Margo, I suspect you must have known something about husband #2 that just didn’t make the cut in your column.

Sandy should go, with or without hubby #2s support, and TAKE NO SHIT!!! The next time they get out of line,  directly and loudly confront them and suggest they consider leaving if you make them uncomfortable rather than spoil the gathering for the sensible relatives.

Margo, I apologize again for my earlier affront - while I still am not a fan of agony columns or TV programs, [I came here because of a Palin comment]  you present a mature and generally acceptable to my troglodyte sensibilities advice. And You’re kinda cute, too.

Well, I really am a male, and I really am white, but I can claim no credit for either since I was not aware when these were determined. I am a veteran by choice, a husband for 53 years and counting by extreme good luck and a father of two competent women and one remarkable son. I like the potential of the system and I hate to see it screwed up by folks who lack the understanding of how stuff works, both physically and societal.

[ intellectual lightweight;] Her comprehension of the need for affordable energy vs the LibLudd trust in hamster cage wattage puts her intellectually above most politician.

[attempts to ban books;] Libraries typically buy less than one percent of all books published, so someone effectively bans 99 percent of all books published.

[6 colleges in 5 years;] It is difficult to find a college where they give extra credit for skinning moose.

[global warming doubter;] I am not a "doughter", I am a scientific trained engineer with specific expertise in measurement and computer simulation. I have been directly challenging Hansen and Sagan before him both for weaknesses in their measurements and for outright fraud in their predictive program code.

[and her complete and utter lack of curiosity regarding the world around her.] How about the media’s complete lack of reporting on her  comprehension of her surroundings and her accomplishments in commercial fishing, moose killingand skinning and her cleaning up Alaskan coruption in bothparties?

Palin gave a comprehensive explanation for her reasons. You may have noticed she did not, then, run and hide. Or you may be waiting for the Tina version.

Gotta love the intellectual level of some of the Palin critics.  MM, are you suggesting that quiting is always bad?

See above, little Fruit Loop.

Palin was not an obscure figure to energy professionals like me; we were mostly in awe over her ability to cut through the BS , get a natural gas pipeline project off dead center and secure significant benefits for her constituency. To folk who get all their news from Saturday Night Live, I suppose Palin was obscure.

Right now she couldn’t buy better affirmation than from the mindless attacks from the LibLudd chattering class.

I was mistaken about Margo’s background but not that she was riding on her mother’s name. While Palin resigned from her position she did not resign from politics or a public life, however much the squirming vermin of the left wish.

Her resignation denied you LibLudds a target  and threatened to force you to discuss issues. Her decision not to submit supinely to a political rape galls you who lack independent thought.

"One" gets that impression because one needs a scapegoat for their inability to comprehend an original idea that breaks one’s programming. You used to end your broadcast getting a spanking, didn’t you?

I meant to be openly contemptuous toward a city whose citizens once actively defended the ideals of the United States but descended into the depths of dispatriotism. Hoffer must be spinning in his grave. I suspect frisco doesn’t even deserve capitalizing.

As for Limbaugh, I have listened to him on occasion but am ahead of him on most issues.

Sarah Palin understands that affordable energy is essential to our survival and unlike most of the weenies who cling to an office like a baby to a breast, she went to another track when she realized the opposition was making her an issue.

And don’t forget the greenies who successfully opposed the construction of the tidal surge gates that would have saved it all. The other day our governor made asite visit to the Lockheed Fire base. I excoriated him for that as I also excoriated the VP for visiting the fire  in the Frisco Marina district after Loma Prieta.

Sorry, Margo, for assuming you, the auther, were a lady as refered. There is some humor and irony in a hit piece on Palin, arguably a self made woman, by someone who inhereted, albeit slightly depreciated, her station from her mother, who stole her position from her sister.

The lady needs to look up the definition of Lame Duck.

The beginning of the end for Bush was when he responded to criticism  of his New Orleans flyover by  rushing back and doing the hackneyed disaster photo op-instead of telling his critics that he could see a better picture of the city from his war room, and the people needed supplies more than they needed a "morale boost".