Best explanation I've seen so far (though it's probably as wrong as the rest...):
timesonline.typepad.com
"...Watching the footage, listening to her difficulty controlling her breath, seeing her racing through her sentences, the high pitched edge to her voice, the forced good humour like a pressure cooker on the point of explosion, it’s obvious.
She wasn't prepared enough for this. And she thought competition was her strong point. She’s a hockey mom. A hunter. But really, it’s her Achilles heel. Because 'Sarah Baracuda' learnt competition on a high school basketball court.
It saw her through local politics, fine, but she's been given no time to adjust to the new rules, perameters and nuances that come with this different game.
She's got guts. She may really imagine that she’ll bounce back for 2012 but, without a miracle comeback, it now looks impossible that her emotional understanding will withstand it. Because it has already come undone.
And the greatest proof of this is that she’s not even telling herself the truth yet. She thinks she’s doing it for Alaska. That she’s still on top and making the calls.
Yet the only bit of her speech that really rings true comes at around the 4.38 mark, when she says “I will support others who seek to serve. In, or out of office. And I don’t care what party they’re in or no party at all.”
Her gestures lose their weird, wired puppetry and she breathes naturally, with the pure relieved exhaustion of someone who's thrown in the towel...." |
