There has to be more to this story than meets the eye. Palin resigns half way through her first term as Governor of Alaska so she has more freedom to fight for the issues of Alaska from the outside. WTF??
This is a person who was knocked for lack of experience during the 2008 Campagn and by all accounts wants the 2012 nomination (2016 would have seemed more realistic). I get that she will be able to spend time out of state shoring up her base in the lower 48 and raising money and sure she will have a book to plug soon, but it still looks like she is running away from having to deal with Alaskas issues during a troubled economy. Either that or there are ethical or personal issues about to blow up and she wanted out before the shit hit the fan.
This will either prove to be an strategically brilliant decision of one of the biggest political missteps ever.

Possibly, but I'll never be convinced she can win a national election in 2012 anyway. WHO is telling her she can?

It crossed my mind that a scandal was forthcoming, but Alaska is not making money on oil from what I understand, so she won't get to write the taxpayers checks. I don't see her popularity rising in AK, but I can see it going down the more time she spends time in the lower 48 and the usual strange stories about her continue to flow. She cannot afford to lose the Gov's election if she has higher aspirations.

I think you might be spot on that she's running from dealing with the economy so she can bash her future opponents who ARE dealing with it. She's going to try the "it's the economy stupid" route since "I can see Russia from my house" was epic fail. Whatever, I can only dream that this would make us see less of her, but I guess it will be just the opposite. Maybe she's preggers with Gov. Sandford's lovechild?

Someone needs to ask, "What are you smokin girl?"...

Or perhaps, the Alaska air quality makes one kind of woopsy poopsy loopsy in the head.

Can we say:

jesus how I wish SNL was still shooting and Tina Fey was around...that presser she gave was beyond inane. The reference to point guards and basketball was Palin at her most moronic. How the f**k anybody could view her as Presidential material is incomprehensible.

Oooohhh I'm sure SNL is already thinking 'bout/planning a Tina-Palin comeback!

Colin Powell may be the closest thing left to a credible candidate for the Republicans in 2012, and he seems to be hinting at some interest with his recent criticism of the high level of spending and budget deficits being exacerbated by the stimulus spending of the Obama administration.

He is also taking on the time-honored advantage of the unincumbent of not proposing a detailed credible alternative.

I never saw Palin getting beyond her base of a plurality of the remaining Republican party. Several others are self-destructing in office (Ensign, Sanford) so being out of office seems to be safer in these hard economic times.

If Palin is really interested in higher office, I do not think being out of office will help in her case. This technically poorly done speech alone suggests that she does not have the composure, or the people around her, necessary to mount a national campaign.

Excellent pts sil!

Last September, I labeled Sarah Palin a "domestic terrorist". Her display day frightens me even more.

TRL

My favorite part: All of the birds squawking in the background sounded like they were heckling her!

Okay I have two theories, both of which so far fetched that one or both just might be true.

On the heels of the Sanford scndal and the fact that for several days he just couldn't shut his mouth, perhaps Palin is one of the women with whom he was "inapprorite"...the nights get awfully lonely at those Governor conventions. Maybe even Sanford is Tripp's baby daddy! Come on, how cool would THAT be!!!

Or maybe, just maybe, she's off to start up some lunatic fringe militia group hell bent on secession. The US military has to invade Alaska and she is cut down is a deadly battle. Come on, how cool would THAT be!!!

Imagining is fun!

LOL Goerge!...

Well, whatever her intentions are/were she surely has shocked those closest to her. Obviously, this decision was--irresponsibily--made w/out the advice from her political advisers. I agree w/ the quotes below:





I'd surely like to see a video link of that.

If she ever speaks in public again I hope to God she has a written speech in front of her because yesterdays remarks were almost incoherent. I listened and thought, OMG this women was almost within a heart beat of being POTUS.
Tina Fey would have done it so much better.

Still I think something about this sudden resignation doesnt pass the smell test.

Me too. This was too strange, too sudden, especially from someone who craves the political spotlight. Something must really be rotten behind the scenes, and apparently, it was about to bite her. I wonder if she thought her timing, right before a holiday, would have somehow lessened the impact.

I Had a Dream last night (please forgive for the plagiarism MLK ) while sleepwalking and watching the fireworks celebrating the 4th of July, 2009. In this dream an equation appeared to me: "2009-1776 = 233". Subsequently another occured: "2+3+3 = 8". This was followed by an epiphany! The number "8" is lucky in China. That's why they started the Beijing Olympics on 08/08/2008 (Which by the way is the same in Europe and the USA.) All of this obviously means that China took over the USA on that date. Since the first Chinese invasion of the North American continent came by way of the Berring Strait from Asia through Alaska, they obviously have been planning this for a long time. Therefore Sarah Palin is actually an agent of the Chinese government planted in Alaska several thousand years ago to harp about Russia and distract us from the coming YELLOW PERIL!!!

Beat that one!
I like mine better.
I think the problem is not that she didn't have a written speech but that she always improvises no matter what she has written in front of her. It doesn't matter whether she writes it or someone else does. She does things based on faith. Not a bad idea perhaps if your political "instincts" are good. But apparently Palin's instincts are not.

The other night, after the announcement, I was channel surfing on cable tv. I heard somebody say that in recent weeks, there have been some top level resignations at the Alaska Health Dept. The rssignations were due to the Govs. way outside the mainstream views on social issues. When I heard that I tried to find the station where it might have come from and could not.

I have some friends who just came back from an Alaskan cruise. They said there was some rumble, and faint discussion, on Alaska TV about the possibility of banning birth control in Alaska.

In any event, I absolutely think more will come out sooner rather than later.

Good ole Sarah reveals that she's responding to a "higher calling" in order to "unite the country along conservative lines."

Capital "W"!!!!

"I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint"......gee maybe if she had stuck around for her full term she could have demonstrated some of those skills in Alaska.

Personally I just think she just got confused and thought she was a contestant on "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

Either that or she is hearing voices in her head and they are not from God but maybe Fox News.

"Quittah from Wasilla"

Bailin' Palin

I love this notion that she's going to now go around and rally the country behind her. She's just so delusional. And you know FOX News will be propping her up at every opportunity.

I am wondering if there is a possibility that Miss Goodie Two Shoes has some kind of scandal hidden in the closet, that she may have decided I need to get out now, while the getting out is good, before it was found out or picked up on by the media. Thats my theory for what its worth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc22M1FqXyQ...re=channel_page

Quite funny JC!

...On a side note have you seen Randy's myspace page. Woof! Check out the He's Knows You're Looking at Those Nuts of His video. SEX-YYY

I also like this video. Biting fist!

I confess I find his videos only mildly amusing, but he's breathtakingly hot. And he gets extra points from me for being a magritte fan.

Watching the Sarah Palin press conference was painful in the extreme. She is clearly such an undereducated, illiterate buffoon. She has some devious scheme in the works I'm afraid. She is a buffoon but many of those types are capable of scheming and plotting. Lets hope that she ends up the next Republican prez candidate. It will insure that President Obama is reelected. I wonder when Bristol will get knocked up again? Two kids in such a short time before. Its time for another Bristol kid. Sarah is 'the thing from Wasila'.

Sarah P claims that the media and comics are making fun of her 'son' with down's syndrome. I have never heard anyone make fun of that little innocent boy. She is so damn paranoid. And I'm sure that the kid is really Bristol's firstborn child not Sarah's.

Well, Miss Sarah is starting her campaign. An Op Ed in today's Washington Post is putting herself out on the national scene, showing some 'expertise' on the 'issues'--in this case, energy, and Obama's cap-and-trade plan.

I want her to run for one reason only: so I can see more of her smoking hot husband Todd.

Run, Sarah! Run! Just stay out of camera range and have your stud husband do all the campaigning!

I hope she falls victim to a moose attack that leaves her "tragically" without the ability to speak again so her and her whole family can go away. I'm sick of hearing from Levi every few days and her abstinence preaching daughter and the whole lot of them. BE GONE!!! Then again...I think Obama's best bet for big fundraising and a second term will be Sarah Palin.

I just find it amazing (and really, really sad) that she still has about a 70% approval/favorable rating among Republicans.

Probably because at this stage of the game its all about appealing to the base and not to the wider electorate (much the the GOP's ultimate detrimate). There aren't that many recognizable names around to vote for: Romney, Huckabee and Gingrich come to mind. I dont think you will see any of them at the top of the ballot in 2012.

Once again it looks like SP is in trouble again. It looks like she may have accepted private donations to pay her legal debt. OOOOPS!!!!!!

Taking a page from the Clinton playbook, I see. Speaks volumes about her character......

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. Oh, where do we begin? Winners never quit and quitters never win...you betcha! Sharing your thoughts on Twitter? Perfect! You will only have to fill 140 characters per thought! Even YOU could do that! Also, what "things" are the media making up? Care to expound on that one, sweetheart? I do have to admit I will miss your mental-inferior followers...they put on quite a show of their own. Glad to know the gene pool of American is still pretty shallow. Just like you! Now go be a good girl and raise your family. If you don't want them in the spotlight, perhaps you shouldn't have had them come up on a very well-lit stage during the Republican National Convention. Darn those t.v. cameras...they broadcast everything! Oh, and lastly, I seriously doubt you'll be able to land on a PTA committee, let alone hold any future political office. True Americans really don't like quitters.

Bye Bye Sarah, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. Now, speaking of followers what ever happened to Joe the Plumber?

Joe probably got his own show on Fox News. It's the newest thing...put either criminals or losers on as hosts. In Chicago, we have disgraced former governor Rod "I never met a bribe I didn't like" Blagojevich on WLS-AM, and disgraced former city of Chicago city clerk Jim Laski on WGN-AM. Chances are good that Joe could land something prime-time, depending upon the abilities of his agent.

Please don't say his name.....I have a feeling he's like Beetlejuice in that if you say his name 3 times he reappears.

As for Sarah, I saw most of her farewell speech. I just wish there had been subtitles for those of us who speak English and not Hockey Mom. I mean, what the hell what she talking about? She is so inarticulate...she makes Bushie come off as the grand poobah of MENSA. Little Miss Martyr managed to blame all the usual targets...Hollywood, big goverment and the media...it was a Biill O'Reilly talking points memo. It is just so frightening to think she came as close as she did to being VP and even more frightening to see that she STILL has as many supporters as she does.

I have a feeling that most of her wing nut supporters are these so called "birther nation" Republicans who refuse to believe despite a verifiable birth certificate, that President Obama is a natural born American. And Joe the plumber is in addition to being an idiot, a complete and total fraud. I loved how she blasted the media at every opportunity, even though she continues to do everything necessary and required to stay IN the media. She is something.....

Yeah Tom, those birthers are REALLY a scary brainwashed bunch. They seriously have lost it!

& gotta love Chris Matthews putting that buffoon Congressman Campbell on the spot.

William Shatner reads Sarah Palin's Farewell speech.

Loved it maddog (altho the link is a bit off, btw)!

This just in by Bill Maher, which btw I LOVE!

LOL!:

Sarah Palin is a developmentally challenged buffoon. Her speech last week was bizarre and psycho. Why won't she just go away ASAP? YUCK.

A spider monkey with downs syndrome is smarter than Sarah Palin.

ROTFLMAO! You slay me, George!

Levi Johnston has much to say about his almost-mother-in-law in Vanity Fair: Me and Mrs. Palin (preview). Video of Levi's photo shoot.

The discussion about his "johnson" at the end of the vid was about the only interesting thing I've heard from him.

Levi Johnston's pistachio nut commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggB6SsB4DgM

I'd rather watch the You-Tube of the cat playing the piano.

If Miz Palin were a serious candidate for effective world leader she would be speaking out against the oppression of women in the countries we depend on for oil.

But then that would expose the fact her fundamental religiosity doesn't work as social reform anywhere.

Or why doesn't she try to sell her abstinence-only policies to those women in Guinea lying on their backs with their legs in the air being raped in the mud of a stadium in broad daylight?

Oh, what am I thinking? Obviously this is all Obama's faught for going to a muslim country and asking the muslim world to stop forcing women to wear veils.

So she probably considers all of the increasingly visible oppression to be his fault.

Well at least it would get her to talk about the subject. I for one am sick of suffering with Levi's Johnson.

Finally some good news about the Palin family: oldest son Track has married his high school sweetheart Britta. Congratulations to the happy couple.

Conveniently placed flowers.... sudden marriage..... how far along is she? (It doesnt matter to me, but there is likely some covering up here.....)