I was getting ready to go cut my mom’s lawn when I caught CNN reporting that Sarah Palin is not only declining to run for reelection in 2010, she’s resigning in about a month. The story says Palin is “pleased with the reception she’s gotten in the lower 48 states” — a clear signal that she’s leaving office to pursue national ambitions.
While I had expected Teh Train Wreck™ to get started sooner rather than later, I had no idea it would jump off the rails this fast. A few weeks ago my friend and Alaska blogger Wolfe Tone predicted she would decline to run again because her poll numbers have been dropping like a stone. But to resign now says volumes about both her ambitions and her disconnection from reality.
Yes, she has a fanatical base of support among right-wingers. But her negative poll numbers are monumental and she cannot open her mouth without something stupid falling out:
I’m thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate and making sure that we are supportive of the president’s policies and making sure too that our president understands what our strengths are.
Governing was never very important to Sarah; she has always pursued public office for its own sake. She is a creature of the tinfoil hat set whose career was born in the fringe of the conservative movement.
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