This is frankly off-topic, but I'm an English major, and you know how we get. Anyway, THANK you for not using an apostrophe in "its." :)

She lied did she? Lied? A politician lied? Well then, string her up.

Really, your post is more than a little childish. If the issue was that you wouldn't vote for her because she lied, I'd understand completely. But all this vitriol is surely not here because she lied. And let's keep in mind that these are not Watergate level lies. These are not Chappaquiddick level lies. These aren't Iran-Contra level lies.

The vitriol is totally misplaced.

Way to go, America. We had our chance to have Sarah Palin lead us into the Golden Land, based on her vaguely defined platitudes and gosh darn it optimism, also, but we just had to go and spoil it all by, you know, asking her questions and stuff, trying to get her to explain what her run-on rambling sentences mean, and other politics of destruction crap.

Shane! -oops, I mean - Sarah! Come back, Sarah! America needs you, and Putin's rearin' his head again! Sarah!!! Come back!

Sanford implodes, Franken gets the nod, and now this. If she's withdrawing from politics, fabulous. If this is prep for a presidential run, better. This airhead idiot will only mess things up worse for the GOP.

What is really sad is that people like this actually have meaningful support in this country. Like many hard core conservative leaders and spokespeople, she is a truly disturbed human being. Aside from feeling somewhat empathetically sorry for her deranged mental state and its tragic impact on others, what does this say about America?

If Sarah Palin does run for President in 2012, it will be the sacred duty of every Democrat to change their party affiliation and vote for her in their state's Republican primary.

Seriously,. I’m probably spending more time trying to figure out YouDon’tCare’s post than he/she spent formulating it. Let’s see if I’ve got it straight. A controversial governor and recent vice-presidential candidate abruptly resigns from office, providing vague and seemingly contradictory motives. That isn’t news, and shouldn’t be on the headline? Also, Salon has provided extensive coverage of the Washington Post “paid salon (no relation)” scandal. Are you upset because neither Salon nor any other respectable news organization has suggested, much less presented evidence, that the Administration was in cahoots?

What has Glenn Greenwald got to do with anything else that you said? I mean, other than the fact that he writes for Salon and apparently says things that bother you?

If Sarah Palin drops trou for Playboy at any point in the future, I will hail you as the sage of the contemporary era, quit my current job and volunteer to work as your chauffeur and valet, and compase an epic poem in iambic pentameter in homage to your awesomeness.

Wow.

“In an angry, rambling press conference that will rival Gov. Mark Sanford's as a stunning example of a bizarre public meltdown, Palin basically blamed her decision on her national critics, who she said were blocking her agenda and costing Alaska taxpayers money.”

Joan, I know quite well by now that you enjoy putting people down.

Let’s say for the sake of argument that Sarah Palin’s conference was “rambling” because, perhaps, she was somewhat nervous.

Were you nervous, when you wrote the following: “Palin basically blamed her decision on her national critics…”?

How can anyone “blame” his or her decision? Did you mean to say that she blamed her national critics for her decision?

Then, putting down another person along the way, you wrote:

“According to Think Progress, the spectacularly wrong Palin supporter Bill Kristol phoned into Fox News to say: “If I had to guess, we just saw the opening statement of the 2012 campaign.” Meanwhile, on MSNBC Andrea Mitchell says she's hearing from GOP sources Palin is out of politics "for good." Who do you believe?”

You said so many times how insignificant and uneducated Sarah Palin is. Why, then, are you concerned about her plans for the future? If you were a logical person, you would not ask this question: “Who do you believe?” You just mentioned that Bill Kristol was always wrong. So you should dismiss his prediction and believe Andrea Mitchell.

I would like to make another point. Most of your readers think of themselves as educated people. But education is not a substitute for intelligence.

One of the definitions of intelligence is the faculty of perceiving and comprhending meaning.

Your readers mocked Sarah Palin’s words: “The world needs more Trigs, not less.”

They failed to comprehend what Sarah Palin meant. In my opinion, she meant the following:

The world needs more love and compassion.

If your readers still don’t get, I can add a few more sentences.

One person (KateTex) was absolutely accurate in her letter “Salem revisited.” She ended it with this sentence: “You're some strange breed of haters.”

What reaction did she get? She got a confirmation:

“Yes, this means I hate you.” -- trend2121

Joan, I am not blaming you for their hate letters, but please think about this: if your readers are the orchestra, then you are a conductor of this orchestra. And this is a huge responsibility.

What a joke. The moose lady decides to take her ball and leave. Guess the limelight hasn't been kind to this ignorant hick. Bye now sweetie. Don't think it hasn't been fun. Because it hasn't

Thanks for the interpretation. I fear you're right. Still, I'll stick with my "Stepford" theory: "I'll just DIE if I don't get this recipe..." Sombody call the repair shop!!!

What? How? What? Could you vague that up a little more for me?

"Since when can a governor be more effective for his/her state by throwing in the towel? Does this mean that she's just bailing out of an elective office to take a lucrative job as a Fox News talkshow host"

YES - or a member of some panel show on Fox or similar. Maybe she'd be Rush's version of Robin Quivers (except Ms. Quivers is intelligent and articulate)

That's exactly what it means.

As governor, SP has to actually do a little work for the citizens of Alaska, in between TV appearances and speeches. She'd have to compete to get a few minutes on TV, etc.

But as a "journalist" on Fox, she has a guaranteed amount of air time, and no pesky distractions. Fox probably pays a lot more, and the family can move out of Wasilla.

Remember her degree is in communications.

"I'm also mystified by her declaration that remaining in office until the end of her term would represent a vast waste of millions of tax payer dollars."

She's admitting to incompetency there.

"Regarding her statement that America needs more children like Trig - I think we'd all appreciate a clarification."

What it means is that she values emotional connection more than intelligence, rationality or objective reality.

"her statement really sounds like a series of disjointed and thus nonsensical soundbytes"

That's pretty much true of everything she says. Heck, without a teleprompter she doesn't even speak in complete sentences.

I don't know if she talks that way because she can't talk any other way, or if she does it intentionally. Some people purposely speak in odd ways so that the listener inserts their own meaning into the word salad, hearing what they want to hear and thinking 'she's one of us!'

"Sarah must be in BIG trouble..."

I think someone at Fox made her a really good offer, and she took it.

You watch. She'll either have her own TV show, or become a part of one. Look at Pat Buchanan......