Bye Bye Palin

Good news from the others side of the Atlantic, where slightly mentalist politician and former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has resigned as Governor. Whether this means she will actually be out of politics for good remains to be seen, but we can but hope. 

Assuming it is now safe to write Palin's political obituary, it has to be said that she was a disaster. Nothing to do with her gender, but rather her sub-Bush Junior political agenda and her inability to act like a credible politician. She was a gamble as McCain's Vice-Presidential pick, and a gamble that really didn't pay off. She won over the hearts of many right-wingers by being able to read from a tele-prompter and by being better looking than John McCain - neither are great achievements - and looking at her career overall we see someone who failed as a Vice-Presidential candidate and couldn't even complete her term as governor of Alaska. 

Still, it there is someone who really loses out in this saga then it is Obama. Even if Palin does run for President in 2012, she's now going to struggle to get the nomination what with her her inability to finish her term as governor. And surely Palin for President in 2012 was exactly what Obama wanted - a political rival so inept that he might actually have made a sweep of all the states in the Union.