Does one need any more proof that she's an idiot?

She doesn't even have some sort of political organization to join. I mean, if she announced she was giving up the governorship to go start the Sarah Palin Action Committee or the Sarah Palin Foundation or even the RNC or the Norquist Tax-Nut Association, something, some organization with a clear purpose, even then it would be a little odd (giving up a government job to run some sort of grass roots effort or political group.) But she's not even doing that. She's leaving the governorship to...do something. She hasn't defined what that something is or why she needs to do it now. She's really not leaving to do something else (as far as anybody can tell), she's just leaving because she doesn't want to do what she's doing anymore, and she'll figure out something else to do eventually.

But then again, she always did have trouble with grasping simple concepts. And took pride in it.

There are also cases of people giving up an office to run for a different (usually perceived as higher) office. Bob Dole did this after getting the Republican nomination for president.

The odd thing is giving up the job with no specific plans if one wants to return to running for political office (if you don't, do what you like). People note that this may not hurt her with the republican base but why is it not damaging in elections where d3emovrats and independents vote?

Maybe God has offered her a job...

Giving up a governorship to join a president's cabinet is not the same as giving up a governorship because one has a desire to "effect positive change outside government" and has decided "one term is enough."

And giving up a governorship because one has a desire to "effect positive change outside government" and has decided "one term is enough" means one thing if you decide not to run for a secodn term, as Palin did, and another thing entirely if you quit in the middle of the term without taking another job, as Palin also did.

"There's nothing to "perplexed" about."

Except that sentence.

What's Palin's "higher calling," again? I never did quite get that part.

Just being Sarah Palin is the highest calling there is.

She's such a regular gal that she can't be bothered knowing the distinction between quitting and getting promoted.

Interesting that she's going out taking potshots at so many other Republicans -- Murkowski and Huntsman here; Sanford in her "foreign trade missions" snark. This woman hates everyone and apparently cannot have an unexpressed negative feeling.

she's a spinmeister. pure and simple. And she's stupid enough to think that others are too stupid to see through her blatant b.s.

Her line of logic looks like the following: "Yes officer, I know, I know, I robbed that bank, but others have taken money out of banks before too ya know. Why the double-standard for cute, little old unfairly persecuted me? Also.

In related news, Sarah Palin today insisted that she actually graduated from every college she ever attended and quit, and if she didn't get a diploma in the mail, she's sue based on their ridiculous double-standards. Also.

Sara "Cut and Run" Palin

Why do crazy people make it so hard for us to feel sorry for them?

Because they're crazy.

Maybe she expects to be named as the new head of the "Department of Law"..

Maybe hosting a Faux News show is a ''higher calling''?

Failin' Palin thinks that the fact that 2 follows 1 is "perplexing."

Maybe Obama is going to name her ambassador to the moon.

Maybe Obama is going to name her ambassador to the moon.

She can see it from her house....

With Palin's every utterance, it becomes more and more obvious: It really is all about her, isn't it? "Narcissistic" is too kind. How about just plain old "childish"?

Giving up a governorship to join a president's cabinet is not the same as giving up a governorship because one has a desire to "effect positive change outside government" and has decided "one term is enough."

These salmon aren't going to catch themselves, ya know also.

After watching her Independence Eve gusher and her waders clad follow up, I think it's clear that she is answering the high calling to be available as Commander in Chief to the Republican Revolutionary Guard currently planning a coup against President Barack Obama. It's all there in the wink.

"There's nothing to be "perplexed" about."

My friend Jason Reed says "there is if you're Sarah Palin."

Don't you meant 2/3 of one term?

Look, if Palin wasn't so appalling on so many levels, if her "service" in any government position wasn't and wouldn't be such a disaster, if the idea of her as president didn't make me fear for the entire planet, if she even occasionally made statements that reflected reality and fact as most of us understand those words, I'd feel sorry for her now because, observing her frenetic, breathless, panicky, fearful delivery when resigning I saw a person who looked emotionally overwhelmed, fragile, even terrified. Her world has imploded, and probably her ego with it. And she's got nothing else. Like others, I suspect the tip of the iceberg.

Whiniest.

Narcissist.

Ever.

Now come on, people! She was thinking about leaving office for a reason, with a plan, you know, all those things that other people who aren't wired for crazy do, but then she talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’

Incapable of understanding her own ignorance her complete lack of substance makes her feel victimized when it's pointed out to her. She's such a martyr and never at fault.

If she hit herself in the head with a stick it would be your fault for making her feel like doing that to herself. The circus has become tiresome but her blind supporters just can't accept the truth of Palin. They are known as Paliens and justify her claims of being victimized by public scrutiny.

I hope this demonstrates what a disaster she would have been a heart beat away from being president and that Palin supporters will finally realize, "Yes, you can be that wrong".

also, a private person would not undergo such scrutiny Sarah but working for the people and criticizing your opposition will have consequences in the public eye. If you can't deal with your critics how would you ever deal with your enemies. Stop the 'blame damage' and take responsibility for your short comings and people become much more understanding and sympathetic. Quit pretending to be smart enough to run a country, or anything bigger than Wasilla..and stop dragging dirt across my nice clean floor...just go home Sarah and stop talking.

Something to consider: Maybe someone formerly complicit in one of Palin's misdeeds or lies decided to threaten her with exposure. Her obstetrician, or a contractor say. . . She may not have any concrete plans except self-preservation. I put nothing past the woman.

Yeah, it's pretty simple. She hasnt explained what on earth she plans on doing with herself three weeks from now when she leaves the Gov office. If she just clued us in to her plans, that would make it much less confusing.

Why is everyone here insulting her intelligence? I'm no fan, believe me. And generally I love Bennen's writing. But there's no reason to pretend you can't understand her sentence as quoted above. It's not hard to understand. It's not even very awkward.

In fact, going out of your way to say that she "wrote [something] in an awkwardly-written sentence" applies the very double standard that she complains about in said sentence. The insertion of that aside is more awkward than the original quote.

Also: Commenters: stop proving her point by calling her "stupid," "idiot," "crazy." Grow up. Grade school is over.

Here's some words and phrases that make a more valid and relevant point: "irresponsible," "untrustworthy," "breaking her oath of office," "letting her constituents down," "failing to demonstrate the strength and leadership skills necessary to serve her state, let alone the nation."

There. The wingnuts can't argue that.

Maybe she actually is stupid. I doubt it. But it doesn't matter, and it makes for counterproductive rhetoric. Stop it.

Gone fishin'

Every time she makes one of these inane comparisons, I think of Emily Littella. I want to see her hike up her glasses and say, "Oh. Never mind."

Ain't gonna happen tho.

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

"one [HALF] term is enough." Fixed.

"There's nothing to be "perplexed" about."

She's not perplexed she is fertilizing the base with bullshit. Her base is conservative Christian, they thrive on victimhood.

Sarah still just doesn't see how shallow her thought processes are. I don't understand how either she or Duhbya could have graduated from college. They could not possibly have gotten a passing grade on a term paper or report, presented a seminar class, written an even minimally passable newspaper article, or made a decent grade on an essay test.
They are both dumb as stumps and too in love with themselves to notice.

But she didn't serve one term.
So she, by her own definition, hasn't done "enough" of anything to show that she didn't quit becasue she is spoiled brat who couldn't make everybody else behave the way she wanted them to.

Quitter. Loser.

Steve, why do you even try to make sense of what Palin says? Your spelling it out every time she is incoherent is just embarrassing to all of us. She's a moron. Let's collectively move on.

I'm not convinced that any of this is really unprecedented, and it is true that leaving a post for another is a different thing entirely. Unless it is unprecedented to resign a high public post in the middle of a term for no apparent reason at all. Yes, she's an idiot and a loser, but she is within her rights to make this decision no matter how loony or irresponsible.

There was a time when people would resign a post, a senator for example, to run for higher office. It was considered the gentlemanly thing to do (or something like that.) But that's history now, and I'm not sure that is a good development.

ummm .... When the president asks you to take a job, isn't it, like, kind of your duty to at least think really really hard about taking it ? So in what way is there a parallel between being asked by a president to do something vs. just up and quitting ? This makes no sense whatsoever.

Palin will have some explaining to do if she does take a job for the big bucks with Fox.

The folks back home in Alaska will be peeved if it turns out she abandoned them for money, especially if the state goes into the tank due to the poor economy. That would pretty much rule out her trying for Murkowski's seat in 2010. Alaskans are savvy to the "fool me once" ditty.

If she doesn't take a job with Fox, and if she's not indicted, she will have a hard time running for a national office because she'd have to convince America that she didn't quit simply because she couldn't take the heat of being governor of the 47th least populated state. After all, if you can't take the pressure in Juneau, you don't belong in DC.

What I've not read is the possibility that Palin resigned because she recognizes she was in way over her head. I don't think she ever gave serious thought to being anything beyond the governor of Alaska. If she had, she might've been better prepared for what happened after McCain picked her. I'd argue that someone with national ambitions would have already established national connections. Ten months ago, Palin was nothing more than a regional phenomenon.

No, what she probably wanted was to serve a term or two in the state house, maybe grab some penny-ante graft, and then use her influence to find a comfortable job in Alaska after her political career was over.

Sometime last autumn, however, the narrative took over and things got out of control. Maybe the best way she knew to save face was to resign under the guise of "effecting change from the outside." I guess we'll know soon enough.

"Hi, my name is Sarah and I'm a boobaholic"!

The only conceivable contribution that Palin can make to our politics is the continuing Right Wing assault on language and thought. 30 or 40 years ago Sarah Palin would not have been possible because her illogical, uninformed and lunatic formulations would have been instantly seen for what they are. What the Right Wing has been able to do with its creation of FOX, right wing talk radio and the rest is to create an echo chamber in which utter nonsense is a perfectly acceptable vernacular so long as it is used in the service of the Right Wing's agenda. Anyone who watched Palin's frantic press conference on Friday knew she was nuts, so FOX spent the weekend frantically telling us not to believe our lying eyes. Karl Rove was correct when he said that conservatives "create our own reality."

Ted Frier is so right (er, correct). And Palin is indulging shamelessly in the victimology, about "different standard" applied to her. Yeah there's a different standard all right, it's the one her pathetic fans apply to excuse her of everything!

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