You could be exactly right all the way down the line–we’ll see, won’t we?

Giving her the benefit of believing she’s being honest, without necessarily telling the whole story, I can certainly understand the logic of her actions whether she plans to run for President or whether she doesn’t.

After all, she’s been bedeviled by both conservatives like Charles Krauthammer and liberals like Mara Liasson because she hasn’t brought in a herd of international policy wonks to “bring her up to speed” on everything from North Korea to Honduras. They ignore the fact that the Governor of any state is generally occupied doing the state’s business (Mark Sanford’s sojurns to Argentina notwithstanding), and that any time she took to bone up on non-Alaskan business would have to be done on her own time (or she would have faced lawsuits for malfeasance in office). So if she agreed with their criticisms, and she intends to run for President any time in the future, this move makes perfect sense. She is now a free agent, not beholden to the Alaskan electorate.

Even if she intends to become a non-candidate gadfly for the conservatives in the Republican Party, the move still makes sense. She would be under constant attack if she spent any substantial amount of time away from her office on speaking engagements. Even writing her book would open her to fire from the left–”When did she write it? After the work day? Where did she write it? On a state-owned word processor?”

My question is merely that I wonder how she can keep herself relevant and newsworthy out of office. To some extent, the SCUM will take care of that, but it’s not so easy for her to add to her “credibility resume” if she’s no longer working as a governor. That credibility was where they hit her hardest during the campaign, and unless she starts a new think tank, or perhaps joins an existing one and performs well enough, it will be hard to counter it in another three years, too. As Geraldine Ferraro was just saying, she won’t have access to the same venues now that she had as Governor of Alaska, either.

The personal expenses she has incurred fighting recurring SLAP suits is also a very understandable reason for the action.

2. Unfortunately, by resigning, I think the left and national media will be emboldened to ritualistically engage in the metaphorical gang raping of conservative politicians, particularly those who are female and have children. They?ll decide savaging Palin?s family drove her from office, so the sky?s the limit on the next conservative with kids.

While I don’t suggest that we engage in personal attacks against the two Obama girls, for instance, I see no reason why we aren’t filing nuisance lawsuits every chance we have to stop every Lib who crosses us. Not even necessarily nuisance suits, but meritorious ones, too. After all, there is a lot about the “stimulus” and TARP and the takeover of Chrysler and GM that appears to be illegal. Let’s file some suits, at the state and federal level, to make the left respond and answer questions and spend money. We have been fighting by the Marquess of Queensberry rules against Ho Chi Minh.

Did you listen to nothing she said? Or do you just not care?

But welcome to the “Leave a Comment” world, anyway.

One good reason to do this is that the government, like every place is full of flawed people. If we reduce the power of government, politician?s personal flaws will not land as much on our heads.

Have you been reading “Liberty and Tyranny”? You’ve captured a big part of its essence in two sentences.

Doesn’t even make sense, unless you’ve taken to disbelieving even the people who give you no reason to do so.

See you soon.

she quit because of “the heat.” You say “quit,” she said “passed the ball.” Retreating from a bad battle position to higher ground isn’t the same as abandoning the war.

It’s not like she was helping bail out a sinking lifeboat and quit without having a replacement ready. Being Governor is not the same as being indispensable; that’s what Lt. Governors are for.

You can characterize anything anyway you want to, but I’d prefer to take her at her word until proven wrong, and I’m not expecting to be proven wrong. In the meantime, it doesn’t help any conservative cause to disparage her in any way, just because you disagree with her. I understand your opinion, but considering that she hasn’t yet said she’s what she intends to do, the question of her being “done” is certainly an open one.

I heard one amateur pundit say she thought Palin’s strategy was bad. How the heck can you judge a strategy if you don’t know what the ultimate goal is, and the pundit admitted she didn’t know that?

The rest of my answer is in my comment above.