You’ve been around long enough to know that Gov Palin was driven from her governorship by Rat operatives filing endless law suits against her. She had to pay for her defense out of her own pocket and was bankrupted by legal fees. Her only escape from finical ruin was resigning. IIRC correctly she was $500,000 in debt when she resigned.
Yes, I have been around very much long enough to know her stated reason for resigning. So what happens when she runs for Senate and the same folks harass her again? Will she again quit?
Broken courts allowed the legal harassment in the first place. So the answer when a politician (including a popular one) is being run through the harassment mill is to just resign and give those harassing you exactly what they want? Sounds suspiciously like negotiating with terrorists.