CNN is reporting that Sarah Palin will be resigning as Governor of Alaska within the month which would be 18 months ahead of time. She will be handing the position over to the Lieutenant Governor, Sean Parnell. Speculation for her reason for resigning runs the gamut of possibilities from she is pregnant again, a scandal is brewing, etc.

A news reporter in Alaska, Andrew Wellner, the Frontiersman, reports that Sarah Palin said she could do more outside of government. Wellner went on to say that he believes she might be aligning to run for senator. Palin did not take any questions from reporters after the announcement. Wellner said Palin also commented, “you are naive if you don’t see a full court press from the national level picking away right now a good point guard.”

If I had to guess the real reason I would guess a scandal is brewing. I’m watching the video and she is obviously agitated.
She went on to say that the decision has been in the making for awhile. She talked about Trig being mocked and ridiculed….I don’t know what she’s talking about. She almost sounds like she’s hyperventilating. She rambled on and on about the troops and doing the right thing for Alaska. All in all, in my opinion, a very strange announcement.

Below is an excerpt from the Vanity Fair article with a link to the complete article:

It Came from Wasilla

Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs—political and personal—that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.

By Todd S. Purdum August 2009

The crowds begin streaming into the Evansville Auditorium and Convention Centre a couple of hours before the arrival of the “special guest speaker” at the Vanderburgh County Right to Life dinner on a soft Indiana spring evening—nearly 2,200 people in the banquet hall, 800 more in an adjacent auditorium watching the proceedings on a live video feed. The menu is thick slices of roast pork and red velvet cake, washed down with pitchers of iced tea, and when Sarah Palin finally enters, escorted by a phalanx of sheriff’s deputies and local police, she is mobbed. The organizers of the dinner, billed as “the largest pro-life banquet in the world,” have courted Palin for weeks with care packages of locally made chocolates, doughnuts, barbecue, and pastries, and she has requited by choosing Evansville, a conservative stronghold in southern Indiana, as the site of her first public speech outside Alaska in 2009. Like Richard M. Nixon, who chose the coalfield town of Hyden, Kentucky, for his first post-resignation public appearance, Palin has come to a place where she is guaranteed a hero’s reception. She is not only a staunch foe of abortion but also the mother of a boy, Trig, who was born with Down syndrome just a few months before John McCain chose Palin as his running mate. The souvenir program for this evening’s dinner is full of displays for local politicians and businesses, attesting to their pro-life bona fides. An ad for Hahn Realty Corporation reads, “If you need commercial real estate, call Joe Kiefer! Joe is pro-life and a proud supporter of the Vanderburgh County Right to Life.” REST OF ARTICLE