Maybe someone tinkered with the punch at the governors' conference?

One by one, governors have self destructed....

I posted my guess earlier this week. I think it's because she's the mother of Blanket, Michael Jackson's youngest son.

My guess is someone finally got the proof that Trig is not her son, but her grandson. They are using this to force her out. That person is Ted Stevens! He wants to run for Governor in 2012.

But, it could be anything. She is a pathological liar and her words mean nothing.

I had an awful thought that maybe the younger daughter is expecting. Who knows.

I would have guessed it was positioning for a run in 2012..if anyone is suggesting this ends her run, my luck just doesn't work like that...seriously.

I'm guessing that she resigned ahead of a scandal.

Jimmy Cliff was right: The harder they come...the harder they fall...one and all.

The year Michael Eisner was paid 110 million, someone asked me what I would do if I was president of Disney World. I said I would work 30 days, quit, and move somewhere that cell phones don't work. Maybe Palin just said, forget this rat race, I don't need it.

All kidding aside, I think Palin's resignation was triggered by something deeper than another one of her family scandals.

What has been overlooked by the media's focus on her family is how much money is at stake in Alaska.

My reference to Alaska's prisons is in part about one of the biggest construction projects in the history of Alaska, the Mat-Su prison which happens to be fall within the city of Watsilla.

The contractor, Neeser Construction, doesn't even mention the project on its website.

Maybe her e-mails to her soul mate boyfriend in Argentina are about to be made public :)

Heres the best guess! Did it ever occur to you that maybe the GOP has had enough of Steel? This idiot palin who you really have to puke at the thought of her running anything but her mouth, brings in alot of money for the GOP and what does Steel do but nothing, I think there is a move to put her in steels place where she doesnt have to run for anything , can still bring in alot of money and will be paid do do all her idiot things,, whatever she does it will only keep the GOP in the hole thank god! Just the thought of another bushey or maybe one of the cheating govs remember they are the party of morals and religion! I do like the idea that a scandal is on the horizon tho!

Perhaps to take some summer Continuing Ed courses, such as:

Important Supreme Court Decisions 101
Introduction to Newspapers
The Continent of Africa
Beyond Mooseburgers: Lower 48 Cuisine

If it's really big money - then it's oil. Largest energy project in American history, right? And Sarah took the reins, shifted the whole process, found a winner. International company. Anyone think companies making international oil deals of massive scale aren't used to bending the law a bit? For Palin to have done that deal without any "special terms" would be miraculous.

The most simplistic (read, *dumb*) explanations:
1) After the heady "high" of the campaign, etc., she found actually governing to be very boring and to require her to think on occasion.
2) She wasn't getting her daily ration of publicity and attention with things like the Letterman kerfluffel, etc. so decided an announcement like this would bring back the headlines, cameras, discussion and the like.
--- Or some combination of the two, aided by the fact that, as some have pointed out, there is more $$$ coming their way immediate with this resignation.

I firmly believe that whatever the real motivation was, she could rationalize her decision and say, with conviction, that she was doing it for the "greater good" - and believe it. I think that's why she attracts so many people: they respond to the sincerety and deep believe she has while saying what they want to hear ... never realizing that she can believe it because she's, well, dumb.

I really hope (and in my own mind believe) that it's an oncoming scandal or something -- but it's pretty unnerving to think that someone who came WAY to close to being president could be that shallow and short-sighted. It's not, unfortunately, difficult to believe it of Palin, but it's still difficult to believe that she came so close to that seat of power.

One moment of pleasure while listening to that stunning, rambling, incoherent announcement: somewhere John McCain was also listening to it and having to acknowledge, at least to himself, what a horrible, horrible thing he did to put that person so close to very real power. I'm petty enough to enjoy that thought that he cringed as deeply as he should.

The Twitter thing annoys me. What kind of responsible person puts this out?

"We'll soon attach info on decision to not seek re-election... this is in Alaska's best interest, my family's happy... it is good, stay tuned"

Palin is getting off on keeeping everyone mystified about her decision to quit being governor. How utterly irresponsible.

Whether or not her family is irrelevant to her responsiblities as governor of Alaska.

Palin is an irresponsible, immature, know-nothing twit who could give a flying fuck about the state of Alaska.