In case the source hasn't been noted, here's what the Anchorage paper said about Palin's reference to remarks being made about Trig:

"The 'hell yeah' sealed it -- and someday I'll talk about the details of that. ... I think much of it had to do with the kids seeing their baby brother Trig mocked by some pretty mean-spirited adults recently," Palin said.

An Alaska blogger recently photo shopped the head of a pro-Palin talk radio host on to a picture of Trig Palin being held by the governor, causing Palin and her allies to declare outrage.

"Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out."

So...if you've agreed to do a job and do it, you're a quitter. If you're a winner, you quit.

That's some logic; I bet a whole lot of wingnuts think it's watertight.

Here is a Tag Cloud Image of Sarah Palin's Resignation Speech, created on the www.wordle.net website:

http://tinyurl.com/nmllbs

I tried to listen to her speech - I just can't force my brain to go there. I TRY to hear what's she's saying, but I must not have elevated my intellect to the point where I can grasp her meaning. Either that, or she's just one amazingly horrible speaker...

What struck me, until I hit 'stop,' was that she sounds panicked, almost as if she's about to cry - which made me feel a little sorry for her, actually. There's no way she'll run in 2012 - it would be all too easy to point out she quit her job half way through, & she seems vastly unstable.

I'm seeing a Fox News anchor position, or her own news show. (which I will never have to watch, so life shall continue as before)

Same as Michelle Bachmann. They get a bulk rate.

Selah.

The world needs more Trigs, not fewer.

- Sarah Palin, from her speech announcing her resignation

First I want to welcome maggilee and connyankee out from under their briges.Somethingstinks,libertyain'tfree,Jack Ketch and the others of that ilk were getting boring.Dang we came too close to having Sarah a heartbeat away.I'm just waiting here for the other shoe to fall.Remember,they never sleep.

Yes, as Jim correctly notes, this less-than-inspirational quote is from General O.P. Smith in the Korean War and not from General MacArthur in any war. I confirmed that via Google in about 4 seconds. Why couldn't Palin's speechwriters do the same? Or ARE there no speechwriters? That would explain a lot.

No adults in the house. Always a recipe for disaster.

You have to be Lt. Governor of Alaska to get her job, not just be more clueless and insane than her.

Yes, this means I hate you.

7/3/09: May I have your attention please. I shall resign the office of Governor effective at noon on July 26, 2009.

Fast forward to ...

7/23/09 May I have your attention please. Due to the overwhelming entreaties from the people of my state, I have decided to remain as Governor and I shall run for re-election next year.

(That's tons of attention. Twice. I am good).

Now just what is THAT supposed to mean? 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, where she'll presumably subvert the current national government via the airwaves, or is she planning some sort of armed insurrection? That's got to be the most dysfunctional statement I've ever heard from an American politician (and I've heard plenty!).

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. What kind of politician is she if she actually believes her very presence in the governor's office is a waste of money? Does her contempt for the governorship apply to the office itself or to her own meager abilities? This behavior is very very weird and should disqualify her for any sort of national position - anywhere but in America, it seems.

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

To be fair, however, her statement really sounds like a series of disjointed and thus nonsensical soundbytes, as if she's suffered some sort of shock to her main processor, viz. the original movie of "The Stepford Wives": "I'll just DIE if I don't get that recipe..."

Sarah must be in BIG trouble...

The hatred for and fear of Sarah Palin on the left is nothing short of scary. It's not much of a stretch to imagine the pack of you burning her at the stake. What is it about this woman that scares the pants off so many of you? Besides the fact that she's a woman, that is.

I may not agree with Palin's politics, but this doesn't mean I have an urge to boil her in oil.

I swear, the New Left has become more loathsome than the far right ever managed. What a bunch of flaming hypocrites you are. You aren't liberals. You're some strange breed of haters.

And you're batshit crazy too. How far right-wing nutcases have sunk.

What point guard looks ONLY at the basket? The one that can only think of her, only, taking the shot........

Her sports analogies show just how clueless about the world she is.

Since we're speculating, why not this: It is no secret that Palin is sympathetic, to say the least, to the Alaskan secessionist movement; so is Todd Palin. Perhaps Palin's reference in her speech to Americans looking to the North for solutions was a hint that she, like many conservatives since the 2008 election, cannot abide a United States run by President Obama and the Democrats and so would rather secede.

There has already been talk among Texan and Georgian Republicans of seceding from the nation, so perhaps among the wingnuts this is a not unpopular notion.

Sarah Palin: first Empress of the North?