Palin’s good fortune in the private sector was not her motive for stepping down.
“Palin’s good fortune in the private sector was not her motive for stepping down.”
——————————————————————————————”Gov. Palin wrote a biography. She didn’t force anyone to buy it. She signed with a speaker’s bureau and gave speeches and didn’t force anyone to attend. She made a TV series and didn’t force anyone to watch it. In fact, she didn’t know if any of those ventures would be successful. Now, if she had gone out and done product endorsements, then criticism of her actions might have had some merit.”
I don’t think she resigned her position for personal gain, but it would be naive to think she didn’t anticipate a financial soft landing based on the enormous popularity she’d developed. It wasn’t a huge roll of the dice to think that the thousands who’d already attended her speeches wouldn’t continue to do so, and that those same thousands (and more...I was one) would buy her book. Perhaps she would have made exactly the same decision if her only alternative was to go back to fishing or stay home while Todd worked in the oil fields - we’ll never know - but as a mother and the primary breadwinner for her family, there’s no way she didn’t factor their well-being (and her future earning potential) into her decision. Why shouldn’t she?