Oh my God, Sarah Palin resigned!!! The United States political landscape has got its collective panties in a bunch over the news developing late last week. It was one of those press conferences geared to generate as little attention as possible as it was held late on a holiday weekend. So, she managed to escape a ton of attention and many news reporters weren't even able to get there in time to cover it. However, all of the pundits are on this case like me on chicken wings.
My personal feelings are that she is clearing her schedule so she can make some money and get herself in position for the 2012 election. That's just a hunch. But I'm not too firm on that since it doesn't take a political genius to see that giving up on being governor of Alaska will cause some voters to see her as opportunistic and unreliable.
I don't buy the pundits who are crying about how unfair everyone has been to her. It's as if the attacks on Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Obama, and every Democrat in the last 20 years never happened. Politics are ugly. If she didn't want to be under the microscope then perhaps she should have never thrust herself in to the 2008 elections with guns a-blazin'. Her role right off the bat was that of "attack dog" firing off insults, non sequiturs, and sarcasm at will. She gets no sympathy from me. Yet when people criticize her, her actions, and her family values it's unfair? Grow up.
That being said, there is not enough money in the world that could ever convince me to get in to politics.
I know it's too much to ask for the talking heads to wait until more information is presented regarding this issue before they start frothing at the mouth about it, but it would be nice to see some restraint. All I can say is, if Obama survives his first term and finds himself facing off against Sarah Palin in 2012, I think the Democrats will be in a very good position indeed.
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