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MARK STEYN: “National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), th…
Instapundit — ... MARK STEYN: “National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush). Our loss.” And those responsible will not be the ones to pay the price, for the most part. ...

PALIN ABSOLUTELY DOMINATES THE NEWS CYCLE
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... Cutting bait — With respect to many of the Palinologists below, I think they're getting way too hepatomantic over the entrails. As a political move for anything other than the 2010 Senate race, today's announcement is a disaster. And I'm not sure it's a plus for the Senate - and … ...

Aftermath
Cold Fury — Steyn on Palin : So Occam’s Razor leaves us with: Who needs this? In states far from the national spotlight, politics still attracts normal people. You’re a mayor or a state senator or even the governor, but you lead a normal life. The local media are tough on you, but they know you, they live where you live, they’re tough on the real you, not on some caricature cooked up by a malign alliance of late-night comics who’d never heard of you a week earlier and media grandees supposedly on your own side who pronounce you a “cancer”. Then suddenly you get the call from Washington. You ...

Speaking of Bosses… [JHoward]
protein wisdom — Re: Darleen of yesterday, at NRO Mark Steyn concludes a short comment about Palin’s exit in most excellent form.  Consider that last paragraph; give a wry holiday h/t to Reynolds. From the link, an excerpt about the state of approved thought and how we elect by the principles of tolerant liberal diversity:…nobody said it would mean a mainstream network comedy host doing statutory rape gags about your 14-year old daughter. You’ve got a special-needs kid and a son in Iraq and a daughter who’s given you your first grandchild in less than ideal circumstances. That would be enough ...

Sarah Palin’s resignation: The morning after
Sister Toldjah — ... another to know that your loved ones will get that scrutiny, too, and in particular your children. Kids don’t pick their parents. I wrote about this here. That spurred this terrifying thought: The lesson that the ruthless corners of the political world will take from the rise, fall, and departure of Sarah Palin that if you attack a politician’s children nastily enough and relentlessly enough, you can get anybody to quit. Mark Steyn weighed in with a similar, even more depressing ...

In Re. Palin
Rhymes With Right — ... still be in her mid-50s and have a formidable resume among her GOP rivals. Of course, she may just stay out of office for the time being. It's not like this is without precedent. Remember -- it took Ronald Reagan 12 years from the time he first looked at the presidency (1968) to the time he won in 1980. Palin has a book deal, and she can fire up a crowd with her speeches -- and doesn't need a teleprompter, unlike a certain politician I could name. My biggest hope, though, is that Mark Steyn is wrong about what Palin's move yesterday means -- namely, the definitive end of the ...

The Regular Folk Need Not Apply
The Moderate Voice — ... Mark Steyn has an interesting take on Sarah Palin’s resignation as Alaska’s governor. His last two paragraphs has some very good points: ...

Sarah Palin Resignation, The Day After
Flopping Aces — ... Well, we’ve had a day to digest the Sarah Palin resignation and her reasons why. Looking through the blogosphere it runs the gamet from her being run from office, to a impending scandal, to preparing for a 2012 run. Mark Steyn believes she was run from office: ...

Sarah Palin's Resignation, Merry Prankster Theory of Politics
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — Sarah Palin's Resignation Speech Erika Bolstad Dan Balz Jonathan Martin Mark Steyn James Antle John Batchelor Jonathan Alter I thought that yesterday I had all of the Sarah Palin gossip nailed down, then I came home in the afternoon and turned on the television to see when the Rockies baseball game was on, and I sat stunned for the next 3 hours watching Ms Palin's resignation speech and the weekend pundits reaction to it. She took a page from John McCain's ...

The Left is Yelling About Palin Because They’re Afraid. Again.
The Sundries Shack — ... be able to see her every day. They won’t be able to keep her in their sights and that frightens them beyond measure, because they know she’s not finished (no matter how much they desperately want her to be). She’ll be back in politics and when she does come back, it’ll be in a way that very few can predict now. Sarah Palin has just become the ultimate left-wing bogeyman and that, folks, is why they’re yelling about her so much. The only downside to Sarah’s story this far is that the unhinged attacks from the left have driven normal people out of politics , so that what we’ll ...

Conservative backlash against Palin
News — ... , arguing that Palin's unexpected resignation is a disqualified for 2010: It's over. You can't resign from a governorship and then run for higher office. Barring some strong reason, like needing treatment for cancer. Mark Steyn writes on The Corner that, as a political move, Palin's announcement was a "disaster," but he urges us to "empathize" with the human elements motivating her: If you like Wasilla and hunting and snowmachining and moose stew and politics, is the last worth giving up everything else in the hopes that one day David Letterman and Maureen Dowd might decide ...