Another win for the state-run media and the democratic politics of personal destruction…
SARAH PALIN RESIGNS!
Here‘s a longer version of the governor’s announcement.
KTUU reported:
Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor’s Picnic at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks on Saturday, July 25, Palin said.
There was no immediate word as to why she will resign, though speculation has been rampant that the former vice presidential candidate is gearing up for a run at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Palin made the announcement flanked by Parnell and most, if not all, of her cabinet.
Parnell ran unsuccessfully against Rep. Don Young in the Republican primary last year.
The stunning announcement by Palin opens the floodgates for the 2010 gubernatorial race. Speculation that Palin might not seek re-election had fueled further conjecture of who might run.
God bless this courageous woman.
Charles Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg were the latest conservatives to question her future in the party. (Although, Goldberg offers her some good advice.)
It’s a shame that Republicans were so hard on her.
But, the Left was worse.
And, the brutal pounding from the Left on her and her children has been constant.
UPDATE: On FOX News Her brother just said that she was spending 80% of her time defending herself from the state-run press and bogus ethics complaints. She had been doing this for months and wanted to spend more time helping her state but there was no way she could effectively govern when she had to constantly defend herself.
** The governor has won 15 different bogus ethics complaints.
** The state of Alaska has spent $2 million defending the governor.
** It cost those liberals nothing to file the bogus complaints.
** Fighting the complaints has left her $500,000 in debt.
UPDATE: CNN’s Rick Sanchez wonders, “Is she pregnant?”
