What a sorry pantload of bullsh*t you are peddling!
Did you even read or listen to Palin's resignation speech? If not, you need to do so.
She made it crystal clear that the reason she was resigning is that she had capable people in place (including her Lieutenant Governor) who could better implement her agenda than she could by spending the state's resources and her own family's money on defending against the endless and vexatious bullsh*t ethics charges which were being thrown around by her enemies. She successfully defended charge after charge after charge. None of them had any merit and, still, her enemies kept throwing them at her.
Would the people of Alaska been better served by having her cling to an extra couple of years in office when she had capable people in place to implement the agenda she was elected on? They have, in fact, done a capable job of doing exactly that.
Sarah had no gig with Fox News or TLC in hand when she resigned. She did so because it was the right thing to do. Yeah, the presstitutes can and will spin it as they drove her from office. But the facts on the ground show that she thought the office and the interests of the people of Alaska were bigger than her. And, as it turned out, she had a far bigger role to play on the national scene.
Wouldn’t have been a lot better if Sarah had actually called it Bullshit? At least folks would have remembered that.
The people who buy that argument are a small minority in the GOP. That’s one of the reasons her negatives are so high. She’s seen as a quitter. You can make as many excuses as you like but I’ll never feel comfortable giving her my vote unless she’s the only option versus obama. And there are a whole lot of folks who feel the same way. She probably has about 30-40% support among my Tea Party group. No one hates her or anything like that but she is not the choice among most conservatives that I know...even among some who think highly of her.