Ping! I was just thinking about your “self-enrichment” comment...:-)
It was my highly educated, wise-from-life 84 year old mother (ten kids - thirty-five grands - seven great grands) who pointed it out.
We were discussing things and palin came up. Mom said no way she's going to run...too much money to be made on the sidelines and she's going to grab as much as she can.
It wasn't a judgemental statement, just a matter-of-fact assessment based on six decades of studying human nature....and it rang true.