Note to (former) Governor Palin
Jul. 4th, 2009 05:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhal(Under normal circumstances I avoid going into politics on my journal, but this situation is just too weird to ignore.)
When you resign, your reasoning at the news conference should be limited to "Spending more time with my family." No one believes it, but it's traditional. In your case, given Trig's difficulties, it would be entirely understandable actually. Spending fifteen minutes rambling on about how you're showing you're not a quitter by, um, quitting isn't exactly taking the high road.
My best bet on the real reasons she's resigning:
1) Incoming indictment. Given some of the directions corruption investigations by the Justice Department have been proceeding, this is most probable.
2) Money. A $150,000 a year governor's salary isn't a whole lot by political standards, and she does have a special needs child who is going to require more and more specialized and expensive care as he grows older. Given she could have potentially (before this press conference) made a few million a year doing speaking tours, that would have made sense. Now, not so much.
3) She's setting herself up for the next US presidential run. The fact that she just very publicly flamed out is irrelevant to her reasoning. Earth Logic does not apply to someone who thinks "international political experience" comes from living 50 miles from the Russian border.
What's going to happen next?
I suspect she's going to have a long and happy career as a "Political Analyst" on FOX News.
When you resign, your reasoning at the news conference should be limited to "Spending more time with my family." No one believes it, but it's traditional. In your case, given Trig's difficulties, it would be entirely understandable actually. Spending fifteen minutes rambling on about how you're showing you're not a quitter by, um, quitting isn't exactly taking the high road.
My best bet on the real reasons she's resigning:
1) Incoming indictment. Given some of the directions corruption investigations by the Justice Department have been proceeding, this is most probable.
2) Money. A $150,000 a year governor's salary isn't a whole lot by political standards, and she does have a special needs child who is going to require more and more specialized and expensive care as he grows older. Given she could have potentially (before this press conference) made a few million a year doing speaking tours, that would have made sense. Now, not so much.
3) She's setting herself up for the next US presidential run. The fact that she just very publicly flamed out is irrelevant to her reasoning. Earth Logic does not apply to someone who thinks "international political experience" comes from living 50 miles from the Russian border.
What's going to happen next?
I suspect she's going to have a long and happy career as a "Political Analyst" on FOX News.
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 05:12 pm (UTC)This seems to be her style. Somebody says something a bit catty about her and she restates their remark as invoking Hitler, Ghengis Khan, and various baby-eating serial killers.
I look forward to your predicted "You Betcha: The Maverick Straighttalkin' Simple Plain Talk Show" on Fox.