These will have to do until Letterman gets back from vacation. I’ll bet he & his writers are already scribbling possible “Top 10 Reasons Palin Resigned” on picnic napkins.
And I hope to god that A-Rod is going to be somewhere on that list, just for the sake of continuity.
That, and Letterman also tapes Friday’s show on Thursday night…just after the normal Thursday show taping.
I don’t feel sorry for her. Good riddance and all that, but her suddenly realizing she’s in over her head is least zany explanation I’ve heard. The nine year old pregnancy is pretty zany. So-stupid-it’s-brilliant tactic of running for president is zany. Divorce is zany. Does anyone seriously have a better explanation?
That she IS “zany” ? I’m personally reserving judgement as to her motives, because I don’t think she’s rational enough to predict or understand reliably. If and when more comes out, I wouldn’t be surprised if it STILL doesn’t make sense for her to resign like this.
Billy Jean was not his lover, could it have been Sara all along?
I think a lot of explanations are better than “She campaigned for VP for two months, spent another eight in full-on ‘anything to stay in the spotlight’ mode and only then did she realize that media scrutiny is a bitch”.
-Joe
I’m willing to bet money that it’s a burgeoning ethics scandal.
And add me to the petition to leave her kids the hell alone.
I said much the same thing in another [thread=523342]thread[/thread]. (Now with fully cross-linked goodness!)
Probably a looming ethics/legal problem.
It is possible that she does in fact care about Alaska and realized other people could govern it better than she. Maybe her ideology forced her to look in the mirror and be honest.
I can buy the “sick of Alaska” and “incompetent handlers” stuff, but only as incidental factors.
Couldn’t it basically be that she wants/needs the kind of money and attention she won’t get in Alaska, she’s bored with her job, and misses the adulation she got on the campaign trail? She now has time to find advisers who know what they’re doing, book a well-paid speechifying tour (and pay off those supposedly mounting legal bills), maybe become yet another half-assed pundit and in any case stay in the limelight until the next Presidential campaign season rolls around? It’s gotta be more fun than fending off grumpy Alaska legislators and enduring another cold, damp winter in Juneau.
Maybe she, like Hillary, is holding out hope that something will happen to Obama and then we could be treated to a catfight of apocalyptic proportions in '12. :eek:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Really? Is that an option that is actually on the table? I haven’t seen one iota of self-awareness in her.
Sorry to upset you so much by showing a completely apolitical sympathy for a little kid.
“Won’t somebody please think of the children?!”
My post didn’t suggest that was why Palin resigned, just that “I imagine” anyone would quit their job, hypothetically, over such a thing. My instincts were merely to shame the people who were doing that here, which I find bizarre, creepy, mean-spirited, and way, way beyond a “great debate.”
Please be assured that no Palin children are likely to be injured, or even aware, of what is said here.
I’m glad that gave you a good laugh! 
AFAIK I’m the first person to suggest this scenario. You may be right to take it with a grain of salt.
I think a little golden rule goes a long way, though. And the whole mock horror “think of the children” bit has so, so jumped the shark. Really, can no one express any sympathy for a child without that stupid “comeback”?
A child? I thought you were asking us to sympathize with dingbat.
One thing just occurred to me: Michael Steele has been a disaster for the Republican party. The guy is completely out of touch, and he hasn’t been able to pull Republicans together at all.
I wonder if Palin isn’t being set up to become the new head of the RNC? She’s a natural choice to organize and galvanize the ‘tea party’ crowds and re-unite the party around principle of smaller government. As head of the RNC, she doesn’t have to be a policy wonk, and lack of knowledge and experience isn’t really a handicap - it’s more of a PR position than anything else. She looks good on camera, she can give good written speeches, and she can throw red meat out to the base with the best of them.
Whether this is good for Republicans is another question. But if Steele’s job is in play (and a lot of Republicans want him gone), then I could see Palin stepping into his shoes. From there, she can also rack in the bucks with book contracts - in fact, a big book contract and a speaking tour would actually be beneficial to that job.
If she’s doing this to run for President, it was a huge miscalculation. One of the big knocks on her was her lack of experience and gravitas, and even the people who want her to run in the future have pointed to the fact that she would then be a second-term governor with a proven record (assuming she was re-elected), and could claim enough experience then. But quitting before her first term is up? There goes any hope of gaining political credibility in the future.
So I think she’s doing something else, or she’s completely deluded. Head of the the RNC seems a natural fit for her, or I can see her going the Huckabee route - a talk show on FOX, make a few million in book sales, six figure speaking engagements, etc.