The King And Queen Of The GOP Weigh In On The Palin Resignation-- And No, This Is Not Another Lindsey Graham Post

It's amazing how very wrong so many delusional Republican operatives can be about Sarah Palin. The de facto head of the Republican Party, in fact, is either kidding himself or kidding his audience. Limbaugh, off on a golfing holiday, is fuming over establishment Republicans writing off her political career. Limbaugh insists that the political establishment is "Still Scared To Death Of" Palin. It may be true that serious-minded Americans across the political spectrum, although clustered above the 3 digit IQ spectrum, fear what someone as provincial, ignorant and narrow-minded as Palin or someone like Palin could do to America. But as far as I can tell, there are no rational members of either party who envision her getting any closer to being in a position to achieving political power than she already was as the VP nominee for a doddering and foolish self-serving (and failed) presidential candidate. The GOP Establishment recognizes that in 2012 the sacrificial lamb will be a Mormon-- and not one coming back from China.

Ann Coulter agrees with most Palin intimates that Princess Sarah is just too big for a backwater like Alaska:

[S]he’s too big to be a lame-duck governor stuck dealing with fishing licenses in Anchorage right now. She’ll be much bigger now and can play on the national stage without constantly setting off state ethics investigations by loons, parasites and liberals. None of this applied to McCain or Kerry-- both of whom went back to the Senate-- because their national campaigns diminished them. Palin’s national campaign made her a major star. As she said, she’s not retreating, she’s advancing in another direction.

Neither Rove nor the admittedly self-interested Huckabee sees it quite the same way as Coulter. "[B]oth seemed to be scratching their heads over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's decision to resign her office in an appearance along with Alaska Lt. Gov Sean Parnell on Fox News Sunday.

Rove said, "I'm a little perplexed," since "she's not going to be able to escape media attention." 

And Huckabee deemed it "a risky strategy," adding that "if she did get out because of a feeling of getting chased, that's not going to stop if she stays in politics." 

He also questioned the way the resignation was announced, saying, "You don't call a press conference to create questions, you call one to resolve them." 

Huckabee, looking at his own time as a governor, asked that "If that had been the case for me, I would have quit about the first month? Been there, done that.? One of the things you have to do is decide, 'Look, they're not going to chase me out.'"

Most rational people-- and there are certainly few enough of them in the punditry field-- see this whole Palin thing as a diversion. Over 80% of Americans want health care reform and they realize that Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Huckabee, Boehner, McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, Coulter, Sanford, and all the other Republiclowns oppose serious government action-- as opposed to platitudes and vulgar partisan talking points-- to handle the problems that Americans are most concerned with. Sarah Palin is a diversion-- not as big as Michael Jackson's death*, but bigger, at least outside of Nevada, than John Ensign's prostitution scandal. In this morning's Washington Post, Chris Cillizza mentions that the biggest winners in the latest turn in the bizarre Palin story are philanderer Mark Sanford, Mitt Romney, Don Young and Nixon Jew counter Fred Malek. And the winners? Huckabee and the state of Alaska.


*SPEAKING OF THE DEATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON --

For the benefit of those who may just be slipping back into harness from the holiday weekend, I just want to mention one last time Noah's moving reflection on what matters to him about MJ's life and career. I think you'll agree that, despite all the empty blather we've endured from the 24/7 Blabbermouth Media, there were real stories to be talked about and shared. (And wearing my PR-mongering hat, let me ask again, did you know that the Thriller video, the video that changed the pop music business, came close to not making it onto MTV? Or how MTV was finally "persuaded" to air it? Noah's got the inside dope.) -- Ken

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