Just got this in.  Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced on Friday that she will not seek a second term as Governor of Alaska and would soon step down.

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*UPDATE*

To update, Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, announced she will step down on July 26.

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Palin made the announcement on Friday morning at a news conference at her home; the following statement from her tells only a part for her resignation:

“Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional Lame Duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose.”

Assuming she sticks to her resignation, Lt. Governor Sean Pernell will be inaugurated at the Governor’s Picnic in Fairbanks at the end of the month.  What is not clear is true reason for her sudden resignation, other than Palin  saying she plans to make a “positive change in government” without going into specifics.

I am not a political pundit on a par of Sean Hannity or Rush; however, anyone who has followed Palin and her career up to this point probably has this notion that she may run for the Presidency in 2012.  Or perhaps she has something else in mind; who knows?  No matter what she ultimately decides, she will be successful at it, as her popularity can attest to.