She's answering to a "higher calling?" And it's the Fourth of July, like, with hot dogs?

She's the new Hebrew National spokesperson!

Here's the link to Conservatives4Palin:

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/07/sarah-palin-crosses-rubicon.html

This was the top article yesterday evening, several hours after Palin announced her resignation, comparing her to Caesar crossing the Rubicon.

Yes, posts compared her to Moses (leading her people) and Jesus (going into the wilderness) - scroll through the comments and you'll find plenty more like that. One thought she might lead her own party (a real possibility when you think about it), and another claimed that the supporters were her "Praetorian Guard", i.e. needed to lead the charge for her protection, no matter where she was going.

Classic cult stuff.

(Also - the logo photo of her, with back turned, staring off into the distance like a visionary sage is VERY weird.)

You got it right -- she intended the statement as a hit at Obama in particular for not finishing his Senate term, as well as those Dems appointed to the Cabinet from various positions in the Congress and governorships held by the Democrats.

It is telling that in Palin's mind people resigning office to serve the President equates with her resigning her office to do whatever it is she's going to do, and does indeed suggest that, as others have speculated, she is going to do something involving the church. It would make perfect sense, she's a product of the evangelicals in Alaska, who are generally referred to as "close-knit" but also are very mistrustful of government in general and may have told her that politics won't bring forth the kingdom of god which they wish to see.

Ms. Sunflower, you ALSO have it right -- first time I saw Palin, she struck me as one who loves attention, regardless of how she gets it, the definition of a narcissist. Having lived with one once upon a time, I can tell you that the truth is not a barrier to their need to be the center of the universe.

I do think that she may have believed that her political career would be just like being one of the popular kids in high school -- and when it wasn't, she felt slighted, since for many politicians, it is that easy. It would seem that she honestly finds it hard to believe that there are people who don't think exactly like she does, and every time she's reminded of this, it angers her -- so she's taking her ball and going home.

In light of her apparent feelings of mistreatment, it's also appropriate that the Christian significance of the day she's resigning -- July 25 -- is that it's St. James the Greater Day, celebrating a martyred apostle. I suspect the date has more significance in terms of some other event, whether it's a court filing or a hospital admission date we will have to wait and see. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_son_of_Zebedee)

She seemed a bit discombobulated in the press conference, and noted that her husband flew down to meet her for it, so it would appear that the date was chosen hastily, especially since it was one of the worst days of the year for publicity if you were announcing a triumph. Great day to try to bury a story, though. I think something we don't know yet really stunned her, enough to make her seem to be coming unglued.

It's the way people act when they've just learned that someone they love has cancer, or in some other way have been given a lesson in their own powerlessness.

I think Sarah Palin is casting herself as the outside-reality candidate. It would not surprise me if there are a series of completely incomprehensible staged incidents where she continues to cast a knowing wink towards her "secret base supporters" about her role as the ultimate media elite and washington snooty snoot outsider, outsider of reality.

There is no doubt that Palin's selection as VP nominee had an immediate and significant impact on McCain's campaign. The speed and level of positive reaction from the "base" was based on hope. The hope that someone like themselves would represent them and "their" issues. This was only heightened by the disillusionment with Bush and the fact that he had used the base without delivering meaningful results.

Obama's election helped to remove most of that hope. The small sliver of hope that remains in the base, however blind, is on Palin's shoulders. If that hope is completely destroyed with Palin's self destruction, then we should be very afraid. There are a lot of scary folks in the base and it only takes a few of them to go off the deep end to cause serious damage. We have already seen early signs of this with a number of murders.

We need Palin to hang around and keep the hope alive with the base. It will be an annoying nuisance, and ultimately as fruitless as Bush, but worth the price...

...that she isn't the only conservative with fantasies of running the commie (or facist, who can keep track?) Obama from office.

Just imagine the 2012 primaries when other conservatives are criticizing poor persecuted Sarah.

But who will she and her followers blame when she loses primaries? Betcha they blame the media.

is the media then quotes every damn thing you say.

It'll be great exposure and Millons of Dollars for Sarah Barracuda Caribou Barbie to be on Faux but can you imagine the You Tube collection by the end of it?

Pahlin and Bachman will tie up uncounted terrabytes of video as every dimwitted ugly anti-american utterance is carefully cataloged ;)

The all seeing eye of Televsion is not kind -- ask the graduates of any reality TV show if TV didn't highlight every imperfection and character flaw

Sarah will wilt under the spotlight's heat...

Palin's lawyer is reportedly threatening lawsuits aimed at Alaskan bloggers, HuffPo, MSNBC, and the NY Times etc for "spreading defamatory rumors" about her reason for resigning. Yeah, dipwad, go right ahead, you bet'cha, make yourselves look even more whiny foolish -- though, at this point, that may not be possible.