[Wolfstar]

Adding one more good reason for quitting an elective office prior to the end of your term -- to concentrate on running for a higher office. Most politicians don't do that, however. Palin didn't, as she remained governor throughout the 2008 campaign. She quit effective July 26, 2009, choosing to turn tail and run from what she said was politically motivated ethics complaints. If that's true, then why not stay and fight it out? Why leave it hanging unresolved?

Strangely, she quit several months after she was supposedly cleared of ethics violations the previous October.

Any reasonable independent -- and that's who we're talking about reaching here -- could conclude either that she reneged on her commitment to the people of Alaska for no good reason, or she was running from more brewing scandals. The only way it gets resolved in a way that won't turn off independents is for Palin to address the matter squarely and forthrightly.

She doesn't need to convince people like you who already support her staunchly. She needs to convince enough voters who aren't already in her camp to come over to her side.

[November 2010]

Palin owed over 500,000 in legal fees from the bogus lawsuits the left threw at her. I know the left tried to use Alan West’s personal finances against him in attack ads and they were ugly, ugly ads. He crushed his opponent, but true public servants, not those on the take, can’t just make 500,000 appear out of thin air. Palin freed herself, was able to pay those fees and then some, left the state in good hands, avoided the chaos the left was creating both for her and her state. It was a brilliant move. She has already changed the course of history with her support of conservative candidates in the 2010 elections.