The left and national media resigned? Why was I not informed?

I think Our Gracious lady of the Tundra has moved from an actual political force to an eventual political force. She is always going to be coming to rescue the Republicans, always going to turn up at the last possible moment (Scott-Heron circa 1980) only to dash their little hopes and spark their salty tears. Martyred on the twin arms of the cross of desperation and self congratulation.

Sounds like someone needs to be gang-raped if he is ever to realize that it isn’t a very good metaphor for someone calling you mean names.

No, really. I couldn’t make this shit up.

You can almost smell the mildew of Mom’s Basement in the posts there, as they all desperately fap-fap-fap to the thought that Palin’s resignation is really part of an elaborate political-judo ploy whereby she shall emerge TRIUMPHANT and VICTORIOUS (random capitalization being a characteristic both of Palin and of the wingnuts).

Ah, that explains it. I don’t believe people who write for the Fox news website understand things that are “subtle and complex,” much less nuanced. In other words, there were definitely jokes, but they went over his head.

Goddamn, I really can’t believe we’ve survived the last 29 years sometimes.

Christ, I know. I’m pretty sure my almost-weekly nightmares about an apocalypse and/or social collapse and/or living in a totalitarian state have to do with living under Reagan and then Bush the Elder during my formative years. God knows what kind of dreams the poor little bastards born during the Bush administration will have.

And the country was being run by those thugs and Nancy’s astrologer.

Goddamn, I really can’t believe we’ve survived the last 29 years sometimes.

“She should also lead the nation’s mothers to oppose mandating replacement of incandescent light bulbs with the new mercury poison gas bulbs…if she does all that, the left won’t be making jokes about her any more, just like they stopped joking about Ronald Reagan long about 1984, and Newt Gingrich in 1994.”

The Left stopped joking about Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich? Some of my earliest memories as a wee Truc are of my mama talking about jelly beans and the Gipper. (I also remember when she said that she wished that Reagan had actually died from the attempt on his life, but that’s not really that funny). Hell, I think I still make jokes about him. And who COULDN’T make jokes about Newtie???

*guffaw*

Like any worthy wingnut, Jonah is partly correct – but she wasn’t really “blowing it” any worse than usual, & certainly not badly enough to walk away from the Governor’s Mansion more than a year early – in a state that recently re-elected a convicted felon.

This isn’t 11-dimensional-chess – it’s Russian Roulette with an automatic. NEVER quit until you’re absolutely forced to, or you get a rep as a self-destructing & potentially dangerous nutjob. The comedy of her stated reason for resigning is matched only by her failure of logic when she “explains” it. “I quit, ergo I win” gets laughed at even in primary-school … in politics, it’s suicide. I’m not sure there’s any scandal deeper than her own lack of contact with reality behind this, nor if the public will ever learn what it is if there is one.

But she looks like hell on wheels & sounds like someone who’s done waaaaaaaay too much meth to me, from the weird gaspy shit to the manic vibe of crazed euphoria that bears no relation to a resignation-speech to the total lack of both coherence & reason. I’d say she’s lost a good 30 pounds in the last 5 months, which for someone under 6 feet tall who wasn’t overweight to begin with is hincty as fuck – & it just doesn’t sync up with someone in their 40s who’s spent years in a well-paying desk-job; my one word of advice for Palin is Detox. Also.

Pull out the shishkebab-stick & stop turning her – she’s done.

Besides, if there’d been a teleprompter, it would have gone down in transformer smoke. The technology is good, but there are limits.

Concur.