So by your standard an executive who is not president for life or governor for life does not have an excellent record. No political job is ever over unless you are the last president/governor before a revolution.
So rather than sloganeering, the issues are:
1. Was Governor Palin an effective governor while in office.
2. Did her leaving in any way leave the job any more undone than had she left a year and change later?
My view is the answers are yes and no. You can certainly have an opposing view, but the builder analogy is flawed as these jobs are never finished.
I’m not asking for life just 48 months.