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Palin resigns as Alaska Governor, 11 possible reasons
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In an interesting piece put together by the good folks over at the Daily Beast.com their writers have put together 11 possible reasons why Sara Palin stunned the world on Friday by announcing she would resign as the Governor of Alaska within the next thirty days.
There is no way to know if these 11 possibilities have any merit at all, only time, and leaks will explain all of that to us, but it sure is interesting to look at.
THEORY 1: VANITY FAIR HURT HER FEELINGS
For a woman who has battled the press since the summer of 2008 this Vanity Fair piece was particularly vicious. A quick look a some of the rather vicious quotes in the story attributed to so called friends and staffers of the McCain campaign;
“Little Shop of Horrors.” The nickname given to Palin by one McCain friend.
“Was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression?” This one is Todd Purdum, presenting the concerns of some “top aides” that Palin was struggling after the recent birth of her son, Trig.
“Remember, her nickname in high school was ‘Barracuda.’” Alaska state senator Lyda Green on Palin’s instincts.
This story may have been the straw the broke the camels back. No single person in American politics has been subjected to this kind of treatment in recent memory.
THEORY 2: SHE’S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
While this may be true, it seems an odd way to go about it. However she may want to focus on the lower 48 states and her national ambitions while not letting her duties as Governor get in her way. She also may feel that the national campaign would interfere with her duties as Governor.
THEORY 3: SHE’S NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
If she is not running for President and has no further desire to serve as Governor why not quit now and focus on raising her family. We must remember she is the mother of a special needs child.
THEORY 4: SHE'S PREGNANT AGAIN
Who knows but her and her family, but this is really the ultimate rub against female politicians having babies is a determent to their political ambitions.
THEORY 5: SHE’S SICK OF ALASKA
There doesn’t seem any way to judge this, but after a nationwide tour on the level Palin got last year maybe she has desires to live or simply be somewhere else.
THEORY 6: IT WAS A WHIM
To be fair she does seem the kind of person who acts out before really considering if she should or not. He recent battles with David Letterman seem an indication of this personality trait.
THEORY 7: THE ETHICS POLICE WERE ABOUT TO NAB HER
There seems to be a lot of questions over trooper gate and the folks who built her house and received lucrative state contracts in return. More than a failure of Palin this seems to further indicate that the McCain campaign did a very poor job in vetting her in the first place. Not that cutting lucrative deals from a position of authority is an acceptable political practice.
THEORY 8: SHE’S UNSTABLE
Take this quote with a big grain of salt, but Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse had this to say, “Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her longshot national political ambitions or she simply can't handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down. Either way, her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today.”
THEORY 9: HER HANDLERS ARE INCOMPETENT
It seems that this is highly likely. Let’s face it both her people, and the McCain campaign did a very poor job getting her ready for the 2008 campaign. She routinely gets into fights with the media she has no business starting and /or responding too. Either that is her own free will, or her handlers’ believing a little too much that all press is good press. In Palin’s case a good majority of her national press has been quite negative.
THEORY 10: SHE’S ANGLING FOR A TV SHOW
Let’s face it she is smart, funny, attractive, and good easily fill an hour on the Fox News network. Stranger things have happened and it would surely pay better that any political position. Maybe she is the next generation of conservative talk show host, who knows.
THEORY 11: SHE HAS A GOD COMPLEX
Back to the Vanity Fair piece where several people from Alaska who both worked for and with Palin said she suffered from a narcissistic personality disorder. She seems to crave the attention she gets from the national press but this seems a little out there. Her resignation speech seemed to indicate that she didn’t want to fall out of relevance, “Once I decided not to run for reelection, I also felt that to embrace the conventional ‘lame duck’ status in this particular climate would just be another dose of ‘politics as usual,’ something I campaigned against and will always oppose,” Palin stated.
This seems to indicate that these may just be another move in a political chess game that will play out over the next 2.5 years, but there also seems to be some indication that Palin simply is not ready for the national stage. In the end not being the Alaskan Governor could be an asset as it would free up her time to become the national leader of the GOP that is so lacking at this point.
