Well, she set up a legal defense fund, and many donated (including me, I sent $200), but then the same political operatives harrassing her with phoney ethics charges got that stopped too. At the rate she was being ‘sued,’ almost two charges per week by the end (each one costing her $25 to 50,000), she would have been two million in debt by the time her term ended. Unlike many politicians, Palin was not rich, and it was undoubtedly costing a fortune, both for tending a special-needs kid and for security.
She couldn’t even write her book while she was in office, so there was no way for that to happen, either (as some people have contended). The “profitting” from office would have led to dozens more ethics lawsuits. Palin was in an absolutely boxed in, in a totally untenable way. At the time I had hopes (even expectations) that Republicans were going to get together and combat this extreme attack on one of their own. What naivite on my part! I quickly learned that things like honor and loyalty have no place in the Republican Party!
Actually, she didn’t set up a legal defense fund.
Her friends did, and they used the same advisors as those who set up the Clinton defense fund.
But that fund was attacked, too, and so shut down.