Sarah Palin: These Shoes Are Made For Walkin'

Wash Post media guru Howard Kurtz: "Now the press, to paraphrase Richard Nixon, won't have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore. But she went rogue one more time yesterday afternoon, achieving the near-impossible feat of knocking the endless Michael Jackson coverage off the air. In the end, Palin made monkeys out of the pundits who spent endless hours debating whether she was positioning herself for a 2012 presidential run. And perhaps that gave her a small measure of satisfaction as she stepped out of the white-hot spotlight."

NYT columnit Gail Collins: "Smiling manically, she looked like a parody of the woman who knocked the Republicans dead at their convention. She babbled about her parents’ refrigerator magnet, which apparently had a lot of wise advice. And she recalled her visit with the troops in Kosovo, whose dedication and determination inspired her to ... resign.“Life is about choices!” declared the nation’s most anti-choice politician.People, what is going on with governors in this country? Are we doomed to see them go bonkers one by one, state by state?

NYT: John Coale, a prominent trial lawyer and Democrat who helped Ms. Palin create her political action committee, said in an interview that he had been given no advance word of her decision. “She didn’t even tell her brother,” Mr. Coale added. Mr. Coale said he had spoken to Ms. Palin’s husband, Todd. “And he’s like, they’re not sure what they are going to do from here on out, but they’re sure they don’t want to do this."

The New York Times fails to mention Coale is the husband of Greta Van Susteren on FOX News.

Related: "Alaska's governor Sarah Palin to resign, dooming her presidential pipe dream" Thomas DeFrank NYDN