Amid a weekend juxtoposed with the country's traditional Fourth of July celebration of Independence Day and the continued melodrama leading up to Tuesday's memorial to Michael Jackson in Los Angeles, Governor Sarah Palin announced her resignation from office in a rambling, at times self-serving speech that sounded like a string of Twitter tweets pasted togethe in no coherent fashion. It also came ironically on the weekend that Americans look to the Founding Fathers who risked all and all hung together to usher in the birth of a new nation - far unlike many of today's politicians.
This was the trifecta and largest element of a GOP leadership implosion begun when Senator John Ensign of Nevada announced he had had an affair with a staff member whose husband had also been employed by the Senator - and whom the GOP leadership applauded for his alleged candor and sincerity - which reeked after it was revealed he was forced to confess due to blackmail threats.
Its second phase was the confession of Governor Mark Sanford, who had taken leave of his office without informing anyone, that he had an Argentine mistress who was his soul mate - again being forced to admit all this due to a bevy of e-mails held by The State newspaper in South Carolina.
Now Governor Palin, who is very popular with the conservative base of the Republican Party, but who polarized the electorate and the GOP increasingly as the 2008 presidential campaign unfolded announced not only that she wouldn't seek re-election as governor, but that she would resign in a matter of weeks after two and a half years on the job.
Palin's was by far the biggest announcement and comes after a highly critical piece by Vanity Fair's Todd Purhum, aidded and abetted by backstabbing from former campaign staffers as well as a go round with comedian David Letterman over his misogynistic comments about her daughters and the Yankee's Alex Rodriguez.
Palin made her speech sounds as it she were doing this all for the good of Alaska, her family and the country as a whole as well as a sort of manifesto re-declaration of conservative values - which made everyone think about what the real reasons were for her resignation.
Right now the GOP seems to not stand for family values or seeing one's job through or taking responsibility. This is aided by loud and vociferous choruses of whining about biased media, unfai treatment by political enemies, etc..
Whether Palin has a political future remains to be seen as she chooses this unorthodox path - and whether she will segue from political figure to celebrity icon akin to her opponent President Obama. Both skyrocketed to fame with thin resumes to global prominence. Will Palin use this time to become the kind of political operator Obama isand stage the greatest comback this side of Richard Nixon?
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Palin resignation splits GOP from Politico
Transcript of Governor Palin's remarks
Governor Palin's resignation announcement:
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