Why be a hired slave when you can be a successful entrepreneur? I'd quit too if I knew I could be more effective; which she can be.
Her detractors have said that being the Governor of Alaska was not the same as a being a governor of the lower 48. Even having experience as a community organizer carried more weight than being a governor of Alaska or mayor of an Alaskan town. They have critiqued every move she has made and they have mocked her family.
Then Palin Shrugged.
Now they blame her for abandoning her post.
She can do no right by them.