Sarah Palin took on corruption in her own party and won, sending some of the corrupt politicians to jail. In her own party.
She pushed through a natural gas law, a major political accomplishment that takes a huge step toward energy independence, that nobody else was able to do for decades.
Palin cut back on the perks of her own office, and refused a salary increase.
She also cut 85% of pork barrel projects as soon as she came to office.
Let’s examine her entire political career in general, during which she has consistently refused—despite the daily temptations—to give in to corruption, and always put the interests of her people before anything else political.
This makes her more qualified for the presidency than 99% of all the politicians who have set foot in Washington for the past two centuries.
Perhaps most strikingly, she gave up executive power, because she believed it was best for the people. Are people able to conceptualize what it says about Sarah Palin’s character that she would relinquish that much personal power for the sake of the people of her state?
But alas, her critics don't want to do that.
See, this is perhaps the biggest obstacle that Governor Palin needs to overcome. She needs to kill that nonsense that she's a quitter. Her supporters know she's not, we all know she was basically railroaded out of office by Rahm orders to Alaska Dems not to work with her. Unfortunately, there are some who are still willing to take a toke from the crack pipe and believe the MSM/leftist lies that she up and quit because she couldn't hack it.
And the best way for Palin to do this is to start cutting some short, 5-min YouTube videos highlighting her career, her fight against corruption, and her accomplishments, and keep pounding this in. She actually governed as a pragmatic conservative whose version of reaching across the aisle didn't mean bending over McCain style. She got things done and kept her conservatism in tact, which will win over independents and so-called moderates if she chooses to run.