GregH,
The legal bills are now 500k (and climbing) the legislature is stalling and not working with the governor, hard logistics travelling in the 48 were hard, a press that has an agenda and so on an so forth.
If she wants to be prez in 2012 and by the time she left the governor’s chair it will be early 2011. This leaves her with little time to form an exploritory committee, hit the fundraising trail, do the rubber-chicken speaking circuit with the early primary groups and so forth. She was speding too much time fending off these Bogus ethics complaints (have you even read them?) and could no longer do her job as governor. Her status as a possible 2012 candidate caused too much of a distraction (outside and inside forces mucking up the system).
She has essentially thrown her critics a loop by going full time into campaign mode (or GOP building mode for 2010)
In the last few days, Sarah had to fight back a BOGUS rumor that shoud was under an FBI investigation as well as two new ethics complaints (one of them being a rehash of a complaint from last year...which was dismissed).
The plan is simple, simply wear Sarah down, tarnish her reputation and bankrupt her.
Sarah wasn’t going to play that game. She’s free to maneuver now. Right now the GOP groups in Iowa and New Hampshire are quite receptive to her.
‘If she wants to be prez in 2012 and by the time she left the governor’s chair it will be early 2011.’
As i understand her original term ends in 2010 not 2011.
It does not seem clear what Sarah has in mind regarding a 2012 run, I dont see her doing a Reagan like speech building nationwide tour, she does not the ability to do it.