Apparently Sarah is more valuable doing what she is doing now, giving interviews, giving speeches, writing a book, touring the country, rallying large numbers of excited people to the conservative cause and maybe preparing a presidential run.
Forgetting that evil word "profit" for the moment, certainly Sarah is providing more value now than she would have, if she had remained pinned down in Alaska until Jan. 2011.
The inescapable problem (except for those who worship her) is that she walked away from a commitment to the public without a clear and clearly understandable reason. I saw the presser live. I know what reasons she gave and they were rambling, disjointed and weak (except to those who worship her).
The argument (very valid imo) is that if the pressure of a hostile press and a pugnacious opposition party was too much for her to continue effectively as governor of a small state then why should we expect her to stand up to the exponentially greater pressures to which she would be subjected as POTUS?
The only clue we have to how she would function under that infinitely greater pressure is her past performance, and that is not a confidence builing history.
Imagine a national debate..."Governor Palin, you quit in Alaska....how do we know that you won't quit in Washington?" There is no answer to that would be good enough to satisfy all but those who already worship her, and you can already see the "QUITTER" signs at every stop, fully displayed by the same press that drove her from office once already.
Palin is a game-changer but she is not electable nor, imo, presidential timber. She will force the GOP to the right, a good thing. But her role will be similar to that of Jesse Jackson in the eighties. He was unelectable but powerful enough that he forced the dems to the left.
By 'pinned down' do you mean fufilling her obligations as Governor?