Palin Watch: Listening to the Barracuda

The koolaid being consumed inside the beltway over Sarah Palin is awesome. I've been listening to the usual suspects, the talking heads on all the networks, go on about whether or not stepping down from her position of governor of Alaska will doom any future political aspirations.
One thing that is notable about all this is how seldom they actually show that they were listening to what Sarah Palin actually said. I think it betrays the general inward and self-serving perspective of Washington and the Beltway pundits that their focus has been all about the personal dimension, whether or not Sarah Palin is being selfish and whether this will serve her presumed goals on a personal level. They didn't listen to her or what she said. Granted that she was not as forthcoming as she might have been. Why should she be? Every time she says anything the talking heads do their best to spin it in some sort of negative way. This has been no different.
Palin has been characterized as naive, as a quitter, as probably trying to hide something, as paranoid ... you name it some self-styled analyst has pontificated about it. But maybe, just maybe someone should listen and hear what the lady said.
What Palin said was that like a point-guard her job was to get the ball upcourt and pass it off to score. That trying to stop her from advancing the ball in a full court press was what her opposition was doing. Since she was such a lightening rod, the people of Alaska were spending millions of dollars to defend her against trivial and dishonest suits. She was trying to serve the people of Alaska in the best way she could and she thought that that might best be done by passing the ball to her Lt. Governor. This would accomplish a couple of things. It would clear the air and let the business of Alaska go forward more smoothly. It would give the Lt. Governor roughly 18 months in the governorship which would stand him in good stead for a run for the office when election time rolled around. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin would become less of a distraction, although no doubt the demonizers and attack dogs of the left would not leave her alone.
I don't think we've seen the last of Sarah Palin. With added time to devote to her family and to the business of articulating an authentic conservative voice as opposted to the phoney baloney we're continually fed by the Beltway contingent, Sarah Palin may well still emerge as a force to be reckoned with. Notice that the baying of the dogs has not reduced. Something about Sarah Palin's straightforward posture of homespun values, faith, sincereity and authentic concern for people sends chills to the very core of the leftwing vampires. They know virtue when they see it and it makes them crazy. You go Sarah!