According to multiple sources (MSNBC) (Wyoming Tribune, redirected from the AP) Gov. Sarah Palin will be stepping down within the next few weeks.

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she will resign from office July 26.
Her spokesman wouldn’t say why Palin decided to step down, but the announcement stirred speculation that she would focus on a bid for the 2012 Republican nomination for president.

Being a bit of a headline-first-story-later news maven, my initial reaction was something like, “oh god, we’ve finally pushed this woman over the edge.”

An anecdote: There was this girl in my freshman English class, back in high school. She sticks in my mind as being spoiled and stupid because of one answer she gave in class. One. Several people in class were having a hard time identifying with Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Our teacher asked us to imagine what it might be like to so openly share with an audience the most horrible experience of our lives. Some people in the room spoke about siblings dying or parents getting divorced, and this girl said, the worst thing that ever happened to her was when her father sold her pony (aside: who the hell really has a pony?). Word spread through the whole school within the week, and every move this girl made for the next six months was picked apart with the kind of cruelty that only fifteen year old girls can create. Junior year, one of my friends mentioned the pony story, and someone asked,
“Whatever happened to that girl?”
“She got all sad because everyone was picking on her. She changed schools or something.”
“Oh whatever. Who does that?”

The heartless teenager in me wanted this to be Palin’s story. The tax paying voter in me is terrified by that running for president bit. It is terrible, but I want Palin to fade in to memory. I am sick of seeing her face and her kids and hearing all of her stupid sound bites. However, as much as journalists resemble nit-picking schoolgirls, some politicians have moved beyond those kinds of games. Make no mistake, I don’t think Gov. Palin is as oblivious as everyone (i.e. myself) has made her out to be. I imagine she will be moved to some underground bunker to be groomed in to the SuperPresidentMom the GOP wanted her to be in 2007. I think of this, because that girl from high school is now married and helps run a successful family business.

Hell hath no fury, people. Watch out.

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