"I...love it. Now she goes on to become a multi-millionaire."

She can't because:

A. Then she won't be just folk anymore.

B. The Bible says rich people go to Hell.

Sanford's meltown, Franken finally winning, and Palin bails on her one and only job.

I feel there is a reason for this move that we don't know yet but I also feel Sarah will land on her feet. Fixed News will roll out the red carpet for her and she'll be a billionaire many times over. The female Rush. Aimee Semple MacPherson reincarnated. Sister Sarah's Traveling Salvation Show. God bless, I say. Just keep her the hell away from the levers of power.

I'm still convinced it has something to do with Palin being involved in a romantic tryst, because that would definitely kill her image as a good wife and faithful to the "first dude."

Palin's strength is her social conservative bonafides, and her involvement in a romantic tryst would kill any level of support she had from hard line social conservatives.

Maybe the other man is the father of a pregnancy Palin is horrified to reveal?

Social conservatives are a lot less forgiving of cheating wives than they are of cheating husbands.

Inquiring minds want to know.

I've got to agree with so many others here. After watching the vid of her statement - happened that's about to break... and presumably it involves some pretty serious litigation. The craziness of her announcement seemed to me to reflect a very emotional off the cuff statement, probably organized in a big hurry.

It also sounds like she's hoppin' mad and intending to "not go gently into that good night." That's a little worrisome.

I've never been able to fathom how a person could hold the office of Governor - ostensibly serving as head of the state in it's current form - while their spouse actively works towards it ceding from the union... and then for her to get on the national ticket for VP. I don't know which is weirder, that combination or the bizarre absence of such a direct conflict of interest in the minds of her supporters.

Never seen a less appropriate candidate for national office in my life.

"Maybe she has aims of becoming some kind of professional canker sore"

OMG, I about split a gut at THAT line -- so PERFECT!

Thanks for a great laugh...

I truly and unashamedly want some politically fatal dirt to come to light, so we can be done with this Alaskan Alex Forrest. This woman is dangerously unqualified, by both experience and intellect, to be a national executive political candidate. The accrued evidence is by now beyond dispositive. That resignation news conference was surreal.

I think Pat Buchanan got it right when he said that Miss Palin might use this time before the Presidential election to dedicate herself to an intense period of study. By accepting Israeli Foreign Minister's generous offer to learn foreign affairs under his tutelage, Miss Palin is headed for the Israeli outback, where she will both burnish her standing as a major Republican religious figure, and fill the hole in her international cv with Avidgor's expertise.

For such a media savvy politician, she certainly seemd discombobulated. If you read the text of her speech, it makes literally no sense. Some examples: "to serve the state is a humbling responsibility, because I know in my soul that Alaska is of such import, for America's security, in our very volatile world." That's a reason a person gives not to quit.

"People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing's more important to me than our beloved Alaska. Serving her people is the greatest honor I could imagine." Again, she has the highest office in Alaska and is giving a a reason to stay.

"You can choose to engage in things that tear down, or build up. I choose to work very hard on a path for fruitfulness and productivity. I choose NOT to tear down and waste precious time; but to build UP this state and our country, and her industrious, generous, patriotic, free people!"

Bob Dylan is easier to interpret.

"I know when it's time to pass the ball - for victory."

Where does she come up with this shit? Seriously?

You nailed it with that one.

Most failed VP candidates fade quickly from the national scene after election day. (Quick! Who was Bob Dole's running mate in 1996?)

Palin has been using every trick in the book and some new ones to keep the cameras and mikes on her. But that only works so long, and meanwhile the folks in Alaska are demanding that she actually do some WORK as governor once in a while. Which means actually doing boring stuff, making decisions that people will remember, etc.

An attention-junkie needs a regular fix. This is just another way to get it.

I'll bet good money that before the year is out she'll have a talk show spot. Maybe more than one! And probably a book (heavily ghost-written, of course).

She probably waited until SNL was on summer break, too, because you KNOW what they'd do with that speech. (Heck, they'd just have Tina Fey read it; that would be enough)

Sarah Palin, resigning from the AK governorship, most probably to begin the 2012 campaign: "The world needs MORE Trigs, not less."

In other words, brain damaged children. Maybe we'll see the return of lead toys...

It sounds like she's getting out for good, but who really knows? Nixon gave his famous pout when he said "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore." The major difference was Tricky Dick was venal, but smart. If language is any kind of measure, Sarah Palin is amongst the dimmest bulbs to ever hold office.

All twelve people who attended applauded. She sure can wow a crowd.

She gave no good reason or explanation for resigning. It does not pass the smell test. I very much doubt that Palin would bow out of politics willingly.

This woman couldn't handle the basic scrutiny of a vice presidential run. I doubt she would put her family through the national ringer again. Couple that with the fact that her approval ratings have been dropping in Alaska, from what I understand, and the ethics concerns, and it's highly doubtful she would get re-elected anyway. I predict she'll write a couple books on the evils of the liberal media and fade into obscurity. Meanwhile the right will move onto their next messiah.

Normally I would have sympathy for someone in her position. She was used by the McCain campaign to win over the fringe base and put into a national spotlight she was ill prepared for. She niether campaigned for the V.P. slot nor was vetted properly by a campaign more concerned with winning then competence. In other words, she was a tool. But she so willingly bought into the culture war narrative and pitched the "We're the REAL Americans" attitude that she just came off as nasty and unlikeable to anyone who wasn't already in her camp. I think she scared off more potential voters then the GOP is willing to admit to. The fact that she doesn't understand this is exactly why she had no business in the national spotlight in the first place.

I actually hate to see her leave politics. If she had run in 2012, it would probably be the easiest re-election Barrack Obama ever had!