Ethics

Palin's Resignation

By Ed Brayton

I spent Friday evening at the casino playing poker all night, so I didn't see the news about Palin's resignation until I got home around 2 am (which is when I'm writing this). This is absolutely bizarre, there's no other word for it. The Palin political saga had already been one of strange and unexpected developments, but this is truly just weird. There simply has to be something else going on to make her resign, something not being made public.

And even if there isn't, the public is certainly going to assume there is because there's no rational explanation for it given what the public knows. Some say she's doing this to set the state for a 2012 run for president, but that is absurd. Her presidential ambitions should be dead in the water at this point - and if they aren't, the Republicans don't have a prayer of beating Obama.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 04, 2009 (boomark / email).