Squashed

The strangest things happen, when I’m trying to travel for the holidays. Of course, it isn’t really a coincidence. If you want to bury a news story, announce something on a Friday. If you want to really bury it, announce it on a Friday before a holiday weekend when even the bloggers think they have something more important to do. I’ve seen three theories on why she is resigning. (I’m not counting the bit about not wanting to be a lame duck governor as a real reason. That doesn’t even make sense. Do lame duck Presidents resign? No.) 1) She wants to run for President. This theory is also pretty nonsensical—but of course it gets tossed out because it gets tossed out every time Palin does anything. Randomly resigning partway through a term that will end before serious Presidential campaigning would even begin isn’t a very clever move. 2) She’s crazy. Well…maybe. But I doubt it. She’s made it too far for just random craziness. 3) There’s a scandal. A big one. And it’s probably steamy. You don’t have to resign in Alaska over little financial scandals. Occam’s razor says this is what it is. I could add a fourth possibility. She’s got a family—including a baby with some special needs. If the timing didn’t look so conveniently orchestrated to minimize the story, I might wonder whether the traditional “spend more time with my family” bit actually made sense. But my bet is on door number three. Something big will appear. Soon.