Where was Sarah when the 3 GOP-controlled Houses were spending at a higher rate than Clinton? There were numerous GOP representatives who stood firm against those budgets. (19 were utterly consistent in doing so, I believe, and Indiana had more than any other state, I proudly recall!)
Just because Sarah didn't speak up then (as it was not her time and place to do so, as Governor and not a Congressperson), there are several decent potentials out there who did not choose to take up that particular fight at that particular time. It doesn't disqualify them.
Where was Sarah when the 3 GOP-controlled Houses were spending at a higher rate than Clinton? There were numerous GOP representatives who stood firm against those budgets.
Palin didn't run for president in 2008. She was picked as a VP candidate. Any "conservative" who stood firm on those budgets and who publically fought against those budgets would have been more qualified to run for president than the McRudyHuckaMitt candidates that did.