If Palin wants to run in 2012, why not do exactly what she announced today? It’s an enormous gamble – but it could be a shrewd one. – Bill Kristol
Frankly, it’s just too depressing to think we won’t have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore.
It’s hard to accept when looking forward. Mark Sanford’s heartbroken and readying a move to Argentina. Huckabee’s too self righteousness, and Romney’s too self aware. Palin is just right.
But she’s got her reasons for checking out, lots of them.
1. The malicious national press:
“Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law I championed became their weapon of choice. Over the past nine months I’ve been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations – such as holding a fish in a photograph, wearing a jacket with a logo on it, and answering reporters’ questions.”
2. She needs to make money to pay her legal bills:
“And this political absurdity, the ‘politics of personal destruction’ … Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight.”
3. Sarah being Sarah is distracting her staff:
“…my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more ‘politics as usual,’ but THIS isn’t what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.”
4. Sarah’s got a right to choose (even if she doesn’t want the rest of us to have one):
“LIFE is about choices!”
5. Sarah isn’t a dead fish:
“It would be apathetic to just hunker down and ‘go with the flow’. …dead fish ‘go with the flow’.
6. Sarah isn’t a lame duck either, or into milking things:
“And then I thought – that’s what’s wrong – many just accept that lame duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck, and ‘milk it’.”
7. Sarah’s a good point guard, so she’s passing the ball:
“And I know when it’s time to pass the ball – for victory.”
8. This has been in the works for a while:
I think much of it had to do with the kids seeing their baby brother Trig mocked by some pretty mean-spirited adults recently.
9. Kosovo made her do it:
“My decision was also fortified during this most recent trip to Kosovo and Landstuhl, to visit our wounded soldiers overseas, those who sacrifice themselves in war for OUR freedom and security.”
10. um….
“Don’t explain: your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe you anyway.”
11. Sarah’s in over her head and has been since John McCain tapped her as his running mate.
“…have enough common sense to acknowledge when conditions have drastically changed and are willing to call an audible and pass the ball when it’s time so the team can win! And that is what I’m doing!
I’m still hoping this is all a big fake out.
That Andrea Mitchell’s been had.
That Bill Kristol, for once, is right.
…and Palin’s family continues to play their parts as her political props.
That there won’t be that rumored scandal that will take her away from us forever.
That Sarah Palin will go away in an awkward fade to reinvent and ready herself for her grand re-entrance that will start the second book in Sarah Palin’s Great National Political Adventures and this will all turn out to be a brilliant bit of stagecraft that will have Sarah returning for another supreme diva tour.
I just can’t imagine the Sarah Palin Soap Opera ending. I just can’t.
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