Palin twitters a feisty defence:
Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again
But she gets the decision wrong. Her feisty defense leaves out the decision that is under attack, namely her resignation — the decision she announced on Friday, the one that had media types scrambling back to the studio. Because, for a politician holding a public trust, just up and quitting your job is much stranger and more newsworthy than letting people know that you won’t be on the ballot again. And now she’s forgotten the damn decision.
She never stops being odd, she never starts being coherent.
And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it’s right for all, including your family.
One thing Americans understand is the difference between moving up and flaking out. A governor can quit to become president or even commerce secretary. A governor doesn’t quit to do the ineffable. And certainly not this fast — after 2 and a 1/2 years and on a weekend when her press secty is across the continent. Something very odd just happened. Maybe not lurid or amazing or dramatic, because we don’t know. But at least flakey.
“… right for all, including your family.” If she doesn’t want her family in the public eye, she’ll have to give up being famous. Quitting as governor won’t do it; she’ll have to quit being a celebrity. Any bets on her doing that?
update, Bomp-ba domp-bomp. Fred Barnes voices grim words: “Palin is no Reagan.” (Bonus! Barnes accidentally says Tom Dewey had charisma. And Bob Dole for that matter. And Richard Nixon. One piece of sloppy phrasing can have some far-reaching effects.)
It's Palin.
She NEVER knows what she is doing.
This is the woman who went on SNL and ate shit smiling.
She ALWAYS plays the same card: "It's the right thing to do because I am doing it."
i was just hoping you would drop it eventually. no, every day i check in on your blog its been hijacked by your Palin-rant. i hoped the dearth of comments might clue you in that that was of little or no interest to anyone. i hoped that Noah's return would harbinger the return of interesting, well-written, thought-provoking pieces of tangential interest to comics afficianados.
instead, more of this. i think we're done here.
Hey badwolf. Sorry the Palin isn't of interest…I will in fact be back next week in full force with more comics content. As I noted earlier I'm still a bit backlogged, alas.
To be fair, we don't get many comments on anything non-comics related usually, whether its Palin or Japanese prog weirdness. No links, y'know.
Hey Tom, I for one am enjoying your Palin posts.
But it's kinda hard to think of a comment other than "yup, she's CRAZY!"
Don't worry, badwolf. I will be dropping the Palin bit eventually, though I won't be writing much about comics.
"the return of interesting, well-written, thought-provoking pieces of tangential interest to comics afficianados."
I think you mean "of direct interest," since Palin is indeed of tangential interest to comic book fans. In other words, better look up "tangential."