Hunting donkeys ~ By Doug Powers

By Doug Powers Posted: July 06, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Sarah Palin added to the weekend fireworks by announcing on July 3 that she'd be resigning as Alaska governor effective in about three weeks. I know what you're thinking: "South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is busted with a Venezuelan mistress, and Sarah Palin resigns?" Those looking to Palin's resignation as a signal of some sort of as yet to be exposed "wrongdoing" on her part don't know politics. In politics, the guilty are the ones who stick around – that's why we're in so much trouble. After Palin's announcement on Friday, the rumor mill began buzzing even louder than usual. Theories ranging from claims that Palin is about to be charged with embezzlement, to she's pregnant again, to she's running for president, to my own theory that Palin quit to become the host of her own game show called "You Bet'cha Life!" There were also the expected tasteless jokes about her kids under the guise of "satire." One of these sensitive, caring liberals wrote that Palin is "the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people." And all along I thought that was ACORN's job. Predictably, those who seem to have devoted their lives to being Sarah Palin's sworn enemies were, in exceedingly generous gestures, the first out of the gate to offer Palin post-resignation career advice. [CONTINUE READING]