Oh noes, for the money!

Palin obsessives are pouncing on Levi's suggestion that she resigned for better money:



This isn't proof of anything, but it is a suggestive counter to Palin's boilerplate rhetoric about resigning to serve some Higher purpose. I would assume wealth was only part of her motivation to resign, and maybe not a deciding factor. As Andrew says, it makes sense—but not because Palin is some unusually selfish person—I would argue—but because people like money, politicians like money, celebrities like money...everybody likes money! Wealth is useful, and people resign to switch jobs for it all the time. Indeed the job economy pretty much operates on the concept.

Much more interesting, I think, is Levi's point at the end:

"No [I wouldn't vote for her] ...obviously if she's stressed out as Governor, moving up to the Vice President or President is huge...I just don't think anymore that she's cut out for the job."

He surely knows Palin better than most people, but Levi's 'stressed out' is still an assumption. It could have been any number of other things, including wealth. So let's just give Palin's stated reasons a huge benefit of the doubt and suppose her resignation was driven by the media and burdensome FOIA requests and ethic investigations...

The core of Levi's argument stands: whatever it was that made her unsuited to finishing her term has governor obviously makes her unsuited to being president or VP. If you can't hack it as a Class A, you're hardly ready for the Majors.