The Sig-O told me. I came out of the computer room to get a glass of water and he said, “It’s on Fox; Sarah Palin is stepping down as Governor.” (Yes, he watches Fox. I know, I know.) Apparently she had just given her speech. We both stared at each other, baffled. Fox News was already on it, blaming David Letterman and the “mean-spirited” people who had picked on her. Oh, yes, Fox News said being governor was probably just not “any fun any more.”
I went immediately to the internet and tried to get to mudflats, but AKM’s server crashed–well, no wonder. I looked at Shannyn Moore’s website. A couple of alternate theories emerged right away:
1–She’s bailing out the back door seconds ahead of a big, whopping red-light-and-siren scandal that’s about to knock on her front door.
2–Still plans to run for President in 2012 and wants to start preparing now.
3–Book deal, book tour, and a job at Fox News to be named later is good enough.
4–It’s not fun, so she’s quitting.
But who really knows? When you read, or listen to, her speech and strip out all the curlique sentences that lead nowhere, the whining and the folksiness of Palin, it’s the “I want to spend more time with my family” excuse, favored overwhelming by male politicians when they have to bail because of a big problem. Palin has managed to give it a slightly different spin, but that doesn’t change the tune.
Only one thing I know for sure–somewhere Mitt Romney is doing the happy dance.