Ed Morrissey is a great blogger but he's wrong here. With all the frivolous ethic charges eating into Palin's personal fortune and distracting her from doing Alaska's business, something was bound to give. I don't see this as "bailing out," Hell if she would have stayed the same crap would have continued and you don't see the RNC or the state doing something about this.
For those of you who say that her resignation means she’s running for the presidency, think again...
This seems like a very, very strange way to launch a presidential bid. Not only did she make the announcement at a time traditionally reserved to bury horrible news but her speech seemed hastily pulled together, replete with the bizarre lame-duck rationale, instead of sounding polished the way one would expect you’d do for an announcement this big.
It seems to me that she did this for the kids, to protect them and to spend more time with them, but if that’s true, why not make that the focus of the speech and give this speech on Monday morning, when the media’s rested and ready for a full week of new coverage?
Quitting for her family only makes her sympathetic. And if that’s the real reason, why obscure it?
I still say the timing and the speech itself is STRANGE.
She's now free of them all.
Hopefully, if she gets to be President, and the left attacks her mercilessly, she won’t take a poll of her family to decide whether to finish out her term.