No politician has faced the adversity that Palin has, strength, leadership, and indestructibility is what she is rightfully known for.
Personally, I think that she had no choice but to resign, to fight her total destruction at the hands of the media, the GOP, and the democrat party, all of the lower 48 states, who all lived and controlled public opinion, thousands of miles from her Governor’s office.
There is no way that Palin could fight the national media, the national Democratic party and the national Romney/Rockefeller branch of the GOP from the governor’s office in Alaska, she could not have traveled to the states and helped restructure the GOP in a more conservative mode, she could not have fought the Obama administration and Washington DC, from the remote distance of Alaska.
Alaska and Hawaii are not the places where a sitting Governor can make and maintain a prominent national presence in the New York, Washington DC, dominated mainland, and if you are the person that the mainland media has launched the most vicious, carefully coordinated media attack against in history, then you and your conservative movement would die on the vine in remote and distant Hawaii or Alaska.
“Alaska and Hawaii are not the places where a sitting Governor can make and maintain a prominent national presence,,,”
True, and having been to Hawall last year, it’s clear that it’s a Marxist crap hole, but I have always been of the opinion that Alaska was not like that, seeing as how it has has numerous Republican officeholders. I guess that view was tempered somewhat when I saw what the “republicans” did to keep Lisa Murkowski in office.
So if you are saying that Sarah’s move was predicated on the premise that she could not maintain “national status” makes some sense. But her decision, for whatever reason, to resign mid-term is not a plus for her going forward.