Sarah's Choice

The country has been having a field day with Sarah Palin's freak announcement that she's resigning this month. Steve texted me: "First she made SNL relevant for 5 mins. now her final gift: a break from MJ for another 5" and Matt nailed it with the hed: "I'M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE!" But it was Gail Collins' column that was so good I had to laugh to keep from crying:

“Life is about choices!” declared the nation’s most anti-choice politician.

“And a problem in our country today is apathy,” she said on Friday as she announced that she would resign as governor of Alaska at the end of the month. “It would be apathetic to just hunker down and ‘go with the flow.’ Nah, only dead fish ‘go with the flow.’ No. Productive, fulfilled people determine where to put their efforts, choosing to wisely utilize precious time ... to BUILD UP.”

Basically, the point was that Palin is quitting as governor because she’s not a quitter. Or a deceased salmon.

So if she’s starting to run (for president), it will be as the same reporter-avoiding, generalization-spouting underachiever that she was last time around.

Now we know she not only doesn’t have the concentration to read a policy paper, she can’t focus long enough to finish the job she was hired to do.

Read the full column HERE.