O.K. my thoughts on why Palin quit.

I think she finally realised she was way out of her depth, even as Governor of Alaska. Good looks and a few well practised cliches will only take you so far. But unless there is some intellectual depth to back it up, then you are eventually going to run out of steam, and be run over by another loco. She always struggled as McCain's running mate when she had to actually comment on matters that a V.P. should have some knowledge on. Good looks and a folksy manner just weren't going to cut it with the discerning voter. She may have got away with it for a while in Alaska, but her decline in the opinion polls showed that it wasn't going to be enough there either. In her resignation speech, she looked to me like she was a woman at the end of her tether. She looked like a vulnerable mother who had given birth to a child with Down's Syndrome, and whose daughter was a young single mother. She looked like a woman deserving of sympathy, not scorn.

And I think the exposure of her family problems just ate away at her self esteem. That, and the trust she placed in her fundamentalist faith. It just wasn't turning out the way that the pastors said it would. They were exposed for the charlatans that they truly are, although she may not yet realise this.

I think she just wants to go back to the simple world she understands. I wish her well.if she does. I may not have agreed with her politics, but she is, after all, just another mother struggling to get by in this confusing world we live in.

And only the hardest heart would blame her for that.