I just want to call attention to one portion of her speech today - where she decided to talk about ethics.
If she's trying to play this off as an attempt to show character by sparing Alaska a long, pointless, expensive ethics investigation that she knows will prove nothing, but she was going to leave office anyway, well, she's got a problem.
That whole paragraph doesn't make any freaking sense. But it's Sarah Palin, so let's pretend it did make sense. She's still got a problem:
She wrote the ethics law.
You heard it all through the campaign, but she made it abundantly clear today in this speech that one of her chief achievements as governor was passing comprehensive ethics reform. Fine, you can't argue that it wasn't her bill and she didn't get it done.
But that exact legislation is now the source of all the complaints being made against her that she's so upset about. She even said so today, paraphrasing here "My opponents are using the very ethics bill I wrote to hound me."
So she's left with a serious issue here: her chief achievement was apparently writing a shitty ethics bill! This isn't an objective analysis, this is her analysis!
If we take everything she says as true, political opponents can use her law to send dozens of frivolous complaints against a governor that will bog down the state for months at the cost of millions. It doesn't have to be these opponents and it doesn't have to be this governor; the law she championed can be used like this in any circumstance.
So which is it, Sarah? Do you have severe ethical lapses, or did you write an ethics bill so lousy, it becomes a free-for-all that can encapture even you yourself?