Sunday, July 5, 2009

The Sarah Palin Show

Posting has been slow lately, as I've been in a house party full of wonderful geeky friends with whom I've been playing Magic and participating in a live-action roleplaying game based on these books. But this blog owes its readers a Sarah Palin post! So post I will. First, Hilzoy:
I do not believe for a moment that this is about taking time off to prepare for 2012. Nothing I know about Sarah Palin leads me to believe that she would give up power voluntarily, let alone for something that is such a long shot, and in such a transparently self-destructive way.
Personally, I'm closer to the Jesse Taylor position, or lack of a position: "I really have no idea what she thought she was doing, or what she was saying."

There's a point at which somebody acts so weird that you lose the ability to make ordinary assumptions about what they think or want, and every remaining option seems to posit something implausible. Has Sarah Palin tired of politics? Does she think resigning will help her position herself for the presidency in 2012? Does she think resigning will help her promote conservatism from outside the system? Has she formed a desire to go mer-Galt? I really don't know what to say here.

Lots of people speculate that another scandal is in the works. And hey, it could be -- we had a new Palin scandal every other day in September, and I was left with the impression that her closet had more skeletons than the human population of Alaska. But it's rare that Governors face scandals so tremendous that they resign in advance. So I have no idea if it would be something huge, or something that she mistakenly thinks it's huge, or nothing at all.

Also, Emily Thorson's charts are really good. If you look at when the McCain-Palin ticket loses support in 2008, it's at the same time that Palin's approval ratings fall through the floor, even more so than when people get freaked out by the bad economy.

3 comments:

Glenn Fayard said...

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Hope said...

I think she is just nuts. At that point, assumptions are indeed impossible. benjamin and I were doing a lot of driving that day, so we heard her statements several times, and never could figure out what she was talking about.

Ron E. said...

I have to agree with hoperu. She is Ross Perot in high heels, and like Perot she has found she can't take the heat in national politics so she is removing herself from the kitchen. And just like Perot or the monsters in your run-of-the-mill horror movie, she'll return from the grave in time for the next Presidential election.