Go Back to The Tape
When the news first broke that Palin was resigning, some assumed that she was setting herself up for presidential run. Now, resigning before ones first term as governor is pretty obviously a bad way to go about getting a nomination for president, but no one said Sarah Palin was a conventional politician. And especially considering that everything else she’s done since the end of the campaign could easily be interpreted as part of a possible presidential run, it made sense to look at her resignation in that light.
But anyone who actually watches the full video of speech will realize that whatever Palin is doing, it isn’t part of some long-term plan (part 2 is where things get really crazy). Obviously, you should just go watch, but if you don’t, this is a speech of someone who hasn’t prepared in any meaningful way and probably hasn’t really thought through the consequences of what she’s doing. She rambles, talks incredibly fast,utters non sequiter after non sequiter followed by analogies and comparisons that don’t make any sense. She seems nervous, close to tears and agitated.
The thing is, I don’t know how many people will get the full Palin experience. Cable news tends not to show 18 minute speeches. Sure, there are choice sound-bites and moments that are indicative of just how weird the entire thing was, but the full experience is something else. The other problem is that the Palin story is going to be written up by political writers, who may not be the best to describe an idiosyncratic trainwreck.
