[Updated: Via ThinkProgress, Max Blumenthal reports this may be an embezzlement pay-for-play scandal similar to that which led to Palin's fellow Alaskan Senator Tubez' defeat and near-conviction.]
Resist the urge to pick the low hanging fruit on Sarah Palin. Her abrupt resignation (transcript here) may be just the beginning:
I originally thought that this was simply another shakedown – like the Letterman imbroglio – just an attempt to pay off her half-million dollars-plus of legal bills related to her gubernatorial legacy of ethics violations by shaking down the rubes. The recent Vanity Fair expose certainly did her no favors. I fully expected their to be cries of sexism related to her Runners World ‘centerfold’ interview. She certainly has had an ‘interesting’ week. But then I saw this at the bottom of this FDL post by EdwardTeller:
