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I listened to her announcement at the press conference yesterday and was totally bewildered by the reasons she provided. I hope and wish great health to everyone in her family.

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Guy, your guess may very well be right.

What I am puzzled by though is that most Governors, especially first-term ones, tend to accomplish both - that is, campaigning for the Presidential primaries and managing the Governor's duties - with the help of the Lieutenant Governor. For example, Tim Pawlenty (I like him a lot), first term Gov of MN, has announced that he will not seek a second term, and it seems that he is looking into campaigning for the Presidential primaries.

So, why is Ms Palin not doing the same thing? Why quit now?

If doing both things are so tough for her that she needed to quit mid-term, what does that imply about her capacity for work in another very demanding job?

I don't get it. I think she is a very hard-working and capable woman. Surely she could have done it all. There has got to be more to this - we will wait see what unfolds.

Well. Looks do matter, don't they, in how we choose to vote in this nation - or so it seems to me.

I have heard tell - it was before my time, I was very young when it all happened, too young to have a political thought in my tiny brain - that women's votes for JFK is what gave him the victory, eventually, and women chose to vote that way because they liked his looks.

I have also heard tell - thirty-five years in this country is not long enough to know first hand - that Americans have never elected a bald-headed man for a president.

What I have never understood is why people elect a president based on the test of "will I like to have a beer with him?" or "will I like to invite him for dinner at my home?" Why would that be a test of whether anyone can manage the complex office of the president of the United States?

What I am trying to say is that this phenomenon is not restricted to Republican Men, as you state above, Loretta. Men and women of all politicla stripes and colour seem to fall into the same trap, or a similar trap.