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Sarah Palin resigns, leaves politics?

I picked a heckuva day to take off! Sarah Palin surprised the world with the announcement today that she's resigning as Governor of Alaska.

My first reaction was WTF? Sarah Palin out of politics?

My second reactions was, I hope she and her family are OK. Please God, don't let this be because Governor Palin, or someone close to her, has serious health issues.

Then I spent a few hours scouring the news sites and blogs trying to make sense of it all. Nobody seems to really know why she resigned. John Hawkins (while vacationing) offers four five possible reasons for what she did. Donald Douglas explores a bunch of theories too. Then he delves into the fever swamps of libtardville for their reactions, and finds them to be typically classless. I read the official DNC statement; clearly Al Franken is writing their press releases now. Which doesn't surprise me in the least.

And finally I landed on Tim Lindell of Conservatives 4 Palin. And he offered a vision of what just might be the greatest political gambit since Caesar crossed the Rubicon. He found it in the Biblical writings of Exodus, an analogy with the story of Moses.

Moses was set loose on the waters, and found by Pharoah's daughter. And he lived with them, as one of them, until he could no longer abide the evil that he saw. So he slew the overseer and fled into the desert, building a life for himself and his family until it was necessary for him to return to free his people.

The conventional wisdom says Sarah Palin's political career is over. But, what if she has set herself out into the wilderness to refashion herself, rebuild her strength, and to seek a new path forward?

In her current circumstances she is boxed in. Continual attacks from the left are made all the more painful by the repeated sniping from the right. The McCain camp is still dishing dirt. National GOP leaders either dismiss her outright or humor her just long enough for her to move on to bothering someone else. They don't take her ideas seriously. Yet millions of Americans do. Wherever Governor Palin goes, crowds follow. In East Nowhereville on a Tuesday she can draw 20,000.

So, what if her resignation is a giant F-U to the GOP establishment? She tried to work within their framework, and they ridiculed her, vilified her, and dismissed her. Tim Lindell concludes:

She will now be the anti-Obama, standing up for her personal beliefs, free of the constraints the Alaskan people have placed on her. She is now free of them, and they of her - though I think they will be the ones to regret it first.

Sarah Palin is now free of all constraints. She is answerable to no one, and yet to everyone. Conservatives have longed for a third way, a national movement not mired in the cushy go-along-to-get-along ethos of the Republican Party leadership.

When she returns from the wilderness, and make no mistake I now believe that she will return, Sarah Palin will do it on her own terms to deliver a message that will resonate with America.

We'll be waiting.

Posted at 22:55 by Chris Wysocki   []   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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