Sarah Palin Will Be Back
Cross-posted from The Huffington Post There's nothing surprising in Sarah Palin's decision not to run for re-election as governor of Alaska. After all, if you've got a shot to become leader of the free world, it helps to have nothing but time to give the people of Iowa and New Hampshire in the year leading up to their caucus and primary, and that's hard to do if you have to run a state from which you can see Russia. But Palin's decision to step down this month from the governor's mansion? Now that's a whole 'nother kettle of wild salmon. Today we heard and saw Palin as we never have before. No, I'm not talking about the incoherence of her resignation statement ; her incoherence in the infamous Couric interviews became the stuff of legend . Yet with all hectoring she took for her not-ready-for-prime-time performances during the campaign, her confidence never seemed to flag. But today brought us a different picture: Her voice quavering, Palin seem...