SARAH PALIN, WHY DID SHE JUMP?

In adherence to the proverbial expression, 'if you cannot stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen', the all beauty and no brains Alaska Governor, Sarah 'Beauty-Queen' Palin bailed out on the people of Alaska, who elected her their governor in 2006?

By ditching Anchorage government house, effective July 26, 2009, Governor Palin has proved that she is not the stuff leaders are made of; especially when leadership is not a beauty contest but serious business. Her action has once again proved that she was just rattling her mouth oblivious of what the vice presidential office entails, admitted she confessed to not knowing what the duties of the office embodies.

Icheoku asks, what caused the mother of Bristol, who had a child out of wedlock, to abandon the ship of Alaska mid-stream; since she is just in the middles of her first term in office? What cataclysmic happenstance occurred to put out the wind on her sail of her political boat? She is not saying and neither is her husband Todd or Bristol, her over-sexed, unwed, teenage-mother daughter who is presently nursing Sarah's grandchild. All that we are left with are mere speculations as to what turned the tide of her political voyage; and until she opens up to let the world in, it shall remain a mystery wrapped inside the closeted space of her bosom! Icheoku asks, was she pushed or did she jump?

Governor Sarah Palin announced Friday July 3, 2009 that she is resigning from the office of governor of Alaska at the end of this month, sending an aftershock still reverberating throughout the political world especially her wing of the Republican party! Can a governor of remote state of Alaska who abandoned the state government house in Anchorage mid first-term, ever contemplate seeking the White House in 2012? Icheoku says, we do not think so; since if Alaska is a big fish for Sarah Palin to fry, then the White House is a whale incapable of being fried in Sarah's little skillet? In one commentator's note, "It's absolutely bizarre, and I think it eliminates her from serious consideration for the presidency in 2012"!

At 45, Sarah Palin still has a very promising future including the presidential bid, if wishes were horse? But the haste with which she made the announcement was suggestive of someone under pressure or duress? But until she opens up no one will know what pushed this American Amazon into such a political doldrums? At least she was getting free press and accompanying privileges as a governor which will all go away with her resignation so why would this beauty queen suddenly decide to take a back bench? The Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will step in to replace her as she steps down July 26, 2009. be inaugurated at the governor's picnic in Fairbanks.

Her resignation announcement was described by one commentator as 'a jittery, hyper-kinetic news conference that rambled between self-congratulation and bitter accusations at the foes she says are eager to destroy her'? One other commentator surmised it thus, "At the heart of these conflicting interpretations, is a woman who is herself deeply conflicted about her brief past in national politics and how to leverage her sudden fame for the future"? If she had announced that she was not going to run for a second term, that will be more understandable, but to so suddenly resign from office, without any prior whiff whatsoever, is the crux of the matter. Which prompted one school of thought to posit she was under somewhat pressure of either family or politics?

A source close to the soon to be ex-governor, confirmed that Sarah Palin confided that "the pressures of a job that had become consumed with freedom of information act (FOIA) requests and ethics investigations and the demands it taken on her family and national political prospects". Another intoned that “Things had piled up pretty steep on her?” One other commentator said, “There is just no good way to say quitting has made her more qualified to run for higher office”. Another observed, “I think Sarah Palin is on the verge of becoming the Miami Vice of American politics: Something a lot of people once thought was cool and then 20 years later look back, shake their heads and just kind of laugh”.

But whatever happens, Icheoku says Governor Sarah Palin should make haste to clear the fog surrounding her sudden departure from Anchorage and save the world of the rash of speculation trailing her exit. Until then, we are glad she quit because she is not grounded enough for the rigours and challenges of the chief executive, talk-less of a C`N`C! What a good riddance of an air-head!