Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska last week. With over a year left in her four year term, she’s calling it quits. Finished. Done. Finito.
Why, Sarah, why? What is going on in that ever so perky head of yours? Governor Palin’s stated reason is that she doesn’t want to be a lame duck. OK, that’s good. But wouldn’t just NOT announcing that she’s NOT going to seek reelection achieve the same goal? The prettiest governor in all the fifty states could have continued working diligently for many more months without throwing in the towel. I just don’t get it.
She was interviewed on TV this morning while doing some folksy net fishing with her folksy family. When asked point blank why she did it she said, in her folksy way, that she’s tired of fighting these frivolous law suits. She has good reason to be. Since she became a national figure, the Democrat’s attack machine went into high gear, filing over a dozen ethics charges against her. Although she has been exonerated in every case so far, she has reportedly spent over half a million dollars in legal fees to defend her innocence. I’d be totally satisfied with that answer – if I believed it.
Here’s the thing – I absolutely adore Sarah Palin. I briefly considered buying the Sarah Palin action figure last year. I cut McCain’s name out of my McCain – Palin bumper sticker. She’s conservative, she’s an anti-politician, she’s plain spoken, and she’s smoking hot. I like all those things. But this latest course of action I just don’t get.
If she wanted to quit politics and be left alone, well, who could blame her? Charlie Gibson and the rest of the Media Elite made it their mission in life to destroy her. She’s $500,000 in the hole defending herself against trumped up charges. But if that were the case, she’d have given a better answer to “Are you running for president in 2012?” than her folksy half-answer about keeping all her options open.
She’s planning something. I’m just worried that it isn’t a very well thought out plan.
