Its taken hardly any time at all for the corporate media's leading infotainment professionals to recognize that Palin's resignation was a poltical master-stroke.
And - for once - they're right!
The quote TPM singles out nails it:
Perhaps the best part of Palin's announcement today:
Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.
Quitters stick to it. Winners quit.
Sheer brilliance. And it rings utterly true in these trying times.
It logically follows that the only way other leading Republicans can possibly hope to keep pace with Palin and comparably expand their reach and influence is to quickly resign, themselves.
Now, as a word of friendly advice to GOP political strategists, your guy will only really look like a visionary leader if he's among the first 40 to 50 percent of the winners resigning out of principle.
So its imperative that you start lining up and announcing resignation press conferences for your guys - McConnell, Boehner, Inhofe - any Tweeting Republican who wants to stay on the cutting edge - as soon as possible.
Any leading GOP figure who fails to pull off his resignation before the fireworks start popping tomorrow night has clearly blown it. Time is short.
So the only real question is: Are all the other elected Republicans going to let Sarah Palin run off, unopposed, with the future of the GOP - and likely the Presidency, handed to her on a fricken' silver platter by a grateful, awe-inspired nation?
Or will other GOP contenders quickly move to join her in this visionary new direction, to at least try to stay in close step with her?