Rush, Levin, Beck, Coulter react to Sarah Palin's resignation

July 6, 10:59 AMConservative Politics ExaminerKathy Shaidle

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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: