Well. Okay then...

...I've waited for several days to hear the whole truth from Sarah Palin. Instead I'm hearing ambiguous -sounding...well, almost platitudes, I guess you'd say. Just embroidering on whatever it was she never really came out and said in the first place. No announcement of grave illness, no ultimatum from a heart-scalded husband, concerned about the family. Just vague rhetoric about how she can make a difference in a better way, away from the governor's mansion.

I still like Sarah very much. I believe in largely the same things she does. I LOVE the fact that's she's not polished. I embrace the idea that she's 'average' - so to speak. But we are, as a nation headed into uncharted waters on so many fronts. Sure, we've been through endless wars and conflicts, depressions and scandals. But this time, our solvency can't be recovered in a year or four, by building tanks and warships. Our debt is so large as to be unpayable. Individual states teeter on the edge of bankruptcy every day. In the coming year or so, many experts predict inflation on goods and services the like of which we've never imagined. We won't even talk about the extreme taxes The Annointed One intends for us, across the board, in every tax bracket.
We don't - as a nation - know how to grow our own gardens and be satisfied wearing our clothes until they actually wear out, the way our folks did.
Now let's add the tiara.
There are people in Washington who are so corrupt, so hollow on the inside that they want to keep us as slaves. They mean to rule every aspect of our lives, if they can figure out how to get away with it. They want to dictate what kind of light bulbs we use, what politcal orientation our children have, what sort of car we drive. Other nations are quietly laughing at us for hurrying toward the very system of government they finally have escaped from. These next two elections -2010 and 2012 are perhaps just as important as any we've ever had. We simply must have somebody who will count the cost beforehand, understand the gravity of the office they pursue and their role in preserving the nation. Somebody in for the long haul, regardless of how messy and unscrupulous the opposition is - because what happens in next few years is so very, very important.

There's just no crying in baseball.