Posted by
Bill Crawford on Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:36:47 PM
Sarah is a $1000 political talent, surrounded at present with $10 staff. She managed to get national attention with a speech made in Alaska on one of the biggest press down cycle days of the year, and she punched out a bucket of confusion.
I had to download the damned thing and read through it to get why she was resigning. The major reason was that she has been having to spend personal and Alaska money to defend against frivolous ethics charges- coming largely from people out of state. Charges filed more easily because of her reforms. Charges that, one after another, have been dropped upon investigation. The minor reason is, she is tired of her children being fodder for comedians.
Her point was that she had become such a lightning rod that it would be better to leave the state in the hands of her Lieutenant Governor.
There, that took all of two minutes. She could have segued into her twenty minute ramble, and the media would still have their snap summary.
If the Governor weren't as good at connecting with people as she is, she'd be dead already. As it is, she may have one more chance to stay alive. She will have to drag out the old "barracuda" and dump whatever friends and family she has that are making her job harder.
She got hammered good and well last year by the rank amateurs from the McCain campaign. She has a lot of work to do, and soon.