Sarah Palin: Quitter

I do not understand Sarah Palin's decision to resign in the middle of her first term as governor of Alaska. She claims that she resigned to pursue a higher calling, but she could have finished her first term and have two entire years to do just that (if she were seeking to run for President in 2012). To me, it seems like merely an excuse as she would have only had less than two years to complete her term.

Palin also claims to be the victim of the media's double standard asserting, "And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make." Countless others finish their terms prior to pursuing a higher calling. She hasn't even officially announced any intention she has of running for Presidency and she makes it seem as though she is taking the moral high ground for making her decision.

What perplexes me even more are the thousands of supportive comments on Palin's Facebook page. It seems to me as though they are blindly following her as if she is some sort of political Messiah for the conservative movement. This underscores a concern I have that if she runs for President, many evangelical Christians will vote for her based on her religion and name-recognition alone without considering her record (or her propensity for quitting when the going gets tough). She could very well be a potential spoiler for Mitt Romney in 2012. The only consolation to this is that Palin would at least make Huckabee much less of a contender or split the evangelical vote, giving Mitt Romney a boost (assuming they all run in 2012.)