When Sarah Palin prematurely stepped down from her post as governor of Alaska many people thought it signaled her intention to run for president in 2012, but likewise the fact that someone of her idiocy would never win.

Palin cited her determination not be a lame duck governor in her final +1 year in office. It is a political reality that all governors and presidents in the final phase in office become lame ducks - because the have spent their political capital and their party is looking to the next election with a new candidate and is not much any longer interested in the current and ineffective office holder. Palin is not inspiring in her effort to avoid such a fate. By her logic, if she runs for president and is reelected to a second term will she then ditch her last two years to avoid the inevitable lame duck status? It is incredible that she gave her resignation speech in a prose designed to portray a childish and lazy decision as enlightened and how those big-city people do not get it and never will (what is there to get?). And incredible still that millions of people still admire this woman!

Palin then provided a reason why she just couldn’t wait a little more than a year for her term to end, because she had pressing duties: Fox News.

By joining Fox News in a deal announced Monday, the former Republican vice presidential nominee gains instant access to an audience that gives Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly the highest ratings in cable news — and a clear boost if she attempts another run for national office.

“This gives her a platform she can use to stay relevant, to stay in the public eye and to flush out some of her policy positions,” said Republican strategist Todd Harris, who once worked for Palin’s 2008 running mate, John McCain. “To the degree it gives her a direct line to the kinds of people who vote in Republican primaries, it does give her an advantage.”

Palin’s determination to become a Republican Oprah on a vulgar and hateful right-wing network is an effort to remain relevant to conservatives by always being on air to offer her commentary on her area of expertise: Russia.

Palin - who’s dumber than shit; i.e. she thinks Africa is a country - has been mum on whether she intends to run for office. But at the Tea Party convention - where else? - she finally stated her intention:

In an interview recorded Saturday and broadcast on “FOX News Sunday,” Palin said she would run “if I believed that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family.”

“I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country,” Palin said, later adding: “I won’t close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future.”

This dimwit partly left the governor’s mansion in Alaska because she complained that the media was too critical of her. She can’t stand Alaska’s press, but somehow believes she can withstand the pressures of running and being president?