Sarah Palin, crazy like a foxy MILF

Y'know I just wish this dumb bitch would just go away. But I don't think she will.

In spite of the announcement yesterday, July 3, 2009, that she was resigning her post as governor of Alaska later this month, speculation is running rampant on her motives, from

Sarah Palin Indictment - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin reportedly resigned because of a federal indictment pending in an embezzlement scandal that allegedly involves her receiving huge financial favors from Spenard Building Supplies.
Jim Brogan, PostChronicle.com

to, one of the wing nuttier theories

But it keeps coming back to Trig.

From the moment Palin was nominated for V.P., the attacks on Trig began. First there were the rumors, spread by Andrew Sullivan and others, that Sarah Palin was not Trig’s mother, that there was a grand conspiracy of hundreds if not thousands of people to cover up that Bristol Palin was Trig’s real mother.
LegalInsurrection.blogspot.com*

to not being able to take the heat of Republican in-fighting

The 2008 vice presidential nominee was seen as a likely presidential contender in 2012 and had proved formidable among the party's base. But the last week brought a highly critical piece in Vanity Fair magazine, with unnamed campaign aides questioning if Palin was ever really prepared for the presidency.
Rachel D'Oro, AP.com

And of course there are those who aver the MILF From Wasilla has just committed political hari-kari

CBS) If Sarah Palin thinks quitting the Alaskan statehouse is going to help a 2012 presidential campaign some pundits speculate she's mulling, she's mistaken, according to longtime Republican strategist Ed Rollins.

Rollins contended that, "She diminished the job of governor. I think, at the end of the day, I've never -- I've been in the business four decades, I've never seen a governor ever walk away from the job at mid-term, and I think, at the end of the day, that's what's gonna affect her."
CBSNews.com

O' dear, my pretties, I do think we all misunderestimate Caribou Barbie. I mean here it is the Fourth of July, 2009 and the Internet, the TeeVee and whatever accounts for a daily printed news media is yet chattering about the soon-to-be erstwhile former beauty queen governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. Any way you look at it, Palin's rambling, often incoherent resignation speech on the Friday before the holiday is a brilliant piece of political theater.

In some aspects it was rather reminiscent of the late Richard Milhouse Nixon's petulant statement upon losing the 1962 California gubernatorial contest to liberal Democrat Edmund "Pat" Brown:"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more. Because gentlemen, this is my last press conference." But we all know that like the mythical phoenix Nixon arose from the ashes of that campaign to take the presidency from a divided Democratic Party in 1968 and, proceeded to alter the trajectory of U.S. history from Free World powerhouse to Third World shitholedom.

So I don't think we have seen or heard the last of Sarah Palin. Nor do I think this is the end of her political ambitions. There is a certain segment of the American right that...well logic and critical thinking do no apply. Acting tough, reacting strongly to perceived slights and insults, hyper-patriotism, hyper-religiosity, hyper-materialism and hyper-love of family characterize the personality types to whom Sarah Palin appeals. I am sure my Republican union steward, who manfully told me, "I'll hunt for my family's food," when I asked him what he would do if George H.W. Bush privatized the Postal Service and fired all us union workers, is the kind of guy who idolizes le jeune femme Palin. And remember with this crowd looks account for a lot and, like it or not feminists, Sarah's got a right purdy ass.

*the blogger is one William A. Jacobson, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY (Kinda scary ain't it.)