Ding Dong! Palin resigns!
Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 5:05pm.
Oh my lord! What a way to start the holiday weekend. Sarah Palin has not only announced that she will NOT run for a second term as governor but also will resign in the midst of her current term, effective July 26.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/142175
Watch her announcement if you can without tearing your hair out, and see if you can figure out her motivations or her intentions. Of course, there's a mountain of speculation, much of it centering on whether she's resigning to focus on running for president in 2012. But this seriously weakens her already weak case as to her preparation and qualifications for that job. And the fact that she dumped this on a Friday afternoon going into a holiday weekend suggests a serious attempt to minimize attention — some people won't hear about it until the get back from the cottage or the shore on Monday, and it will also be buried by the saturation coverage of Michael Jackson's funeral Tuesday.
As far as I can tell from watching the video though, it sounds like she's gone into her whiny victim "people aren't playing by Sarah's rules so Sarah is taking her marbles and going home" mode. And from the number of colliding sports metaphors she's using, it sounds like she's auditioning to go back to her original career goal: sportscaster.
I hear there may be more scandals breaking in her gubernatorial office, but I haven't had a chance to catch up on them yet, so maybe she's all pissed off that peole keep accusing her of wrongdoing and she just isn't going to take it. Sarah is always right! After all, she didn't fly off to Argentina and leave the state with no leader. She did however take off for Indiana during Alaska's brief legislative session — when it's illegal for legislators to leave the state — in order to address an anti-abortion group. In fact, Palin has seemed bored with the governor's job recently, maybe finding dealing with helping people rebuild their flooded homes or providing food and fuel to remote villages in crisis a little mundane after a few months' taste of presidential politics. Whatever, she is no loss to the political scene.
Just go away...
One can only hope that this poseur has finally taken her z-grade act back to the sticks from whence she came. I just finished reading the Vanity Fair article on her--great reading.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908
My latest issue of Vanity Fair
has not yet arrived. Grrrrr. I guess I'll have to go read it online. That Palin was on McCain's ticket at all is both tragic and scary. Here is a woman impervious to intellectual growth. I think the most frightening thing about her is that she was identifed as a Republican candidate of the future back in the mid-90s when she was supported by Newt Gingrich's GOPac and in the next 13 years, managed to learn so little about actual issues that the only thing s she had noticable positions on going into last year were abortion, gay marriage and energy. I know that GOPac was basically about teaching candidates to win elections (smear and fear! smear and fear! Supposedly when running for mayor of Wasilla, Palin's people started a whisper campaign that her opponent, whose name was Stine, was Jewish. But you'd think that part of that was being able to sound somewhat informed on all the key issues.
That Palin had no information or positions on virtually every major issue (health care! the bank bailouts! trade! Israel-Palestine! Iraq! Iran! Korea! China! — nothing) and was still picked to run with McCain is jaw-dropping.
The Real Reason
First, I just watched the whole 19 loooonnngggg minute version replayed on MSNBC. I had thought the 7.5 minute video frontpaged on Kos was hard to watch, but this ...
No, it occurs to me that Palin's about to be come very rich with the sale of the book that "she will write" and there was some talk that she wasn't going to be able to do that and take the money if she was a sitting Governor based on laws up there.