Since Sarah Palin was first announced as the GOP VP candidate last year, my thought was that she was far too nice and far too normal to really do well. I hoped I was wrong, even as she was savaged by the despicable low-lifes that style themselves respectable journalists. Now a sudden and seemingly last-minute announcement that she is quitting her governorship.
Pundits are falling all over themselvess trying to figure out how this move works into Palin's plans to run for president. Everyone assumes that is what she wants to do. But maybe she has just said "enough". What seems so hard for pols and pundits alike to comprehend is that there are more important things than, well, politics and punditry. She may have finally reached the point where too many other more important things were slipping away from her because of her political involvement, the same kind of things that keep most of us out of politics in the first place.
I like her. I think she would have made a good president, let alone VP. Her candidacy last Fall was a real bell-weather in terms of individual reactions to her and her politics and how I thereafter viewed and re-evaluated relationships with a number of friends. Her departure from politics, whatever the circumstances or duration, just confirms for me what a sewer our political life and culture has become.
