Ohhhhhh Sarahcuda!!!!

How do they spin the unpredictable Governor of Alaska with her unorthodox (to say the least) brand of maverick Republican Politics?  The money’s on a move to lay low and go for the GOP presidential nod in 2012.

Let’s check some of the usual suspects and feel the spin!

Bill Kristol jumped right in at the Weekly Standard.  If you’re of those queasy progressives who doesn’t like unfiltered threads, skip ahead to the next link. (Sorry, I don’t predigest your thoughts for you.  Ignore my threads if that’s what you want.)

If Palin wants to run in 2012, why not do exactly what she announced today? It’s an enormous gamble – but it could be a shrewd one.

After all, she’s freeing herself from the duties of the governorship. Now she can do her book, give speeches, travel the country and the world, campaign for others, meet people, get more educated on the issues – and without being criticized for neglecting her duties in Alaska. I suppose she’ll take a hit for leaving the governorship early – but how much of one? She’s probably accomplished most of what she was going to get done as governor, and is leaving a sympatico lieutenant governor in charge.

And haven’t conservatives been lamenting the lack of a national leader? Well, now she’ll try to be that. She may not succeed. Everything rests on her talents, and on her performance. She’ll be under intense and hostile scrutiny, and she’ll have to perform well.

All in all, it’s going to be a high-wire act. The odds are against her pulling it off. But I wouldn’t bet against it.

So that’s one smarmy conservative talking head who votes for unusual step but she’s probably going to run for President in 2012.  Let’s move left.  I like Pam Spaulding and her blog Pam’s House Blend.  So she bedecked my facebook with this one  Bible Spice steps down to pack for the 2012 GOP Clown Car Caravan.

UPDATE: MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell makes it sound like Palin is stepping down for family reasons and is sick of politics… has told backers she wants OUT.

UPDATE 2 (by Pam): She figures Mark Sanford self-immolated, Charlie Crist (ha) is going for the Senate, Mitt’s Mormonism won’t pass the fundie test, and Bobby Jindal looks like a featherweight. I guess that leaves Huckabee. What a field that is for 2012.

So that’s one progressive woman for it’s a move towards a presidential run in 2012.  Just a bit of the old Palin Derangment Syndrome but at least it’s cute.  I even smiled at the Bible Spice characterization.  Let’s on to the NY Times with a little spin also from Mary Matlin.  This is from The Caucus blog with bylines by Mitchell Blumenthal and Kate Phillips.  You could whiff the PDS all the way down here in the bayou over the cajun spices aboil on the range.

Her decision follows a week of extraordinarily bad publicity, from within her own state over ethics inquiries and across the national landscape as top aides on her vice-presidential campaign and supporters have been engaged in a highly public feud that has spilled out in vociferous tones online on blogs and on television. Bloggers in Alaska, critics of the governor as well as former Palin supporters, suggest also that pending releases of e-mails among the Palins were about to expose her to further questions about her finances and governance issues.

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Reached by CNN at her farm in the Shenandoah valley, Mary Matalin, a top Republican consultant, called Ms. Palin’s move “brilliant” although she said she was initially taken aback by the news. But she seconded the notion that the governor’s decision was smart in the sense that it will free her up, as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been, to travel the country to make inroads with potential voters.

Ms. Matalin joked that despite her own initial inside-the-Beltway reaction of surprise, shoppers at her local WalMart in the Shenandoah would be whooping “hoo-rahs” because of Ms. Palin’s continued popularity among conservative voters.

The resignation would remove Ms. Palin, for example, from criticisms like those she received earlier this year when she was forced to cancel appearances in the “lower 48” to pursue her national ambitions at a time of disastrous flooding in Alaska.

That would be one east coast press establishment political talking head who still has Palin Derangement Syndrome AND doesn’t want to commit to any speculation WHILE spending an awful lot of time being negative.  Chalk that up to me just wanting to make this other point, however.   I don’t like Palin’s political views but isn’t there a less nasty way of saying that with out the specious personal comments?

Okay, I didn’t learn my lesson.  One more east coast press establishment political talking head who will make a commitment.  At least it seems to lack the Palin Derangement Syndrome’s worst symptoms.  This time it is from WaPo and Chris Cizilla. Still east coast press establishment, but slightly less hellbent on the Palin Derangement Syndrome.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office later this month, according to several sources familiar with her decision, freeing her to build a national political team and travel the country in support of an expected 2012 presidential bid.

The first term governor is stepping down “so that she can take the fight for her issues elsewhere,” according to a Palin aide.

Palin’s decision comes amid polling that showed her losing altitude from the stratospheric heights to which she ascended following her election in 2006 but remained a strong favorite to win reelection.

Some Republican strategists expressed skepticism about Palin’s decision.

“I’m not smart enough to see the strategy in this,” said John Weaver, a senior party strategist. “Good point guards don’t quit and walk off the court.”

Definitely the most interesting take took me to the BRAD BLOG with this “exclusive”.

Alaskan Sarah Palin authority (and occasional BRAD BLOG guest blogger) Shannyn Moore, who broke the news at HuffPo today, tells me she believes, with good reason, that there is an “iceberg scandal that’s about to break. She’s doing damage control.”

She says Palin is “resigning as part of damage control” due to a scandal that is “not of a family nature.” …

“The governor would not be able to continue her job when it comes out,” she told me on the phone just now, before adding: “Why would Mark Sanford not resign, but Sarah Palin did? Her family didn’t even know about the resignation until they were standing with her by the lake” when she made her announcement.

Yes. It seems another shoe, apparently a big one, will indeed be dropping, likely within the next week or so. Perhaps earlier now that everyone will be poking around up there.

So here are 10 Theories Why from The Daily Beast.  Actually, that should read HYPOTHESES, but I’ll let it pass since I’m on summer vacation.  So how many of these are due to PDS compared to some kind of reality based reasoning?  You decide.

THEORY 1: VANITY FAIR HURT HER FEELINGS

THEORY 2: SHE’S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

THEORY 3: SHE’S NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

THEORY 4: SHE’S SICK OF ALASKA

THEORY 5: IT WAS A WHIM

THEORY 6: THE ETHICS POLICE WERE ABOUT TO NAB HER

THEORY 7: SHE’S UNSTABLE

THEORY 8: HER HANDLERS ARE INCOMPETENT

THEORY 9: SHE’S ANGLING FOR A TV SHOW

THEORY 10: SHE HAS A GOD COMPLEX

Have you ever seen a woman that seems to drive them all so wild?  I have to say, this is when I really admit to being addicted to the blood sport of Politics.   Palin’s views make my toes curl but I gotta admit she gets under every one’s skin which, son of a gun,  is a ton of fun to watch from down here in the bayou. You have to love a woman than can do that!  Grab yourself a Dixie and bottoms up mes cher amies!!!

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