Being chosen for VP is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. There is no coulda-woulda-shoulda about it.
Sarah Palin resigned because she was being bankrupted by political operatives.
Of course she was going to hit the lecture and TV circuit.
Do you even understand how much debt she had accumulated trying to defend herself?
If Governor Palin had refused McCain, she would not have been noticed by the media. Therefore she would not have been bankrupted.
I am not saying she made a mistake. I am making an observation after the fact. I happen to admire the Governor quite a lot. I would enjoy casting a vote for her, for any office.
Apologies if I implied she made a mistake. I see how what I posted could read that way.
I have always said here that Palin NEVER had the discipline to be a candidate (note: I didn't say she didn't have the right views, the right positions, or potential talent). But as anyone in sports knows, it's about a lot more than talent: it's about hard work, in this case, political work. Discipline means you do watch what you say, and when you say it. Reagan got away with a few of these, but only after he was entrenched as president, and then usually when he thought he was off-mike ("The bombing will begin in five minutes.")
If Palin had been serious about being president, she would have run for Kyl's seat (and possibly won it) and have added some national experience to her resume. But she instead tried an end-run with her bus tour and movie. And I told people here---and was constantly berated for it---that she was polling that entire time and that her numbers were not good. I learned from her own film director that such was the case. She reminds me in some ways of Alan Keyes, the incredibly bright, smooth-tonged black conservative who always ran for president in the 1990s, but would never run for a seat he could actually possibly win---like congressman. She has fatally shot herself in the foot in IA.