Thanks for nothing Sarah

Okay, I have to admit. I've been biting my tongue ever since we got pummeled the past two elections. We all know why it happened but no one wants to talk about it. Then along comes Ensign, then Sanford, now Palin. What the hell is going on? Is anyone minding the store?

That rambling excuse of a announcement and explanation made no sense to my teenagers. You know what, it made absolutely no sense to me either.

I don't normally watch CNN but somehow found myself on that station yesterday. I just couldn't stomach some of the Fox regulars trying to spin this as a positive for our party. Ed Rollins, former Huckabee campaign manager and longtime Republican stratagist, who I admire and respect, pretty much summed it up for me.

"If she is paving the way for a 2012 Presidential run, it was a very stupid methodology to go forward. She added another controversy to -- and no one has defended her more than I have on this show and other shows. I like her. I think she was an interesting choice. Not a great choice. I think at this point in time, she didn't have strong enough credentials to run for Vice President. She now has added one more demerit by quitting. And I think to a certain extent there are a lot of governors with very tough sledding right now and the ones who's going to succeed are the ones that are going to stay in there and finish the job. The only thing that may be practical is she said this is what's best for Alaska. If you don't want to do the job, maybe it is."

"First of all, you don't raise questions in a press conference. You go out in a press conference and you answer questions. Everyone now has questions. Why did she do this? She stepped all over her own story that she was quitting. But in this particular thing I think, the bottom line here, is -- if she wanted to quit and not run for re-election that's one thing, she could have done that a year from now, she could have done that four months before the end of this term and still run for president. Mike Huckabee ran for president, didn't finish up until January, won the Iowa caucus. Romney was governor, right up to the end and he ran a year later. There's plenty of time if you're going to ran for president. I think she didn't like the game. I think she got beat up. It is a very tough game. It is like saying, if you go to sports analogy, she basically talked about basketball. She quit halfway. It would be like Kobe Bryant half way through the season and says, I pass the ball, I don't like it. They are too playing too rough. I think she has basically added one more quirky side to her and I think she's now becoming more of a kook than a serious candidate. And I think that's a detriment to any candidate."

"She also raised a lot of money to pay off her legal fees. She's got a big PAC going. She was a very serious candidate for president and a lot of conservatives would have been supportive of her. I think this basically just makes people take a second look."