Then, she should have 1) requested other nominees and 2) if she didn't receive any, force the Alaska Judicial Council to make the choice.
There is no good reason to believe Christen is any more conservative than Eric Smith.
Read the two applications linked above that Palin reviewed and tell me. Smith lists a lot of liberal organizations as his background, Christen has a lot of adoption champion organizations and discusses adherence to the Constitution. That information is what Palin looked at when making the decision, tell me that you would have made a different decision.
LOL, you don’t waste much time of researching things before you post do you?