How can Governor Palin do this and still think she's a credible candidate for anything, much less the Presidency? The first question is going to be, why should we believe you'll stick around when things get tough when you bailed on your first term as Governor?

Yes this is what a good leader does; claims that criticism is damaging their ability to lead? How's that again? This does not bode well for a presidential run. It certainly wasn't sexism that brought this house of cards down. It was a case of ambition outstripping character and accomplishment.

I had much the same idea last week, when I fantasized on my Facebook page about Palin getting caught "hiking the Appalachian Trail" with Mitt Romney.

This is going to be delicious...

I love this job (but I'm quitting it).

I love Alaska (but we're moving).

They keep dissing Trig (when I keep bringing him up).

It's not politics as usual (but a totally new kind of politics).

I'm passing the ball for the team (and walking off the court).

The decision's been a long time coming (but especially this week).

Trust me (I'm making this up as I go along).

Dear Sarah - this does not you a candidate make.

There goes her presidential run. Assuming her story stands, how will she stand up to the very valid criticism that she couldn't even fulfill one term as governor because of medial pressure, so how could she be president.

Oh that one was great! Picking myself up off the floor.

Maybe God sent her an email that said STFU.

But seriously, something more is coming and I, for one, cannot wait!

~Jo

in a basketball game?

OK.

Rambling, one subject to the next then suddenly it was about the soldiers, don't forget to thank the soldiers. WTF? That little press conference, can we call it a press conference, she did not take questions. Well that press conference was so much worse than the Sanford one, it was more than crazy. Is some other shoe about to drop here? This just seems strange, you can't go on to win a national election after giving up office for what amounts to no reason at all at this point. What will we find out next?

...just what it is that somebody has on her that has caused her to resign. I'm still waiting to find out what damaging situation caused Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico to turn down the Obama administration job as Secretary of Whatever-it-was-Supposed-to-Be. Geez, what is it with governors lately?

If one puts oneself in the national spotlight, as Palin did, and one acts like a fool, then the response will be national.

Whatever the real reason for Palin's resignation, it can't be any weirder than the other goings on in the rightwingnut meltdown "on the national level".

How better to do it by resigning?

Must have figured no more celebrities were going to conveniently die.

Bristol.

.... is getting aroused.... his girl, soon announce her candidacy for pres...

...taking on David Letterman in "Celebrity Death Match."

So... she's decided not to run for reelection. That makes her a lame duck. And according to Palin, lame ducks just travel around on the taxpayer's dime on trade missions and suchlike.

Just what changes in a governor's duties if she runs for reelection? I guess in that case, she just travels around on the taxpayer's dime running for office.

Now we know how she managed to raise all those kids: she doesn't have much to do with herself as governor.

And she was a vice-presidential candidate? A narrow escape, America.

Perhaps she wants to take some time off to hike the Appalachian Trail, I understand it's very popular these days among the GOP.

is seven different kinds of stupid. I'm going to miss it. A little.

a. She's indeed pregnant again.

b. She has cancer or some other serious disease.

c. Todd's been caught screwing around—ahem!—on the Appalachian Trail.

d. She's about to be indicted for something.

e. She's as crazy as a rabid dog in August.

I think c) and e) are most likely. In any case, I hope this plays out in the public eye, because this shit is entertaining. The best outcome is that she's launching a fact-finding committee prior to a Senate run, like the über-bimbo would know a fact if it bit her on her shapely behind.

she's gonna need time to distance herself from whatever new dirt may be about to be unearthed. Maybe?

Sorry to post twice in such rapid succession, but let me be the first to speculate wildly in this direction:

Maybe Palin and Mark Sanford found out that THEY are really soulmates, after working together in the Republican Governors Conference.

Heh, heh...

There's more to this story than meets the eye. Paraphrasing Bette Davis in "All About Eve" -- "Fasten your seat belts, we're in for a bumpy couple of months" while the real, full story unfolds.

Or as Matt Drudge might put it: "Palin resigns -- DEVELOPING"

Well maybe not so funny, she seems full on crazy with the heat and maybe the monumental eqo snapped under the strain

Se resigns and become what? Faux anchor...

God would truly reveal a sense of irony that revils tha platypus thingy