The former VP candidate Sarah Palin will resign as governor July 26, 2009

Andrea Mitchell says sources close to Gov. Palin say she is now “out of politics for good.”

From TPM

Okay, we’re getting our first indication of what happened. It seems like a colossal sulk on Palin’s part, or perhaps better to say an effort on her part to ingeniously combine anti-liberal media bias agitation with Christianist politics by portraying herself as having been crucified by the liberal media.

Said Palin, according to a reporter at the press conference, “You are naive if you don’t see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard.”

The Governor says she is not retreating she is advancing in another direction