"If she's leaving now, it could mean an intense period of study and work and campaigning for folks in 2010 in preperation for a run for the presidency. If she's gonna run for the presidency in 2012 it makes all the sense in the world." Pat Buchanan

We all better hope Pat's wrong. I explained why during the campaign in a post called The Pandering, Pathological, Piss-Poor Pick of Palin (reproduced below).

I weighed in on Sarah Palin with deadly seriousness back then because she was in a position of potential power. And because she's a really dangerous person.

I've made fun of her because, well, it's almost too easy. Palin is so meatless she's Political Vegan. I showed you a similar opinion in a lighter vein: Hockey Mom Makes Moose Meat of Sarah Palin.

When she went postal last month over a comedy routine, I called her out, along with everybody else:  Bitch, Bitch, Bitch! Time to Shut Up About Palin & Letterman.  

My opinion of Sarah Palin hasn't changed. Especially after watching her bizarre resignation speech.

Everybody seems so surprised. Has no one been paying attention?

She and her administration are under multiple investigations for corruption and ethics violations. Her family is providing more embarrassments than the Beverly Hillbillies.

The woman is a loose cannon. She's shrill, mean-spirited, high school pep rally predictable, empty, vague. Ignorant.

Really, Sarah Palin is ignorant. She may seem 'dumb like a fox'  but deep down she's an ignorant, sexist, racist, homophobic, hypocritical idiot.  

Top Ten

So, without further ado, here are my Top Ten Reasons Sarah Palin Resigned:

10. Somebody paid her to scuttle Tina Fey's career.

  9. She's pregnant with Michael Jackson's love child.

  8. She signed on as a point guard for the LA Lakers.

  7. She and Todd want to spend more time together ... hunting.

  6. She's waiting for President Obama to appoint her Secretary of Health.

  5. The Today Show offered her Willard Scott's job.

  4. The Today Show offered her Al Roker's job.

  3. CBS offered her Katie Couric's job.

  2. She's been having an affair with Governor Mark Sanford.

  1. Are you kidding??? She's NUTS!

The Pandering, Pathological, Piss-Poor Pick of Palin
originally posted 9.3.2008

"Because of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms. They will not tolerate sexist treatment of Governor Palin." Carly Fiorina

Not. So. Fast. The GOP does not get to use Hillary Clinton as an excuse to defend Sarah Palin.

The McCain camp picked Palin for sexist reasons and now they're using claims of sexism to defend her. Beyond chutzpah. Perfectly on point for the GOP. They wanted a Right Wingnut Conservative woman and, whoops, she turned out to be more nut than they expected, so they holler sexism.

That, and hearing Sarah Palin co-opt Hillary's "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" hard-earned slogan, added to the McCain team's indefensible excuses and explanations made me realize how deeply offended I am by the whole idea of Sarah Palin The Candidate.

I tried to keep quiet but now I have to speak up.

Sarah Palin is a bad choice. Not because she's outrageously inexperienced -- though she is, and it matters. But because she's bad news for all of us. 

Palin's an NRA gun-toting, creationist, anti-environmentalist, big oil and Bridge-to-Nowhere supporting, pro-war, Pro-Life, anti-gay, fundamentalist, Secessionist, book banning, lying hypocrite.

She preaches family values and abstinence but apparently can't get her own family to listen ... so how effective could she possibly be as our country's Vice President? 

Inexperience is the least of some very good reasons I don't want her a heartbeat away from the presidency. Or too close to the Supreme Court. Or hanging around with legislators.

If we are to have a real race for President of the United States we are at least entitled to real candidates. Though not my first choice, Barack Obama has depth and power, not just of personality, but also of work ethic, integrity and commitment.

He doesn't have the longest political resume but neither did Bill Clinton or even JFK. Like both of them, he's got enormous intelligence, highly developed on-the-job learning skills, a voracious appetite for knowledge, the courage to make hard decisions and the best campaign staff in the business.

Obama, like Kennedy has a not-so-secret weapon as his VP. Joe Biden, like LBJ, is a savvy career politician who knows how to get the job done, and done right. Both added wisdom and gravitas to their tickets. Lyndon Johnson was arguably our most effective vice president to date. Joe Biden has the ability to meet and potentially outstrip him.

On the Republican side, we have the mighty John McCain, a seasoned senator who, it must always be mentioned, deserves our thanks and honor for his service and sacrifice to our country. Well, yes he does.

But so do thousands of other men and women who also have survived prison camps, lost limbs, taken years to recover from horrendous life-threatening and life-altering injuries. True, John McCain's story is horrific, but it is, tragically, hardly unique.

And here he is now with his great wealth and his many homes and his trophy wife, seemingly none the worse for wear. Which I've always believed is impossible. The man has been badly damaged, body and soul.

No human being emerges from that kind of experience without a lifetime dose of PTSD. McCain has a nasty, hair-trigger temper. He looks and acts older than his years. He seems, at times, not to know what the hell is going on or what he's talking about.

Plus, McCain is pro-war, pro-gun, Pro-Life, pro-oil, pro-big business, pro-tax cuts for the rich and the $5-Million-a-year earning Middle Class. Class my ass. And if you want to talk "executive experience," he hasn't got any either. Now he's got a dubious at best, disaster at worst Running Mate. Whom he knows nothing about and didn't want in the first place.

If McCain can't control his own choice of VP candidate, what else will he allow others to do for him? Cue the Twilight Zone music, see shades of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.

Palin's family should be her own business ... except she made it ours. She announced her unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. We're allowed to respond.

I only care because as it makes Palin's strong public stand on the value of abstinence look, well, stupid. Palin's religous views are her busines  ... except she seems to lean toward anti-Semitism, at least by way of silence. That'll play well in Florida and New York, don't you think?

Another family matter, of potentially much greater importance: Palin's sister was involved in a nasty divorce with an Alaska state trooper and now the state legislature is investigating allegations that Governor Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan when he refused to fire that state trooper.

And then there's that WTF??? firing of a librarian who opposed Palin's ideas on book banning.

Wow. Corrupt Government Service and Twisted Family Values! Pro-Life and Pro-War. All right! At least we know she's a real Republican.

Gov. Palin has been tapped to run for a deadly serious job. It's not about gender or pregnancies or beauty contests. IT'S ABOUT ISSUES. Ability to lead. Integrity. Honesty. Decency. Tolerance. Yes, experience too. Political acuity. Contacts and leverage. The safety and security of our citizens.

Sarah Palin just doesn't measure up to any of those criteria. Especially the last one. No matter how many guns she has and how well she shoots.

I don't want my future, my family's future, our country's future in John McCain's and Sarah Palin's dangerous hands.

She's not our Vice President, thank god. Soon, she won't be a governor.

I don't know how current this is, but it scares the hell out of me:  SarahPAC - Sarah Palin's Official PAC

 It's your turn, Joan.