's a reason why she has ethics complaints against her.

She's unethical.

Per diem for working out of her home? $250k of "missing" clothes from her failed VP bid? Cmon, people, wake up to this train wreck.

She thinks she's above the law, and that anyone who defies her is going to be struck down from above. She's inefficient and ignorant, and is leaving Alaska in a big mess, and it's all the Horrible Media's fault. She didn't know these things were illegal when she did them, did she? Wink, wink. You betcha, and when one governor don't know 'socialism' from 'desperation' and another one thinks the Appalachian Trail is in Argentina, how can she be blamed for not knowing theft and malfeasance and corruption are crimes?
She pushed for this law, and now she hates it? What a great recommendation to elect her to any other office. Sounds like she planned to be the one pushing ethics complaint after ethics complaint at the next governor.

Ugh, is this woman ever going to go away? Why do stations keep seeing her as newsworthy? She's trash.

"Palin had signed a law making it easier to file such complaints."

OOPS

I find it humorous that Palin complains about the "politics of personal destruction" when all she does is attack people rather than discuss ideas.

It's always Republicans saying, "If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear from an investigation." That's the line they always use when they're harassing somebody. Oh, but the meanies are trying to destroy poor Sarah! She destroys herself every time she opens her fat trap.

Sarah, you can run (for president), but you can't hide (from the truth).

I guess Sarah doesn't want to live in the city where her job is located. Most people have to transfer for a new job out of town. Not Sarah, she stays at home and bills the Alaska taxpayers for doing so. The Governor's mansion isn't good enough for her. Nice.

Oh that's right...she comes from the party that makes up their own rules. I guess she's practicing for President, because as we all learned from Nixon and Bush: "Anything the President does is legal."

Sarah honey,

You're charging the state a per diem to live at your own residence insteady of living at the governor's mansion?

And you wonder why people call you stupid?

Who cares why, I am just glad the idiot is leaving. Hopefully, she will go home and take care of her family; but you betcha her narsicism won't allow that.

Poor Sarah. Always the victim. Maybe if she would just go away noone would care what she did. Just a thought.....

You know, we have proof here in PA that government employees and funds were used to help run re-election campaigns. Not one of our idiots has been brought up on charges, removed from or resigned from office.

This latest ethics complaint is more like a question. It is a gray area, "should she have been allowed to take the per diem". It is terrible to what extents the politicians in this country will abuse power to destroy someone that doesn’t agree with their point of view or they simply don't like.

I will finally say I agree with some liberals in this country. We need some laws like Canada has put in place so she can turn around and sue these hypocrites for slander and defamation of character.

Run Sarah, run! Play the victim, spread more cynically calculated smokescreens of wronged innocence in your wake! Run away!

This is one of the most appropriate examples of the saying "hoist by ones own petard" I have ever seen.

Whaaa, Whaaaa. At least when she couldn't stand the heat she got out of the kitchen. Now if she would just go away.

If she hasn't violated the ethics code, why did she repay the $8000 in travel expenses she saddled the state with?

And what's up with a self-proclaimed Conservative setting up a fund to receive welfare to offset her legal woes?

sarah palin is a consumate con artist. alaskans know this well. why is she being "persecuted"? it is because she is a snake in pious clothes (pun intended). her dream is to move our capital to wasilla at the economic destruction of all juneau families. that is her "politics of destruction" as she constantly yaps about.

she portrays herself as a protector of children, yet in her resignation press release of her accomplishments as governor it says not one word about children whatsoever!

you folks in the lower 48 need to take a cue from the folks up here that have woken up to her selfish nonsense. wake up and smell the coffee
america or you & your children's children will be paying for it.

Palin continues to be attacked by liberals because they are afraid of her. She is smarter and has more abilty than any liberal in congress and this bothers them.

Palin is a disaster for the GOP. She is being dogged by the ethics law she passed. She is stepping down due to the ethics law she passed. She will not go away and unfortunately for the GOP, she is here to stay. She will drag down the party and in the process, blame the media. We already elected one dense President (GW Bush), Americans won’t do it again in the same generation.

Please just go away!

Palin is self destructing without any help from anybody else. She needs to take personal responsibility for how things are going for her.

BTW CNN, the photo attached to this blog is the nicest I've seen of her.

She need to stop appealing to the non educated trash talkers and haters that constitute only 21% of the Population. She need to Go to school and get some education, which will make her a real power. She has no intellectual substance at the moment.

"Palin had signed a law making it easier to file such complaints."

Then she shouldn't be quitting! She was asking for this legislation before she was even governor. I guess it backfired on her huh?

at least Ms Palin follows her own advice, "if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen"

Since lawyers own the Democratic party it is second nature for them to file frivilous ethic complaints at a ridiculouse expense to the taxpayer. Look at how the Dem's are wasting our money now in Washingtion – paying off the unions and other supporters with a supposed stimulus. By the way McLeod is not a Republican or even an Indep. I am waiting to see more classes jokes in this commentary from liberals about Palin's child Trig.

LOL at her thinking if she jus left office...all those charges would go away...just lol. We'll see how much of a "Fighter" she is now...

CNN Senior Producer Kevin Bohn would be a better reporter if he were to investigate the investigators. Kudos to him for reporting the name of one complaintant, not counting the brother-in-law, but why doesn't CNN name and investigate the motives of all of those filing complaints. It's the only way to be fair and balanced.

Journalism 101

Hey, Sarah, just go away. And take Jeb with you.

If she was claimiing per diem by staying home in Wasilla, she is guilty of an ethics violation on its face. Per diem is for expenses away from home.

We are still eagerly awaitin' the onset of such investigation, as a fact findin' mission. Let the truth be told.

Palin should sue her accusers. Behind them are the instigation and funding of the Democrat machinery that is scared of her popularity that threatens their domination of the Congress and the White House. It is time the Republican Party helps her to counter their political enemies.

When you live in a glass house, you shouldn't throw stones. The boomer-rang effect is in full effect! I think karma is the reason all these things are happening to this lady (and her family).

Anytime someone gets so much joy and excitement from heaping hateful words and slanderous accusations toward others, it's only a matter of time before they live to regret it.

she does have potential to be the hottest President

at some point, not yet, I will feel sorry for her

having seen her presidential campaign and all the nasty things she said, it will be a while longer for me to feel sympathy for her

all the same, her family should be left alone

Ensign = Unethical
Sanford = Unethical
Palin = Unethical
Craig = Unethical

Where are those moral Republican values?

Sounds like Andree McLeod has an ax to grind and doesn't care about her state. Maybe she's friends with the Murkowski bunch. Sad thing is the state is in fact wasting a lot of money to deal with these mostly trivial suits. Too bad sore losers can't let it go and do what is best for everyone. Now that Palin has stepped down, it is time for the all the silly lawsuits to stop unless they can come up with something that she really did wrong, meaning she actually broke a law or ethics code. I don't even particularly care for Palin and I hope she doesn't run for president, but anyone with half a brain can see that this whole situation is in fact a waste of the state's resources, and the people filing all the nonsense just have a vendetta.

Politics of personal destruction? She's brought all of this drama upon herself. Some people just don't have thick skin like the rest of us in the lower 49. I knew from the moment of hearing the racial slurs at her rallies that she was a dispicable person. Also Troopergate led me to believe that she was unethical and that she only cares about herself. I just loved the Dave Letterman answering machine jokes from the other night.

It figures that those who vehemently oppose Palin and still know she is a threat to their destructive plans for this country are constantly trying to bring her down. The very morons who make these accusations probably have real skeletons in their closets which could destroy them in an instant if revealed. Oh no, I forgot, we have that double standard which applies.

For God's sake Sarah do something with that mop of hair. You are a grandmother --not a teeny bopper anymore. Grow Up and Shut up.

Love it – one of Palin's law's comes back to bite her. Perhaps if she had not acted unethical on several occasions, people would be less likely to drudge up more ethics charges.

In the name of all that is Holy, CNN, the half-wit from the Tundra Trailer Court and her traveling side show of inbred hillbillies is soon to be a PRIVATE citizen.

We would like a vow from CNN that after 07/26/09 we never have to look at or hear from the twit again, unless we tune into her show on Fox, which Scarborough keeps stating she is taking over Greta whoever's show should we wish to see the Jerry Springer show in drag.

One look at the woman making all these complaints and I can understand why she dislikes someone a smart, beautiful, energizing, and well liked as Sarah Palin.

Sarah thinks she can make up the rules as she goes. I guess she figured that she had so many kids that it would be better to work from home. Well it won't be long now until she can do just that.

Palin was drummed out of office. But it was her bad attitude out of the gate that caused it. She had no respect Obama, the media, the pop culture or the Dems. Sensing that those same groups took her to the woodshed. Now she looks like I Love Lucy. She has W's disease, everything she touches turns to dust.

Marines dying left and right in Afghanistan... no reports. Why? We got plenty of soldier's death reports when Bush was in office.

RELAX... here's your Palin post. Spew your hatred.

Please obama and dems keep the cash coming and you will be just fine.

I agree that it is not ethical to charge the state for working from her own home and I am sure she knows that. There is a home provided for her in the capital by the state. That is like me charging my office to drive to and from work. Nice gig if you can get it but not ethical!
It was just too much for Sarah. Now she can be just herself and throw bombs at the left without risk. I am sure she will end up on Fox as a pundit. We have not heard the last of her.
Let's not forget that she was not found innocent with troopergate.

Sarah Palin is many things to many people. The one thing she will never be is president of the United States.

If you think these allegation's are bad, wait until you see what's coming. You ain't seen nothin' yet.
If I were Sarah I'd be real worried.

Wow. Some of these really are silly. That's too bad. It' become like a witch hunt. What a waste of time and money.

Hey right-wing kids! whine endlessly to make your parents to buy you the all new Caribou Barbie Jail Cell complete with bright orange jumpsuit, shivs and toilet wine-making kit. Don't forget to also demand your parent buy the Caribou Barbies friends so they can visit her in prison and the new improved First Dork doll. Oh wait, Caribou Barbie doesn't have any friends, they all left when she lost her mind and resigned as governor, and the First Dork has knocked up one of Bristol's friends and is living in the Caribou Barbie Bachelor Pad with Levi. Too bad Caribou Barbie.

The all new Caribou Barbie Jell Cell, whine until you get one today.

What gets me is CNN is always saying she is the top runner for the GOP, amazing. If this crook is the top for the GOP then that alone would let you know what type of people the GOP's are. They are crooks just like this stupid woman. I laugh everytime I hear she is a contenter for the 2012 race, are you serious? She is a nit wit and she has you media people right where she wants you.

Sorry Sarah... unfortunately where there is smoke, there is usually fire. I hope they make any valid complaints against you stick, making you pay the price like the rest of us. You self righteous people are usually the worst, hiding your "greater good" behind a cloak of a "higher calling."

Unfortunately, your kind never just go away. Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheny, are a few examples and Governor Sanford is the most recent example of the sickening lot you run with.

I think all these ethics complaints will make Governor Palin more determined to run for the presidency and at least I hope so. She is just a normal every day person and the liberals and Washington elists cannot stand it. He popularity is climbing and obamas is falling. Now that is change I can believe in.

I guess if she was ethical there wouldn't be all these complaints

Before I belive Sarah Palin But Now NO MORE No trust worthy, She do somithing wrong CNN work hard and find out truth.

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How about a little investigating reporting into the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac meltdown that help put us in this economic mess? Oh I forgot! it was headed up by democrats.

while, i hope she's truly innocent of ethics violations, i'd not be surprised if she wasn't. too many politicians are of the "do what I say, not what i do" variety.

Sarah Palin oozes stupid the way Megan Fox oozes sexy

The last time I checked there were no ethics complaints filed against Romney, Mc Cain, Paul, Gulliani,Pawlenty and Crist and yet everyone was mentioned as a possible running mate. I truly believe Sarah has no clue she violated anything because those rules don't apply to a governor or a queen.

She has no ethics – her problem.

Next.

Everyone should leave Sarah alone and let her live her life.
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The people filing these ridiculous claims against her should be held accountable for wasting tax payers money and they should be forced to pay the expenses. They must still fear her to keep on trying to destroy her!! Go Sarah!

Thats because she's incredibly childhish and useless.