Sarah Palin, quitting because she’s not a quitter

Gail Collins is often wickedly funny, and she’s in good form commenting on Sarah Palin’s quitting in order to spend more time with her family values:

"Palin is quitting as governor because she’s not a quitter."
"She recalled her visit with the troops in Kosovo, whose dedication and determination inspired her to … resign."
"The timing of Palin’s announcement was extremely peculiar. Not only did she interrupt the plans of TV newscasters to spend the entire weekend pointing out that Michael Jackson is still dead, she delivered her big news just as the nation was settling into Fourth of July celebrations. You’d have thought she didn’t want us to notice."
"It turns out that Palin believes that the only way her administration can ‘continue without interruption’ is for her to end it."
"There is no sign … that Palin has made any attempt to bone up on the issues so that next time around, she could run as a candidate who actually had some grasp of the intricacies of foreign and domestic policy. So if she’s starting to run, it will be as the same reporter-avoiding, generalization-spouting underachiever that she was last time around.
Now we know she not only doesn’t have the concentration to read a policy paper, she can’t focus long enough to finish the job she was hired to do.

The final quote from the article is a brilliant piece of self-parody on the part of Ms. Palin:

On Friday, Palin said that finishing out her term would be just too easy. "Many just accept that lame-duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck and ‘milk it.’ I’m not putting Alaska through that," she said.

Yes, sticking to your commitments is for quitters.

No doubt many die-hard Palin supporters will lap this up, including the pod people pictured below: