Elvis has left the building

Sarah Palin has decided to forego the rest of her term as governor of Alaska, and for whatever the true intentions, she has stated her desire not to be a "lame duck".

Sure.

Somehow, I still believe come 2012 (the next presidential election), pundits on the right and the "middle" will still point to Palin's "executive experience", claiming that she, yet again, has more experience running things than Obama. This despite the fact that Palin is leaving in the midst of her first term as governor, time she largely spent traveling outside of Alaska, campaning for HERSELF and john mccain, doing little to boost Alaska's national credibility or that of her own party, which, although this becomes harder and harder to believe as time passes, was once the political affiliation of one Abraham Lincoln.

Aside: Why do Republicans constantly claim they are the party of Lincoln? Well, he is quite famous in the national lexicon, and of course graces both the penny and the 5 dollar bill. But surely there must have been other great leaders of this country who were once Republicans right? Maybe. There's Theodore Roosevelt, who I believe is famous because he is famous, rather than for his accomplishments. He was known to be a staunch environmentalist, and "trust buster" (read: anti big business?), qualities which are long since lost on nearly every single Republican politician still in office today (and probably most Democrats as well). It should be noted that Roosevelt failed to win his own party's nomination for the 1912 election.

There was also Eisenhower, who may most known for despising his vice president, one Richard Milhouse Nixon. Of course, most people know of Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and Bush, but there have been others as well, in fact Republicans own a plurality of American presidents. It's just a shame when your "second tier" consists of names like Grant, Hayes, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, to name a few. So party of Lincoln it is. I am a firm believe that if Lincoln were somehow transmogrified through time as saw what Republicans were doing today, he'd be extremely ashamed, although perhaps he'd have trouble getting over the fact that there were toilets, televisions, cars, airplanes, and a black president.

It kind of reminds me of the first time I got high and declared that per "Jurassic Park", velociraptors couldn't exist today because they would have aneurysms at the first sight of the modern world.

It becomes clearer and clearer that Palin is poising herself for a run at the nation's highest office in 2012, the media having already foolishly declaring her the front runner for the Republican nomination. The things is, she is going to lose. Not because she sucks, not because she's a liar, and not for any truly valid reason, but simply because America's incumbency re-election rate is right up there with Russia and China. Not only have the last 2 presidents "won" their re-election campaigns, but 6 out of the last 8 presidents to attempt re-election have been victorious, dating back to the early 20th century when the modern political process and parties that we have come to know today began to form.

I earnestly believe that the words "youbetcha" and "economy" will be uttered far more than words like "the" "a" and "one" over the next 3 years. Whether or not there are people out there who will actually revel in that, I do not know.