Palin abruptly resigns, this is great news for Palin '12!!!

Suddenly, Mark Sanford is behind in the nuttiest '12 GOP Presidential candidate primary.  Bobby Jindal is going to have to do something drastic to catch up.

There's no way anyone buys that this is about stepping up her profile.  Palin was only in her third year in office.  When you resign because your can't handle the criticism and scrutiny of being a Governor of Alaska, a state largely under your party's thumb, it's hard for people to trust you to be stable as their Commander-in-Chief.  Regardless, if she runs, she'd be both the most inexperience/unstable candidate to run.

Palin's a first-term Governor who largely won based on the corruption of her successor in a primary fight against an anemic Democratic Party.  She'll find her status as a celebrity will not lower the scrutiny and Americans aren't as "unconventional" as she is.  There was reason to believe that her re-election was more than a sure thing.

This is just bizarre.  And the fact that this was rolled out the way it does reeks worse than Stanford.  Palin's emotional press conference shows a person who is not convinced in what she is saying.

What her rationale boils down to is that the person who gleeful pushed the most inflammatory rhetoric and demogogery about Obama now wants out of politics because she's sick of people "who tear people wanting to make positive changes in politics down."  As a political farce, it's hilarious.  But the fact that she may actually believe this without choking on the irony is amazing.

If anything, McCain's got to be pissed.  Had he saw this coming, he could of told all those voters afraid about Palin becoming VP that they apparently had nothing to worry about.

Who bet that McCain would serve in office longer than Palin?  Anyone?!?