The Palindrone

Light posting because I've been a bit ill for the last couple of days, but I'm following the news such as it is. And it's still all about Palin. Love how she calls press conferences to complain about press coverage. And the media comes running when she whistles. "National television camera crews flew out to Dillingham to take their turns interviewing her for 10 minutes that she allotted each, one at a time, on the beach." How very efficient. No sense in holding a group presser so she can get right back to slaying those salmon and progressing her values.

The biggest constant on the ever evolving list of reasons she quit is over the huge burden of defending ethics complaints. She says it's cost the state $2mil. "The state personnel board put its cost of dealing with the complaints at about $300,000 -- around two-thirds of which was in addressing the 'Troopergate' issue last fall." And Palin herself "initiated the personnel board investigation on 'Troopergate,' saying that the state Legislature's investigation of the matter was politicized and she was seeking the appropriate venue to deal with it."

She's blaming the ethics complaints on outside oppo researchers but most of them have been filed by state residents under the ethics reforms she pushed for herself. Not that it's shocking to see a GOPer unwilling to play by their own rules. And by the way, you think there's some rule that says a lame duck governor has to "milk the system?" I guess it would be crazy to let legal deal with the complaints and just do your job instead.

She decries the "double standard" of her critics saying no one criticized other pols who have left office before their terms expired. Of course, they all left for other, bigger, political positions. She left for a "different, more effective path" that apparently starts at the Bridge to Nowhere since she doesn't really know where that road is going.

Meanwhile, the snarkmeisters are out in force. TBogg nailed the Prima Donna of Wassilla with this clip and this is the best take on the Queen of the Iquitarod.

On a more serious note, Sully sums up the possibilities neatly.

Can we all be grown up for a minute and concede something very simple? There are three explanations for the latest circus act: either Sarah Palin is so crazy she actually believes that what she just did is good for her political career; she has decided that her future is as a celebreality star and she's pursuing the lucrative Coulter-style, long legs and fascist farrago strategy; or, a scandal of monumental proportions is about to hit.

I think that about covers it.

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