Regarding S.P., I think she's set herself up for even more jokes by Jay Leno et al - like Quayle can attest, once you've positioned yourself as foolish, it is incredibly difficult to come back from it. Especially when you have people out there eager to keep that going.
It's extremely rare for a governor to quit in the middle of a term, and the reasons tend to be disgraced/impeached or have life-threatening illnesses in the family. As I see it, she's positioned herself to appear selfish and unwilling to finish the job under the same adverse conditions that Bill Clinton stood up under. She makes it sound like she's Nixon, y'know?
On another note of analysis, I don't believe her speech makes any sense. In nearly every sentence of the transcript, I feel like she's twisting the english language. How is maintaining governorship the same as "sitting down and shutting up"?
Ultimately, I think she's angry at being a less effective governor now that she's under the microscope than she was before, and I don't blame her for being unhappy about it. I think walking away in a hastily-created unrehearsed speech was probably a mistake for her.
I guess that'll depend on where she goes from here: If she's working in a republican 'think-tank' until 2010 or 2011, maybe disappearing from the public radar while working behind the scenes will work for her.
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Date: 2009-07-06 06:52 pm (UTC)It's extremely rare for a governor to quit in the middle of a term, and the reasons tend to be disgraced/impeached or have life-threatening illnesses in the family. As I see it, she's positioned herself to appear selfish and unwilling to finish the job under the same adverse conditions that Bill Clinton stood up under. She makes it sound like she's Nixon, y'know?
On another note of analysis, I don't believe her speech makes any sense. In nearly every sentence of the transcript, I feel like she's twisting the english language. How is maintaining governorship the same as "sitting down and shutting up"?
Ultimately, I think she's angry at being a less effective governor now that she's under the microscope than she was before, and I don't blame her for being unhappy about it. I think walking away in a hastily-created unrehearsed speech was probably a mistake for her.
I guess that'll depend on where she goes from here: If she's working in a republican 'think-tank' until 2010 or 2011, maybe disappearing from the public radar while working behind the scenes will work for her.