Let Fux News give her a job and let all of her written comments be limited to Facebook. Then I will never have to hear from this arrogant, ignorant bitch again.

She is going to become a fundamentalist Evangelist???? Just look at how many souls this woman could save???? Then we could see her every other day on the religious channel.

This broad needs psychiatric help. She is not living in the real world, and she thinks we care more about her than we do.

We're glad you are stepping down. Now please step OUT!

"And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

I can't think of 1 example of an elected official resigning and the general media consensus is that it was "honorable".

paranoia, self destroyer.

This could be (one of the) epitaph(s) of the Bush administration, and if Palin stays in the spotlight it is something that will clearly dog her.

Her quitting makes questionable strategic sense for a 2012 run for her to quit the governors office. Nor does it seem likely that it's good for the state of Alaska for her to step down. She could bring national attention to Alaska's problems. She could be a very un-lame duck, with full ability to threaten, cajole, and wheel and deal. What's more, she wouldn't need to invest her time in campaigning. On the contrary, she's already been gallivanting around the world doing exactly what she claims a lazy leader would do. What's more, she's known in several instances to tell the convenient lie rather than adhere to the whole and nothing but.

Which all adds together to make the official story not very believable and leaves us asking, "What's the REAL reason she's quitting?" (Just like we're still asking, "What's the REAL reason Bush was so determined to invade Iraq?".) People are likely to come up with all sorts of stuff, some of it sensible, some of it ridiculous. As long as the alternatives aren't wildly less probable than the given reason they will be taken seriously, and even the wildly improbable ones may seem nearly reasonable.

In short, if you don't give people a credible reason for your actions they will make one up.

Here's a (partial) list of governors who have resigned. It's certainly not "Countless." I leave evaluation of "honorable" up to you.

Imagine that headline.

During the election I worried about what lay behind Sarah Palin's bizarre, religiously-based charisma, and what that would mean if she became VP.

I refuse to elect anyone to political office who preaches to his/her political constituency in a fundamentalist, evangelical religious manner. Too many paranoid ideas (for example the "end of days") that could become self-fulfilling prophesies given the wrong mix of power and mental instability. As a model of that kind of political dysfunction, we need only look at Iran, with its ultra-conservative "supreme leaders" doing all those horrible things to their citizens in the name of religious righteousness.

Ha! This time with the link:

http://friendfeed.com/rchaas/dc6deca8/making-list-of-governors-who-resigned-and-why

Actually, I've also uncovered this tidbit:

"New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey (D) is the 11th governor in U.S. history to resign rather than ride out a political scandal." (This was written in 2008, before Spitzer)

"The National Governors Association historical database shows 47 governors, not including McGreevey, have resigned in the nation's history, most of the others to take appointed or elected federal positions and a few for health reasons or military service."

http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.actionsiteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15738