The inside-the-beltway pundits have been abuzz ever since Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced her intention not only to decline a second term but to resign the post in three weeks. What could she be thinking? Leaving office sixteen months early makes no sense to them. How could she do this and still expect to have a political future? She must be crazy! “Crazy like a fox,” to quote Bill Kristol, conservative columnist and publisher of The Weekly Standard, one of the few talking heads to recognize the positive potential in what Palin is doing.