Bankrupted? Was she down to unemployment level money? In danger of losing her house?
Oh, you mean smear campaigns against her. Right. Nobody can take that stuff and live. Better to quit.
I'm not quite sure you really understand what happened then. Either that, or you're politically tone deaf and just want to continue pushing a failed narrative fabricated by the Left and establishment Right.
Governor Palin had no recourse to fight the bogus ethics charges filed against her from the state. Any defense had to come out of her OWN pocket, on her OWN time. She could not do the job she was elected to because of these charges. Shortly after the election, this is exactly what happened. Political operatives and left-wing bloggers used a loophole in the new Ethics Law to frustrate the rest of Palin's term.
"Well if she can't take the heat, maybe she should get out of the kitchen then." No, it was better that she decided to fight back on her terms rather than being consumed by said fire, which would have destroyed her, her future political ambitions, and her family in the process.
Let me ask you a question: Would have still supported Sarah had she limped towards the end of her term, financially ruined and her future destroyed? I doubt it. You would have joined in the new narrative that would have said Sarah is "scandal-plagued."
Since when is it a bad thing for politicians to quit anyway? Don't we all dream of elected officials stepping down? She had a capable Lt Gov who completed the rest of her term and got elected outright, sparing the Dems another victory at her.
Try reading her 1st book sometime, she explains this in greater detail. Or Sun-Tzu.
These weren't ordinary smears against her then. The regular smears such as her supposedly saying she can "see Russia from her house" she can handle.
These were actual junk lawsuits filed against her in a blatant attempt to stall or derail the rest of her term. I'm sorry you cannot grasp this simple, logical fact, which stands out like the Sun.
Are you really that out of touch? They were not just smearing Palin, they were taking her and the Alaska govt. court where she and the state had to spend money and time defending themselves. Where have you been?
Basically yes....that's what she was looking at if she stayed in office. All family resources would have been drained. I know you don't want to hear that....