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?
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.”
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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.