In the early 1940's Harold Stassen was Minnesota's young and very popular Republican governor who was considered Presidential material. He resigned midterm to enlist in the U.S. Navy. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania after that, but never made it to President, even though he kept trying for the rest of his life.

of the Repu'ublicist Party. They richly deserve her.

Just watched Anderson Cooper interview Palin's spokesperson, who used the same strained sports analogy for Palin's resignation as governor. Point guard, best for the game - the whole tangled bunch of metaphors. Ok - to each his own.

I've also been to the Conservatives4Palin website. References to her as Moses leading her people, Jesus going into the desert, Caesar crossing the Rubicon - and yet, a simple country girl.

I don't know what this is but it ain't basketball, and it ain't governing. It's more like a cult.

She probably had the response written before the announcement. She is doing whatever she has to do to stay in the spotlight. It works with her base and I just hope and pray that it does not work with population at large.

Palin seems to think (or pretends to think) that only elite Washington and the media believe she's a whack job par excellance, when the truth is that most regular Americans aware of her existance -- at least those with functioning opposable thumbs -- consider her crazed and hateful and the sort of person you wouldn't want within a thousand miles of national power.

She's got one political trick -- do something unexpected -- and she hopes she can ride such a pony into national office.

Sorry dear, but whenever my dog does something unexpected (like pee on the rug) it causes a reaction, but doesn't lead to a positive outcome for the dog.

Seems she doesn't want to be a lame duck Governor, no one has been elected to take her place, no election yet.

She is just LAME. She is the one who doesn't understand.

She learned something and got a more expensive spin-writer for the followup.

Like Hillary Clinton and countless others (meaning I can't be bothered to list any more) who have been tapped for Administration positions.

Has Obama invited her into his "team of rivals"? The Supreme Court? The ambassadorship to Whatthefuckistan? Frankly I think she's dog-whistling, and it's no wonder most of us can't make out what she's saying.

What does her base think? They must be the ones she's talking to.

What does that mean? Really, I want to know. In my points of reference, I would conclude she is becoming a priest or a nun or beginning some sort of religious life. Is she going to start her own church? Become a reincarnation of Aimee Semple MacPherson? Why can't she just say what she means? Why is everything in code that only the "true believers" can understand? Speaking in such a way that only 20% to 30% of 49% of the country can understand is not the way to persuade people to your side!

Well, if nothing else, we can be assured of wall-to-wall Sarah coverage while she drags out this little drama and milks it for everything it is worth. (big sigh). Christ on a crutch.

...just "countless others." She's comparing the response to her maneuver to Obama, Clinton and Biden not completing their respective Senate terms. In BHO's case, his first term.

It's like comparing an AWOL to a promotion; hey, either way, you're no longer doing the job for which you signed. She's just passing the ball, i.e. walking off the field. Accountability is for the little people.

I'm sure she'll explain further in her next Quitter Twitter.

literally & figuratively. My guess is a sex-tape is about to hit the web & I am frothing at the mouth just waiting.

Somebody needs the wood.

...then here's two things to do, Palin:

GO AWAY and SHUT UP.

Her narcissism is breath-taking as always ...

Yes, I remember high school and the girls who idolized the cheerleaders ... but after 8 years of cheerleader GWBush, you think they'd realize there are "presidential qualities" exceed having a great smile and being REALLY REALLY popular, quick with a quip, and being the "kinda folks you'd like to have a beer with"

Sarah Palin reminds me far too much of some regional Tupperware/Amway/Pampered Chef sales champion ... they are hard workers, impeccably groomed and very sociable too ....

Truly, it's not enough. This country is dying. We need more and better.

If you haven't already checked it out, I suggest you do so for an education about the group for whom Sarah is "the one." I don't think separation of church and state ever crosses many, if not most, of her Protestant fundamentalist fans' minds--and that is not an exaggeration.

...her tv show will be ready for fall. I bet she'll have a show on Fox.

Does anyone remember the wonderful, remarkable, droll, acidly funny Molly Ivins and her "First Rule of Holes?" It went like this: First rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging.

Would Molly be having fun with this, or what?

Palin is too obtuse to see the simple wisdom of this. I'm betting that she'll have even more to say in the coming days, as she reads the comments from her supporters on her Facebook page.

I'll sacrifice a goat.

I'll place a photo of Bill Kristol by my bedside and kiss it every morning after I wake.

I'll move to Colorado Springs and join a lily-white evangelical mega-church (and then work really, really hard to suppress my giggles every Sunday)

I'll even read the Collected Works of TrAnn Coulter.

I'll do whatever it takes to placate the Great Conservative God in the Sky and His Only Begotten Son, Ronald Reagan.

Just please, please, please let Sarah Palin run for president in 2012. Nothing could be funnier, provide more consistent entertainment, do more terminal damage to the Republican Party or, let's be honest, make liberals feel more superior than to see her braying, "you betcha"ing mug splashed all over the news for 18 months.

I'll hope.