She woudn't have died, but she would have HAD to declare personal bankruptcy. If that had happened, you would be saying, "Well, if she couldn't avoid bankruptcy in her personal life -- if she let politics drive her to bankruptcy -- why on earth should we trust her with responsibilities of the presidency?"
Either way, you'd have had your reasons to object to her.
Alaksan law, if I remember what I've read correctly, supported her enemies who wanted to prevent her from accepting help of defense funds set up by her supporters. By the time she resigned, she and her family were already looking at more than half a million dollars in lawsuit defense expenses; had she remained in office, who knows that that number would have been? And I have read on many discussions that the laws in Alaska prohibited her from relying on defense funds provided by her supporters.
Her opponents' deliberate strategy of deluging her with lawsuits must have seemed like sure win for them -- if Palin stayed in office, she'd be driven to personal bankruptcy and that would sour voters; if she resigned, voters would be sour on her for resigning. No amount of explaining the facts would change either one for people who aren't political junkies, as you have already pointed out in your posts here with regard to the resignation issue.
It's interseting that her enemies' ploy to reduce her and her family to impoverished bankruptcy, ended up creating a circumstance where she and hers are now wealthier than ever.
I think that may have been the tipping point.
Correct. They even had her first legal defense fund declared as an ethics violation, which left her with no way to combat the increasing harassment.