Were you going to give her the millions of dollars she would need to defend herself?
That's a real problem right there. It is often very expensive to defend against the left's attacks. Exhibit A is the attacks on Palin while she was governor.
I see no easy solution to this. But one thing I do know. Resignations only encourage the left to do more of the same. Maybe Palin, etc. could have set up GoFundMe type accounts...just thinking out loud here.