“Name a politician who has NOT resigned a position for something higher?”
As Longstreet told Lee at Gettysburg, “Not retreat. Redeploy.” This is what Palin has done. Lee refused to take this advice and spent his army on a fruitless, futile endeavor to capture a place of no military significance where the ground favored the Union. He stayed where he was and got slaughtered. Palin has maneuvered in the face of the enemy and repeatedly outflanked them.
Yep, Palin is Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville.
That is exactly my take too. In Alaska she was trapped and besieged by operatives of the progressive left. Going broke defending herself from worthless ethics complaints, 3,000 miles away from the real action in the lower 48 and unable to advance a conservative agenda. In one brilliant move reminiscent Alexandra the Great she destroyed the enemies battle plan and has taken control of the war. Sara is running in 2012 and she is building an army of loyal lieutenants.