Sarah Palin is the best. I haven’t commented on her resignation, because I have been predicting for awhile now that no one is going to give a shit about her in 2012. She’s a reality show star, not a political contender. And not a good reality show like The Osbournes. More like Denise Richards: I’m Confused or whatever that show is called.

But she’s still the best that there ever was. She went fishing on Good Morning America this morning. I would embed the video but ABC makes it impossibly hard to do so. It is totally not worth watching, so don’t bother. All you need to know is that less than a week after spontaneously deciding that fulfilling her elected duties is just too hard, Sarah Palin decided to invite ABC News along with her to enjoy her newfound life of leisure. That woman DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK. What’s more, she’s still trying to frame it as though quitting her job was a clever chess move:

“I’m not going to take the comfortable path. I’m going to take the right path for the state,” she said of her resignation, which she characterized as a matter of progressing in an unconventional way.

“That caught people off guard. … It’s out of the box and unconventional. That’s what we are as Alaskans and certainly how I am as a public servant.”

Amazing. See, here’s the thing: however undeserved (debatable), John McCain got his “maverick” reputation because it was perceived that he ignored party expectations to vote his conscience. Now Sarah Palin is trying to adopt that maverick label for herself, only her version of rebellion is to just stop doing everything that she was hired to do. Like, if Sarah Palin was a roofer, she’d put in a carpet. Or else she’d just fuck off for the day and say, “What do you expect? I’m the out-of-the-box and unconventional roofer!”

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