Run, Sarah, Run

NPR reports today that they were contacted by someone from out in Alaska who stated that the Eastern Establishment just doesn't understand the way that Sarah Palin thinks and, therefore, they will always get the analysis wrong about why she decided to resign as governor with 16 months left to serve. One remedy to this situation would have been that Sarah Palin would have given a clear reason for the decision. One clear reason could have been that she is going to make a run for the Republican nomination for the Presidency and she did not want to spend state time and money campaigning for the nomination. This is a clear and understandable reason with which her constituents can agree or disagree. But, this, evidently, is not the way that Sarah Palin thinks.

The Democrats would, of course, welcome the prospect of Palin as the Republican candidate. Democrats who want President Obama to continue for a second term ought to be encouraging Sarah Palin to campaign for the Republican nomination, hope that she gets the nomination and thank God every day that she will be the Republican Presidential nominee for the next Presidential election. The debate can be over how long Palin will serve as President, if elected. Will it be 2 years before she decides that her own agenda is more important than what the voters elected her to do. Or, maybe she will even get as far as 3 years into her term before she calls a press conference on the south lawn to announce that she thinks she can push her agenda for reform better from outside the Whitehouse than inside. There could be "resignation watches" established and a national lottery to place bets on how many days into her term she would resign.

Normally, when public officials give confusing rasons for decisions, there is something to hide. For the moment, this looks like someone running away from responsibility and giving multiple reasons in the hope someone will believe one of them. What she is running from could be something as simple as the responsibility of having to govern or it could be the ethics probes. If this is not the case and she really is resigning early from elected office in order to run for a higher elected office, then Sarah has only managed to revive the idea that Alaska has more than its share of village idiots and is capable of electing them to public office.