I do not believe Gov. Palin could win the nomination at this time. I don’t know what the future holds, but do not believe her resignation as governor helps her case. I do believe it is wrong to quit when you made a promise to the people of Alaska. she should have served out her term.
Dole got the nomination, after resigning from Senate.
I see her resignation as a positive thing from a few different tangents. She can now truly take off the gloves if she decides it is what she wants to do. She can stop the pointless waste of taxpayer money fighting an endless stream of frivolous ethics complaints (gee, a politician who isn't immediately ready to piss away millions of taxpayers dollars to further her personal ambitions, imagine that). She is free now to recuperate the $500k+ of debt incurred from those frivolous lawsuits without that being used against her as well (seeing as how the left uses tactics to bankrupt their adversaries).
Being a politician is not the same as enlisting in the military as far as the ‘she should have served out her term’ argument goes. The reasons she personally spelled out make me WANT to vote for her AND POLITICIANS WHO BEHAVE IN THE SAME MANNER! She best served her constituents with this move after deciding not to run for reelection regardless of her future choices of whether to run for another political office.
We NEED more politicians who think of their constituents, and I think it's more than obvious that our current batch of representatives could care less about those they are supposed to ‘serve’.