Posted by
Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Monday, July 06, 2009 4:12:16 PM
Hunting donkeys
Sarah Palin added to the weekend fireworks by announcing on July 3 that she'd be resigning as Alaska governor effective in about three weeks.
I know what you're thinking: "South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is busted with a Venezuelan mistress, and Sarah Palin resigns?" Those looking to Palin's resignation as a signal of some sort of as yet to be exposed "wrongdoing" on her part don't know politics. In politics, the guilty are the ones who stick around – that's why we're in so much trouble.
After Palin's announcement on Friday, the rumor mill began buzzing even louder than usual. Theories ranging from claims that Palin is about to be charged with embezzlement, to she's pregnant again, to she's running for president, to my own theory that Palin quit to become the host of her own game show called "You Bet'cha Life!"
There were also the expected tasteless jokes about her kids under the guise of "satire." One of these sensitive, caring liberals wrote that Palin is "the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people." And all along I thought that was ACORN's job.
Predictably, those who seem to have devoted their lives to being Sarah Palin's sworn enemies were, in exceedingly generous gestures, the first out of the gate to offer Palin post-resignation career advice.
Among all the reactions to Palin's resignation, none was more stark-raving contradictory than the Democratic National Committee's response:
DNC Spokesman Brad Woodhouse:
"Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can't handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down. Either way – her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today."
Those who dismissed Palin as the governor of a meaningless, backward state are now the first out of the gate to accuse her of abandoning her absolutely vital duties to that important state? Funny.
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