At the beginning of the Independence Day weeked, Sarah Palin announced that she is quitting as governor of Alaska.
For the most part her explanation was rambling and uninformative. During the camapign Palin showed that her ad lib remarks were incoherent. Now she shows that in reading a prepared statement she is just as incoherent.
Why in the world would Palin cry uncle and throw in the towel just half way through her first term as governor?
Is it because she wants to run for president in 2012? Surely this is a bizarre way to begin a presidentail run. And if she quit on Alaska would she also quit on the nation?
Or does she want to out of the kitchen because she can’t stand the heat. Sshe complained in her statement about unj ustified criticism of her and her family. But would not a presidential campaign bring her even more criticism. Is she tough enough to be a naitonal politician?
Or does she want out of po litics altogether?
Or is there another shoe to drop? Is there a scandal on the horizon and she want s out before it hits?
Can a p o litician as erratic aS Palin hope to attain national office? Many in her own party don’t want her.
What do you think?
Is Palin trying to position hyerself for a presidential bid in 2012?
Or does she want out of po litic s for good?
“There is something rotten in the Realm of Denmark”, Shakespeare in Hamlet.
I suspect she is uncomfortable with public attention turned on her private life/family and what it reveals about her character. I think we will see her next in a tv talk-show format.
Good morrow, all!
Sarah Palin, rambling, incoherent, evasive, indecisive, thin-skinned, easily distracted…exactly what America needs, another president with ADD and anger management issues, wait, who’s that, what a cute baby! hey! I can see Russia from my porch! who said that! Letterman you owe me an apology! The demons are after me! Does this make me look fat? (no, it makes you sound stupid!)
Watch as Sarah flashes the V-signs as Alaska Marine One helicopters her off to well-deserved oblivion.
The next contestant on “So, You Think You Can Run The Country?”
CTZen
“HAS SARAH PALIN COMMITTED POLITICAL SUICIDE?”
Oh, how I wish ’twere so!
Good morrow, all!
Richard Nixon was defeated in 1960 for the presidency. He was then defeated in 1962 for the governor’s office in California. He blithely told the press, “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.”
In 1968, he declared for the presidency again, and, with the Democrats demoralized by the death of Bobby Kennedy, squeezed out a win over Hubert Humphrey. (Johnson declined to run again)
In 1974, he resigned, under clouds of suspicion, and cascades of criticism (damn, I’m channeling Spiro Agnew here!) and put Gerry Ford in office.
Palin probably wants Michael Steele’s job. On the other hand, maybe she pictures herself as the female Rush Limbaugh. (I think I just hurt my brain saying that) In any event, she wants all the perks, and none of the scut jobs.
She’ll be back — and we’ll be waiting — CTZEn
CTZen:
Actually, you were channelling William Safire who, as Agnew’s speechwriter, came up with such alliterative phrases as “nattering nabobs of negativism”.
Tony,
Congratulations on your new book. Bonne chance
Thank you, Neil.