“Thank God - I like Mrs Plain’s politics for the most part but she is not ready to be POTUS/CinC - I’ve always hoped her ego / intellect was big enough to accept and see this (at the current time). “
Me too. She seems like a nice enough lady and she takes nice positions politically but there doesn’t seem to be much substance behind the rhetoric and I am getting tired of her headline seeking and her trashy family drama. Her quitting on her state didn’t endure her to me either. I know that there is a vocal minority in this country who find her to be the next RWR and the next messiah but I don’t buy in of that. She reminds me more of Obama when it comes to substance than to Reagan.
You must not be familiar with her path from the Wasilla City Council to the office of Governor. Her 'quitting on the State' was done partly FOR the State, so the business of the State wouldn't be sidetracked by all the frap being thrown at her by Obama operatives in AK. Those ethics charges didn't even start until after she'd been nominated to the Veep slot. Have you noticed that when she left the office, the charges against the office of the Governor went away, as well?
She was tired of the attempts at personally bankrupting her family, and those of her staff members, who were beginning to be harassed, themselves. She wasn't even able to set up a Defense Fund, without it also being challenged in court. So resigning was really her only option. And for those who claim that she wouldn't be able to 'stand the heat' of the Presidency, because those same people would be coming after her, the rules of Defense Funds are different at the national level, apparently, because all Presidents have them, at some time, or the other, so that personal bankruptcy problem is not applicable.
Her political enemies were hoping that, having run her out of office, they would silence her, as well. It hasn't happened quite that way, to their chagrin. As her Dad said, upon her resignation, "Sarah's not retreating, she's reloading", and she's certainly plowed back into politics with a vengeance!