Sarah Palin, the soon-to-be former governor of Alaska, doesn’t appreciate people guessing why she is resigning.

From the Associated Press via MSNBC:

The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans has fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

“To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as ‘fact’ that Governor Palin resigned because she is ‘under federal investigation’ for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation,” Van Flein said in a statement. “This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.”

Shannyn Moore maintains a blog over at WordPress.com, entitled “Shannyn Morre: Just a Girl from Homer“.  On this blog she writes about politics in Alaska, including the soon-to-be  former governor Sarah Palin.  She also appears somewhat regularly on MSNBC.  Evidently it was one of her TV appearances that raised the anger of Team Palin, not her actual blogging.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

Van Flein, asked why he singled out Moore, said it’s because she went on national television and talked about it. Moore was on with MSNBC’s David Shuster on Friday, the day Palin said she will resign.

“There is a scandal rumor here that there is a criminal investigation into some activities and that’s been rumored for about, I don’t know, probably six weeks or two months,” Moore told him.

She said she’s never seen Palin appear as nervous as she did at the press conference announcing her resignation and “I think she was actually doing damage control for news that’s coming up later.”

Moore said that there was a rumor that there was a criminal investigation into some activities involving the Palins.  She did not say that there was a criminal investigation.  She only said that was a rumor that there was a criminal investigation.  She also followed this up with what she thought Palin was doing by resigning.  She used the word “think” which means that it was merely her opinion.

You can’t sue people over their opinions.  At least not successfully and not in the United States of America.

The problem with what Sarah Palin did by annoncing that she was resigning as governor of Alaska is that it makes absolutely no sense.  A lot of people are trying to come up with a reason why she would do what she did.

I’m going to miss Sarah Palin.