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Will Sarah Palin stay in politics or will she move out and on? Is Sarah Palin choosing her family, her real life, seeking the meaning and day-to-day involvement in a rich and fulfilling private environment over the surrealistic cauldron of hate-filled politics we've stirred in hyper-connected America? Has Sarah Palin had enough of the photoshoppery of tiny Trig, the unmistakable, undeniable spewings of hatred form the Left, from the small-minded-weakly endowed Lettermans of this world? Is Sarah going John Galt, knowing that this Republic-nation is likely doomed? Will she now build a bunker in Alaska and retreat from politics?

Who could blame her if she did?

Mark Steyn has written the piece that I've found most likely to have hit the nail on the head...

In states far from the national spotlight, politics still attracts normal people. You're a mayor or a state senator or even the governor, but you lead a normal life. The local media are tough on you, but they know you, they live where you live, they're tough on the real you, not on some caricature cooked up by a malign alliance of late-night comics who'd never heard of you a week earlier and media grandees supposedly on your own side who pronounce you a "cancer".

Then suddenly you get the call from Washington. You know it'll mean Secret Service, and speechwriters, and minders vetting your wardrobe. But nobody said it would mean a mainstream network comedy host doing statutory rape gags about your 14-year old daughter. You've got a special-needs kid and a son in Iraq and a daughter who's given you your first grandchild in less than ideal circumstances. That would be enough for most of us. But the special-needs kid and the daughter and most everyone else you love are a national joke, and the PC enforcers are entirely cool with it.

Most of those who sneer at Sarah Palin have no desire to live her life. But why not try to - what's the word? - "empathize"? If you like Wasilla and hunting and snowmachining and moose stew and politics, is the last worth giving up everything else in the hopes that one day David Letterman and Maureen Dowd might decide Trig and Bristol and the rest are sufficiently non-risible to enable you to prosper in their world? And, putting aside the odds, would you really like to be the person you'd have to turn into under that scenario?

National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush). Our loss.

Yes, and a grievous loss that would be.

(Oh, on that matter of the woman who photoshopped Trig, Linda Kellen Biegel, Democrat, party scion, woman (I think)... I considered a fashioning a retaliatory pshop of Linda Kellen Biegel, the ‘Celtic Diva’ who pshopped Trig Palin. Then I saw her face.

I've never seen a more fat, disgusting, bloated, homely, fat (if one were to punch her in the belly, one would be dodging biscuits for days), nassty countenance on a woman in my entire life. A worthy mate for Jabba the Hut (but if she rolled over on top of him, she would crush~!) Why do Democrat women of the political bent always seem to look like north ends of southbound mules?

Fuck her gently with a chainsaw.

There’s nothing I could do pshoppery-wise to make Linda Kellen Biegel look any worse than she already looks. My pity is great for that one. )

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