Concur w/ your wife, GB. If Sarah couldn’t handle of the flak she was getting in Alaska, how is she going to handle it on a national level? We wonders.
In fact, she handled political heat SO well that she ended up putting corrupt politicians from her own party in JAIL.
The heat that forced her to resign was FINANCIAL. At the time -- if I understand correctly, Alaska law has since been changed -- laws in Alaska required that she pay, out of her own pocket, the expenses of answering even the most frivolous lawsuits. Democrats DELIBERATELY deluged her with such lawsuits, to the tune that PERSONAL expenses, and she was prohibited from even relying on a defense fund set up by her supporters, amounted to more than half a million dollars.
So she could either resign and side-step the quicksand trap, OR bankrupt herself and her family, and have THAT stain on her record. Had that happened, no doubt you and Gen. Burkhalter's wife would be objecting to her on the grounds of, "Gee, if she couldn't avoid personal bankruptcy, how is she going to handle financial responsibility on national scale?"
BOTTOM LINE: Palin detractors have to be devious and misrepresent the truth in their attempt to get people not to support Palin.
That tells more about Palin than the resignation itself. Look at her enemies and how they fight -- with falsehoods and deception. That should tell you a lot.