The speculation is on about why Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has decided to resign midterm. The leading theory seems to be that she wants to prepare for a run at the presidency in 2012. While that theory fits nicely as the "most normal explanation", we can pretty much discard it. Others have suggested that you cannot quit one job, and then turn around and reach for a bigger, better job, so that she is effectively dead as a presidential possibility (lack of intellect aside, which, if taken into account, makes for double death).
The fact that she is "quitting" her job, and just two years or so into the job and one in which she needs in order to bolster her political weight, and releasing the news on a pre-holiday Friday, let's you know that some major something (scandal ?) is on its way. Or was on its way.
This was not a selfless act of Palin seeking to step away and explore other ways to make change happen, but rather, a selfish attempt to get in front of something, or away from something (the complexity of governing in difficult economic times). Or, she is simply clearing the path to the yellow brick road of speaking fees and unfocused fame.
We speculate. We wait. The most fascinating truth surely it will come, but likely buried in a bed of Palinesque hubris and verbal figmentation.
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