You do realize that she was being inundated with frivolous lawsuits, brought by a cabal of out of state leftists who understood that the Alaska Governor's office isn't protected by the state AG?
Her family was being bankrupted to the tune of over half a million dollars (and climbing) in legal bills by these frivolous lawsuits, all of which were thrown out, one by one.
In addition to being thrown into bankruptcy, she and her staff couldn't do the job of governing the state, for all the time and attention these lawsuits consumed.
What was she to do? Fall on her sword and submit to being personally destroyed by these monsters, or do you think she may have outsmarted them by stepping out of the Governor's office for the good of the Alaskan people, and to put herself in a position where she could fight back?
Arlington is full of men and women who made that decision. I guess it would have been OK for them to run away and not do their duty because it was going to cost them a lot.
Its called playing the hand you are dealt. No one forced her to be Governor. She knew the rules. If she were so strong, she could have dealt with it head on.
So, instead of staying on, running the state, and dealing with the issues head on, she bails out. She writes a couple of books, she goes on TV, she gets $40k per night to hear her talk and she enriches herself.
I am not saying I wouldn't have done the same thing. But then again, I am not running for anything, And, in the end, neither will she. She digs the limelight too much. It is easier to make money than it is to make policy.