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Let me try to flesh it out more for you. Under Alaska law, a private citizen is allowed to make an ethics complaint against a public official. The public official then must use their own money to hire lawyers/investigators to defend themselves against the ethics charges. Once Palin became prominent, the bastard Democrats began filing frivolous ethics charges against, causing Palin to (a) incur a ton of legal fees and (b) have to spend a lot of time gathering documents and otherwise defending herself.

It's really quite a shame. If McCain hadn't selected her as his V.P. candidate, Palin could have worked away under the radar and no doubt built up an impressive record. After winning re-election in 2010, she could have started to lay a foundation for a campaign, and - key here - spent the proper amount of time necessary to become knowledgeable on federal/national issues. Under this scenario, she would/could have been our Reagan in 2012 and swept Obama out of office. Very sad.

Thank you for a clear explanation. Hope she does run and she is able through surrogates to explain that rational. Also it would serve her well politically if she can directly link the harassment to Democratic Party activists in Alaska and put them on the defensive.

If McCain hadn't selected her as his V.P. candidate, Palin could have worked away under the radar and no doubt built up an impressive record. After winning re-election in 2010, she could have started to lay a foundation for a campaign, and - key here - spent the proper amount of time necessary to become knowledgeable on federal/national issues. Under this scenario, she would/could have been our Reagan in 2012 and swept Obama out of office. Very sad.

In other words, the one thing that McCain did right...actually ended up screwing conservatives over.

Figures...