Let Loose

Sarah Palin announced her resignation as governor yesterday.

It was a surprise and people are trying to figure out what it means, but no one is sure.

With the headline: "Palin makes herself the true frontrunner", John Bachelor makes a good attempt at explaining understanding her political possibilities:

Rather than a blow to a career, Sarah Palin's decision to resign underlines her self-awareness.

It continues to say she is the unmatched 2012 primary frontrunner. And inside the article:

What is going on right now in the Republican Party—even as the professionals scramble to react with grins and snorts to the news of Palin’s Alaska resignation—are the early scenes of the 2012 campaign for the presidency with Sarah Palin as the once and future hero. Like Joan of Arc, Catherine the Great, Elizabeth Regina, and, skipping four centuries of quarrelsome princes, Margaret Thatcher, the Republican Party has already decided that the governor of Alaska will rescue the GOP from its ruination. What Sarah Palin begins with an announcement from Wasilla is not only a campaign, it is an Iditarod of a crusade—first woman, first mom, and second moose-hunter into the White House.

He is certainly right about the grins and snorting -the language of liberal pundits.

Conservative pundit Mark Stein suggested this was just a wholesome person giving up on politics. He thinks there's a long shot chance this could help her in a 2010 senate race.

AP writer Rachel D'oro writes that this is a 2012 move.

Also, check out Ben Smith's post interpreting Palin's resignation. He claims it was too much "scrutiny" (more like 'vicious, nasty attacks' I'd say, if 30% of democrats said the media went too hard on her!).