I was enjoying a rare day off when I flipped on the Hannity show and heard Ann Coulter talking about Sarah Palin’s resignation from the Alaska governor gig.

Her spokesman wouldn’t say why Palin decided to step down, but the announcement stirred speculation that she would focus on a bid for the 2012 Republican nomination for president.

Spokesman Dave Murrow says Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the governor’s picnic in Fairbanks at the end of the month.

Speculation is running amok, of course; some say she’s just taking political life and shoving it (but there are less auspicious weekends for that than the Fourth of July.  Who could blame her?

Others, of course, say she’s clearing the decks for a run in 2012.

As for me?  I don’t think that a run will hurt her one bit - but I’m going to cross my fingers and hope she runs for the Alaska Senate seat open next year.   As we saw this past election, having two years in the Senate no longer disqualifies one for a Presidential run (even with someone with as mediocre a resume as Obama); two to six years learning the Washington ropes would be good additions to her political rap sheet.

Coulter brought up a great point - she noted that Margaret Thatcher grew up as the daughter of a grocer, and had the accent to show for it.  She didn’t talk in the Eton/Harrow/Cambridge accents that the UK’s ruling class learned or affected.  She had to learn to talk that way; it didn’t come naturally.  Likewise, in America while we might be governed by someone with a Texas accent, or one of those Harvard/Boston brogues (described by PJ O’Rourke as sounding like the speaker put the PoliGrip on the wrong side of the dentures), it’s a stretch to see us governed by someone who sounds like Frances McDormand in Fargo.

Palin has a better resume than Obama had this time a year ago; a hitch in the Senate would make her darn near a fantastic candidate.  She just needs to stop droppin’ her “G’s” and try to sound as white and middle-class as Obama does.