The Sarah Palin I-Quit-arod

KT
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I am sorry, and please do not take offense, but is this revelation necessary? Is the Palin affair the dominantly significant story affecting American political discourse? You cover national politics, the White House, and Congress, correct? To which of these realms does this story conform? The resignation of one of America's most flawed, and fleeting, politicians is hardly all that surprising, and certainly is undeserving of the relentless attention, which has consequently overshadowed much more important and relevant issues you could be reporting on. This thread is beyond overkill.

You also left out her resigning from the Oil Control Commission (or whatever it's called, I forget the exact name) to become Lieutenant Governor and her resigning as mayor of Wasilla to be appointed to the commission. I think this explains her decision to run for VP last year, it's all about the bigger and better thing with her. I have zero doubt she'll try for the presidency and will find a way to bully her way into winning that primary in 2012.
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Neo: I'd agree with you if this were, say, Gregoire or Schwarzenegger (though if Arnie quit now the ripples in California would be more of an effect). But Palin put herself in the center of politics and has done everything possible to keep herself there. She has also shown herself to be VERY shrewd and ambitious, so IMHO she needs to be scrutinized on every angle possible.

"This thread is beyond overkill."
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Also.

I have zero doubt she'll try for the presidency and will find a way to bully her way into winning that primary in 2012.
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That shall be the day I register as an Independent...

My new theory is that it is all about the benjamins. She will never be president. It's time to cash in.

That shall be the day I register as an Independent...
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One of the many reasons I am so grateful to live in the state I do: we do not have to register for a party in order to register to vote. It makes life even more entertaining because we have jungle primaries. All in all good times.

My new theory is that it is all about the benjamins. She will never be president. It's time to cash in.
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Actually, if you're a Republican establishmentarian, you're seeing the genius in the move. You now have the perfect fall guy to attempt to go up against Obama and fail without losing a potential rising star. I think the Republicans knew what Palin was when McCain chose her, and they're now conniving to get her the nomination.

Exiled:

I suspect it's an expression of relief and self-reassurance, coupled with a strong desire to nail down the coffin lid. The apparent passing of the Snow Flake may not be consequential on the level of U.S.–Russia relations, but it's a significant event in national politics.
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Look at it this way – most media are still fixated on the death of an eccentric song-and-dance person.

FO
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Yes, I suppose this story is a degree above the MJ marathon.

Exiled-I disagree this is still a major news story! We really don't know yet if this is it for Sarah Palin in "POLITICS!" Highly unlikely! But you KNOW she has gotten something else to surprise us with! Plus its not fair KT didn't get the chance to get her 2 cents IN! Thank the Troops.
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Sorry that's my lame attempt to write like a Sarah Palin press release.

Crap! The Rude Pundit does not like the exclamation points.
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In the 21st century, only complete f*@king morons actually write multiple exclamation points into their political speeches. Jesus Christ, it's like a letter from a high school freshman girl about that cute senior.
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(An earlier posted version apparently contained numerous words in all caps. One looks forward to the release of the shaky crayon draft.)
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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

Sarah the Quitter can now join Joe the Plumber in a comedy act called "The GOP Follies "

A footnote:
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When she decided to quit the Oil & Gas gig the Commission was already one member short. It apparently didn't bother her to leave a three-member commission with only a single member. More and more it seems those lay diagnoses of narcissistic personality disorder may be spot on. The new developments merit at least some attention, as this woman once harbored delusions of adequacy in national office.

"When she decided to quit the Oil & Gas gig the Commission was already one member short. It apparently didn't bother her to leave a three-member commission with only a single member."
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FO-Every thing she does is because she loves Alaska. Alaska feel the love.

Latest Tweet from the Northern Nutbar:
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"Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again...."
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And the U. of Idaho J-school granted her a degree? Is it affiliated with Regent U. Law School? Also?

KT – I'm somewhat new here but kudos / word for health care work and this reminder of Sarah's traveling vaudevillities. Between her flute and Jack Benny's violin we'd have a risible show. Not a great way to run a country, alas. Or is it?
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Exiled – thanks to McCain's cavalier vetting (pick the “hot chick” to steal Hillary voters?) and lots of sarahdipity (on her part, not ours) we nearly had her in charge. Until she's really finished, this isn't overkill. I still wonder if McCain really wanted Tina Fey for VP but she said no. Then he went thru a political photo album, found Sarah, and said, “Yeah, I'll take that one.”

I understand the desire to lambaste Palin, God knows she is deserving. However, there are such utterly more important stories circulating that could, and should, be discussed. Anyone care to join the "Obama and the Russian Bear" thread?

Palin a quitter?...

TIME magazine's own blog, Swampland, has compiled fairly strong evidence of Sarah Palin's tendency to quit when the going gets tough. First, Palin changed colleges five times in five years! And, when things got too hot in the kitchen, as it were, she a...

[...] The thing about Sarah Palin is that her record has shown little practical experience. She barely made through the half-way point of her first term before she called quit. But no one should be surprise from this. Palin, after all, went through five different college campuses in so many years. [...]

The reason the Palin discussion matters, on July 5th 2009, is that she is the next GOP nominee.
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The same pundits who were counting out Obama in 2005 are the same ones counting out Palin today.
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Palin is immeasurably better positioned today to win the GOP nomination than Obama was even in July 2007. If the GOP Iowa caucus was Tuesday she would CRUSH Romney, Pawlenty, or any of the other GOP stooges. Two weeks after Iowa she would ride her momentum to a win in New Hampshire followed by a HUGE win in South Carolina.
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As someone who prefers Bernie Sanders to Ted Kennedy, I'm decidedly not a fan of hers. But all of this dismissive talk about her is just wrong. She may not be qualified by traditional standards. But that doesn't matter one bit to the GOP voters in Iowa.
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What she is selling is incredibly potent. She is a woman who, wrapped in the flag and holding her Bible high, presents herself as an unabashed defender of family who is quite clear in her unmitigated hatred of "liberals."
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As I said earlier, the people who are dismissing her today are the same people who dismissed Obama. But those people don't represent people who vote in the GOP primary anymore than they represent the people who vote in the Dem primary.
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There is an incredible amount of anger and ignorance in this country. Stroll over to a Conservative blog or Fox News to see what I mean. Nothing they say has any logic or reason to it. But logic and reason don't matter when the pretty lady with the attractive family and the Bible in her hand is tell her faithful that the reason for all of their troubles is the Black, terrorist sympathizer in the White House, and all of those limp-wristed liberals in Congress.
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So, while Obama and the Russian Bear discussions are kind of interesting, the only story that matters is the very real possibility that Sarah Palin will become the next President. And God help us all if that happens because there is no doubt that she'll let the ICBMs fly.

Sanford -> MJ -> Palin, bright shiny objects OVER THERE!
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If the media's primary role were to inform, it might sound like this:
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"After all, the reason the winger crowd can't find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. That's why even people like Beck's audience, who I'd wager are mostly lower-income people, can't imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who fucked them over. Beck pointedly compared the AIG protesters to Bolsheviks: “[The Communists] basically said ‘Eat the rich, they did this to you, get ‘em, kill ‘em!'” He then said the AIG and G20 protesters were identical: “It's a different style, but the sentiments are exactly the same: Find ‘em, get ‘em, kill ‘em!'” Beck has an audience that's been trained that the rich are not appropriate targets for anger, unless of course they're Hollywood liberals, or George Soros, or in some other way linked to some acceptable class of villain, to liberals, immigrants, atheists, etc. — Ted Turner, say, married to Jane Fonda.
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But actual rich people can't ever be the target. It's a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master's carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you're a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you're on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that's what we've got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can't be mad at AIG, can't be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it's struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It's really weird stuff. And bound to get weirder, I imagine, as this crisis gets worse and more complicated."
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Matt Taibbi: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/21289

BTW, given the non-zero chance that Sarah Palin will be President on Jan 20, 2013, the Russians (and the Iranians) would be absolute fools to sign on to any treaty that limits or restricts their nuclear arsenal or ambitions.
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The only thing that kept them safe from the crazies in the Reagan and Bush administrations was the certainty that they could annihilate us in the event that we struck first. The Russians would be stupid to give up that deterrent now, given the level of craziness in the GOP. Same for the Iranians, who also have to worry about the Israelis. Frankly it would be irresponsible for the Iranians NOT to pursue a bomb.

Sanford -> MJ -> Palin continued:
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"Our stories symbolize something deeper. The great lie of our contemporary, celebrity-crazed culture is that only the rich and famous have stories worth telling. There are almost no celebrities featured in Springsteen's songs. His stories are our stories, and the wisdom (as well as the folly) they contain is ours, too."
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The Bruce Springsteen gospel: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93437259

"The Russians would be stupid to give up that (nuclear) deterrent now, given the level of craziness in the GOP. Same for the Iranians, who also have to worry about the Israelis. Frankly it would be irresponsible for the Iranians NOT to pursue a bomb." -Choska 6:47.
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The neoconservative cabal knows this to be true, but to them it doesn't matter. Their bellicosity is a means to an end- the flow of military $$. But you have to wonder why Choska‘s statement is not glaringly obvious to more observers. The answer would probably explain why Palin is so captivating.

Puh-leeze. Don't tell me you're using Sarah Palin's college transfers as a metaphor for her recent announcement. To be fair, you should compare Al Gore flunking out of Yale Divinity school to his losing his own state in the 2000 Presidential election. BTW, how DOES one flunk out of Divinity School??