Um, I just listened to the full interview with Greta, and you're overstating your case. She knew there were problems, Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, etc., and she wanted to talk about them. But I didn’t see anywhere she said she “had the goods” on Obama, as if to infer she knew all his darkest secrets and had knowledge of everything bad thing that would follow if he won.
I did hear her say the McCain campaign consultants told her that bringing up Obama’s dirty laundry was a losing strategy because the media would turn it against them. From her earliest days in Wasilla, Sarah has always been about team play. She doesn't second-guess the coach, because the idea is to win, and the coach is supposed to know how to do that. She may have assumed a national election had to be played with more caution, because you can't win on local retail politicking, so she did what any person who respected authority would do. She subjugated her own judgment to that of those who were in charge.
As a matter of character, this subjection to authority is to her credit. She is first of all a Christian, and Christians are supposed to trust God to work through authority, even when that authority is less than perfect. God is sovereign. She could not know all the possible consequences of a particular strategic decision, particularly where she lacked the national campaign experience. So she trusted the outcome to God, and God can always be trusted to do the right thing, even if it doesn’t seem very good at the moment.
So I think your argument is meritless.
As to whether the fate of the party rests in her hands alone, no one I know is saying that, no one here is saying that, and she certainly isn’t saying that. In fact, her message from early on is it’s going to take all of us pulling together to overcome this situation, that each of us can make a real difference, no matter how small our role appears to be.
Ever the team player, she is. So why would anyone on our side, who actually wants to win the game, try to diminish the value of one of the only players we have on the court who can actually score points against a very difficult opposition? That would be a strategy for losing, No?
I did not watch the interview and I can not fault your opinion.
But Sarah went “rogue” a long time ago.