So long, farewell, etc.
Our fair state’s governor, Sarah Palin, announced her coming resignation while the dotter and I were frolicking in Arizona. I actually heard about it moments after it was announced, because I was sitting in the office with my boss and my replacement trying to fix things (which I bollixed up), and my boss was cruisin’ the news sites.
And what a surprise it was! Whoa! Our very own Joan of Arc, our crusader for Truth, Justice, and the Amurrikan Way, quitting?! I thought she wasn’t a quitter?!
There was a flurry of speculation as to why. She was tired of people taking potshots at her kid, Trig, via photoshopping–though the people were actually taking potshots at her. She was tired of “frivolous ethics complaints”–even though the one that was most serious and cost the most was initiated by Palin herself. She was tired of being a media punching bag–even conservative media and Republican pundits were on the bandwagon. There was rumor of a possible indictment, but that one got cleared up right away, with the FBI taking the unusual step of actually commenting on the possibility, or lack thereof. She wanted to position herself for a presidential run in 2012. (Given something she said in her final speech today, I think this one is on the money.) And on and on.
She says she wanted to write a book and make money, and be the focal point of a New Conservative Coalition. (Sound the trumpets!)
Well, today is the big day. After a farewell tour of Alaska–I think she saw more of Alaska in the past two weeks than she had in the prior year and a half–and a trio of farewell barbecues, one in Anchorage, one in her hometown of Wasilla, and one in Fairbanks, she is officially no longer the governor, and Sean Parnell is in.
Sean who?!
I’m sure he won’t be as entertaining, though he supposedly espouses the same viewpoints as Sarah herself.
Sarah will still be on Twitter under a different account starting tomorrow; rumor has it that the new account is AKSarahPalin. Currently, the account is protected.
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