It is Time for Me to Talk About Sarah Palin

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It has been four months since Sarah resigned as Alaska's Governor. When she did on a Friday afternoon I wrote a little thing about her speech, I was stunned by the amount of hot spots and flags it raised. It was frankly too many to mention, and would have taken hours to dissect the speech and all the subtle and not so subtle things revealed between the lines.

In Palin's "Going Rogue," Palin confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain. The vice presidential candidate confirms that she had wanted to speak on election night, but was denied the chance and says she was kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign.

I can now confirm that the reason she resigned was from pressure from within her own party. She says it herself in her resignation speech, if you closely examine her statement.

She states, "Some say things changed for me on August 29th last year - the day John McCain tapped me to be his running-mate - I say others changed."

"...it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out."

In the speech she continually states "no more politics as usual."

One of the things that jumped out at me when I first heard her resignation is "politics as usual" means personal attacks and complaints from the other party... that is politics as usual. The opposing party would always want her to "Sit down and shut up", so for it to now become relevant, it would have to be coming from her own party.

She states "...And this political absurdity, the "politics of personal destruction" which is kind of interesting she choose to say this cliche phrase since it is so negative and was made famous by Former President Bill Clinton during his administration and now infamous problems. Every Governor has to deal with there little nuisance complaints from the other side, it is part of politics as usual.

When I heard the speech I got the distinct impression when she said this, "...I WILL support others who seek to serve, in or out of office, for the RIGHT reasons, and I don't care what party they're in or no party at all. Inside Alaska - or Outside Alaska." This was the defining moment of the speech and signaled to me she would no longer serve in the public life as a politician, and it became clear that the thing that changed most for Sarah is the support of her own party. We have to also ask ourselves why does she feel the need to reference, "Inside Alaska - or Outside Alaska," it sends a big signal to her party at the national level, she is directly speaking to them at this point.

With hindsight, she was able to resign and used the time wisely to write a book and capitialize on her moment in presidential politics... and it appears to have worked since her books is in all the bestseller lists.◦

It is Time for Me to Talk About Sarah Palin