That third paragraph makes no sense also.

Yesterday, my family and I announced a decision that is in Alaska’s best interest and it always feels good to do what is right.

I have no doubt that her resignation is in Alaska's best interest.

Sarah Barracuda, the eternal victim. Boy, they sure don't make barracudas like they used to.

Yeah, Sarah, when you suddenly "move" to the lower 48 for your speaking tour and book deal for millions of dollars, then we'll know for sure what you're really about.

I dare you to stay in Alaska, stay with your family there and NOT follow the money!

I just dare you! Then we can talk about all your so-called family values, etc.

Who are the countless others who have resigned honorably midterm to pursue a higher calling?

Can anyone name one such elected executive leader?

I'm genuinely puzzled by the reference.

their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term"

Who Sarah ? Countless others??? Citations please! Faux news is definitely a higher calling, cause we all know that's where you're heading.

must refer to SC Governor Mark Sanford. He hasn't resigned yet, but she has some insider info on that.

...she casts herself as one of a pantheon of brave, noble, highly respected historical figures.

They're imaginary, sure, but it sounds good to her true believers.

to her initial statement. And of course her reaction to THAT. (when is she going away?)

Usually that refers to something ecclesiastical, so I guess that means she's following Jim McGreevey's lead and entering the ministry.

Or, you know, she meant "higher office," and she thinks she's starting the 2012 campaign.

It's pretty much a repeat of everything she already said, also. Also also, I guess it's supposed to be self-evident how the average Alaskan will benefit from her decision, because she still hasn't offered any explanation other than people keep picking on her. People who know her will tell us that it is the right decision, she says, but why? Because people who know her know that she will inevitably do a bad job in the next 16 months?

Also also also, "We've achieved so much." Energy independence? So Alaska is off the grid? "National security" WTF? Well, I guess it is true that Putin hasn't reared his head into Alaskan air space lately, and I'm sure that is entirely related to shrewd decisions made by Sarah. "Damn that Sarah," he's said to himself many a time, "She's got me stymied at every turn with her fiscally responsible budget cuts!"

Sarah, I'm sure we're all sorry that the press is trying to do their job. It sucks, doesn't it? Why don't they move away from the politics of personal destruction and get back to a full-time never-ending examination of the Barack HUSSEIN Obama/Ayers/Terrorists connection?

Oh, and also also also also, who has ever stepped down from a position such as yours, for still unexplained reasons, and had the press just go "Okely-dokely-doo! Good for him/her. Its obviously none of our business." Don't think about it too much; there is no such person. You are not the object of a vast conspiracy, Sarah.

That woman has some serious personality disorder. She has to get the last word in every time - won't let it go ...HAS to respond. Like when Letterman issued his apology, all she had to do was say thank you and she would of come out on top...but noooo had to issue a rambling statement tying in the troops and freedom. That woman has written the book on asshole behavior.

While she rails against the media for their coverage of her rambling, incoherent resignation speech, poor Sarah claims she's all about national security and smaller government. But those two things are not only false, they're diametrically opposed.

By creating an agency that consumes hundreds of billions of dollars (DHS) with broad, sweeping, and perhaps even unconstitutional powers, government has become much larger, more byzantine, less responsive and less accountable. The only goal of DHS is to create more fear and paranoia so that Americans willingly give up more and more of their freedoms and privacy.

Palin and her Wingnut followers all suffer from fantastical delusion syndrome, for which there is no known cure. The only safe thing we can do is lock them up in a mental institution. That's what someone should have done to Palin a long time ago.

So while poor, poor, misunderstood Sarah laments that the rest of America will never understand her, we must lament the fact that Sarah doesn't understand that the world doesn't revolve around her and her Wingnut friends.

It's a JOB. You're not a beauty queen anymore.

You're a quitter. And a whiner.

Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

It's gotta be one of two things.

* Either she got a multi-million-dollar job offer from Faux News. Maybe they're adding her as their national sports reporter?

* Or, she's about to be indicted.

Maybe both. After all, she IS a republican.

Jeez, well, there it is -- she's America's Saint, and she wants to make sure we know it.

Her constant world's-noblest-mom self-references, her moral preening, and this unspecified "higher calling," sort of sum up her view that she's just a gosh-darn paragon of virtue.

And we're all just too mean to accept it.

No, Sarah. The media has been just as hard on Hillary as you. The difference lies in the fact that Hillary accepts reality and is willing to pay the price. Palin who can't take criticism should stay out of national politics where criticism is the name of the game, particularly for a woman.

Palin wants to be adored. When I think about her silly winks and tortured logic, I get disgusted all over again. I wish she would fade into oblivion. However, the media is going to follow wherever she goes and we're going to be deluged with stories about her for the foreseeable future.

Would someone please explain to this woman the concept of irony! Starting with this sentence!