All was for the best. Anything that was a hair off, or in any way different, would have enabled disaster for Palin, (imho).
We got the president we deserved, in Obama. We had been living un-aroused, we practiced decades of sloth, we saw the damage and in practice, did nothing but graze. We had no General Patton, willing to ravage the land to bring justice against the increasing evil in our every institution, and none you name were capable of changing it. No, not one.
God allowed us a this brief window of time and brought about a reprieve for the downtrodden. His name is Trump. All is His doing, patterned for this to happen for us, and it is all good, if it it is allowed to end well. By the grace of God, let us pray it will end well.