Too Legit To Quit?

Now let me see if I have this straight . . . Mark Sanford refuses to resign the governorship of South Carolina and Sarah Palin is leaving the governorship of Alaska?

And she's resigning because she's not a quitter?

Sanford has no credibility in his state left, and may also have broken state laws by traveling for, ahem, personal business on taxpayers' expense. Yet Palin, who probably has as much power as she's ever going to have - even though she governs fewer people than the borough president of Brooklyn, New York - is walking away from it all to do . . . something. In her incoherent announcement of her plans Friday, she declared that she's be promoting "conservative values" to help unite Americans around the Republican party, even though voters soundly rejected her traditional values - which includes shooting wolves from helicopters - in November.

Even Karl Rove calls her strategy for a greater role in the GOP "risky," though he gives her too much credit. I don't think she really has a strategy. (Her "strategy" may be amounting to little more than attempting to escape the negative attention a recent Vanity Fair article on her vice presidential campaign.)

Say what you will about Mark Sanford. He may misquote Andrew Lloyd Webber lyrics and speak in flowery metaphors, but at least he gets his points across.