Listen, I get what you are saying and I completely agree with her message and her fight. Its not a leftist talking point to say that she needed to fight and stay Governor. Sarah was doing a wonderful job, especially with the pipeline deal and Alaska needed her to stay on. Her legal defense fund was legal in every sense, just more people needed to contribute to it and fight the good fight. That didnt happen. My whole family, including my friends loved her and voted for her. Its about electability now, and she really is just mocked and derided at every turn, and its a distraction.
We need to focus on the message of conservatism and keep pushing against the liberal tide of garbage with the candidate that is most electable. And I dont mean any RINO at all. Romney and Huck and McCain can butt out!
You can't fight a blizzard of bogus ethics violations that are hampering your ability to govern and costing your state millions of dollars.
The ethics law as written had no recourse or loopholes against those who filed frivolous suits. The suits really locked her down and by resigning she completely turned the tables on the operatives. AK was a key gubernatorial race in 2010 because the Dems wanted to exploit that pipeline deal.
If she would have "stayed and fight," the remaining 3rd of her term would have labeled "scandal-marred" by the MSM and would have weakened her drastically. She had nothing to gain by staying, plus the legislature isn't in session until next spring anyway. She would have been the lamest of lame ducks.
Read her accomplishments sometimes. She accomplished more in her 2.5 years as Governor than most Governors do in 2 terms.
She made it clear, in her resignation speech, that she'd done much of what she'd said she'd do when elected. For things that remained to be done, she said that she and her Lt. Gov. were of a mind on what needed to be done, and she had every confidence that he'd work for those issues. She didn't leave Alaskan voters in the lurch.
Right now, no Republican is more electable than Sarah Palin. The Democrats recognize this, and their desperation is clear. The RINOs know this, and their desperation is clear.
They are so desperate that they are sending swarms of infiltrators to conservative sites to deliver backhanded compliments about Sarah, while at the same time bemoaning her "electability".
Anyone doubting Sarah's electability either isn't paying attention or they are being dishonest. Her Facebook following is the fastest growing of any politician, and second only to Obama's among politicians, and her numbers should surpass his sometime in November. Palin's current supporters number 904,591, up from about 200k in early July. Obamas' page numbers 1,063,187 members, has been going for more than two years, and is hardly accumulating any new members. All the RINO contenders' sites combined do not make up half of Sarah's numbers.
Just for comparison, while Sarah's page gets about 900,000 unique visitors per day, Free Republic gets about 100,000. As a conservative website, FR gets a fair cross-section of conservative Republicans and independents. Sarah gets almost all of those, plus the moderate independents and Democrats, the unaffiliated, the disenfranchised ... just about everyone except the hardcore communist leftists in the Democrat party and the globalist communist RINO wing of the Republican party.
While it is true that not everybody uses Facebook, it does represent a fair cross-section of the population as a whole.
I suspect Gov. Palin will be doing some kind of tour to promote her book, and to support candidates for 2010. We will soon know more about where the larger population stands, whether with her or with the communists.