I think that’s the answer, she played a conservative for political opportunism, got rich off that, but what she really wanted was to be a senator, and then continue to rise, but when it was made clear she has no shot at being a senator, she realizes she was in a dead end position and decided she didn’t want to pretend to be a conservative forever if there is no more to be gained from it.
bingo....she is just one of the money changers in the temple square