Sarah Barracuda Caught in Corruption Net?

For the past couple of days, we have been bombarded with “Sarah Barracuda” and her decision to resign as the governor of Alaska. Sources close to the governor say she is fed up with politics. She doesn’t like her life. She feels like she has to raise her family. She’s sick of the commute from Wasilla to the capital and she really does not want to run for higher office. What?

As one of my favorite radio personalities, Mario Solis Marich, pointed out, “Inspired by Palin’s immense integrity, a top surgeon quit in the middle of a critical operation today, ‘I was tired of business as usual.’”

Sarah “tweeted”, “We’ll soon attach info on decision to not seek re-election… this is in Alaska’s best interest, my family’s happy… it is good, stay tuned”.  What a twit.

Max Blumental from The Daily Beast is reporting Sarah Palin may have quit her job because she is trying to avert a major corruption scandal. Federal investigators are in Alaska compiling evidence to support that the then mayor of Wasilla and husband, Todd Palin, paved the way for Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) to acquire very lucrative building contracts such as the  construction of a multi-million dollar hockey arena in Wasilla.  The investigation alleges the construction of the Palin’s home on Lake Lucille was in return for the unusually smooth Alaska pavement SBS was allowed to traverse.

These allegations are just the latest in a long line of publicly damaging northern exposures for the beauty queen from Wasilla.  Coming on the heels of the less than flattering epic Vanity Fair article, the David Letterman cat fight, and Bristol’s abstinence roadshow, the governor may be finding the atmosphere in Alaska unusually hot.  Perhaps this will convince her of global warming, though I doubt it.

Though she bills herself as a reformer, her tenure as mayor and governor points to a history of big business corporate earmarks the size of which only Dumbo could relate.  It is old news that Palin supported the bridge to nowhere before she was against it.  Though she expounds upon a record of going up against big oil, the record shows a tight and personal relationship. Even her inauguration as Governor was sponsored by British Petroleum.

Though she announced the departure from politics, I can’t believe Sarah Palin could ever be out of the political limelight.  If not running for office in 2012, I foresee FOX News pulling a chair up for her to their dysfunctional family dinner table right between Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.  I can see it now, the brainless Barracuda on Obama.  I certainly hope they set her up where she can see the administration from her front porch.

“Sarah Barracuda” is a nickname Sarah Palin was given when she was a high school basketball player. From my memory of game fishing in the Gulf, a barracuda was a trash fish you either cut up for bait or cut loose as a nuisance. I remember the boat captain saying, “All teeth, no meat.” Well, then this moniker is probably well deserved.

Yeah, she’s a barracuda alright. All teeth, no meat…and just in case she is looking for a theme song for that new talk show, from what I read about Ann and Nancy Wilson’s cease and desist order during the campaign…no Heart.