RE: Gov. Palin's resignation
The Left, to a man, are sure it's a prelude to a massive scandal breaking. I rather doubt that, as every leftie in the country spent the last 10 months examining the woman's life in minute detail. They never found any OLD stories and I don't see how she could have got away with anything new. It would have been stupid to even try anything, but the left, including the leftist elites in the GOP, believe Palin is an idiot, anyway.
Unsurprisingly, many of these long-time Palin critics are having trouble grasping why Palin supporters are moved and motivated by her resignation. Normally, resigning public office, especially without a clear destination and reason, is political suicide; but Palin doesn't seem to have lost a single voter (so far).
Powerline has
a good article and discussion, including part of Mark Steyn's
comments, which may be the most adroit I've seen so far.
On further reading:
Hot Air article, with links: "It’s never the right time for a leader to resign - except when no other decision makes sense."
J E Dyer: "As is so often the case with Palin, speculation about her reveals more about us than it does about her."
Today, however, I share the strong sense of many, many Americans that there is something lurking in our future that is going to change a lot of things for us. A number of old rules that we have thought unbreachable are going to be turned on their heads. Counting out any politician because of an unspoken-rules breach doesn’t look so wise in 2009 – nor does interpreting what politicians do solely in light of the rules for calculating political advantage.
I think it is just possible that Sarah Palin used her sports analogy because it conveys, more accurately than any other analogy, how she views this resignation. And I don’t think she sees the objective of the “game” as getting herself into the Oval Office. I think she see it in the terms in which she spoke of it today: as guaranteeing freedom and security for America. To the jaded ears of political pundits, her references to these quantities probably sound like cheap bromides. But she frames them whenever she speaks – as she did so memorably in her convention speech last year – as the things that she, and we, are striving for.
My own opinion?
Bork, Estrada, Palin...so on and so forth.
Speaking of which,
here's a fantastic recent interview with Judge Bork.
The thing is, I honestly don't think Palin will be affected by this resignation. She already has fanatic loyalty from conservatives, while the RNC and liberals hate her unequivocally. The bottom line is that she DOES NOT PLAY BY ESTABLISHED POLITICAL RULES.
So, I think there's something possibly wonderful going on.
