She didn't finish her term as governor because she was unable to govern, due to continual and unbridled attacks by Leftists in her state, who were using Alaska's laws to level meritless charges against her.
She resigned to save the taxpayers money, and to allow effective governance to proceed.
Are you for or against "activists" burning taypayer dollars in furtherance of their goals, as happened in Alaska?
Or perhaps you have a justification for their actions?
In my view, Palin was successful, because she STOPPED the wasting of tax dollars, and provided for effective future governance.
So, your argument is FAIL.
I told you I already won the argument. She was elected by the people to do a job - one she CHOSE to pursue. She quit. She failed. I don’t give a tinker’s Damn what her excuse was. Failure.
You are correct, in tactics this was a personal sacrifice move so the people of Alaska could regroup and rescue their new more conservative state government, free from attack by the leftist media and agitators, and it worked very well.