There’s a lot of speculation as to why Sarah Palin has resigned as Alaska’s Governor. Some say she’s attempting to avoid an impending scandal. Some say she wants to build support for her 2012 run for the presidency. Some say she’s pregnant again. Others are saying that Palin is tired of the media circus and is out of politics for good.
So what do you guys and gals think. Why did Palin resign?
Cause she sucks donkey balls.
Throwing in a joke answer completely nullifies the effect of the poll.
Any exercise in guessing what an irrational self absorbed unread undeserving celebrity will do is truly pointless.
So, I’m guessing its a combination of everything you said.
We all look for hidden reasons…but she is so plain spoken, a normal person and not a triangulating politician , its likely the real reason was given by her…
She believes she can do more as a citizen unencumbered by the duties of a lame duck Governor.
Time will tell if she spoke correctly.
If true, then her star will rise even higher…if not, she is history.
2. “Throwing in a joke answer completely nullifies the effect of the poll.”
Nice to meet you, today must be your first day here. Dvorak.org is not a professional polling service such as Nielsen Media Research. We’re a little bit country, a little bit rock & roll, and a whole lot of not taking life seriously.
Alfred1, if she was a plain spoken person she would have given the people who elected her to a full term as Governor a reasonable reason.
“She believes she can do more as a citizen unencumbered by the duties of a lame duck Governor.” So basically you’re saying that she’s a political animal?
#5 SN
This poll is not hard science? I’m truly shocked!
I think she’s resigned for more money not more politics. Expect to see her on the The View (right side chair) and/or Fox News.
She can’t finish a hard job, period. Stick a fork into this turkey, guys, she’s done.*
*With the exception of the racist and religious fundamentalist GOP core.
Those of you who laughed at the letterman joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter please identify yourself with a ??? so I can skip over your clueless commentary.
Sarah will soon be leaving Alaska to emigrate to Canada where she and her family will join a polygamist sect in British Columbia.
You need a 6th option. She will be “joining” the Media.
Being a Governor in a recession has to suck. All those hard choices on what to cut. All those people saying raise taxes instead. No GOP candidate can get the presidential nomination if they raised taxes.
My guess is that Alaska is in for a big tax increase or a big cut in services. Palin knows that it is better to look like quitter than to suck it up and make tough decisions. You know presidential material in the tradition of W.
She was offered a highly paid breeding position in the Alaskan division of the “Boys from Brazil, Inc.”
You guys are missing the point….She is cashing in! She can make more money doing media jobs and speaking to organizations than being governor or Alaska. She is using this to make more money. You would do the same if it were you.
I don’t have an opinion either way on her but don’t blame her for cashing in while she can.
10. “Those of you who laughed at the letterman joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter…”
If Bristol is old enough to be a parent she’s old enough to take a joke. Get over it.
The economy is in the shitter. Unemployment is skyrocketing. The government is nationalizing business left and right. WWIII is about ready to explode in the Middle East. North Korea has got the bomb, testing missles and wants to start WWIII.5 …….and yet the whole world stops to listen when ever this lady clears her throat.
Kinda tells ya something doesn’t it.
Hee Haw marathon on CMT channel.
Here’s a transcript of her speech:
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/24241869/palin-quits.htm
I defy anyone to plow through that incoherent mass of verbiage and not gag at this woman’s colossal stupidity.
Of course she has political ambitions – for nothing less than the presidency. She quit to move to a media pulpit more centrally located than the Alaska governorship. I assume that pulpit will take the form of a right-wing talk radio show (like we need another one of THOSE) or, more likely, a show on Fox News where she can show off her physical charms to advantage.
As long as the political right in the U.S. keeps going ga-ga over brainless twits like Palin and Dubya, they will remain in the wilderness. At one time there were SMART people leading American conservatism. William F. Buckley was SMART.
Right wingers may disagree with the Obama agenda, but the man is smart and articulate. They have to find intelligent people to lead them before they have any hope of challenging Obama. Palin is a pinup girl who has already risen past her level of incompetence, and wishes to rise even further. Spare me.
She is moving-on (as she explained in her resignation) before she becomes utterly irrelevant to America.
She had her 15 minutes of fame, plus a few. But she realized that the free-ride was over, and for her to stay relevant she has to “do her own thing”.
So she will join forces with the other right wing star, “Joe the Plumber” and together they will happily take their show on the road, living in America’s political circus side shows, events which will be excitedly attended by brainwashed mental midgets like Alfred1.
So we can add another figure to the pantheon of right wing nuts that are adored by the mentally challenged political fringe: Lyndon Larouche, Ross Perot, Ron Paul, etc.
The only answer that makes sense is the scandal.
The Presidency run makes no sense. Its way too early and finishing as governor would help her far more than quitting. Similarly, the Senate angle does not make sense as one of the Senators was recently elected and the other has no intention of stepping down.
The pregnancy angle doesn’t make sense unless she’s about to pop. She could have announced that she was going to step down when she got close and continued on for a couple of months.
The media circus thing is laughable. Did you see all twelve reporters or so at her “press conference”? There is no real media circus in Alaska compared other governorships. Compare the Arnold’s media headache to Palin’s. The Vanity Fair article was biting but she’s had worse written about her.
It has to be leverage like a scandal that is causing her to step down. Politically, it makes no sense otherwise. I suppose another possibility is that she’s pregnant with someone else’s kid.
She’s going on Fox with Joe the Plunger.
And she’ll crash and burn when the producers realize she has but a few available brain cells, and these are not connected to her mouth.
Why now? She was being blackmailed by Maria Chapur’s former boyfriend over her participation with them in three- and four- ways with her, him and Mark Sanford.
Palin is probably tired of all the whining and complaining. After all there is nothing more pathetic than a nation of sniveling, backstabbing democraps – except for maybe David Letterman.
The Scandal the media won’t expose is the abuse of the legal process by Palin’s enemies…to attack her.
Endless lawsuits would make anyone rethink their path.
She quoted Gen. Douglas MacArthur: “We are not retreating; we are advancing in another direction.”
Read more: http://politico.com/news/stories/0709/24497.html#ixzz0KJ7wK6PA&C
Time will tell if she correctly explained her actions…
If we see a blitz for the next election…then she did.
Can’t wait to see Letterman’s top 10 reasons Palin is resigning. He just cannot pass this one up.
“but she is so plain spoken, a normal person and not a triangulating politician ”
Right.
“Triangulation is the name given to the act of a political candidate presenting his or her ideology as being “above” and “between” the “left” and “right” sides (or “wings”) of a traditional (e.g. UK or US) democratic “political spectrum”. …”
Ha! Her in the middle? Ha!
- “Sarah Palin, the surprise vice presidential pick by Republican candidate John McCain, has said the war in Iraq was ‘a task from God’”
- “War in Iraq is “God’s Plan”"
- “she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.””
- “the Kenyan pastor asks Jesus to protect Palin from “every form of witchcraft”.
for once, Alfred actually gives a valid perspective — it’s probably not some secret reason.
Of course “just to be a good citizen” is laughable.
The obvious, most plausible reason is her several scandals that she knows will likely bring her down, anyway.
It doesn’t matter really. She quit. Therefore she is a quitter. Would the public vote for or support a quitter who abandoned the people who she had pledged to support? When the going gets tough she quits.
Maybe she found out the the local gas station/food mart is hiring clerks and she is going to pursue a career that she is more qualified for?
Funny, the error made by both sides is characterizing Palin as being rational. As Alfie would say: “There is as much evidence for that as there is for evolution.”
alfred1 in #4 “… unencumbered by the duties of a lame duck Governor.”
Lame duck?
Sarah can’t run for re-election in 2010?
The only thing she wants to be unencumbered for is to stay in the political spotlight.
And she’s doing a good job… who else could pull the media away from the Michael Jackson love-fest. 
Anyway, as Karl Rove is quoted in Fox spews:
Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said Palin may find her retirement more politically demanding than her old job as governor.
“Everybody’s going to want to have her come campaign, or appear or make speeches and she no longer has the useful excuse of saying, ‘Look, I would love to help you on that but I got to pay attention to my job,’” Rove told FOX News. “Now she’s going to be torn. It’s going to be very hard for her to say no continually to people who want her to get on the long flight out of Alaska and come down to lower 48.”
It’s because she knows that rapture is coming. 
Could she have resigned before being indited for embezzlement and other improprieties?
Alfred,
Crooks and frauds ALWAYS claim their “enemies” framed them.
And their dupes always repeat this nonsense.
Uncle Dave,
Yes, that is the most likely reason. If she resigns now and deals with the scandal as a citizen mostly out of the spotlight, she might still have political career left.
I’m not saying I KNOW why she is resigning — but this seems like the most likely reason.
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