He was just awful in “The Great Gatsby”, but his career kept growing. Even in “The Natural”, his work was just average. Funny, but now that you mention it, his best work might have been that episode of the “Twilight Zone”.
It's just not his politics. Lot's of very good to great actors from his generation, Jack Nicholson, Robert Deniro, Paul Newman, or even modern day, Sean Penn, I strongly disagree with politically. But, I still recognize the quality of their work. In Redford's case, I'm pretty sure that the guys looks dictated his career success. But, like I said, it's all a matter of opinion.
Another telling sign is that while she was Governor, the dems up here liked Palin well enough as she often supported their issues when they were cost efficient and good for Alaska.
I even heard that goof ball Shauna Moore (moore up north) remark that she missed Sarah Palin after dealing with our new Crooked Repub Gov Parnell. She'd take Sarah back hands down , ha ha.
And I always remember when the river washed out the old Indian Village at ice out 2 years back. The Indians got out with their clothes on their backs, middle of the night; water went up 26 feet in 4-5 hours. Indians all went out end of the road to new village, were in small tents. Palin showed up to see what she could do and wondered were the Indians were. Told her they were all out the new village. She borrowed a 4 wheeler, headed out a mud bog, winch time trail to find them. Wanted those guys to know she was here to see them too. Now that's a first for sure as most govt people don't even want to see the (seemingly but not) backward Indians. That tells me something about Palin's character & makeup and she's the only gov I've ever seen up here all covered with mud on a 4 wheeler.