See the linked clip, of McCain and "Sarah" doing a QVC appearance in the last week of the campaign. With about a minute to go, "Sarah" goes rouge by hawking PALIN in 2012 t-shirts behind McCain's back, saying:

I am not goin' anywhere. And I'm certainly not goin' back to Alaska. If I'm not going to the White House, I'm either runnin' in four years or I'm gonna be a white Oprah so... I'm good either way.

Funny how Tina Fey, trying to sound incoherent, still makes more sense than the actual Sarah Palin.

You can put lipstick on a pig; but she still can't govern a state. After hearing her resignation speech, I'm now convinced that Trig is NOT the most retarded member of the family.

I am like a lot of other's who think she is done politically. She probably doesn't realize it yet but she screwed up big time leaving her job. She has a base that loves her but how much of the voting public do they make up 20 to 30% of the voting public (I am guessing Rush Limbaugh's listeners maybe more)? That's not near enough to win an election. She was the albatross around McCain's neck this last election. I thought McCain was likely to win until he picked Palin as a running mate. That was a stroke of luck for Obama. Where the right wing freaks love her the moderates are terrified of her. There is no way us Democrats are going to vote for her under any circumstances. She is a religious extremist! She needs to grow some brains between now and the time the election starts. I don't see that ever happening. Among other things she is a quitter in a lot of people's minds. She has just as thin a resume or thinner as she did last year. But, cheer up! At least, she took Michael Jackson off the front page for a day or two.

You should spend more time driving . . .

Suppose those Republican money men and Independent money men encouraged this move.

Suppose the frivilous ethics accusations continue without end and continue to cost the people of Alaska time and money.

Why not walk away, give the Lt Governor time to prepare for his next campaign and build his creds by running the state for the balance of her term?

Hope for the worst for her Alex, its your style, but don't be scandalized if conservatives copy your playbook concerning BO's policies.

"Sarah Palin was always full of surprises. She burst onto the political scene in Alaska in 2002 almost as stunningly as she stepped onto the national stage as Sen. John McCain's out-of-nowhere choice as his vice presidential running mate in 2008."

Wow. That sounds like a political obituary.

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I am no fan of Palin, but if she is in fact gearing up for 2012, at least she is more honest than Mitt. He retained the title of Governor of Massachusetts for a good 2-3 years while spending little time or energy on the job while he was running fulltime for the presidential nomination.

That said, I really think she is following the money. Perhaps, she can earn enough to pay for her legal expenses, fines and restitution should the scandal rumors proved true. If she is lucky, there will be enough left over to support her family.

Investigations or not(and I would not be surprised if there is a potential scandal lurking, but it doesn't matter), the following scenario fits my view of Sarah: she sees herself as leading an insurrection or, if you prefer, a Movement of the anti-government, anti-tax survivalists seeking to "restore" traditional American values... a gringo Eva Peron, part populist, part fanatic, rebelling against big government socialism and the corrupt insider political class which has co-opted both parties.

Such hubris, such self-confidence combined with tons of far right money will run right over any investigations or scandals, which can be castigated as contrived and malicious efforts to subdue her because she is a threat to the Establishment.

Listen to her speech. She is laying out her points, taking her high ground, probing enemy weaknesses, using one code word after another, even indulging in a counter-attack or two on the the theory of offense is the best defence. It may sound nervous and rambling to outsiders, but it is typical of incipient dictators like Castro and Chavez, or Peron.

You wrote, "Hope for the worst for her Alex, its your style, but don't be scandalized if conservatives copy your playbook concerning BO's policies."

You're joking. Conservatives copyrighted that "playbook."

By the way, doesn't it bother you that Palin has such a thin skin that she would walk away from a governorship because so many people doubt she's as smart and virtuous as she and her followers fancy her to be?

That's a barracuda?

I keep hearing speculations of a scandal, or that this is some kind of national-politics move. I haven't really heard anyone suggest the (to me, anyway) obvious: that this is her throwing a tantrum in response to the Vanity Fair article about her that came out last weekend. "The press making her look stupid" is one of, if not the, biggest boogeymen she and her supporters always yammer on about, and this just seems to me like a "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" reaction.

Yes, I know that this would be a comically silly overreaction to the Vanity Fair article. I know that this would make her ridiculously juvenile, petty and narcissistic. But that's her, isn't it? I know her supporters are behind her with all the delusional fervor of American Idol audition failures, but does anyone else think she's above this kind of thing?

This is what's wrong with the Republican party, the likes of Sarah Palin are lauded by the Republican media spinsters (Hannity, Limabugh, et al) and any criticism was labeled either sexist or exemplar of liberal bias in the media. Truth be told, she's just dumber than a board.

You're right, I am actually quite scared that this woman was a candidate for being a heartbeat away from the presidency. This woman who did NOT know what the vice-president (the very job she was "applying for") did, could not name other court cases than Roe v. Wade (shit, she could've at least gotten Marbury v. Madison, the one repeated verbatim in grade school), and lest we forget the Katie Couric interview where apparently she reads "all the publications" but was unable to give on example. Yeah, that's a real "Gotcha!" question, "what magazines or books do you read?"

Let's say McCain won, and croaked half way through his term. We'd have someone exponentially worse and stupid than Bush in office.

You'd think Ron Paul would be the Republican wet dream: lowering taxes, gutting 2/3rds of the government, and he's an ex-gyno so you know he's not gay...closeted Republicans being a bit of a problem these days. But his stance on the Iraq war has made him vilified by a lot of Republicans in the media like Hannity and of course Democrats like Ed "Schmuck" Schultz.