Sarah Palin resigns, what are your thoughts?

Way too early to even posit a legit guess:   my gut feeling is she will show up soon using her ideologies to make lots and lots of money for Sarah.

I don't know if this was her best move.  On one hand, the office of Governor keeps her in the news and adds more executive experience to her resume, on the other, it takes her out of the far-flung reaches of Alaska and allows her to actively participate within the beltway without being accused of neglecting her gubernatorial duties.  Considering that this last election proved that race trumps governmental experience, perhaps the additional executive experience wouldn't translate into much political capitol.  She's already proved she can be an outstanding mayor and governor, another couple years won't add much to it.  The more she can play-up the fact that she's a tough, determined independent woman holding her own in the man's game of national politics, the more independent and woman's votes she'll garnish.  Unfortunately, in this age of tribal politics, experience just doesn't seem to carry much weight.  Now, if she can discover that she had eskimo or lesbian relatives . . .

As an independent, I think her biggest problem is her questionable intelligence.  She needs to go back to school so she might avoid more debacles like "I can see Russia".  She has depth, but only on the surface.  Deep down inside, she's still shallow.

The "I can see Russia from my house" comment was from a Tina Fey skit.  I believe she had actually commented that Alaska was the only state that was close enough to Russia to physically see it, but the media prefered to publicize the satire as reality.  Being down-to-earth, and not having attended an Ivy League university  isn't necessarily "shallow."  Lincoln and Truman were both in that category, and for the most part, they did pretty well.  Have you ever listened to "Brilliant Joe Biden?"  Not exactly Steven Hawkins . . .

To mplubius, 

You might be right. She might have just alluded that the fact that Russia  was a "neighbor" and used that to bolster her foreign policy credentials.  The Island that is actually close enough to see Russia, Palin had never visited.  I agree about Biden.  Think he and Palin are related?

Nah, different leagues.  One the media protects by not reporting his idiotic statements, but his words still leak out occasionally, and the other the media either makes-up or twists her words to try and make her look bad, and occasionally some of her true words get out.  Do I think either are geniuses, no.  But I feel that integrity, leadership and common sense matter far more.  Regan and Truman were of average intellectual ability, but were great Presidents.  Jimmy Carter had something like a 165 IQ.  'Nuff said.

Wait a minute...Did you see her resignation speech?  How could the media have "twisted" that to make it worse? It was a meandering, un-punctuated, run-on sentence that was dominated by her favorite word "and" plus her favorite phrase "Ya know..."  We would have to know, because I don't think that she actually does.  Biden is no prize...but Sarah takes the cake.  I don't know where you got your facts about Carter's IQ, but that number isn't Carter's...it might be his weight, but it's definitely not his IQ (unless it's from the back of one of those women's magazines.  Where does George W. fall in the mix and could we have survived another president of that caliber?

If the media is protecting Biden, they're sure not very good at it.  You would think that if they were effective at "attacking" they should be equally adept at defending.

To mplubius:

Your post on IQ was interesting.  I visited some of the web-sites that suggesting IQ number for famous people, but many are based on some type of extrapolation based on the writings they produced.  My recollection from college was that IQ scores were based on a composite of verbal and performance scores...the most popular test back then was the Weschler's Scale or the Stanford Benet.  The had about 10 sub test to evaluate verbal abilities and another half dozen for the performance section.  But there were so many variables...the experience of the administrator of the test to the time of day that it was given to what the subject had for breakfast (or if they even had breakfast).  I would be skeptical of any published IQ scores for any politician.  There were IQ scores ascribed to people that died long before the were any "measure" or individual intelligence.  I would imagine that these scores were some extemporaneous evaluation of that person's writings, but that's more art than science.  Unless a person's IQ comes from Mensa, I'd question it.  So I still think that 165 for Carter would be closer to his weight than his actual  intelligence quotient.