It's stunning to me, watching Sarah Palin resign, how much she reminds me of Timothy Treadwell, the titular Grizzly Man of Herzog's film. They have an amazingly similar naive and simplified sense of the world and their place(s) in it. Maybe it's an Alaska thing. You decide:
Okay, we're getting our first indication of what happened. It seems like a colossal sulk on Palin's part, or perhaps better to say an effort on her part to ingeniously combine anti-liberal media bias agitation with Christianist politics by portraying herself as having been crucified by the liberal media. Said Palin, according to a reporter at the press conference, "You are naive if you don't see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard."
