Blogs on the right are saying Gov. Sarah Palin resigned because the left’s smear tactics finally got to her, blogs on the left are saying Gov. Palin quit because she’s dumb and irrational.  Not too many people are saying what I think is at least one of the real reasons:  She can make a heck of a lot more money on the public speaking circuit leading “Team Sarah” around the country than she can as governor, where there are too many pesky ethical considerations.

Palin may be many things, but she’s certainly not dumb.  Nobody gets to be governor of a state without a certain amount of cunning.  (Even Alaska.)  She’s seizing what is certainly a once-in-ten-thousand-lifetimes opportunity and making bigger plans.  I hope it’s not a presidential run, but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me.  If she does run for president, and if SWAC Girl is any indication, she’s got a lot of stubborn, noisy grassroots supporters that want a piece of the action, who will do their level best to drown out the ordinary citizenry.

About her announcement:  She doesn’t want to be a “lame duck?”  That’s the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard.  The end of a first term when you’re not running for a second term is perhaps the best time to be a governor:  You can push through whatever you want without fear of political consequences in the next election.

Blogs on the right are saying the left smears her because they “fear” her.  Well, duh.  Everybody fears her!  I can’t speak for anyone else, but I think it would kind of suck to see a quick-tempered, judgmental, authoritarian megalomaniac work her way into a position of power in these United States.  Allowing Sarah Palin to run the country is the equivalent of handing over the keys to one of those military Juntas in Central America or Burma.