DAN TESSITORE

I stopped giving a rat's ass about Sarah Palin last November 5th. I don't think she'll ever be able to resurrect her image enough to have any serious chance at national politics. Since her surprise resignation as Governor of Alaska Friday, the bobble-heads on TV have been foaming at the mouth about what it means. Is she making some big political move? Is she getting a show on Fox? Is she pregnant? Is there a scandal? The scandal is that anyone still aims a camera at this blathering, incoherent twit.

I don't care why she quit, but the fact that she made the announcement on the Friday before a holiday weekend suggests - at least - that there's something she wants to avoid dealing with. And that would be consistent with her character - having quit as mayor of Wasilla before her term was up, refused to be coached on national and international issues during the campaign, and famously avoided as many interviews as possible while on the presidential ticket.

Maybe she read this (or had it read to her), and in a rare moment of clarity decided to spare the people of Alaska, and the Republican Party, any further embarrassments. After this one, anyway.

What's kind of entertaining is that very few Democrats have said much about this, leaving the Republicans to publicly shrug their shoulders in a collective, prime-time "What the fuck?"

And yes, that's a real, undoctored photo. Truth in advertising, I say.