From the Daily Beast :
Sarah Palin's holiday-eve decision to resign as governor
blindsided TV commentators and bloggers who scrambled to come up
with an explanation. The Daily Beast's presents a roundup of
insta-reactions.
THEORY 1: VANITY FAIR HURT HER FEELINGS
Palin locks horns with the media on a regular basis, and the
most recent addition to America's Palin-bashing oeuvre-Todd
Purdum's 10,000-word Vanity Fair profile-was a doozy.
Palin's closest colleagues ridiculed her with nicknames like
"Little Shop of Horrors," accusations of incompetence and
a personality disorder, and leaked personal emails. Alluding to
Palin's notoriously thin skin when it comes to media criticism
(last week, an amateur blogger named "Celtic Diva"
prompted Palin to ask for the president to intervene), Talking
Points Memo's Josh Marshall characterized Palin's
resignation speech as "a colossal sulk… an effort on
her part to ingeniously combine anti-liberal media-bias agitation
with Christianist politics by portraying herself as having been
crucified by the liberal media."
And really, what better way to screw the media than making
such a huge announcement on a holiday weekend? Gripes
Politico's Ben Smith: "So much for today being a slow news
day."
THEORY 2: SHE'S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
THEORY 3: SHE'S NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
THEORY 4: SHE'S PREGNANT AGAIN
THEORY 5: SHE'S SICK OF ALASKA
THEORY 6: IT WAS A WHIM
THEORY 7: THE ETHICS POLICE WERE ABOUT TO NAB HER
THEORY 8: SHE'S UNSTABLE
THEORY 9: HER HANDLERS ARE INCOMPETENT
THEORY 10: SHE'S ANGLING FOR A TV SHOW
THEORY 11: SHE HAS A GOD COMPLEX
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