In other words, she withered under the intensity of the national spotlight. You're unintentionally proving the point that she's not ready.
She was run out of Alaskan elected office on a rail. And yet, people think that this "tough" woman would fair any better in a national campaign. She has demonstrated ZERO ability to weather the onslaught that would surely come her way. It's fanciful.
"It’s funny."
You're right. That's her biggest problem.
Mark Twain said, "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand". It was true when he said it, and it's true today. To too many people, Sarah Palin is a joke, a caricature. She's not going to recover from that, not anytime soon.
Well, there you go.
If you’re going to repeat the leftist lies I have to defend her. It saddens me to have to do this, but I don’t know if you’re just ignorant or if you’re a political adversary squawking for another candidate.
Paid Obama operatives and left wing bloggers were harassing her with dozens of phony ethics lawsuits, sometimes filling them using fictional Soap Opera character names, using Alinsky tactics that were bankrupting her family and stifling her administration. She had personal legal bills over $500,000 with no end in sight. These bogus lawsuits were also costing the state of Alaska, and the governors work was not getting accomplished.
She was literally spending ALL her time defending these frivolous suits, and they had effectively hamstrung her administration. These radical tactics were working because Alaska has a unique ethics law that does not protect elected officials from personal legal bills...so the game was on.
Having been through three legislative sessions and having implemented most of her agenda (which was very successful) and knowing she had a responsible Lt. Governor who shared her vision of Alaska, she thwarted their efforts by taking herself out of the equation. She recognized she had become a lighting rod to her political opponents and nothing more could be accomplished in her lame duck year if she were at the helm.
That single selfless act stopped all the nonsense and Alaska has done well under the new governor, as he has been able to continue Sarah Palin’s agenda without the distractions of bogus lawsuits.
Some of her opponents say she did this for purely selfish reasons, but that begs credulity. By resigning she risked that she could have ruined any potential future political ambitions. (Her political enemies certainly push this narrative) There were no guarantees her book would sell as it did. As vilified as she had been it is entirely possible she could have fallen flat with her endeavors since then...resigning was a real risk, but she saw it as the right and principled thing to do for her state.
Simply put, you’re FOS. It’s lamestream smear parrots like you that perpetuate their lies about her resignation and you make it worse because you’re a lawyer who knows better, but because you don’t like her, you’re happy to play the part of a lamestream parrot. Shame on you.