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It's things like this that make me wish I still drank.
Tom, earlier today I was just thinking of this exchange between two drinkers that you've repeated here and in your novels: "Why do you drink?" one asks. "I drink to forget," the other replies. "And what's it you're trying to forget?" the first man asks. The other replies, "Dunno. I forgot."
I sure wish I could forget about the leftist clowns that have seized control of our nation.
my gut feeling was that the maneuver was very foolish.
That reaction is accurate only if two assumptions prove to be true:
1. The decision to resign as governor was politically damaging.
2. A career in politics is Governor Palin's long-term goal.
I have already acknowledged on other blogs that I am not politically astute enough to argue for or against the first assumption. But I think it's selfish of us to expect the second to be true -- Sarah Palin is first and foremost a wife and mother -- by her own choice and admission. If this move does indeed end her political career, I bear her no ill will for making that decision -- to sacrifice her own aspirations for the good of her family. Those for whom I DO bear ill will are the ones who put her in this position -- the people who decided that it was worth bogging down the state government of Alaska in a series of unmerited ethics investigations, dragging Palin's teenage daughters into the public square for mockery and vilification, even making crass jokes about her infant son, just to punish her for having the gall to oppose them politically -- those are the people for whom I have NOTHING but ill will.
She has way more experience running things than the people in power now. And I like the fact that she is doing what she thinks is right and not what someone else thinks is right. I hope she runs in 2012 and will have my total support.
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