Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Never has that saying been more appropriate than yesterday, when President Sarah Palin stepped down from office after serving only thirteen months.
“I thought thirteen was a good number to quit at,” the 45th President told the press from the Oval Office. “You know, those stars on the first flag and all for the thirteen original founding fathers. It just seemed like a very American number.”
“The voters should have seen it coming,” said former President Barack Obama, whom Palin defeated in his reelection bid last year.
In 2008, Palin abandoned her post as Alaska’s governor, claiming that she needed more time to be with her family, however, two months after stepping down, she appeared in Southern California at The Reagan Library as a key speaker for the National Republican Women’s Convention. Palin’s reason yesterday for resigning as President was similar.
“I need more time to spend with my grandkids,” she told the press, referring to the four children who belong to Palin’s oldest daughter. “I mean, gosh, they need their grandmom.”
Palin gained national attention when she ran as John McCain’s Vice President candidate for the Republican ticket during the 2008 campaign. There was much doubt then as to her qualifications, and her supposed impotent intelligence was the butt of late night talk show jokes. But Palin silenced all doubters and brought the G.O.P. house down when greeting fellow Republican Joe Lieberman at their first debate for the 2012 ticket’s top spot.
“Can I call you Joe?” winked Palin, a reference to the exact thing she said four years earlier to Democrat V.P. candidate Joe Biden in their televised debate.
Palin was divorced two years ago and has been seen lately in the company of Joseph Plummer, a shrimp boat owner/operator out of Charleston, S.C. When she was not in the Oval Office the past thirteen months, she was usually with Plummer at a house on Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas that she bought after her divorce.
“We go out on Joe’s Boston Whaler,” Palin told the press. “And let me tell ya’, he can make one heckuva margarita. But we like to shoot hammerhead sharks with shotguns. They’re so dumb, you don’t feel too bad about killing them.”
Vice President Pat Buchanan will be sworn in as Palin’s replacement as soon as she returns from Green Turtle Cay.
