Have you ever been under such stress that you didn’t realize how bad it was until it was over? The air clears, you can breathe deeply again and your shoulders slide down from their previous position somewhere around your ears.
That’s how I feel today. The nightmare is over, no matter what. The past ten months have been like no other. I can honestly say I’m a different person than I was then. Even if Sarah Palin is in the news every day from here until the end of time (like that would be any different than it is now, right?), it’s all going to be okay. I know she won’t be president, and now I know she won’t do any more damage to my beautiful state of Alaska.
I can move on to other things. I won’t have to cover Sarah Palin stories any more because I won’t feel like I have a responsibility to protect Alaska from her nonsense.
I can honestly say without hesitation that I. Don’t. Care. I don’t care why she resigned. I’m just glad she did. And for that, I will be forever grateful to whoever it was that convinced her it was a good idea. Thanks, Todd.
Ahhh, now to open up a bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade and get my 4th of July on.
Happy Alaskan Independence Day, everyone!
Damn. I’ll miss her.
Ha ha. No, I suppose I won’t, for all the reasons you state. I DO hope that she’ll be happy wherever she ends up, and I hope that she ends up no longer governing. Anywhere.
Happy days, Erin. The sense of relief on this side of the Atlantic is also immense.
Darling, I just want to hold your hand for expressing my thoughts exactly. I too had a blod once upon a time. I called it Chihuahuas for Change. However. I wrote very little in it and never had many comments. My blog was sort of a shoebox in which to keep all the tidbits I found along the way and share them with friends and the media. I wrote endless e-mails and real letters to the media asking that they rummage through my shoebox.
I knew On August 29th at 6:00PM that there had been a wild ride and rumors of fake pregnancy. I was sure that the press would pick up the story soon – but no – The Andrea Gusty picture came along and everything was swept under the rug.
Even Factcheck got it wrong. I wrote to them (a real letter) and never heard a word.
I wrote real letters with supporting pictures and sent them to Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow. Still nothing.
I am 67 years old, a native Washingtonian who lived through the Cuban missle crisis and fear of Russian missiles. Neither scared me as much as Palin.
I vowed that I would do what ever I could to stop her even if it killed me. You are certainly right about the stress part, but unfortunately mine is not over yet. I hope as events play out this week that a window will open for me.
I think that Bristol finally stood up to her mother and announced she was selling the story to someone in order to make enough money to get out of SP’s clutches. I certainly hope so as that child has been put through the wringer.
Many thanks for all you’ve done – happy motherhood.