Palin disappears after surprise news

Not flakey at all.

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Where is Sarah Palin? A day after surprising even her closest friends by announcing she would step down as Alaska governor more than a year before her term was up, the controversial hockey mom was nowhere to be found. Her spokesman, David Murrow, said Palin told him she was flying to Juneau, the state capital, for the Fourth of July weekend, but he wasn't sure what activities she planned to attend.

The governor didn't show up at a 50th anniversary statehood celebration or Juneau's parade. She wasn't in the Capitol's office. And no one answered the door at the governor's mansion.

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In fact, the only peep out of Palin on Saturday came on the social networking site Twitter, where she told military families: "Most special July 4 shout-out to you! Spouses, kids, parents, families of troops -- THANKS for supporting our true heroes."

At the same time, Palin informed Murrow early Saturday that someone using the name "exgovsarahpalin" on Twitter was spreading a false rumor that there was to be a party at her suburban home in Wasilla, outside Anchorage. Palin was afraid her home would be mobbed, and security was dispatched, Murrow said.

Juneau Fourth of July parade director Jean Sztuk said Palin rode in a convertible last year and was invited again to this year's event. She never responded, but parade organizers drew up banners in case she showed.

She didn't.

But she did manage to get a Facebook posting out slamming the media and (as usual) being hyperbolicly nonsensical. (Ben has the whole thing here)

The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the “politics of personal destruction”. How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country. And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it’s right for all, including your family.

I think the blogger gods sent this one just for us.

**Title corrected to adjust for tired blogger.