Just why DID Bristol Palin get kicked off Dancing with the Stars this week? You know besides the obvious reason?

The very picture of the dysfunctional American family.

There have been a lot of rumors as to WHY Bristol finally got voted off the show last Tuesday. Everything from "that was when her contract ran out," to "the producers were afraid that keeping her one any longer would permanently damage the show," to  "she was just too embarrassed to stay on any longer." However another possibility was that the OTHER contestants and pros were possibly complaining so aggressively that the producers simply had no other choice.

After all if some of the interviews with Mark Ballas are correct, it appears that neither Bristol NOR her ever controlling mother had any idea she was about to be kicked off. Remember Bristol was SO upset she could not even come out to meet the press afterward, and then there's this from Ballas: "Mama Palin was a little upset."

As I have said before Palin does not get just a LITTLE upset, so if she were angry enough about this that Mark heard about it, then it seems likely that she had NO idea Bristol was getting the old heave-ho.

So if this was not prearranged by the Palins then why did Bristol get the boot now instead of a week from now, or at the very beginning of the show when by all rights she should have been the first person kicked to the curb? And why would the producers risk pissing off one of the most vindictive people on the planet if they did not have to?

Perhaps this article from US Weekly provides some insight into that question?

Bristol Palin was shown the door on this past Tuesday's Dancing with the Stars -- but singer (and experienced dancer) Drew Lachey went home first, and vented backstage on Oct. 9 about that the single mom, 22, had outlasted him on the ABC smash. 

The 98 Degrees crooner, 36 -- who won season 2 of DWTS -- vented backstage and "threw a fit," a source tells Us Weekly. 

"He was complaining that Bristol has no talent and no reason to be there," the source continues of Lachey's rant against Sarah Palin's eldest, who made it to finale of season 11 back in 2010. 

According to the source, Lachey bellowed, "Am I on the right show? I thought this was Dancing with the Stars" and called Palin "a joke." 

Yowch! You know if Lachey was feeling this way, and getting this worked up over the fact this clearly untalented sloth was staying on the show while far more talented and harder working people were being forced off, it stand to reason that he was not alone in that assessment.

So perhaps the reason that Bristol was given the bum's rush is because the producers were trying to head off a mutiny from the other participants. Or were in fear that the next contestants to leave ahead of Bristol would ALSO raise a big enough stink that it made it into the gossip magazines.

Just a theory but it does kind of fit. What do you think?