I would feel violated but then I am not cut from the right cloth to be a national politician. As for your comparison to Trump, I'll steal a post from a poster on The Conservative Treehouse to describe the nature and make-up of our president:
Trump? Get in a defensive posture? Maybe his staff, but never him. He read Rules for Radicals. He knows in the political arena that the best defense is an offense. That’s how he won the candidacy and the presidency. Ignore the accusations and hurl them or others back at the opposition. The MSM may scream ‘treason, treason!’ but he’ll just ignore them or attack them for aiding and abetting treason.
Sarah is a fine speaker and a good conservative woman but she needs thicker skin to survive as a conservative politician these days. Sad I think the way America has changed but it is the reality on the ground.
I don’t see the thin-skin you do. Plenty of people who don’t understand his personality think that Trump has thin-skin. Why is that? Because both of them have been victims of unbelievable attacks on their characters, their extended families (Fred Trump was a Nazi!), their IQ, their morality...the list goes on and on. And when they respond?Even their friends call them “thin-skinned”! The difference between Sarah and Trump on the face of it? Money. Sarah could not continue in her job as governor so she had to leave or go broke - the way General Flynn is going broke. With a large family and a sick new born she was in no position to fight off the left-wing lawyers who were after her. The Donald, God bless him, does not have this concern and it is why he is our President.