The difference is that Sarah is honorable enough to respect freedom of speech, and doesn’t view revenge as a mechanism to satiate adversarial accusations.
Her enemies hate Christ within her far before they hate her, but fail to identify exactly what it is they really hate. They are victims of their own natures which they refuse to control.
Her opponents view her honest talking and straightforward nature as somehow anti-intellectual. Because she doesn't couch everything she says in endless nonsense Obamaesque "deep thought" words like "as I examine the issues carefully..." or "in point of fact..." or "to answer that question with any level of specificity would be...", they think that she isn't smart. I guess the people have grown accustomed to politicians who use one thousand words to say nothing.