Sarah Palin (AP)
As reported on Examiner (and everywhere else) last Friday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has announced her resignation.
Conservative pundits everywhere were left scrambling to read the entrails, and opinions were all over the place. Some called Palin's "strategy" "brilliant", while others pronounced glumly: it's over. "She won't be back."
The awkwardly timed announcement caught talk radio hosts and many pundits off guard, with lots of show hosts either on vacation for the Independence Day holiday, running evergreen July 4th shows, or they were already off the air for the day.
Ann Coulter responded on the web (and, interestingly, name checked a few of her fellow conservative media stars in the process):
It’s a weird Washington insider perspective to be perplexed by what she’s doing. Contrary to Mark Sanford’s e-mails to his mistress, no one was really impressed with him; 99.99999999999999999% of Americans didn’t know who he was. Who is more influential: Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge and Bill O’Reilly, or Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal and Mark Sanford (before the fall)? As Palin said, God bless people who run for political office, but – and she didn’t say this part – she’s too big to be a lame-duck governor stuck dealing with fishing licenses in Anchorage right now.
Glenn Beck reacted on Twitter:
True about Palin dropping out and stepping down. GOOD. Get out of the system. Be a CREATIVE extremist as MLK said.
Many write: Palin is done. U don't understand EVERYTHING is about to change. What you thought you knew, could trust or depend on is shiftingn
reading Palins speech again. SHE is going to be a force.GOP-be afraid. Very Afraid. There will be only one standing in the end. I'll bet on her.
Mark Levin was able to react on the air:
The ever intrepid Radio Equalizer, Brian Maloney, meanwhile, went straight to the top: he scored an EXCLUSIVE three-minute phone interview on the subject of Sarah Palin, with Rush Limbaugh himself:
Comments
To step all over the still hot story of Jackson, Jack$on and $harpton was genius! On the Friday before a holiday. The press HATED THAT like they HATE her. She interrupted their long weekends.
We hear from the right all kinds of things like "not good advice" given to her.
Lets see, those same talkers forget THEY LOST THE LAST ELECTION to someone who had LESS experience than Palin.
Do I want Sarah Palin to listen to Rove and the others like him? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
I pray she does run and NOT AS A REPUBLICAN!
I think it is futile lunacy to second guess Sarah Palin's decisions. Hopefully she and her family will find a little peace for a while.
I would hope that this is a sabbatical in which she will develop her knowledge and skills on the national scene and be headed for the white house at a later date.
Perhaps now as a private citizen, she will be more able to legally (read that as sue) respond to scurrelous attacks on her family and herself.
See you somewhere in the future Sarah - good luck and God bless.
Can't anyone see that this woman is a nut case gone wild? I mean come on she can't stand for her name to be out of the news for more than 48 hours. She got as much milage as she could from David Letterman and when that ended she was off the grid. Then Ed McMahon died,Farrah died, Michael died and there was no reason to mention her name--what's a media hating girl to do--oh I know do something that will make sure the media talks about me for a real long time. Hell,I betcha I get mentioned right up there with Michael Jackson.This was drama at it's best, the poor put-upon mother of 5 led to resign by the big bad media. This is the same woman who stood before a crowd and called then Senator Obama a Communist, and accused him of "pallin aroun wit terroists". The same woman who almost turned a political rally into a Klan Rally, and made no apoligies for it. It's all a show for attention and money. This woman is a DRAMA QUEEN. We just need to sit back and wait for the next act.
I still cannot fathom the fuel behing the explosion of leftist and Dem drivel which is still flaming Palin and talking/acting like retarded trolls
Good article, thank you. Women are not new to politics, but we are a rare sight when we run for higher office. Palin is the second woman in the history of the United States to be on a major party presidential ticket. Which means, she had a chance to get to the Oval Office I think this has a lot to do with the hate towards her. Fear of women in the Oval Office is a deep fear that we must move away from or else our future women leaders will be as rare as they are today.
Sarah P is not a lame duck.
She is just LAME.
Palin, head of the GOP. There's only one head and that's going to be Jeb. He's going to knock her and Todd back to Alaska!
very strange that glenn beck suddenly champions community/grassroots organizers
Robert Moon is spamming The Activity Pit again: twi.cc/lAlq
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