TBogg offers the best summation I’ve seen so far:

But somewhere along the line (I’m guessing when her Alaska Trust Fund only pulled in about $125,000 of the $500,000 that they were seeking  for her mounting legal bills) she decided to cut bait and make a dash for the cash sooner rather than later. As we move farther away from the election and more little tidbits come trickling out of the McCain campaign, time is not going to be her friend.

Sarah Palin isn’t smart in what we might call conventional ways, but she has grifter smarts and knows that she can make a better living working the wingnut welfare circuit preaching to the already converted than she can in politics. She’ll never be President; you know it and she knows it. Everyone should know it. But there are a lot of rubes out there who think she’s got a shot and they’re just dumb enough to pay good money thinking it will happen. That is what she’s counting on.

And the following video is one of the most sphincter-tightening I’ve ever seen (watch AC’s face, for one thing):

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Selections from the 2,000 comments on the resignation at Team Sarah…

• Put your yard signs back out and tape thru McCain! Let’s get going!
• I’m wondering if Governor Palin is going to team up with Michael Steele and take back the Republican party.
• I’m sure she has a plan, but I don’t understand it at this point.
• I”m tired of reading about how Sarah should run in 2016. Wake up folks. We won’t have a country by then.

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Hooo-eee! We was abstaynin' all night long until the hogs came home! Hooo-eee!

White trash Wasilla hockey fuckwit Levi ‘Jethro’ Johnston, son of an alleged drug dealer and father to Talibunny’s first grandchild, Tripp, is getting ready to make America gag with tales of abstinence gone wild, oxycontin-fueled hillbilly madness and the wanton unquenchable lust for power and silk underwear exhibited by the Talibunny and her trained mute, Todd.

Jethro and his hired ape-publicist, ‘Tank’, told New York Magazine this week that they’re working full-time to whore out all the insanely salacious stories about the Palins they can sell. We know what those stories will be about:

• The bestiality,
• the hillbilly aesthetics,
• the peasant criminality,
• the mental disorders,
• the fascist lunacy of the Talibunny,
• the loathing of the McCain campaign staff,
• the Talibunny’s twisted parenting skills,
• the wanton hunger for real clothes
• Most  importantly, the non-stop, barn-shaking pestorking that attends teen-age abstinence:

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Item, per Washington Post:

D.C. Council member Marion Barry was arrested last night and charged with stalking a woman after the woman reported that Barry was “bothering her” as the two traveled in separate vehicles in Anacostia Park, police said this morning.

Is the correct response…

(A) If only the Nats had that kind of determination.

(B) No drugs involved?  That arrest shouldn’t count, then.

(C) He was in a rush to a rally supporting traditional marriage.  That’s all.

(D — all together now!) Bitch set him up.

It’s all they have left …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89Cw_r0LVk

The baby Jesus made sure I came across this gem of a website today, the Lord’s Day. I present for you, without comment, some of the more interesting answers. Peace be with you!

When the Rapture happens, God will take the Christians who have died and the Christians who are still alive and bring them up to heaven, where they will get new bodies that will be beautiful and perfect.

Unlike everyone else, Jesus never did anything wrong. He never sinned by doing bad things. He never stole anything or disobeyed his parents or said bad words or mean things.

It’s not fun to be sick, but being sick reminds you that the world has a sin problem.

The ark could have held 522 railroad box cars! So dinosaurs could have fit inside the ark.

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Title: “The Death of Ivan Ilych”

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Rank: 715,269

Blurb: None. But we suspect it doesn’t have a happy ending.

Review: None. Who reads Tolstoy in the summer?

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The Death of Ivan Ilych [Amazon]

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