No politician has faced the adversity that Palin has, strength, leadership, and indestructibility is what she is rightfully known for.
Personally, I think that she had no choice but to resign, to fight her total destruction at the hands of the media, the GOP, and the democrat party, all of the lower 48 states, who all lived and controlled public opinion, thousands of miles from her Governor’s office.
There is no way that Palin could fight the national media, the national Democratic party and the national Romney/Rockefeller branch of the GOP from the governor’s office in Alaska, she could not have traveled to the states and helped restructure the GOP in a more conservative mode, she could not have fought the Obama administration and Washington DC, from the remote distance of Alaska.
Alaska and Hawaii are not the places where a sitting Governor can make and maintain a prominent national presence in the New York, Washington DC, dominated mainland, and if you are the person that the mainland media has launched the most vicious, carefully coordinated media attack against in history, then you and your conservative movement would die on the vine in remote and distant Hawaii or Alaska.
So far, since 2008, Palin has been the leader of the conservative movement and the most effective, most party shaping republican since she went national in August 2008, before that Palin was our most effective Governor, and probably the most popular Governor in American history.
Palin even had a good year this time, giving us our only Senate seat pick-up, and giving us Ted Cruz over Dewhurst, and helping us with the congressional races while staying out of Romney and Rove's debacle.
With her massive effect on the history making 2010 election, and her involvement in about 60 or so races that election, no one in America is having the effect that she is, in moving the Governorships, the Congress, and the Senate, to the right.
I guess you missed the fact that the state of Alaska was forced to deal with each of the frivolous accusations against her and the state had to devote time and money away from their operations to do this. Certainly I’m sure you believe it would have been so much better if she had remained in office and tied down Alaskan government with these attacks against her.
Then you would be indignantly crying, “Well see what she’s done to her state. She has no concern about what this situation is doing to the state of Alaska. She should have resigned long ago for the good of the people of Alaska. Blah, blah, blah, etc. etc...”
You are so transparent. Why don’t you go constructively help your socialist loser Romney and his next in line JEB! Oh, excuse me. I forgot. The only way you know to help your elitist GOPe friends is to tear down conservatives.
You have NO clue about what you are talking about. The financial attacks on the Palin family were organized and coordinated out of Pete Rouse's office in the White House and funded (under the table) by the DNC and Soros front groups, using local Alaska "blogger" hacks to do the dirty work.
By a well-meaning quirk in Alaska law (which the Rats exploited), she was unable to defend herself or her staff members. Even her legal defense fund was deemed illegal by the Rat-run "ethics" board, even though it was set-up by the same lawyers who had done the legal defense for Hillary and Kerry. When Palin resigned, she was already $500,000 in debt, with no end in sight to the continuing Rat attacks on her personal finances.
And where was the GOP-E, which should have been helping her fend off Rouse's wrecking crew? It sent her a $50,000 bill for her own vetting as a VP candidate, and then left her twisting in the wind, while the Rats (and Team Romney) took her apart.