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Friday, July 03, 2009

By now you know that Sarah Palin has stepped down as Governor:

Discuss.  I’m still in the mode of “WTF?!” Allahpundit tries a positive spin:

Bill Kristol thinks resigning now could actually be a bold gambit to free herself up for an intense presidential campaign, but I think she’s following more of a Nixonian strategy here. I.e. it could be she’s burned out on politics and dispirited by all the crap she’s put up with it and wants to get away at an opportune moment. If, as is likely, The One wins a second term, the GOP will be so dejected that it’ll happily give her a second look as a potential savior in 2016, much as it did with Nixon after he lost the 1960 presidential election and 1962 California gubernatorial race.

Difference: Nixon didn’t walk out in the middle of the job.  Another difference: Palin sounds ... strange ... like mentally strange.  I’ll have to ask Mrs. 10000 to watch it, since she’s better at reading people.  But watching this press conference, I felt more like I was watching the beginning of a meltdown rather than the beginning of a Presidency.

Update: I think Ed Morrissey just had a Brownie Moment with Palin.  I must say that I think I just did too.

Update: Mrs. 10000 thinks Palin sounds happy, almost giddy.  “She’s got something good lined up.” We’ll see.

Update: Ambinder, usually a good source, takes her at her word:

Don’t make the mistake of assuming that Palin has a grand strategy that relies on subterfuge, prestidigitation or rhetorical concealment. She has few close advisers, and she is prone to ignore their advice. She keeps her own counsel. She believes what she says (and implies): that she is a national political figure, that her destiny (and I think she capitalizes the D) is in the continental 48, that her personal characteristics are mocked by the elite because the elite cannot understand them, that her family and children are subject to relentless, negative and highly damaging personal attacks, and that there is no longer a place for her in the Alaska government.

Read the whole thing. Short version: she wants to give up governing for politics.