Here’s the thing - Palin scored an own goal by championing the ethics bill, not realizing it could be used against her. She’s clearly an inspiring figure for many, and to the extent that she is a rallying point for the conservative base, I support her. My personal impression of some of her positions on the issues is that they are a lot like her support of the ethics bill - ill-thought out with respect to the consequences, and not very conservative. On economic issues, it’s her persona that’s conservative rather than her positions.
The ethics bill was put in place without regard to how it could be used against someone with Sarah’s national political popularity.
I mean, Who Knew!?
For most any other gov it would work as intended. Now they know, and if they were smart, they’d tweek it just enough to guard against frivolous lawsuits of this type.