Boy, Yasadon, you really know how to frighten a guy. That's almost scarier than Palin as Vice President. The mouth!

On the other hand, I like Tina Fey, and we'd get a lot more guest appearances from her as Palin.

Palin to quit as Alaska governor

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/852419.html

Sarah just resigned as Gov of Alaska effective at the end of the month and blamed it on the liberal media, is this in preparation for a 2012 run for the Presidency? WTF just happened here?

She felt pressured by the glare of the media? Or she just got tired of all the work. Just go on vacation four months a year, dude! Isn't that a GOP executive thing?

Total Rogue

Palin announced today she is resigning office effective July 25 in a rambling, victimized, scattered, nonsensical, palin-style speak. Maybe the Salon.com staff can do another investigation on some hunches:

1. she has finally been formally diagnosed and recommend end to public office seeking;

2. another daughter is pregnant;

3. an Alaskan scandal re finances, ethics, performance;

4. a personal scandal of Sparking with Sanford as one of those other women he "crossed lines" with, or, with

5. Gov Perry from Texas who moons over her and hangs around her with a leer on his face every chance he gets and has grown quite close "professionally" to her.....

Right this minute Joan is probably sitting at her computer composing a column on Sarah Palin's resignation as governor of Alaska. I can't wait for all the innuendos and second guessing in the column.

Palin looks like a person who doesn't care what the truth is as long as she says it. She has now decided against staying as governor starting July 26; probably she will go on Fox as a commentator and move herself and her family to some place like SC, where truth has also suffered.

Although I know that politicians and truth are often on opposite ends of the world, Sarah Palin abuses that political privilege. I don't care that her "base," like Limbaugh's base and O'Reilly's base, think she's God's gift to the Republican party.

She's a danger to this country because of her attitudes and her lack of knowledge about this country, this world, and real politics. Truth can be devastating to people like Sarah Palin.

You wrote this in a previous post:

"Since I discovered Salon - not so long ago -I determined that Joan Walsh is a scholar and a lady. Tonight on O'Reilly she proved me to be correct."

So I wonder, why the sudden, Palin-like, change of heart?

Here's this mother and housewife who happens to be the governor of a state and is married to an ultra right-wing weirdo that believes that the very state she is governing should secede from the union and she is tapped to run for vice president of the United States of America on the McCain ticket.

I mean, holy cow Batman, can someone's life get more complicated? Yes, it can, when the mother's daughter is pregnant, unmarried and breaking up with a loser boyfriend, and there is more. Now, we learn that she wanted McCain's staff to lie about her husband because, you see, having such a person so close to someone in the highest levels of government is just not going to sit well with thinking Americans. How can we identify whether an American is a thinking one? Well, one that does not watch Fox News is a good first test.

You'll have to pardon the clumsy segway into mentioning Fox News but that has been suggested as a possibility for the employment of Sarah.

None of this bodes well for the struggling Republican Party. If its lack of relevance, and recent scandal is not enough, Republicans now have to contend with a rogue Republican governor whose very name causes a roomful of people to immediately divide and line up against opposite walls.

Down the road it seems unlikely that Sarah Palin will be remembered as any more than a footnote in history. The Republican Party is now reaping what it has sown. The abuse of power that has become the stock in trade of Republican administrations since the Viet Nam War seems to have had a more pervasive effect on our national character, that reaches far beyond the particulars of actions the individual players like McCain's former running mate who have sought to corrupt and decieve.

I sense that America made a bargain with the Devil which really began with the first election of greatest of all reptiles yet to come, Richard Nixon over 40 years ago. These people and the invidious debasement of community and national purpose they represent. The grand scheme of this murderous reign of sophists and cynics is now comming unraveled as Faustian bargains usually do.

Palin always intended to be President, not Vice President. I doubt that anyone in the GOP expected McCain, a man with his repeated bouts of melanoma and his fragile mental health due to PTSD, to last through the first term.

Palin's husband was certainly a member of the AIP. She only denied it, and even hideously used her disabled child, because she was intent on becoming the GOP Golden Girl.

Perhaps now she will melt back into the snow from whence she came and never be heard from again.

--I sense that America made a bargain with the Devil which really began with the first election of greatest of all reptiles yet to come, Richard Nixon over 40 years ago.

I was just on the point of posting, on the Franken vs. Limbaugh thread, that it was exactly at the point when Eisenhower agreed to run with Nixon, that the change happened for the GOP. Eisenhower made his share of mistakes, but at least he had some lousy dignity. Herbert Hoover, for all he was blamed for muffing the economy, was at least a decent, decent man, again with some dignity. Now who is there? Who is the public face of the GOP?

Rush Limbaugh. Bill O'Reilly. These people, screaming juvenile, taunting insults, and illogical--COMPLETELY illogical rants, or ad hominem smears comparing Al Franken to President Ahmadinejad of Iran (Limbaugh) or the Democratic Party as Goebbels. Right, guys. The aggressive war, sold with a lie, was common to Goebbels and which Democrat? Good luck answering that one without going back to LBJ in the 60s. Clinton and Obama can't be smeared as Goebbels or Hitler. The aggressive war, sold with a lie, was common to Goebbels and which Republican? Instantly answerable, with facility. But I wouldn't want to fight O'Reilly's smear with one of my own, so I'll refrain from pushing the answer.

Republicans: just find your dignity again. And that doesn't mean "scream that the Democrats don't have any because of Bill Clinton's Blowjob yet again;" and it doesn't mean "pretend to be bipartisan and then blame the failure on the other party." It means, let's behave like adults again, instead of Limbaugh and O'Reilly acting like white trash hags screeching over a drink at the local bar, or fighting over the last jumbo spaghetti sauce at Walmart.

Dignity.