...I'd have quit too. :) Poor Tina Fey--I guess it's back in the saddle for her...;)

Somebody put readerreader on suicide watch!

Joan, if you were just an editorialist, I'd give you a pass, but as the editor of Salon and a frequent media commentator, I think you should have approached this story with more professionalism.

Oh, you mean the way Sarah Palin approached her job as Governor of Alaska?

Hahahahahahaha!

Honestly, I'd feel a lot safer putting my money on Andrea Mitchell than Bill "Wrong-Answer" Kristol. I mean, who wouldn't?

absolutely right, that's the most mind-boggling part - that the speechwriters try to preemptively redefine staying in your job as "quitting" -

"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. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and "go with the flow."

Pure Newspeak.

Wuhl, Keef awready covered this ground, eh wot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuQq5Nreox0

Started dancin' and drinkin' soon as she left town

Remember, that was an idea tossed around for what she might do if she didn't win last fall. And she's being pretty plain that she's wanting "help make the world a better place," or so she says, outside of politics.

Maybe Palin is going to be a spoke person for Right To life. Then she can exploit her son's disability and use it as 'guilt trip' on those who make different decsions.

that Palin at long last got her much desired gig at ESPN. (ESPN 2 that is)

There is no doubt that something fishy is going on here. But Sarah Palin has not been involved in public life for that long. So what are the real possibilities that would make her resign abruptly and potentially give up politics for good?

(1) It could really be that she received some lucrative TV offer or the like that she does not want to say no too because she knows she has no chance in national politics anyway, so she may as well take the money and run.

(2) Personal issue -- divorce? Infidelity? I don't know how likely this one is -- the Palins actually seem like a solid couple, but you never know.

(3) Scandal. What could it be? Plagiarism during college? Election fraud? Personal financial stuff -- e.g., using public funds for improper purposes -- she did refer to "ethics investigations" in her speech.

She's really PO'ed about something. The rambling was more random than usual. I'm sure we'll all hear the real story some day.

Are there any Alaska legal scholars out there who might know this? If a scandal is going to break, would resigning from public office provide Palin with more privacy rights than if she stayed Governor?

Regardless, if a scandal is indeed breaking, then resigning from office now spares Palin the humiliation of being impeached.

Sarah Palin: John McCain's gift to comedy.

Sarah Palin is going to be speaking at every Christian Right and every neo-con group in the country for big fees. She's got the chance to make tens of millions of dollars on the road and being gov of Alaska is just wastin' time that could be spent rakin' in the cash. If, after the dust settles and she's stashed away ten million or so, she still can muster some political backing she might run for something. But stashin' the cash is what she's up to now, fer sher.

Didn't the general abandon troops and civilians to be imprisoned, starved and killed by the Japanese, fleeing supposedly on FDR's order, to Australia in a PT boat which just happened to have lots of gold bullion aboard?

Is the full might of the US Army going to help Palin retake Alaska in a few years time--retake from whom isn't clear-- maybe her husband's Alaska Independence Party?

Would Palin ignore intelligence and take a war to the border of a sovereign state expecting that state to remain uninvolved in the war along its southern border, all the while surrounding herself with yes men and neglecting to equip troops for winter fighting even though winter had set in?

Perhaps the image of MacArthur is not the entirely positive one that Sarah Palin imagined, no matter how brilliant the Inchon landing was, and no matter how well he established a "New Deal" based society in postwar Japan.

I hope that Todd Palin's health plan covers the wife, all those kids, and the grand kid--but I guess Sarah will get some Fox New sinecure soon with all sorts of benefits, unless...

because mean people suck

On the one hand, I find it hard to believe we've heard the last of this narcissistic shitstain. She seems tailor made for the idiots who sit drooling before Faux News all day, although with that screechy voice it's hard to see her as a substitute for the smooth talking bloated gasbag Rush Limbaugh (whose days are clearly numbered).

If she's gonna run for President, she's got to get out of Alaska, pronto. You can't run for President from a state that far from the rest of the union, especially if you're currently serving as governor. And 2010 is way too late to throw your hat into the ring. Palin needs to be all over the lower 48, raising cash and pressing the flesh toot sweet.

On the other hand, why would you pick the Friday before the 4th of July to make such an announcement unless you intended to bury it like a reeking cat turd during the one holiday between Christmas and Thanksgiving when folks are least likely to be paying much attention to the news?

If you were going to run for President, you'd want as much (good) publicity as possible. You'd pick a slow news day near the start of the week so as to receive lots of free publicity - for days - from an attentive electorate. The lead would be the announcement you're running for President in 2012. You'd simultaneously announce your resignation as governor. You'd also offer your apologies to the citizens of Alaska, but point out that you hope to serve their interest at least as well during your run for President as you could during your remaining term as governor. I mean, it would be total bullshit and spin, but at least it would make some kind of sense. The actual incoherent ramblings we got from Sarah - not so much.

If she really is running for President, she's an even bigger idiot than I thought she was. And that's truly saying something!

The most logical explanation - although there aren't any facts to support it at the moment - is a big, fat scandal. Explains the timing of the announcement, and explains her rambling, incoherent performance (rambling and incoherent even by Palin standards). Perhaps the shadowy power players who pull the strings in the GOP are tired of Palin's role as the nation's most prominent Republican politician - her being a global laughingstock and all - and the impact she's having on the the Party's overall poll numbers. So maybe they're using some dirt they have on her to blackmail her shrieking, ignorant ass out of politics.

Boy, McLame's disastrous 2008 run is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it?